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When Walter Hiers drove up in front of a bank on Hollywood Boulevard atop a load of hay for "Hold Your Breath,"
business there stopped.
Hollywood Gets a Kick
No matter how familiar its inhabitants may be with seeing movie scenes being made, they are always ready to be thrilled again.
IN no city in the world are so many strange spectacles to be seen as in Hollywood. The point has been reached where nothing surprises its residents because of the activities of the motionpicture producing companies. What probably would result in riot calls and fire alarms and organization of citizens' posses in other places, does little more than offer a "kick" to the inhabitants of cinemaland.
Hollywood gets a kick out of most everything. Whenever a Hollywoodite sees or hears something that interests or "amuses him, he remarks:
"I get 'nawful kick out of that !"
He gets a kick from a good story, a kick from an airplane rodeo, a kick from the motor races and he gets a kick from the movies. When Gabriel blows his horn some enthusiastic native son is likely to rush up and grasp his hand and tell him what a wonderful kick he got when he heard the first blast from the trumpet.
There's always something happening to give that greatly desired kick. A young man tumbled from a street car on Santa Monica Boulevard last year, spilling about nineteen bundles and a turkey into the
By A. L. Wooldridge
A "wild man" scrambling up latticework on Sunset Boulevard, with two men in pursuit, proved to be Jimmie Adams, a Christie comedian.
comfiture. Most all of them recognized Harold Lloyd with his horn-rimmed glasses and later saw the scene reproduced in "Hot Water." They got 'nawful kick from it. A little while later, a motor car stalled in the center of a street intersection at a busy boulevard corner and within a few minutes traffic was jammed in every direction. Two or three motor cars had driven up to the stalled machine and stopped in awkward positions. A traffic officer vainly endeavored to straighten out the tangle. Horns began honking and sirens wailing. And then from the windows of an adjacent building motion-picture cameras popped and the operators began cranking.
More "Hot Water" scenes !
The motorists got a kick out of it when they learned what it was all about, smiled good-naturedly and watched the performance till it was finished.
Travelers coming into Los Angeles not long ago encountered a strange throng on the beautifully paved road along the palisades near Santa Monica. Fat men and fat women, grandpas in knickers and grandmas in sport togs, flappers wearing tight skirts, and sedatelooking business men wearingputtees, all trundling along the boulevard on kiddie kars and
street. A whole morning's shopping lay scrambled on scooters! They were just beating it down the highfee paving. He wasn't hurt, but the drivers of auto way. The spectacle was enough to make one wonder mobiles and pedestrians laughed gleefully at his dis if the folks had gone insane or were paying some