But if you go towards the other end of Hollywood Boulevard, past the darkened shops, out into the region of the bootlegger and the "Wop" restaurants, you will come to a place called "Ptomaine tommy's." The cheap glass windows are always dripping with steam, and you have to sit at a counter on tall uncomfortable stools, but Tommy, himself, will ladle you out agent plate of beans and chili, while he tells you that yeu won't get them any better this side of Mexico.
Tommy's personal history is ut duce rapidly. They lie scattered all over the place, at immense distances from each other. An entrance gate, a doorkeeper, offices, clerks—one must pass through all these befor he reaches magic ground. It is very noisy, the Kleig lights are blinding, and you are apt to. be somewhat dismayed by the medieval castle, the New York office building, the Arabian desert, or whatever you find there. But it seems to me that whatever of romance yon might discover is dispelled by the air of business which is everywhere.
After all, Hollywood is much as any sophisticated city—it parades its architectural spleadours for the delectation of the visitor, it demands that its citizenry dress. up in its best clothes for the satisfac tion of the curious. And if this is the substance of your acquaintance with the place, you have little 1, Mercury in conjunction with Moon, Jost pin. Ing 23"
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28, Mars" in' conjunction with Moon, 8°—An eclipse of the Sun will be ao~ companied, in an interval of half' Tunasion, by an eclipse of the 2l00n, and sometimes by two eclipses, If the Solur cctipse is a partial out, there will te but une eclipse of the Aon, which a total cehpst, d—When two lunar eclipses eneiteie the eclipse of the Sun, they will Lo anat eclipses in penumbra the eclipse of tae Sun ts a total If wereonsider an eclipse of the Sun occurring in the middle of & lunationy the Moun during. tas. lunation. moves grin the aireer direction (WB), while the line of the nodes: removed, inthe opposed: or "retrograde on, making a total. of 0" 40 Tunation necessarily contains Gno of the Moon's aedes, singe we aube ose the occurence. of & solar clip, und this interval wilt be divided Xin made into tivo pasts, one. of whic wil be less oF equal to limit-of the Interval or 25° Zu ut this pact Smvaitee than 33° 244) the smallest Aigression, under which an eclipse in Yenumbra' always happens,, Therefore Inthe foresaid ence, un eclipse of the Moreno, which has a small mountain all to itself and overlooks the University of California at Los Angeles, the Spanish hacienda of Bobo Daniels, out beyond Santa 'Monica near ' the Uplifters' Ranch, the English cottage of Betty Compgon and her—director-husband, Tames Cruzep among the Altadens Hills just outside of Pasadena, and the: host of innumerable Italian Renaissance, Tudor, Gothic, and Colonial domiciles of the rest of the film colony: for public consumption—he used to be something or other in New York's East Side, and then driftd out to Los Angeles in the booming days—but he can tell you anything that is worth knowing about almost anyone of note in Hollywood. And it is here that you hear stories of the failures and tragedies of the film colony, of the blighted hopes and gnawing despair of the young girls and men who travelled the Tong trail to the west, only to find that Hollywood was not the gra ous oasis it seemed—that there were more than an illusion. But if you should poke around a bit, you would, I daresay, discover, undernenth the tinsel and varnish, enough sincerity and charm for your moral and spiritual digestion.
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