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Let's Play Games!
"Blow Ball" is a variety of billiards, the object being to blow the ball into one of the pockets. Patsy Rath Miller, her mother,
and her brother Winston are all after that ball.
himself worthy of it. For example, to earn breakfast, every one, on the night before, is called upon to give an imitation of some person. Slips of paper with names on them are passed around, and you imitate the person whose name you draw. The names are always of famous and colorful people in the colony — including guests present. Wide license and liberty are granted the impersonators, and naturally the results are very hilarous.
Blanche Sweet says this is a good way to take the wind out of the sails of slightly conceited players. She says that when any player is present who is suffering from a slight case of inflated ego, the whole crowd gleefully await the impersonation given of that player. The broader it is, the better they like it. But it's all in good fun, of course.
When Elsie Janis was playing in Los Angeles recently, she kept the colony richly entertained at numerous parties with her marvelous impersonations. Miss Janis is an artist par excellence in this particular, and when, one evening at a private gatherEven picture puzzles have been resurrected. Marie Prevost is one of the most ardent of the < puzzle fiends.
ing, she repeated the priceless imitation of John Barrymore in "Hamlet" and "Richard III." that was one of the high spots of her vaudeville act, and threw in "The Sea Beast" for good measure, all of the four-karat diamonds and slave bracelets in Hollywood were laid at her feet. The only impersonation she fell down on was one of Lon Chaney, and that was due to lack of cooperation from the puttyand-wig department of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer studio.
Three minute speeches are another penalty for meals at Miss Davies' home. And any one who thinks he is abundantly blessed with bright small talk, native wit and intelligence, has only to be called upon without notice and instructed to give a threeminute speech on some word — "autocracy," for instance, or "radio" or "neuritis" or "art" or "evangelism" — to realize that he isn't so smart as he thought he was. More bright people than one have nearly come to grief on these unexpected threeminute speeches and have had to think quick to save the honor of the family.
Syd Franklin, the director, and his charming wife know as many concentration games as King Vidor Continued on page 92