TROUBLE OVER FILM.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19759, 14 December 1935, Page 19 (Supplement)

TROUBLE OVER FILM.

24 MEN “ WALK OUT.” GIRL DANCERS TO THE RESCUE. Ralph Reader’s Hippodrome Girls came to the rescue of a British film when a team of 24 men dancers walkout out of the production. The film is “ Street Singer’s Serenade,” with Anna Neagl-e and Arthur Tracey as the stars. The director engaged the dancers three weeks earlier on a fortnight’s engagement. They had actually rehearsed for three weeks and had received three weeks’ pay.. Their dances could not be finished within the three weeks because of a camera breakdown and the director hired the team for one extra day. qfiie director said: “Everything seemed all right until the stage of the Lyceum Theatre, in which J am making certain scene's, was fully set and

I was ready to photograph the dance. '“Then the men walked.off, saying they would not work unless they were paid a full week’s wages for the one day’s work. I told them to go. “Then'Mr Reader suggested tha! his Hippodrome Girls should fill the gap with a speciality dance. These girls have been working for 10 hours a day for two weeks and they have been magnificent. In an hour this dance was rehearsed and photographed.