Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1945)

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by HEDDA HOPPER ■IOLLY WOQO E S Like the one when the lights went out— and Van Johnson was caught without a girl! ■ "Tell the kids about some of the parties you've been to," says Albert. "Have a heart, sonny. Thirty years I've been . going to parties. How d'you expect me to get 'em sorted out?" "Easy," says Al, who doesn't have to do the job; he just dishes it out. "Your memory's a grab-bag. Stick in your thumb, pull out a plum, and go on from there." Being simple minded, I like games. Grab! and out came a dinner party at Norma Shearer's, veddy veddy swank. Only she'd invited Betsy and Gene Kelly, who own as much swank between them as would balance on an eyelash. In England they call it drawing room — short for withdrawing — because the ladies withdrew after dinner, leaving the gentlemen to brandy, cigars and masculine (Continued on page 99) At parties, Ronnie Reagan talks i politics while Jane perches atop the piano and makes like Helen Morgan, 31