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Picture Show Annual 31 I T isn’t a long street, this Street of Stars, it is probably the shortest in Hollywood; nor are the buildings particu- larly imposing, regarded as buildings—^just three green-roofed, cream - walled little bungalows, each with its own distinctive and picturesque charm, each with its tiny patch of emerald-green clover and stepping- stone pathway leading to the front door. Sightseeing tours round Hollywood do not include this street, for the simple reason that to reach it you must storm the gates of the United Artists studios, whose walls safely guard it from the prying gaze of tourists. For these little bungalows are not the first homes of artistic, modestly- incomed newly-weds. They are the dressing-rooms of the cinema kings and queens reigning in the studio. First in the line is the bungalow used by Constance and Norma Talmadge. From the tiny entrance hall, where Constance’s pictiire hangs, you see a glimpse of the green and yellow living-room. Before the fire, into which a tall white china cat for ever gazes meditatively, is a deep, well-cushioned sofa; above it hangs an antique map of Hollywood in the days when the only stars it knew jewelled the deep blue Cali- fornian sky at night. There are more portraits of Constance here, for Norma likes them, although she does not care for other pictures. Beyond the archway is the sisters’ dressing-room — ag<iin the springlike colours of yellow and green ; gay and fresh with sprigged cretonnes and flowers. On the two dressing-tables —exactly alike, as are the enamelled chests of drawers—is a medley of scents, powders, lotions, cr«ims, and on one a huge pink powder-puff— Gloria Swanson, Constance’s. the latest to have In the spotless kitchen, with a dwelling in the •, j i* “ Alley." rumea musun curtains.