Film Editor’s Attack on Australian Girls

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 212, 26 November 1927, Page 25 (Supplement)

Film Editor’s Attack on Australian Girls

Few Good Points SEARCH FOR SCREEN TYPES THE full text of the evidence of Mr. Robert Dexter before the Australian Film Commission came to hand by the last mail. Mr. Dexter is editor-in-chief and part proprietor of the motion picture trade journal, “Everyone’s,” and claims to be an Australian of the third generation. Born in Sydney, he declared that he spoke with an experience of 14 years in the film business to support him. He recently returned after spending six years in America where he was director of advertising and publicity for First National Pictures “I feel that we have fooled ourselves long enough,” said Mr. Dexter, in discussing Australia’s position in the moving picture world. “We have refused to view ourselves as the outer world sees us. “Beauty is the merchandise of the motion picture, and Australia is practically barren of beauty,” he added. “Nature made a wonderful job of this continent, but as human beings we are an ugly race,” was another of his pronouncements. He offered to show the commission in the streets of Sydney scores of extraordinary characters and types who could make a very comfortable living in Hollywood just by looking natural, writes a correspondent; but he declared