Screenland (May-Oct 1931)

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Patsy wanted to visit the corrals on the way back, and we saw the horses being loaded into trucks for their trip home, having earned their ride. We expected the cowboys and girls to be all worn out, but instead they were kidding among themselves, twirling ropes, and chatting vivaciously over the rodeo matters. We talked a moment to the woman who was running the hot-dog and sandwich concessions, too, and found that she follows rodeos all over the country ! Then we drove over to the ranch house. And what a delightfully picturesque place it is ! Built in the old Spanish mission style, it has broad verandahs surrounding it, amidst its old-fashioned gardens and its lawns. Its guest suites, we found, when we went in to remove our wraps, all face a patio, and are simply but most comfortably furnished, as becomes a ranch house. The cool of its verandah was most welcome after the heat of the bleachers, and there a lot of us gathered to have a chat before supper, which was to be served in the huge living room. Hoot and Sally live there all the year round, coming and going to their work, no matter how far the distance may be, for they love this home of theirs. "I suppose," remarked Sue Carol, "that if we really could bring back those old Spanish days in California, we should be terribly disappointed. There wouldn't be any proper plumbing, we'd have to ride in those terrible old carretas with the wooden wheels, that would certainly jolt the life out of us modern girls, athletic though we imagine ourselves to be, or else get ourselves all dusty riding horseback for miles, and the cooking would give us indigestion. No, I'm sure I prefer this imitation Spanish life." Sue was looking cute as paint in a white knitted sport suit with a white beret to match. She was telling us, too, about losing that thirty-five thousand dollars' worth of jewelry which was stolen from her and Nick in Chicago, and right from under the shadow of the police station, too. "But Nick and I got one thing out of it," said Sue. "We went over to see the prisoners, among whom were the two girl bandits who had made their victims take off their trousers after they had robbed them so that they couldn't run away. They were awfully cute girls, and I think Nick liked them !" George Lewis, who has gone completely Spanish, now that he is playing in Spanish versions, was there with his pretty wife, and others were Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Lehr, Clark Gable, Marie Prevost, who has grown very chubby, and who was wearing khaki riding breeches ; Howard Hawks, Micky Neilan, Eddie Sutherland, Alan Crosland and his wife, Natalie Moorhead; Wesley Ruggles, Alyce Mills, and many others. Ed Hillman, Marian Nixon's husband, had flown down to the rodeo, we learned, but Marian had not flown with him, but had arrived discreetly, at the conservative speed of sixty miles an hour, in her roadster ! Skeets Gallagher and his wife were among the guests, and Mrs. Gallagher said the baby was growing beautifully, spending a lot of time out-of-doors arrayed in little except a smile. When supper was announced, we all went inside, and Sue brought us a plate, the supper being a buffet affair where you buttled for yourself. "I've brought you," Sue said, glancing with comic ruefulness at the very full plate, "all the things I'd like to eat myself, but cannot account of fearing the ruinous fat." Sally had rushed in, when she reached home from the rodeo, to wash her face, powder her nose, and change to some very cute blue-flowered silk pajamas; but just before dinner she disappeared again and came back dressed in a suit of rose-colored pajamas, with wide sleeves and trousers, and most becoming. Sally's father and mother were among the guests, Sally's dad being just seventy years old that day. Over at the Gleason table, where were Lew Cody, Natalie Moorhead, Alan Crosland and others, they were kiddingly offering prizes for whoever could eat the most. "But we're stopping now, and concentrating on Lew Cody. We know he'll win anyway," laughed Mrs. Gleason. Mrs. Gleason said she herself was worn out — that she had been personally riding in every race and doing every stunt, right along with the rodeo performers — in her mind, of course — and that she was completely tired out. "It's very hard," she grinned, "that bucking contest, on a middle-aged lady's liver and heart !" "Altogether a great day !" exclaimed Patsy, as we took our leave. "I find that string quartettes," remarked Patsy, "are something that you either like very much or don't like at all. No one ever seems to be neutral about them. Now as for me, I like any kind of string quartette, whether it's good or not. And I'm sure one which Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett is to have at her party will be the best possible in that line." We went with Jose Crespo over to the Tibbett home that evening, where, although we weren't to have the pleasure of seeing Lawrence Tibbett, since he was absent on a concert tour;, we were to be Mrs. Tibbett's guests. And certainly it was a wonderful quartette— the London String Quartette, and really and truly from London, too, as one could readily tell when its members stopped being musicians and became guests and talked with us. It was performing when we came in, and we had to tiptoe around behind the enraptured guests to find seats in the semicircle which was gathered in the big living room. And what a wonderful hostess Grace Tibbett is ! She has that amazing vitality, that quick warmth and cordiality, which make her able to radiate welcome and kindly friendliness to all her guests at once. When the program was over, we drew together in little groups. Fay Wray declared herself charmed with the Brahms numbers. "Yes, he always seems to mean something without being too awfully serious about it," Kathlvn Williams declared. Miss Williams only lately returned from Europe, but is going traveling again very soon. When you write to advertisers please mention SCREENLAND.