HOLLYWOOD ARMOURY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 10 December 1938, Page 6

HOLLYWOOD ARMOURY

Hollywood could equip a formidable army. This became apparent recently with a survey of studio armouries, from ! which machine-guns, rifles, sabres, and a dazzling array of other martial equipment goes to arm the hordes that ap- j pear in Hollywood’s war pictures. [ There are 116 machine-guns, among] them the most modern, and all of them , under lock and key in compliance with j regulations of the United States Government, 124,632 rifles, ranging from blunderbuses to automatics; 69,741 | pistols, also ancient and modern; 468,921 , lances, sabres, daggers, swords and : bayonets; 16 pieces of light artillery, four 3in naval guns, and 628 gas masks. Hollywood to date has acquired no modern fighting ’planes. Eighteen of Great War vintage have been purchased by Paramount for “Men With Wings.” There is an absence of tanks ]or heavy artillery. This is attributed !by J. S. Stembridge, supervisor of Hollywood's largest armouries at i Paramount, to the proximity of Fort MacArthur, only 18 miles from the movie colony. He said this facilitates I the renting of equipment from the ] United States Army.