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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18785, 19 May 1923, Page 13

FILM CELEBRITIES HEAATLT INSURED. An American contemporary throws some light on the extraordinary assurance policies held by certain film, people on iheir life. Adolph Zukor, head of the Paramount forces, is credited with having a policy for a sum approximating 5,000,000 dollars: Alary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks are insured for a fifth ot that amount; and the inimitable Charlie Chaplin’s figures are said to, be in the vicinity of 1,000.000. The premiums to be met on such colossal amounts nre very considerable, and. could never be paid unless the, holders were In receipt of something in the nature of fabulous Incomes. AUSTRALIA'S FILM DEMANH. 1 Tlte extent ot Australia's depend deucy upon America for films is apparent from figures compiled by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Comm ree in America, for September, last, from which it appears that tba Commonwealth of Australia has now out-distanced Great Britain in the amount of exposed film she from the United States, the footage being: Australia. 1.412.625; Great, Britain, 1,304.651.