Road Trip, vol. 13

January 21, 1933 The next morning, also cloudy, we again went out to Hollywood and drove up to the Japanese Gardens but as there was not very much to be seen there in winter time, we did not go in. We also drove up to the Hollywood Bowl, which is a huge ampitheater in a natural setting in the hills of Hollywood. Milton and I stayed down on the stage while Sidney and Earl ran up to the topmost row of the seats. It was a considerable climb, too, for they couldn't run all the way up. It seemed to take a considerable time for the sound from the stage to reach them up there, so we concluded it must have been a good long ways. We also stopped in at Hollywood cemetary and walked through the mauseleum there. It was very beautiful there at the cemetary. It was right next to one of the large movie lots so we peeked over a high board fence but there was very little to be seen besides some rickety buildings and a small pool of water which in regular pictures became the ocean. There were only a few workers around, and nothing at all looking like a camera

We went out to Pasadena that afternoon and drove through the best built up section of the town where only rich folks live. We were rather surprised to see a great many For Sale and For Rent signs ahead of many homes. On the way back we tried to get up in te tower of the new Los Angeles City Hall, but we were ten minutes late so we had to postpone it.

That evening we went to the premiere showing of "Cavalcode" at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. The party included Harold, Paul, Laverne Lehnert, Ruth and Agnes Borchardt and our bunch. The picture itself was quite good though the vaudeville was not any better than one was accustomed to seeing at at a lower priced theater. The picture followed the lives of an Englishman and his wife from the dawning of the twentieth century until the present time. It seemed to concern itself most with the wars through that time and showed the rather deadly influence they exerted on certain persons as well as the general public. It really was one of those pictures that one has to see several times before the full meaning of it can really be gotten.

After the show we invited the bunch up to our apartment and fed them on ice cream and coookies. We all had a very good time.