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Decorations by Hamilton Greene
Some stars have nifty secret ambitions you'd never guess
AND NOW there's another epidemic of "Takino It Bi<;" in Hollywood. Just when we thought our movie belles had quieted down and gone demure in a manner to delight a prim Sunday school heart! Just when we had made up our minds that showing off and temj)erament all belonged to the dear dead-and-gone era when Pola Negri, Clara Bow. and Gloria Swanson made things lively around the movie lots !
But, dear me, no, those days haven't passed ! The town's all broken out in a brand new rash of taking it big. I don't suppose the current cases are any more serious than little Willie's spring dose of the measles or Susie's annual tilt with tonsilitis, which grandma used to cure with a good old-fashioned dose of sulphur and molasses. But what movie belle woidd take sul])hur and molasses ? You're right I
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C^ir epidemic is here. The signs are unmistakable. Not one or two. but a whole raft of our best people have succumbed to the germ. Lemme see. now. there's Carole Lombard.
Carole has been bitten by that ol" davvil. the Social P)U!.;. "i'essimi, our Carole, the gal what has wisecracked her wav through more Hollywood brawls and soirees than voii can count, has suddenly become society conscious.
1 think it all started with, of all things, the Venice Fun House party. Up to that time, whenever she wanted to give a partv. Lombard just gathered a few hundred souls around for laughs. Once she took the chairs out of her dining-room, threw a little hay down, and had the guestsitting on the floor drinking chanij^iagne out of tin cups. That was a howling success as a dinner party, but it was intimate and confined to her best friends. The Venice