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Sally Long is one of the many "bachelor girls" of Hollywood who needs no man to furnish her with a handsome home.
Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. If that thy bent of love be honorable. Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow By one that I'll procure to come to thee. Where, and what time, thou wilt perform the rite ; And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lav. And follow thee, my lord, -throughout the world.
THAT little speech was made by Juliet long, long ago, before divorce courts, motor cars, hot and cold running water, bobbed hair, and movies had been heard of.
A modern Hollywood Juliet, before she goes on record with that immortal line, "And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay," wants to know what standing her Romeo has at the bank. Then she issues a ukase which goes something like this:
"You know, I have my own home with servants. I possess several motor cars and dogs. I'm drawing down about $2,000 a week in real honest-to-goodness money, and I'm as independent as a maharajah in India. Now then, what have you ?"
That's usually a stumper. Sometimes, millionaires and titled foreigners have had an answer to it, and sometimes old-fashioned love affairs have crept in to stifle the speech. The -fact remains, however, that there are some gorgeous Romeo-less homes in Hollywood— some from which the Romeos have fled, some
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Not at all, say some of the self-reliant ladies win the modern movie actress. Quite inde tain large and luxurious homes with nary a
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from which they have been ejected, and some in which a Romeo has never had the privilege of residing.
The Beverly Hills section of Hollywood, as you know, is the district of beautiful residences, wealthy estates, flower gardens, winding drives, and the like. To the east, a vista of the Sierra Madre Mountains is obtained, and in the distance to the west the Pacific Ocean rolls. In this section is where rrlany of the motion-picture stars live. And here is where so many of the feminine ones lead independent lives — without Romeos.
The movie people have their little parties and their little cliques, but they seldom are seen among the general public. They think pictures, talk pictures, sleep pictures and, figuratively, eat pictures at their meals. Pictures are their existence.
Getting a glimpse of the
Louise Fazenda, who found marriage unsuccessful, built her present home with her own savings.