Edna: Nov. 21, 1930 Chicago, Ill.

Dear Friends,
I hope everyone had good weekend. Mine was quiet. It was rainy on Saturday and kind of sunny on Sunday. Nothing else to say about it.
So here is the next letter from Edna:

Since it is typed, I'm not going to retype it.
But I will comment on it's content.

She mentioned a number of movies she saw.
The first one, "Let Us Be Gay"



Here is what Wikipedia has to say about it:

Housewife Kitty Brown (Norma Shearer) doesn’t spend much time on her personal appearance. She is devoted to her husband Bob (Rod La Rocque). Kitty spends all her time seeing that Bob has everything he needs. Bob is embarrassed to be seen with his wife because he considers her dowdy and he doesn’t like the homemade clothes she wears.

Kitty gets a shock when Bob’s latest girlfriend, Helen, shows up at their home. Kitty is polite to Helen and pretends that she has known about the affair all along but secretly she is broken-hearted. She excuses herself to go to her room and cry. Later that evening, she leaves Bob to get a divorce, taking their two children with her.

Three years later, Bob is courting Diane (Sally Eilers). Diane’s grandmother, Mrs. Bouccicault (Marie Dressler), is a leader in local society and disapproves of the match. Mrs. Bouccicault invites Kitty for the weekend. Kitty is now a fashionable, very attractive woman. Mrs. Bouccicault hopes to use Kitty to break Diane and Bob up.

Mrs. Bouccicault asks Kitty to steal a gentleman away from her granddaughter so Kitty flirts with each arriving male guest in turn assuming that each is the gentleman in question.

Bob arrives and is surprised by Kitty’s appearance. They pretend to meet for the first time. The other weekend guests, including Towney (Gilbert Emery), Madge (Hedda Hopper), and Wallace (Tyrell Davis), are baffled by the way Bob and Kitty behave around each other. Kitty continues to flirt with the male guests. She speaks disdainfully of marriage and makes it clear she is happily divorced. Diane has long had an understanding with Bruce (Raymond Hackett), who is also a guest. Bruce loves Diane and is pained to see her with Bob.

Townsend goes to the terrace outside Kitty’s room. She flirts with him. When Bob knocks on the door, Townsend hides. Bob begs Kitty to marry him again. Bob hears a sneeze and discovers Townsend hiding in the bathroom. He leaves through the terrace only to find Wallace waiting. Wallace has brought Kitty a poem. Disgusted and angry, Bob leaves. A few minutes later Mrs. Bouccicault comes to Kitty’s room to announce that Bob has just become engaged to Diane.

The next day, Bob is upset to overhear Kitty making plans for a yachting trip with Towney. Kitty plans on leaving immediately, but her nanny shows up with Kitty and Bob’s children. The children are overjoyed to see their father.

Bob tells Diane he still feels he is married to Kitty. Diane breaks up with Bob. Kitty says she doesn’t want him either. She says goodbye to Bob. He begs for another chance. Again, he asks her to marry him. She tearfully tells him she still loves him and she asks him to take her back.

The next one is "Her Wedding Night":

An American movie star vacationing in France, get mixed up with a song writer, mistaken identity and winds up married to someone she doesn't know.

Sounds like a few other movies I've seen lately.

The last one, "Follow Thru":

Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend, Jack Martin, show up. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile Angie Howard, Lora's friend, chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues.

It must be very funny if she put her hat on backwards after seeing it.

It was also the second all color all talking picture from Paramount Pictures.

Now for the rest of the letter.

I wonder if she went to many football games. For those of you who follow football, you will have to look up how bad Northwestern beat Wisconsin that year.

The party she went to sounded like it was a very exciting one. I think it would be a lot of fun attending a party like that.

This is the kind of letters I like to read. With lots of information about the time. Plus it is typed. No messing up the translation.

Here is a picture from the scrap book:

 Kenosha fishing tugs tried to buck harbor ice in a determined effort to reach their fishing grounds but they could get only half way out the harbor channel. They are shown waiting for the coast guard cutter Escanaba, ordered to Kenosha from Grand Haven Mich. The boats are the Buick, W.H. Pugh, J.W. McDonald and Search.

I wonder how long they had to wait.

Here are few pages from the joke book, "Bedtime Laughs":

More marriage laughs. Enjoy.

Finally a random picture:

The name says Janet. No idea what her last name was.

Well, that's all I have to share with you today.
I hope you will come back soon for more Fading History.
Till then.
Your friend,
Sandy