It would take a bold undertaker to deny that Los Angeles is today the queen or pearl of the funeral parlor, crematorium and graveyard world. Where else have American mass-production methods been so ingeniously utilized in delivering the defunct citizen to terminal rest? Where else are rites so cheap and splendid, the morticians so tanned and jolly? Where else does sunshine and music so fully flood the funeral home?
It is hard to say which has had most to do with establishing this pre-eminenceĀthe Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, with its statue-strewn fairyland for the hallowed...