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...traditional hot bed of Central Kitchen discontent, Lowell put "Ken-L-Ration meat loaf," "grade double Z beef," and the often-mentioned, overboiled "green bean" high on its list of food served too frequently...
...home of the bean...
Lounges & Lanais. The hotel facilities, even for Hollywood, are spectacular. The bean fields, carefully tilled and planted, have yielded a lush landscape valued at $1,000,000; paths lined with giant palm trees wind throughout the wooded 15½-acre site, and plants spill up and out across patios, creating private vales only 50 yards from public bars; lounges open onto lanais heavy with the smell of orange trees. The setting is comfortable enough for the local colony, for whom it is a kind of family club and also affords a perfect stage for starlets or would-be starlets...
When it was built in 1912 for $500,000, the Beverly Hills Hotel sat among bean fields, overlooked a bridle path named Sunset Boulevard. There were no studio commissaries, nor even any Romanoff's, for the early Hollywood settlers to hang around in. The Beverly Hills provided a lobby with a blazing fire and a bar, and pilgrims like W. C. Fields, John Barrymore, Gene Fowler and Will Rogers came down from the hills and up from the canyons to seek their sustenance...
...then, of course, in Never Late the stomach has all the lines. Maureen O'Sullivan and Orson Bean are the co-stars--lest one forget--and no mean comics they; but their only function in this play is to feed the laughs to Ford. Ford knows what to do with them, all right. Aren't you pleased? he is asked. "Oh, I'm joyous; [pause] it's just I'm so miserable...