Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-08-03
"a TRIP TO
California;
Friday, July q

OIher 10 write. 1nlngS happen 100
fast in this town! One just doesn't
have any leisure moments to make
comments.
, They are comparatively informal
these Californians. One sees lots of
pajamas on the street. but good look
ing ones, and occasionally a pair of
shorts. Out places, anyone may talk
10 you--not inquisitively, but just in
an impersonal way about the twenty
mile front fire on the mountain over
by Pasadena that hasn't been gotten
under way yet, or the price of food.
And, by the way, everything here is
darn near only half as expensive as it
/ is in the East. To get down to the
weather-it's wonderful These peo-
pie think they're burning up when
the thermometer hits rs degreesl
However, I'd better add that yester-
day was a hot day even to me. /
guess we're in for a little of that
mid-western heat wave. But the
nights are glorious. One always
needs a coat! And there are plenty
of places to swim. A few days ago
1 took a drive from Hollywood thru
Beverly Hills and along the ocean
front for miles past beaches and
beaches around to San Pedro where
the Los Angeles Harbor is and on
past Long Beach and the great crowd
ed stretch of oil wells, then back into
the city again. It's big circle! You
know the city of Los Angeles has
more acreage than any other in the
country.
It was somewhat of thrill, my
first sight of the Pacific Ocean, and
the realization that beyond lay China
and not England. went to lunch
con at Grand Hotel (remember
Greta GarboD in Santa Monica.
From the terrace one looks out over
the gay colored beach umbrellas to
the Ocean. 1t is somewhat quieter
! than the Atlantic except when there's
storm. And the coloring is more
impressive-white sails of boats
against true aqua marine into deep
blue into white green on the far
shore of the cove. And the softness
Of mist shrouds the mountains that
slope out into the sea. l shall never
forget the curve of the shore just
this side of San Pedro where bluff
juts out into the crystalline blue wa
tiers as in the pictures of Capri. In
the distance, glowing blue out of blue
mist rise the peaks of Catalina Is
land, where, I hear, one goes out in
glass bottom boats to view the gar
dens of the sea.
Hollywood is surprisingly like any
other city. One can't tell when one
is out of Los Angeles and in Holly
wood. Of course, occasionally a
movie star passes by, but they are
really quite ordinary looking on the
street. Yet certain swank smart
ness distinguishes the shops. For
me, there is, though, little too much
glitter, too much pose, although it is
not externally visible. The homes
are truly worth seeing, but there are
EXQUISITE homes all around Los An
geles. Beverly Hills is not the only
place. The greatest thing / have to
say for Hollywood is that hills rise
above it and around-peaked hills
such as only the West has. From the
top of Mount Hollywood at night the
dim twinkling of a million lights
sweeps around as far as one can see
and out to what one knows is the
curve of the Ocean. The red towers
of Warner Brothers Studio and the
incandescent stream of Western Ave-
nue. that cuts straight through Holly
wood and Los Angeles! The electric
signs here are numerous and are in
more varied colors. There is much
aqua marine in them and of blue and
silver.
The Hollywood Bowl is a place
well known in music circles. It is
an amphitneater in a hollow of the
hills where Symphony Concerts are
given. The rows and rows of motion
less people scarcely breathe while
from the white lighted shell streams
out the exquisite music of such mas
tiers as Boch and Brahms and Wagner.
The white shining moon, the mist of
dim night weave tenderness into the
harmonies. The quiet hills exude
their strength until supernatural
force seems to set this crowded little
dent in the hills apart, to uplift it
into rarifed atmosphere. Sir Ham
ilton Harty, the Irish musical bard, is
conducting now and in two weeks
Gabrilovitseh comes.
By the way, it's stale news now,
but maybe you'd like to hear me say
that there really wasn't any food in
San Francisco during the big strike.
Pm almost as up-to-date as Walter
Winchell And what do you think Of
| the Austrian aitaationl The Los An
qeles Time seys that Europe isn't
a hotbed and that there isn't the
slightest chance of war. Personally
| hope they're right