A NEW TECHNIQUE.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20207, 29 May 1937, Page 15 (Supplement)

A NEW TECHNIQUE.

TYRONE POWER’S VIEWB. STAGE AND FILM ACTING. One of the first things a stage actor must do upon embarking on a screen career is to forget much of what he has learned, and modify the rest. This despite the fact that real stage experience is invaluable to the screen actor, according to Tyrone Power, star of “Lloyds of London” and “Love Is News.” The youngest and most promising member of one of the real “Royal Families” of the stage, Tyrone found many disconcerting differences in stage and screen technique, principal among which is the business of “projecting” emotion so that it will, be as acceptable and moving to the last row as it is to Ihe front row. * “I was amazed,” related the star, “ to see my first 4 rushes ’ and notice how I over-acted. In pictures, the camera brings the audience practically into the actor’s lap, but it took me a little time to realise this and to acquire the under-acting needed for the Power is steeped in theatrical tradition, yet he says: “The screen is a great teacher, and It has one big advantage over the stage as an educational medium. For instance, when I see myself on a film I can notice my faults and mannerisms just as if I were looking at someone else, a great aid to improvement. "I think it is a very good thing for all actors to return occasionally to the stage. Although the techniques are different, there are the same essential elements in (both mediums, and the close contact with the audience that the stage permits affords an actor a feeling for personal reaction.”