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was said to be engaged to a couple of months ago.)
Undoubtedly Bebe has more accidents than anybody in pictures. The other day, in a fencing scene, she made a lunge then returned to guard so swiftly that the hilt of her rapier caught her eyelid tearing it clean through.
She was out for days waiting for the wound to heal slowly so as not to leave a scar, and the second day after her return she fell off a balcony narrowly escaping broken bones.
Bebe is as vivid off screen as on. She has a quick nervous laugh which begins and ends abruptly, causing you to look at her suddenly to see why she stopped.
At present she is very much interested in Spanish houses. She is building three at the Beach in addition to remodeling a section of a Lasky dressing room building in Spanish style.
At this studio none of the stars are allowed to have bungalows. Consequently Bebe tore off the outer wall of the lower story of a dressing room building and is having a four-room Spanish style suite of rooms fixed at her own expense. When they are completed she plans a wall and a tiny patio in front — that is if the studio will allow her to encroach upon about a foot of sidewalk. And there will be three small cacti planted. It certainly will be a queer looking building with a little Spanish bungalow exterior on the lower floor and the second story of dressing rooms for a roof.
Continuing her hard luck to her architecture, Bebe has discovered that the beach house she planned to occupy herself had a balcony which can not be reached except through a bathroom or by ladder from the patio.
In Bebe's own words: "Isn't that dumb?"
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Patricia Avery, baby star, is a secret bride, has been in fact since April 3, 1926, I discovered this month. Her husband is Ben Pye, art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who is at present in Colorado with Clarence Brown on "The Trail of Ninety Eight."
Their acquaintance began thirteen years ago in grammar school, but was interrupted by another marriage of Patricia's, which most
C( Charles Emmet ~Mac\, whose sudden death bereaved all Hollyvjood, and a scene from his last picture "The Rough Riders". He has gone on the long, long journey.
people in the film colony never knew of either. Pye got Patricia her first job in motion pictures and it was not acting but a stenographic position in the research department at M. G. M.
One day studio officials decided Patricia would be good as an actress, so, after a successful screen test, she was signed on a contract. At present writing, however, she intends to free-lance as soon as this contract is
'When Anna T^ilsson was ■ as\ed if Babe Ruth made a hit in "Babe Comes Home" she said "Hit! Its a triple."
completed.
Patricia, by the way, is related to John D. Rockefeller.
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