Screenland (May-Oct 1930)

for August 19 30 129 HOLLYWOOD GOES PLACES — Continued from page 63 state unhesitatingly that it was Palm Can' yon!" exclaimed Patsy, as we stood on the edge of it and looked down into its cool depths where a lovely stream flowed under immensely tall palm trees, whose existence there nobody can explain. Fritzi Ridgeway is a very clever young actress who is dividing her time between film acting and running a hotel in Palm Springs, and she was giving a big house party over the week-end. Gwen Lee was there, and Dorothy Jams, Scott Kolk, Rosetta and Vivian Duncan, John Darrow, Doris Lloyd, Sammy Blum, Simeon Gest and his wife, Marie Bekefi, the dancer: Victor McLaglen and his wife: Nita Martan, Elise Bartlett, Sally Blane, Milton Brown, of Columbia Pictures, and others. Rosetta Duncan must have a bottle of pop in that heavenly place, and we bought it from the dealer in a little shop that sells post-cards, soft drinks, etc. Fritzi told us that there used to be a funny little shack there kept by a nature man, who wore long hair but little else, and who bathed in the hot spring in the rocks back of his cabin. He had been a beach comber in Honolulu, and from the Hawaiian Islands he had brought a lot of odd musical wind instruments, which he set in the trees, and which gave forth weird music when the wind blew, so that it could be heard away down at Palm Springs when the breezes were in the right direction. He also had a lot of signs posted up about the place, exhorting the reader 'Don't hurt any of the wild animals or birds here; they never hurt you.' A kindly and an absorbingly interesting figure he was; but since he refused to wear clothes, the local Chamber of Commerce felt that the tourists mustn't be shocked, so they drove him away into the mountains. After exploring the canyon, or at least as much of it as we had time for, we drove back to the Del Tahquitz Hotel, where Fritzi's quite famous husband, the musician, Constantine Bakaleinikoff, was waiting to greet us and to conduct us into the dining room for dinner. In the patio, a group of cowboys from the nearby dude ranch, all clad in picturesque cowboy outfits, were playing on banjos and guitars, and the most talented of their number, Bob Cheatum, came into the dining room to play his guitar and sing those weirdly comic cowboy songs which are like nothing else in the world. Cheatum is the son of a Virginian Senator, but prefers the wild life of a cowboy to that of politics or business. Rosetta Duncan's place at table had been vacant, but she presently dashed in, of course, to kid and clown about. She was wearing that funny false black mustache of hers, and she and Vivian set the party off to a high note of hilarity. Moonlight horseback riding was the order for the evening, the party to ride up to Del Tahquitz Canyon, where there were to be a weiner roast and bonfire, and there Rosetta and Vivian and Bob Cheatum entertained us with songs and stories and their own inimitable kidding. Next morning down in the hot springs shack, which is run by the Indians, we found Gwen Lee and Dorothy Janis taking the mud baths. They were squealing a bit, since the mud has a quicksand quality, and you go down and down. But invariably the spring boils and tosses you up again. "Like the man who couldn't see the forest for the trees, we just can't see the guests for the party!" exclaimed John Davidson. John had taken Patsy and me to the Biltmore, where Edith Mayer, Louis B. Mayer's daughter, was being married to that extremely good-looking young man, William Goetz, and we found the huge drawing room outside the ballroom already crowded with guests although we were early. "Well, I should think," remarked Patsy, "that when people like Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin and Doug Fairbanks are present, you'd be able to see 'em!" John admitted his error like a gentleman, and we trouped into our seats, which were luckily near the altar. The drawing room had been fitted up like a temple of worship, with a high altar where the wedding was to take place, and decorated with long ropes and huge bouquets of blossoms. Crowds fllocked outside the door, in Peacock Alley of the hotel, and when a new star arrived, they cheered. All the same, the fuss and excitement could not detract from the simple beauty and dignity of the Hebrew service. "It sounds," said Patsy, "just as though your father and mother were talking to you!" The bride looked lovely in her white satin gown, and she carried the most gorgeous bouquet of white orchids we had ever beheld. "And the bridesmaids are a procession of rare beauty," John Davidson remarked, in rather an awe-stricken tone, even used as he was to Hollywood beauty. There were Bessie Love, Corinne Griffith, Irene Mayer, Carmel Myers, Katherine Bennett, May McAvoy, and Marion Davies. Louis B. Mayer gave the bride away, and we heard somebody say that he hadn't found that slow step down to the altar at all easy, used as he is to dashing busily about. Joseph Schenck was with wife, Norma Talmadge, and seemed as attentive and devoted as he has ever been, despite rumors that there has been a rift in their marital happiness. We know, at any rate, that there is a deep respect and a real affection between the two, no matter what superficial break there may have been. We circulated a while after the ceremony, saying hello to scores of people we knew. 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