Notes for April 1928 'Gaylord Glimpses'...

-On page 5, Mrs. Frank Roger Seaver gave a dinner party 'complimenting' John McCormack and Mr. & Mrs. Edward L. Doheny, Sr. John McCormack was the original Irish tenor and he owned the Runyon Canyon Estate. He starred with Maureen O'Sullivan in 1930's 'Song O' My Heart' and had an uncredited singing role in Orson Welles' 1941 'Citizen Kane.' Edward L. Doheny, Sr. is 'that' Doheny, the L.A. oil tycoon that the main character played by Daniel Day Lewis in P.T. Anderson's (who last year filmed at the Gaylord) 'There Will Be Blood' is based on. Also attending this dinner party was Dolores del Rio, award winning Mexican actress who had a romance with Orson Welles at one time. Dolores starred in over 60 film & television titles. In this year, 1928, Dolores appeared, with another guest at this dinner, in the film "Revenge.' He was Spanish actor, Jose Crespo, who was featured in 35 film & television roles and was friends with Charlie Chaplin. The hostess' husband, Frank Roger Seaver, had a distinguished Navy career, became an attorney, a L.A. County Supervisor early on, worked for Doheny and was a generous philanthropist to Pomona College & Pepperdine University.
-On page 5, Film director, writer, producer & actor, Lothar Mendes and his wife, actress, Dorothy Mackaill threw a dinner party for guests, film writers, Adela Rogers St. John & Dick Hyland who married in this year. Lothar worked on 30 films with such notable actors as Clara Bow and Adolphe Menjou. Dorothy Mackaill was featured in over 60 film & television titles. She had top billing over Humphrey Bogart in 1932's 'Love Affair' and her last role was on the original 'Hawaii Five-O' in 1980.
-On page 13, Notice of Gaylord residents, editor of 'Photoplay' magazine, James Quirk (as best man) and his actress wife (as maid of honor) , May Allison, attending the wedding of film writers Adela Rogers St. John and Dick Hyland, up in Santa Barbara. May was featured in nearly 60 films between 1915-1927.
-On page 13, Notice of our very own 'Talmadge' sister, silent film actress Constance Talmadge, leaving for New York with her actress sister, Natalie and brother-in-law, Buster Keaton, where Buster was shooting some 'on location' scenes. Constance was in over 80  films between 1914-1929 as one of the most popular silent film romantic comedy leading ladies.
-On page 16, The esteemed Gaylord guest, George S. Dougherty, former Police Commissioner for New York City expressing his reasons as to why people commit crime (quite hilarious).