STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 149, 14 September 1927, Page 15

STRAND

“HIS NATURAL LIFE”

Norman Dawn's magnificent superspectacle. ‘For the Term of His Natural Life,” continues to draw large and deliglited audiences to the Strand Theatre, where the colossal human epic is being screened. Usually tho producer is the man who makes the; picture and gets a one lino 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 Dawn, who directed and produced “For the Term of His Natural Life,” the, big super production for Australasian Films, Ltd. Dawn is a genius at his own game. He has spent years as a produce,!- 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 timess rather than use one ineffective portrayal. Though silent and hard to draw into conversation, this man with tho megaphone is a very deep arid 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 ha ve given an occasional sigh for the great snow country that he left behind to come away out here and show us how really big pictures are made. , The pic tuie is preceded by a special atmospheric prologue by the renowned Lyric Quartette. The Strand Symphony Orchestra, under the conductorship "of Eve Bentley, plays a special musical score. “Bose of England is specially featured as an overture. An interesting Strand Magazine, showing world events, and an Aesop Fable conclude one cf the most notable pro-