Hands of Hollywood (1929)

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Hands of Hollywood The qualifications are the same as those of any experienced purchasing agent, plus a knowledge of studio requirements. The salary ranges from $100.00 to $250.00 per week. (The titles, the duties, the salaries and the powers of motion picture executives vary in the different studios.) PRESS AGENTS OR PUBLICITY WRITERS Every studio has a staff of press agents or publicity writers. They arrange publicity stunts and write publicity stories concerning the various productions, human interest articles about the activities of the producers, stars, featured players, directors, writers, and important studio officials. In the old days publicity writers concocted wild, impossible stories, sensational falsehoods, fake kidnapings and accidents, and managed to induce newspapers to print such things. Today the reputable studios will discharge instantly any publicity writer who deliberately spreads patently false stories. The qualifications are: great imaginative ability in conceiving publicity stunts, ability to write entertainingly, ability to judge the "human interest" value of a story, knowledge of the characteristics and habits of all studio celebrities, acquaintance with the various newspaper and magazine writers. The salary ranges from $75.00 to $500.00 per week. (Some publicity writers sign contracts with individual stars, directors and various important personages to write publicity con' cerning them. A publicity writer who has five or six of these private publicity accounts derives an income ranging from $300.00 to $1000.00 per week.) OFFICE STAFF The office staff of a studio is comprised of much the same class of employees as any other large organization, and includes account' ants, bookkeepers, cashiers, timekeepers, paymasters, file clerks, mail clerks, secretaries, stenographers, typists, comptometer operators, telephone operators, messenger boys, general clerks, etc. [92]