FUTURE STARS?

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 146, 10 September 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

FUTURE STARS?

GATHER FOR BIRTHDAY Some young notables in the moving picture world were guests recently at one of those Hollywood parties you read about. Their ages were nine months to nine years, and they ate cake and played

panics, but, still, it happened In 110 - Suzanne Vidor. Gloria I -Toyd, Thom--i siri-i *M i“ Loris Kiblo, Barbara Rockett B-I tv Asher, Ruth Nagel, Betty Rockett mil Mary Hay BarthelV. ~o some of the movie young"ters who helped little Nancy Hope daushtei of Carey Wilson of FiiFt National, to celebrate her sixth birthday.

The meeting was between members of the Cinematograph Exhibitors’ Association, the Cinematgraph Renters’ Society, and the cinema section of the Federation of British Industries. An agreement was reached to support a maximum quota of 20 per cent, of British films,, the quota to run for 12 years from this year.

The Bill proposes a quota of 75 per cent, this year, rising by 25 per cent, each year to a maximum of 25 per cent.'' This considerable advance on the previous attitude of film-trade representatives will be announced by Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, president of the Board of Trade, when the committee dealing with the Bill meets. Sir Alfred Butt, M.P. has put down a series of amendments, the object of which is to restrict the operation of the quota regulations to eight years. It is generally thought that while it is probably desirable to fix some limit to the period for which the quota should operate, the period of eight years suggested by Sir Alfred is too , short. One of the main objects of the Bill is to encourage people to invest in British films, and such a short quota would defeat this object. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister handed in the first of the amendments which he will move to give effect to the trade's decision. The action of the representative bodies has effectively disposed of the suggestion that the Socialist members of the committee, who have been obstructing the progress of the Bill, have voiced the views of the trade. May McAvoy’s next picture for Warner Brothers is tv be •Tlebecca O’Brien.”