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Above, Christie direcfiiij: a scene for "When I rsus Threw the Hull." in 1912. It was one of the first pictures in which scenes \^ere shot of a theatre interior and a real sta^e with actors on it.
This recent scene at the left shows Molly Malone, Fay Tincher, and a beauty chorus in "Sally's Blighted Career." You'll see this soon in Photoplay Magazine's Screen Supplement.
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An absorbing story, telling how the occupation of an old roadhouse out in California by a screen comedy promoter led to the establishment of the greatest filming center in the world.
By Pat Dowling
AS The Oldest Inhabitant would say, ''Well sir, believe me or not, when I came here in igio I could have bought real estate right on this very spot for forty ^dollars an acre, and now look at it. If I had I'd be a rich man to-day I"
Well, yes, look at it, all cluttered up with moving picture studios and crazy automobiles dashing around running over women and children, and actresses and almost actresses darting hither and yon chasing stardom and vanishing rainbows.
The Oldest Inhabitant was talking about Hoilyv^ood, that mushroom community of picture plants, where hothouse flowers of the variety which are paid from five hundred to a few
thousand dollars a week for looking pretty, thrive under the gee-loryus California sun.
But why should Hollywood be any more important on the real estate map of the world than any other safe and sane residential district such as the Bronx, or Winnetka, Illinois, or Kirkwood, Missouri? .-^s a matter of fact it shouldn't be except for the fact that in Hollywood several billion dollars (press agent figures taken with a grain of salt) worth of moving pictures are made annually to be shown in such places as the Bron.x, Winnetka, Kirkwood, Calcutta, Hong Kong and Yonkers.
Well, who started Hollywood, anyway? And why did he