Monday, October 12, 2009

April 8, 1932



RENO IS PREFERRED BY NORMA TALMADGE

Hollywood, April 8 (AP)
There will be no Paris divorce in the life of Norma Talmadge, former screen actress.

When she gets ready to take legal steps for separation from Joseph M. Schenck, film producer, she will go to America’s divorce capital, Reno, Miss Talmadge said on her arrival here from Palm Beach and New York.

Miss Talmadge recently announced in New York that she planned a divorce. She and her husband have been separated for several years.

Her arrival in Hollywood was the occasion of a Talmadge family reunion. She was met by her mother, Mrs. Peg Talmadge; her two sisters, Constance Talmadge Netcher and Natalie Talmadge Keaton, wife of Buster Keaton, the comedian.

Keaton and his two sons, Joe and Robert, were also present.




MOTION PICTURE ACTOR FAILS TO APPEAR IN COURT

Warrant Issued For Arrest Of Duncan Renaldo On Driving Charge

Atwater, Calif., April 8
Duncan Renaldo, moving picture actor who was featured in “Trader Horn” and who was arrested here some time ago for reckless driving and fined $30 by Justice of the Peace W. H. Osborn, was to have appeared here Tuesday and pay the balance of the fine of $15.

Renaldo failed to put in an appearance and a bench warrant for his arrest has been issued by the judge and placed in the hands of the traffic department. It will be forwarded to Los Angeles authorities for his arrest.

Renaldo pleaded guilty over the telephone from Los Angeles several weeks ago and asked what the fine would be. On being told it was $30, he mailed $15 and was given a month to forward the balance, which he has failed to do.




S. E. NORRIS, FILM ACTOR, DIVORCED

Philadelphia, April 7 (AP)
A final decree of divorce from Septimus Edward Norris, the motion picture actor, was granted to Mrs. Virginia Bell Hiller Norris today in Common Pleas Court. The grounds were not revealed. The couple, both members of socially prominent families, eloped Dec. 6, 1927, when Norris was 16 years old and his bride 18. They have one child. Norris left college to enter the movies several years ago when he was selected as a double for Charles (Buddy) Rogers in “Wings.”


COWBOY ACTOR HURT BY FALL

Los Angeles, Apr. 8 (AP)
Lee Sage, thirty-four, cowboy film actor and writer, was taken to a hospital today suffering from six broken ribs, suffered when he was thrown from a horse while working in a picture with Harry Carey, wild west star.




Walter Huston’s next screen impersonation will be of A. P. Giannini, the banker, in “Faith,” which is to be directed by Frank Capra. Huston is being loaned by M-G-M for the job. Kay Johnson will be Walter Huston’s leading woman.




Lewis Milestone continues with his preparations to make a talkie of “Rain” despite rumblings said to emanate from the Hays office that a film production will not be sanctioned. The last news from Milestone was that he had added Beulah Bondi’s name to a tentative cast.


From Luealla O. Parsons:



I suddenly feel my age. Someone has just told me that Nat Levine, independent producer, is going to produce James Fenimore Cooper’s “Last of the Mohicans.” I won a prize at school for an essay on that classic before I ever saw a feature movie. Does this generation find as much enjoyment in this thrilling story of Uncas and Cora?

Edwina Booth and Harry Carey, of “Trader Horn” fame, to say nothing of Hobart Bosworth, Lucille Brown, Junior Coughlan, Nelson McDowell, Walter McGrail and others have put their John Hancock on the dotted line to lend their aid to the Cooper novel.

Reeves Eason, who used to put the thrill in Hoot Gibson’s westerns, will direct. And, oh yes, I almost forgot the important part of the story. “Last of the Mohicans” is the first of a series of four serials all based on W. K. novels.




Wesley Ruggles remains at Radio. Moreover he remains there on a new long-term contract and he gets himself an important picture. This might not have been any news six months ago when Ruggles was riding high, but it’s news now for since that time David O. Selznick has made so many changes in the studio. He must think well of Ruggles to keep him on and to plan to give him John Barrymore’s next picture. And that reminds me, I didn’t even know that John was due to do another picture for Radio. I thought he was due to return to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Perhaps he is to be borrowed again.




George Brent, the good looking youth who suddenly started rating headlines and columnists’ compliments, will play opposite Ruth Chatterton again in “Children of Pleasure.” He was her leading man in “The Rich Are Always With Us.” I suppose one of these days he will wake up and find Brent has become a star unless he and Darryl Zanuck have the good sense to let him go along in good parts until he becomes better established. Too many promising careers have been spoiled by stardom.




No one received the news of the death of Phar Lap, famous Australian race horse, with more regret than Harry Rapf. Tuesday morning before anyone knew the horse was in such serious a condition, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed him to make a two-reeler. Harry Rapf had negotiated the deal and was to act as supervisor of the picture. Even the story was selected. Phar Lap’s sensational run at the Cuffroth handicap made him a great favorite with the film people and today regrets were expressed on all sides. It was almost as if a friend, a human friend, had passed on.


Chatter in Hollywood:

Norma Talmadge is due in Hollywood Thursday. She left New York unexpectedly to return home. When I talked to her last she had made up her mind to go through with her divorce from Joseph Schenck but I believe she has had a change of mind since that time and now there is a doubt that she will seek her freedom. If she does, she will file suit in Los Angeles, her legal residence, rather than go to Reno or Paris as she at first planned.




There are several very lovely gifts on the way to Gloria Swanson for the baby. The young lady was not expected for another two weeks and even her name had not been chosen. One of Gloria’s close friends cables a suggestion that Patricia Farmer would sound well.




According to Dorothy Mackaill herself, her friends need not get out their knitting needles to make baby jackets. The coming of the “blessed event” as prophesied is absolutely untrue. Dorothy wires from Ohio asking that we deny Walter Winchell’s report.




The pretty redhead who has been seen with Jimmy Dunn on several occasions lately is Jessie Le Sueur, the divorced wife of Joan Crawford’s brother. Jimmy, heretofore, has favored blondes.


None of the Hollywood columnists need feel self-conscious in “The Truth About Hollywood,” The character is purely fictional, according to the Radio film company. Cameramen are being sent out with small cameras to take shots of celebrities while they are not looking. So be careful, stars, and use the right fork.


Snapshots of Hollywood:



Evelyn Knapp is entertaining her brother, Orville. He played the lead opposite Fay Bainter in “The Crooner” in New York, the same play which Paramount is making.


Frances Marion is leaving her lovely garden in Hollywood to get some ocean air. She is seventeen pounds lighter since her recent illness.

From Chester Bain:



It looks more and more as if Phillips Holmes and Florence Rice were serious.

Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Wallace Ford have new M-G-M contracts.


George Raft draws a role in “The Countess of Auburn.”




Unless she is kidding, (and of course a movie star wouldn’t do that when granting an interview!) Pola Negri’s marriage to a Chicago man with a world renowned name in finance and society is just around the corner.




Mrs. George Jessel has made a condition that may block any chance of a marriage between her husband and Norma Talmadge according to Variety. Mrs. Jessel has reputedly said that she will not consent to a divorce unless she can sue her husband and name a correspondent.




Whether the story that “Prestige” played the part in the matrimonial differences of Ann Harding and husband Harry Bannister is true or not, it is said to be a fact that Miss Harding offered $200,000 cash to RKO-Pathe for the negative before its release. The studio demanded $50,000 more.




MIDNIGHT SHOWING OF PICTURE

A special midnight showing will be presented of the new Warner brothers production, “The Crowd Roars,” at the State Saturday night.

Thrills in abundance have been supplied in the picture, dealing with the nerve-wracking lives of race car drivers.

Besides James Cagney, the picture boasts Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, a new discovery of Howard Hughes, Eric Linden, Guy Kibbee and Frank McHugh.

Three important scenes show hurling cars crashing through track barriers, with their drivers hurtling through the air, as the awe-stricken crowds mumble with excitement. The regular engagement of “The Crowd Roars” begins April 15.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

April 7, 1932



KEATONS PATCH UP DIFFERENCE AFTER FOUR DAYS

Beverly Hills, April 6 (UP)
Three phonograph records, sent by Buster Keaton, film comedian, to his wife, the former Natalie Talmadge, brought apparent harmony to the Keaton household to-day.

Mrs. Keaton, after an absence of four days, was living again with her husband following a period of disturbed domestic relations which, the film comedian said, resulted from his desire to “show who wears the trousers around the house.”

The first overture, made in the form of a phonograph record, You’ve Got Me Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, was sent by the comedian to his wife yesterday morning.

A few hours later a second record entitled All of Me, was dispatched.

That failing to bring results, Keaton said he sent a third. It was entitled Can’t We Talk It Over?

Mrs. Keaton appeared at her home shortly after receipt of that one.

Airplane Trip Halted

The differences between Keaton and his wife came to public notice Monday when Mrs. Keaton enlisting the aid of District Attorney Buron Fitts, persuaded San Diego police to take Keaton and his two sons, Joe and Robert, from an airplane that stopped there while en route to Ensenada, Mexico.

Keaton said the domestic differences arose from his desire to take the boys on an airplane trip, and Mrs. Keaton’s refusal to permit such a thing.

“I just wanted to see who’s boss,” Keaton said. “I didn’t know I’d stir up a miniature war in doing it, though.”

Keaton was questioned by San Diego police for more than an hour and released.

While waiting for the return of his wife last night, the film actor has placed an old lamp in the front window of his palatial home.

“There, we’ve got a light burning in the window for her, boys,” he told his sons. “She’ll come home to-night.”




MARY PICKFORD SEEKS CAREER IN SCULPTURE

Actress Reveals She Plans to Begin Study of Plastic Art on Return to Hollywood

New York Times, April 7, 1932
The name of Mary Pickford, now synonymous with stardom, may be known a few years hence as that of a sculptress as well as an actress. She is about to essay the difficulties of sculpture, not with any desire to rival the fame of professionals but to achieve this form of expression for her own pleasure.

For several weeks it has been reported in art circles here that Miss Pickford planned to undertake sculpture. When asked yesterday about these reports, Miss Pickford revealed that she had definite plans which she hoped to realize on her return to Hollywood from her present New York visit.

The desire to model clay and carve stone is not new with Miss Pickford, she said yesterday, but for a long time she has been deterred by a fear that she could not excel in this form of art. Gradually, she explained, the realization has come to her that the true artist is not animated primarily by a desire to surpass his fellow-artists, but by an urge to self-expression and creation.

With this view of art, she hopes on her return to California to study under a sculptor who does not know as yet that he will be asked to teach her – Boris Lovet-Lorski, a Russian by birth but a naturalized American citizen., who exhibited last fall in the Wildenstein Galleries at 647 Fifth Avenue.

“I hope he will take me for a pupil,” Miss Pickford said.

Asked why she has selected this sculptor, Miss Pickford replied that a portrait he had made of Mrs. Jesse Lasky attained something of the spirit she had felt in classical Greek sculptures in the museum of Athens.

Portraiture rather than idealized sculptural forms appeals to Miss Pickford, she said. Even as a child she drew portrait sketches. But she made it plain that she does not intend to give up motion picture work.




GLORIA SEEKS NEW NAME;
‘BOY’ WAS TO BE MIKE

London, April 7 (AP)
Gloria Swanson and her husband, Michael Farmer, wanted a boy instead of a girl, Farmer revealed to-day, and Gloria planned to call the boy Mike.

They were “just a little bit disappointed,” he said when a girl was born the night before last. Provisionally, he said they have been calling the girl Mike, but another name will have to be chosen later.




VICTOR MCLAGLEN SUED FOR BEATING

Los Angeles, April 7 (UP)
Charging that Victor McLaglen, motion picture actor, “set upon him and beat him severely,” Thomas R. Hughes asked $10,000 damages in a suit on file today. The attack occurred at the Fox studios last January 29. Hughes charged that McLaglen, who played the hard-boiled Captain Flagg in “What Price Glory?” “viciously and brutally” assaulted him, without provocation, so injuring the cartilage of Hughes’ nose that it is now flat and makes breathing difficult.




KINSHIP CLAIM DENIED BY STAR

Los Angeles, April 7
Jack Nixon, who is alleged to have sold worthless stock by claiming to be a brother of Marian Nixon, screen actress, heard the relationship denied by the star in municipal court today.

Nixon, charged with grand theft, is accused of selling stock in a non-existent motion picture company to six persons. He is said to have claimed relationship to Miss Nixon and to be an intimate friend of Lew Cody, screen actor.

“I met this man a few times,” Miss Nixon testified, “and then I heard he was going around telling people he was my brother. But he’s no kin of mine.”

Cody was also scheduled to take the stand to repudiate Nixon’s claims to his close friendship.




L. A. ARTIST SUES TOM MIX FOR OIL PAINTING

Los Angeles, April 7 (UP)
Tom Mix, film cowboy, to-day was sued for $3,500 and charged with failure to pay that amount for an oil painting of himself, done by George Townsend Cole, artist. Cole declared that Mix engaged him to paint the portrait in 1926, and when it was completed expressed pleasure over its appearance but declined to pay for it.




The second John Barrymore picture at Radio has not yet been selected, but Dolores Del Rio has been named as leading woman. Miss Del Rio is now finishing “The Bird of Paradise,” and Barrymore is finishing “State’s Attorney.”




Cecilia Parker, who achieved a long ambition when she was named as leading woman for George O’Brien in “The Rainbow Trail,” has been assigned to the feminine lead in “The Killer,” O’Brien’s new picture from the Stewart Edward White story.


From Luella O. Parsons:



I am certainly glad Charles Laughton has made up his mind about the movies, or perhaps it was the movies that made up their mind about him. When “Payment Deferred” opened in New York and became such a sensation overnight we printed numerous rumors of his signing with this and that company. Not one of those offers jelled until just now when Paramount decided to bring him to the West Coast for pictures.

The Paramount play that brought about the Laughton contract is “The Island of Dr. Moreau” by H. G. Wells.

While here, Laughton will do a little studio visiting. He will take himself and his makeup box to the United Artists lot for a part in Brothers Karamazov, starring Ronald Colman. And then perhaps he will make other pictures out here.




Official reports on “Alias, The Doctor” show that it grossed more than any picture Richard Barthelmess has made since “Dawn Patrol.” Cables to that effect were sent to Dick by Darryl Zanuck and he is coming home all ready to make his next picture, “Cabin in the Cotton.”




Una Merkel, whose southern accent is the real thing, and if you don’t believe it just listen to her talk, will play one of the leading feminine roles. Ann Dvorak, Hollywood’s newest bride, plays the other feminine lead. Miss Dvorak, according to Darryl Zanuck, will not be kept in the background because of her marriage. She is headed for eventual stardom. Michael Curtiz, who admits he never saw a plantation up to now, directs.




Guess “Tuna” will be more than a fish story. It’s got Edward G. Robinson as the star and it becomes “Tiger Shark,” so maybe the shark will get more of a break. At any rate, from a deep-sea fishing expedition with tuna fish as the chief players, it becomes an exciting drama with Eddie Robinson, Warner Brothers’ favorite heavy, as the principle character. Howard Hawks is directing and he has already left for Mazatlan, Mexico where the picture will be filmed. “The Roar of the Crowd,” Howard’s last, is going very well in New York.



Snapshots of Hollywood:



William Desmond, younger than ever, and just as good looking, is back from New York. He flew back after his wife suggested he had been away long enough.




Joan Crawford entertaining a party at the Warners’ Hollywood theater in honor of the opening of young Douglas Fairbanks’ new picture.




Frances Marion, home from the hospital, has gone away to recuperate before she tackles the demon typewriter again.




Bessie Love, in pale pink, was lunching with her husband, her first public appearance since the birth of her daughter.




Lois Wilson sent the new Farmer heiress greetings via cable.




FORBIDDEN COMING TO STRAND THEATER

The story of a woman who devotes her entire lifetime to furthering the ambitions of her lover, sublimating her own life to his, is told in “Forbidden,” the Frank Capra production, starring Barbara Stanwyck, at the Strand theater Friday and Saturday with Adolph Menjou and Ralph Bellamy playing leading roles.

Cast as a drab little librarian, Miss Stanwyck one bright spring morning decides to take her savings of years and invest it in a grand adventure, She buys gorgeous clothes and sets sail for Havana. On the boat she meets Bob Grover, traveling alone. They fall madly in love, but know each other only by the numbers of their staterooms – sixty-six and ninety-nine.

Back in New York comes disillusionment for the girl, for he finds he is married and a divorce would be a caddish thing to do for his wife is crippled and loves him devotedly. That is when the girl becomes a woman. She had denied herself a personal career; she had given up her child for adoption by his wife; she had even married, at least, a man she didn’t love so that there would be no point in his publicly announcing that he was a hypocrite, and then on top of that sacrifice, she learns that her husband has discovered the truth and can prove his statement. What she does is the climax of “Forbidden.”

An added short subject is the radio crooner, Bing Crosby, in a song sketch, I Surrender, Dear.

To-nite, Joe Brown in “Fireman, Save My Child” will be shown for the last time.




SEQUEL TO SKIPPY ON NATIONAL SCREEN

Jackie Cooper is seen at the National Theater screen with another noteworthy performance in “Sooky,” with a large supporting cast including Robert Coogan and Jackie Searl. This is a sequel to “Skippy.”

There will be a special showing of “Sooky” Friday afternoon at 3:45 o’clock for the benefit of school children. Saturday will bring Ken Maynard in “Range Law” and chapter three of “The Vanishing Legion,” with two children under twelve admitted on one ticket from 12:45 until 1:45 P. M. only.




CRAWFORD STAR OF FEATURE AT LYRIC

Joan Crawford turns newspaper reporter in “Dance, Fools, Dance” which plays at the Lyric Theater Thursday and Friday. In assigning Joan to this role, the producers endeavored to supply a new angle to the gangster story.
Appearing in support of Miss Crawford is a large cast that includes Clark Gable, Lester Vail, Cliff Edwards, William Bakewell, William Holden, Earl Fox, Hale Hamilton, Purnell B. Pratt, Natalie Moorhead, and Joan Marsh.

Monday, September 28, 2009

April 6, 1932



GLORIA’S DAUGHTER HAS HUSKY VOICE

London, April 6 (UP)
Gloria Swanson and Michael Farmer received congratulations from all over the world to-day on the birth of a blue-eyed, curly haired daughter, who cried so lustily that Miss Swanson remarked: “Well, she seems wired for sound.”

The daughter was born Tuesday. She weighed seven pounds and two ounces. Arrival was almost a month earlier than expected.

When Farmer was admitted to see his child for the first time, he took the baby in his arms, paraded up and down the bedroom, and shouted: “She’s marvelous, Gloria!”

“We are most happy,” said Farmer. “But I am in a complete daze. Our plans are indefinite, but we hope to remain in London until late in August. Then we will go to south France and later to Hollywood.

Miss Swanson who married Farmer shortly after she was divorced from the Marquis de la Falaise de la Courdraye, has been in London for several weeks, having arrived from Paris after a short European tour. She has one other daughter, named Gloria, and an adopted son.

Miss Swanson and Farmer, Irish sportsman, were married secretly at Elmsford, N. Y., last August. Their wedding was not announced until Nov. 6, when it was disclosed by the officials who issued the license and performed the ceremony.

The couple had another wedding at Yuma, Ariz., on Nov. 9, after Miss Swanson’s decree from the Marquis became final.




SCREEN COMEDIAN AND WIFE END DIFFERENCES

Los Angeles, April 5 (AP)
Differences between Buster Keaton, smileless screen comedian, and his wife, the former Natalie Talmadge, which for a brief period yesterday occupied the attention of the district attorney’s office here and in the police department in San Diego, apparently have been settled.

The trouble arose, so both Keaton and his wife said, when the former decided to take his two sons, Joe, nine years old, and Robert, eight, for an airplane ride. Mrs. Keaton said she did not want her sons to make the trip.

Learning the father had taken the boys, accompanied by Connie Consuelo, their governess, to San Diego by plane, Mrs. Keaton, in company with her sister, Constance Talmadge Netcher, appeared at the district attorney’s office and got that official, Buron Fitts, to telephone San Diego police to stop Keaton.

When the plane arrived at San Diego, Keaton was held by the police for more than an hour and finally released. He, his sons and the governess were to return to Los Angeles today.

“Any report that Buster and I have separated is nonsense,” said Mrs. Keaton. “One doesn’t separate over such arguments.”

“It was just a little family difficulty,” the comedian stated. “There’s nothing to the whole thing – it’s so trivial.”

The comedian’s mother, however, said she had known there had been some domestic difficulty in her son’s home. She said she had stayed at his home Sunday night to apply hot towels to Buster’s eye which recently was badly scratched in a scuffle with friends and that the treatment was necessary because of a resulting hemorrhage.

“Natalie has not been home since Friday,” the mother said.




Richard Dix is to be a busy actor for the next fifteen months. He has a new contract with Radio to make three features in that time. Kay Francis is even busier at First National, trying to make five pictures in six months so that she can get a five-month trip to Europe on vacation.




The star dressing room at the Cohan theater in New York has changed hands, but not ownership. Dorothy Gish moved out last week when “The Bride the Sun Shines On” finished its run, and her husband, James Rennie, moved in with “Trick for Trick.”


From Luella O. Parsons



The air is filled with stories about Greta Garbo. Some we discard as too absurd, others we must give credence to. One recent tale that comes from a source close to the Swedish mystery woman is that when Miss Garbo waves good-bye to the U. S. A. she will return to Sweden to form her own producing company and make her own pictures.

Mauritz Stiller, credited with discovery of the one and only Garbo, bequeathed her a comfortable fortune when he died, so ‘tis said. It was his wish that she eventually return to her own country. Her plan, so we hear, is to make pictures in both Sweden and Germany, and Harry Eddington, her representative, has gone ahead to make the arrangements.

If Miss Garbo is as shrewd a businesswoman as everyone thinks, it seems to me she is making a mistake to leave Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Foreign productions are never as good and certainly her popularity will be lost if the release of her pictures is limited to Europe.




Lewis Milestone is actually on the train. He left New York Sunday and is returning to Hollywood as fast as the choo-choo can carry him. In the Milestone party are Dr. Serge Bertensonn, writer, formerly associated with the Moscow Art Theater; Harry d’Arrast, French director; Charles Lederer, dialogue writer, humorist, man about town, and Chester Erskine.

Milestone left town a director. He returns a United Artists associated producer, working in conjunction with Joseph Schenck, head man at U. A. The first job he will tackle is “Happy Go Lucky, Ben Hecht’s story of a tramp writtern for Al Jolson.

“Rain,” (I doubt if the rights to the play have been sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) will be the next to take Milestone’s attention.




The little girl, small, but oh my, who wrote “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” is writing the dialogue for Marion Davies’ next picture. When Frances Marion was rushed to the hospital with a bad case of overwork Anita Loos was handed the script and told to add some of her own inimitable lines. The story is that of a chorus girl and her pal, was originally called “Three Blonds,” but that title has been discarded. Frances Marion is still in the hospital but she expects to be allowed to return home in a few days. After she and Anita Loos get together on her Davies story she will leave for New York to confer with Mary Pickford.




Marlene Dietrich is expecting her husband, Rudolph Sieber, to visit her. In order that she may have some degree of privacy she has moved to another house and I promised I wouldn’t say where. Marlene told me after an article appeared in one of the newspapers, she had as much privacy as the proverbial goldfish. Agents, salesmen and fans called to see her at all hours of the day and night. Her garden was trampled down and her grounds made a public rendezvous.

Maria can think of nothing else but her daddy’s arrival. There is talk that Miss Dietrich may return to Germany with her husband, but that seems unlikely since her contract with Paramount will not permit her to leave at this time.




In his informal talk to the newspaper crowd, M. C. Levee said that he will not do business with any stars under contract to other studios. The Screen Guild is open and above board. Ethel Barrymore has not signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer so there is a chance that the three Barrymore picture may be made for his company. If Levee can borrow John and Lionel Barrymore from M-G-M he will try to sign Ethel. In that event the Barrymore picture will be the first Screen Guild production. Mike is anxious to have the first one outstanding. There is a chance he may affiliate his Screen Guild with the Theater Guild in New York. At any rate, he is going to talk business with the Theater Guild when he goes to New York in a few weeks.




A great reception was given Edmund Lowe when he went out to the Fox Westwood Hills Studios to sign his contract. He is making two pictures for the Fox Company and both of these will be Chandu. The second is a sequel to the first. Fox, in producing this number, is banking on the popularity of the radio broadcast which has become almost as popular as Amos ‘n Andy.

Snapshots of Hollywood:



Miriam Hopkins, all in white at the Brown Derby, makes no comment on the report she was to elope with Austin Parker.




Constance Bennett, in yellow pajamas and white coat, was slipping into the Hollywood Plaza for tea.