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Over the Teacups
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with a barbecue supper spread out under their grotesque light. There was dancing on the terrace and bridge in the hbrary. And all the really nice people you like to see were there. It was perfect.
"Of course, every one had known for ages that Norma and Irving were engaged, so the party was really given in honor of her receiving her engagement ring.
"Incidentally, I suppose you have heard that they don't need to buy any more giant reflectors down at the M.-G.-M. studio since Norma and Dorothy Sebastian got their rings. Dorothy is enengaged to Clarence Brown, as you must know if you read the papers. Though I believe that the accepted rules of etiquette demand that an engagement should not be announced before an intervening divorce is final.
"I love the Metro-Goldwyn lot — there is always so much humor there. Only the other day I was down there, and when I exclaimed over a huge vaultlike set that was under construction, some one told me that it was an annex to the shelves where they keep Ramon Novarro's unreleased pictures !
"Every one must admit that the Metro-Goldwyn company is supremely gracious. When they make bad pictures, they do have the sense to shelve them ■ — that is, most of them. But First National has no shame at all. They go right on releasing one Milton Sills picture after another.
"Colleen Moore gave the loveliest party for Kathryn McGuire the other night," Fanny remarked, apropos of nothing at all. "Kathryn is going to marry George Landy, the publicity director of First National, as soon as she finishes her current picture with Marie Prevost. Harrison Fisher says that she is the most beautiful blonde in Hollywood, and if she is always as radiant as she was the other night, it must be true.
"Colleen had little heart-shaped pictures of George and Kathryn for place cards, and a band of itinerant musician s — slightly off key, I'll admit — stopped outside the door and played the wedding march. But the surprise of the evening v/as a cake that was iced to resemble a Western Union telegram. The message, addressed to Lover's Lane, was to Kathryn from Colleen and her husband, John McCormick, and counseled her that the first fifty years are the hardest !
Patsy Ruth Miller was called upon to milk a cow in "Once and Forever" and came home utterly exhausted. Photo by Nic'kolaa Muray
Photo by Ruth Harriet Loois
Gertrude Olmsted left Metro-Goldwyn to free-lance, but her very first job was back on the old home lot, in "Bringing Up Father. "
"The hard-times party that Billy Sunday, Jr., gave convinced me that players are just like the famous busman on a holiday. Marie Prevost and Phyllis Haver, not content with contriving one elaborate pair of costumes, went home twice during the evening and changed. First they came as bedraggled and wilted 'Floradora'-sextette girls. Their long trailing skirts were a great blow to several of us, for we had wanted to wear short-skirted costumes and hadn't dared because we didn't want to try to compete with Phyllis' legs, and then, she didn't even show them !"'
"Where on earth is Patsy Ruth Miller?" I asked, a little bored, I'll admit, by all this talk of parties.
"Where isn't she !" Fanny answered despairingly. "Never has a free-lance had so little freeContinued on page 108