Filmy Phil.

NZ Truth, Issue 1192, 4 October 1928, Page 6

Filmy Phil.

A BRACE of hax'vest moons have shone since Phil. Maddock, erstwhile of Hamilton, signed on with Metro-Goldwyn films. Now please get this clear. Phil, doesn't act for the films; ; he. sells them. Big' stuff, you know. Umteen , reels featuring this and that star of filmy filmdom. Not (that he can't act, ' though, for ; he was no inconsiderable figure m Hamilton's amateur theatricals. P.M. was . repatriation officer at Hamilton a few years back, but naturally enough the job petered out .after he had got all the returned men nicely fixed up. Shortly afterwards the > MetroGoldwyn folk impressed a. sticky finger on Philip and he stumped right through New Zealand m their interests and sandwiched m a trip or two to Sydney. &ow he has charge ;of the Auckland zone.' . Although.' he has gathered up his family and household impedimenta and deposited them m Auckland, he still barges into Hamilton' betimes. Whereupon many a, fatted calf is' led to the slaughter and' there is much reciprocal back-slapping and laying on of glad hands.. Phil, is a, good antidote for the blues — the ordinary kind, as distinct from the Yale— which, being interpreted, is to say that he is 'a right good; fellow, well versed m the ways of goodfellowship.