Putnam patriot., 1925-02-27


 quently printed in Life and depict. ing the sights of some locality drawn by an artist who has never been there.
 Hollywood A It Is
 or to Hollywood. rides this visitor. through the teemiug real estate sec tions 0f Los Angeles. past the huge Amba ador Hotel. past this and that enormous apartment house which the chauffeur tells him is owned by this and that nlutoeratie movie star. The motor rolls on and on and the figure in the taximeter mounts at an alarm ing rate. Finally, there is turn down a wide and busy avenue and the traV- eler is told that this Is Hollywood.
 The traveller is aghast. Where are the screen actors of Mir Harry Leon Wilsan's and Nr George Randolph Chesfer's talasg Where are the paint ed sirens of the poster and the press dispatch7 Where is all this pietar- esque and unique colony 70 ably adter- tjsed by the active reporterg The ans yyer he discover in five minutes. Those eolorful figures of the billboard are, strange tO relate. hard at work.
 A Hard Working City
 When the visitor has finally digest cd the amazing truth that Hollywood is not an actual phantasmaRoria but busy and hard-working city, he looks about him through curious and some what admiring eyes There is the long main street of the city. with it's excel lent hotels, banks and department stores and ineessant eafeterias. Then there are the movie studios. business like looking places whose exteriors re- seuble the fronts of Eastern factories. A whistle blows and it Is five o'clock and the actor, the electrician. the pho- tographer and the thousand and one varieties of employees of these vast pic ture-making establishments scatter to their comfortable homes and bunga lows. There are familiar names on the studios 4 mountain Of paint ed ice arises from "the lot" where one Mir Chaplin is working on pic ture called "The Eskimo" From an- other enclosure rise the pinnacles and turrets and minarets of Mir. Far banks pictured Bagdad Nearby d brass sign on an office building indi- cates the location of the studio ani grounds controlled by Mrs. Mary piekford Fairbanks. lt IS all bust ness=like. Well-orgnnized and appar entlv we'll conducted. There are no sounds of shooting or bombing Well dressed. pruspetoas-looking people are going quietly about their busl- ness Movledam totters from its TO maaee and ieins the ranks af the hoil cr. makers. Even the shabby scenery of the Opera House at Taunton pos sesses more of the legend and thc glamar of the theatre.
 Where the Stars Dwell
 After this first shock however. the visitor realizes much of the reason for HolleWood's supremacy ia the making of the movies Here ls the ideal loca tiou for this tremendous modern in duslfy for industry | seems st Holly wood. and as far removed from any thing that resembles art as ls a pin factory from the studio of the late Ia mented Miehelangelo. First ot all. Hollywood possesses with Los Angeles that horcsome but ever present pertec tion of climate which makes the East i crneH long for good old dfashioned | blizzard The sun shines and shines l and shines and shines. The ocean with . craggY islands iit for the ships of pi- l rate kings Is within sight Of to the 1 East rise the mountains with their ex ceilent localities for such pictures as "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. For the eifete scenery of city life there 1 is. d scarce five miles away. Los An geles. the perfect movie city of the world Behind the mountains are the great open spaces where a mans a
 
 be reached by a short motor run Co one of those snow capped peaks of the Si erras that stand guard over this strange valley of civilization Holly wood Is Hollywood because Nature has here provided the moving picture in dustry with its perfect setting.
 In Beverly Hills
 Behind tho city rise the Beverly Hills. and the visitor naturally wends 1 his way there. curious Ca sec in what ! manner of house live these urwly-ris- ! on stars of the movie world As the 1 motor winds through this truly beau tsful and park like section. he realizes l that the movie actor here has some 1 thing Ia be very thankful for The l hills are the foothills of the protecting l Sierras behind. and from their eleva- 1 tion one looks out Co the blue stretches of the Pacific beyond. Beautiful roads wind up and down the hills and through the canyons. On eraggy cliff the driver points out the huge vel low stuceo home of Mr Chaplin. and little higher up the comfortable and modest home of Mir and Mrs Fair banks There is the pretty cottage which pola Negri Is building Co shel. ter her charms at the end of the days labor tn the studio. Here. iu a beau tiful house with lawns and flowers and fresh air and sunshine Will Rogers Is raising a largo and happy family af growing boys Down therg among the palm trees iu fhc valley is the lovely home of one Miss Gloria swan son. lately hecome French Mar quise easy hftla spanish affair is the =rfsidene1 of Miss Behe Daniels. uhile Harold Lloyd. of the tortoise she'll glasses and simple grin lives in a mansion shst commands 8 wide view eat e the sea Then toe. there are the homes of tho directors and cAmeramen and script writers and the mere business men of the film com paBies. who from comfortable ahodes n these very lovely hills go down daily to their lahors in the city below. even as Mr Wall Street ef New York motors down Co the canyons of Goth