Star-dust in Hollywood (1930)

Star-dust in Hollywood His nostrils, and He's about through with the bunch, and He'll sweep them into the fiery pit, and believe me they'll be hollering for water in them days, and He'll say : ' Nothing doing, yer unbelievers ; that's what you get for drinking bootleg and breaking My commandments.' ..." Later, after we had acted our little day at the M.G.M., Jo brought back the coloured photograph of the make-up man disguised as Christ, or Warner's double in The King of Kings, His hands were lifted, his expression was Guido Reni at his most ecstatic, and a yellow halo encircled his head. I wrote underneath : " Oh, Hollywood, Hollywood ! " and pinned it to the wall of our sitting-room. The gardener took this to be a promising sign of grace, and at various times tempted us templeward. " Say, Mr Gordon," he ejaculated one day, " you oughta 've been with us last night in the five-hundred room ! Oh, the power blessed us in a way that showed the Holy Ghost itself was descending. It was fair tearing the tongues out of us. There was one of us there took the Bible, an' he was just buzzing over the pages and proclaiming in seven different tongues, he was. And another, he got the baptism of the spirit so sudden and strong that he fell under the piano." Another time he said : " Oh, glory, Mr Gordon, the power in the temple was that strong it was running down the walls. There was an old woman of ninety-three got converted, and jumped up in her seat hollering like she was killed, and another man saw the Lord in person standing right at the back of the furthest gallery. Can you beat that ? " Sure, Mr Gordon," he said, " God has poured out his blessings wonderfully on the Americans and English ; why, we send out more missionaries than all the rest of the world put together." One of the paper touts, an old man who confessed to [250]