The Sins of Hollywood ()

A WONDERFUL LOVER 59 wardrobe, he came to Pasadena. There was in Pasadena in those days just as there is now a group of hotels that were as swell as—as—Hell, The papas and mammas of ttie War Babies—the sugar guys—the oil guys—the munition guys—all that bunch, came there to play. And more often than not mamma had to come alone becaure papa had to stay home and nurse little War Baby. And this made mamma a very lonesome and a very miserable woman. "So that every night at the ultra ultra Hotel Miseryland and the also ultra ultra Hotel Wanting- ton there were sundry women, not too good look- ing, not too fair of form, nor too young, who sat by the side lines and enviously eyed the young girls who had no difficulty in securing partners. What good were their diamonds and their gold embroid- ered dresses and their limousines ? n eve when they couldn't get them a dancing partner. So there was gloom, deep impenetrable gloom and dis- appointment among the mammas of the War Babies. "Then along came little Dolfy. < His appraising eye surveyed the field. He saw what he saw. The diamonds did not blind him. In the dazzling light he only opened his eyes all the wider. He looked over the young ones and he looked over the old ones. For the time being—at least until after the campaign was over—he determined to turn his back V on the flappers. They would have to wait. "He pulled no 'boners.' He was a bright young man. He danced the old girls dizzy. He started out by dancing with the young ones and flirting with the old ones over his partners shoulders. No, he was not bold. This was work that called for a certain kind of finesse. No matter how much