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DECEMBER 1924
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dancers. My friends James Kirkwood and Dorothy Phillips worked a good scheme in Man, Woman and Marriage. They had a dancer suddenly appear through a trap in the middle of the table, and use it as a stage. A charming idea, to have her trip about among the silver and the glasses. You must remember it, and let the carpenter make a trap-door in your dining table before the day of your party comes.
""Then when the meal is over, those of
*■ you who have any strength left will
go and dance yourselves. Here there
You may need a little practice to get this perfect.
This, of course, need not be rehearsed. is an infinite variety of choice, both in costume and in method. You can wear paper caps and all sorts of weird head-dresses, if you haven't been invited to come to the party dressed as devils or mermaids or something already. The band must be a full symphony orchestra, and it mustn't object to constant interference from the dancers. Young Edward Burns, in Broadway After Dark, went and snatched away the conductor's violin, and played a long solo on it himself — something soulful and sweet, to melt Anna Q's stony heart. Nobody minded a bit. You must encourage any of your guests with musical abilities to take away the flute or the cello or the saxophone or the big drum from the orchestra and give a selection. It adds to the gaiety.
Any screen heroine will tell you about the Halloween party in Java Head, and the moth-dance party in Singed Wings, and the radio party in Thorns and Orange Blossoms. There's nothing in the way of novelty that she won't tell you if you only wait long enough. Things that the Joneses next door would never think of to their dying day. . . Things that would make the Smith's hair bristle with envy. . . Things that would put you into the local paper, if they didn't put you first into gaol. . . If you want novelty in Christmas entertaining, go to the movies every time. E. R. T.
Left : When the fun goes fast and furious. Below : The morning after the night before.