Photoplay (May 1921)

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Photoplay presents — "Oh, Hollywood! A Christie extra girl in a stripped lizzie, the normal means of transportation. Thereare thousands of these on the Hollywood streets. A Ramble in Bohemia Scenario by Mary Winship From an Original Idea by "Hezi Tate Photography by Stagg Atmosphere by The Movies Locale by Hollywood P.ARIS has its Latin Oiiarticr. New \'oik has its Greenwicii \'illage. San Francisco has its Barbary Coast. And Los Angeles lias its Hollywood. As far as area goes, they're about as conspicuous as a delegate to the Republican com ention. But for sheer atmosphere, originality and excitement, they're nearly as good as the Balkans. Now, the motion pictures didn't create Hollywood. It was right here, 'tis true, before ever a camera cranked. But how different! It was — and j^robably would still be — a nice little suburb full of jialnis and climate. Now, it's a city in Bohemia, featuring real movie thrills, morals and manners. Hollywood is the Greenwich Village of the west. Not so much exploited nor propaganda-ed as yet, but packing the same wallop in each hand. You may still harbor the idea that all the movies have done is to build a few studios and u.se tl'e hills of locations. Wrong again. If you will think for a moment you will see that such a thing cannot be so. I'ecause people always affect the temperament, architecture and tempo of a place in which they live, in some degree. If they are \ital, colorful, different, they will change it entirely. That is what has happened to Hollywood. Its tempo has certainly been jazzed up considerable. Right now you can find more nuts to the square liloc!^, and feel farther remo\ed from the ax erage American atmosphere in Hollywood, than you can in the .South .Sea Islands You will find more strange jilaces to eat, strange places to live, strange people to eat and live with, strange ways of eating and living, strange traditions and theories, customs, manners and morals about everything from lip sticks to artificial sterilization, more 40% kick, than in any place except the other tluce original!)' mentioned. It IS almost impossible to get a table at Betty s. It s called the Come-On Inn, and it is probably the most popular of the Hollywood tearooms; the pet gathering-place for nearly everybody in the game. Here are four extra girls in the "little room, ' with Betty herself in attendance. •Holly wood IS differe: She s as seductive as a Parisienne but, as it we she s a country girl gc wrong. A sophisticated mi maid. A Follies beauty ii gingham gown . . . Brown with a hoe in <; hand and an absinthe fra] in the other ! .Someday somebody is ing to write "Twenty Ye of an Extra Girl's Life' "My Experiences at Blatz Studio during reign of John Jones. " T time is not yet. But whe comes, the courts of Viei and the ladies-in-waitine the Czar are going to t] an awful drop in circulati In the meantime, we • only say with A\ery H'l' wood, "Oh, Hollywoo ' It's a great little pi; It's got as much persi alitv as New Orleans.