The Picture Show Annual (1931)

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Picture Show Annual 35 A sketch of the beach home planned by Mary Pickjord and Douglas Fairbanks at Solan Beach, South California. On the right is a cross-section of the house, showing how it is to be built into the cliff. The letters on the various rooms indicate : A, library, observation lower ; B, garage and chauffeur's quarters ; C. kitchen and servants' quarters ; D, living room ; E, hanging garden ; F, master's and guests' sleeping quarters ; G. breakfast veranda ; H. lift-shaft i I, bathing beach ; J. cliff face. THERE are two seaside playgrounds that are favoured by the stars—Santa Monica and Malibu Beach. Malibu, which lies north of Santa Monica, is the later discovery, and Dorothy Mackaill was one of the original discoverers, and lived there until the talkies took so much of her time that she could not even get in " between pictures " visits there. The rents paid for the smallest acreage of sand are enormous, but the stars have what they crave for occasionally—privacy, and a release from the continual public appearance that is the lot of a star as soon as he or she becomes famous. The " shacks," as may be imagined, are young mansions, and their architecture as startling as it is varied. One of the most original buildings is "the miniature lighthouse, forty feet high, occupied by Pauline Frederick. It is the result of a long-suppressed desire to have a lighthouse of her own. On the top of it is a powerful beacon whose light is a signal to ma Shearer tographed in the if her beach-home enclosure.