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Gertrude Messinger, John Bed, Betty Grable, Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, Mary Beich, Erik Rhodes and Virginia Reid at a luncheon Miss Shirley gave at the RKO dining-room recently.
Stars at Play
All Hollywood goes to the Annual Guild Ball; W. S. Van Dyke has a housewarming; Helen Mack's surprise party; Warner Baxter's Sunday tennis matches
By GRACE Kl NGSLEY
Jack Oakie, Sue Carol and Helen Mack, at Helen's birthday party. (Right) Dolores Lee Prinz gives a birthday party, too.
IF you chance to be messing around in South Africa or Labrador or any of those far-off places, and are looking for W. S. Van Dyke, you are going to be disappointed. For M-G-M has promised not to send him into the wilds to make a picture again for a long, ong time. And he is more than ever entrenching himself in his Brentwood Heights home.
The new party room just about settles it, we think.
Van gave a grand party to initiate it. Just to commemorate his many voyages, he has had the room made like a ship's saloon, with a cozy little bar at the end. There are port holes, little tables, long upholstered seats and everything, all shipshape.
And the bar is the oddest one to be found in all movieland. Its counter is an aquarium, outfitted in the traditional style with little castles, seaweed gardens, and many kinds of tiny fish.
Jack Oakie de
clared he had heard of "drinking like a fish,'" and he was all for mixing a drink for the finnies and pouring it in, but Van Dyke ruled that the fish were really entertainers and it was against the law to serve drinks to entertainers.
Despite the fact that Jean Harlow's husband is in Europe, and divorce proceedings are under way, and that Jean is seen everywhere with Bill Powell, she sees no reason for letting her tact desert her when somebody happens to refer to Bill in a special way.
So, when somebody said to Jean at the party, referring to the buffet supper, "Has your husband gone to get you food?" — meaning Bill, — Jean answered sweetly, as the confused lady apologized for her mistake: "I think you have paid me a very great compliment!"
Ruth Mannix helped Mrs. Van Dyke, our host's gracious mother, to entertain. Dashiell Hammet, the writer, created quite a sensation with his frankness, that night.
When his secretary introduced him to one group, he remarked: "Who are all these people you are introducing me to? I don't know them!"
But when he met Billie Burke, he met his Waterloo. He said to her: "Your face looks familiar, somehow!"
She answered him sweetly, with a disarming smile, "Well, yours doesn't, but your impudent dialogue does!"
Whereupon the writer knelt at her feet during the rest of the evening.
Alexander Pantages, Frank Mastroly, Marie Gambarelli, Dan Kelly at Mastroly's left, Eole Galli, Henry Hull, June Clayworth, Mrs. Armetta, Miss Armetta and Henry Armetta, who gave the spaghetti dinner.
HELEN MACK was most obligingly surprised, at the party which her mama gave her on her birthday. Of course the surprise didn't go quite the siss-boom-bah way it was supposed to, because Helen simply wouldn't be lured away to the Cocoanut {Please turn to page 54)
The New Movie Magazine, March, 1935
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