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SCREENLAND
Above: Irene Bordoni, fresh from "Paris" in Hollywood, comes back to town for the opening of her picture.
Left: Mary and Douglas Fairhanks arrive on their way to Europe with Mary's young niece, G Wynne.
Lower left: Lillian Gish, who comes back to the screen after a long absence in a talking film.
They Come East for a Rest— and All the Rest!
OOH-LA-LA, oui, oui, and other Gallic expressions! Manhattan has gone absolutely Parisian, believe it or not. And just because a tiny, trim little French woman stepped off the train at Grand
Central!
Irene Bordoni is her name. You're right — she should be no novelty to New York; she's been a Broadway star for ever so long. But somehow a flyer in films brings a celebrity nearer and dearer, if you know what I mean. We all feel now that we really know Mile. Bordoni, where' as we were a little in awe of her before. She's really an important star, you see; and somehow one doesn't get so chummy with stars in this town as one does out in Holly wood. ^ Anyway, her sojourn in the film colony making "Paris" has made La Bordoni a movie star, and she is
extremely obliging about posing for publicity pictures, and seeing interviewers, and all. I know, because I was one of the interviewers! Not at all the super-sophisticated lady Pd imagined her, but friendly and vivacious and straightforward, she has a real sense of humor, American brand! She became an American citizen sometime ago, she told me.
"I like Hollywood so much!" she said, her brown eyes dancing. "It is like the South of France, where I was born. I feel at home there, more so than in Paris or New York." What an admission for a French charmer!
Bordoni is very proud of the fact that not only did she learn to swim in the pool on her Beverly Hills estate, but she even taught her two French maids the gentle aquatorial art! She took up tennis, too. She's nicely tanned,