From the February 28, 1920, issue of Motion Picture News:
Metro Pictures Corporation has taken a lease for a term of years on Rose Hill Park, a tract of sixty-three acres at the northern limits of Los Angeles City, California. The park will be used for motion picture settings too extensive for the five acre open lot that adjoins the main studio plant in Hollywood.
The sixty-three acres cover wooded, hilly land, with a beautiful level space of six acres across the center. The hills are covered with pepper, eucalyptus and pine trees. In places there is a luxuriant undergrowth. Wide opportunity for development of exterior scenic effects is afforded in a variety of natural settings in the tract and its lease is another example of Metro's policy of expansion on a large scale.
The first setting to be constructed will be an East Indian town which figures prominently in "The Hope," a screen version of the celebrated Drury Lane melodrama by Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton, now in preparation with an all-star cast including Jack Mulhall, Frank Elliott, Ruth Stonehouse and Marguerite de la Motte. This elaborate setting is to be destroyed by an earthquake in the course of the picture.
Here will also be constructed scenes for the coming productions of the other Drury Lane melodramas obtained by Metro, including "Hearts Are Trumps," "The Great Millionaire" and "The Marriages of Mayfair."
Metro officials have had their eyes on the park for a long time as the most suitable location afforded for development of their plans. The sixty-three acres cover some of the most beautiful territory on the outskirts of Los Angeles.
DIRECTIONS: While we have not verified the exact location, it appears that the current Rose Hill Park located at 3606 N. Boundary Ave. is the place.
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Rose Hill Park on Outskirts of Los
Angeles Will Be Used for Exteriors