The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-19
TABBY CHAT ON
HOLLYWOOD'S
BACK YARD

News Service.
Copyright, 1924, by Cosmopolitan
News Service.)
HOLLYWOOD, CAL, April H.
Mary Pickford has company in
her sack cloth and ashes. Fred
Niblo's "Thy Name Is Woman"
opened here this week.
Mary's Dorothy Vernon" first
night was a rather sorry affair,
and NIbIo's ran 1t close second.
What was scheduled as grand
opening and social function de-
veloped into a decidedly uninter-
esting occasion. There were va
cant seats in the Mission Theater,
and the Testimonial supper dance
to follow at, the .Biltmore Hotel"
was quite dreary.
The picture is below the stand
ard NibIo set in Fairbanks 1.-THE
Mark of Zorro 1.-THE Three Mus
keteers" and Captain Applejack.
With the exception Of Norma
/ ,Talmadgo, who came with her
husband, Joseph Schenck, and
danced with Ramon Navarro,
there were practically no film
celebrities at the testimonial
supper dance" at the BiltmOre.
Perhaps the film people have
all turned good and would not
turn out because it is Lent.
Rupert Hughes brought with
him :Winifred Kingston, engaged
for a long time to Dustin Far
mum, and Mrs. John Saunders, of
New York. Mrs. Saunders is
Major Hughes young daughter,
who was married not long ago.
William Russell, late Fox star,
was accompanied by Helen Fer
guson, who wore salmon colored
gold ribbon. The report that
Bill" and Helen would be mar
ried soon seems somewhat pre-
mature as the local newspapers
! this week carried advertisements
Of an auction sale Of the house
hold goods in ''Bill's" Hollywood
home. / understand bill" Is
worth around half a million dol
lars, made in real estate. His
first wife, Charlotte Burton, was
married again in Santa Barbara
recently.
All of us were somewhat puZ-
ZIed to see the beautiful Beatrice
Van, the scenario writer, with the
Slap-stick comedian, Larry SenlOn.
SemOn and Eddie Polo, the serial
king, were waging a romantic
contest for the hand of Kathleen
Meyers, blonde leading girl for
Eddie. Apparently neither of them
knew that Kathleen was married
until she went into divorce court
here only a short time ago and
obtained q decree. Since then
she has been strangely absent
from both semOn and Polo.
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Carmel Meyers gave farewell
dinner at the club this week to
newspaper people. She is going
abroad to play in the Goldwyn
. spectacle, Ben Hur." Joe Jack
son, debonair press agent at
Goldwyn, and who is reported en-
affair. All the representative
newspaper people were present
except one. don't know how
they happened to overlook me.
Carmel had her nose made over
recently, and it has improved her
appearance greatly. She has al
ways had an aversion to being
photographed on the left side
Of her face, but Harry Beaumont,
directing her in "Babbitt,'' insist
ed a day or so ago that her left
profile be taken in a scene, des-
pite her pouts and protests. The
brushes" in the projection room
showed she had a much more
attractive left profile than she
thought.
Shirley Mason, Fox star and
sister of Viola Dana, is dancing
quite regularly with Mervyn LIE.
roy, a nephew of Jesse Lasky,
the film magnate.
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One Of the sorriest figures in
filmNOm is Roscoe Fatty" Ar
buckle. saw him at one Of the
roadhouses a few nights ago. He
was with Katherine Fitzgerald.
1t was always thought in Holly
wood he was going to marry her
when his wife, Minta Durfee, OBJ
tanned a divorce, but Miss Dur
fee withdrew her suit in Con.
necticut recently.