Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1923 - Feb 1924)

50 Over the Teacups all in Huffy orchid chiffon, looking like a spring breeze. Isn't she wonderful to do so many things and have so many interests? She is making pictures for C. C. Burr. She keeps up her music and writes poems for magazines and rides horseback and plays golf and goes to dances and movies and still finds time to read a lot. She was reading 'A Beachcomber in the Orient' when I saw her and her enthusiasm was so catch Photo by Underwood & Underwood ■ Alice Brady has bade her baby farewell and gone on tour in ''Zander the Great. Fanny languidly said, "Oh, yes. And speaking of titles, a lot of persons seem to think it is funny to say that they don't think Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle are nearly heavy enough to play the title role of 'Black Oxen.' If they weren't morons they would know that the title was taken from a passage by W. B. Yeats, 'The years like great black oxen tread the world and God the herdsman goads them on behind !' " I couldn't help wondering where Fanny got that bookish information. I was sure she never stopped gadding about long enough to read it herself. But before I could ask her she was chattering about something else. "Don't you think Doris Kenvon is about the loveliest looking individual you ever saw?" "Fanny, you've said that about Claire Windsor and Barbara La Marr and " "Yes, but Doris Kenyon is different. So spontaneous, so unstagy — and so young. She isn.'t Broadway or Fifth Avenue or Riverside Drive. She is Park Avenue and Tuxedo Park and Cambridge." "Oh. I see," I admitted. "Style, society sports, and intellectual." "Not so bad," admitted Fanny. "You couldn't be so analytical though if you had seen Doris lately. I was over at her house the other dav and she came in ing that " "You've been carrying it around with you ever since." Fanny smiled at me superciliously as though my comments were beneath her notice. "Doris has always wanted to go to a prize fight but she says that no one will take her. Isn't that tragic ? She has loads of friends and they are always asking her to the theater and concerts and things like that, but they never think of taking her to a prize fight." "She's not the sort of girl a man would think of taking anvwhere that wasn't refined and " "Where do you get your old-fashioned ideas?" Fanny demanded.. "Simply every one goes to prize fights nowadays. You should have seen the chic-looking people out at the Dempsey-Firpo fight. Hope Hampton looked perfectly adorable and Dorothy Dalton had on a Paris hat that was worth going miles to see. Barbara La Marr was there looking like an Italian princess and Tom Mix — I never will forget Tom Mix." Fanny paused dramatically and then went on : "Tom Mix wore a sombrero that was so huge they could have used it as a roof for the arena. When he went to take it off he had to reach out so far that some one yelled, 'Who're you waving at?' "Well, anyway, it served one purpose. Every one saw him and every one knew whom he was. Minor celebrities like judges and senators and capitalists and opera singers faded into the background while our cowboy hero stepped forward as resplendent as a circus horse." "Aren't you ever neutral about people?" I inquired of Fanny, a little puzzled by her rabid hates and enthusiasms. "Never !" she said. "I love them or I despise them." She started to classify her loves and hates for me but among her first enthusiasms was Barbara La Marr. and that brought her to a dead standstill. "Barbara is back from Italy with about three tons of furniture and a lot of wonderful tapestries and hangings for her new house out near Hollywood. She will be here for a while making the interiors for 'The Eternal City,' but naturally she is eager to get backhome. I never saw any one look quite so gorgeous as she does in her 'Eternal City' gowns. That is what T like in pictures — marvellous gowns hung on somebody who can do something beside look beautiful. "I guess it is a lot of fun to play dressed-up roles, too." Fanny rambled on. "Had a note from Carmel Myers the other dav and she said she just hated to finish 'The Slave of Desire' because it was such fun to be dressed up like the Ritz all the time playing a demi-vamp. That's her expression — demi-vamp. Don't you like it? Carmel's so happy now she is going around with her head in the clouds. She is going to play with Tohn Barrvmore in 'Beau Brummel.' She won't start