Il Giornale Italiano (Sydney, NSW : 1932 - 1940), Wednesday 6 September 1933, page 5


BEAUMONT SMITH BEGINS

WORK ON TALKING

PICTURE

Mr. Beaumont Smith who will be remembered for his excellent silent productions of eight years ago has completed arrange-ments with Cinesound Produc-

tions for the lease of their new studio at Rushcutter's Bay. The

tentative working title of the picture will be "The Hayseeds" and quite a number of scenes will be filmed in and around

Picton and district. Of course

some of the scenes will be shot in Sydney and suburbs.

The cast will include Mr. Cecil Kellaway as Dad, Katie Towers as Mum, Arthur Clarke will play the juvenile lead, Leah Douglas, Tal Ordell and a big cast of pro-minent Sydney artists will ap-pear. Raymond Longford will

direct.

Mr. Smith, who is responsible

for the scenario, has introduced some very novel features in the way of musical backgrounds and songs of Australian atmos-phere. The picture when com-pleted will be released through British Empire Films, and will probably be shown at the "Prince Edward," the theatre

beautiful.