MAKING A BOOK INTO A FILM

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 528, 4 December 1928, Page 15

MAKING A BOOK INTO A FILM

WARWICK DEEPING’S “KITTY” “My work has been picturised with unusual respect to it’s author’s feelings and no trouble or expense has spared by the director in his efforts to bring the story to the screen m its correct atmosphere.” This refreshing review was expressed b F Mr. Warwick Deeping, the famous of “Sorrell and Sou." whose hook “Kitty” has now been filmed at British International Studios, London. It is almost a screen tradition that 'vhen a book is adapted to the screen, tne story is hacked until it is unrecognisable, and then it is given a different name. Indeed, a popular joke with more than a grain of truth that is circulating around is to the effect that a well-known writer got the plot of las second novel from the film version ° r his first.” It is a refreshing sign, therefore, of the vitality of the British aim revival that such pains are taken to insure perfection in a ponit tliat America has for so long neglected.

“THE ADORABLE CHEAT”

“The Adorable Cheat.** shortly to be released by Master Pictures, has much to recommend it to the favour of every Picture-goer It is a story of a delightful deception wherein Lho daughter of a wealthy manufacturer goes to work in her father’s factory under assumed name. The denouement is quite dramatic and what was originally conceived as an innocent deception turns into a tragedy. Th w production has been staged ijtvibhly and under the direction of tlurton King a most representative screen cast has been assembled. Lila plays the lead, and supporting her Cornelius Keefe, Burr Mclntosh. Reginald Sheffield. Gladden Janies and Virginia Lee.