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THREE ENGLISH FILM DIRECTORS.

WHAT THEY ARE PRODUCING AT ELSTREE.

VERSIONS OF GOOD COMPANIONS," AND LIFE OF

In the

SHAKESPEARE SUGGESTED,

British International studios at Elstree I watched thron distinguished film directors at work

Me. Alfred Hitchcock, Mr. Mau- rice Elvoy and Mr. Norman Walker, writes Mr. Percy Cadlipp in the Evening Standard.

IIe even laughed three or four times; for the instruction of a player who had been laughing in the wrong key, Mr. Hitchcock wants to make a film about the Derby: not simply a cord of the event, but a swift contrast between the top-hatted succession of pictures showing the

punters in Tattersalls and the hob Each, in accordance with the pro-each-way trippera on the far side vailing fashion, was engaged in al of the course, then giving the audi talkie version on a stage play, but ence a glimpse of the race as the their acthods were varied and in-winning jockey sees it, and so on. teresting.

It would be a picture governed by rhythm, ho said, and the rhythm, perhaps, of the bookmakers' erics.

So were their answers to a ques- tion of mine:II you were given a free hand, plus adequate financial backing, to produce a film on any subject, high-brow or low-brow, which would you choose ? " *

A Darby Film.

"Since 1013," he told me, "I have had the scenario of a film based on the life of Shakespeare. More than once I have been on the point of producing it, and I am determined to do so.. I know the film." public would welcome a Shakespeare

Then Mr. Elvey proceeded with the task of directing Potiphar's Wife," which is adapted from play about a woman who tried to Vanip her husband's chauf feur.

Screen-Blography.

And Mr. Norman Walker, who ¦ Mr. Alfred Hitchcock, by the way, looks like a business mm. und | bétiéves that there is a great future at present directing The Happy for the biographical film. The Husband, in his subdued but in success of Disraeli seems to con- tensoly efficient way, keenly desires j firm, this opinion. to make a picture from Priestley's novel, "The Good Companions."

Shakespeare's Life.

Mr. Hitchcock, plurap and inserat- able, was superintending the re- hearsal of a scene from Galsworthy's

The Skin Gaine,"

Mr. Maurico Elvey, wears sper- After watching the actors in tacles, grep shirts and a cigar. In silence for some minutes he said moments of cogitation he walks calmly, Shocking." Then he play-about the studio whistling, then rd each detail of the scene himself stops dead and raps out orders to to show how he wanted it done. electricians, camurainen and others,

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Besides the Derby pieture already mentioned, Mr. Hitchcock would greatly like, he said, to make n film from the life of the late Sir Edward Marshall-Hall.

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Meanwhile, in Germany; autobiographical film is being pro duped. The star is Grock, the clown, and he is acting the story of his struggle towards sucess.

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