Modern Screen 1935-12 Vol. 12, No. 1

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“PINK TOOTH BRUSH” MAN’S first swift look sometimes says... “‘You're a charming woman.” And a woman’s eyes may answer... “You're a likeable person.”’ And then she smiles. Lucky for both of them if it’s a lovely, quick flash of white teeth, in healthy gums. For a glimpse of dingy teeth and ten- der gums can blast a budding romance in a split second! WHY IS “PINK TOOTH BRUSH” sO COMMON? It’s very simple. The soft foods that we all eat nowadays—almost exclusively— MODERN SCREEN cannot possibly give teeth and gums enough work to do to keep them healthy. They grow lazy. Deprived of the natural stimulation of hard, coarse foods, they become sensitive, tender. And then, pres- ently, “pink tooth brush’’ warns you that your gums are unhealthy —suscep- tible to infection. Modern dental practice suggests Ipana plus massage for several good reasons. If you will put a little extra Ipana on brush or fingertip and massage your gums every time you brush your teeth, you will understand. Rub it in thor- makes her avoid all close-ups — dingy teeth and tender gums destroy her charm oughly. Massage it vig- orously. Do it regularly. And your mouth will feel cleaner. There will be a new and livelier tingle in your gums—new circulation, new firmness, new health. Make Ipana plus massage a regular part of your routine. It is the dentist's ablest assistant in the home care of the teeth and gums. For with healthy gums, you've ceased to invite ‘‘pink tooth brush.’’ You are not likely to get gingi- vitis, pyorrhea and Vincent's disease. And you'll bring the clear and brilliant beauty of a lovely smile into any and every close-up.

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935 ©cis 280018 vp PRB RDEERRENG SoBe NOW SHOWIN REGINA CANNON, EDITOR ADELIA BIRD, Associate Editor ABRIL LAMARQUE, Art Editor LEO TOWNSEND, Hollywood Editor FEATURES SHIRLEY TEMPLE, SAVER OF LIVES What her success gives others............-..-. Franc Dillon 26 SPENCER TRACY SPEAKS HIS MIND and it’s all praising Hollywood......... Gladys Hall 28 NEW STAR IN THE SKY Zuise Rainer’s fascinating story..............00. cece eee eee Dena Reed 30 TAKING CARE OF MAMA. Bollywood husbands give tips... © ..........-- 0s Kay Osborn 32 TAKING CARE OF PAPA And some wives talk; too!.....00 00.00.00 eee cence eee Muriel Babcock 33 SILENT YOUNG MAN denry Fonda talks little but gets places.....................Martha Kerr 34 THE LONE WOLF OF HOLLYWOOD That's the real George Brent.............. Gladys Hall 35 ROMANTIC—NEVER ROUTINE Del Rio discusses her marriage...................-- Hilary Lynn 36 A TALE OF TWO CITIES § Fictionization of the Dickens epic.... ..........200.2.- 5. Mary Mayes 38 MR. BOLES TAKES PEN INHAND And answers fans’ questions.............. -.-Kay Osborn 40 BIOGRAPHY OF BINNIE Za Barnes has had a hectic life..................... ‘Charles Darnton 41 IF YOU WOULD HAVE A FIGURE LIKE CRAWFORD You work for it!......... Mme. Sylvia 42 PONS & CO. INVADE HOLLYWOOD The iittie diva’s amusing interview....Ramon Romero 44 “!'D BE A TERRIBLE HUSBAND!" Says romantic Francis Lederer............+. Dorothy Donnell 45 CONFESSIONS OF AN EXTRA GIRL Part 5. Continuing her true experiences... .............. 46 THE MEN WHO MAKE YOUR MOVIES Electricians get the spotlight....... Katherine Albert 47 WARM FURS—GIDDY HATS Furs you can buy and hats to top them...............Adelia Bird 48 SHORT SUBJECTS Modern Screen Scoreboard............-- 6 Exclusive Portraits...................... 19 ReVigWs ons dacisies carne eiserare le aratereil ec aise avevaleve 8 Love..Gameeses055) 5 o.oo eee 54 Goode News. oe ela bi ae earner aries c 12 Between You and Me.................. 58 Beauty Advice..../......---00-s seen eee 16 Modern: ‘Hostess:s )<<.025,4 5s ae eee 60 Information Desk............-.-22. Hooo Gr j Published monthly and copyrighted 1935 by Dell Publishing Company, ieee | Office of publication at Washington and South Avenues, Dunellen, N. J. Executive and editorial offices, 149 Madison Avenue, N. Y. Chicago, fll., office, 360 N. Michigag Avenue. George T. Delacorte, Jr., President; H. Meyer, Vice-President; M. Delacorte, Secretary. Vol. 12, No. 1,,;December, 1935.( Printed inthe U.S. A. Price in the United States, $1.00 a year, 10c a copy. Canadian subscriptions, $1.75 a year. Foreign subscriptions, $2.50 a year. Entered as second class matter, September 18, 1930, at the Post office at Dunellen, New Jersey, under act of March 3, 1879. The publishers accept no responsibility for the return of unsolicited material. Sole Foreign Agents: The International News Company, Ltd., 5 Breams Building, London, E. C. 4 England

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MODERN SCREEN From the blood-drenched decks of a man 0’ war to the ecstasy of a sun-baked paradise isle... from the tyrannical grasp of a brutal captain to the arms of native beauties who brought them love and forgetfulness ...came sixteen men from the “Bounty’’. Now their romantic story lives on the screens of the world...in one of the greatest entertainments since the re of motion a CesebbecAr Rl, A FRANK LLOYD Production ——— LY with Three of Hollywood’s biggest stars Bead the notable cast >< Cig le Aer KOK LAUGHTON - GABLE In Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s greatest production TINY on THEBOUNTY “= FRANCHOT TONE Herbert Mundin + Eddie Quillan « Dudley Digges - Donald Crisp Albert Lewin, Associate Producer

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MODERN SCREEN (om eg osoon to special theatres in leading cities . . . following its remarkable reception in NewYork and other world capitals... e ° 66 ° the spectacle connoisseurs consider “the most important production ever done in talking pictures.” WARNER BROS. PRESENT MAX REINHARDT’S FIRST MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM By WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Music by FELIX MENDELSSOHN BR She Slayers Jarmest@neney, Jac Broamn Dick Powell Anita Louise Olivia de Havilland Jean Muir Hugh Herbert Frank McHugh Ross Alexander Verree Teasdale Ian Hunter Victor Jory Mickey Rooney Hobart Cavanaugh Grant Mitchell And nearly one thousand Dancers and Supernumeraries Owing to the production's exceptional nature and extraordinary length, it will be presented only twice daily, with all seats reserved. To insure your early enjoyment of this picture it is advisable that you One ae (Dede. zi eee

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Another Dick Powell-Ruby Keeler cinema _ triumph, You'll find grand charac- terizations by Edward G. ... A TOUR OF TODAY'S TALKIES-WHAT THE CINEMA MARKET HAS TO OFFER THIS MONTH BY LEO TOWNSEND In “I Live My Life,” Joan Crawford proves her abil- “Shipmates Forever,” in which Dick sings and Ruby dances. Robinson, Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea in ‘Bar- bary Coast.” ity to handle a dramatic role expertly. Brian Aherne is her leading man. *kkk* I Live My Life (M-G-M) After seeing Joan Crawford in a series of psuedo-sophisticated roles in which she spent the major part of her time indulging in smart talk with the Montgomerys and the Gables, it is a pleasant relief to find the young lady in an assignment which gives her an opportunity to use the dramatic talent she once showed such generous signs of possessing. Of course this newest Crawford opus has standard Craw- ford equipment—the idle rich and all the accessories—but W. S. Van Dyke, who knows his directions, has handled it in such a way that one actually views the dramatic Miss C. of several years ago, which should be good news to all of her clients. More good news is the fact that the cast includes Frank Morgan and Brian Aherne. Mr. Morgan as the wealthy father of Joan—although the wealth isn't really his, he married it—is excellent, and Brian Aherne, as an archaeologist who follows Joan from Greece to America, proves him- self a swell actor with a light touch which could well be studied by a number of our younger Hollywood citizens. All of which adds up to the fact that ''l Live My Life" is the best Crawford picture in several seasons. Preview Postscripts Old Sol held up production on this picture for a few days. The company had gone to Catalina Islands on location, and director Woody Van Dyke magnanimously gave them the first day off to bask on the beach and enjoy themselves. They did—the first day. But the second found most of the cast in bed with sunburn salves dripping from their bodies. and ice-packs from their heads. It was- Brian Aherne's first good dose of California sun, and after a lifetime spent in the fogs of England it hit him pretty hard. Brian comes from 8 Worcestershire, one of the dampest spots on the English Isle. He made his stage debut in that town at the age of three, in an amateur production staged by his mother, who was determined, even at that date, to make an actor out of her son. She was one of the organizers of the Birmingham Repertory Company, and through this connection secured Italia Conti for her son's dramatic coach. But Aherne's only aim in life was to be a successful business man. It was only after getting down to his last five shillings following a try at the cold, cruel business woild that Brian turned to acting. This time the grease-paint got him for good. One of these days you'll be seeing Joan Crawford on Broadway, for she has her eye on the stage, and is devoting every spare moment to study. She's built her own Little Theatre in her Beverly Hills backyard, and with Franchot Tone and one or two other cronies, Joan writes, stages and acts in one play after another... . Frank Morgan started his professional life as a brush salesman, but ringing doorbells soon ceased to be fun, so he decided to follow in brother Ralph's footsteps to the stage. *k*k** Barbary Coast (Samuel Goldwyn) Produced with the skill and good taste which have accompanied most of Sam Goldwyn's recent pictures, this tale of California's boisterous youth emerges as one of the year's most colorful and exciting photoplays. In the first place, you have Miriam Hopkins in one of her best performances, as the gal from New York, who has come west to gather gold without going to the bother of digging around the hills for it. Next, there is Eddie Robinson, who is perfect as the owner of the gambling dive where Miriam decides to settle down. Eddie is boss of San Francisco, and Miriam teams up with him, runs his roulette wheels and finds (Continued on page 10)

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MODERN SCREEN Your Dreams Of Romance Set To Music! Dreams of gay,mad, exciting love! Dreams of glamorous beauty .. brought to life by the charm of the sereen’s loveliest sing= ing star...and poured forth in an inspir= ing rhapsody of Jerome Kern's music by the glorious voice that thrilled the world! LILY PONS “T DREAM TOO MUCH” an RKO-Radio Picture with EIN OUINE Das Osgood PERKINS - Eric BLORE Directed by John Cromwell A Pandro S, Berman Production Music by JEROME KERN composer of “ROBERTA”’

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te RAST hh RIS VUEW'S (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8) (Above) "The Dark Angel” is a picture that no one should miss and one that women particu- larly will love. Sterling performances by Merle Oberon, Herbert Marshall and Fredric March. (Above, right) Warren William plays one of his lawyer roles in “The Case of the Lucky with Genevieve Tobin and Patricia (Right) ‘The Bishop Misbehaves,’’ a grand mystery. tale with Norman Foster and Maureen O'Sullivan. Legs,” Ellis in supporting roles. the boys only too glad to lose their gold. Complications arise when she meets Joel Mc- Crea, a young prospector with the heart of a poet. More complications come when the law-abiding citizens band together to break Robinson's lawless control of the city. "Bar- bary Coast’ sets a rapid tempo almost from its opening shot and maintains it to the fadeout. Incidentally, you'll be surprised at the excellent performance by Joel McCrea, and you'll welcome a new comedian named Walter Brennan, who'll have you in stitches. Preview Postscripts The United Artists lot had a wild and wicked look while this picture was being filmed. San Francisco's water-front of 1850 was faithfully reproduced down to every saloon, dance-hall and dive. The famous Barbary Coast was built around the studio's two-acre water tank, on which floated two genuine ocean schooners, transplanted from the Pacific piece by piece for the occasion. Mud and fog were the two props that caused the most trouble. Workmen were constantly busy stirring up barrels of mud to keep the “streets'' covered with the two feet of mire which took the place of pavement in them thar days, while Paul Widlceza, Hollywood's famed fog-maker, worked day and_ night. There's not a cough in a carload of his product, for the old-time smoke and incense 10 fogs are taboo with him. Paul's murky at- mosphere comes from an apparatus that shoots live steam into mineral oil. The tem- perature was 140 degrees the first few days, but an air-cooling system was finally installed which saved considerable wear and tear on the cast. Not, however, before Director Hawks had lost 25 pounds, Joel McCrea 17, and the rest of the crew had lost plenty of pep if not pounds. Producer Samuel Gold- wyn and Art Director Richard Day spent months scouting around San Francisco for ma- terial and old lithographs on the Coast of the old days. The pleasantest research job was on the old-time refreshments. ‘'Blue Blazer'' was a favorite in the days when men were men and whisky was the real stuff. They just set fire to a glass of whisky and downed it for an appetizer. ‘Prairie Oysters" were the approved pick-up for the following A. M. Into this concoction went a raw egg, salt, pepper, worcestershire sauce, to- basco and whiskey. This not only picked up the researchers but practically flung them through the roof. *k*k* The Last Days of Pompeii (RKO) As a spectacle, this production rates high in the month's ratings. As out-and-out dramatic fare, it is still above the average, although we believe the photographers and the tech- nical department are the real stars of the picture. Sets are gorgeous, and the scenes of the destruction of Pompeii are actually breath-taking in their seeming reality. For those scenes alone the picture can be highly recommended. The story is not the tale we all know, for the producers have taken it upon themselves to make a complete change in that department. We now find "The Last Days of Pompeii’ to be a story of a poor young blacksmith (Preston Foster) who de- cides, after his wife and son die, because he has no funds for their proper care, that money and power shall be his gods. He attains his ends only to find everything he has built up shattered before him, and the real truth coming to him. An excellent cast is headed by Basil Rathbone, David Holt, Louis Calhern, John Wood and Dorothy Wilson. Preview Postscripts Research on this picture took longer than any yet undertaken by RKO Studios. For a year and a half, experts waded through ma- terial on the ancient days of Pompeii, on costumes and customs of the people, and particularly on the architectural developments of the time. Meriam C. Cooper, the ‘pro- ducer, took a special trip to that part of the globe where Pompeii formerly stood, in

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order to give it a first-hand once-over and capture the mood of the place. The magnifi- cent sets which were built on the studio lot were beautiful enough for permanent build- ings but were wrecked in order to show the final scene of the smoking ruins. The last scene in the picture is an exact replica of the famous painting from which the film takes its name. On the sets were reproduced the Temple of Jupiter, the market and forum, a section of the Arena with 75-foot statues surrounding it, a shopping section of the city, with the potters’ shops, silversmith's stores, wine-shops, etc. There were also built on the lot two houses typical of that time. They were complete in every detail with the rooms opening off a central courtyard as in the good ol’ days. Props for this picture ran up into Big Money. For wigs alone, $8,000 was spent, to say nothing of the cost of hun- dreds of suits of armor, chariots and costumes. *k*kx* Shipmates Forever (Warner's) The fleet’s in again—and so are Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell. Since this ro- mantic pair has already covered most branches of their government’s service it seems only natural that they should now turn their attention to the Navy. There have been nasty rumors afloat that the U. S. Navy was plenty peeved at the way Ruby and Dick have ignored them, so the Warner Brothers swung into action, and we now have “Shipmates Forever.” Di- rected by Frank Borzage, it turns out to be one of the better Powell-Keeler offer- ings. For one thing, Dick is learning how to act, and although we may be ‘called old-fashioned for it, we always say acting helps a picture. Mr. P., incidentally, is a crooner whose father, a Navy Admiral, wants him to enter the Naval Academy. Dick doesn’t want to, possibly because he ony recently graduated from West Point n “Flirtation Walk,” but he finally con- aa and from there on life at the Acad- emy is depicted with humor and _ spirit. By now you may be a bit tired of watch- ing actors in uniforms, but you'll enjoy “Shipmates Forever.” Preview Postscripts Most of this picture was made on location —and interesting ones, too. Frank Borzage, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Lewis Stone and Ross Alexander spent a month at Annapolis and five weeks on the flag-ship ‘Pennsylvania’ at San Pedro for local color. The Navy De- partment evidently likes its activities glorified with Ruby and Dick, for they offered generous coéperation in every way, even to sending two technical experts to Warners for the length of shooting on the picture. . Ruby Keeler is still Mrs. Al Jolson and now she's the proud mama of an adopted son, Al, Jr. The Jclsons have bought a small ranch out San Fernando Valley way and are going to live the rural life in earnest between pictures. . Dick Powell is a native of Arkansas, but his “'discovery'’ came.when he was master of ceremonies for three years in a Pittsburgh theatre, where Jack Warner spied him. Before this Dick had lived a tranquil life back in Little Rock, where he sang in the church choir and worked for the telephone company, hop- ing some day that he might be the leader of one and vice-president of the other. He drifted into the theatre business after a kind old lady told him his voice was too jazzy for choir singing. . . . Frank Borzage is one of Hollywood's finest in the directing line. His first success was with ‘Seventh Heaven" and from then on he has done some of the best pictures in the business. Borzage is a quiet, low-spoken man, and remains that way even in the heat of a polo match. (Contd. on p. 98) MODERN SCREEN A Big Smi Chocolade Tiblel and a title NCE this lady fairly loathed the idea of taking a laxative. Post- poned it as long as she could. Hated the taste; hated the effect; hated the aftermath. Then she found out about Ex-Lax. It tastes just like smooth, velvety, delicious chocolate. Mild and gentle in action... approximating Nature. She found it thorough, too, without over- action. There was no need for her to keep on increasing the dose to get results. On every count she found Ex-Lax the ideal laxative. It is the best in America .according to America’s opinion of it. Because more people take Ex-Lax than any other laxative. 46 million boxes were bought last year alone. 10c and 25c boxes; at every drug store. GUARD AGAINST COLDS! ... Remember these common-sense rules for fighting colds —get enough sleep, eat sensibly, dress warmly, keep out of drafts, keep your feet dry, and keep regular—with Ex-Lax, the delicious chocelated laxative. MAIL THIS COUPON—TODAY! EX-LAX, Inc., P. O. Box 170 Times- Plaza Station, Brooklyn, N. Y. MM125 Please send free sample of Ex-Lax. INiamne See Address - ‘Uf vou ‘Tive- in “Canada, ‘write Da- -Lar, ‘Ltd., 36 Notre Dame St. W., Montreal) _| When Nature forgets = remember EX-LAX THE ORIGINAL CHOCOLATED LAXATIVE P Hore . : 9 5 Tune in on “Strange as it Seems’’, new Ex-Lax Radio Program. See local newspaper for station and time. 11

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RRM RR a LAO WN + oS =—sAilll Photos by J. B. Scott © Des a — Colleen Moore's ex, Al Scott, and _— Janet Gaynor! This is the latest bulletin on the Gaynor lass and At from their frequent datings it looks like big romance stuff. One of the gayest breakfast parties around these parts was sponsored by the Eddie Robinsons a few Sundays ago. It was one of those affairs where, as someone once said, “fifty people were invited and all five hun- dred came.” The spacious Robinson lawn took care of all the customers, however, and many a Saturday night hangover was whipped into submission by a combination of New Orleans Fizzes, scrambled eggs and sausages, and waffles served by a buxom colored lass who must have been a stand- in for Aunt Jemima. You can check Jimmy ~~ Cagney off the list of Hollywood Admirals, be- cause he has just gone out and sold his boat. It was really a sad part- ing, for Jimmy wanted to become a hardy old sea dog. Talking to us on the “Frisco Kid” set, he dolefully announced the sale and his renun- ciation of the open sea. It seems, says Jimmy, that one can’t havea boat and a movie career all at the same time. You can’t live on the boat when you're making a picture, and when your studio

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They will be married now. Sally Blane and Norman Foster beam happily after Claudette Colbert's mail divorce cleared the way. gives you only a week or two lay-off be- tween pictures your vessel comes under the heading of superfluous scenery. So it’s goodbye to the briny for the Cagneys until Jimmy decides to retire. Practically the cream of Hollywood society turned out recently for the local opening of Ina Claire’s stage success, “Ode to Liberty.” The lovely Ina’s performances are consid- ered swell acting lessons in some quarters hereabouts, although most of the first-nighters were there primarily for entertainment. It was nice to see Ann Harding among those present, for since her legal battle with ex- hubby Harry Bannister over the custody of their child Ann‘s public appearances have been few. From all indications she made up her long absence by enjoying a big evening with Brian Aherne. And we mean immense! a | Dr. Joel Pressman, who the gossips say will soon be Claudette Colbert’s new hubby, must have been a football star back in his college days. Even if he wasn’t, he gave a swell exhibition of broken field running at the “Dark Angel” preview. The doc- tor attended with Claudette and the Paul Lukases, and it seems he was opposed to being photographed. So when cameramen approached, the Lukases and Claudette formed a flying wedge while Miss Col- bert’s favorite physician neatly picked his way through the crowd and into the safety Two old married steadies, Ruby Keeler and Al Jolson. Al looks proud after previewing Ruby's new opus, ‘Shipmates Forever.” Score, at the end of the Dr. Pressman, 7—Photog- of the lobby. first quarter: raphers, 0. B a @ This month’s leather medal for hard luck goes to “Riff Raff,” the Spencer Tracy-Jean Harlow picture. Jean and Spencer took turns being ill for several weeks during pro- duction, with Spencer leading by a cold in the nose. The day we dropped in on them Spencer’s cold was doing very well for itself, but that wasn’t bothering him half as much as the fact that he was wearing make- up for the first time. He actually cowered at the approach of the make-up man with his powder puff, much to the amusement of director J. Walter Rubin and a collection of prop boys. | |_| One of the current questions in Holly- wood is: what are Janet Gaynor’s plans for the future? Since the merger of Fox and 20th Century no picture has been announced for the Gaynor, although there is still a period to go on her contract. Her last picture was supposed to have been “Way Down East,” but after the re- ported “head-on collision” with Henry Fonda on the set she left the picture and was replaced by Rochelle Hudson. That bump on the head must have gone to the little lady’s heart, for she seems to have given up her former gentlemen friends and is now seen everywhere with Al Scott, the millionaire ex-hubby of Colleen Moore. It looks serious! Now you see them and now you don't—Jack Gilbert beauing the Dietrich! This billing is sub- ject to change by the hour! The Harlow family is having its troubles. First Jean’s mother announced she was divorcing Marino Bello, whom she married in 1927. Mr. B., it seemed, spent too much money for clothes, among other things. And just a few days after the Bello divorce suit was announced, Jean whispered to friends that she and Bill Powell had decided that all marriage plans are off, but they’‘re still to go out with each other when they’re in the mood. All of which gives the Hearts and Flowers department a severe jolt, for Jean and Bill for the past several moons have been one of this town’s most attractive matrimonial candidates. And here’s more news! Bill has been escorting his ex-wife Carole Lombard, about town. It’s getting so a star can’t look at an- other star without also coming face to face with one of those ever-alert cameras, as Joan Bennett and George Raft will gladly testify. Joan and George are good friends and have just finished co-starring in “She Couldn’t Take It.’ Sooo, the other night Joan was stagging it at the Troca- dero (hubby Gene Markey is in London) when she bumped into George. The gal- lant Mr. R., also alone, offered to escort Joan home, which was fine except that just as they reached the door a newspaper photographer snapped them. Now Joan didn’t want Gene to think she was step- ping out on him, and our George was averse to having Virginia Pine regard him as a two-timer, so a kind-hearted pho- tographer agreed to destroy the print.

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Ain't love swell? Maybe Fran- chot has made Joan Crawford Mrs. Tone” by the time you see this devoted snap. As we go to press the score on the much touted Crawford-Tone nuptials stands at no hits, no runs and plenty of errors as far as the press and Joan are concerned. Joan hit New York and Grand Central in a blaze of glory the other a.m. Franchot, who was also on the Century, obligingly did a fadeout at Harmon to leave Joan alone with her public. But somehow, the press got mixed up with the public and asked some very impertinent questions about ithe rumored wedding and Joan didn’t like it at all. However, M-G-M saved the situation for the herrassed fourth estate by letting them have a chummy get-together with Joan, still sans Tone, at the Waldorf the following day. Joan sat on the floor, waving white gloved hands and refusing prettily to. mention the moot question while the press had a jolly time talking mere nothings, but “nothing,” my dears. Score another five-star perform- ance for Joan despite a thin plot! Marlene Dietrich has just finished “Desire, her first picture away from the supervision of Josef Von Sternberg, and the whole town is anxiously awaiting the preview. Von Sternberg, who brought Marlene fame in “The Blue Angel’ and directed all her American pictures, has Personal appearance and debut of June Dorothea Erwin. Isn't she a perky lass? Papa Stu holds her efficiently, being his second. You had to look like a hayseed to get into Pinky Tomlin's party, so Jack Oakie is dressed up but Alice Faye carries her props. given way to Frank Borzage. Incidentally, during the making of the picture Marlene saw a number of interviewers, and Para- mount instructed them all not to ask her a single question about Von. The inter- viewers agreed, and everything was love- ly except that Marlene talked on only one subject, and that was Von Sternberg. Personal to Mae West: Remember the eve- ning a few weeks ago when you dined out with a pair of gentlemen friends? And one of them paid the check and _ generously slapped down two dollar bills for a tip? Maybe you were impressed and maybe you weren't. Two dollars is a nice tip, but here’s one we'll pass on to you. If you recall, the big-hearted boy friend was last to leave the table, and in a perfect ex- ample of timing and poise, he made one of those hand-is-quicker-than-the-eye gestures and rescued one of his bucks. Connie Bennett is still the best off- screen actress in Hollywood, in spite of a lot of competition. We mean that when La Bennett makes an entrance in a public place it’s so grand that one almost looks Just before Merle Oberon left for Europe she attended ‘The Dark Angel” preview with David Niv- en, her favorite Hollywood escort. Meet Mr. and Mrs. Fred Perry. The bride is Helen Vinson to you and she looks pretty happy as she and her husband cut cake. around for the cameras and the lights. Connie has a knack of arriving places at dramatic moments. At a tense moment in the tennis matches a few weeks ago, with everyone holding everyone’s breath, the lovely Miss B. made her entrance. Full of “perze’ and such, she strolled calmly all the way across the grandstand, paused momentarily, and strolled all the way back—she was looking for her private box. Finally, with a happy smile, she located it. It was the same one she had been sitting in every day for a week. We've heard of busy people, but a new high in that sort of thing was established recently by Binnie Barnes. When a airl tosses a te-rrific cocktail party for a hundred or so guests and then finds she’s so busy she can’t attend it herself—well, that’s what happened to Binnie. The party was in honor of her husband, Samuel Joseph, a British art dealer who was in Hollywood for a two- weeks’ visit, and Binnie invited practically everyone in town. Just as things were about to start, comes a call from dat ol’ davil studio, and Miss B., full of apologies, scam- pers out. The guests were extremely loyal, however, for some of them stayed on and on and still on. And what's this? Jeanette Mac- Donald without Bob Ritchie and with Gene Raymond? Mr. Ritchie was in England on business.

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Just to show you how stories get their start in Hollywood, here’s the dope on how the Bing Crosby divorce rumor got around. Bing’s Toluca Lake home has only three bedrooms, and since the Crosbys are get- ting numerous Bing put the house up for sale, planning to kuild a home in Beverly Hills big enough to hold all the present and future crooners. The minute the house was offered for sale the rumors began, but they turned out to be falser than a dollar alarm- clock. Bing sold the house to Al Jolson, who gave it to Ruby’s mama and all the Keelers. And Bing isn’t going to build a home in Beverly Hills after all. His Toluca Lake neighbors, including Jack Oakie, Dick Powell and W. C. Fields, sent Bing a petition say- ing that Beverly Hills was too good for him. So the Crosby mansion is being erected at Toluca Lake, and Bing remains one of the lake’s respected citizens, along with the aforementioned gentlemen, the Richard Ar- lens and Egbert, the swan. It’s becoming almost legendary with the Barrymores, but when one of them is in difficulty the rest of the clan rushes in to help. For instance, when John, after his highly-publicized pursuit across the con- tinent, arrived in Los Angeles brother Lionel was on hand to meet him. All has not been well between the brothers B. of late, and it is to Lionel’s credit that he can swallow the Barrymore pride when an emergency arises. Since Henry Fonda scored such a tremen- dous hit in “The Farmer Takes a Wife,” a couple of producers have been toying with the idea of co-starring him in a picture with his former wife, who happens to be Mar- garet Sullavan. The idea isn’t as impos- sible as it may sound, for Henry and La Sullavan have co-starred in summer stock since their divorce and may well be talked into doing the same for the cameras. Just to complete the picture, perhaps Margaret's husband, Willy Wyler, could be persuaded to direct. And the blonde menace could be played by Shirley Ross, who is Henry's current heart-throb. We imagine that no one was more sur- prised than Frances Dee, recently, when she opened the daily papers and read that she was in Reno to get a divorce from Joel McCrea. Not to mention the amaze- ment of all Hollywood which had thought that Frances was down at the McCrea ranch awaiting a new offspring’s arrival. Several editions later it came out that it was all a mistake and that Dorothy Lee was in Reno divorcing Marshall Duffield, the former football hero. Just how the fourth estate got so muddled with their Dees and Lees is a mystery—but every- ene was glad that one of Hollywood's happier couples hadn’t joined the friendly- divorcers. The fashion queen of the tennis matches was undoubtedly Kay Francis. The day we saw her the gorgeous Francis arrived in something very special and very much be- yond our masculine powers of description. All we know is that her arrival was accom- panied by the proper number of “Ahs” and “Ohs,” which is as it should be. The only unusual thing about her appearance was that she wasn't accompanied by Delmer Daves, who’s her constant companion on her nights out. Delmer is a scenario scrivener (Continued on page 56) MODERN SCREEN “Your corsets—since you wear them next to your skin—need fre- quent washings,” declares Nemo. “Not only to preserve their looks HI and fit, but because perspiration || when allowed to remain in fine Hi corsets actually rots away the ‘| strength of the fabric!” | A DANGER. Your corsets are | made of “live” fabric—need gen- tle treatment. Don’t make the mistake of washing them with hot | water or a strong soap! Any soap less pure than Ivory is apt to Ml make the elastic flabby. Use chif- Hi fon-thin Ivory Flakes, made of i pure Ivory Soap —“safe even for a baby’s skin.” i A PRECAUTION. “If you give Mi) your corsets Ivory Flakes care you i} can keep them looking as they did i in the fitting room,” promises Nemo. “Ivory Flakes are an ab- solutely pure soap—they preserve the elasticity and fit, prolong the life of fine corsets!” Hi NEMO foundation of silk batiste, Alencon lace and two-way stretch back with conve- nient talon closing. Light front boning. Very low back. Sold in fine stores everywhere. “SHE WEARS A NEMO BECAUSE SHE’S SMART” DO’s and DON’Ts in Corset-washing DO use lukewarm water and pure Ivory Flakes. DON’T use a less-pure soap—it weakens fabrics. DO squeeze suds through, using a soft brush on soiled spots—Rinse in lukewarm water. DON’T rub, wring or twist—it may distort the garment. DO roll in towel and knead to remove excess moisture. DON’T allow to remain rolled up. DO dry garment away from heat—Press fabric parts on wrong side with a moderately warm iron. DON’T use hot iron—Don’t iron elastic. IVORY FLAKES 22%.r0r2 | 15 |

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BaeAUTY AID WU C Perfumes can do wonders for one, when applied prop- erly and selected wisely. Notice Rita Cansino (above, left), applying a dash of her favored scent to her eye- lids and Mary Carlisle (above) touching her ear lobes with the perfume bottle stopper. Nowadays, perfumes are done up so elegantly that they find their way into many a Christmas stocking. The sketch on the lett may give you some gift suggestions. BY M AR Y: B 1 Depa IF PERFUMES were chosen to fit personalt- ties, we would have to choose a brand new one for Merle Oberon in “The Dark Angel.” It would have to be a sort of elusive perfume that would take wings when you were closest to it, that would never overwhelm you with the definiteness of its odor. It would have to be a blend of such richness and variety as to suit this amazing Merle, who can make real such widely varying roles as that of the young English girl in “The Dark Angel” and_ the poignant Japanese wife in “Thunder in the East.” How different the perfume we would choose for her now than we would have chosen for her in her exotic era. Before her part in “The Dark Angel,” Merle Oberon always played purely exotic roles. The exotic has given way to the smartly wholesome, as represented by Merle Oberon and Myrna Loy, two of the most interesting women on the screen, who have been de-Orientalized for modern roles. And the exotic in perfume has given way to the light bouquet odors, blended of the fragrance of myriad flowers, as Merle and Myrna are blends of myriad personality types in one. Just as you are and as we all are. Perfumes seem to run in cycles like films. 16 For a YOUR PERFUME REFLECT YOUR PERSONALITY while we had a regular run on Japanese and Chinese screen stories. Perhaps that was why my conversation with a film executive, who had just recently returned from Japan, turned to incense-guessing parties, of all things. They have them in Japan, you know. CENSERS of incense are passed around, each guest smells dutifully of the fumes, and records his guess. As the game progresses, the sense of smell becomes so numbed that it is customary to rinse the mouth at inter- vals with pure vinegar. (And, come to think of it, a vinegar rinse ought to be excellent for the girl who sat next to me in the theatre last night. I practically drowned in her perfume.) It seems that instructions are very rigid where the guests are concerned at these incense- guessing parties. Etiquette demands that the guests wear no perfume themselves; further, that they must not have eaten any but the lightest and least odorous of foods before coming. It wouldn’t do for them to stage a party, for example, after an American Thanksgiving dinner where the turkey is stuffed with sage and onions. But even further than that, they are expected to take a pro- longed hot bath just before the party, and at the party they are expected to give their entire attention to the

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guessing, indulging in no unneces- sary conversation. Well, maybe an incense-guessing party wouldn't be so much fun, but how about a perfume-guessing party ? Now I can’t pass the perfumes under your noses and require you to take vinegar rinses, but I certainly can describe some perfumes that are worth while “guessing at.’ They make your mouth water in anticipa- tion of your next party and guess-who-will-be-the-belle-of-the- ball 2 I don’t say that a perfume can transform you from a Lizzie Glutz into a Claudette Colbert, but I do say that it can give you an emotional lift, and a confident little thrill that will do wonders for you socially. Um-m-m . smell the gardenia? And no Joan Crawford in sight. The fragrance comes from one of the smart little bottles pictured in the art spot on page 16. There are gar- denia perfumes and gardenia per- fumes—and most of them I have felt too awfully extravagant, even for perfume. But this is as inexpensive as it is delightful. Gardenia is a challenging fragrance, you know. That’s why it does things to you, and for you. HERE'S A perfume for you to smell only at a luncheon or break- fast guessing party. It’s especially created for daytime wear. It is lightly unobtrusive. Even the hard- est boiled boss couldn’t object to it in his office. (Have you seen Claudette Colbert in “She Married Her Boss’’?) When you leave the office and throw off your “office personality,” or when you leave the house and want to throw off the shackles of the wife- housekeeper personality, then there’s a special evening perfume for you, a twin to the daytime creation. They say that twins are generally less alike in most ways than sisters. That’s why I call this evening perfume the twin of the daytime fragrance. You'll like them both, but I think the evening number will be your fa- vorite. It will be a long time before the lilacs bloom again. But you can catch the true essential fragrance of lilacs in this next perfume I’m way- ing provocatively under your very noses. A famous actress once said that she had two favorite fragrances in the whole wide world. One was the smell of lilacs in the warm spring rain, the other was the smell of fresh, warm gingerbread. There’s another perfume that makes you think of all the freshness of a garden in the warm, spring rain. It paints a perfume picture of ro- mance in the rain. It comes in tal- cum powder, Eau de Cologne, and other (Continued on page U2) MODERN SCREEN Ido. att—with honey-colored hair, dha eyes and a smooth, beauti- ful skin—Camay never had a fairer or more sincere advocate. What she doesn’t quite under- stand is why all women—every- where—arent just as devoted to Camay! And there ts something in her viewpoint. Because if you, and you, and you would begin today with Camay—note how swiftly it lathers and how says this California bride pleasant is its delicate fragrance — how soft and smooth it keeps your skin—what definite improvements follow its use—Camay would be your beauty soap, solely and exclusively! Buy at least three cakes of Camay today. You'll find that its price is surprisingly low. your loveliness to light. Let Camay bring 17

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MODERN SCREEN und.. The yzades thrill in = THE MIGHTY VOICE OF TIBBETT! He stirs you as never before in this great picture, revealing the glamour and glory . . . comedy and caprice ... rivalries and loves .. . behind the cur- tain of the world’s most spectacular opera house! | Wi AMY VIRGINIA BRUCE ALICE BRADY CESAR ROMERO THURSTON HALL \ A © DARRYL F. ZANUCK 20th CENTURY PRODUCTION Presented by Joseph M. Schenck Directed by Richard Boleslawski 6 HEAR THE GREAT TIBBETT SING: Pagliacci - The Road to Mandalay POs The Toreador Song from Carmen OX Ibe Barber of Seville « Faust

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Everyone is busy dubbing Eleanor Powell “the female Fred Astaire _ doesn’t need any such helpful tags for she’s something pretty darn e C own laurels. You'll get what we mean when you've seen “Br 1936." Eleanor has just about everything plus the fastest tapping fe¢g a gal. What's more, she’s regular. Sincere and real with a ref tude toward her own talents. She’s a New England pro om Broadway to make herself a Hollywood name wi ~

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by ki You’ wai hin wa he is today . . . well, it's true. The suave Gable is no mor rough and ready gent who battles his way through "Mutiny on the Bounty’ to ‘The e World And all because you fans love him that way. Whai's more, = too. ae Smoothie roles were never to his taste for, he’s a he-man, not a sassiety Off-screen, in dentally, Clark likes nothing better than roughing it on camping tips - H

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Over at the Brothers Warner there's a dark-eyed little girl who is busy chalking up some exce!- lent credit marks to her name. She’s Olivia De Havilland who surprised you with her swell performance of Hermia in “A Midsummer Night's Dream.” She's up to her pretty ears in pirates at the moment as you can guess by the trappings above. “Captain Blood” is the busi- ness in hand and it gives her another neat little part to prove how versatile she is

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When gals sigh over you and men admit you're a “good guy,” then

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Those old meanies who whis that the Hepburn crown was slippir have had to eat their words. Af Kate’s tender, sympathetic portrayal of poor silly, pathetic “Alice Adams,” she can snatch back that seat on the ~ top of the Hollywood heap. “Sylvia Scarlett” will give her another meaty part that should be right in her stride ~ now that she is geared to a new dramatic pace. Those rumors of her marriage to Leland Heyward still per- sist, but after her silence on her first marriage, it’s doubtful that the gossips will get farther than rumor.

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Mee? the screen's number one silent, heman. Gary Cooper can suffer more stoically, meet situ: ations more forcefully and tie more leading women into knots by his Lunderstand-itall love: making than any one other movie hero. Having just dreamed his life away in “Peter Ibbetson” ig, Gary will casi his spell next om Marlene Dietrich in “Desire.” They should lake an exciting team—the Dietrich lure plus the Cooper charm.

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Lovely to look at, delightful to see—is Gladys Swarthout, who will make you revise the notion that all operatic stars are fair, fat and forty. A piquant personality...a charm and grace all her own...a voice of molten gold...audiences will take Miss Swarthout to their hearts when they see her in Paramount's colorful “Rose of the Rancho,” in which she is co-starred with John Boles.

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. . SRIMRLEY A YEAR ago when things looked bleak and hopeless all over the country, when no conversa- tion was ever concluded without a few groans over the depression, Washington held out helping hands in the:form of the AAA, NRA, SERA and many other alphabeti- cal combinations. Then, suddenly, Hol- lywood went in for the “letters” too, and out in the West was organized the TRA. It is safe to wager that Wash- ington has never heard of the TRA, although the most hard-boiled pessimist must admit that this one de- pression cure has made greater strides toward a complete mental and financial re- THE DE- PRESSION’S OVER FOR | THOUSANDS BECAUSE OF HER! BY FRANC DILLON 26

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ILE, OF LIVES covery than all the other remedies put together. TRA, if you’re still with me, stands for the “Temple Recovery Act,” and the big brains of this organization is little Shirley Temple. TO MANY people, this beautiful child is known as a career-saver for Jimmy Dunn, who was floundering about in a rough sea of bad roles and in worse pictures when ’ Shirley threw him a life line in “Baby Take a Bow.” Two pictures with Shirley Temple and Jimmy is tops again. = To Hollywood casting directors, she is that little girl who, through her unbelievable popularity, has caused their offices to be overrun with thousands of other curly-haired children whose mothers are of the opinion that their little pets have everything that Shirley has. “Yes, and a little more,’ says one fond mama firmly. To the financial barons of the Fox organization and to many a motion picture theatre box office suffering from undernourishment, Shirley was a Godsend; to theatre patrons all over the world she was something new and amusing to see when Mr. Hays and his moral squad said “nix on sex appeal,” and she has been an international cure for the blues. That would seem enough for one small girl to have accomplished before her sixth birthday, but Shirley stops at nothing. Not content with cheering up half the civi- lized population of the world, she has done a man’s size job of bringing about financial recovery for,a great many people. Three people have a salary 52 weeks a year on account of Shirley’s meteor-like rise to stardom. When actually making pictures, which is about forty weeks a year, seven more people have regular weekly salaries. This does not All of Shirley's dresses have a childish sim- plicity like this pale blue’silk with organdy. Such cunning cos- tumes as this mean 52 weeks of work for the studio seamstresses. include the hundreds of people who work in and on her pictures or the hundreds of others who are employed in the various Shirley Temple enterprises’ throughout the country. DURING THE making of “Curly Top,” there was the usual rush of activity in the wardrobe department. The hum of sewing machines, the jangle of telephones and the rushing about of fitters and seamstresses all added to the general confusion. Suddenly, above the general tumult, a child’s voice floated out through a transom over a fitting-room door. “T want to show the girls,” the tiny voice demanded. “Please let me show the girls my wedding dress.” Almost immediately the door opened and out came Shirley resplendent in.a white satin wedding dress. Grasping her long skirt with one hand and her veil with the other, she skipped gaily toward the sewing room. “Sing, girls, sirig!” she demanded, as she stood poised in the doorway. “You must sing the wedding song.” With no thought other than to obey the command of their princess, for to them Shirley is nothing less, all work stopped and a dozen or so sewing women began to sing, “Here Comes the Bride,” as Shirley tripped happily down between the long rows of sewing tables, the recipi- ent of adoring glances as she passed. “It’s beautiful,” said one woman. husband.” “Yes,” Shirley giggled, “the only thing missing is the broom.” “All you need is a THB PARADE over, Shirley was maneuvered back into the fitting room by her mama and the French designer, René Hubert. Reluctantly, she (Continued on page 78) She wore this in “Curly Top” but her favorite dress was the wedding gown. René Hubert, designer of this daisy dress, says there’s no star he'd rather create for.

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" ‘Bs ee DS DRAW UP Y O Gea CHAIR AND LISTEN TO SOME IN- SIDE STUFF BY GLADYS HALL (Left) Spencer says, “For actors to complain about Hollywood and the producers is like a spoiled brat hit- ting an undemanding parent in the face.’ (Below) With Virginia Bruce and Robert Barrat in “Murder Man.” (Right) His deat son, Johnny, whom Spencer adores, and, extreme right, his wife.

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SPEARS EIS MIND “ME,” SAID Spencer Tracy, “I pay for what I get. I also get what I pay for. Every sor- row in my life has had its corresponding joy. Every loss has had its profit. My life, like everybody else’s, I guess, is a matter of debit and credit. The scales weigh pretty even if you have the patience to balance them. “T can’t discuss any vital matter,” Spence said, that shy and honest grin of his making a ruggedly plain face not plain at all, “I can’t talk about anything concerning myself without bringing my ten-year-old son, Johnny, into it. That’s because Johnny is the vital thing in my life, you know. It’s his tenth birthday today, by the way. He’s having twenty-one kids in for a party. I’m the twenty-oneth ! “Well, Johnny, as you know, doesn’t hear. He had infantile paralysis when he was too little a shaver to have met up with suffering at all. He has caused me the near- est thing to heartbreak I ever want to know. On the other hand he has given me profound happiness, the emotion of a deeper tenderness than I could ever have known without him, a humble understanding of what courage can be in a little kid, a thrilling hope for what we may build together out of his disasters. Pretty heavy -on the credit side, huh? “My own mistakes—romance I should have foregone —the ‘bad boy’ I’ve played on occasion—the remorse of these derelictions, however beautiful, have been balanced by a deeper understanding with my wife, a stronger love of home and home things than I could have had in any other way. Sure sorrow and shame have their credit -side. Their faces, when reversed, are sort of divine. / “WHICH BRINGS me to Hollywood—the debit and credit sheets of Hollywood. Well,’ said Spencer, lean- ing across our table for two in the M-G-M commissary while that sun-tanned, blue-eyed rough-hewn face of his blazed with an honesty as real as flame, “well, I’m kinda nuts on the subject of Hollywood on the scales. I’ve said that most of life is a matter of debit and credit. So is Hollywood but with the credit side so outweighing the debit that a man would be a son of a sea cook to do much complaining. “And I’m not in the soft-soap business, either. I can wave a red flag with the best of them if there’s anything to wave about. But I’d like to know where else in the world people could make what we make here. Nowhere! I get so damned sick and tired of hearing beefs about producers, about parts that have to be played, about stay- ing on sets until after sundown, about ‘injustices’! In- justice hell! When a producer is paying a man some hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year—which is just one hundred and forty-nine thousand and nine hundred more than that same man would be likely to get for any other job—why shouldn’t the producer be entitled to ask the actor to postpone his dinner hour a few minutes? I sometimes think the studios will have to work with dogs if the actors don’t get hep to themselves and get off their high horses and down on their knees where they belong. “T’ve often had to get out of a room because I couldn’t sit with a gathering of people where some million dollars a year or more is represented in actual earnings and listen to the yowlings about the working hours, and all the other thises and thats. Why, blank-blank-blank, most of us never heard of such sums of (Continued on page 81)

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STAIR I HER FIRST PICTURE PUT Directly above you see the Luise Rainer who made such a great hit as the little companion in “Escapade. And = sur- rounding her you see Luise Rainer as she is to- day, living high on a Hol- lywood hill with a brilliant future at her fingertips. This charming Viennese girl made a first-picture success and now she is all set. She waves aside flattery, loves American jokes and negro jazz, tries hard to speak only En- glish but has to converse in German with her Scotch terrier! Her next role is in ‘The Great Ziegfeld” with William Powell. lange

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LUISE RAINER ON HOLLYWOOD'S STAR ROLL THERE MUST be something to a star who refuses to be flattered! Luise Rainer is such a girl. Flatter her, if you will, but be prepared for the consequences. If she simply laughs at you consider yourself If she calls you “‘liar’—in a perfectly charming lucky. way, of course—you will be astonished to find yourself laughing with her, for Luise is one of those rare people who can do such things and get away with it! Why? Probably because she is so different from anything Hollywood has ever known. Because she is so utterly appealing. Right here let me say that I don’t mean to “reveal” her. There is no knowing Luise, I'll confess that. One minute she is a madonna, her luminous eyes shining with all that is good and sweet—and the very next she is the gamin, indulging in impish pranks, her little nose crinkled with fun, her lovely teeth exposed in a broad smile. I don’t believe she knows herself, has plumbed the depths of her abyssmal little soul, for there is a great deal to her. Her tremendous achievements are a source of won- der and admiration to everyone. But I will profess to know her at least as well as those few who have been priv- ileged to share her hopes, her memories and her dreams. I was talking with an M-G-M executive about her the cther day, and among many things he told me: “Luise is a marvelous person. She is the best actress on the lot. She does everything thoroughly and every- thing right.” The make-up artist, Lillian Rosine, said: “She is so anxious to grasp—and she grasps every- thing !”’ While Peter Lorre insists : “She can make those who look at her face know ex- actly what she is thinking !” The point really is, I guess, that Luise knows exactly what others think! ALONE IN a foreign land, acclaimed and fawned upon since her tremendous success in “Escapade,” she told me frankly : “All my photographs flatter me. I know, because I have been looking into my mirror for twenty-three years!” And what answer is there to that? But things were not always champagne and caviar with Luise. Her father, a merchant of Dusseldorf, managed to lose the family fortune when she was sixteen. This was the first crisis in her life and she met it admirably. She announced she was going to visit her grandmother, and turning her thoughts and feet in the direction of the Luise Dumont Theatre she presented herself for an audi- tion. Ten minutes later she had been offered a contract, accepted it, and there she remained for two years, adding to the family’s income and her own invaluable experience. Her next stop was the Reinhardt Theatre in Vienna, where success was assured. When only a child she had travelled in Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany and all parts of Austria. She attended no less than eight schools, and she learned languages, “all except English.” She also studied art and music, becoming an accomplished pianist. But her histrionic achievements were so immedi- ately brilliant that she cast her lot with the theatre, and after Vienna, she travelled throughout Europe, adding to her fast-growing prestige. During the engagement of Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author” she was signed by Metro and rushed to Hollywood, and here we find her now, a busy. happy young person entirely engrossed in her work. “Do you know what I like about America?” she ex- claimed, with those same delightful mannerisms which earned her the love and (Continued on page 84) BY DENA REED

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—— > “DON'T TAKE YOUR WIVES FOR GRANTED,’ CHORUS HOLLYWOOD PAPAS! BY KAY OSBORN I ENTERED the impressive offices of Bing Crosby, Inc., not expecting to see Bing, but to talk to brothers Everett and Larry Crosby about an appointment with Dixie Lee Crosby. (They’re a gang, that clan, and to see one, you usually have to be passed on by all.) 1 didn’t want even to see Bing, but there he was, anyway, in pins and needles—not on them, but 1 mean im them, literally—for there was the Crosby tailor taking tucks in the Crosby suit, because the Crosby physique had lost weight. “What do you want to see Dixie about?” asked Bing, his arms spread wide, to avoid the pins. “To find out the best rules for holding a husband— you, for example. She seems to have been very success- ful and I have...” But I was interrupted. “Stuff and nonsense!’ said 3ing, without changing his awkward position, and I would say that at that moment Bing came as near to being bom- bastic as his easy-going disposition will probably ever allow him to be. “That’s a lot of tommy-rot . . . ridic- ulous to say the least. Her holding me! I’m easily held. Most husbands are. But holding a wife—well, now, that’s something, something that requires brains and a lot of finesse, especially when the wife’s as attractive as Dixie.” (Puffing himself up a bit as he talked.) “If I do say so, I think I deserve the credit in my family! And I can get away with saying so, because it’s a compliment to her. Now, why don’t you do a story like that! “How to hold a husband’—there have been a million stories like that—but “How to hold a wife-—there you’ve got some- thing practical and original!” “Have I? Well, it all depends what you've got to say on the subject, Bing, old Bing. So go ahead—my pencil is poised—and give!” FIRST BING experimented to see if the suit would give. It did, so he sat down. “In the first place, for a happy marriage, the woman has got to rule the roost. I know some men think differently about it but they’re wrong. There’s no woman living who wouldn’t rather boss than be bossed. It’s natural—and it’s nice. I like it, anyway. Dixie rules our roost, and she can continue to. It takes a lot of responsibility off my (Continued on page 63) 39 Chesté and Susie Morris do the town.

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P Clark Gnd Rea 4 Jimmy and Billie agney at AIRING REO! HOLL VJ OOD'S LITTLE WOMEN CATER TO THEIR DADDIES’ WHIMS! BY MURIEL BABCOCK LOOKING AFTER papa—seeing that his bank account isn’t raided, that he gets home to bed early, that the blondes don’t snatch him— is a full-time job for a good Hollywood wife. What would you do if you saw your husband set upon by, not one, but twenty predatory women? You'd probably shriek and run to his rescue. A movie wife can’t. She has to control herself. I actually saw Mrs. Fred Astaire stand calmly and without a tremor, while a group of gurgling, feminine fans practi- cally rushed her husband off his feet. They flattered him, cdoed at him, and patted him. Someone said, “Doesn’t that disturb you? I should think it would make you furious.” “No,” said Mrs. Astaire, “the time to get furious: is when they pay no attention to him. Being idolized by his fans is part of his stock in trade.” Yet, I noticed that Mrs. Fred stood right there and watched everything. At the psychological moment, she grabbed hubby by the arm and nonchalantly dragged him away, leaving the fans high and dry. Mrs. Fred is one of our most astute and clever wives. She keeps herself in the background, yes, but Fred scarcely makes a move without her counsel. She spends long hours on the set, watching him dance, later analyzing and discussing his work with him. She makes a full-time job out of being a good and clever wife. I DON’T know why it is, but there are just as many children among our big handsome male screen idols as there are in any good representative kindergarten. Lots of these well-tailored he-men you see strutting across the screen in the latest London tweed or specially cut tails are so helpless they can’t even tie their own neckties with- out mama’s help. Not many wives, of course, go to the lengths one did in seeing that her husband started the day in a tranquil mood and was protected from any jarring notes, as he awakened from his rest-giving slumbers. This was Mrs. George Bancroft. Instead of grabbing Georgie by the arm and giving him a good hard shake when it was time for him to get up, she used to waft an orange peel gently in front of his nose. Whether the orange peel brought on a terrific sneeze which jolted (Continued on page 65) 33

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Eric Blore,: Lily Pons and He in “Love Song,; A hit in “Farmer Takes a Wife.” cast Fonda SILENT YOUNG MAN | THERE ARE a lot of people in Holly- wood who claim that Henry Fonda has had a lot of luck. In the cinema city less than a year, the lad who until recently was merely a _ pro- ducer’s gift to the summer stock company, has found him- self cast with Janet Gaynor in “The Farmer Takes a Wife,” and serving as leading man to Lily Pons diminutive star of the Metropolitan Opera. Any one of the above assignments would have sent the aver- age leading man about town “into the throes,” but our Henry seems to have taken it all in stride. It is easy to believe that the Fonda could easily play the original Bashful Boy. There are plenty of conceited youths in town who have a strong “Ritz” complex and who charge their concentrated aloofness to being that shy. However, it is the belief of those who know him hest that Henry really would have plenty to say if he'd bother to put his thoughts into words. Several vears ago he met Margaret Sullavan in New York. He became one of her beaux—the one she'd go FONDA! 34 MEET HENRY WOOD PREDICTS BIG THINGS FOR HIM BY MARTHA KERR to the movies with if the city slicker forgot to phone or if the handsome youth on the fifth floor suddenly remembered that he always took his sister to the movies on Saturday night. Then Henry would get a break. Not that he was ever a male wallflower, mind you. No in- deed. There were plenty of girls who would have enjoved his company, but they weren't Margaret Sullavan, so he wasn’t interested. Finally, came their engage- ment in stock. It was summer stock in a town flooded with moonlight and honeysuckle. The roles were roman- tic and Miss Sullavan said “Yes” to the sincere youth who had been asking her to marry him for many months. After the stock engagement. Margaret went to Chicago in a play and it was from the Windy City that Henry received a wire informing him that he was a free man once again, that the little woman had divorced him. He had no inkling that she had any thought of becoming a divorcée in her pretty head. But who ever has an inkling of what goes on in the Sullavan cranium? To say that this was a blow (Continued on page 75) HOLLY- <etaR

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‘love with the handsome Brent. And when Brent, who ig and Greta doesn’t like it. (News item some time ago.) MR. BRENT IS THE MALE GARBO WHEN IT COMES TO CRAVING SOLITUDE CHATTER IN HOLLYWOOD: ’T1s said Greta Garbo is extremely unhappy over her romance with George Brent. Believe it or not,-the greatest screen vamp of modern times is reported to have fallen desperately in loves to fly and play tennis, seemed to prefer his sports, Garbo is said to have actually sulked. Well, personally, I think this makes her more human. And another thing that makes her human is that she is rowing with Fredric March. Freddie, who 1s tops today when it comes to acting, has been unconsciously doing a little scene steal- BELIEVE-IT-OR-NOT RIPLEY should know about this. For if there lives the man who can make Garbo (Garbo!) “extremely unhappy” over her romance with him, if there lives the man who would make Garbo “sulk,” if there lives the man who prefers to fly, swim or fish rather than to dally with the Solitary Swede— well, words fail me. All I can say is that the case should be investigated and analyzed. I investigated. The clini- cal diagnosis follows. I talked with George Brent in an office on the Warner Brothers lot. He had exactly one hour to give me. For within the hour and ten minutes he was taking off in his plane, by himself, for ten days in Mexico. Fishing, ad- venturing, alone. A ten days’ leave had come his way after nine consecutive pictures. And he was taking the ten days not where the Garbos glow nor the Crawfords charm but somewhere in darkest Mexico, with a fishing rod, womanless. ... I put two and two together and the total tallied with the newspaper excerpt above. Nor is it only Garbo, the great and glamorous who becomes mortal for long enough (Continued on page 68)

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LOVELY DOLORES DEL RIO LIVES A THRILLING MARRIAGE Above and left, Do- lores alone and with her husband, Cedric Gibbons. Below left, with Everett Mar shall in “I Live for Love.’ An apt title for her own life. Dolores thinks of her marriage as “an exciting love affair.

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THERE’S an enormous mural in the Mexican Embassy _ Hall in Paris painted by the well-known Mexican artist, _ Zarraga. It’s one of those pictures _ that creates ens for and against! In the central group of three Gece a beautiful dark orchid of a girl, obviously of the upper _ classes, is breaking the shackles that bind two workers— a peasant farmer and a mechanic. _ The girl who posed for the main figure was Dolores _ del Rio. It was painted during her honeymoon grand 3 tour of Europe with her first husband, the ill-fated Jaime del Rio. In the face of much criticism—particularly _ from her socialite friends in Mexico City—Dolores finally 4 ‘succumbed to the pleadings of the young artist who had _ received the important commission, and consented to pose ~ for him. “1 always loved that painting,” she told me very simply, “because it symbolized what has happened in my own life—the break from a hide-bound, artificial existence. shackled by old-fashioned, stifling, social conventions to the unrestricted modern life I lead with Cedric today.” _ (Cedric, in case you don’t know, being Cedric Gibbons, the famous art director of M-G-M.) Dolores declares she is one of Hollywood’s most mod- ern girls. And it isn’t because her house offers one of the finest examples of modern interior decorating and furnishing in the West, nor because she has a yen for modern French and Mexican paintings, nor because she _ reads ultra-modern literature. It’s because she has mod- ern ideas about life and love, and she really puts them into practice ! “T have a modern design for living and loving,” Dolores continued. “To hear you talk, one would think you were living in sin,” I said, “at least indulging in a little free love! But how come? You're the respectable married wife of Mr. Cedric Gibbons—and I hear he’s not only digni- fied and reserved, but he’s also a very masterful gentle- man who won't put up with any nonsense!” She laughed, and the face which Baron Huene pro- nounced “the sublimest and most interesting for photo- graphing of any star in Hollywood” lit up with that peculiar del Rio radiance! Even her scarlet-stained toe- nails seemed to gleam with a special audacity through the lattice of the smart white sandals she was wearing. “We may be married,” said Dolores, “but our marriage _ has the flavor of sin.” She watched my reaction to this bombshell. “That’s why it continues to be so thrilling. As Hoes as ‘it has that exciting analy we'll stay together. F i By HILARY LYNN But if it ever disappears—we’ll leave one an- other. That’s a vow Cedric and I made the day of our wedding!” IN ITSELF this was a startling enough statement to make anyone sit up and take notice. Doubly start- ling in view of those frequent discussions about Holly- wood marriages which refer to Cedric and Dolores as if they were museum pieces. If they're ever seen to- gether on the boulevard, which isn’t very often because they keep pretty much to themselves, they’re pointed out with pride as one of the rare examples of a happy married couple in America’s best training school for divorces. “It’s a happy marriage because it’s an old-fashioned one,’ explain the know-alls. When | repeated this statement to Dolores, she was posi- tively insulted. “It’s ten million miles removed from any- thing that could be called old-fashioned,” she said. First of all, Dolores and Cedric refuse to regard one an- other as husband and wife. lovers! Which accounts “flavor of sin.” “And we live like for that dangerously thrilling lovers—deliberately,”” says Dolores, proudly. “First of all, we meet only at night, because we're both kept so busy with our work. And, fortunately for us, our studios are at the opposite ends of California, so to speak—M-G-M at Culver City and Warner Brothers at Burbank. So we haven't much chance of bumping into each other between 9 A.M. and 6 P.M. And when we finally meet for dinner at eight o’clock every evening —and nothing on earth except urgent studio business can interfere with that rendezvous—it’s with the same excitement that lovers have when they meet after being separated for a long time.” She smiled exultantly. ‘‘You’ve no idea how exciting a marriage can be when you look at it as a thrilling love affair, and not a tied-to-each- other-for-life, monotonous burden. And mar- riage could be that for everyone—if they were willing to act the part of lovers, and not bored husbands and wives.” (At this juncture I couldn't help smiling and wondering, privately. whether Dolores and Cedric had ever heard of that Oklahoma in- stitution, the ‘Husbands’ Gratitude Club.” ° These are the national bene- (Cont'd on p. 76) They think of each other as _

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Donald Woods as Charles Darnay. \ Miss Pross, Edna May Oliver. TAha OF TW ONE MAN DIED SO ANOTHER COULD THE MESSAGE ... It was the year of Our Lord 1784. Up Shooter’s Hill on the Dover Road (for they called that stretch of mud and ruts a road) a coach plodded ii doggedly. The passengers, perforce, walked by its side, for it was all the poor horses 4 could do to pull the coach, let alone the passengers. Close they stayed to the clumsy i vehicle, as if for protection, thoughts of highwaymen astir in their minds. The sound of an approaching horse sent them huddling even closer together—sent nervous hands reaching for pistols and blunderbusses. Out of the fog came a hard-ridden nag. “Dover Mail? Are you the Dover Mail?” demanded Cockney accents from over a mound of muffler. “I’m a messenger from Tellson’s London Bank. I wants Mr. Jarvis. Lorry.” From the group of passengers a figure came forward. “Here I am. Is that Jerry Cruncher? It’s all right, driver,” to the apprehensive coachman. “I CAST Sydney Carton....... Ronatp Corman know him. What’s the message, Jerry?” : | Lucie Manette....... ELiIzaBETH ALLAN “Wait at the Royal George for mam’selle,” delivered Jerry. Mass PLOsse so Epna May OLIvER “Ah! She'll be at Dover. Give this reply to the office, Jerry: “Recalled Madame Defarge..... BLANCHE YURKA i@ Jbnie?” SUYUCT. . 0 eee eves ee REGINALD OWEN “Very good, sir,” bowed Cruncher, and departed. Marquis Dikoremondeen 75", 4 ae BAsiL RATHBONE Dr. Manette .... HENRY B. WaLtTHALL Charles Darnay........ DonaLp Woops OTS hans cere Soles b WALTER CATLETT GUS PORE IE kanye ag eae Fritz LEIBER (CODA DISA RS ee Ie H. B. WarNER Ernest Defarge....... MircHELL Lewis Jarvis Lorry....CLAUDE GILLINGWATER erny Cruncher.........- Bitty BrEvAN SCORES SG aoe ee ISABEL JEWELL Lucie as a Child...... Fay CHALDECOTT —Adapted from the METRO-GOLD- WYN-MAYER picture. Directed by JACK CONWAY. From the screen play by W. P. LIPSCOMB. Based on the famous novel by CHARLES DICK- ENS. Fictionized by MARY MAYES. 38 This exchange of cryptic sayings left the others in almost as nervous a state as if they had actually been held up by one of the robbers of the road. AT DOVER ... The waiter at the Royal George had his own opinion about the relationship of the fussy, prosperous-looking elderly gentleman from London and the pretty lady, who had just arrived with her maid. With that smileless smirk peculiar to all waiters, he announced to Mr. Lorry that Miss Manette was in her rooms. ‘“Good. Good,” said Mr. Lorry. He settled his odd, crimped little wig more firmly on his head. Then, catching the waiter’s sardonic eye, he added, quite unnecessarily, “Business. Strictly business. Er... I’m from Tellson’s Bank.”? A good man, Jarvis Lorry, if a trifle cramped and ~ over-precise from a life of attention to—er—-strictly business. Lucie Manette greeted him with a sweet courtesy. Bade:

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Lucie Manette, Elizabeth Allan. TUES . . WIN THE GIRL HE LOVED him be seated. Yes, she had received a message from his bank. A message about ... Obviously, something was puzzling her. An odd little frown wrinkled her brow. “Are you quite a stranger to me, sir?” she asked. “I know you—I'm sure I know you.” A shade fell on Mr. Lorry’s business-like face. “Yes,” he said. “Seventeen years ago, when you were a little girl, | was instrumental in bringing you and your mother over from France.” He fell silent for a moment. “And now,’ his precise manner returning, “the business we have in hand relates to your father.” “You knew him before he died?” “Yes. He was a client of Tellson’s Paris Bank.” Mr. Lorry fingered the wig, pulled at the snowy linen frills of his shirt. It was becoming increasingly hard to be business-like about what he had to say. “I am an arm of that bank—a mere arm. That is how you must regard me. Certainly none of these matter-of-fact statements could have caused the color to fly from Lucie’s face. It must have been something in the man’s voice. “You are,” the voice went on, “in a manner of speak- ing, a ward of Tellson’s—my ward. I have always handled your financial affairs. Now, let us suppose your father had not died. . . . Oh, don’t be frightened, child!” “Mr. Lorry! Please, what is it?” Oh, he was making a botch of it! “Tf your father had not died; if he had suddenly and silently disappeared ; if he had had an enemy who caused him to be imprisoned . But Mr. Lorry got no ‘further, for Lucie had fallen, a slim little unconscious heap, to the floor. His inexpert masculine attentions and his fussy alarm were interrupted by the entrance (Continued on page 89) Basil Rathbone as the Sel Marais, moe BRO a+ 39

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INTO A cold, gray London factory, on a foggy morning, tramped a cheerless girl in a shabby hat and a rag of a dress. Under her ‘arm she carried a lunch box, nothing more than an old pasteboard shoe box which was turned to everyday use. Going to her place at a grimy iron stamping machine, she opened the box and took from it a small picture cut from a magazine» This she fixed to her incongruous treadmill where she could see it for the long day ahead. “My eye!” remarked the girl next to her. “Don’t tell me it’s the Prince of Wyles?” “No,” the hopeless romanticist was told, “it’s Lillian Russell. She was called The American Beauty, and I’d rather be like her than any other woman in the world.” Into a warm, bright Hollywood room on a sunny morning breezed a joyous crea- _ ture trim and smart in sky-blue pajamas. A soft hat rakishly perched upon her gold-shot hair set off her refreshing charm. She held out a friend- ly hand in greeting. Then she drew forth a platinum-framed photograph which she placed admiringly upon the table. “I simply can’t quite make myself believe I've somehow lived to be her in the film ‘Diamond Jim, ” marvelled the one-time London factory girl, Binnie Barnes. “Has it been so great a change?” “Look at me!” she challenged—and that wasn’t hard. SHE'S DRIVEN “Nothing could possibly be greater than changing from : what I was to Lillian Russell. It.takes me back to that day when I worked at a racketty machine from nine in the morning till seven at night for a pound a week—five dollars. Not that | minded. It really was easier than my first job, when I had to get up at four every morning Cesar Romero, Binnie Barnes and Edward Arnold in the successful Universal film, “Diamond Jim.” BIOGRAPHY 1B} U0 NY NY U8 AND WORKED IN FACTORIES, SO ACTING IS A SISSY JOB! BY CHARLES DARNTON and drive a milk cart about the London streets.” What a background! But I couldn’t help wondering why an English actress had been chosen to play an American beauty. “You can’t be more surprised than I was,” she said. “Tt knocked me right off my pins. You see, they cabled me to come over and play Miss Russell’s chum, Edna McCauley, the fashionable dressmaker. But when I got here, they were in a jam and they grabbed me to get them out of it. They’d tested about a thousand girls for the Lillian Russell part, but although they got beauty galore, they couldn’t get just what they were after. They wanted someone sym- pathetic.” “Miss Russell was,” I recalled. “Then you knew her!” exclaimed Bin- nie, wide-eyed. Explaining that I'd known Miss Russell in her Casino and Weber and Fields days, I assumed that the slender Binnie em- bodied the “Beauteous One” of an earlier date. “Yes,” she replied, “when Miss Russell was at Tony Pastor’s and just entering her Broadway career. She was twenty-eight.” ?” (Courage, man!) A MILK CART “And you're “Twenty-six.” Singing with the angels, Lillian Russell, who had a way of keeping her youth out of Father Time’s hands, must have raised a note of thanks. “One thing that encouraged me was a yellowed pro- gram of the bill at Tony Pastor’s announcing, ‘Lillian Russell in English Ballads.’ As I’d sung them I felt we had something in common. And when it came to playing her I wasn’t afraid of my English accent. It isn’t very noticeable, is it? You know, I’ve been taken for an American girl ever since I went (Continued on page 66) When Binnie Barnes played Lil- lian Russell in “Diamond Jim,” she realized a lifetime ambition.

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Sylvia _ di- vulges Joan ss beauty and health habits. BE SLIM AND REMAIN | HEALTHY-—-—LOSE I THE SYLVIA WAY Joan Personette, the Modern Screen reader Sylvia chose as bearing the greatest resemblance io La Crawford. | BY MADAME SYLVIA

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OULD HAVE OKAY, Joan Personette, just take a look at your picture published right here in MopEeRN SCREEN ! What a swell baby you are! And you don’t stop at just looking like Joan Crawford, you even have her-first name. That last name is pretty cute, too. What’s this Personette business? Don’t you know how to spell personality? Well, whether you spell it or not, you’ve got it. Suppose you had the advantages of grand lighting, skillful photographers and make-up experts as Joan Craw- ford has! If they took that little pan of yours and gave it the works as they gave it to’ Crawford you'd see something swell. But what’s the matter, honey? Do you need that prop to hold you up? You won’t need it after you've received the personal letter from me telling you exactly what to do to perfect yourself. You'll throw away that spear, hold up your shoulders, pull in your tummy and look the world smack in the eye with a flashing smile. SPEAKING of smiles, where is your smile, Joan Per- sonette? Were you afraid, maybe, that your teeth aren’t quite so pearly as the Hollywood belles’? Well, let me Read what Sylvia has to say to Miss Personette and you girls who have or would like a Crawford figure. tell you something, lots of the Hollywood pearls are cul- tured. Half the teeth in Hollywood have been straight- ened or are covered by porcelain caps. And in this day of modern dentistry there is no excuse for anyone— movie star or stenographer—to have unattractive teeth. Never mind, baby, I’m one jump ahead of you. I know what you’re thinking. You're saying, ““That’s all very well and good but where in the name of Will Hays am I going to get the money for expensive dentistry?” And that brings me to something I’ve wanted to say to all of you for a long time. When you want a thing badly enough you can always find a way to get it! (And that goes for beauty and health, too. If you really want it you can have it.) You buy little luxuries and. clothes on the installment plan, I'll bet. You make sacrifices for a new coat, maybe. Whatever you really want you can get! And figuring out a way is good for your character. I mean that. But I’m giving it to you straight. The cour- age, the will power and the determination that it takes to “find a way” and go through with it makes you a better person. Look at the movie stars. When the new girls are signed to long-term contracts, (Continued on page 74) Work with Sylvia and take off that excess weight! Her famous diets and exercises lop off 15 pounds a month.

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In spite of her fame as an opera singer, and now a movie star, Lily Pons is regular. SHE IS no bigger than a minute, weighs but ninety pounds with her clothes on, and looks like a miniature Mona Lisa. Standing beside Jeritza or Farrar, she would diminish into a a female Tom Thumb. She has reached the highest range in music, but in spite of her fame she remains as simple as a child. Meet Lily Pons, Grand Opera’s latest contribution to the steadily growing list of songbirds who are bringing to the screens of the world a renaissance in music. When Miss Pons makes her debut in ‘‘Love Song,” she is expected to be as phenomenal a success in the cinema as she was on the night of her op- eratic debut at the Mulhouse in Alsace Lorraine, when she brought the musical critics to her feet. Aside from a bell-like voice, it is felt that her diminutive personality will do much to endear her to film fans who demand their hero- ines slim and slight. Minus the usual fanfare of trumpets, the little French doll of Opera appeared sud- denly one day in Hollywood to be introduced at a press tea at the Knickerbocker. Dressed simply in a linen sport outfit, she seemed anything but a glamorous star of the Metropolitan. Unaffected and ingratiating, she met each new person with wide-eyed interest, eager to explore into every new angle of movie production, bombarding reporters with questions, while each succumbed com- pletely under the Pons charm. News went out the next morning that Lily was regular! PONS &CO. INVANDIS BY RAMON ROMERO In the happy days before Miss Pons broke her engagement to Dr. Fritz von der Becke. Thus, with one wise, diplomatic sweep she smote to smithereens the rumor which had circulated up and down the Boulevard that something approaching “the tops” in temperament was about to hit the town. Stories leaked out from the RKO lot that when La Pons ar- rived, she would bring with her from Paris and New York a retinue of servants, advisors, music teachers and whatnots that would set a new record for visiting celeb- rities..In fact the Pons pilgrimage to Hollywood would be in the nature of a Safari bordering on extravaganza. But at the tea she was incon- spicuous enough to be mistaken for her pro- ducer’s secretary ! A few days after her arrival I met Pons & Co. in the mansion she had leased on Los Felix Boulevard. Unincorpor- ated, boasting no officials, without any stock to sell, and officially without even a company title, the invading Ponites had quickly settled down to the serious business of work. in the large, rambling vine-covered house, which might easily have been a villa on the Italian Riviera. Pons*herself met me in the garden, and led the way into a reception room for which | anticipated would be a private interview! Ah! Sweet anticipation! From behind the closed doors of the nearby music room | could hear melodic strains of “Pons’ repertoire” doing things to a piano. In her cute, broken (Continued on page 94). A BONA FIDE PRIMA DONNA COMES TO TOWN 44

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PN Sei Li LOBBY of <<a Budapest theatre the frock- coated, gardenia - buttonholed manager stood complacently surveying the throng of pa- trons hurrying from their cars. It was within ten minutes of the curtain’s rise and the evening’s events were proceeding in orderly manner. Suddenly in the midst of top hats and evening cloaks burst a young man with wild black hair, dressed shabbily in threadbare grey, carrying a white linen jacket on his arm. A young man in a hurry. “Tf you please,’ he said, panting and smiling, to the manager, “would you be so very kind as to lend me—for just half an hour—your trousers?” It is a tribute to the young man’s charm and radiant smile that the manager did not call the police. It is a tribute to his intense earnestness and sincerity that the request even seemed reasonable. “Tf you please, quickly! Or it will be too late,” gasped the newcomer, seizing his arm and steering him down a passage backstage. “It is so terribly important, you understand! The first chance I have had in a month. Only a waiter’s part but who can tell? It might lead to something. Naturally I could not play a waiter in grey— all the world knows that waiters wear black trousers. The coat I borrowed from a barber. I took it off him. He seemed a little astonished but he will understand when I return it and explain. Only nowhere could I get the rest of my costume. I stopped men in the street. I begged them. But no one—none,” said the young man tragically, “would lend me his trousers! Until you... . ah _.. thank you! Thank you . . . a thousand thanks.” BY DOROTHY DONNELL HUSBAND] ...AND FRANCIS LEDERER, NOT SPAR- ING HIMSELF, GIVES EIGHT REASONS WHY (Left) Frances Dee and Francis Lederer make “The Gay Deception” a delightful comedy. BEHIND THE shelter of a backdrop, the manager, frock-coated, gardenia- buttonholed, trouserless, stood staring after a slim figure running toward the wings, pulling on a white linen coat as he ran. With an air of conviction he spoke aloud. “Someday,” he said, “someday we shall hear of that one.” Francis Lederer relates this little interlude of his career as an instance of his early struggles. To him it is neither extraordinary nor amusing. It is merely the way reason- able human beings behave. If Lederer continually aston- ishes Hollywood it is because Hollywood is strange, not Lederer. If he chooses to spend his Sundays outflung on the ground under a tree instead of at Malibu or Caliente in order to renew contact with the earth it is not eccentric, merely natural. If he cannot work unless his pens and pencils point to the right sign of the Zodiac it is not superstitious but scientific. If he leaps from his seat in the midst of a play and runs up onto the platform to make a charming little speech of praise for the acting. it is not impulsive, but polite. And if he does not take Holly- wood always into his confidence it is not secretiveness, but because he has a different idea from reporters and columnists. as to what is interesting. “T would have told about it if anyone had ever asked,” he said simply, when reproachful interviewers descended upon him to demand why he had never confessed that Hollywood’s most famous bachelor had four years ago separated from a Viennese opera singer to whom he was married for less than two years. “But you see,’ added Francis with the beaming little (Continued on page 83) 45

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ILLUSTRATED BY CARL MUELLER OF EXTRA GURL PART V WHEN STUDIOS BLACK- LIST HER-WHAT THEN? WHEN JOAN CRAWFORD made it possible for me to get extra work, I asked her how I might repay her and she said, “When you're in a position to do so, help some other poor girl who needs aid.” At the time I did not realize how soon an opportunity would come but now my artist friend, Bradley, who had just confessed his love for me, was leading me to the home of a girl who had been insulted, as I once had been, by the “quickie” director. When she made a row about it, this director turned all the blame on her and said she was trying to “frame” him. It occurred to Bradley that her story would be given credence if I told my own similar expenienee which was just as harrowing. We found the girl, whom I shall call “Dolly,” "in tears. She reminded me of myself when I first came to Holly- wood—young, eager, bewildered. I tried to comfort her by telling her that our experiences were exceptions and that, although this director had insulted me during the first week I was in Hollywood, I had nevershad such an experience again. I assured her that the directors on the big lots are much too busy and much too impervious to go around making life unpleasant for extra girls. It is such cheap, small-time men as the one who had made Dolly and me unhappy who give Hollywood its bad name— a name it in no way deserves. But I told her that I would be glad to help her out by telling my story and she seemed to feel better. I did what I promised her I would- do and it was all utterly useless. The shoddy director behaved in a cheap, rotten fashion and declared that I was no better than Dolly and that I, being her friend (although I had just met her), was also in the plot to frame him. Such injustice made us boil, but there was nothing to be done about it. I tried to dismiss it from my mind. But I was not to be allowed to forget it so easily. I had, as I’ve told you, been receiving fairly regular calls for work from the various studios. These calls began to lessen. At first I thought it was simply because the season was dull, not many pictures were being made. But other extras whom | knew had not noticed this. I tried not to worry too much. (Continued on page 79)

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& ‘S, y 1 Cantrell, Paramount electrician, admires Helen sk (above) because she’s as sweet as Mary Brian. g Arthur Brisbane on the set one day thrilled ore than rubbing elbows with Dietrich (below)! aoe eae a ESE ETI BES Sa below is Earl Cantrell, in person. He has been amount for ten years and probably will be for i more even though he thinks from time to time that might break away. He’s typical of many others. THE MEN WHO MAKE YOUR MOVIES THE ELECTRICIAN SPOT- LIGHTS FAMOUS FACES BUT THRILLS TO FEW! BY KATHERINE ALBERT IF YOU were to walk on a movie set tomor- row, no doubt the center of your interest would be the glamorous stars making pas- sionate love to each other beneath the glare of lights, before the watchful eye of the camera. You would be interested to see whether your favorites were more beautiful on than off the screen. When the cameras ceased their turning, you probably would be held spellbound as you heard the director dis- cussing the next scene with the players. And, after all this, if you were not whisked off the set by the office boy, who was showing you around, you might waste a couple of glances on all the other people on the stage. That man with the broom sweeping away marks of the actors’ footprints, you would be told, is an assistant prop boy. That lad, who clicks two sticks together be- neath the microphone as a signal that all is in readiness to shoot, is a member of the camera crew. That girl with a ream of typewritten pages in her hand, sitting close . to the director, she’s the script clerk. And all those men moving the enormous lights, scrambling over the paral- lels at the top of the stage or walking around aimlessly, ;apparently doing nothing—they’re the electricians. DRAMA IS here. There is glamor and excitement in the hopes, the ambitions, the personalities of the people behind the camera—those people who, daily, are so close to the stars and yet, in actuality, so far removed from them. -And we, who spread the Hollywood scene before you, are often so blinded by star dust that we cannot see the importance of these people. Take the electrician, for instance. Would you like to be one? Would it excite you to be within touching dis- tance of Garbo, Dietrich; Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, every day of your life? Would it thrill you to know that the lights you wield had the power to make or mar the star’s beauty? Now meet Earl Cantrell, a typical electrician, and answer these questions for yourself. For ten years Earl has been at Paramount, handling “babies,” “barrels,” “pans,” and “strips.” He has been assigned to pictures in which the most glamorous stars have appeared. From Swanson (Continued on page 93) 47

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short cape is usually made with the skins in a horizontal and circular effect To sidestep for a moment from furs, | want to tell you something about the costumes that Josephine wears in this picture. She wears thirty-six changes of costume, covering a period of more than twenty years. The fash- ion period starts with 1917 and goes through the present day to several years hence. The interesting thing is that the 1917 fashions, with but few changes in skirt length and waistline, are not unlike the present day fashions 5() we are wearing. Helen Taylor, who has done such a grand designing job on these, believes that no one would laugh at Josephine should she suddenly walk down Holly- wood Boulevard in‘some of her 1917 outfits. And those that forecast fashion trends a few years hence are definitely worth keeping in mind. But to get down to earth, since you and I can't think only in terms of the lavish silver fox, we can turn our eyes to the many other charming furs. that come closer to our budget confines and still retain (Continued on page 87)

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“| enjoy the added zest that comes with smoking a Camel” Mrs. Jasper Morgan i When not occupying her town house, Mrs. Morgan is at West- bury, Long Island. “Mildness is important in a cigarette,’ she says. “I’m sure that is one reason every one is enthusiastic about Camels. And I never tire of their flavor.” The fact that Camels are milder makes a big difference. Young Mrs. Jasper Morgan’s town and certainly Camels are the popular house is one of the most individual cigarette. If I’m tired from the rush in New York, with the spacious charm of things, I notice that smoking a of its two terraces. “Town is a busy Camel revives my energy in a pleasant place during the season,” she says. way. And] find their flavor most agree- “There is so much to do, so much able.” Camel spends millions more entertaming. And the more people every year for finer, more expensive do, the more they seem to smoke— __ tobaccos. Get a “lift” with a Camel. AMONG THE MANY DISTINGUISHED WOMEN WHO PREFER CAMEL’S COSTLIER TOBACCOS: MRS. NICHOLAS BIDDLE, Philadelphia MISS MARY BYRD, Richmond MRS. POWELL CABOT, Boston MRS. THOMAS M. CARNEGIE, JR., New York MRS. J. GARDNER COOLIDGE, II, Boston MRS. ERNEST DU PONT, JR., Wilmington i MRS. HENRY FIELD, Chicago MRS. CHISWELL DABNEY LANGHORNE, Virginia MRS. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, New York MRS. POTTER D’ORSAY PALMER, Chicago _ MRS. BROOKFIELD VAN RENSSELAER, New York In summer Mrs. Morgan is keenly interested in yachting. “Another ih thing that makes me like Camels ii] so much,” she says, “is that they never affect my nerves. I suppose that is because of the finer tobac- cos in Camels.” Smoking Camels never upsets your nerves. Camels are Milder!...made from finer, more expensive tobaccos Hi s e ©1985, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, n.c. °¢-turkish and Domestic...than any other popular brand

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4 Romantic Duet Backstage love—an aspiring young soprano and the successful baritone. In | other words, Lawrence Tibbett and Virginia Bruce in ‘Metropolitan.” This behind-the-scenes yarn of the opera gives Tibbett a grand setting for his screen | return. And are you fans pleased! Alice Brady's a diva whose best notes are | | sour. As for Virginia, she gets the breaks, not only Tibbett but Cesar Romero.

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Love game on the tennis court and in the grandstand! At least that’s the way it struck Scotty when he looked about and spotted all these teams as spectators. At right, Gladys Swarthout, the operatic screen star, and her husband, Frank Chapman. They're very de- voted. Then below, left to right, Margaret Sullavan and spouse, William Wyler, prove that everything is hunky-dory with them again. Bob Riskin with Carole Lombard, an insepa- rable duo. And in the bottom row, none other than Gloria Swanson, looking smarter and younger than ever, with her constant swain, Herbert Marshall. They seem to be having more fun than anyone else. And last, Ann Sothern waits eagerly for Roger Pryor’s decision on a play. This romance goes on and on.

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Left, a brother and sister team that hoofed success- fully from Broadway to the screen—Vilma and Buddy Ebsen. Buddy also has the distinction of being mar- tied to Walter Winchell's Girl Friday, Ruth Cam- bridge. And right, the Holly- wood snapshooter’s sweet- heart, Arline Judge. And that’s our own Scotty with his arm about the gal. The camera lads decided that Arline always gave them the breaks, never refused to pose—so they presented her with a silver cup, in- scribed, “You're the tops!” Nice tribute. MORE GOOD NEWS on the Warner lot, and tennis on a week- day afternoon is only for the idle rich and the snooping reporters. Love in Bloom Department: Sally Eilers and hubby Harry Joe Brown holding hands like a couple of school kids during a recent cocktail hour. . Pat Ellis at the “Bright Lights” opening with Dick Green, an assistant director at RKO, who, they say, is Pat’s true love. Lyle Talbot dividing his evenings between Paula Stone and Martha Merrill, among others. . . . And Alice Faye sharing her spare moments with Billy Seymour and Vic Orsatti. Lee Tracy and Isabel Jewell together again at the Baer-Louis fight in New York. Von Sternberg, as you probably know, has just finished making “Crime and Pun- ishment’” for Columbia. Many were the Hollywoed gags which floated about during its production—such as calling the picture Von Sternberg’s Crime and Columbia’s Pun- ishment—but those who have seen the rushes predict it will be one of the real hits of the new season, The off-again on-again honors for the month are hereby handed to Robert Tay- lor and Irene Hervey. Following their romance is driving us dizzy, but we've finally figured it out. On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays they’re madly in love. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays they deny everything, and people see Bob with Alice Faye and Irene with someone else. We haven’t got around to figuring out their Sunday status yet. Visited Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan on the set of “Tarzan Escapes,” 56 (Continued from page 15) on which they have been working since last June. This is their third venture into the jungle, and Maureen seemed particularly happy about it because Johnny Farrow wrote the dialogue and spent much of his time on the set. It’s hardly possible that Johnny contributed the dialogue for the scene we watched, which consisted of “Ugh!” and something that sounded like “Ummmph!” If you can measure prosperity by the length of a person’s automobile, Mae West is the wealthiest gal in the world. Mae must have been saving the money she usually invests in diamonds, for she has just stepped out with a swank Dusen- berg that’s almost as long as a feature picture. Even on a foggy day you can see Mae for miles, for the job is all done up in white. All, that is, except the driver, who is three shades darker than Stepin Fetchit. Mae’s pretentious buggy sort of puts Bob Montgomery’s imported Bentley Racer in the anti-climax department, but it hasn’t taken away any of Mr. M’s enthusiasm for his car. At Metro stars are allowed to drive their automobiles onto the lot, which means that Bob practically drives his right onto the set and almost runs over his pals in his anxiety to show off his prize possession. It’s getting so he spends most of his time at the wheel; if Metro wants a Montgomery picture they'll either have to blast or write Robert a racing yarn. It seems there are two subjects Gene Raymond hates to discuss with interviewers, and they are love and marriage. Recently a writer asked him, “What is your opinion of a trial honeymoon properly chaper- oned?” Gene replied, ‘First tell me what would be your opinion of a trial chaperone properly honeymooned?” Danced with Una Merkel at the Trocadero recently and she raved about the grand wardrobe she wears in “Riff Raff.” Think- ing Adrian must have poured his soul into his supreme creations, we visited Una on the set a few days later for a first-hand preview of her gorgeous gowns. The little number she was wearing must have cost all of thirty-nine cents. It was a house dress ob- viously made for someone who was—well, bigger around the house than Una. And it wasn't an Adrian creation. Una said she personally shopped for her things and the complete wardrobe, dresses, shoes, stocking, jools and all cost her ten dollars. “‘There’s just one thing wrong with this lovely crea- tion,” said Una of her oversized house dress, “the men—it drives them mad!” So watch for “Riff Raff’ and the ravishing new Merkel ensembles. | i oe | Jackie Cooper’s mother has the right idea in re-bringing up a child star. Mrs. C. and Jackie take a beach home every summer, as a rule, and return in the win- ter to their place in Beverly Hills. This summer Jackie had such a swell time with the kids in the beach neighborhood that they forgot all about him being a movie star and elected him president of their club. Mrs. C., believing that Jackie is getting a chance to be just one of the gang, has closed her Beverly Hills home and will keep the club president with his fellow members at the beach all winter. Evalyn Knapp. who suffered a broken back two years ago and is now making her screen comeback, got her start on a lem- onade stand. When she was ten, it seems, she wanted to take dancing lessons, but her parents told her dancing was wicked, and so—no dough for dancing lessons. Brother Orville, now the orchestra leader, decided to finance the gal’s career himself, so he built himself a lemonade stand and turned the proceeds over to Evalyn for her dancing lessons. So if you want to get into the movies. just tecke a few lemons, add water and a dash of sugar.

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If you would like to have your letter published in these columns, you must write something interesting about a movie person- ality or a phase of motion pictures that will interest everyone. Address: Between You and Me, MODERN SCREEN, 149 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. “Star-Gazer” on the Carpet Because of a letter in the September Mopern ScREEN, signed ‘‘Star- Gazer, Cornwall, Eng.,” I am writing my first letter to a column of this kind. To call Joan “the essence of artificiality” is bad enough, but to add that she is only a “glorified clothes-prop” really rings the bell. Miss Crawford probably wears clothes better than anyone else in pictures. As for her leading an artificial private life, I believe we, who live here in Holly- wood, know something about that, and know that she is kind, generous, sincere and ‘cultured. We hope Joan will continue to be our beautiful, fascinating, talented American Girl—and I’m half English !— Vernita McClelland, Los Angeles, Calif. Jean Crawford lives as natural a private life as anyone in the movie colony. Joan and Franchot make a perfect couple. As to publicity—there hasn’t been nearly as much about Joan and Doug Jr. as there has been about Doug Sr. and his English lady friend—Roberta Peers, Virginia, Minnesota. A large dress house in New York has copied all of the gowns Joan wore in “No More Ladies” and they are all good sellers! Joan deserves more than a carload of orchids for having the knack to wear such glamorous clothes. I have written Joan numerous times and she has always answered and written lovely letters, which proves she appreciates her fans in- terest in her—Betty Miller, Scranton, Pa. It’s a shame that you don’t know all the little kind things that Joan has done for a number of unfortunate people, and if you did, you would not dare to call her artificial. In fact, you would dash off an apology at once. Your comment on her mouth is unjust. Only once has she de- served such criticism and that was in “Sadie Thompson’’—there it was slightly exaggerated. As for her hair, thousands of girls are dependent on her pictures to give them new ideas on how to wear their hair. Without movie stars to set the styles, everyone would look alike—Billie Be- fanger, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Good Work, Arline! I am glad to see Para- mount has given a real break to a great little star who really deserves it. I refer to Arline Judge, whose _ perform- ance in “College Scan- dal’ was one of the most natural portrayals I have ever seen on the screen. There have been many stars who have laid a claim to natural charm and good down-to-earth acting, but I am sure that Hollywood has never seen an actress who could have made the character of “Sally Dunlap” so utterly human and has pleasingly natural as Miss Judge done.—Frank Crowe, Spokane, Wash. Success Secret! I am a great admirer of George Raft. He has the same effect upon me as Katharine Hepburn— I am content to just sit and watch these two, they are so utterly fascinating. A lady once said to me: “Doesn't it just thrill you the way he shows ‘them’ teeth?” I guess that must be one of Mr. Raft’s secrets of success. However, it seems to me that the stories he is in are rather slow moving. “Lime- house Blues” and “The Glass Key” were better. But the leading lady in “The Glass Key” couldn’t act and wasn’t even pretty. I can’t understand this when ycu see so many pretty girls in comedies and Westerns, girls who can act, too. Here’s hoping I see him in a good story with a good leading lady—Bernice Coleman, Fort Scott, Kansas. Five Wishes Things I’d like to see done: Ann Harding (pic- tured) given a one-way ticket to China. Better roles for Spen- cer Tracy with an ac- tress instead of a glori- fied dress model as his leading lady. Ditto Franchot Tone. Why he is al- ways cast as the weak-kneed husband or suitor is past me, especially after his per- formance in “Bengal Lancers.” Shirley Temple giving her fans a rest for a while. Enough is plenty. Three loud phooeys for Herbert Mar- shall. I suppose he calls himself an actor, but to me he is nothing but a walking flagpole with his conceited airs and so perfect vocabulary. I wish he'd go back to England instead of spoiling good pic- tures with his everlasting egotistical performances.—Just Me, Detroit, Mich. Bela Lugosi Crime Report “Veiled Woman” sat in the ‘Thirteenth Chair” and dined with the ‘‘Prisoners.” She cried, “Oh, For a Man!” not knowing “Such Men Are Dangerous.” The “Renegades’’ were “Broadminded” about taking The “Dracula” with them on their “Black Camel” to visit “Women of All Nations.’ “The White Zombie” with the aid of “Chandu, the Magician,” committed “Murders in_ the Rue Morgue” on “The Island of Lost Souls” by means of “The Death Kiss.” (Continued on page 95)

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MODERN SCREEN Wels MODERN EOSTESS Yum-yum, Mrs. Woods has certainly prepared | a delicious meal for Donald. He’s telling her that English Beef and Kidney Pie is just what he craves. And Chopped Meat Casserole with Rice (right) is another dish that adds zest to a dinner menu. The coupon at the end of this article will bring you recipes for these and other delicious meat dishes. BY MARJORIE DEEN Courtesy Southern Rice Association “MEN LIKE MEAT,’ SAYS DONALD WOODS, “AND ITS A WISE WOMAN WHO WILL SERVE IT THE WAY THEY LIKE IT!” ASK ANY man what he’d like to have for dinner variety to the daily menu by serving an English Beef and and chances are about ten to one that he’ll answer Kidney Pie, a tempting Chopped Meat Casserole with Rice, “steak” or “‘chops’”—yjust like that without a minute’s or a rich, brown Hungarian Goulash! thought. It’s only natural, therefore, that a great many women “GIVE ME one of the dishes I’ve mentioned, in preference fall into the error of thinking that those are the only to steak any day,’ Donald told me. “Well seasoned, attrac- two kinds of meat their husbands really like, when the tively served and absolutely swimming in gravy, these truth of the matter is simply that the darling lacks meats star on any menu. With them I personally want imagination and can’t think of anything else to say on something starchy—potatoes, rice or noodles. That com- the spur of the moment. bination, so far as I’m concerned, makes a really perfect But no housewife will make any mistake in thinking meal ! that when it comes to food preferences men like meat. “Yes,” continued attractive Mr. Woods (whom you'll So, spurred on by a desire to economize, fortified with soon be seeing as Elizabeth Allan’s young husband in determination and armed with a few good recipes, she is Ronald Colman’s next starring picture, Dickens’ im- sure to discover, as I have, that there are lots of meats mortal “Tale of Two Cities”), “yes, it’s a wise woman less expensive than steaks or chops and just as popular — who realizes that most men eat vegetables only because with the men folk. they have to, don’t care a hoot about vitamins, con- Of course, these cheaper meat dishes must be particularly | sume salads under compulsion only, and shudder in- well cooked and seasoned to compete successfully with more wardly (if they’re polite) or kick openly (if they’re costly cuts for masculine approval. But I have Donald not) at the sight of too-sweet desserts. But if the Woods’ word for it that no man can resist the appeal of a main dish is meat and that meat dish is a success, Savory Lamb Stew or fail to appreciate a wife who adds friend husband will overlook any bad points about 60

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the meal and leave the table in a jovial mood, satisfied with the world in general and his wife in particular! “Take my own house as an example,” he continued. “My wife doesn’t happen to like meat herself! But like the wise little woman she is, she serves her fancy salads, vegetable plates, dainty egg dishes and the like at bridge club luncheons only. Then for dinner we have one of the many meat combinations that she has discovered I like to eat. Clever girl, what!” he con- cluded with a proud grin. Perhaps it was the praise showered upon her by Donald, or maybe my own entrea- ties had something to do with it, but at any rate Mrs. Woods went to considerable trouble describing the foods over which her handsome young husband is so very enthu- siastic. You can be sure that I listened with the greatest interest, for I felt that Donald was on the right track when he stressed a man’s marked preference for meats over any other food. And you can be sure that I literally grabbed a batch of Woods recipes when they were offered me _and rushed home to try them out and to pass on to you the results of my conversa- tion and experiments. pNGTER testing the recipes gathered from the Woods files. I’m here to tell you that such succulent meats and flavorsome gravies I have never tasted. Never before did I realize that one could do such won- ders with a simple lamb stew just by add- ing a little chili sauce and the right amount of seasoning. Never did I think that a pound of chopped beef could be stretched to make a meal for four, nor that it could be seasoned and served in such a way that it becomes a dish fit for a king— or a screen star! Well, you live and learn they say and certainly I learned a lot about men’s liking for meats from Donald Woods and discovered how to prepare original and unusual meat dishes from his wite. I know that you will be pleased to hear that 1 am going to give you several of these tested recipes this month. You will find two of them at the end of this article—one for the Savory Lamb Stew, the other for Pork Chops, Hawaiian—both of them great favorites of Donald’s. Just below the recipes you will see a coupon. If you are a wise woman you'll fill out that coupon, at once, and send it along to me, because some of Donald Woods’ best bets in the line of meat dishes are included in this month’s recipe leaflet. It is yours for the asking—as always. Yes, absolutely free! And pretty darned at- tractive, this recipe leaflet, if I do say so. Thousands of women already have taken advantage of this generous monthly offer of free, tested, practical recipes for the favorite foods of well-known screen stars. Others would do well to follow their example, especially this month when a moment’s writing and a stamp or postal will bring you suggestions for meat dishes that are sure to win your husband’s ap- proval (or your best beau’s heart). The fact that these recipes will help you save on your meat bills is just another point in their favor. I doubt very much if Mrs. Woods had any such idea in mind when she set out to discover ways of pre- paring and serving meats that Donald would like. But though she only sought— and found—ways to add variety to the menu, you will discover and appreciate the fact that her suggestions are economical as well. For these recipes provide splendid ex- amples of the two best ways to “stretch” meat money that I know of. One way, of course, is to use the cheaper meat cuts. - The other way is to make a more expensive cut go further by “extending” the meat (Continued on page 97) MODERN SCREEN “You wouldn’t hold out on my dolly, would you Mum- my? C’mon, hand over that smoothy stuff while 4 I give this child of poo mine a treat “I think this is right but I’m not sure. Anyway dolly loves Johnson’s Baby Powder no matter where I put it. It smells so good!” “Hey, this dolly put ideas into my head. Now I need powdering— cause I’m scratchy! Please take care of me, Mummy—Im in trouble!’ “[’m Johnson’s Baby Powder — the kind that soothes away skin irritation just like that! For Pm soft as silk — made of the very finest Italian Tale. No gritty particles nor orris-root in me. And don’t forget my team-mates — Johnson’s Baby Soap and Baby Cream!” g OU BRUNSWICK g NEW jEeRser Say

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J.; ELSIE HORVATH, Lorain, Ohio; ALLAN LESLIE, Antler, N. D.; RUBY RICKETTS, Anadarko, Okla.; N. P. GUNNERSON, Shrewsbury, Mass.—Our first subject for examina- tion this month is Jean Harlow, who was born with the name of_Harlene Carpenter, on March 3, 1911, in Kansas City, Mo. Her father was Dr. Frank Carpenter, a dentist. Until she was ten she at- tended the Barstow School for Girls in K. C., then moved to Hollywood where the Hollywood School for Girls carried on her education. Then back to K. C. and the Bigelow School and later Ferry Hall in Lake Forest, Ill. At 16 she ran away and mar- ried Charles F. McGrew II and went to Hollywood to live, but was divorced 2 years later. Through a bet she registered at the Central Casting office and_in a short time was assigned to an extra part in Richard Dix’ ‘‘Moran of the Marines.’”” _ Then Hal Roach took her over and she played in a Laurel and Hardy comedy, released in 1929. Because of family pressure, she was forced to ask for her re- lease from the Roach contract and spent the next 8 months doing nothing. Trying her luck once more, Jean (she had adopted her present name with her first picture) landed a part in Clara Bow’s “‘Satur- day Night Kid.’” Then she met Ben Lyon and James Hall who were making ‘‘Hell’s Angels’? and through them was awarded the lead in that film. The rest is movie history, Jean is 5 feet 3% inches tall, weighs 109 pounds, has gray-blue eyes and silvery blonde hair. She loves to entertain and is an excellent cook. Collects wire-haired terriers and phonograph records, can’t play any musical instru- ments, likes to play golf, tennis, swim and ride. Her second husband was Paul Bern, her third— Hal Rosson. She and William Powell are still lika- this. Jean is under contract to M-G-M Studios, Culver City, Cal., where she is now working on “Riff Raff’? with Spencer Tracy. LETTYE ANN VOGEL, Kansas City, Mo.; MARY ANN GORDON, Jersey City, N. J.; V. SCHNEIDER, New York City—Nelson Eddy is now working on “Rose Marie’? with Jeanette MacDonald. If he makes ‘‘Maytime’’ it will probably be with Grace Moore. ‘‘Follow the Fleet’’ is the next Fred Astaire- Ginger Rogers opus. John Ford directed ‘‘The Whole Town’s Talking’? and Clarence Brown ‘‘Anna Karenina.’’. George Raft’s next after ““Every Night i * is “She Couldn’t Take It.’’ ESTHER HAWLEY, ass.; LOOMIS, Ruxton, -; IDA SELLINGER, Chica- go, Ill.; MARY CHADWICK, EILEEN LEARY, Newark, N. J.; CHARLES R. QUINLAN, AUDREY SMITH, New York City; Queens Village, N. Y.; D DOROTHY MINNETTE, St. Louis, Mo.; M. R. MASON, Disputanta, Va.; KENNETH BIDWELL, Greenville, Ohio; N. SANTORS, Bklyn., N. Y.; CLARA HOUSTEAU, Leetonia, Ohio; THELMA REILLY, Salt Lake City, Utah—Chester Morris, son of William Morris and Etta Hawkins, both well known on the stage, was born in New York City on February 16, 1901. Chester attended grade and high school in Mt. Vernon, Y., and later the Art Students League. Although his father did not want him to become an actor, young Morris joined a stock company in Mt. Vernon. When. he was 16 he obtained the role of an old man in ‘‘The Copper- head’ with Lionel Barrymore, after which he ap- peared in a great number of other stage produc- What size shoes does Tom Brown Wear @ GO AHEAD, ASK US WILLIAM T., Clarkton, Mo.—The part of Addie May in “‘Steamboat ’Round the Bend’’_ was taken by a little girl named Lois Verner. Garbo’s next_will probably be ‘‘Camille.’’ Margo finished “Robin Hood of El Dorado”’ before starting her New York play. ANNE, Macon, Ga., ROYE T. BRAKE, Burkesville, Ky.; JANET GOLDIE, Newtonville, ASS»smds DRAVILLAS, Oakland, Cal., CONSTANCE PETTY, Gilberton, Pa.; HERBERT GIBSON, Lansdowne, Md.; OLEN McDONALD, Monroe, N. C.; MARIAN SAVIDGE, Jersey City, N. J.; E. V. FLITCRAFT, Oak Park, Ill.; BETTE WARREN, Norfolk, Va.; LOUIE SAUNDERS, Snoqualmie, Wash.; JOANNE ROGERS, Hollis, N. Y.—Rochelle Hudson is going places, and since you'll be seeing more of her from now on, you'd better stock up on her past history. Born in Claremore, Okla. (Will Rogers’ home town) on March 6, 1914, she received her education in_the Claremore grade school, and the Hollywood High School after her parents moved there in 1930. She determined to become a film star and after many futile attempts signed an RKO contract, making her screen debut in ‘‘Laugh and Get Rich.’’ After completing five more pictures with that company she signed a Fox contract following her success in a small role with Rogers in ‘‘Doctor Bull.’’ It is important to mention that, while Rochelle had no previous professional stage experience, she had ap- peared in local performances, had taken dramatic lessons as well as singing, dancing and painting. Her hobby is hook rugs, has two cats as pets, likes to swim, play tennis and read good fiction. She has grey eyes and her favorite color is blue. She is 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 100 pounds and has dark brown hair, After ‘“Way Down East’”’ in which she appears with Henry_ Fonda, she will be in “Snatched’’ with Bruce Cabot_and Cesar Romero. She is under contract to 20th-Century Fox, 1401 N. Western Ave., Hollywood, Calif. Miss Hudson is not_married. GLADYS PRYOR, Salisbury, Md.—John Wayne most assuredly is not dead. His two most recent pictures are ‘“‘Lawless Range’ and ‘‘The New Frontier.’’ Buck Jones will be 46 on the 4th of December. MARY LOUISE ADKINS, Cleves, Ohio; ELLEN SANDFORD, Los Angeles, Cal.; L. GLENNON, Boston, Mass.; MARY HILNER, Taines, Fla.; PA- TRICIA GORDON, Oakland, Cal.; IRENE HAN- YAK, Barnesboro, Pa.; DOROTHY FLETCHER, Melrose, Mass.; JEAN LAZARUS, New York, N. Y.; MATTIE LEE, Pasadena, Cal.; KATHERINE KNIGHT, Dallas, Tex.; MOVIESTRUCK, Iowa City, Ia.; EDNA MANSFIELD, Burlington, N. C. —And now’s for Robert Montgomery. The son_of Henry Montgomery, Bob was born in Beacon, N. Y., on May 21, 1904. There were tutors and exclusive places for his early training and his prep-school edu- cation was_ received at the fashionable Pawling School for Boys, following which he was_sent to Europe to complete his education, When Bob was 16 his father died quite suddenly, leaving the family fortune in a sad state. He and his brother set about immediately to find work. Four months later Bob was deck hand on an oil tanker. On his return to New York Bob got a bit part in a show through his room mate, following which he joined a stock company in Rochester. fter his stock experiences, Montgomery returned to New York, where he talked himself onto Broadway, and was_a rising success there for five years. His first talking picture was “So This Is College,’” and his first stellar picture was “Man in Possession.’”” He dresses with exceed- ing care, shoots.a good game of golf and is con- sidered one of the best tennis players in the film colony. He plays the piano and sings a nifty tenor, is an incessant reader, and very fond of scotties. Elizabeth Allen is Mrs. Robert Montgomery and they have one daughter. He is scheduled for three pictures, the first of which will probably be a musical with Jessie Matthews and Clifton Webb. Write him at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City, Cal. CELESTE SIMARI, Brooklyn, N. Y.—David and Betty tions. Then came vaudeville followed by more Holt are not the children of Jack Holt. Rosalind plays in New RS te Russ EU is in her late the summer te} a wenties. . W.. Griffith came to f MERCEDES FRITZ- ACY Non tor euaeanen If you would like to see a brief synopsis SCHING: eon m__ talent. este s i = 4 3 ats ) Morris was. chosen. for of your favorite's life in this department, CLARK, _ Kent, Ohio; the lead in ‘‘Alibi’ Cllminmandacendhusethoucoupankon page JEANETTE SMITH, which netted him a 3 Pp F Schenectady, N. Y.: contract with Joseph 73. General questions, of course, will be SHIRLEY ANDERSON, Schenck. _On November Th ked + Chicago, Ill.; LOUISE 8, 1926, Chester. Morris answered here, too. ose asked mos MULLINAX,. Gadsden, was married to Sue Kil- frequently and the most interesting ones Ala.; MARGARET born. They have two ty children, Brooks | and receive first preference. Cynthia. Chester is 5 many at a time please. feet 9 inches tall, weighs 155 pounds, has green eyes and black _ hair. His most recent M-G-M picture is ‘‘Pursuit.”’ Information Desk, Modern Screen, Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. KYLE, Winnipeg, Can- ada; MARY HOLDEN, Quincy, Mass.; ENID And not too Address: The 149 -; D. TOMPKINS, Cedar (Continued on page 73)

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Taking Care of Mama (Continued from page 32) shoulders, and makes her feel important ... and she is. So why not? “All women like to have their own way, and, in the long run, their way is usually best. Of course, a woman likes to have a little argument now and then. So, every ence in a while, I remember to argue a point—just so Dixie can have the plea- sure of seeing me give in. That’s a very important point! You mustn't be too easy- going, or she'll forget you’re a factor and take you for granted. Yes, sir, a little dis- agreement once in a while sure peps things up around the house! “I guess you know I don’t like to dress up very much. In fact, clothes just aren’t one of my hobbies. But Dixie has been - after me on that score for years and I’m honestly trying to let her have her way about it. There’s only one handicap, you see I’m color blind. An orange sweater, a green tie and a blue shirt—they all look the same to me. So it’s not exactly my fault that I haven’t given in sooner. But Tm all right today, am I not? Every- thing I have on is tan, isn’t it? And you can see she finally got her way about my getting thinner! Thus proving that the wife is always right, or should be! HERE’S only one thing I boss—one exception to my rule. And that is Dixie’s health. I won’t let her do any- thing to endanger it. And that’s another good way to hold a wife—there’s really more to it than appears on the surface. You can’t be happy unless you're healthy. A healthy woman makes a good companion, and a sick one doesn’t. I was glad when Dixie went back into pictures and I en- couraged it until I saw that too much work was overtaxing her strength, right then and there was where I laid down the law. And I can do it, too! As-a matter of fact, I just finished doing it this morning!” Bing added rather proudly. “You see they want her to do another picture right away. But the doctor told me she should have a little rest first. So that’s what I told her. We've been stay- ing down at the ranch, and this morning she wanted to come back to town with me. But I wouldn’t let her. I made her stay down there, much as I would have liked to have her with me. But it’s good for her down there—good for her, and good for the kids. A husband’s got to think of those things. And besides, if I’m cautious about her health, she knows how really precious she is to me! “Oh, yes, and before I forget it, here’s one thing every married man should keep in mind. Remember anniversaries! And special ones, too! Ordinary anniversaries, like when you were married, when the babies were born, Christmas and Easter and birthdays aren’t enough. Why I’ve invented all sorts of anniversaries! The day we met. The day we bought our house. All those things! I even make an anniversary out of Dixie’s first day, and her last one, on a picture. Why, when she finished “Redheads on Parade” it cost me one mink coat, but it was worth it, I’ll say! “You see I don’t want Dixie to think that her career and the money she makes out of it, has anything to do with us. It’s bad to let a wife mix her business up with marriage.” I got him all right, and was so sold on what I got, that I decided to try out a MODERN SCREEN Frederies ME a shinee PLAy as intensely as you wish ... Dance till morning . . WAVE Joan BENNETT if you will, but remember this: If you want to be “lovely at all times” you must have a Frederics Permanent Wave. A Frederics Vita Tonic or Vitron Permanent Wave is not just a Permanent Permanent-ly Beautiful wave. Your hair is waved to a soft, lustrous, flattering loveliness. And now you may enjoy permanent-ly beautiful waves in absolute comfort—even on _ the hottest summer day—because FREDERICS PERMANENT WAVES ARE 50% COOLER Your hair is waved with exactly one-half the heat formerly required. As a result the hair is more vibrant and alive—scintillatingly beau- tiful—never dry and brittle. Your finished permanent is lovelier, delightfully manageable, and so much more lasting. Even hair that is silky-soft—dyed or bleached, or ean and unruly—can be success- rocess ... Try a 50% Cooler Frederics Permanent, and know the joy of having soft, appealingly fully waved with this new Frederics ‘‘natural,’’ easy to manage waves. rederics ine VITA-TONIC Whgrecrs VETRON Vigoeers To be sure of receiving a Genuine Frederics Permanent Wave .. . Patronize an Authorized Frederics shop! Look for the Frederics Franchise Certificate which guarantees the use of a Frederics ma- chine! Examine all the wrappers used on your hair—make sure no harmful imitations are used. E. FREDERICS, Inc., Dept. MM1, 235-247 East 45th St., New York, N. Y. Kindly send me free booklet showing latest Hollywood Hair Styles and list of Authorized Frederics Franchise Salons in my vicinity.

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Selected TO CELEBRATE GB’S FIRST ANNIVERSARY GB'S EIGHT *xx* STAR SPECIAL LESLIE BANKS a HELEN VINSON BASIL SYDNEY “TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL” New York to London THE MOST GIGANTIC FEAT IN ALL HISTORY C. AUBREY SMITH GB THANKS Walter Huston. George Arliss for graciously contributing portrayals _of the President of the U. S. and the Prime. “Minister of England .. . Directed by MAURICE ELVEY COMING SOON cA ‘Production * Courtesy of M.G. M. 24 a MODERN SCREEN few other of Hollywood’s happily married husbands to find out how they stay that way. It’s true that women have a great deal more freedom today than they have ever had before. And freedom furnishes temptations. Another thing, women, as they grow older today, become constantly more attractive—often more attractive after marriage than they were before. Yes, this holding a wife is a modern problem, and even Hollywood men are not exempt. One of the most attractive wives in Hollywood is Mrs. Pat O’Brien. Pat, being a fighting Irishman, knows only fighting-Irishman rules. And here they are: “When I received an offer to come to Hollywood,” Pat told me, “I practically had to kidnap Eloise to bring her along with me. And when I got my first pay check, I just told her we were going to get married, even though she’d said ‘no’ about forty-eight times. I finally dragged her right up to the altar. Well, that’s sort of made me boss ever since! And that’s why I don’t agree with what Bing says about letting the lady rule the roost. “Of course a man’s got to be consid- erate of the little woman’s feelings and preferences about certain things. But I don’t hide from her the fact that I’m crazy about her, and that she belongs to me, and that I get jealous every time another guy looks at her cross-eyed! I don’t mind ad- mitting I hope she’s jealous of me, too. I believe in showing it now and then— not petty jealousy, hell no!—but enough to prove I’m not going to let anything break up our home. We've fought for our home for years, to make it what it is to- day, a haven of security, a baby and a bal- auce in the bank. And just let anybody try to take it away from us! That goes for scandal mongers, gossipers and the rest!” Now Pat showed signs of cooling off, and continued, “Of course, there are other things that are important, too. Little things, like taking your wife dancing whenever she wants to go, whether you feel like it or not. And you know that slogan you see in some restaurants: “Take your wife out to eat once a week’? That’s okay, too—a swell gag for any married man to follow. Take her out as often as you can—go to movies, go dancing, or just eo for an auto ride—hold her hand and give her a kiss or two, like you did in the good old days before you were mar- ried.. Don’t be a mugg and sit home in your slippers all the time. A woman likes to see the bright lights, meet new people, and show off a new dress. And for heav- en’s sake, don’t ever let her think she’s missing something by being married! My next victim was Chester Morris. Now Chet is as sentimental as a school-boy about his sweetheart, even after a good many years of marriage. And it’s easy to see that Mrs. Morris feels the same way about him. “In the first place,” said Chet, “if there are any such things as rules, I believe that considerateness is the great- est thing any man can give to his wife. And it’s especially important for an actor, because you know how unbearable an actor can be! Why, after a disappointment— not getting the role I wanted—I some- times go for hours without saying a word—sulking, because [ feel sorry for myself, I suppose. It’s an actor’s greatest failing and I just can’t help it. This is an awful strain on Susie and I usually try to clear out until the mood is over Or Susie will say simply, ‘Mood, honey? And I'll answer, ‘Yes, mood.’ And then she says, ‘Well, O. K. Work it out, I won't bother you.’ And with that little understanding between us, we never have any friction because of temperament. “Another thing, I have sort of funny ideas about children. Although we have two of them, and they’re the most ador- able children in the world, I never let my affection for them come before my love for Susie. When a father (or a mother, either), allows his children to claim first place in his interest, he weakens the close bond between himself and his wife. It’s bound to happen. And it’s so’ foolish, tor children always run out on their par- ents when they grow up. “Tve also found that always telling the truth is one of the surest ways to preserve happiness. Even about little things. Even when Susie doesn’t ask me about some- thing, I tell her every little thing I do all day long—the people I’ve met—the people I've talked to, and what was said. It saves a lot of misunderstandings later. Her confidence in me is terribly important to her and to me, too. “T like to humor her, too. If Susie likes to have breakfast in bed, she never hears me complaining about having to eat down- stairs alone. I have no reason to com- plain. I like her to do anything and every- thing she wants. Every husband should make it a point to indulge his wife’s whims now and then—and also to go out of his way to do little favors for her. Always be considerate of her strength. And don’t be backward about showing your affection for her in front of other women. A wo- man likes that, though she may pretend not to! And have a lot of laughs! A lot of them. They’ve got what it takes to stay married!” Ne the Eddie G. Robinsons’, love is constantly sending a little gift of roses, or Rolls-Royces, or diamond brace- lets, or a whole new bedroom set! Eddie simply showers gifts on Gladys, and as he seys, “It isn’t so much the gifts that count, but I do try to show her, by them, how much [ think of her and how often.” And because Eddie was too modest to enumerate them himself, ’m going to tell you just a few little items that he showered on her after the baby was born. There was one new town car, spic and span, shining black. One beautiful brace- let. One service set, a lovely old Swedish design. And one stunning tea service, with tremendous tray to match. In addition to which he bought the town out of toys for the baby. Of course not every man can afford such a splurge, even when the first baby is born but, as Eddie advises, “If a man has five dollars to spare, he should spend at least four of it on his wife. Yes, sir, four out of five, that’s my motto! It shows her you're proud of her. “And I try to please her in other ways, too. I’m sort of a quiet chap and could stick around the house seven nights in a week. But, if Gladys wants to get dressed up and go out, well then, we get dressed up and go out. And I even ‘go the whole hog’ and wear tails and a white tie, if she wants me to. Women just naturally like to see their men well-dressed, I guess, and I think there’s been entirely too much said on the other side of the question, about how women should keep themselves just as attractive, just as slim, just as well dressed after marriage as before. Well, how about the men? It’s just as impor- tant for us as it is for the women. “Another thing, most women are more socially-minded than men. And it’s no use to buck it. If she likes to entertain and play hostess, then it’s up to the husband to be just as cordial a host as she is a hostess. But it’s not right to have too many people around all the time. It’s good for the soul of marriage for two people to get off by themselves together once in a while.”

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Taking Care of Papa (Continued from page 33) George out of his snores or, whether its scent was supposed to be a_ sentimental reminder of their wedding, I never heard, but anyway, that’s what she did! The bigger and handsomer the husband, the more he has to be coddled. If you don’t think Mrs. Clark Gable has a chore with Clark, you don’t know your onions. Clark is much like a big, gamboling St. Bernard dog—lovable, happy-go-lucky and unwilling to be bothered by the details of life. He leaves everything to Mrs. Gable. But he doesn’t like to be bossed, so she has had to develop her own subtle, but neat, technique in handling him. Wives who have big, gamboling, hearty husbands— take note! In the first place, she caters to his tastes rather than hers by making him perfectly happy and comfortable at home. A _ so- cialite, she loves the opera, formal dinners, dressing on all occasions. Clark hates formality. And so Mrs. Gable caters to Clark’s ideas. Most of the time they en- tertain no more than eight people inform- ally at home. They have stews, cold cuts, or steak and potatoes, and beer, the kind of hearty food Clark likes, instead of squab and champagne. Only once in a blue moon does Mrs. Gable exercise her wifely prerogative and get Clark into some- thing distinctly social. Then, though he protests a little, I think he really enjoys himself. Rea Gable has never tried to “tame” Clark. She knows that he loves to go prowling at night by himself, having talks with garage mechanics, hot dog proprie- tors, being with people who do not know he is Clark Gable. That his hunting trips, up in the Arizona and Nevada mountans, for a week at a time—where he fraternizes with hunters and guides, men who don't know him as ‘sex-appeal Gable,” are im- portant to his being himself. And so she never objects when she doesn’t hear from him on these jaunts except the laconic wire, “Be home tomorrow. Love, Clark.” ISELY, while he is keeping himself happy and fit, she attends to the busi- ness details of the household. She pays the bills, banks the checks, and sees that the household runs smoothly for him. And, undoubtedly, Rea Gable’s wisdom as a wife is one of the reasons why Clark has maintained his standing on the screen so ably. Some of our most successful stars are frank to attribute much of their success and a great deal of their stability to the good sense, unfailing discretion and tact maintained by their wives. Quite a few will admit frankly that they probably wouldn't have a cent to their names if it were not for wifey’s keeping a close eye on the checkbook. In days of yore, papa not only brought in the dough, but spent it. If mama wanted a new dress, it was he who stopped by at the general store and planked out $1.75 for a bolt of calico which would last her and the children for five years. But not in Hollywood today. Papa may bring in the dough, but mama not only spends it, but keeps track of it. Some wives, even though they don’t check the family exchequer or pay the bills, are fine balance wheels for their husbands. Mrs. Robert Montgomery has done a great deal towards stabilizing Bob, and it has taken great patience and great strength of character on her part. Bob, MODERN SCREEN “The right powder makes it brilliant,’“ Color Analyst said Here’s a girl who thought all brunette powder shades were alike. Dark-haired with pale creamy skin, she had been using ‘“‘just any’”’ brunette powder. Her skin looked sallow with it—yellowish. Pond’s Color Analyst told her why: ‘‘Too dull ashade.”” He smoothed on Pond’s Bru- nette. “‘Why, this brightens my skin!” Her coloring looked positively alive! Don’t THINK Pond’s Brunette is like any other brunette shade. Nor Pond’s Rose Cream like any other blonde powder! They’re not. Pond’s Powder shades are the result of a new discovery that adds life to every skin. 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SESS peeerse HAT wouldn’t she give to hear it ring? To hear a girl friend’s voice: “Come on down, Kit. The bunch is here!” Or more important: ““This is Bill. How about the club dance Saturday night?”’ The truth is, Bill would ask her. And so would the girls. If it weren’t for the fact that underarm perspiration odor makes her so unpleasant to be near. What a pity it is! Doubly so, since per- spiration odor is so easy to avoid. With Mum! Just half a minute is all you need to use Mum. Then you're safe for the whole day! Use Mum any time, even after you’re dressed. For it’s harmless to clothing. It’s soothing to the skin, too — ‘so soothing you can use it right after shaving your underarms. Mum doesn’t prevent perspiration. But it does prevent every trace of perspiration odor. Use it daily and you'll never be guilty of personal unpleasantness. Bristol- Myers, Inc., 75 West St., New York. MUM TAKES THE ODOR OUT OF PERSPIRATION ANOTHER WAY MUM HELPS is on sanitary napkins. Use it for this and you'll never have to worry about this cause of unpleasantness, 66 MODERN SCREEN who is essentially a happy-go-lucky, care- free young man, went through a difficult maturing process a few years ago. Holly- wood rather went to his head and I think he got the idea he was a great sheik with the ladies. He was a pretty foolish young man on a couple of occasions, and it is to Mrs. Montgomery’s credit that she watched him with great forebearance as well as an appreciation of his finer qual- ities, realizing that he would bounce back to normal eventually. Bob appreciates this now. Taking care of an absent-minded movie papa is really something of a feat. Ask Billie Cagney, wife to Jimmy. You may ' | have thought of James as a serious, re- | sponsible young man who does things with clock-like precision, but if you should talk to his wife, you’d find out he’s worse than the traditional absent-minded professor. Billie’s best example of this is about the time they didn’t meet on the corner to go to the theatre! It’s typically Jimmy and reveals a side that few people know. Billie had gone to visit her mother and was to ‘phone Jimmy where to meet her. In due time, the ’phone rang. Jimmy answered it. It was Billie. “Will you meet me in a half an hour, dear?” “Yes, of course,” he said. “Will you please, while I hang on to the ‘phone, see if my watch is on the dresser, and then we'll decide where.” Jimmy went, discovered the watch, re- turned. to the living-room, where he sat down and calmly went on with his read- ing while Billie held on to the telephone in a public booth miles away. She could hear the rustle of the newspaper as her absent-minded spouse went on with his reading. She heard him whistle a little tune. She shouted over the telephone, she squeaked, she whistled, but his thoughts were far away. She heard him get up, put on his coat, and go out the door to meet her—goodness only knows where! So, she hung up and took a taxi home to meet Jimmy coming shamefacedly in the door. The receiver to the telephone was still off the hook! She doesn’t let him handle his own money. He has a bank account but is never permitted more than a hundred-dollar balance at a time, not for the reason that he’s extravagant in his spending, but be- cause he is so generous. He will give money to anyone who asks for it. NE of the most thoroughly protected and cared for actors in Hollywood is George Arliss, but why not, when he has, not only Mrs. Arliss always by his side and working right along with him, but Jenner, his staid English valet who has been with him for twenty-nine years. Effi- cient and noiseless, Jenner is a terrific tyrant and sometimes runs afoul of Mrs. Arliss in his duties. I presume that she is victor in these matters, but at the time the air is filled with sparks. Jenner’s re- sponse to the studio employee who came up to him to ask some questions regarding Mrs. Arliss’ work in “Richelieu” is indica- tive of this. Jenner turned away haugh- tily and replied, “I really don’t know. You will have to ask her. We are not speak- ing today!” For aplomb in the face of circumstances which would startle a complacent Mrs. Minneapolis Banker out of her mind, I must report Jessica Barthelmess’s poise on the occasion of the Fiermonte fight in Hol- lywood when she saw her husband, shirt open at the neck, walk calmly into the ring, carrying pail and towel, to be in- troduced as the Italian’s second. Jessica probably wouldn’t have minded if Dick, who is the soul of conservatism himself, had given her some warning, but he hadn't. Friends sitting with her heard her gasp for breath at the sight of him. But she quickly controlled herself, and all she did was wave sweetly a congratulatory hand- kerchief in his direction. Biography of Binnie (Continued from page 41) on the stage. In fact, I was billed as ‘Texas Binnie Barnes’ in the first thing I did, a rope-twirling act with Tex McLeod in South Africa. Nobody knew I was English, and the funny part of it was, that I myself didn’t know I had a Southern accent. I’d picked it up from Tex, and thought that all Americans talked as he did. When I went back to London I[ couldn’t get a job as an English girl. I played gangster molls in ‘Innocents of Chicago’ and other sweet, tender little things in which you couldn’t call your life your own. And was I tough!” “You don’t look it.” HANK you kindly, sir,” she laughed. “But those were my bad days. I had a terrific make-up, and oh, the walk of me! Later on I played Spanish, French and German girls, all with the same ac- cent. Then I tried an Irish one in ‘The Silver Tassie’ with Charles Laughton on the London stage. It seemed odd to be with him again in ‘Henry the Eighth’ on the screen. But I started my movie work with Ida Lupino’s father, Stanley, in short comedies. He threw pies, and had to have a girl who could take ’em. The first one that came along knocked me flat on my fanny. Far from a beauty,” she pensively added, “I was called ‘Pie-Face’.” “You seem to have had a varied career,” I sympathetically remarked. “A bit of this, that and the other,’ she lightly replied. “I was in slapstick for years. I didn’t mind, just taking my luck as it came. I’d probably never got on the stage at all if Tex McLeod hadn’t happened to come into a London dance hall where I was working. It’s all been surprising. But it amazed me to be given the part of Lillian Russell, for London producers had always associated me with tough parts. And I certainly never was known as a beauty. In England we have no great beauties. Of course, there was Lily Lang- try in her time, but even she couldn’t hold a candle to Lillian Russell. Today we have personalities, to my mind, far more im- portant than beauty, especially on the screen.” “Whom do you consider the most beau- tiful screen actress?” “Wait a moment—a fine lot of trouble I'd be piling up for myself saying that!” “Nonsense, go ahead.” “W-well,” she hesitated, “I will say that Claudette Colbert is charming. But beauty’s no good if you've no personality. English girls are much quieter than American girls, who have more push and are more sexy, but do not have more charm. But an Eng- lish girl can be very dull. She is kept down by chaperons and God knows what! Life is more of a routine in England. Just as in all old countries, it goes on and on without change; customs and habits re-

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maining the same. Here there is more freedom. This makes it easier for an American girl to marry. She learns an awful lot. Then there’s the climate, with more opportunity for sports, which de- velop the body and must do the mind some good. Everything here is action. Be- fore an Englishman does anything he thinks twice—particularly about marrying. So what can the poor girl do?” “But you managed it?” NCE—and never again. Now that I've got a husband I’m going to hang on to him. That’s my main job, and I’m going back to it after making one more picture here. But [Pll return to America. I never want to stay in any one place a long while. After a bit I like to pop off somewhere else. I’ve had a lot of exper- iences in different parts of the world, and they've all been swell, even when I’ve been out of dough. I grumble once in a while, but I’m never discontented. My one idea, ever since I was a kid, has been to keep working.” “You mentioned driving a milk cart.’ “We had no money, so I had to do some- thing. Dad was a London policeman, and when he died he left mother and me on a tiny farm. So we went into the milk business. The hardest part of it was get- ting up at four in the morning. That's not gay, even for a fourteen-year-old girl. But I loved driving the horse, Snowy we called him. He got so he knew every house on the route and would stop without my saying a word or pulling a line. And that, mind you, meant sixty houses. Then there was a little coffee shop where I’d get a cup for myself and lumps of sugar for Snowy. That turned out to be our hard luck place. I was coming out of it one morning when Snowy, scared by a passing tram, started to run away. I just managed to swing myself up on the wagon, but I couldn’t stop him. He tore along till he got jammed in between two trams and was so badly hurt he had to be shot.” “Were you hurt?” For answer she pulled off her hat. Her forehead showed a white scar. “That runaway put us out of the milk business. But as soon as I was able to be about again I got a job in a factory, where I tested electric light bulbs and became a first-class solderer—sealed the tin casings, you know. Next I worked in a paper bag factory. Then I pressed veins on arti- ficial leaves—sounds silly, doesn’t it? From there I went to a tobacconist’s. I never did office work; for one thing, I wasn’t in- telligent enough.” No? With all due respect, you can’t be- lieve her. “When I left a place I always got a better one,’ was her most intelligent reply. “T liked ’em all while I stayed. “Work was good for me,” she insisted. “Ti I'd been brought up in cottonwool, I’d never have done anything. And it was fun having a go at one thing and another. I got to know all kinds of people. Lord, the different ones that poked their heads out of doors when I was delivering milk! That was the time, early in the morning, to see them as they really were without any frills. The things they wore and the things they said! I'll never forget one old crone who wore diamond earrings—prob- ably slept in ’em—and a second-hand lady with the airs of a duchess. Oh, well, I dare say I thought myself pretty grand when I got that job in a dance hall! I’d wait for a customer to do a twirl with me, then slither out on the floor like Lady Vere de Vere herself.” “After all your other jobs, what do you think of movie work?” “This,” said the practical Binnie, “is a sissy job.” E “MUTINY! MODERN SCREEN i | . .. So rang the cry from stem to stern of H.M.S. BOUNTY, homeward bound to England from the enchanted islands of the South Seas... “MUTINY! Down with Captain Bligh!” The men of the BOUNTY had been ati the breaking point for many long weeks, and at last, unable to stand any longer the scenes of horror and ghasily brutality that had marked the voyage, they turned against their captain in fierce mutiny, led by the gallant mate, Fletcher Christian. Gaining command of the ship, Christian and his men turned their course back to the green isles of Tahiti. The men were elated ... were they not bound for a peaceful carefree life . .. for a Paradise on earth? Christian rejoiced, for he was returning, as he had promised, to Maimiti, the beautiful Tahitian maiden who had captured his heart... But cruel Captain Bligh, whom they thought dead, was seeking revenge . . . could they escape him and remain in this Eden for which they had fought so desperately? You will enjoy reading the thrilling and romantic story of “Mutiny on the BOUNTY,” M-G-M’s picture featuring Clark Gable, Charles Laughion, and Franchot Tone—it appears in com- plete story form in the December issue Screen Romances The Love Story Magazine of the Screen December now on sale

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I ] tJ Name 222-2 ee ee ee eee 1 E 1 I 1 Adress Saar ase etn ee ee I 1 i] ii, City:—. <2 ees es Statelaaeaeeas i] MODERN SCREEN The Lone Wolf of Hollywood (Continued from page 35) to sentimentalize over the Irish George. There is no man in all Hollywood, today, who causes more palpitations than George. Nor any man who cares less whether ladies palp or not. Preferably NOT. I can even list some of them under the general heading of “Palpitations One, Two, Three” and so on. There was Loretta Young, who admitted to a more than professionally friendly feeling for the dark Irishman in the pre-Chatterton days when she and George were making ‘Week-End Mar- riage” and “They Call It Sin” together. There was La Chatterton herself, who from the day when she first saw his test for her picture, “The Rich Are Always With Us,” uttered the now famous line, “Where has he been all his life?” There are those who say that because George flies, Ruth flies, too, in the airy hope that perhaps, someday, in the ether... HERE is Joan Crawford—Joan went, I happen to know, to quite devious ends to invite George to one of her ultra-con- servative, very private at-home dinner parties. It is said that she asked Jean Muir to bring him with her because she knew that Jean and George were friendly. George was teaching Jean to fly. And then the columnists fell upon the lessons with both pens, so to speak, so pupil and teacher flew no more that day. Nor any other day. And there is a hint of the wistful in the Muir eyes, remembering . . . A few days ago a pretty girl ap- proached George on the set and said to him, “You don’t remember me, do you?” George confessed politely, that he did not. Then the girl seized him by the lapels of his coat saying in a hushed, emotional voice, “Did you ever have the feeling that you belonged to someone?” George gave a loud yelp and dashed for the safer pre- cincts of his set, muttering that he had felt that way and wanted none of it. The girl turned out to be an extra from another set, inoculated with a Brent-bent. Quite harmless. And that’s reason No. 1 for George be- ing the “Lone Wolf of Hollywood” today. He doesn’t want to belong to anyone. He is afraid of women. He is afraid of pos- sessiveness. He has survived two unsuc- cessful marriages and they have not served to lessen his fear. He loathes ties and bonds of any kind. He despises rout- ine eating hours, household schedulism, the silken strands with which women bind a man who would be free. He wants travel and adventure and solitude far more than he wants the frail fevers of any feminine entanglement. Undoubtedly his birth and background have everything to do with it. George was born, as you may know, in Ballinasloe, a town in mid-western Ireland. His father was a newspaper man, the descendent of a long line of fighting Irshmen. WEN George was eleven he made his first trip to America. And learned to love the roll of a ship beneath his feet. He soaked in eagerly the talk of seafaring men, the sight of far horizons. “I knew then,” he told me, “that I would never stay long in any one place again.” He returned to Dublin to attend the University there, and, later, during the in- ception and success of the Abbey Theatre, he was inspired to go on the stage by the plays of Yeats, Lady Gregory, Padraic Colum and others. “I felt,’ said George, “that the theatre crystallized all of my am- bitions for me. I had been torn between the newspaper business and the cavalry. On the stage, I figured, I could be all of the characters I wanted to be—I could smell the sea in my nostrils when I played a sailor, know the tang of war as a make- believe warrior, feel the plains of the West under my feet as a frontiersman. But most of all, J would be goimg places. That was why I chose the stage. I would never be still. Never tied to one place, nor to one group of people. I would be free. The theatrical profession, I knew, was one of the three or four in the world which does not stay in one place. And that was my real ambition. The only real love I have ever had, has been, and is today, the love of freedom. To be free, a man must walk alone. “I managed to matriculate at the Abbey and the only times I didn’t show up for the rising curtain were times when newer and more stirring interests diverted me. Re- bellions and political cabals and such. “That was the time of the Irish Revolu- tion of 1924. With a patriotic newspaper editor for a father and with the hot blood of generations of Irish patriots boiling in my blood, it is hardly necessary to say where my sympathies were. I was in the thick of it from the first and acted as dis- patch carrier for Michael Collins. “T was a spy. And I learned, during those days, to mistrust small talk and the people who were glib with it. I learned to keep my mouth shut and my ears open and to respect those who did likewise. I learned to weigh every syllable before I uttered it. I learned to fear women. I learned to steer clear of their blandish- ments. HEN Michael Collins was slain and the young George fled from Ireland for his life. For a time he went into hiding in Glasgow. And there again, he learned the lesson he never has unlearned—how golden silence can be. But even in Glasgow, the English au- thorities found him out and in the dead of night he left Scotland and entered England, figuring that it would be the least likely piace for them to look for him. A freight boat out of Plymouth offered him safe passage to America and he took it. His career as a warrior and as a spy was at an end. And George found that his love for the theatre still clung to him. For five years he played more than three hundred leads in stock companies. He ranged through the States—Florida, Mas- sachusetts, Colorado, New York. Then “Love, Honor and Obey” brought him to Broadway, where he _ played opposite Alice Brady. In that company was another young actor of whom you may have heard! His name was Clark Gable. The screen began to talk. The dragnet for new talent spread out. New faces for cold. There were tests and a few minor pictures for George before the big call came from Warner Brothers, who an- nounced that they were looking for a lead- ing man for Ruth Chatterton. And the rest is history known by heart. All of which should tell you why George Brent is the “Lone Wolf of Hollywood” today. Why, when he has a leave of ab- sence, he prefers to spend it in the remote ether rather than with such earthy Venuses as Garbo, Crawford, Jean, Loretta. . I faced him down about being a Lone Wolf. He smiled that diffident smile of

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MODERN SCREEN CVAGE RR) A MY his. You have to come right out and face him with things when you talk to him be- cause he will not answer questions. ; “You are the ‘Lone Wolf of Holly- wood,’”’ I stated. “T am,” he said. “I work too hard to be anything else. Nine pictures in a row. When I’m through at night I’m too tired to put on the soup and fish, order flowers, go through the necessary rituals. I go heme to my house in Toluca Lake—rented, not owned—I wouldn’t own a house for anything. It might come to own me. I go home and go to bed and read and I re- y.. ) Vas peat this performance every night of my <4 j fof I 2 life, week in and week out. I’m poor copy &—/- ee ee for a story just because I don’t do any- : Pe, thing.” “Tf you were not working so hard, were not tired,” I said, “you'd do the same thing?” “The same,” agreed George. “Matter of honest fact, I’m a very shy person, always was. I have no small talk. I can’t spend an evening dotted with such conversational high-lights as, ‘So what?’ or ‘How do you like that?? I’m not com- fortable at parties, at the Grove, places like that. And if I’m not comfortable, it naturally follows that [’m not having a good time and if I’m not having a good time, why should | go? “Ym working with one objective in view, to pay off some annuities of mine. When I get them all paid up I'll be really free. And when I am free, I'll go away from here. I want to travel. I want to see all of the far places of the earth and all of the strange people. I want to hunt, fish, knock about, and keep my mouth shut and my ears open. | don’t want to have to punch a clock. I don’t want to know or care what time it is. I don’t want a home, possessions, ties or respon- sibilities. I belong with men, in a man’s world. I fit better there. I’m more com- fortable there. That’s all there is to it.” f f PERFWME OF YOUTH SAID, “But we read, now and again, squibs in columnists’ chatter stating that you were seen lunching here and _ there, dining this place and the other. For in- stance, some time ago an item appeared to the effect that you were seen at the races with Garbo. The story went that a small child sat in back of you, poked her mother and said, ‘Oooh, Ma, there’s Greta Garbo with George Brent!’ And the mother, peering, said, ‘Nonsense, dear, it is not!” George said, his eyes turned now in the direction of the flying field where his plane was tuning up, “If the incident really happened at all, I can say only that Mama was right! I went to the races only once and that once was with my friend and agent, Minna Wallace. None of these items happens to be true. I read that I was seen at Caliente, when I have never been to Caliente, I read that I dined here, there, the other place—and they are usually houses I have never stepped foot into and people I have never met. There are, of course, a few places I should like to go. Grace Moore in- OUTH shall not be denied loveliness, says April vited me for dinner several times, for in Sh d forthwith I Prete tact 7 i , n- owers...and torthwit resents the <= , stance. I am very fond of Grace. She ayy rae P Sea suo a 2 grand person. I’ve never been able | quisite toiletries that ever fitted a young budget! Face eae oe oe Se tey to go because of work. But for the most : : ore iron 4 ccibh ane aris | Ger, 7 ge morass, 0 trom (lee ete powder. ..a sheer veil of scented mist. Talc for a re- a ieee ae a8¢ and 55¢ invitation leads to another and before you | freshing body-bath. Eau de cologne for a glamorous iirsaleeaseees beviand so? know it you are enmeshed. And so—I Al And Dusting Powder change my telephone number every two | 'Ub-down. And a perfume created by one of the BEGERE CUS zs ‘ aay : weeks. and stay alone in my lair.” f world’s greatest perfumers to give you a fragrance Rouge, Lipstick, Shin Lotion, Strange as it may seem—this is the Bath Salts, etc., from 28¢ to simple truth. Garbo may sulk, Jean look | that 1s young and gay and in supreme good taste. 85¢. At stores everywhere. wistful, Crawford invite, Loretta remem- Bee Pu ae off in the limitless ether his books and his fishing rods beside him, ° e %. George Brent looks down upon a_ toy (Cpa cee [EGE rot Gx -CVMAMN E world—alone. 7 69

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Modern Screen Scoreboard - (Continued from page 6) Name of Picture and Company American Telegram Angeles Examiner N.Y. Les w > Diamond Jim (Universal) Don't Bet on Blondes (Warners) Doubting Thomas (Fox) Escapade (M-G-M) Escape Me Never (United Artists) Every Night at Eight (Paramount) The Farmer Takes a Wife (Fox) Forsaking All Others (M-G-M) Four Hours to Kill (Paramount) bil w | >t w + Front Page Woman (Warners) G-Men (Warners) The Gilded Lily (Paramount) Ginger (Fox) ak - The Girl from 10th Avenue (Warners) | J The Glass Key (Paramount) } |. Goin’ to Town (Paramount) Go Into Your Dance (Warners) The Goose and the Gander (Warners) Hard Rock Harrigan (Fox) Here Is My Heart (Paramount) Hold 'Em Yale (Paramount) Hooray For Love (RKO) I'll Love You Always (Columbia) In Caliente (First National) The Informer (RKO) The Irish in Us (Warners) The Iron Duke (G-B) | It Happened in New York (Universal) Jalna (RKO) Java Head (First Division) Laddie (RKO) Lady Tubbs (Universa!) Les Miserables (20th Century) Let 'Em Have !t (United Arrtists) Life Begins at Forty (Fox) The Little Colonel (Fox) Love in Bloom (Paramount) Love Me Forever (Columbia) Loves of a Dictator (G-B) Mad Love (M-G-M) The Man on the Flying Trapeze (Paramount) The Man Who Knew Too Much (M-G-M) Mark of the Vampire (M-G-M) McFadden's Flats (Paramount) Men of Tomorrow (London Films) Men Without Names (Paramount) Mississippi (Paramount) Mr. Dynamite (Universal) Murder in the Fleet (M-G-M) Murder Man (M-G-M) Nell Gwyn (United Artists) A Night at the Ritz (Warners) No More Ladies (M-G-M) Oil for the Lamps of China (Warners) One More Spring (Fox) Orchids to You (Fox) SS Oa ee a ee en ed en Fees ee Peed eed Stl

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“Reduced 37 POUNDS with DILEX=-REDUSOLS”’ writes Mrs. H. H. LANGLEY MODERN SCREEN | fragrance-bearing beauty aids, too, as well | as in perfume. I can give you carnation, orange blossom, and violet fragrances in delightful bath powders and Eau de Colognes. What are your guesses? Write me, and I'll tell you if they’re right. Now that you’ve had a guessing party, perhaps you would like some _ practical hints for your next honest-to-goodness holiday party. Well, first off, there’s a grand new two-minute facial. It’s oatmeal all dressed in a heavenly fragrance, and with new beautifying properties that you mustn’t fail to know about over the holi- days. All you have to do is to blend it with water, and it turns into a smooth creamy lotion that will make you feel as if you had acquired a new skin. It is par- ticularly helpful for the rough dry skin to which we are all so subject now that the weather has reverted to type. Then again it combats large pores by deep-clean- ing. You know the hardest skins to treat are the large-pored, dry skins. It seems that they are even worse than the oily skins that are so productive of ugly coarse pores. Blackheads which are the result of inefficient methods of cleaning will re- spond to this two-minute facial. Since the holiday season is almost under your noses, youll be glad to learn of such a quick cleansing method for party occasions, and after-party occasions when it seems that you're too “dead tired’”’ to so much as pick up a wash cloth. When you’ve only two minutes to dress for that important two- some ... there you have a perfect two- minute pick-me-up. Beauty Advice (Continued from page 17) eyelashes. You have to be skillful in doing this so as to avoid getting any in your eyes. Ginger Rogers has a trick that is especially alluring. She adds just a drop of perfume to her eyeshadow before she applies it. I have heard of several of the stars adding a little perfume to their foundation cream, too, as a fragrant base for their powder. It all sounds very festive ! doesn’t it? Because I know that you're going to be particularly anxious to keep your personal daintiness contributing to your allure dur- ing the holiday season, I have prepared a special bulletin for you about the whys and wherefores of Personal Daintiness. It tells you about deodorants that deodor- ize without preventing perspiration, and those that prevent both odor and perspira- tion. It talks about soap appeal and sex appeal. It will clear up all the guess-work questions you've been wanting to ask about the rather intimate subject of a woman’s personal daintiness. You'll see that I’m trying to be your good angel this month, because I have yet another special bulletin for you, and this one has a great many tips to help you solve your gift problems as well as your own personal glamor problems. Get the answers to your guess-work questions now and send in this coupon. MARY BIDDLE, Modern Screen, 149 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. Now yo Ui can take off POUNDS of UGLY FAT THIS SAFE, EASY QUICK WAY! No Dieting...No Self Denial, No Strenuous Exercises! OUNDS too good to be true? Yet it is true. Dilex-Redusols increase your metabolism ... they turn food into energy instead of fat. You will be amazed at yourincreased vitality! REDUCE 12 POUNDS WITH 1st box...or no cost! @® Many satisfied users report they have reduced as much as 40 and 50 pounds with safe Dilex-Redusols, Eat What You Wish And All You Want! @ At last you can reduce safely and quickly without denying yourself the good things of life. You do not have to go through tiresome exercises...simply take these carefully prepared capsules and watch the fat disappear! Dilex-Redusols are effective because they remove the cause of obesity. Profit By the Amazing Experiences of Others! REDUCED 50 POUNDS LOST 40 POUNDS “T want you to tell every “T have lost 40 pounds in 13 woman about my reducing wee,s. Mrs. H.C.R. } 50 pounds,.”” rs. E.D LOST 35 POUNDS REDUCED 36 POUNDS “Changed my weight from ‘‘Am losing 15 pounds amonth 169 to 134 pounds.”’ Mrs.H.L. with Redusols’’... Miss L. H. The DILEX-REDUSOL Way is the Safe Way! §B Do not accept any substitute for safe Dilex-Re- dusols...the absolutely harmless capsules that reduce your weight by increasing your metabolism. Dilex- With your skin in condition, you'll want to apply your perfume right on the skin —the only proper place for it. Fabrics have an imperceptible odor all their own. They destroy some of the essential deli- cacy of the perfume fragrance that the warmth of the skin serves to enhance. Mary Carlisle applies her perfume with the perfume bottle stopper, touching it to her ear lobes, the seductive hollow of her throat, and her wrists. Rita Cansino, new Fox starlet, touches her perfume to her Kindly send me your bulletins on Personal Daintiness [] Holiday Beauty Oo BE ES ESTE TOE ees SSS Just check and send in with stamped, addressed envelope. A gay trio at the tennis matches— No © © mM Gi SMecCrer, Redusols contain no thyroid extract or other harme = ful ingredients. They are absolutely safe when taken Sam Gold as directed. Beware of any product that makes ex- wyn an d travagant claims for more rapid reductions...physi« cians will tell you it is harmful for anyone to reduce more than 15 pounds a month. Remember you reduce 12 pounds...or no cost! DON’T WAIT...MAIL COUPON TODAY qw =z J — ev ———) Ba = os Ee & & ww DILEX INSTITUTE 9 East 40th Street, Dept. 8512A, New York City ©) Enclosed find $3.00 for which please send, postpaid, one box of 90 Dilex-Redusol Capsules in plain wrapper. Send one box of 90 Dilex-Redusol Capsules, C.O.D. I will pay postman $3.00 (plus 28c. postage). If I do not lose at least 12 pounds after taking the first box of Dilex-Redusolsas directed, you will refund my $3. Jack Gilbert. Jack certain- ly is getting Glsowit tle town these days and nights! L\ume Write Mr., Mrs. or Miss Address City State Giie Height Weight Age Canadian and Foreign Countries Cash in Advance 72

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MODERN SCREEN 25 WHOS AFRA\D OF A Ly, BBG BAD CORN ? Information Desk (Continued from page 62) Grove, W. Va.; DOROTHY ROBINSON, Pompton Lakes, N. J.; ELAINE MIDDLETON, La Grange, Ill.; JAMES MANK, Indianapolis, Ind.—Katharine Hepburn probably holds the world’s record for the number of times fired from stage productions. She sas kicked out of the lead in ‘‘The Big Pond,’’ re- ee 99 ° Boe aliecmnicthe (casts of “Death Takes a Holiday” Not I 9 said Brave Blue-Jay, as he set about and “The Animal Kingdom’’ and even temporarily z 2 fi canned from the production in which she eventually to rescue the beautiful lady in distress gained Broadway stardom, “‘The Warrior's Hus- band.’”? Her dynamic personality and fine work in this play caused RKO officials to sign her to a long term contract and put her in “‘A Bill of Divorce- ment.” She then scored in ‘Christopher Strong and ‘‘Morning Glory’’ followed by ‘‘Little Women.” Briefly, these are the highlights of Miss Hepburn’s rise and present fame in the cinema sun. Miss Hep- burn was born in Hartford, Conn., on November 8 about 27 years ago. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr. Her first appearance on the legitimate stage was in “‘These Days.’’ She next understudied Hope Williams in ‘‘Holiday’’ and substituted for her one night on the road tour. She has also appeared with considerable success in stock productions, particu- larly in Baltimore. Katharine has auburn hair, green eyes, and a beautiful, slender figure. She never goes to night clubs or large parties. Goes to bed very early. For hobbies she indulges in tennis, swimming | and golf. She is divorced from Ludlow Smith and rumored already married to Leland Hayward. Follow- ing ‘‘Alice Adams” she is now working on “Sylvia | Scarlett’’ with Brian Aherne. | VIOLA CRISSINGER, New Windsor, Md.—Maurice | Murphy played the part of Jimmy in ‘‘Curly Top.”’ | He is a free lance player and you can probably reach | | (2) Whowillcometoher rescue?" Blue-Jay!” whispers a kind and helpful friend. And out of his package-home leaps Brave Blue-Jay, (1) She was in distress, too, that beautiful lady! This terrible corn had her by the toe ;. and he just wouldn’t let go! He stabbed and kicked and made ugly wrinkles and a look of agony come into her beautiful face. him at the 20th Century-Fox Studios, 1401 N. West- ern Ave., Hollywood, Cal. OXFORD CLUB, Rockford, Ill; EDWARD M. WRIGHT, JR., IRENE OSIKA, Chicago, IIl.; EDITH GALLOWAY, TERRY O’CONNOR, Warren, | Ohio; HELEN HIDA, Plainfield, N. J.; BETTY KNOWLES, Rocky Mt., N. C.; EATON SMITH, | Lebanon, N. J.; BEVERLY BEVILLE, Detroit, Mich.; ANTHONY HANSEN, Brooklyn, N.Y. MARGEAN SCHULTZ, Michigan City, Ind.; VIR | GINIA_CERNEY, Wilmetre, Ill.; BETTYE LAW- . SON, Reisterstown, Md.—Little Jackie Cooper can . hardly be called that any longer. He was 12 his | last birthday, September 15, and is now all of 5 | feet 5 inches tall and weighs 135 pounds. Born in Los Angeles, he is the son of Mabel Leonard, a former vaudeville violinist, and the nephew of the | well-known director, Norman ‘Taurog. He was educated in kindergarten, then by private tutors. Because of the position of his uncle in the movie world, it naturally followed that Jackie should turn to the screen. His first part was a very small one in a Lloyd Hamilton comedy. Other bits followed, including some with “‘Our Gang.” = “‘Skippy’’ was the picture that launched him on his road to star- dom, but ‘‘The Champ’’ with Wallace Beery was | the biggest hit of his entire career. His hobby is tennis and airplanes. He is .enthusiastic about ath- letics and likes dogs. Jackie has blonde hair and hazel eyes. “‘O’Shaughnessy’s Boy,’’ with Wally Beery, is his most recent vehicle. You can write him at M-G-M Studios, Culver City, Cal. LUCY KALEN, Boston, Mass.; ELIZABETH KIRK- | PATRICK, Indiana, Pa.; JESSIE DETTY, Steila- coam, Wash.; ANN ROWE, Hamilton, Canada; | SYLVIA CALHOUN,. Olympia, Wash.; BERTHA MARKINS, _Wordsworth, Chios MARGARET | SCHISLER, Nashville, Tenn.; M. FRIEDBERGER, | ALICE CHECK, Phila., Pa.; ELSIE MARTIN, | Falls City, Neb.; ELAINE LECAS, ALICE PER- | RETTI, New York City; SADIE GREENBLATT, Plainfield, J.; VIRGINIA CAMPBELL, Sioux y Falls, S. D.; M. HANLIN, Bklyn., N. Y.—The | future Anthony Adverse—we’d better call him Fred- ric March for now—was born in Racine, Wis., on . August 31, 1898. In 1920 our hero graduated from the University of Wisconsin, having won his letter | at football and track and also having been elected | to the Beta Gamma Sigma and Alpha Delta Phi | fraternities. He won a scholarship which the Na- | tional City Bank maintained to train students for service in its foreign branches, and consequently . worked on a bank staff for nearly a year. Then | came a change in bank presidents and young March, | fearing a like change in the scholarship, asked for | a leave of absence and went on the stage. His first . theatrical job was third assistant stage manager, | but after that he got speaking parts which, step by step, became larger. For three years he played stock in Denver, where he met and married Florence | Eldridge. In 1928 Fredric went to Los Angeles to | play on the stage in ‘“‘The Royal Family”? and as a | result was offered .a part in the Paramount talkie, | “The Dummy,’’ which he accepted. This resulted in } a long term contract. This handsome gent is 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighs 170 pounds, has brown hair (4) She sprang to her feet and danced from sheer joy! Now that corn would trouble her no more.. would no longer make her cranky, nor keep her from dancing with her friends! (3) Blue Jay attacked that terrible corn and had him down in a moment utterly helpless. The villain’s torturing hold on the beautiful lady was instantly broken, and— MORAL: If you have a corn, get rid of it safely and quickly with Blue-Jay—the scientific corn re- mover @ The pain stops the minute Blue-Jay is ap- plied. The snug-fitting pad of the finest softest felt cushions the corn against painful shoe pressure. Then the mild Blue-Jay medication gently loosens and undermines the corn —and after 3 painless days pen WV, BAUER & BLACK WAUSUE QUACK eons A KAMER COMPANY, (5) The end of the story is the end of the corn. Imprisoned by Blue-Jay for three days, at the end of that time his lifeless form and brown eyes. His favorite recreations are horse- 7 i i y ! 9 1 { | | back riding, tennis and. swimming. fons sare anoise. was lifted out, carried away. Thanks to Brave Blue-Jay! the dainty pad is quickly i} | wife (it’s stil orence Eldridge) have two adopt children, a-ginl and a boy. As hinted above, Bred removed and the corn lifted | will make “‘Anthony Adverse’”’ in the title role— | and a good Anthony he should be, too. (Note to V. C. { —Marilyn Knowlden was the cute little girl who layed EEOC S, foster rae Ae “Les Miserables.’’) ou can reach him at the United Artists Studios, 1041 N. Formosa Ave., Hollywood, Cal. out easily and completely. i) Blue Jay scientific Corn Plasters have been used successfully by millions of corn sufferers for 35 | years. They are made by Bauer & Black, famous aii _ surgical dressing house. 1} J gestedont APpProveg wi 4.653 o : \ Good Housekeeping Xp, ° Bureau wy canto HOUSEKEEPING MOEA, INFORMATION DESK, MODERN SCREEN 25¢ at all | i ; , EXERCISE BOOK FREE Illustrates valuable 149 Madison Ave., New York, N. 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STOP A COLD THE FIRST DAY! Drive It Out of Your System! COLD once rooted is a cold of danger! Trust to no makeshift method. A cold, being an internal infection, calls for internal treatment. A cold also calls foraCOLD treatment and not a preparation good for a number of other things as well. Grove’s Laxative Bromo Quinine is definite treatment for a cold. It is expressly a cold treat- ment in tablet form. It is internal in effect and it does four important things. Four Effects First, it opens the bowels. Second, it checks the infection in the system. Third, it relieves the headache and fever. Fourth, it tones the sys- tem and helps fortify against further attack. Grove’s Bromo Quinine is distinguished for this fourfold effect and it is what you want for the prompt relief of a cold. All drug stores sell Grove’s Laxative Bromo Quinine. When you ask for it, don’t let anyone switch you to something else, for any reason! The cost is small, but the stake is large! A Cold is an IInternal Infection and Requires Internal Treatment GROVE’S LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE MODERN SCREEN If You Would Have a Figure Like Crawford (Continued from page 43) the studio takes them in hand, remodels them, fixes up what’s wrong with them— and the studio pays the bills. And that’s a darn good way to make a selfish, lazy sissy out of a girl. But when you have to struggle and skimp and sacrifice to get the things you want, you can throw your shoulders back and say, “I am somebody.” And not only that, you won’t forget so easily and so quickly that you were once an ugly duckling, as the movie stars love to forget. Gosh! Some of those stars’ memories are as short as their leading man’s close-ups. We seldom appreciate what’s given to us. ND now back to this month’s movie star double, Joan Personette. You have a beautiful forehead, high and broad. And the structure of your face is very nice. It is the kind of face that has camera possibilities. Remember, it was the pos- sibilities that the studio saw in Joan Crawford. Your hair is nice and you show good taste in the way you arrange it. You're smart to keep it simple. And now I want you to gain health and vigor. Notice some of the things Joan Crawford does. She has a swimming pool but she isn’t an ardent swimmer. She takes long sun baths, and there’s nothing better for you than that, but she’s wise enough to know that swimming develops ugly shoul- der, arm and thigh muscles. Joan can’t afford to develop her shoulder muscles. As it is she has very wide shoulders. Do you know that gal is a size sixteen through the shoulders and a size twelve in the waist? And she gives the appearance of being a small fourteen! Also Joan Crawford dances. But she dances in the right way. That's why her legs remain good looking. She doesn’t go in for the muscle building buck and wine, tap stuff. She does more soft shoe work and graceful bends. Turn on your radio or phonograph to some snappy music that’s got exactly the right beat and tempo. All the old tunes are swell. Like “Turkey in the Straw” or “She'll Be Comin’ ’Round the Moun- tain.” Believe me, that tune will get the moon over the mountain. That’s what Kate Smith has been trying to do for years. I’m sure if that moon of hers were in the first quarter it would be lots easier. There’s an old saying that when you see the moon in the first quarter any wish you make will come true. But don’t just wish and let it go at that. Wish and work is the way—and let’s have a lot more working than wishing. Because right now I’m go- ing to tell you how to lose fifteen pounds in one month. Get up early. Never sleep more than eight hours. Every morning or evening get those tunes going and dance around the room a dozen times. Put some pep in the dance. Take this limbering-up exercise. Stand with feet slightly apart, arms straight above your head. Stretch and reach as high as you can. Now swing the body from side to side. Keep knees stiff and do not move the feet. Always keep arms above head. Then swing the body from the waistline in a circle, not moving the lower part of the body. Do this ten times in one direction and then reverse. Take a brisk walk whenever you can. Don’t, don’t sit down after meals. Get up and move around. Don’t take hot baths. A tepid shower is best. Use a body brush and dry with a real heavy Turkish towel. HEN take your special exercises for the fat spots. (How are you gals get- ting along with those hip and thigh exer- cises I’ve already given you? Is the sore- ness gone yet? No. Well never mind, keep it up. It’s good for you.) But for heaven’s sake use your common sense. Don’t write me for a million exercises at once. Stick to one job at a time. If you're fatter in the hips than any place else work on them until they begin to go down before you start on the abdomen exercises. And now for the diet. Some women, you know the type, the whiny ones—com- plain that it’s monotonous. I’d like to give them a good shaking—and it would do them good, too, believe me. I give you plenty of choice—and how can anything be monotonous when your mirror tells you that youre getting slimmer and more beautiful every day. Stop complaining! BREAKFAST Small glass grapefruit or orange juice Slice melba toast or thin wholewheat toast or rye wafer with a little honey, but no butter Cup black coffee (no sugar) LUNCHEON Glass tomato juice or grapefruit juice Large bowl of clear vegetable soup or consommé (no crackers) or (that’s “or” not “and”) green salad or cole slaw In the middle of the afternoon tomato juice or orange juice or an apple. DINNER Fruit cup or melon (not watermelon) with lemon juice and no salt Salad of lettuce and tomato or endive and watercress (Dressing of very little oil and lemon) Choice of the following: Small broiled rare steak One double lamb chop One slice one-fourth inch thick roast beef Two slices of broiled or roasted turkey Chicken breast and wing Two slices of broiled lamb Small portion of broiled ground round steak (without fat) (No thick gravies or sauces with any meat ) Two vegetables (Peas, carrots, broc- coli, greens, etc.) Small baked potato prepared like this: When potato is done scoop out the inside leaving about one-fourth inch still on the skin. Put this skin back in the oven until it is crisp and brown. Eat this instead of bread For dessert have fruit gelatin or baked apple without sugar or stewed fruit without sugar Use very little salt. And take no liquor at all! This diet, combined with the exercises will take off fifteen pounds in one month. It’s worth working for! It’s worth fighting for! Remember, too, that I am always eager to help you with any beauty, weight and general health problem that you may care to ask me about. Just send a self-ad- dressed, stamped envelope for a reply.

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Silent Young Man (Continued from page 34) to the sincere, emotional youth sort of comes under the head of an understate- ment. He mooned around for weeks be- fore he decided to try to get over it. He still phones her. There are those who say he has visited his ex-wife on the “So Red the Rose” set, but this Henry denies. At any rate, no woman has meant anything to the lad since Margaret, which puts him in the class of a “one-woman man,” a rare specie in Hollywood—or in any town for that matter. Henry will do anything in the interest of his job. The day we saw him, the company was shooting the ice floe scenes for “Way Down East.” Many a leading man would have demanded a double rather than take a certain ducking as he fled after Rochelle Hudson over huge cakes of ice. But our hero wrapped himself up in a mackinaw, boots and fur cap, on the hottest July day that ever bloomed, and did his stunt. Of course he touched bot- tom somewhere between the third and fourth cakes of ice, but he came up smiling and asked, “Will I have to do this again? It would just be like someone saying that my scarf wasn’t on right the first time!” ENRY wants to get back to the New York stage. “Trite but true,’ says he, “there’s nothing like audience reaction. There’s nothing like building up to a big dramatic scene and being able to sustain the emotion. In pictures, when you're all het up someone shouts ‘Cut’ and you've got to deflate like a balloon and start all over again. “I’m not saying a thing against Holly- wood, mind you. I like the place. I have an apartment now—share it with another fellow—and we have a cook. She’s better than the house man we used to have. He sort of got us down. He’d worked for some big shot or other and [ think he thought we were a little on the uncouth side. You know, not dressing for dinner and such like. I guess I’m not much on heck out of a wardrobe, which annoys valet.” Henry flew to Omaha over week-ends during production. It worried the com- pany, but his father was ill and he was going to be with him every minute he could steal from work. There’s a loyalty MODERN SCREEN WHICH IS YO LUCKY NUMB | DARK BRUNETTE ! NATURAL You May Think It is No.1 When It Really is No.3; Or No.2 Rather than No.4 The Wrong Shade of Face Powder Will Make You Look Years Older Than You Really Are! 2 Meni Are you using the right shade of face powder for you? That sounds like a rather needless question, doesn’t it? For there is nothing a woman selects more confidently than her color of face powder. Yet, it is an actual fact, as artists and make-up experts will tell you, that many women use alto- gether the wrong shade of face powder. The shade they so fondly believe makes them look their youngest and most attractive does just the opposite and makes them look years older than they really are! Brunettes think that because they are bru- nettes they should use a dark shade. Blondes think they should use a light shade. Titians think they should use something else. Choose by Trying ‘The fact is, you shouldn’t choose a face powder shade according to your “type” or So fundamentally sound is this principle that I want you to prove it to yourself at my expense. I will therefore send you all five shades of my Lady Esther Face Powder free of charge and ob- ligation. When you get the fiveshades, try all five on. Don’t think that your choice must be con- fined to any one or two shades. As I say, try on all five. Maybe the very shade you think least suited to you is really your most becoming, your most flattering. Stays on for 4 Hours When you make the shade test of Lady Esther Face Powder, I want you to notice, too, how smooth this face powder is— how evenly it goes on and long it holds. By actual test, you will find this face powder adheres for four hours or more. Write today for all five shades of Lady Esther Face Powder which I offer free. With the five shades of Lady Esther Face Powder I will also send you a 7-day tube of Lady Esther Face Cream. The coupon brings both the powder and cream. nr (Y. [FREE | i) coloring, but according to which one is as compost tion a pen ygposicard.) (19). ie | Te ADO becoming Ter you. After all, A ady Esther, 2010 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, Illinois brunette may have a very fair skin while a blonde may have a dark or olive skin Please send me by return mail a liberal supply of all five shades of Lady Esther Face Powder; also a 7-day supply of your Lady Esther Four-purpose Face Cream. Skeet shooting is one of Holly- 1 ' ° | wood's favorite sports and or any shade between. The only way to aoe : here is one of its youngest de- tell, therefore, is to try all five shades : votees, George Breakston. He's which, experts agree, accommodate all ss —= = aie H) uw i ae ° Mt currently appearing in ‘’The colorings. oy Se : Return of Peter Grimm.” Se en yen rem One 75 I 4

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If you accused him of this, he’d say, “Don’t be redick,” but if scrambled eges and stewed tomatoes every luncheon is a pleasure, then there’s no such thing as a key to the calories! Mr. Fonda spends his evenings at home. Which is another source of wonderment to the city of glitter. There are so many places to go when the sun goes down, gay places with guh-rand music and celebri- ties and beautiful girls. Henry doesn’t take them in. He’s not interested at this point. He doesn’t care to be rumored about. He says, “If the right girl comes along, shell never believe I’m on the level if she’s read I’ve been here and there with this beauty and that.’ Being on the level is very important to Mr. F. Things are as they seem to him. “T’ve got to sing in Lily Pons’ picture,” he said. “At least it’s in the script. Maybe when they hear the play-back, they'll cut out the song, which should spare the audience no end. There’s no need of torturing nice people, you know, when all they want-is good, clean fun—a little honest entertainment.” Which, we sup- pose, is fair enough, even though it is said that Henry can hit a mean musical note. @2= Hollywood does strange things to people. Sometimes it gives them the big head. There are those skeptics who claim that when Fonda begins read- ing his very excellent press notices he’s going to think, “Pretty good, this Henry —eh, wot?” That it would be only hu- man. Our guess is that no such thing is due to occur. He says of himself, of course half kid- dingly, “I must be pretty hot stuff. Why, the producer who signed me to make pic- tures has loaned me out ever since the day I put my name to the contract. Yep, two for Fox and one for RKO. Some fun, hey?” The very fact that other companies bid for the services of a movie newcomer shows what faith the powers that be in the Celluloid City have in Henry. He really has about everything, you see. Youth, good looks and acting ability. A rare combination to turn up in a town where if you look the part, you’re apt to be blah and if you’re a swell actor, the profile isn’t anything to be taken seriously ; in fact, it should be somewhere on the comedy lot. Yes, we think if we had any shekels to bet, we'd place them on Henry Fonda’s very straight nose and, so, would come in the winner of the cinema sweepstakes. Romantic—Never Routine (Continued from page 37) factors who decided that what this coun- try needs—besides a good 5-cent cigar— is more connubial osculation. So they took the following pledge: 1. I solemnly pledge myself daily to em- brace my wife, kiss her and tell her that I love her. 2. I promise to compliment her at least once each day on some particular part of the menu she prepares. 3. I promise to perform at least one kind and unexpected deed for her daily. Latest news reports attest that, after a fair trial, the wives of these reformed hus- bands declare it to be a marvelous idea, and insist that the Club be continued... . (Did some of these smart husbands per- haps hear of the wonderful results of the Gibbons-del Rio marital experiment in romance?) ‘““ AND,” continued Dolores, breaking in on my reverie, “you can’t imagine how I anticipate that nightly dinner date with Cedric. That’s the advantage of being absorbed in my work all day long. I’m sure, if I didn’t work as hard as I do now and if I had the empty time on my hands I used to have in Mexico City, I couldn’t make a go of my marriage. But being compelled to see other people all day long makes coming back to Cedric both a sooth- ing tonic and a wonderfully fresh adven- ture. “Then there’s another important rule we observe which makes ours an out-of-the- ordinary marriage. The question of finances never enters into it at all. “T earn money enough to be financially indépendent of Cedric—and I spend it as I like. Ive always thought it shameful for women to have to go begging to their husbands every time they want a new dress or coat. To be made to realize that they’re dependent, body and soul, on the man they marry. Ugh! It’s humiliat- ing. I could never bear it!” But Dolores admits that Cedric doesn’t allow her too much independence. That’s never good for women. As the old gran- nies say: “It gives ’em ideas—puts fool- ish notions into their heads.” Cedric insists on paying all the house- hold expenses. Which indicates clearly to all concerned whose house it is and who’s the master in it. There should never be any doubt about that, he firmly believes. And Dolores quite agrees with him. So with the salary Dolores earns (which is no slouch these days) under her new contract with Warner-First National, she buys all her own clothes, pays the wages of her secretary, and does lovely gracious things for her parents—such as building and decorating a new home for her mother to occupy during her annual six months’ stay in Hollywood. OLORES is exceptionally proud of that house because it is completely her own brain-child—every spot of color, every stick of furniture in it. It was her way of showing Cedric how much she’d learned from him in the matter of artistic selection. She admitted all this to me one day in her dressing-room—which, by the way, is also very modern—a sparkling affair in white and tomato red. When I admired it and remarked how perfectly it suited her personality, she said, “I’m glad you think so. To do one’s best work and to be hap- piest one should always manage to wear a touch of one’s personality color, or have it in one’s surroundings. Red is my color —Jjust to see it makes me feel alive and gay !” Actually, Dolores looks up to Cedric’s intelligence with something of awe, as an adoring pupil regards an adored and splen- did teacher. “T know he’s mentally superior to me, and I’m certainly not sorry!” she declares. In the past four years, since her mar- riage to Cedric Gibbons, Dolores del Rio has learned more about life and the right way to self-expression and the achieve-

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i | They were all set for matri- mony but now Irene Hervey and Bob Taylor just go out together occasionally. ment of happiness, than most young women of her age—and certainly more than she ever learned in the 24 or so odd years before Cedric entered her life. She’s profited wonderfully by the sad experi- ence of her first marriage. She realizes now what is of permanent value to a woman and she’s employing the knowledge that was born of suffering to maintain the happiness she’s found with Cedric. IRSTLY, Dolores realizes that there can’t be a true and happy relationship between a man and a woman unless it’s tacitly understood by both that the man is superior to the woman in some way that counts. And that doesn’t necessarily mean earning more money—or being physically stronger. It’s much more subtle than that. A woman must never be allowed to con- sider herself the superior or the equal of her mate in every respect. It’s fatal—no matter how emancipated the two people consider themselves. Think back over the smashed-up marriages in Hollywood. How many times are they caused, primarily, by the wife being a Neon- lighted star who re- gards herself, and compels everyone else to do so also, as the superior member of the union. And the husband—whatever his profession and no matter how good at it he is—must either submit to being patron- ized because he’s just Mr. Movie Star— or get out because he can’t stand it! This explains Dolores’ delight in being able to look up to Cedric’s “superior in- telligence.” She wants to feel herself in- ferior to him in some respects! Then there’s still another thing she’s learned. Keeping a love relationship at a high pitch of emotional satisfaction de- pends largely upon the woman. Having Ecohie quite a young philosopher, Do- lores has a theory about this. 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They know that when a Shirley Temple picture is being prepared there will be several weeks’ work for three extra seaimstresses and it makes them all happy. In “Curly Top” she has eighteen changes of costume. Each tiny garment is beautifully made and finished with the most exquisite handwork—little rabbits on pink satin pajamas, gay flowers embroi- dered on black velvet. There are hats to accompany many of the costumes. Even her shoes are made to order. “Every dress we make for Shirley costs from $35 to $40,” René Hubert told me. And there is no star for whom the great designer would rather fashion clothes. ‘She is so refreshing,” he explained. And every garment that is made for her is given to her for her personal use when the picture is finished. Marion Weldon, a young lady who sings and dances, is another who owes her weekly salary directly to Shirley. She learns all of Shirley’s songs and dances and, in turn, helps to teach them to Shir- ley. wy try them out on Marion,” Jack Don- ohue, the dancing instructor, explained. “When I’m _ satisfied with them I teach them to Shirley by having her watch Marion. It’s the easiest way to teach a child and besides, Shirley is a born mimic.” During a Temple production, he hires an assistant to carry on his regular work so that he is available for Shirley at any time. Handicapped by the law, which al- lows children to work a limited number of hours a day, he must be ready to rehearse with Shirley whenever she can work with him. In preparing for a new picture they usually rehearse two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon. There is an extra pianist hired for Shirley's re- hearsals. For ‘Curly Top” an Hawaiian dancing girl was hired at $15 a day for at least a week to teach her a native dance. HIRLEY says her lessons to Miss Lillian Barkley, who teaches the stock players at the studio, but a welfare work- er is employed for Shirley exclusively. This welfare worker, Mrs. Veta Geddes, receives $9 a day for her services and she works every day that Shirley does. She reads to Shirley, plays games and is with her every minute she is on the set. Both teachers are enthusiastic over their small pupil and say she always worries over other children who work in her pic- tures. When making the baptizing scene in “The Little Colonel” the little colored boy had to be ducked many times be- fore the scene suited the director. Each time, after the ducking, it was Shirley who ran for the blanket and wrapped him up so he wouldn’t take cold. Generous to a fault, she wants to share her good fortune with others and particu- larly with her little stand-in, Marilyn Grannis. If she is offered an ice cream cone or a piece of candy, she will scarcely wait to say “thank you” before she adds, “Marilyn is over there.” Marilyn, however, has profited more than in these small attentions by Shirley's rise to stardom. In “Baby Take a Bow” Marilyn, with some other children, was hired to do a specialty number. Mrs. Temple and Shirley took a fancy to Mari- lyn and her mother and so she has been employed regularly at a salary of about $30 a week to act as Shirley’s stand-in. The money Marilyn earns is not needed for “family” expenses and is put away intact for her use later on. Of course Shirley’s mother wouldn’t be any place, but with her child. But for her companionship, for teaching Shirley her lines and for other duties she performs (perhaps as a reward for having had Shirley!), Mrs. Temple is paid a salary of $100 a week by the studio. This money enabled Mrs. Temple to hire a housekeeper to do the work which she had previously done herself. It also enabled. the Temples to move into a more secluded home when Shirley’s popularity caused a crowd of curiosity seekers to surround their house at all hours of the day and night in an effort to get a peek at the tiny star. While this was an un- bearable annoyance to the Temples, it was a break for the real estate dealer who sold them a new home. Several months ago Shirley’s fan mail increased to more than 4,000 letters a week (more than that received by any Fox star) necessitating the hiring of a secretary to answer it. She is a permanent employee and taking care of the mail oc- cupies all of her time. | Rese the people employed at the studio in Shirley’s pictures and for her in other ways, there are hundreds of other people who enjoy a salary every week on account of this child. There are the people who wrote and published the Shirley Temple books. There are the peo- ple who manufacture and distribute the Shirley Temple cut-outs (paper dolls). There are the Shirley Temple dolls, which must be manufactured, dressed and distributed. This business has grown to huge proportions. There are the Shirley Temple hair ribbons, her latest venture. There are the Shirley Temple dresses, which have become so popular that the company which manufactures them on Long Island, New York, has _ recently moved the factory into a larger and newer building. Last, but by no means least, is Shirley’s lawyer, Loyd Wright, who makes all of her contracts and takes care of her business. In spite of this fame and attention, it is the general opinion of those who know that Shirley has remained remarkably un- spoiled. Her influence has been felt around the world. Just to see her in a picture is to feel better. Darryl F. Zanuck has big things in store for Shirley and that means a treat for her great legion of fans. How would you like to have Shirley in a grand musical? Well, one is being considered now. The idea is to give Shirley’s nimble feet and musical talent full sway, surrounding her with a cast that will be the tops. While all these plans are on foot, Shir- ley is having a perfectly grand time slow- ing her fast foot work down to the sedate pace of the minuet and the quaint dignity of the hoop skirts she wears in “‘The Lit-

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MODERN SCREEN tlest Rebel.’ When this is finished she will rest before playing in that beloved old story “Captain January.” | Speaking of plans for Shirley, Mr. Zan- | uck says, “By her talent, Shirley has won her way to the highest rank of the film stars. We mean to help her remain on top. In the future, everything will be | done for Shirley that is done for grown- | up stars. She will have the best writers and her supporting casts will be composed of outstanding personalities. Great care will be exercised so that her roles will be varied and the fans, whose hearts she has captured, shall remain hers for a long time to come.” With all this sudden wealth, the Tem- ple family has hardly changed its mode of living. Shirley has worked in pictures before and her mother has always accom- panied her to the studio. The greatest dif- ference is that formerly Mrs. Temple had to hurry home to prepare dinner for her husband and two hungry boys. An adverse Supreme Court decision, to- gether with Father Coughlin, couldn’t (if they would, and they wouldn’t) jar this one-girl institution, for the TRA is the most effective cure-all yet advanced. Confessions of an Extra Girl (Continued from page 46) But when absolutely no more calls came | I realized the truth—that the story had been whispered around, that the director | - was being believed and that I was dubbed | “bad news.’ Apparently others were : : Ses : EYE BEAUTY AIDS ea - il afraid to give me work lest I “pull off oN Me YE SHADOW... EYEBROW PENCIL...EYELASH TONIC CREAM... EYEBROW BRUSH another frame.” In vain I tried to do something about it, but I found that I could not even see the assistant directors who had once given me work. And [I realized that I was being “blacklisted.” When I was working more or less stead- ily I spent the surplus money with which I had come to Hollywood for clothes, be- cause a good wardrobe made me more val- uable. The result was that I had no extra money on which to fall back. I was be- hind with my rent for the first time. I believed that Hollywood would forget that I was “bad news.’ Hollywood for- gets so quickly, sometimes. And so I be- gan looking for other work to tide me over until that happened. Another job? What a fool I was! I had not learned typing and shorthand in ah high school, so sure was I that I was des- \eaves er giffic’ tined to be a famous actress, so I applied swine this i for work as a waitress and then as a clerk in cheap stores. But how many thousands ot girls there are in Hollywood who come out to seek fame and fortune. and, finding neither, start looking for other jobs. Stores and restaurants are filled with would-be Garbos, Crawfords and Colberts. And so the days dragged on. I was so miserable and unhappy that I would not even read the studio news in the papers. Now I had one alternative. I might have given up and gone home. But I could not. No, there is something about Holly- wood that gets you, even if you're on the very outer fringe. I would undoubtedly have been better off had I not gone to Hollywood in the first place but once there, The Love Story Magazine of the Screen there is no turning back. Then finally another alternative pre- sented itself. One evening Bradley called for me in his car and we drove to the beach together. DECEMBER ISSUE NOW ON SALE.

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With Ironized Yeast I gained 10 lbs. in 3 weeks.’’—FannieAlcorn, Oneida, Tenn. 14 Ibs. quick “I seemed born to be skinny, but with Iron- ized Yeast I gained 14 lbs. in 3 weeks,.’’—Dora Sotelo, Anaheim, Calif. very first package—or money refunded. At all druggists. TIronized Yeast Co., Ince., Atlanta, Ga. Dept. 312, “SKINNY? SEE HOW 1 LOOK SINCE 1 GAINED 12 POUNDS” Po ee as Posed by professional models 80 MODERN SCREEN Overlooking the beautiful moonlit water, he told me that I had no chance of becom- ing a star and that I should give up trying te get extra work again. “Darling,” he said, “I love you! I want you to marry me so that I can take care of you and protect you.” The security of a fine husband—no more financial and emotional worries! But 1 could not accept Bradley now. I had two reasons for my refusal and I hope I can make you understand them. First of all, I still had to prove to my- self that I could act if I were given the chance and I felt that I must not give up when only situations over which I had no control were apparently keeping me back. Secondly, I felt that perhaps Bradley was asking me to marry him simply because he felt sorry for me. And my pride would not let me accept that. Before I could marry Bradley or anybody I had to prove myself in some way. I tried to explain these things out there in the moonlight but I saw how hurt and disappointed Bradley was. He hid his hurt with anger, called me a “damn career woman” and, when he left me at my door, swore that he would not see me or talk to me until I had “come to my senses.’’ Ac- tually, he did not know in what straightened financial circumstances I was. ND so began the most depressing and heartbreaking period of my life. There is nothing so dreadful -as being alone and without money in Hollywood. Time and again I was tempted to call Bradley but that I could not do until my pride was restored. I sold a few dresses to the second-hand clothes shops with which Hollywood abounds, but I could not give up all my best things in case I received a call. I pawned a little bracelet with one diamond in it that my mother had given me. Finally I discovered myself completely without money. For two days I did not eat. Once during those days I weakened and called Bradley. He was not in and I did not leave a message. No, I must see this thing through myself. But hunger is awful. One night as I walked along the street I thought, “If this were not Hollywood, I would have the al- ternative of the oldest profession in the world. But, heaven knows, one can’t sell love in Hollywood when so many girls are eager to give it.” I must have been a little crazy to think such things. As I walked I stumbled against something. I looked down and saw a garbage can that had just been put out. On the top was a big piece of dry bread. I hurriedly looked about me to see if anyone were looking. I snatched the bread from the garbage can and ran with it, cramming it into my mouth as I ran. I thought what my mother would say, what tears she would weep if she knew I was eating food from garbage cans! I tried to stop myself from having these thoughts. I ran along the street in the di- rection of some lights ahead of me. At one of the few studios—a smaller one— actually remaining in Hollywood proper, they were doing some night shooting. I discovered that they were working on the street in front of the studio. A crowd had gathered to watch. I became one of that crowd, on the outside looking in again. The scene showed the star being picked up, obviously having been struck down by an automobile, and being carried away on a stretcher. How familiar it all was—the lights, the cameras, the sound truck. Would I ever be working in this atmos- phere again? IT heard the director say to the extras, “Here now, when she is put on a stretcher one of you throw a coat over her.” He called for a prop boy and asked for a coat, but the boy explained that since no such prop had been requested beforehand, none was available. The director looked the extras over. Several girls were wearing coats but one was too dark and one was too light. Suddenly his eyes fell upon me. “Will you lend me your coat, young lady?” he asked. “It is just what I want.” Gathering all my courage I said, “I will if you'll let me be the one to throw it over ete He laughed. Apparently he thought me some idle girl who wanted the thrill of working in a picture. Ah, if he only knew ! j “Okay,” he said. And so again by the merest accident I was working. I even had a small bit to do, stepping forward when the star was lifted on the stretcher and throwing the coat over her. We worked until past three o’clock and then he said it was time to go home. The assistant director came to me and gave me five dollars. SNATCHED the money and was just turning to go when the director shouted, “Say, stop that girl and get the coat. It’s spotted in this scene and when the stretcher arrives at the hospital it must be thrown over it.” He turned to me. “Will you sell us the coat?” he asked. “No,” I said, “it’s the only one I have.” “Then will you rent it to us?” “Yes,” I answered, “if I go along with it. You'll need extras in the hospital scene, won't you? Let me be one of them.” He shook his head. “You've been spotted in this scene. We'll need other faces at the hospital. But I’ll rent the coat for what I’d pay you—five dollars a day.” And so, by a curious chain of events which could not possibly happen anywhere but in Hollywood, I ate regularly once more and my coat worked for me. Every evening I went to the studio and collected the money the coat earned. On the third day they said they were through with it but that I should keep it carefully since they might need it for retakes. And then I took a bold chance. I asked to see the assistant director. He undoubtedly thought, when he saw me, that the nuisance was back again. I said, “You must listen to me.” And I told him the whole story and my belief that I had been “blacklisted.” He was most kind and he said, “Such a thing is actually impossible. There is no blacklist in Hollywood. I’m sure I can explain what happened, although I’ve never heard of your particular case be- fore. But perhaps this rotten fellow told a few people not to use you. As you know, the people right on the ground are the ones who get the jobs. When they stopped seeing you around they forgot about you. It’s just one of those tough breaks. But I’m willing to help you. Ill begin right now by putting you on my call list for a new picture. It will probably start the ball rolling again for you.” And so I was back in pictures once more. That evening I called Bradley. He seemed unhappy that I had another chance. “T thought,” he said, “that I could make you see that marriage was the best thing for you.” And now I have told you the most dra- matic things that have happened to me. But before I finish completely with my con- fessions I want to do what I promised to do in the first place. Next month I’m going to end my story by telling you what my life is like today and discuss what I—who should know Hollywood by now—think of the chances for an unknown girl in this town.

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MODERN SCREEN Spencer Tracy Speaks His Mind (Continued from page 29) money until we came out here! Most of us never knew whether we'd eat from one week to the next until we hit this town! “Look at doctors and lawyers and long- shoremen, do they yelp and howl if they have to work all hours of the night? They do not. And do they get the rewards we get out here? Not on your life they don’t and can never hope to. And some of ‘em have had long years of arduous preparation and others of ‘em work, with their muscles and their sinews and their strained hearts. We need never have gone to school—Hollywood doesn’t ask us for any mortar board. And the strain we put on our hearts and muscles wouldn't hurt an embryo. Better hit me over the head, if you want me to stop. This is a sore point with me. Seems to me that for actors to complain about Hollywood and the producers is like a spoiled brat hitting an overindulgent, undemanding parent in the face. NYWAY, this is my credit side of the sheet. If it hadn’t been for Hol- lywood and what it has done for me I wouldn’t have been able to do what I’ve done, and am doing, for Johnny. I couldn’t have taken him to the best doc- tors, the last-word experts in the country. I couldn’t have taken him to San Francisco last week, for instance, and have tests made and a device used which has ascer- tained that he has a little hearing. A very little but enough so that there is hope for the future. Enough so that he could, for the first time in his life, hear my voice and his mother’s. Say, no head- line story that could be written about me could be the big story this one line of in- formation is. And say, I’d owe Holly- wood the skin off my back if all it ever gave me was the look on that kid’s face when he heard his mother’s voice and mine for the first time in his life.” Spencer cleared his throat, rubbed one hand across the blue of his eyes and said roughly, “Sure, it’s given me the chance to live on the ranch we're living on now —-Gary Cooper’s you know. It’s given me the chance to give Johnny and Susie, too, horses and polo ponies and dogs, a swimming pool, fields to roam about in. It’s opened a whole world of activities to a little chap who might have been shut out STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., CT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST of a lot of them. Just this alone is enough to swell the credit side of my sheet so top- heavy there won’t be much room for the debits. “Hollywood saved my mother’s life. She was seriously injured in an automobile ac- cident back East. The doctors there said that the injuries were fatal. I could and I did bring her out here, into the sunshine, ito a house of her own in Beverly Hills. Care was available, medical attention. She is alive and well today. It couldn’t have been done if I had been in any other line oft work. Chalk that one down to the Creditsiees a And there are other items which be- long on the credit side of Spencer’s Hol- Iywood. Things he didn’t tell me him- self. Things his friends have told me. There are the old friends of his Dad’s—men who are tired and beaten, too old and too frus- trated to start again. Well, thanks to Spencer they have started again and one of them said to me one day, “It wasn’t only the money he gave me, it was the faith in people J got back.” “When I was a youngster I dreamed of being a doctor,’ Spencer once told me, adding with a laugh, “but hell, I wouldn't have got through the first year of pre- medical school. Too dumb.” O now there’s a certain young man who is going through McGill and, Spencer will tell you proudly, standing third in his class. And when this young man be- gins to heal with his hands the wounds of his fellowmen it will be the hand of Holly- wood that trained him. “I don’t want money. Not for myself,” Spencer told me. “I’d be a bad boy if I had too much dough. And I know it. If I could say to the studio tomorrow, “Toodle-co, I won't be needin’ you!’, I'd go berserk. So I keep myself broke and I’m happy and safe. I have insurance and annuities so that if I should die to- morrow the family would be substantially safe. That’s all I care about. I’ve got no use for the stuff myself. “On the credit side goes, too, the way people feel about us—us movie actors I mean. In all the fan letters that come to me there’s not one with a grouse in it. You'd think that some folks would write in and say, ‘How did you get this way, REQUIRED BY THE 24, 1912 AND MARCH 3, 1933 A E of MODERN SCREEN, published monthly at Dunellen, N. J., for October 1, 1935. State of New York 5 County of New York BEY Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Helen Meyer, who, haying been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that she is the business manager of the MODERN SCREEN and that the following is, to the best of her knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management, etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 411, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: iL, ae York, N. Y. Trustee for Estate of Margarita Delacorte. George T. Delacorte, Jr., Trustee for Estate of George T. Delacorte, Jr, Margarita Delacorte, 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: None. 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security Sle Sit WOMAN HER ADVANTAGE OVER OTHERS Do you know a woman who is never at a disadvantage, never breaks engagements, never pleads that she is ‘“‘indisposed,” and whose spirits never seem to droop? She is apt to be that eighth woman who has learned to rely on Midol. Eight million women once _ suffered every month. Had difficult days when they had to save themselves, and favor themselves, or suffer severely. But a mil- lion have accepted the relief of Midol. Are you a martyr to “regular’’ pain? Must you favor yourself, save yourself, on certain days of every month? Midol might change all this. Might have you playing golf. And even if it didn’t make you com- pletely comfortable you would receive a measure of relief well worth while! Midol is effective even when the pain has caught you unaware and has reached its height. It’s effective for hours, so two tablets should see you through your worst day. And they do not contain any narcotic. You'll find Midol in any drug store — usually right out on the toilet goods counter. Or, a card addressed to Midol, 170 Varick St., New York, will bring a trial box postpaid, plainly wrapped. holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders or security holders as they appear upon the books cf the company, but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant’s full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders I who do not appear upcn the books of the company as _ tru e hold stock and securities in a capacity | other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, associ- mH ation, cr corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than ws ; as so stated by her. y Hy : _HELEN MEYER, Business Manager. He Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th day of September, 1935. ALWAYS HERSELF—Nature doesn’t keep | i MAY KELLEY, ii OE PEED ihe Me Counts the eighth woman off the links—or from other | | N. Y. County Register’s No. 7K118. strenuous activities. Midol means freedom (My commission expires March 30, 1937.) from the old martyrdom to “regular” pain. 81 iI)

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Hair dress takes less time... and curls are softer, lovelier, last © JANE HAMILTON x RKO player % CURLER Be AT §¢ AND 10¢ STORES AND NOTION COUNTERS MODERN SCREEN Divorce, Hol- lywood style! Adrienne Ames and f Bruce Cabot have fire- quent dates now that they are di- vorced! And don’t they loole Wilke bride and groom here? you big punk? Who are you to be making your dough and riding around on _ polo ponies and living on dude ranches and buy- ing orchids while we sweat for a beastly pittance and are as good as youare?’ You'd think they’d say this sort of thing, some of ’em. They never do. No one seems to begrudge us our big piece of cake. And so I say that on the credit side of my sheet goes my appreciation, my knowledge of the generous hearts, the unbegrudging spirit of my fellow men. “And not only from the fans do we get this attitude, but right here at home where our well-paid and pampered bodies are right under the eyes of fellows who sweat for a living wage. The boys on the sets, I mean. Why, a finer gang of fel- lows never lived. And when I hear some actor beef, or when I myself think of beefing because I have to work overtime and then look at those chaps—say, it teaches you a thing or two. “T remember,” said Spencer, flipping an admiring paw at Jean Parker as she passed our table with her chaperone, “I remember one night when we were making ‘Dante’s Inferno.’ I was dead tired, do- ing two pictures at the same time. Day and night stuff. There were two hundred extras on the set that day and the director couldn’t make up his mind whether he wanted me to stand up on a platform and take a long shot or a close-up. Along around seven o'clock I got temperamental for the first, and I think, the only time in my life. I ripped off the shirt I was wear- ing and started to go. As I made to leave the set one of the electricians grabbed hold of me. ‘Say, Spence!’ he said, ‘I had to move those big lights for this take, you know. Damned heavy, those lights, when you’ve been moving ’em all day. And it’s seven o'clock for me, too.’ “So it was. So it was seven o’clock for him, too. Say, I put that shirt of mine back on and got back to that set in a hurry. Seven o’clock for him, too, and he couldn’t send out for coffee and sand- wiches, either. “They try to say that the life of a screen actor is short-lived. Phooey! Un- less we go crazy, get grogged and stay that way we can keep working till the wagon comes. Look at George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore and Lewis Stone and a few of the others. Spencer was saying, “Now about these debits—I told you I’d have to dig a bit for them. It comes to about this, I think. We actors are like the children of very wealthy parents who keep a very close watch on us, have guards and spies set over us. The studio is the mama and papa of the actor. The whole world, the press, the public are the guards and spies. We can’t really be ourselves, much of the time. “Maybe,” laughed Spencer, ‘maybe it’s just as well, but it’s damned uncomfortable at times. I mean, the average chap can do what he pleases, but an actor must always be on his toes. One slip and the whole town’s talking, and magnifying it to tremendous proportions. “T can’t go about dressed like the farm- er’s son as I would like to do and do do a good part of the time. But even when I do, I can’t get the full pleasure out of the blue jeans and sweat shirt. I feel that I should be sporting the soup and fish and making papa proud of his little boy. “IT can’t play practical jokes, shoot off my mouth, horse about as I might want to for fear of being misinterpreted by some little bird who might overhear me or over- see me. It’s kind of a strain, all this. Even when I play polo I have a sense of guilt. I know that mama and papa studio really disapprove. They fear that I might break my little neck which is carrying the Tracy face through a production with a heavy cost sheet. “And them thar,” said Spencer, finish- ing his pistachio ice cream with a flourish, “them thar are about the only items I can think of to list on the debit side. Kinda skinny little items they are, at that. But I can’t invent any. Even the well known ‘temptations of Hollywood’ are a lot of belogna, most of them. All the pretty girls, they say. Sure, but you know the old psychology about a candy shop. Work ii one for a few days and you pay no attention to the sweets! The only tempta- tion I know about out here is a sort of general inclination to go mildly nutty when you aren’t working. The balmy air, the vacationland atmosphere de tend to make you have to buckle on the armor and be- have. But that’s really up to the indi- vidual and if the individual will keep his eye on the credit sheet he won’t really disgrace mama and papa—not for long. “T got no kick coming,’ said Spencer, “it’s all on the credit side with old man Tracy.”

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MODERN SCREEN “Td Be a Terrible Husband” (Continued from page 45) boyishness which is his greatest charm, “nobody ever did ask me if I had been married so I did not think to mention it. There are so much more important things to talk about.” ERTAINLY this young man with the face of an ardent ascetic—a passionate monk—does not lack for words even in his adopted language. Night after night, from college and lecture platforms, he pours them out, day after day when he is not on a movie set making love before the grinding cameras, he is sitting at his desk writing them—flaming words, coaxing words, persuasive words, ten-dollar words! The two cramped, dusty offices he occupies on the studio lot in place of the richly- decorated dressing-rooms of other stars are filled to overflowing with words, locked up in cabinets, filed away under “P,” Peace Plans, ‘“‘U,’”’ Unemployment Reme- dies, “W,” War Statistics. But under “L” you will find nothing about Lederer, Francis, Stage and Screen Idol, or Luxury, or even Love. And un- der “M” you will find no notes about Marriages, past or to come. “Tf being a husband means being an es- cort, a dancing partner, a host for dinner parties, then I would make a very bad husband indeed,” Francis admitted when I asked him whether the rumors of his com- ing marriage to Mary Loos were true. (1 wasn’t going to make the mistake of not asking this time.) “But if being a wife means being a housekeeper, or a bridge partner, or a hostess for one’s parties I do not need a wife. I do not live in a house. 1 do not play bridge. As for parties, time is too precious to waste eating and drink- ing and making small talk about nothing at all. I do not know what to say when charming ladies rush up to me to tell me pretty things about my last picture. They wouldn’t believe me if I would tell them how embarrassing it is for me to hear such compliments and how wasted the time is to talk about myself. You cannot point out to these charming ladies that there are important, worth-while problems they would do better to discuss. Instead at the end of a party you are exactly where you started except perhaps with a fine head- ache.” Whenever there is a Cause to be up- held, a Little Theatre to be launched, a college speech to be made, a peace con- vention to be addressed, Francis Lederer is there. But no parties. For one reason, he does not drink. At the age of ten his teacher in school in Czecho-Slovakia showed the class the colored picture of the stomach of a drunkard, and the sick memory has remained with him all his life! “T think that a woman to marry me— Francis Lederer—would have a very diffi- cult task ahead of her,’ he reflected aloud. “My life is not the sort of life most wo- men would have the courage to choose. And yet I am not a cold idealist. I be- lieve with all my soul that love is the greatest thing in life, a love that is a sharing of the mind and not merely the sharing of a roof, a love that springs from complete sympathy and understanding and not from holding hands under the moon. And I am hoping that I will find that love. I have heard that one of your poets says that he is strongest who travels alone. But my life is so full of empty places! When I stand before a big audience and feel their response and their enthusiasm I am alive, excited, ecstatic. But when it is over and there is no one to turn to, to talk it over with, to share all this experience then I know that it is not living fully to be alone.” RANCIS LEDERER is right. It would be difficult for an American girl to fit her American ideas of marriage into the strange, selfless, chaotic life he leads. No Hollywood movie star cashes in his fame and popularity for the things on which this handsome, eager young Czech spends his. He lives in an inexpensively fur- nished apartment, drives his own car of a popular make and by no means new. He owns no yacht, no swimming pool nor wardrobe filled with sixty suits of clothes. His manager, one of his own country- men, quivers with emotion as he tells of the offers that pour in by every mail from Paris, Vienna, Berlin, London and New York—offers of stage parts, movie roles, lecture tours, magazine contracts which must all be turned down. ‘“Meeelions,” mourns the manager flinging out his hands desolately, “we refuse meeelions just be- cause Mr. Lederer must make the peace talks.” Francis Lederer, bachelor, may keep himself poor to have money to spend on the cause near to his heart. Francis Led- erer, husband, will assuredly do the same thing. There will be no square-cut em- eralds, no star sapphires for the woman who marries this young idealist, no villas with forty rooms and a Roman swimming pool, no imported limousines. “Tf she is the woman for me she will not want such foolish things,” smiles Fran- cis. “I would never fall in love with any- one who finds them necessary to her hap- piness. Myself, I own nothing. Even my ranch house is for sale. It is a forty-five minute drive from Hollywood and | can- not afford to waste so much time. I have only spent two days in a house of my own in my whole life. Houses, sticks of furniture, pots and pans—are these things narriage? Not to me!” Here is a man who, looking back, re- members none of the dear associations of home. When he was a small child his parents were divorced. His beloved older‘ brother was killed early in the war. He himself was in the trenches firing a ma- chine gun when he was thirteen years old, before his bones had become man_ bones or his childish ideas, man ideas. Since then he has hung his hat in many places. He has never known the need of familiar walls about him, or a rosebush that he himself has planted at his own doorstep. ~ E becomes a tyrant,” he says ; impatiently. “It demands that you live by the clock. For instance, three meals a day! I could never, never promise any lady to love and honor and eat three meals a day opposite her! Some days when I have much on my mind I do not eat at all, most days I eat only when I am hungry. I want only fruit and vegetables and perhaps crackers. Such things seem to me so unimportant, so unreasonable. Is it reason, I ask you, to spend the precious days of one’s life, performing the ceremonials of domesticity—shopping, cooking, always repairing, mending, keep- ing the machinery of a house going? Surely there are women in this world who would not think that love means that a man must come home at a certain hour to dinner. PARK &TILFORD'S FAOEN CFAY=-OND PER FU

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And yet,’ his ex- pressive face grows wistful, ‘if I found someone who felt as I feel, who saw the world as I see it, who thought my thoughts, she would perhaps not know that there were any difficulties because she would also like to do the same things that I do.” The girl whom Hollywood watches lunching almost daily at Francis Lederer’s side at the moment, is not the typical movie actress. Mary Loos, the niece of Gentlemen-Prefer-Blondes Anita, is a col- lege girl. She belongs to the exclusive Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She has dark thoughtful eyes and a serious fore- head and she is in the movies more or less by accident. “Does any woman,’ I asked Francis Lederer, “really care about World Peace, do you suppose?” “T know one,” he answered quietly. ‘Miss Loos is deeply interested in it. She is helping me hunt for something to make it coloriul, a substitute for the parades and martial music that takes man’s reason away, and the flags that children are taught they must be glad to die for and willing to kill for. Only then will we be able to make peace as dramatic and ex- citing as war.” The little-boy smile radiates his dark face. it is strangely touching, that young, eager smile in a face cut deeply, chiselled by sad memories and anxious thought. “Please, do not think that I have no other interests than that one. There are too many things in this world that I shall never find the time for. Right now I am taking up sculpture and painting. Miss Loos thinks that I have talent. She has made a friend of hers, an art critic, see my poor beginnings and he encourages me to go on. I am always trying to learn some- thing new, to talk with people who can teach me things I would like to know. Long ago I made up my mind that every moment of my life I would be doing some- thing that would develop me as a person. That thought drives me! You see now why I am impatient with parties and dull domestic details.” Driven! That is the word for Francis Lederer. It explains the eagerness of him, the nervous vitality that chacterizes him on the screen, the deadly earnestness and sincerity that led a blasé theatre manager to part unquestioningly with his trousers when he asked for them long ago in Buda- pest. It explains why, except to the one woman he seeks, he would make the worst husband in the world. New Star in the Sky (Continucd from page admiration of everyone in “Escapade.” “I like it because everyone seems to be walk- ing on little pink clouds! Europeans, you know, are too intense!” And then, after thinking very seriously she added, “But what I like about Europe is that when a man loves a woman she knows it, but here, here she seems to be just another good friend!” Darn clever, those Viennese! HAT amazed me most was the tre- mendous progress she has made in English and she explained it so: “T have worked at it very hard. At first the lessons, they were no good. I was talking with my face, my whole body, expressing everything in actions, not words, and then I said to my teacher, ‘Please may I talk my lesson over the telephone?’ And so it was decided! Every day for a long, long time I would speak over the tele- phone and every time I tried to say some- thing in action I realized it would do no good so I just had to learn English, you see?” And she seemed entirely delighted at fooling herself. Off the screen she tries very hard to talk English exclusively, except when speaking with Johnny, her Scottie, that she brought from Europe with her. Johnny understands only German for the studio hasn’t gotten around to him yet. For Bob Leonard, who directed her film, she has a deep regard and eternal grati- tude “He was so kind,’ she said, “he ex- plained how pictures differ from stage work, how to repress action in close-ups, how to keep from moving about and to use my voice skillfully under a micro- phone. And,” she added, mischievously, “he taught me how to joke in American.” 31) Luise jokes “in American” very well. She has mastered the pun with telling effec- tiveness and is as quick on the come-back as her most agile adversary. When Bob told her macaroni grew on vines she took it all in, very seriously, but her retort was, “And I suppose the egg plants are fresh every morning, too!” NE scarcely expects such hardiness from the slim brunette who isn’t strict- ly beautiful, but whose expressiveness makes her face a constantly changing pic- ture, and whose eyes have repeatedly been called “the most beautiful in Europe’— with which description one finds no grudge. Puttering about her small house at Santa Monica, right next to Max Rein- hardt’s, she seems happy and content for she loves the beach and the open air re- minds her of “home.” But she hasn’t had time for leisure—or for that matter, lone- liness either. She is being wined and dined, teaed and cocktailed. Virginia Bruce was the first to introduce her to the American crowd and like everything she does, in her intense, whole-hearted way, she has embraced the American scene. For instance, she likes Cab Calloway, is delighted with the Mills Brothers. She clogs on the set to the delight of both cast and crew and plays and sings in our best Yankee style. At the studio commissary she invariably tops off her dietless lunch with apple pie! The studio itself realized her value as a new and exciting personality when the “rushes” were run off after the first few days’ shooting. To their lasting credit it must be recorded they practically rewrote the part to fit her individuality. When you admire her charm and “‘cuteness,” the latter

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/ with her. -an all too inadequate word to describe her | certain magnetism, you may be reassured /you are meeting the real Rainer, for they are her gestures. Bill Powell, you know, was delighted And in return she thinks him “the most brilliant and wittiest man I have ever met. And kind, too! He gave me so much confidence by being patient and con- siderate of me!” In short, she is in love with everything and from observation, everyone is quite head over heels in love with her. MODERN SCREEN I told her she seems so satisfied, so filled with a zest for life that I wondered if somewhere there might not be some secret peeve, an unexpressed annoyance with cir- cumstances or people. “The only things which bother me are a narrow outlook and a small mind. I don’t believe in people dividing themselves up into factions and each believing they are right. And,” she added, “I also like only to be told the truth.” pet alone sets Luise in a class by her- self. Mr. Boles Takes Pen in Hand (Continued from page 47) appearances in Chicago recently, John did the unheard of, and un-Hollywoodish thing of entertaining as many fans as he could in his dressing-room after every performance. One evening there were sixteen. (There were hundreds of others waiting outside the stage door, but these sixteen young women had made an ap- pointment en masse.) John was as cor- dial and hospitable as he is in his own home. Among other things, the girls asked him why he hadn’t sung their favorite song, “Sylvia,” on the stage. “Because I didn’t know it was your favorite,’ he replied. “But it’s not too late to remedy that!” And John called in his accompanist and sang the song for the girls! | PHBH UES you don’t know about the many John Boles Fan Clubs all over the country, and in England—and if you don’t you should. To John they are one of the most encouraging things about his career. He talks of them often, never bragging, but oh, so appreciative. The motto, slogan, battle-cry, or whatever you want to call it of these clubs, is, almost universally, “We want John Boles to sing!’ And no snatches of songs, either, as he did in “Music in the Air.” (Did his fans raise something about that!) His fans want him to sing lots of songs and sing each one of them all the way through in his pictures. Here are some more aims of these clubs: 1. To encourage friendship amongst the admirers of our favorite singer and actor, John Boles. To promote his popularity and_ his progress by writing to his studio and requesting suitable roles for him. To show our. appreciation by writing Mr. Boles and the studio after seeing each new film. To encourage members to correspond with each other and to get together to see John Boles’ films. To keep members informed of Mr. Boles’ activities by issuing club bulle- tins to members. To send Mr. Boles greetings on his birthday and other days of celebration. At times these clubs stage contests for the best letter about Mr. Boles, or perhaps, just a membership drive. On such occa- sions John usually donates some personal belonging for a prize. His own mono- grammed handkerchiefs are most in de- mand. He also writes his clubs regularly once or twice a month, and his letters are always reprinted in the club bulletins. But now to get down to the questions at hand, as John and I did later that afternoon. Here are his answers as he wrote them out for you. How do you spend your you're not working? “Out-of-doors, mostly. You see, I think keeping physically fit is one of the first laws for success in this business. After Ou 5 oF ww a time when I have finished a picture, I am really fa- tigued. My energy is at low ebb. It isn’t the work that does it. It’s the strong lights. They take something out of me which only the sun and the fresh air and good healthy exercise can put back into me. That’s why I play so much tennis, and ride horseback, and like to go fishing in the High Sierras. I take Sunday auto- mobile rides, too, just like you do. I like to go picnicking. In the spring I spend a great deal of time at the baseball train- ing quarters. Baseball is one of my hob- bies, you know .. . I used to play it in college. In the fall, every Saturday after- noon finds me at a football field, on the 50-yard line, yelling my head off. Not good for my voice? On the contrary, I think it helps it!” When did you start to sing? “T started to sing when I was seven ... and I am still studying, still taking singing lessons! One of my first recol- lections, as a barefoot boy on our ranch in Texas, is hearing the negroes singing in the fields. Their rich, tuneful voices in- spired me to sing, too, and negro songs of the South were the first songs that I learned. I also learned to dance their dances. My uncle had given me an air- gun, one of my prized possessions. I made a bargain with one of the best negro danc- ers on the ranch. If he would teach me to dance, I would let him shoot my air gun. I have never yet sung those songs or danced those dances on the screen, but perhaps I will have an opportunity some day soon.” How did you get your first job? “IT borrowed a thousand dollars from my father to go to New York and then went to Glens Falls and taught French in the high school, meanwhile studying voice with Oscar Seagle. Two years later I went to Europe and studied a year with Jean de Reske. When I returned, a year later with scarcely five dollars in my pocket, I looked up my buddy with whom I had been through the war, and he gave me a bed to sleep in. Then started my long weary trek for a job. In spite of my urgent need, I was convinced that I should hold out for a leading role in a musical show. Small, bit parts would do me little good. I had to make money and make it quickly. “Managers looked at me as though I were crazy when I turned down small! parts and asked for the lead. They laughed at me for four months and then, strangely enough, they began to believe that, if I was so confident of my ability, I must have something after all. If they only knew! It was not so much confidence as determination! Then, when the leading man in ‘Little Jesse James’ had to leave the show, I was given his role. You can imagine that all my years of study, my burden of debt, my anxiety and my long wait, were well rewarded at that moment. Are your hands EB ROUGH as @ Do your hands feel coarse? Are they rough as stucco? Do they “snag” on silk? Why not use some rich, wide-spreading, quick-drying Italian Balm (just one drop is sufficient) and see how quickly your skin be- comes soft and smooth in texture! Italian Balm is recognized as one of the quickest-acting, most economical skin beau- tifiers ever invented. 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Powdered Saxolite- Reduces wrinkles and other age-signs. Sim- ply dissolve one ounce Saxolite in half-pint witch hazel and use daily as face lotion. 86 MODERN SCREEN Bob Mont- Sj (6) 10a) ( ev - shows off his jnew snooty looking im- ported Bent ley car to his Voc CGlaei : Morris. M In less than six months I was able to re- turn the thousand dollars I had borrowed from my father.” Who are your best friends? “That buddy of mine who helped me through the war, and who kept me alive while I tramped Broadway looking for a job, is still my best friend today. I have never had very many friends but the few I have are good friends. No one person can do justice to a great many friends. It is much better to have only a few who mean something, and to whom you can really offer something, than a lot of half- way friends. FoR the last few years I have been beg- ging this buddy of mine to come to California to visit us. But until recently his business prevented such a trip. Then, a few months ago, when I was planning to go East to make personal appearances, I wired him that I was coming by plane, and for him to meet me. He knew that I had never flown before. Nor had he. He wired me to please take the train East because he wanted to return to California with me, by plane. He said, ‘Let’s have our first experience in the air together, just as we had our first experience to- gether at the front.’ “And that’s what we did. And we did have an experience. We were returning by plane to Hollywood on New Year’s Eve night and at the stroke of twelve, we were sitting up front with the pilot. He had let us put the radio ear phones over our heads, when suddenly out of the great dark space about us, came the cheery, friendly greeting, ‘Happy New Year!’ “We scarcely could believe our ears. ‘It’s the landing field below,’ the pilot explained. ‘We're passing over Leaven- worth, Kansas.’ He handed me the mi- crophone. I called out into it, ‘Happy New Year yourself! Happy New Year!’ “Someone handed us paper cups. In them, there was champagne. One of the passengers had brought a bottle of cham- pagne for a New Year’s toast. “Drinking champagne out of paper cups, hundreds of feet in the air, with the land- ing field below calling up, ‘Happy New Year!’ It was a thrill that darned near brought tears to my eyes.” Why don’t you sing m all your pic- tures? “T love to sing. I would like to sing in all of my pictures but unless a story car- ries a logical excuse for music, it is bet- ter to have no music in it at all, than to drag the music in at awkward spots. Just because there is a piano in the room, is no reason to break the thread of the story with a song. But if the song and the singing is the natural development of the story—well, that is something different. Gladys Swarthout, the famous Metropoli- tan Opera star is making the operetta, ‘Rose of the Rancho’ for Paramount, and I’m in that with her. So you can see you're going to have to listen to a lot of my singing from now on!” What are your plans for the future? “I never look more than a year ahead. A year is a long time in this business— there’s very little point in looking beyond it. There’s one thing, however, which I do realize, and which each succeeding year only makes more clear, that material things aren't so important, as I used to think they were. As a boy I used to worry about building up financial security, I wanted to possess material things. Now these things don’t seem to matter very much. The important thing is to be able to work, and to enjoy it, because you are doing the best kind of a job you know how.” And here is a typical letter from one of the John Boles Fan Clubs. This one was from the John Boles Music Club of Minneapolis and reads as follows: Dear Mr. Boles: Because I’ve received so many letters from your fans, who say that they want very much to join your Music Club, but that they have been ill, and out of work, or either they are going to college, and really find it difficult to pay the Club dues of one dollar—which I think is quite reasonable for one year —I have had a new sheet printed with the Club’s particulars and aims and I am asking only fifty cents for dues now, because I am very anxious to see your Music Club grow so that more of your ardent fans will promise to write to the Studio, and to the magazines to plead for more films and better roles for JOHN BOLES. Would you kindly let me know whether or not you think the new sheet I’ve had printed for you is better than the one I had printed last sum- mer ? The other day I telephoned to Mr. Bob La Piner of the Minnesota The- atre Co. and asked him if it is really true that you will appear in person at the State Theatre here in Minneapolis in a few weeks. I was afraid my hus- band was just teasing me but Mr. La Piner assured me that it is true. All the Club members here are delighted. Sincerely, Lillian Musgrave.

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MODERN SCREEN Warm Furs—Giddy Hats (Continued from page 50) aura of the glamor that we demand of any fur purchases we may make this winter. Like dresses, the length of your fur coat is optional, only more so since you can make your coat briefer than you can your dress! The three-quarter swagger is one cf the most popular, and I think one of the most youthful. For those who demand both practicality and smartness, this coat offers both. It is long enough to be warm, it has dash, with its fuller and favorite swagger cut, and it is to be had in every imaginable fur from the inexpensive lapin to the definitely expensive mink. One of the very best examples of this style is Glenda Farrell’s attractive Persian lamb, shown on page 49. The easy, flaring sil- houette, the small turnover collar and the slash pockets are all excellent details. LIVIA DE HAVILLAND, on the other hand, wears the longer, less fully flared swagger of Safari brown seal. Many of you will prefer this length to the shorter one of Glenda’s because it is warmer and permits the wearing of thin- ner costumes beneath. Olivia’s sleeves have fullness through the arm which is gathered into tight cuffs. Can’t you re- member when you used to sniff at seal as “an old lady’s fur?” You don’t need to any longer because both black and brown seal coats come in such smart, young styles that they are perfectly charming. For you who feel you can’t invest in real Alaskan seal, the Hudson Bay seal is being made equally as smart and wears just as well. The same is true of the real beaver as compared with the less expensive nutria or beaver-dyed lapin. Of course, lapin which can masquerade as eight other furs, is the answer to the small budget. All sorts of very smart costumes are being made up with lapin. The three-piece suit with the topcoat warmly lined with it, or with deep tuxedo revers is one of the best investments of the season because it gives you that good old combination of several costume pos- sibilities in one. School girls and business women especially are finding these lapin and fabric combinations a joy since they come well under the hundred dollar mark, yet create the illusion of a luxurious cos- tume. Gail Patrick gives you that luxury yearning with her two winter fur purchases. One is a magnificent black broadtail coat made with a complete disregard for econ- omy. Its Princess lines give it a nipped in waistline and a great flaring skirt that is bordered deeply in red fox. And, as if that wasn’t enough, a huge muff of the fox is thrown in for good measure. It’s the last word in daytime elegance, only equaled by the pet mink which every star considers her final seal of success when she can at last own one. And Gail goes the cape subject one better, too. She sweeps into the night in a full length white ermine with sable collar and jeweled catch. The skins are used horizon- tally, giving a very unusual and stunning effect. We can ogle such elegance futilely but satisfy ourselves with a decorative black velvet cape with collar of ermine or some less expensive yet equally effec- tive fur. There’s always a way of getting around such yearnings, you see, even on a - comparatively slim purse. And by day, the glorious broadtail cannot even “top hat” its less sophisticated sisters the kid- skin or pony caracul. HE short jacket is not prominent among this winter’s first furs but a few of them are seen. Virginia Bruce wears an attractive one in “Metropolitan.” Hers is of white ermine and at first glance, it looks like a cape until you discover that the sleeves are loops of fur like slings, covering the arm from shoulder to upper wrist. The rest of the jacket is hip length and slightly flared at back. _ Frances Dee wears a kidskin coat that is a compromise between the short jacket and the three-quarter length coat. It is a fingertip length and has a boyish collar caught with the ends of the fur. Fairly straight in line, Frances wears this wrapped over in front and unbelted. It’s a nice type for you who cling to your jackets. Hollywood loves the white fur coat for daytime as well as evening. Any number of the stars wear them with their street clothes. Norma Shearer has had one for several seasons and so has Anita Louise. It is more appropriate for their winter days which often turn too warm for heavier and darker furs. Frieda Inescort, a stage star who made her screen debut in “The Dark Angel,” has just such a coat in her personal wardrobe. I have shown it on page 50. It has a brief Johnny collar and very graceful sleeves that are bloused just above the wrists. Aside from the furs which I have shown this month, there are several others which you will find much to your liking. The kid- skins in many becoming costume shades, either swagger or belted types with slight- ly flared skirts and tunics of the Rus- sian type, not to mention the longer, less extreme but very wearable styles that are standbys year after year. An old favorite that is being revived is mole. Mole, like squirrel, is listed among the more perishable furs. They are not quite as hardy as the muskrats, the cara- culs, seals and beavers but they are grand to wear and own if you can have an extra coat to save the wear and tear. Mary Astor has a smart moleskin swagger coat this season with a large matching muff made with an overflap in envelope style. The flap has a jeweled gadget for ornamenta- tion. Glenda Farrell has an auxiliary coat to her Persian lamb .. . squirrel with the skins put together diagonally, a treat- ment usually seen in ermine and mink. For sports coats, leopard and leopard cat are sturdy and so good looking whether they have a contrasting fur as trim or are self trimmed. Civet cat, mink and ermine gills together with a dozen or so unusual furs, give you a selection that ranges up and down the price scale, making it possible for everyone of you to own.a warm, at- tractive fur coat which will give you more than a share of the Hollywood brand of glamor. I can’t think of furs, whether they are collars, whole coats, capes or separate scarfs, that I don’t think of the giddy little hats you can have such fun wearing as toppers to these flattering furs. HE other noon, I attended a luncheon at which Nicole, a famous French milliner, now having her main shop in New York, was the guest speaker. Mme. Nicole arrived with an enormous hatbox out of which she brought hats, like a magician brings rabbits. These weren't just ordinary hats, either, they were copies of chapeaux which she had designed for three well-known stars. 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The skirt is brown and the top beige— but use your imagination for your own color scheme. feathers sweeping out over the face and down to shadow one cheek. Guess who? Marlene Dietrich, of course. And perfect, too, for the lovely German. Another Diet- rich number was the other extreme ...a mannish velour with creased crown pierced by two bright quills, set at opposite angles. Marlene could remove these quills, re- placing them with other colors to suit the costume. A tiny turban with a great cascade of coq feathers down one side was a Claudette Colbert choice. While Adrienne Ames had picked a Venetian tricorne of almost fatal charm. Also, black, it had a great veil that swept down from its front point in a flaring triangular piece. This veil only half covered the face and was sprinkled with chenille dots that gave a wicked glint to the eye they half hid. And, if you don’t think veils are popu- lar, try to resist buying at least one hat with one. I have pictured several here this month. Back to Mme. Nicole. There were other hats which she had designed for these three but the point which she stressed about each was this she would not design a hat for anyone in Hollywood unless she felt that she could express her true personality in so doing. No business of just making pretty hats, these were hats that bespoke the character of the star. It is something to bear in mind as you pick your next hat... don’t just pick one that Sally looks w ell in, choose one that you are you in! If you can’t find a becoming hat this winter, you never will. The majority are giddy and gay but for you, who can’t face the light of day in a slightly mad con- coction, there are plenty of conservative standbys, either brimmed, off-the-face or turbaned. And your pet old beret pops up time and again in as many disguises as an amateur ‘sleuth. You can have an inter- national flavor to your hats ... 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MODERN SCREEN A Tale of Two Cities (Continued from page 39) of a redoubtable woman—a very battle- ship of a woman—all starch and compe- tence and bombazine, who flew at him, demanding, “What have you done to my ladybird?” Then flew at Lucie with ten- der croonings of dismay. Then flew to the door, shouting for cold water, burn- ing feathers, vinegar, quick! And then flew back at poor Mr. Lorry, upbraiding him for a great oaf—and asking why had he told her whatever he had told her with such clumsiness. During the hub- bub, Lucie opened her eyes. “Tm all right, Miss Pross,” she said to the battleship female. Then, to Mr. Lorry, her gentle voice firm, “I entreat you to tell me, sir—where is my father? You must take me to him at once!” “T will,” replied Mr. Lorry. RECALLED TO LIFE Later, Lucie and Mr. Lorry were being escorted by one Ernest Defarge up the filthy stairs of a still filthier rabbit-warren in one of the unhappiest quarters of Paris. A towering, taciturn bull of a man, De- farge. Had not the minds of the other two been so intent upon their mission and had they not had good cause to be grate- ful to Defarge, they might well have found it in their hearts to fear him. And that wife of his, down in the wineshop— taciturn like her husband, with a cold eye and a hard mouth. Seldom speaking. Knitting, knitting, all day. A vast web which proved, upon examination, to have the coat of arms of many a noble French house worked into its folds. And the men who frequented the wine- shop—what men! Garbed in rags—for there were no clothes in Paris for the poor. Thin, for there was no food in Paris to feed them. Silent, for what topic could men discuss in those days, except the ever-present one of injustice and cruelty? And if the wrong ears over- heard such talk, a man found himself be- hind bars. Even the tragedy that had occurred that afternoon was not discussed too openly. The tragedy—scarcely worth mentioning, for such things happened so often—was the murder of their friend Gaspard’s little boy. The child had been clumsy enough to get himself run over by the coach of the Marquis D’Evre- monde. Very vexing—to the Marquis, who had had to stop when his horses plunged and reared. Standing there on the step of his elegant carriage, a delicate frown on his high- bred features, he had given a moment of his precious time to rebuke the father for not taking better care of the child—and had tossed a gold louis in the road to show that, after all, he bore no permanent ill will toward the wretch who crouched there, so silent, with the limp bundle in his arms. But there, as we have said, such things were not worth mentioning—except, per- haps, in whispers. And there had been some whispering in Defarge’s wineshop —a whispering between groups of equally ragged and_ starved-looking men who seemed, all of them, to have the same name. At least, each called his fellow “Jacques” and was in turn called “Jacques” himself. Surely, it could not be that these scarecrow mortals had still enough levity in their souls to play a sort of game? The arrival of Lucie and Mr. Lorry had put an end to all this. Mr. Lorry’s sig- nal, “Recalled to life,’ had met with a recognizing nod from Defarge. It was all very sinister and mysterious. Lucie remembered things afterward—long after- ward. At the very top of the crazy building, Defarge stopped. Across a grated door, he pulled a rusty key. “Must you lock him in?” asked Mr. Lorry. A shrug of the huge Defarge shoulders. “He’s lived so Jong that way, an open door would . “Ts it possible !” “All things are possible in France to- day !”’ anes deep voice shook as though with secret fury. “Just as all things will be possible later!” unlocked the door. DR. MANETTE’S STORY Eighteen years before the time of our tale, the iron gates of the Bastille had closed upon Alexandre Manette. His crime had been this: he had been summoned to give medical care to a young girl—summoned too late, for she had died. From her tear- ful mother and sister he had pieced out the sad little story. The girl, young and pretty, had found favor in the eyes of the Marquis on whose estate her family lived. The fact that she had loathed his atten- tions only whetted the nobleman’s desire and, of course, the laws of France stated that all things on his lands were his. So, what was not given willingly was taken by force. A common enough story. The only un- common part about it was that a clever and respected surgeon bothered to go to the mighty Marquis—the same bored and elegant Marquis whose progress through the Quarter had been upheld that very day—and register a protest. That, in- deed, was uncommon—unheard of. And it was quite to be expected that D’Evre- monde’s guards should, shortly thereafter, have entered the doctor’s home—torn him from the embrace of his golden-haired wife and the sight of his little daughter—and taken him to prison. A trial? Any sort of hearing? Naive questions! For eighteen years, Dr. Manette re- mained in the Bastille. “105 North Tower’—he came to think that that was his name. But on a piece of paper he wrote other names—the names of every member of D’Evremonde’s house. Wrote with pencillings of soot and grime from the floor of his cell and with blood squeezed from his ragged body. And he buried that list under a loosened brick in the floor. After months—eons—had _ passed, to save what remained of his sanity, he begged permission to learn a trade and it was granted. He learned to make shoes —and for the rest of the eighteen years, he made shoes. All day. Every day. D’Evremonde had, naturally, long since forgotten the trivial case of the impudent doctor. 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It seemed too bad that Mr. Stryver kept up his school- fellow association with one who, obvious- ly, was little better than a pensioner. That’s what they said—hitting the truth just about as accurately as they usually do. “Really! Not working yet, Carton?” Stryver entered the littered apartment, to find his friend sprawling morosely in a chair, a bottle before him. “This is too much. You've got to put your mind on this case. They’ve got this, this Charles Dar- hay up for treason.” “T don’t know Charles Darnay,” in sar- donic accents from Carton. “I hate treason and I hate Frenchmen. For that matter, I hate Englishmen, too.” “Yes, all very well, but Lorry sent this case to us with a special request for all our consideration.” “You don’t need me to help you,” replied Sydney bitterly. ““You’re becoming a great man in the law courts these days.” “T use my brains.” “You mean you use mine,” said Sydney. “Well, if I do, I pay you for it.” To this, Sydney replied that the money wasn't sufficient to make up for the con- tinual interference with his drinking. And he poured another drink. Somehow, Stryver managed to set the brief before him and make him glance at it. “I tell you, Darnay is lost,” he said despairingly—meaning that the case was lost, of course, “unless we can do something to counteract the evi- dence of these witnesses, Barsad and Cly.” “Barsad and Cly. Barsad and Cly,” mumbled Sydney. “Cly and Barsad. Why, the case could be tried on the mere sound ... From the very syllables of their names, they are manifestly villains. Barsad— Barsad. Seems I’ve heard that name _ be- fore. Now, the other fellow. Charles Dar- nay, is, from his syllables, man’f’stly a gen’lem’n.” This sudden thickness of the tongue—annoying! He took another drink to relieve it, clapped on his hat at a crazy angle, and prepared to leave. To the pro- testing and puffing Stryver, he answered merely that he thought he knew where Barsad did his drinking. “That means I can pursue this case in a congenial atmos- phere. You're in luck, Stryver. [ll lay you a wager I'll drink you a victory.” ND so it came about, because the handsome, melancholy, clever and dis- illusioned Sydney Carton did not like the name Barsad and did like the name Dar- nay, that one life was saved and the threads of three lives were woven together in a bond that nothing but death could break. In the dock at Old Bailey Court, young Charles Darnay stood—pale, resolute and handsome—with hope quite lost. He knew, too well, the one across the Channel who had engineered this trumped-up treason , ’ charge. And the power of that one. Some months ago, he had come to the long-pondered conclusion that his manner of living was, through no direct fault of his own, wicked and wrong. He existed, common sense and common humanity told him, on the sweat and blood of other men. The delicate food he ate, the well-cut clothes he wore, the chateau which was his home —all were paid for and kept up because the peasants of France were taxed to the breaking point. But the real power to make the slightest change in the French ancten regime was not his. Conversations and pleadings with his uncle, the Marquis D’Evremonde, had brought him to the bitter conviction that D’Evremonde was not only a cold and indifferent man, but an evil one as well. And so Charles Dar- nay had forfeited his noble name, divided his inheritance among his people, adopted the simple appellation of monsiewr and journeyed to England. : When he had informed his uncle of his resolve, sneers had been the response. Some hot words had passed between them. Sorrowfully bidding farewell to his old tutor, Gabelle, a faithful D’Evremonde re- tainer, he had set out for England. He had not seen the calculating look in the Marquis’ eyes, bent upon him. He could not know that the Marquis’ gold louis had purchased the services of a certain Joseph Barsad, informer par excellence, who had always been able to secure evidence on anybody, provided there was a cash profit involved. ASP so Charles Darnay stood in the dock and looked, with his heart in his eyes, upon the sweetest face in England. Lucie, Lucie, that heart cried. Life is hard —I have found you, only to lose you so soon. The gentle girl and her father he had met on the Channel packet. They had been summoned as witnesses in his case. Forced to comply, they hadn’t known that Lucie’s most diffident statements would be used against the young Frenchman. Oh, so he had commented—and adversely ?—upon England’s treatment of her American colonies? No, no, the gentleman had mere- ly said If you mean the prisoner, madame, kindly say the prisoner. But—. Witness dismissed! And Mr. Barsad, you are quite certain this list of officers in His Majesty’s army had been prepared by the prisoner? Quite, yer honor! And the crowd outside Old Bailey waited to see the miser- able French spy hung, drawn and quar- teredienne Hours later, these vultures went away, cheated and grumbling. The clever Mr. Attorney Stryver, it seems (to whom Mr. Attorney Carton had been passing notes throughout the trial) had nullified the evi- | dence of Joseph Barsad. In fact, at one point in the proceedings, Mr. Barsad had turned an odd shade of green and shaken as if with the ague. That was when Mr. Carton had looked up from the papers on which he kept scribbling and stared Mr. Barsad straight in the face. Mr. Barsad had taken back almost every statement he had made. And Charles Darnay had been acquitted. (Oh, the light in Lucie’s eyes!) Yes, Sydney Carton had drunk Mr. Stryver a victory. How? Oh, a little matter of many bottles at the tavern where Barsad did his drinking. A little boasting about certain fictional misdeeds of his own which, in turn, had prompted Barsad to do some boasting, too, for there are men who love to boast of their misdeeds. And how could Barsad have known that the roistering rake in the tavern would turn up next day at Old Bailey, gowned and wigged for the defense? Was Sydney elated over his victory. Not at all. He was glummer than ever. Life was a savorless, lonely affair, with no one to share its joys and sorrows. There

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SOME YEARS ELAPSE It was plain, of course, to the veriest duffer, that there could be only one end- ing to the love story that had begun on the Channel packet. Lucie and Charles Darnay were married and Charles took a position in Tellson’s bank. He had frank- ly told everything to Dr. Manette, now much restored in mental and _ physical health. When the doctor heard the name D’Evremonde, his face had gone haggard and some of his old vagueness had re- turned for a moment. But for the sake of the daughter he loved, above everyone else in the world, he had smothered his own feelings and given his blessing, only cautioning Darnay not to worry Lucie with a needless repetition of his past story. Affairs in France were unsettled—it might distress her. Satisfied with this reason, Darnay consented to keep his secret. They were married, and in due time, there was a little Lucie, as fair and sweet as her mother. Miss Pross now had an entire household to bully and fuss over. At Lucie’s behest, Sydney Carton became a frequent visitor in their home. His life, sweetened and warmed by that home's in- fluence, became a little less bleak. Content to be near Lucie, he kept his love for her locked in his heart. At her pleading, he drank less, became a little less moody. “TL feel you still have such possibilities, Sydney,” Lucie often said. “They will never be realized,” would reply lightly. who died young.” “Tl never give up my hopes for you,” Lucie insisted. “T-know better. But this I know, too. I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. Think of me as a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.” “Thank you, Sydney. God grant it shall never be necessary.” “IS HE NOT A D’EVREMONDE Sydney “Think of me as one ALSO?” 1792! The Revolution—a plant sown years before, nourished by oppression, tended by misery, reached its full harvest in that year and flowered under the hot breath of fanaticism. French aristos, hun- dreds of them, fled to England—those who were lucky enough to escape. An edict passed by Citizen Danton confiscated their property and made their return to France punishable by death at the hands of Madame La Guillotine. The sharp-toothed madame claimed many victims those days. After the flimsiest hearings before self- appointed judges, hundreds were hurried through the bloody streets to appease her appetite. Some, like the Marquis D’Evre- monde, were not accorded this honor. It saved time when one of the Jacquerie (could it have been Gaspard, father of the murdered child?) knifed the Marquis in his luxurious bed. The Chateau D’Evre- monde was razed to the ground and the still-faithful Gabelle taken prisoner by the mob—he might be useful later! On the historic day when the populace stormed the Bastille, chanting their ghoulish cry for liberty, fraternity and equality, the huge figure of Ernest Defarge and the grim face of his wife could be seen in the lead. 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So Lucie was told and with hope and fear alternately sending their hearts up and down, they set forth. Miss Pross, staunch female, would not hear to letting her Ladybird go without her—nor would she leave little Lucie behind. She pooh- poohed the entire Revolution and Lucie, too distraught to know what was wisest to do, let her have her way. Inquiries in Paris quickly unfolded the bleak situation. Gabelle’s letter to Darnay had, of course, been a hoax. The hapless tutor had been murdered, after cruel tor- ture had forced him to reveal the where- abouts of his former young master. Charles Darnay—his noble origins twice disclosed, once by Gabelle and once, so ironically, by Dr. Manette’s own revenge- ful list in 105 North Tower—had been seized, upon his arrival in Paris, and in- carcerated in La Force Prison. Dr. Manette pushed his frail strength to the utmost in trying to gain a reprieve for his son-in-law. He had counted so earn- estly on the help of the Defarges. But they, inflamed and insane with the blood-thirsti- ness of the times, gave him little satisfac- tion. “You, Citizen Manette, have suffered with us. But Darnay, is he not a D’Evre- monde also?” It seemed hopeless—it was hopeless. Charles Darnay was condemned to die at the hands of La Guillotine. “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN” The gaoler outside No. 23 in La Force prison was remarking that you never could tell about these accursed aristos. Why, the women played games with their children and did fancy work. And here was a D’Evremonde in 23 who did noth- ing but write letters. His companion—the one they called the English spy—replied absently in abominable French that that was so. The English spy, who seemed to have something on his mind, waited until the gaoler had gone on his rounds. Then he beckoned down the dark corridor. A figure appeared. Stealthily, the English spy slipped a key into the lock of No. 23. And the other figure passed within. “Thank you, Barsad,” it said. “T’m afraid we won't pull this off, Mr. Carton,” whispered the “spy.” “Do as you're told and we will.” “There's got to be a No. 23 in the morning.” “There will be. No, look here—return before the gaoler comes back to take Mr. Carton—Mr. Carton, understand ?—to his coach.” “Lor, you couldn’t pay me to do what you're doin’, Mr. Carton,” and a look that was almost reverence passed for a moment over the villainous Cockney face. “Oh,” Sydney Carton replied lightly, “I daresay you'd have your price even for this, Barsad.” Speechless, Darnay stared at the man who, once before, had saved his life and who had come now to—what had he come to do? Apparently, he had come to dictate a letter—a letter which Darnay obediently wrote, but which he could not comprehend. It said, “I ask you to recall the words that passed between us on a certain occasion. I am grateful the time has come when I can prove them... .” Darnay looked up. “What occasion? What is that queer smell? I feel faint...” Carton was waving something back and forth in his hand. Darnay leaped up to stop him, but Carton, too quick, felled him with a blow. Then with feverish haste, he took off the young Frenchman’s clothes— dressed the inert form quickly in his own and himself donned Darnay’s attire. He pulled his own hat far down over Dar- nay’s unconscious face—called Barsad. The next morning, the prisoner in No. 23 looked out of the murky little cell window. His eyes were shining, his heart full of a deep peace. When a grating noise sounded at his cell door, he turned eagerly, as one who welcomes a guest. The time had come then? Good. UT it was not the gaoler—it was a bigger, burlier man—who was speak- ing to someone without. “For the doc- tor’s sake—this last interview. It’s all I can do, but if it is discovered, it’s all over with me. Remember—keep faith.” “T will, I will!’ And thank you—bless you, Defarge!’’ said Lucie’s voice. She entered the cell, spoke a name. “Charles!” Quickly, Sydney Carton snuffed out the candle on the rough table. Lucie came for- ward—seemed to sense something—stopped. “Lucie, my darling, it was brave of you to come,’ Sydney spoke in a whisper, but with the haste of one who wards off another’s speech. “There is nothing you can do—nothing, but say good-bye.” Com- prehension dawned in the blue eyes, so bright with unshed tears, that were raised to his. With an almost superhuman effort, he went on. “Remember, all that I have given you, I give freely. Say good-bye quickly, my dear. To stay, to make any protest—would be to endanger the others —all the others, even little Lucie.” With a stifled.sob, Lucie flung herself in his arms. A look that was mingled agony and ecstasy passed over Sydney Carton’s face. “Charles is safe. Say good-bye for me.” he murmured, gently loosening her arms. “Say good-bye to me!” For a long time, she gazed at him. Then she drew his face down to hers and kissed him. “Your time is up, Citizeness,’ said a gruff voice at the door. Later that afternoon, the mob around the guillotine howled and shrieked as one noble head aiter another was severed by Madame’s blow. Sixteen! Seventeen! Eighteen! Nineteen—an effete viscount, who thanked the headsman graciously for terminating a life which had become a burden. Twenty and Twenty-one—the Duc and Duchesse of—what did it matter? Twenty-two! <A _ little seamstress—oh, a dangerous traitor. She had been heard to express sympathy for an enemy of the Republic who had been knifed the day be- fore. Her face was pale to ghostliness. Her step faltered. She struggled to gain a little courage—turned to No. 23 behind her. “You're not pretending—but The others are really aren't afraid! you—you afraid. It’s almost as if you welcomed it!”’ The mob howled for the accursed D’Evremonde—see, he hides his face! Haste, haste, headsman—the light is dying. Sydney Carton spoke to the little seam- stress. “Believe me, it is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known.” Sydney Carton’s hand rested for a mo- ment on the shoulder of the little seam- stress, as though in a blessing. The peace and glory that had come to his soul that morning was glorified a thousandfold.

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MODERN SCREEN The Men Who Make Your Movies (Continued from page 47) to Negri to Dietrich—he’s known them all. He has worked on big musical pro- ductions in which Hollywood's most beau- tiful chorus girls have appeared in cos- tumes consisting of—well, a little of this and a little of that and a couple of beads. And musical productions bore Earl to death. OMEN stars, with a few exceptions, bore him, too. His favorite stars —and he’s seen them all—are Dick Arlen, Randy Scott and Gary Cooper. The one woman about whom he is wildly enthus- iastic is Tallulah Bankhead, because ‘she always thanks you when you do her a favor.” And what favor, you ask, could an electrician do Tallulah? Well, he can rig up an impromptu dressing-table with the lights placed at just the right angles around the mirror. Or he can attach a small electric heater on cold days. These things do not come under the head of regular duties. They are just little side jobs, small courtesies. And it seems pretty bad if the star neglects to thank the electrician. An electrician’s duties are so many that it is a favor when he takes time out from his. other tasks. The electrical crew ar- rives on the set before any of the other workers. The night before, the “best boy,” as he is called, has looked over the set and decided what lights are necessary for the next day and has requisitioned these from the electrical department. Before the other workers arrive the “gaffer,” the floorman (or “best boy’) and the opera- tors (or crew) do a little stunt called “roughing in’ which means setting the lights so that the set will be well flooded and all the generators will be at advan- tageous points. When the cameraman arrives the “juicer” or electrician is under orders from him. It is the cameraman who tells where he wants the spotlights placed. ‘And,’ Earl told me, “camera- men can be more temperamental than the stars when they want to be.” Soe, toughest set Earl (who is a “best boy”) ever had to light was the Al- gerian town in “Devil and the Deep.” The electricians worked for two days on that location before the company showed up, for, in order to light the street, platforms had to be built for the lamps. There were five portable generators, 150 lamps, 20 sun arcs and a lot of other things—all of which generated about 20,000 amperes. Twenty electricians were used. Just to give you a slight idea of the amount of lights used, even an ordinary set would cost you about sixty dollars an hour, if it were on your electric bill. The studios, of course, make their own juice. No, the electrician’s job is not an easy one. Although the biggest work consists of the morning’s “roughing in,” the lights must all be moved and changed for each different scene, or set-up. And every hour brings some new problem. For instance, when you're watching a scene in which an actor walks into a room and snaps on the light you probably don’t stop to realize what a difficult job that is to photograph. He can’t, for in- stance, walk into the room in pitch black darkness, else you wouldn’t see him. There must be some light right at first. Then, when he snaps the switch there must be a great deal more. It takes the electrical crew just about forty-five minutes to rig up the lights so that you will see this effect on the screen. Although they get overtime, the elec- tricians hours are long and tedious. The longest stretch Earl ever worked was from six A. M. Sunday to 10:30 Monday night. In telling me of this he said, ‘““And the rest of the crew worked on until midnight.” I asked, “Why did you leave at ten- thirty?” Very simply he answered. ‘Well, they telephoned onto the set that our baby had just been born.” And there, gentle reader, is a little drama for you. For “forty and a half hours he had been pulling lights around in front of actors’ faces, knowing that his wife was at the hospital having a baby. But he could not desert the fake drama for the real thing. WIEN he was just a kid, Earl ran away from home and got a job as a laborer at Universal City in the studio mill. From there he went to a quickie com- pany as an assistant cameraman. Then he learned the electrical business and has, as I’ve told, been at Paramount for ten years, working darned hard every minute. “Some days,” he told me, “I hate the studio. And then I like it. No, it isn’t a thrill any more. I don’t exactly know what it is.” Neither do I, but since I’ve experienced the same sensation myself I can guess. It is, somehow, being so intimate a part of the life of the drama. Work it is, but it is invariably exciting, stimulating work. For instance Earl has lots of fun watch- ing new actors and actresses in their first roles. He makes little bets with himself about whether they will make the stardom grade or not. And he has seen so many come and go, that he is usually right. He prophesied, to himself, of course—for who thinks that an electrician knows anything about art?—that Mary Brian would last longer than Betty Bronson. That was when he watched the two of them work together in “Peter Pan.’ Mary is still in pictures. And Betty? Where is she? He thinks Mary Brian is a swell kid, by the way. Helen Mack he admires, too. She is sweet like Mary. He has wonderful times kidding around the set with Dick, Randy and Gary—his three favorites. He also is very fond of Kent Taylor and Cary Grant. They, he'll tell you, are regular tellows—and that’s a relief. In some films he has no interest at all and doesn’t care to see them on the screen. But others he watches care- fully in the making, they’re usually the outdoor, he-men pictures. Later he takes his wife and kids to see them, when they play at the neighborhood theatre. He is always interested in watching how his lighting effects show up and tries to ex- plain about it to his wife. But she’s more interested in knowing what Claudette Col- bert is really lile. Then on the days when important visi- tors come on the set it’s fun. It’s work, too, of course, because he has to make a new electrical set-up so that the still men can take photographs of the visitors for the newspapers. He has seen probably every important person of this genera- tion. Royalty doesn’t interest him at all. He wouldn’t waste a second look on them. But the football stars, ah, they’re great and usually all of them are swell fel- lows. E glowed with interest when he told me about them. And suddenly, he turned to me. ‘Guess who I saw on the set one day?” His voice was low. He was truly impressed. This was to be a name with which to conjure. 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ERs me Catalogue KANSAS Bathe them with LAVOPTIK Instant relief for inflamed, sore, tired, strained or itching eyes. 6000 eyesight specialists endorse it. 25 years suc- cess. Get Lavoptik (with free eye cup) from your druggist. 94 MODERN SCREEN mind that Earl has seen all of Hollywood’s biggest stars, has worked with them daily. And here he was saying, thrilled, “Guess who I saw on the set one day? I saw Arthur Brisbane!” No, Earl wouldn’t turn around to see Marlene Dietrich in the altogether. But it was a big day when he actually saw Arthur Brisbane. It is a matter, I sup- pose, of whom one’s heroes are. The gaffer called him. They were talk- ing a strange language—‘“save ’em,” “‘put a silk on that broad and kill the baby,” “get it hotter,” “bring it up,” “put a screen on that.” It was a language you and I couldn’t understand: They were in the secret world of their trade. Earl was busy now putting those curious words into action. As I was leaving he broke away long enough to say, “This afternoon I’ll be over on the test set. I like making tests. It’s swell seeing the new kids. And, funny thing, sometimes they’re more at ease than the old-timers.” “Do you ever give the new ones tips about acting?” I asked. “T would if they asked me to,” he said earnestly. And he could, too. For he’s seen the best and the worst acting of his generation; he knows the difference. And maybe it’s the realization of this knowledge that has kept him so many years at the studio. In spite of the work, the long hours, the grief, the pandering to temperaments—the electrician’s job has its compensations. Pons & Co. Invade Hollywood (Continued from page 44) English she hastened to explain that she had been practicing the “Bell Song” from “Lakme” since the early hours of the morning. “Tf I do not keep up constant practice,” she accompanied herself with Frenchy ges- tures, “in one month it is difficult for me to reach a high note. A voice must be watched even more carefully than a child. Only no amount of pampering can spoil a voice. A mother lives for her child, a singer for her voice. Such is the leisure life of an opera star.” UT you are in the movies now,” I re- minded her. ‘That means that at last you will have some time for play. Once a song is recorded, it’s recorded, and that’s that.” “Tm afraid I have not much time for play,” she answered, carefully searching for words with which to make herself clearly understood. “You see, I have a schedule by which I must work in Holly- wood, the same as in Paris or New York. Here everything is new to me, and it is the same as a baby learning to walk. N’est-ce pas? In the mornings I prac- tice my operatic selections. In the after- noons, I must change my technique of ren- dition to rehearse the songs I am to sing in the picture. To mix the two would be dangerous. The vocal cords would rebel. My teacher is here with me to see that I do nothing to injure my voice. After all, I must go back to the Metropolitan next season.” The doors of the music room swung open and Miss Pons’ celebrated teacher, Signor Alberti de Gorostiaga; a shy, meek little Italian with the quietly twinkling eyes of a Pekingese, came in to join us. Miss Pons hurriedly explained to him, in his native tongue, my mission. Signor de Gorostiaga, evidently pleased, bowed and bowed and bowed. Such graciousness have these Continentals ! “If it were not for Signor Gorostiaga, I would not be in Hollywood today.” She looked proudly at the little music master as she spoke. “It was his belief in my future that made my musical career pos- sible.” Signor Teacher broke into a ripple of smiles that bespoke approval and, although he understood not a word of the English she was trying to speak, he knew the significance of the words, and nodded and nodded and nodded. I, too, found myself nodding. “Signor Gorostiaga has been my teacher from the very first,” she pointed out. “I myself never dreamed I could ever be a singer worthy of the Metropolitan. Once, long before I knew my teacher, I played the music halls of Paris, but I did not sing a note in the act. I was merely a comedienne in a skit. As you say over here, I was a stooge.” Another door opened. (There were at least a half dozen leading into the large reception room where our interview was under way.) A sleek, dark young man walked in, and was introduced as Lehman Byck, Miss Pons’ director on her radio programs of last winter. He, too, had made the migration across the continent to assist the diminutive diva in her movie début. Upon his foreign features was written the look of a thick accent. When he opened his mouth he actually spoke English! Then suddenly from another door, a tall, blonde woman appeared, followed by a handsome, olive-complexioned middle-aged lady bearing a striking resemblance to the most renowned of the “Lakme” interpre- tors. The dark one, Mr. Byck introduced as Miss Pons’ mother, and the other as her secretary. Like the good Signor Gor- ostiaga, they, too, could not speak English. After bowing, nodding, and bowing some more, we all sat down in a little family circle to continue the interview. The scene had suddenly taken on the feeling of the dénouement in the last act of a play. All the leading characters were on the stage and very soon a climax must be reached. Mr. Byck, jittery about something, rose suddenly, explained that he must be off to the studio, where the sound department was waiting to discuss the best method of presenting the Pons voice to the movie microphones. As he disappeared the one person besides myself who could under- stand English, was gone—like the final flicker of a candle. As for my French, it would be worse than their English. I looked hopefully towards dear Signor Gor- ostiaga. He was still nodding. The interview must go on. “Did you ever think of becoming a movie star before you went into Grand Opera?” I promptly asked Miss Pons. ER eyes brightened with animation. She understood! Signor Gorostiaga seemed to understand, too, for there was a new gleam in his eyes. Also the mother and the secretary. I expected them all to answer at once. Words hung on their lips. But it was Miss Pons who replied. “Never could I imagine that I would some day be a movie star,’ Mademoiselle Pons confessed. “You see, I was not a pretty child, my family disapproved of a professional life, and Hollywood was so

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far away. But,’ she chuckled with the memory, “I was such a movie fan!” “You mean like those people who stand around begging for autographs and writing fan letters?” I probed relentlessly, giving gesture for gesture. “Only worse,” Miss Pons answered. “As a little girl in France, I adored movie stars. Thomas Meighan was my favorite. I used to collect his pictures avidly, out of newspapers, magazines, and keep them pasted in a book. Once I went backstage in a little provincial theatre and stole his photographs off a wall of the dressing- room.” “T presume you are still a movie fan.” I addressed Miss Pons, but it was Signor Gorostiaga who bent forward and clung to every word. ‘Who is your favorite star now ?” For a moment she digested my question, wavering between diplomacy and honesty —then promptly confessed, “Wallace Beery. I never miss his pictures. Oh, I loved Viva Villa!” On the subject of men, I garnered courage and ventured into more dangerous terri- tory. “Why did you divorce your husband?” I asked right out loud, emitting the words so quickly that it would be impossible to recall them. Then, holding my breath, I waited for the explosion of Parisian tem- perament. LLE. PONS stiffened. Embarrass- ment fluttered across her face. She opened her large eyes even wider, and looked at me in delicious dilemma. Even the Signor understood the word ‘husband’ giving him his cue. He, too, stiffened, in rhythm with the emotion of his famous pupil—and for once he did not nod—but only stared, helpless and pathetically for- lorn, like one suspended in mid-air. Mamma Pons and the secretary looked at one an- other as if I had just asked them to join a nudist colony. I tried smiling even more sweetly than Maestro Gorostiaga. Miss Pons broke into one of her little chuckles, clearing the atmosphere of the electricity with which my question had charged it. “T had to choose between marriage and a career.” She perked her head up de- fiantly. “So I chose a career. “You see,” she went on to explain, “I was so young when I married. I did not realize then what this career meant to me. I have given years to my studies. My teacher,” she looked fondly across at the beaming little Italian, who looked at that moment like a romantic puppet vendor on the canals of Venice, “my dear, dear Al- berti, believed so much in my talent that he gave years of his time to devote to my training. When the great opportunity came to go into Opera, I could not walk out on him in repayment for his devotion and faith.” As if sensing that he was the subject MODERN SCREEN of Miss Pons’ long impassioned speech, Gorostiaga permitted his eyes to blink with modesty, and had he had a puppy dog tail he would have wagged it. “After I married I tried to continue with my career,” she went on to vindicate her matrimonial misadventure. “Each week found me in a different Opera House in a different country. I was no longer just a woman. I no longer belonged to myself. My husband followed me with such tender thoughtfulness from one city to another, to be near me always. But I soon realized he had become only a part of my entou- rage. It was unfair to a man so very de- serving of domestic happiness. So I di- vorced.” However, after her divorce, Lily found romance again. It was a shipboard ro- mance with Dr. Fritz von der Becke. She met and fell in love with him during a re- turn trip from South America. They an- nounced their engagement, but later it was broken by mutual consent. The ship’s doc- tor and the star could not make their sep- arate lives merge to the happiness of both. It meant that one must give up a career and neither felt such a sacrifice was fair. On being queried about her recent ro- mance and rumored marriage to Andre Kostelanetz, orchestra leader on the prima donna’s radio programs, she denied that there was anything to it. “Well, anyhow,” I laughed nervously, noting the glint of iron in the secretary’s eyes, “how do you like Hollywood?” “Tt 1s fascinating,” she replied at once, then immediately interpreted my question for the three listeners. They all agreed it was fascinating, and broke into a sym- phony of nods and smiles. Yes, yes in- deed, it was fascinating. Everyone nodded. Everyone acceded. All was bliss and har- mony again. “Everyone is so friendly.” She went on to relate how thoughtful were the studio executives, how polite the electricians, how gracious the stagehands, how generous the press. Each time she handed out a bou- quet, good Signor Gorostiaga’s chin me- chanically pressed down on his chest in agreeable affirmation. “Hollywood is making some wonderful predictions for your future in pictures,” I assured her. She glowed for a moment with the ex- citement of the information, then quickly relayed it to her teacher.. He promptly got up, and bending himself in two, bowed to me. What could I do but bow back. The secretary glanced at her wrist watch. In French, she reminded Miss Pons it was time to go to the studio. The interview was at an end. Thanking me, the vest- pocket-edition prima donna bid me adieu. 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Naine City See ee State Age 96 MODERN SCREEN Plenty Mad Something should be done about these smart- aleck reviewers. Often I see a picture and enjoy it thoroughly, but when the reviews are printed, one would think the pho- toplay that I had enjoyed was a menace to society. If there’s any criticizing to be done, it should be about the way good American talent is being wasted in favor of Continental importa- tions. Lilian Harvey was perhaps the most colossal flop of them all and Anna Sten has been released from her contract. Yet, they spend millions to bring them over to America and gamble on their suc- cess while such talent as Blondell, Dvorak, Brady, and many others are wasted on one poor picture after another. My last complaint is about Hollywood’s prize ham actress—Constance Bennett, of the mad, mad Bennetts. I nearly went mad when I saw “After Office Hours.” The way she posed with a cigarette in one hand and hot air in the other, was disgusting. Connie promised to retire from the cinema last year but I knew it sounded too good to be true-—Kenneth Gilbert, San Diego, Calif. Talent Unnoticed? Frankie Darro is one boy actor who deserves more praise than he has been receiving. He has everything, good looks, fine voice, acting ability and a personality no one can resist. Even in tough, unsympathetic parts he adds a certain humanness that makes his role an outstanding portrayal in any pro- duction. He makes one forget he is act- ing and I don’t know of a greater achieve- ment. A juvenile actor who troupes like a veteran, and who wrings tears and laughter from his audience with equal ease.—A. Cooper, Arlington, N. J. Big Things Ahead ee $ Luise Rainer has some- " thing that no other star in Hollywood has. Her beauty is rarely to be found and the tone of her voice is beautiful. I wish her all kinds of success and I have a feeling that she will some day reach the top. Such a personality!—Jane Jurgens, Philadelphia, Pa. Too Much Nudism Have you noticed the insane mania of late to show men, as well as women, in bathroom scenes, displaying every part of the anatomy they can get away with? Re- cently we saw William Powell as a detective who seemed to con- duct most of his work showing his naked body or consuming enormous quantities of liquor—much of the picture was taken of him in the bath, scrubbing and soaping his hulk. Powell started out to be a good actor, but he has become so darned con- ceited and puffed up that he is fast spoil- ing what chance he did have to draw the public. He got his start as a drawing card in “The Thin Man,” but now that he has put on weight (apparently muchly in the head) he seems to have lost his love for “thin men” and wants to display his manly form.—John Luter, Los Angeles, Calif. Down with Double Features Speaking as Miss American Movie Fan I want to condemn the double feature policy. Because of it I am missing a lot of good entertainment, for 1 won’t go to a movie like “Sequoia” if I have to sit through a “quickie” like “The Winning Ticket.” Why can’t the studios re-release film successes of recent years to be used to fill in? As I see it, it would save the studios the expense of producing inconse- quential pictures, give our old favorites more prestige, make our hours in the theatre more enjoyable and increase box office returns since more people would flock to the theatres. I don’t think any- one would object to seeing “Public En- emy,” “Scarface,” “Bill of Divorcement,” “Hell’s Angels,’ “Wings,” “Anna Chris- tie,’ “The Sign of the Cross” again.— Frances Miller, Seneca Falls, New York. Star Stuff Why not star Rosalind Russell? She’s got that certain snap and vigor in her manner. She “‘pic- ture steals” in every role she receives — “China Seas,” “Casino Murder Case,” etc. Give her a break—star her—Edith Johns, Brooklyn, N. Y Who's to Blame? What has become of Shirley Temple’s once unaffected acting? She seems to have lost the childish innocence she so won- derfully displayed in her first few pro- ductions. Her acting has become dull and over-affected. Perhaps she has been too generously praised and admired. Outside the gates of movieland await children whose talent and wholehearted acting would far surpass Shirley’s—A Fan, Providence, R. I. On Stardom and Privacy The last few interviews I’ve read, granted by the stars, have been practically identical. They all moan about their lack of privacy and how they want to keep their personal affairs to themselves. This, of course, is very natural but it seems to me that by now the stars should know that stardom and privacy don’t mix. Why not make their interviews different once in a while2—Betty Sue Molloy, Berry- ville, Ark. Wray-Lindsay Booster fEeeeee If anything could be said that would further the careers of Fay Wray (pictured) and Margaret Lindsay, I would say it. They are doing well enough for two so young, I suppose, but I would like to see them co-starred with really great male stars, such as Fredric March and Clark Gable. They are both very beautiful and they look an awful lot like sisters, and twins at that! I like to boost the people not yet at the top, because with what they have to work with they usually do as good a job as the so-called stars of the picture—E. Staley, Indianapolis, Indiana.

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MODERN SCREEN The Modern Hostess (Continued from page 61) through combining it with other things and supplying a great deal of rich, meat- flavored gravy to add zest to the foods with which it is combined. Take the Pork Chops, Hawaiian, in this article, for instance.. The delicious gravy for the rice and the accompanying bananas will make father forget that with pork in the luxury class these days, he will have to content himself with one small pork chop instead of the two big ones he used to demand. The same is true of the Chopped Meat Casserole which you will learn how to make by getting your copy of the leaflet. The top round of beef called for in this recipe is not the most inexpensive of beef cuts by any means but there is absolutely no waste in fat or bones and besides here again rice is used as an “extender’—per- meated as it is with the flavor of meat and rich tomato sauce. OR the Lamb Stew you will notice Mrs. Woods recommends meat cut from the shoulder of the animal. You will find this is slightly higher in price than some of the other cuts (notably the neck which is fine for stewing purposes and is exceeding- ly cheap) but you will also find that there is more meat and less bone to the pound if you purchase shoulder lamb. You will be delighted with this recipe I am confident, for this is no pale, soupy stew but rather a brown, flavorsome com- bination of well-seasoned meat and meat- seasoned vegetables. I urge you to try this recipe and the Pork Chops, Hawaiian, that also appears here. Don’t ever over- look the recipes that appear in the maga- zine itseli—for they-are as carefully tested and fully as good as the ones in the leaflet and they certainly deserve to be added to your collection, together with the ones that the coupon brings you. I know that if you try these two recipes you'll surely want to have the leaflet con- taining more of Donald Woods’ meat sug- gestions and [I surely want you to have these recipes, for they include such de- licious things as Hungarian Goulash, Eng- lish Beef and Kidney Pie, Chopped Meat Casserole and Stuffed Veal Birds. Just wait ’til you see how easy these recipes are to follow! Just wait ’til you discover how great an improvement they are over the meats you generally serve! Just wait ’til you hear the kind things your family will have to say about your new culinary achievements! But don’t wait to send in the coupon or you may forget —and then you'll have reason to be sorry. For this is the time of year, you know, when meats should be featured because they furnish heat and energy to the body for chilly days ahead—besides being high in proteins. And then too with the Holi- days coming soon, now is the time when you will surely welcome the economical features of these recipes. PORK CHOPS, HAWAIIAN 4 lean pork chops (1 pound) 1 teaspoon salt A few grains pepper 2 tablespoons butter Y% cup water 1 tablespoon brown sugar % cup pineapple juice 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 tablespoon flour % cup seedless raisins Sprinkle chops with salt and pepper, dust lightly with a little flour. Brown chops on both sides in butter in hot skil- let. Add water, cover and simmer until chops are tender. Remove chops to hot platter. Add brown sugar, pineapple juice and lemon juice to liquid in pan. Stir until blended. Thicken gravy with 1 tablespoon flour moistened to a smooth paste with a little water. Add raisins and simmer for a few minutes. Pour gravy over chops. Surround chops with mounds of boiled brown rice and halved, spiced bananas. SPICED BANANAS 34 cup vinegar 23 cup sugar 18 whole cloves 1 small stick cinnamon 4 small bananas Boil together vinegar, sugar, cloves and cinnamon until sugar is dissolved and the bubbles begin to look thick. Peel ba- nanas, cut in halves crosswise. Drop banana halves into the hot syrup. Boil hard for two minutes. Remove from syrup carefully to pork chop platter. SAVORY LAMB STEW 2 pounds shoulder lamb, cut in small pieces for stewing salt, pepper, flour salt pork or bacon fat 2 cups boiling water 2 stalks celery, minced fine 1 bay leaf 1% cup chili sauce 6 small carrots 6 small white onions 6 small potatoes Dip the lamb pieces into boiling water, drain, sprinkle with salt and pepper and roll in a little flour. Melt pork or bacon fat in heavy pan or dutch oven. Brown meat in this fat, turning frequently so as not to burn. When meat is_ thoroughly browned on all sides add boiling water, minced celery, bay leaf and chili sauce. Cover closely and cook gently for an hour. After an hour add carrots, scraped and cut in halves lengthwise, peeled onions and peeled potatoes. Cover stew closely and simmer gently for one hour longer or until meat and vegetables are tender. Taste gravy before serving, adding more salt and pepper if desired. If you wish you may thicken gravy slightly with a little flour moistened with water to a smooth paste. MODERN SCREEN STAR RECIPES HOME SERVICE DEPARTMENT MODERN SCREEN Magazine 149 Madison Avenue, N. Y., N. Y. Please send me the December leaflet containing Donald Woods’ favorite economical meat recipes, at no cost to me. (State) 2 o 5 . rT] . rT] 2 5 rT] ry] CT] 5 ry] . 2 5 . 5 rT] 5 rT] a s s 5 P] ] o . . 5 . 2 s . a a o s s . "RDB STC ERR Smooth-white attractive hands give you poise and confidence. You can have them too, by be- coming a regular user of Chamberlain’s Lotion. A clear liquid, not sticky or gummy, absorbed in 37 seconds, it not only re-beautifies hands, but arms and skin as well. Blended from thirteen different imported gils, it is a complete beauty treatment, one you will enjoy using. Two sizes —at any drug or department store. USE THIS COUPON Chamberlain Laboratories, Inc., Des Moines, Iowa. 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Robert Cummings, the judge’s offspring, is jealous of Johnny Down’s car and _ his ample spending money and believes they are the reason Marsha Hunt has trans- ferred her affections to the wealthy youth. All of which gets pretty involved, but the youngsters are pleasant and the comedy, as handled by Stepin Fetchit, is both spontaneous and funny. kKkk* The Dark Angel (Samuel Goldwyn) Back in the days when silence was golden (or was it Goldwyn?) it may be recalled that “The Dark Angel,” as played by Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky, was an entertainment full of charm, romance and a certain haunting beauty. For those of you who can think back that far it will be good news to learn that the talking version retains all of these qualities and distinguishes itself as the Number One tear-jerker of the season. It is perhaps unnecessary to remind anyone that this is a story of a girl who is in love with two brothers, and that she chooses one of them on the eve of their departure for the war. When he doesn’t return she believes he has been killed, and is about to marry the other brother when the man of her choice is discovered living in a nearby community. Blinded by the war, he is too full of re- morse to return to his home. Fredric March portrays the blind war hero with his customary competence, Herbert Mar- shall does well with the sacrificing broth- er, and Merle Oberon is completely natu- ral as the heroine. Fay Chaldecott and Cora Sue Collins are fine in their roles. %*%*x*The Bishop Misbehaves (M-G-M) What the bishop does may not actually be in the misbehaving department, but you might say his activities are a bit bizarre for a man of the cloth. An avid follower of detective stories, he beams with almost unholy glee when he accidentally bumps in- to what looks like a first-class crime. After a bit of expert snooping he discovers the crime is a robbery perpetrated by Norman Foster and Maureen O’Sullivan. It seems Reginald Owen had cheated Maureen’s father out of the rights to an invention, and Maureen enlists Norman to help her obtain the papers that prove it. The rob- bery is completed in a roadside pub, by special arrangement with the proprietor, a neighborly chap who hopes to be cut in on the proceeds. The papers and the jools are carefully tucked away, and Owen and his wife, Lilian Bond, are properly bound and gagged in an ante-room of the pub when the bishop and his sister happen in and complicate things. Since it’s a mys- tery picture, we won’t spoil it for you by telling what happens, but we can say that it’s a lively and pleasant affair worth your attention. Both Edmund Gwenn and Lu- cile Watson, as the bishop and the sister, are excellent, and an engaging bit is per- formed by Lilian Bond, who oughta be in more pictures. kx The Big Broadcast of 1936 (Paramount) Paramount’s annual round-up of the radio stars is with us again, and it is our pleasure to announce that this year’s gath- ering is the most entertaining and the most successful of them all. It may be recalled that in the past a rather flimsy story was tacked around the offerings of the radio celebrities. This season the plot is actu- ally credible; you could send the radio stars home and still enjoy a good comedy. Concerned in the plot department are Jack Oakie, Henry Wadsworth, Burns and Allen, Lyda Roberti and Wendy Barrie. Jack and Henry own a radio station, but they’re on their uppers until George Burns and Gracie Allen drop in with an inven- tion which can tune in on anything in the world, be it broadcast or be it not. 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boys instead of their machine and carts them off to her island castle. It’s goofy, but it’s fun, and injected into it are num- bers by such names as Bill Robinson, Amos ’n’ Andy, Ray Noble and his band, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, and the Nicholas Brothers. **x* Two Fisted (Paramount) This is your picture if you like ’em with a punch. Lee Tracy delivers some fast verbal ones and Roscoe Karns the up- per lefts. Young Billy Lee stages a garage boxing-match with some pals which beats many a professional one we've seen. Gail Patrick is an attractive feminine foil as the wife of Gordon Westcott who’s ruthless as they come and bent on kidnap- ping their son. There are a few mascara- messing moments when he succeeds, but all is saved at the crucial moment, includ- ing the rain checks. The Tracy brain- power is responsible for this heroic rescue and for straightening up Gail’s alcoholic brother, Kent Taylor. But when it comes to managing Roscoe Karns, Lee has to take a back seat. For two years he’s given his all to make a fighter out of him, but it’s the pretty nurse-maid, Grace Bradley, who inspires Roscoe to win his first fight. The cast is competent and though the plot has its weak moments, you'll be too help- less from laughing to care. ** Red Salute (Reliance) Barbara Stanwyck, whose celluloid like- ness we haven’t seen in several months, returns to the screen in a drama which contains some good comedy, some first- rate acting and quite a bit of unnecessary flag-waving. Barbara, the daughter of an army general, is in love with a violent young college man who spends most of his campus hours making speeches. He is what some newspapers would call a Red Menace. The general, realizing his daugh- ter’s imminent danger, sends her off to Mexico to forget. Barbara immediately re-crosses the border with the help of a young American soldier, Robert Young. You practically know what’s going to hap- pen from there on. It is, perhaps, suff- cient to say that the screenplay is in the modern manner, which calls for the hero and heroine to hurl insults at each other for several reels, all of which is a tip- off to movie-wise audiences that they are madly in love. As mild comedy-drama, “Red Salute” is amusing because of the efforts of the co-stars and Cliff Edwards in a supporting role, but as propaganda for the U. S. Army it falls short of its mark. *x The Little Big Shot (Warners) Dished up from a formula that’s almost as old as the Hollywood hills, this little number emerges as a combination tough- guy—tear-jerker which really belongs back in the gangster cycle of several years ago, although it has its entertaining moments. Everybody knows, of course, that there are no more gangster pictures, so the machine guns which blast away in this film are probably some the boys had left over from “G-Men.” Getting to the story, it seems that Robert Armstrong and Edward Everett Horton, a pair of Broadway phonies who hawk fake watches on street corners, fall heir to little Sybil Jason, whose daddy has been rubbed out for an unexplained reason. When the boys en- list Sybil to aid them in peddling their watches they incur the honest wrath of Y aS a0 PrOgo a (asa A 8 MODERN SCREEN eee WUD a PSA ZP CNSR NW Uh tra pseion ‘sms ima 0 COUT OE SA, “] SZ a The publishers of MODERN SCREEN guarantee that you will be satisfied with your purchase of every packaged product advertised in this magazine. If for any reason you are dissatisfied, MODERN SCREEN will replace the product or, if you prefer, refund your purchase price. 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Glenda Farrell, a hat check girl who se- cretly loves Bob. At that point the machine gun boys pin a murder on Bob and kid- nap Sybil, but the cops arrive just in time, and our Robert wins himself a reward and everybody settles down in the country, where clean living predominates. ** King Solomon of Broadway (Universal) For some reason or other, this seems to be revival month for gangster pictures. With its kidnapping and its gunplay, and its actors who talk out of the side of their mouths, King Solomon of Broadway joins the parade. Not that Edmund Lowe, who as King Solomon owns Broadway’s biggest dine and dance palace, is actually a gangster himself—he merely has con- nections. One of his connections, a gen- tleman called “Ice” Larson, and a menace if ever we saw one, owns a piece of the joint. Eddie, who wants no part of “Ice,” arranges with a beautiful and wealthy client to buy him out. The client is Louise Henry and she’s in love with Eddie. Eddie, however, is in love with Dorothy Page, an entertainer at his dance palace. How- ever, before Eddie can swing his deal, an opposition mob buys out “Ice’s” share of the establishment, and even goes so far as to kidnap Miss Henry. This sort of thing irks Eddie no end. It makes him just mad enough, in fact, to go out and rescue Miss Henry, and that lovely lady is so grateful she talks her father into backing Eddie in a terrific new enterprise. At that point Mr. Lowe fools us all by going right out and telling Miss Page he loves her. “King Solomon” of Broadway has a cou- ple of swingy tunes, some good lines, and Pinky Tomlin. ikke O’Shaughnessy’s Boy (M-G-M) Here is what might be termed a two-man show, for almost all the footage is given over to the histrionics of those two established pals, Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper. You knew them, man and boy, in “The Champ,” and you wept quite a bit over them. Let the weeping now begin anew, for they’re back together again in another of those father-son epics which promises to be even more lachrymose than their former effort. Beery, in the sort of role he seems to relish, is a circus animal trainer, big and bluff but just a boy at heart. His son, who is his pride and joy, is Jackie Cooper, except in the earlier sequences when it’s Spanky McFarland, who plays Jackie as a youth. (Can you remember way back when old Mr. Cooper was a mere lad himself?) The boy is taken away from his father by a mean sister-in- law who puts him in military school. Sev- eral years later Wallace gets custody of his son, but the boy’s mind has _ been poisoned against him. Time and a dramatic climax bring these two old pals back to- gether. %* Music Is Magic (Fox) If you’ve ever been smitten with the urge to crash pictures, see this one and learn how not to do it. Alice Faye is the blondined brunette in this case’ who be- lieves that all is fair in love, war and Hollywood. The results aren’t so good but the laughs are. Ray Walker does a good job as Alice’s agent—that is, he does a good job of the acting. The best he can do to further his client’s career when they first land in Hollywood is to get her work in a laundry. Mitchell and Durant do some of their noisy cutting up, but the real laughs come from Luis Alberni’s characterization of an Italian waiter. Bebe Daniels plays the role of a movie star who’s seen better and younger days, but won't admit it. Her deft impersonation should cause many a lady about town to wince. Rosina Lawrence is attractive as Miss Daniel’s daughter, whom she is try- ing to pan off as a sister. *%* The Last Outpost (Paramount) This one is actually a western thriller done up in soldier suits. It has all the action and every bit of the hokum which used to mark the horse operas of William S. Hart and Tom Mix, even down to the scene where the hero, armed with one revolver, holds off an entire band of Indians. In this case, the hero is Cary Grant, and his trusty six-shooter holds back an oncom- ing tide of native Africans armed with rifles, spears and arrows. Just at the mo- ment Cary begins to get the feeling he is slightly outnumbered, he looks back over his shoulder and discovers, happily, that the British army is about to join him. Needless to say, these stalwarts make short work of Cary’s opponents. A first- rate cast, including Grant, Gertrude Michael and Claude Rains, is wasted on an outmoded story. * Two for Tonight (Paramount) Even the best of studios make mistakes. If you’re courageous enough to have this statement proven, a visit to this little opus will convince you. Built around an im- possible story, with situations always bor- dering on slapstick and lines that are sup- posed to be funny falling with a thud that can almost be heard on the sound track, this is one long headache for a number of people, including Bing Crosby and the au- dience. Bing, according to the plot- makers, is a song writer who becomes ac- quainted with Joan Bennett, a producer’s secretary. It seems she has crashed into Bing with her airplane (how a $30-a-week secretary can afford a plane is not ex- plained), so in order to make retribution she attempts to sell the producer a musi- cal by Bing. ** The Case of the Lucky Legs (Warners) If a pair of lovely legs can cause all this trouble, we’ll take elephantiasis. Patricia Ellis is the owner of the lucky limbs in this case, which take her into all kinds of trouble—broken hearts, homes and a mur- der, to mention a few. But it all gives Warren William, as her lawyer, something to think about besides sloe-gin. Ii Mr. William is any example, no lawyer should pass more than one bar without stopping, for he manages to unravel mysteries that would stump any denatured brain. Gene- vieve Tobin is equally amazing as a secre- tary who’s both beautiful and bright. Lyle Talbot plays Mr. Talbot with his usual sure touch and Peggy Shannon is capable in a small role. . Left, George O’Brien and his wife, Marguerite Churchill, seem to be having a big laugh at someone else's expense at the Kings Club. Doesn't Marguerite look well and happy since the arrival of her new daugh- ter? And how do you like her Algerian turban? And to the right you see two jovial gents at the Cafe Lamaze—Fred Astaire and Randolph Scott. Randy's sideburns are a "So Red the Rose” hangover! Printed in the U. S. A. by Art Color Printing Company, Dunellen, N. J.

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