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WILL Douglas Fairbanks introduce a "back-tonature" movement in Hollywood? Always the leader, his plans for a new home, in which he and Mary hope to hide themselves away within a year or two, may inspire filmtown to a more simple life than it has ever known.
For they are planning a new "Pickfair," to be modeled after the haciendas in which the early dons of California lived, on land grants from their king.
The picturesque charm of the Golden State's somnolent yesterdays will be recaptured in the mission architecture, in the long, low buildings of adobe. A site of fifteen hundred acres, with shore frontage, will be enclosed by high walls. A portion of it will be stocked with cattle, to defray a part of the estate's upkeep.
On a structure of oaken beams, thick walls of adobe will be sun-dried, and all the furnishings will conform to the style of the charming days of old. Only handwoven linens will be used, and hand-wrought silver.
The airplanes in which they plan to commute to and from their studio will be housed in a hangar at the
gates, and there, also will be a garage outside, for no automobile will be permitted to disturb the peaceful quiet within. Ox carts will convey them from the gate to the massive doors of the big house, and when they choose to, they will ride over their grounds on horseback. Except for modern sanitation, nothing of to-day will be permitted to enter the hacienda's environs.
Through great archways into spacious halls, they will move leisurely, their privacy guarded by retainers in the colorful costumes of the peons of one hundred years ago. In a little mission chapel, Don and Dona Fairbanks, guests and servants, will gather daily for prayers. Life will be unhurried, sweet, peaceful.
Occasionally, there will be grand celebrations, hospitable barbecues, to which hundreds will be invited, and on the flagstones of the patios girls will dance the fandango to the strumming of guitars.
At the time of their marriage, Mary and Doug realized that if thev were to have energy for their work, they must, to a certain extent, withdraw from public life. But "Pickfair," at first almost inaccessible because