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Photos by Charles E. Bulloch
The house is built around an ancient sycamore tree, with four separate, gnarled trunks.
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It is Mexican, of course, but a lovely and repressed blending of beauty, and comfort makes the Casa
del Rio an outstanding place in Hollywood.
B$ Margaret Reid.
T_T OLLYWOOD, with the I I inclusion of Beverly Hills understood, has become a community of magnificent homes not surpassed in any part of America. This center of princely income and lavish expenditure has sprung into civic grandeur, mushroomlike, from the arid fields and inferior pasture lands that was Hollywood fifteen years ago.
When it became certain that this sunny waste was destined to be the headquarters of the motion-picture profession, stars began the building of homes with gusto.
Architects with pet ideas found Utopia in Hollywood, where celluloid earnings made their practice extravagantly possible. There is to be found, within the city limits, every type of architecture under the sun. Experiment in design has run riot. Many homebuilding stars have spent rather more lavishly than wisely, with results which are pretty terrible, due to too much supervision from owners
who should have stvtck to acting, or to having given free rein to architects with more enthusiasm than taste.
There are pink houses and green ones, gorgeous ones and gaudy ones, spectacular ones and conservative. Houses built precariously on hillsides — palaces encompassing whole mountaintops, and expensively quaint bungalows nestling in canyons — houses of every design, from Egyptian to colonial. When, however, Hollywood homes are beautiful, they are beautiful in no mean way.
Ignoring the mercifully infrequent displays of architectural bad taste, and concerning ourselves only with the homes to which we point with justifiable pride, it is appropriate to begin with the residence of Dolores del Rio.
The Mexican star's phenomenal success making it evident that Hollywood was her own special place in the sun, she
A cloistered veranda, tiled in red, faces the garden.