"Today, Beverly Hills has an international reputation for exclusive smartness; its citizens are largely concerned with the production of motion pictures; possibly 200 film notables live in the town, and most of the movie stars who built within its confines came there because they were attracted by the notion of large estates within easy distance of the sea and the beaches."
When this article first appeared in print, Beverly Hills could support as many as ten bookshops. It is now barely able to support one...
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