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When such players as Mary Brian, Sue Carol, Hoot Gibson, Sally Eilers, Jobyna Ralston and Nick Stuart get together at a party, what do they do? This story tells you how Hollywood amuses itself.
The First of The New Movie's Detailed Stories of Parties in the Movie Colony
By MARIAN JENSEN Special Photographs by Stagg
SMALL, intimate dinner parties are the vogue on the Hollywood social calendar. Additional extra friends always are asked to drop in afterwards for games and entertainment. Bob Vignola, the Eobert Armstrongs, Edmund Lowe and Lilyan Tashman, the James Gleasons, the younger set including Sue Carol, Mary Brian and Sally Eilers, are among those giving a series of these intimate gatherings as pre-holiday festivities.
The custom was initiated before the recent stockmarket crash, so it has nothing to do with financial retrenchment. In fact, the series of intimate dinners are proving more of a strain upon the pocketbook than the large dinners and general entertainments. To serve a perfect table in the latest fashion has become the pride of each hostess.
The small, intimate group was established because of the joy which comes from conversation among eight or ten, in comparison to eighteen or twenty, but it has developed to the point where the demands upon the hostess are even greater than at the larger gatherings. They always are extremely elaborate in appointments. In fact, the pre-holiday season in Hollywood this year was reminiscent of the old New York social days, when
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one hostess competed with another for supremacy. One of the loveliest of these small gatherings was given by Sue Carol. It was one of a series for the younger group. I am going to describe it in minute detail for you.
SUE opened the door to her guests herself. Although the dinner, like the majority of the others, was formal, she gave this personal, informal touch at the very beginning to create a home-like, get-together spirit. Yes, Sue has a butler, but she relegated him to the background when it came to the welcome.
The lady guests were led upstairs to Sue's boudoir by the hostess, where intimacies of gossip were exchanged and dresses openly admired. All the gowns touched the floor. The new fashions have conquered Hollywood for formal events. Sue's was of bright flame chiffon, with high waistband. Form-fitting to the knee, where it flared in all directions, to ripple over the tips of her toes and on to the floor, lengthening into train in the rear. Sally Eiler's was of deep cream satin. Also bodice fitting but with some points which were long and others short and leg-revealing. Mary Brian's was a polka-dot chiffon — sweetly girlish —