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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1928.
OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.
GRETA NISSEN IS RETURNING HOW FOOD CONTAMINATION,
TO STAGE.
“CALL OF THE FOOTLIGHTS."
Hollywood, Calif., Dec, 10. Greta Nisson is rapidly losing her fascination for the blinding, dazzling kleigs.
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The Norweglan actress longs for the footlights and Broadway and probably will return there before spring.
Miss Nissen, in returning to the stage, la not following in the foot steps of so many other footlight
to stars who came Holywood, flopped" and hastened back to Broadway again, Grela graduated from the New York stage. Motion picture producers male her at iering offers. She trekked 8,000 miles across the coun- try to this village that has made
famous. paint grense And she has made good. At pre- sent she is one of the inost sought In the cinema after actresses colony.
は
IS FOUGHT,,
TESTS OF PERSONS.
In the early part of the present century men suddenly discovered that food was being prepared with- out any reference to the possibility of danger to human life from con- Then came the passage of the tamination or from adulteration.. pure food law and intense research in laboratories all over the world to find out means of preservation. that would be harmless and means of preparation that would ald 'di- gestion.
One of the most important points to realize is the necessity of using sound, fresh and clean raw prod
Then con- ucts to begin with. tamination from shipping or hand- ting most be absolutely controlled.
Food Handlers.
In Newwark, New Jersey, between 1920 and 1925, the number of 29,- 369 restaurant employees were ex- mined by the health department and 2819 exuriined by private
"have several propositions from New York stage producers that I am considering." declares
blonde star. "And Physicians, also have been offered some
the
excellent
in
contracts to stay the pictures. However,
call of the footlights is the loudest and expect they will get me back again.
now
During the
same
period. 4877 milk dealers were ex- amined by the department and 2002 by private physicians. Of these the health department rejected 155 per- other diseases.
sons for tuberculosis and 15 for
When the possibility of infection "I may go east as soon as I finish of others is considered the impor the picture !
making.
tance of the elimination of this And may remain here to do one considerable number of infected more picture. By doing that food handlers becomes apparent. will miss the most sovore part of the winter back there.
in this film 1 have two leading men with bedrooms and ballrooms Oh!-- as my principal settings.
It is the most and inls of romance. romantic part I have ever played. And I like it, even if I do have to act a bit naughty then few of the sequences."
Greta Missen came "to this einigy from Norway just four years ago. Over there she was a sensation on the stage. Broadway gave her a big reception and con- tinued its ovations. The Viking beauty loval it. She misses the applause in her work here. So she's going back to the footlights ikitin.
the
Big Aviation Films. Plenty of residents of celluloid hamlet are going to be up in the air during the next few months. The reason is, that all of the leading producers are rapidly completing plans for big aviation Alms.
During the same time these per- sons were subjected to tests for the presence of diplitheria germs in the nose and throat and also to blood tests for the presence of typhoid fever.
Since all the tests were negative these two forms of examination have been discontinued. Neverthe- to
the presence of diphtheria and of typhoid carriers among people is well-known, and it will probably he necessary to eliminate infected food handlers with these disenses through the report of recent infec- tion with either of the two diseases or by the far more concerned, wasteful method of making exami nutions after disease begins to appear among the people served.
Making Safe.
It is a far cry from the day when Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" started every one in the world to looking upon meat with suspicion to this modern period when meat inspection, modern methods of re- inga" started the ball rolling,frigeration and shipping, and the just as "The Big Parade" was a control of food handlers make al- algnal for innumerable war films. most anything that can be purchas- Producers steered clear of the fiy-ed safe for human consumption.
The results are a legitimate re- ing movies as long as possible be- cause of the danger and high cost. turn from the tribulations and an- But the public has made known itsxieties of the period when Harvey desire for things pertaining to Wiley, Ladd, Roosevelt and other aviation-so actors are now learn- pioneers made possible the legisla tion that controls"conditions to-day, ing to fly.
The outstanding air production for the coming year promises to be Hell's Angels," a big special glorifying the exploits of the Ger- man, French and English aviators It is the first war during the war. aviation film to be made that isn't woven around the American nees, Howard Hughes, movieland's youngest producer is responsible for "Hell's Angles." Hughes came here from Houston, Texas, where he cleaned up" a nice pile of real rold in oil Using that money as his foundation, he is going to try to get more gold out of the movie industry.
DIVORCE TO SAVE A HOME.
FRENCH COUPLE TO CUT RED TAPE
...
Faris, Nov. 25. The harshness of the Napoleonia laws relating to marriages in France has just been draw at- tention to by a husband and wife belonging to 'à prominent French) Hughes plan for the filming of family, who have filed a suit for his production was disclosed after divorce although happily mar he had conferred for three days ried-in order to obtain sufficient with II. G. Fokker, builder of the money on which to live. famous Fokker planes
This old French law enacts Every scene in our picture will that if a husband or wife brings be absolutely authentie declared real estate into a marriage non-
"There will the young producer.
tract, the property, can neither be be no miniature and no wire said nor mortgaged except in the
hots in it. When we have battle sequences in the air. they will be as of the death or divorce of the berty which Erings the property hot there. I have ordered gigh into the marriage settlement. teen of the Fokker D-type planes
Worth £75,000.. In this particular case the wife flown by Baroti von Richthofen in his famous flying elreus. The ex- ploite of that great German ace also brought in property worth to-day will be reproduced in the picture.approximately £75,000, but the "In addition to the Fokkers, rents accruing from the property have purchased twenty planes of fare based on pre-wat letses and. the exact type used by France and payable in paper frapes, and do England during the, war. They not amount to sufficient money to are now on their way here from support the couple.
The couple, after trying every Europe. afy outlay in planes; alone already has passed the method of obtaining money from have decided property,
have $250,000 mark, which is more than. the
divorcé, and, "they the majority of completed films to
stated that they will not re-marry, cost.
"Work was started about two but will continue to live together. months, age on our flying field about forty miles When finished-about Dec. 1-it other day his caretaker wired: will be an exact replica of the oil discovered today at 'Hide Out.' LeBourget airport in Paris."
Was driven from your property to Greta Nissen, Ben Lyon, Louis day by Union Oil Company test Wolheim and James Hall will be well which is flowing at rate of featured in the film. Miss Nissen konsand barrels, daily." and Lyon are supposed to have the leading roles, but it is quite prob- George Bancroft, the berserk.of able that Wolheim will walk the blinking pantomime, hus re- away" with the picture, just as he turned to his old Broadway on did in "Cwo Arabian Knights." vacation after three and a half When he years in Hollywood.
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