The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-04

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Copyright. 1924. In United states and
Great Britain by North American News
paper Alliance. Al rights rsservsd,.
BY MRS. ANONYMOUS
y am sometimes moved to wonder II
there is not buried in the subsonscious-
ness of every woman "a cat, or at
least a kitten, with as many lives as
traditional attributes to the feline Of
the species. Yes, ] do wonder.
Gloria Swanson gave d tea the other
day and OF e0uFses we all expected to
have wonderful time Butt am
sure ! speak truly when i say that
the only woman who really enjoyed that
party was Gloria herself. In fact Ii
was the consensus of the women who
were her guests that day that Gloria
played very mean little trick on us.
Now / am willing, 30 far as / am
concerned, to agree with the men, who
were willing to give Gloria the benefit
conscious humor or something Of that
kind. AS Issay, / am willing myself q
give her the benefit of the doubt. but
even SO am / free to confess that ]
would never go to tea of hers again
Never. / could never wholly trust her
after what happened
You see, Gloria gave the tea at the
movie studio out on Long Island. In
one corner there was cunning little
make-believe garden with painted grass
and all kinds Of STACEY things. We all
wrote our names in chalk on the door
of Gloria's little dressing room. instead
I Of the bromide usual leaving Of cards
Whatever may be said Of Gloria she Is
no bromide.
BeautifuE-But Those Lights!
The whole place was hideously illu-
minated with those terrifying lights
they use in making motion pictures, and
Gloria YVES all made up for them and
the rest of us looked like corpsest,
must have looked PARTICULARS
mortified, because, having in mind the
circle into which / was about to be
moving, / used the lipstick and the
rogue rather heavily just before l left
home. Gloria painted blue, you see.
Fannie Hurst really did look fright.
Fannie has naturally good complexion,
smooth and fair with real, honest-to-
goodness color inc her cheeks--and she
showed rich mIruerer's purple.
Mary Austin iH1mediately got a
psychic spell. She Said the lights al.
fected her that way, and that She
seemed to see right through the physi-
cal into the souls of us. 1t really was
uncomfortable>t TO have her talking like
that. And really, Marysdid look weird
She. began all of sudden to drag mn
the dark past of the guests, and look.
ing as they did and with Mary looking
as If she had been dead two weeks--it
was positively CHASTITY.
William De Mile looked inst like
SayonarOla after the hanging, and with
him eating green sandwiches and
drinking purple tea--welf, you may be
able t? imagine. simply can't de-
scribe it.
Sidney Olcott and Charles Hanson
Iowne seemed so entranced over the
contrasting Gloria that they forgot how
ridiculous they looked. And Gloria did
look sweet. Ill say that for her. She
had on a soft clinging sort of maUye
colored gown, very thin and very ap-
realing in line This she wore over 4
gold colored slip and an orchid at the
side gave fascinating touch of color.
B Tho Hon: Frances Us introduced
NoW,dQ You suppose she really meant
to be catty or Just merely amusing ?
On the face Of it, it does seem that
women are unconsciously or &ubcon-
sclousiy catty. | don't think they ac-
tuafly mean it. We've just got to adj
NIT that every woman has something
of a cat complex.
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