Evening star., 1925-08-16
HOLLYWOOD MOVIE
LIFE FOUND TAME
'WiId" Like Sunday School
Picnic, Says WiIe-City
Gets Culture.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE
staff Correspondent OF The Star,

staff Correspondent OF The Star.
LOS ANGELES, Calf, August 49,
Los Angeles, surfetteS with money
making, movie fame, real estate spec
ulation, and population hunting, has
gone in for the higher things" of
life. No longer is the itinerant East
erner dazZled upon arrival with tall
tales of the city's amazing develop
ment He is far more likely, as l
was, to be adnoniShed not to leave
town without visiting the Hollywood
Bowl.
Hollywood suggested movies. Now
'adays it means music. In particular,
IL means the magnificent open-air
evening concerts by the Los Angeles
Philharmonic Orchestra in a vast nat
ural amphitheater on the, edge OF
Hollywood There, four nights a
week under the Starlit heavens and
palisaded by the encirCling Sierras,
$4,000 or 10000 Los Angelans fore
gather to revel in Beethoven, CHOPIN,
Wagner, List and Strauss. l fore
gathered with them on what was a
pioneer occaSlon-the first appearance
on the coast of a woman conductor,
Ethel Leginska of London, who not
only directed the orchestra with the
aplomb and assurance of q StokoWSkl,
but iuterpolated the program with
piano solos. Sometimes Mile LIE,
giuslla was playing with one hand and
conducting with the other, an alto
Eether amazing performance.
Is Creation of Woman.
Hollywood Bowl-in so far as its ar
tistic uses are concerned, the creation
of a woman, Mrs. J. ]. Carter-ls the
expression of the. new Los Angeles
IT has served musical purposes for the
past four or five years and Is no" at
the apex Of its glory. The thfohsS
that come to 1t night after. night per
sonify the spiritual longing OF Los
Angeles for achievement in othef
realms than bank clearings, haroor
tonnage and real estate booms. Ine
angelic community Is consciously
proud of the progress IL is making
toward cultural ideals. Not so long
EGO the visitor was told, before he q
been within the city's expansive city
limits very long. that one person IN
every four in Los Angeles drives his
own automobile. Now the thing Los
Angeles seems fordest of proclaimlns
Is that 25, 900 IS an average attendance
at Hollywood Bowl concerts, and that
capacity-30, ,000-odd-is common
I was among those present in the
bleacher seats when the Philharmonic
artists played to a capacity crowd
The crowd itself, when the arc lights
far out on the bowls periphery are
turned on. Is a sight not easily for
gotten. But what inpresses still
more IS the aJtentiveness of the audi
ence. I've experienced nothing TO
compare with it unless it be the at
tention Borah commands IN the
United States Senate when, in the
words of Bob" Washburn of the BOs-
ton Transcript, the moths nestle on
the gavel of the presiding officer.
Here were 10000 Los Angeles boost
erS," as still, as concentrated, as up
lifted almost as II they were in
church-and more so than in some
churches / have known. Not a sound
could be heard throughout. that vast
space except the crickets on the
sierra slopes as they tWtttered above
the strains of some softly rendered
passage in symphony or concerto.
stood up once or twice to see if any
body was irreverent enough to strike
q match. for it's flicker could easily
have been detected. There was no
sacreligious Interruption OF that kind.
Silence Broods Over Spot.
Over the whole bowl 'brooded a mag
nificent silence, which permitted one
TO observe that, apart from It's natural
beauty, the amphitheater's acoustics
are superb. The orchestra plays upon
a stage. from which those seated in
the farthermost rows must be $50 or
500 feet away. Up there they hear
as perfectly as if they were in the
boxes 10 or so feet away.
Hollywood Bowl was built for gen,
eral public purposes. Great mass
meetings and political rallies have
been held in it. The other day Eugene
V. DebS held forth in the bowl. He
addressed a mere handful of 1000 or
5000, a pretty good-sized audience un.
der ordinary conditions, but one that
hardly made a dent in this modern
colosseum. It remained for the wife
of Les Angeles physician, Mrs. J. J
Carter, to recognize the possibilities
of the bowl for musical purposes. She
organized a series Of outdoor concerts
by the Philharmonic Orchestra. Dur.
ing the regular season, under a roof
the Philharmonic requires a huge cash
subsidy, mainly supplied by the multi
millionaire, William A. Clark, tr., to
make both ends meet. But within a
couple Of years Mrs. Carter had the
bowl concerts not only on a self-sus.
tanning, but on a profit-r4aking basis
where they are today. She gambled
on Los Angeles readiness for "higher
things" and backed a winner. Like
nearly all other Los Angelans, Mrs.
Carter admits to being Middle West
She comes from Missouri. 1t is she
who is mainly responsible for Los
Angeles artistic renaissance. TIC
the bowl she brings world-famed con.
ductors and solo artists. This Sum
1ner she has had, in addition to Mile
Leginska, Sir Henry Wood of London
{ and the Dutch conductor, Willem van
Hoogstraten.
Pilgrim Play Produced.
When you sit in Hollywood Bowl on
concert nights you can see flaming In
the sky. in another bowl not far away
one more symbol of Los Angeles cul.
tural strides. 1t is a gigantic electric
cross, surmounting a dizzy sierra
peak, at the foot of which the Los
Angeles Pilgrimage Play" entitled
''The Life of Christ" is produced
SPECIAL NOTICES.
HAVE MOVED MY MASSAGE PLACE
from 1l3S Conn. ave. to 91S 18th st. NV,
MRS. LYDIA JOHNSON. Swedish and Facial