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"EXTRAS" IN FILM COLONY NEW HOLLYWOOD RACKET (Received November 25, 5.5 p.m.) HOLLYWOOD. Nov. 24 The existence of a group of racketeers to whom the cinema industry's 12.000 "extras" are compelled to pay tribute is indicated by investigations made by the police about a gangster squad. The distiict attorney. Mr. Buron Fittes, ordered the detention of an assistant casting director employed by- n big studio, who is alleged to b.ave used his position to coerce "extras" into contributing to the racketeers a percentage of their daily wages, namely 5V dollars. The police learned that hundreds of "extras." owing to the fear that they would lose their work, suifer physical injury or damage to their clothes, which are essential to their equipment, joined "clubs" organised for the purpose of collecting the tribute. The central casting bureau and the Screen Actors' Guild have offered their fullest co-operation to the police. The members of the film colony are incensed because the majority of the "extras" are "brea.d-liners"' who risk starvation for the remote hope of becoming featured players.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22896, 26 November 1937, Page 11
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