MOUNTAIN FILM DRAMA
CINEMA STAR CRASHES DOWN A SLOPS. PARIS, May 23. According to a special cable from Los Angeles to the "Chicago Tribune" (Paris edition) W. S. Hart, til's cinema star, was seriously injured while acting for a film yesterday. The scene required Hart to chase another man. (Both. Were mounted on horses. A .pebble lodued in one of the hoofs of Hart's horse and frightened the animal. The horse swerved, and Harts head struct a branch of a tree The actor was rendered unconscious, and fell from the horse, which slid down a mountain side.
Hart, rolling down after it, crashed against a boulder, but was rescued by a number of camera men. The doctors called fear that Hart is suffering from concussion of the brain. In any case it will be several months before he can act again.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10652, 27 July 1920, Page 3
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