Show i hOLLY HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD- WOOD WOOD- t T Found F oun d Very V elY t. t Unique Spot k HARRISON R By PAUL t- t HOLLYWOOD A Remarkable place Unless youre you're a native you jou never get used to it If It a native native- though you think T nothing of ot buying ice cream in a stand created to resemble a huge Inverted cone Or orange juice in a papier-mache papier orange 20 feet in di di- di ameter arneter Or a piano in a building that looks like a baby grand They say three have gone craZ crazy trying to design a bank shaped like a a dollar sign Its It's a town where hot dog stands have grand openings with Klei lights and flowers and a couple o of movie stars to get the first firt ir t wieners I with plenty of mustard Its It's a town where an truck ex-truck driver with a profile profile profile pro pro- file receives more attention than a celebrated scientist and 10 times Umes as much money Astonishing Hollywoods Hollywood's sense of Values The common pantry variety of ant is worth 15 an ounce A man who crashes an automobile full tilt Into a china shop gets instead of ot a jail sentence sentence sentence-if if he lives Former cloak and manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers become tin gods and brag that their time now is worth 50 a minute And spend an hour each day studying racing forms and placing placing In ing 2 bets bees Ministers compose but never deliver deliver deliver de de- de- de liver sermons on on the text And a little child shall feed For or lots lotsof of kids make more in a a. week than their fathers could earn in a year Jn tn H Hollywood however millionaires million million- aires sires actually work Some of oC them have to get getup up at a. a m. m I Roman Baths y When renting a house here you ou dont don't ask How many baths You Inquire What are the dimensions of the swimming pool Lots of people have swimming pools tools and cant can't afford to keep fresh freshwater freshwater freshwater water in them For that matter lotsof lots lotsof lotsof of people go to swimming parties and cant can't swim Just as the town is Js full of cowboys who cant can't ride And aviators who are scared to death o of airplanes Hollywood is mysteriously me me- Wind blows when somebody somebody somebody some some- body throws the switch on a wind machine Icicles form torm when rolls of cellophane are dipped In in wax Seaworthy ships ships' are built floated sunk and dismantled in tiny private private private vate landlocked oceans 15 miles from the actual sea And sometimes battleships miniatures are riddled and sunk with shotguns It can be raining cats and dogs Inside a sound stage yet hot and dry outside Vice versa three e of the most arid desert pictures were filmed at the height of the rainy season Actors during the shooting of snow scenes because the snow is paper and corn flakes r The straggling street of a Chine Chinese Chi Chi- ne nese e village is likely to turn at the first corn corner r into a prim little Maine hamlet v 1 Buckshot doubles for ca Good money is paid to men who know how to spin a realistic cobI cob cob- I w web b Hollywood tries to mind its own If It any business You could don a burnoose and snowshoes and traverse traverse traverse tra tra- tra- tra verse the boud vard without being haled to court for a sanity test Beauty parlor oper operators tors think nothing of it when a man walks in ino o and asks for a permanent wave Betty Furness won scarcely a glance when she attended a cocktail cocktail cocktail cock cock- tail party in a hat decorated with real carrots and lettuce Cats Its It's a town where the most sinister Villains mains collect stamps and racketeer racketeer racketeer rack- rack chieftains exclaim Good GraL Gracious Gra- Gra L clous cious Where cops gangsters solI soldiers soldiers sol- sol I diers and others who should be fa familiar fa- fa with firearms almost invariably invariably invariably ably blink and flinch flin-ch when they pull pun the trigger f. f One of this departments department's readers readers read read- em ers a Mr A A. B. B Deane of Wellsboro Wellsboro Wells Wells- boro Pa calls attention to the latter latter latter lat lat- lat lat- ter p peculiarity He writes It seems to me they should be able to keep their eyes open at least with blank ammunition If It I were a di director director dl- dl rector Id I'd round up the worst offenders offenders offenders offenders' of of- fenders fenders' and give them a truck load of ammunition with orders to retire to the wide open spaces and not 1 come back till they could shoot and ands s keep beep from flinching |