AVALANCHE FOR THE MOVIES
WHOLE COMPANY BURIED. Hermino Koller, a well-known Gen man moving picture actress at Dresden, was killed, and several other actors and actresses were injured, recently, near Innsbruck, in the upper steppes of the AVilderatz .Mountain, when an imitation avalanche, which was to envelop, the group, developed into a real avalanche, according to a report received in Genova. Mountain scenes were being taken by a German film company at an altitude of 9700 feet. Tho scene was to depict a party ol eleven persons being buried by an avalanche. Just as the picture waabout to bo taken, a large real avalanche came down tho mountain side and buried the company, killing Frau lein Koller and seriously injuring sev oral others.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10617, 16 June 1920, Page 6
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123AVALANCHE FOR THE MOVIES New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10617, 16 June 1920, Page 6
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