Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02

of shell-rim glasses and refreshing comedy, he
made the world laugh and forget and became
q multimillionaire in his 20'S. He married his
leading lady, Mildred Davis. year later their
baby, Gloria, was born.
The screens carefree comedian became
6oting father. He lived thrtftily, as his Scotch
ancestors did before him, cannily investing his
income. His home was that of Mr. Average
Citizen, his friends his fellow workers at the
Studio. His only vice was golf, his only hobby
dogs.
Such a thing as Haunting his fame and for
tune in the face of his public apparently never
Occurred to Harold Lloyd, who in real life is q
serious. industrious business man. As the box
office returns increased from his productions, so
did his Investments engineered by his business
manager, William Fraser, his mothers brother,
whom Lloyd prevailed upon to leave his forestry
work in Denver and take charge of his financial
affairs.
Fraser knew land. He made some valuable
real estate deals for his famous nephew. One
day he ran across some property for sale in
Benedict Canyon, in the environs of Beverly
Hills, Calf, property that formerly had been
the original home site of Col. Benedict, who
owned all the canyon, including the land in the
Aoted Ince estate.
NNHE property was in crude undeveoped state
u and was bought for considerably less than
Ii Is worth today. Lloyd was crazy about it
from the first, viSualizing the home he would
build there-a home to hand down to his chill
dren'S children with due apologies TO Gloria,
who is only Al. Devoted to outdoor life he
saw the opportunity the place would afford for
sports and the freedom to enjoy them away
from the madding crowd He saw wide flung
lawns for Gloria and his Great Danes to romp
over, heard the music of birds and the trickle
OF streams instead of the rush and of
traffic.
TO help develop his dream of country es-
tate Lloyd employed youth-an architect little
past 80, a young landscape gardener who had
come back from fighting in France with more
ideas than financial backing. mo jazZy Span
1sh architecture was the owners only stipu-
lation.
SO they made the house italian Renaissance
to blend with the California atmosphere, cut
ting the plans half in two when Lloyd pro-
tested over the first blueprints-"I want a home
hot hotel!"
The other day drove up the winding tree
lined driveway to this home on the summit of
hill overlooking its surrounding 16-acre estate
Of green lawns and private golf course For
four years and a half SO men have toiled on this
ktu to make Harold LIoyd's dream come true.
EVERY Sunday and every day he was not work.
ing before the cameras the comedian has spent
there. without benefit of balyhoO, he went
quietly about the absorbing business OF devel-
oping his canyon property into one OF Amer
ica's Ioveliest private estateS-a natural beauty
spot where the almighty dollar doesn't hit you
in the face at every turn.
You cannot count the cost while listening to
the music of 100-foot waterfall it dashes
over the jagged rocks of hillside You cannot
fail to find soul solace in this moderniStic age
as you stand by mill stream, drink spring
water from jug suspended in a willow tree
and hear the throaty notes Of dove calling to
Ats mate. And it doesn't much matter what's
ION the inside of a many-roomed mansion, when
Its windows are flung wide to surrounding blue