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...passed along to his manager-brother, Winter D. Horton. "Taxes, you know," explains Edward, who pays taxes on considerably more than his stage & screen income. He has built, furnished and rented "seven lovely houses" on his 25-acre San Fernando Valley farm, which a Hollywood wag christened "Belleigh Acres." Edward says: "My, but it's been an easy life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Edward & Henry | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...children. A bedside-bottle hypochondriac, he is nervous about his diet, which is rigidly supervised by his 82-year-old mother, who accompanies him almost everywhere. Feverishly interested in antiques, Horton has acquired all kinds of bric-a-brac on his barnstorming. He ships his finds back to "Belleigh Acres," his estate on the edge of Hollywood, to which it is said he adds a room every time he makes a picture. The estate includes a ten-room doghouse, an impressive community barn, the inevitable swimming pool. Horton never uses the pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Tour | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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