A little Edward Everett Horton: Apparently he was living on the 9th floor of the Hollywood Plaza in 1928, or at least he was for the purposes of publicity; Ralph Johnson of Howard Buick engineered the stunt. By this time Horton owned his famous "Belly Acres" (or "Belleigh" according to some sources) out in Encino, the peace of which was ruined 30 years later by coming of the Ventura Freeway. Among the notables who spent time in Horton's guest cottage at the ranch were F. Scott Fitzgerald and Vivian Vance.
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