Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1920 - Feb 1921)

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Too far under the skin." "Here come the Siamese twins," exclaimed Tony, as Alice Lake and Viola Dana, the inseparables, limped over the threshold. "Don't talk to us," warned Alice, easing herself cautiously onto a chair. "We've been horseback riding — what are you laughing at? We've been horseback riding. You ought to have seen Vi. They gave her a fire horse. She looked like a fly on top of it, and I guess it thought she was, because it kept trying to brush her off with its tail." "Have you seen the new menu cards of the Blue Bird room?" inquired Vi, drawing one from her coat. "They've got everything named after stars. Look-it — look, Alice — what you are — mushrooms !" Vi nearly rolled off her chair in gigglysterics, but was checked by pains where the horse had bumped her. "Where — where ?" Alice's nose was scaling the menu. "Oh — 'Alice Lake mushrooms with cream and pepper sauce,' — 'Louise Glaum salad of tomatoes, onions, and red peppers'— oh, look who's crab legs !" she squealed, tossing the menu high in the air. Tony Moreno and Tom Meighan bumped heads reaching for it, but Eddie Sutherland got it. "Crab legs," he read. "Dorothy Dalton and Lillian Gish." "Not Dorothy Dalton," cried Viola, then subsided in embarrassment. "Not according to her pictures in 'Aphrodite,' " was the discreet observation of Eddie Sutherland. The discussion was broken by the entrance of Texas Guinan wearing a half-and-half — evening gown and yellow powder. "Look at me !" she cried. "Drunk, dressed up, and the trunk empty! First time I've played plush horse in years." "It's time to go," announced Tony. "Texas is here and the place is going to get rough. Watch her, Betty, she'll start shooting up things." "Ah, no," was Betty's good-natured defense. "Texas is a little crazy, but she's all right, ain't you, Miss Guinan?" "Crazy?" shouted Texas. "Say if rom page 48 they made any of you handsome heroes turn out a two-reeler eventwenty-four hours, you'd be crazy. And if they don't give me a night's rest pretty soon, you'll be putting lilies in my hand." "Not lilies, Texas," said Tony. "Cactus." "Say, do you want to hear something good?" queried Texas, ignoring Tony's floral tribute. "I got a letter from a certain picture producer the other day. He said, 'Well, Texas, I got both your husbands working for me now' — meaning Messrs. Guinan number one and number two. I wired back, 'Congratulations ; that's more than they'd ever do for me.' " "Speaking of marriage, how's Lieutenant Locklear, Viola?" asked Tony, at the same time retreating through the door toward his automobile. "Speaking of marriage, Tony Moreno," shouted Viola after him. "How are all the pretty girls of Los Angeles ?" — then directing her volley broadcast — "I'm going to sue some one if they don't stop these lies about me being married. I'll sue— — " "Ah, keep still, Vi," put in soror Alice. "If you don't stop denying it everybody will know you're married." "But I'm not!" "Of course not," said the pacific Betty. "If she was in love she wouldn't eat so much." "Which proves she's married," ventured Casson Ferguson. "Just for that you don't get no pie, Mr. Ferguson," snapped Betty. Silence ensued. No filmer likes an unhappy ending to a luncheon. "Good-by. Betty, we had a wonderful lunch," called Margaret Ettinger, as she chaperoned Bessie Love out of the roughening atmosphere. "Yes," said Bessie. "This is the first time I have been here, and I think it lovely." "It's kinda homy," admitted Betty. "All the stars are coming here now. Lew Cody wTas here yesterday." "Say," burst out Texas, "if you can get the business of his ex-wives you'll die rich, my dear." "Oh, lots of ex-husbands meet their ex-wives here. It's such a nice family place." That cleared the place for one day. The men departed, nervously jingling their money, and the women their alimony. Betty's bungalow is unique. Nowhere is there anything like it or Betty or the patrons.