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room of the Los Feliz Brown Derby.
Believe it or not. many of the movie guests had never seen Mr. Piano in .-person, including Alan Ladd and Sue, who seldom go to parties. "If that guy will play all night I'll sit here and listen to him," Alan whispered in my ear.
They can crack all the jokes they like about Liberace, but he is one of the most gracious and charming young men I have ever known — and has a sense of humor as well.
No one laughed louder than he when the piano was moved into the center of the room and someone put a candelabra atop it when he sat down to play.
Let me tell you just a few of the stars who
dropped in between the hours of 6:30 P.M. and 2 A.M. to greet the popular Bebe and Ben, two of the most loved people in show business :
There were Bob Hope and Gracie Allen and George Burns, Dinah Shore, Marion Davies, Norma Shearer, Irene Dunne (another who seldom attends parties), Ann Miller and her favorite beau. Bill O'Connor, Cesar Romero whirling Ginny Simms around the dance floor, Clifton Webb and Nancy and Ronnie Reagan.
One of the prettiest girls there was Mrs. Van Heflin. Frances is looking wonderful. It was hard to believe that she almost lost her life — and her baby, just a few months ago when the Heflins' first son was born.
Frances was in all-white with a beautiful white fox around her shoulders, a gift from Van, the happy father.
When the strolling Spanish musicians came onto the floor, I spotted Arlene Dahl and Fernando Lamas sitting quietly in a corner holding hands' as honeymooners should, and Fernando was softly singing to the beautiful Arlene under his breath.
The redheaded Arlene was a vision in an emerald-greenwithwhite overskirt dress. Fact is, emerqld green was a popular color among the gals. Norma Shearer's "tarn" hat was a bright green and she wore a gorgeous emerald necklace.
If I were to tell you about aJJ the parties given for Bebe and Ben during their Holly
Everyone came to see Ben and Bebe and nobody wanted to leave!
Ginny Simms sang, and when Liberace joined Jimmy McHugh' Ihe guests just went wild!
Everyone was so glad to welcome Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon in from England. George Montgomery and Dinah Shore hugged them and everyone in Hollywood threw parties for them.
Ronald Reagan and his sweet wife, Nancy Davis, danced with each other all evening.
When Liberace and I were interviewed by Mrs. Larry Finley, I was completely charmed by his graciousness. No one gets more of a kick out of the candelabra jokes than Lee does, by the way
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