Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1927)

48 Over the Teacups bitious enough to do setting-up or thinning-down exercises without some one present to bully them into it. "Hugh Anderson, who runs the place, used to be in one of those bronze-statue tableaux in vaudeville, and keeps himself in such perfect physical trim that when he sneers at your extra pounds you are apt to take him seriously. "By the way, some company has bought the screen rights to 'Ladies' Night,' the epic drama of Turkish baths. I suppose when it is produced it will show languid beauties lolling about marble pools — nothing like the plain little businesslike establishment where we line up in bathing suits and do stretching exercises until every muscle aches. "Oh, I didn't tell you how I finally met Virginia Brown Faire. I went out to the old Vitagraph studio one night and met her when she was making scenes for 'White Flannels.' But she was working so continuously that every time we started to talk she would be called I knew, though, as soon as I heard was going to like her a lot. She 'Well-here-we-are-all-fools-together' back onto the set. her laugh, that I has one of those laughs. "It was so bitter cold out there that Virginia had to drink ice water before every scene. That lowers your temperature, you know, and there is less likelihood of a frosty breath showing on the screen. "By eleven o'clock, when Photo by Hommel Evelyn Brent's return to Hollywood was a triumph because of her recent success in "Love 'Em and Leave 'Em." know, but they never quite get around to casting her in a picture. And the foolish girl wants to go to work. She says that the closest she has been to a camera in months was to wander out on the 'Camille' set and watch Norma Talmadge work. "Estelle should be content for a while, at least, for rarely has any one had such a chorus of praise as she got for her performance in 'New York.' Almost every one panned the picture, but thought Estelle was great." Montmartre luncheons were invented for just such garrulous people as Fanny. The waiters never ask what you want — they just drift up with tray after tray of foods hot and cold, and automatically you take whatever they offer, without having to stop talking. The proprietor of Montmartre must be in league with the new Hollywood Turkish baths. He makes people put on weight, and then they have to go to the baths to take it off. "If Virginia Brown Faire hadn't gone off and married Jack Daugherty in such a hurry, I had a swell idea for a bath-towel shower for her," Fanny announced with some resentment. "I wanted to charter the Hollywood Baths for the evening, and give the party there. Virginia would have felt right at home — she's a regular patron. Loads of people are, for few people are am night Gertrude Olmsted is contributing her dignified charm to "Becky," a picture exploiting Sally O'Neil's hoydenish capers. she had finished, she was half frozen, so Lloyd Bacon, the director, took her, Jason Robards, Warner Richmond, and myself to Hollywood's version of a club — a delicatessen for some hot coffee. Mr. Bacon started telling us funny stories of his stock-company days with his father — and who cared then about having to be at work again early in the morning ? "Virginia's romantic marriage — she had known Jack Daugherty only about two weeks, you know — came right on the heels of Jobyna Ralston's marriage to Dick Arlen. Jobyna's wedding present from Famous Players was the chance to play with Dick in 'Wings,' and his was a new contract for a term of years. "They are the cunningest-looking pair at the studio — dressed almost exactly alike in their ridinsr breeches, wandering around the place with arms around each other, quite oblivious to the rest of the world." Fanny stopped talking for a moment and seemed to be thinking. She probably wasn't, but sometimes she gives that impression. "You know, I'm not homesick for New York," she insisted, "but I am mildly curious to know if the new Paramount Theater is as terrible as every one says it is. Returning visitors insist that no woman could feel at home in it unless she was wearing at least three diamond tiaras and a scarlet velvet dress studded with