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by Bachrach
Gloria Swanson's voice will be heard in the dialogue sequences of "Queen Kelly."
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as she strugforce herself the crowd at the door of Montmartre.
"Oh, well, you won't see any film people at large until they have read their hook," she went on, settling herself comfortably in a corner from which she could get a good view of the whole restaurant. "Every one is reading Carl Van Vechten's 'Spider Boy,' and then going back to read it over again to see if by any of their friends in
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evening's entertainment I've had in a long time. The author doesn't try to muckrake, or preach, or get unduly critical ; he just shows you film people in all their lovable foolishness. One of the dealers out here told me he had sold more copies of 'Spider Boy' than of any other book."
I knew that sound pictures sooner or later would drive even Fanny to staying home and reading.
"So many things have happened lately," Fanny rattled on, I've hardly had time to think. Do you realize that at last we have the real film aristocracy all mapped out ? Not the aristocracy of talent "
As she paused for breath, I reminded her that that, after all, should be the only one that matters. But she went right on, nevertheless.
" — But the social aristocracy. Prince George of England was here for two days, you know, and from now on the people who weren't invited to meet him will have to be given second place on the social map, if not pushed off altogether."
"Who were they?" I asked, just as though social distinctions meant something in my life.
"Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, of course," Fanny told me. "They were his hosts at dinner. And Charlie Chaplin. The others invited to dine with him were Greta Garbo and Gloria Swanson — and what prince wouldn't take them as his first choice ? — Claire Windsor, Jack Gilbert, Jetta Goudal, and
Lily Damita. The
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Marie Prevost
any chance they can recognize the characters. The trouble is you can recognize practically any one you know in any of the characters, and yet Van Vechten hasn't obviously patterned them after particular individuals. I'll go on record right now as saying the book
gave me the best
ones invited to drop in after dinner were Billie Dove and her husband, Irvin Willat, Lupe Velez, Bessie Love, Mary Astor and Kenneth Hawks, Dorothy Gulliver, Tom Mix, Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg, June Collyer, Ralph Forbes, Ronald Colman, and Walter Byron.
"Of course, Marion Davies w o u 1 d have been invited if she had been in town, but she was busy over in Europe traipsing around and being" decorated by one government and another.
"Late in the evening the prince gathered a favored few around him — it didn't take him long, did it, to learn Hollywood customs? — and went out to the Plantation Cafe, where Roscoe Arbuckle is master of ceremonies. June Collyer and Gloria Swanson were in the party. They also joined the prince next day when he went to visit the Fox studio. "Of course, the whole visit was sfirouded in the strict
is making a Mormon picture in Salt Lake City.