At Home with Ginger Rogers

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 10

At Home with Ginger Rogers

STAR-GAZING IN HOLLYWOOD

I IP on the crest of a hill above Beverly Hills and a few minutes’ drive away from Hollywood, a white stylised farmhouse sprawls gracefullv. It is the home of Ginger and her mother. Mrs. Rogers.

here what a sunset could be,’’ Ginger states. “At night we look out on all the lights of the city, glittering below, and the stars shining above — and on a clear day we can actually see Catalina!”'

The highest point of the house is the studio and dressing-room building above the swimming pool, and the lowest (not counting the garage) is the playroom, which is tucked in under, the living-room, but which even so commands a magnificent view. “I never knew before we came

The house was originally planned for Mrs. Rogers—or “Lela,” as she is called by Ginger and her friends. Compact, home-like, elastic enough to accommodate a few guests—these were to have been its characteristics. The house was in the process of being built when Ginger and Lew Ayres decided their marriage was not a success. Ginger and her mother expanded and augmented the plans.

It was then, as an afterthought, that the gay pine and red play-room was built underneath 'the living room, so that Ginger could entertain her friends. There, Ginger has recently installed a soda fountain, complete with all the squirting gadgets. Next to the play-room was built a ping-pong room, equipped with tables for all sorts of games. The two rooms may be thrown together and a screen slides out from somewhere if Ginger wants to show a nicture. An outdoor corridor leads to a sun-deck and a patio with an outdoor fireplace, where Mrs. Rogers cooks famous steaks and chickens, on Sunday evenings. The play-room is the important room when it comes to entertaining. When not swimming in the pool, or taking sunbaths i' l the patio. Ginger and her friends may he found down in the playroom jerking sodas.