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. OOR little girl, stranded in Hollywood without a scrap of culture !" A scenario writer named Garret Fort made that remark about ten years ago to a rather pretentious young actress from New York when she bemoaned a lack of intellectual interests in the picture colony.
Well, ten years isn't so long in which to develop from infant to adult, but our town has made the grade ! The intelligentsia rash enough to moan for culture in this enlightened day is very apt to be composed of those disappointed pseudos who have found the company too fast for them. Even the hard-working old name-game gets them nowhere any more. A few good big names sprinkled liberally through their conversation, with a note of intimacy, used to get these birds by. It is now actually necessary for them to have read the books written by their big-names, have looked at their pictures with some artistic evaluation, and to have heard their music often enough to really appreciate it. A desolating state of affairs for pretenders, you will admit.
The proven wit and wisdom of the world has congregated in Hollywood and improved not only the entertainment you see on the screen, but the screen village itself. The chorus girls who used to sit around on the set swapping idle gossip, are now quietly engrossed in a tome whose title would astonish you.
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Now let's look at the other side! Can it be the screen colony is going in for culture? You'll find surprises here
By Ruth Rankin
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Jean Hersholt has a fortune in Dickens "firsts." The Warner Olands, below, are Hollywood intellectuals. Hugh Walpole and Constance Collier bring brains from Britain. Robert Montgomery has a fine Max Beerbohm collection, including the original