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Seymour doesn't like this snappy model. He thinks that setting hen on the lady's head gives her a rakish look that is not the mode of the moment. But once, Seymour, old boy, that was a darn smart hat. Have you guessed it? An old still of Gloria Swanson in "The Coast of Folly"
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Take off that swanky lorgnette, Joan Bennett, you're not the Marquise de la Falaise. Sure, your boy friend's name is Markey but that's his real monniker and not a title. This snap was taken just after Gene Markey slipped a sapphire and diamond engagement ring on Joan's finger. The groom-to-be is a writer and used to go places with Gloria Swanson
"LJTERE are some of the names of old-timers working at one of the small independent studios one week, every one of them a former star of considerable magnitude: Henry B. Walthall, Clara Kimball Young, William Farnum, William Desmond, Franklyn Farnum and Priscilla Dean.
T^TD you hear about the desert house Clara "^Bow has built herself? Right out near Rex's shack. Only, of course, the house is for both Rex and Clara.
Well, instead of a number (and who the heck wants a number on a desert?) steer horns hang above the door. The house outside is all red and white stucco. There is a huge living room, 46 by 30, with beamed ceiling
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and red cement floor. The fireplace is granite and gold-bearing ore dug right out of them thar hills.
Back of the living room is another room with a bar and yes, yes, my hearties, it has a rail. It also contains a roulette wheel and — now wait — a slot machine. Gives it atmosphere, Clara says.
Clara and a slot machine. If that isn't a typical Bow gesture!
Upstairs is Clara's orchid and black bathroom and orchid bedroom. The other three bedrooms are downstairs. So are the servants' rooms.
A huge veranda surrounds three sides of the house and the garden is composed of huge cactus plants. The kind that stick when one unexpectedly backs into them. If one is rash enough to back. In the center of the garden is an old Joshua tree over a century old. Well it may have had a dull old time in the past century but what it's in for the next, my, my!
"My desert paradise. My desert of love," Clara calls it. Pretty, don't you think?
AND who remembers when Greta Garbo first came to Hollywood and told an interviewer she'd like to have a room with some nice quiet Hollywood family?
/^\VER on the RKO lot a movie extra was ^called out from the mob. "Name," he was asked.
"Creighton Chaney," he answered.
"Well," replied a rather sarcastic assistant director, "it's Chaney, eh? I suppose you were related to the great Lon, eh?"
"Yes, sir," replied the boy. "He was my father."
And the assistant director looked rather silly all that day.
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