Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

iiuiina inuuiHiniim' *V 73 ? Noisy Neighbors? heard, but the majority are either well known themselves so closely that they know no one. describes all kinds. Rittenhouse to a star depends on the neighbor and the star. One man certainly must have. He had more money than most . Hollywoodites — probably because he wasn't a Hollywoodite — and rented an elaborate residence beside the home of a favorite star of his. But alas, in his six-month residence there, he never caught a glimpse of the star. Either she got up too early in the morning, or came in too late at night. Louise Dresser, who lives in a town outside of Hollywood called Glendale, is a most neighborly sort of person, even if she is one of the real luminaries of the screen. When her ninety-year-old neighbor died recently, nobody felt more broken up about it than Miss Dresser. Then there are Jobyna Ralston and Richard Arlen. They are very good friends with the people next door. It all started through Jobyna's dog, a huge Great Dane which Harold Lloyd had given her. It seems that the dog was fond of rubbing noses through the fence with the neighbor's Airedale. One day her neighbor asked Jobyna if his Airedale could come into her yard and play with the Great Dane. Of course Jobyna consented. But unfortunately the Great Dane mistook his little pal for a football, and the dogs had to be separated. Once back in their own yards, they resumed friendly relations, until the Airedale thoughtlessly turned his back on the Great Dane and wagged his tail through the fence. Jobyna came to the rescue just in time to save the Airedale's tail, and cemented a neighborly friendship. Virginia Valli's romance began with neighborliness. It happened that she was summering at Malibu Beach, and Charlie Farrell lived next door. She wanted some outdoor furniture painted, and Charlie, in true neighbor fashion, came over to help her. By the time the furniture was finished, their romance had begun. The day is started by an over-the-fence talk between Gwen Lee and Mary Doran, neighbors and players at the same studio. Betty Blair, left, and Leila Hyams have their chat on the back steps. , . William S. Hart's neighbor in the San Fernando Valley will never forget how he worked shoulder to shoulder with them during the dam disaster there. He personally buried one of the little boys who lost his life in the flood, and he was instrumental in helping many of the sufferers find temporary living quarters. Mary Pickford and Doug haven't any neighbors for miles around besides Charlie Chaplin. They own a huge estate in Beverly Hills, inclosed by high walls. Charlie and the Fairbankses are devoted friends, so naturally they're in the habit of dropping over to each other's houses for dinner and bridge. Harold Lloyd also lives in a very secluded section of Beverly, but this hasn't kept Gloria from getting acquainted with those in her neighborhood, as well as with barkers on sight-seeing buses and their passengers. About three times a day these men stop in front of the Lloyd home and honk their horns. If Gloria is at home, she drqps whatever she happens to be doing, and rushes to the window to wave. "I've dot to do," she tells her parents or nurse. "They's tailing me." A number of other players scarcely know they have neighbors. Either they, too, live in a secluded section of Beverly Hills, or keep such irregular hours that their neighbors are rarely able to catch sight of them. [Continued on page 99]