Star-dust in Hollywood (1930)

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Star-dust in Hollywood wearing striped overalls, like overgrown children in rompers, lounged with an air of loose carelessness mixed with goodhumoured contempt that is the American workman's normal poise. Among the camera-legs and tripod-stands crouched a line of square canvas chairs. Each had a name painted on the LIGHTS AND CAMERAS back. Each chair was sacred to one behind and to no other. Would you learn the importance of any person on the set ? See if he has a chair. If not, you may almost with safety disdain him. Except the camera-men. Theirs is no sitting job, but they are by no means unimportant. In fact, Isaacs remarked with his customary acid intent : " If I meet a star on the lot and she asks me what I am, I say I'ma second camera-man. It is the only way to get civil behaviour from [76]