Getting Into the Movies – Movie Etiquette
actress who is the feature of the production; the “lead” is the leading man or woman who plays opposite the star. The “parts” include all those characters which appear on the program the minor characters of the play. The “bits” are those who Nare called on to perform a bit of individual action, such as the butler who opens the door, or the chauffeur who drives the car, but who have no real part in the play. The extras are simply members of the crowd, as the ballroom throng, while a mob is just a mass of people, like an army or the audience at a football game.
The large producing companies frequently give elaborate dinners, seating three or four hundred people, and under this ridiculous old system the star sat at the head of the table, with the “leads” near at hand. Then came the “parts,” then the “bits,” and finally, away down at the foot of the table, were
