HOLLYWOOD ARMY
DISBANDING EX-SOLDIERS. Probably indicating that Hollywood has at last turned away from war theme films came the news that the film capital’s private army is to be disbanded, says a London paper. This private army, which in its hey-day numbered 2200, most of them veterans of the last war, has fought 232 battles for scenes in films. They were the organised band of extras who were always called upon whenever a director was faced witli the problem of shooting a battle scene —no matter whether the scuffle figured in the Middle Ages, the last war, or this one. Now Hollywood’s private army is engaged in its last battle for scenes in "Four Sons,” a drama based upon the invasion of Czechoslovakia.
and play at my work —and it all ends up very neatly when the books are balanced at the end of the year."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1940, Page 9
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146HOLLYWOOD ARMY Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1940, Page 9
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