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Johnny Hines Serves Rubber Rolls at Dinner, Likes His Cars Fast And His Women Sober
B> Carol Johnston
HE'S the Life of the Party. You've heard enough about tragic comedians. Here's a movie clown who works at it after studio hours. A Harlequin who's on 4 perpetual holiday. Peter Pan, in long pants, with titles by G. Marion, Jr. Here's Johnny Hines, to whom life is just one great, big gag His house on a California hill-top. outwardly sedate in the Spanish manner, on closer acquaintance turns out to be a bottomless bag of tricks, presided over by a de luxe edition of Peck's Bad Boy.
in Hines's house there are "break-away" chairs, and couches with cushions which emit a plaintive and longdrawn-out "Mee-ow" when sat upon. There are correct and imposing appointments for dinner parties — costly lace table-cloths, gleaming silver, exquisite flowers; and — fora laugh — rubber rolls. There are drinking goblets of clearest crystal, with imperceptible holes, causing water to trickle slowly down the immaculate shirt-fronts and bejeweled bosoms of distinguished guests.
Taught Hearst the Black Bottom
WHEN Hines comes in, formality flies out the window. If it doesn't, he kids it out or kicks it out. It was Johnny who, at a Hollywood party, volunteered to teach the dignified William Randolph Hearst to dance the Black Bottom — and did.
This clown is also a sheik in disguise. Probably Billy Haines is Johnny Hines's only rival as a wow with the girls. Both boys are older versions of the lad who loved to trip up the prettiest girl in the class at school, causing her delightful embarrassment. How the prettiest girl loved it, too — and still does. Johnny has been reported engaged almost as often as Patsy Ruth Miller or Connie Talmadge. It was Constance, who has known him since the days when both were .still struggling for a foothold on the lens ladder, who declared he's the most amusing man
she ever knew. He's usually seen at film first-nights with the latest and loveliest in screen ingenues.
He loves speed. He wanted to be an auto racer when he was a kid. Fate set him on the stage instead. But his passion for speed is satisfied now that fame has introduced him to all the racers and he can drive their cars around the speedways in his spare time. He drives his own cars like no motor cop's business. He has had several narrow escapes from death but these have only whetted his appetite. His latest smash-up, which completely demolished a brand-new car of costly make, amused him so much he insisted upon being photographed with the remains.
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annoyed about anj-thing said or printed about him was when a well-meaning sob-sister spelled his front name "Johnnj'r."
He prefers the patrician type of femininity, and one of his favorite diversions is escorting examples to wild-west rodeos, Chinatown, or Coney Island. He is very critical {Continued on page 85)
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