FROM RADIO TO FILMS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 114, 29 August 1941, Page 15

FROM RADIO TO FILMS

plays to film production has been made by Russell Reid, of the NBS Drama Department. After experience with the stage play and the radio play, he has recently transferred to the Government Tourist and Publicity Department, and will now interest himself in the screen play as an assistant producer in the Miramar Film Studios. Dramatic writing, production and acting have been almost his sole activities since he helped, as a student, to revive the Otago University Dramatic Society. He graduated B.A. at Otago after schooling at the Southland Boys’ High School in Invercargill. In time not spent in his studies at University, he worked for the O.U.D.S. and the Dunedin Little Theatre. For the . CHANGE from work. with radio

University Dramatic Society he even went so far as to turn carpenter during one long vacation to alter a hall and build a stage which the society could use for itself. He was president of the University Arts Faculty, the Dramatic Society, the Literary Society, and the Capping executive, and edited Critic. He wrote, produced, and appeared in capping "shows" during consecutive years. After he came to Wellington to join the staff of the NBS in: the Drama Départment, he became a prominent member of the Thespians, for whom he has produced, acted, stage-managed, and written plays. He has two "B" certificates for production from the British Drama League, and among successes as an author of plays he counts the Lady Ferguson Cup for the Best New Zealand Play in’ 1936, a first and secorid in the same coripetition in 1937. He also has some notable successes to his credit in writing radio plays, as a member of the NBS staff and as a competitor in national competitions.