Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1926)

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47 Teacups deciding that Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks are the panorama of other stars visiting New York. Bystander only person who doesn't call them 'Doug and Mary' — sauntered down the center aisle, stopping here and there to chat with their friends. But in a few minutes, the crush around them was so great that he had to pick her up and carry her to their box. "Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson are the most conservative and inconspicuous-looking of all Broadway celebrities. These girls who have visited abroad and met royalty have developed a desire to look plain that is almost an obsession. It is refreshing in a way, but when the public stand around for hours in the cold, waiting to get a look at a personage, I think the)' really want something spectacular. "Marion Davies, Mae Murray, and Hope Hampton were all at the opening, and they looked magnificent enough to impress any one — even a reader of 'What the Well Dressed Woman Will Wear' in the theater programs. Georges Carpentier was there, the center of almost as much attention as was lavished on Cecil De Mille. Charles de Roche strolled in, and I don't suppose it made him any happier to hear people announcing 'There's Count Salm' — that is, if he heard it. "Ann Pennington and Anita Loos and Alice Brady and Elsie Janis were all there. The fat lady on my left, whose vernacular had a strong burlesque flavor, almost wept because she hadn't brought along a copy of Anita Loos' book to be autographed. She confided to every one within hearing distance that her daughter was so depressed when she saw the title, 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,' that she dashed to the nearest drug store, and her hair turned almost white overnight. "As I looked around that audience, I decided that such a representative gathering of the society, sport, financial, and art worlds could never be brought together for any occasion but a Fairbanks picture. But a few nights later, I decided that I was wrong. At the Newspaper Women's Annual Ball, at the Ritz, there was just such a mixture of people, and about ten times as many. "Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks "The Palm Beach Girl" is a comedy, but Bebe Daniels has faced tragedy in the accidents that have occurred while making it. Photo by W. F. Seely Alma Rubens, once a confirmed New Yorker, spent the first week of her honeymoon there moving from hotel to hotel, looking for the comfort and quiet Hollywood has accustomed her to. were the extra-special de luxe featured guests of honor, the others being mere governors and mayors and the heads of the army and navy. Marion Davies brought a party of twelve, that included Norma Talmadge and husband, Anthony Asquith, son of the former Prime Minister of England, and Mr. and Mrs. . Goldwyn. Aileen Pringle was by far the most distinguished-looking and stunning person there, to my mind, and Doris Kenyon the prettiest. That girl's natural coloring is simply radiant. Dorothy Gish, just back from a hurried visit to Hollywood, was there with her husband. Thomas Meighan, Richard Dix, Lois Wilson, Betty Jewel, May Allison, Milton Sills. Adolphe Menjou, and Margaret Livingston were all there. Lois looked marvellous in a very tight, scarlet dress, and Margaret Livingston was conspicuous by virtue of wearing an evening dress that touched the floor. Incidentally, her hair is just the color