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Hollywood — The Stars
neither very mad nor very bad. There was some flamboyant drinking and some almost conscientious getting drunk as though it were a patriotic duty — saving America from the claws of the Prohibitionists ; that is the normal result of the Fourteenth Amendment on almost every circle of wealthier American life. But the general atmosphere of these parties was not infused with much care-free gaiety. They were markedly business gatherings. A Christmas card sent to us by Betty Compson and her husband, Jimmy Cruze, shows many normal features of a Hollywood party. The card was hand coloured, and measured some twenty-six by twenty inches. On it was drawn an opened section of their house on Christmas night. In the garden five
couples were enlaced in various stages of amorousness ; one girl was chasing a man in full flight ; one man was supporting another in the last stages of intoxication. Within the house the negro servants were stealing the bootleg whisky and hiding it in a sack ; ten men were applying themselves to the task of getting drunk ; one, already successful in this quest, was falling into the fountain ; two of the guests were stealing their host's whisky as a provision for the morrow ; four authors had cornered a director and were trying to tell him their latest plots ; one girl aspirant was running about with hands full of her own photographs, crying : " I want you all to look at my stills " ; a man was trying to seduce a girl by promising to make her a star ; a girl was
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BETTY COMPSON
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