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FOR MAKE>UP AND OTHER COSMETIC USES FREE SAMPLES So You're Going to Hollywood (Continued from page 45) to Los Angeles. Connections can be made in Chicago. Round trip including lower berth from New York to Los Angeles is $253.97. The B. & O. Capitol Limited may be boarded in New York, Washington, D. C., or Pittsburgh, Pa. Fare, round trip with lower berth, from New York to Los Angeles, is $276.97 — from Washington to Los Angeles, $263.63, and from Pittsburgh, Pa., to Los Angeles it is $239.33. Food on the diners in these trains is served a la carte and the prices are roughly equivalent to those in top flight restaurants. Most of the trains, with the exception of the Super Chief and The Chief, also serve table d’hote dinners, priced from $2.25 to about $3.50. In addition to these de luxe trains, the Union Pacific and Santa Fe also run a number of standard trains which make fine time. Round-trip ticket on the Union Pacific for example, from Kansas City, Missouri, to Los Angeles, including price of lower berth would cost $146.28. The Santa Fe has a collegiate train called El Capitan, between Chicago and Los Angeles. This is an extra-fare all-coach train (seats reserved), and zooms from Chicago to Los Angeles in thirty-nine and three-quarter hours. The round-trip fare from (Chicago to Los Angeles is $104.94. From New York to Los Angeles connecting with El Capitan in Chicago, is $144.73. The Union Pacific also has all-coach cars (seats reserved) attached to the de luxe City of Los Angeles. So does the B. & O. Their train is called the Columbian and runs between New York and Chicago, where you can make connections either with the City of Los Angeles or El Capitan. Round-trip fare from New York to Los Angeles on these extra-fare coach trains is $144.73. From Chicago to Los Angeles the fare is the same as the other coach trains — $104.94. All coach trains feature coffee shops, where prices are naturally lower than in the dining car. It would be impossible for us to list here all the trains and services from various points in the United States. However, these listings should give you an approximate idea of the cost including railway fare and sleeping space. We suggest that you contact the general offices of the different railroad companies in your own town. All railway fares given include a reduction on a three-month train ticket. Via Bus: Travel which combines pleasure with budget control is, of course, via the Greyhound Bus Lines. Round trip from New York to California is $93.67 and requires ninety-two hours or a little less than four days of travel. Rest stops are made every two and a half to three hours apart, and ample time is allowed for six meals in every twenty-four hours on the road. The food is served in selected Greyhound way stations. It is good and reasonably priced. Round trip from Chicago and nearby points cost $76.30 and requires about three days; round trip from Denver costs $41.75 and takes thirty-nine hours. From St. Louis to L. A. costs $71.24 and is made in two and a half days. Via Private Automobile: Those who plan to drive private automobiles should figure the cost at seven cents per mile. Gasoline in New Mexico and Arizona will be more expensive than in other parts of the country. Be sure to join a national automobile club, if you do not already belong. You may need their dependable, honest service. Upon Arriving in California; The first thing a tourist should do is to secure a map of California and of the city of Los Angeles and adjacent townships. Maps may be secured at any gas station or hotel newsstand. There is no such town as Hollywood. It is a suburb of the greater city of Los Angeles, but Hollywood is also a state of mind. Caution for those driving their own cars: Go to the nearest police station and secure driving instruction. Tourists get into traffic accidents by failing to observe the local traffic rules. Visitors should behave with courtesy and remain off the highways during the rush hours: That is between seven-thirty and nine in the morning, and four-thirty and six-thirty in the afternoon. Where to Stay: The great hotels: The Ambassador at 3400 Wilshire Boulevard (DRexel 7011), across from the Hat Derby shown on the map, will not limit your stay. Prices start at $8.00 per day for single occupancy, $11.00 for double. Reservations should be made forty-five days in advance. Open to both guests and non-guests are the Coffee Shop, the French Room off the main foyer and the world-renowned Cocoanut Grove. Prices at the Coffee Shop are reasonable. French Room prices range from $6.00 for two, up, up, up. Couvert charge at the Grove on Saturday is $2.00 per person, other nights, $1.50. Music is superb, dance space large and the food good. Dinner for two, including couvert and tip will be $12.00 minimum. 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