We reached Los Angeles and put up in Hollywood — a thing I had never dreamed of. And not only that: here I am, writing you this article with a pen I won at the C.B.S. studio in Hollywood.

But before I describe my visit to the city of the stars, I must describe some of the natural wonders we passed on this day. There is the Grand Canyon, the greatest chasm nature has wrought in America — nay, in the world: its length is 217 miles, and its average width twenty miles. It is surrounded by a forest of cedar trees covering an area of about a thousand miles. The American government has set apart this park, with the animals in it, as it has set apart other parks, so that its people may enjoy rest and serenity of life.

The canyon is made up of several rocky mountains rising about a mile in height, of differing shapes and colors. He who looks upon them from the mountaintop, when the rays of the sun shine over them, beholds an awesome sight before which the mind stands

amazed: their colors change from deep crimson to gray to dark yellow to a pale hue, and the whole composes a natural scene the like of which a man rarely sees. And when the moon comes out and casts its silvery shadow upon the rocky mountains standing in that fathom-less abyss, one imagines oneself in an enchanted land, or among the temples of the gods of the ancients.

Through this deep canyon runs the Colorado River, cutting its way from its source to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico. This river remained defiant of American capability until

a few years ago: in 1936, after attempts that lasted years, America's scientists and men of art and engineering succeeded in con-fining the waters of this great river and directing them into fourteen reservoirs, which light fourteen great cities together with their suburbs and irrigate the southern states. So the barren desert was changed into fresh gardens and green fields, and the cities flour-ished and advanced — among them the city of Los Angeles, whose inhabitants have passed the million mark, and in which factories and workshops have been founded until it has become the first city in the making of airplanes and of the iron machinery needed in the oil fields, and the second in rubber products and automobile tires. This city was of great importance in the war years.

And after we had driven for hours amid the orange groves, the vine arbors, and the banana trees, we came to Hollywood, which is one of the districts of Los Angeles.

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