Star-dust in Hollywood (1930)

BOX LUNCHES FOR CAVALIERS Hollywood — The Band of Hope of wearing swords or velvet with distinction, paid for a certain elegance of backbone (one was a French countess in real life, waiting also for her ' break ' ). Others acted as cavaliers, and had to be capable of sticking to a horse in motion and of handling weapons in that position ; while others were merely so much space-filling-in . j mass, commanded by trumpets r^./ of loud-speakers that blared out the assistant director's voice. There were many signs by which you could know the star from the extra, but perhaps no surer one than by the patronage of the ice-cream wagon, an incongruous object among that medley of seventeenth-century magnificence. In this film an equally incongruous spectacle was to see the courtiers line up for the free ' box lunches ' provided by the management. " I will say this," exclaimed a musketeer to a city burgess, as they came from the provision trestle each carrying a cardboard box containing sandwiches, cheese, lettuce-salad, and cake, " Fairbanks sure does treat yer white." Jo had a sketching-stool, a light mechanism of thin steel tubes and canvas which could be folded into small dimensions. " You gets mighty tired standing about," said one extra to her, " and you can't just sit anywheres, you might soil your clothes. That's a handy thing. . . . French, is it? Wonderful goods they carries in France, I should say. Be mighty useful to us, it would." " I don't know about that either," said another. " You get sitting about some and you'll soon find you ain't getting as much work as you used to do. If a director see you [>37]