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GIRLS OF 23. STRAIN OF CHORUS WORK. Sydney, June 14. “Hard work seldom kills a man,” declared Chief Judge Dethridge, in the Federal Arbitration Court, during the hearing of the claim of the Actors’ Federation for a new award. When Mr Kirby, for the Entrepreneurs’ Association, denied that the work of the chorus was strenuous, and mentioned that the age of a member of his company was 81, the judge reminded him that there were judges still working over that age. The president of the Actors’ Federation (Mr Walter Baker), continuing his evidence, said that 90 per cent, of the girls employed in the ballets were 17 to 18 years of age. By the time they were 23 the work had played havoc with them.—Sun.
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Southland Times, Issue 20524, 28 June 1928, Page 8
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127TOO OLD Southland Times, Issue 20524, 28 June 1928, Page 8
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