The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-02
Evening Chat

More Letters from the Chat Writer.
Los Angeles, California.
Dear Fhirmont Folks:
Writing from a different land about
different things may prove much
moro interesting than one would sup
Dose-in spite Of the fact that we
possessions and In our own way OF
doing things than in the belongings
and ways Of anybody else.
Here an miles and miles away
from Fairmcnt and already am fill
ed 20 Overlooking with new ideas and
3 new slant on life. / shall bring
back 70 Fairmont in September much
more than i took away with me, and
I'm not talking about clothes either.
IT'S the best medicine in the world
this getting out and away, seeing new
faces, new scenery and becoming in
terested in new methods Of solyingg
problems, or learning all about new
ways to be happy. I'm having a great
time. I'm seeing Fairmont as she
IS from this distance. She's
mighty fine town, of course, but II
mother can find fault with her child
so Fatrmonter may evolve ways
and means of improving his home
Town.
IN the first place I'd like million
dollar moving picture theater on our
Main street with an oriental rug in
the entrance tackled down over a
feather bed so that ones feet may
sink in luxuriously. There ought to
be a large hand painted vase as high
as man standing on either side OF
carved balustrades leading upstairs
filled with long stemmed American
Beauty roses, Roses out here, you
know, come plentiful and cheap. Car
nations, by the way( sold three dozen
for a quarter today downtown. Nov
ing picture theaters here are simply
gorgeous. They have velvet carpeted
stairs and elaborate decorations ey-
erywhere. So many wide high mir
rors stand on all sides that one feels
much like Alice in Wonderland. These
theaters are equipped with every
comfort and beauty. Rest rooms are
furnished in costly furniture with
white capped, white uniformed maids
IN attendance. The balconies are as
i rule furnished with even more COM
Portable seats than the downstairs.
The larger, better theaters provide
vide armed leathr chairs. deep and
roorny and soft. Upstairs near the
nigh aisle partitions are soft leather
seats built Just for two with no arm
in between. Last evening I could
not tear my eyes away from the hap
nv couples who filled them. Differ
ant colored lights famed softly and
continually in tune with the mood OF
the, picture. The lighting effect in
one particular theater is stupendous
From hundreds of domes hidden in
s different parts OF the house flash
soft vari-colored lights at various In
teryals Usually there is an orches-
ira of about Is people with magnif-
icent organ besides which joins in.
sThe volume of sound Is wonderfully
beautiful The musicians are the
best. One hears no bad music here:
Each player seems to be an expert
In his own way. Sometimes pretty
girls do little performing on tiny
stages at either side OF the screen
while the picture is being shown. Of
ten sound effects are heard which
bring out emphatic parts OF the pic
ture., Sometimes there Is a rest mo-
ment between scenes and an attrac-
tive young lady or clever younc
man gives a short entertainment all
his own. surely must speak of the
curtains here. They are mostly made
Of yards and yards of soft velvet or
silk and they simply dissolve out of
sight!
Yesterday I listened to a prettily
gowned young girl whistle in imita-
ton Of many OF the California birds.
above her hung adorable bronze-wired
bird cages containing number of
these birds. Now and then when
the birds sang also, one could not
tell which was bird and which was
young lady. The large orchestra
took up the refrain occasionally
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