Star-dust in Hollywood (1930)

Hollywood — First Days on the 3dovie Lot to give me a trousseau as well. ' Do you think that amongst all those stars in Hollywood I'm going to dress myself out of three hundred dollars a week ? ' I said to them in New York. " At first I thought that I had some new stuff for the cinema. But they only say they want new stuff; they don't really mean it. I'm not even going to stop to see my thing shot." Ornitz's eyes crinkled. "We all have the idea that we can reform the movies, " he said. " Otherwise probably we wouldn't come over. But once you have got your story past the continuity, and the director, and the supervisor . . ." "Supervisor hell," interrupted Isaacs. "He looks at your script and says, ' Look here, I don't like that scene being set in New York, so we'll make it on a Tuesday instead ! ' Do you know when they are going to shoot your film, Sam?" " Yes, as soon as Von Sternberg has finished The Docks of New York. That's fixed at last." Miss Wynne pleaded an engagement. Isaacs, complaining of a hang-over, left us to search for an illicit pick-me-up ; so we, with our friend and Ornitz, went down the stairs and across the courtyard. " Lewis has told me that you want to make some drawings of the movies at work," he said to us. " Now I'm going to introduce you to Von Sternberg. He is one of the most interesting of our younger directors. He shot that film Underworld. I've mentioned you to him already, and he will be delighted to let you watch him at work and draw as much as you like. ..." We passed between yet more huge stages, immense, empty shells of buildings which could hold several two-storeyed houses complete. They were closed by big green sliding t73]