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Teacups
sudden exodus to New York, and paints came to resemble a deserted village.
Bystander
Virginia Valli and Julanne Johnston play tennis almost every day. Those girls have so much energy they play even after a hard day's work at the studio. The} all seem to survive it, but I am a cripple after just a few sets.
"Aileen Pringle is the one fellow sufferer I know of. She hadn't played tennis in seven years until the other day when she suddenly got ambitious. Since then she has hardly been able to walk. She has the sort of tiny, little high-arched feet that were never meant to plod around in flat sports shoes. I am sure she had a malicious desire to see some one else suffer when she urged me to get up early last Sunday and go to Matt Moore's court to get in a full morning's play.
"Matt has what is probably the most extravagant tennis court in this part of the world. It is on a lot for which he has been offered thirty-five thousand dollars. It is right up on a hill overlooking the beach, just beyond the Beach Club at Santa Monica. It will break my heart if he sells it. It's the one court you can enjoy no matter how rotten your game is, because, after all, there is
always the lovely view. "Rumor has it that
some one or other is going to offer a cup for
a tennis tournament
among film people
within the next few
weeks. Fortunately,
Florence Vidor is in
New York making a
picture or I suppose
she would win it. Bert
Lytell is up in the
Northwest somewhere
on a vaudeville tour, so
that eliminates another
probable champion.
Now if some one will
just dispose of Shirley
Mason, there will be
some uncertainty about
who will win.
"The tennis tournament will have to be
pulled off soon, because
Suzanne Lenglen is
coming out to make a
picture for F. B. O.
and after people have
seen her play they will
just go out and bury
their rackets.
Photo by W. F. Seely
Dorothy Dwan is a bridge shark, and you can't even gossip with her any more about anything else, except bridge.
Photo by Irving Chidnoff
Tennis is weaning Marion Davies away from luncheons and afternoon teas.
"People might just as well get in all the swimming they can, too, because with F. B. O. going in for pictures starring sports champions, Gertrude Ederle is sure to be here within a few months.
"There really should be a tennis tournament organized for the wives of motion-picture celebrities. Mrs. Tom Mix, Mrs. Victor Schertzinger, Mrs. John Ford, and Mrs. Harry Carey are all being coached by Wynn Mace and soon they will be much too skilled to play with people who just play the game casually between jobs.
"The Mix estate out in Beverly Hills looks like the remains of a 'What Price Glory' set as the ground is being excavated for a tennis court and a swimming pool. Night life in Hollywood is certainly suffering a terrible setback. Taking up sports so frantically is making every one much too tired to go anywhere at night."
Fanny merely paused for breath and didn't wait for me to ask her what on earth people did do with their evenings. She was so bubbling with enthusiasm over her friends' new activities that nothing short of a bullet would have stopped her talking about them.