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get ready for work, or to rest in, when work was done ! Not far away from Mary's bungalow, which is close to the open-air stages where huge sets are constructed for different pictures, is the famous luncheon room of the Pickford-Fairbanks studios. This consists of one large room, bungalow style, with kitchen and pantry behind it; and there Doug, and Mary entertain all the celebrated people who visit them while they are at work. Although the Fairbanks were in Europe while I was in Hollywood, I lunched in this room one day with Norma Talmadge and her clever husband, Joseph M. Schenck. A white- coated butler served a wonderful lunch in a room that is Chinese in style ; it has a long, black table, inlaid with golden figures and trees, chairs of black and scarlet carved in strange shapes, walls of black and gold, with weird Chinese designs running along them. That is the room in which Mary has entertained the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Louis Mountbatten, Anna Pavlova, Cecilia Loftus. and dozens of world-famous folk. It was Norma Talmadge who took me over Mary's bungalow ,• her own dressing-room on the same " lot " was not quite ready, as she has only recently moved over there from the old United Artists' Studio on Melrose Avenue, where Famous Players are now installed. I'm sure Mary wouldn't mind if we went over her bungalow," said Norma. " As a matter of fact, I think John Barrymore's using her dressing-room till his own is ready, but I know he's not working to-day, so we shan't interfere with him ! " The bungalow is half-Spanish, half-English. Up the steps, where Mary's little dog, Zorro, may generally be found, you are in a small entrance hall which leads, through double glass doors, thickly curtained, into the large living-room. This forms the centre of the bungalow, and most of the other rooms open off it. For instance, as you enter the living-room, there is a big archway to the right, which reveals a dining-room. At the opposite end of the same