Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

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A XD Harold says that he is willing to hire -*»-butlers and bus boys and maids and chauffeurs and houseboys and gardeners and golf professionals and swimming teachers and nurses, but he is darned if he is going to hire guides to show him around his own house. . . . Just then a famous film personality who was in the picture we were going to see came in with twenty guests, and I was curious, because the twenty guests immediately separated and went to seats in different parts of the house, but the film personality remained being seen in the lobby. So I said how funny this was to the young lady, and she laughed and said, "When he goes in the}' will all start clapping, because that is how one becomes popular in Hollywood." . . . And it was not very long after that before there was a sudden rush of all the women to one end of the lobby and I said that it must be Rudy Yallee or Gary Cooper, but of course I was wrong again. "Rudy Yallee has left Hollywood and anyway, it's his voice the girls love, not him, and as for Gary Cooper, the management would not allow the girls to flock around him, not unless they wanted the theater wrecked, because Lupe Yelez is expected back any minute," she said. "No," said the young lady, "that is not Rudy Yallee and it is not Gary Cooper, it is not even an actor, it is a dialogue writer, because now you know all the handsome men seem to be writing dialogue. Well, this man is not only handsome, he is from Paris where he was King of the Night Clubs and Pal of the Prince of Wales, and it is said that he has a Reputation you could cut with a knife, and that all his fiancees either drown themselves or take poison, and he has been shot at twice, and once a lady threw a gigolo at him. So it is only natural that the girls should flock around Jed Kile)'." SO that is the sort of thing you must expect in a city which is practically entirely inhabited by shrieks and sheiks. . . . 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