Stars at Home

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 538, 15 December 1928, Page 23

Stars at Home

Many Players Prefer Residence in Country FEW LIVE IN HOLLYWOOD “Hollywood” may be a synonym for everything cinematic, but of 500 players whose names are known everywhere only about 10 per cent, of them live in Holly- ! wood. fJMJE change of Hollywood boulevard from a leisurely village meetingPlace to a. thriving business centre with a £2,000 a front foot property valuation has driven the screen ac- ] tors further from the studios in search I of privacy. Beverly Hills claims the greatest i number of emigres. Clara Bow,; Charles Rogers,! Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, j Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Wal-! lace Beery, Olga j Baelanova, Nancy j Carroll, Chester j Conklin, Adolphe Menjou, Neil Hamilton, Gloria Swanson, John Gilbert and Tom Mix all live in the bills district half-way between Hollywood and the Pacific ocean. Richard Dix wants land round his home, so he lives in a spacious ranch in the San Fernando Valley'. Richard Arlen also has a home there, about eight miles from the Paramount studio where he is under contract. Jack Holt and Ernest Torrence are among the comparatively small num-1 ber who have not forsaken the film village. The most centrally located star is Emil Jannings, who has leased Norma Talmadge’s former home right on Hollywood boulevard. Wallace Beery holds the long distance commuting championship during the summer. He flies each day from a landing-field five miles from his lodge at Silver Lake, to Hollywood, 370 miles away. He makes it in about three hours.