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A Picture of Contentment
Jack Mulhall, in his preferred role of a Beverly Hills homesteader, realizes the dream of a lifetime.
FROM Wappingers Falls, New York, to Beverly Hills, California, is a far cry — especially if you know these extremes of the continent. But the cry in Jack Mulhall's soul for a home, a "dream home,'"' has sounded with such insistence since he left the family fireside in the quaintly named town to seek his fortune in the movies, that he couldn't rest until he had built a fireside of his own.
You wouldn't call the home pictured above exactly a fireside. It is a great deal more than that. The desire for a fireside of one's own may inspire a dream, but the dream becomes a mansion or a palace. So it is with the realization of Jack Mulhall's dream — a California Spanish mansion of ivory-white stucco, with brown trimmings and a roof of red tiles.
Inside the house the dream becomes more manifest, beginning with the reception hall. Rising from a delicately hued tile flooring is a circular stairway of ornamental ironwork, touched with gold. The living room is one and a half stories high, with a beamed ceiling colored in soft tones of red and blue. At the windows are hangings of red brocatelle, and an elaborately-carved chest
conceals a radio. The dining room is of the Spanish Renaissance period, the chairs upholstered in red satin damask, heavily embroidered in gold. The color scheme of the library is blue, green, and orange, and the bookcases, set in the wall, have iron gate-doors with elaborate grilling.
Jack Mulhall's bedroom, dressing room, and bath likewise carry out the dream. Spanish furniture predominates, the bed being a carved antique procured in Mexico City. Curtains of henna damask and a Spanish rug of green furnish lively color. The bath is of imported tile, the colors green and black, with a border of variegated Moorish tile. Mrs. Mulhall's bedroom is Venetian, with hangings of jonquil-yellow tafifeta, and cornices of green, heavily ornamented with gold, while her bath is a delicate combination of rose and green.
Color and comfort do not end when you pass out of the house. A patio, garden, tennis court, lily pond, kennel, and a tower lend atmo.^phcre to this unique establishment, and a fanciful weather vane adds n filial touch to the home that grew from the dreams of a .star who was once an extra.