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THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1916
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The Wasted Hours!
Many times we jhave had discussions and agitations about the appalling waste in t he production end of the film business... /As= va rule, these disturbances have been greeted by those prominent
cles with the reply that it is impossible to make 't1nion laborers out of the artists. As a rule, the worst offenders in . thes, “killings aan time society” are the highest paid stars. Occasionally we find a director who kills time, but this particular class of waster has become decidedly more rare, because the men:who pay the bills have allowed a few of them to remain out of work for a time with the result that they reform.
Unfortunately it happens that it is often impossible for a company to proceed without a star, and this means that when the high-priced personage appears at the studio about eleven o'clock, instead of nine or earlier, that the entire organization has been held up through several hours of valuable sunshine.
The agitation in England to turn back the clock so that we would have more hours of sunshine after working hours should be applied to the film business, so that the film folk would be given to understand that the day in the film business, on the producing end, begins very early, because that’s when the light is with us.
I believe that the managers of the future are going to employ high-priced people, who are
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