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THE SPRING PARTIES
Grace Kingsley, our Hollywood Society Reporter, takes you on a personally conducted tour of the smart affairs of the month
I SHOULDN'T be a bit surprised if Colleen Moore threw a doll-housewarming! That would be something new under the sun, even in Hollywood, wouldn't it?
For Colleen Moore thinks her new doll house — costing, says rumor, no less than a hundred thousand dollars — is worth all the fuss she can make over it. And after getting a private and particular peep at it, following a party at her Benedict Canyon house, I'm inclined to agree with her, even though I never had a passion for doll-houses.
In case you can get a thrill out of a dollhouse, though — and even if you can't — just listen to this.
Every fairy tale in the world is represented in its murals and carvings — German, Spanish, ancient, modern, Oriental — and these carvings are so fine and delicate that you must use a microscope to see some of
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GRACE KINGSLEY
At the costume party given by Harold Lloyd's mother: ArtGoebel, aviator, May Robson, Harold Lloyd, and Louis Aldon Jr.
Right: Guests at Elissa Landi's "At Home" were Phillip Reed, Countess La n d i , El issa's mother, Elissa, Cary Grant, and the irrepressible Tom Brown.
Below: Cary Grant and Elissa Landi autograph photos for the Ballet Russe dancers, appearing in Hollywood.
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them. The house is nine feet by nine, and everything in it in proportion.
And oh, the magnificence of it! The doll herself is a princess, and her bedroom is of motherof-pearl inlaid with gold, while the tiny bathroom is of silver, crystal and jade. And the chandeliers are fitted, not with glass pendants, but with tiny diamond ones!
The house is going to travel around the world, for charity's sake, and that naturally justifies its existence, if its existence must be justified.
In the meantime, that party of Colleen's was just a sort of Cupid rendezvous, with all the romancing couples showing up.
Mary Carlisle was present with James Blakeley, Jeanette MacDonald with Robert Ritchie, Marion Marsh with Edmund Lowe — and that does look ever so serious — Maureen O'Sullivan with Johnny Farrow."
And then there were Antonio Moreno and Doris Dawson. And Doris admitted she didn't go out with anybody else, and didn't deny there was or at least soon might be an engagement between them.
Two of the most attractive young actresses came alone — Margaret Lindsay and Gail Patrick — but were soon surrounded by the unattached, and even by some of the attached, bachelors, including Randy Scott, Reed Hewes, Louis D'Arclay, and Billy Haines.
IT is fun just to play at acting once in a while, the film folks think, and so, every so often, somebody gives a fancy dress party.
There was the one that Mrs. Elizabeth Fraser Lloyd, Harold's mother, gave, for instance, at her suite at the swanky Town House. There were masks at first, of course, but you know how that goes — nobody ever keeps a mask on right up to twelve o'clock, the old (Please turn to page 54)
Above: Harold Lloyd, his mother, and Mildred Lloyd with Kathleen Williams Eyton, remembered by fans as Kathleen Williams.
Left: At the Colleen Moore party, reported for you on this page, Sally Eilers and William Haines were among the guests.
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The New Movie Magazine, May, 1935