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Where a good maritime is had by all: the beach bungalows of Fred Beetson (farthest left), Raoul Walsh, Herbert Brenon and Allan Dwan
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ALIBU BEACH — the movie stars' paradise! Here the pampered darlings of the screen with money enough to indulge every whim, enjoy the greatest luxuries they can find, escape from their own fame, freedom from their marble villas and imported limousines and high-salaried servants, the privilege of wearing old clothes and going unshaven and unmarceled.
Along the California coast are scattered board shanties. Their squatter-inmates look out enviously on the stream of glittering automobiles that roll past their doors and mutter, "If I had their money I'd enjoy myself too."
And the movie stars, with money enough to do what they wish, find nothing more desirable to buy than a bare board shanty on a stretch of California beach where they can do their own bousework !
Malibu Beach! "I simply had to have some place," the star with the famous eyes tells you tragically, "where I can get away from all this." Her gesture indicates the studio lot beyond the dressing-room door. "A place," she adds, "where I can forget my work."
On week-ends you will find the star with the famous eyes at Malibu, with exactly the same crowd she sees every day at the studio, sitting about on the sands talking of the pictures they have just made, or are making or
are going to make !
A year ago this spot, where fifty motion picture players have built cottages, was a strip of desolate beach walled
ugitives
At Malibu Beach the Stars Entrench to
off from the world by rugged California hills at the back, and rocky promontories on either end. Twelve months ago this sandy shore, fourteen miles north of Santa Monica, echoed to the stamp of great cattle-herds. Today the million-dollar feet of movie stars leave the print on the same golden sands. For it is on the old herding grounds of the Malibu Ranch that the film millionaires have established the most exclusive colony in the world.
A Community of Communicants
Anna O. Nilsson started it all off when she built a ** two-thousand-dollar cottage on the lonesomest strip of shore she could find. It was Anna's idea that she would be able to slip away week-ends to this cottage and commune with nature. But, being the most hospitable soul in the world, Anna invited her friends out to commune with her, and since Anna's friends consist of the entire population of Hollywood, Malibu Beach was not lonesome any longer.
Simplicity and isolation do not come cheap. The enterprising owners of the beach refused to sell lots to .the clamoring picture people. Instead they leased them for a period of ten years at a monthly rental which is nobody's business. By the time the public had awakened to the enterprise, every square foot of the beach was taken.
Seated is George O'Brien; then come Ronald Colman, Louise
Fazenda, Pauline Starke, Anna Q. Nilsson, Jane Winton and
Myrna Loy
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