Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1927)

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S3 Games ! lot of children, are enthusiastican possibly think of or devise. Schallert say, Elinor Glyn, Mary, Douglas, Charlie, Norma Talmadge and her mother, "Peg," as contestants, lots of fun is to be had. Especially when Charlie and Peg, two such excellent wits, individually make up their minds to trip each other up. Another divertisement which Douglas has recently approached with characteristic avidity and which has proven most intriguing for all who visit Pickfair, is the piecing together of picture puzzles which when finally put together represent famous historical paintings. It sounds simple, but the better part of two evenings and one afternoon were devoted by Doug and Mary and Charlie and Norma to assembling one of these puzzles. Douglas grew despe It must surely have rate, Charlie ran nerv ous hands through his bushy hair, and Mary and Norma leaned over the table with the in been those Iowa farmers who introduced the game of quoits into the colony. Anyway, it's "in," and Phyllis Haver and Harrison Ford are having a hot dispute over whose horse\ shoe is nearer the pin. When they haven't time to run down and lose their money in Tijuana, the film people stage their horse races right in their homes. Jane Winton is shown entertaining a group of friends with this miniature pastime. tentness of war lords bent on reorganizing the map of Europe. Marie Prevost, Kenneth Harlan, Corinne Griffith and Walter Morosco often get together with a group at Marie's home and indulge in the same pastime, only instead of piecing together famous paintings, they work over motion-picture stills which have been cut into strips and bits of every conceivable shape. All sorts of concentration games are indulged in when Marion Davies gives one of her numerous weekend parties. She always gathers the cleverest people in Hollywood about her, and certainly her reputation as a royal hostess must be merited, because whenever you meet any one looking especially festive or joyous, you can safely bet he or she is going to say, "Eve just returned from one of Marion's week-ends." For every abundant meal that is served, each of Marion's guests must do something to prove