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Hands of Hollywood
coffee and one of Henry's famous sandwiches, tell their newest jokes, discuss contracts, hear the latest Hollywood rumors, exchange banter and repartee with one another, with Henry the owner and with Harry Berliner, the jovial, smiling manager.
Every evening, Charlie Chaplin is there — Henry is Charlie's best friend and frequently plays big parts in his pictures; at several tables sit famous men and women in evening clothes, at others are electricians, property boys, etc., in their shirt sleeves, actors and actresses still wearing make-up, just arrived from hard work at the studios.
Henry is like a character from the pages of a mediaeval book, jolly, redolent of friendliness and unfailing kindness; always ready to joke, never undignified, scholarly but unassuming — a man whom Hollywood loves and a man who loves Hollywood.
The Montmarte is the luncheon rendezvous of the stars. At night an excellent orchestra furnishes dance music for the graceful feet of Screenland. At this cafe evening dress is the mode although there is an informal coffee shop downstairs below the main cafe. The Montmarte is a gay, charming place and is very popular with the studio folk.
The Double Eagle is one of the newer cafes of Hollywood. It is owned and managed by one of the Czar's former generals. This cafe is well patronized by motion picture people, especially the Russian colony.
There are many places outside of Hollywood where the stars dine and dance, notably Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel, and the Wilshire, Biltmore; Beverly Hills and May fair Hotels, etc.
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