Star-dust in Hollywood (1930)

Page scan 000214 from Star-dust in Hollywood

Record Details:

Title:
Star-dust in Hollywood
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
Volume:
Star-dust in Hollywood
Leaf #:
000214
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:
August 29, 2024
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Star-dust in Hollywood watching the occupation of some more useful quarry. One of the most detached persons was the assistant governor of a local gaol, but he refused to be drawn beyond giving us a general invitation to visit his * show ' any time we liked. For a moment our playing created excitement. Temperamental people ran about banging tables. Lovely stars embraced us enthusiastically. Americans respond easily to strange rhythms. A whirlwind enthusiast offered me two thousand pounds if I would teach him to play the guitar as I did in six months. He waved a cheque-book at me and became angry at my refusal. "But why don't you? " urged Betty. " He is so rich that two thousand pounds don't mean anything to him." Unluckily the capacity for playing an instrument is not a purchasable commodity. But, apart from this man who really hoped to draw profit from us, the only other person showing rather more than transitory interest in the music or the instruments was a director who bewailed the fact that his wife was not present. " She might be cured of her love for the ukelele by hearing real instruments/' he said. " My last transatlantic trip was spent in stealing all the beastly ukeleles and dropping them overboard, no matter whom they belonged to." Otherwise a numbing indifference to anything beyond the small talk of the movie world kept us at arm's-length from most of the guests. [i98] THE WOULD-BE PUPIL