| Show THE THESAL j SALT T LAKE f TELEGRAM 1 1 R AM i SUNDAY NIl w u V v t T J o vr v l i iN Y f A y T Til tI m m r 11 B r w if N L V 1 T izze L Z i p A m A tR J iJ C whO r AA 1 72 JI A j. ff 7 h n F r 71 2 My My guide ro rolled lied d m me long along along a well kept asphalt highway which I think was Santa M Monica ni a b boulevard past pat s houses halt half hidden by palm trees peppers and the pungent eucalyptus The prevailing color is white or c cream eam varied with blue and pink with red red redder or green reen tiled roofs the favored material material ma ma- erial Is stucco which does not seem to crack in that climate as it does in the East Fast Many of the walks leading to the houses house s were bordered with geraniums Rose Rosebushes bushes climb valiantly up wall and trellis but because of at the January freeze C California California Califor Califor- 1 f fin nia is sadly lacking in roses this y year The same frost that swatted the citrus crop killed the posies oases b bown hown at Santa Ana Anav AnavI AnaI I heard of an outdoor fete in which art artificial artificial i fi- fi c cial i al flowers had to be used That is t the h e extreme of desolation in the land of sunshine sunshine sun sun- shine and flowers We passed Swiss chal chalets ts glorified flat roofed Aztec dobes doges English cottages Norman Norman Nor Nor- man castles l mosques all kinds of architecture also plain redwood California i bungalows un slows each h Wit with hit its s v vines i nes and shrub shrubbery b ery an and d may maybe b e h half a 1 L a d dozen ozen orange trees laden with g golden olden bulbs At the top of a hill to our right stood a great house like a Japanese pagoda the home of Adolph Bernheimer not of the pic pie pictures pictures tures tares a principal show place of Hollywood My friend was explaining that most of the people of H Hollywood are not connected with motion pictures when he broke off to say Wally Nall Y Reid lives there The house to which he pointed was below the theof l level vel ot of our boulevard We looked down on a roof of red tile tale and walls of brown stucco We e could not see the swimming pool but rapidly obtained the impression that Fred Harveys Harvey's s desert t hotels along the Santa Santa Fe Feare Feare are no niftier than the abiding place of this same same Wallace Reid William Wiliam I lam S S. S Harts Hart's H Hart ar t s PI Place ce Is Is New England Colon Colonial ill 1 Up the road a little piece is the home of William S. S Hart New England colonial shingled and white one of the plainest and most agreeable places we saw We were Were told that the appropriate thing for tourists to say when they reach this thin point pointon on the grand tour is Just like Bill BlU isn't it On the other side of the boulevard boulevard is the mansion of Pauline Frederick with Ith an an expanse of ot lawn costing a fortune to maintain maintain maintain main main- tain in California The house is of stucco cream tinted red tiled formal looking The estate of or Edward L L. Doheny oil man penetrates a canyon canyon anyon not far front from Miss 1 Fredericks Frederick's home but a frieze of el hides it from public view In this tho same neighborhood Mme Nazimova has a yellow citadel Passing out of Hollywood without my l knowing it we were in Beverly Hills Its gt general tone is like that of the highest priced parts of Great Neck Long Island or Upper Mountain l avenue in Montclair N. N J. J It is all private primate residences except the Beverly Hills Hotel where I was told Rupert H Hughes and some of the picture stars lived and spent their leisure in in riding riding riding rid- rid t It T ing golf and contemplation of La Brea fields the enfolding mount mountains and the Pacific flashing eight miles away Charles Ray has a tidy thatched root roof box hedged English cottage in Beverly Hills win Will Rogers is bringing up his three children in a rambling home near by and sticking close to his swimming pool when in Cali Call fornia But every little while he has to leave the pool and go dripping to the front gate to sa say Yes they live right up that road to tourists before they have a chance to tell him that they are looking for the pl place ce where Doug and Mary l live Homespun Homespun Homespun Home Home- spun Will Rogers strange to say has a tremendous house with an acre or so of pillared porch and no end of formal gardening gardening gardening gar gar- dening and all that The road up the lull hill to the Fair- Fair Pickford banks-Pickford house is nothing to brag of It is a steep mountain grade wide enough for only one car and paved at one onetime onetime onetime time full of potholes The tradition is isI I that Mr Fa Fairbanks had the holes dug in order order to discourage trippers They flock u up the the hill hm roll on the lawn and snapshot everything One especially numerous flock of them gathered on the lawn one ne aft afternoon just after the two stars returned from their honeymoon They shouted shouted Speech speech It Golod Good G od heavens what shall we do said saidi saidy y c n r i dr r I. I I 1 l t t d Doug Do said Mary Man Well Vell We 11 go out and speak to them of course So they went out and quelled the multitude multitude mul mul- with speech and were and sent everybody away happy Few Who Work in in Movies L. L Live lve in In H Hollywood 0 11 Y 1 Back D of all t these h ese are ot other h er esta estates t es projecting projecting pro pro- their flora like green spearheads up the lower slopes of the hills Many l of these thew are owned b by well to do do Eastern families that have gone to California to Ii live ve Th The e sa same m is it- it s true rue of OL many a of f the tho e. e largest homes in iri Hollywood itself There Is no movie mo colony Here and there a afew afew few actors may be found living side by side some some of them the best of them in t. t bungalows 1 ren renting ti ng a at t f from rom 60 t to 0 1 15 5 a month but as a rule they rub elbows with storekeepers artists bankers insurance agents owners of of Los Las Angeles Angele factories retired sea capt captains ins health se seekers brokers brokers brokers bro bro- kers bakers with bakers with probably a healthy y admixture admixture admixture ad ad- mixture of pirates and the fife clergy just clergy just such people as may be found in any de desirable do- do deb suburb Many Hollywood J people work i In n L Los os Angeles and motor back and forth Even t the lowliest iest have cars in California Not many of the lowliest live in Hollywood for forit forit forit it Is regarded as an an expensive place although real estate prices are well below those of comparable towns around NewYork New NewYork York fork The great unheard of un press press- majority who make their heir living at atthe atthe the picture studios cannot afford a residence residence resi real dence in Hollywood A furnished room In Los Angeles Is the home of not a few A Hollywood acquaintance told me that of al all the families familial on his block along both sides of the street his was the only one that had any member working at t the studies stu stu- dios dies This may be an exceptional case but it is obvious that the movies have not taken possession of all of Hollywood One well known st star r I think it was Guy Bates Post told me he liv lived d near Pasadena an androve and d drove twenty miles to his job every morning morning morn morn- ing lag and back at night The Hollywood Chamber of aY Commerce e ee th that t of the towns town's s 70 00 0 persons are in m one or another branch o othe of f the film industry But an old timer said d the truth was that while white about were e actually engaged in the industry not more e than one-half one of them if that lived i In n H Hollywood Some of the gilt edged performers have e habitations accurately described by th the thereal e real leal as palatial others occupy ocean Y modest houses in rows that save for th the e tropical foliage are about I 1 like ke Flatbush Charley Chaplin rents a Moorish Boorish dwelling dwelling dwell dwell- ing lag of or about a dozen rooms on Croton a Heights from a theosophist for a month J. J J M. M Kerrigan has a white clapboarded clapboarded clap clap- boarded one story bungalow Kathryna Kathryn n Mac MacDonald onald a severe Dutch colonial cottage cottage cot cot- tage tags Hayakawa the Japanese a n formidable feudal castle Dustin Farnum m a two story story chalet William Desmond a homey colonial colomal Tom Mix a chalet Te Tom Moore l an Aztec palace In Hollywood a as s everywhere each to his own taste After tiring out one guide I acquired acquire d another and conscientiously did the business business busi- busi i- i district TT ness ress of Hollywood This is di divided divided di- di divided vided into three parts along a mile and a ahalt half halt of Hollywood boulevard Originally there were three drowsing hamlets and when the boom came they all spurted together to together together to- to gether and began to grow toward one another another another an an- other so that eventually they will be as one and pleasant interstices now filled with orange trees will disappear Business Blocks Block Clean And Jl Most ost of Them New The brightness and cleanness cleanness' of the E i business blocks strike the eye of the visitor visitor vast tor from the East They are not of old d enough to be anything else and the town tow n having no factories to speak of there then i is s nothing to smudge them The buildings building s are of one or two story except one which h has five stories and a skyscraper no now w being completed which has six They ar arof artof arEat art arE e of at stucco concrete or pressed brick uni uniformly while white or cream colored The stores store s are modern looking and and cheering pl places ces t tc e gc into Real estate offices are aro notable for num bers berf You learn that twenty ye years years rs age ag o orchard land in what is now the st part of Hollywood could be had at fro fron Cron m to an acre Sixteen years ag age the Hollywood Holywood Trust Security Saving Bank bought on one ons of the be best t corners o 01 I n 7 1 t. t w wl j 1 0 j i J l tf f ti the tics main st street a plot by hy 60 feet teet for It Is now appraised at at Ordinary space along the street is is worth 1500 1600 a front foot Homes do not come so high Here are samples Furnished five room bungalow hardwood floor garage water adults only 80 a month four room bungalow corner telephone disappearing bed garage 75 76 5 ely Io sunny corner room room 25 26 two rooms and sun parlor tele telephone b hone ne 65 65 unfurnished unfurnished un- un furnished six room flat two baths garage garage gar gar- garAge age 90 00 seven room house all Improvements improvements improvements Improve improve- ments for sale plastered bungalow v Spanish five rooms unpaved Spanish Span Span- ish ih home five rooms garage brick chimney chimney chim- chim ney ey lawn law shrubbery shrubbery five room roon stucco bungalow tiled roof root plot by s site te for home or flats fiats site for tor court or apartment 88 by ts S restricted i lot rentals furi furnished furnished fur fur- i lt 80 rentals rental LU Wished I 55 60 65 75 76 90 Though disappointed in Los Angeles and andin in the vicinity of such motion pic pie ture taro studios studies as I had seen I still entertained a hope llope that an actor or two would 1 d Y a b be e seen scan b behaving e h 11 a v i n g x roguishly in the r marts rte of Holly Holly- wood It was not to n be There were r a 30 few sporty A f looking automobiles auto j mob mobiles i II flex I e s g go 0 Y d devils e i 1 s with h port art holes in inthe inthe j w the hood but t the they y s stood too d par parked ked and c Y F empty in front ot of banks and grocery stores I had bad been told to approach ap ap- Preach the Hollywood Hotel with caution as here was the center not only of th the file weird night life ure of the movie colon colony but anything was likely to happen to to a a diffident stranger in the daytime Th The They y told- told me It deft eft was Passions Passion's PIa Playground d It proved to be a three story mission style hospice screened from the st street t by the regulation pal palms ji x peppers and acacias and anel t. with built around a p patio rich IS t Several tropical Iowa owa gra grandmothers vegetation t o i with neatly parted white hair were knitting a in alcoves al coves of the big sit sitting tin g groom room lobby Stepping close for an earful earful ear ear- ful fur of scandal I Ih h he heard ear a r d nothing but a debate as to the relative merits of the o f Santa Fe and the Union Onion Pacific as a means of migration Two Ja Japanese P ones e bellboys had an air of ot knowing something but I got nomore no nomore more out of them than they out of f me which y was 25 cents for service Otherwise the hotel was in a state of siesta and so it continued to be be all the time I was in Hollywood The new guide suggested A Armstrong Carlton's Cantons for luncheon see them all there he said said ald This is the great place of Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood although there are several other restaurants and a service self-service refectory which spells itself on the sign Carate ria We went X to o a corner table Armstrong Armstrong Armstrong Arm Arm- strong Carlton's was full of wavy haired young oung men and of ot girls reminiscent of the side streets above Forty second Forty ond street New York But the guide who Is a studio vetran veteran veteran vet- vet eran ran and really knows his crowd had to toL L confess that this seemed to be an off day Lets see he said Theres AI Al Green I Tommy Tammy Meighan's director over In that J corner That That gray haired man is Bill I Conklin who plays heavies but is socially acquainted with the elect of Los Loa Angeles I The lady under the the big hat is Alice Allee Terry who started Iri in the pictures s as a Triangle J extra and earned a living cutting film between be be- tween jobs And that's all so far as I t can see The rest are tourists I guess An Anyway Anyway Any Any- way way studio people having luncheon are just like other people t With this assurance I left the restaurant i 1 to find out more about Hollywood and was waso o j pained to learn that it has only one all alls s night restaurant and that a stool and coun- coun i 1 ter r affair The Cocoanut t Grove at the he Am Am- Am The b buildings above are not being torn down down down- this is how they thep are built for aw exterior scenes At the right r r ris is IS an interior w garden garden in in inthe T the film it appeared as the g garden arden of nr r ut a a P Ph Pashas Pasha's ra as a s palace My My guide ro rolled lied d m me long along along a well kept asphalt highway which I think was Santa M Monica ni a b boulevard past pat s houses halt half hidden by palm trees peppers and the pungent eucalyptus The prevailing color is white or c cream eam varied with blue and pink with red red redder or green reen tiled roofs the favored material material ma ma- erial Is stucco which does not seem to crack in that climate as it does in the East Fast Many of the walks leading to the houses house s were bordered with geraniums Rose Rosebushes bushes climb valiantly up wall and trellis but because of at the January freeze C California California Califor Califor- 1 f fin nia is sadly lacking in roses this y year The same frost that swatted the citrus crop killed the posies oases b bown hown at Santa Ana Anav AnavI AnaI I heard of an outdoor fete in which art artificial artificial i fi- fi c cial i al flowers had to be used That is t the h e extreme of desolation in the land of sunshine sunshine sun sun- shine and flowers We passed Swiss chal chalets ts glorified flat roofed Aztec dobes doges English cottages Norman Norman Nor Nor- man castles l mosques all kinds of architecture also plain redwood California i bungalows un slows each h Wit with hit its s v vines i nes |
