The New York herald., 1922-03-12

Doug. "Do?" said Mary. We'll go out
and speak to them, of course"
So they went out and quelled the null
titude with speech and were snapshotted
and sent everybody away happy.
Few Who Work in Movies
Live in Hollywood
Back of all these are other estates pro-
jecting their flora like green spearheads,
up the lower slopes of the hills. Many of
these are owned by we'll to do Eastern
live. The same is true of many OF the
largest homes in Hollywood itself. There
is no movie colony" Here and there a
few actors may be found living side by
side, some Of them, the best of them, in
bungalows renting at from $50 to 1925
month, but as rule they rub elbows with
storekeepers, artists bankers, insurance
agents, owners of Los Angeles factories,
retired sea captains, health seekers bro
kers, bakers-with probably a healthy ad-
mixture of pirates and the clergy-just
such people as may be found in any de-
sirable suburb.
Many Hollywood people work in Los
Angeles and motor back and forth Even
the lowliest have cars in California Not
many of the lowliest live in Hollywood, for
1t is regarded as IAN expensive place."
although real estate prices are well below
those of comparable towns around New
York. The great unheard of, Impress
agented majority who make their living at
the picture studios cannot afford a resi-
dence in Hollywood. A furnished room in
Los Angeles is the home of not few. A
Hollywood acquaintance told me that of
all the families on his block, along both
sides of the street, his was the only one
that had any member working at the stu
dios. This may be an exceptional case,
but it is obvious that the movies have not
taken possession of all of Hollywood One
we'll known star, think it was Guy Bates
Post told me he lived near Pasadena and
drove twenty miles to his job every morn
ing and back at night
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
estimates that 10000 of the towns 10000
persons are In one or another branch OF
the film industry. But an old timer said
the truth was that while about 10000 were
actually engaged in the industry not more
than one-half of them, IL that, lived in
Hollywood
Some of the gilt edged performers have
habitations accurately described by the
real estaters as palatial. others occupy
modest houses in rows that save for the
tropical foliage, are about like Flatbush
Charley Chaplin rents Moorish dwell
ing OF about dozen rooms on Crotona
Heights from a theosophist for $500
month ]. M. Kerrigan has white clap
boarded one story bungalow; Kathryn
Macdonald a. severe Dutch colonial cot
tage Sessua Hayakawa, the Japanese a
formidable feudal castle; Dustin Farnum
a two story chalet; william Desmond
honey colonial: Tom Mix a chalet; Tom
Moore an Aztec palace. In Hollywood, as
everywhere, each to his own taste.
After firing out one guide / acquired
another and conscientiously did the busi-
ness district of Hollywood This is di-
vided into three parts along a mile and
half of Hollywood boulevard. Originally
there werI three browsing hamlets, and
when the koom came they all spurted to-
gether and began to grow toward one an
other, so that eventually they will be as
one and the pleasant interstices now filled
with vestigal orange trees will disappear.
Business Blocks Clean
And Most of Them New
The brightness and cleanness OF the
business blocks strike the eye OF the visi-
tor from the East. They are not old
enough to be anything else. and the town
having no factories to speak OF, there Is
nothing to smudge them. The buildings
are of one or two story, except one which
has FIVE stories, and a skyscraper, now
being completed, which has six. They are
OF stucco concrete or pressed brick. uni
formy white or cream colored. THE stores
areNmodern looking and cheering places to
&C into.
Real estate Offices are notable for num-
bers Yeu learn that twenty years ago
orchard land in what is now the costiest
part of Hollywood could be had at from
$3.50 to $500 an acre. Sixteen years ago
the Hollywood Trust & Security Savings
"a r.