Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955), Friday 24 June 1927, page 11


'THE TERM' AT LAST

First Screening to-morrow

Nest Saturday will see the long awaifcad film, 'For the Term of His Natural Life,' which will be given . its world premiere before a distinguished gathering at the Sydqey Crystal , Palace Theatre, long established as the home of Union Theatres'

greatest long run presentations. When Norman Dawn set foot in this, country with George Fisher, the Rufns' Dawes of Marcus Clarke's story, and Eva Novak, who undertook the role of Sylvia Vickers, to help make this big' at-traction, few, if any. movie followers fully realised the real significance of the move. 'For the Term of His Natural Life' in itself is a colossal undertaking. No less a sum than sixty thousand pounds has been expended in Australia in its making, to which must be added a similar amount for the provision of a modern studio# equipment. To ifc such good Australians as Jessica Harconrt, Dunstan Webb, Arthur Tanchert, Arthur M'Laglen. Compton Coutts and youthful Jimmy M'Mabon owe their rise on the ladder to movie fame. Each and every artist associated in +he making of the picture worked day and night with 'success' as a motto, and out of the strange tale of fiction there has been created for all the world to wonder and thrill over a film of outstanding merit.