Star-dust in Hollywood (1930)

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Star-dust in Hollywood as the great English landlords " stole the common from the goose," so the wealthy of Los Angeles-cum-Hollywood are stealing the beaches from the people. Rest beaches and expensive beach clubs, where the rich combine bathing and bridge, are turning the sands into ' real estate/ and will soon be setting up " No Trespassers " buoys on the very waves themselves. The climate of Los Angeles-cum-Hollywood is a little like the benefits of Christianity — very much boasted about, but of little practical effect. For in this perfect climate we could not find one out-of-doors restaurant or tea-garden ; the windows of all these white, pink, blue, yellow, orange, and green bungalows and houses are sealed with fly-blinds of copper net which steals from the Californian light a full 20 per cent, of its brilliance and effectually turns back any wandering zephyr that tries to visit the house. To keep out a few intrusive insects, for we saw no mosquitoes, the inhabitants have got into the fly-traps themselves and have given the flies the liberty of all out of doors. Who needs zephyrs when you can turn on the electric fan ? Compared with the habits of the eastern States, there is little sitting out on the stoops, and, indeed, with the modern mangled examples of architecture, there are no stoops on which to sit. The lawns are spread round the bungalows, but nobody enjoys them in the cool of the evening. About 80 per cent, of the cars in which Los Angeles spends the greater part of its leisure are closed. The people may boast of their climate, but they drive about in glass boxes. As for the movies, they so despise the sun nowadays that they invariably help him out with batteries of arc-lamps, or else make him play the part of his own parasite, the moon. However, justice no doubt lies between extremes. We shall add to our personal observations on Los Angeles-cumHollywood the town's opinion of itself, culled from the pages [138]