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SEPTEMBER 1925
Above is the Cocoanut Grove, which was copied on the screen in " Three Women."
Novarro (pronounced, be it said once and for all, as though spelled Ra-moan), carried off the loving cup several times, by an impromptu solo dance. Here "Our Club" holds its anniversary dinners. Here all the gossip of the studios finds a clearing house.
A sign, "Guests in Make-Up Welcome," ** assures a movie clientele at all times, but on Saturday noon a special movie luncheon, referred to as the Dress Strut, brings out all the new sport
clothes and samples of what the well-dressed man will wear. The room is so crowded with, people there to stare and be stared at that Charlie Chaplin, arriving late one Saturday noon, found it impossible to make his way to his reserved table in a far corner, and so got down on his hands and knees and crawled under the tables until he reached his seat !
""The Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador is another resort of film folk, and no one leaps for the stuffed monkeys when they are unexpectedly let down from the foliage overhead with more enthusiasm than some star whose weekly wage runs into the thousands. This feature of Hollywood night life, by the way, was copied in the cafe scene from Three Women. The Schencks and Connie Talmadge are frequent guests — it comes the nearest to New York of any place that .home-sick Connie can find !
Once a week, on Tuesday evenings, some woman star acts as Hostess, and tiny waxen figures of her, with startlingly life-like features, -) 4 adorn the tables. Perhaps no other restaurant in the world can boast so many celebrities among its guests — visiting scientists, foreign authors, titled travellers, playwrights, directors and screen stars visit from table to table and call greetings across the tumult of the saxophone.
At this table Xorma Talmadge in black and silver is entertaining the Ambassador from Jugo Slovakia and Elinor Glyn. Viola Dana and Lefty Flynn rise to dance together. Nazimova, with a coiffure so tiglu and sleek it looks as though painted on her small head, waves at Pauline
Left oval : Llovd Whitlock, the
stage star, often pauses for a chat with Chaplin at the Montmartre. Below : Graunian's. where all the movie stars go to see the newest and best films.