Screenland (May–Oct 1927)

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"Jane Winton just can't get along without an author or two on her beau staff!" cried Patsy, as we glimpsed the radiant Jane coming in on the arm of Charlie Kenyon, her favorite current author. Indeed we found this party quite well graced with authors, since there were also John Colton. author of "Rain." and the very youthful and handsome Poland Banks, who is making a sensation with his scenarios, and who came bringing Grace Gordon, one of the rising young actresses of Hollywood. Jack Dempsey is having a very nice social time these days, going about .with Estelle Taylor, his wife. But his social life is to cease in a few days, since he is to go away to a training camp. They didn't dance very much at the party, either together or with anyone else, but sat in a corner, where they entertained the dozens of people who came over to talk with them. Don Alvarado flirted as only a Spaniard can, flitting from flower to flower. "This looks as though it were going to become a high-brow party!" cried Patsy, as Jan Rubini and Mme. Aldrich came in. Rubini played his violin exquisitely for us, and didn't disdain even to play for the romping Rosetta and Vivian to sing, and of course he played for Mme. Aldrich. Then Mme. Juliet who had come from the Orpheum, did some of her clever imitations for us, Johnny Hines danced his most comical dances, and Herbert Rawlinson warbled some of his funny songs to his ukulele playing. "What a wonderful audience those Duncan Sisters are!" exclaimed Patsy. "They applaud every other artist as though they weren't themselves the cleverest things in the world." Harry Crocker came, but had to go home early, as he was getting up at the shriek of dawn to go to work. Lovely Billie Dove came with her husband, Irvin Willat, and both seemed very gay and most devoted to each other. Even though they were our hosts, we wouldn't let Rosetta and Vivian Duncan off, and they sang a lot of new songs for us. with a Floradora bit, in which Rosetta wore a derby hat and a long-claw hammer coat over her dress with the most comical effect, and Vivian donned a table cloth for a long skirt over a big bustle, the funniest thing they did. Nearly everybody stayed until five o'clock in the morning, and then, as everybody was passing out of the gate, Johnny Hines, who had, by the way, taken May McAvoy home several hours before and returned, seized one of the Chinese lanterns adorning the front verandah, swung it, and cried out, like an old-fashioned watch of the night — ■ "Five o'clock and all is well!" "Well, of course I wouldn't miss one of Victoria Mix's parties for anything in the world!" cried Pat, as we ascended, in our car, the winding road which leads to the Tom Mix mansion on the top of the hill. Mrs Mix was giving a farewell party in honor of that dear, delightful Mrs. Clarence Brown, who is leaving for Paris shortly. We found the party — which, by the way, was a Cat Party, so the men came later — overflowing the house — some in Mrs. Mix's vast, beautiful French boudoir, others in the charming drawing room below, and still others in the big living room, outfitted with 1 Tom Mix's trophies of war and hunting, i where both men and women gather at the Mix parties. Vilma Banky, was lovely in a charming white lace frock. She has never bobbed her hair, by the way, and when we asked her why, she explained: "Oh, I am always finding some director who wants me photographed with the light shining through my locks!" Asked if she enjoyed her stay in Canada, Miss Banky said no, she hadn't — she had gone there for a vacation, to go sleighriding and skating as she did in her native land — and it simply rained and rained all the time, so she couldn't go out of her room in that Vancouver Hotel. We found a group of girls sitting on the floor in the drawing room, among them Florence Vidor, who is looking very well again after her illness. She said that she had really "enjoyed poor health," since she had received a glorious lot of attention in the hospital; and as she simply couldn't work if she wanted to, she had had a good rest. "Helen Chadwick ought to be working in the pictures these days, surely," confided Pat, "She is looking so very young and so pretty." Naturally a lot of directors' and stars' wives were present to greet Mrs. Brown, including Mrs. Monte Blue, Mrs. Mary Carew, Mrs. Victor Schertzinger, Mrs. Douglas MacLean, Mrs. Chester Franklin, and others. Later their famous husbands arrived. We all adjourned to the big dining room C[ Ann Ror\ and her carried pin which according to the latest Hollywood fad replaces the flower.