HOLLYWOOD ARMY
DISBANDING EX-SOLDIERS WAR FILMS ENDING 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 with 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. After that the “old sweats” will have to beat around getting jobs as ordinary extras.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21200, 24 August 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)
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