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Picture Show Annual 141 How and Where the Stars of the Screen spend their time away from the Studio A t the brink of the blue Pacific Ocean, warmed by California’s golden sunshine, lies Hollywood, the film city. Here dwell all sorts and conditions of folk connected with the camera—directors, cameramen, mechanics, electricians, scenarists, prop men, wardrobe mistresses, typists, and, last but not least, the thousands of actors and actresses—stars, featured players, character players, small-part people, and extras—who swarm dally to the various big studios. And it is a small percentage of these latter, together with a sprinkling of directors, on whom the eyes of the world are focussed. At one time it was fairly generally believed that Hollywood was a haunt of vice and that all cinema stars were utterly depraved ; but it is a belief that is growing feebler and feebler as the lives and customs of the stars are becoming better and better known. The private lives of the film folk used to be kept decidedly private, partly from some mistaken idea that if it became known that Tootsie Twinkletoes lived in a charming little bungalow with a husband and a daughter her “ drawing power ” at the box office would in some way be affected and her films would not make money. Every personal detail was therefore rigidly suppressed, with the result that garbled tales of the most unreliable kind leaked out. Gradually, however, this fallacy has died down. There are no longer whispered tales of shocking orgies. In fact, the pendulum has swung to the other extreme with a vengeance, and Hollywood is, according to the glib and ever-actlve Press agents, one large nest of domestic bliss. And, though this statement is by no means accurate, there is certainly more truth in it than in the former tales. Palaces and Bungalows C ERTAINLY it is a fact that almost the first thing a player does upon attaining fame and a sufficiency of fortune is to buy himself a home. Quite often the house is designed by the owner himself, and the result is a polyglot of styles, some of definite architectural This stately villa is the home of Adolphe Menjou. Here we get a glimpse of the delightful bedroom owned by Betty Compson; as you can see, Betty is fond of dolls.