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Show Diary Records Dizzy Pace of McmWriter By RHEILAH GRAHAM (Copyright, 1M7, for The Telegram.) HOLLYWOOD, Nov. ( Dear diary: FRIDAY "The Champagne Circus" Cir-cus" at the Trocadero turns out to he t fphion show. The hlfhliaht Is a wedding procession with the bride in black. Beat dressed actress present pres-ent Helen5Unonwlthhubanil Fred Perry and Gloria Stuart. The worst dressed Anna Sten. In short black affair that might be called stylish in ber native Russia but not here. SATTODAY The West Side Tennis Ten-nis club's Halloween shindig. The place is full of ln-love couples married and otherwise the newest and most radiant. Virginia Bruce and fiance J. Walter Ruben, entertaining enter-taining Frank Shields and his wife: Jean (Rebel) Arthur, plus husband Frank (Boas) Ross, and George and Julie Murphy. Cary Grant apends the evening gaslng into the beautiful brown eye of Phyllis Brooks. (Don't be too surprised if they elope any edition.) Like all Weet Side parties and Uke so few Hollywood soirees, fun waa the motif of the evening. SUNDAY Yet another party. (Yes. I manage to do a little work in between.) Mr. and Mrs. Frank Borsage celebrate Frank's twenty-first twenty-first year in motion pictures. (The press agent says 30. "It sounds more euphonious." saya Frank.) The place the Lanair room in the Hawaiian Paradise is full of old-timers who worked at one time with Bo nam Charlie Farrell, who leaped to fame In the director's silent version of "Seventh Heaven"; Norma Tal-madjre. Tal-madjre. -one of the few former stars who kept the money she made; Betty Bet-ty Compson. nowadays glad of bit parts or "quickies"; Rod La Rocque and his blond wife. Vtlma Banky; Crelghton Hale. Srena Owen. Eadie Adams. Edmund Burns and Jack MulhalL MONDAY NIGHT At tha Cafe Lamaxe June Lang listens to the blandishments of A. C. Blumenthal . . Don Ameche, wearing an exuberant exuber-ant expression, comes in with his wife. (He has just received a check for 1.1000 for an additional broadcast broad-cast from his sponsor.) "Hello. Don Ameche." comes a yell from the far corner of the restaurant. Don thinks it's one of his public and ignores it. "Look Sonja!" aays Mrs. Ameche. iMias Henie and Ameche meet halfway half-way and embrace fervently. They saw each other last four hours ago on the set of "Happy Ending." Mrs. Ameche yawns. She's a wise wife and knows the difference between a Hollywood kiss and the real thing. TUESDAY The "Boots and Saddles" Sad-dles" preview starring that western tycoon Gene Autrey. It's not bad if you like westerns. Mr. Autrey wears formal cowboy ault at the reception re-ception afterward and posea for pictures with Edgar Bergen. Charlie McCarthy doesn't like westerns and ia home asleep. WEDNESDAY The Cock V Bull" . . . Ronald Colman and Herbert Her-bert Marshall with Benlta Hume and Lee Russell. The restaurant's piece de resistance is Joan Crawford Craw-ford with Franchot Tone. Joan wears a tall blue hat with large halo brim, .black veil, red bair and knee-length knee-length silver fox coat. She looks like a country girl's idea of what a film star should look like. THURSDAY M -G.-M ' "Good News of 1934" broadcast . .On the stage, Buddy Ebsen in dirty tweed coat, unpressed pants, shaggy hair . Jeanette MacDonald In black velvet evening gown and eyeglasses eye-glasses . . . Sophie Tucker, a mass of sequins . . . Judy Garland sporting sport-ing orchids (from Mickey Rooney?) but minus stockings. |