From
A. M.
To
P.M.
IN HOLLYWOOD
Morning
6:00 5,782 extra players awaken.
6:30 Milk-wagon horse refuses to climb Whitley Heights.
7:00 192 directors awaken.
7:01 191 directors go back to sleep again.
7:15 349 alarm clocks serenade 349 assistant directors.
8:00 1,831 extras report for work.
8:30 42 stars stir in their feather beds.
9:00 Goldwyn gatekeeper checks in Abie Lehr.
9:15 First automobile accident of day.
9:30 First actor shows up at Armstrong's restaurant.
9:45 Lasky office boy is sent in search of Pola Negri.
10:00 June Mathis and Frances Marion complete first scenario of day.
10:30 47 excursion buses leave for new real estate tracts with 759 passengers and 8 prospective buyers.
10:50 25 sight-seeing buses leave for "free trip to the oil fields" with 45 stock salesmen.
10:59 Weary bootleggers start on their rounds.
11:00 Lasky assistant director is sent in search of Pola Negri.
11:02 Goldwyn gatekeeper checks in Mickey Neilan.
11.15 All film executives reported "in conference."
11:30 Title writer, who has been thinking all morning writes "Came Dawn."
11:45 First hot dog sold at Venice.
Noon
12:00 3,678 pies ordered at Universal lunch counter.
12:05 Party of tourists from Clinton, Iowa, arrives in Ford and inquires way to nearest studio.
12:06 Lasky director sent in search of Pola Negri.
12:30 27 actors at Goldwyn studio ask Murphy to charge the lunch.
12:31 Young girl from Clinton, Iowa, thinks she sees real actor and faints dead away.
12:35 First section Overland train pulls in with 423 home-seekers, 18 travelling salesmen, 6 imported English authors, 71 writers assigned to "cover" Hollywood boulevard and 3 Californians.
Afternoon
1:00 55 actors at Armstrong's sign the luncheon checks.
1:15 All male members of Writers' Club adjourn for game of pool.
1:16 Women scenario writers return to work.
1:30 127 ex-plumbers sign up at a motion picture talent bureau.
1:31 Government reports labor shortage.
1:35 Another "second Valentino" is given the air.
1:50 Street railway inspector notes uncrowded cars reaching business district.
1:55 Street railway corporation cuts down number of cars 11 per cent.
1:57 Second hand Ford dealer sells 175th car of day.
2:00 Lasky studio manager sent in search of Pola Negri.
2:15 Cecil B. De Mille shoots first scene of day.
2:30 Carl Laemmle decides to spend another million.
2:45 78 divorce decrees granted.
3:00 77 more marriages.
3:05 Bootlegger admitted to exclusive country club.
3:15 Jesse L. Lasky starts in search of Pola Negri.
3:30 Ambulance rushes down Boulevard. Excitement.
3:31 Automobile with movie camera follows. More excitement.
3:33 Crowd gathers.
3:34 Police reserves arrive.
3:35 Automobile accident.
3:36 Crowd disperses.
4:00 Six movie ingenues adjourn for ice cream soda.
4:15 Pola Negri reports for work.
4:30 Pola Negri quits work.
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