The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

Hollywood Goes A-partying (Continued from page 8) and what they did with "Sweet Adeline" and "Little Annie Rooney" was just nobody's business. Charles Evans was the famous minstrel, you know, and the day chanced also to be the anniversary of Evans' first public appearance. He was thirteen and he sang in a saloon in New York. They paid him in sherry, and he never did quite make his bed, but fell asleep on his front porch. There was lively impromptu entertainment, with Queenie Cawthorne reviving memories of Broadway and the days when she was Queenie Vassar by singing and dancing delightfully; and a real feature of the proceedings was the sight of Mrs. Leon Errol dancing the Merry Widow Waltz with Edmund Breese, and doing it better than we've seen it done in many a day. Robert Young and his wife represented the younger Hollywood set. THE old woman who lived in a shoe was just a lonely soul on a desert isle compared to Fred Keating, on the occasion of his house-warming, when he could have easily paraphrased Mother Goose by saying "he had so many guests he didn't know what to do." Guests packed the living-room, overflowed the dining-room, and one fell over them even in the kitchen. There wasn't a thought of anybody sitting down, even on the floor. There was no room. "Gala Premiere of 'The Captain Hates the Sea' tomorrow night, by courtesy of the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital!" was the way a sign on the wall read. It meant that four of the picture's cast, Victor McLaglen, John Gilbert, Florence Rice and Keating, had all been sent to the hospital while the film was being made. The bird which Fred uses in his magic act was another feature of the party. The canary's name is Tallulah, in honor of Tallulah Bankhead, when Fred was her leading man back in New York. "So you see Fred doesn't kill a canary every time he does his magic bird act!" Irene declared. "Tallulah has been on the job a long time." Fred of course was gallant to all the ladies, but we hear that his attentions have lately been divided between Patricia Ellis and Barbara Blair. Nancy Carrol arrived with Howard Hughes, the producer, who, by the way, still looks as though he were twenty-one years old, despite all his picture worries. Howard on his part has been faithful to Nancy through at least four Hollywood social functions. Alison Skipworth, against her rule not to go to parties, was there, and Harry Houdini's widow, too, who also eschews parties for the most part. In fact a lot of recluses were present, including Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay, and Tala Birell. just back from New York, who seldom goes out. OPEN house on Sunday afternoons and holidays for baby ! That's the new Hollywood idea with Sally Eilers, Arline Judge (Mrs. Wesley Ruggles) and June Collyer (Mrs. Stuart Erwin) sponsoring it. Clara Bow, we hear, intends adopting the idea, too. We found Sally, who is Mrs. Harry Joe Brown in private life, all rumpled up the other Sunday. She didn't care. Her small son had done the rumpling, and it was all right with her. She tells us that she and Harry Joe are going to buy a home to put the Baby Bunting in, especially as Baby Bunting has a penchant for falling off places, and their penthouse outdoor breakfast room fur nishes a long fall either for man or boy. As for the small Harry Joe, he is always demurely polite to visitors even when awakened out of a sound sleep, which he often is. so proud are papa and mama of him. A large apartment in the mansion all to himself is what little Wesley Ruggles, Jr., boasts, at the Ruggles home. He even has his own cedar closets, kitchenette and bathroom. Helen Twelvetrees and her husband. Frank Woody, together with their small son, Jackie, were there, and June Collyer and Stuart Erwin. Marian Nixon and William Seiter admired the Twelvetrees and Ruggles youngsters, and Marian declared with a blush that she'd "love to have a baby if she were sure of having one as nice as little Wesley." We believe her, for you know, she adopted one when she was married to Eddie Hillman, but regretfully returned it, because the law made her do so, when she was divorced. However, she saw to it that the little one was re-aaopted by a fine family. Helen and Arline have been chums for years. Both tell the story about Arline, and how, when she telephoned Helen from the hospital two hours after her baby was born, Helen's butler took the message and Helen fired him as a liar. "What woman could talk over the. phone two hours after having a baby?" she demanded scornfully. Little Jackie Woody and small Wesley are pals, too; but Jackie had slapped Wesley on a Wednesday, and Wesley had barely forgiven him the Sunday we were there. AN ORIGINAL feature of the new -^~* Ruggles home is a "complaint box," such as is installed in certain hotels for guests. The idea is that if you don't like the way the Ruggles family entertains, you can drop your written complaint into the box, which hangs on the living-room wall. Another feature of the house is the breakfast room right off Arline's and Wesley's bedrooms. Isn't that just too cosy? Russian Parties Spanish parties. Hawaiian parties. German pancake parties — all are in the discard now-a-days for Russian parties. And if you could have just seen Anna Sten and husband Dr. Eugene Frenke and their guests eating their borscht from wooden spoons such as Russian peasants use, and the feminine guests sniffing at their corsages of Continental field flowers, not to mention all sipping their vodka, you would have loved it. Flaming swords of shashlick were brought in for the diners, and if a good time wasn't had by all it was no fault of the hosts. Entertainment, too, was Russian, Anna appearing in a Russian playlet, and bringing in Russian street singers. Cawthornes Entertain "John's big game hunting — hunting everything!" smiled Dolores Costello Barrymore as we chatted at the party which the Joe Cawthornes were giving. "And he writes to us every day." Charlie Farrell and Virginia Valli had driven up in their cute little English Alvis, which they had shipped from Europe, and from which they get twentytwo miles a gallon! "We had no automobile accidents, though we drove all over Europe," reported Virginia. {Please turn to page 48) <t Careless little bride'/' SAID TATTLE-TALE GRAY It had been the first big party in her own new home-she had been so thrilled but suddenly she saw a guest eyemg her tablecloth-andthatcriticalglancerumed her evening. Why did her clothes have that tattle-tale JyllokP She always worked hard over her washes-but why must she seem so careless? Then next day, she found the answer... The thing that robs your clothes of their nice fresh whiteness, a friend told the bride, is left-over dirt — and there's one sure way to get out ALL the dirt. That way is to use Fels-Naptha— for it's made of golden soap that's richer — and there's lots of dirt-loosening naptha right in it. You can smell the naptha. Another nice thing this bride learned about Fels-Naptha— it's perfectly safe for daintiest things. And kind to hands — there's soothing glycerine in every bar. Just try it! Give Fels-Naptha Soap a chance at your own wash. You'll get the sweetest, sunniest clothes that ever bobbed on a line. Whitest, too — because they're clean clear through! "Trick" soaps and cheap Now Alice is married a year — her linens still look as fresh and snowy as new — and there's never a hint of tattle-tale gray to make people think she's careless! soaps skim over dirt — they leave specks behind. But Fels-Naptha gets ALL THE DIRT-eventhegrimiest,ground-inkind. Fels-Naptha now sells at the lowest price in almost twenty years. Get a tfj^ few bars at your grocer's today. fs^ 1935, PELS & CO. BANISH "TATTLE -TALE GRAY" WITH FELS-NAPTHA SOAP! The New Movie Magazine, April, 1935 47