“TESHA” AT BRITANNIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 642, 19 April 1929, Page 15

“TESHA” AT BRITANNIA

Many films have reflected marriage problems in a light vein, but among social drama “Tesha,” starring Maria Corda and Jameson Thomas, will be classified as a problem film. The adaptation to the screen is described as being intensely dramatic, of exceptional power, and culminating in a terrific climax. The film is adapted from the Countess of Barcynska’s novel of the same name, and contains reminiscences of a. real life story as told to the producer by a Harley Street specialist. The film play is an artistic triumph, and in obtaining the services of two such capable and famous artists to interpret the difficult roles allotted them, British International Pictures have shown great enterprise. • Tesha” is now being shown at the Britannia Theatre. The second big picture on the programme is “A Girl of London,” a realistic story of London life, starring Genevieve Townsend. “EXTRAS” IN SOUND PICTURES The prediction that motion pictxtre "extras" would find little work to do in the new talking pictures has not been borne out in actual practice, for there are no less than 4.000 "extras players working on 12 talking picture© now in production at the Paramount studios in Hollywood. In George Bancroft’s "The Wolf of Wall Street.” afonef there are 900 employed in the Stock Exchange sequences, which are being filmed on a huge replica of the Wall Street building. "Extras" take more handling ini a talking picture than in a silent film. The sounds of the crowd around must not be allowed to drown the voices of tho players, and many careful rehearsal* of important scenes are made, before the director attempts to recoru Absolute silence is the rule, except r he t n he the m T.'e nK S "street " microphones placed all over the "set” picked up the tumult of the S! 1 * J Exchange during a nnaneial crisis Such atmosphere hightens the reajiasa of the production.