FILM AMBITIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 587, 13 February 1929, Page 1

FILM AMBITIONS

Would-Be Players Apply

In Scores

-A DAUGHTER OF AUCKLAND

Sprightly young things who thought p.eture-making would be “great fun,” old actors, vaudeville comedians, dead beats, at least one poet, an exmember of the North-West Mounted police, circus horsemen; all these presented themselves to Mr. Rudall Bay ward last evening as potential stars for his new film “A Daughter of Auckland.” One maiden just freed from school explained that she had slipped away from home when father went to the pictures. A husband rang up on the telephone and demanded that his wife should not be given a “part,” as she had a young baby at home. Vaudeville comedians turned up their noses when they found that it was simply to be an “amateur film.”

Names and addresses were taken of several score of players who were

willing to appear in the “garden party scene ’ to be shot next Saturday, or in the Wild West activities of the troop of horsemen who will rescue the heroine from the clutches of the villain. Mr. Hayward has made 13 cf these amateur pictures in New Zealand towns, but the Auckland one is to be much more “lavish.” Tie has also made the big professional productions, “Rewi's Last Stand,” “Te Kooti’s Trail,” and “The Bush Cinderella.”

The plot of “A Daughter of Auckland” is to be a simple one, and the picture is to be a burlesque-comedy. It will be filmed against the background of Auckland’s best-known beauty spots and after being screened at the Majestic will be sent through a Dominion circuit. A “big crowd” scene is to be filmed in Civic Square and Mr. Hayward hopes to get the assistance of the Fire Brigade for one of his thrills.

Miss Hildred Graham, well known In Auckland, i 3 to be the heroine of tho piece.