MARY MILES MINTER.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 September 1924, Page 8

MARY MILES MINTER.

RETIREMENT announced

LONDON, Ang. 14. Mary Miles Minter, the famous film actress, has announced her reirement from moving pictures, saying -that scandal has ruined her life

-Lhis is a sequel to the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the pictureproducer, in 1923, when there was much gossip about the relations between Miss Minter and the murdered man.

Another actress—Mabel Normand, who afterwards \vas a member of the party at Courtland Dines’s flat when the latter was shot —wtis also insolved. Doth actresses were said to have been in love with Taylor, and there were several racy interviews between the two after Taylor’s death, but each agreed that the other was not connected with the murder. Miss Minter, however, made no seen et of the fact that the relations between her and her manager had been a good deal closer than strict business required. In fact she admitted that she had visited Taylor in his flat at midnight, and confessed her love for him. She claimed to have been engaged to Taylor. Subsequently there were startling stories of attempts to kill Miss Minter by persons who were carrying out a vendetta, which had included the murdered producer. Bullets were fired at the actress, but she escaped without injury, to become the subject for further scandal by a declaration that she was about to bring a suit against her mother for 1,000,000 dollars, being the money she had earned after attaining her majority. By her resignation, it is stated that Miss Minter will relinquish a salary, of £IO,OOO a year.