Star-dust in Hollywood (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Star-dust in Hollywood
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
Volume:
Star-dust in Hollywood
Leaf #:
00080
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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Star-dust in Hollywood doors, but a smaller postern let us in and shut on us again. Coming so suddenly from the brilliant Californian sunlight, we were blinded by the gloom, but gradually the huge objects round us became dimly visible. We might have imagined INSIDE A ' STAGE ' ourselves in the anteroom of some fabulous story by H. G. Wells. Tall tripods supported great steel barrels ; towers of lattice on wheels held up yet bigger cylinders ; thin standards held oblong metal boxes from which projected rectangular trumpets ; boxes of strange construction littered the floor, which was also decorated by sprawling lines and coils of thick and thin tubing. " Don't trip over the spaghetti,' ' Ornitz warned us. We could just perceive that we were in a maze of [74]