Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-17

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, June IL
don't know what the dangers OF New
York are, but local producers insure
their ManhattaniteS for million or sc
when they land in Hollywood.
Paul Whiteman is the latest To enter
the million-dollar class. When lac ar
rived in san Francisco on the way IL
Movieland producers sent all executive
TO meet the lazzy gentle and cover them
selves nobly against all mishap before
he arrived in Gelatinlapa.
Life and accident-half and half
What can happen? Well, Whitemall
might fall down and bounce himself to
death, for one thing.
The first local gesture of success Is q
saddle horse. The second swimming
pool. And the plutocrats of Movielano
go in for sun in thorough fashion.
dwelling a swimming pool is dig
nified ceremonial. You stand the owner
at the pools brim and then slowly un-
furl him from huge bath towel. Tea
Is had by all before ceremonials begin.
Bordoni has put few neat gestures
on group Of ladies who thought they
led the world In darn foolishness.
The radiator cap on her car Is carl
cature of herself. This was done by a
French caricaturiSt, GouSat. The ladies
of the village are above copying 1t. A
deep and wordless duel exists between
stars of East and West. This Is par
| ticularly apparent when the twain
| meet--On the same sound stage. But
oh, how the movie ladies wish they had
captured that radiator cap idea!
Just after sunset at this time of the
year Hollywood cheats the movies thai
] nj
| parable beauty i'll the cool platinum
aura of early evening.
The hills. silhouette OF indigo velvet
as exquisite as that esterel which re-
sembles cardboard mountains slipped In
behind the Mediterranean, dominate the
scene. This Is the season of yuccaS
| those tall cream colored lilies whose
great shocks. some and feet high
are like candle fires on sinister affairs.
! The boulevard, a score OF blocks away
has not yet wakened to its electric cpl.
lepsy. And the tall expresses of Whit
| ley Heights pick up the Somber shade
of the hills in exquisite reiteration
There is something italian about Whit
| ley Heights. 1t escapes the Hollywood
| Spanish curse of the rest of the village
You get away from California tile roof:
and Mexican tile fountains. the awning
stripes, the colored jars, the art draw
Ing rooms, the rocco garages.
Which reminds me that one of thu
foremost village architects tells me de-
signing homes for the movie colony /.
no sinecure. The actors all have SEN
timental fondness for the picture which
sent them to fame, and they want
something of the flavor of its atmos.
phere in the home. Then stage sets
inspire them with radical ideas for diff.
| ferent rooms. The result is mongrel
architecture. sometimes so amusing thai
even the architect pockets his violated
estheticism and just lets his sense Of
| humor make whoopee.
The man must remain in bushes;
hereabouts, and drawing plans for cellu.
| loid lords and ladies Is highly profit.
able. But q priceless story OF one stai
| who had seven pictures which she
wished incorporated in her home burn;
on my finger tips. The lady is blonde
and beautiful, famed for her figure anC
her teTpsichorean art. She had pic,
| lures of the Doges' palace, the Temple
of Karnak, the Madeleine. detail from
| the Escorial, wall in Sorrento, a Mexi-
can magnate's Summer home, and the
famous kings stairway from the Cha.
teau of Blois.
Tbs arshitect aysggsstsd that II!