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BY MARC ELLA S. GARDNER
Hollywood Is the Happy Hunting Ground of Professional Boy-Friends
I A DIES must dance and gentlemen must carry on. In this day oi sturdy vines and clinging oaks, A more than ever before, it is the woman who pays and pays and pays. What's more, she liquidates both with the piper and with her dancing partner, using the cold, hard coin of the realm.
No, the members of the rocking-chair brigade no longer spend all of their waking and most of their sleeping hours in conjecture over the financial problem of the sevenhfty-per-day extra girl. It is the ditto extra boy who now looms up. He is a problem involving higher mathematics and still higher financing on the part of the ladies.
For Hollywood and its environs are full of wealthy, romantic ladies of an uncertain age, and the Boulevard is infested with impecunious young men. The latter feel that the world owes them their daily caviar and champagne. And they get it, via the rocking-chair brigade.
What a touching sight it must be to the uninitiated, for the first time in Hollywood, to see all these handsome
youngsters take their "mothers" and "maiden aunts" for an airing in their smart roadsters. To see them dining and dancing together, or at the theater!
C. O. D. COURTSHIPS
DURINCj a the duns ant last winter at one of the exclusive hotels, a foreign actress was heard to exclaim: " Parbleu! When I am an old lady, I hope I shall be able to leeve in 'Oily wood or Pasadena!"
For, nearly every woman there, over the age of fort} , was surrounded by a bevy of young men. Middle-aged wall-flowers were few and far between.
As for the boys, they take full advantage of a standard that is no longer double. What was once sauce for the goose, is now gravy for the gander, and rich, creamy gravy, at that'
With an ingenuity bordering on naivete, they stalk their prey, these twentieth century Hollywood replicas {Continued on page 86)
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