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Show BUILDS BUNGALOW ON TOP OF SKYSCRAPER - I i BY LOBBY A. JACOBS. (V E. A. Staff Correspondent.) I NEW YORK, July. Earl Carroll, song-writer, lyrical, playwright, producer pro-ducer and stage manager, hat found flunrig hls-llfc four things he lovei better than all others writing songs. I being high in the air. a Califoi ma bun-Igalow. bun-Igalow. and of course, a wife And being a young man oi no small 'amount of perspicacity, perseverance I and pep, he is now possessed Of a .l 'four of them In the stranKest Of alii I places on the top of a 80-stdrj New I York office building TI RNED T) Ml sit Carroll start-il at 1 8 as a playwright but when he flnallj discovered he Wasn't really enrning anything wilting' plays, he turned to music Me couldi t pla- h note, but he could Whistle And he proceeded to whistle tunes to 8 shorthand mush reporter to the tune of thousands pf dollars " -nary Cottage' Cot-tage' being th one that literallv lifted him to the heights of fame, and took him US California bungalows Jv.r as h had already learned to love writing songs Then he came back to Broadwa to ee his name f..r the first time On B Broadwa: pr"ram. having written the lyrics to Fritsl ScbefPs plaj Pretty Mrs. Smith " He also met and married mar-ried Marcelle HLontabat, of movie fame And ihen came the war and Eirl hiked off to Texas to learn to flj lie did Bt ItT BOME N ROOI After the war Carroll started cast-, ing about for a home. Th.- suburbs were too far awaj The land In tov n was too expensive So he applied for a lease on the roof of the Godfrey building at 4 7th street and .Seventh avenue He got It and proceeded to build j there a fSO,.OO0 California bungalow and move into it his typewriter and his wife. The bungalow h is every modern j . invenience, Is built of stone and coiv crete. has in the "yard" a tennis court, a study, and a eget.ible garden, ant has the advantage of being near enough In th'' air t', bo secluded. |