THINGS THEY SAY

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19759, 14 December 1935, Page 19 (Supplement)

THINGS THEY SAY

VIEWS IN THE NEWS. I’ve got the sort, of face only a mother could love. —Fred Astaire. The really fat people get the best out of life. —Teddy Brown. * * * I get more kick out of a new car than over anything else. —Sir Cedric Ilardwicke. The future trend of the film must

be more towards sophistication.— Winfield Sheehan. * ix * * A picture is no greater than its director. —Katharine Hepburn. « » * * Hollywood is the cultural centre of the world. —Frances Marion. The alleged barnyard morals of the Hollywood film star have been reflected in the lives of the less distinguished citizens in America; one marriage in five ends in divorde in the United States- —Angus Watson. * * $ * When it domes to upholding a tribal civilisation against ours, the tribal civilisation must go. —Bernard Shaw. M V * * Broadcasting and the cinematograph seem likely to complete a process begun. for good or ill, by the printing press—the process of isolating author from audience, art from reality.— Fmid West ford in “The Fool: His Social and Literary History.” * # * * We refuse lo accept what is ilisruplive and calculated to wreck our whole civilisation. From this day Ni-irer Jazz is banned for ever.—llerr lladamowsky (wlm is responsible, for lineman radio programmes). All m> friends know 1 was lmrn in I'.in';: besides. ‘_>s isn't terribly old.— Barbara Slanw.n'k.