Actress in Arden.(estate of actress Helena Modjeska in Orange County, California)(Brief Article)

Sunset | May 1, 2000| | Copyright

* The journey to Arden begins in contemporary Orange County, California--that affluent kingdom of gated communities and view homesites. But as the highway climbs into the Santa Ana Mountains, the world grows less tame. In a side canyon, you cross and recross a trickling creek, and the air fills with the scent of bay laurel. Out of nowhere the great house appears, rambling, white, half-hidden behind oaks.

"How did a Polish actress even find this place?" asked another visitor the morning I arrived.

Long ago an actress did. Her name was Helena Modjeska, and ...

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