Screenland (May-Oct 1928)

SCREENLAND 91 sive entrance arch for all the world like the fortification of some old medieval castle. Inside there is a perfectly level lawn with a tiny house shaded by two trees. An adult has to stoop to enter this house but once in there is plenty of headroom. There is a living-room, a bedroom, where the child takes her afternoon nap, a bath and a kitchen where her lunch is prepared. In the garden there is a 'tumble board,' two swings, a tiny croquet ground, and toys of all description. Here too, once a day. Miss Gloria takes her sun bath clad au naturel. As the main house is not yet finished the Lloyds use their new place only for parties and recreation, driving over every few days. But even when they move over, which will be in about seven or eight months, baby Gloria will spend most of her time in her own little kingdom where she and her friends can have perfect freedom, neither disturbing nor being disturbed by their elders. She has her own suite in the big house too, for that is what Mildred spoke of when she said. "It is built around the ^ baby's room.'" Only she should have said 'rooms' for there are three — her own. her nurse's, a living-room, and a large bath. They are at the extreme end of the house so the child can be utterly undisturbed at night. The house is built along the lines of Italian architecture, departing from the conventional in order to suit the needs of Mildred and Harold and the comfort of the servants. The provision made for the servants is one of the most illuminating things concerning the character of the owner. That he was so careful to provide pleasant quarters for his domestic staff shows what a fine, loving nature Harold has. One wing of the house is given over to them. Their bedrooms open on a long gallery where they may sit on a warm evening or sleep if they like. The gallery overlooks a garden and the delivery entrance. Below stretches the valley and beyond the blue of the ocean. The rooms are large, light and airy with two baths, a dining and living room. There is an underground passage that runs from the kitchen to the master's living room, and this is the nicest thing of all. I think. In the living-room there is a pipe organ and above it a movable screen that can be pulled down over it. Here family and friends gather for the unreeling of a picture and the servants, entering at the back of the room which really offers the best view of the picture, are free to come and go as their duty or desire may call, without embarrassment and without disturbing the guests. In this way they enjoy the fun as guests and not as servants. I think Harold and Mildred are peaches for thinking of that and providing for it! The house itself is steel construction and reinforced concrete, a combination to withstand a pretty severe earthquake should one strike at this part of the country. In the centre is a large patio which will be planted with flowers — oh. there are several patios, and they give light and air to the house. Around this main one run open galleries, on both -the ground and second floor, on all four sides. One opens into the formal entrance with cortile and stairhall. lhis stair will be a wide, beautiful circular affair terminating at the second story. On the ground floor left is a large library with a conference room opening from it. where Harold and his pals can ruminate on the affairs of picture-making. On the right, a small reception room and beyond, the large living-room with organ and screen before mentioned. Every room has a fire Vacation Means Recreation and Pleasure Whether You Go Away or Stay at at's A Vacation Without Books? These books are light reading, yet extremely interesting. Many of them have been made into movies which gave us some of our greatest SCREEN SUCCESSES. Order any one for $1.00 or 6 for $5.00 THE KING OF KINGS Carries a message of the highest spiritual appeal RESURRECTION COUNT IEO TOLSTOY RESURRECTION Tolstoy's genius at its best BEN HUR The book which was translated into every language! The Crowd Show Boat Sorrel & Son Wings The Patent Leather Kid The Garden of Allah Old San Francisco Tenderloin Hangman's House Beau Geste Ben Hur The King of Kings Resurrection Seventh Heaven Bardelys the Magnificent The Ten Commandments When a Man Loves Monsieur Beaucaire Loves Greatest Mistake The Enemy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , Anna Karenina (Movie Title "Love") The Jazz Singer Beau Sabreur Abie's Irish Rose Four Sons The Gaucho The Legion of the Condemned Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come Mother Machree Quo Vadis Speedy (Harold Lloyd Edition) The Trail of Ninety-Eight The White Sister Cobra The Clansman (The Birth of a Nation) The Fool Manhandled La Boheme Main Street Prisoner of Zenda SCREENLAND MAGAZINE (Dept. 9-28) 49 West 45th Street, New York City. WINGS A Romance of the Air THE PATENT LEATHER KID Dick Barthelmess's Smashing Success ©ESQ BEAU GESTE A remarkable story of the French Foreign Legion I enclose $ for which please send me.. Name ~ Address..