Silver Screen (May-Oct 1939)

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There was telephone service and a telephone connection at the Bel Air Country Club, where they allowed us to park 125 cars. We were prepared for 600 guests; 850 or more came. We managed to take care of all of them but it took a bit of ingenuity. The party lasted until 6 a.m. but it was 8:30 before I went to bed. I had to wait for all the money to be checked and turned over to me. As I sat waiting in the gray dawn, a private patrolman who had been on duty for the party entertained me by reciting poetry. When I asked him how he could remember such long poems at that time of morning, he answered that I had inspired him. And when he deposited me on my doorstep with the money bags, he gallantly kissed my hand and thanked me for the most thrilling and beautiful evening of his life. That compliment meant more to me than all the other compliments I received from the celebrities who were my guests. "The following week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we worked checking money, reservations, bills, etcetera. Even on my Wedding Anniversary, I worked until nine o'clock at night, and arrived in the dining room only in time to have a toast drunk to our happiness at the end of dinner. The receipts for the party were over $11,000 with a profit of $5,270 for the Guild." Frankly I was astonished and amazed at the amount of work which went into that party, but the results of that magnificent evening must have been very gratifying to Mrs. Rathbone, and more than repaid her for her tireless efforts in making it an outstanding success. But the thing that amazed me more than anything else about the party was the fact that almost every man in the room wore tails and a white tie. When I mentioned this to Mrs. Rathbone, she smiled, as she answered, "I am afraid I am almost military in my social life. I want men and women to dress when they come to my parties. Many people don't see any reason why a man should put on evening dress just to dine with his wife. To me it is the greatest compliment he can pay her. "One should insist upon beauty, formality and discipline in one's life. Order is the most important thing of all. If you are a disorderly person you can never retain the respect of your friends. I admire my husband for the order in his life. His desk, letters and papers are always in perfect order, as well as his ties, his shirts, his collars and clothes. There is order in the way Basil plays a part, in the way he wears his clothes; there is order in his mind and general behavior. He is always gracious to me. He pays me pretty compliments and notices everything I say, everything I wear. He is never too tired to address the servants pleasantly at night when he comes in from the studio. It is the little things in life that count, consideration for the other person and respect for their privacy. Someone once asked Basil why our marriage was a success. He replied, T think it is because we respect each other's point of view.' " "Mrs. Rathbone," I asked, "you've spent several years in Hollywood at dif ferent times in your life; tell me, do you find that it has changed very much?" "Yes, decidedly. Hollywood has grown up. Fifteen or twenty years ago when Hollywood gained its undying reputation for wild parties I regretted missing them." She smiled, "I have been told they went to parties in bathing suits. Certainly women in those days were very bizarre in their style of dressing, while the mem attended formal affairs in sweat shirts' and open collars. Los Angeles society; shunned the movie set. Actors couldn't get. into any respectable club. I know — because I came out here for six months, and my husband and I were embarrassed to find that his name had been rejected at one of the important clubs out here because he was associated with the film industry." On her second visit, she noticed some improvement. The women dressed better but the attire of the men still left much to be desired. "I buried myself in my garden. Nobody liked me, and I didn't worry about it. They considered me a snob. They called me Mrs. Ritzmaurice. I was then married to Director Fitz maurice and was writing scenarios for Pola Negri's and Valentino's pictures. The European invasion had started. I gave the first party in honor of Ernst Lubitsch the day after he arrived in Hollywood." Mrs. Rathbone has noticed the changes that have taken place in Hollywood society toward respectability, conventionality, ideals, appreciation of the finer things in life. "I have lived in Paris and London and New York. I have given par ties elsewhere, but never anywhere have I been able to collect so many interesting and celebrated people from all over the world, at my parties. Where can you group around a dinner table such famous people as Arthur Rubenstein, Heifetz. Kreisler, Grand Duchess Marie of Rus sia, Thomas Mann, Dorothy Thompson, Sinclair Lewis, Hugh Walpole, James Hilton, Lawrence Tibbett, Richard Tauber, Duchess of Sutherland, Iturbi. the Baroness Ravensdale, Katherine Cornell, Alexander Woollcott, Sidney Howard Somerset Maugham, H. G. Wells, Jeritza, Stokowski, Max Reinhardt, etc. All these exciting personalities have been our guests in Hollywood, many of them at the same party. Rubenstein has played hours at parties in my house; Richard Tauber has given a full concert for my guests; and a celebrated orchestra has played all night for us. I challenge any hostess any where else in the world to surpass the above list of celebrated guests at any one party. "And this is the way society in Holly wood nowadays enjoys itself. Today you will find important actors at the Phil harmonic Concerts, as well as all the other important concerts which include Kreisler, Tibbett, Tauber, Rubenstein Rachmaninoff, Elman, Iturbi, Anderson Lotte Lehman, Kirsten Flagstad, etc. And where is there a finer private collection of paintings to be found anywhere in the world than those of Eddie Robinson? On the walls of most of the stars' homes today you will find fine etchings and paintings, you will see splendid sculpture and artistically appointed homes in every detail. Even the architecture has advanced from the bastardized Spanish or