here you can see marian davies standing. he said after seeing it that it strikes me in just in this, miss morgan, our gardens are inferior to the renaissance gardens, we need fountains, fountains which fount. i'm sending you pictures. maybe they'll affect you. water is a scarce item in san simian. they created the two loveliest pools in existence, i imagine. the neptune pool, part roman empire, part maxfield parish painting. he was an illustrator who worked for the hearst press, by the way. these are ancient roman columns, a renaissance neptune, three dimensional pieces sunk into concrete to look like a relief pediments carving. and in 1930s marble statues around the pool, including that group on the opposite side called the birth of venus. he argued that they really ought to have some low figures out here little tortoises and fish coming up. it wasn't just a water effect. this was a pool. heated year round with a kerosene oil boil system, 345,000 gallons of water and the last thing they needed was a marble statue you were g