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Virginia Valli's real name is "Lady Luck;" she came to New York to work and arrived for the opening of her best picture.
Over the Teacups
Fanny the Fan relates the comings and goings of New York's film colony and hangs a laudatory wreath on Mr. Ziegfeld's brow.
By The Bystander
DON'T tell any one," Fanny cautioned me when I asked her why there were no familiar faces in the Japanese Garden at the Ritz at tea time, "because they don't want their fun spoiled by having a lot of strangers coming up and staring at them. But simply every one spends their afternoons up at the pool in the Shelton."
"All right," I promised. "But why aren't we there?-'
And, as Fanny didn't offer any particularly good reason, there we were a few minutes later, talking as we dangled our feet over the edge of the pool.
"California was never like this," Fanny observed, waving airily to Edna Murphy just in time to spoil a nice dive. "Who would expect to see picture stars wearing ordinary bathing suits ? There is no chance to show off here. You have to wear the regulation pool suits or you can't go in. Out in California Carmel Myers has introduced the Continental fashion of wearing gaudy pajamas as beach robes and now every one is doing it. They all vie with each other trying to spring the gayest colors and most grotesque designs.
"But here even a silken vampire like Peggy Kelly" — and Peggy, who had just sat down next life is like
"looks just dubby like the rest of us," she finished triumphantly, jumping out of her reach. Of course, Peggy didn't, but why tell the truth? She might get conceited.
"Last week Malcolm MacGregor got up swimming party," Fanny rambled on. The only trouble with it was that no one would swim. He and Virginia Lee Corbin were supposed to make scenes for 'Headlines' in the pool on the Leviathan. So Malcolm, knowing that it would probably take hours to get the lights arranged ready to shoot the scenes, invited a
Photo by Edward Thayer Monroe
Helen Lee Worthing has gone West to make a picture for Universal.
crowd over to go swimming, Alice Joyce and her brother and a few others were there — but when we looked at the water that was just the color of coffee we all lost interest in jumping in. Virginia Lee Corbin had to because she was in the scene — and it completely ruined a lovely pale-blue bathing suit. Virginia showed a lot of nerve doing those scenes. She can't swim at all, and yet she jumped right in, trusting to Providence or Malcolm MacGregor to save her.
"Virginia looks more like a child than ever. But even though she is a sub-subdeb at home, pictures give her a chance to step out and see what New York's^ night Scenes for 'Headlines' were made in the
to Fanny, almost pushed her in the pool for that — ■ Rue de la Paix and several other night clubs.