Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1920)

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East, West— Home's Best" By Peter White minim while," or "This room would be very comfortable, but the things we needed for it are all in storage, and it wouldn't really pay to send for them." Farnum believes that it pays to be at home, every time ; and if what he wants is halfway across the country, he either sends for it or buys something else to take its place. So, when the Fox company decreed that he was to make a number of pictures on the Coast, he bade farewell to his beloved place down at Sag Harbor, Long Island, and telegraphed a friend in Los Angeles to buy for him a house there, which he had seen on a former sojourn in the West. And now that house is a home where you are made so welcome that you don't mind your climb up the Santa Monica Mountain, on which it nestles. From its broad verandas you can look down over Los Angeles, and then up again to the distant hills. Its garden is aglow with clove pinks, California IT'S a terrible thing to be a home lover; if you don't believe it, just ask William Farnum and his wife. I've sometimes suspected that they have moments of longing to be the kind of people who can camp out in a hotel suite, unpack the family photographs and three pet sofa cushions, and be perfectly comfortable. But they aren't ; the stalwart William simply has to have a regular home, where you can poke your head into every single corner without hearing a chorus of "Oh, we haven't unpacked the books ; we didn't feel that it would be worth poppies, and even with orchids imported from South America. What convinced me of the Farnums' feeling about homes was the group of plants which would not bloom until the following year. When people take out a little mortgage on the future in that way they cease to be transients, and become real home people. Nobody at the studio entertains any misapprehensions about Farnum's love of his home, for every one knows the alacrity with which he jumps into his long, gray racing car as soon as the day's work is done, and the number of times he has been held up for speeding toward home is an old tale.