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Riding the Manhattan MerryCo-Round with some of our favorite stars
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O HENRY called it "Bagdad on the Subway." And right now # New York might be just a subway ride from California, so numerous are the Hollywoodians seen here, there and everywhere in Manhattan these mid-winter days.
It seemed a bit strange that the star who appeared most definitely "at home" during the holiday season was the only one of the many in town whose next stop was not a return to Hollywood, but a journey overseas, to London ; and whose natal city is located in Southern Texas ; which, even as the planes fly, is a long ride from New York.
But then, Helen Vinson was celebrating the first Christmas she's had with her parents in four long years; and over there in London she was to rejoin her groom, Fred Perry, who had to be off to the tennis wars in Australia only a few weeks after their marriage last fall. And, furthermore, Helen's next, and her first costarring picture was to be filmed at a studio just outside London town.
All of which adds up to make a pretty nice situation for kindling that glow of cozy content which is generally supposed to be a sure sign you're really "at home."
With a minimum of fuss, and a maximum of graciousness, Helen Vinson made, and kept with notable promptness, an appointment with your correspondent. The meeting place, a cocktail salon, (it would be libel and nothing less to call it a room), in one of Fifth Avenue's very nice hotels. Incidentally if you want to feel like you're in the movies, ask me about this place some time.
You can go up there, put your feet under one of their doubledamask covered tables, and feel precisely like you're anything from a "sit in" to a star in one of those lavish sets they use to give the films what the trade calls "production value."
In that symphony of gold-plated elegance, the one untheatrical note, so far as these eyes could de
By Tom Kennedy
Helen Vinson, the international bride, tarried in town before sailing to join hubby Fred Perry and make a new film in London. Left, Helen in "The King of the Damned," her latest English film with Conrad Veidt.