Photoplay (May 1921)

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There is so much queer and unusual being done in the legitimate making of pictures that the personal side slips by. It accounts in some measure for the infinite freedom, the unusual expression of personality that exists. The last statistics, I believe, show that there are 750,000 "stripped lizzies" in Hollywood. Something like that, anyway. There are enough to trip on every time you turn around. You see the distances are so great it is literally impossible to get a ong without a car. "Stripped lizzies" are the answer. They are the well-known Ford automobile — (as Mr Lorimer once said, you can't advertise Niagara so let's speak right out in meeting) stripped of even their scanty clothing — almost i ude in fact. They are painted in every color of the rainbow and they actually shy at Fatty Arbuckle's new car. There is no class distinction in Hollywood, either. The most rabid socialist can point to it as an example of communism, so far as social usages are concerned. People who have money make a great to-do about it, of course. But it makes absolutely no difference in the relations of people. You are just as apt to meet every different occupation, condition and salary of man and woman at any party you go to. Some of the greatest friendships I have ever known in the pictures exist between people of such radically different positions that it could not occur in other professions. Hollywood is always having parties, too. There is never a night that there isn't a series of parties going on somewhere. Their only difference from others is that they are a bit more hilarious and usually last longer. There is, I think, less conversation about theories than in Greenwich Village. Though I know of one cellar Turkish Coffee House — where you pour your own coffee and tell the nice old cashier what you had as you go out — where the most ardent followers of Mr. Debs and Upton Sinclair gather. But there is just as much free action. The law of the colony is that everybody is entitled to do exactly as he or she sees fit in all [jersonal matters. If you don't like it you may stay away but you must not knock. I have never known of anyone losing caste for any personal action or opinion yet. Even that part of the colony that is happily married and lives more like the rest of the world, subscribes to this esprit de corps. While everybody is exceptionally fond of dishing dirt, it is only by way of conversation and interest. There is no criticism. Just let an outsider voice any! The Marion is another popular tearoom where they have a phonograph with all the latest records and the best devil cake and real Chinese tea. The last time I was there Tony Moreno was holding the floor with a lecture about Spain. Everybody jumps up and down, putting on favorite records, wandering from table to table for a cig;wette, dancing between courses. * EVERYBODY knows everybody and all about them— and people are always spoken of by their first names. Initialsare exceedingly popular and carry the right shade of dempcratic camaraderie without implication of personal acquaintance — "C. B. is starting to shoot next week," or, "They say T. H. I. has turned off the hghts down at the shop for a while" or, "Well, when D. W. was out here — " But right here are where lots of the gags and much of the subtle atmosphere and inspiration of tiie pictures is gained — thought out, talked out. Franks is a French restaurant famed for its coffee, _its pastry and its Roquefort cheese dressing. It has a most Parisian atmosphere — a bit more serious and masculine than some other places. But the discussions grow wild and general in there somet mes. Passing outside you'd think you were listening to a football game. It is often called the "Club" because that is what it actually resembles. Al Christie has a table there where he has eaten every noon for a year. King Vidor and his staff have another. Allen Holubar and his assistant drop in to sit at a little side table waited on by a bald-headed old Frenchman — a character well known to everyone in the movies. Bayard Veillier, Tom Forman, Tommie Meighan, Jack Holt, Milton Sills, Bert Lytell are generally there. HOLLYWOOD-ITES never leave Hollywood. The only reasons a man goes away are to see the first run of his own picture or to go to the fights. And when they do go — to the beaches or nearby cafes— they just take Hollywood right along with them The Log Cabin, a charming, unique place at the entrance to Laurel Canyon, is another playground of the movies. A sort of personalized roadhouse, permeated with that careless, at-home spirit of the movies. It is always characterized by little impromptu programs that are vastly entertaining— with the guests as entertainers, There is of course a great deal of "sex" in Hollywood. The freedom between men and women is very great. Conversations in mixed crowds are no different to those when it isn't mixed. Women can — and do — what they like. They work, play, love' and draw their pay checks on exactly the same basis as men. Not even Greenwich V'illage has achieved so great a freedom in this regard. It is one of the supreme characteristics which the real Hollywood wili show you. There is much easy good funj light kissing, many pet names, all of which mean no more than the birds singing. There are salons, too, in Hollywood (one O only). I know at least five — where you can find as interesting, as cosmopKjIitan, as broad a collection of people as there are in the world. People who are there because they are great, or famous, othenl who are there because they are witty, oi funny, or odd, or amusing, or charming These gatherings are open almost to every [ body in the colony who keeps his facej fairly clean. ! The Studio Club, where a great many oji the girls live, is a remarkable institution—': characterized by freedom yet with its owr unwritten laws. There is even a Motior Picture People's Church, that caters t< their special spiritual needs. The Community Theater which is man aged by a clever little woman named Neeh Dickson, is as odd as any Greenwich Villagi playhouse, and its one-act plays are "stronj meat" intellectually. It is hard to word-paint a place liki Hollywood. Because the whole thing so intangible, so indefinable. So now, as I think of Hollywood itself and what I have written, I feel like th' famous man who said, "Yes, the conceptioi was a rose, but the achievement is a ros grown grey." 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