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Harold Lloyd had brought his wife, Mildred David Lloyd, and Mildred had a lot guests of a big party meet first, powder their noses in the little Chinese dressing rooms— I mean the girls do — and have tea of fun dancing' but Harold sWocf about or ginger ale as they greet each other. talking, or sat in his place at table. It was Bilhe Dove who was giving the Pauline Starke was there with Jack party, her own home not being big enough White, her husband, and she said she was to accommodate the crowds she had in enjoying furnishing her Beverly Hills home; vited, and presently the first arrivals had Pauline Garon had come with Paul Duncan, to move on to the pavilion so that late and Ruth Roland was there with Ben Bard, comers could find room. From those two last we received a real Billie was looking exquisitely lovely, as surprise, usual. She wore a white dress adorned "Because you know," whispered Patsy, with sequins, and her hair ornament was "when people have been engaged so long, a long spray of brilliants, which caught up somehow you never really expect them to her^ growing hair at the nape of her neck, get married." "Oh, there is Sharon Lynn! She's with The surprise was in the form of little Paul Page, as usual," remarked Patsy. "I paper hearts, handed us, and announcing hear that Paul is very serious over Sharon, that Ben and Ruth would be married on but that she isn't serious at all herself. But Valentine's Day. A tiny girl dressed as then, you never can tell about Sharon. I'm Cupid passed the announcements, just sure that she will marry somebody that Various artists present entertained us she has^ been engaged to about fifteen with songs, between the da nces, including minutes. Ruth herself who sang beautifully for us, Lovely little Lya de Putti entertained a and Nita Martan, who is a composer as circle of men, as usual, but was a little well as a singer. trist, because she has an accent and there I forgot to say that Billie had tried her fore feels that she cannot be in talking pic best to be cosmopolitan and sophisticated tures by assigning us different dinner partners Billie and Irvin Willat, Billie's husband, from those we came with. But I suppose had brought a big crowd of guests with we are quite hopeless, because we found them, including Tom Mix, Mary McAllister all the couples who had arrived together and others. surreptitiously seeking each other out. Bebe Daniels came with Ben Lyon, to We left very late, and as we passed out whom she is engaged, and she had just of the big gate, we found Pauline Garon got her ring then, so everybody was crowd picking up a perfectly darling little black ing about her, and Bebe was smiling and kitten without any tail. Pauline is the blushing. warmest-hearted little lady in the world. Rod LaRocque was there with Vilma "Oh, won't you take it home?" she enBanky, and there were dozens of others, treated Patsy. "You know I've got two so that Patsy exclaimed when we entered dogs and they simply can't abide cats!" the pavilion— . Just as we were trying to think what to My gracious! You ve just got to have do> out of a side door t0 the Breakfast a spy-glass to see this whole party! c,ub dashed a colored CQok in a high The table favors were little wooden whit£ turban 1]ke those cooks always wear horses with figures riding them, because you see the Breakfast Club really is a riding club, with the members dropping in for breakfast after a canter. "Dat's a manx cat!" he exclaimed. "And what you doing with him, missy?" he inquired in agitation. "We sets great sto' by dat cat, we does!" and without more ado Victor Varcom said that the horses he grabbed it from paullne-s arms and looked scared— Like a foreign actor trying dashed back intQ his kltchen , ne,Iau,ghTe,d' , „ "So you would be a philanthropist!" we What do you think I rri doing now? grinned at pauline. demanded Charlie Paddock, the young at^!^f' a "Well, we simply must see this thing Oh, teaching the Arabian desert dwellers through." observed Patsy. "Here are our how to ski, I suppose, drawled Grant invitations to Ruth's wedding, and we Withers, who had just come m with Claire mustn-t miss it. It is going to take place W indsor on his arm. m the Gojd Room at the Beverly Wilshire "Wrong!" exclaimed the explosive and Hotel." energetic Charlie. "I'm writing a book on We were there on the dot at eight physical culture. It was ordered!" o'clock, and found the ushers looking just "I'm trying to look surprised!" remarked too handsome in their evening clothes, Claire. "But somehow it really doesn't standing about on one foot, wondering, seem so astonishing to me that an athlete after the manner of ushers at all weddings, should write a book on physical culture, why they were kept waiting. They included I thought you were going to say a poem." Connie Keefe, Buddy Rogers, Jack White, Charlie had arrived with Shirley Dor Lloyd Hughes, James Hall, and Hal Roach, man, to whom he is said to be rather Over a hundred guests were there, and devoted these days. we caught sight of William Haines, who Lila Lee was there with Johnny Farrow, brought Eleanor Boardman, since King the writer, and there were Jackie Saunders, Vidor, her husband, was working; Rosaformer cinema star, and her husband, J. belle Laemmle Bergerman and her husband; Ward Cohen; Robert Vignola, Mr. and Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon; Victor Flem