Clancy chuckled.
“What’s the joke?” asked Mooney.
“Sure,” replied Clancy, “Casey bet me ten dollars he could shoot a peanut
off my head with a shot gun and oi took him up because oi knew he’d miss
it.”
* * * * *
He wouldn’t supporter, so she stole his suspenders.
_Hollywood Flirtations_
Little Shannon Day, a Ziegfeld Folly girl, is out west playing in a Lasky
picture. Monte Katterjohn, Lasky scenario writer has been seen with Miss
Shannon very frequently during the past two years, both in New York and
in Hollywood. He went so far as to take her to a formal Authors League
Dinner last year and the speeches and the minutes of the meeting and the
pleas for unpaid dues were such a tax on Shannon’s mind that she was
caught dropping off to sleep many times before the tiresome evening was
over. “I can’t see nothing to authors” quotes Shannon as she smoothes a
new dress which Mamma Dolly of the famous Dolly Sisters team made for her
just before she left New York.
* * * * *
While Geraldine Farrar stayed in Southern California last month,
fulfilling her concert engagements she kept herself much secluded in
her bungalow at the Hotel Maryland in Pasadena. Her parents were with
her. Many of her former friends in the film colony attempted to see her
in vain and it is surmised that Miss Farrar wished to keep to herself
until the matter of her pending divorce from Lou Tellegen has either been
granted or repatched.
* * * * *
The weekly calendar of a well known church in Los Angeles printed the
following questions soon after the Arbuckle affair spread itself forth in
the newspapers:
“What would you do if you were in Mr. Arbuckle’s predicament?”
“Is this a day of judgment for the movies?”
“Was Miss Virginia Rappe of aristocratic blood?”
“How much do we know of Henry Lehrman, the lover of Miss Rappe?”
* * * * *
Another wedding in the Pickford family is predicted. It is whispered that
Lottie Pickford is soon to marry Alan Forrest, popular and handsome young
leading man of the films. Lottie Pickford was formerly Mrs. Rupp, wife of
a Los Angeles broker, whom she divorced about two years ago.
* * * * *