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sonalities of Hollywood, nimbly informally with the film players.
Manners
pink dress, heavily bordered with pink roses.
Speaking of Mildred's dress — a really lovely frock — reminds me that she paid only fifteen dollars for it. She told me so. In spite of the fact that she has all the money in the world to spend, Mildred gets an awful kick out of bargain hunting.
The other guests were dressed up for the party, too, and when they weren't dancing* or talking or having their fortunes told — or all three — they wandered into the dining room to eat daintily of what I had left.
Bill of Goldwyn.
The first thing Bill Haines said to me, after having boisterously approved of the perfume I wore, was, "Whatever struck you to come out and interview me?" and after interviewing him for an hour, I began to wonder the same thing, as it is one thing to talk to Bill unprofessionally, and quite another to get him to talk "copy."
When he thinks he is being probed for publication, he answers succinctly with ""Yes!" or "No!" and just for spite, throws in some Rabelaisian mot that can't be printed, because of the book being read by women and children.
"But if Bill offers little that is technically reportorial, he does give a hectic, healthy enthusiasm for everything ranging from lemonade to Coolidge's administration. He is like a young cyclone, gusting his approval of the world in slaps on the back and ardent slang phrases. He hails extra men jovially by their first names. He runs up behind Irving Thalberg's dignified little sister, and does everything but toss her in the air. Every one on the lot seems to know him like a brother.
At the time of my interview with him, Bill was just starting in "Tell It to the Marines," a film featuring himself and Lon Chaney. In fact, he was in the act of drilling, when he was interrupted by me. But after I came, Bill refused to drill any more. And he left word at the publicity department
Estelle Taylor denies that she ever wanted her husband, Jack Dcmpsey, to leave the ring.
Photo by Ruth Harriet Louise
Bill Haines' enthusiasm and good fellowship have made him one of the most popular men on the Metro-Goldwyn lot.
that no one else was to be brought out to watch him, "until he got better at it." He was being drilled by a real sergeant, as the government was assisting M.-G.-M. in the making of the picture, and what the sergeant said to Bill and what Bill said to the sergeant, is nobody's business.
"I play a tough, wise-cracking baby who joins the Marines just to be near Tia Juana," Bill told me, as we beat it along toward the Victor set. where John Gilbert, in "Bardelys the Magnificent." was being temporarily hanged, "and the things that don't happen to me wouldn't fill a spoon. Chaney plays the sergeant, and this goof thinks the sergeant hates him, just because he keeps him up to the mark in discipline. We have a knock-out fight in the picture — ought