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SCREENLAND
The Hollywood
Our Incorrigibly Witty Author, Mr. Cruikshank, Lets Himself Go and Makes Good Reading. But We're Not Sure He is Right— Are You?
penie, Blgarija, Lietuva, Eesti or Suomi. But once he hits Broadway he's a New Yorker. Just like Alexander Woolcott, of Phalanx, N. J.; Ring Lardner, of Niles, Mich.; Theodore Dreiser, of Warsaw, Ind.; O. O. Mclntyre, of Gallipolis, O.; Texas Guinan, of Waco, Tex.; George Jean Nathan, of Fort Wayne, Ind.; Fannie Hurst, of Washington, D. C; Marilyn Miller, of Findlay, O.; Peggy Joyce, of Alexandria, Va.; Thyra Samter Winslow, of Fort Smith, Ark.; Lila Lee, Union Hill, N. J.; J. P. McEvoy, of South Bend, Ind.; or Sinclair Lewis, of Sauk Center, Minn.
Not all of these representative New Yorkers are Hollywood Haters. Indeed, not all Hollywood Haters are New Yorkers either by birth or braggadocio. The sect is not limited by either geography or geneology. It is rather a mental condition. An evidence of the trend of the times. Times in which it is the vogue to be against things
Lillian Gish makes pictures in Hollywood, true; but she also loves her Manhattan and her Europe.
1IKE all Gaul, Hollywood is divided into three parts. First of these is the Native Sons. Meaning a lot of embattled farmers from Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska who have spent what may be called their lives acquiring a small financial competence and the rheumati?. They've come to California to spend the one on the other.
Secondly, there are the Tourists. They are a sort of season. One speaks of the rainy season and the tourist season. The rainy season is preferable. As a rule they arrive during very unusual weather. In which event they return East to Omaha razzing the climate. Otherwise they may buy lots and ranches and groves upon which the mortgages are foreclosed shortly thereafter. Next to mo'om pitchers', the mortgage industry is one of the Coast's greatest main-stays.
But oddest of all sects in this sect-sy city, is the BiteThe-Hand-That-Feeds-You contingent. These are known as the Hollywood Haters. Many of them are New Yorkers. That is, in the same sense that a Cohen is a Kelly after the Court waves its wand and makes a turkey of a herring.
Your dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker may appear in the birth records of the vital statistics bureau of Shqi
A sophisticate of the screen, Constance Bennett, likes to visit France between pictures; but she always comes back to Hollywood.