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food free. She kept saying to him that any friend of his was a friend of hers and nothing too good for them. And nothing was!
"Our opening night she and her beautiful girls in their evening gowns occupied front-row seats. After the performance we went back to her house. Back home, you might say. She locked the doors and gave a party. Her hospitality and good taste had no limit. I've attended lots of parties, but none to equal that.
"I lived there during the whole engagement. In fact, I proposed marriage to one bright girl domiciled there. The girl had more sense than I— she turned me down.
"When the play had run its course, and closing night came, I insisted on giving a farewell party. Madam agreed. I ordered the finest of everything. Again she locked her doors, and it was our one happy family that gathered in her parlor and made merry till dawn.
"When my bags were packed and in the cab, I asked for my bill. Madam said, 'Mr. Barrymore, never in my life has anyone given me so much pleasure. I would be ungrateful indeed if I accepted pay for such joy.'
"Our mutual friend saw me off. At the end he said, 'Barrymore, why work? Why don't you get a setup like mine?' "
Bill's eyes were practically bugging out. With a sly look at me, Jack said, "You know, I've always regretted I didn't follow my pal's advice."
It was also in 1926 that Vilma Banky married Rod La Rocque in Hollywood. Vilma was Sam Goldwyn's gleaming star, and the film world will long remember the send-off he gave her.
First the showers. There were twenty-two. I know; I went to them all and, not being overburdened at the time with this world's goods, was hard put to buy the presents required. They'd take only the best. In those days it would be as much as your life was worth to take some conversation piece from the five-and-ten. My sense of humor wasn't as highly developed as it is now. Today I'd take any old thing, but how could I when my livelihood depended on getting more jobs?
I've yet to hear of Vilma giving as much as a luncheon to those
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