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It's Free and Easy
If You're Sure You're Broke, Come To Hollywood
By ROBERT FENDER
HOLLYWOOD may not be one of the best things in life, but it's free. And easy. Easy, that is, to work, for a gratuitous living.
Are you supporting Then come, d o 1 p h Ricardo
You will find solid comfort in Pershing Square Park (above), where Valentino, among others, waited to be discovered; and (below) in Hollenbeck Park, which was Gary Cooper 's first Hollywood home
weary of yourself.^ as did RuValentino, Cortez, Gary Cooper, Grant Withers, Jim Tully, director Bill Seiter and others — oh, many others — to the town that will support you! Are you yearning for a screen career.^ Then come to this cockeyed town and earn while you yearn.
Rudolph, Ricardo, Gary, Grant, Jim, Bill and those others have demonstrated — nay, conclusively proved — that all a man needs he can get here for nothing. You don't believe it? Then you're my man. Move that ashtray over where you'll have a chance of hitting it. And settle down for a little read.
First of all, what does a man really need ? Assuming, of course, that he already has at least one pair of trousers, he needs: (i) Food, (2) Shelter and (3) Amusement. Bring those trousers with you to Hollywood. Also bring wliat will pass as a dress suit. And a razor. Your arsenal is now complete. Hollywood and its gravy is now yours for the taking.
How about getting free food and shelter in Hollywood.'' The tow-n has no breadline. And even if it had, one would hate to forget oneself to the point of using it. Vulgar
breadline. But there's still that question of free board and room. Very well. Jim Tully, himself, points the way.
Like this: turn up at a star's or near star's house with a strange tale — any strange tale that will make you out an "interesting person" — and let things take their course. Tully, you remember, used the hobo story. It worked. Everywhere, he was accepted as that interesting hobo fellow. He simply made a racket of romanticism. Food and shelter followed. No less a personage than Charles Chaplin took him into camp and saw to it personally that he ate regularly and slept soundly. The fact that he was badly stung for his trouble; that Tully later came out with articles that bit the hand that fed him, has no place here. Enough that Tully got all the free meals and drinks out of Hollywood that he could use.
Too, there was the bright youngster who turned up in Hollywood with a fake title, to the delight of his stomach. This chap posed as a nephew of Franz Josef of Austria. Hollywood couldn't do enough for him. For three solid months, he ate and drank the best the town offered'. At the end of that time, someone bothered to look up his credentials. Result: Franz Josef's "nephew" went back to his old stand at the soda fountain. But it was good while it lasted.
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