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Los *Angeles-cum-Hollywood
The tourist from the East will also find orange-groves in which each tree has a little petroleum stove beneath to keep it warm in the winter, and he will find an ocean so filmed over with the exhaust vomitings and the seepings from oiltankers that the fish have fled to less tainted waters.
The town catechism did not add that Los Angeles-cumHollywood has the best museum of prehistoric animals in the world, the second-best public gallery of modern paintings in America, the best open-air concert auditorium, a natural amphitheatre called the Hollywood Bowl, and a perfectly good Passion play. The first was a gift of God. All the other three were the gifts of individuals who had to fight for their existence. Mr Preston Harrison's art gallery would long ago have been ousted from the museum but for his unceasing efforts, while Mrs Stevenson, who wrote and endowed the Passion play, had to battle against all the realtors of Los Angeles to be allowed to sell back to the city at the original price she paid for it the site of the Hollywood Bowl, which in the meanwhile had soared to millions in value.
However, to match the catechism here is an advertisement from a Los Angel esian suburb :
ALHAMBRA, AN IDEAL FOSTERED IN COMMUNITY ART AND RECREATION
From Greece in the age of Pericles comes the groundwork of our democratic government in the " republic " of Plato, the basis of natural science in the syllogisms and categories of Aristotle, the beginnings of modern-day ethics in the teachings of Socrates, the origin of the drama in the works of Sophocles, an art and architecture of the Acropolis that has never been surpassed, and feats of valour at Salamis and Marathon that have been the wonders of the ages.
Back of this hundred years of unparalleled creative production was a great life principle — idealism — that lifted the Greek mind out of the shackles of material circumstance and fixed it upon the ideas of things behind the universe.
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