“HIS NATURAL LIFE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 143, 7 September 1927, Page 15

“HIS NATURAL LIFE”

STRAND ON FRIDAY Usually the producer is the man who makes the picture and gets a one line mention on the screen. He seldom hunts publicity, because his heart is in his work, and his work is all the publicity he wants. If the public enjoys the picture he has directed he is a happy man and a successful producer. Just such a man is Norman Hawn, who directed and produced “For the Term of His Natural Life,” the big super production for Australasian Films, Ltd., which v r ill be screened on Friday at the Strand. Hawn is a genius at his own game. He has spent years as a producer in America, and has directed the “Lure of the Yukon” and many other well-known stories with an Alaskan background. He is a quiet individual, whose methods are equally effective, and such a sticker for detail that he will shoot each scene a dozen times rather than use one ineffective portrayal. Though silent and hard to draw into conversation, this man with the megaphone is a very deep and intelligent thinker, who absorbs all and says very little. In the heat of a Sydney December, with the perspiration dripping from his brow, he must have given an occasional sigrh for the great snow country that he left behind to come away out here and show us how really big pictures are made.