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C.C.C. uniform, staring sternly into the eyes of all citizens and pointing to a flaming forest. Its legend...
Chairman Eaton has spared no expense to beautify his Park. At the foot of Mount Forest Lawn is an enormous marble group called Mystery of Life, at its top an 87-ft. Tower of Legends. Over the threats and legal objections of California morticians, Forest Lawn was the first large cemetery in the U. S. to install its own mortuary. There is also an Administration Building, copied from an English manor house and full of antiques, a flower shop, a crematory where last year 16% of the dead were received and a towering $4,500,000 Mausoleum-Columbarium, with...
...largest. A portrait of the author of In Memoriam and a volume of his verse were arranged, as usual, nearby. In a "very beautiful but not overly expensive casket" purchased by the late star's mother, Mrs. Jean Bello, Miss Harlow's remains were taken to Forest Lawn Memorial Park's Wee Kirk o' the Heather, a nondenominational shrine in the nation's most extraordinary cemetery, which has become, in the last decade, the Valhalla of the cinema business...
...Glendale and Forest Lawn patrolmen kept the public well out of sight as 200 of Miss Harlow's friends, relatives and colleagues gathered at the Wee Kirk, whose nave had been converted into a scented bower by $15,000 worth of flowers. Clark Gable,* Miss Harlow's Business Manager Edward J. Mannix, MGM Producer Hunt Stromberg, Director Jack Conway, Cameraman Ray June, Director William S. Van Dyke were pallbearers. Jeanette MacDonald sang Indian Love Call. Nelson Eddy sang Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. A Christian Science reader-practitioner named Mrs. Genevieve Smith, longtime friend of Miss Harlow, read...
Twenty years ago Forest Lawn was a debt-ridden, unprepossessing necropolis. Hubert Eaton, a realtor and onetime mining engineer, was assigned to manage it. He was immediately struck by the ugliness of its tombstones, by the fact that most cemeteries are "unsightly stoneyards, full of inartistic symbols and depressing customs." Mr. Eaton placed a ban on stones, substituting bronze markers laid flush with the grass. He forsook the word "cemetery" for more euphonious Memorial Park. Today under his chairmanship it has expanded to 200 acres, contains in one form or another the dust of some 55,000 humans, with room...