Show i MY LIFE t is X p As Told By VARY ARY PICKFORD D To HAYDEN TALBOT E house where Mary Pickford na nd her er husband Douglas live is situated on hill overlooking lower hills br broad ad valley in the distance valley alley is a combination and residential section inter- inter by asphalt highways and oJ railways d the Fairbanks home rise Ills us lIs eternally green in their ro rown rown n raiment of stubby brush be hard to describe the thet t of the house unless one it typically modern Calir Cali- Cali I. I r A combination of stucco ingle lingle it crowns the hill in rm m m of an L L. L Let us start in ement and make a tour of the thein thein Jin in order that you may get an ante antei tei te idea of the interior T rY Has Beautiful Tapestries ne he ic basement are arc storerooms a quipped laundry a bedroom ath for the laundress Stairs ao to a hallway on the floor i The house faces west and with the main entrance in the f the L. L main hallway takes the form with stairs at one end wind- wind to the floor above This halls hall- hall s a blue and white tiled floor ich are a few Oriental rugs furniture is carved antique Land and there are some very ful CuI tapestries on the walls the first floor are the living sun parlor dining room Past ast room and kitchen Also utters utter's pantry a large back backwith backwith with refrigerator the butlers butler's I mand and d bath back hall and the porch extending from the theat at ait room around three sides of use to the main entrance rever one looks the eyes rest paintings by Frederick Dutton and Russell Russell- An- An Very interesting feature of the theis is 3 the books The thing that sed me most about them was wasey wasey ey have all been read which sky say is not true of all libraries n Books ks Are Old Friends tough nigh lo gh there were many sets beautiful bindings none of I v volumes lumes have have uncut pages all U have a awell well read appear- appear and in cataloguing them they me the impression that they li hosen sen not because they were jor or best sellers or on account b matching the scheme but rather because was Imf wanted for some special fer or r because they were old s. s tiler thing that I noticed im- im tely was that there were books ry room and not only in the ls s that were made for them the bedrooms were e books In I n tables books in the they y books in the sun room and ef the only rooms in the house J 1 them them were the kitchen and n ng room There are a good goods books booles s personally pers autographed authors and there are some old lid volumes There is in part pari par- par para a i set t of at Rabelais that would j envy In any collectors collector's heart wing JIving Room wom For Projections living g room Js is furnished in Ing mahogany Perhaps it would be o of oj f fe interest to note that there are five e floor lamps in it There is a gran grand d piano of mahogany numerous tables a writing desk in built-in bookcases three large davenports with luxurious ous pillows a big fireplace lots o of oi f comfortable chairs and a heavenly y view from French doors You know of course that this room can be transformed at a moments moment's notice Into a projection n room There are Oriental rugs o othe on n the floors I think the breakfast room Is' Is particularly par attractive with its painted d furniture In cream color with bright t flowers and the chairs chains with their r tr patent leather seats It has long lone French windows opening out ant on th the e j porch Is comfortably furnished with wit h t green wicker and looks out upon a t sweeping view below The sun room is also very attractive attractive attractive tive with v H its gay cretonnes an and d wicker furniture and ferns terns an and d 1 canary birds It has a tiled floor floo r on which there are ire a few Orientals There are only two floors and a basement basement base base- ment went in the house Upstairs is a 1 main hall similar to the tho one below furnished somewhat on the tho order o oa of ot ofa f a a. living room Tho The Mikado's 1 Sword One of at the most in interesting p- p things 1 j L' L r r i r t I in it is a sword presented to Mr 5 and Mrs Fairbanks by tile the Mikado I l of Japan Then there is a back hall where the stairs come up fro from the floor below and off oft of ot which the bedI bed bed- f I rooms open All told there are five fiver r bedrooms not including the sleepIng porches j I The Tho bedrooms all have modern t painted furniture Some in gray t some som some somIn In sage green some in blue bluel l I and some in black all gaily decorated with flowers and wreaths etc A different different different dif- dif ferent color scheme is carried out for tor each bedroom and the draperies and bedspreads are of taffeta to match the color scheme Mr Fairbanks' Fairbanks suite consists of his I bedroom bath large clothes closet where his suits and picture wardrobe hang In rows hallway and sleeping porch The furniture Is sage green and there is an enormous black wardrobe with brilliant parrots painted on it Miss suit consists of th the most beautiful bedroom I r ever saw It is done in lavender with dull dun green furniture furniture-a a color combination that reminds one of a pansy bea ben Miss Pickford's Pickford s quarters are not quite as extensive as her husbands husband's for the reason that it Is planned in inthe inthe inthe the near future to build on a n wing which will be for the little wonder ladys lady's exclusive use Besides tho the bedroom there x is a bath and sleeping sleeping sleep sleep- ing porch c |