Life — January 5, 1928 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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All- America Travel Contest Weekly Prizes For the best answer to each of Kay Vernon's letters: - - $75.00 | | First Prize - - - - - Three Second Prizes of $25.00 each Final Grand Prizes For those who have the Contest as a whole: First Prize - - - Second Prize - - - Third Prize - - best record throughout the - $400.00 - $200.00 “ $100.00 The Winning Answer to Kay’s Second Letter D EAR Kay, I suppose you made a hit with the Harvard boys, but I trust you didn’t try to tell them about Boston, for even they could have corrected some of the following mistakes: 1, The Pilgrim Fathers (capital F, not lower case) in the Mayflower landed at Plymouth; not at Boston, which was not settled until about three years later by the Rev. Wil- liam Blackstone. (Continued on page 31) PRIZE WINNERS (Kay’s Second Letter) First Prize of $75.00—won by: Frevericx L, Atten, 111 Old Army Road, Scarsdale, New York. Seven Second Prizes (four more than were offered) of $25.00 each —won by: Rose G. Beresrorp, 909 Franklin Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. Grace L. Busuney, 1124 Church Street, Evanston, Illinois. Saran L. Haptey, 227a Wil- loughby Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, H. G. Hovoxins, Jones Law Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania, Mrs. Katureen Sexton Houmes, 515 Williams Parkway, Denver, Colorado. Atice Brown Mackay, 550 West 158th Street, New York City. M. Caruiste Minor, Danville, Kentucky. Paso Houston mean Tan New Orleans pee ove THIS IS KAY’S SEVENTH LETTER Los Ancetes, Cauir. EAR Eprtor: Well, I've been to Holly- wood and I'm too excited for words (almost), but before I tell you about it I must give you some idea of what I saw in San Fran- cisco, I wanted to get a close view of the Golden Gate so I went down to the Ferry Building (which faces squarely up to Market Street) and took the Oakland Ferry across to the Marin County shore. On the way, we passed Alcatraz Island and caught a glimpse of the State's Prison. The ferry is pretty slow, but they’re planning a suspension bridge across the harbor to San Rafael. I also saw the Cliff House, which was built in the “Gay Nineties” and is described in that great humorous novel, “MacTigue,” by Charles G. Nor- ris. They have a troupe of trained seals on the beach in front of the Cliff House to amuse the guests. Well, after leaving San Fran- cisco, we flew over Monterey, Coronado and Santa Barbara and landed on a field between Holly- wood and Culver City. In Culver City are the Metro-Goldwyn stu- dio and the Pathe studio, where the Sennett comedies and the De Mille biblical dramas are made. The leading Metro-Gold- wyn stars are John Gilbert, Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton, Marion Davies and Norma Talmadge. I saw there the remains of the gorgeous settings that Lon Chaney used in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I then drove over to Holly- wood, past the Fairbanks and Chaplin studios, which are right across the street from each other, and then on to the Montmartre Cafeteria on_ Sunset Boulevarde. It's the most fascinating place at lunch time, because dozens of stars go there. I saw Tom Mix (who, like me, makes his living writing for Lire), Gilda Gray in her studio make-up—and ever so many others. I thought I saw Gilbert Rowland, too, but it turn- ed out to be one of the waiters. On the way from Hollywood to Los Angeles I passed through Pasadena, where the famous Bush Gardens are located. Driving into the city you go through a tunnel under Telegraph Hill, and it is only four blocks from there to the Ambassador Hotel, where I'm stopping. I'm just starting on a trip across the border to San Diego and Tia Juana. Lovingly, Ko The name Los Angeles, wit way, is Spanish and means “The City of Fallen Angels.” comicbooks.com