OUR FILM TYPES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 200, 12 November 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

OUR FILM TYPES

Mr. Dexter, Publicity Expert, and Australian Film Commission (BY THE MOVIE EDITOR.) Mil. ROBERT DEXTER, wlio was responsible for the attack upon Australian beauty before the Film Commission in Sydney this week, is himself an Australian.

some years he has been successA fully engaged in publicity work in the States. It looks very much as if Air. Dexter has returned with an American cast in his eye. It would appear that Sydney is not sufficiently American for Air. Dexter, though for the majority of us the aping of everything American in Sydney is a little alarming. To say that the Australian girl is not beautiful is absurd. She is wholesome, hearty and beautiful. The success of Australian girts in Hollywood is sufficiently well known. Enid Bennett, the wife of Fred Niblo, is an outstanding example of what an Australian girl can do.

Experience and opportunity—given 1 these. New Zealand and Australian girls j will do well in movie-land. Air. Dexter’s extraordinary state - - ments —as, “Nature made a wonderful t - job of the Continent, but as human 1 beings Australians were an ugly race” —will be bitterly resented in Australia. 3 Like most young people, Australians 3 are rather apt to resent criticism, just i or unjust. Yet, perhaps after all, Air. Dexter, 1 whose knowledge of the art of publici ity no one will attempt to deny, is - merely attempting to draw attention to himself.