AtD (37) pp. 1040 ff Misc. Background and On Broadway

[Mark Kohut]

Misc background? Nathanael West, a TRP influence, whose 100th anniversary is this year, wrote about Southern California (and Hollywood) in 'Day of the Locust" : "West likens the inhabitant of the southland as a participant in a masquerade"  ..Or just an FYI.

p. 1040 Broadway (L.A.) --from wiki
One of the oldest streets in the city, this section of Broadway (originally called Fort Street) was laid out as part of the 1849 plan of Los Angeles made by Lieutenant Edward Ord. Broadway from First Street to Olympic Boulevard was for more than fifty years the main commercial street of Los Angeles and one of its premier theater districts as well, containing a vast number of historic buildings and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Before World War II, Broadway was considered by many to be the center of the city, where residents came to catch movies at ornate movie palaces and shop at department stores.

'vast interior court below a domed skylight"....colours more intense...
like a natural building only heightened......like the movies, I might throw out. 

"stunt" performers. another little bi-location joke? Doppelganger joke?

:The 1930's marked the beginning of Hollywood's glory days. It was during this action-filled period that the modern profession of stunts truly began.--History of Stunts

A little anachronous here? {we are in the 20s] Probably there were some earlier, perhaps especially for starlets.