"The place is unreal. The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal—they don't smell. The fruit is unreal. Even the streets and buildings are unreal. I always expected to hear a carpenter shout "Strike" and the whole place come down like a stage set. That's what Hollywood is—a set, a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set erected in the desert."
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Ethel Barrymore "Queen Ethel Comes This Way Again" by Walter Monfried The Milwaukee Journal, (March 15, 1942).
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