Screenland (May-Oct 1930)

for June 1930 129 arising on the horizon!" exclaimed Patsy. "She is Judith Barrie, who did so nicely in 'Party Girl,' and who is going to be starred by the Halperins for Inspiration Pictures." "Well, I'm pleased to hear it," I answered, "but, after all, what has that to do with us?" "We're invited to a nice party given for her tonight by the Halperins, this being her birthday, and she being just twentyone." Victor Halperin dwells in a picturesque Spanish house in a fashionable part of Los Angeles, and it was there the festivities were to occur. Judith is a lovely blonde with a lot of personality, and with ways that win you completely, and she greeted us so sweetly that we instantly decided that, so far as we were concerned, she was a star already. Harry Langdon and his beautiful wife were there, and Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Elmer Harris, the playwright, and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Schertv inger, and many others. Harry Langdon is always a tremendous lot of fun at a party. It isn't only that he does amusing stunts, like singing and doing his funny ventriloquial act, but he has a line of quaint humor that is like nobody else's. "Most comedians in real life are inclined to be so dead serious or so high-brow," commented Joan Crawford, "but Harry's humor just bubbles." Harry told us about the studio buying some pigs for a picture, and how they had to buy more before the picture was finished because the pigs grew so fast. "That worried one official terribly," related Harry, "so that he bought up one of the big pigs, thinking he could rent him for a picture. But he didn't have any luck, so it got so that after a while every story we'd write he'd come and listen to it, and exclaim, every once in a while, 'Oh, there's a fine spot for a pig!' " Mrs. Langdon was a widow with twol little daughters when Harry married her recently, and she told us that her children simply adored Harry — that his home-coming at night was always the signal for a romp. "Are you ever serious?" we asked him. "Oh, yeah, and dignified, too, when I'm alone. But if I try to be dignified before people, I always fall over a chair or something," he explained with a grin. Dinner was served at little square tables, set in the drawing room, and we had a lot of chance to chat quietly with pretty Judith. We find that she is a very cultured young person, a musician and acquainted with languages, so that it looks as though she has a bright future. We played a game while we ate. For on our tables were little fortune-telling dolls in the shape of gypsy women with wide skirts, the skirts being made up of printed leaves on which answers to questions were printed. You read the questions from little slips, and then turned the doll around to your astrological birth-sign, which was printed on the paste-board pedestal, and read the answers to them. Mrs. Wyatt Brewster, one of the guests, is Victor Schertzinger's sister, and looks exactly like him, by the way. She plays the harp beautifully, and when dinner was over, she obligingly played the instrument, which had been trundled over that afternoon. Harry Langdon sang some amusing songs, among them a weird burlesque comic one called "Murder," after which he did a funny ventriloquial stunt, using one of Victor's child's dolls, as he hadn't his celebrated dummy, 'Mike,' with him. He told us about kidding with his ventriloquism in a hotel — how he had left his door open for the benefit of the Irish chambermaid who was working across the hall, pretending he was kissing a girl and she was trying to get away. "But the joke was on me," said Harry, "since she called the house detective, who insisted on searching my room!" Mr. and Mrs. Halperin proved ideal hosts, and we spent a most delightful evening. "Ona Brown is giving Doris Arbuckle, Roscoe's divorced wife, a birthday party," Patsy told me, "and just everybody will be there. It's to be tomorrow night, so don't forget to do your hair in curl papers tonight!" The party was held in the private suite at the Roosevelt, in Hollywood, and special maids and waiters had been engaged for the occasion. Ona greeted us, looking pretty in a green evening gown, made long, with a swirling skirt, and Doris herself was prettier than ever in a white beaded silk gown. Al Hall had been her escort. In fact, Al seems to be her favored admirer these days. Al was in the throes of being assistant host, and Doris said: "He's working so hard that I almost cry every time I look at him!" Kathryn Crawford was there with her fiance, Wesley Ruggles, and we asked Kathryn about her long lost mamma, re* cently found. "Oh, I'm trying to make mamma go Hollywood and accept invitations out to parties," said Kathryn, "but she likes to stay at home." Crushes of guests arrived, including Norman Kerry, Skeets Gallagher and his wife, Frank Mayo and his wife, Margaret; Sally Eilers, who, of course, came with Hoot Gibson; Sally Blane, whose escort I did not see; Harvey Barnes, Tom and Mrs. Miranda, William Haines, Roger Davis, Priscilla Dean and Lieut. Leslie Arnold, Charles and Hazel Dorian; Felix Hughes and his wife, Ruth Stonehouse; Natalie Kingston and her husband, George Andersch, the banker; Loris and Finis Fox, and a score of others. Buster Collier brought Marie Prevost. "You know they are together all the time," whispered Patsy. "I think it's really a case." Nearly all the feminine guests wore gardenias, and presently a gardenia contest was inaugurated. 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