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I" NSTEAD of shovelling easy abuse on the frontiersmen of movie history, or making too much ado about the rough ways or easy morals of the early settlers, we should pay the proper tribute to their enterprise and appreciate the conditions that they endured rather than made."
THE mosi amazing thing al)out my I'lrst voyage to California was perhaps the fact that 1 found nothing amazing there.
As with Columbus in discovering America, the continent 1 founii was news only to me and not the continent. Il is often forgotten that the Indians were well aware of their own existence and had been conducting a good going business without missing Columbus or pausing to worry over his profound ignorance. So it was only I who was eager to discover how large a number of people had been getting along so long and so well without assistance from me.
Whether or not the inhabitants of California will continue to prosper as well, now that I have left my card with them, remains to be seen. The visit of Columbus simply ruined .•\merica for the Indians. This was not so much the fault of Columbus, however, as of the people that flocked overseas on reading his report. I should like therefore to write this article in such a way as to do full justice to Los Angeles without precipitating upon its defenceless head all the authors of New York City — though there is ample room for them in the large open spaces between the various sections of Los .Angeles — the jaunt between hotel and studio, for instance, resembles a cross-continental motor journey. It is a city of magnificent distances between meals.
The most hazardous feature of a visit to Los Angeles is, as elsewhere, the gauntlet of the newspapers.
When Rex Beach and Samuel Goldwyn chose the epithet ''Eminent"' for the .\uthors
whom they elected to the most exclusive club in existence, they decided to put in one or twj really eminent authors to make it more plausible.
Mrs. Cicrtrude Atherton's name, like Abou Ben Adhem's, led all the rest. For one thing, like Abou, she had chosen a name beginning with A. But she also took pains to write several novels of worldwide fame — a precaution that I had neglected to take.
It was my good fortune and Mrs. Atherton's dubious luck that we should reach California about the same time. In consequencc. one of the Los Angeles papers, determined to be sen.sational. saw fit to proclaim in large headlines, the arrival
Rupert Hughes, Samuel Goldiivyn and Rex
My Adventures In
By Rupert
at the Goldwyn Studios of "Mrs. Gertrude Atherton and her husband, Rupert Hughes."
This caused me acute embarrassment as I had brought along with me (or had been brought along by) one perfectly good and highly satisfactory wife.
The whole duty of a genuine gentleman on such premises was beyond my imagination since I had ne\-er been a genuine gentleman and had never been advertised as a bigamist before. I was frantically debating whether I ought to murder Adelaide and offer to make an honest woman of Mrs. Atherton, or to