WHAT BRITISH FILMS NEED
Having finished work in the Gau-mont-British picture "Safiotage," Silvia Sidney returned to America with some criticisms of the industry in England. "Stars, stories and directors are utterly useless," she said in an interview, "without producers and organisers to guide them. And that is what's wrong with the motion picture industry in England." Sylvia Sidney considers British studios technically inferior to those of Hollwood. "England is learning," she went on, "and, what's more important, is willing and anxious to learn. Slie has already acquired the hard-to-get faculty of spending big nioney, which, i may add, she has nothing else but. Now she must learn wis© spending, which is another narn© for economy." But do not imagine that Sylvia is just cross. She had a few boiiquets to hand. "Michael Balcon, Gaumont-British head man, comes closest to the Hollywood ideal of a production genius" she went on. "I regard him as the White 'Hope of the British picture business. But there aren't enough Balcons to go round."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 19, 6 February 1937, Page 14
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