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Sally Steele, Motion Picture, New York, April 1924.

The Gold Rush Set on Location

„The prettiest studio in Hollywood. The least obtrusive“

Editorial content. „Vignettes of the Studios

      Vi. The Charlie Chaplin Studio

      By Sally Steele

      Here is the street where comedy walks, the street

of the Big Shoes, the Baggy Pants, the Derby and the Cane.

      Here, where La Brea Avenue cuts across

Hollywood from the ultraexclusive Wilshire Boulevard

to the sun-beaten hills that wall in the studio town

to the north, is Laughter Corner.

      Here a serious young Englishman with unsmiling

grey-blue eyes and hair prematurely streaked with grey,

manufactures merriment for the world, here translates laughter into into terms understandable alike to Swede and Hottentot.

      The Charlie Chaplin Studio! Do not be misled into

thinking that laughter troubles in the air, at Laughter Corner,

that the red brick and white stucco walls of these

quaint English cottage buildings rock with loud guffaws

and boisterous glee.

      The cloistral quiet peculiar to the semitropics –

where vivid green palms stand stilly in a downpour of white

sunlight and the scarlets, blues, yellows of myriad

blooming plants and flowers blaze with almost painful intensity

upon the eye – dwells over the entire residence district

in which this studio is located.

      The prettiest studio in Hollywood. The least obtrusive.

Were it not for the telltale skeleton framework of the

stages in the background, one would take its office buildings

for a group of modest homes.

      A five-foot box hedge marks its three-acre boundaries.

The tennis court, adjoining the office buildings, is just

visible in the photograph below. There‘s a tiled swimming pool,

too, where Charlie, his friends and his employees enjoy

themselves when they have time to play.

      In earlier days of Hollywood‘s history, the studio ground

belonged to the great McClellan estate. The home

of the pioneer still stands within studio boundaries, a link

between the past when miles on miles of olive and

orange groves reflected back the sun glare, and the present,

when miles on miles of celluloid spun thru ever-devouring

cameras, reflect back as in a mirror, the tears, the dreams and

the laughter of the world.

      The laughter of the world! How lavishly has it been

contributed to, from this odd ,corner of a foreign field that is

forever England.‘

      Laughter Corner. The Charlie Chaplin studio.“

      Photo. „The Charlie Chaplin studio! Where

      laughter is translated into terms understandable alike

      to Swede and Hottentot. It is the prettiest studio

      and the least obtrusive. Were it not for the telltale skeleton

      framework of the stages in the background, one

      would take its office building for a group of modest homes.“

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