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Whenever we see a pergola we think of what the rich old lady from Iowa said to the architect who one of those things. She answered: "No, sir! I like tea as well as anybody — but I ain't a Russia..
Above, a view through the sitting room and the dining room, taken from the drawing room. The sundial at the right, is, according to its owner's declaration, one of the absolute necessities of her domestic happiness^
Fannie Ward's
A NUMBER of motion picture women have larger incomes than Fannie Ward, but she is the only one of her kind, so far, to manifest the possession of a generous independence in the European fashion of a thoroughly imposing establishment. Miss Ward's handsome house in Hollywood — previously half-toned in these pages — was a sumptuous residence, but it. and especially its grounds, are not to be compared with her new home and its artistic gardens at 255 South New Hampshire street, Los Angeles. Only Julian Eltinge's Italian palace can beat it as a regal dwelling. Fannie Ward's love of a fine house is not the frantic determination of a newly-rich ingenue to put it over her neighbors and associates. Her theatrical career was crowned with complete artistic and financial success abroad before "abroad" blew to pieces: hence her well-paid movie career has merely meant the realization of longcherished dreams.
The sunken garden and the marble balcony overlooking it. Directly beneath this balcony is the garden's tenderest inhabitant, a huge-leaved banana plant, so susceptble to slight cold that few of them endure even in the mild airs of California.
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