Evening star., 1938-07-10
By JACQUES FUTRELLE, Jr.

~ the HOLLYWOOD area and art
~ driven by an overpowerint
4 \ ambition to glimpse studio
production intimately may be able tt
heave and huff and puff themselves
right onto the sound stage sidelines-
but it Is easier to 60 to q foreign
country.
Those who take their movies more
calmly and are content with less to
brag about later will take their stars
where they find them-on the streets
in the restaurants and night clubs or
If they want to exert little pull, at
the big movie house premieres. Film
folk do have homes-although glanor
stories picture them as DianaS and
Apollos walking forever in the clouds
and it is not unusual for tourists with
a cordial interest in silver screen
celebrities to cruise about by auto or
bus inspecting their residences-from
the definite outside.
All are not gilded castles, although
many are pretentious. Others are
somewhat modest. and inspire home
bodies to wonder where astronomical
salaries go; perhaps, they observe mis-
chievously, to the very places they
always had suspected
A REPRESENTATIVE tour of film
stars homes can be had leisurely
IN three hours. Just suppose you are
in Hollywood's Sunset boulevard,
travelling west, between famous studios.
At the corner Of Van Ness street is
the Warner Bros. Sunset Studio; be-
yond. the Columbia Broadcasting
Studio; farther along, the Hollywood
post office. The route leads to Beverly
Hills. One and seven-tenths miles be-
yond the junction of Sunset boulevard
and Laurel Canyon drive. is the stra-
tegic point for the start of the tour
Sunset boulevard and Doheny road
mot Doheny drive).
Turn right up Doheny road, passing
the Poinsettia fields. to Hillcrest. There,
At 8ll Hillcrest ION the right is the
S500,000 home of E. L. Cord, the auto
mobile magnate. Next door, at 500,
40 cilS AVA AhSA AAOiiC VI w xOWcl,
$350.000 investment equipped with
most of the electrical gadgets man has
devised. Cross Sunset boulevard and
at ITO Hillcrest, is the home of
Groucho Marx. Opposite. at TOT, that
Of Madge Evans. At 621 lives James
Cagney: at $40 ION the Left Daryl
Zanuck, noted Twentieth Century pro-
ducer.
JUST beyond is Santa Monica boule-
ward. Turn right into Santa
Monica boulevard and right into the
next street, Palm Drive tstreets are
marked on the curbing). Immediately
on the right at 5l2 Palm drive is
the home Of the late Jean Harlow.
At 704, the residence of Ruth Chat
terton. Dip down Sunset to SOL
to see the home of Richard Bar
thelmess. and double back by making
q harpin turn, pass Palm drive and
swing left onto the next street, Maple
drive.
At I'll ION the right live Joan
Blondell and Dick Powell. at 7l2,
George Burns and Oracle Allen: 500,
Sally Eilers and Producer Harry Joe
Brown.
Swing right on Carmelita avenue
and right again into Elm drive, where
on the left at 6O7 is the home of
Billie Burke. Flo Ziegfelds widow.
At the next intersection turn left
into Elevado avenue, continue two
blocks and turn right into Alpine
drive
At TIA Alpine drive ION the right
Is the home of Gilbert Roland, at
80l residence of the late Marie Dress
Ter. At 807, above the number, is
a silhouette Of three persons land
a dog, representing James Gleason,
his wife. Lucille Webster, and their
son, Russell Gleason. At BIG is the
home of Wallace Beery
Turn left into Sunset boulevard
and one block beyond turn right into
Rexford drive, the street where the
red eucalyptus trees bloom from June
to August At 9l0 Rexford drive
(on the right is the home of Ed