Show Drill of Seven Armies In Repertory of Movie Soldiers HOLLYWOOD Calif By By The Associated Press U If If there should be another world war ar tomorrow the doughboys drawn from Hollywood would astonish the military experts Many of the American service servicemen servicemen men working In pictures can drill In seven sc languages They are as much at home doing the step goose as If they were ure born bom on the Rhine and when a producer wants a crack company of British Infantrymen he orders a crowd of the boys bos bosho who ho went over with Uth Pershing Penning About former soldiers are arc registered with the Central Employ Employ- Employment Employment Employment ment bureau for veterans which works In close cooperation with the central casting bureau maintained by the studios That Is several thousand more than are needed So to those who are arc ambitious and want to work ork In pictures regularly learn team the manual of arms and squad and company formations of as many armies as possible r ANY KIND OF DRILL During a a. a wait alt between scenes on o n location none one finds a s company of 1 taking their case ease while the director thinks say we have a little French drill suggests someone and the make-believe make boys from Vienna forget their Austrian uni uni- uniforms uniforms uniforms forms and snap into the French manual of arms If that goes smoothly they may try a little stepping goose or or at the request of ofa a new man who wants to learn leant It the British manual of arms Men who work vork together on the same picture for several weeks frequently are able to develop a proficiency In one of the foreign manuals of arms that sets them apart from other extras as a drill team worthy of special consideration tion Many veterans registered with the bureau actually served with an allied army One of the oldest veterans saw service with the French army In the war of 1871 TRICKS IMPOSTERS J Ross Lopez manager manag r or 01 the veter- veter veterans veterans' veterans veterans' ans' ans employment bureau has a quick way of disposing of imposters Impostors when he Is collecting a company I or a battalion of soldiers needed In some war picture He keeps a arlle rifle In the corner of his office not to shoot those who would bluff their way Into Jobs but to try them out on the manual of ot arms So you OU were in the army were you ou he asks an applicant All Allright Allright Allright right pick up that gun over there thereIn In the comer corner Now Right shoulder arms I Left shoulder arms Left shoulder arms is too much for fo the average four four-flusher He comes up with an extra hand dang dang- dangling dangling dangling ling on the wrong side of the gun and nd a sheepish look that lets him out ut of the army for that day Just how the underground military mili- mili military tary ary telegraph of filmdom works Is not clear but Lopez says sas he has re- re received an order for men at 8 8 clock o'clock with only two applicants In n sight outside and at 1030 had hado to o begin turning turn In them then away |