SCREEN NABOBS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 November 1927, Page 5

SCREEN NABOBS

“REACH-ME-DOWN" SUITS “DRAG-ME-DOWN” ENTERTAINMENTS. MISS TILDESLEY’S VIVID IMPRESSIONS. [By Cable — Press Assn. — Copyright.l (Received 28, 11.25 a.m.) . Sydney, Nov. 28 Giving evidence before the Film Commission, Miss Beatrice Tildesley, a member of the Good Films League and the National Council of Women, said that what impressed her in comparing the regular theatre and tlie films, where tne two dealt with the same subject, was the almost invariably marked inferiority of the films. This was due to the standards and methods of production at Hollywood, where controlling interests were in the hands of men who looked upon them purely as commodities for sale—men without artistic ideals and natural taste, and many ol them without an ordinary decent education. Sho added: “Some of these Nabobs of the screen have gone into the “movie” industry with exactly the same enthusiasm and the sume aim of high profits as actuated them when they dealt in cheap clothing. They are, in fact, wholesale clothiers who have extended their energies from purveying ‘reach-me-down’ suits to providing ‘drag-uie-down’ entertain ment.”