SOUVENIR-COLLECTING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20103, 24 November 1939, Page 5

SOUVENIR-COLLECTING

RIFE IN HOLLYWOOD CAFES AND CLUBS SUFFER Hollywood’s cafes and clubs have always suffered a great deal more the souvenir purloining of silver, glassware, and ashtrays than do the same establishments in any other city in the world.

Hollywood’s theatres long ago found that it was necessary to establish every fixture and decoration so firmly dial it would take a wrecking crew to dislodge them. Such show-houses as Grauinan’s Chinese, and the Egyptian, and Carlhay Circle all suffered losses of pictures, lamps, and even rugs when they were first opened.

The film city’s famous gay spot, liie Troc-adero. had to stop emblazoning ils name on its napkins in order to minimise the souvenir temptation offered to tourists.

Even now powder brushes and make-up materials of all sorts have a> be watched carefully at Hoily.vond’s famous Max Factor make-up studios. Visitors do not take any of these articles in the line of simple Shell, perpetrated because they need the make-up materials: the whole attraction is that these beauty aids have figured in the glamorising of dlmdom’s famous personages.

Clark Gable and Myrna Loy regularly have their driving gloves purloined by the souvenir seekers. Both of these stars favour open motor cars, and botli seem unable to break themselves of the careless habit of leaving these gloves in the car seat -when they leave. The gloves are seldom there when they come back.