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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Oct 19, 1925
Page
4
The state industrial welfare commission announced an inquiry into film studios amid complaints of long pre-shoot waits and pay for actual camera time. Several accounts allege children were kept on set long hours without extra compensation while actors and staff faced extended delays before work.
A fragmented account extols a national triumph led by a president and generals. It praises industrial progress, westward expansion, and the melding of a transcontinental railroad, framed as heroic sacrifice by soldiers and citizens amid harsh frontier battles. The text mixes reverent tone with garbled names and dated rhetoric.
A melodrama about Mildred June the daughter of a banker who becomes the target of a jewel thief, a daring rival pursued by a young engineer, and a cascade of peril including a race, a train chase, and a runaway engine ending with a dramatic peril.
Charlie Chaplin announced in Los Angeles he may shift his motion picture work to the east coast after one or two more Hollywood films. He said a Paris picture in Hollywood and a possible last project could come before closing his Beverly Hills home and moving to New York. He denied considering removing production to England.
In Los Angeles on October 19 a government inquiry examined working conditions of women extras and underage actors in the film industry. Officials toured studios and interviewed workers about hours safety and compliance with labor laws.
Attorneys for starlet Charlotte Shelby filed in superior court a demurrer and motion to strike paragraphs from Miss Minter's amended complaint in a suit for an accounting. The motion to strike will be argued October 26. Minter alleges her mother, guardian, received about 3000000 from motion picture companies on her behalf but never accounted.
Anna Q Nilsson a film actress known as Anna Q Nilsson Gunnerson was granted an interlocutory divorce from husband John Marshall Gunnerson a shoe manufacturer in Los Angeles. The record notes his jealousy of her film career and previous co stars. The couple wed February 16 1925 and separated last March.
Invitations for a whist party on October 19th circulate among friends. Mis Beulall Papal reports ill children from Taber area. United Church board meets October 13th at Mrs Dennison's home. A dance at the LOOF Hall is planned. Conservative candidate G M Blackstock spoke at Winnifred on October 2nd, urging farmer protection and Canada United States trade views.
October events include Liberal candidate Dr FL W Gershaw speaking October 20 at LO Hall with W A Buchanan. junior Red Cross concert October 16. chicken supper and United Church social October 25. various local visits and schooling news. weather remains sunny as snow recedes. Local residents travel between Spokane Calgary and Pincher Creek. Miss Ruth Hodgson and Rev J A Claxton are noted. Paris report notes rising popularity of home made hair cuts in French households due to cost.
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