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■ "Just a modest little grey home in the west," says Jack Benny, as he
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■ They've been making you laugh for many Sundays. Now Jello-0's ace comedian can have his laugh, too. Who wouldn't be happy with a charming wife, a sweet daughter and a home he's always yearned for?
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OF course, it's just a "tumble-down shack," the Benny house on Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills, California, or so Jack says. Just a modest little grey home in the West. Even if you remind Jack of its Venetian chandeliers, inch-thick carpets, movie projection room, five bathrooms, two bars and real Battenburg lace piano cover, he insists those were Mary's ideas, not his. As star of his new Paramount picture, the riproaring "Buck Benny Rides Again," he could hardly admit that he likes such fripperies. Then, you say what about his mirrored dressing room, his antique mahogany highboy and his fourposter bed, whereupon he grins and says, what the heck, a guy's gotta have a half-way decent place to live in, and shows you all around, pleased as punch with the house and with himself for building it.
Well, it is something! White French Provencal set in the middle of an acre or more of ground with a swell green lawn in front; mammoth patio, swimming pool and rose garden in the back. And from the moment you enter the spacious, circular hall, papered in gray, canopied by a gorgeous chandelier fully ten (Continued on page 72)
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■ On an acre or more of ground is the Bennys' beautiful home. Here's the backview, with Mary and Jack standing on the patio overlooking the pool, garden and playhouse.
■ The library is a comfortable room with its blue Oriental rug and flowered draperies; below, the Bennys' living room, highlighted by the real Battenburg lace cover on the piano.