The New York herald., 1922-04-09

and the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra
will give forty concerts next summer with
the admission fee only % cents. There is
a community theater, organized and man
aged by Neely Dickson, where have been
seen scores of one act plays written by
such authors as Lord Dunsany, Bernard
Shaw, Lady Gregory, William Butler Yeats,
John Masefield, Sir James M. Barrie and
Stephen Phillips. The best of the legiti-
mate players drawn to the studios Of
during the summer the Pilgrimage Play,
based on the life OF Christ, is given in
canyon In the foothills at prices ranging
from SO cents to So. The spirit of the town
is suggested by the fact that the Board of
Supervisors appropriated $4,000 a year
for three years for the support OF this un-
dertaking. Many beds in Los Angeles
hospitals are maintained by movie persons.
Up in the hills Mrs. Annie Besant pre-
sides over the Krotona Institute of Theos-
ophy Some OF the churches Of Hollywood,
notably the Christian Science, Unitarian
and Methodist, are particularly attractive
The roll OF Christian Science members 10
a movie who's who. Witness: Bob Ellis
and his wife, May Allison: Mr.. and Mrs.
Tully Marshall Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
Hatton, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Graves, Mr..
and Mrs Charles Ogle, Paul Scardon and
his wife, Betty Blythe; Mr.. and Mrs. Jack
Holt; Richard Dix, Miss Leatrice Joy, Miss
Helen Ferguson. Miss Helen Jerome Eddy,
Miss Lillian Leighton, Miss Shannon Day.
Mr.. and Mrs Conrad Nagel. Mr. and Mrs.
Sidney Franklin and Mr.. and Mrs. King
vidor All the children of G. B. and w. @
De Mile attend the Christian Science 6un-
day School.
Then there Is the Screen Writers Guild
1t is a distinctly cheering institution. Be
fore going to Hollywood had never heard
of IT except through newspaper announce
ment that II had offered a reward of $1,000
for the capture and conviction Of the
Taylor murderer
That's the crowd that gave the big din
ner while ago, the Writers Cramp," an out
lander told me. SO IL is, and much more.
1t is a fiourshing alliance Of the men and
women of a new profession-the writer's of
stories and scenarios for the motion pic
lures II is an offspring Of the Authors
League Of America, born two years ago at
meeting in the home of Thompson
Buchanan, whom theatergoers remember
for "A Woman's Way" and other plays of
the legitimate stage.
1t strives to get adequate recognition for
the screen writer, to cooperate with the
Authors League in improving copyright
laws, to make sounder the contracts Of
writer's and producers and to ply visiting
celebrities with food and moral entertain
ment 1t has in Hollywood 100000 club
house, for which It is paying by the month
without missing an installment thus far. II
dispelled forever the impression that writ
ers are poor business men by making a
profit OF s6,647.54 from its first annual din
ner, the Writers Cramp. held in December
In the Ambassador Hotel.
II has succeeded In settling out OF court
disputes between producers and writer's.
so that now its services as arbiter Is sought
even by the "magnates." And when the
scandals threatened Hollywood the Screen
Writers Guild leaped to the defense.
So far as know the association OF mo-
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