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88 Pauline Frederick
As it was evident that the next several years would be spent in California, she began looking for a place to establish a permanent home. After much careful searching, she finallysettled upon a house on Sunset Boulevard, in Beverly Hills. At that time, everyone was surprised that she should want to go " so far out," for when she bought her house it was the only one upon that now vastly developed boulevard. She chose this house because it stood alone, with a fine view over Hollywood. She bought, also, the lot next to it and proceeded to make the estate into one of the show places of the film colony. Her ideas were, however, more comfortable than palatial. She built a huge barbecue pit so that she could entertain her many friends at outdoor parties. The house itself was not one of those " miniature hotels " that stars so often live in today, but a charming two-story house painted in the customary California white and surrounded with flowers, shrubs and trees. It became a house with a history, and if those walls could talk they could tell some interesting stories! Apart from the many interesting people who visited Pauline there, others with great names have since owned or rented it. Among them, Hollywood's most charming actress, Norma Shearer, was married there to Irving Thalberg. George Burns and Gracie Allen, Ethel Levey and Graham White, and Harpo Marx have also dwelt in that house at different times. Another person, subsequently to gain immortal fame, was first introduced to Hollywood in that house — Rudolph Valentino. Although it is now scarcely remembered, it was through a dinner party which Pauline gave, that Valentino became known. At that time, his reputation rested solely on the fact that he was a superb dancer and he had reached Hollywood in that profession. Pauline was a beautiful dancer, too, and they made such a perfect couple as they danced after dinner, that everyone stopped to