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for January 1930
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the Stars
is Just as Important Almost as Serious
Ludlam
Julia Faye's playroom is a garden. When Julia entertains a floor is laid to cover the lawn, an orchestra occupies the pergola, and a very good time is had by all!
and runners attached to the walls, so one can conv fortably sit on the floor propped with cushions. There are little cactus plants all along the railings and when there are goings-on in the evening the place is flooded with the soft light shed by votive candles.
Bessie said the first thing she did when she and her mother moved in was to give a party. "There wasn't a stick of furniture in the house except a piano and two little iron beds, which eventually found their way to the maids' rooms. Not a chair — not a dresser — nothing! I didn't tell the girls I hadn't any furniture because I knew if I did they wouldn't dress. And I hate not to have the girls dressed formally. I don't mind the men coming in flannels and business suits, but I do like to see the girls dressed up at a party.
"Eddie Brandstatter catered for me and when he arrived to look the place over and see what had to be done, his expression was about the funniest thing I ever saw in my life. But he did a swell job. He fixed a very low table which ran the whole length of the porch and then he got all the pillows he could lay his hands on in the whole city of Los Angeles and stacked them all over the floor of the porch and living rooms. There were hundreds of
Bessie Love's porch, overlooking the Hollywood hills, is her unique recreation room.
them. I love them, anyway. Much more comfortable than chairs. 'Bigger and better pillows' has been my motto ever since."
Julia Faye pays all her social debts in the summer time because her playroom is a garden. In the winter she can have seven or eight guests for. dinner, but no big parties, for her dining-room table only holds ten. The garden is walled in and lined with conventional flower borders for which her mother does most of the planting herself. At one end is a barbecue from which the dinners are always served. Under a pergola there is a place for musicians and there are four sections of flooring which are laid down covering the whole lawn for dancing. Julia has two young cousins whom she declares got far more (Continued on page 104)
Corinne Griffith in her 'whoopee' room, perhaps the most elaborate playroom in all Hollywood. It is furnished in contemporary art.