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BELIEVE it or not, Hollywood has a hard time finding ways to amuse itself. The time element complicates everything so.
The jaded millionaire at least has plenty of time to become jaded. He may select his sometimes singular amusements, devote himself to them until he is bored,\and then hie himself to a spa, or something.
"i our Hollywoodian — often with just as much rhtoney to spend on such things, and generally twice as much, Energy —is faced with the necessity of hurrying with his fun, on account of that early call at the studio to-morrow, or the <ix weeks' location trip which looms in the immediate future.
Hollywood must take its fun on the run — between takes, as it were: and you rarely hear of a Hollywoodian sojourning il a spa. They're all too husy. When they play, they play frantically, feverishly, sometimes noisily. And no wonder.
You rarely find them gathering in small, desultory ;roups for placid conversation. They must have novelty, practical jokes, surprises. The hostess who can arrange to have a pickaninny pop out of the baked ham, or can scare the daylights out of her guests by introducing a seemingly authentic lion into I lie di.iw m:' -room, or can conreal a bassoon player in the chandelier, is an instant suc■ ess.
The hostess who can conceal a bassoon player in the chandelier is a success.
And then there are games. They must pin the tail on the donkey, guess riddles, throw cards into a hat, or gamble. They will kneel cheerfully, and even painfully, on broomsticks, and pick up things in their teeth, or they will bowl or roller skate, or bicycle, or have frog races. They'll even bring their own frogs. But they must never be left to their own devices. They'll swoon with horror.
From the Fourth of July until mid-November, the colony becomes extremely alfresco. Barbecues, or simple buffet
snacks, served out of doors for two or three hundred people, are the usual rule. Thanksgiving ushers in a series of really swank affairs, with fruits, flowers, and strange things imported from the Antipodes and way points. There are ladies swathed in sables and emeralds, and severe white satin. There was not a great deal of entertaining of any sort in Hollywood until the racing season closed at Del Mar. Then things perked up a bit, in their alfresco fashion.
Myrna Loy and Husband Arthur Hornblow moved into their new house, and were enchanted with their kitchen — a nice large kitchen which opens onto a patio, and is admirably suited to informal affairs. Myrna and Arthur didn't hesitate a moment about whether to entertain before
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