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AMERICAN MOVIES!
and critic on a world film tour, situation in Australia
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to film a story of native life a la our blacks instead of Indians, failed censorship
I have ever seen on any screen — Swiss Alps — Italian cities on harbor fronts.
My hotel waiter does not join in my enthusiasm however. He says when he wants to see scenery he goes to scenics; as he never wants to see scenery he never goes to scenics. And there you are.
George Is King
Among The Motion picture stars ■ from America, George Arliss will outdraw any other one in these parts. His pictures — even the bad ones — always have long runs. This probably because he belongs in dear old England.
Of the younger stars Clark Gable is the boy. To tell the truth, however, no stars have a very hot following in Australia. The fans play the pictures, not the stars. Most of the stars cannot remember the names of the players.
Strange to say, one of the few American stars with a really devoted following is ZaSu Pitts. And I can't say I blame them. I have always regarded her as one of the great artists of the screen. One of these days she will get a real part and show them. Her greatest handicap for a real chance is that the public has seen her in too many rough comedies.
Is Ramon Through?
AS A very close friend of long stand' ing of Ramon Novarro, I fear for his future. I have made it a point to inquire of every fan I have met in
JANUARY, 1934
Frances Drake ivas recently signed by Paramount in a drive for neic talent. Other English girls are en route to Hollyivood as a result of beauty contests conducted by the studio
— Clarence Sinclair Bull Diana Wynyard is another English actress whom Britishers wish teas in their own pictures. Directors there are criticised for permitting actresses of her type to leave the country
Japan, China, the Philippines, Java and way stations as to his standing. I have yet to hear one favorable comment. They don't like him. They say he is effeminate.
This is really not true. But many of the parts that have come his way have made him appear so; strange to say, the football pictures more than any others. Ramon is not football material.
Record Breaking
In Spite Of The British propaganda, * an American film is one of the record-breakers.
The longest run recorded of any recent picture is the English-made Be Mine Tonight with the Rumanian and German actors. After that, a picture called Jack's The Boy, made in London. Third came the Warner Brothers' Vienese Nights which ran twenty weeks at one house in Sydney.
Australia Gets Ambitious
MEANWHILE Australia is preparing to roll her own. Two big producing companies have started making pictures here. They have made pictures in the past. One of their difficulties was censorship. One picture was intended
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