“NATURAL” ACTORS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1064, 30 August 1930, Page 15

“NATURAL” ACTORS

INDIANS AND BEASTS IN FILM

a r !", th ° north woods of Canada hunis a tniles from white civilisation, turp s X? at arm y former motion pictoiateham?s tbu.t Hollywood cannot and th Ile - sincerity of their acting atillpri 4i le ? l * sm which they inpiei,r Parts overshadows the Causft ft? 110 centre’s stars, betheir n# ese Payers were enacting l\ r . Hfe roles * pi-iop®, ar , ra y of screen talent comtha- L both and animal players 8 in ‘ The Silent Enemy,” w£?,2 gu, 2 opic of fodian life filmed a<tvpnt,, as Kurtl en, young explorer and the p‘,V r r r ' during a year’s sojourn in Mfw2 M *u ry ot tiie n °rth tribes, hum'tr? t lan Indians comprise the aninvu for tlie production. The tiir os , „ a( )tors included all the creainhabit the forests of Wm nf *2 Canada and roam within the V T(1 ® Arctic Circle. Among them li ' *J C ' bears, mountain lions, tinian<] «®,y eis * beaver, wolverine, deer °. l, ‘ Wiid geese, the savage the fpnJi" l an d partridge were among leathered performers, pleted Enemy,” recently comc utter»* ,}? bands of the editors and " 1, arr ive shortly for New ftr *l re t as< ‘- gripping power D:*ove«i S \ ,al na ture will undoubtedly tremendous interest to picBoers m this country.