Screenland (Nov 1930-Apr 1931)

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On seeing her at a party, Mabel would assume an expression of mock exasperation and say "There is that bum again!" Then, seating herself next to Ella, they would exchange confidences and soon Ella would be holding her sides with laughter. During Mabel's long illness, Ella's cheery notes, telegrams and telephone calls brightened the weary hours with current news from the Hollywood front. Sunday often finds Ella at Jimmie Cruze's home at Flintridge. She knows and loves every inch of Jimmie's seventeenacre garden which is separated from the house by a high and forbidding wall, but Ella, wheel chair and all, goes blithly over to revel among the flowers that grow under the huge oak trees. I have seen Mary Pickford stand by Ella's wheel chair for an hour, telling her of Lottie's little girl, of her school days in Switzerland, and discussing many of Mary's pet charities, for little Ella is a member of the Film Welfare League, one of the many splendid charities of the motion picture colony, and Mary Pickford is a very staunch admirer of this league. Many who do not know Jim Tully intimately, think of him as 'that caustic exprize fighting hobo,' but Ella knows his big amiable Irish heart and is a great admirer of his literary achievements. One would never expect to see him at a modest little party given by some of the Studio Club girls, but' Ella had asked him and he had left an important conference to attend. Turning to her he said, "If it had been one of those affairs given by the big bugs out here, I'd have stuck to my job, but when little Ella asks me to do something, I do it for love of her — she's regular, and so is her gang !" No story about Ella and Bill would be complete without some reference to 'Essie,' for she is also quite a Hollywood character; and rarely does one see Ella or Bill without asking, usually with humorous apprehension, "And how is Essie?" And if you should chance to pass a picture star's house and see the long line of cars in front that invariably indicates a party within, and if among the Rolls-Royces and Cords you should see an Essex coach of the remote year of 1922, you may know that Ella and Bill are among those present, and appreciate the apprehensive query, "And how is Essie?" A total collapse has often been predicted for Essie, and great is the mystery that surrounds her longevity, but in spite of her occasional systems of minor ills that all ladies seem heir to, Essie continues, giving her all, and proudly transporting her precious charge anywhere from Palm Springs to Agua Caliente. Perhaps even Essie, a mechanical robot of cold steel and iron, has been infused with the genial fortitude of her owners. In these days of pictures with sound and musical scores, almost every event suggests incidental music, and for a trip down the Boulevard with Ella and Bill, I would indicate Puccini's One Fine Day. That gay bit of "La Boheme" is apropos of the little jaunt with its occasional pauses to exchange greetings and bits of Hollywood news. Invariably there is some shopping to be done, for Ella delights in making her own clothes. When they cross the Boulevard, Bill nonchalantly rolling Ella's chair in front of the non-stop drivers of filmland, traffic ceases. Those who know them shout a greetng and the others wonder who this beautiful girl can be. The other day, I was in a car and traffic came to a standstill and there was Jeanette MacDonald wheeling Ella across Vine Street, both of them juggling ice cream cones. I screamed at them, and they waved their ice cream cones gaily. Later Ella told me that "Jeanette knows the technique of ice cream cones better than anyone I've ever met !" Ella's many hours in bed are not idle ones. Within reach is a cabinet that contains everything from her sewing material to all the data of Bill's publicity business. The telephone rings incessantly. Often it is a friend who wants to visit via the telephone. Another time it is a magazine writer approaching a dead line and seeking further gossip for her article or wanting to know what Norma Shearer wore at the last Mayfair. Then it is a society editor asking for an account of a party and the guest list, or one of Bill's clients calling to tell Ella about a new contract that has just been signed. The Duncan sisters adore Ella and her gay laughter has often played an obligato to their rollicking artistry. Before the news boys were shouting the headlines that so blatantly announced to the world that Rex Lease's admiration had passed out of bounds, Ella had heard about it and was on her way to the hospital, her sparklingbrown eyes shadowed with grave apprehension. And thus it goes : unable to walk, but nevertheless going everywhere. Her indomitable courage and avid desire for life brought her through a siege of terrific surgical experiences (for Ella had been a dancer, an expert horse-back rider, and an all-round athlete.) When the doctors said she might never walk again, her alert mind cast about for something to compensate her for her great loss. In Hollywood she had found it, and Hollywood, in turn, has found her. In a letter to me she wrote : "From what has been said and written about Hollywood, one would think that all motion pictures people were psychopathic. But if delusions of grandeur cause them to be graciously elegant ; if emotional instability makes them delightfully entertaining, and if their quick compassion is born of infantilism, then I think it folly to be sane." Ella's comments on Hollywood are profound and her little blonde head is filled with delightful anecdotes about its playboys and girls. Perhaps someday she will write her version of it as she has seen it from her wheel chair. And be it said to the credit of heartless Hollywood that Ella and Bill Wickersham are held close to that heart which may be hard to find, but when one finds it, that heart is warm, thrilling and loyal.