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Am Writing this from Sydney, Australia where the battle against American movies rages.
In some of the movie houses they flash long and fervid appeals to the public to patronize English papers and "preserve this empire of ours." And they wind up every performance by showing a picture of King George with a double row of medals.
A British picture, Be Mine Tonight, was finally put on in Sydney which had a record run of five months. Good old British picture made in London. The name of the star was Jan Kiepura — good old British name; the leading lady was Magda Schneider — another good old English name. He spoke with a Rumanian accent and she buttered the good old English tongue with German gutturals.
The Wretch
AT MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY, ** a stage actor named George Barraud made a speech for which he was almost drawn and quartered. He said English films are so bad they are appalling. He said the English camera men
Harry Carr, famous cinema writer discovers an amazing
Britishers resent the loss to American films of Sari Maritza and other fine English actresses
Jan Kiepura and Magda Schneider in the Englishmade Be Mine Tonight established an all-time attendance record in Australia even as they did in this country
An attempt by Australian producers
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were. so bad they could make the most beautiful woman in the world look ugly.
Whenever the English producers accidentally found a good actress, they did not know it and let the Americans steal her.
The English people feel very sore about Diana Wynyard, Elissa Landi, Benita Hume, Sari Maritza, Elizabeth Allan and other English girls who were allowed to go to America — the British producers not having recognized genius when they saw it.
Long Winded
I Have Seen Several British-made * films here. Most of them are Godawful. They use the technique in vogue back in the old Biograph days. There is no flow to the narrative they are trying to tell. From time to time — at safe and sane intervals — the director switched to a row of young ladies sitting at a tea table and they say "I think that Jimes is falling in love with Alice" — just so you will be sure to understand.
As in the days when your films were also young and foolish, they have neither logic nor probability. I saw a picture last night in which a young lady working in a phonograph parlor got invited to a dance. She appeared in a Paris gown and drove her own car.
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ONE thing the British are doing that appeals very much to me. They are using the most marvelous locations
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