Screenland (Nov 1931-Mar 1932)

for December 1931 What — A Silver Wedding Party in Hollywood? Continued from page 85 127 Mrs. Gleason and their son, Russell. Back in the garden, we discovered Russell in his bathing suit. He said it was his reception suit. He had been swimming, and his method was to greet guests and then persuade them to don bathing suits and hop into the pool with him. He said that he was amphibious, and would even eat his meals in the pool if he could persuade the butler to bring them to him. "And anyhow," he said, "ma objects to crumbs in the pool. She's fussy that way — is afraid that maybe fish will get in and trip up the swimmers." We told Russell he would catch pneumonia, and Mary Brian said that if he did she would nurse him, he had been so nice to all his guests. "Then I've practically got it right now," said Russell. Mrs. Purnell Pratt came in just then, and showed us her gift — a silver vessel completely filled with silver dollars ! That made us pause again beside the gifts, and we found that Gloria Swanson had sent an antique silver sugar shaker and cream pitcher; Mr. and Mrs. Willard Mack had bestowed silver after-dinner coffee cups ; Dorothy Lee a silver vase ; Anna Q. Nilsson a picture frame of Swedish silver and workmanship; Ann Harding and Harry Bannister, an antique silver syrup jug; Mr. and Mrs. William Beaudine, sandwich tray of rare old china with silver trim; Charlotte Greenwood, cigarette box of silver and twenty-five silver dollars inside; Una Merkel, mayonnaise dish; Johnny Mack Brown, individual nut dishes ; William Bakewell, antique silver clock. But I'll fill all my space with descriptions of gifts, if I don't look out. And then there were the flowers ! "Too many for anything but a highclass funeral," murmured Joe E. Brown. The flowers were from June Collyer and Stuart Erwin, Robert Z. Leonard and Gertrude Olmstead, Hoot Gibson and Sally Eilers, Lew Ayres and others. Some of the telegrams were very amusing, too, including one from Mr. and Mrs. Earl Boothe, of New York, who wired: "Don't be satisfied with silver, for there's gold in them thar hills ;" while Harry Richman telegraphed, "Sore because I can't be with you, but my heart's every wish and my best love belong to you." The Pat O'Brien's message was "Can offer you twenty-five more years over the same route. You're a cinch. Proud to know you." John Medbury sent word, "Nice work, folks. Most couples miss the silver wedding anniversary by about twenty-four years." Mr. and Mrs. Irving Cummings wired, "After this short trial, we sincerely hope your marriage will prove to be a huge success." Jimmy Gleason had a few more lip-stick marks on his countenance when we saw him next, and Marguerite Churchill chided him. "Well, can you blame the girls?" Jimmy inquired comically. We met Irene Rich, who was wearing an Empress Eugenie hat at exactly the right angle, she being one of the few women we've seen to whom that hat is becoming, and who can wear it without making her late majesty do a complete flip-flop in her grave. "Well," confided Irene when we congratulated her, "maybe that hat didn't look so well on the Empress, either. But who is going to tell a queen she hasn't got her hat on straight?" In an easy chair under a tree in the shade we caught sight of Marie Dressier. She said it was the first time she had been out since her illness. Quite surprisingly she looks much better than she did before her operation. Among the other guests we met were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cawthorn, Joan Marsh, Franklin Pangborn, Zelma O'Neal and Anthony Bushell, May Robson and James Flood, Mr. and Mrs. Monte Blue, Ann Harding, John Mack Brown, Robert Montgomery, Alan Crosland, Natalie Moorhead, Mr. and Mrs. Joe E. Brown, Bill Boyd and Dorothy Sebastian, Kent Douglass, Don Dilloway and Dorothy Jordan, June Collyer and Stuart Erwin, Leo Carrillo, Reginald Denny, Mr. and Mrs. Regis Toomey, Hoot Gibson and Sally Eilers, Louise Dresser and Jack Gardner, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Breese, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Herbert, Marion Nixon and Edward Hillman, Sam Hardy, Mr. and Mrs. Lucien Littlefield, Frances Starr, Kay Hammond, Lois Wilson, Una Merkel, Mae Clarke and Fred Freulich, Cecil Cunningham, and scores of others. An interesting guest was Heather Thatcher, an English musical comedy star, who in London has been playing Marilyn Miller's successes of this country. She was, quite startlingly, wearing a monocle, and was the observed of all observers, and bore it all unflinchingly as becomes an English lady. Louise Fazenda was there too, and Nick Stuart and Sue Carol. We left very late, wishing the Gleasons many happy returns. "Oh, Lupita Tovar has come all the way up from Mexico, where she is working in a picture, to see Paul Kohner before he goes to Europe!" exclaimed Patsy, "and Paul is giving a tea today, with Lupita helping him to receive and entertain." We decided that Lupita and Paul are engaged, and hoped they would make the announcement at the tea, but they didn't. Paul's pretty apartment was full of guests when we arrived, and we had a nice chat with Lupita, who made a personal appearance trip through Mexico before settling down to work in a picture being made in Mexico City. She was, of course, she said, awfully happy to be able to visit her family down there. Her mother, by the way, is Irish, we learned, which surprised us very much, Lupita being so typically Spanish in looks. Helen Chandler was among the guests, with her husband, Cyril Hume. Helen says that she never has a chance to attend parties, so this is a treat. She has been working very hard. Her hands and arms had been badly strained, she declared, in some ship scenes she had been playing in, and she was black and blue from top to toe. She said that if we were good maybe she would show us her black and blue spots, too. She could hardly hold her tea-cup, her wrists were so sore. Her husband said smilingly that she had been spoiled by being the only girl in the two pictures she had just finished, and that she had been waited on altogether too much. "But it is nice being helplessly feminine once in a while," Helen said. "My hair looks awfully bad, too," she went on. "But if you want to see how nice I look when my hair is curled, go and see the in 'The Last Flight!' I haven't had time to have it dolled up since I finished only yesterday on that sea picture." 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