POINTS FROM LETTERS ABOUT FILMS
"I agree with Mr. Hayward that G.M, caters just.for the few in his reviews, . not for the masses, and perhaps: it .would be better to have someone whose taste in ‘films was more in keeping with what the Sanagees'e | person likes. However, I certainly agree wi G.M. that Walt Disney is slipping. In fact,.as far as I am concerned he slipped right out of the picture long ago. At one time I was mildly amused by his cartoons, but that was years ago."*
(MRS
A.
MARTIN
(Lower Hutt).
cod "Many of your readers will agree with ‘Phil Hayward that G.M.’s rather hysterical praise of mediocre Russian and French films is*merely ‘arty affectation.’ I have seen Disney's Make Mine Music and Song of the South, Far. from slipping I should say he was going from strength to strength. If G.M. takes note of Mr. Hayward’s constructive criticism which I think reflects popular opinion, we may look forward to better film reviews in The Listener. -*‘MILTON" (Auckland). G.M. replies: The ‘mediocre’ Russian and French films which I have reviewed in "‘The Listener" during the past four or five years consist of ‘Battleship Potemkin’ (Russian), and "The Italian Straw Hat" and "La Kermesse Héroique’’ (French) ~+
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 420, 11 July 1947, Page 25
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