DESTITUTION AT HOLLYWOOD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17955, 6 December 1932, Page 3

DESTITUTION AT HOLLYWOOD

BOX LUNCHES TOR EXTRAS Hollywood’s vast army of extra players, have been hit hard by the depression and by the fact that talking pictures seldom employ the big mob wi-ciies common to silent pictures. Hundreds who used to earn between £.j ami £4O a week in the old days just as extras, are now reduced to the most heartrending penury and want. Recently,about 400 men and a handful at women got a break when Oolumhia called them for the Bonus Army scenes in the political film, ‘ * Washington Merry-Go-Round. ’ , 'The scenes were filmed on location, which meant that the extras were obliged to report at the studio gates at 6.30 o’c/lcck. in,the morning, and to work in the blazing emu throughout the entire day, with 110 shelter fi o,lll its rays. Yet they were actually glad because it was location, rather than inside a studio, because location means “boxlunch” is provided for the extras, When they work inside a studio, the extras must buv their own lunches.