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380 Round Hollywood
bed-rooms ! Nearb}' is the famous Will Rogers pclo field. At Venice, a few hundred yards from Santa Monica (and some distance from Malibu), there are round-abouts, swings, switchbacks, and other diversions.
Back at our headquarters — is it the Roosevelt Hotel opposite the famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre, or a mere room in an apartment house off the Boulevard ? — we decide to dine, so we choose, perhaps, I\Iusso and Franks and perhaps try a delicious steak. Or perhaps we will go to Henry's, where we may see Chaplin or Stan Laurel ; and so on to the Pantages Theatre, or to the Chinese to witness the latest super-hit from the studios.
Afterwards, perhaps, we journey to the Blossom Room at the Roosevelt, or the Montmartre, or to the Brown Derby for a coffee. This, too, is a good place for luncheon. Wallace Beery, Virginia and John Gilbert, Wallace Forde, Jameson Thomas, Pat O'Brien, Constance Cummings, or Frank Fay with wife, Barbara Stanwyck, may He here. Then, if the visitor wants something less pretentious (although one seldom dresses in Hollywood), there is the amusing B.B.B. Cellar with its odd cabaret turns ; or there is Al Levy's Tavern across the road from the Derby at Vine Street. At Culver City there is the new Frolics Club where, in summer, one can dance with the stars and where the stars above twinkle merrily down from a ceiling that is the sky !
For the thriU-lover there is a motor-racing track quite near, and, just off the Boulevard, a stadium for boxing on a Friday night. For wrestling and boxing we shall go to the stadium in Los Angeles on a Tuesday.
For the lovers of serious music, there is the celebrated Hollywood Bowl where to the chirping of a million grasshoppers, symphony orchestras pla\ and enchant the world-renowned star or the dizz}^ little extra-girl with platinum-dyed hair.
Conveniently situated, a mere sixty miles away (distance is nothing in America !) there is Lake Arrowhead up in the mountains, and from the sunny shores of the Pacific, where bathing-costume-clad beauties splash in the surf, it is possible to dash up to the lake and enjoy winter sports, ski-ing, ice-skating, and snowballing. And down south there is merry Mexico where, just over the border, there are saloon-bars and gambling, and gay, fantastic tangos !
There is, too, the famous Los Angeles Coliseum, which is used for football matches and the like. Then, there is the famous island of Catalina, where fishing, bathing, and dancing can be indulged in.
The smartness of the Ambassador Hotel, the Brown Derby, or the Mona Lisa Restaurant ; the friendliness of Henry's Cafe ; the amusing sandwich-places where you sit in your car and waitresses bring you trays of food ; the football mad crowds ; the quiet and lovely Beverly Hills ; the fascinating houses in Hollywood-land overlooking Hollywood ; the ever-winking lights of Los Angeles ; the fantastic roads leading to the hiUy district of Outlook, and the sparkling, vivid blue sea — all these things and more make Hollj'wood kaleidescopic and interesting.