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Taranaki Daily News, 26 March 1921, Page 6

An Aucklander writes froni Los Angeles : A curious outcome of the movie picture business is the necessity of keeping a competent oculist on every s a of producers. So violent are the artificial lights used in movie photography for inside wor t k, and so necessary is it for the players to show a natural appearance, that eye-trouble is the rule among the stars. A gdod many movie people have entirely lost their sight in this way. The rewards, however, for a reasonably good pantomifinst are so great that blindness is risked. Scientists are at work devising means less harsh to assure the clearness necessary to the successful film. Hardly any actor or actress for the film has normal eyesight, and as most New Zealand girls feel they ought to be flip stars, this litth fact won’t do any havw