Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1927)

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23 No master has ever dwelt in the white colonial mansion of Pola Negri, which was built and originally owned by Priscilla Dean. Necessary? of Hollywood. It takes an ardent wooer to pendent of male support, many of them mainthought of men except as pleasant playfellows. Wooldridge inside of some of the movie homes is about as difficult as peeping into a sultan's harem. Stony-faced butlers, chilly-voiced secretaries and unresponsive maids form a barrier which seldom can be penetrated. The names of most of the stars are not in the city directory nor in the telephone book. And should a person somehow obtain a star's phone number, a secretary wards off the call. "Miss Brown cannot be disturbed now," she says, very courteously but firmly. And the conversation is ended. But tourists who visit Hollywood, according to the drivers of sight-seeing busses, care more to see where Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks live than to view the Busch sunken gardens or the missions erected by the Spanish padres. They would Both the Costello girls, Helene and Dolores, have remained heart whole and fancy free thus far, and contribute much toward the maintenance of the family home. rather look at Dolores Costello or Pola Negri than drive through the orange groves or visit the government observatory on Mount Lowe. Consequently the sightseeing companies have arranged special tours through the Beverly Hills section, and guides with loud-speaker megaphones point out the homes of the stars. It is not uncommon for these guides to point out the wrong homes. But Avhat of it? The tourists, they figure, don't know the difference. Pola Negri "lives in a beautiful colonial mansion on a boulevard which leads up into the foothills. The home, originally designed and built by Priscilla Dean, usually is seen with curtains drawn and doors locked. In the rear is a patio lined with flowers and shrubbery, and banked by a high hedge over which no one can peer. There, in a canopied swing or an easy chair, the little Polish star may rest in comfort, safe from the prying eyes which come to her door. She is an inveterate reader, but only a few ever get a peek into the seclusion in which, between pictures, she relaxes. Pola has in the front yard two huge pine trees which were brought down from the mountains. It is said that it cost her one thousand dollars each to move and transplant them. No Romeo has ever dwelt in this white colonial residence. Priscilla Dean, its builder, is living apart from her husband, Wheeler Oakman, the actor, and Pola was divorced from Count