LIFE IN HOLLYWOOD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 1 February 1936, Page 4

LIFE IN HOLLYWOOD

YOUNG PEOPLE’S PARADISE GAIETY AND EXCITEMENT “.hi Hollywood, all foods, including meat and loaves of bread (which are always sliced), is wrapped in cellophane,” said .Mrs F. Woods, of Neutnrl Bay. who returned to Sydney hv the Mariposa, after a three months’ visit. “1 haven't seen a fly since I left here," she said, “so the cellophane coverings aren't really necessary. Milk and butter are the only foodstuffs delivered. For anything else one has to visit the immense and brilliantly lit “markets” which stock beautifully arrayed fruit and vegetables, meat, groceries, liquor and tinned beer.

These markets are open day and night and also oil Sundays.” AUSTRALIANS IN HOLLYWOOD Airs Woods, who was visiting her son. John Woods, arrived in Hollywood a week before his first picture with R.K.O. studios, “The Last Days of Pompeii,” was released. The Australian, Alona Barrie, lias ?. lovely home on the hills of Holly--i wood. Alary Alacgregor, who left Australia for England over a year ago, is now in Los Angeles, and has just completed “Wife Versus Secretary” with Myrna Loy and Clark Gable, and Agnes Doyle is at present in New York contemplating stage work. Mrs Woods describes Fn,M Astaire, whom she met on the set of his new picture, "Follow the Fleet,’ ’as very gay. and hirglit and extremely popular. Gary Cooper’s mother, said Mrs Woods, explained to her that her soil’s first venture into films was made at the suggestion of a - friend who told him that a studio “wanted a follow with long legs to do some stunt riding in a picture.” GETAWAY OF GUNMEN When leaving the Ambassador Hotel with her son one day during a crowded luncheon hour. Mrs Woods witnessed the daring getaway of two- gun-men who had robbed the private hank of the hotel. They bad succeeded in obtaining 110(1 dolars, and were never traced. “Altogether,"’ she said, "Hollywood is a young people’s paradise. It is a j.dly and carefree life. There is no .such tilings as ‘afternoon tea’ there. If you are asked out for ‘afternoon tea.' it means cocktails at 5 o'clock.

"Invitations to breakafst are quite usual, and the breakfast generally consists of a fruit cocktail (equivalent to a fruit salad) and egg fried in a slice of bread from which the middle has been cut. and hot muffins.”

Among the places which she visited wore the Coconut Grove, with its soft, subdued lighting, the Beverley Wiltshire Hotel, the Trocadcro, and “Lucy’s”. HUGE PARTIES ENTERTAINED At a private bouse in Hollywood, which boasted a huge swimming pool mirrored to its base, 350 people were entertained at dinner and 500 people afterwards.

For the Christmas month Hollywood Boulevard was a mass of dazzling lights, said Mrs Woods, Christmas trees on the side of the boulevards were outlined, in mauve, in red, and in all colours, and on occasions decorated lorries would carry movie actresses through tbe streets.