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Wanda Hawley has been vacationing at Catalina. Her hair has lately been bobbed and has lost its former brownishness, for it is now corn-tassel white. Wanda occupied a table in the center of the huge dining room of the St. Catherine Hotel and often dined with a tanned, slender, and quiet young man. Star and escort looked decidedly bored.
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Thompson Buchanan, Lasky scenario chieftain, is encouraging Helene Chadwick in her film career.
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Kathleen Clifford, clad in sports clothes and sandals, steps nights with a handsome dark stranger.
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Herbert Rawlinson, with a couple of minor actor friends in tow, spent a month at Catalina. Roberta Arnold, Herbert’s wife, seemed to be “somewhere on location” for she was not in those parts. The adoration of some hundreds of grammar school girls seemed centered on handsome Herb and his marvelous physique.
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Marshall Neilan’s “all in a minute” scenario writer, Lucita Squire, is still in the game.