The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 72

Oorgeoms Fairy lainid Playground Being Created by Landscape ArcliStect for Harold Home Tl cut down to enhance the views') the hill to the site of the dence, "Here, on the hilltop and Its adjoining slopes, another mater' Plenty of Room to Play; Plenty of Things to Do Whtn Harold Lloyd, famous film comedian, decided to hu'dcl a new residence in Beverly Hills, his first desire was to construct a home rather than a decorative monstrosity. With this motif designers have labored for months to create the unusual Following are given a feu) highlights concerning the new estate; BEVERLY HILLS ESTATE WILL BE MODERN EDEN OF GROVES AND GARDENS BY CHARLES SLOAN Query: If an ancient jinni, redolent of nights of Araby and Omaresque philosophy, took shape before you and offered to grant one wish, no. matter what its scope might be, what would you say? And, as our modern Hollywood is Mecca to the world at large and has within her boundaries Aladdin's lamps innumerable, can one evince surprise if miracles occur occasionally? Consider, then, the case of A. E. Hanson, ex-artillervman.

ex-trardener, ex- private Trimming' pool In South' ern California; only private canoe course In Southern California, largest Initial private landscaping project ever attempted here. Builders: All work under direction of William R. Fraser, general manager fo Mr. Lloyd; A. E.

Hanson, Hollywood, land-scape architect; Webber, Staunton and Spauldlng, Los Angeles, building architects. U. C. student and now landscape engineer, a long and lanky, somewhat well which we sure digging not drilling. Tula well have a capacity of 200 gallons a minute, for we figure 'it will take that much to supply the the weU life; water 4a to be pumped up to the top of the hill and then let loose through a giant fountain, to, cascade down the steep slope In a miniature Niagara to the creek bed at the bottom.

"Winding down the creek ley we hare laid out a nine-hole golf course -which will have several par three holes which Is now In process of construction. This will I include, naturally, some wonderful mental hazards, mostly water. At the first tee we will have a small clubhouse built like an old English mill, the waterwbeel resting in the canal. Tiny Farm Group "At the farther end of the canoe coarse will be built a( small boathouse, and beyond that a miniature farm group with stables for horses and cattle and sheep for the lawns and the usual other Ingredients of agricultural life. "The entrance to the grounds is also at this end of tine estate.

Besides the gates win be built a keeper's cottage, which will serve to house also some of the fifteen or twenty employees necessary for the upkeep of the grounds. The roadway from the entrance crosses a stone and cement bridge over the canoe course and then winds slowly up Illustration btlctO is the con-'cption of Charlci Owens, gardens of clipped boxwood hedges, handball, and tennis courts, a rose garden, the children's playground, a promenade and other projects will be found to the west of the boose. To the east a series of formal gardens terminating In an Italian temple and possibly a danotng pavilion are laid out. Social Promenade "Underneath the falls, and attainable through a winding pathway from the giant fountain, will be constructed' a little room suitable for private teas and where guests can be comfortable even on the hottest of summer, days. To the southwest of the borne lies the swimming pool and an acre or so of lawn which can be used for a promenade oil social y-' "It will take about three and one-half years to fully complete the project, according to our.

present plans. We are trying to preserve all the 'natural verdure of Southern California, and enhance It by the importation of trees, shrubbery and flow- ers from everywhere In the world'. We will have a private orchid house In operation to supply 3 Irs. Lloyd with her personal flowers; we will grow rhododendrons by running copper pipes up a group of trees and letting a fine mist constantly fall, thus preserving the tropical atmosphere- so necessary for their cultivation. Surgery for Trees "Virtually all of the 500.

or more trees now on the grounds will be saved and Improved through the most modern method's of tree surgery; only a few of a line of evergreens which planted on the cliff top to serve as a windbreak will be CFNS I On the lower left are "TP I photograph of Mr. ani Mrs. Lloyd aV I hahy. At the lower right, Cty fk Hrli A. E.

Hanson, who, in his Work on -y It aM'XU. yyiL 3s A too fsbt nten dottso wnn yy from the house. "The watercourse win have a of swans and the lawns and greens a number of sheep to, keep high grass down In fact, we are trying to provide for. everything, and, of course, new opportunities will develop as the work oroeressea. 1 "And, If we succeed', let me say that a great part of the sue-oesa win be due to Mr.

Fraser, whol directly in charge for Mr. Lloyd and whose fifteen years of experience to the United States Forestry Service is now show-lag up to great advantage. Plans for House "I know of no other land-. soaping project In California i whic will equal this one save perhaps the Huntington estate, and that has been twenty years In the making. "Me? Well, I'm Just happy, I guess.

You see, all my life I've wanted to do something like this and can you imagine any opportunity in the world existing like It?" Plans for the house, according to. the architects, have not yet developed to the point of accurately designing the Interior or Of giving more than a general Idea of the exterior. But when it's finished and in this all those who are Interested' In the project are unanimous it will not be so much a show place for all of Its $2,000,000 total cost as a home. They hope to have it Jabeled the most comfortable home In the world. And, if an ancient Jlnnl, redolent of nights of Araby and Omaresque philosophy," takes shape some night amid the dreams of A.

K. Hanson, ex-artilleryman, ex-gardener, ex-University of California student and now landscape engineer, and offers to grant one wish no matter what its scope might be, can you blame him If be says: "Go way, man, my dreams already have come true!" to their new role. It la under his leadership that the barber shop will Sbed its commonplace name: that the atmosphere of ths chlretonsoria will corns to raserable that of a surgical clinic and that the barber will win for himself the prestige to which he is inherently -entitled. a ST 1. 10 a.

Hearts t. 4 Area: Nearly sixteen acres. Location: On Benedict Canyon Road a short distance from Beverly Hill" end adjoining the estate of the late Thomas H. Ince. Number of Separate Structure: Approximately twenty.

Total Cost: About 12,000,000. Time to Construct About three and one-half yeara. Outstanding Features: Largest COlf House drawing plans for the home proper and the other A private golf links, a 900-foot canoe course evolved from what otherwise might have been an unsightly storm drain, a miniature Niagara with a 100-foot fall, formal gardens, sites for Italian temples, a golfhouse, a boathouse, sandptlea and' playgrounds and a tiny Sltakespcar-ran IU fr Uute Gloria and her playmates, the largest private swimming pool In Southern California. a bowling green, handball and tennis courts, rose gardens, sunken gardens, formal gardens and other gardens ad' lib and then some, an old mill with Its waterwheel. bubbling fountains and other Innovations are well under way.

Wonderful Features listen to Hanson for a moment: "The terrain here, as you see, rises in a gradual slope to the top of the hin on one side, affording most marvelous view of TfAfrVS young gentleman of 29 years who, not so many years ago, played hookey from his studies that he might watch Old Mother Nature make things grow. For years It happens thus to all of us young man has had a day dream of vihat meant to him the ultimate In life. Just te be given a California knoll with Its matchleM soil. Its unsurpassed climate. Ha unequaled sunshine and with unlimited financial backing be given orders to develop it to Ita maximum of verdurous beauty and to Bake his dream of what land-soaping engineering reallj meant eexne true it semed the unattainable In happiness.

One su miner's night in the not ao long ago Mildred and Harold IJojil he has attained quite some oore in ciDematlu com Od nM-c engaged In (tut nvf' M--oiiotifc IkI. And 7 i jf-l CfX jfVhie ji A4jnr SilftSz a Barber Going; He's Chirotonsorialist Now zines and subscribed to women's fashion periodicals. Now the movement Is on to lift barb er rather chlrotonsory. to Its rightful status. Louis E.

Mc-Ilvaln of Chicago, general organ-ixer of the Associated Master Barbers of America, is leading the campaign. He is going from one barbers' convention to another ed- Old-Fashioned Chlrotonsorialists are coming into their own. Their profession today UV In the midst of great cultural renaissance or something like that- In other words, barbers are snapping out of It. Ten yeara from now. It is predicted, barber shops will bs as obsolete as ths old corner saloon.

One by ona they are disappearing. and the time will coma when there are no more. Baroers, too, wui disappear. But haircuts, possibly under a new name, will go on The revolution started when the bob became popular with and the barber shops began to take on a new air of refinement. Bar-, bars stopped entertaining their patrons with the latest Jokes and tuned their radio receivers in on operas.

Then they canceled their subscriptions to the epicy maga the city and surrounding terrt- -tory. On this hiUtop, and facing this broad sweep of territory, III be the lionse. On the other aide the hill swoops sharply downward in an almost precipitous slant. In fact toward the creek bed adjoining Benedict Canyon Road. 'From this creek bed' we are evolving one of the most interesting of numerous metamorphoses In this project.

By damming the lower end, cutting a six-foot-square storm channel through it and widening It Into tiny lakes here and there, we bava achieved a novel canoe course which will be 00 feet long snd which will wtnd In and Out of the Utile strip of lowland In truly beautiful and rustic tashiea. It win be the only one of Its kind that I have ever beard of. Plenty of Water "In the summertime and dry season the water In this canal will be supplied from a 300-foot land a i- architect, tell him to Mtiur tlie cartb to make these grounds unusual without being blatant, comfortably luxurious without being too ostentatious and. above all. produce a place where the kid lest have fun and which will be a home of Interest to both Mildred and myself.

Give hint carte blanche when It comes to finances, but make him dellvrr tlie goods." ft ork Goes Forward Wasn't that an order to fill a garden lover's heart with Joy? And Hanson, to his great delight and certain mystification as to Just why.be was tho lucky man. obtained the contract. For four months now this young, ent hull Vic architect and engineer has been on the Job at tic canyon site with his crew of workers. Tor tour months now. Inspired by his plans and working with him side by side, the firm of Webber, Staunton and paukilns, downtown archltecta, bare) bees while tliey were counting ilnk fingers and toea to the inu.slc of Joyous chuckles and crows Harold turned to Mildred and "Let'a buy um a good tJzro' lot and build a homo not a movtc monstnMdty liut a real home with every kind of comfort In It and a real place where we can entertain all of our friends and provide eomcthlng that each of them considers Ideal:" Beauty Concealed "Fine' Wlteu do we quoth Mildred.

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