Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-14
GARRULOUS GARRY
GLAD TO WELCOME
EX.BATHINC GIRLS
BY HELEN KLUMPH

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"VNELL, bathing suits have come
w into their own Garry mn.
nounced airily, as she slid down in her
seat SO far that all one could see of her
was her fluffy brown hair arranged In n
painstaking imitation of Marjorie
DAVIS coiffure.
"You talk like the advertisement of
midsummer sale," I demonstrated.
Whats II all about ~
Marie Provost, chiefly. and Harriet
Hammond Garry announced curtly.
And, OF course. speaking of bathing
suits reminds me always that Gloria
Swanson and Betty Compson started
In the bathing suit contingent. Ap-
parently, you can't hold bathing girl
down.
Harriet Hammond Is still under
contract, you know, to appear in Mack
Sennett comedies, but she wants SO
much to do some really dramatic WORK
that she begs Mr.. Sennett to lend her
to other producers. Every little while
ne does. Just now she's appearing op-
posite Roscoe Arbuckle.
She's one of the best excuses I know
OF for trying to perfect motion pictures
in color. If they ever got her peaches
and-crcam complexion and her mar
velous red gold hair on the screen, every
young man would feel his heart beating
out the message Go West, young man.
/" A ND the incest part about Harriet
"A is that she is as blissfully un-
conscious of her beauty as though no
one had ever remarked that she was one
of the most beautiful girls in the world.
when James Able, the photogra-
pher. directed picture under Mr.. Sem
nett's supervision, he found himself
changing the scenario day by day so
that Harriet Hammond would be In nl-
most every scene. Don't bother about
the story Mr.. Able used to remark.
Just put Harriet in and the picture
cant fail The name of that picture
is Home Talent I'm going to go
and watch Harriet Hammond so care
fully that when / come out / will be
simply irresistible"
Forgetting your allegiance to Nazi-
nova l remarked.
"Well. you can't 60 on initiating
your favorite from memory" she re-
monstratcd, "and it's so long since I've
seen Nazimova on the screen that when
j try to use mp hands as she does I'm
afraid that my impersonatlon looks
more like Louise Fazenda."
"And how about Marie Prevost?"
asked. "You said something about her
and bathing suits. I thought you prom
ised her never to mention them together
again.
81 did," Garry admitted. "But what
can be done about it? When Marie
came East to sign her contract to star
in Universal pictures. she forbade her
friends ever mentioning bathing suits
to her again; she went down to Coney
Island and publicly burned her bathing
suits and dozens of pictures of herself
in them.
''But they seem to pursue her like
a sorry fate. She had no more than
reached California than Harry Carey
invited her to q party to celebrate the
completion of the big outdoor swim
ming pool at his home. And every one
wore bathing suits.
Marie firmly refused to go near the
water. and every one sprang the old
hickory limb jokes. But King Bag
gott. who is Marie's director, struck
his head on something when he was
diving and was in danger of drowning.
Then Marie. forgetting herself, jumped
in and saved him. But she says it is
positively her last appearance in the
bathing suit parade.
Her first picture is called The But
terfy.' King Baggott. who is none other
than our old favorite who had the
beautiful lock of gray harris threat
ening to put bathing pool scene in
1t. But Marie says that II he does.
she'll get tempcramental and demand
new Director