The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

HOLLYWOOD ENTERTAINS — Maintaining the vogue for open air rancho parties, while the rest of us freeze By GRACE KINGSLEY F! Marian Marsh and Joey Ray, master of ceremonies at the Ebell Club frolic. A new romance? Wide World Phil Regan, former New York policeman; now crooning in Warner Pictures, Dixie Lee — (Mrs. Birvg Crosby) — James Cagney, and Frances Shortell gathered at the Lloyd Bacon party. Left: Joe E. Brown was much in evidence at the Lloyd Bacon party and entertained with some of the stunts from his newest picture. Above: Mrs. Pat O'Brien and Louise Fazenda, guests at the same charming affair, spent the evening picking figs! ILM folk are all going rancher ! And giving parties at their haciendas. Louise Fazenda says she is pumpkin conscious even now. She and her husband, Hal Wallis, the producer, have bought a ranch in San Fernando Valley, and are building themselves a Mexican farmhouse. Polly Moran is buying a ranch out there. Louise says she and Hal are going to raise white mice on their ranch (but she grinned when she said it), and Polly says she is going to raise razzberries. "And who's going to raise Cain?" inquired Bing Crosby. "Oh, we're going to keep that element out," retorted Louise. Anyway, you would surely have thought you were back in those romantic old Spanish days of California if you had been at the party which Director Lloyd Bacon gave for his wife on her birthday, at their San Fernando Valley ranch. I suppose there weren't any swimming pools or badminton courts in those days, such as the Bacons have. But you could gather fruit from the trees in the orchard, and dance in the big grape arbors, and eat Spanish food in the evening before a huge fire, just as we did. Louise Fazenda, Dixie Lee Crosby and Mrs. Pat O'Brien climbed a big old fig tree and ate figs as they sat on the limbs, though there were plenty of figs on a big plate in the patio. One of these gadget bracelets, on which you hang jewel-studded bangles on each succeeding birthday or Christmas — or any other holiday — was Mr. Bacon's birthday present to his wife. She says she isn't going to let even St. Patrick's day go by without a present! Anyway, wouldn't a diamond studded shamrock be just too cute? * * * If you think Bing Crosby sings lullabys to those twins, you are mistaken. But he said he had to leave the party early to get any sleep. "I had thought it would be a swell idea," Bing explained, "to build the nursery right next to our bedroom. But who could anticipate twins! And they yell in relays!" WHEN Louise Fazenda gives a birthday party for seventeen people she doesn't confine herself to one little stingy cake. She gives each guest a cake. That's what she did the night she entertained all the people who had had birthdays during the month. And each cake had its full quota of candles, too. Among those whose natal days occurred during said month, and who helped celebrate, were Hal Wallis, the producer, Louise's husband ; Mrs. Lloyd Bacon, Claudette Colbert, Mrs. Mervyn LeRoy, Ricardo Cortez, Robert Kane, Mrs. Lionel Atwill, Mrs. Raoul Walsh, Harry Joe Brown, Margaret Lindsay and Jean Hersholt. MR. AND MRS HARRY LACHMAN have a warm spot in their hearts for young romance. They proved it by giving a party in honor of Frank Lawton and Evelyn Laye, Jeanette MacDonald and Robert Ritchie, and Elizabeth Allan and her husband, Bill O'Brien, who was leaving at once for London after a visit to his wife. The Lachmans had known Frank and Evelyn in London, (Please turn to page 67) 34 The New Movie Magazine, January, 1935