The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

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T-5-35 1 City... .State J Canadians should mail coupon to The Charles E. Hires Co., Ltd., Toronto The Spring Parties (Continued from page 32) French novels to the contrary. Harold Lloyd forgot he is Scotch, and became a dashing Spanish toreador — and led a toy bull around on a string. Mildred Lloyd wore a demure Quaker costume; the hostess was Lady Hamilton in a wide Gainsborough hat; May Robson wore the costume she used on the stage in "The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary." and Gaylord Lloyd was brave in a Russian peasant get-up. Una Merkel and her husband were Spanish peasants. There was the usual buffet supper, where you buttled for yourself. IPVEN if Winfield Sheehan is a Fox -^ Film Corporation head, it must have been a thrill to be decorated, even at so late a date, for his services during the World War, when he drove an ambulance. He and Ketti Gallian made a trip to the Joan d'Arc, French battleship at San Pedro, for the purpose, and Commander Yves Douval performed the deed. Ketti is just back from France, but said she bought all her new clothes in New York. M. and Mme. Henri Didot, French consul and his wife, assisted in receiving, and guests included W. S. Van Dyke, Maureen O'Sullivan and John Farrow, Jetta Goudal, Inez Courtney and others. All the French officers demanded photographs of Ketti, and Winfield Sheehan (Ketti being under contract to Fox) generously and gallantly told her she might have some new ones taken. Fred Stone Entertained /""'AN you imagine a sadder fate for a . young fellow than coming all the way from New York to Hollywood to see someone and then missing her? That's what Ronald Simon thinks, too. Of course he saw Glenda Farrell ultimately, but not for a whole day and a half. She was working in a picture when he arrived, and couldn't meet him at the station. Then he went to the party given by Helen Ferguson for Fred Stone, expecting that she would be there, and she couldn't get away from the studio. She worked that night, too, and was too dog-tired when she finished even to say hello. But next day at noon they staged their reunion. Frances Dee had some pictures of her baby with her, and she and Sally Eilers deserted their husbands, Joel McCrea and Harry Joe Brown, to get into a huddle in a corner and discuss baby lore. We gave John Mack Brown a "hero's entrance," as they say in the movies, applauding him when he came in, the reason being he had saved his wife (she was riding a runaway horse) from serious injury the day before. Tit-for-Tat Party TT was a sort of tit-for-tat party those ■*■ ten actresses playing in "Naughty Marietta" gave for their director, W. S. Van Dyke. You see, Van dearly loves kidding people. And he gave a dinner party at his home for the ten, at which he pulled a number of hilarious jokes. Not to be outdone, the actresses decided to get lively revenge. So they gave a party at the Clover Club, inviting Van as the only man, and at dinner pulled twice as many jokes on him as "U fi Ck^\ h** »'cTATfS WHITE SHOE* G-* stNS£ DlCTATSS" he had previously. When he sat down to the dinner table, one of the girls pressed a bulb, and his soup bowl raised from the table. Then shortly after dinner a large box of flowers, containing a handsome corsage, was presented to him. But the dancing feature was the last word. When the music started, Van Dyke asked one of the hostesses to dance. In the meantime the girls had arranged to have the music play through four hours without stopping, they cut in for dances with Van, and the director didn't have a chance to rest once during the entire time! The hostesses included Jeanette MacDonald, Irene Hervey, Pauline Brooks, Kay English, Julie Laird, Linda Parker, Agnes Anderson, Mary Doran, Cecelia Parker and Lillian Rosine. Maybe Van is cured. At any rate, he gave another party for the young ladies, at his home, and never a joke was pulled on them! Elissa's Ballet Russe Party /^ARY GRANT is wondering whether he was complimented or not the other day at Elissa Landi's party for the Ballet Russe. Cary was warned by Elissa that he had better bring along some photographs, as it was certain the Ballet people would want them; in fact they had asked Elissa if she thought they could get some. So, persuaded, Cary brought them. At least he thought he had photographs; but to his amazement, having snatched up a bunch of pictures as he was leaving home, he discovered that the bottom ones were just the pasteboards on which the photos should have been mounted. However, all the ballet members clamored for his autograph on the blanks, after the photographs had all been given out. "And they seemed quite contented," he declared. "And I wonder whether to be flattered or not." Elissa's party was given in her new home at Brentwood, where she has a complete little suite of rooms in a wing of the house all to herself. Countess Caroline Sanardi-Landi, Elissa's mamma, helped receive. Trick Microphones Add Gaiety TLJAVE you one of those trick mikes -*--*■ in your home? If not, you can't be said really to belong. Besides the Quillans, John Mack Brown, Chick Chandler, Walter King, Mervyn Leroy, and Groucho Marx, a lot of others have them, including John P. Medbury, whose party revolved 'round it tother night at his home, gracefully named "Mortgage Manor." None of the guests knew of the contraption, which is new in the Medbury household. John absented himself, declaring he had to go away for a broadcast for a little while, and the guests were surprised and taken aback for a minute when John's voice came over the radio: "Glad to have you at my house, although I could have done very well without you." Whereupon Joe E. Brown, first to recover and suspect the truth, went and wrote in Medbury's guest book, "Just a quip from the old block." An "Un-Birthday" Party AVERY odd person is Chick Chandler in one respect. He never accepts birthday presents. On the other hand, he always bestows gifts on his friends to celebrate his own natal day. So if he gives a party, it is what Alice in Wonderland would call an "un-birthday" party. Chick had one on his last birthday, 54 The Neio Movie Magazine, May, 1935