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HOLLYWOOD
has a Heart
HOW would you like to eat in a restaurant in Hollywood where the food was utterly delicious and very inexpensive?
And how would you like it if that delicious and inexpensive food were served to you by a beautiful young thing named Janet Gaynor or Sally O’Neil or Joan Marsh? And how would you feel if you knew that a great big gooey dessert priced five cents served to you by one of the prettiest girls in the world was a means of providing nursery care for a bunch of babies whose mothers had to go to work?
Would you think you were in Heaven or crazy? Well, you wouldn’t be either. You’d just be lunching at the Hollywood Assistance League.
For the Hollywood Assistance League is the heart of Hollywood — the kindly, good-natured side of Hollywood that isn’t very often seen and less often written about. Yes, it’s a charity, but being a Hollywood charity, it’s glorified, it’s glamorous and it’s amusing. You’ll see more real stars there than you’ll see at Montmartre or the Brown Derby. You’ll see them off-parade, too, being very much themselves and having a grand time doing something for others. And while the tourists still don’t know much about it, we’ll give you a tip. The League’s dining room is in a little white house down on De Longpre Street, which is right in the center of Hollywood. It’s a house sitting back among the pepper trees and you
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