Everyones

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Nq 791.405 EVE
Created/Published
Sydney : Everyones Ltd., 1920-1937
Issue
Vol.13 No.674 (25 January 1933)
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30
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Contents

EVERYONES 1
THE INDUSTRY'S Conning Power 1
Advertising 1
ALONG FILM ROW Folk, Fact and Fancy....The Laughs and Laments of the Trade 2
Fullers Join Combine. End of Film War Draws Near. New Alliance Gives Combine Control Over 214 Theatres. Distributors’ Last Outlet Disappears. 3
EMU FILMS TO ISSUE PROSPECTUS 3
“Rain” Set for Three Cities at Once 3
Ballot Shows Exhibs Favour One-Feature Programs, But. 3
EVERYONES at the BOX OFFICE 4
Fox Movietone Record of Test Match Sensation 5
Fox Claim Scoops: Kingsford Smith and Cricket 5
Universal in Three Sydney Theatres This Week. 5
Reviews of Recent Releases Candid Criticisms Dependable Box-office Estimates Best of the Week: “Michael and Mary.” 6 , 21
ARMISTICE! 7
North Queensland Buttinskis Urge Ban on Foreign Shorts. Want Another Federal Royal Commission to Investigate Business. A Few Facts They Don’t Know. 8
Queensland Exhibs. Join Blind-Booking Protest 8
Advertising 8
BRITISH FOOTAGE AT MAXIMUM 8
In Queensland 9
“Trouble in Paradise” in Melbourne 9
Advertising 11
The West 12
“Where Is This Lady?” Soon Here for B.E.F. 12
Advertising 13 , 15
South Australia. 16
Beery and Dressier to Co-star in Tugboat Annie1 16
Advertising 17
BIG SETS IN NEW WARNER FILMS 18
Advertising 18
C. DE MILLE’S LAVISH‘CROSS’ DRESSING 18
Eight Years Ago... THE FOLLIES OF 1925. 19
Advertising 19
The Showman’s Comer... 20
Work Starts on Big Paramount Films 20
AMUSEMENTS ON ’CHANGE 20
Universal Shorts at Melb. Capitol 21
Eskell Writes of "Air Mail” Tasman Stunt. 22
Warners Have Several Ready at English Studios. 22
New Zealand 23
Exhibitors Praise tor Warners trade Screenings 23
Advertising 23
GOSSIP OF THE TRADE 24
Advertising 24
WHATS in the NEWS-REELS 25
Sydney Long-Run Features 25
VICTORIAN SHOWS AND SHOWMEN 26 , 27
Advertising 26
“Tess” for Long-Run Syd. State. Business Big in N.Z. 27
Five a Day for “Prosperity.” Picture’s Record 27
Advertising 27
LOOKING AT... The World 28
Advertising 28 , 29 , 30

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EVERYONES  

THE MOTION PICTURE AUTHORITY  

ARCHER WHITFORD, Managing Director.  

CAY HE DEXTER Editor-in-chief  

THE INDUSTRY'S  

Conning Power  

Suggestions From England.  

ERA,” the London trade journal, has some very sound  

ideas concerning what Britain requires in Australian  

pictures:  

“It looks as if an Anglo-Australian talkie would have to  

be based on an original story, because there is surprising  

lack of novels and plays that link England with Australasia,  

apart from what might be called the ‘Botany Bay’ tradition,  

which, we hope, will be firmly and definitely overlooked in  

any future arrangements that may be made between the  

two countries. English audiences, we think, would be inter-  

ested in stories based on the Coolgardie and Ballarat gold-  

mining romances. They would probably be interested in  

bushranger stories, especially the exploits of Ned Kelly, who  

once imprisoned the entire staff of police station for several  

days, borrowed the chief constable’s uniform, and went out to  

tell the townsfolk that he was new policeman sent to look  

lor Ned Kelly. Most of the bushrangers had sense of  

humor. We think, also, that English audiences would be  

interested in dramas based on what is called the ‘Never  

Never’ country, towards the Gulf of Carpentaria, where there  

are many strange things waiting to be filmed. Nor is there  

any reason why we should be prevented from seeing Sydney  

Harbour, which, we are led to ►believe, is sight of more  

than local interest in Australia. There are possibilities in  

Test match drama, particularly in such celebrities as Brad-  

man and Clem Hill—to pick only two names from host—  

and one good drama, at least, could be obtained from the  

Great Barrier Reef, the sheep-farming and cattle-raising  

industries, the Blue Mountains, the Melbourne sporting tradi-  

tion. the Imperial air route, the aboriginal interest, the pearl-  

fishing business, and the history of bush exploration. These  

are merely suggestions, but they serve to indicate how little  

we ready know of that great continent which is so distant  

and so near. To producers interested in Anglo-Australian  

themes we recommend Henry Handel Richardson’s “The For-  

tunes of Richard Mahoney.’ and M. Barnard Eldershaw’s ‘A  

House is Built.”  

Every suggestion put forward by “The Era” is good  

one, but unfortunately that paper is not wholly acquainted  

with local conditions. Every producer here is itching to make  

good bushranging picture, especially the Kelly Gang, but  

New South Wales refuses to allow bushranging episodes to be  

shown on the screens of this State. In the Chief Secretary's  

Department we have seen voluminous file of correspondence  

extending over 10 years between the Department, the succes-  

sive Police Commissioners, and producers who desired to film  

the Kelly Gang. Flatly permission has been refused, not once  

but half-a-dozen times, and the authorities will listen to no  

arguments. Yet the Kelly Gang can be filmed in Victoria and  

screened in every other State without hindrance. No producer  

will undertake it, however, because New South Wales repre-  

sents between 35 per cent, and 40 per cent of his possible Aus-  

tralian revenue, and there is as yet not sufficient certainty  

about returns from England to warrant him making the pic-  

ture and cutting out this State altogether.  

The Anglo-Australian books recommended by the “Era”—  

“The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney” and “A House is Built”—  

are absolutely unknown to the great majority of Australian  

motion picture-goers; for, while they may enjoy distinction  

and popularity abroad, their circulation here is definitely cir-  

cumscribed. And as yet our producers cannot afford to take  

chances.  

♦  

We Lead Engl and*  

CHARLIE PERRIN, just back from England, carries fine  

boost for the superiority of Australian picture houses  

over those in that part of the world. In both design  

and operation he states that the local theatres have it all over  

the English. So much so, he avers, that if the Sydney State  

was transplanted in London the natives would stop still with  

amazement. Such perfection in picture house could not be  

understood over there!  

In presentation and management, he instances the case  

of an Australian manager who secured break with large  

English circuit as proof of how advanced we are. Hitting  

England some time ago, one of the first things he did when  

he located in management was to sack the entire staff, to later  

engage them on much different understanding to what had pre-  

vailed before. He injected new morale into the organisation  

and. while not adopting the role of slave-driver, nevertheles  

got the staff working with spirit and energy which immedi  

ately built new goodwill for the theatre and consequently lifted  

patronage.  

The ideas he incorporated were exactly those that are  

followed by every well-conducted Australian house.  

That they were the right ideas is amply proven by the  

results that eventually followed, results which earned for him  

the unstinted tribute of the theatre’s owners.  

In Australia, Perrin gained an intimate knowledge of  

exhibitors’ method of work, and for the purpose of comparison,  

he paid particular attention to those of England, both in Lon-  

don itself and in the provinces. He found the balance well in  

favor of the local showmen, but at the same time he does not  

deprecate the English methods. They are quite good, but not  

up to the level expected in the cinema of to-day. Motion  

pictures have become the world’s major source of entertain-  

ment and as such the showmanship and methods of presenta-  

tion should vary considerably to those of years ago. That fact  

has not yet been fully appreciated by England’s exhibitors,  

and while new ideas are obviously developing in all sections,  

they have long way to go yet, he says.  

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