Modern Screen 1938-03 Vol. 16, No. 4
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TYRONE POWER AND SONJA HENIE
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MODERN SCREEN “I'd be a very Beautiful Woman if I'd taken care of my teeth and gums" Neglect, Wrong Care, Ignorance of the Ipana Technique of Gum Massage all can bring about ‘PINK "Yes, dear lady, it’s your own fault. You know that —now. You used to have teeth that glistened, they gums were firm and strong: “Then, if you remember, there was a day when your tooth brush showed that first tinge of ‘pink’—a warning that comes sometimes to nearly all of us. “But you said: ‘It’s nothing. Why, I imagine everyone notices the same thing sooner or later’ And you let it go at that. “Foolish you! That was a day important to your teeth—important to your beauty. That was the day you should have decided, ‘I'm : TOOTH BRUSH” were so white. And your ' going to see my dentist tight now’!” No Wise Woman Ignores “Pink Tooth Brush” F you've noticed that warning tinge of “pink” on your tooth brush—see your den- tist at once. For only your dentist can tell you when there’s serious trouble ahead. Probably he'll tell you that your gums are simply Jazy —that they need more work, more stimulation to help keep them firm and strong. Many a child in grade school could tell you that often the food we eat is too soft, too well-cooked to give gums the exercise they need. Realize this—and you understand why modern dentists so frequently advise the Ipana Technique of gum massage. For Ipana is especially designed not only to clean teeth but, with massage, to help the health of your gums as well. Each time you brush your teeth, massage a little Ipana into the gums, with forefinger or brush. This arouses circulation in the gums—they tend to become stronger, firmer. Teeth are brighter —your smile sparkles with a mew loveliness! * * * DOUBLE DUTY—Perfected with the aid of over 1,000 dentists, Rubberset’s Double Duty Tooth Brush is especially designed to make gum massage easy and more effective.
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Secret—“I’ve found out that one secret of successful entertaining is to provide plenty of good light.” ae Cost—“It isn’t expensive. The cost for an entire evening is less than the cost of a package of cigarettes.” M Gent art PARECT Keep—That’s why it is a good idea to keep G-E Mazpa lamps handy for emergencies. Be sure to look for the G-E monogram when you buy lamps. e for 15-25- 40-60-watts guy bulbs where you see this Io 75 and 100-watts... 2Oc emblem displayed GENERAL@Q ELECTRIC MAZDA LAMPS MODERN SCREEN Copyright, 1938, by Dell Publishing Co., Inc, Regina Cannon, Editor Leo Townsend, Hollywood Editor Abril Lamarque, Art Editor NOW SHOWING HE’S A SIMPLE SOUL 24 CG; S, HOYT LET’S TALK ABOUT MIRIAM 26 NANETTE KUTNER GETTING A GLIMPSE OF GARY 28 IDA ZEITLIN WHAT-A-MAN MORRIS 30 GLADYS HALL IT’S BEEN TOO EASY 32 MARY PARKES WHOM WILL TYRONE POWER MARRY? 34 GRANT LEWI PROFESSIONAL MARRIAGE 36 MARTHA KERR ELIGIBLE BACHELOR 38 FAITH SERVICE IT’S FUN TO BE BROKE 39 FRANC DILLON MOVIE-STAR BEAUTY FOR YOU 40 MARY MARSHALL THEIR BEST INVESTMENTS 42 DORA ALBERT OFF THEIR GUARD 43 GEORGE STROCK GOINGS-ON IN GOTHAM 59 ROBERT McIL\WAINE GLADYS GETS THERE 62 MACK HUGHES SHORT SUBJECTS KEEPIN’ FIT 6 WITH DOLORES DEL RIO SUIT-ABLE KNITS 8 FREE INSTRUCTIONS SWANK AT OXFORD 10 COLLEGE CLOTHES THE PARTY'S ON 12 AT GRACE MOORE'S NFORMATION DESK 14 ALL THE ANSWERS ‘ BETWEEN YOU 'N’ ME 16 PRIZE LETTERS GOOD NEWS 56 MOVIE GOSSIP REVIEWS 60 WHAT TO SEE OUR PUZZLE PAGE 72 MOVIE X-WORD AT SANTA ANITA) 88 THE RACES Modern Screen, No. 301773. Published monthly by Dell Publishing Company, Incorporated. Office of publication at Washington and South Avenues, Dunellen, N. J. Executive and edi- torial offices, 149 Madison Avenue, N. Y. Chicago, Il., office, 360 N. Michigan Avenue. George T. Delacorte, Jr., President. Meyer, Vice-President, J. F. Henry, Vice-President; M. Delacorte, Secretary. Vol. 16, No. 4,<March, 1938. Printed in the U.S. A. Price in the United States, $1.00 a year, 10c a copy. Canadian subscriptions, $1.00 a year. Foreign subscriptions $2.00 a year. Entered as second class matter, September 18, 1930, at the Post- office, Dunellen, New Jersey, under act of March 3, 1879. The publishers accept no respon- sibility for the return of unsolicited material. Sole foreign Agents: The International News Company, Ltd., 5 Breams Building, London, E.C. 4, England. Names of characters used in stories and in humorous and semi-fictional matter are fictitious. If the name of a living person is used it is purely a coincidence.
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MODERN SCREEN Two-fisted American college student goes to Oxford! Oh, boy, here’s a drama that packs a wallop every minute of the way! with LIONEL BARRYMORE Maureen O'Sullivan ¢ Vivien Leigh Edmund Gwenn e Griffith Jones ¢ From an Original Story by John Monk Saunders Directed by JACK CONWAY « Produced by MICHAEL BALCON A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE u
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if | } | € Se ISO NOR (2) Six sets of ten- nis? A mere trifle, Dolores will tell you. NOW LOR» Gi brisk swim. Nothing brisk sprint, says Dolores Del Rio. KEEPIN MODERN SCREEN like a Don't try this finish unless you're feeling pretty peppy. Dolores, what's the matter with that Australian crawl? Sure- ly, you can't be tired already! Just oozing vim, vigor and vitamins, Dolores will report at the studio now for a day's work. The rest was just play.
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; i _,.. feared by those rats of the Seven MODERN SCREEN time out from his pirateering and his A gallant with the ladies... beloved by every belle in all of New Orleans romancing to help Andrew Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans and Seas... his bold, bad buccaneers... save America from the British... Jean Lafitte...the gayest lad who ever sailed beneath the Skull and Cross- bones lives again in the grandest Fredric March reaches new heights of screen adventure. As the little Dutch girl whose love forced the historical romance evertoswing dashing pirate to strike his across the screen...Cecil B. flag . . . Franciska Gaal, DeMille’s flaming adven- ture-epic... “THE BUCCANEER.” In the thrilling role of the beautiful new Paramount star discovery, makes a fitting team-mate for that gentleman pirate dashing gentleman Capt. Jean Lafitte. pirate, who took Adolph Zukor presents a Cecil B. DeMille PRODUCTION / FREDRIC MARCH \ 7 THE BUCCANEER \ with Franciska Gaal Akim Tamiroff * Margot Grahame Walter Brennan Ian Keith e Anthony Quinn Douglass Dumbrille e Beulah Bondi Robert Barrat e Hugh Sothern Louise Campbell e Evelyn Keyes Directed by Cecil B. DeMille ys 2 " i, A Paramount Picture ——- Yl Screen Play by Edwin Justus Mayer, Harold Lamb and C, Gardner Sullivan e Based on an Adaptation by Jeanie Macpherson of “Lafitte the Pirate’ by Lyle Saxon 7
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MODERN SCREEN THE KID COMES BACK S The laughing, larruping hero of “Kid Galahad’! The heart-break- ing, chin-busting gob of “Sub- marine D-1”! with - WAYNE | MORRIS A WARNER BROS. PICTURE Speeding to stardom faster than any other screen hero in years! Here’s the daring, dashing new thrill in boy friends, with the devil in his eyes, a wallop in his mitt and heaven in his arms! Winning millions of hearts in every role he plays! See him now—more exciting than ever—in the tingling romance of a fightin’ fool who knew how to love! Shooting another love punch straight to your heart in “The Kid Comes Back’’!
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SWANK AT OXFORD ome eee I blk Maureen's suit of fine brown wool with its little coatee and checked waistcoat is extremely prac- tical. (Right) Another favorite of hers is this two- piece ensemble. It’s no wonder Bob Taylor fell for her in “A Yank at Oxford.” WHEN A noted Hollywood de- signer recently made up her annual list of the ten best-dressed women on the screen, she chose Maureen O’Sullivan as “A perfect example of the piquant type of woman,” be- cause “her clothes show infinite good taste in their simplicity of line and uniqueness of color combina- tion.” In “A Yank At Oxford,” Maureen is just herself, a charming, well- bred young British girl who wins the heart of the “Yank,” Lee Sheri- dan, played by Bob Taylor. And you won't wonder that the hand- some young American falls for the sister of his deadliest rival when you see the stunning costumes she wears SMART COLLEGIAN FASHIONS WORN BY MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN MODERN SCREEN in the picture. They are knockouts! Fourteen exclusive outfits were designed by Rene Hubert for Maureen’s role of an undergraduate hn “AN Werle Ae Orson” So if you’re seeking inspiration, don’t miss this picture, for you'll cer- tainly find lots of good ideas. The two costumes shown here are good examples of what the collegian should wear, simple in line, smart but not sophisticated. Bright college years are made brighter by smart clothes, and what could be more so than Maureen’s practical ensemble which she wears as a gay young undergraduate about-Oxford? The slim skirt is (Continued on page 84)
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MODERN SCREEN SS beamed tha a I simply fled! Escape—that was all I could think of! Just to get away from the gaiety and music—that marvelous music—of my first college prom! After all, when you're chafed . . . dancing isn’t fun, it’s agony! “See this filler?” said Marge—cutting a pad in two. “Feel it . . . it’s fluffy and soft as the down on a duck! Modess isn’t made up of crépey, close-packed layers —like ordinary napkins. It’s so much softer. That’s why Modess doesn’t chafe!”’ “Simpleton!”’ said Marge, who was in the dressing-room making minor face repairs. ““You’d think you were born in the dark ages! This dance came at the wrong time for me, too—but you don’t hear me complaining! Haven’t you heard about Modess?” a “Now, watch—” continued Marge, “here’s reason number two! Modess is also safer!’’ So saying —she took the moisture-proof backing from inside a pad and poured water on it. Moisture- proof is right! I was simply amazed! “Did you ask for Modess, miss?” said the maid handing Marge a blue box. “Good,” beamed Marge. “And scissors too, please ... Now, my dear, I’ll show you two good reasons why you should get in the habit of saying Modess . . .” “Well, pet,” said Marge, as we were getting our wraps, several hours later, “‘isn’t it wonderful what a difference being comfortable can make in a girl’s life! By the way” —she added—“‘here’s something I forgot to tell you. You'll find Modess costs less, in most places, than any other nationally known napkin!” IF YOU PREFER A SMALLER, SLIGHTLY NARROWER PAD, SAY “JUNIOR MODESS” 11
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Well, a little party booklet 1 am privileged to offer free to the first thousand or so who write in for it should provide GOING TO give a party? some helpful suggestions. But we will have to wait until somewhat farther along for a more complete description of this booklet and how to obtain your copy. Right now I want to tell you about the party foods suggested right in these pages by the lovely singer who so smilingly and graciously faces you across her own beautifully appointed table at the top of the next page. One of the most enthusiastic hostesses I have ever encountered is Grace Moore who, unlike many of her sister screen stars, considers catering and cooking as really worth- while accomplishments and regards entertaining as one of the fine arts! Just give Miss Moore the slightest of pretexts for inviting her friends to the house, in fact, and the party’s on. However, on festive days like birthdays, holidays and anniversaries, she really goes to town and entertains lavishly. Decidedly Spanish in inspiration you will find the foods she serves. This of course is due to the fact that Miss Moore’s husband, Valentin Parera, is a Spaniard and through him she has learned to take a real interest in the highly seasoned dishes of his native country. In fact so 12 THE PARTY UN BY MARJORIE DEEN Grace Moore loves to entertain. Her recipes are worth trying. At left, a boon to host- esses without a maid, this Hospitality Tray is just the thing. Courtesy ‘“Toastmaster”’ ' proficient has Miss Moore become, with the help of her Basque cook, Jeanne, that the recipes she has worked out are in great demand among her friends and there has even been some talk of a cook book in- corporating many of the culinary secrets she has picked up in her travels. After her most recent Hollywood farewell party we sat down together and swapped recipes like a couple of small town housewives. These of course are the self-same recipes that I am giving you on page 64. Now you, too, can learn how easy it is to make Salteados a la Catalana! Don’t let that name throw you, how- ever, for this dish turns out to be a comparatively simple hot lobster con- coction which has a delectable sauce and which also has the added fact that it can be made with canned (or frozen) lobster as well as with fresh, to recommend it. At every buffet supper party there should be at least one hot dish, you know, so at your very next affair why not make it this one? A large bowl of Spanish Rice or some other starchy food could well accompany this shell fish treat and will serve to extend the servings. Miss Moore suggests further that if you are hav- ing a large and hungry crowd that you bring in the hot food in two small serving dishes rather than in one large one. In this way one of the dishes can be held temporarily in re- serve, in the oven. You will probably also enjoy hav- ing Miss Moore’s directions for the preparation of the most delectable spreads and snacks, those one-bite treats that serve equally well as in- troductions to a regular company din- ner or as probably the most popular features of an informal buffet. You'll find many of these ideas on page 64, printed in such form that they can be conveniently cut out and mounted on regular size filing cards. Doubtless you’ve never eaten the Tocinos del Cielo which you'll also find described on that page in detail. I know I had never even heard of them before that particular party at the Pareras. Nor would I have dreamed that in translation that melodious name would turn into prosaic sounding “Little Pigs of Heaven.” When entertaining a crowd, breads too, play a most important role in your cast of foods, according to our lovely source of inspiration. Perhaps you'll like to serve small hot biscuits at your next buffet party. These should be split and buttered before being brought in, of course, since at such suppers your guests will not want to be juggling extra silver such as butter knives! Or better still make up a generous batch of the Pimento
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Cheese Pinwheels for which butter is unnecessary. Many of you, I know, will fall for the hot toast and Hospitality Tray idea that is now sweeping the coun- try. This is one of those self-service inspirations that are such a boon to the hostess-who-has-no-maid. For, with sliced bread, an attractive look- ing modern toaster and some tasty spreads on hand, each guest can fix his own refreshments to suit himself. The illustration shows you a corner of a buffet with one of these trays all ready for an enthusiastic raid. Didn’t have room, however, to show the cheese tray that I feel should be included with the other “spreads.” And this brings us to the little booklet I mentioned before which contains many suggestions for just such spreads, in combinations that are unusual and tasty. This fourteen- page booklet also gives directions for playing such popular adult games as “Guess Who,” “Vocabulary” and “Lost and Found.” If you would like a copy just write The Modern Hostess in care of Mopern Screen, 149 Madison Ave- nue, New York, New York, en- closing a three cent stamp. The supply is limited, so you'll know, if you have failed to receive a copy, that more than a thousand other hostesses were more prompt than you. For Miss Moore’s recipes turn to page 64. MODERN SCREEN “1 DONT CARE HOW PRETTY SHE IS —SHELL SPOIL THE SHOW!" Y ie g anno ie FORGET IT, BETTY, ; DON’T YOU MIND , BOO-HOO-HOO! = WHAT SHE Says! 'M GOING 4 Ter e HOME — eg POOH! BETTY DOESN'T EVEN LOOK LIKE SNOW-WHITE-IN THAT FUNNY, TATTLE- TALE GRAY SHEET! AW, YOU'RE JEALOUS ’CAUSE TEACHER WON'T LET § YOU BE LITTLE SNOW-WHITE isei aE 21 BUT THEN SHE SWITCHED TO FELS-NAPTHA AND.BOY, OH-BOY, DOES DIRT SKEEDADDLE!. MOM SAYS FELS-NAPTHA’S RICHER GOLDEN SOAP. AND LOTS OF GENTLE NAPTHA JUST DON'T GIVE OH, BILL, REALLY ¢ PLL TELL MY MOTHER RIGHT AWAY... _IT’S NOTHING TO CRY ABOUT ANYWAY. MY | MOMMY’S CLOTHES USED TO HAVE TATTLE- | TALE GRAY SOMETHIN’ AWFUL ’CAUSE HER SOAP WAS SO LAZY IT LEFT DIRT BEHIND LISTEN TO THE CLAPPING! YOU WERE SILLY TO FRET ABOUT BETTY’S COSTUME THAT SHEET CERTAINLY DOES SHINE LIKE SNOW. SNOW-WHITE’S THE VERY NAME FOR IT! IT IS NOW — THANKS TO THE LITTLE BLOND DWARF ON THE END — AND FELS-NAPTHA SOAP ! BANISH “‘TATTLE-TALE GRAY” WITH FELS-NAPTHA SOAP! Have you tried the FeleNe eee els-Naptha So Giipsoien Copr., Fels & Co., 1088 13
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There is only one Tangee — don’t let anyone switch you. Be sure to ask for TANGEE NATURAL. Jf you prefer more color for evening wear, ask for Tangee Theatrical. . 4 PIECE MIRACLE MAKE-UP SET and FREE CHARM TEST | The George W. Luft Co., 417 Fifth Ave., N. Y. C. Please rush ‘‘Miracle Make-Up Set’’ containing | miniature Tangee Lipstick, Rouge Compact, Creme Rouge and Face Powder. I enclose 10¢ (stamps or | coin). Also send FREE Tangee Charm Test. Check Shade of []Flesh []Rachel [] Light Powder Desired (15¢ in Canada) Rachel Name (Please Print] Address MODERN SCREEN HAS A MOVIE STAR WRITTEN TO YOU? WATCH THIS DEPARTMENT! Bob Livingston (First printing). He was born lucky, to hear him tell it, and cer- tainly, though he was scarcely a pampered son of wealth, he has probably had more lucky breaks than any other actor in Holly- wood. Many young men would consider it pretty tough if they had to work their way through college. Bob, however, was philo- sophical. He earned his board and tuition by giving lessons in amateur gymnastics and tumbling. This was a lucky choice for it paved the way for later screen roles which demanded gymnastic ability. When he finished college, his father, being a writer, Randall, creator of the famous ‘Say Bill’ letters of World War days, Bob entered the newspaper pro- fession. After one year as a reporter, he gave it up and decided, of all things, to become an actor. He went to the Pasadena Com- munity Playhouse, known as the Little Theatre of the West, and play- ing any kind of roles he could get, he acquired a varied and thorough dramatic training. He soon attracted the attention of talent scouts from Republic Pictures, and he was signed to a contract. Because of his physique and obvious athletic appearance, this studio teamed him up with Crash Corrigan and Max Terhune in the famous “Three Mesquiteers” series. Since that time his popularity as a Western star has in- ereased by leaps and bounds until now he ranks with the foremost exponents of this type of picture. He is a native of Quincy, Il. Judy Garland (Second printing). With the firm conviction that she wanted to be a film actress, Judy Garland walked onto the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot one day and an- nounced to all and sundry that she was looking for a job. She got it and she was twelve years old at the time. Judy was born with the theatre in her veins. She heard it from the time she could understand what her parents, Frank and Ethel Gumm, and her two older sisters, Virginia and Suzanne, were talking about. The family was theatrical. Father and Mother were professional vaudeville folk and her father is now a theatre owner in Los Angeles. Judy first saw the light of day in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and has been in almost every city in the United States with her parents ‘on the road.” She calls Los Angeles home, however, because most of her education was acquired there. She became a member of a singing trio com- posed of herself and her two elder sisters known as Hd and the act worked at the World’s Fair in Chicago and in several big theatres in the middle West. Suzanne married and that broke up the act. So Judy wasn’t bluffing when she told Metro officials that she’d had eight years of stage experience. That claim got her an audition and her performance brought her a contract. The funny papers are her favorite form of reading matter and baseball, riding, swimming and golf are her favorite forms of exercise. She loves to eat chocolate cake and ice cream and she sleeps nine to ten hours every night. She likes people in show business. Her birth- day is January tenth. She’s four feet, eleven inches tall and weighs ninety pounds. Her hair and eyes are brown. George Murphy (First printing.) It happened by accident. They let a pick-and-shovel man down into a Pennsylvania coal mine Are you going to receive a personal letter from your favorite star? If you entered the Personal-Letter Contest announced in this department last month, be sure to get -your copy of the April issue of Modern Screen early! It will be on sale March first and, who knows, maybe the letter, which will be published by the Information Desk, as well as mailed to the lucky winner, will be addressed to you! If you have not already tried for a letter of your own, get into the swim this month. The reader who sends in the most votes for his or her particular favorite, each vote to be printed on a Modern Screen coupon, will receive a letter from that star, personally written and signed. You can get your friends to help you by letting you clip the coupons out of their copies of Modern Screen. Closing date for this month's contest is February twenty- fifth, 1938. In case of a tie, each winner will receive a letter for their movie scrapbook. Don't let this contest spoil your en- thusiasm for keeping up the Barome- ter records, however. You can send in as many votes as you like, written in letters or on postcards, for the star you want to see at the top of our Barometer. Only personal letter votes must be written on a coupon and mailed to the Personal-Letter Editor, Modern Screen, 149 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y.
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and when the cable broke below, they hauled up an actor. Michael Murphy’s boy, George, who had graduated from Yale, came up in the bucket, after they'd dug him out from beneath a fortune in black diamonds. He spent six months in the hospital and was through with mining. George had seven dollars and a lot of aches and pains when he hit New York. He got a job as a runner in Wall Street and while working at this job he met Juliette Johnson, a clever dancer, who encouraged him to try his own prowess on the dance floor. They became a dance team and after a lot of struggle, were starred in the better Broadway night spots. During this period, they fell in love and were married in 1927. The team broke up in 1928 when George was given the juvenile lead in the Broadway production of ‘Good News.” Juliette became merely Mrs. Murphy, which she has remained ever since, despite flattering picture and stage offer- ings. Following ‘Good News,” Murphy ap- peared in ‘Hold Everything,” “Shoot The Works,” ‘Here Goes The Bride,” ‘Of Thee I Sing,’ and ‘Roberta,’ all successful Broadway shows. A year ago he went to Hollywood, with no thought of a screen career in his mind. While there, he agreed to make a screen test with a girl who aspired to movie fame. Samuel Goldwyn saw the test and signed Murphy to a contract, but did not take the girl. His first picture was “Kid Millions.” He has danced and sung in many others since then, his most recent being ‘““Broadway Melody of 1938.’ Between song-and-dance pictures, he has done nu- merous straight dramatic roles. He is under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He was born in New Haven, Conn., the son of the famous Michael Murphy, Olympic coach and one time coach at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied engineering, though his great ambition was to be a baseball pitcher. It was in his capacity as a student, actually, that he went to work in a Pennsylvania coal mine, with the result- ing accident that changed the entire course of his career. He weighs a hundred and seventy-five pounds and is five feet eleven and a half inches tall. Collis Duncan, Tompkinsville, Ky. Loretta Young isn’t married, though she’s been re- ported engaged a number of times. She is twenty-three years old, is five feet, three incbes tall and weighs a hundred and seven pounds, George Dimas, Ambridge, Pa. Write to Deanna Durbin at Universal Studios, Universal City, California. If you don’t enclose twenty-five cents with your request, however, you won't receive the photograph. This also answers Delia Davis of Kalamazoo, Mich. Angele Clausen, Berkeley, Cal. Paul Muni’s real name is Muni Weisenfreud. M. Mosco, Rochelle Park, N. J. Tim Holt is Jack Holt’s son but David Holt is not related to him at all in spite of the name. Virginia Mahoney, Memphis Tenn. Both Greta Garbo and Jeanette MacDonald are under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, Culver City, Cal. Address them there and enclose twenty-five cents for each photo- graph. Janet Starr, Boston, Mass. Have a heart, Janet, Errol Flynn is only twenty-eight years old himself, so he’d hardly be the (Continued on page 112) INFORMATION DESK, MODERN SCREEN, 149 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. Please print, in this department, a brief life story of If you would like our chart with weights, heights, ages, birthplaces and marriages of all the important stars, enclose five cents in stamps or coin with your coupon. MODERN SCREEN In and out all day long! Getting the milk, emptying the ashes, driv- IF HANDS COULD _ / ing the car... No wonder your TALK, THEY'D SAY: tender skin gets nipped by the cold. Z Soon your hands are dry, scratchy- rough, sorely-chapped. Like sand- paper to a man’s loving touch! _ HOW MANY TIMES EACH DAY WE NEED THE HELP OF HINDS! HINDS MAKES & OUR ABUSED SKIN FEEL SOOTHED, SOFTENED... RIGHT AWAY! Quick...smooth on Hinds! Extra-creamy, extra-good to chapped hands. Contains “sunshine” vitamin D, too! SMOOTHED BY HINDS... AGAIN WE'RE HIS HONEYMOON Copyright, 1938 Lehn & Fink Products Corporation, Bloomfield, N. J. Ee drop of Hinds works fast to give you soft, smooth Honey- moon Hands. Even one application makes hard- working hands more thrilling—to look at and to touch! Use Hinds faithfully —before and after household jobs, indoors and out. Hinds helps put back the softness that biting winds, bitter cold, household heat, hard water, and dust take y ACTING... away. $1, 50c, 25c, and 10c sizes. Dispenser free pen with 50c size—fits on bottle, ready to use. WATERY 15
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Bob gets a kick out of hearing Carol Ann babble of the beau- ties of her young sister, Barbara. BOB YOUNG handed me the slip of paper on which he’d just scribbled the following: “How to Lose Friends and Influence Nobody’—by Robert Young. “Me and Dale Carnegie,” he grinned. “He’s a psychologist and a writer. I don’t know much more about writing than how to tell one end of a pencil from the other. As for psychology, I’ve watched the antics of my own ego, and that’s the conclusion I’m led to. “Maybe I’m not typical. Ive read about the timid little guy who finds he has a nose like Napoleon’s, and winds up on the throne. And about the wallflower who tells herself, ‘“You’re beautiful, you’re beautiful, you’re beautiful,’ and the men come flocking. It doesn’t work that way with me. Maybe I’m short on faith. If I said to myself, “You’re Napoleon, you're beautiful’—which, let me interpolate, I don’t— echo would immediately answer, ‘You’re Bob Young, with the same old pan you always had,’ and I wouldn't know the comeback to that one. “What I do sometimes tell myself is, “‘You’re not a good mixer. You should cultivate dash and aplomb.’ Mostly that happens after I’ve been playing one of these sons of wealth who dash with aplomb all over the Ritz and Italy and St. Moritz, never at a loss for the right word, thanks to the author. “Here’s what happens. I meet someone. Ordinarily we'd pass the time of day, and go about our business. But I’m a man of the world now, I’ve got to act in character. What would a man of the world do at this point? He’d toss off some gay and charming nifty, light as a bubble. “T rack my mind for a nifty. Needless to say, my mind remains a blank. “Or I go to a party, bent on being the life of it for once. I’ve primed myself with a couple of stories, and wait for a chance to spring them—airily, you know, as if they’d just popped into my head. The screen hero always gets his chance, but somehow I don’t. Nobody seems to be in the mood for stories—not for mine, anyway. I stroll around, searching for a victim, and trying to look like myself in ‘The Bride Wore Red.’. Apparently with- out success, because people start getting that what’s-the- matter-with-you? look in their eyes. “Finally, I collar someone. Airy or not, I’m going to tell a story. By that time I’m in a state where, if Carol Ann asked me for ‘The Three Bears,’ I wouldn’t know which came first. I flounder and I fumble and I miss the point and I pull out my handkerchief to wipe the beads IF YOU HAVE A HANKERING TO BE SOMEONE YOU'RE NOT, DON'T CHANGE—AT LEAST NOT
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Bob Young may be the screen's No. 1 playboy, but you should see him at home. from my brow. My audience looks solicitous. ‘You feeling all right, Bob? Oh, I just asked. You don’t look so hot. Why don’t you go lie down some place for a while ?’ ” A knock at the door was followed by the head of an eager young man, thrust through the opening. “Excuse me, Bob. That your car outside? The green one? Boy, she’s a honey! How does she run? What mileage do you get? How does the super-charging work ?” Bob satisfied the young man’s thirst for information, and the head withdrew. Then he turned to me. “There’s a case in point. Me and my green car. I’ve got no business with that car. It’s too flashy for me, costs too-much to operate. I always feel like apologizing for it. I have to grit my teeth and say, ‘be nonchalant, be nonchalant, be nonchalant,’ to keep from explaining to everyone how I happened to get it.” I knew he was exaggerating for the sake of providing entertainment. Whatever grain of truth lay hidden among the chaff—and which of us doesn’t recognize himself in a similar situation ?—you wouldn’t have to know Bob Young very well to realize that he and pretense are strangers. Of all the actors I’ve met in Hollywood, he is the most un-actorish. He realizes that it’s part of the player’s province to exploit himself. Therefore, when he must, he talks about himself directly, frankly, without resorting to the coy capers of the hypersensitive. He doesn’t have to assure you that he’d rather talk of other things. That fact is obvious after half an hour’s contact with his & g offered him a deal. Florence Rice enjoys the attentions of Jimmy Stewart and Bob between takes of “Navy Blue and Gold.” inquiring mind. He doesn’t have to assume a modesty which is his by instinct. In the essentials of character, he is the same young man he would have been if fate hadn’t plucked him from a Building and Loan Company and set him among the stars. As for the car, it happened this way. (And I’m not apologizing either). He went to the shop to have the top of his old car put down. “How about buying one of these?” they asked him, pointing to a dashing and, of course, high-priced model. “No use for it.” “Well, come on over here anyway, and take a look.” He looked, he admired, and he turned away. They You who own cars don’t have to be told how it’s done. They proved to him in black and white that he’d be losing money if he didn’t buy this particular car. He went home and talked it over with his wife. Deal or no deal, she was against it. “It always looks better to me in the bank than rolling around on wheels,” said the sensible Betty Lou. “Me, too,” said Bob, with a far-away look in his eyes. Betty smiled. She'd said her say. If Bob wanted it badly enough to buy it, it was no part of her policy to stop him. It took him a long time to make up his mind. His tastes were conservative. He’d never yet splurged on anything. But the lines of that definitely dashing car haunted and tempted him. So he bought it. (Continued on page 103) INTL YOU'VE HEARD WHAT HAPPENED TO BOB YOUNG, WHO ONCE HAD PLANS FOR HIMSELF
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LETS TALK ABOUT MIRIAM THEY ALL DO, BUT WHEN MISS HOPKINS SPEAKS HER PIECE, SHE SAYS PLENTY! BY NANETTE KUTNER EVERYBODY talks about Miriam Hopkins. They say she invited a group of writers to her home, and walked out before they arrived. They say when a newspaperman paid a call she sent her chef to the door, her chef, with a carving knife in one hand. They say she snubs her old friends. They say she is a shrewd business woman. They say when she was broke. ... But no one says more than Miss Hopkins. She says: Her neighbor is Norma Shearer, but she has never seen her on the screen. Neither has she seen Shirley Temple. For she rarely goes to pictures. She says she sees about five a year. Maybe this is a pose. 26 \ It's footlights and not Klieg lights > now, for our star * isin ’’Wine of Choice,” on Broad- way.
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Miriam appeared in a New York restaurant wearing her adopted son Peter’s (above) blue beret. Reviewing her husbands must make Miriam feel like Peggy Hopkins Joyce. She says she met Anatole Litvak, her present husband (number three) on the Normandie. She met him by the simple expedient of picking him up! “At the bar. We knew a lot of the same people.” She says he is a great director. And she points to “Mayerling” as an example of what he did for Danielle Darrieux. “But he directed my worst picture.”” She says that also. She says husband number two, Austin Parker, the play- wright is living in her California home. “Writing a play, while ’'m East.” However, she disliked the mention of Actor Brandon Peters, who was husband number one. “Tt makes me sound like Peggy Joyce. Besides, we were only married a couple of months anyway. In Chi- cago, when we were kids.” HUSBAND number three had just sailed for Europe. “And I couldn’t see him off. I had to rehearse. But he’ll only be gone a month. And to tell the truth, I’m relieved. I knew he was dying to see New York. He’s Russian, you know. We had only been here once before together, for ten days last summer during one of those hot spells. Now, this time, I have to stay home to study my part so he’d want to help me, poor darling. He’d sit around trying to be considerate. And I couldn’t memorize. I can’t learn in front of anybody. I like to walk around, to act all over the place, to talk to the furniture! My butler is used to this. He’s been with me five years and knows me better than my husband. I can’t just sit still and learn a part, then it sounds mechanical, like a phono- graph record.” As to “Gone With The Wind,” she says she would have loved to have played Scarlett. “It’s a fat role for any actress. But, although I got votes from every section of the country, although shop girls, hairdressers everywhere, they all stopped me and asked me to play her, although even my mother says I should have done it because we’re from the South and her name is the same as Scarlett’s mother, Ellen, even with all those reasons I can only tell the truth. I’ve never been asked.I just wasn’t invited to the party.” SHE DOES tell an amusing story about it. One of the Hollywood producers gave a small dinner for the Dean of Columbia University. Eight guests were invited. And Miriam was one of the eight. “Remember,” warned their host, “no shop talk. This man isn’t interested in pictures.” So the conversation carefully touched upon music and books and new methods of education, until the Dean astounded everyone by turning towards Miriam to ask, “And whom do you think should play Scarlett O’Hara?” There was an embarrassing silence. The Dean, un- aware that Miriam had been mentioned as a_ possible Scarlett, waited expectantly. The guests snickered. One catty woman, certain Miriam longed to play the part, went so far as to echo the Dean’s question with a mocking, “Yes, Miss Hopkins, whom do you think should play it?” This was a difficult moment. Miriam cleared her throat. And she plunged into what she honestly believed was the truth. She said she thought the producer would select an unknown as he must naturally want to build a star for himself, but she hoped, when he did choose that unknown, he would pick an actress with plenty of stock experience. No sooner did she utter these words than “Gone With The Wind’s” producer, David Selznick, entered the room. There was an awkward silence, broken by the Dean, who cheerfully greeted Mr. Selznick with, “Miss Hopkins has just been telling us whom she thought ought to play Scarlett O’Hara.” 5 “Every actress in America has (Continued on page 78) 27
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BX. TA OUTSIDE AN office building on the United Artists lot, a group of men were appraising the points of a shiny new sedan. One of them in slacks and sports coat, a white tie doing service as a belt, said little. But his eyes dwelt lovingly on the maroon beauty, glittering like a dragon in the sunlight. “Gary,” called a voice from a window above. He looked up. ‘“How’s the offspring?” A slow smile crinkled the corners of his eyes. “Fine.” “New car for her?” ‘he Gary Coopers (above) have just bought a ‘ranch in Arizona to make up for the tramp- steamer trip they had been planning. Their new daughter has upset those plans temporarily. Gary, all done up for “The Adventures of Marco Polo.” Coop is one of the few actors who never wears make-up. He has that type of skin which photographs better without grease paint. GETTING A GLIMPSE OF GARY The smile deepened. ‘And her mother,” was all he said, his lips closing with good humor but finality over some pleasant secret of their own. The Cooper legend paints him as shy and inarticulate. These adjectives cover him roughly, in the manner of a shapeless garment, without revealing him. Talk to him about horses or cars or a new haunt for duck-shooting, and you'll find him articulate enough. If his tongue wags less than most, he can also pack more meaning into fewer words. Instinctively, he keeps his hands off the personalities COOP WON'T TALK, BUT HIS FRIENDS WILL—AND THEY GIVE YOU ALL THE LOW-DOWN ON HIM. 28 | | :
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When George Raft fell heir to Cooper's dressing-room, he had Gary's name, which was scribbled on a rafter, burned in to preserve it. of others, instinctively he keeps the hands of others off himself. It’s the policy of live and let live, applied in spirit as well as letter. Get any of his associates talking about him, and within two minutes you'll hear with monotonous uniformity, “Coop doesn’t dish dirt.” The appearance of distinguished visitors on the set is the signal for Cooper to disappear. He will greet them courteously and seize the first opportunity to escape. Later he will be found deep in a discussion on amperes with Bill, the electrician. He bears no grudge against visiting bigwigs. He hates to fuss or to be fussed over, and takes the obvious method of avoiding both. His vanishing act, even when there are no visitors to YES, THERES A VERY GOOD REASON FOR THAT SHYNESS, FOR WHICH GARY IS NOTED Between scenes on a picture, Gary dozes off in his chair or fixes a bite to eat. elude, makes him the despair of assistant directors. “Where’s Coop?” the cry goes up. Coop is in a remote corner, drawing cowboys and Indians and dreaming him- self among them. Or Coop has ambled off on his bike to pay Bing Crosby a visit. Or: “Any beds around? Look for the nearest bed, and you’ll find Coop.” Cracker Hend- erson, his handy man and entertainer-in-chief, is also the sleuth, self-appointed, to track Cooper down when he dis- appears. He does the job conscientiously, secretly con- vinced, however, that in a well-adjusted world a boss like his would be allowed to do as he pleased. Cracker, of the Georgia Crackers, was one of the legion of Hollywood extras who (Continued on page 74) 7
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N : = 3 ee a is 4 : “oe : co ies = . e > 4 =i f A | , ? | he studio dreamed up Priscilla’s and Wayne's romance, but they emselves made it come true. aersremeee BY GEADYS HAUL IS WAYNE KEEPING HIS LAST DATE—OR WILL HE CONTINUE TO REIGN AS HEAD LADIES’ MAN = Wayne brushes up on his ety we) technique, for Priscilla ig core = has yen for music. AND HEART-COLLECTOR IN HOLLYWOOD?
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fe Fj Be Le hr eras , YOU—YOU hit me, you unspeakable brute!’ wailed a piteous feminine voice and the piteous feminine voice came, I could see, from the slender blonde person of Priscilla Lane, cowering on the floor, and the “unspeak- able brute” was Wayne Morris, towering over her, threat and thunder in his blue eyes. And then Director Stanley Logan: called, “Print it!” and Wayne shouted lustily, “One-Take Morris and One-Take Jane!” Priscilla got up off the floor, assisted by the eager hands of Wayne and the two stood’ there together, laughing, brushing each other off, admiring Priscilla’s black eye, administered by Wayne and it looked like love, off the set as well as on. Is this man Morris “hearting” again? If so, What-A- Man-Morris is the most masterly understatement ever made. Is it the caveman in him which has made him so super-successful with the ladies? Is he the “unspeakable brute”-at whose feet the ladies cower, the while offering up their hearts? For certainly this blond young giant, standing six-feet-two in his stocking feet, weighing 190 pounds, tracing his ancestry back to that blond giant of the 10th Century, King Olaf, has captured more Holly- wood hearts than have Robert Taylor, Tyrone Power and Jimmy Stewart combined. And their belts are not exactly denuded of some of the best scalps. For Wayne, as you may know, has been rumored and reported as “hearting’ with such belles as Nan Grey, Cecilia Parker, Eleanor Powell, Lana Turner and others. And now, for the past couple of months, his name has been linked exclusively and quite seriously, with Priscilla Lane. Priscilla, one of the Lane sisters, featuring Lola and Rosemary, seems to be following more or less in the Morris footsteps, having been signed to a long-term con- tract after her first picture, “Varsity Show.” I’ve heard people say, “This Wayne Morris, what’s he Glove! Well, maybe Pat Lane and Wayne Morris are right at that! got? He comes to town, is practically a star overnight, walks off with the best dates in town, how’s he do it? What is it?” Of course, there are the obvious factors of the six-feet- two, the 190 pounds, the warming-the-cockles-of-your- heart grin, the animal spirits which are as contagious as healthy fever, if there were such a thing. But even these are not enough to explain the swift, sure way in which young Wayne has wowed this wow-weary town called Hollywood. For the goodly institution called the Ameri- can home, the colleges, the small towns, turn out six-feet- two young men, weighing 190 pounds, demons on the diamond, hellions on the hockey field, rascals with the racquet, by the gross. And of the gross only a scarce few ever reach the Hollywood studios at all and of the scarce few only a rare Wayne Morris ever lays low the citadel. So, what is it? Well, be prepared for an exposé of Wayne Morris, offered by none other than Priscilla Lane, who reveals the why and the wherefore of Wayne. And if you can’t get the answer from his best girl where would you be able to get it? For shortly Wayne and Priscilla came off the set of “Everybody Was Very Nice” (the final scene of which I had just witnessed), in which they are being teamed, the first teaming, I gather, of many, for their next will be “Men Are Such Fools,” in which, again, they will play a young married couple. ‘“We’re married in this picture, too,” Wayne said, and his eyes told more than his words, for his eyes said that there was something very good about being married to Priscilla, even in pictures. I said to Priscilla, then, “Tell me, honestly, what is this man all about? What is the secret of his power over wimmin?” “T’ll fix you,” laughed Priscilla. (Continued on page 80) 31 We call it madness, but they call it’ —
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T) BEEN TOO EASY Bt mM Ay Pat es WITH MONEY TO BURN, OLIVIA De HAVILLAND CAN'T BUY WHAT SHE'S LOST THROUGH SUCCESS PEOPLE have been saying recently, that Olivia de Havil- land is thinking seriously of abandoning the screen, for- saking her young career, which is mounting like a comet charged with dynamite. “She’s going to quit pictures,” they’ve said. But why should she? A girl, just a pretty, well-bred girl who came to Hollywood from the sleepy little hamlet of Sara- toga in northern California and played Hermia in Rein- hardt’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” and then signed a contract with Warners and is spoiled and petted and given the ripest picture plums on the lot, she should leave the screen! Supposing Olivia should fool us? There is something, disturbingly definite about Olivia. Her beauty on the screen may be maidenly and misty and dusted with the pollen of shrinking sweetness and suggestive of the soft pliancy of the clinging vine, but there is nothing of the clinging vine about the mind of Olivia, nor about her character. The idea was so intriguing that I went to the Busch Gardens in Pasadena, where the “Robin Hood” company was at work. A sunny afternoon of green and gold and the pennants of the knights flying from their tall poles in the jousting field, and Olivia as Maid Marian Fitz- Every day Brian Aherne and Olivia had tea on the. set, but she was scared to death of him. walter, in blue and silver robes, headdress and all, more beautiful than the dreams for which Knighthood went into Flower. Claude Rains and Basil Rathbone ranged to the left of her, a page boy kneeling to her, proffering a golden arrow on a royal blue satin cushion, Errol Flynn waiting to receive the ominous favor from her lily-white hand. As soon as the company was dismissed, we had tea. Olivia had changed, very hastily, from the blue and silver robes of the Maid Marian Fitzwalter into a green and brown checked skirt, a white silk shirt, @ scarf tied round her head, a fur coat, not very new, and she looked like any high school girl, an exceptionally pretty one, of course, going out for a sundae after classes. She looked much more likely to be carrying a bunch of books strapped together than a script or a make-up box. And she rode in a little roadster, waving off the studio limousines, the maid, the customary retinue and pomp and ceremony of a Star. And Olivia, off the screen, looks rather different from the way she looks on. It isn’t that her beauty is less, it’s that it’s different. Her eyes, so dark and brown, are alive and alert and meet your eyes, squarely. She talks emphatically and honestly and (Continued on page 106) Basil Rathbone isn't too dignified to hook Olivia's skirt and the cam- eraman catches him at it!
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Olivia, just being herself. And don't think she puts on fancy airs be- She "tl cause she’s a star. Lae g mime
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} | WHOM WILL TYRONE POWER MARRY? A reading of Tyrone Power's chart by our expert astrologer reveals some startling facts about this popular actor's future. TYRONE POWER has them guessing out in Hollywood. First he went with Sonja Henie, till she travelled away for a visit to the Old Country. Then he fell for Janet Gaynor, while Sonja was dreaming of him on the high seas. Consequently, the buzzing is terrific. Is he going to marry? Is Sonja heartbroken? What are Janet’s intentions toward him and vice versa? Let’s look at the triangle from the stars, and see what clues the three horoscopes yield about the tangle that has Hollywood guessers on the run. To begin with, Tyrone belongs to the romantic sign Taurus, and Taurus men are hard to catch. More ac- curately, they are hard to hold, especially in their younger years. They will fight back with all their much-mooted stubbornness, if you tell them they’re fickle, or philander- ers. But ask the girl who owns one . . . or thinks she does. Venus, planet of love and beauty, rules Taurus, giving her favorites glamor and an aura of romantic appeal. When Venus inhabits the sign Gemini, as she does in Tyrone’s horoscope, the glamor isn’t diminished. It sparkles and shines and glistens, but it is loath to settle down and focus its light permanently on even the most beautiful pair of feminine eyes in the world. With the Sun in Taurus, square Uranus and Jupiter in Aquarius, and Venus in Gemini square, his Moon in Virgo, Tyrone goes into a love affair with all the fervor, all the ardor, all the sincerity in the world. Find a man with this combination, you girls who want a thrill, and you'll discover something about the fine art of love— Why has Sonja Henie been able to maintain Ty's interest?
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ee PAR a SINCE THE STAR HIMSELF HAS TURNED SHY, WE'VE CALLED ON THE STARS FOR THE ANSWER Di han LEW Tyrone Power has been linked romantically with Sonja Henie and Janet Gaynor. Will he marry one of them? © while it lasts! And when it’s all over, though your heart may be broken, you'll never for a moment think that it wasn’t worth it. You'll go to your grave glowing with the beautiful moments. This is rather trying on the man you may eventually marry, who has a pretty high standard to live up to. Remember this when you think about poor little Sonja’s allegedly broken heart, coming back to America to learn that her sweetheart had been (and still is) tripping hither and yon with red-headed Janet Gaynor, who is competition for any girl. If Sonja had known her astrology, she would have taken Tyrone to Norway with her, and shut him up in a cave while she went to visit the old folks. But even the cold of the northland might not have kept his love on ice— and certainly not if Janet Gaynor had appeared on the scene. There are very special attractions between Janet’s horoscope and Tyrone’s, which Sonja’s charm could not have overcome, even if she had stayed on deck and kept her eye on the boy friend. It’s interesting to note that with Tyrone’s Sun in Taurus, both these girls have their Moons in Taurus. That’s an attraction, to begin with, and a very strong one. But it doesn’t insure the delivery of a wedding ring. It’s a nice brother-and-sister, palsy-walsy kind of attrac- tion. If other less spirituelle and more earthly attractions conspire, this makes a fine basis for marriage. In itself, however, it doesn’t promise anything. Also interesting is the fact (Continued on page 76) What attracted Power to attractive Janet Gaynor?
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PROFESSIONAL MARRIAGE THE PREACHER MADE THEM ONE, BUT ANNE AND JOHN ARE INDIVIDUALS WITH IDEAS OF THEIR OWN OURS,” SAID Anne Shirley (Mrs. John Howard Payne, to you), happily, “is a professional marriage. Perhaps I should say it’s a marriage of two professionals. Sounds better, doesn’t it? Anyway, we met as professionals, fell in love as professionals, became en- gaged as professionals and will live happily ever after as professionals. “That’s the way we want it to be. Our mutual interests are, first of all, in each other, in Anne and Johnny, not as Mister and Missus, not even as picture players, just us. Our mutual interests, otherwise, are in scripts and stories and parts and contracts and progress, and these interests can be just as deep and satisfying as if our interests were rooted in building a wing on the old homestead or plan- ning new linoleum for the kitchen floor. I’m sure Johnny wouldn't get half so much satisfaction out of my making the biscuits ‘that mother used to make’ as he got out of my performance in ‘Stella Dallas,’ which he was proud of ! “TI feel sure that I can be just as good a wife to Johnny in greasepaint as I could be in a bungalow apron. At least, I’m the way I was when he fell in love with me and he’s the way he was when I fell in love with him.” Now, here is something new under the sun, the moon and, especially, the stars. For years, Hollywood brides have made statements to their public. Glamorous ones, fresh from the altar, declare, “Now that I am married I shall be more wife than star; I shall stay in the home BY MARTHA Regn as much as possible ; I shall prob- ably give up my career in time.” They continue, deceiving no one val themselves and not even deceiving themselves for very ong. “But no,” Anne was saying, looking very little more than a child, in her yellow slack suit, tailored and slim, her russet-red hair curling loosely in a long bob, her russet- brown eyes as bright with happiness as any eyes I’ve ever seen, “we're not going to sink into any domestic routine. We don’t want routine or responsibility. Marriage isn’t going to change this pair of friends. We want to keep on having fun and we do have fun, lots of it. We go with the same crowd we’ve always gone with; we all do the same things as we've been doing. “We don’t want a house, Johnny and I, rented or bought. And we haven't got one. We're living in the apartment Johnny lived in before we were married. We want to be able to walk out of the front door and lock it behind us and go away when we feel like it and can get away. There are so many things we want to do, adven- tures and experiences we want to have. We want to go to New York as often as possible ; we want to go to Honolulu and to the South Sea Islands. “We want to discover new places. We want to have thrills and fun. If anyone should ask me what the [eit motif of our marriage is, I’d say, fun. We don’t take life seriously in the sense that we (Continued on page 84) A friend calls to invite the Paynes to dinner. They'd love to, thanks. With Anne’s dog, Public Melody No. 1, Song Writer Revel’s gift.
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PRA al AN IR ERA EEO 5 By the fireside of their three- room, apartment. It was all’. John‘s before Anne moved in. For relaxation and fun, Anne and John like to play bad- minton, but it’s pretty strenu- ous so now they're taking time out for a rest and a glance at the news.
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Hl F A I AM the most eligible bachelor in Hollywood. I’m the most eligible bachelor you ever met in your life. And I want to get married.” Brian Aherne speaking, and looking just as he’s always looked, with his disconcertingly blue eyes, his lean tallness, his slightly crooked smile. But underneath the familiar exterior, how that man has changed! In the first place, he was supposed to be difficult to interview. Yet here we sat, in a lovely walled garden, with Mr. Aherne stretched out in a deck chair in the sun. He was wearing gray slacks and a polo shirt with a scarf knotted at the throat and he looked devastatingly handsome. Nor was he the strange, bookish, aloof chap we’d been told to expect. He has the reputation in Hollywood of being an “escapologist.” But that’s because he never signs a contract for more than one picture at a time, and because, up to now, he has never taken time out for romance. The thought of domesticity and its subsequent ties always frightened him to such an extent that he’d run the other way. True, he went dancing with Marlene Dietrich and Katie Hepburn and Merle Oberon, but nothing serious ever came of any of these mild flurries. ELIGIBLE BACHELOR lel "In spite of Hollywood, I hope to find the hap- piness of sharing my life with someone I love and who loves me in return,” declares Brian Aherne. CS ea ob oR VL ee He was too elusive, too fond of his freedom: Olivia De Havilland is rumored to be his cur- rent heart and though, in all probability it isn’t serious either, for the first time, Mr. Aherne, himself, is. And, which is even more startling, he’s willing to talk. About himself. About his hopes and plans for the future. He doesn’t want adventure and excitement and constant change anymore. He’s tired of it. Tired of living in a trunk. He wants to settle down. So he said, frankly and honestly, “I want to get married. I want a permanent home of my own, built on land that is my own. I want rou- tine, children, responsibilities. I want to unpack my trunks and stay put. [’m sick of making dates, going places, making more dates, going other places.” “Perhaps,” we ventured, “you wouldn’t really like it once you were really settled. You’ve had so much adventure in your life.” And he really ~has, you know. Born in Kings Norton, Wor- cestershire, England, some thirty odd years ago, Brian De Lacy Aherne always had an eye on distant places. All through his school years at Hallfield and at Malvern (Continued on page 110) BRIAN AHERNE WANTS TO GET MARRIED, GIRLS—BUT HE'LL BE HARD TO PLEASE!
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When Beverly smiles, she’s ra- diant. And she smiles a lot, the reason being she finds life so much fun. aD Beverly’s an avid reader and all she has to do when she wants a book is call down- stairs to the lending library. | When Director William Keigh- ley opened a gas station re- cently, Beverly offered to give an autograph with every gallon. Td FUN TO . Sq Fs rE = 3) RS gm: 9 a If you plan to call on Beverly Roberts, you'll have to look twice to find the place, because it hides behind a lending library! BE BROKE! WHAT SHE HASN'T GOT DOESN'T WORRY BEVERLY ROBERTS, BECAUSE SHE CAN ALWAYS SING FOR HER SUPPER BY FRANC UP AND down the boulevard we rode, looking for Beverly Roberts. Not that we expected to find her on the street, but we couldn’t even find her house. “It’s a tiny place,” she had said, when telling us where to find her, and she proved to be so right that we passed it several times. This was due partly to the size of the building but more on account of a sign over the gate reading: “Lending Li- brary.” And whoever heard of a mo- tion picture star hiding behind a lending library? Finally, by a pro- cess of elimination, we located Bev- erly in the apartment above it. At the top of the stairs was a large room, a charming room, with a fireplace at one end and a huge window that reached to the ceiling at the other. In front of the window was a wide studio couch which, dressed in a colorful chintz cover, served as a divan in the daytime and as Beverly’s bed at night. The pic- DILLON tures on the walls were well chosen and the books on the shelves looked as though they had been read and re-read. There were flowers all about the room and a tea tray, loaded with things to eat and drink, was resting conspicuously on the floor. The presence of a representative from her studio publicity depart- ment, to keep Beverly from talking too much, was a needless precaution. She never stopped talking long enough for anyone to ask questions and it would have been useless to try to stop her. Besides, no one would want to, for her chatter is amusing and entertaining, frequently hilar- ious. She had lived in the apartment but two weeks, and was buzzing around nervously, patting a pillow, rear- ranging one of the three chairs or straightening a picture. “T’ve learned how to turn around without knocking over the other half of the (Continued on page 113) 39
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You'll learn a grand trick from Carole Lom- bard, who insists all hands can be lovely. nay Bes: Ric Skis h. a SY adh é ey Bu A change in hair-do can give you a new per- sonality, but let Luise Rainer issue a warning! There are certain details you mustn't overlook, too, if you would possess silken tresses. MOVIE-STAR BEAUTY FOR YOU BY MARY MARSHALL MAYBE I’M just an incurable old optimist to go on be- lieving that every girl in the world can be at least attrac- tive, possibly pretty and perhaps a distinctive beauty. But every time I consider the movie stars, I’m more and more convinced that some sort of beauty is possible for every- one. If that sounds like nutsy reasoning to you, wait a min- ute: the stars were all basically good-looking to start with, but look how much they’ve improved upon that “basically” business. I can, offhand, think of only three girls in Hollywood who are authentic beauties, without benefit of make-up and fixin’s. They are Dolores Del Rio, Virginia — Bruce, and Madeleine Carroll. The rest of the whole tribe are pretty, sexy, charming, brimful of personality, smart, but not authentic beauties. A few years back, most of them looked little more: like their present day selves than Charlie McCarthy looks like Shirley Temple. They’ve become better looking people by virtue of knowing clever make-up, by taking pains .with themselves, by playing up their good points and minimiz- ing their bad ones. "Tis this lesson in beauty, the movie star way, which I wanna drive home to you. Let’s start at the top with a certain pretty movie gal’s hair. I’ve picked Luise Rainer, which may surprise you. I picked her because she’s not a vivid blonde, a fiery red- head or decided brunette. She’s a dark brownette, like millions of girls. Most of these millions pine and sigh
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Marjorie Weaver's eyes For the last word in un- are sumpin’ to behold derpinnings, we nomi- but she has problems nate Danielle Darrieux. that may worry you. Yours can match ‘em! SO YOU THINK YOU'RE AN UGLY DUCKLING? WELL, YOU NEEDN'T BE IF YOU TAKE A TIP FROM STARS WHO KNOW BEAUTY TRICKS for more vividly tinted locks. A goodly percentage re- sort to the dye bottle without ever considering whether or not a change in hair color will be becoming to their general type. So many dark brownettes, figuring that their locks are never going to turn any heads and break any hearts anyhow, neglect their hair on the “it’s not worth fussing with” principle. I wish all these girls could see the little Viennese star’s hair! The lights in it, and its silky texture, and its adap- tability to any change in hair-do Luise cares to make. This last virtue comes from basic care like daily brushing, thorough, but not too frequent shampoos, and intelligence where permanents are concerned. And speaking of changes in hair-do reminds me that I have something to say on that subject. PARIS AND the flossier hairdressing maestros, or is it maestri?, say that “hair is going up.” The page boy bob must go! That’s the battle cry of the hirsute trade. Also the classic movie star bob, you know, practically shoulder length and all fuzzed out on the ends. Well, my feelings are divided and, I want to ask you to consider good and well before you make a change in hair-do. Some of the new styles are charming, true. Soft, flat curls are piled high. There’s the French: twist effect, a simulated roll up the back of the head, the hair all brushed smooth as glass over and into this roll. Hair is off the neck, off the ears, and up on top of the head, where our mother used to wear it. It is held in place with ingenious little combs. These new coiffures demand that the hair be in good condition, (Continued on page 90)
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SO YOU’VE saved $500., and you can do with it anything you choose? You’re wondering what the best in- vestment of your money would be. So many people have wondered, par- ticularly since the depression hit the country. Investments that had been considered safe were suddenly worth- less. Banks crashed; bonds and stocks became so much paper; real estate dwindled in value. And the very people who had been most far- seeing, who had looked ahead to a safe, secure future, found that there was no such thing as security any more. Now, people are again wondering just what is the safest and wisest way to invest their money. Each of us has his own pet theory. The other day I asked a group of stars to tell me what each one considered the best invest- e. , f ment he had ever made. ba > \ Robert Taylor’s best investment and Gracie Allen : s came when he scraped together ° 5 enough money to leave Doane College in Nebraska, and to accompany his ‘cello teacher to Pomona College in California. “It was the first long trip I’d ever ventured,” Bob said. “And it took weighing back and forth to decide whether it would be worth while. Fortunately, Mother and Dad did not object, and I left. Later at Pomona, I went in for amateur theatricals, and was seen by a motion picture scout. “When I left Nebraska, movies were the thing farthest from my mind, since my interest was chief- ly in the higher branches of music. Had I decided to remain in Nebraska and content myself with whatever music lessons I could get there, Robert Taylor wouldn't be in pictures. Another fellow, Arlington Brugh, would have been studying medicine, having no idea what he’d missed.” : ae A \ | George Burns AS THE best investment of his life, Ray Milland selected a ten-months’ Rosalind Russell says her spending orgy in the capitals of friendship with Charlotte Win- BM furope, which resulted in the loss of ters has been her biggest asset. a $17,000. inheritance, which had sre ; been unexpectedly left to him by a maiden aunt. If he had been wise and conserv- ative, he could have lived for years on this income. But because he wasn’t wise, when his money had all van- ished, Ray was faced with the neces- sity of earning a living. He was in a quandary. Here he was in England with no money to his name, though only a short time before he’d been living like a million- aire. He knew he'd have to find some kind of work, but what could he do? Jobs were none too plentiful. One day someone he had met dur- ing his (Continued on page 100) fn) /
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| OFF THE GUARD BY GEORGE STROCK INTIMATE PICTURES OF YOUR FAVORITES TAKEN WHEN THE CAMERA WAS LOOKING AND THEY WERE'NT ™ Happy birthday to you —Deanna Durbin— on this your fifteenth! a
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Deanna Durbin’s fifteen years old and the party's on! There’s a birthday cake and special entertainment and flowers and Herbert Marshall, who is helping out with a little applause. It's fun to have a birthday, Deanna thinks, as With Mother and Dad. And from the beaming who wouldn’‘t at her age! She’s being con- smiles, we'd say Mr. and Mrs. Durbin are a gratulated with considerable enthusiasm here couple of proud parents! Deanna’s every bit by Virginia Weidler. as tall as Mother.
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Lucky Deanna! It isn’t every fifteen-year-old Producer Joe Pasternak presents Deanna with who can rate a birthday kiss from Bart Mar- a shining new bicycle, so from now on, it's apt shall and from her expression, it looks as to be hard to keep track of her. Notice the doll, though little Miss Durbin knows it. dressed exactly like the star, even to its hat. _ And still the gifts are heaped upon her! The young man beside Deanna is Jackie Moran, her romance on the screen. Could he have sent the lovely flowers? He did indeed. ee ea a Dare WS UME SN VRE opr ob hae TAM Ts 12o0 4 SE
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Sailing, sailing over the bound- ing main with a sturdy little hand to guide her little craft. These are the grounds around the house that Shirley’s jack built! Chin Chin’s with her. Little Miss Temple and her dogs are grand pals. Rowdy and Corky vie for a biscuit.
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Like every millionairess, Shirley has There is practically no outdoor sport ’ her private yacht. Here she is cruis- that doesn’t interest Shirley and ing around her pool. medicine ball is among her favorites. i ) x () : F | ( ° p i 7 y YES, THE LITTLEST STAR IS STILL | | THE BIGGEST MOVIE MONEY-MAKER Better watch out, Gene Then, there’s the saddle. Spunky may not be as big Autry! Shirley’s ready to go When Shirley means busi- as Gene’s Champion, but “Western” any minute now. ness, she goes into detail. Shirley says he’s as fast.
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SS aoe The end of a perfect day, and do Carole’s dogs ache! It’s all part of the plot of “Food For Scandal,” starring Carole, Fernand Gravet and Ralph Bellamy. nae A four o'clock coke. Carole works twelve hours a day, six days a week on this picture, and all for a mere truck load of good old American dollars! Says Bellamy, “You've got to take your rightful place in society as my wife, or else!” Says Lombard, “Or else what?” And the fight is on, and how!
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i i aia tee Tn eee ee] 1 Ay ATOR LAOS SAAL Somebody tells a story and Carole loves it, but Director Mervyn Leroy’s heard it before. “Food For Scandal” is Lombard’s first Warner picture and Leroy’s last. While their stand-ins work, Carole and Bellamy enjoy a bit of rest and a wisecrack or two, judging from their expressions. Miss L. is noted for her sense of humor. Nothing like a cigarette to pep you up for the next scene, de- clares Carole. Bellamy however, is more in favor of the proverbial forty winks.
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Gable meets dog. The lady at the right brought this English Sheep Dog on the “Test Pilot’ set and Clark bought it for Carole Lombard for Christmas. After the formal introduction, it would seem that Mr. Dog had taken a fancy to Mr. Gable. Imagine his enthusiasm when he laid eyes on lovely Lombard! TESTING FOR “TEST PILOT” “We would have to work on a day like this!” Tracy speaking and Clark agrees he‘d much rather be on that hunting trip they've been discussing. Myrna Loy, chic and charming as ever, relaxes with a cup of tea in her dressing room after hours of hard work under hot Klieg lights.
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Myrna Loy and Gable assume their positions for a “take.” Yes, they're married, in the picture, we mean, but they don’t look too happy. Gable and Spencer Tracy, good pals off the set, go in for a bit of he- man talk while electricians adjust the lights for the next scene.
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HERE COMES THE BRIDE AND VIRGINIA’S FILMDOM'S LOVELIEST! Meet Mr. and Mrs. J. Walter Ruben, immediately after the ceremony at the Ruben resi- dence. That’s Virginia Bruce's little daughter, Su- san Ann Gilbert, with them. Immediately “after this pic- ture was snapped, the bride and groom dashed off to dress for the elaborate re- ception held in their honor at Jack Warner's home. Mrs. Warner and Dorothy Di Frasso were co-hostesses with Kay Francis doing her share to help things along. Virginia and her new hus- band had such a grand time at the reception that they didn't leave -until six a.m. Pictured here are Mrs. Bert Taylor, Ruben, Virginia and Bert Taylor. In the back row are Kay Francis, Jack and Mrs. Warner. Unlike most bridal couples, the Rubens didn’t stop with the recep- tion! The next day it was tennis and a big cocktail party at the Alfred Vander- bilt’s and still later that night, dinner at a nightclub!
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A veteran at it. Bing Crosby, who never asks his friends to bet on his own horses, places a couple of bucks on one he hopes will win. Ginger Rogers was so excited she couldn’t eat any lunch so she’s fortifying herself, before things begin, with a big, red apple. More pictures on Page 88 i | Come out from be- _ hind those glasses, Claudette, we know you! Her doctor hub- by, Joel Pressman, is — with her. ;
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Buddy Adler whispers sweet nothings to lovely Anita Louise. The fact that Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy are being co-starred in “Test Pilot” brings to mind the fact that they both got into pictures by playing the same part. On Broadway, several years ago, Tracy played the hard-boiled prisoner in “The Last Mile.” He was signed up for the movies and he’s been doing right well for himself ever since. In a road show engagement of the same play in Los Angeles, Clark Gable played the role Tracy created. You know what happened ito him. At a popular night spot recently, Sonja Henie and partner went into a rumba. In the middle of it Sonja lost her balance and landed flat on what people land on when they land. “I think,” said Sonja, “T stick to my skates—yah?” Yah. According to her studio publicity depart- ment, Ilona Massey, the young lady who scores a hit in “Rosalie,” is most enthusias- tic about her work. She phones the studio every morning at five, says the report, “just to see if everything is all right.” Sample conversation at five a.m. in Culver City: Switchboard Girl—“Good morning—M-G-M.” Ilona Massey—‘Hello. Is everything all right?“ S. G—’Yes.” I, M—”’Thank you. Goodbye.” Studio prop departments can make any- thing they build look real, but we never saw the perfect tribute to their art until one day recently on the set of “Test Pilot.” Clark Gable had just bought an English sheep dog—a gift for Carole Lombard. The hound seemed very happy about. the 56 Marlene Dietrich and Michael Brooke sit this one out together. BY LEO TOWNSEND HERE’S WHAT YOUR FAVORITE STARS ARE DOING AND SAYING THESE DAYS AND NIGHTS Phyllis Brooks and Cary Grant are the town’s Big-Apple experts.
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transaction, jumping all over Mr. G. and bouncing around his dressing-room. But the moment about which we started to tell you came when he spied a prop tree on the set. The perfect tribute! Information Dept.: When Basil Rathbone’s twenty-year-old son, Rodeon, came over from England to spend the holidays with his father, everyone wondered where he ac- quired his unusual name, From a spy, sta- tioned in the Far East for just such an emergency, we learn that Rodeon is Russian. It means First Born. An item in a Hollywood trade paper re- ported that Lili Damita had taken an air- plane trip for an unknown destination, and that Errol Flynn didn’t know and didn’t care. What made the whole thing confus- ing was that Miss Damita read the item the same eyening—while having dinner with her husband! That’s the way those things happen in Hollywood. Hollywood Aftluence Dept.: Grover Jones, the writer, bought six sheep—to keep his imported English sheep dog company. And when he can't sleep Grover can count ‘em! ; Modesty Item: It’s been so long since Claudette Colbert wore a bathing suit in pictures that when she was required to slip into one for a scene in “Bluebeard’s Eighth Wite” she blushed and ordered the set closed. Only audience was Gary Cooper, the camera and the crew. Kay Francis and Delmar Daves do a little fine and fancy tripping. Flynn and Damita defy those divorce rumors with broad, defiant grins. Since Broderick Crawford’s success in “Of Mice and Men” on Broadway, his mother, Helen Broderick, talks of nothing else. So now, on the set of “Radio City Revels,” her name has been removed from her dressing- room door. Courtesy of Jack Oakie, it now reads: “Broderick Crawford’s Ma.” Bob Baker is Universal's top cowboy star. After his first picture or two the studio was so pleased with its new Western hero that f£ was decided to give him act- ing lessons, just to polish up his histrionics. So he went to a studio dramatic coach, spent a month under her tutelage—and em- erged with a Harvard accent! Since then, it must be reported, the dramatic coach has left for other fields, and Mr. B. has been thoroughly untrained. Joan Davis’ four-year-old daughter is fast becoming the most quoted young lady in town. The other day, she ran into Jane Withers. “Say, Joan,” said Jane, “are you really gonna have a part in ‘Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm’ with Shirley Temple?” “But certainly,” said Beverly, looking down her pug nose at Miss Withers. “I’m Shirley Temple's personal comedian!” Recently, on a Palm Springs jaunt with her parents, Shirley learned how to dive for the first time.. Asked how she liked it, Shirley said, “Oh, I like the diving fine. It’s the stomach aches I get tired of.” We hear that Judy Garland has switched her affections. Definitely this time, accord- ing to the following conversation overheard with her former boy friend, Mickey Rooney, at the studio soda counter. The name of Ronald Sinclair came up—which it’s been having a way of doing with MissG. lately. "Well, I think,” said Judy, “that Freddie Bartholomew will be another Ronald Sin- clair before long.” We don’t know what’s behind it, but anyhow, Katharine Hepburn got out on the set of “Bringing up Baby” one morn- ing before Cary Grant. She tacked a big sign on his dressing-room door: ‘‘Grant’s Tomb.” George Brent may be a ladies’ man on the screen, but his luck with the alleged fair sex after working hours hasn't been so good lately. Within a period of two weeks, he is reported to have shelled out $37,000 to two women, and merely because they once wore the title of Mrs. Brent. When Constance Worth divorced George she was awarded $25,000—and two weeks later, they say, the government nicked him for $12,000. Ruth Chatterton’s income tax for 1935, when she was Mrs. Brent. From now on, Mr. Brent is apt to be pretty cagey whenever a gal gets a serious look in her eye. Good Deed Dept.: Janet Gaynor and her mother called on a friend recently and found him suffering with an annoying cold. Next day Gaynor’s chauffeur stopped at the friend’s apartment with a check for $150.00 and a note. Said the note: “The desert calls—this check will be honored only at Palm Springs.” ur “I
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ore SE Se re er RA A ES EEE When Myrna Loy goes to a preview without hubby, its news. A _ publicity man was her escort. Norma Shearer and Louis B. Mayer arrive late for the “Man-Proof” showing. Martha Raye Items: Martha's big love of the moment is—furs. She has just bought a mink We ae mee ae Cobb coat and an ermine wrap to add to. her collection, ‘Ss e's Gail Patrick) take in and her new limousine has fur upholstery. Rea- Wells Fargo” preview. son she will be teamed with Bob Hope in future Pictures instead of Bob Burns is that many fan letters complained that Burns was too old to be Martha‘’s romantic interest. Couple. of months ago we reported an incident about an air commentator who was miffed because Garbo had passed him on the studio lot without speaking. The other day the commentator phoned to say that he hadn’t seen Garbo ih three years, so what about it? We beg the guy’s pardon, wish him a happy St. Val- entine’s day, and hope he gets to see Garbo one of these days. Jeanette MacDonald's tag line on that cold-preventative program is “—and don’t catch cold.” When the singing star was absent from the air for several weeks her sponsors reported she was suffering from ptomaine poisoning. What Jeanette really had was a very bad c-o-I-d. The premiere of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” drew the biggest mink and ermine turnout since “Hell’s Angels.” Everybody in town wanted to see Walt Disney’s first feature- length cartoon, and almost everybody, from the looks of things, got there. The seven dwarfs entertained a gallery of five thou- sand onlookers who were there to watch the stars arriving, but the highlight of the evening came when Donald Duck pulled up in a limousine with a liveried chauffeur. Even the bootblacks go Hollywood out here. A sepian gent who runs a shoe-shine stand on Hollywood Boulevard does his work attired in frock coat, stiff shirt and a plug hat. He calls himself His Royal Highness, the Duke of Hollywood, and you can get his ~ personal attention and a “Coronation shine” all for a dime. (Continued on page 70)
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{ ! GOINGS THE STARS ARE LURED T0 NEW YORK, WHERE THE SHOWS, THE SHOPS, NIGHT-CLUBS AND MUCH GAIETY FILL THEIR DAILY PROGRAMS MOVIE STARS, like the traditional music, go round and round, invariably coming out in New York for a holi- day. Fascinating as Hollywood may be, its cinema citizens strive to spend as much of their free time as possible amid the stimulating influence of Gotham’s gaiety. And a whirl among the bright lights of Broadway, with a visit to the smart night spots, seems to be in order during their brief city sojourn. So, climb aboard and meet your favorites while we take a ride on the big Manhattan merry-go- round ! Besides being the screen’s finest actor, Spencer Tracy gave evidence of a pixie quality when he arrived in -ON IN GOTHAM BY ROBERT McILWAINE MODERN SCREEN town for a holiday recently. Spence was here to have fun and one of the locales he chose for it was the famous Stork Club. It seems that every Sunday eve- ning that popular nightery puts on a movie talent hunt in conjunction with one of the major picture companies. If you look like a picture possibility, you're invited to take a test. If the test “turns out,” you're apt to land a contract and before you know it you’re out in the land of sunshine and soundtracks appearing with Tyrone Power or Sonja Henie. Well, to get on with the story, Mr. Tracy decided that, just for a gag, he’d “try out.’”’ And so, he parted his Unembarrassed by those head- lines which featured her in a fracas at that swanky rendez- vous recently, Grace Moore goes night-clubbing with Hub- by Valentin Parera again. Loretta Young was in town for a vacation and Bill Powell had just returned from Europe, so they got together for the Horse Show at Madison Square Garden. hair in the middle and plastered said wavy locks close to his head. Then he danced around the floor in full view of the enterprising talent scout. To his own amusement and everyone else’s chagrin, he was promptly turned down. Finally Spence walked up to the t.s. and said, “What's the matter with me? Haven't I got beauty?” Let it be here recorded that the bright red rope, which separates the sheep from the goats at the Stork Club, was no redder than the talent scout’s face when he learned that he had turned down Public Thespian No. 1, for a movie test! Speaking of night clubs and em- barrassing moments, Grace Moore came in for her share of both at a recent Sunday visit to El Morocco. Seems that Gracie was entertaining her party by telling them a Donald Duck story related to her by Law- rence Tibbett. The show was on and, in order to be heard above it, Miss M. raised her voice and continued the tale, much to the annoyance of (Continued on page 121) 59
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ex Wells Fargo Nothing is more exciting to the average theatre-goer than a good western. “Wells Fargo” is 4 supet- ith all the trimmings, 4 icture which will be heartily enjoyed by everyone. It’s d the Wells Fargo company, and the progress of the stage coach and U rica from the gold rush days to parallel to it runs the history of Ame the end exciting qa stage coach line The job of supervising it is entrusted to one of the company’s young a and the personal his- n which the plot is strung. Picture tory of his success is the thread 0 i hen the first stage coach rumbles into reaches a San Francisco. After t in for good measure. its work. The film really ends when t i of the hardy young Joel McCrea is an excellent choice for he role i ife, plays her role with charm an hero, and Frances Dee, as his W assurance. Bob Burns does a swell comedy lead as an indolent helper of McCrea’s,- and Pawnee, the Indian, played by Bernard Siegel, prings 2 refreshing brand 0 the film. Directed by Frank Lloyd.—Paramount. / kk Love and Hisses those highly publicized feudists, i 1 which will chell and Ben Bernie, fessions, much to the merri- and there ate enough nice “Wake Up and Messrs. Bernie other's ment of the audience. The music 15 00 thy successor to moments to ma Live.” wy We i | } mi Walter Win continue their pickerings 11 4 pright, fast-moving musica 1 lease everyone who saw their opening siege last season. | This time Simone Simon is the young Jady in the case. Billed as Yvette Yvette, she is 2 French songstress sponsored by both Bernie | and Wine ell. Each of the boys believes he discovere her, and their troubles over her give the picture its story. i i pend more time at each Mile. Simon sings in 4 small but rather effective voice, although she'll nevet cause unemployment among the Grace Moores and the MacDonalds, as her press agents have been hinting. The sc q first-rate POT” ith assurance, and there 1S ‘ck Baldwin. Bert Lahr, as. comedy. by a personable Miss named Ruth Terry and by ample colored trio. Directed by Sidney Lanfield d needs, said everybody who worries about it box-office picture. s, Cheyney and € . . in existence So it 1S, if there_1S such a guy b lowers and for the WO: y » is an entertaining . é thing i which Miss C- 3S temperamentally i Y i above het sur- o well by themselves are Oscar O'Shea *s parents, Leo Gorey, as her ee ‘+1 friend, and Ralph Morgan, as Phillips, 4S a gi 1 »s Alan Curtis, making hi wis debut as the villain, Borzage-— -G-M. reboard om Page 68
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E FODAY’S TAE KEE KKK Tovarich After two yeats on the Broadway stages, “Tovarich”’ comes tO cellent high comedy, admirably performed by pable supporting cast. the screen Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer an In case you don’t know, “Tovarich” is Russian 10 : ke and Grand , Miss Colbert : The Grand Duke has ed for the good of Russia. j er and house maid in the The real comedy of the picture home of 4 begins at this point, after a Slow start, an from there on “To- d definitely one of the better pictures varich” is hilariously of the year. Best performance is Charles Boyer’s, porting players from stealing Melville Cooper is splendid as the panker, ‘=< wife. Anita Louise and Maurice formances, a5 does Basil Of the cast, d by Anatol Litvak. and Isabel Jeans is ¢ +. children, turn in fine pet Rathbone, as the Directe Warner Bros. tc You're icture is too good to miss and part of Part of this P just ordinary- On the credit side of the ledger should | performance of Alice Faye and George urphy who make an en= Ken Murray should be men- i and Frances tioned, too, att Hunt contribute ot and about ¢ of the capa list some of the pl interminably toward the end in spite right in there and pitching for dear old Universat. Song an rs miss fire because of being too frequent, too lavish. ss an idea which saves George comes acro the day for Ken Murray. Ken’s a producer who knows his show is going to ing night due to the fact that the Milk Fund is putting on @ harity ball that night. The handsome waiter suggests that he pose as an oil man who is so struck with rms that he buys the whole t’s good business, put house out fo what it does for Ken’s pocketbook is something else again. here's § gags and guff i se to a good supply of § f even mild suspen see you to the finish. Directed by Irving Cummings. Universal. KKK Rosalie and its Javish “Rosalie,” with all its bright Cole Porter tunes M tinsel and cellophane settings, can't hide the fact that it’s an old- usical. Tt’s a show which dazzles you with ill love it ts scenes fashioned screen mM its opulence and Nelson eddy Fans W e it. . 1) 46 pig—there are le in some of 1 “Rosalie 1 : ill be 1n some O rmth. Nelson Eddy, 1s Bese s ough the Navy i t all in his back, but there is no © Powell, +] as well as the Princess of Rom ith her dancing W in histrionics. Hollywood's of Vassar girls s as though the college had scouts in ¢ New York night clubs. Ray Bolger, prought from Broadway because he is one Of the country’s fnest dancers, isn’t allowed, for some mysterious reason, to dance. However, he makes his presence worth while with his amusing _ Frank Morgan and Edna May Oliver. also furnish much ¢ the comedy de- partment, é Aassey, @ newcomer, adds beauty an a lovely voice: Directed by Ss, Van Dyke—M-G-M. ge 94 Eleanor anza, anakes lineup a couple 0 jews on Pa = 3 GOING TO SEE A PICT URE? READ OUR REVIEW 5 FIRST AND YOULL Pl CK THE RIGHT ONES 61
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MODERN SCREEN GLADYS GETS THERE! I DON’T want to be a meanie,” declared Gladys Swarth- out in no uncertain terms, “simply because the role is not natural to me. But,” she continued, with a look of great determination in her brown eyes, “if standing up for my rights makes me one; well then, I’m it!” The above declaration came apropos of the tomato- throwing sequence in “Romance in the Dark,’’ her latest picture. Besides the vegetable—or is a tomato a fruit 2— smacking the lovely Gladys full on the cheek, the gag smacked more of the custard pie movie era than anything that’s been seen around these picture parts lately. Some who witnessed the routine on the set said it was all done in the spirit of good, clean fun; while others claimed it was in the worst possible taste. Be that as it may, the script called for the scene, and so, it was made. “I was afraid to refuse to do it,’ opined Miss Swarthout, “for fear someone would say that I was temperamental. I knew that it wasn’t right and figured that the surest way to convince the others was to make the scene and let them see it on the screen. Then they’d cut it out. And that is exactly what happened. “One thing I’d like cleared up though, and that is that my husband did the tomato-throwing. That’s the way it was arranged. Since that scene, (Continued on page 119) By MACK HUGHES FILM FAME WAS NOT INSTANTANEOUS WITH LA SWARTHOUT, BUT A GRADUAL, SURE BUILDING-UP PROCESS Gladys and her “best friend and severest critic,” Hubby Frank Chapman, holidaying. When the script called for vegetable-hurling, Gladys insisted Frank toss the tomato.
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skin so smooth—vital looking? Another’s dull and dry, even rough? ‘Topay, we know of one important factor in skin beauty. We have learned that a certain vitamin aids in keeping skin beautiful. The important “skin-vitamin” about which we are learning more and more every day! Aids skin more directly Over four years ago, doctors found that this vitamin, when applied right on the skin, helps it more directly! In cases of wounds and burns, it actually healed skin quicker and better! Pond’s found a way to put this “skin- vitamin” into Pond’s Cold Cream. They tested it—during more than three years! In What makes one woman’s MODERN SCREEN and fresher looking always.” animal tests, skin that had been rough and dry because of “skin-vitamin” deficiency in the diet became smooth and supple again when Pond’s Cold Cream containing “‘skin- vitamin”’ was applied daily. And this im- provement took place in only 3 weeks! Women report benefits Today, women who are using Pond’s Cream—the new Pond’s Cold Cream with “skin-vitamin”’ in it—say that it does make skin smoother; that it makes texture finer; that it gives a livelier, more glowing look! Use this new cream just as before — for your nightly cleansing, for the morning freshening-up, and during the day before make-up. Leave some on overnight and Mas. Cyden Goelet Blonde, petite, with a delicate fair skin. “‘Pond’s Cold Cream with the ‘skin-vitamin’ has done wonders for my skin. Now it’s never rough or dry—seems to keep smoother (ABOVE) Mrs. Goelet at an informal musicale: (LOWER LEFT) In the Museum of Modern Art, looking at the famous “Bird in Flight.” Mrs. Goelet’s home is in New York, where her ap- preciation of music and art is well known to her friends. whenever you have a chance. Pat it in especially where there are little rough places or where your skin seems dull, lifeless. In a few weeks, see if your skin is not smoother, brighter looking! Same jars, same labels, same price Now every jar of Pond’s Cold Cream you buy contains this new cream with “skin-vitamin” in it. You will find it in the same jars, with the same labels, at the same price. EXTRAORDINARY [GOFFER ae? POND AT LOCAL STORES. While they last! With ee purchase of a regular — 3\r-oz. jar of Pond's Cold Cream, get for Fa introduc- I¢extra a large in tory bottle of DANYA, Pond's new-type PreP- aration for hands. Copyright, 1938, Pond’s Extract Company 63
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MODERN SCREEN HOW TO KEEP A Grace Moore's Favorite Recipes HUSBAND HAPPY LANGOSTINOS SALTEADOS A LA CATALANA -OVG 1 pound cooked lobster meat (fresh, % cup Olive oil. canned or frozen) 1 teaspoon minced parsley 1 small onion, minced fine 4 tablespoons tomato sauce 1 clove of garlic, minced fine YZ cup white wine DARLING, THAT WAS A DELICIOUS DINNER — YOU'RE A MARVELOUS Cook ! salt and pepper to taste Remove cooked lobster meat from the shell and claws of lobster. Or if canned | lobster is used pick over carefully to remove any particles of shell. Cook onion and | garlic in olive oil until tender. Add lobster meat and brown slightly. Add parsley. Just before serving add the tomato sauce and wine. Heat thoroughly. Season highly | with salt and pepper. Serve immediately with a side dish of rice. SPREADS For your Hospitality Tray or as Canapés. SPANISH CANAPES: Chopped hard cooked egg and chopped pimento, moistened with mayonnaise and sprinkled with garlic salt. SHRIMP SPREAD: Pound cold cooked shrimps to a paste with as many small chili peppers as your taste dictates. Moisten with a little lemon juice and olive oil. Add salt to taste. SALMON SNACK: To 1 cup flaked canned salmon add % teaspoon onion juice, 14 cup chopped celery, 2 hard cooked eggs, chopped, 2 tablespoons chopped sweet pickles, 2 tablespoons chopped stuffed olives. Blend with 14 cup mayonnaise and season to taste with salt, cayenne and paprika. FLAVORED BUTTERS: To % cup softened butter add 2 teaspoons anchovy paste or add 3 tablespoons chili sauce to ¥% cup softened butter; or add 1% cup minced watercress, 1 teaspoon each lemon and onion juice. Always blend thoroughly. SNACKS STUFFED CELERY . Wash and scrape celery. Wrap in damp towel and place in refrigerator to crisp. Stuff with any of the following: MIXED CHEESE STUFFING: Combine equal proportions of cream cheese and roquefort cheese. Moisten to desired consistency with mayonnaise or cream. Fill Lvsawisebride who has discovered the Franco- celery stalks and sprinkle with paprika. | American way to make left-overs go further PEANUT STUFFING: Mix % cup finely chopped salted peanuts with /4 pound | and taste better. Now you don’t have to worry ea chee Mess with a little cream. Fill celery stalks and sprinkle with finely i chopped sweet gherkins. | ee eee a ee yet Hein eet cee CELERY MANZANA: Beat creamed cottage cheese until very smooth or force TNS CE JES it through a fine sieve. To 1 cup cottage cheese add % cup finely chopped raw apple. | American Spaghetti, and your husband will be Fill celery stalks, sprinkle generously with celery salt. amazed at how you can turn out such a mar- | velous creation ona“‘bride and groom budget.” STUFFED DILLS i That delicious, savory sauce, with its eleven ; : 3 ; 2 | | ingredients, makes Franco-American Spaghetti Scoop out the centers of dill pick Tes) susie an apple corer and cutting in from both "| combine wonderfully with other foods. ends of pickle. Stand pickles up for 15 minutes to drain. ill the hollows in pickles | 4 hee q ra RS with a paste made of cream cheese mixed with chopped ripe or stuffed olives ‘seasoned Paces oe ear fae eosccied ae with celery salt and paprika. Chill and slice crosswise into half inch slices. | nourishment, and since Franco-American usually CONS ee a en nr nr nr nr ss oss 2: ees | only ten cents a can, this means that you are getting a tempting, nourishing dish for less than 3¢ a portion. PIMENTO CHEESE PINWHEELS And how it does save work! It is all ready to heat and serve. Franco-American is no ordinary ready-cooked 2 cups sifted flour yy cup scatltle | spaghetti—taste it once and you'll never be without it. 3 teaspoons baking powder i, an huries, sotiaasd ; ' ; Get some at your grocer’s today! 34 teaspoon salt 2 pimentos, chopped very fine 1% cup lard or vegetable shortening Y% cup grated cheese e Franco -American Sift flour, measure. Add baking powder and salt. Sift again. Cut lard or vegetable shortening into flour mixture with pastry blender or two knives. Add milk to form a SPAGHETTI stiff dough. Roll out on lightly floured board. Spread with one half of the softened | i butter. Fold both ends over to the middle then fold in half again. Roll out into a | { Made by the Makers of Campbell’s Soups rectangular shaped piece one quarter inch thick and approximately four inches wide. Spread with remaining butter, sprinkle with chopped pimento and grated cheese. With the long side of the rectangle towards you, roll up into a long thin candle-shaped cylinder. Cut crosswise into % inch slices. Place these small “pinwheels” on lightly greased baking tin and bake in hot oven. (450° F.) to a golden brown (about 12 minutes.) Serve hot. MAY | SEND YOU OUR FREE RECIPE BOOK 2 SEND THE COUPON, TOCINOS DEL CIELO | (Little Pigs of Heaven) } (CTA, = i, 4 cup sugar yolks of 6 eggs g \ BA aise 4 cup water 2 (Sc) bars of sweet chocolate : ee ee ee ee ee eee = 6 tablespoons boiling water . ‘THE FRANCO-AMERICAN FooD Company, Dept. 63. Boil sugar and %4 cup water until the syrup will form a small thread when Camden, New Jersey. Please send me your free reciPe | 4 O5ped from the tip of a spoon. Remove from heat, cool slightly. Beat yolks with } f rotary beater until thick and lemon colored. Add cooled sugar mixture slowly to Name (print) = — beaten yolks, stirring constantly. Pour mixture into 6 very small buttered molds (or Ace e's eater muffin cups). Place molds in a pan, surround with boiling water and simmer gently over low heat until mixture sets. Cool. Dissolve the chocolate candy in the 6 table- Sy State spoons boiling water. Cool. Pour sauce over each “Little Pig of Heaven”.
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— - "GIVE IN" MIDOL paid "G0 ON! DON’T live in dated dread of periodic functional pain, or let the calendar regu- late your activities. For doctors have dis- covered that severe or prolonged pain at such times is not natural to most women. And unless you have some organic dis- order requiring a physician’s or surgeon’s attention, Midol in all probability can make your days of menstruation as care- free as any other. Midol is offered for this sole purpose. It acts quickly. In all but unusual instan- ces it brings definite relief. Two tablets should see you through your worst day. So, get Midol and “carry on”. Druggists have it on the counter. Handy purse-size tin, 50¢—and well worth it when periodic suffering must be relieved. ON THE COUNTER AT DRUGSTORES 66 MODERN SCREEN ae rs 1. Shirley Temple 3. Robert Taylor 5. William Powell 7. ‘Astaire-Rogers = 2. Clark Gable 4, Bing Gros . 10. Myrna Loy The Box-Office Darlings of 1937 2 S a
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INMIOIDIEFRING ES CREE Ni ie rc WELL, BARBARA, ITS NICE TO BE SUCCESSFUL AT ANYTHING YOU UNDERTAKE — HOME LIFE OR A CAREER THATS WHY ITS FOOLISH FOR ANY GIRL TO RISK LOSING HER GOOD LOOKS SCREEN STARS REMOVE COSMETICS WITH LUX TOILET SOAP BECAUSE THEY DARENT RISK COSMETIC SKIN. EVERY GIRL SHOULO GUARD AGAINST IT I always use Lux Toilet Soap,’’ says this charming screen star, and tells you why. It’s when pores are choked that Cosmetic Skin develops— dullness, tiny blemishes, enlarged pores. Lux Toilet Soap’s ACTIVE lather removes dust, dirt, stale cosmetics thoroughly from the pores. Keeps skin smooth, soft, appealing! Use cosmetics all you like! But use Lux Toilet Soap before you renew make-up—ALWAYS before you go to bed. Screen Stars Use Lux Toilet Soap 67 9 out of 10
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MODERN SCREEN | ad MOVIE SCOREBOAR H General H General Picture and Producer Rating, Picture and Producer Rating Adventure’s End (Universa!)......... eistelotaerevere Qa Madam X (M-G-M)....... -- Ak Adventurous Blonde (Warners)...........+2-+% Wh Make a Wish (RKO)........ Wa Alcatraz Island (Warners)..............00008 Wok *Mama Runs Wild (Republic). - 1* i Baba Goes to Town (20th Century-Fox)...... 3 *Mannequin (M-G-M)........ - 3* All Over Town (Republic).................05 hak *Man-Proof (M-G-M).... - Qe Annapolis Salute (RKO).........-....-020008 lk Married Before Breakfast (M-G-M). Wak Another Dawn (Warners)..........2....e2005 Whk Marry the Girl (Warners) We Artists and Models (Paramount).............. 3k Mayerling (Nero)......... . 4* Ave Maria (UFA).................00eceeees 3 Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (Universal) - The Awful Truth (Columbia).................. A* Missing Witnesses (Warners)........ Q*& Back in Circulation (Warners).............--.- bd Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (Warners). . 0 Sys Bad Guy (M-G-M)..........-2..0.eeceee eens 2% Murder in Greenwich Village (Columbia) -1* | The Barrier (Paramount)..................000% 1* Murder on Diamond Row (London Films) 2b * f Beg, Borrow or Steal (M-G-M)..............-- Wha *& Music for Madame (RKO)............ . @2* i Behind the Mike (Universa!)................-- VWak My Dear Miss Aldrich (M-G-M)..-.- Q& i Between Two Women (M-G-M)............-00 lk Navy Blue and Gold (M-G-M)...... 3 i! Big City (M-G-M)...........--. cece cece eeeee Qk New Faces of 1937 (RKO)............ 3k j Big Town Girl (20th Century-Fox).............. Q6 Night Club Scandal (Paramount)........ 2 i Blonde Trouble (Paramount)................+- 2Mhk Non-Stop New York (GB)............... +--+ 2% | Behind Prison Bars (Monogram)..............-- Qe Nothing Sacred (Selznick-International)........ 3 i Blossoms on Broadway (Paramount)...........- 1* One Mile from Heaven (20th Century-Fox)...... 1h* Born Reckless (20th Century-Fox).............. lQ* On Again—Off Again (RKO)..............-+ 1* j Boots and Saddles (Republic).................. Mh* 100 Men and a Girl (Universal)................ 4A* H Boss of Lonely Valley (Universal).............. 26 On Such a Night (Paramount)................ 1*& ¥ Breakfast for Two (RKO)......--.--.-eeseee eee 2% Ourselves Alone (GB)............2ceeeeseee Wyk ] A Bride for Henry (Monogram).............--- 1* Over the Goal (Warners)..............-+202% 1* | The Bride Wore Red (M-G-M).............--. 1% Paid to Dance (Columbia).................--- 1* b Broadway Melody of 1938 (M-G-M).......... 3*& Partners in Crime (Paramount)..............-- 1* } Bulldog Drummond at Bay (Republic).......... 1%2% The Perfect Specimen (Warners)..........-.-- 3 ii Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (Paramount).... 1% Prescription For Romance (Universal)............ 1k it Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (Paramount)...... Wh Portia on Trial (Republic)..............+222+. 3 Ht Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (20th Century-Fox). 2 Prisoner of Zenda (Selznick-International)...... 4 i : Charlie Chan on Broadway (20th Century-Fox).. 2% Reported Missing (Universal)............---- lk ‘ *Checkers (20th Century-Fox)........+.-0+.+00+ 2 Renfrew of the Royal Mounted (Grand National) 25 i f Confession (Warners)..........00.ee eee cece 2 Rosalie (M-G-M).............-..220---0e- 3 H a i ! Conquest (M-G-M).......... divisievelelabereerenee 4A* The Road Back (Universal)................+-+- 3% | ! Counsel for Crime (Columbia).................. 2% Roaring Timber (Columbia)..............-.-. lk Hi Courage of the West (Universal)............... 1%x San Quentin (Warners)...........0..0.0ee0ee Wh *& | Criminals of the Air (Columbia)................ 2% Saturday's Heroes (RKO)..............+--2-- Mk 1 j | Crusade Against Rackets (Principal)...........- Qa Second Honeymoon (20th Century-Fox)........ Qk ! ; A Dansel in Distress (RKO)............-..--. 3% Sea Racketeers (Republic)............-++22-0% hk | i . Dance, Charlie, Dance (Warners)............-- Qk Shadows of the Orient (Monogram)........-.-- 1x ! a ; Danger—Love at Work (20th Century-Fox)...... 1* She Asked for It (Paramount)...............- Qk 1 - Dangerously Yours (20th Century-Fox).......... 1* The Sheik Steps Out (Republic)...............- Qk il Danger Patrol (RKO)..............02ceeeeeee Qk Sh! The Octopus (Warners)..........-------- lI Dark Journey, (isited ee lrepsvets 8 aFvavere serene 25 an shes ee Bea le 255 566 ; Ress es + ° aug ter o ang ai Gramount)....-..-...6.8 2, now ite and the wari isney Jeet etete ies You Can, if you use hight-proof, powder! Dead End (Samuel Goldwyn)..............-. 4% Small Town Boy (Grand National)............ l*& See Double or Nothing (Paramount)................ 2% Some Blondes Are Dangerous (Universal)........ 1* @ You can now get powder that is light- proof. Denblem weddings ae ooa000c faa roe Be Semetling to es About (Grand Neen eee i i ‘Every Day's oliday (Paramount).......... ophie Lang Goes Wes ‘cramount).......... fp, Luxor face powder modifies the light rays that Escape by Night (Republic)................-- 1¥2% Souls at Sea (Paramount)..........-.20++00-- 3k powder particles ordinarily reflect. It solves the | Egb-Tide (Paramount).............cccceeeeek, 3% Stage Door (RKO): 4k || J Lady, Behave! (Republic).................... Q* Vogues of 1938 (Walter Wanger)..........--- 3x a The Lady Escapes (20th Century-Fox).......... 112% Wee Willie Winkie (20th Century-Fox)....-..... Ak 4 f *The Lady Fights Back (Universal)............-. 1% Wells Fargo (Paramount)............-.2-eeee- 3 q Lancer Spy (20th Century-Fox)................ 2 West of Shanghai (Warners)..........--...--- 1k Ik The Last Gangster (M-G-M)...........--.---> 3% The Westland Case (Universal)............---- Ik t Life Begins in College (20th Century-Fox)........ 2% White Bondage (Warners).............20eeee: 1* { Live, Love and Learn (M-G-M)............-- 3% Wife, Doctor and Nurse (20th Century-Fox)...... Wak ; Look Out, Mr. Moto (20th Century-Fox)........ 1* Wild and Woolly (20th Century-Fox)........-. lk 1g The Life of Emile Zola (Warnets)..........--.. 4* = Wild Money (Paramount)..........-.-+es00+ 1* ! The Life of the Party (RKO).......-.--2--2.-555 1% = Wine, Women and Horses (Warners).....----- 1* | : Lost Horizon (Columbia).....--......------- AKER isc1 Girl (RKO) eee anes 3 i THIS is what happens SEE the effect of powder Love and Hisses (20th Century-Fox)..........-. 3* ThelWronglRoad (Republic) seeaeueneeseneeee Wy / with make-upthatre- that is light-proof and | Love Is on the Air (Warners).......... BOR ene ESN Chose (20ihiGentury! Foc) eee ox f flects every ray of light. | modifies the light rays. Love Takes sant KGrand) National). . Bons aya Gulys¥cune Once (CG: Nee a | i SS SS See a res GH Mee ep ono8 See on eee Yay You Can’t Have Everything (20th Century-Fox).... 3% i} LUXOR, Ltd., Chicago. MM-3-88 Please send trial box of Luxor light-proof pow denice a Decca Turn to our Scoreboard when you're in doubt about what movie to see. It’s a valu- O Flesh O Rachel O Rose Rachel O Rachel No.2 able guide in choosing entertainment. Instead of giving the individual ratings of : Modern Screen and authoritative newspaper movie critics all over the country, we N77 2 have struck an average of their ratings. You'll find this OW EZage under General : Rating, beside each picture. 4yk, very good; 34k. good: 2X, fair: bg poor. Asterisk ! OUI ee a oi 2 SERS SSSR SES SH SSOSESOSS denotes that only Modern Screen ratings are given on films not reviewed by news- | | Cie te? ae eS State_____ Mie Bet papers as we go to press. | . i 68 ' f
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MODERN SCREEN eae words of a popular song. But there’s truth in them. In his heart, every man idealizes the woman he loves. He likes to think of her as sweetly wholesome, fragrant, clean the way flowers are clean. Much of the glamour that surrounds the loved woman in her man’s eyes, springs from the complete freshness and utter exquisiteness of her person. Keep yourself whole- somely, sweetly clean! Your hair, and skin, your teeth—of course you care for You must surely read these six reasons why “Lysol” is recommended for your intimate hygiene—to give you assurance of intimate cleanliness. surface tension, and thus vir- tually search out germs. 1—Non-Caustic .. . “Lysol”, in the proper dilution, is gentle. It contains no harmful free : : 4—Economy... “Lysol”, be- caustic alkali. cause it is concentrated, costs only about one cent an appli- cation in the proper dilution for Feminine Hygiene. 5—Odor ... The cleanly odor of “Lysol” disappears after use. 6—Stability. . . “Lysol” keeps its full strength no matter how long it is kept uncorked. 2—Effectiveness ... “Lysol” is a powerful germicide, active under practical conditions ... effective in the presence of or- ganic matter (such as dirt, mucus, serum, etc.). 3—Penetration .. . “Lysol” so- lutions spread because of low TUNE IN on Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe.every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 4:45 P. M., E.S.T., Columbia Network. For your cleansing them faithfully. But are you attending to that more intimate phase of cleanliness, that of “Feminine Hygiene”? Truly nice women practice Feminine Hygiene regularly, as a habit of personal grooming. Do you? It will help to give you that poise, that swreness of yourself, that is a part of charm. The practice of intimate Feminine Hygiene is so simple and so easy. As an effective cleansing douche we recom- mend “Lysol” in the proper dilution with water. “Lysol” cleanses and deodorizes gently but thoroughly. Disinfectant What Every Woman Should Know... POOR Sooo ee EE OE DEH ESOL EEE O EEE ETH EESEO ESOS OEE HEEEO HEED OSES EE ESES douche ‘ SEND THIS COUPON FOR “LYSOL” BOOKLET LEHN & FINK Products Corp., Dept. 3 M.S. Bloomfield, N. J., U.S. A. Send me your free booklet «Lysol vs. Germs’? which tells the many uses of ‘*Lysol”’. Name—_ ——— ee eS Street =— = a = (Cf, ——— ee ee 3 LO ————— Copyright 1988 by Lehn & Fink Products "Corp. COOP O HHO O EOE TESTE EOEEEE EO EETEEEE ETOH OE EH SETS HT EEE ESE OEEOETESEEES Cee eseosecoesecssscseessesssssess Pree e eee ESEOEEOOCOOOOO See eee eee eT yy 69
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a cea Feverish? Grippy? SEE DOCTOR AT ONCE MENINGITIS WARNING! DON’T NEGLECT A COLD! Cold germs may go UP into the sinuses or DOWN into the bronchials and lungs and lead to a serious illness. If fe- verish or grippy, see doctor at once! FOR “RAW” THROAT USE THIS “FIRST AID Doctors warn that colds can lead to seri- ous illness—to ear and sinus infection, and even pneumonia. So don’t take a chance. Treat the symptoms of a coming cold effectively and without delay! If you feel feverish or grippy see your doctor at once! TAKE THIS SIMPLE PRECAUTION Forthe most effective “first aid,” kill the cold germs that cause raw, dry throat. At the first sign ofaraw throat cold, gargle with Zonite. Zonite does 3 jobs for you: (1) Cleanses mucous membranes. (2) In- creases normal flow of curative, health-restoring body fluids. (3) Kills cold germs presentinthe throat as soon as it comes in actual contact with them. In atest to find out the germ-killing powers of the nine most popular, non-poisonous antiseptics on the market, Zonite proved to be actually 9.3 times more active (by standard Jaboratory tests) than the next best antiseptic compared! This means economy because you use Zonite diluted! Zonite goes far- ther—saves you money. Use 1 teaspoon of Zonite to one-half glass of water. Gargle every 2 hours. Zonite tastes like the medi- cine it really is. Soon your throat feels better. DON’T DELAY— BE PREPARED Get Zonite at your druggist now. And at the first sign of rawness in your throat, start gargling at once. But remember: If you are feverish, consult your doctor! Don’t risk a serious illness. ZONITE 1S 9.3 TIMES MORE ACTIVE THAN ANY OTHER POPULAR non-poisonous ANTISEPTIC by — standard laboratory tests GARGLE WITH ZONITE AT FIRST SIGN OF A COLD! Gargle with Zonite MODERN SCREEN Joan Davis, Alice Faye and Marjorie Weaver take a stroll on the lot between scenes for their picture, “Sally, Irene and Mary.” G00D NEWS (Continued from page 58) A studio call sheet, the list of characters and objects needed for the day’s shooting schedule, is sometimes prosaic, sometimes amazing. We like the one we found on the set of Columbia’s ‘The Night Before.” Here’s the list: 9 Santa Clauses 1 Billygoat with beard and appetite for tin cans 1 New York policeman (must have flat feet) 2. African lions that roar easily 1 pack bubble chewing gum for Lionel Stander 1 Ostrich egg (must be fresh) 2 Talking parrots (must not curse) Things must be very happy indeed at the home of the Richard Powells, of this city. The other night, for instance, at the “Hollywood Hotel” preview, the studio had a microphone set up in the lobby to allow the stars to tell the public what a wonderful picture they knew it was going to be. When Joan Blondell’s turn came, she stepped up to the mike and said: “Ii Dick’s in it, I know it’s good.” One of the highlights of “Man-Proof” is Myrna Loy’s dignified drunk scene. Miss L., who has lost Walter Pidgeon to Rosalind Russell, plays second fiddle at the wedding in the role of bridesmaid. When the recep- tion gets under way so does Myrna, and she winds up going to Miss Russell's room to congratulate her. Polite with champagne. she says, “You deserve him, dear. You're a very pretty girl.” Then, as she weaves out of the room, she adds, “And so am I!” In “Jezebel,” Bette Davis, playing a southern belle of the 90’s, wears the cus- tomary hoop skirts in most of her scenes. We saw her on the set the other day, and talked to her between scenes. Know what she was wearing under them hoops? Slacks ! “100 Men and a Girl” may be a smash hit in America, but in Austria it’s much more than that. Because the government con- siders it a work of art, all picture exhibitors who play it are given a substantial reduc- tion in taxes! The rumors. that Garbo’s real romance is director Willie Wyler still float around town, and Wyler is the most surprised guy in Hollywood, because he’s never met his alleged lady love. It all started as a gag, when a columnist asked Wyler if he had any new romances. “I’ve been seeing a lot of Garbo lately,’ said Mr. W. The columnist took his word for it, and you know the rest. That’s Hollywood! (Continued on page 105)
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MODERN SCREEN AVING PENNIES has always been one of this young star’s pet hobbies. But once it was a grim necessity. “T couldn’t always afford lots of stockings and undies,” she says, ‘“‘so I took the best possible care of them. I washed them in Lux every night.” Of course, pennies don’t worry her now, but she still insists on having her washables cared for with Lux. “I get so fond of my Off the set, Miss Lamour adores soft sweaters, fresh- ly Luxed. Don't miss see- ing her in Paramount's .. ‘Her Jungle Love.” Specified in leading Hollywood Studios ‘*Lux has always saved me a lot on stockings,’ says Miss Lamour. ‘‘I hard- ly ever get runs!’’ Lux saves the elas- ticity of silk. Then it can stand sudden strains better—isn’t so apt to run, is Dorothy Lamour’s pet hobby— that’s just one reason she likes Lux things, I can’t bear to see them wear out,” she explains. Every girl can share Miss Lamour’s simple Lux secret. Lux has no harmful alkali to fade colors. And with Lux there’s no cake-soap rubbing toinjure fibers. Safe in water, safe in Lux! AT PARAMOUNT STUDIOS, Lux is spec- ified for washing everything safe in water alone. “It saves on cleaning, ” cuts down replacement costs,” says Frank Richardson, wardrobe director. “Dottie” is also heard ona nationwide radio program each week. In her leisure (?) time this Paramount star likes to relax—in Luxables.
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AT FIRST SIGHT! e That’s 4 out of 5 women—“ Love at First Sight”— when they try Italian Balm. what happens to They continue using this famous skin softener in preference to anything they’ve ever used before. It’s a lasting attraction. And little wonder. Italian Balm has a genu- ine right to a warm place in a woman’s heart. It’s a very INexpensive skin protector to use— yet tests of the largest selling lotions prove that Italian Balm contains the MOST expensive in- gredients of any other of these popular brands. Try Italian Balm yourself—as a protection against chapping and dry, coarse skin texture. See how quickly it softens and smooths your skin. You'll feel the differ- ence in ONE MINUTE after applying it. Test Italian Balm before you buy it. Send for FREE Vanity Bottle. Mail coupon today. Italian Bale Famous for Skin Protection and Economy SOO) CAMPANA SALES CO. 213 Lincolnway, Batavia, Ilinois Gentlemen: I have never tried Italian Balm. Please send me VANITY Bottle FREE and postpaid. Nene Se = Ss Address___ City i. State In Canada, Campana, Lid., MG-218 Caledonia Road, Toronto aueceueesenes ro) 12 MODERN SCREEN UR PUZZLE PAGE ee | ial Ba mE | Re Sea) SL Puzzle Solution on Page 118 | A ( R ) 5 . 59. se “Accidents Will Happede ; 60. Three-toed sloth | | . | 1. French landscape-painter 61. Airline popular with stars | | | { 107 6. Star of this puzzle and “Buccaneer” 65. Our seres Imesce SS oo ee 13. He’s married to Florence Eldridge Sacred” 19; “66 sets the Clouds” 65. Tease 19. The “Adventurous Blonde” 68. Guide 20. Feeble-minded 69. Farce: var. 21. Send back 70. Male star of ‘Stand-In” 23. Prima donna in “I'll Take Ro- 75. Humorous film Screen part Small river duck Talleyrand in “Conquest” mance” 79. 24. The receptionist in ‘Rebecca of 82. Sunnybrook Farm” 83. 25. Metallic substance 84. Engrave 26. “The Adventures of - - - Sawyer” 88. “Topper’s” butler 28. “The - - - of Indiscretion” 89. Serf 29. Ralph - - - lamy 90. “- - - - the Missus” 30. “Hallelujah, I’m a - - -” 91. Uncommon 31. Marjorie - - - - 92. White metal 33. Midday 93. Joe in “Swing Your Lady” 35. Maureen O’Sullivan’s role in 94. Viper “David Copperfield” 96. Don in “You’re a Sweetheart” 37. - - - - Ann Borg 98. Hindu religious teacher 38. Enough : poet 99. Made egg-shaped 39. Imitated 101. Remove oil from 40. Nana in “The Life of Emile Zola” 103. Birthplace of star pictured 41. Paradise 105. Feasted 42. Ether compounds 106. Male star of ‘Expensive Hus- 44. Western star, Bob - - - - - - bands” 46. Nimble 108. Francis Lederer’s wife 49, Eat 109. Belonging to Mr. Astaire 53. Star of “Angel” 110. Bulb O’Connor in “Bank Alarm” 56. “First Lady’s” husband 111. Peter in “Broadway Melody of 58. LeGallienne’s first name 1938”
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32. 100. 101. 102. 104. 106. 107. DOWN Our star’s love in ‘Nothing Sacred” Star of “Divorce of Lady X” Hero of “Shanghai Deadline” Eges Canvas shelter “Ebb-Tide’s” leading lady : init. . Torn cloth . Commissions . Haul . Retreats . Island; Fr. . Star who play “Rembrandt”: init. . Handle roughly . Heroine of “There Goes the Groom” . Marked with ridges _ Col. Ferris in “Gold Is Where You Find It” .--ccce Bing ._ Male star of “Knight Without Armor” . Bonnie of “The Jones Family” . Be melancholy . Kind of French cream cheese Reside . Over: poet Scrap of refuse . Changes direction . Witness a picture . Mrs. Bing Crosby . Concluding words Lively French dance . Angry . Weasel-like animal . Stanley in “Thrill of a Lifetime’’ . Growing out . Judy in “Some Blondes Are Dan- gerous”’ . Unit of energy . Charles Boyer’s wife . Femme star of “Lancer Spy” . Lily in “Live, Love and Learn” . Wrath . Rural Free Delivery: abbr. . Last third of M-G-M . Place occupied by another . For fear that . King Richard in ‘‘Adventures of Robin Hood” . Tarzan’s new mate . Compose . Be indebted to . Jeeters in “You're a Sweetheart” foe - ee Madame” . Director of “Lancer Spy” . The Queen in “Rosalie” . Woolly . Nocturnal mammals . Wince . On this . Belonging to Mr. Sparks . Cultivated “ ---- the Woman” Fuzzy in “Hollywood Hotel” Daisy in “True Confession” “~~ Them Live” Famous Negro bandleader The panther woman: init. Star of ‘Heidi’: init. MODERN SCREEN erie as Toners PLE S sage coset he rte & ar AMERICAN) MEDICAL : ASS. i AS, * Bureau AUCE Pei ocean cr 4 ; ‘ MAT WhosT ay OF She looks inquiringly at the world, and the world looks back the same way. For Patricia is one of the ba- bies in Westfield, N. J., whose pic- tures and health records are part of a recent study of infant nutrition. Patricia has been having Clapp’s Baby Cereal for 4 weeks; she’ll soon get Clapp’s Strained Vegetables. Laughing out loud to see dessert coming—for now Patricia gets Clapp’s Strained Fruits, too. Like all Clapp’s Strained Foods, these fruits have the texture doctors ad- vise—smooth, finely strained, but not too liquid. Patricia has gained 2 pounds, 5 ounces in 2 months; she can creep, and sit up like a little major. 2 al MO morte. Plentiful vitamins and minerals in her pressure-cooked Clapp’s Foods are what make Patricia strong as well as chubby. She’s 30 inches tall, weighs 18 pounds, 12 ounces. Like every Clapp-fed baby in the test, Patricia has made steady, uninter- rupted progress. And she likes her vegetables. Clapp’s flavors are bet- ter—just taste and see! 16 Varieties of Clapp’s Strained Baby Foods— Baby Soup Strained or Unstrained, Vegetable Soup, Beef Broth, Liver Soup; Apricots, Prunes, Apple Sauce; Tomatoes, Asparagus, Peas, Spin- ach, Beets, Carrots, Green Beans; Baby Cereal. Free Booklet! Photographs and records of 12 Clapp-fed babies —and valuable feeding in- formation. Write to Harold H. Clapp, Inc., Dept. QSM, 777 Mount Read Blvd., Rochester, N. Y. NEW!...for older babies Clapp’s Chopped Foods Doctors asked for them... even-textured foods with all the advantages of Clapp’s Strained Foods, but more coarsely divided. At your dealers’ now—remember them when your baby outgrows Clapp’s Strained Foods. 73
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Co. 74 MODERN SCREEN GETTING A GLIMPSE OF GARY i a eee (Continued from page 29) found extra pickings too lean to live on. “Can I help you, Mr. Cooper?” he asked Gary one day, as the actor was leaving his dressing room for the set. Cooper eyed him. “Well, I don’t know. Maybe. Come on out.” Cracker proved himself an asset. It wasn't so much that he helped Cooper to dress, ran errands, anticipated his needs. It was his eager willingness to please, the hundred ways in which he made himself useful without being asked, not to Cooper alone but to everyone on the set. Above all, he was a nice person to have around, with a drollery that brought an answering light to Cooper’s eye. Cooper’s an outstanding example of the fallacy of the statement that, to get any- where in Hollywood, you must play poli- tics. He doesn’t know how. There is no guile in him. He remains astonished by his own success, and believes it to be the literal truth that “people pushed me into the movies when I was broke, and kept pushing me right along till they’d made a star out of me. I had little to do with it.’ He has never had a studio squabble over billing, he has never walked out be- cause of story or director trouble. He doesn’t read notices, he hopes “it will be a pretty good picture,” and that’s as far as hell go. He values his own talents too modestly to harbor a thought of profes- sional jealousy. “He worried more over my part in ‘Souls at Sea’ than over his own,” says George Raft, whose usually fluent tongue breaks down when he tries to express his ad- miration for Cooper. ‘‘Look, how’ll I say it? You meet a lot of swell people in this business. Well, Coop’s the swellest. See that?” He pointed to where Cooper’s name was scribbled on a rafter of the dressing- room that had once belonged to him, and was now Raft’s. “I’m goin’ to have it burned in. That way I can always get a kick out of lookin’ at it.” A staunch friendship grew up between the two during the making of ‘Souls at Sea.” Backgrounds totally different proved no barrier. Each found in the other an absence of sham and pose, a basic reality, strong enough to build friendship on. The Cooper home was burglarized one night. A few days later Raft was visiting Cooper on the “Marco Polo” set. “Did they take much?” he asked. “So-so. Nothing we cared a lot about. Except that tie-clip you gave me, George. I miss that. It used to hold the tie so well.” “Till get you another.” They both knew Coop could buy himself a dozen clips that would hold his tie equally well. But the chances are, Raft has rarely felt a deeper satisfaction than he got from the knowl- edge that it was his tie-clip Cooper wanted to use. Raft and Henry Hathaway, the director, were seated at lunch one day when Coop- er joined him. The news that there was to be a baby in the family had broken that morning. “So you’re going to be a papa,” Raft greeted him. But let him tell it. 5 “He put his hand up, the way he does, all over his face and down. Then he said, ‘Don’t believe all you see in the papers.’ “He was shy, tellin’ us about the baby. Can you imagine? I said, ‘We want to give him the first present, Hathaway and I.’ “Then he looks up and grins. ‘Suppose it’s not a him,’ he says, and that’s how he lets us know it’s true.” His reactions to the baby’s birth were those of any prospective father. He paced the hospital corridor, he jumped at every sound, he cast imploring glances at nurses and doctors; when a door opened, he stopped white-faced in his tracks; when they shook their heads, “Not yet,” he resumed his pacing; when a smiling nurse finally emerged with the news, “It’s a girl and everything’s fine,” he collapsed into a chair and sat there shaking. OW that the tension is over, he’s Jt reverted to type, regained control of his emotions. He doesn’t tell you how much the baby weighs, how pretty she is, whom she looks like. But he can’t control the smile in his eyes when she’s mentioned. His next picture, now that “Marco Polo” Ginger Rogers doesn't believe inidleness. She knits between scenes of ‘'Hav- ing Wonderful Timae, - cine chats with Lela, her mother, and Cousin Phyllis Fraser.
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Meet Penny Singleton. You used to know her as Dorothy McNulty, but after “Swing Your Lady,” she'll be slated for bigger and better things, and so she changed her name! is finished, is a comedy with Claudette Colbert, called “Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife” and directed by Lubitsch. His emergence as a comedian is erroneously dated from “Mr. Deeds.” It was Lubitsch who un- covered his gift for humor in “Design for Living,’ and he takes his cigar from his mouth to smile over the memory. “Zey all sought I am crazy. Articles are written about zis terrible miscasting. ‘Why do you do it?’ zey yell at me. [ tell you why. Before, I have not seen Cooper in any part where he is exactly a comedian, but I have noticed in many straight parts zat once in a while zere comes a comedy flash—in sometimes a look, in sometimes a funny gesture, and I know zat in Cooper zere hides a comedian. I am positive. I say to him: ‘Gahry, it is a new kind of part, but a cinch for you if you only want to be yourself. Gahry jumps _ right away, he doesn’t hesitate. ‘O.K.,’ he said. “Well, Gahry was himself. It was not zat he acquired a comedy technique, no. He played wis a humor which came from wizzin. His comedy is humor—not to make faces and srow custard pies, but to put his own feeling into ze part. “T will say, here is ze great sing about Cooper as well in life as in work—zere is nossing of ze obvious and ze cheap side of an actor in him, nossing of ze showoff. He is ze greatest contrast to what you might call a ham. Zere is a certain heart-simplicity, which is in himself and which comes out on ze screen. He is an actor by instinct, and instinct is always stronger zan technique. Technique you may aamire, but you don’t love it. And zey all love Gahry, hein?” Cooper goes out of his way to avoid fanfare. He shuns gatherings where cameras are likely to pop. With rare exceptions. One of them occurred when a script clerk, who had worked on several of his pictures, died. Her husband worked on the Paramount lot, too, in the transpor- tation department. On the day of her burial Cooper called Henry Hathaway. “Are you going to the funeral? All right, I'll see you there.” “Don’t you want me to call for you?” Hathaway asked, knowing his _ friend’s aversion to public appearances and think- ing to lend him moral support. “No. Ill see you there.” It wasn’t till the services were ended that Hathaway understood.- Five of those who carried the girl to her long rest were drivers in the Paramount transportation department. The sixth was Gary Cooper. MODERN SCREEN / ome [VE GOT A DATE! fe» SO I'M BATHING WITH FRAGRANT CASHMERE BOUQUET | SOAP...ITS THE |= LOVELIER WAY TO AVOID , OFFENDING! HERES HOW CASHMERE BOUQUET SOAP WORKS...ITS RICH, DEEP—CLEANSING LATHER REMOVES EVERY TRACE OF BODY ODOR. AND THEN, LONG AFTER YOUR BATH, ITS LINGERING PERFUME CLINGS TO YOUR SKIN! TO BE ALLURING, A GIRL JUST MUST KEEP FRAGRANTLY DAINTY ! THATS WHY | BATHE WITH CASHMERE BOUQUET, THE LOVELY PERFUMED SOAP! MARVELOUS FOR COMPLEXIONS, TOO! You'll want to use this pure, creamy- white soap for both face and bath. Cashmere Bouquet’s lather is so gentle and caressing. Yet it removes every trace of dirt and cosmetics, leaving your skin clearer, softer... more radiant and alluring! ALL EVENING LONG, THIS LOVELY PERFUME LINGERS... MAKES YOU FEEL SO SURE OF DAINTINESS ! 1 ee) (Cashmere NOW | SEE WHY oie CASHMERE BOUQUET i p= ouguer 1S THE LOVELIER Y RG WAY TO AVOID ig OFFENDING ! now onty 1O#¢ at drug, department, ten-cent stores TO KEEP FRAGRANTLY DAINTY—BATHE WITH PERFUMED CASHMERE BOUQUET SOAP 75
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OU LL miss a lot in life if you stay in the rut of old habits and never risk a FRESH start. Take your cigarette, for instance. If your present brand is often dry or soggy, don’t stay “spliced”? to that stale number just because you're used to it. Make a fresh start by swinging over to FRESH, Double-Mellow Old Golds... the cigarette that’s tops in tobacco quality ... brought to you in the pink of smok- ing condition by Old Gold’s weather- tight, double Cellophane package. That extra jacket of Cellophane brings you Old Gold’s prize crop tobaccos with all their rich, full flavor intact. Those two gate crashers, dampness and dry- ness, can never muscle in on that double- sealed, climate-proof O.G. package. It’s never too late for better smoking! Make a FRESH start with those always FRESH Double-Mellow Old Golds. TUNE IN on Old Gold's Hollywood Screenscoops, Tues. and Thurs. nights. Columbia Network, Coast-to-Coast 76 MODERN SCREEN Make a FKESA start and swing over to a FRESH cigarette A Fresh Start made a Fresh Star Salesgirl in a department store, Joy Hodges made a fresh start. Landed in the movies! Starred in “Merry-Go-Round of 1938”! Now charms Broadway in “I’d Rather Be Right”! Joy’s fresh start made a new star who brought fresh joy to millions. Outer Cellophane Jacket Opens from the Bottom, sealing the Top The Inner Jacket Opens at the Top, sealing the Bottom Copyright, 1938, by P. Lorillard Co., Inc. WHOM WILL TYRONE POWER ‘MARRY? (Continued from page 35) that Tyrone’s Moon square Saturn suggests marriage to a girl older than himself. At the risk of giving away trade secrets, we here divulge that Sonja, as well as Janet, saw the light of day before the Great Moment had uttered his first cry. But it takes more than liking the way a girl dresses her hair to have a man, especially of Tyrone’s stamp, stand in the aisle waiting for someone in a white veil to come.and breathe “I will.” Speci- fically, it takes some co6dperation on the part of the planet Mars, which lends the needed fire. This is where little Sonja loses out. Her Mars is in Pisces, square to Saturn, and it’s Saturn that sits squarely on Ty- rone’s Venus. This is an attraction of sorts, and sometimes a pretty violent one, but it doesn’t usually last. Tyrone is a free soul, independent as all get-out, especially where his love life is concerned. If he ever felt for one minute that a girl thought him securely tied up, he would automatically break for the open coun- try. Sonja’s Saturn on his Venus very like- ly made him feel confined, obligated, if you like. This probably wasn’t Sonja’s fault. She values independence as much as he does, maybe more. But with her Venus in Taurus, she’d just naturally ex- pect the man who loved her to feel the way she did—sewed up. Venus in Gem- ini simply doesn’t ever feel that way; and the pressure of Sonja’s Saturn on Tyrone’s Venus, plus the square of Mars, caused the break. ANET GAYNOR, however, is some- thing else again! Her Libra nature is excellently suited to understand Tyrone’s attitude toward love. She has Venus in Scorpio, opposed to her Moon in Taurus, giving her just the kind of glamor to Here’s one Hollywood couple about whom you'll never hear a rumor of anything save hap- piness. Al Jolson and his Ruby Keeler, see a bit of night life together.
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turn Tyrone’s head. And, in addition to this, there is between their horoscopes that dynamic signature of the attraction fatale, her Mars on his Moon! This is precisely the condition between two horoscopes that causes a romantic ‘young man like Tyrone Power to kick over the traces and forswear everything in the past, for the sake of “The woman I love.” When a romantic meets up with this con- dition, the rest of womankind pales into insignificance. If he’s married, he may even get a divorce, so as never to lose the glamorous creature who has captivated him. It is the Tristram and Isolde, Abe- lard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet combi- nation. The sad thing is that it doesn’t line up to the preliminary fireworks. It burns out. It dies. It causes heartbreak, and it generally leaves the man feeling that now he has seen life, now he knows the truth about women, now he is a cynic, and he is never going to love anyone again. This isn’t Janet’s fault. There’s noth- ing flighty about her horoscope. She isn’t the kind of girl to lead a man on (least of all a man young enough to be her kid brother) and then break his heart just for the fun of it. Tyrone thinks she means something that she doesn’t mean. He misunderstands. She likes him, she’s attracted to him (who isn’t?) but she isn’t going to marry him. And if Tyrone broke Sonja’s heart, he may learn before very long how it felt. F course, there’s always the chance that the glamor of Mars on the Moon will last long enough to lead the vic- tims to the altar. But there isn’t enough between Janet’s horoscope and Tyrone’s to make an enduring marriage. Tyrone has obstacles to overcome (his contract says he can’t marry) and while he’s over- MODERN SCREEN Beauty and the beast. In other words, Katie Hepburn with Nissa, the leopard who is Baby in- Bringing Up Baby.” Off the set with Michael. La Hepburn declares her pet Cock- er Spaniel is a bit more de- pendable than Baby. coming those obstacles, the fires are going to cool, considerably. The point of the whole matter, however, is that it doesn’t look as if Tyrone is going to marry at all for awhile. With Uranus in his Sun this year, he has glamor aplenty. It would be criminal for him to concen- trate it all on one girl, even such a worthy one as Sonja or Janet. He might do any- thing under this condition, even marry, because Uranus on the Sun is about as NO WONDER BOB STAYS SO IN LOVE WITH YOU! YOUR SKIN'S ALWAYS SO SMOOTH AND LOVELY, EVEN IN ALL THIS COLD. LOOK HOW ROUGH THE WIND G#e MAKES MINE! 3 ey, MAYBE IT’S NOT JUST THE WIND! PERHAPS YOU’RE USING THE WRONG SOAP! BEFORE | CHANGED TO PALMOLIVE, MY SKIN WAS TERRIBLE... DRY, LIFELESS, COARSE- LOOKING. 1 HAD “MIDDLE-AGE” SKIN | na PALMOLIVE SOAP? impulsive a condition as can exist in his already impulsive and romantic horoscope. Jupiter also inclines him to marriage in this, his twenty-fourth year. But we are still inclined to doubt that he’ll marry very soon. He might marry and get a swift divorce. We expect him to be in the market for some time to come, a sadder and a wiser young man, with the additional heart-appeal of having learned what it is like to suffer. IF IT’S LOVE a SHE WANTS ao8 A girl is mighty foolish to risk “MIDDLE-AGE” SKIN! BECAUSE PALMOLIVE 1S MADE WITH OLIVE OIL... A SPECIAL BLEND OF OLIVE AND PALM OILS! THAT’S WHY ITS SO GOOD FOR DRY, LIFELESS SKIN. IT SOFTENS, SMOOTHS, REFINES SKIN TEXTURE. ITS GENTLE LATHER CLEANSES SO THOROUGHLY, TOO! LEAVES SKIN RADIANTLY CLEAR! SO THATS YOUR SECRET! I'M CHANGING TO PALMOLIVE HOW COULD IT MAKE SUCH A DIFFERENCE? YES! I’M GUARDING MY HAPPINESS! THATS WHY | USE ONLY PALMOLIVE, THE SOAP MADE WITH OLIVE OIL TO KEEP SKIN SOFT, SMOOTH, YOUNG!
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Df Scholls FOR ALL FOOT TROUBLES REMEDIES—PADS—PLASTERS—ARCH SUPPORTS 1 Mail in Envelope or Paste Coupon on Penny Postcard | FREE Foot Book, also sample of Dr. Scholl’s Zino- i pads for Corns. Address Dr. Scholl’s, Inc,.,Chicago, Ill. MODERN SCREEN LETS TALK ABOUT MIRIAM (Continued from page 27) begged for the part,’ announced Selznick. “The only one who hasn’t approached me is Miss Hopkins, and actually the public bas given her more votes than anybody else. Then he bowed charmingly. was that. “I never heard from him,” admitted Miss Hopkins. “But it was dramatic, the way he walked in, wasn’t it 2” “Dramatic things seem to happen to you,” I said. “What about the time they say you were broke and borrowed money from Otto Kahn, or isn’t that true?” “You bet it’s true,” laughed Miriam. “But no one knows the whole story.” So she told it to me. It was in the days when Miriam was a young Broadway actress whose engage- ments were rare and short. She had opened in a show called “The Garden Of Eden.” It had been a hit in London because of a part played by Tallulah Bankhead, a part in which Miss Bankhead profitably shocked the audience by undressing on the stage. Miriam played that part here, but when it came to the undressing, friends told her mother not to mind because “Miriam looks like a schoolgirl going to bed.” “Maybe that was why the show closed,” grimly adds Miriam now. “Anyway it left me broke. And I had a theory... if you're broke don’t borrow money from your friends. Don’t tell your troubles to the switchboard girl, just go and borrow from a regular banker. So I did.” “But how?” I asked. “Otto Kahn had backed ‘An American Tragedy,’ in which I played Sandra. I asked a columnist friend for his telephone number and from the newspaper office we called him. Mr. Kahn didn’t remember me until I reminded him of Sandra. Then he made an appointment. “I remember it was a sweltering hot day. The waiting room outside his office was air cooled. It was the first time I ever sat in an air cooled room and I was very impressed. On the way down I had re- hearsed what I intended saying. I planned to ask for five thousand dollars and be very nonchalant about it. I wanted to pay most of my debts. I wanted to have the feeling of owing everything just one place. With the rest of the money I wanted to buy a roadster and take a vacation. And that “All this I was going to say to Mr. Kahn, but as I sat waiting I grew petrified. Several very elegant looking striped- trousered bankers sat waiting too, and as the minutes passed I couldn’t remember one word of my speech. I finally was ushered into his office. It was a great long room and I seemed to walk miles before I reached his desk. By that time I could only blurt out one sentence. It was, ‘I’ve come for cash!’ “He was very businesslike about it. He made a list of my debts. He didn’t approve of the owing-one-place method. He be- lieved in scattering your payments. I had no security to offer. But I promised to pay him back out of future salaries. So he gave me a check for twelve hundred-and- fifty dollars. I raced straight back to the newspaper office to show this to my friends who wanted to frame it!” Then this happened, this, so typical of Miriam. She had paid Otto Kahn four hundred-and-fifty dollars and had eight hundred more to go when she was offered a stock engagement at five hundred dollars a week... or the chance to marry Austin Parker and live in a small French village on next to nothing. “I wrote Otto Kahn a note and said I had chosen Austin because ‘a girl could always get a job in stock, but it was not so easy to get a husband!’ “Mr. Kahn must have liked the note be- cause, when he came to France, he invited us to dinner. I finally paid the debt, and he wrote me that of all the people to whom he loaned money, the writer, Frank Harris, and I, were the only people who paid him back. Of course I was very proud of that note and kept it.” - I stared at her then, stared at her sitting there before me, looking more like the kid who impulsively rushed to Otto Kahn than a star who owns one of the few New York houses boasting a garden. HE wore a beaver trimmed cloth coat, and a dark blue dress with a blue and green plaid scarf wound schoolgirl-like around her throat. And on her shoulder- length hair was perched, no fifty-dollar French creation, but her five-and-half-year- old son’s blue beret! This, mind you, in a popular New York restaurant during a crowded luncheon hour. And I liked her Sd Between scenes of “A Slight Case of Murder, Edward G. Robinson tickles the ivories, much to the amusement of Harry Seymour. Nope, it's not romance, just a family affair. Doug Fairbanks Jr., is explaining what goes on on the “Having Wonderful Time” set to his cousin, Letitia.
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a Director W. S. Van Dyke and Nelson Eddy are snapped as they leave the theatre following a preview of “Rosalie.” eS for it, this naturalness . . . no crayoned eyebrows here (they’re light, like her hair) and no false eyelashes, just a rosy face that has a certain squareness about it. “T haven’t much resistance. Ive had a bad cold for weeks.” And her eyes looked watery. I liked her for that too, for be- ing a movie star with a cold and eating in a public place. And I reminded her of a part she once played, the role of a swanky heiress with a bad cold, a girl who sneezed constantly. She laughed. “I remember. It was ‘The Richest Girl in the World.’ We had a lot of fur’ making that. It only took a month, and every afternoon we’d knock off at four to play tennis. And everyone liked the picture.” She sighed. She was very tired. She had stepped off a California-New York plane to walk directly into rehearsal for “Wine of Choice,” a new Theatre Guild play with Leslie Banks and Donald Cook. And she had this cold. “My little boy caught it from me in California. You know how children climb all over you. I feel so sorry for him. She slurs her words together. She speaks so quickly that she choked on a piece of steak, and I found myself slapping her back. She says a lot of things, says them fast. About temperament. “If you start acting temperamental it’s an awful nuisance to keep it up.” About players. “Spencer Tracy is the screen’s best. And I think George Raft is a good actor. But take my word, Jack Oakie could and should be doing serious roles. I once saw him rehearse a scene with two tears running down his cheeks, which shows he really feels.” About women. She says she dislikes those who pose coyly under picture hats and change their personalities when a man enters the room. And then, just as fast as she spoke, so fast did she suddenly rise with a “Let’s get out of here before they say I’m always Jate to rehearsals.” Without putting on the beret she ran hurriedly across the street to the theatre, but not before several girls, matinee-bound saw her, and even with the red nose, the watery eyes and the cold, they smiled in- dulgently, exclaiming, “Isn't she cute!” She is. MODERN SCREEN e “My stars, Mrs. Fox! A dog’s been chasing your baby? Pll tie an empty Johnson’s Baby Powder can to that hound’s tail some day. You poor little chap—so hot! Watch me get you cooled off...” © “Wa-a-ah! How’s that, pretty good, eh? I make that noise when Pm hot and cross. lt always fetches the Johnson’s Baby Powder. Mother’s slow today—I’ll give her another blast. Wa-a-ah!” e “Here it comes, Foxy—a nice sprinkle of downy, cooling John- son’s. Got any rashes or chafes? Any prickly heat under your chin? Johnson’s will soothe ’em before you could say Tally-ho!”’ @ “One good feel of Johnson’s to make Johnson’s Baby Powder Baby Powder, and you know it’s. —no orris-root...Other aids to finer and softer than other pow- baby’s comfort: Johnson’s Baby ders—that’s why it keeps a baby’s Soap, Baby Cream, and Baby skin in such perfect condition!” Oil for tiny babies. And perfect condition is the way to shut out skin infections. Only the finest imported talc is used NEW DRUNSWICK NEW JERSEY JOHNSON’S BABY POWDER 79 ||
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If you don’t, the trial is free. It costs you nothing! Your own Doctor will approve this way. Get Seedol Kelpamalt now. It costs but a few cents a day to use and is sold at all good drug stores. Beware of cheap substitutes. Insist on the genuine. Posed by professional models SPECIAL 3 DAY TRIAL OFFER I Please Send Me Your 3-Day Test Package of Kelpamalt, I enclose 10c to cover cost of packing and mailing. | Kelpamalt Co., Dept. 1392, 27 West 20th St., N. Y. C. | ee KelpamaltZZz MODERN SCREEN WHAT-A-MAN MORRIS (Continued from page 31) “Aw, heck,” said Wayne, tipping back in his chair, “do I have to stay here and listen to this?” “You do. We wouldn’t dream of talking about you behind your back, so you may as well be a brave little man and face it.” Wayne fortified himself, by ordering cokes all around. Then he lit a cigarette and obscured himself behind a = smoke- screen, or tried to, but Priscilla’s blue eyes penetrated the veil while she said, “It’s the way he looks at a girl, haven’t you noticed? He practises on me all day.” “You know better, Priscilla. You know that—” “He practises on me all day,” continued Priscilla firmly, ignoring him. “Now, you take Wayne at lunch time. He never sits next to a girl, he always sits opposite her so that he can get that look in, with its devastating effect. And it de- vastates. He watches everything a girl does, too, see, look, like he’s doing now! He just sits with that rapt, intent look and takes in every little gesture, every motion, looking as though he just can’t believe it, it’s all so wonderful and new and almost divine. That’s the real reason for his be- ing so attractive to girls, you see. He makes each and every girl believe that she is the one and only girl ever born onto this earth, or ever likely to be born.” “You know very well, Priscilla—” HEN there’s his laugh. He has a sort of shining laugh that seems to come bouncing right out of his heart. He makes a girl laugh, too, and feel that everything is pretty much all right with the world. He’s the life of the party type, only in the sense that he’s so full of life, so gay. “He’s quiet, though, with it all. He’s not the bombastic show-off type. And he can talk your heart right out of you. He makes you believe that he’s right and you are wrong no matter what the argument may be. And somehow, you like it. He doesn’t use only his enormous physical strength, he uses the old beano as well. And he sings and plays to you,” continued Priscilla, de- murely, ignoring the Morris moans. “It’s marvellous. “Now I have sung on the radio for quite some time. But whenever I start a song Wayne finishes it for me and carries on from there. He can sing in several different keys, too, almost at the same time. And then he can top any wisecrack I can think of making. And I earned my living for quite some time making wisecracks on the air. But every time I pull one, he pulls a better one. You've got to respect a man with a brain like that, you know. j “And then, besides all this,’ said Pris- cilla, lowering her voice a degree, “he’s considerate. He’s thoughtful and tender and he’s very respectful. He never says anything to a girl that he couldn't say in front of her mother or in front of her little sister, aged eight. There is something old-fashioned about Wayne in his way with girls. And he’s interesting, and very attrac- tive, because he is, superficially, so modern. He knows all the answers. It’s sort of a putting-a-girl-on-a-pedestal attitude which is, of course, completely fatal to us all.” - “Now, Priscilla, where do you get that ‘us all,’ you know very well tha 2 But Priscilla was saved. She was called to the set and she left, saying, “I’ve fixed everything! He'll fix me for this after you leave. You'd better stay around and protect me or there’ll really be headlines !” And then Wayne came out from behind his smoke screen and said, ‘“She’s the swellest girl I’ve ever known, isn’t she?” To which purely rhetorical question I said, “Do you really think so?” Wayne grinned and nodded his head and then said, “But do we have to talk about romance and all that? I know that people like to read about romance, but there’s been so much of the stuff written about me it’s getting kind of silly, and it’s very embarrassing. Besides, it’s bad publicity for me. “Td rather have it written that I appear at benefits and things. Td rather talk for publication about my favorite color, which is red, and my favorite flowers, which are all kinds except orchids and about how I Nothing pretty-pretty about Bob Taylor here! It's all part of the fun in his latest picture, “A Yank At Oxford.” sc S It could be wedding bells for Frances Langford any day in the week. Ken Dolan will tell you. He’s that persistent.
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Wineiaa and Dixie Dunbar, stepping out together, Michael were surprised by Modern Screen’s roving camera man. collect suitease stickers and drive a small car and about my pets, a police dog and a horse and about how I like everything to eat except vegetables, especially chocolate fudge sundaes, with nuts.” “Why is publicity about your romances bad for you?” “Because I haven’t had any, for one thing,’ said Wayne pleasantly but firmly (but he didn’t look towards Priscilla as he said this) “and so it’s pretty silly. I read that I’ve been out with some girl I haven’t seen for two months and they give one date a two months’ hangover. And it’s kind of stupid for both of us. But that isn’t the important thing. It’s bad for me _ be- cause the studio reads that I’ve been seen at this place and that, with this girl and that and they call me to the mat and tell me I’m going too much, keeping late hours and that it’s apt to affect my work, that sort of thing. It isn’t true. I don’t go out often nor stay up late. ESIDES, I don’t have and never have had as many dates with as many different girls as fellows do who are in college or working in banks or gas stations. I’ve only taken out some six or seven girls in the whole year and a half I’ve been in pictures. And I know fellows, friends of mine, who take a different girl out two and three times a week. And it’s perfectly normal, isn’t it, for a fellow who’s single and over twenty-one, to ask different girls for dates? It’s only because I’m in the spot I’m in that anyone pays any attention to it, finds anything to remark about, figures that it’s a romance every time it’s a date.” “Then it hasn’t been love, it hasn’t been romance, with any of these dates?” “Gosh, no!” laughed Wayne. He said this quite loudly, Priscilla being within loud-speaking earshot. “I don’t go around falling in love with every girl I ask to have dinner with me. The girls don’t go around falling in love with every guy who asks them out. We've just had a swell lot of fun together, that’s all. They’re swell girls, MODERN SCREEN A petal-like smoothness from top to toe Wee say it’s the Number One care the entire body needs—this com- bination of the Linit Magic Beauty Mask and the Linit Beauty Bath. This beauty treatment costs almost nothing, yet it is a wonderfully effective way to refresh the whole body and at the same time stimulate and clarify the com- plexion. First make the Linit Magic Beauty Mask: *Simply mix three tablespoons of Linit (the same Linit that is used for the bath) and one teaspoon of cold cream with enough milk to make a nice, firm consistency. Apply it generously to the cleansed face and neck and then step into your tub into which a handful or so of Linit has been dissolved. Wee the velvety smoothness of the Linit Beauty Bath is caressing yout body, the Linit Magic Beauty Mask is gently inducing facial circulation to throw oft sluggish waste matter. Relax for twenty minutes, then step out and dry off. Rinse the mask from your face and neck with clear, tepid water and pat thoroughly dry. How refreshed —how vibrant your whole body will feel! Hours of fatigue seem to vanish in a few minutes. You will find that the Linit Magic Beauty Mask leaves the face and neck witha petal- like smoothness, a velvety “film” that is an excellent powder base. This helps to heighten the allure of your make-up and keep it fresh-looking for hours longer. *1st STEP Mixing takes a minute, 2nd STEP Applying takes a minute. 3rd STEP Resting for 20 minutes, fs 4th STEP Rinsing off com- pletely. 81
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Dermoil is backed by a positive agreement to give definite benefit in 2 weeks or money is refunded without question. Generous trial bot- tle sent FREE to those who send in their Druggist’s name and address. Make our famous ‘‘One Spot Test’’ yourself. Write today for your test bottle. Results may surprise you. Don’t delay. Sold by Walgreen Drug Stores. Lake Labora- tories, Box 6, Northwestern Sta., Dept. 603, Detroit, Mich. 82 MODERN SCREEN Fifty million Frenchmen couldn't be wrong, which is why beau- teous Annabella now makes pictures in America! You'll see her with Bill Powell in ‘The Baroness and the Butler.” too, the girls I’ve had dates with. They’re the kind of girls I like, regular girls, with laughs up their sleeves, the kind of girls who like to go on the roller-coasters and eat hamburgers and act like human beings. “T wouldn’t go for any of these exotic types, kind of strange and sireny. One thing is sure, you meet as nice girls in pictures as you'd meet in any exclusive suburb, college, country club or deb party anywhere in the world. Girls like Olivia De Havilland and Anita Louise and Cecilia Parker and Priscilla, all of them. Where could you find sweller, nicer girls?’ But when he said ‘Priscilla,’ his voice dropped an octave and his eyes found her and had that look in them that gave a flash of the Morris tenderness. “Then you are evidently not susceptible,” I said, “for if you were, you would cer- tainly have fallen in love once or twice.” “Tm not susceptible at all. “T haven’t even thought I was in love, until—” he broke off, began again. “There has never been any talk of love between us, the girls I’ve gone out with and me. Most of us, like Priscilla and me, for instance, are just starting our careers and—” “You're at least five good jumps ahead of me,” called Priscilla, overhearing this last, as she was intended to. “That’s the way it should be, sweetheart,” grinned Wayne (but he meant it, you could see). “And,” he went on, “I couldn’t fall in love, not really in love, until I had known a girl for quite a long while, and very well. I don’t think you can call it love until you know all about a girl, her likes and dislikes, her habits, the way her mind works as well as the way her eyes smile, her character. “You see, when I marry I want it to be for all of my life. And you can’t be as sure as all that unless you’ve had time and op- portunity to be sure, can you?” Priscilla laughed. ELL, we've been going out together for over a month,” said Wayne, “and working together every day on the set. I guess that’s both time and opportunity, woman.” “I know it is,’ said Priscilla, and the seriousness in her voice, in her eyes, the way they looked at one another, gave the first sure suspicion that this “date” of Wayne’s may be “for all my life.” Wayne is, he said, in his nice, frank smiling way, kind of old-fashioned where women are concerned. He doesn’t, for in- stance, believe that girls belong on the golf links. Golf, he says, is a man’s game. “When I slice a ball I make comments that I wouldn’t want any girl I cared about to hear. I don’t believe in taking a girl to the fights. For you know what happens at the fights. Some guy in back of you will yell, ‘Kill the so-and-so,’ and then, if you have a girl with you, she will say, or think, that you ought to knock the guy duwn for using such language where she can hear it and you feel like saying, ‘Well, you haven’t any business to be here at all,’ and then there’s trouble, one way or another. I don’t think girls should sit in on poker games. That’s all men’s stuff and women should keep out of it, or be kept out of it.” “Then you sort of believe that woman’s place is in the home, huh?” “Yep,” Wayne said, “I do. I wouldn’t want my wife to work. I certainly wouldn't want to be married to a big star.” “Can. you imagine,” gurgled Priscilla joyfully, “Wayne being called ‘Mister Greta Garbo’ or something!” “No one’ll have a chance to imagine it,” said Wayne, darkly. “I don’t believe marriages like that work out. And if a man is married to a big star and their marriage is going on the rocks because of it, it’s up to the woman to give up her career and save her marriage.” “Hear, hear!” said Priscilla. “Of course,’ continued Wayne, imper- turbably, “if two people, a girl and a boy, just beginning on the screen, their careers comparatively equal, should fall in love and eet married, that might be all right. It would then be up to the man, as it is up to the man in any walk of life, to keep ahead of the girl, to be more successful, make more money than she does.” “And if the girl should be the one to get way ahead,” I said, “and the marriage should be threatened because of it, it would be up to her to drop out of the ranks, is that it?” “Yep,” said Mister Morris, and his eyes were on Priscilla and was that his heart in his eyes or was it not? I said, “Look here, I don’t want to have to yell ‘you hit me, you unspeakable brute’ to you, Wayne, but if you two are going to do any Yuma-ing in the near future, I think I ought to know. I don’t want to come out in print and say that Priscilla Lane and Wayne Morris are just “another date,” only to have the newspapers announce on the self-same day that Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane have middle-aisled it (credit Winchell). June Lang was very much among those present at the pre- view of “Love And Hisses.” She was escorted by A. C. Blumenthal, her most frequent companion these days, but Mr. B. preferred not to pose.
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“Oh,” said Wayne, “it’s serious enough. Of course, she hasn’t given me a ring yet, I'd like a nice opal.” “We're very serious,’ agreed Priscilla, flourishing the coke bottle in Wayne’s gen- eral direction, “although he does get a lot of phone calls, even on the set, and always says they are from an assistant director he knows.” “T’ve got to get my feet more firmly on the ground than I have them now before I can even talk about marriage,’ said Wayne. “This being nearly ‘a star over- night’ is all very exciting and flattering but a star can fall quicker than it can rise, too. I’ve got to get more money in the bank, a house built.” “He’s going to make his first trip to New York very soon, too,” said Priscilla, with sweet thoughtfulness. “Of course, he could drop into Cartiers while he is there, if he has time,’ she added. “I don’t believe in big weddings.” “Tt will, I mean, it would be an elope- ment,”’ Wayne said, “although a Hollywood wedding minus a photographer or two among the flowers might not be legal.” And then they both stopped kidding be- cause this, obviously, is no kidding matter. And they said that honestly, they don’t know yet, they haven't really talked about it much and they haven’t set any date. That was all they would say. But just the same, girls, at any moment, now, you may hear that Wayne Morris has made his last, and permanent date. Meet the gang! These are the kids you see in all of those hilarious ‘‘Our Gang’ comedies, though they look subdued here! MODERN SCREEN Hollywood has a name for it: | ( amera Shin, a Hawless complexion like June Lana's You, too, can win clear “Camera Skin’ with this germ-free beauty cream which helps protect from blemishes ANY Hollywood stars follow two M simple rules of complexion care. Sensible diet... and daily use of a beauty cream that helps guard from blemishes. You'll be convinced of the soundness of this beauty plan when you see June Lang’s flawless “camera skin”. What Woodburys Germ-Free Cold Cream Y Woodbury’s Cold Cream has done for June, it can do for you! Keep your skin firm, resilient. Lessen the risk of blem- ishes. And skin-stimulating Vitamin D quickens the skin’s youthful breathing. It’s easy to have a clear, glorious “camera skin” if you adopt the beauty rules of the stars. Watch your general health. Choose Woodbury’s germ-free care. Cold cream, $1.00, 50¢, 25¢, 10¢. Try the Facial Cream under make-up. Helps guard from blemishes Cleanses the pores thoroughly Stimulates—Contains Vitamin D Overcomes dry skin June Lang and Dick Baldwin in the 20th Century-Fox pic- ture “Shanghai Deadline” June says: “For the screen star, a blemish is a minor trag- edy. Woodbury’s Cold Cream keeps my skin smooth.” Send for Trial Tubes of Woodbury’s Creams John H. Woodbury, Inc., 6787 Alfred Street, Cincinnati, Ohio (In Canada) John H. Woodbury, Ltd., Perth, Ontario Please send me trial tubes of Woodbury’s Cold and Facial Creams; guest-size Woodbury’s Facial Soap; 7 shades of Woodbury’s Facial Powder. I enclose 10c to cover mailing costs. Name-— oo =—_ Street — City —State — see a RR a
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Many people get amazing results in 30 days or less. Neglect may ruin your skin for life. So start eating Fleisch- mann’s Yeast at once. Buy some tomorrow! Copyright, 1988, Standard Brands Incorporated 84 MODERN SCREEN PROFESSIONAL MARRIAGE (Continued from page 37) pucker our brows and bite our lips and wonder whether we will be able to keep marriage romantic and things like that. “Johnny and I are not afraid of anything. We're not afraid of losing our careers; we're not afraid of losing love. We have all the confidence in the world that every- thing’s going to be all right for us. “We won’t sacrifice our personal lives to our careers any more than we will sacrifice our personal lives to domesticity. When we are invited to a party we don’t refuse to go because we are working and must save ourselves for our work. If we feel like going to the party, we go to the party, without going into a huddle as to the why of it all. “Our housekeeping is very simple. We have a Filipino houseboy and a maid, and they do everything there is to be done around the house. Johnny plans the meals and orders them because he did it before he was married. I never did, because mother did it for me. I never know what I’m going to eat until I sit down and eat it. Il admit that there are occasional drawbacks. The other day, Phyllis Fraser (Ginger Rogers’ cousin, you know, and one of my very best friends) and Paula Stone and I were having lunch together at the Vendome. I ordered an enormous order of chicken a la king, and ate every bit of it. When I sat down to dinner at home that night I had chicken a la king, an enormous order and ate every bit of it. We're not fussy about small things. “We run our lives independently, much as we always did. We do our jobs inde- pendently. Like today, I’m having an in- terview with you and Johnny is having a portrait sitting at Paramount. We talk things over, of course. We give each other good advice, we hope. We have our same crowd, Phyllis and Paula and the others. We see quite a lot of Mischa Auer and his wife and their little boy, who live in the same apartment house we do. We don’t go in for formal entertaining in our crowd. We just get together and have last-minute impromptu supper parties and play the radio and dance and sometimes we all doll up and go to the Troc. We play tennis and swim and we're all sun- worshippers.” Anne-waved to Ginger, sitting across the room. She made a face at Eric Blore who made a face back at her. She managed to drop a checkbook while exchanging greetings with Jack Oakie, who took off the tablecloth and waved it. She retrieved the checkbook, tapped it on her glass, laughed and said, “This is the only difference mar- riage has made in my life! I now keep a checkbook carefully. Before I was mar- ried I always wrote counter checks and never knew whether I had one dollar or one thousand in the account. I know now. I wouldn’t make out a counter check to save myself from hunger.” z “Do you do the family bookkeeping ?” “No,” Anne explained. “You see, it’s different with couples who are just do- mestic, I guess. Then, one or the other takes over the reins of government and attends to all such matters as checking- accounts, bills and so on. It’s different when both are earning. We divide things, in a way. Johnny pays all the household expenses, rent, servants, food, public utili- ties, cars. .I only pay for my own clothes and what I do for Mother. The rest of my money I save. Which is the way it should be.” Anne, when not yet twenty, had built a substantial trust fund for her mother, had given her two houses. This little girl, born Dawn Evelyn Paris, who didn’t have too auspicious a start in life, who was born in New York City, half orphaned when she was an infant in arms, added to the family income by posing for commercial artists when she was fourteen months. At three, did her first bit in a picture; at four played in a picture with Pola Negri. Then her talent beyond question, came to Holly- wood and, with her mother, living with rigid economy, struggling constantly for work, conquering that oblivion which so often submerges the child star when she grows up, was able, while still in her teens, to do what many a substantial business man in his forties is only beginning to hope for. There’s stuff in this Shirley child, strong stuff. SWANK AT OXFORD (Continued from page 10) of fine brown wool, as is the little coatee worn over her shoulders. An especially attractive masculine feature is seen in the brown checked “waistcoat,” with the imi- tation pockets piped in brown, and brown wool-covered buttons. The neat-looking shirt, collar, tie and cuffs are of off-white pique. HE schoolgirl’s clothes seem to fall into two general classifications, those she wears to class and for sports, and her “date” dresses. For Maureen when she’s out of college environs, Hubert created a smart outfit. The slender, fitted skirt with three-inch slits at the side is of mid-blue wool cloque, a very popular fabric this season. The close-fitting jacket is of the same material, faced and backed with panels of dark blue velvet, relieved by pocket trimming of mid-blue. The jacket zips up the front, and the small round collar, the tie, and slide fastener covering are of pale blue pique. When you've seen all of the costumes Maureen wears in this picture, you'll decide that the life of the Oxford gal isn't so bad, and you’ll understand why the Yank fell in love with this young lady. However, if you’re looking for inspira- tion, you don’t have to go to Oxford, for youll find plenty in other current pictures. In “Hold ’Em Navy,’ Mary Carlisle wears sets of a leather calot, belt, gloves and bag, and her favorite is of dubonnet suede, which she wears with a light grey tweed skirt and top coat and a lovely pale blue angora sweater. Speaking of sweaters, the uniform of the American campus, Lana Turner has no less than twenty-five in her personal wardrobe. One is of blue brushed wool, and buttons in back with seven wooden buttons, carved to simulate the heads of the dwarfs in “Snow White,” Walt Disney’s latest mas- terpiece. You're going to see the “Snow White” influence a great deal in fashions this spring, not only in trimmings, but in fabric patterns and even in hat styles! Rosalind Russell’s clothes will give you
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ROSE i WLS Ge Sancivle koe J Zs es, S Z Judging trom their smiles, Bob Cummings and his pretty wife must have enjoyed their eve ning at ‘Wells Fargo.” MODERN SCREEN Joel McCrea and Frances Dee (Mr. and Mrs. to you), attended the “Wells Fargo” preview with Director John Ford. Joel has his most important role to date in this picture, and Frances is the love interest. we ll bet the hisses aren't directed at love- ly Simone Simon, who demon- strates her ability as a songbird. In “Love and Hisses” plenty of ideas, too. Study carefully her costumes in “Man-Proof.” Roz is num- bered among the ten best dressed as ‘“‘the perfect sportswoman—an ideal example of clean-cut American womanhood. She excels everyone in the manner she wears tweeds.” A new angle in hat fashions is being introduced by Joan Blondell. In “The Perfect Specimen,” most of her hats were made of the same material as her dresses. Inspired by this clever ensemble idea, Joan is now having all her hats made to match her dresses. Franciska Gaal, who plays opposite Fredric March in “The Buccaneer,” was so entranced by the pirate sashes that Freddie wore in the picture that she has had several of them made up in bright red silk jersey and wears them on plain black dresses. This is a wonderful idea for rejuvenating your basic black dress. If the stars themselves garner many of their style ideas from pictures, then you certainly can, too. Now this new Cream with “SKIN-VITAMIN does more for your Skint than ewer before The “skin-vitamin” is now in a beauty cream! Four years ago doctors barely suspected that a certain vitamin was a special aid to the skin. They applied this vitamin to wounds and burns. And found it actually healed them quicker! Serene “NOW IT NOURISHES, lOO: my skin looks richer...’’ says Miss Geraldine Spreckels This is the amazing “skin-vitamin” which is now in Pond’s Vanishing Cream. Pond’s Vanishing Cream was always great for smoothing your skin for powder, and overnight, too. Now the use of Pond’s “skin-vitamin” Van- ishing Cream actually nourishes your skin! The regular use of this cream will make your skin look richer, fresher, clearer. Wass Qoyaliline Siiveckols **T have always praised Pond’s Vanishing Cream. It smooths skin so wonderfully after exposure. Now it is grand to know that it is doing more for your skin all the time you have it on. It certainly keeps my skin in perfect condition .. .”’ Same jars, same labels, same price This new Pond’s “skin-vitamin” Vanishing Cream is in the same jars, with the same labels, at the same price. Remember, the vitamin it contains is not the “sunshine” vitamin. Not the orange- juice vitamin. But the vitamin that TT =< especially aids skin health—the pre- “J Conn. Rush special tube of Pond’s “skin-vitamin” Van- ishing Cream, enough for 9 treatments, with samples of Name Pond’s, Dept.9MS-VP, Clinton, | } | cious “skin-vitamin”! Ges 2 ORS Pee cana ERTS ness 4 cae est it i min reams and o different Melts Rough if r t n shades of Pond’s Face Pow- d Powder Ay, 9 Treatments der. I enclose 10¢ to cover City— Hol s 1 RA postage and packing. Copyri
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Try it LAVLEG — NR Tonight — Tomorrow Alright. 90) REC U.S. PAT. OFFICE NR =TABLETS- AR MODERN SCREEN MOVIE-STAR BEAUTY FOR YOU (Continued from page 41) and for this reason I’m in favor of ’em. Daily brushing, a hundred strokes, up- ward and out, will assure you a pliable, healthy textured hair, an important requi- site or the coiffure won't stay — put. That means oil before every shampoo, massage every other day or so, for ten minutes, and that’s another reason I’m in favor of ’em. And then, too, I think a change is nice every once in a while, a cWange for you, a different gal for your beau or husband to look at. But—a very large-sized but—these new hair-dos are hard where hats are concerned. You'll have to pick hats very carefully. With no softening effect at the back of the neck or alongside the ears, you can’t wear a beret or a comfortable pull-on. You can wear toques, high hats, big hats, all the goofy little confections that - emphasize the forward movement or the upward movement. Such hats must be carefully selected, they can’t be too cheap, they must be put on with a great deal of care and worn with considerable chic and dash. If, I say if, you can manage all these factors, I’m in favor of the upward movement in hair- dressing for you. And there are more eeinS em If your face is average in shape and size, okay. If it’s thin, go in for a slight bang, which will widen the face a little, and don’t pile the hair too, too high. If your face is heavy in bone structure, if you have a large jaw and wide mouth, say, you must pass up the high-piled locks and stick to the softening effect of waves over the ears and a medium-length bob or medium-placed knob. If your face is plump, but not heavy in bone structure, ex- periment, and be careful. I told you my feelings were divided on the subject. Generally speaking, I’m all for the upward trend, but women are so apt to fall for anything new and never give a thought as to suitability, I felt duty- bound to express all these cautions. Tsk, how that Marshall woman does digress! I’m supposed to be a-telling you how you can have a spot of movie star and Betty Jaynes, two of Hollywood's younger stars, at a@ premiere. Mickey Rooney beauty for your very own, and I must get on, I must. How about your eyes, now? I’ve got more to say this month about eyes than the good old one-two-three about eye make-up. [v= picked Marjorie Weaver to illustrate one very important point—eye exercise. Marjorie, as you know if you saw her hit- making appearance in “Second Honey- moon,’ ’ has the prettiest pair of peepers we've seen in many a day. However, when she first began working under the wicked studio lights, she couldn't help blinking and squinting, her eyes watered miserably, and she was inclined to stare. The studio dramatic coach made her do a simple exercise, every day for ten minutes: look to the left, look up, look to the right, look down. Do it quickly, but make each direction in which your eyes glance abso- lutely definite. You don’t have to suffer the glare of the Kliegs, but you do many things which are almost as hard on the eyes: long hours of reading, fine sewing, copying ill-written material on the typewriter, perhaps, driv- ing a car (and is night driving hard on the eyes!), such things, if done “under un- favorable conditions, cause eyes to lose their natural sparkle, get bloodshot, and also bring that vertical line on the fore- head which makes you look old before your time. The exercise I’ve borrowed from Mar- jorie’s coach is good. Covering the eyes with a piece of black velvet and lying down for a few minutes is good. Eye baths of weak boric acid solution are good. Cover- ing the eyes with pads of cotton soaked in ice cold witch hazel is just as good as “expensible’ herbal eye-packs you see ad- vertised, though the eye-packs do smell nicer. It’s a sad thing, by the way, that the most beautiful eyes often have the poorest sight. I don’t know whether optical science could back this up with any statistics, but Tve often known girls with lovely soft brown eyes and big blue orbs, not to be able to read the “fine print, while un- glamorous green and nondescript hazel eyes kept eagle-like seeing ability until old age. What am I leading up to now, you ask? Eyeglasses, my darlings. If you have the least suspicion that your sight isn’t of the best, get some glasses for rest- ing, reading, going to the movies or what- ever the doctor orders. Don’t read on a moving vehicle. That’s tough on you com- muters, who catch up with your literature on the 8:15, but it’s not as tough as hav- ing continual headaches later on. Have at least one good 75 or 100 watt bulb in the house for. reading and sewing at night, and have the light coming over your ‘left shoulder. So much for sensible beauty hints, now for sumpin’ more frivolous. If your eyes are naturally lovely, you don’t need any help, but if they're just so-so, or on the uninteresting side, practice patience and ingenuity can give them some touch of movie star allure. Sit down before a brightly lighted mir- ror some evening-at-home, and experiment. Have a jar of oily cream, like a good tissue cream, or a tube of vaseline. A soft eye-pencil, the one made by the famous gent who makes most of the beauty-aids used by the movie stars is best. Brown is the best shade. Have several shades of mascara and eye shadow, purchase the small sizes in the five and dime store.
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and Virginia Pine. A handsome couple they make, too! Make up the rest of your pan as you usual- ly do. Now, begin drawing lines around your eyes. Have you deep eyelids—that is, is there a lot of space between lash and eye- brow to work on? Try the “Garbo lin- ing,” drawing a thin line deep into the. lid, where it goes back into the eye socket. Yuh can only do this if your lids are very deep. Are your eyes small? .Try some eyeshadow on the outer half of the lid and blend it on way out toward the temple. Help this effect by lengthening your brows with pencil. Have you that type of lash which doesn’t seem to take mascara at all, rather thick and rather short and straight? Try this: apply cream or vaseline, then powder right over it, then put on the mascara. I ain’t in favor of false eye- lashes offscreen, but you can even try those if you want to. Remember that-everything put on the eyelids must. be blended, the lines blurred a bit, not to look freakish. Well, now, we’ve touched on hair and eyes and I want to say a word about skin. Something new has bobbed up under the good old sun: a facial mask that can be purchased without mortgaging the old homestead to do so. In fact, you make dis- yere mask yourself, with a few table- spoons of a well known household and bath preparation, a little cold cream, and a little Grade A, or even Grade B, if you’re trying to cut down the milk bill. The package carries instructions for mask-making for normal or oily skins, for a dry or sallow skin, and a very quick mask that is re- freshing for any type of skin. It’s simple, costs but a few cents, and does wonders toward reconditioning a tired or over-oily skin. Ze coupon at ze end of ze article includes a request for the name of this pre- paration. Ze coupon also includes a request for M.M.’s present of the month. A remedy for that universal blot upon feminine skin- beauty—blackheads. Consistent application will remove them and, what’s more, reduce large pores amazingly. Only a little of this cream need be used at one time. Try my sample offer, and then see if you don’t want to keep up the good work. HERE’S one beauty point I’ve never touched upon in these articles, I be- lieve, and that’s teeth. Of course, I feel that teeth are a dentist’s job, not mine, but I’d like to say a few words here, on accounta I see so many pretty faces marred by terrible toofies. Good teeth are a feature every movie star must have. Jeanette Mac- Donald, now, have you ever thought how much her perfect teeth add to her charm- ing appearance in singing close-ups? MODERN SCREEN Chief cau Betrayer of Beauty Sehorrhea” ef Shiny: Nose sK Oiliness results in unflattering shine. Dermatologists identify exces- sive oiliness as Seborrhea. Germs aggravate this condition. Wood- bury’s Powder retards germ-growth, helps subdue nose shine. EAUTY editors have written reams B about Shiny Nose. Every girl who owns a mirror has pleaded for longer- clinging face powder. Yet what’s been done to conquer Shiny Nose? Something startling! Woodbury’s Facial Powder is now germ-free and helps overcome nose shine as it glorifies your skin! Shiny Nose May Be Aggravated by Surface Germs Dermatologists say the oiliness that makes your nose shine is often due to Seborrhea. Germs aggravate this condition. Your innocent-looking powder puff may be spreading harmful germ-life to your skin. Now you realize the beauty need for germ-free powder that will convey no germs to puff or skin. Tested with 19 other leading brands, Woodbury’s, alone, proved germ-free both before use and after contact with a germ-laden puff. Give your complexion a _ seductive bloom with Woodbury’s Powder, a sur- face loveliness that brings no aftermath of oily shine. The seven glorious shades are as natural as life and as young as you'd like to appear! Windsor Rose, for instance, a blend of creamy-pink and ivory- peach, is becoming to almost every skin. This flattering powder comes in the smart blue box at $1.00, 50¢, 25¢, 10¢. Complete your make-up with Woodbury’s Germ-proof Lipstick and Rouge. Send for 7 Thrilling Youth-Blend Shades John H. Woodbury, Inc., 9187 Alfred St., Cincinnati, Ohio (In Canada) John H. Woodbury, Ltd., Perth, Ontario Please send me 7 shades of Woodbury’s Facial Powder; trial tubes of two Woodbury’s Beauty Creams; guest-size Wood- bury’s Facial Soap. I enclose 10c to cover mailing costs. Name ee ee — Street __ ee ss City. SU
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If you smoke quite a bit, watch out for the tartar that forms on the backs of your teeth, and double the professional cleanings every year, for you can’t get this tartar off yourself. Use dental floss once a day. At the least sus- picion of a twinge, barge off to the D.D.S. I recently had the tiniest bit sawed off’n my two upper middle teeth. That frac- tion-too-much had kept me from having a good “bite” all my life and having it removed really did improve the shape of my mouth. Pain and inconvenience? None whatso- ever. Cost? Five bucks. Nowadays, too, wonderful things can be done about straightening very irregular teeth, no mat- ter what the age of the patient. It’s not cheap, but if your teeth really mar your appearance and you can squeeze out the money, it’s well worth it. Good lands, I’ve only space left to touch upon two other phases of movie star beauty this month. One is hands, and the other is legs-plus-feet. Hands first. Remember such fundamental things as using a lotion every time you wash your hands, wearing warm gloves that are plenty big in cold weather (you should see the New York debs sporting angora mitts to all the swanky affairs) and buttering your paws with cold cream and wearing white cotton gloves to bed if you must do hard, dirty work with your hands. Put cuticle oil or vaseline on your nails at night. And here are some hand tricks from Miss Carole Lombard herself, whose beautiful mits you see on page 40. She says that a coating of colorless polish, ap- plied over the colored polish, will keep the varnish from cracking for a heck of a long time. She says that thick fingers will slim down miraculously if you mas- sage the fingers from the tips to the palm —as if you were putting on a pair of new gloves. She says if you want to be “utterly-ut” some night at a party, rouge the palms of your hands and your finger- tips, just the very least bit. And she says furthermore that a famous director told her never, never to make a gesture with her hands unless it expressed something definite. And that goes for everyone ex- cept Zasu Pitts. ANIELLE DARRIEUX, the eye- filling little miss from Bordeaux, Fr-a-a-ance, who is soon to make her American debut in “The Rage of Paris,” has the best looking underpinning that has hit these shores since Marlene Dietrich came over from Germany to sulk so glamorously on our local screens. “Well, my legs would never stop traffic,” Says you, “so what?” So this: you can slim fat ankles by this exercise: sit on the floor, brace yourself with your hands, your legs sticking straight out. Bend and stretch your feet, trying to make your toes touch the floor. You can slim fat calves somewhat by stretching the living daylights out of them. Get some husky friend to pull your legs while you hang on to the bedpost or something. You can build up skinny legs, first, by building up all over if you're thin, and second, by bicycling or doing the bicycle exercise. : More leg-work: wear stockings that fit, fit not only your feet but your legs, too. Several excellent manufacturers specialize in short, medium, and tall hosiery lengths. If you’re not particularly proud of your legs, wear dark-neutral shades, not too, too sheer. Not black, nothing is more revealing. Don’t kid yourself that tricky heels, single and double V’s and stuff, make your ankles look slimmer. Just the contrary is true. A black suede, high- heeled pump is the most flattering shoe in existence. If your feet are large, when you must wear lighter colored shoes, get those with a dark or contrasting tip, strap and heel, or some such arrangement. And, to close on a more cheerful note, if your legs and feet are pretty, glamorize ’em and dramatize ’em all you can. The sheer- est hose, skirts the new short length fashion dictates. 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Loud and funny, big and dazzling, it offers a wide variety of enter- tainment for all types of movie-goers. It’s the type of musical some people dream about, for the cast includes such vocal and instrumental favorites as Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Frances Langford, Jerry Cooper, Johnny Davis and the bands of Benny Goodman and Raymond Paige. Story concerns a saxophone player who arrives in Hollywood to make good in pictures. From there the plot takes in everything from drive-in stands to the Hollywood Bowl. Musical numbers are plentiful, the best being “I’m Like a Fish Out of Water,” “Let that Be A Lesson to You” and “Silhouetted in the Moon- light,” sung by Dick Powell and Rosemary Lane. In the acting department, there is a gorgeous caricature of a temperamental glamor girl, played for swell comedy by Lola Lane, a grand portrayal of a hammy leading man by Alan Mowbray, and first- rate performances by stand-bys Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert, Allan Joslyn, Edgar Kennedy and most of the support- ing cast. In addition, there is the presence of Louella Parsons and company to bring joy to the hearts of the radio fans. “Hollywood Hotel” is spectacular, a bit ornate at times, but a really entertaining musical film. Directed by Busby Berkeley. —Warner Bros. KKK I'll Take Romance You can add “T’ll Take Romance” to the current crop of whimsical farce, and you can put it up toward the top of the list— if you happen to be a list-maker. Followers of Grace Moore will be happy to know that their favorite comes through’ handsomely, and most other picture-goers will find the proceedings highly enjoyable. No struggling singer hoping for recogni- tion this time, Miss Moore starts off as an established star of the Metropolitan Opera. Plot—if you can call it that—is entirely concerned with her decision as to whether she’ll_go to Paris or to Buenos Aires for concert engagements. She is about to leave for Paris when Melvyn Douglas arrives from South America to persuade her to ee | Among other luminaries in “Hollywood Hotel” are Dick Powell and Frances Langford. change her mind. Miss Moore sings everything from “Madame Butterfly” to ‘“She’ll be Comin’ "Round the Mountain,’ and handles her light comedy role with considerable deft- ness. Melvyn Douglas is perfectly cast as the romantic gentleman from South Ameri- ca, and there are splendid supporting roles by Helen Westley and Stuart Erwin. Di- rected by E. H. Griffth—Columbia. wk Every Day's a Holiday It’s Mae West to whom “Every Day’s a Holiday”—and she makes the most of every moment. The result is one of the best West pictures to date. Though her wisecracks aren't as flagrantly wise as before, Mae gets in plenty of good remarks, in the same manner as of old, which have the audience chuckling from the first minute she undu- lates into view. ; The story has Mae in the role of a light- fingered lady by the name of “Peaches,” who has warrants out for her arrest in every corner of the globe. But Peaches manages to get around very nicely, picking up an ermine wrap and a diamond bracelet here and there—even: picking off the cops’ badges as they tell her of the error of her ways. Edmund Lowe is the copper who is most intent on her trail and though he earnestly wishes to land her in jail, it all ends up with the arm of the law around Mae’s gay nineties’ waistline. Another man in her life is Lloyd Nolan, a crooked politi- cian who means nobody no good—including our heroine. Now Mae has no time for him, and after she’s gone to work, the good citizens of New York have no time for him, either. Honest Edmund gets the mayorship after a gala election-night parade with Louis Armstrong leading the band and Mae playing the trap-drums. Besides the excellent work of the princi- pals, there are good performances by Charles Winninger, Walter Catlett, Char- lie Butterworth and Chester Conklin. Di- rected by Eddie Sutherland—Paramount. %&& Hitting a New High Lily Pons is perhaps the only Metropoli- tan Opera star in existence who looks good in a feather. In “Hitting a New High,” Miss Pons wears several feathers, and nothing more, throughout most of the pic- ture. Her feathers and her voice furnish ‘ \ cont “Every Day’s A Holiday’ and why not, with Mae West and Edmund Lowe in the castl
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is Myrna Loy’s with Walter Pidgeon trying to disprove it. “Man-Proof” next, most of this film’s better moments, although Jack Oakie must be credited with a good share of its successful comedy. The rotund Mr. Oakie, as a breathless press agent for a slightly goofy impresario (Edward Everett Horton), discovers Miss Pons singing in a night club. Horton won't give her an audition because he wants to get away to Africa on a game hunt. So Oakie ships the gal to the jungles, where she becomes a “bird girl,” and Horton, amazed at her voice, “discovers” her. The story goes on from there, but you can figure it out when you see it. Miss Pons sings the Mad Scene from “Lucia,” as well as several popular num- bers, best of which are “Let’s Give Love Another Chance’ and the title song. Edward Everett Horton does what he can with a highly implausible role, and Eric Blore tries rather unsuccessfully to make the role of a clarinet player funny. In brief, the picture belongs to Miss Pons and J. Oakie. . Directed by Raoul Walsh. —RKO-Radio. *%&%*& Man-Proof Myrna Loy in the role of “the other woman” is novelty enough to make this fairly interesting entertainment. Main fault is that the picture is too talky—a few jolts of action would have made it a first-rate comedy drama. Miss Loy and Rosalind Russell are both romantically interested in Walter Pidgeon, a fortune hunting young man who looks up their financial ratings and marries Miss Russell. Myrna takes it courageously, and even acts as bridesmaid at the wedding. After the ceremony she starts a determined campaign to win the guy back, in spite of the pleadings of a newspaper artist friend (Franchot Tone), who insists that Mr. Pidgeon is something of a rat. Of course, everyone knows that Myrna will wind up as the bride of Franchot Tone, but the picture has its bright mo- ments. All four principals deliver spirited performances, and in addition there is a fine portrayal by Nana Bryant, as Miss Loy’s mother. Directed by Richard Thorpe. —M-G-M. %*&* You're Only Young Once The story deals with a family of four and their vacation trip to Catalina Island. Mickey Rooney and Cecilia Parker, as the children, have reached the “getting ideas” age, and it’s up to their kindly father to keep them on the right track without losing their friendship. His task is no cinch, for Mickey has taken up with a MODERN SCREEN HERE'S ONE JOB THAT DIDN'T LEAD TO LOVE... sere rsrrcmerencsoontngrrrmensatnen re vce saesereerrmecenttarescemes HIRED! 222 | gw noticed, too. Ann lost the job she wanted —the job that might have led to love. It’s foolish for a girl in business—a girl in love—ever to risk offending! It’s so easy to stay fresh with Mum! Remember, a bath only takes care of odor that's past —but Mum prevents odor to come! MUM IS QUICK! In just half a minute, Mum gives you all-day-long protection. No girl who offends with underarm odor succeeds in her job—or with men... A new job—new friends—new chances for romance! How Ann did want her new boss to like her! Bachelors as nice as Bill S—— were very hard to find! Ann was pretty—Ann was smart! “Someone I'd be proud of,” Bill thought. So he asked Ann out to his club. The night was glamorous and the music was good—but Bill’s interest died with the very first dance. Ann had thought a bath alone could keep her sweet—and one hint of underarm odor was enough for Bill. Others in the office MUM IS SAFE! Mum can’t harm any kind of fabric. And Mum won't irritate your skin, even after underarm shaving. MUM IS SURE! Mum does not stop health- ful perspiration, but it does stop every trace of odor. Remember, no girl who of- fends with underarm odor can ever win out with men. Always use Mum! NO BATH PROTECTS YOU LIKE A BATH PLUS MUM MY BATH ONLY TAKES Y CARE OF PAST A PERSPIRATION BUT J MUM PREVENTS ODOR TO COME! 70 HERSELF? NO WORRIES FOR ME AROUND MY BATH, BUT MUM STILL KEEPS ME FRESH! For Sanitary Napkins — No worries or embarrass- ment when you use Mum this way. Thousands do, be- cause it’s SAFE and SURE. TAKES THE ODOR OUT OF PERSPIRATION 95
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Kent Taylor tries to im- press Wendy Barrie in A Prescription for Romance. %&*& Lady Behave! Maybe we're too easily pleased—or may- be. it’s just force of habit. Anyhow, we think Sally Eilers is a swell little actress and can make qa “B” picture good entertain- ment any day. “Lady Behave!” gives her sincerity and friendly charm a good chance, for she’s cast as the older sister of a scatter-brained babe who marries an extra husband after too many champagnes. Rather than see her sister thrown into jail for bigamy, Sally poses as the wife of husband No. 2 (Neil Hamilton)—who is very pleased about the whole situation when he sobers up. However, his children, Marcia Mae Jones and George Ernst, are not. Things get pretty involved between one thing and another, before Marcia Mae, George, Neil and Sally settle down to anything that remotely resembles home, sweet home.—Republic, % Prescription for Romance The prescription, in this case, is handed out by the lovely Wendy Barrie, who is authorized to do such things—being a doctor in an Hungarian clinic. However, this isn’t a tale of pretty nurses and hand- some internes. It’s the story of one of the most ruthless criminals ever to flee the United States with a million dollars of stolen currency in his overnight bag. Henry Hunter is the gentleman in ques- tion, and having left one blonde (Dorothea Kent) at the New York pier, he heads right for his other blonde in Budapest. Wendy would just as soon never lay eyes Florence Rice, Cora Wither- spoon and Frank Morgan in “Beg, Borrow or Steal.” MODERN SCREEN READING TIME LESS THAN 2 MINUTES e Know the AND WELL WORTH EVERY WOMAN'S TIME TRUTH about sanitary napkins! Is there a way for you to secure greater Comfort and Security ? Suppose your needs differ on different days ... what can you do? What kind of deodorant should you use for Positive Protection? Every woman owes it to herself to read the frank answers to these intimate questions! SK yourself what kind of a sani- A tary napkin you want and we believe you'll say one that can’t chafe, can’t fail, can’t show. So, naturally, this was our goal. With the introduc- tion of Wondersoft Kotex*, we were confident we had achieved it! But to be honest, even though Wondersoft Kotex did create new standards of comfort and safety for most women, it did not completely satisfy every woman! Fortunately, we found out why... We discovered that one-size napkin will not do for every woman, any more than one-size hat, dress or pair of shoes. And for many women, one-size napkin will not do for every day, for a woman’s personal . needs may differ on dif- ferent days. To meet this prob- Use QUEST* am. with Kotex | lem, we developed 3 types of Kotex ... for different women, different days. Only Kotex has “All 3”... Regu- lar Kotex, Junior Kotex, Super Kotex. We sincerely believe that these 3 types of Kotex answer your demands for sanitary protection that meets your exact needs, each day. We urge you to try “All 3” next time, and see how they can bring you the greater comfort and security you seek. Try all 3 types of Kotex, then judge for yourself. The proof is in the wearing! Perhaps you will decide you want one type for today, another for to- morrow — or maybe all 3 types for different times. It is our honest opinion that only by try- ing “‘All 3” can you see how perfect modern sani- tary protection can be. Quest is the new positive deodorant powder developed especially for use with sanitary napkins. It is soothing, completely effective! Only 35c for the large size. KOTE X* SANITARY NAPKINS (*Trade Marks Reg. U. S. Patent Office) 97
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KK kK* Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs “Snow White,’ Walt Disney’s much anticipated feature-length cartoon, is here at last—and it is a pleasure to report that as screen entertainment and as an artistic achievement it is a remarkable piece of work. Loaded with comedy and _ scenic beauty, it also has pathos and tragedy. So realistic are the cartoon figures that many people in the premiere audience wept when Snow White died. : Snow White, as you may recall, is the young princess whose beauty so annoyed her wicked stepmother that she planned to kill her. Snow White escapes into the woods and finds the house of the seven dwarfs. When she cleans their house and cooks for them they all fall in love with her and ask her to remain with them. Her happiness is cut short when the wicked queen, disguised as a witch, offers her the poisoned apple which causes her death. Snow White is so beautiful the dwarfs refuse to bury her. 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%& Mama Runs Wild | When you know that Mama is Mary Boland, and that in this picture she’s politically- minded, you have a pretty good idea of how wild ‘things really do run. As pretty and as dazed as ever, Miss Boland manages to get everything in the civic and domestic life of her home-town in a ter- rible dither. When she unwittingly be- comes the means of discovering some dangerous outlaws, it suddenly occurs to our heroine that she has been shamefully neglecting her duty by confining all her talents to running her home and husband. Having managed her husband, Ernest Truex, with such indisputable success all these years, she hits upon the plan of all the women in her town managing all the men, and thereby forming a community which would be the model of all com- munities in the country. Then the fun be- gins. Directed by Ralph Staub.—Republic. kkk Wise Girl Miriam Hopkins, in the role of a mil- lionaire’s daughter whose leisure is de- voted to shooting off foreign counts, gives an excellent account if herself. She has other things on her mind besides titles— principally winning the custody of her sister’s two children, who have fallen into the hands of a crowd of Greenwich Vil- lagers and Ray Milland. Since the chil- dren have adopted Ray on their own, there’s nothing to do for the frantic aunt but have her go to the Village incognito, get in with the gang, and win back the youngsters. The fun begins from the min- ute she starts her new life and builds up to a hilarious climax after some pretty tough going for our heroine. “Wise Girl” ought to be a safe bet for anyone. Directed by Leigh Jason—RK O-Radio. A couple of the girls get together and talk it over. Wendy Barrie and Sonja Henie. MODERN SCREEN Henry Fonda — starring in Walter Wanger’s “I Met My Love Again’’. helps girl win beauty crown RUTH BROWW. <0 e000 PEGGY. HOLLIS v4.40 “SHE WAS VERY ATTRACTIVE, nc I noticed that winter wind and cold had chapped and cracked her lips — spoiled her beauty .. “TWO GIRLS WERE RIVALS for the title of Beauty Queen of the Ice Carni- val. Peggy told me how anxious she was to win... ““PEGGY WAS CHOSEN Queen of . and she always insists that it was my advice about this lip-protec- “IT TOLD HER that I’d heard many fam- ous beauties of the stage and screen Beauty .. mention a special lipstick with a rich, protective Beauty-Cream base... ” tion that won her the crown! .... INDEED, I'M GRATEFUL TO HENRY FONDA FOR TELLING ME ABOUT KISSPROOF LIPSTICK. NEVER AGAIN, IN WINTER OR SUMMER, WILL | BE WITHOUT ITS PROTECTIVE BEAUTY CREAM BASE TO KEEP MY LIPS SOFT AND SMOOTH. KISSPROOF IS A GIRLS MOST PRECIOUS BEAUTY SECRET. Kissproof Lipstick in 5 luscious shades 50 at drug and department stores . . . Cc Match it with Kissproof rouge, 2 styles — Lip and Cheek (creme) or Compact (dry) Kissproof Powder in 5 flattering shades, " : Generous trial sizes at all 10c yy. < <Q ndelible iP STICK ROUGE SCENARIO BY HENRY FONDA _
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Moonlight, plus soft music and Rosemary Lane mean one thing to Dick Powell. Right, a song. MODERN SCREEN Rosemary likes it, too, even though it’s all for art in “Hollywood Hotel.” “How versatile you are!” smiles Miss Lane, as Dick goes into his whistling act. THEIR BEST INVESTMENTS spending spree suggested that he do extra work in English pictures until the time came when he could find a more suitable occupation. After the first few days of work, he decided that he liked motion pic- tures very much, and he made up his mind that he would. stick to them. Ann Sothern’s selection of the best in- vestment of her life is even more para- doxical than Ray Milland’s. Her best in- (Continued from page 42) vestment was the purchase of two hundred shares of worthless gold stock. You see, when Ann first began to earn money, she knew nothing about how to invest it. Quite early in her “financial” career, she purchased this gold stock, guaranteed to double and perhaps triple in value within a week or two. “IT was foolish enough to believe this,” she said. Today, she is one of the canniest of Hollywood investors, and she says she owes her caution to the phoney gold stock which she carefully keeps as a warning against gullibility. For a long time Hollywood has been aware of the clannishness of James Cagney and his family. Nevertheless, I was sur- prised when James Cagney said, “The best investment I ever made was when I ARMAND, Des Moines, Iowa With eager anticipation, I send ten cents for your generous trial sizes of ARMAND BLENDED CREAM and WIND BLOWN ROSES POWDER. Name Address City. State I buy cosmetics at the following store: MM-338 7 100 66 and supple. male attention. 99 Complexion Guard Against Dry Skin— with Armand Blended Cream Every woman recognizes (often envies ) the irresistible allure of a complexion that glows with natural beauty. Tragically, too often, such a dry, weathered skin keeps many a girl from enjoying the spot light of flattering But Armand—creator of cosmetics that glorify natural loveliness—has the answer— ARMAND BLENDED CREAM. The delicate oils of this amazingly delightful cream gently aid to soften harsh, dry, weathered skin. often in two weeks, you scarcely seem to know yourself in the mirror, your skin seems transformed, delicately soft The fluffiest, softest, creamiest cream ever made, Armand Blended Cream contains no wax nor grease, a new type of cream, with a fragrance of fresh cut roses. It gives you the effect of five facial aids in one jar, hence is both convenient and economical. Armand invites you to try this exciting cream which has endeared itself to thousands and thousands of wo- men everywhere. awaiting your command. cents, 10 cents. Soon, Your favorite cosmetic counter has it Priced at $1.00, 50 cents, 25 If you prefer, send the coupon and ten cents fora generous trial size of Armand Blended Cream and Wind Blown Roses Powder—both essential to fresh, radiant loveliness. ARMAND FINE COSMETICS Created by Armand to glorify natural Loveliness!
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Why, Rosemary! And right in front of the camera man, too. Unbend a little, Dick. brought my brother Bill out to Hollywood with me to handle all my business affairs.” Bill Cagney, as you may remember, got several good picture breaks shortly after his arrival in Hollywood. Though James Cagney had hoped his brother would take over the management of his affairs, he unselfishly encouraged him to take those jobs when they came along. But all of Bill’s early training had been in business, and he wasn’t very happy in his work as an actor. So he gave it up to devote himself entirely to managing his brother’s business affairs. “Tt made me feel good to have Bill at my side to fight my business battles for me,” James Cagney told me. “Even in early childhood I sensed keen business acumen in my younger brother, and as he grew older I became convinced that he had the best business head of any man I ever knew. After meeting most of the business big-wigs of Hollywood, I still hold to that opinion. “And, above all, I have a sense of calm security with my affairs in the hands of a man who is impelled by brotherly affection to make my welfare his paramount con- cern. Actually, the investment I made was only nominal, for the entire expense in- volved was the price of a railroad ticket.” Today, Jeanette MacDonald is even more famous as a singer than as an actress, but she would in all probability have remained a straight dramatic actress touring in stock had it not been for what she considers the best investment she ever made. “Taking singing lessons was my best in- vestment,” she said. “Because I had pro- eressed fairly well as a dancer and an actress, my friends thought it a silly idea and a waste of money for me to take vocal lessons. Practically everyone I knew opposed it, but being stubborn, I went ahead.” ; Anyone who has seen Jeanette in “May- time” or “Firefly” knows why she calls this the best investment of her life. Anne Shirley says the best investment she ever made was just twelve dollars and MODERN SCREEN Ne — That's better. of boys who'd sing a song for a reward like this one! i white checked pique collar and cuffs. The hat was navy blue taffeta. So well did the director like Anne in these clothes that he gave her the role. Believing that getting this role was the turning point in her life, she changed her name from Dawn to Anne Shirley, the name of the heroine of the picture. The change in name seemed to bring her good fortune, for from obscurity she flashed in- to sudden success. Joel McCrea believes that it was a twenty-five dollar investment in a trench coat which led to his first successful screen role. He was walking across the RKO lot in the trench coat when he was noticed by Producer Bill Sistrom. At the time Joel was getting about fifty dollars a week. Sistrom walked over to him and said, “You’re an actor, aren’t you?” aves I have a small contract here,” Joel said. “Okay. I think you’re just the type to play the lead in ‘The Silver Horde.’ Go over and tell Archainbaud to put you in the lead for that picture.” This was followed by increasingly im- portant roles. Joel claims that it was his swaggering appearance in the trench coat that started it all, and he still treasures the coat. Rosalind Russell doesn’t like to put friends on a profit and loss basis, but she declares that her friendship with Char- lotte Winters was about the best investment she ever made. OSALIND had come from New York with a short-term contract at one of the smaller studios. 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His playing won him a spot in the California Collegians Orchestra and in the Broadway musical, “Roberta.” At the opening night of “Roberta,” Oscar Serlin, at that time talent scout for Para- mount, saw a boy who played the saxo- phone and gave a half minute’s imitation of Rudy Valee. At the time the name Fred MacMurray, meant nothing, but in that brief time Serlin got a sudden hunch, and sent for MacMurray. On asking Oscar Serlin what he saw in the unknown boy, who has since confessed that during most of his performance he was buried by “two piccolo players, a bass viol and the rear of a grand piano,” he said, “Raw masculinity, looks and an infectious personal charm.” If it hadn’t been for the saxophone, he wouldn’t have had a chance to discover any of these things. Ginger Rogers’ best investment was playing a small role. After she had been a success on the New York stage, she came to Hollywood hoping to find even greater popularity in pictures. But things simply did not break right for her. For six months, while her agent was looking for “important parts,” she did nothing. Finally she was oftered a bit at very little money. Her agent was horrified, and her friends advised Ginger against accept- ing it. They warned her that she would be relegating herself to the ranks of bit players, and since Hollywood always pig- eonholes everyone, she would thereafter find it impossible to step out of that class. However, Ginger decided to invest her time in this small role. The picture was “42nd Street” and Ginger’s clever playing of her small part resulted in bigger roles. This investment in work colored Ginger’s entire career, for she determined from then on to work hard at what she was offered regardless of its seeming importance or unimportance. As a result of this belief she did “Flying Down to Rio,’ worked hard at it and accepted third billing. This led to six more pictures with Astaire and to greater box-office popularity than she had dared to hope for. Carole Lombard’s favorite investment is a hobby, an avocation and a business all in Nothing like a swig from the garden hose when you're thitrstivaeemecl MacMurray takes time out trom his chores for a bit of re- freshment. one. She has derived more enjoyment and profit from a forty-acre parcel of alfalfa land which she purchased two years ago in the San Fernando Valley than from any other investment she has ever made. It was bought at a very low figure when land values had diminished considerably. With the expert care she has given it, this property is now worth much more than the purchase price. Carole Lombard gets a good deal of pleas- ure out of running the farm successfully. HE greatest investment George Burns and Gracie Allen ever made was their decision to adopt their two babies, Sandra and Ronald Jon. Of course, the adoption changed the children’s lives completely, but it changed George Burns and Gracie still more. Though they were always charming and likeable show people, Burns and Allen were at one time completely wrapped up in themselves; but today almost everything they do is for their adopted babies. Where- as they were once content to live in a hotel, today Burns and Allen have a home of their own, with an outside nursery. “One day,” she says, “I took Sandra down to George’s office, but unfortunately he wasn’t in. ‘Oh, I’m so disappointed,’ I said to Sandra. That night Sandra, fixing her large blue eyes on George, said sternly, ‘Daddy, I disappointed in you. ” The investment of George Burns and Gracie Allen was in happiness. Joan Fontaine’s best investment was made when she was only thirteen. The investment was a dog-eared copy of “Peter Pan,” purchased for sixty-eight cents’ in a second-hand book store. This staggering purchase left Joan broke until allowance time came around, but she didn’t care. The story was so real to her and came to mean so much that she decided to play it on the stage one day. Most children get stage struck, but they usually get over it. Joan never did. As a result of that first childish desire to play the part of Peter Pan, she worked and studied and planned for a career as an actress, and today she gives every promise of having a successful movie career. If you have saved a hundred dollars or two hundred dollars or five hundred dollars, don’t despair because your savings aren’t any larger. If you invest those savings in happiness, they may bring you a magnificent return.
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MODERN SCREEN: HE'S A SIMPLE SOUL Suddenly he leaned forward, resolve in his eye. “I’m going to bare my soul to you. Remember the gilded youth I played in ‘I Met Him In Paris’? Remember how he took possession of the Ritz lobby and picked up the prettiest girl he’d ever laid eyes on, without turning a hair? That always reminds me of my own experience at the Waldorf. It was so different.” Mr. and Mrs. Robert Young were visit- ing New York for the first time. Bob’s agent had made reservations for them at the Waldorf. “T knew nothing about it except for a vague impression that it was pretty grand. I wasn’t, however, prepared for the Ara- bian Nights. We were driven down through this subterranean garage, and came up through the basement, so the lobby hit us suddenly. We were para- lyzed. We thought we’d got lost in an annex of the Grand Central Station. “T tottered to the desk and inquired about the suite. It wasn’t ready, because I’d neglected to tell my agent we were flying. I asked for the manager, not realizing that he was a kind of grand vizier, who sat up on the fiftieth floor and pushed buttons. “Presently this dignitary appeared, look- ing like a diplomat at the Court of St. James. I couldn’t very well ask him about a detail like bed and bath. But it seems I had to, if we were ever going to get out of that blasted lobby. “He was most affable, bowed us into the elevator, had us whisked up to infinity, (Continued from page 25) showed us the suite, which was breath- taking (so was the bill), gave us an arm- ful of literature about how to find our way ‘round the place, and bowed himself out, leaving us entirely alone on the thirty- fifth floor, looking at each other. ELL, the thirty-fifth floor was pretty terrifying in itself. Besides, we were hungry. We didn’t know whether to go downstairs or whether we were ex- pected to dress, if we did go down. Any- way, we were too scared to face the haz- ards. So we decided to have dinner sent up.” It was Betty’s birthday. Bob felt they should drink a toast to it. He went to the phone. Could they send up the where- withal ? “You wish room service, sir?” “T suppose so,” he muttered. Jigglings, buzzes, voices. Room service. Bob gave his order. Presently there arrived a_ resplendent Ganymede, bearing a bottle on a tray. The tray also bore a bill for eight dollars. Bob gulped down the shock. “I ordered White Rock and cigarettes, too.” “They are coming, sir.” A second emissary, a second tray and a second tip. A third with the cigarettes. When the door closed behind that one, they looked at each other. “Maybe we’d better not order food,” Betty quavered. ‘They'll send up a cap- tain with the bread and a major with the butter and a general with the coffee, and PARK&TILFORD’'S New Perfume Sensation Every moment sparkles with gay romance when you wear well have to tip them all.” They sent up what looked like a major domo with the menu, which was chiefly in French. The trapped pair chose food at random. Half an hour later the major domo returned with an elegant array of covered dishes and a waiter. He served them and retired, bowing himself out. The waiter stepped back four paces and stood _at attention. Betty and Bob ate. They had to eat. The waiter stood behind them, dar- ing them not to. “What's he for?” brows signalled. “To snatch away the soup plates before we can get the last drop,” Bob wanted to tell her. “Couldn’t you send him away?” her eyes pleaded. “He'd probably bop me over the head,” thought Bob. By the time the miserable meal was over they were both so homesick for the simple life of Hollywood that Betty was- ready to bawl and Bob to swear. Still they af- fected good cheer. “Let’s call Tom O’Brien,’ Bob proposed. Tom O’Brien was a shoe salesman and a dear friend. Tom O’Brien would put a different face on New York. They dragged out the phone book. Eighty-nine Thomas O’Briens stared them in the eye. Systematically they began to eliminate. Betty’s raised eye- “Riverside Drive sounds too doggy. Tom wouldn’t live there. sounds like a movie. there.” Forty-second Street Tom wouldn't live Adventure perfume. Spicy, provocative, lingering — its caress- ing fragrance whispers of love, the supreme adventure! Begin today to live with a new, intoxicating glamour — keyed to the thrill of Park © Tilford’s Adventure. Smart tuckaway size at all ten- cent stores lOc RK @ TILFORD ae og q Ys
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Tele- phone home.” They got through to their home as quickly as if they’d been dialling from the next street. Betty’s mother, who was tak- ing care of the baby (only one baby then) answered the phone. They talked happily for a while, heard what Carol Ann had had for supper, what time she’d gone to bed, how cute she looked in her crib, with her pink fist tucked under her pink chin. Then Bob had another inspiration. “You'll find a lot of Christmas cards on the bottom shelf of the cupboard in the breakfast nook. Look through them for Tom O’Brien’s, and get his address. We'll hold the wire.” At eleven o'clock they got the right Tom O’Brien, who whooped out a welcome and bade them come right down. Half an hour later they were eating scrambled eggs with their friends and talking their heads off. They stayed in New York for ten days. They moved to a hotel where they felt more at home. 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Judging from the expression, Bing Crosby goes to town when he sings on the radio. G000 NEWS (Continued from page 70) Lola Lane, as the temperamental movie star in “Hollywood Hotel,’ finds herself surrounded by designers, beauticians, maids and studio publicity people, when she really wants to be “away from it all.” “Crowds,” she sighs. “Why am I always surrounded by people? All I ask is a little exclusion!” Hearts and Flowers: Most permanent look- ing of the romantic arrangements of the mo- ment are Jimmy Stewart and Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant and Phyllis Brooks, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich and Doug Fairbanks, Jr., and Bing Crosby and the Santa Anita race track. The J. Walter Ruben-Virginia Bruce wedding was a simple affair held at their own home, in direct contrast to the elab- orate reception tendered them later the same evening by the Jack Warners, the Countess di Frasso and Kay Francis, who collaborated on a mammoth shindig at the home of the Warners. Hundreds of friends toasted the bride and groom, but the most interesting guest was a young lady who attended the wedding but didn’t carry on at the reception. She was Susan Ann Gil- bert, Virginia’s 4-year-old daughter. HH Carole Lombard items: Miss L. is one gal whose popularity with co-workers is not just publicity. They really like her, because she’s genuine and because she never turns on the temperament. Most unusual thing about her is that she doesn’t mind being mussed up before the camera. Most beauti- ful women in pictures dread the thought of a misplaced strand of hair, but Lombard has submitted to everything from dunking in icy water to a boot in the derriere. Sel- dom goes to night clubs, because she pre- fers a small party at home with only her close friends. Height of Something or Other: A Los Angeles dealer has just asked W. C. Fields to endorse a local brand of milk! (Continued on page 120) MODERN SCREEN Suse 105
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quit.” But whether I will ever have the courage, the initiative, the gumption to leave of my own free will is another matter. I probably won’t have.” “But why?” E “Dreams come true too quickly,” said Olivia at once, and sadly, “that’s why. Youth is the time for dreaming, not for the realization of dreams. I don’t dream any longer, and I know it. “T haven’t had enough of being young. Tve learned too soon and much too fast, that people are what they are, not what they should be; that life is what it is, not what I thought it was, and believe it or not, I resent losing my youth overnight. “T didn’t have enough of the kind of life I had up home in Saratoga. It was too brief, the time I had to dream the dreams all girls dream, I guess. For I dreamed, of course, that I would like to become a movie actress. I’d see Claudette Colbert and Bette Davis and Jean Arthur and. the others on the screen and get terrific thrills and wonder what it would all be like. That’s what the stars were to me and now, before I’ve had time to realize it, I’m that to everyone else. I dreamed that I would have a lot of money, bushels and tons of money, so that I could buy a very expensive dress and a car of my own and ride around, very elegant and noticed by everybody. I dreamed how I would adore to meet Roland Colman, but knew that that, of course, was certainly only a dream, the sheerest, fantastic folly. “And then suddenly, all the dreams came true. All the dreams are true. And what of it? I can buy myself an expen- sive dress, not one but as many as I want. And I don’t want to. That excitement I had in high school when I saved up my allowance for weeks and bought an $18.75 dinner dress, that was excitement! “And suddenly, too, I was able to buy my own car, able to buy more than one car if I felt like it. I am a movie star and none of it gives me the thrill, the real deep excitement, the big bang I had when I played Hermia in the Hollywood Bowl. ‘God,’ I thought then, but reverently, ‘God, to be playing in Max Reinhardt’s produc- tion in the Hollywood Bowl, the gorgeous- ness of it!’ And that skin-prickling, ex- ultant heart-in-my-throat gorgeousness is gone. I miss it, I feel cheated of it, “And then suddenly, I could meet Ronald Colman, and did. He came to my set one day and there was enough residue of my old feeling of the improbability of such an occasion to make me tongue-tied and awkward then. I didn’t know what to do or to say. And that was all right. That was thrilly and exciting. When he asked for me to play with him in one of his pictures, it was too much, Too much, again. For if anyone had ever told me that I would not only meet Ronald Col- man in the flesh, but that he would ask for me for one of his pictures, I would have thought that I had gone mad. Too much, all of it, too soon. D’you see what I mean? “The only time,” Olivia went on, “that I ever recapture any of the old feeling of awe and wonder and self-consciousness is when I am with Brian Aherne. I am scared of Brian. He js really such a great actor, such an extraordinary person, that he strikes me tongue-tied and pink. I_ nearly died when we were making ‘Garrick’ He was so wonderful and I felt that everything I did was so stupid and inadequate by comparison, so I just nearly died of self-consciousness every minute of the time, which proves that there is some hero worship left,’ smiled Olivia, “We'd have tea late every afternoon, an o'd English custom. Really, I was petri- fied of him, couldn’t think of a thing to say. You'd think I’d have gotten over it, MODERN SCREEN ORFORMS have revolutionized feminine hygiene— N made it simple, convenient, easy! These antisep- tic suppositories are completely ready for use. There’s nothing to mix or to measure. You don’t have to worry about an “overdose” or “burn.” No apparatus is needed to apply Norforms. They are the dainty, modern way to inner cleanliness. They contain : F y Pape drecini Norforms melt at internal body temperature, releasing pone er - a concentrated yet non-irritating antiseptic film that remains The antiseptic used in Nor- ; : : : ; forms is anhydro para hy- in prolonged and effective contact. This antiseptic—Parahy- droxy mercurt meta cresol— drecin—is found in no other product for feminine hygiene. called ‘‘parahydrecin” for ce 6 ; a : Shore Mullionsienown hoo Norforms are positively antiseptic and non-irritating. soothing it is to delicate SO een ee) MILLIONS! USED) EVERY) YEAR bly antiseptic under the conditions of use. Nor- Send for the new Norforms booklet, ''Feminine Hygiene Made Easy.” Or, forms have no tell-tale buy a box of Norforms at your druggist’s today. 12 in a package, com- medicated odor—are deo- plete with leaflet of instructions. The Norwich Pharmacal Company, dorizing in effect. Norwich, New York; Toronto, Canada; makers of Unguentine. NORFORMS KNOWN TO PHYSICIANS AS **VAGIFORMS’® © n. pP.c. 1938 107
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Why when we were making ‘Robin Hood,’ he actually hooked my skirt for me. The cast roared and a prankish cameraman snapped him doing it. The print is pre- served in my album. ND it’s all wrong,” continued Olivia, sombrely now, “for at twenty-one your pulses should hammer and your skin get goose-fleshy and your breath come quick and fast and mine doesn’t now, not any more, not for half enough reasons and I know that this is sad, and a kind of a loss. “The dreams come true and you find that you don’t want any of them very much. And you shouldn’t discover this too soon, not until you are old enough to have developed a philosophy of life which will take the place of the dreams of youth. Mine have come true so fast that they squeeze the very life out of themselves. “And there is a sort of tiredness in me, too. I get a certain pleasure, still, out of being known, recognized, asked for auto- graphs. I haven’t had enough of that yet to feel bored with it. 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do anything about it. I have become too lymphatic to make any such drastic de- cision as leaving the screen. I don’t use any initiative because little or no initiative is required of me. It is all a matter of what the studio gives me to do. “As a result, I’ve become subjective and submissive and I am, or was, by nature, independent and self-reliant. “It’s a kind of ‘what doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and there- by lose his own soul.’ It is my soul I’m worried about. I have gained the whole world, the visible, tangible world, and there are advantages, of course. To me, the greatest advantage is that of being finan- cially independent. I love it. I always re- sented dependence, even when I was a youngster. I love my independence so much that I don’t really believe I could get along without it now. If I had to, even being married, I’m afraid I’d be perfectly miserable.” UT if you should really fall in love,” I said, “have you ever been in love so that you can say, with authority, how you'd react if real love should come?” “Yes, I’ve been very much in love with a young man who was studying to be a doctor. And we planned to marry and I was to be a doctor’s wife and live on his earnings and I thought, then, that I would be well content. Now, I doubt it. So that even this advantage has its dis- advantage. For this is my problem now: Whom could I marry? “IT wouldn’t want to marry an actor. I couldn’t very well marry anyone outside of the business because I would know that one day he would wake up and dis- cover little, old Olivia de Havilland of Saratoga and she wouldn’t be the girl he’d married at all. And besides, girls on the screen just don’t meet the nice, worth- while marriageable men outside the pro- fession. ; “And so, I’m sort of coasting along. I’ve got emotional indigestion. I may get over it. But if I do get over it, it will be be- cause a hardening process has set in, a sort of callousness to the things that mat- ter to me now, an acceptance of the kind of people and the kind of values I can’t accept yet. “And I feel that we lead a very selfish existence. We all do when we are screen stars, because we must. Everything is done for us. We are spoiled grown-up children. For instance, if an extra on the set should have an accident of any kind I can’t obey my natural decent impulse and run to the rescue. Not me. For there is a million dollars, not mine, invested in this property known as Olivia de Havilland and it must be protected. Or if I am on the set talking, perhaps, to a woman old enough to be my great-grandmother, an extra again, let’s say, and a chair is brought, the chair is for me and I must take it. I can’t make the respectful ges- ture to old age a girl should make, be- cause I am the star and I must keep crisp and fresh and rested looking for the next take. “T won't allow this revolving-around-me process at home, though. Neither will Joan. Not that Mother is the kind given to revolving, anyway. She doesn’t feel any differently about us than she ever did. She still teases me, calls me ‘Miss O. deH,’ says, ‘Well, Miss O. deH, come to earth, if you please. No, Mother doesn’t re- volve and we wouldn’t allow her to, even if she were so-minded. “We insist that she have the best room in the house, manage the house, and us. It is her home and we are just the girls, living home as we were before we ever did more than dream about making good in Hollywood.” MODERN SCREEN WHICH COLOR WILL BE YOUR LUCKY STAR? MID-NIHTE SUN SUNSET DAYE (Day) NIHTE (Night) NATURAL See how one of these ten thrilling new face powder colors will win you new radiance, new compliments, new luck! 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Many physicians have prescribed Pertussin for over 30 years. It’s safe and aets quickly. Sold at all druggists. PERTUSSIN The ““Moist-Throat” Method of Couch Relief 110 MODERN SCREEN Even the big stars have to make tests before starting a picture, not of their acting ability but to see how their costumes and make-up will photograph. Bette Davis is shown here wearing a costume for “Jezebel.” ELIGIBLE BACHELOR (Continued from page 38) College, his main ambition was to get out of school. He worked for a time for an architect (his father was an architect) and then got a job in Liverpool with the West African Merchants. When he saw other agents coming back from Africa with the indelible stamp of fever suffering on their faces, he gave up the idea of going himself and turned to the stage, hoping to find there, the freedom and excitement he craved. Now, he is glad that he is an actor, though he has often thought of what he’d do were he ever to change his profession. He said, “If I ever do leave the stage and screen, I rather think I’d like to go into politics. English politics interest me enormously. The career of a surgeon, too, would be satisfyingly real. But I’ve had tremendously interesting experiences just because I am an actor. That is one of the great benefits of being an actor. All kinds of doors are opened to us. “I met Marshal Foch, after the war. I was going through Paris on my way to Australia with a stock company. We talked for an hour or more and when I took my leave, he asked me, me, if I would tell the Australian people for him how much they’d helped to win the war. I managed to de- liver his message over a wireless broad- cast. Whether anyone listened or not I can’t say. “T met Hugh Walpole, too, for whose books I have the most profound admira- tion.” At this point, Brian Aherne threw back his head and laughed long and loud, as is his way. He added then, “But the way I met Hugh Walpole! We were both dinner guests at the home of the late Richard Boleslavski. We were sitting on those high stools around the bar. Mr. Walpole was talking about his own bachelorhood. I said that I, too, belonged to the brotherhood and Mr. Walpole scoffed at me, saying, ‘I mean a real bachelor. Someone who has given time to it.’ Unfortunately, I got playful. I put up my foot and poked Mr. Walpole,.gently, I thought, in the small of his back. To my horror, to the stunned horror of every- one in the room, he did a sort of flip-flop off the stool, landed square on the top of his head on the stone floor, turned a com- plete somersault and lay prone and abso- lutely motionless on his back. “I could hear myself saying, absurdly, ‘Mr. Walpole, Mr. Walpole...’ e summoned doctors. VENTUALLY, after some very bad minutes, he recovered sufficiently to be taken to his home. When I offered to aid him, he cried out feebly, “Keep that young man away from me, he’s violent!” “And this is the black-out. Some while later, I was making a picture in which I had to have a fight with a policeman. I told the chap, an extra doing the bit, that I would pull my punch, that he should stand facing me in such and such a way, that the sound men would take care of the crack on the jaw but that actually I would just miss him. Somehow, in the rough and tumble of the scene I did not pull my punch and the chap came out of it with his tooth through his lower lip. Later, I asked who the man was, wanted to do something for him. I was told he was Walpole’s valet. If I hadn’t known better, I'd have sworn they were kidding me. They weren't. Seems that the fellow had been eager to find out what acting in movies is like and they had given him the bit as the policeman. Can you imagine what poor Mr. Walpole said when he heard that? I can!” IS interests, his experiences, his ad- ventures range over every country in the world, every facet of life. He knows politics, the latest scientific developments, medicine, aviation, books, the theatre, Hol- lywood. He talked about his recent adventure in flying, solo, across the continent. Of the five minutes or more when he and death met face to face. He said, “I had to make
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| Here's how Bette will look when she goes calling in New Orleans. a forced landing in Pennsylvania, you know. I had checked in at the last air- port and had been told that sunset was at six-twenty. Suddenly I found the sun set- ting in back of me and realized that I had failed to take into consideration that I had crossed a state line, the time had changed and sunset was at five-twenty. I had no landing lights. MODERN SCREEN Bere, Ley Sail Evening frocks in the days of “Jezebel” were so glamorous. “T had no radio. I had no co-pilot, of course. I was not equipped for night flying. I had a bad five minutes. I couldn’t get my bearings, didn’t know where I was. Finally, I thought I spotted two fields. One seemed lighter in color than the other. I even remembered how aviators, forced down in fields, have been sued by farmers for ruining their alfalfa! I aimed for the darker of the two fields and made it. “Immediately I landed, farmers started to run out of the hedges. One of them shouted, ‘Why didn’t ya take the other field, young feller, it would’a been softer. That there’s alfalfa!” But at our suggestion that too much ad- venture might have spoiled him for do- mesticity, Mr. Aherne was defensive. “No!” he declared. “As a matter of fact, men who have been soldiers of for- tune usually make the best husbands. My brother in England, every bit as much of a chain breaker as I have ever been, is now married, has two children and you can’t pry him away from his fireside, even for an evening. When I am in London, I call him and suggest that we dine together as we used to do. He always evades. He says, ‘The baby has a ten o'clock feeding. You know how it is, old chap.’ When I tell him that I don’t know how it is, old chap, that he has a nurse, I mean the baby has, and that I always supposed that was what nurses were for, he says, ‘No, I don’t think she gets the feeding the right temperature. I[’d rather be here myself.’ “And the funny part of it is,” said Brian Aherne, “I understand exactly how he feels. I will feel the same way myself. “When I marry, and the sooner the better, I want the marriage to be a mar- riage. I would prefer not to marry a pro- fessional woman. A screen star is married to her contract. She comes home after a hard day at the studio, has a massage, has her hair done, has a manicure, must be asleep by nine o’clock. What kind of a marriage would that be?” “But supposing,” we said, “supposing you fall seriously in love with a screen star, then what would you do?” “Then I would doubtless marry the star and—get into trouble,” laughed Mr. Aherne. 111 aa See —— 2 OEE a SA ee
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Marion Sterling, Violet, Tex. As far as we know, Nelson Eddy has made no plans for an English production of ‘‘Robin Hood.” As to the concert tour situation, you might write Mr. Eddy himself in care of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City, Cal. Also, any complaints you wish to register, could be addressed there. Don’t be afraid to ask questions! Write again and we'll be glad to give you whatever information we can. May Harding, Fort Worth, Tex. By the time you read this, Barbara Stanwyck and Bob Taylor may be Mister and Missus! But you know how things happen in Hollywood, so don’t count on it! Frances Burke, Wichita, Kan. Your guess is as good as ours. Tyrone Power seems to favor the little Gaynor gal at the moment and as for Sonja Henie, well, she’s seen around with Cesar Romero quite a_ lot these days. Florence Lewis, Evanston, Ill. The girl you’re thinking of is Beverly Roberts. She’s under contract to Warner Brothers. 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Off to lunch. Ethel Merman, escorted by Don Ameche and Cesar Romero (lucky Ethel), knock off work to grab them- selves a bite. ITS FUN 10 BE BROKE (Continued from page 39) room,” she boasted. “Of course this place is fantastic, it’s so tiny, but I wanted it because it is like a little place I lived in in France. And how I love France! “Before I moved here I lived next door in that civilized looking house,” she con- tinued without ever stopping for breath, “and every time I came to the library for a book I asked the woman if she couldn’t put her tenant out so I could live here. One day she told me her tenant had been called to Europe and I could have the apartment. Isn’t it screwy? But that’s the way things always happen to me. “See that chair?” and she indicated an easy chair, upholstered in brown and green chintz. “I had the couch cover for some time and one day I walked into a store be- cause they had a sale and found this chair, covered with the identical material the couch cover is made of. “Vivian!” she called through the door. “Ts the water boiling?” It wasn’t. “Well, then, you’ve got to see the rest of the apartment,” she announced, and rushed us through a tiny passage way into the bathroom which, while not built to hold three people, was complete in every detail including modern glassed-in shower and tub. “But I have to go through the kitchen to get to my clothes closet,” she added. “TIsn’t it fantastic? But I love it.” She hardly sits still long enough to be described at all. Her friends declare that she bubbles partly because she is so full of life and energy and partly because she has heard that brains are not an asset in Hollywood and she tries to hide her in- telligence behind a barrage of inconsequen- tial chatter. If ancestry means anything, she comes by her brains honestly, for she is the great-granddaughter of Dr. Edward Jenner, who discovered and first put to use vaccination with smallpox virus. Another ancestor was Dr. William Jenner, whom Napoleon called “the greatest benefactor of his time.” MODERN SCREEN For Mother deals with COLDS the modern direct way ... With specialized medication FTER ALL, it is plain common sense to fight the miserable symptoms of a cold not only promptly—when you feel them— but also direct—where you feel them. In dealing with different types and stages of colds, so much depends on the proper use at the proper time of specialized medication. When Colds THREATEN At the first warning sneeze or sniffle, or the slightest irritation in the nose—quick!—put a few drops of Vicks VA-TRO-NOL up each if 3 nostril. VA-TRO-NOL is specialized medication for the nose and upper throat, where 3 out of 4 colds start. It aids Nature’s own first line of defense against colds. Used in time, it helps to prevent many colds— or to throw off head colds in their early stages. Clears Stuffed-Up Heads. Even when your head is all clogged up from a cold, Va-tro-nol brings comforting relief. It clears away clogging mucus, reduces swollen membranes, and helps keep sinuses open. It lets you breathe again. And Va-tro-nol is so convenient, so easy to use—at home or at work. Keep it handy —use it early. If first signs have If a Cold been neglected —or a STRIKES cold strikes without GS. warning—use Vicks Oa VAPORUB, the safe, Ney external treatment. i zy Just massage it on AES throat, chest, and back at bedtime. No “‘dosing’”’—no stomach up- sets. Best of all, no long waiting for relief to begin. For VAPORUB attacks the dis- tressing symptoms direct—right where you feel them. It acts direct through the skin like a poultice, and direct on the irritated air-passages with its medicated vapors. This double action loosens phlegm—re- lieves irritation and coughing—helps break local congestion. Relieves While You Sleep. Long after restful sleep comes, VapoRub keeps right on working. And often, by morning the worst of the cold is over. Proved in Clinical Tests Among 17,353 People Both Va-tro-nol and VapoRub have been doubly proved for you—by everyday use in millions of homes, and by one of the largest series of clinical tests ever made on colds. For full details see the special folder— “Vicks Plan for Better Control of Colds’ —which comes in each Vicks package. VICKS VA-TRO-NOL VAPORUB Used at the first Just rubbed on the warning sneeze or throat, chest, and sniffle k Helps iS | Helps PREVENT many colds END a cold sooner > 2 BIG RADIO SHOWS: Sunday 7 P. M. (EST) — famous guest stars featuring JEANETTE \z5/ MacDONALD...Mon., Wed., Fri., 10:30 A. M. (EST) TONY WONS. Both Columbia Network. OVER #7/ MILLION VICK AIDS USED YEARLY FOR BETTER CONTROL OF COLDS 113 = TOE SE a ET PETE
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“Why, before I came to Hollywood just the thought of having a script handed to me to read; the idea of being able to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to a part; the idea of having a job in any picture, good or bad, would have bowled me over. IFE is a series of different levels. Every increase in salary, every step up takes you to a new, higher level. It’s a good idea to keep your feet on the ground so that even five dollars more a week means something.” One lesson Beverly thinks important, is to learn not to want things too hard. “If you want things in a relaxed way,’ she thinks, “they come to you much easier. You can’t make things come to you. ‘When I was singing in night clubs in New York, I wanted more than anything in the world to get a chance to work in pictures. A talent scout saw me work and said I must have a screen test. She was sure I was just what pictures needed, but I refused the offer because I didn’t think it was the right time. I kept on with the work I was doing but always in my mind was the desire to work in pictures.” There isn’t an ounce of conceit in Bev- erly’s make-up but she swells with pride when she recalls the comment a Pittsburgh critic wrote of her singing. He wrote: “She can sing songs in a way that would | cee) make Noel Coward sit up and say ‘uncle. After an engagement at the Town Casino, she sang in Jack Dempsey’s res- taurant until he changed policy and dis- continued the floor show. Meanwhile, she had made the screen test, but seven months after it had first been offered her. “And just to show you how things always hap- pen to me, the night before I was to close at Jack Dempsey’s a telegram came offer- ing me a job at Warner’s Studio in Holly- wood. I owed two weeks’ rent and had $2.15 in my pocket but I managed to bor- row enough to pay up and get out here.” Her employers have forgotten they hired a singer when they signed Beverly but she Guess who? Nope, it's Gra- cie Allen, all done up as a Puritan miss for her antics in “College Swing.” Siw “AT ALL SS 10} STORES MODERN SCREEN Copy this girl and send us your drawing — per- haps you'll win a COMPLETE FEDERAL COURSE FREE! This contest is for amateurs, so if you like to draw do not hesitate to enter. Prizes for Five Best Drawings — FIVE COMPLETE ART COURSES FREE, in- cluding drawing outfits. (Walue of each course, $215.00.) FREE! Each contestant whose drawing shows sufficient merit will receive a grading and advice as to whether he or she has, in our estimation, artistic talent worth developing. Nowadays design and color play an important part in the sale of almost everything. Therefore the artist, who designs merchandise or illustrates advertising has become a real factor in modern industry. Machines can never displace him. Many Federal students, both men and girls who are now commercial designers or illustrators capable of earning from $1,000 to $5000 yearly have been trained by the Federal Course. Here’s a splendid opportunity to test your talent. Read the rules and send your drawing to the address below. Ae AURORA BOBBED Z HAIR PIN CURLER has a clip that holds hair ready for rolling. No fussing or fumbling necessary. With set of pins — 10c, Lovely curls in 20 minutes with AURORA WAVER CURLER. Only curler that ce and Perfume eliminates overnight use. Pe AALS eee 4 for 10c. lor 10c SAMPLES FRAGRANCE Send 10 cents for 3 pistripBUTORS val frances). dr me/ TRY FOR AN (ny Scholarship liberal test vials. (Please specify fra- P. O. BOX 590, RULES This contest open only to amateurs, 16 years old or more. Profes- sional commercial artists and Federal students are not eligible. 1. Make drawing of girl 5 inches high, on pe- per 6 inches high. Draw only the girl, not the lettering. 2. Use only pencil or pen. 3. No drawings will be returned. 4. Print your name, ad- dress, age and occupa- tion on back of drawing. 5. All drawings must be received by Feb. 28th, 1938. Prizes will be awarded for drawings best in proportion and neatness by Federal Schools Faculty. De Luxe PERFUME Gives you SUPERB QUALITY for only 10 cents! size flaconettes .. . Violet and Sweet Pea. Compare De suxe with perfumes costing far more} leading 10 cent stores BUFFALO. N. Y. Try these sensational, lingering fragrances, in exquisite dram- i Gardenia, Lilac, Carnation, Lily O’Valley,
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Later she said, “I be- lieve the most important thing I’ve dis- covered about life is that the only constant thing in the world is change. “Today, I feel that I couldn’t handle marriage and a career. I feel that way... definitely. But who knows that tomortow will not prove that I can and will be placed in that very situation?” “Love is such a very intangible quality. Today it may be the fartherest thing from your mind. Tomorrow you may be swept off your feet. So I’ve tried to keep an open mind about marriage. I’m a firm believer in not crossing any bridges until I get to them. “Like every girl,’ she continued, “I have had ideals about men. Most of them I have discarded. Things that used to seem terribly important to me no longer have the same value. Possibly because I’ve always been so independent (and necessarily so) I have acquired a much more practical view- point than rides along the beach in the | moonlight, dancing in the dark and boxes of candy. 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i I feel to be absolutely essential to love. For example, I don’t believe any romance or marriage can last without a foundation of understanding and consideration. I don’t think I am unreasonable in expecting this. I don’t think IJ have ever asked anything of a man I wouldn’t be perfectly willing to give in return. “One thing I’ve always hated in any re- lationship with a man is conflict. I’d walk a mile to have peace in any situation. I don’t mind criticism in the least, if I feel that I deserve it. In fact, I welcome any suggestion that I think will help me. (Oe of my worst failings is jealousy. It’s not that I am jealous of women especially. I am simply jealous of anything that comes between me and _ happiness. Whenever I have had that feeling I have become actually physically ill. It gets me right here,’ and Beverly pointed to her stomach. “One thing I do feel is tremendously im- portant to a happy romance is for each person to preserve his individuality. Invar- iably, when two people are in love, one of the two is more in love than the other. The tendency here is to submerge oneself in the stronger personality of the other. That is fatal to happiness, I believe. “But how did we get on this subject, anyway?” she asked suddenly. “I don’t believe I have any business generalizing about love and marriage. It is much too personal and individual a problem to be discussed haphazardly, in the first place. “In the second place, I don’t know any- thing definite myself. Mentally and emo- tionally I’m two different people. I’ve worked out some beautiful theories in my mind but invariably when love comes along they are knocked into a cocked hat. “T’ve never felt that marriage was the ultimate in life. Possibly it’s because I have always had other interests.” In Beverly’s friendship with Mr. Keigh- ley, whom she met when he directed he in a picture shortly after her arrival in Holly- wood, there seems to be mutual admiration and undérstanding. They like to do the same things and laugh at the same things. They visit the beach resorts, ride on every- thing and play all the games. When he built a gas station recently, Beverly offered to be on hand for the opening. “T suggested that I could give my auto- graph with every gallon of gasoline,’ she laughed, “but my offer wasn’t accepted. “This is a screwy interview, isn’t it? But I’m a screwy person. I don’t think I’ve said anything you could write. I wish I could write. ve always been ambitious to write, so I was delighted when the editor of the Guild Magazine asked me to write an article for him. I’m thrilled to death when anyone suggests I may have hidden talent. But days have gone by and I can’t think of anything to write about.” A painting on the wall resembled her ever so slightly. “Yes,” she admitted, “that’s me, but I had ptomaine poisoning the day I sat for it and the artist had mental indigestion. I keep it hanging there because I like the frame. He’s really a good artist. See,” and she indicated an exquisite painting over the fireplace, “he did that one.” One of Beverly’s outstanding character- istics is enthusiasm and she admits she wouldn’t want to live any way but with zest, and thinks the three most imporant essentials of life are tolerance, love of liv- ing and a sense of humor. “And broke or not,” she says, “I never want to lose my zest for doing things and my ability to enjoy life. I couldn’t bear to be like a glass of ginger ale that had been left in the sun for a couple of days. I want to keep on bubbling.” MODERN SCREEN Sister, can you oR a »? i NOTE :— O YOU KNOW what one D nickel can do for your kitchen and cupboard shelves? It will buy 9 whole feet of the smartest shelving (not just edg- ing) that you can get at any price. Millions of thrifty women have turned dark closets and cupboards into beauty spots with durable, decorative, non-curling Royledge! Royledge calls for no tacking, no laundry. 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It was good, but I al- ready know the plot and climax,” or “Come over instead and we'll sit and listen to the Lux Radio Theatre, a whole movie for an hour and we can spend the money we save on something else.” However, as far as I’m concerned, radio programs depend too much on the story and script. So, I say to Hollywood: Don’t give yourself the air—Mrs. J. Lieser, Chicago. $1.00 Prize Letter What's Happened to Eddy? What have they done to our “Captain Warrington’? What has become of the tall, slim, blond fellow with the charming smile who captivated the hearts of the ladies in ‘Naughty Marietta’? What has become of Nelson Eddy? Of course, he gave two grand perform- ances in “Rose Marie” and “Maytime,” but I am sure the public wishes to see him in another two-fisted role such as he had in his first starring picture. In their anxiety to give him music worthy of his beautiful voice, Hollywood has apparently forgotten his romantic ap- peal and so I offer this plea. Please, don’t do to Nelson Eddy what you have already done to Robert Taylor. Don’t rely on his voice to put him over to the public as you relied on Bob’s good looks—L. Sullivan, Watertown, Mass. $1.00 Prize Poem To Simone Simon You're little and cute— In fact, quite petite, A little bit naughty, And yet, oh, so sweet; You really deserve Far more, little girl, Than-what you’ve received In the cinema whirl. I hope in the future They'll give you a part That'll prove you can do things To any man’s heart. I think you're a whiz And just want to shout Each time you develop That cute little pout. My favorite actress— Just you alone, The naughty but nice, Simone Simon. —Louis Steel, San Leandro, Calif. 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GLADYS GETS THERE (Continued from page 62) which now will not even appear in the picture, was photographed, half the people on the set claimed credit for the pitching. Just why, I'll never know. It certainly can’t come under the head of an honor. And I haven’t any enemies. That is, I don’t think I have!” Perhaps no operatic star entered the movie medium more bewildered than Gla- dys Swarthout. Her fault, if such it was, lay in being too anxious to please. Every- thing she attempts is done with great seriousness, whether it is buying a hat or planning a house. She has always been willing to make sacrifices for her career. Her lunch consists of a green salad. Her “cocktail hour,” a cup of tea into which is measured a teaspoonful of brandy. She retires at ten unless she attends a theatre or concert. If it is her “night out,’ she is home after the entertainment as fast and as soon as her car will take her there. She depends upon her husband greatly and strives to please him. His opinion is asked whether she is selecting a gown or signing a contract and his decision is adhered to. The movie game still seems to baffle the Chapmans a bit, however. “T can’t understand,” says Miss Swarth- out, “how, when you read the story and approve it, look at the rushes and like them, that you can be disappointed when you see the finished picture. Yet you can. Indeed, I have. Maybe cutting is the seat of the mystery. Anyway, it all seems such a matter of chance and is like the grab bag at the church party. You put in your hand and pick something and hope to heaven it’s good. And if it isn’t, you can’t com- plain for you yourself pulled it.” However, except for a few minor criti- cisms, the Chapmans have become very much attached to the camera coast. They have a house there now and entertain on a conservative scale. Strange as it may seem, no opera star has made an instantaneous picture success. Grace Moore was a definite film failure when she started in pictures. She determined that the movie game would not lick her, and it didn’t. Lily Pons’ pictures have been pleasant and Miss Swarthout’s first two were fair. However, the third, “Ro- mance in the Dark,” in which John Boles is again her starring partner, proves that she has “gotten there’ at last. Yes, her voice and beauty started her, but sheer pluck and hard work were responsible for her making the grade. Lily Pons Tee Eddie Horton on the set of “College Swing.” MODERN SCREEN fume? Its subtle, intoxicat- ing odeur whispers your charm, gives you new confi- dence in your own loveli- ness. Justtry itandsee! Ask for Blue Waltz Perfume. 10c at 5 and 10c stores. *« Thrilling moments that every girl longs for, dreams about. Why not make them real? Why not invite adventure and romance, entice the man of your heart, be fragrantly alluring with Blue Waltz Per- Blue” * BLUE WALTZ PERFUME + FACE POWDER ° LIPSTICK © BRILLIA AB:C LIQUID WAX Bottle or Tin 10c g i d YY“TAKE YOUR PICK The new GRIFFIN A.B.C. Liquid Wax in black, tan, brown and blue. Just spread it on with swab in bottle. lt dries in a jiffy to a shine, —Or, GRIFFIN A.B.C. Wax Polish in the jumbo tin, black, brown, tan, ox-bloodand neutral—it’s waterproof. 119
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GOINGS-ON IN GOTHAM (Continued from page 59) guests at a nearby table. Later on, when she was introduced to the entire room, the guests at the next table gave her a gentle but firm razzberry. Whereupon, one of Gracie’s friends got up and took a poke at the worst of the offenders. The w. of the o. took a poke right back and the panic was on. Mean- while, the cinematic song bird disappeared into the night and next day refused to com- ment on the previous evening’s activities. ILLIAM POWELL and pretty Lo- retta Young had themselves a whirl in our town and created quite a furore when they appeared together at the Horse Show. No romance, y’understand. The two just happened to be staying at the same hotel and since they’re good friends, they decided to see the town together. Joe Mankiewicz is still Head Man in Loretta’s young life and Bill just isn’t interested in sentiment these days. In fact, he had just completed a European trip. “The way to try to forget,’ said Bill, referring of course to the beautiful Jean Harlow, “is to keep going. Just don’t give yourself a minute in which to think! When it begins to get you, move on fast to the next place. That’s how I manage to survive anyway !” Bill was planning to return to the Coast to make “The Baroness and the Butler” with Annabella. The story had originally been called “Jean,’ but the Powers That Be decided to change the title in deference to their star. Incidentally, actors have come and actors have gone, but William Powell is more popular today than ever. He claims that one of the reasons he keeps MODERN SCREEN going is that his beauty will never get him into trouble. “Even when I was very young, I never played juveniles,” said Bill. “I just wasn’t the type. Not being able to depend on my looks, I simply had to try to act. And so, even when I began my career, it was in the capacity of a youthful character actor.” Speaking of acting and personal appear- ances—Frances Langford cracked the record at New York’s Paramount Theatre. “T’ve never been more thrilled in my Whatever Ann Gillis is whispering in Tommy Kel- ly’s ear seems to please the young man. It's all part of the plot for ‘The Adven- tures Of Tom SiGawivicrs ul life,” breathed the demure Frances. “You know, I haven’t been in New York in four years and was sort of afraid they'd forgotten me. Instead, everybody’s been wonderful. This has all been even more exciting than my ‘first visit home after I'd really gotten started in pictures, and that’s saying an awful lot!” And so the movie lights come and go and, during their short sojourn, somehow manage to make even the Broadway bright lights seem a bit brighter. 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