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Picture s and. Pi chare puer
DECEMBER 1924
Screen plays specialise in parties Always consult
them before giving yours.
Holiday time and. holly time! Christmas time and party time ! Dancing' time and theatre time, and all the jolly times together ! And again, as Christmas comes along, and the shop windows are bright and the champagne sparkle of excitement in the air, many an anxious young hostess will sit and nibble the handle
Above : The first thing to do is send out ihe invites.—
straps? These things are not absolutely essential, but they help quite a bit. A bathing dress is useful too.
Of course the dining table will be a mile or two long, festooned and staggering under its load of flowers and fruit. And when the meal gets warm — figuratively, I mean, not from the oven — bring out your paper caps and your streamers and produce your
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of her pen, glancing from the crowded invitation cards stuck in her looking glass, all so full of promise, to the blank invitation cards that lie beneath her hand, waiting for her to give them life.
V/ou know the feeling? That dreadful 1 " What shall I do with them " feeling? The awful vision of your own party duller and slower than the Jones's next door? What can you do with your guests just a little out of the common, just a little more original and fascinating than anything your neighbours will do with you?
If yon take my advice, you will go and consult the movies. They know all there is to know about parties. They have specialised in them for a quarter of a century, and can amuse the children and the grown-ups, winter and summer, outdoors and in, with the greatest ease and ingenuity.
The screen heroine lives in a positive whirl of parties. I would not like to count, though I should very much like
Then try over a song or tivo to make sure you are in good voice — to have, the dollars she must spend on food and flowers and waiters. I wonder what she pays her cook — I wonder still more what the housemaid says when she sees the dining room and ballroom next morning. Even if I knew, I don't suppose the editor of PICTUREGOER 'would let it be printed.
\/ou want, says she, to amuse your guests in a novel way? Well, let me think what my friends have done at various times. You've got an evening gown that cost a few thousands, I suppose, and pink pearls and black diamonds and a tiara or two? And you've no objection to painting a butterfly on your back, or holding your gown up with painted shoulder