Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-03-31

Doug. "Do?" said Mary Well 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-
tecting their fora, like green spearheads,
up the lower slopes of the hills. Many of
these are owned by well to do Eastern
families that have gone to California to
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 SIPS
month, but as - rule they rub elbows with
agents owners of Los Angeles factories
retired sea captains, health seekers, bro
kers, bakers-with probably a healthy adj
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 lowiest have cars in California Not
many of the lowliest live in Hollywood, for
it is regarded as IAN expensive place"
although real estate prices are we'll below
those Of comparable towns around New
York The great unheard of, Impress
ACCENTED majority who make their living at
the picture studios cannot afford a resi-
Gence in Hollywood. A furnished room in
us Angeles is the home of not a 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
dos This may be an exceptional case,
but it is obvious that the movies have not
taken possession of all of Hollywood. One
well known star, | think it was Guy Bates
Post told me he lived near Pasadena and
drove twenty miles to his job every morn
iEg 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, if that lived in
Hollywood
Some of the gilt edged performers have
habitations accurately described by tht
real estaters as palatial, others occupy
modest houses in rows that, save for the
tropical foliage, are about like Flatbush
8 Charley Chaplin rents Moorish dwell
. ing of about a dozen rooms on Croton;
a Heights from a theosophist for $500
Y month; J, NJ. Kerrgan has a white clap
boarded one story bungalow; kathryn
V Macdonald a severe Dutch colonial cot
tage Sessua Hayakawa, the Japanese,
( formidable feudal castle; Dustin Farnun
. Il two story chalet; William Desmond
honey colonial; Tom Mix a chalet Ton
+ Moore an Aztec palace. In Hollywood, a
everywhere, each to his own taste.
@ After firing out one guide l acquire
= another and conscientiously did the bust
a ness district of Hollywood. This is d
e vided into three parts along mile and
g half Of Hollywood boulevard. original
d there were three browsing hamlets, an
II when the boom came they all spurted tc
n gether and began to grow toward one ar
2 other, so that eventually they will be a
j. one and the pleasant interstices now file
o with yestigal orange trees will disappea
II Business Blocks Clean
~ And Most of Them Me-
le The brightness and cleanness of Il
p business blocks strike the eye Of the Wis
a tor from the East They are not o
Of enough to be anything else, and the tow
r having no factories to speak of, there
nothing to smudge them. The building
r are Of one or two story, except one whic
X has five stories, and a skyscraper, no
lie being completed, which has six. They a
ne Of stuccO, concrete or pressed brick, ur
is formly white or cream colored. The stor
in are modern looking and cheering places
tx &C into.
OF Real estate Offices are notable for nul
us bers You learn that twenty years a
ne orchard land in what is now the costlit
ed part of Hollywood could be had at fro
ed $3.50 to $500 an acre. Sixteen years a
the Hollywood Trust & Security Savin
id Bank bought one of the best corners