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The Causes, Symptoms and Effects
of a Disorder Peculiar to the Movie Colony
j. resent tense. Probably because scripts read that way and conversation upon sets is always in that mode.
Also it is tyjjical Hollywood-ese to speak of inipcjrtant people by their first names and to tell in loud, important tones how you told Joe Schenck or Jesse Lasky w'here he was wrong!
The Cess Men
C NATCH ES of conversation heard in cafes and about the *^ lots go like this, "And I say to Cecil De Mille, I say. Look here. Cess! You take my advice. I'll tell you what it is! It's like this.' And Cess, he says, 'Bob, you're right! 1 never thought of that!'"
Sartorial elegance to the »th degree is a symptom. Warner Richmond says that when he left New York, men's shirt collars showed a little elongation of the points. When he arrived in Hollywood, he observed that the jxjints of collars rested somewhere about the waistline.
"That." says Warner, "is Hollywood!"
Xick Grinde. the director, says that the typical Hollywoodian is a "guy who flips a coin to decide whether he wears evening clothes or golf knickers to an opening!"
Idiosyncrasies of attire are a part of it. Someone told me. and swore it was the truth, that a prominent director had a dinner suit made with trousers cut like the golf knickers to which he is addicted !
Eddie Sturgis cites as an example of going Hollywood, a certain director whi) borrowed his car and used it for months while Eddie was in the East. He came up in the
Symptom C-19 of Going Hollywood is to go in for sartorial rorktaib, to mix clothi n g with the same recklessness as one mixes drinks
world a bit during Eildie's absence and upon his return, atfected not to remember him.
"When I spoke to him," rejwrts Eddie, "he came back with 'Hello, Frank !' A bird I had known for years I Hollywood had got him !"
Ordinarily it is the hangers-on, the eternally hopeful crew of youngsters who are trying to break into pictures who are dubbed Hollywood with such contempt by those who have more or less arrived.
They are the imitators, the grand bluffers, who try to apj)ear tremendously prosperous on a shoe-string.
The Hollywood idea of a i)arty. is as typical and peculiar to Hollywood as any other term.
What a Party Means
A NVWHERE else in the world a party is a gathering of ■** people of similar tastes, who enjoy each other's company, for the purj)ose of doing together the things they enjoy. Whether it be a chicken supper, given by the Ladies' Aid in the church basement, or a group of debutantes who gather to play bridge for higher stakes than they can afford.
But in Hollywood a party is a specific thing. The word implies Bohemianism rampant. It may spring up siX)ntaneously or it may be planned. Mostly they just happen. They are likely to go from house to cafe and back to house again — a different house, in all likelihood, from the one where the party had its birth. Surprising {^Continued on page 83)
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