The Picture Show Annual (1931)

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36 Picture Show Annual Norma Talmadge's new beach home at Santa Monica, showing the tiled swimming -pool: and. below, a picture taken af Norma with Peg, her mother, Constance, Gilbert Roland, and Townsend Nether, Constance's third husband. ad and her director- hush and, Robert Leonard, enjoy a game of cards outside their home. her friends so that they may know whether Pauline is in or away fishing for lobsters. At Malibu there is no telephone connected to any of the beach houses. Only the general store has a phone, and the man who keeps it is not encouraging to callers. The only method of quick communication is by tele- gram, and the telegraph office works overtime. More than ever now the stars feel the need of sea breezes and sunshine, as their work is done in the heat of the sound stages, heat that is intensified many times if colour photography is used, and the many extra lamps burning. And Malibu and Santa Monica are within fairly easy reach of Los Angeles when the distance is travelled in fast cars. Once on the sands the stars forget they are stars for a while—or at least, they pretend they do. Lack of formality and absolute freedom are the maxims of the beaches, and in pyjamas and bathing suits they play at being happy nonentities and forget the studios as far as it is possible for any collection of stars to do so. Their Favourite Games. THE favourite games of the colonies are croquet, tennis, and volley ball, and parties are often held out in the open, with meals cooked out-of-doors. Louise