Show Joan Joan Dick Have Sampled Many Brands of Housing r I Powells Pow ells Give Up Claims as Couple By BOBBIN ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD P Dick Th Dick Powell 1 and Joan Blondell Blonde l are giving up says Dick any claims they may have as Hollywoods Hollywood's couple 0 f A s t tt 0 t t y MS Dick Powell and Joan Blondell They're building permanent year-around year home They've found what they want In the way of a house They're settling down This says Dick is it This is the new one they're building at Balboa the b beach e a c h community about an hours hour's drive from the studio This is the little house three house three bedrooms no guest guestroom room room they're they're building for a permanent permanent permanent per per- manent year-around year home The cost is met by Dicks Dick's royalties from a recording of Hes My Uncle We spent last summer down there says Dick and never had hada a better time Bill Cagney's buildIng building building build build- ing on the next lot and another neighbor is Walter McEwen We get privacy the kids love it Jt and I Ican Ican Ican can step out into my boat any 5 time The boat is a foot 29 fishing vessel speedy with a cabin that sleeps two Boating is s an enthusiasm shared by Dick a and n d the youngsters youngsters Norman Norman 6 and Ellen 2 but 2 but not by Joan who gets seasick So the Pow Powells ells are getting away from it all and they've plenty in ina a real estate manner of speaking to get away from In the four years they've b been bee e e n n married they've sampled many a brand brind of housing and location ft C foe sc First there was Dicks Dick's bachelor establishment at Toluca Lake They never lived there as he sold sole it the day they were married Joan didn't like the valley They bought a place in Beverly Hills Hills four four bedrooms and some of the trimmings They redecorated and after rattling around in it awhile they bought in Bel Air where people pay to be exclusive exclusive exclusive sive So they sold and bought an an estate in Cold Coldwater water canyon swim canyon swim swimming ming pool tennis court etc But Bui they never lived there Dick sold before they could move in Meanwhile there were the three acres in Brentwood where they contemplated building They never did as Frank Capra came along with an offer The same thing happened happened happened hap hap- with their one-acre one in BelAir BelAir BelAir Bel- Bel i Air only Harry Warner was the I buyer Now awaiting completion of the beach home they're in hi the place in Hollywood bought from Fay Wray Wray-a Wray a big house and grounds which they've fenced for privacy The staff including night watchman totals seven a Its always so easy to get a Ii place a little bit larger each time you change says Dick and you youcan youcan youcan can get so involved its it's no fun It took us this long to find out what we really want want want-a a little house Were We're family people people people-don't don't dont do much entertaining dont don't need needa a lot of rooms So this is it For how long He thinks for good good but but Im I'm a trader hoss-trader and andI I guess Ill I'll sell anything The Powell realty deals include not only residences but several business squares tenanted squares tenanted by grocery grocery grocery gro gro- cery stores druggists to ready-to- wear shops and the like On OR the whole hes he's made them pay After several films in which he put his song specialty in mothballs mothballs mothballs moth moth- balls to act Dick is singing again with Abbott and Costello in In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Navy The boys boy's shrewd there too I haven't been In a real smash picture lately he says ays and and have you seen what those boys did in Buck Privates |