The Picture Show Annual (1928)

I Picture Show Annual 23 room double doors flung back lead to the study, while facing the door by which you enter are two arched passages leading to kitchen and bathroom. As you turn into the study, Mary's dressing-room opens from it, on the right ; and that is the whole of the bungalow, so far as rooms are concerned. The living-room is delightful. On the highly-polished floor is a thick, soft, grey carpet ; the walls are pale grey and the ceiling curves up and inwards, to a centre point, in Spanish style. There is a big sofa, of unusual shape. It is covered in velvet, of dull wine colour, and is decorated with a long centre cushion, bolster-shape, in deep blue, wine, and gold colourings. At each side of this cushion sit two large French dolls, one a Venetian lady, with bunchy skirts; the other a strange kind of pierrot, wearing a floppy hat. A big armchair, one side of the fireplace with its glass screen, is of the same colour as the sofa ; there are two other large, comfortable chairs, upholstered in chintz, which repeats the wine, blue and grey tones of the room, with some rose pink added. A small semicircular side- board, holding Venetian candlesticks, stands by the door ; and across the room, by the entrance to the study, is Mary's writing desk. There are two large pictures on the walls, and a particularly lovely portrait of Mary on a table by the fire-place. The dining-room has two huge windows with long chintz curtains, and repeats the colouring of the living-room on walls and floor. The table is black, of unusually attractive shape, with squared corners. In this room, at times, Mary hangs the bird- cage that otherwise perches outside the window. Every- where in the bungalow flowers may be found, for its owner loves them. In the study another birdcage hangs from a bracket over the writing table, which has a picture of Mary's mother resting on a row of books. There is a fine portrait of Doug, on the other wall, and the telephone stands by a cosy chair, covered with sprigged chintz. Mary's dressing-room is in shades of grey, mauve and softest green. The big dressing-table has an oval mirror with special lighting above it. And here again Mary's fondness for birds is emphasized by two fine Chinese birds, in porcelain, standing each side of the deep recess in which her dressing-table is placed. It has a rug of thick grey fur below it, and a stool of elegant shape, on which Mary sits while making-up for the screen. The kitchen is quite large ; all the walls and cupboards, and the front of the gas cooking-stove, are dazzlingly white. On the floor is linoleum of blue and white check, while the dainty frill below the dresser cupboard, and on the rail above the stove, is of cretonne, which is white with a broad blue stripe, and bunches of blush-pink roses. Even the chair is white, and has a spray of many-coloured flowers painted on the ring in its centre panel, this ring being edged with blue, of which two narrow bands are painted on the bars forming the back of the chair. The bathroom, with its deep porcelain bath, repeats the white and blue colouring of the kitchen. No wonder Mary is fond of her bungalow, and likes to be there as much as she can ! Margaret Chute. Mary herself broke the sod and planted the first tree by her bun- galow walls. The bungalow that Mary built appears very tiny beside the huge adjacent studio, and looks very much like an attractive little cottage in suburbia, with its neatly fenced 00 lawn. Outside it is guarded by slender fir trees and bushes of flowers; and it is approached by means of square white stepping-stones let into the grass.