The Digest has some real inside Hollywood dirt to dish up to you. For
fear some competitor will get in and publish it first I will tell
just what happened at a Wild Party that was given tonight at the home
of the Editor of this very Gem of Truth. And what makes it worse the
head of our Industry that was hired and supposed to keep the Scandal
from our doorsteps, was the main Guest, Will Hays (the only man in the
history of Industry that was ever hired for a job without him or the
People that hired him knowing what he was hired for, yet still made so
good they couldn’t replace him). Will Hays, the man who made Harding
President, and the Movies (partly) behave.
Well my Wife and I, aided and encouraged by Daughter Mary decided to
put on a Wild Party. Hollywood had been getting all the Publicity and
selling all the Real Estate through their Scandal, and here was Beverly
Hills who could put it on just as Wild as they could, and we couldn’t
seem to get anywhere. So we looked around to find some Guest that
would be well enough known, so that when we carried him home he would
be recognized.
We thought of Will Hays. So about 6.30 P. M. who should come staggering
in from across the street from the Hotel but our Guest. His brother
was to have come with him, but the Brother is a Lawyer from Sullivan,
Indiana, and not having had the experience and capacity of Will he had
gone completely out earlier in the evening while being entertained by
The Womans’ Federation of Churches.
Well, Will was so loaded that he had on a dress suit. It was the first
one that had ever been in our House, so Bill Jr. and Jim, who had just
come in from Public School and refilled their Flasks commenced to laugh
at the Suit, and we put a sheet over the Chairs so that he wouldn’t get
it dirty.
But by this time he was feeling so good he didn’t care anyway, for the
Industry had bought it for him--and about this time another Guest who
lives right near fell into the door before we knew it. That was Miss
Pauline Frederick.
She was all primed for a real old prolonged Rough House. She had
brought the stuff along with her. She had under her arm a big bag
of knitting. She was knitting a Blanket for one of my Polo Ponies.
So we all staggered around there till one of the children thought of
introducing Miss Frederick and Will.
Then, to make the Party real devilish I was to go and get another man’s
wife while he was away at work. She lived next door, so I sneaked out
while my Wife wasn’t looking and dashed right into the home of the
young Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jrs. She slipped on something and we
both complimented each other on account of her Husband having to be at
the office getting out his Newspaper. She asked if the Party was to
be so wild that she should take her Gun. I said, “Sure, let’s do it
right.” So we blew back just as they are ready to get real wild and
start eating.
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