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Popular Girl
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Hollywood
be a social wow with a chaperone hovering in the background. Constance Bennett goes about a great deal with the ultra-sophisticated set. The coldness of the Bennett girls prevents them from receiving any widespread social acclaim. Mary Duncan, Margaret Livingston and Aileen Pringle are popular with the men, but just ask the gals. Joan Crawford has trimmed down her circle until it consists chiefly of one Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Greta Garbo is just a rumor as far as Hollywood society is concerned, and Clara Bow entertains football teams.
No, Mary Brian is the answer to "Who Is the Most Popular Girl In Hollywood?" If she lived in New York, New Orleans or San Francisco she would be the reigning debutante of the season. She's got what it takes.
Mary Brian's popularity is not confined to any one set in the picture colony. It is not even confined to picture people. She says herself that she is a free-lance. Mary is the belle of the Sigma Chi dances on the campus of the University of Southern California. She caused more havoc as guest of honor at the dance given for the Notre Dame football team than the Army and Northwestern elevens combined. She goes to teas and luncheons where only girls are invited. She knows how to award a cup to the best dancing couple, or to the healthiest baby.
Pickfair, the lordly mansion of Doug and Mary, sitting atop its own exclusive hill, is the admitted social stronghold of Hollywood. To be invited there is "arriving" with a flourish into the ranks of the best people, m'deah. Mary has a prominent place near the top of the Pickfair "must" list. She is a frequent guest at Mary Pickford's beach house, and she goes often with the first family of filmdom to the Mayfair dinner dances.
A member of the executive board of Mayfair tells me that Mary goes to those elegant whoopee affairs in more different parties than anybody in Hollywood. Sometimes she is with the Schulbergs, the royal nabob of Paramount's western studios. Sometimes she is with Charles (exBaddy) Rogers. Sometimes she is with Arthur and Florence Lake, William Bakewell, and young Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ince.
Mary's boy friends have been legion. She has been rumored engaged to Charles Rogers, Rudy Vallee, Phil Holmes, "Biff" Hoffman, the Stanford football star, and several others who have slipped my mind. Arthur Lake and Billy Bakewell were noted to be "that way" about Mary, but they were much too young to be taken seriously. Right now Jack Oakie seems to have the inside track. Since he has been stepping out with Mary, he gets all spruced up like old man Hart Schaffner Marx himself. I used to think that all Jack had in his personal wardrobe was a pair of dirty white flannels [Continued on fage 58]
Mary has been engaged a dozen times but right now Jack Oakie, above, seems to be head man. Still Mary goes to openings with JoeMankiewicz, a mere writer, as illustrated in the ermine-andgardenia grouping. In fact, the only time Mary's ever alone is when she's posing for pictures
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