 |  A map of the studio |
The meeting was tempestuous until the plans were produced, passed around for inspection and approved by a vote of eight councilmen for, to one against. Then the protesting committee filed out, with their faces showing relief and satisfaction, for when the million-dollar star's new studio is completed no one will know it from the bungalow residence of his millionaire neighbors. It is to be a regular bungalow, thank you, with flowers and lawns and everything. Of course inside there will be the latest and best appliances for movie making, but passers-by won't know it from an honest-to-goodness bungalow home except, perhaps, that it will be a trifle roomier than the average.
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The factory type of studio building is no longer welcome in Los Angeles' swellest suburb, so when Chaplin applied for a permit to build there was a howl of protest from property owners. They had visions of the usual board structure and accessories. The agitation against the new neighbor culminated in a determined committee to the town council, which promised all sorts of dire things if the permit were granted.
| A map of the studio |
