Modern Screen 1938-11 Vol. 17, No. 6

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MODERN SCREEN Protect your smile! Help your dentist keep your gums IPANA and your teeth sparkling with IPANA TOOTH PASTE “Well, I certainly did my smile no favor- Neglecting that tinge of ‘pink'!" firmer Foolish, foolish you! The loveliest smile in the world grows dim if neglected. And you neglected yours. AN D MA S S AGE Oh yes you did! Of course you brushed your teeth every day. But you never gave a thought to your gums, did you? You suspected that first tinge of “pink” on your tooth brush meant trouble, but you just didn’t bother! Well, today you're going to see your dentist (it’s the sensible thing to do)! Today you're going to learn that gums as well as teeth need special care! And if he suggests the health- ful stimulation of Ipana and massage you're going to follow his advice—if you want to re- capture that lovely, appealing, winning smile! Guard Against “Pink Tooth Brush” And Protect Your Smile F you've noticed that warning tinge of I “pink” on your tooth brush—see your den- tist. Let him decide if there’s serious trouble ahead. Probably he’ll say your gums are sim- ply Jazy—that they need more work to help keep them firm and strong. ; All too frequently our modern foods are too soft, too well-cooked to give our gums the stimulation they need for better health. Understand this—and you'll appreciate why modern dentists so frequently advise the regular use of Ipana Tooth Paste. 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 extra Ipana into the gums. This arouses circulation in the gums—they tend to become stronger, firmer—more resistant to trouble. Don’t risk your smile! Get a famous and economical tube of Ipana at your druggist’s today. Let Ipana and massage help you to keep your smile a winning smile! TRY THE NEW 9D Tooth BrusH For more effective gum massage and for more thorough cleansing, ask your drug- gist for the new D.D. Tooth Brush,

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oc7 -1 1938 ©cis 391216 BOY/THERE’S A TOUCHDOWN IN EVERY STICK OF Teaberry does ' mare than just * eep your teeth white and s i your eum pink /and cage nent ae as 8 baby’s. It gives you ihe ste-thrill of the year—the fresh asting flavor-of real Teaberry! aie \ Reach for th L Bright Red peeteeel CLARK'S IEABERRY MODERN SCREEN Copyrigh t, 1938, by Dell Publishing GS NOW SHOWING Tite COUNTRY GENTLEMAN SHIRLEY DISCOVERS AMERICA THE LURE THATS LAMARR NEVER OUT OF CHARACTER GINGER'S MA SPEAKS HER PIECE SHE'S A SMARTIE AND FATHER IS DOING WELL SHE'S LOOKING FOR LOVE A MAN WHO CAME BACK DIVORCE BECAUSE OF TAXES MAKING THE MOST OF THINGS SEVENTEEN VO-DE-O-DO IN BETWEEN SUITING THE SEASON HE'S NOT MONVIE-MINDED ON HOLDING A MAN 108 c) SHORT SUBJECTS MOVIE REVIEWS MOVIE SCOREBOARD MACK HUGHES DORA ALBERT KAY PROCTOR MARY. PARKES ee MARTHA KERR NANETTE KUTNER KATHARINE HARTLEY FAITH SERVICE GLADYS HALL CAROLINE S: HOYT MARY MARSHALL IDA ZEITLIN GEORGE BENJAMIN MARIAN SQUIRE 50 ROBERT McILWAINE LILLIAN GENN 6 WHAT 1O SEE 40 FILM GUIDE GUM WIN $950,000.00 12 BETWEEN you ’N’ ME 14 PORTRAIT GALLERY 19 OFF THEIR GUARD 51 GOOD NEWS 62 KNITS FOR NOVEMBER 72 OUR PUZZLE PAGE 76 DOWN WITH DULL DINNERS 84 INFORMATION DESK 104 Modern Screen No. 301773. Pu porated. Office of publication Executive and editorial offices, 1 o. Michigan Avenue. George |. JF. Henry, \Vice-Preside Printed in the U.S.A. Pi subscriptions, 5 accept ts: The Internationa ‘4. Names of chara \f the name of a BIG QUIZ CONTEST PRIZE LETTERS OF YOUR FAVORITES CANDID SHOTS MOVIE CHATTER NEW KNITS MOVIE X-WORD LLOYD NOLAN'S RECIPES QUESTIONS ANSWERED

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MODERN SCREEN AND THE BRAVE WOMEN WHO FOLLOW THEM! Go WITH THEM...through the Khyber Pass! Watch the bitter struggle between East and West. Thrill to the love story of a brave woman who followed her man among seething tribes. A majestic episode in the historic drama of India. PRESENTS DRUMS IN GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR with SABU-RAYMOND MASSEY: DESMOND TESTER ROGER LIVESEY-VALERIE HOBSON And a cast of 3,000 - DIRECTED BY ZOLTAN KORDA FROM A STORY BY A. E. W. MASON RELEASED THRU UNITED ARTISTS COMING SOON TO YOUR FAVORITE THEATRE—ASK THE MANAGER WHEN} Thrill to the ‘most majestic scenery on earth... the Hima- layas of India...in Technicolor. See Sabu, native Indian lad, cast * as native Indian prince, riding triumphantly his plunging white charger! bap ice MOVIE QUIZ CONTEST >» See real British Troops fight where they battled long ago to win .an Empire. ’Go to the feast where dining was Only a prelude to be- trayal...and fear rose in the hearts of the bravest!

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MODERN SCREEN THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN By MACK HUGHES Johnny Davis loves tootin’ a horn, but then a farm has its points, too Mr. D. catches up on his practicing. SOME FOLKS dream of the day they can own a yacht, a Rolls Royce or a mansion complete with swim- ming pool and tennis courts. But not Johnny Davis. This render of swingy songs wants nothing of the sort. In fact, Johnny admits that all he’s after is a small house, suf- ficient land to plant a vegetable patch and room enough for his chickens and dogs. Of course this is a pretty elastic order, since Mr. D.’s younger pup is a St. Bernard, and chickens have been known to raise families! Johnny Davis’ face wrinkled into one of his famous grins as we looked questioningly in the direction of some strange sounds. ‘“That’s my chickens,” he informed us. “I’ve got about twenty-four out there now. You didn’t know I was a country boy at heart? Oh, yes. I’m from the farmin’ section of Indiana. Y’know that ole saying, ‘You can take the boy from the country, but—’ I raise vege- tables and gather my own eggs each day. Which reminds me, things slacked up a bit today. I only got eleven. Gotta give those chickens a little pep talk. They can do better than that. But, then they’ve got the afternoon ahead, so I’m looking for results.” Sitting in his modernistic living- room, Johnny Davis looked anything but a farm boy. More, indeed, like a sophomore home for the weekend. But then, college attire was more or less what we had expected as Johnny was in the throes of making “Brother Rat,” a tale of collegiate capers. “You see, [ve always liked the country,’ Johnny confided. “Even when I was in New York playing 8 with orchestras, I had a little house up on a lake where I could go every so often. I said then if I ever worked in one place long enough, say a year, I’d get a home and do a little farm- ing. That’s why I’m so crazy about it here in California. Now, back in New York they build up in the air, so you can’t afford much in the way of land. But, here they spread it out in all directions, so you gotta better chance. “This place is nice, but it’s not exactly what we want. The house is big enough, but when it rains the darn thing leaks. I called the owner Here is Johnny doing the work he really loves. Yes, raising vegetables, and not Cain, is his idea of a good time. about it, after one of our heavy rains and what d’ya think he did? Came running out here with a handful of putty and began sticking it around the leaky spots! Heck, I could’ve done that myself! Somehow they don’t seem to understand you want things fixed permanently. “In case you're wondering why there’s no grass in the garden,” Johnny continued as he showed us around his place, “just look at that pup. He’s the responsible party. We've only had him four weeks, so you can see what a thorough job he’s done! And, after all my work plant- ing grass and flowers! I even got special potted plants which I put out by hand. Then along comes this young fella and in a couple of days even the grass is trampled down. When I get my own place I'll have a patch of ground fenced in for him; otherwise he’s liable to flatten ws in a few months!” As we moved from this scene of desolation, Johnny proudly led us to his “‘eatin’ patch.” “This is where we grow our vege- tables,’ he announced. ‘“There’s corn, beans, radishes; in fact, any- thing we want, right here! I call it Option Acre. Y’know, it’s sympa- thetic with my contract. Long about option time, it gets sorta low, then when my time is extended, I run home and plant another row of corn and throw in some beans for good measure. And now my pride and joy! See this plow? It’s motor-driven. The folks next door owned it, but I had my eye on it every time I went over to buy eggs. When we got (Continued on page 16)

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Famous on the New York stage—John Garfietd now takes wood's chosen great, his place among Holly- MODERN SCREEN %* It is my business to make pic- tures, not to advertise them. But I have seen “Four Daughters,” one of those rare and perfect things that hap- pen once or twice in a lifetime. Now I want the whole world to see the fin- est picture that ever came out of the Warner Bros. Studios. %* I sat at the preview with Fannie Hurst, its author, —the woman who gave you ““Humoresque,” “Back Street” and “Imitation of Life” —the woman who knows how to reach hu- man hearts and bring life’s joys and sorrows to countless millions of read- ers. She shared with me the thrilled delight of watching “Four Daugh- ters.” Now, after seeing her grandest story quicken to life on the screen, she joins me in the enthusiasm I’m trying to pass on to you. * Warner Bros, have made many other great pictures. Among them — “Robin Hood,” “Pasteur,” The Man Who Made The Picture Sle to Whe people whe we Gong ho 0e Whe “Anthony Adverse,” “The Life of Emile Zola.” But here is a picture en- tirely different. A simple story of to- day and of people close to you and yours. An intimate story of four young girls in love and of youth’s laughter, dreams and heartbreak. %* Once in a blue moon comes a picture where everything seems to click just right. “Four Daughters” is such a picture. Action, story, direc- tion blend, as if under kindly smiles of the gods, intoa natural masterpiece. Especially, the truly inspired acting of three young players — Priscilla Lane, John Garfield and Jeffrey Lynn —is sure to raise these three to the topmost heights of stardom. * If you could attend but one picture this year, I think “Four Daughters” would give you your hap- piest hour in the theatre. See it! I sincerely believe it’s the best picture Warner Bros. ever made. : JACK L. WARNER, Vice-President In Charge of Production, - Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. PRISCILLA LANE*ROSEMARY LANE LOLA LANE: GALE PAGE CLAUDE RAINS: JOHN GARFIELD JEFFREY LYNN: DICK FORAN Frank McHugh “~~ MOVIE. Quiz Direoted by MICHAEL CURTIZ From the Cosmopolitan Magazine Story May Robson Screen Play by Julius J. Epstein and Lenore Coffee Music by Max Steiner: A Firat Nat'l Picture A dashing new per- sonality — Jeffrey Lynn brings the gay romantic glamour that wins all hearts,

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Name Address MODERN SCREEN MOVIE SCOREBOAR Picture and Producer ae Accidents Will Happen (Warners).........- 2 Adventure's End (Universal)..............-.. . Adventures of Marco Polo (Samuel Goldwyn)... 3* Adventures of Robin Hood (Warners)........ 4 Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Selznick-International)3!/2 * Adventurous Blonde (Warners).....-...--+-- Wk Alcatraz Island (Warners)....-------++2-se0+- Wk Alexander's Ragtime Band (20th Century-Fox)...314* Algiers (Walter Wanger).. .....--.+s.+-seee> Wak The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (Warners)........ 3h * Army Girl (Republic)............22++eeeeeee Wk Arsene Lupin Returns (M-G-M)..-....------- Va Bad Man. of Brimstone (M-G-M)..........--++ Wk Battle of Broadway (20th Century-Fox).........- Wok Baroness and the Butler (20th Century-Fox)...... ) Barrier, The (Paramount).....-...-eeeeseeereee 1 Beg, Borrow or Steal (M-G-M).....-.-- Geos a, Big Broadcast of 1938 (Paramount)............ 2 Big Town Girl (20th Century-Fox)......-..-- Booret? Blockade (Walter Wanger)....-...----+-+-++- 314 Blondes at Work (Warnefs)......---22eeeeere . 2 Blossoms on Broadway (Paramount............ 1 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Paramount).......... 31, *Boy Meets Girl (Warners)....----+-+-+cereeee 9 Bringing Up Baby (RKO).........------eeeee 3 Buccaneer, The (Paramount)...........---++-- 31, Blulldog Drummond's Peril (Paramount)........ Wh, Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (Paramount)..... 24 Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (20th Century-Fox)... 2 Chaser, The (M-G-M)....-.-+-eecceeerccreee VWoak Checkers (20th Century-Fox).............--.. lk Cocoanut Grove (Paramount)..........---+-- Wek Colorado Kid (Republic)............2--+-0+- Qk Condemned Women (RKO)......------+-+-ees lk Cowboy From Brooklyn (Warners)...-..-------- WM) *& Crashing Hollywood (RKO) Crime of Dr. Hallet (Universal).........+.2+--- Wh * Crime School (Warners)......-..-ceserererees Wak Damsel in Distress A (RKO).........--2+eeeee 3 Danger, Love at Work (20th Century-Fox).... 1 Dangerously Yours (20th Century-Fox)........ 1 Danger Patrol (RKO)......----eseeeeeeeee 2 Daughter of Shanghai (Paramount).........--- I, Divorce of Lady X, The (London)........---- 3 Dr. Rhythm (Paramount).......-..-++eeeeeeee 3 Ebb Tide (Paramount).........--+-+eeceeeee 3 Every Day’s a Holiday (Paramount).......---- 3 Everybody Sing (M-G-M).......------s+++- 3 Fast Company (M-G-M)....--..--ceeeeceeceee I, 52nd Street (Walter Wanger)...----+-+----++++> Q Fight For Your Lady (RKO)........-.--++-+-- 2 Firefly, The (M-G-M)....---22cccceeererecees 3 First Hundred Years, The (M-G-M)...-------+- 2 Fools For Scandal (Warness)...-.--+-+-++ee0> 2, Forty-five Fathers (20th Century-Fox).......... 2g Four Men and a Prayer (20th Century-Fox’...... 1, Four’s a Crowd (Warners)...--++++eeereeeeeees 3 Gaiety Firls, The (London).....----+++-+-++-+> 3 Gateway (20th Century-Fox)......-.+---+--+-+- 2 Girl of the Golden West (M-G-M)...----------- 3 Give Me a Sailor (Paramount)..... Weleieranriee 2, Go Chase Yourself (RKO).....-.--02+-eeeeeee 2 Gold Diggers in Paris (Warners)......----+-+++ 2 Gold is Where You Find It (Warners)......----. ] Goldwyn Follies, The (Sam Goldwyn)......--- 3 Happy Landing (20th Century-Fox).......-..-- 3 Having Wonderful Time (RKO)........-..--- WwW, Headin’ East (Columbia)...........---+--20+ 9 Heidi (20th Century-Fox)......---e+eseeeeeee 3 Here's Flash Casey (Grand National)........-- 9 Heroes of the Alamo (Columbia).....-....---- 2 High, Wide, and Handsome (Paramount)......- 31, Hold 'em Navy (Paramount)......---+--++++---> 9 Hold That Kiss (M-G-M).....--eeeeeeeeeeeee 3 Holiday (Columbia)........-+.eeeeeerereeecee 314 Hollywood Hotel (Warners)....... sb000060000 3 Hollywood Round-up (Columbia)..........-- Qh Hurricane (Sam Goldwyn).......---+-+-+++++> 31, I'll Take Romance (Columbia).......-----+++--++- 3 1 Met My Love Again (Walter Wanger).......- 3 In Old Chicago (20th Century-Fox)..........-- 31, It’s Love I’m After (Warners).....----+-++---++0% 4 Jezebel (Warners)......--+-- BESO DaOOOCCOD 3 Josette (20th Century-Fox).......-.+--++---ee- a, Joy of Living (RKO).......2.2--eeeeeeeereee 3 Judge Hardy's Children (M-G-M)....-------- 3 Keep Smiling (20th Century-Fox).........-= Sy cd: Kentucky Moonshine (20th Century-Fox)......-- 2 Kidnapped (20th Century-Fox)........-...--++ 2 Last Gangster, The (M-G-M).....-------+++--+> 3 Life of Emile Zola, The (Warners).....-.----- 4 Little Miss Broadway (20th Century-Fox)...-.-. 3 Lone Wolf in Paris (Columbia)......-------+++ 2, Lord Jeff (M-G-M)....----seee cece reece eeee Wn, Lost Horizon (Columbia)...........---.----> 4 Love and Hisses (20th Century-Fox)........-.-> 3 Love Finds Andy Hardy (M-G-M)......-.---- 3 Love, Honor and Behave (Warners)....--.----- 2 2 SS Turn to our Scoreboard when you're in doubt about what movie to see. Instead of giving the individual ratings of able guide in choosing entertainment. Picture and Producer ona Love Is a Headache (M-G-M)......... Roane Mk Love on a Budget (20th Century-Fox)........... Qk Love on Toast (Paramount).....-..-+.+-sseeeee I Mad About Music (Universal)............... . 4A* Making the Headlines (Columbia)............. Qk Mannequin (M-G-M)......---2-++2eeeeees oo. 3K Man-Proof (M-G-M)....----+ gbacapooasAdend Wk Marie Antoinette (M-G-M)......-.------+.+e- 4k Men Are Such Fools (Warners)........--...0+ Qk Merrily We Live (Hal Roach)...........-..... 3 Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (Universal).......... 2% Midnight Intruder (Universal)........... wcoeee Do Mr. Moto’s Gamble (20th Century-Fox).....200--22* Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (20th Century-Fox)....-22* Mother Carey’s Chickens (RKO)...........-..-- 3% Navy Blue and Gold (M-G-M).......------.+- 3x Night Club Scandai (Paramount).............-. Qe Nothing Sacred (Selznick-Internationa!)......... 3% No Time To Marry (Columbia).........-...--- ed Of Human Hearts (M-G-M)....-0---++2-+eeee Wak Over the Goal (Warners)......-.. ejevoletee enero 1* Over the Wall (Warners)....... SAnOoC GO Oooo 3 Paradise For Three (M-G-M)......---+-+-++- oo SAS Passport Husband (20th Century-Fox).......... I Patient in Room 18, The (Warners)....---..++0++ 2 Penrod and His Twin Brother (Warners)...-.----+ Ma * Penrod’s Double Trouble (Warners)......-.---- I Perfect Specimen, The (Warners).....-..+---> » 3* Port of Seven Seas (M-G-M).......--2+e-ecere 3 Portia on Trial (Republic)........--.scceeceres 3 Prescription for Romance (Universal).......-...-- 1* Prison Break (Universal).......-+2+eeeercereee Qk Racket Busters (Warners)....---+eeeeceeeeeeees 3x Radio City Revels(RKO).....-.--+-+-22e-eeee- Wk Rage of Paris, The (Universal)......--.-----+++- 3 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (20th Century-Fox)... 3% Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (London)........ 1k Romance in the Dark (Paramount)....----..-.-- Whk Rosalie (M-G-M).-...--+222e200% diemiemererle 3 Sailing Along (Gaumont British).....-.-..-.--- 3% Saint in New York, The (RKO)........-.--.--- Wak Sally, rene and Mary (20th Century-Fox)....--- Wh ke Saturday’s Heroes (RKO).....--+++----+eeeee Wk She Asked For It (Paramount).......-.--..--+- Ik Sheik Steps Out, The (Republic)............-.-- lk She's Got Everything (RKO)..... ayevavkereretsteverts . @* Sh! The Octopus (Warners)......-+.eeeeeeceeee lk Sky Giant (RKO)........-5--seeeerccccccrces Whe Slight Case of Murder, A (First National)...... Wow Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs (Walter Disney)...- 45% Something to Sing About (Grand National)......22% Spy Ring (Universal)........-eeeeeeceerceeees Qe Stage Door (RKO).......-2- cere c cree eee eecee Stand-In (Walter Wagner)....-..2--eeee seer eee 3 Start Cheering (Columbia)..... Siecle wechenemtiete lk Swiss Miss (Hal Roach)....-.-.------ Taha oem 22% Stolen Heaven (Paramount)..........---++--0: 3 Storm in a Teacup (Korda)........-----+eeeeee Dox Swing It Sailor (Grand National)........--..... 1* Swing Your Lady (Warners).....---.-----+-++0° Vek Tarzan's Revenge (20th Century-Fox).........- Wh Test Pilot (M-G-M)..-.----20eecee ee eeeeeeee . A* The Texans (Paramount)....---+---++eeeeeeeee 3% Tip-Of Girls (Paramount)..-...------+----0+- 3 There Goes the Groom (RKO)....--..------++ 2 There’s Always a Woman (Columbia).......... 3 They Won't Forget (Warners)...----...---+---> 3 This Way, Please (Paramount).....-.-.--.-++- - 1% Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry (M-G-M)-.---------- Wak Three Comrades (M-G-M).-..---2+e-eseeereee 3h *& Three Blind Mice (20th Century-Fox)...........- ok Thrill of a Lifetime (Paramount).......-. Boonen 1* Thin ce (20th Century-Fox)...----+-++++-+eee Blok Torchy Blane in Parama (Warners)...-.-..---- Wore To the Victor (Gaumont-British).......---....- Bik Tovarich (Warners)....-.- i adoseseppandc ome} Trip to Paris, A (20th Century-Fox).......-.+... Wo *% Troopship (Gaumont-British).......-..- weeeee Mh Xe *Tropic Holiday (Paramount)........----- cee True Confession (Paramount)...---------+-. oe) Ak Varsity Show (Warners).....--+-+-+2+--eeeee - 3* Victoria the Great (RKO)........-----+-e- wee AK Vivacious Lady (RKO)........--+----+2+-e0e - 4* Walking Down Broadway (20th Century-Fox)...242 Wells Fargo (Paramount)....-------+-+-++-s0ee 34 Westland Case, The (Universal)........---..-- - White Banners (Warners).....------------+0- - 3% Who Killed Gail Preston? (Columbia).......... eed Wide Open Faces (Columbia)..............-.- lk Wild and Woolly (20th Century-Fox) - Wise Girl (RKO).......---++-2-+> 3 Women Are Like That (Warners). lk Women in Prison (Columbia). . lk Yank at Oxford, A (M-G-M). - - 3% Yellow Jack (M-G-M)....-- -. 3% You and Me (Paramount)....------- Wak You're a Sweetheart (20th Century-Fox). . Wow You're Only Young Once (M-G-M)....-----.-+ *k It’s a valu- Modern Screen and authoritative newspaper movie critics all over the country, we have struck an average of their ratings. ing, beside each picture. 47k, very good: 34x, good; 2%, fair: lyk. poor. Asterisk denotes that only Modern Screen ratings are given on films not reviewed by news- papers as we go to press. You'll find this average under General Rat-

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MODERN SCREEN NOW ON THE ... Broadway's most successful => comedy hit! .. . The biggest laugh show in a generation! ... A two- season sensation!...The movie rights cost more than any other play ever produced—and, measured in laughs, it was cheap at twice the price! ... ONE LOOK AT WHO‘’S IN IT-AND YOU WON'T LET ANYTHING KEEP YOU AWAY WHEN IT PLAYS YOUR LOCAL THEATRE! eww ae “LUCILLE BALL ANN MILLET FRANK ALBERTSON /& PANDRO S. BERMAN IN CHARGE OF PRODUCTION DIRECTED BY WILLIAM A. SEITER Screen Play by Morrie Ryskind ll

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LET US HELP YOU WIN Here is the complete guide to the answers which can make you a lucky EXPLANATION Here is a chance at fame and fortune! To enter this contest, simply secure a movie quiz booklet at your neighborhood theatre. Answer one question about any 30 pictures included in the booklet, and then write a statement of not more than 50 words, telling which one of the 30 pictures you like best, and why. Our sample letter will help you in writing your state- ment. Remember, it must be original. Just write as if you were telling a friend why the picture appealed to FOUR DAUGHTERS 1 enjoyed "Four Daughters’ pri- marily because it gave a true picture of a happy home life. The girls, though different in character, were very human and appealing. Their spirit of “one for all" taught a valuable lesson and the things that happened to them come into the lives of all of us. Therefore, the story rang true. FOUR DAUGHTERS There is much excitement at the Lemp household be- cause of Thea’s new beau, wealthy Ben Crowley, and the arrival of the young musician, Felix. Though impressed with Ben’s beautiful car, the orchids he sends to Thea— all four daughters (Thea, Kay, Ann, Emma) fall in love with debonair Felix. The announcement of his engage- ment to Ann is a blow to everyone including Mickey, Felix’s cynical orchestrator, who also loves Ann. When Ann discovers how much Emma loves Felix and Mickey loves her, she marries Mickey. Later, Felix and Ann find reunion after Mickey’s tragic death. you. As a further guide, read our synopses carefully. They'll assist you in selecting the correct answers. After you have completed your entry, mail the book- let containing your answers and the 50 word statement to Motion Picture Contest 480 Lexington Avenue, New York City Postmarked not later than December 31, 1938 MARIE ANTOINETTE "Marie Antoinette’ is one of the most beautiful pictures ever made. | enjoyed every moment of it, from the fine characterizations of its players to the colorful, histori- The direction was cal pageant. truly expert and the acting of Robert Morley, Norma Shearer and Tyrone Power, something | shall never forget. Here is every- thing in the way of entertainment. MARIE ANTOINETTE From Austria to France comes the lovely Marie An- toinette, to be the bride of the weakling, Louis, grandson of the King. Unable to find happiness, she turns to Count Axel de Ferson. When Antoinette becomes Queen she realizes she must give up her lover. They are separated until the outbreak of the Revolution when Ferson, learn- ing of Antoinette’s danger, reappears to arrange the escape of the Royal Family. His plan fails when a priest recog- nizes the King, and the unhappy pair are returned to Paris, and death. The courage of the king and queen lives after them. THE GREAT WALTZ When the Commercial Bank of Vienna rupting hard-bitten young influence among his charges is Whitey Marsh to Mrs. Watson’s negligence, Judy and who, dismisses him, Johann Strauss gets a job as musician in Dommayer’s Cafe. His in- spired performance there impresses Carla Donner, a member of the Imperial Opera, who invites him to play for her friends. Strauss is deeply infatuated by Carla, but after she ridicules him, he marries his first sweetheart, Poldi. Years later, he and Carla meet again, and realizing their love, plan an elopement. Poldi unselfishly gives them her blessings but, at the last moment, the lovers separate and Strauss returns to his faithful wife. * Ok Ok BOYS TOWN With the aid of a pawn-broker friend, Father Flanagan founds a happy, self- governing community of boys who might have ended as criminals. The most dis- 12 after earning the enmity of the other youngsters, runs away. Through his bandit brother, Whitey accidently becomes in- volved in a bank robbery and almost ruins the good reputation of Father Flanagan’s school. However, when his innocence and unsuspecting love for Boys Town are re- vealed, he returns with the priest, and is unanimously elected Mayor by the enthusi- astic boys. Rk MEET THE GIRLS Homer Watson, the owner of a valuable diamond, is travelling from Honolulu to San Francisco with his wife, Daisy. Also on the boat are Judy and Terry, two pen- niless girls whom the Captain has put to work, and Maurice Leon, a famous jewel thief. When the diamond disappears, due Terry become involved and, in clearing themselves, prove that Leon is the real crook. The grateful Daisy rewards them liberally. k ok x PROFESSOR, BEWARE! Dean Lambert, a bespectacled young col- lege professor, owns an incomplete set of tablets which tell the tale of two ancient lovers. Lambert believes he is the story’s hero reincarnated, and wants the last tablet which will reveal his ultimate fate. When he is invited to join an expedition leaving New York for Egypt, he begins a crazy cross-country dash, pursued by Jane, a beautiful heiress who makes him marry her. Jane’s irate father separates the new- lyweds, but they finally win his approval and travel to Egypt together, which proves that love will find a way.

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$290,000.00 MOVIE QUIZ winner! Read this carefully, for your chance to click is excellent PR h 2 ES $50,000 10 of $1,000 each ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND "Alexander's Ragtime Band" was especially enjoyable to me as its gay and sad songs brought back many memories. I recalled the happy times associated with the beginning of jazz and the tragic occurrences of the World War. Somehow, there's nothing so satis- fying as reminiscing, and besides the opportunity for this, the film offers splendid acting and settings. ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND Alice Faye, Tyrone Power and Don Ameche are all members of “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.’ While Don had fallen in love with Alice at their very first meeting, unknown even to themselves, Alice and Tyrone are in love with each other. When Don sings a song he has composed especially for Alice, she and Tyrone realize their love. With Alice’s withdrawal from the band, Ty- rone leaves for war. Hurt by his attitude, she marries Don. Years later, when Tyrone’s orchestra has made him famous, he and Alice are happily reunited. It is Don who really brings them together. BOY MEETS GIRL Everyone wonders what makes "'the wheels go ‘round"' in a big studio and even though the answer in "Boy Meets Girl" is probably ex- aggerated, | loved the picture be- cause it gave an inside, intimate picture of a ‘film factory." I'd rather laugh than eat, too, and there's a laugh a movie minute in this riotous story. Fun is the thing—and here it is aplenty! BOY MEETS GIRL Two Hollywood scenarists, who look more like colle- gians than writers in their little round caps, have a great idea. They plan to make a star of an infant, and before it is born, become its godfathers, with power of attorney. When the baby becomes famous, they forget to renew this power which makes their own jobs insecure, and they resort to a wild plan in order to retain their hold. They are joyous when they outwit their scheming rivals, but are really doomed to disappointment, for Susie, the mother, suddenly ends her baby’s career by taking him to England. ita Le THAT CERTAIN AGE Deanna Durbin is a fifteen-year-old who thinks she has just found love. The ob- ject of her affections is Melvyn Douglas, a war-weary newspaper correspondent. When she puts her whole heart into the singing of the Waltz Aria from “Romeo and Juliet,’ and addresses her song to Melvyn, Jackie Cooper, her youthful boy friend, is deeply hurt and turns to another girl to get even. Deanna’s parents, learn- ing of her infatuation, conspire with Mel- vyn and produce a woman whom Melvyn introduces as his wife. Deanna’s heart is broken, but she recovers quickly and wins back the still devoted Jackie. * 2k *K HOLD THAT CO-ED When George Murphy arrives at State College, where he has taken a job as foot- ball coach, he discovers that the college is just a jerk-water school in the final stages of dilapidation. John Barrymore, chief ex- ecutive of the state, has just taken another fat slice out of the college budget, and there are not sufficient funds to pay the new coach. George Murphy consents to coach the team for nothing, however, when he sees the anxious faces of the students— and, realizing that it will help his fight for U. S. Senator, John Barrymore gives a certain sum to support State’s team. They win their final big game, and the governor turns out to be not such a bad sort, after all. BLOCKHEADS Oliver Hardy takes Stan Laurel home to meet his wife. Mrs. Hardy cold-shoul- ders Stan and angrily leaves the house. The boys are preparing their own dinner when the stove explodes and Patricia Ellis, a neighbor, comes in to see what has hap- pened. Mrs. Hardy returns unexpectedly and Stan and Oliver, terrified, conceal their guest in a trunk. When they try to get the trunk out of the apartment, the noise brings Billy Gilbert from across the hall and, Patricia, hearing her husband’s voice, bobs out of the trunk. The boys begin to run, with the furious husband after them. 2k 2K * CAMPUS CONFESSIONS Middleton College is in the doldrums because Atterbury, Sr., their one man money bag, clamps the lid on all athletics. This makes Wayne Atterbury, Jr., poison on the campus, particularly with Joyce, the campus reporter—until he lands a straight right to the jaw of his worst heckler, and then, when he shows he is a whizz with a basketball, (Continued on page 17) 13

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These players have shown us that pictures about the home and the family can be made much more interesting than pictures about phoney counts and runaway heiresses. What theatre-goer is not touched when he sees Mother Carey worrying over one of her brood, or amused when he sees Mickey Rooney in his first tuxedo? Why not drag the movies out of the thin air of fantasy and put them down right in our own living-rooms? We are getting a new type of picture and a new type of star. We are getting films and stars as down-to-earth and warm as fresh baked apple pie. Hollywood, you've a fine start for providing us with real honest-to-goodness moving pictures. More power to you!—Russell S. Burg, Denver, Col. $2.00 Prize Letter Thanks for the Memory These are the ten most memorable moments moving pictures have given me. Do you remember them? For thrills: In “San Francisco,” a rag- ged crowd marching over the hill into the dawn of a new day for their loved city. Hatless, courageous, united, triumphant, they sang together the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” The mile-a-minute, breath-tak- ing, heart-rending power dive of Clark Gable and his plane in “Test Pilot.” For pathos: Luise Rainier’s beautifully restrained heart-break in the wistful tele- phone scene of ‘The Great Ziegfeld.” The fade-out in “A Star is Born” with Janet Gaynor’s gallant cry, “This is—Mrs. Nor- man Maine!” For high comedy: The immortal hitch- hiking sequence in “It Happened One Night.” The halting progress of Loy, Powell, and Asta in the hilarious dog- walking scene in “The Thin Man.” For tragedy: The tender death of Norma Shearer in “Smilin? Thru” and the cou- rageous death of Margaret Sullavan in “Three Comrades.” For romance: The marriage of the “star- crossed” lovers in “The Barretts of Wim- pole Street.” In “Naughty Marietta,” Nelson Eddy’s singing “I’m Falling in Love With Someone” to Jeanette MacDonald in a lazily floating canoe. Ah me!—Mrs. J. R. Zimmerman, In- dianapolis, Ind. $2.00 Prize Letter Bob Taylor Why all the fuss about cinematizing Robert Taylor as a virile, he-man sort of chap? Just because a few people (and they were probably envious males and frustrated females) had the idea that he was nothing but a pretty boy whose job was to make love to glamorous gals isn’t any true rea- son to think he is a “panty-waist.” It isn’t his fault that women hid under his bed, even swiped his vest buttons. Certainly it isn’t his fault that he’s good-looking. One has only to consider Bob Taylor to know that he’s a regular guy, a man’s man. Of course, “A Yank at Oxford” gave a couple of wallops to the pretty boy legend, and in “The Crowd Roars” Taylor finished the job by knocking the legend to the canvas for a count. The point is this: A lot of us gals go thru life sans romance, or being contented with just any ordinary sort of man who takes a shine te us. 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My business head came to the fore and over I went to strike a bargain.” Johnny chuckled, almost going into one of his “scat-tee-scats,” as he explained, “I came home with the plow, twenty-two chickens and a sack of feed, all for a hun- dred and seventy bucks. Less than half the price of a new plow! With my new equipment, I figured to ease into this farm- ing racket sort of quietly. All I need now is a cow and we'll have all the comforts of Indiana!” We agreed it was certainly a start, con- sidering the amount of space Mr. D. has to work with. However, after seeing an example of his carpentry it wasn’t hard to believe that he could do even more! HAT I’m trying to do now,” Johnny explained as we turned toward the house, is trade my place back east for some- thing out here. You can get more on a trade than a straight sale. If I can find a house with enough land, I'll let that go as a down payment, then the rest I can pay in installments. One month I can fix the lawn or build a room and so on until [ve got everything finished. It will be like rent and we’ll never miss it that way. But, I don’t want enough room so’s I'll be getting a swimming pool or a tennis court. Once you get them you're finished—and it’s goodbye to any savings then. “T took a look at my bank book after my first year here and got an awful shock. I wasn’t crying over spilled milk, but down I went and hired a business manager. He collects my salary and banks it, allowing me just so much for expenses each month. This next year will end up with a different tale or I'll know the reason why! I feel better already, now that I’ve settled down. As a matter of fact, I’ve taken to it so rapidly that the other night when we stayed out until eleven I really suffered the next day! Can’t take it any more, I guess. “Tt’s not like in New York when I worked with orchestras. I worked nights and slept days and got used to the grind. Since coming here, I work by daylight and sleep by moonlight. But, I haven't forgotten my ole trumpet. No sir! There it is and I keep it well oiled and do a bit of practicing now and then—just to play safe. You can never tell when they'll get tired of me, so I’m pounding my A’s often incase I have to go back to work! “Fact is, not long ago, before they took up my option, I thought my time had come. I hadn’t heard from the studio and got a little worried. Then I got a call from M.C.A. and they wanted me to take out an orchestra, at more money than I had any right to collect. I went down and heard the boys and they were pretty good, too. With a couple of weeks’ rehearsal we could have whipped up something darn nice. I even had the itinerary set when they called me back to work, saying to skip any idea of a vacation. So, I climbed out of the orchestra pit and into some grease paint to scat-tee-scat a little. At that, euess I’d be kinda lost without my trumpet and shoutin’. I did one picture that was a straight part and I was running around in circles. It was a ‘B’ and they shoot, cut and show them in seventeen days! Well, Vll admit I don’t want to do any more like that. They’re too hard. Guess I don’t know enough about acting and should stick to my music, eh? “You know, it seems kinda funny I should be making my living playing and singing the hot stuff—swingy songs,” Mr. Scat Davis reflected, serious for the moment. “My Dad had me playing a horn when I was three, but didn’t allow me to play anything except good stuff. No jazz for him. But, I sorta slipped in a little every now and then on the side. He was instructor of music and conducted the Brazil (Indiana) Concert Band. I re- member when I was about twelve and my uncle came from Terre Haute to ask Dad if I could come up and play in an orchestra. There was a shortage of trumpet players and the job paid twenty-five a week. Dad said, ‘No!’ most emphatically. But, by the next time he came, Dad decided that twenty-five bucks was good money, even though you had to play jazz for it. So, up I went and from then on I’ve been working steadily. You see, my studies were arranged so I went to school morn- ings and had the rest of the day free. ’m crazy about orchestra work. I even had my own once in St. Paul. I was with Fred Waring longer than any other per- son. That’s how I came to the coast. Fred made a picture. Then when I got the chance to stay, I jumped at it, for it meant my dream come true. At last I would be in one spot long enough to have a place of my own.” Hearing Mr. D.’s thumbnail description of his past left little wonder that he could woo, and win, the daughter of the oppos- ing movie theatre chain. Fact is, Mrs. D.’s Dad operated all picture palaces in the town except the one that Johnny was packing in the cash customers. I’m afraid that our hero is the “impulsive” type, for he courted his gal seven years before trip- ping to the altar! So, if you read, in the near future, that Johnny Davis has become one of southern California’s successful farmers, be sure that he’s fallen heir to a nice long-term contract, minus, of course, too many of the usual options. They are Mr. D.’s boogy-boo and as Johnny says, “Give me a house, a dog and some land—with no options—then I’ll live a happy life—whoa- ho-de-h-ho and scat-dee-sca-at !” Jane Wyman is Johnny Davis’ big moment in “Brother Rat.” You'll admit she’s cute.

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(Continued from page 13) he is actually “in” at last. That year Wayne makes the team and Middleton soars into athletic prominence. Joyce at last realizes she is in love with Wayne, and when Atterbury, Sr., tries to stop the big game, they convince him that love and basketball are too important to be trifled with. Kk Ok LITTLE MISS BROADWAY Betsy leaves the Madrey Orphanage to live with Pop Shea and his daughter, Bar- bara, who have adopted her. Pop is the proprietor of the Hotel Variety, home of vaudeville stars since the turn of the cen- tury, but now in its seedy days. Betsy makes many friends in her new home, in- cluding Roger, the nephew of crochety Sarah Wendling, who turns out to be the owner of the hotel. When Mrs. Wendling threatens to cut Roger off from his share of the Wendling estate, because he has fallen in love with Barbara, he brings suit against his aunt. 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DOODLE KICKS OFF Ellory Bugs offers a huge donation to his alma mater, payable only in the event his son, Jimmie “Doodle” Bugs becomes a football hero. Doodle refuses to have anything to do with football until the President persuades his daughter to use her charms to get him to play. The ruse works and in his first game, his unortho- _ dox submarine play followed by his para- chute play are the high spots of the game. The final game of the season arrives and Doodle once again comes through for his team and they win by a single point. cs * *« IN OLD MEXICO An escaped prisoner, The Fox, swears revenge on Colonel Gonzales and Hopa- long Cassidy, who has brought about his capture. He is aided by his sister, Janet, and causes the death of the Colonel. Hopa- long, with the help of Anita, the dead man’s grand-daughter, and his _ friend, Windy, outwits the Fox and his men, and, in an attempt to shoot Cassidy, the bandit kills his own sister. SAFETY IN NUMBERS After a guest appearance on the radio as the “world’s best mother,” Mrs. Jones agrees to go on the air in a series of broad- casts on domestic problems. The program is sponsored by Mr. Edmonds, President of the company controlling the Barton Springs, site of a new mineral water dis- covery. Mr. Jones becomes very much in- terested in the new mineral, and_ per- suades Mr. Emmons to allow the citizens of Maryville to invest in the “good thing.” The spring is discovered to be a phoney and the swindlers, having made a quick getaway, are tricked into returning by Mrs. Jones. The money is finally returned and the crooks are arrested. THREE LOVES HAS NANCY Bob Montgomery, a successful novelist, goes to a little southern town to elude a designing actress, and meets Janet Gay- nor, who is about to be married. When Janet’s bridegroom fails to appear, she leaves for New York to find him. 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Mr. and Mrs. Temple and their famous litile daugh- t, Shirley, start out on one of their many sight- seeing tours. : — A HOLLYWOOD radio columnist was on the air, reading an open letter, and in millions of homes Shirley Temple fans heard him hurl a serious charge at the mother of America’s most famous child. Before Mrs. Temple left Hollywood, he said, he had had a heart-to-heart talk with her and she had told him that she was planning a real vacation for Shirley, one that would take her out of the spotlight and into the sunlight. Naturally he had been delighted when he heard that, but since then he had been thoroughly disillusioned when he learned that elaborate prepara- tions had been made for the trip, that a press agent had accompanied Shirley and had arranged all sorts of publicity stunts, such as having her crowned princess of an Indian tribe, made a Shriner, and elected a mem- ber of the Junior League at the north rim of the Grand Canyon. All of those things, the columnist asserted, might seem amusing to adult members of the party, but had they stopped to think what they meant to Shirley? To Shirley, taking part in all those stunts was depriving her of the vacation she had been promised. ; Reporters to right of her, cameramen to left of her —but none phase La Temple. She is mistress of every situation. _ At the very moment this speech was being made, a party of eight tired travelers landed in Craig, Colorado, in two cars, in one of which Shirley Temple, her mother and father traveled. In the other was Jack: Mulcahy, the press agent who had been criticized, a maid and chauffeur and two bodyguards. As night was falling and the Temples did not wish to do any traveling after dark, Jack Mulcahy stopped a passerby and said, “What's the leading hotel in this town?” “There ain't no hotel,” said the passerby, “but there’s a tourist camp a little way up.” “We stayed at the tourist camp,” Jack Mulcahy told me. “When we arrived there, I told the proprietor that I wanted accommodations for eight people. “That'll be $13.50,’ he said, ‘payable in advance.” “One of the members of the party is a child, I told him, as Shirley came out of the car. ‘Okay, that’s seventy-five cents less.’ “As Shirley stepped out of that car, the proprietor yawned, not realizing: that the most famous child in the world was a few inches from him. There were eight other people at the tourist camp, but, weary from ee a

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ER eR HE Bia omerne erent on IRD Shari See Se _ the silversmiths in Bryce and Zion Canyons. New York's Governor Lehman entertained for Shirley at his country estate. Now she has a new fan—-Spook, a Great Dane. i H BY DORA ALBERT Shirley's tour included every experience from a - night in a tourists’ camp to a day at the White House, and she'll never forget it. Where did you spend your vacation? Little Miss Temple took in the whole U. S. A. and, what’s more, had the time of her young life doing it traveling, they didn’t notice Shirley. They went to bed early and left the next morning before we were awake, never realizing that they had slept in the same camp with the famous child star. “Does all that sound as if we had made elaborate preparations for the trip? We hadn’t. When the Temples liked a place, we stayed for several days. When they were bored or it was very hot, as it was in St. Louis the day we were there, we left the same day. “The heart-to-heart talk the columnist said he had had with Mrs. Temple never took place, as he has not seen her in two years. And all the publicity stunts to which he said we had subjected Shirley were fig- ments of the imagination. She was not crowned prin- cess of an Indian tribe; in fact, the only Indians she saw during her entire trip across the continent were She was not made a Shriner. Since only men are admitted to the Shrine, she would not have been eligible, and she was not elected a member of the Junior League at the orth rim of the Grand Canyon. The truth is there is no such organization there.” “And so, let me tell you the first true story of Shirley Temple’ s vacation trip. “Determined not to commercialize it, Mrs. Temple turned down an offer of $350,000 for personal appear- ances by Shirley, and also an offer by a famous syndi- cate of $15,000 for a day-by-day account of Shirley’s progress across America. “We left Hollywood on May 3lst, and one of our first stops was Boulder Dam. With awe Shirley looked up at the eight giant electric generators, one of which gives enough power to light a city of 300,000, and exclaimed, ‘What a wonderful movie set that would make, wouldn't it!’ “Because she had never been inside any school save the schoolhouse on the studio lot,” Mr. Mulcahy con- tinued, “Shirley was anxious to see the kind of school to which other little girls go, and the principal of the Government School at Las Vegas, Nevada, offered to take her into all the classes. With interest, Shirley stared at the blackboards, and at the crayon drawings done by students. ‘I do that kind of work, too,’ she confided to one of the teachers. (Continued on page 88)

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NEVER OUT OF HE WAS just a little kid, maybe eight years old, maybe nine. He’d hitch-hiked all the way from Connecticut to Boys Town, which is twelve miles out of Omaha. I was there when he came in,’ said Spencer Tracy. “There were sores on his feet and hollows under his eyes and he had an old, mangy, moth-eaten cat clutched to his skinny front. He hadn’t washed for days. Nor eaten either. Nor laughed. Father Flanagan didn’t have any room for him. Boys Town can only take care of 200 boys at a time and it was full-up. But he took him in. There’s one - place on earth, I guess, where there’s always room where there isn’t any room—and that’s in the heart of a man who cares about kids. “Well, Father Flanagan took the kid in. And the kid LA Taxi driver Aviator “IT wonder,” Spencer was saying, “that any one of us out here dares to open our traps to use the word ‘hard- ship.’ What do we know about hardships? There can’t be any more stories written about the “Hardships of the Stars’. Who would give one? Not me. We moan we have no ‘private lives’, no privacy. But wouldn’t we moan louder if any‘one of us could walk, footsore and starving, from Connecticut to Nebraska, with no one to give us so much as the eye? “What we’ve really got to complain about,” said Spencer, “is that we don’t get out of our cotton wadding often enough to realize how soft it is, what rags and straw and outhouses the ‘other half’ live in.” In Hollywood it is a favorite form of research on the There’s a deep, dark secret behind Spencer Tracy’s success and—here at lust it is revealed said, ‘I have a confession to make to you, Father. I haven’t had anything to eat for forty-eight hours. But I stole six quarts of milk on the way out—for the cat.’ ” There was a silence in the portable dressing-room on the Boys Town set where we were talking. The silence was broken by Spencer, sitting there in the black vest- ments of Father Flanagan.. He said, “Certainly makes you appreciate your rations, things like that ae I didn’t have to be told what Spencer was thinking. It was all there in his eyes . . . he was thinking of the kids out here in Hollywood, in California and other over-privileged places, his kids and the kids his kids play with sun-tanned and well-fed, with ponies and swimming pools and all the vitamins in their diets and love as gener- ous as the California sunshine to warm them. He was thinking of those other children, too— the underprivileged ones whom he had seen while on location at Boys Town. And I was thinking that I was on the track of that much-discussed question of what makes Spencer Tracy the great actor he is. part of directors, players, writers, to try to divine just what quality in Tracy makes his greatness. He has said of himself, “I’ve never seen an actor who looks like me.” So it isn’t his looks. He doesn’t seem to “do” anything, folks say. He has no tricks. He doesn’t work for effects. Then why is it that he can stick a wad of chewing gum on the tail of a plane and break your heart? “It’s the look in his eyes,” Fredric March will tell you. “Such a look, nameless but inescapable, so that you can’t keep your eyes off him no matter who else is playing a scene with him.” “T’ve never seen Tracy when he wasn’t magnificent,” said John Barrymore. “It’s because he knows in his blood what he’s doing.” “T wish I could be exactly like Spencer Tracy,” carolled Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney and Jackie Cooper when, separately, I asked each one what screen actor he’d rather be like when he grows up. “I think it’s because he cares about people,”’ vouchsafed Mickey Rooney when I asked him how he would define Tracy’s greatness. “And the way he cares shows through.” “It’s that look in his eyes,” said Bob Taylor. sat on the sidelines by the hour (Continued on page 94) 31 “I. have~

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i & Mrs. Rogers models while her talented daughter sketches. pases sestezsteceseerervectanasss ea a B Y MARTHA K E RR VE BEEN learning about Ginger Rogers. I've learned that in the last six months she has been out only twice for dinner. I’ve learned what it is she wants out of life. I’ve even learned about her faults and her fears and her boy- friends, and a little about the type of man she may marry. I’ve learned these things from the one person who knows her best, Lela Rogers, her mother. Ginger was in California, finishing “Carefree” with Fred Astaire. Three thousand miles away, in New York City, Lela had set up housekeeping. It was their first separation. The rumors flew. They said Lela had leased that apartment so Ginger, over- worked, could have a normal life be- tween pictures. They also said Lela and Ginger had broken for good. Jimmy Stewart squires Ginger on one of the few dates she’s had time for. And when Mrs.

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ees Ginger adores sodas, so mother gave her this SPEAKS HER PIECE stand, there isnt one in the jury who isn't convinced and converted Neither report is true. Both hurt the Rogers women. night. And there are innumerable wires and letters in “My job with Ginger is finished,” Lela Rogers said to the inimitable Gingerish manner. One morning Lela me. “Until a couple of years ago we discussed every received a brief telegram containing the simple single problem, personal and business, together. Sometimes we statement, “Time to get up.” differed, but in the end we always saw alike. Two years Before Lela left, Ginger had started a new hobby, ago I realized Ginger was grown-up. She had to make modeling. She had begun Lela’s head in clay. All her own decisions, her own mistakes. I had to be honest the time Lela packed, Ginger sat on the bed, staring with myself. I’ve never regretted any of my experiences. with the intentness of the artist, trying to memorize To me the greatest sins are those of omission...soI let her mother’s features. After Lela arrived in New Ginger alone... tolearn. ““And,’’ Lela heroically admitted, York, there came a cryptic wire: “Am glad you ‘St is in those last two years that Ginger has made the are going to have a good time but why did you most strides, become a woman. Certainly her acting have to take your head along?” shows it very clearly. Also, the week of her mother’s departure, “However, you laid the foundation,” I interrupted. Ginger had been invited to take part in a “You might call it that,” she said. “To me Ginger is tennis tournament. She is a superb athlete, like a diamond on which a cutter has labored for years, but of late has been working so hard at bringing out every facet by careful work. But she was a_ the studio that there was no time for good diamond to begin with. She had to be, or the work tennis practice. So, accepting the in- would have failed. vitation, Ginger called her pals with. “T came East to take up my own life, to pick up the “Listen, kids, you’ve got to practice threads of my original writing career—to get away from tennis with me every night this the label ‘Stage Mother.’ As for breaking with Ginger, week.” The result was she won that, of course, is utterly ridiculous—plain idle chatter!”, all games until the semi-finals. Then she told me. Ginger telephones her every other (Continued on page 99)

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Sonja may look like a doll but there's nothing helpless about litle Miss Henie. agents, a man from Madison Square Gar- den and a man delivering a new fur coat. Sonja perched on the edge of one twin bed..She swung her sheer silk- stockinged legs, their feet in size three ex- tra high heeled opera pumps. I remarked on the heels. Most athletes wear oxfords. “High heels never bother me,” she said. But then, nothing bothers her. Sonja Henie isa healthy per- son with nerves of steel. She gives that impression. She wore a pin-striped navy blue tailored coat trimmed with a crisp white piqué collar. The coat fitted per- fectly. The up-turned felt hat matched and was decorated with a pin, a diamond reproduction of Sonja, skat- ing, with one leg in mid-air. It was a cute pin. It would have looked smart on a black afternoon dress. Now it spoiled the tailored effect. It was just a little too much. So. was the strap under her chin. BY NANETTE KUTNER WHEN I questioned about Sonja. Henie, the press agent said, “Romance is cold.” And the fans outside her state- room door had demanded that I ask Miss Henie about Richard Greene. “That new partner of hers,” they called: him. The ship news reporters asked it first. There were two of them, a man and a woman. The woman took the lead. “What about Richard Greene ?” she asked. The man echoed the question, “Yeah, tell us, what about him?” Sonja turned a cold cheek. She said, “T am only with him in the picture.” “And in the gossip columns,” snapped the woman reporter right back at her. Sonja tried to laugh this off. She has learned in America. She knows all the “I tank I go home” answers. So she said, ““We are very good friends.” That went for Tyrone Power, too. Later, she gave herself away. We were seated in the bedroom of her suite on the “Normandie.” “We” were her mother, Sonja and I. Outside, in the living room, swarmed a crowd, assorted executives, press 34

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On-screen Sonja’s clinging, feminine and fragile—off, she’s as substantial as pretzels and beer. Sonja Henie loves clothes. She knows values. Yet she will never be rated as one of the best dressed women in Hollywood. She has so much yet to learn about the subtle att of sartorial simplicity. She started toward the small living-room. The crowd was chattering away, anxious to reach her. She looked at me and smiled and said, with that faint trace of accent, that slight misplacing of words, “It’s not nice for an interview, is it?” I was just about to say no, it wasn’t, when a side door burst open and a tall girl came rushing at Sonja. There were delighted shrieks on both sides. Even Sonja’s mother shrieked and babbled something in Nor- wegian. The girl was the wife of one of Sonja’s business associates. They hadn’t seen each other in months, not since Sonja had started something new by ice skating in normally snowless Florida. It was when she met this girl that Sonja gave herself away. Just like anyone talking to her chum, she wanted to tell about her boy friend. The very first thing she said was, “What do you think of my new leading man?” She added a few words about red hair and dimples, and seemed more than pleased when her friend said she thought Greene and Sonja look alike. Then she remembered me. She turned quickly, smiled and glanced down at her corsage of orchids. “Do you like orchids?” she asked. “T love them,” I said. “Every woman looks well with them,’ said Sonja. Then she added slyly, “I have twelve orchids . . . sent me.” She paused significantly. It was my turn to exhibit the cold cheek. I would not be bribed. The Richard Greene paragraph was in this story to stay. So Miss Henie talked about her home in Sonja on the set with Richard Greene and Cesar Romero whom she dates for publicity. Hollywood. “It is very nice,” she said. “It has a swim- ming pool, you know. I like living in California.” At ten o'clock that morning Sonja had telephoned, sug- gesting I meet her within fifteen minutes at the boat, in cabin one twenty-four, so we could have some time alone. I got there on the dot. Miss Henie showed up at half- past eleven. She’d been detained by photographers. IN THE meanwhile I waited. I talked to the fans who clustered outside the cabin door, a matron from Jersey, a skinny girl with glasses, three school girls from Brooklyn, a candid camera fiend and a middle-aged woman who, from the knowledge she graciously imparted to me, must have read every press clipping ever sent out about Miss Henie. Because these were her fans [ in- quired of them just what I should ask, and it was they who suggested Mr. Greene. For ten cents the “Normandie” lets you buy a ticket to see the boat. They had bought their tickets. But they had come to see Sonja Henie. ‘We read that she was sailing,” they said. “The ‘Normandie’ is one of the greatest boats ever built. You ought to see it,” I hinted, fearing for the privacy of my interview. “We want to see Miss Henie,” they chanted. And they did. First came three hat boxes, twelve suit cases and Mrs. Henie, carrying a blue fox cape and a mink coat, then Sonja, who turned on that smile and said that if they would send in the pictures she would autograph them. After that, she expertly whisked me into the cabin. Meeting her is a shock—and a pleasant one. Here is none of that dainty, fragile pink-and-white-frosting-on- a-cake beauty which is hers on (Continued on page 91) 35

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| Re eka ee SE a CE te i hc SEE THAT man over there?” said Dick, nodding across the room. “He has a new baby, too. At the hospital he had the room across from ours.” The room across from ours! Well, in a way, that foolish-sounding statement was true, for when one Joan Blondell Powell gave birth to one Ellen Powell, weighing eight pounds six ounces, on June 30th, Papa Powell just about moved into the hospital, too. It was eight o’clock in the morning when Dick bundled Joan into the car, and set off on that long awaited trip to the Cedars of Lebanon. A few minutes before he had phoned the studio to say that he wouldn’t be coming to work. “It’s here!” he had announced ecstatically and prematurely, and that was what threw the studio into so much confusion, The word spread that the baby had been born at eight, and yet no one could discover during the next few hours exactly what it had been, a boy or a girl. The baby didn’t arrive until after four in the afternoon, but Dick was too jittery between the hours of eight and four to even be reached on the phone. “T had only one disappointment about the whole thing,” he admitted at lunch, smiling ruefully. “For months I had been planning that automobile trip to the hospital with Joan. I had it all worked out in my mind. I would break every speed law, ignore every stop sign, go through 36 BY KATHARINE IS DOING HARTLEY every red light on the way. Then when I heard a siren screeching, I would give it even more gas. Finally, of course, the law would catch up with me, then I would say my little piece, ‘Sorry, old pal, but the lady has to get to the hospital !’ “Then, just like I had always seen it in the movies, a glow of sympathy would come into the copper’s eyes. More sirens and more speed, only this time the cop would be ahead of us, an escort all the way there! You see,” explained Dick, “I’ve known what it is to get a ticket in my time! I’ve tried all the excuses I could ever think of, but I always got the ticket anyway. For once I was going to have the pleasure of a real excuse, and for once a cop was going to grin and not yell at me. “Now that fellow over there,’ again Dick indicated the other new papa in the room, “he really did have that kind of luck. On his way to the hospital that same morning - they did try to pinch him. But nobody even looked at us twice! I went through a stop sign and almost brushed a state patrolman off his motorcycle seat, but he was parked there talking to another patrolman and they were too engrossed to even notice that it was a car instead of the wind that went by. We didn’t even get a tumble!” Again Dick regarded the other papa, envy in his eyes. “But he’s a nice fellow, very nice. (Contumued on page 86)

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Olivia with Patric Knowles in “Four’s a Crowd.” ? I KNOW it will happen to me some day,” says Olivia, “for, after all, I am only a woman.” By which Olivia means that, being a woman, she knows that she will fall in love some day. We were talking about “lerve,” Livvy and I. Any man would say, “Well, what else would you talk to Olivia De Havilland about?’ The way men feel about that girl! As Jimmy Fidler said on the radio one time, “No mortal 38 “When Errol Flynn and I are doing a roman- tic scene, our minds are on our lines, noton each other,” says Olivia. woman has a right to be as beautiful as Olivia.” But Livvy doesn’t let her loveliness throw her nor even occupy much of her time and thought. In fact, when I met Olivia the other day for tea I was that taken aback. For she was clad in a smart black frock with a vivid floral design of scarlet, and a wide black hat tied under her chin. She wore a dash of lipstick, carried a smart purse, wore sheer hose and good-looking sandals. I was taken aback be- LOOKING FOR LOVE

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“When I fall in love I want something honest and substan- tial,” says Olivia. "I want to know I'm not dreaming.” cause Olivia is generally in a skirt called shapeless, a sweater which has dropped many stitches in the course of wear and tear, a purse that doesn’t match anything and no more make-up ori her face than a mermaid. Maybe, I thought, maybe Livvy has met her “Dream Prince.” That would account for the change. So I brought up the good old themes of love and romance. Livvy never would, let men think as they will. I was curious, anyway, about all the rumors printed in the papers when Olivia went abroad a few months ago. One story regaled us with how Olivia was going to England for the express romantic pur- pose of wedding one Lord Mitchelham. Another story gave us to understand that Olivia was bound for Budapest, because she’d “had a premonition” that there she would find her “Dream Prince.” So I asked her. And when I said the words “Dream Prince” Olivia screamed. Olivia screamed right out loud, with her mouth roundly open. And when Olivia screams it’s no lamb’s bleat, either. She said, “Isn’t that Too re- volting! I can’t imagine anything more silly. I’m proud to say that I’ve never thought of such a thing as a “Dream Prince.’. As for the story about my wedding one Lord Mitchelham, I read it and was floored. It didn’t cause me any acute suffering because it was so silly. But I wasn’t amused, either, because I don’t like untrue things to be printed about me. Especially stupidly untrue things. “When mother and I got to England we ignored the thing, but a friend of ours consulted ‘Burke’s Peerage’ just to find out whether there is any such person as Lord Mitchelham. There is. He does exist. And he is over forty—and married. I’d never met him in my life. I haven’t met him yet. When we got back to New York BY FAITH SERVICE the reporters met us. They asked me about ‘my peer.’ I said that I’d never heard of the man until I read about him in the papers. They said, ‘So you won’t talk, huh?’ And then I read little pieces about how I’d been overheard crying in my cabin on the way home, the inference being that I’d been ‘stood up’ at the altar. “Now, I’ve never been stood up at the altar in my life. And if I was overheard crying in my stateroom it must have been on the trip to England, not on the trip home. For when I went over I was nervously exhausted, feeling simply horrible. I was feeling low in my mind and un- happy for no reason whatsoever. I felt so miserable that I hate to think about it now. I went away to get a rest, to check up on myself. I even used assumed names to escape attention over there. I came back feeling pretty fit. I also came back with my heart doing a normal beat and, I might add, completely whole. “T am not,” continued Olivia disdainfully, “in quest of romance. I am not looking for love nor expecting it nor even thinking about it. I hate to talk about love. How can anyone talk about love? What is there to say about it? I am neither looking for romance nor am I running away from it. When it comes, as it undoubtedly will, I just hope that I’ll have the intelligence and wisdom to handle it wisely. “T don’t dream about ‘him.’ When I am talking -with girl friends we do not discuss our “Dream Prince.’ That term revolts me. I don’t romanticize every man I meet. When I go to parties I never think, “Maybe tonight . I will meet my Fate! I think that the women of a generation ago did just this. But I am of this generation and—we don’t. “T think that the women of the last generation lived in a world of half-reality. They never really grew up. They sat around romancing about Galahad or Prince Charming or the elder Barrymore and so they didn’t recognize good old Joe Doakes when he came awooing. I think that’s why there were so many frustrated old maids, so many girls going into “declines.” They were always waiting for the shadow. They were dreaming instead of up-and- doing. They starved to death emotionally because they waited for Sir Galahad and (Continued on page !06) 39

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“I was sitting on top with- out having had to climb,” says Lew Ayres, “and it can't be done.” BY GLADYS HALL 21 pooner we LEW AYRES’ “resurr B, Cand D pictures has stirred H wood, appealed to it as no other resurrection has done since Elaine gave us John Barrymore again, all done over and good as new. _ : When George Cukor’s “Holiday” | flashed across the screen, people an- | swered the question, “Is it true what they say about Hepburn?” by heaping laurels upon her. But the big surprise | of the picture was not Hepburn’s ten- der performance. It was not the depth and finish of the production, nor was it the ace anticking of Cary Grant. No, the big surprise of the picture a S

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“was the ¢ ‘come- hark ” of Lew Ayres. Everyone was carolling, “It is true what they say about Lew ee has come back.” — ‘Not a critic, not a fan, not an actor, director or producer but what men- tions “Holiday” and then says, “A grand picture, and boy, what a come- _ back Lew Ayres has etaged iss _ For the young man who, nine years ago, scored so spectacularly in “All _ Quiet On The Western Front,” the ~ handsome young man who was con- _ stantly intriguing public interest by his performances off and on the screen, by his marriages, first to Lola Lane, then to Ginger Rogers, by his talking to Einstein, by his interest in astronomy, in music, in sculpture . . . that young man seemed to be sucked, gradually, into the morass of B, C and D pictures from which so few are ever able to return. In short, the name of Lew Ayres, once a name to be reckoned with, be- came, why, no one could explain, a name to reckon with no more. Young Lew Ayres was becoming too quiet on the western front. There seemed to be no sufficient reason for this comparative fade-out. Everyone was aware that Lew was working. Now and again he would rise above the surface, playing rather unimportant roles in rather unim- portant pictures. You would see him about town, though infrequently, and his grave good looks were as dark as ever. You would read that he had turned director. Then nothing would happen for a long time. You knew that Lew Ayres directed a picture called “Hearts in Bondage.”’ That stirred a ripple of interest. Oc- casionally, you were reminded that Ginger Rogers and Lew are still mar- ried, at least not yet divorced. Now and then the (Continued on page 97)

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Binnie and Sam Joseph fell in love, married and were happy. BINNIE BARNES’ best friend is, believe it or not, the man she divorced. You've heard that line before. This time it happens to be true. No one is closer to Binnie than Samuel Joseph, and one can judge from Samuel Joseph’s actions that no one is closer to him than Binnie. Some day they may re-marry. Time will tell. Their case is unique in this, that if any other Holly- wood actress ever left her husband for similar reasons none has so frankly acknowledged it. Binnie is that rare bird who says “nuts” to Hollywood taboo. She can’t be bothered with tricks and eva- sions. She lives her life according to her own | honest lights, let the chips fall where they may. The screen is her job, and she loves it. But if she’s got to pull a line of boloney to keep her place there, then nuts to the screen too. It’s not worth the price. She’s that modern girl you meet in magazines and movies, the girl who’s been faced with the ; necessity of Binnie Barnes Ee i choosing says she still | loves her ex- husband, bui—

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between husband and career. She made her choice as she felt she had to make it. There’s no issue of right or wrong involved. What might have been right for you or me or Sally Doakes would have been wrong for Binnie. She’s been on her own from the time she was fifteen. Untrained, unbacked, she set out to find her place in the world. From factory drudge she pro- gressed through clerking and rope-twirling to night club dancing, from slapstick comedies with Lupino Lane to revues with Cochrane. The salient point, how- ever, is this, that she took joy in the battle, for its own sake. She loved the sense of striking out for herself, of discovering new fields and the capacity to conquer them. Obstacles didn’t daunt, they stimulated her. And though the rewards in money and position were sweet, the sweetest was the feeling that she’d done it all by herself. She was dancing in a night club when she met Samuel Joseph, dealer in rare books, art connoisseur, owner of a business that was a tradition as well. The Joseph fathers had handed it on to their sons for generations, and Samuel Joseph had it in his blood. Two people could hardly have been more different. Sam had indeed been born to solidity under his feet, tae OF TAXES Binnie with David Niven in “Three Blind Mice.” If you're senti- mental don’t read this — for Binnie Barnes is a realist CAROLINE S. HOYT Binnie to quicksands. Sam was quiet, a student, a rock of dependability. Binnie bubbled like a geyser and, less than anything else, did she want a rock to lean on. She was her own rock, and fiercely ‘jealous of her independence. Yet they fell in love, they married, they were happy. It was after the first delicious embrace that Binnie looked up at him, half fearful, wholly determined. “You know, Dll never give up this work of mine.” “Perish the thought,” he grinned. “If you did, I couldn’t go around bragging “about my wife in the show business.” Each was enchanted with the other’s world and eager to learn more of it. Night after night Sam would call for her, watch her final routine and applaud with the rest, hugging to his heart the knowledge that he alone had the right to take her “home. Later, when she was appearing in Cochrane revues he never missed an opening, however far out of town (Continued on page 96)

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THE MOST OF THINGS You will find your type here. Her corrected faults should solve your problems Learn to smoke gracefully—or don't smoke. 1. Slide-away chin. 44

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By MARY MARSHALL WHO ARE all these people? Well, they’re just girls, just folks, like you and you and you. The six small pic- tures show a group of average girls—girls who neglect their potentialities for beauty, girls who do something all wrong, or who fail to do something just right. One is rather lovely, but she has her problem, too. One has that nice, fresh, wholesome look—but lacks glamor completely. Two need to be shown a few tricks to conceal their facial faults. And two have faces that simply cry out, “Make-up, maestro, please!’ I hope that with the aid of these pictures I may help you in your search for beauty. And I hope that the five larger pictures will put over a short, snappy lesson in acquiring social poise and stuff and things, without which not even a beauty can be a belle. Step up, then, and meet the girl friends. The six small pictures are conveniently numbered. Even though you may not resemble in the least any of the girls pictured here, perhaps a discussion of each general type and her particular problems may help you. So pay attention, plizz, while I expound, and refer to the pictures by number when you want to. The chief facial fault of girl Number One is a very common one—a slide-away chin. A weak chin. Further- more, the chin is long in proportion to the tiny, rather LS gb A # Tes Poe 2. Too much forehead. +f Glamorless. child-like face, and there is almost no crease in it. The lower lip is tucked in, too, as if Ickle Dirl were twying so hard to keep the tears back. And now, Miss Smarty— I’m talking to myself—suppose you cease picking on the poor girl and tell other girls with a similar problem what to do about it. There are several things you can do. You can use a one-shade-lighter tint of powder on your chin than you use on the rest of your face. The lighter powder will make the chin appear more prominent. Blend the two shades carefully into each other, so that you won’t give your little secret away to the jeering public. (Conversely, of course, if your chin is too prominent, powder it a shade darker.) The powder trick for the weak chin should be supple- mented by a simple exercise which I will tell you more about presently. If your mouth is small and insignificant like this girl’s, experiment with lipstick to make it larger, more dramatic. Smile when you put on your lipstick. Try, for evening, the Hollywood trick of blotting out the natural shape of the mouth with foundation cream and painting a new mouth. Perhaps this will work and perhaps it won't. If the natural contours of your mouth are firmly marked, it won't be so easy. If you can’t improve upon (Continued on page 101) ae ry 5. Make-up, please! _ 6. Hair is terrible. 45

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VO-DO-DE-0-DO BY IDA ZEITLIN UNLIKE THE Andy Hardy he plays, Mickey Rooney got no thrill out of wearing his first tuxedo He was three years old and its stylishness was lost on him. “It’s like a baby,” Mickey explains. “If he grows up in France, he speaks French and thinks nothing of it. I grew up in vaudeville, wore tucks and thought nothing of it. Vo-do-de-o-do. (The final snatch has nothing to do with the subject, but serves Mickey as a musical punctuation mark plus an outlet for animal spirits. ) Vaudeville alternated with, and then gave way to, the movies. For several years Mickey enjoyed a definite vogue as the typical American kid, fresh but nice. There followed that crucial period when | he was no longer a little boy and not yet a big one—the period when most movie children’s con- tracts are allowed to lapse. Mickey’s parts shrank in importance, but his studio hung on to him. There was in his acting a sureness, a humor and an hon- esty that seemed worth investing in for the long pull. The issue proved his studio wise. A single word- less scene in “The Devil Is a Sissy,” that scene where he stood under a lamp post while his father died in the electric chair, might have netted Mickey, had he fallen within the age limits, an Academy Award. The success of “Ah, Wilderness” encour- aged the studio to put into work a little number called “A Family Affair.” To the general astonish- ment, a long line formed outside the Capitol Theatre in New York on the day of its first showing. To the question, ‘““What brought you down here?” the answer, almost 100%, was “Mickey Rooney.” Thus began the new flowering of Mickey’s career. He’s been kept hopping since—from “Hardy” to “Lord Jeff” to “Hold That Kiss” to “Hardy” to “Boystown.” They can’t come too fast for Mickey. Occasionally it suits him to bemoan his. vacationless lot. Actually, any between- (Continued on page 90) He’s the typical American kid, fresh but nice—and a born comic

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-BONITA GRANVILLE sighed, ap- pearing to have the cares of the world on her shoulders, and began, “Isn’t it terrible when you're just at that age when you're neither one thing nor an- other—sort of just in between. I don’t enjoy playing with dolls, and yet Pm not old enough to go out with boys alone. I guess I’m at the awkward age. Fifteen, y’ know, isn’t either here nor there. Gee, I'd give anything if I were older, or even younger. Then I would at least fit in somewhere. I can’t even drive a car till I’m sixteen and that’s such a long time off. Yep, it’s seven whole months and that seems like just about a lifetime now!” We agreed it did seem unfair that in the process of maturing one must just sit and wait for that magic time when the world unfolds before your very eyes. However, once Bonita has arrived, so to speak, it might prove disillusioning to dis- cover the moon’s made of green cheese! That is, the phenomena she has lived for isn’t all it’s cracked up to be! Many a deb has the dis- appointment of her young life once she’s launched and has done the rounds. Far off fields are always the greenest, you know. “JT did go out once, my first time, and it was wonderful,’ Bonita reminisced. ‘‘Of course, it was with a girl friend, and Mama was at the next table chaperoning us, but it was grand! I was so elegant that you’d have thought me twenty at least. I was putting it on and everything went fine till the waiter came for the dessert order. I asked for demi tassé and my friend chimed in, ‘What is dema tas-sie?’ I could have died! I didn’t know myself, but I was going to find out. I never (Continued on baae 78) BY F@GEOREGE BENJAMIN “ld hate to think I'd end up as an ingenue,”’ sighs Bonita Granville, who has too much on the ball to ever do thatl 47

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livan’s striking ensemble of black and white flannel shows a definite Cossack influence. The soft green of Rosalind Rus- sell’s wool suit contrasts subtly with her black and grey accessories. phragm for added slimth and BY MARIAN SQUIRE height. Jackets may end any- where from just under the arm- THE SUIT is definitely leading pits, to the hem of the skirt. lady in this Fall’s fashion picture, This trend is a great help for — according to the head cinema the girl who hasn't time to change stitchers, and it may have as after office hours, for her dinner many different guises as fancy date. The simplest office_frock dictates. Blouses take on a more becomes a date dress when it dons important role, as the newer num- a tricky jacket. With various bers are designed with interesting toppers as a sartorial hypo the skirts, leaving you with a com- most limited wardrobe assumes plete costume if the coat is dis- an air of opulence and plenty. carded. Skirts are inclined to Here are Olivia De Havilland climb up and cling to the dia- and Rosalind Russell to illustrate You'll be in the swing with any one of these

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y G ZY I See: Diagonal weave black and white wool furnishes new contrast in Rosalind Rus- sell’s suit. Olivia De Hav- illand’s collar- less beige wool bolero suit has an exciting alligator belt and : F SEASON the point. Two entirely different types, these cinemamisses run the suit gamut in “Four’s A Crowd.” Designer Orry-Kelly whips up short jackets for the diminutive Miss De Havilland, and ranges from brief boleros to skirt length coats for the taller Miss Russell. Nearly all of Miss De Havilland’s gowns are “suited” with various jackets. One dress, flaring slightly at the hem, boasts a pert bell hop jacket with a double row of shiny buttons and lapels outlined in braid. A short plaid jacket and crew neck sweater go with a solid color skirt fitted to below the hips and then bursting into released pleats. A black fox bolero gives umph to a simple street dress with quilted trimming. A very flaring skirt builds up to a white blouse with enormous sleeves caught at the wrist with narrow cuffs. One of Miss De Havilland’s eve- ning gowns has a black taffeta skirt billowing enormously at the hem, with an occasional coy peek at. an India print petticoat. The top is the same print decorated with sparkles (technically known as dardanelles), black epaulettes on the tiny cap sleeves and a contradictory little-boy collar of crisp white pique. Miss Russell clings to suits even for formal wear. Her evening gown is all white and worn with a long sleeved peplum jacket. The silhou- ette of this outfit is somewhat confused, what with the peplum dipping in the back, and a roving waistline. Miss Russell seems hap- pier in her more orthodox numbers. A suit with a loose hip length jacket has a sweater (Continued on page 80) fashion-right ensembles worn by Hollywood's brightest young stars

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TEN YEARS ago Ray Bolger definitely decided not to take up with “moom pitchers.” That is, he firmly be- lieved the stage was the place for him and his talents. So, just to prove he sticks to his guns (?) ten years to the day later we found Ray in the process of moving into his new home high on a hilltop overlooking dear old Hollywood. “You know, this isn't my first - experi- ence in pictures,” Ray began with a twinkle in his eye. The Bolger humor is the talk of the town. “I did them back in 1926 in the good old silent days. They were shorts, called “comedies” in the dark past. I was given to understand they were so good a test was made of me on the strength of them. However, I never heard from that test. I got lost in the shuffle, so decided then and there that the movies were not for me. I was going to stick to the legitimate stage and build a name for myself. For years I played the circuits with Broadway as my goal. Then came the time I was to debut on the big time! My pals told me how sophisticated New Yorkers were, so I was as busy as a bird dog gettin’ sophistication. Well, to make a long story short, I was a complete bust ’til one day, in disgust, I played myself. They loved it, and from then on I forgot advice and began to get ahead.” Now, if you’ve never seen Ray Bolger stop a show, you've missed a real treat. Undoubtedly one of the most popular musical comedy stars on the stage, Ray is in a HE'S NOL class of his own when it comes to dancing. “After I got into the legitimate theatre, things began to hap- pen,” Ray continued. “Each time I’d do a show, the movies would come around with offers. Finally they made me such an attractive proposition | accepted. I came out here with a deal to do two pictures a year with the rest of the time off to play on Broadway. Well, I sat around all summer with nothing to do but draw salary. Finally, with only a few weeks 70 gO On my contract, I got a call from an executive's office. I figured he would tell me my services were no longer required. | -was wrong. “The first thing the man did was to ask what I did! I thought it was a rib and said most anything coming my way. ‘Yes, but just what sort of thing do you do,’ he asked, “dra- matic or what?’ I told him to get a rehearsal hall and I’d give him an audition. ‘How long will you have to practice?’ he wanted to know. I told him to let me show him. Well, I went through the works, and did tap stuff and pantomime—well, the works. When I got through he said, ‘Could you do a dance number in “The Great Ziegfeld? ” ~ “T worked like mad and did a routine for the picture. When I was through, I went back to New York, without a new contract. I figured this picture business was nice work if you could get it, but, well—I had a date in New York and was very glad to keep it! (Continued on page 74) He’s a star on Broadway, film player in Hollywood and a dancing fool in any language. BY ROBERT McILWAINE L0-MINDED

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COMEDIANS VS. \ \ . When the Com- edians played against the Leading Men, Mary Pickford tossed out the first ball as Buster Keaton Maybe one rea- son why Mary’s was the only good pitch of the day was that Umpire Joe E. Brown ruled the Mauch Twins in- eligible because the game wasn’t a double-header. With the score 72- 28 against his team, Hugh Her- bert gets renewed hope from Gloria Blondell. Inciden- tally, the game ended with a score of .84-76— the winner, sweet Charity. Leading Men’‘s cap- Horlia , Diels Powell, goes through a batty formality with Comedian's cap- tain, Joe E. Brown. Joe was also um- pire and official announcer. ge se OS ere ee

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The Ritz Brothers, in the latest in baseball uniforms straight from Sing Sing, played on both sides, um- pired, took tickets and shot Dick Powell for steal- ing second base. That's all. There's mischief abrewin’ when the ‘Dead End” Kids get together ina huddle. They think that base- ball is for sissies, so they're waiting for a nice, inter- esting game of ““seven-come- eleven.” John Béles drove a terrific bunt into the infield, then quickly packed, said goodbye to friends, and set off for first base.

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And pay attention while she makes the momentous deci- sion between lamb chops and the regular blue plate. 62 In a studio romance, you musi al- low the young lady to take your arm—while the cameras are around anyway! Richard Greene and Sonja Henie are reel-ly in love. Is that why he’s so attentive?

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You don’t have to be quite so at- ‘tentive to your real girl. She knows how you feel. At least, that’s what men think. | Here’s the real thing— with Arleen Whelan ‘shifting pretty much for herself Food plays a minor role at the luncheon table with Richard and Arleen, when there’s so much to talk about. 63

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Our favorite story this month concerns the heat, Tyrone Power and New York, in the order named, It was during Tyrone’s week in Manhattan, when the young man spent almost every waking moment with a crowd at his heels. Wherever he went, the crowd went, all of which is nice and pleasant in the winter but a bit sticky in New York’s sulphuric summer. So one night Mr. P. decided on a quiet evening in his hotel room. He armed himself with a cool drink and sat back in an easy chair, but it was still hot. Thinking a little circulation would help matters he phoned the desk and said, “Send up a couple of fans.” A moment later he answered a knock on the door and in walked two urchins with autograph books.’ @ Since Shirley Temple's “firsts”—from first teeth to first bright say- ing—have been carefully recorded by the nation’s press, we are bound by tradition to report another “first.” First thing Shirley said when she arrived in Hollywood from her across-the-continent jaunt was “How's Ching-Ching?” Ching-Ching is a baby Chow, and the first thing he ever did had better be left unrecorded. If our guess is right, a young lady about town named Ellen Powell is in for some pretty strained moments fifteen or twenty years from now. For Papa and Mamma (Dick Powell and Joan Blondell) have made a recording of Ellen’s first audible sounds— all her howls and yowls—for posterity. We can see the picture twenty years from now: a group of friends gathered at the Powell home, listening to music, when suddenly Old Man Powell (that’s Dick) will say, “Here’s an interesting record.” And Ellen, full of the dignity of her twenty years, will have to listen to the shrieking of a little girl she doesn’t even remember. 64 Most fun of the month, and probably of the whole year, was tl party sponsored by Bette Davis for The Tailwaggers, of which shi national president. The Tailwaggers is a charitable organiza similar to the Humane Society for the protection and care of dogs, (We explain this only because someone asked us if the Tailwaggers was a rhumba club.) The whole town turned out for Bette’s party at the Beverly Hills Hotel, everyone had a swell time and the entire proceeds will go to make this a happier. nation for canines. - Any of you gals who saw the gorgeous Hedy Lamarr in “Algiers” will thank us for this bit of information. It’s Hedy’ street make-up secret, and anyone who has seen her breath-takin beauty in person will vouch for its effectiveness. Hedy wears a cream powder base—and no powder, and a bright lipstick which she applies with a pencil. All right, girls, let’s all be gorgeous. — One of the strangest cases in Hollywood is Ann Sothern’s. With a beautiful face and figure and plenty of acting talent, she hasn't had a picture job since her contract terminated six months ago. Bit she’s contracted to do a Broadway show for Jed Harris this fall, an our guess is that she'll be back in Hollywood before the end of the year, and the studios will be fighting to pay her twice what she got before they let her go. rs

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condition and has been ordered by his doctor to refrain from strenuous work for at least six months. And that is the principal reason why Bill will appear regularly on the Hollywood Hotel radio show. The work is comparatively easy, he has an audience to work to, he likes radio, and, most important of all, it keeps him before his public. Although it hasn’‘t yet been published, Deanna Durbin is now free of all the agent trouble which has been dragging her into the courts these recent months. Her studio and her family have bought her agent's contract, and from now on all her business deals will be handled by her father. Deanna, incidentally, is in a class with Shirley Temple and Jane Withers in that she makes as much money from sidelines as she does from her pictures. Last year, for instance, Deanna made $100,000 on royalties from the sale of dresses bearing her name. @ Although Luise Rainer has already filed suit for divorce against Clifford Odets, there will undoubtedly be no action taken on it before the first of next year. Reason: Luise is not yet an American citizen. She is in the process of obtaining her citizenship papers, and having a husband helps considerably in such matters. How- ever, no one can blame her for not wanting to return to Austria. Now that the Joan Crawford-Franchot Tone split is definite, one wonders what will be Miss Crawford’s next move. Following the separation Franchot was seen at practically all the towns night spots, usually by himself. But Joan remained in hiding, and up to press time she hasn’t emerged for a single social event. Is she going into another Phase, we wonder? Will Joan emerge as the new Garbo, or will she decide to be the Gay Divorcee? No one knows and very few care. Hey, what’s this? Hollywood has just made a college picture and —hbelieve it or not—there’s a college girl in it. Check the records back to the golden days of college pictures, when one of the studios put Jack Oakie through college at least twice a year, and you'll find this is tradition-shattering news. As long as the news will leak out anyway, we may as well tell you that the picture is “Hold That Co-Ed” and the bona fide college girl is Marjorie (Indiana University) Weaver. Gary Cooper has come out with the statement, according to his studio’s press department, that men who smoke “tailor-made” ciga- rettes are sissies. Mr. Cooper, according to the busy Boswells, has been rolling his own ever since he was old enough to shave, and figures it isn’t manly to go up to an effeminate cigar counter and order a pack of “ready-mades.” When pinned down, the publicity boys will admit that Mr. Cooper has just completed a picture called “The Lady and the Cowboy,” but they indignantly deny any con- nection between the two items. They also forget that a few months back Gary received a sum supposed to be $5,000 for endorsing a well-known brand of sissy cigarettes. $5,000 buys a powerful lot of makin’s, eh, Gary? 65

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pended by her studio for refusing to play the feminine lead in “A Very Practical Joke.’ This is the picture with which Ricardo Cortez will make his bow as a director. According to studio sources, the- primary reason ' given by the actress for declining the femme lead, which is reputed to \| be a fat part, is the fact that it is the director’s first megaphone job. As i an additional reason, she is reported to object to Michael Whalen as the leading man, claiming the last time she appeared before the camera with him, he ‘gave her nothing’ to help ‘lift’ her work.” e “Smile when you call me that. stranger!” All of which is a lead-up to the fact that Jesse James was a bold bad bandit, a rough-and-tough he- man who took his fighting where he found it. Everyone knows he was a straight shot and a desperate character. So now, the studio filming 1 his life has the nerve. in several trade paper ads, to spell his name “Jessie.” It’s like calling that one-time hero of the West Buffalo Willie. ] € 1 Questions without Answers: What recently filed divorce action \] Miriam Hopkins chats with Errol Flynn at the West Side Tennis Club's party. Nancy Kelly makes her screen debut in the lead opposite Tyrone Power in “Jesse James.” Since Miss Kelly is a new- comer, items on her are scarce. All we found out is that she’s seventeen, she scored a hit last season on Broadway, and she’s seen about with a distinguished looking man, but he’s her father. She also likes to jump into a swimming pool of a moonlit evening and, unlike most girls who feel that way about pools and evenings, she has one handy. The power of the screen in “building up” a name has never been so definitely proven as in the case of Tony Martin. Six years ago Tony was a saxophone player in San Francisco. He had his own band at a small night club, but no one paid much attention to it. _Two months ago, after a couple of years of mod- erate success in pictures, Tony took a dance band out on the road, and he did sensational business everywhere, topping even such established band leaders as Benny Goodman and Guy Lombardo. Everyone came to spend an evening with the guy who spends his evenings with Alice Faye. * @ Strange Parallel Dept. From a publicity release: “On her studio lot, Phyllis Brooks is known as ‘the darling of the directors. She never blows up in her lines and she always | knows them perfectly. She never grows temperamental. She is | never late for work. Consequently, the directors on the lot are | among her strongest admirers and are eternally begging for her services in their pictures.” From the Hollywood Reporter: “Phyllis Brooks has been sus- +3 bd Hollywood's most romantic couple, Cary Grant 4 and Phyllis Brooks, dine at the Brown Derby. . Ann Sothern and Madge Evans rem- inisce as they lunch téte-c-téte. had been planned by the wife even before she married 1 the guy? Before holy wedlock occurred she signed \] an agreement with the groom’s agent which stated $100,000 would be the limit of the settlement when the divorce came. In the meantime, of course, she has accumulated enough furs and jewelry to attract many Hollywood wolves to her door. This is an era of strange nicknames, but the strangest we've run into are a couple on the set of “That Certain Age.” You Imock at a dressing-room door marked %» “Butch” and little Juanita Quigley pokes her head out. : The owner of the one next to it, marked “Charlie,” is | —guess who—Deanna Durbin! (Continued on page 116) ee)

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They preter different SPOFts... cavers ane my ravonite™ but the same cigarette (RIGHT, STANDING) Mass Jane Alva Johnson of St. Louis ... Riding, hunting, and horse shows are “an old story” to Jane. Her horses have won trophies and rib- bons. “That delicate Camel flavor tastes just right to me,” she says. “Though I smoke quite steadily, I’m always ready for another Camel!” (RIGHT) Mass Le Brun Rhinelander of New York... In her own words, “Skiing is great sport!” Lake Placid is her favorite winter re- sort...Camels her favorite cigarette. “I need healthy nerves,” she says, “to make speedy descents... without a spill. So I do my nerves afavor by smoking nothing but Camels.” (LEET) Mass Peggy Stevenson of New York... Watch Peggy Stevenson tee off and you can well believe that her game is never upset by jangled nerves. “It takes healthy nerves to play a good game of golf,’ she says, “so my smoking is confined to Camels. Cam- els are mild. They never get on my nerves at all!” (LEFT) Mass ‘“‘Milo’’ Gray of New York...Devoted to figure-skating, Miss Gray has visited winter sports centers—Innsbruck,Gstaad, Krynica—and is an enthu- siastic participant in Long Island skating parties. She stops frequently to refresh herself with a Camel. “Camels taste grand all the time!” she says. (r1GHT) Mrs. John W. Rocke- feller, Jr. of New York... Mrs. Rockefeller has had thrilling experiences in the air. “My first thought, when I put my feet on firm ground,” she says, “is to smoke a Camel. Smoking Camels eases up my ner- vous tension. Yes, ‘I’d walk a mile for a Camel’—and fly a thousand!” SAYS EACH OF THESE DISTINGUISHED WOMEN OF SOCIETY (LEFT) Mrs. S. Kip Farring- ton, Jr. of New York...Her favorite sport is big-game fishing. She has caught a giant tuna weighing 720 pounds! Here she is pic- tured with a friend, chat- ting about Camels, “I’m glad that I smoke Camels,” she says. “When I’m tired, smoking Camels gives my energy such a /ift/” (LEFT) Mrs. Rufus Paine Spalding III of Pasadena... Mrs. Spalding is a skilled yachtswoman. She travels a great deal, entertains fre- quently, and smokes Cam- els—as many as she pleases. “Smoking Camels gives me a delightful /i/t,” she says. “And Camels are so mild...really gentle to my throat!” COSTLIER TOBACCOS: Camels are a matchless blend of finer, MORE EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS — Turkish and Domestic GET A LIFT WITH A CAMEL ! Copyright, 1988, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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See how it peps up meals and s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-s food dollars! ranco-American SPAGHETTI Made by the Makers of Campbell’s Soups Sered. for FREE Keceve Book CAMPBELL Sour C ComMPANY, Dept. 611, Camden, New Jersey. Please send me your free recipe book: ‘30 Tempting Spaghetti Meals.” Name (print) Address MODERN SCREEN THE LURE THAT’S LAMARR (Continued from page 29) Or again, she had a true sophisticate’s appreciation of the texture and color of the skins of the rare little animals that made up her chinchilla cape. She frankly con- fessed pleasure in owning it because it is of the most expensive fur in the world. She was in London before her present contract was signed. She was approached by a top executive who offered certain terms. She refused them and the discus- sion was closed. Then she noted the execu- tive was returning to America on a cer- tain boat. “T think it is a good time for Hedy to visit her relatives in New York,” she told herself. (There were no relatives, needless to say.) “I think, too, that it would be nice to take that same boat. Something may happen. Boats are nice places and people feel pleasantly disposed to one another on them.” SHE caught the same ocean liner. She wore her most striking clothes. She was charming to the executive and his party. She was distant, but not too distant. Men passengers flocked around her by the score, and she took care that the fact was seen and noted. “When I want something very much, I go after it,” she explained to me. “I don’t let people tell me no.” The contract, on her terms, was signed in mid-ocean. And it was there, inci- dentally, that she was christened Lamarr. It was easier to pronounce than her real name of Kiesler, to which some unpleas- ant publicity had been attached. Perhaps it was hopeful prophecy of success to match that other great beauty’s, Barbara LaMarr. O better appreciate the simplicity of her present surroundings one has to know something of Hedy’s past. She was born in Vienna of well-to-do parents. As the only child she was spoiled in some respects, yet she remembers feeling the curb of sharp discipline at unexpected times. At fourteen she was sent to a private pen- sion in Switzerland. She ran away from there because of rhubarb. “The head mistress had a sour face and pulled her hair up, so,’ Hedy said, illus- trating a severe coiffure with her own luxuriant mop of wavy, brown hair. “She liked rhubarb and so we had it every night for supper. I didn’t like the stuff and re- fused it. They told me I would get nothing else to eat unless I did. So I ran away.” Hedy’s philosophy is if you don’t like a thing, run away from it. It’s so much simpler than staying to argue, and a much faster way of getting your own way about things. She’s just now learning, poor child, that there are some things you cannot run away from but must face and fight down. Like the way the world will not forget her first picture, “Ecstasy.” It is taking cour- age on her part to learn that lesson. She went back to Vienna third class be- cause the head mistress had the guard- ianship of her pupils’ money. En route her fellow passenger got both legs broken, the train caught on fire and she had no money for food. ‘““Oooh, such a mess!” Hedy de- scribed it. Her indulgent parents permitted her to remain. And then rued the decision, for Hedy got stage-struck. Such a thing had never happened in the family before. She finally landed a tiny part in a Max Rein- hardt production called “The Weaker Sex.” When that play closed and no more en- gagements were forthcoming, she ran away to Berlin to get in the movies. She made Who. knows? ~ one or two pictures which she said were terrible. Finally after a year a family friend coaxed her back to Vienna on the pre- tense of a “wonderful surprise.”’ There was no surprise, but Hedy was glad of an ex- cuse to be home again without losing face. EFORE going to Berlin, however, she secretly had appeared in the picture “Ecstasy” which was to raise such a con- troversy and to dog her life for the next eight years and still is hounding her. In that regard, she was more sinned against than sinning. Advantage was taken of her youth in the first place, and in recutting the picture for foreign distribution, an entirely different and sensational interpretation was placed upon it, for the sake of the dollars it could rake in on the American market. Returning to Vienna she appeared in a number of stage plays and was building a creditable reputation for herself as an actress when she married Fritz Mandl. Like herself, he was a man of strong determina- tion. He wanted to marry Hedy and did. ‘For the next four years her life was lived the way Hollywood society stories are pic- tured. She had exquisite jewels and mag- nificent furs and gowns. Formal dinners over which she presided were served from plates of gold, which recently were stolen in the Vienna rioting. Seven servants waited upon her in her ten room apartment in Vienna. Others served her in the Mandl hunting lodge some miles away. She had a place in the Austrian Alps, and another on the Riviera. It should have been a thrill for such a young girl to hold so much power in her slim hands. It wasn’t; it was a bore. She wanted to be an actress. She wanted to do something herself, not be done for. Just before going to England she divorced Mandl in the courts of Vienna on the grounds of desertion. An annulment of the marriage is now being sought in Rome. And so to Hollywood, where she is living with one servant in a_ simply furnished six room bungalow, where she drives her own modest car, and does her own marketing. “Tt is all I can afford right now,” she said. She must have caught my incredulous smile because she said quickly, “You think I must have a lot of money because I have a big diamond ring and a chinchilla coat, eh? Because I was married to a very rich nan That is not so. I took nothing from him “And are you happy living this way ?” “No,” she said honestly. “T fike having nice things. But I'll have them again. You wait and see. This time I’ll make them for myself.” ; Hedy speaks English with only a trace of an accent, and she has an amazing command of vocabulary for one who has been speaking the language only seven months. In fact, she has perfected her speech more in those seven months, Holly- wood claims, than Marlene Dietrich has in seven years. Gallantly she denied loneliness during those long months that preceded her present triumph. She was busy, she said, and she went to lots of “private parties.” It must have been galling to her pride, however, to possess a beauty which Reinhardt called the greatest in the world and be forced to keep it hidden from all but a few friends. For she was kept hidden. That was part of her studio’s carefully prepared plan. Or so they say. They wanted certain publicity to die down that she might break upon the (Continued on page 79)

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You see, in the theatre we work with the creators, putting part of ourselves into the roles. In pictures, they do things differently. You do what the writers say in the script and that’s that. “However, to get on, we rehearsed for weeks and then pushed off for Boston to open. I was running around in circles. We were all nervous ‘about the show, not knowing whether it would be a hit. The opening night came round and next morn- ing the papers announced we had a sure fire smash that would run for months. Then the fun began. . Phones rang like mad and, believe it or not, movie companies were on the wire for me! I wouldn’t talk to ’em. My place was the theatre, and there I should remain. INALLY I got together with one studio and signed before the show even-got to New York. I didn’t know what I was doing, I was so excited. Starred in a show that was a huge success, I was the happiest man in town. We came to New York and things went better than I'd even dreamed until ‘The Great Ziegfeld’ opened around the corner. Here I was, a bit play- er in the picture, and not a stone’s throw away my name was up in lights! I got the ribbing of my life from my friends, so I kept my trap shut about this new deal with the cinema. After the show closed, I quietly came out here with hopes high and a determination to make good in the greatest medium of all, the talkies.” Yes, Ray Bolger’s a guy that can take it! Not merely once has he been to the camera coast only to return disheartened, but each time he comes back for more. However, from reports, he’s made his last trip back east, for since his excellent job in “Rosalie,” his studio has really im- portant plans for him. “lve just finished working in ‘Sweet- hearts, but you won’t be able to find me in it. It really takes time to get started in pictures. It’s like beginning all over again. They haven’t found just the right thing for me yet, but I’m not discouraged. Look at Fred Astaire. He did nothing for quite a time until some producer took a long chance and said, ‘Well, he was a success when he played himself, so we'll let him do that on the screen.’ Then over night Fred was famous as a movie star. The whole country clamored for his pic- tures. I don’t expect to emulate his good fortune, but I do think we’re on the right track. You see, with me, it’s quite a dif- ficult think. I get a star’s salary, but ’m no star. So it’s pretty hard to figure just what to do with me. “However, I’ve heard tales at the studio that Eleanor Powell and I are to do a picture about Honolulu. Of course I won’t play the love interest, merely her brother, but I think it would be good for me to work with Eleanor. She’s a grand person and there’s no one could stop her if she’s cast properly. She’s a sensible, sweet girl, not the dizzy society type damsel and, when she starts playing her type, watch her go to the top.” Also watch Mr. B. if those studio heads ever cast him as himself. How they have overlooked the great possibilities in his “On Your Toes” is a mystery. Of course, far be it from me, to take the casting problems from their shoulders, but were I in the purchasing department, Ray’s first assignment would be to film his stage suc- cess. And, in so doing, fill the company’s coffers with that always welcome cash. “This much I do know,” Ray continued with enthusiasm. “I’m to do ‘The Wizard of Oz.’ I’m looking forward to this be- cause I feel it can be a highly amusing and successful picture. I’m not sure whether I will play the Scarecrow, or the Tin Woodman. Both are swell parts and if they keep it in a light vein, sticking to fantasy, I think it will be a big hit. Judy Garland is to play Dorothy, the little girl blown from Kansas to the Land of Oz. There are some marvelous songs in it, so she should be perfect.” There will be a rooting section for Ray here, because there’s no one who deserves a break more than said gent. Chockful of talent, charm and personality, he is just what the fans have ordered for good fun. Speaking of fun, the Bolgers are having the time of their lives getting ready to move into their first home. Seems that, due to traveling here and there, they never had the opportunity to settle in anything more than a hotel suite or an apartment. Well, all is changed, and you can take a tip that Mr. and Mrs. B. will be in for many an-envious glance once a house warming is in order. “We're having a marvelous time with this house,” Ray confided as he proudly showed one around the grounds. “We cer- tainly were lucky to find a place with shrubbery and trees. Why, it would have taken us a lifetime to get all this set. I can’t understand how it remained vacant so long, unless no one could find it. The thing that sold us immediately was its eastern appearance. It’s more like an Eng- lish farm house architecturally, but all this gardening is typically Connecticut or New England. We've done the whole thing over, even to the conservatory, which is now a card room. Everything is new. We've started from scratch, even to the linens and pots and pans. It’s been quite a job for Gwen, but she loves it and she’s good at it, too.” With things looking up for the Bolgers, there seems to be only one small fly in the ointment. When they go out socially, Ray wants to dance with his wife, there’s always some producer’s wife who wants to dance with Ray. Well—Ray wants to stay in pictures! Roy Bolger and Jeanette Mac- Donald in an amusing scene from ‘Sweethearts.’

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MODERN SCREEN IN BETWEEN (Continued from page 47) would have asked. I was so mad I told her I bet she thought that butterflies made butter! This was at the Cocoanut Grove, you know, so you can imagine what I went through. But, we did have a mar- velous time.” Seeing Bonita’s eyes sparkle and her head toss as she recounted her experiences, reminded us somehow of the brat in “These Three.” It needed only half a question from me to get her started on her favorite characterization. “T had so much fun doing ‘These Three.’ It was work, too, but when you got through there was something to show for the time you spent on it. Then too, in a part like that there’s lots of meat—something to get hold of. It really wasn’t hard get- ting the character in hand. You see, the first thing I do is to read the script, then the director gives me his idea of what the part should be and I sort of mix it with my interpretation and, there it is. “T always treat my characters as though they were real. Then I can get to know them better. But with the sort of person I played in ‘These Three,’ it wasn’t so easy. She wasn’t just a mean brat on the surface. It went deeper than that. She was vindictive and a liar through and through. She loved hurting people and causing trouble in the worst possible way. “Now in ‘White Banners, I played a girl who could have been quite a meanie. But, the director said she shouldn’t be nasty —just a little fresh and completely sincere. She said some pretty awful things for a girl of her age, but the way she said them and felt about them made things all right. “T jiked that part. It was the nearest to a grown-up I’ve played yet. And it was swell working with Jackie Cooper. He’s the nicest boy and has so much respect for his mother. Girls are supposed to be re- spectful, but with boys, it’s sort of dif- ferent. If you could see him on the set with his mother, you couldn’t help admire him. And it isn’t that he’s dull either. He kids around and has lots of fun, but in a quiet way. He’s a good actor, too. The real test is when you play with some- one and he sure enough comes through.” Our young Miss G., who ordered lemon- ade and confided the reason was she was on a diet, reached for her third piece of cinnamon toast. She got it and also a look from Mama Granville, who took her seri- ously about the diet business. So, we quick- ly asked what sort of roles she liked best. “Oh, I like to do a variety of parts,” Bonita began. “I’d hate to think that I would end up as an ingenue. When I grow up I want to play the sort of women Bette Davis does now. But, I don’t want to go through the bad period she went through to get to doing the things she now does. She’s my favorite actress. I hope I’ll be as good as she is some day. Then I'll feel I’ve really accomplished something. I kind of like doing mean roles, because when you get through you've really done a job. Fans remember you if you're mean enough, or good enough, but when you're just a sticky ingenue, you haven’t anything! “T’ve been awfully worried about how I’d accomplish the transition from kid parts to grown-ups, but now I hope it’s set- tled. You see, the studio has just bought the Nancy Drew series for me. It’s the story of a girl detective, sixteen years old, and her adventures. She has a car of her own and drives everywhere, but I don’t think they'll let me do quite that much. There are about twelve books in the series and I’ve read all but one. They'll be some- thing on the order of the Judge Hardy and Jones Family series, each one a separate adventure. { hope this will bridge the gap and graduate me to adult roles. At least it will help.” Hearing Bonita discuss the problems con- fronting her now reminded us of the story of her first venture into the theatre. 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(Continued from page 70) world as a new personality. (And how she has broken!) They wanted her to learn the language. And so she was forbidden to appear in public places, and was permitted no interviews. Even photographers were barred from snapping her, either in posed or candid shots. If that’s true, the plan worked well in- deed. From a nonentity she has become the sensation of Hollywood. If it is not true, if she was neither interviewed nor photographed because no one knew any- thing about her and therefore cared noth- ing, Hedy certainly has the last laugh. And I have a hunch she’s laughing quietly to herself these days. HAT is this extraordinary beauty and appeal of hers? Well, you’ve seen it on the screen now. It’s. good_ old- fashioned allure, the same as Negri, Naldi and the others had. She is not voluptuous in body, as Jean Harlow was, but she sug- gests it through her eyes. They’re hot and smokey, the essence of mystery. They’re what men used to call ‘“‘come-hither” eyes. In person that same beauty and appeal is there but somehow refined. Possibly the lack of make-up accounts for that. Hedy suggests the fragile yet stirring loveliness of a full blown orchid. But she suggests it only in appearance. In speech, thought and action she is as direct and open as a field daisy. And maybe that’s the secret of her; she’s confusing! She had a doll her mother had just sent from Vienna. She was as excited as a child. “Isn’t it lovely?” she asked de- lightedly. Yet shell turn right around and appraise a person or a situation with all the worldly wisdom you’d expect from a woman twice her years. There has been a lot of romantic gossip about Hedy and Reginald Gardiner the English comedian. Their names constantly are linked in the public prints, with pre- dictions of marriage coming at regular intervals. “What about him?” I asked. serious?” “Look, V’ll show you.” She led me into a room in the back of the house. It was a small, modernistic lounge with a pint-sized bar, deep chairs and divans. On the wall were gay posters of Austrian resorts, and a dozen or so autographed pictures of Hollywood celebrities, all neatly framed in red. “Tt’s charming, but what about it?” I said. “Reggie fixed all this. You see, that’s how it is with us. He helps me. We're friends. He has been like a nurse to me, cheering me up when I was homesick, making me laugh, helping me with English lessons. But romance? No!” On the wall was a caricature of Hedy, done in water colors by Reggie. It shows her dressed in slacks and comfortable old shoes. Over her head is a halo. She has her back turned to the things she doesn’t like in life which were depicted as “castor oil, scotch, champagne.” In the picture she is facing the things she loves. They are labeled on boxes, bottles and jimcracks and include “money, a tremendous amount of anything fright- fully expensive, Agnes hats, squash (the vegetable), furs, candy, perfume, phono- graph records, and How Not To Become Bored With a Rolls Royce.” Under Gardiner’s signature on the sketch were the words te amo in very small letters. When I went to school that meant “I love you.” Hedy’s eyes opened wide when I men- tioned it. “My goodness,” she said in great sur- prise. “I never noticed that before.” Says Hedy! elisheit MODERN SCREEN tithe month Like so many women, Janice believed menstrual pain had to be endured. As regularly as her dreaded days came on, she stopped “living” — gave up all pleasure to give in to suffering. Then, a year ago, a thought- ful friend told Janice about Midol; how it relieves func- tional periodic pain even at its worst, and how it often saves many women even slight discomfort. Now Janice is “living” again —not just part of the time, but twelve full months a year. Letting Midol take care of unnecessary menstrual pain has restored to her a whole month of wasted days! MIDOL is made for women for one special purpose —to relieve the unnatural pain which often makes the natural menstrual process so trying. And Midol is dependable; unless there is some organic disorder requiring the attention of a physician or surgeon, Midol helps most women who try it. Why not give Midol the chance to help you? It acts quickly, not only to relieve the pain, but to lessen discomfort. A few Midol tablets should see you serenely through your worst day. Convenient and inexpensive purse-size aluminum cases at all drugstores. RELIEVES FUNCTLONAL PERIODIC PAIN 79

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MODERN SCREEN SUITING THE SEASON (Continued from page 49) blouse and the accompanying hat has a narrow round brim and peaked crown. A flat bow at the throat relieves the plainness of a tailored blouse Rosalind wears with a straight skirt and full length coat. A patterned tweed jacket is paired with a solid color, very flaring skirt. An openwork yoke decorates the fitted blouse. A diagonally striped jacket with a plain skirt goes gay with black revers and sleeves. A pill box hat tops a_ pencil striped outfit of soft material with very short jacket and dolman-like sleeves. Maureen O’Sullivan and Jane Wyman are suit conscious in “The Crowd Roars.” Sweaters of all types, from simple weaves to lacy openworks, go with suits. Miss O’Sullivan chooses a trim sweater with a round white pique collar for a loose jacketed tweed suit. A more tailored suit has a trim white blouse, and her large flat beret has a narrow band and bow of white. Her dance frock has draped cap sleeves and the off-shoulder bodice line is outlined with flowers. Miss Wyman wears casual sports hats, brims dipping abruptly in front, with two different suits. One is a tailored tweed, and the other a very feminine version of masculine tailoring—something like a streamlined version of the old time min- strel suit. The jacket is light with wide black revers, and the saucy white vest has a standing collar and black string tie. “Give Me A Sailor” (or the glamming of Martha Raye) has the rowdy vocalist in a series of glamor gowns, dripping When “Four Daughters” was released, Priscilla Lane flew to New York for the premiere. It surely was her picture! with fur, feathers and ruffles. Blonde Betty Grable is forced, by the script, to take a sartorial back seat to Miss Raye. After a session in the kitchen in little gingham numbers, Miss Raye blossoms out in a sweeping princess coat deluged with white fox. A white evening gown cut low across the top has net ruffles cascading over the shoulders. A white formal has a black lace bolero and belt and huge bow knots of the lace appliqued on the bouffant skirt. A street frock is snowed under in gray fox, the fur forming huge cuffs on the three-quarter sleeves and bordering the widely flaring skirt. Betty Grable, who has the knack or the gift of looking just a little better groomed and band-boxy than almost anyone else, has fewer costume changes but makes the most of the ones allotted her. A white bolero with black revers dresses up a slim black frock. A new half and half note is struck with a com- bination of black and dotted material. From the back, Miss Grable is wearing form-fitting black. The front is dotted, the top draped and its skirt is released into fullness from shirring at the waist. Sort of a half-dirndl effect. é Arleen Whelan’s “Gateway” wardrobe features two suits. One is light with polka dot vest and lapels. The short jacket of a black suit has lapels and tiny breast pockets of white. Anne Shirley and Ruby Keeler are young ladies of an earlier day in “Mother Carey’s Chickens,” but the jackets worn with their long old-fashioned gowns would be right in step with today’s wardrobes. The jackets are very short, with long tight sleeves puffed at the shoulders, of the bicycle-built-for-two era. Time marches on. Both jackets and bicycles are enjoy- ing a widespread revival. It isn’t advisable to raid the attic for jackets mother used to wear, however. COLGATE DENTAL CREAM COMBATS BAD BREATH “You see, Colgate’s 4 special penetrating ‘’ foam gets intothehid- den crevices between your teeth that ordi- nary cleansing meth- ods fail to reach... removes the decaying food de- posits that cavse most bad breath, dull, dingy teeth, and muchtooth decay. Besides, Colgate’s soft, safe polishing agent gently yet thoroughly cleans the enamel— makes your teeth sparkle!” 80 KNITTING ONE, PURLINGTWO- — SHE THINKS THE BAD BREATH ADS MEAN YOU! ARE YOU TELLING ME TO READ THIS BAD BREATH AD2 DON'T GET MAD, SIS! PLEASE READ IT--AND §) ~) THEN SEE IF YOU DON'T |; 1 WANT TO TALK TO OUR | DENTIST TOMORROW } IF YOU KEEP GOING OUT EVERY NIGHT LIKE THIS, LOU, I'LL HAVE TO | FINISH MY SWEATER MYSELF! | TEETH AS BRIGHT |. TESTS SHOW THAT MOST BAO BREATH COMES FROM DECAYING FOOD DEPOSITS IN HIDDEN CREVICES BETWEEN TEETH THAT AREN'T CLEANED PROPERLY. | RECOMMEND | COLGATE DENTALCREAM. ITS SPECIAL [\ PENETRATING FOAM REMOVES THESE || ODOR-BREEDING DEPOSITS. 7 AND THAT'S WHY. ize 35¢ OVER TWICE AS MUCH TOOTHPASTE EVER MADE MY AND CLEAN AS COLGATE'S!

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BETWEEN YOU ‘N’ ME (Continued from page 15) To my mind, his performance in “A Tale of two Cities’ was the most beautifully done piece of work I have ever witnessed on the screen. Charles Dickens himself would have been completely satisfied. Not one man in a million could have done that last tragic scene by the guillotine with such depth of feeling as Mr. Colman. You can have your Flynns, Taylors and Gables but give me Ronald Colman, a gentleman in every sense of the word. I can’t wait to see his “If I Were King.”— Minor Robertson, Memphis, Tenn. ~ $1.00 Prize Letter Oh, Yeah? Boo hoo. With tears streaming down my cheeks (sniff) and with a breaking heart, I pen this letter of condolence to the poor, abused movie stars. After reading Mar- garet Forster’s touching version of the trials of stardom in the September “Be- tween You ’n’ Me” Department, I realized what a miserable lot is theirs. How hard it must be to accept the ad- miration of millions, but bravely they bear it! Bravely they leave the squalor of their forty-room mansions each day and slave in the arms of beautiful co-stars! But being courageous creatures they manage to struggle along on a paltry five-thousand dollars per week. Ah, what price stardom! This is just a gentle hint that I think Miss Forster’s letter was, to put it bluntly, a trifle ludicrous. We don’t pity the stars; we envy them!—Miss Garpow, Chicago, Ill. $1.00 Prize Letter A Salute For Hollywood With sincerity I salute Hollywood. It is a place where passions and emotions are manufactured daily with such realism that they make the millions who compose the movie audiences laugh or cry at their will. Under crazily glaring hot lights, cold eyes of cameras, loads of makeup, and the critical stares of directors and tech- nicians, the Hollywood performers put their very souls into their roles that they might live as other persons on a silver screen! Your tasks are difficult and your products are so valuable to us. I repeat— I salute you, Hollywood, and may your magic machinery hum and create, forever ! —Milton Swiren, Mont Alto, Penn, $1.00 Prize Letter Bette Davis Perhaps Bette Davis was telling the truth when she exclaimed, “Am I Homely !” in an article in September Modern Screen —but wait, not so fast! It’s altogether possible that her eyes do bulge and that her mouth isn’t just as she’d like it, but I don’t see any reason for Bette to judge herself so harshly. I ask you, is there another star in all Hollywood who works as hard as Bette Davis and puts so much of herself into every endeavor ? Remember the scene in “Jezebel” that took place on the stairs—Bette’s pleading with Margaret Lindsay? Well, if there’s another actress in all filmdom who could have played that scene with the same per- fection, I'll eat my shoe (strings and all). So please, Miss Davis, remember the next time you see your image in the mirror, that through hard work and earnest effort you have developed a most intelligent coun- tenance—a beauty much more than skin deep.—Alice Bohmer, New Britain, Conn. MODERN SCREEN For Camera Perfect skin you need Beauly more than skin-deep CAI nnabe la, . fair young 20th Century- Fox star, now playing in the picture “Suez”. In any light, studio light or sunlight, her beauty holds its glamour. This cream containstwo elements which are basic beauty builders. One makes for purity and clear- ness. The other for skin vitality. eee PERFECT!”’ These words describe the complexion that meets the hard- est tests triumphantly. The skin that looks as clear and lovely under the noon-day sun as in mellow evening light: Two elements in Woodbury Cold Cream help to give beauty more than skin-deep. One of these elements keeps this cream germ-free throughout your use of it. Such lasting purity encourages fault-free skin. The second element in Woodbury Cold Cream stimulates the skin’s rate of breath- ing. This is the skin-stimulating Vitamin which contributes to the skin’s vitality. Buy Woodbury Cold Cream today for only 10¢, 25¢, 50¢ or $1.00. Let it help you win a lovely “Camera Perfect” skin. SEND for Trial Tubes of Woodbury Creams John H. Woodbury, Inc., 6795 Alfred St., Cincinnati, Ohio (In Canada) John H. Woodbury, Ltd., Perth, Ontario Please send me trial tubes of Woodbury Cold and Facial Creams; 7 shades of Woodbury Facial Powder; guest-size Woodbury Facial Soap. I enclose 10¢ to cover mailing costs. Name — = Address__ = 81

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MOVIE REVIEWS (Continued from page 6) Kk Letter of Introduction Andrea Leeds has the letter, and it’s an introduction to a famed actor, Adolphe Menjou, who is really her father. Since he is something of a matinee idol it is con- sidered unwise to advise his public that he has a daughter as old as Miss Leeds, so he calls her his “protege” and sponsors a stage career for her, an interest which seems all too enthusiastic to Mr. Men- jou’s fiancee (Ann Sheridan) and Miss Leeds’ gentleman friend (George Murphy), who do not know of the relationship. The story is constructed on this rather slender thread but, thanks to good performances and the welcome presence of Edgar Ber- gen, Charlie McCarthy and_a wooden in- terloper named Mortimer Snerd, a good time will be had by all who go to see “A Letter of Introduction.” The director has contrived to make Edgar Bergen an essential character in the story rather than drag him in_ by McCarthy’s heels as was done in “The Goldwyn Follies.” Bergen and McCarthy are a pair of smooth performers and fur- nish most of the film’s comic moments. McCarthy has an uneasy moment or two when Bergen introduces the rival, Mor- timer Snerd, a country bumpkin who is destined for instant favor. Both Adolphe Menjou and Andrea Leeds perform creditably, and there are good portrayals by the supporting cast. Directed by John Stahl—Universal. *&*x* Sing You Sinners Like old wine and money in the bank, Bing Crosby improves with age. The Groaner has always been a likeable screen personality, but now for the first time in his career he really acts. The character he creates—Joe Beebe—lives and breathes, and Crosby plays him so well one almost suspects the portrayal is autobiographical. Bing will probably never win an Academy Oscar for his histrionics, but he does play a drunk scene (one of the most difficult items in an actor’s repertoire) so beauti- fully that it becomes the outstanding mo- ment of the picture. Joe Beebe is a guy with great ideas, and he expects one day to make a million. In the meantime, he hasn’t a job, so Dave (Fred MacMurray) has to support the family (Elizabeth Patterson and Donald O’Connor) and put off his marriage to the village belle (Ellen Drew). But Joe finally leaves town, gets into a big deal and subjects the Beebes to a generous quota of excitement. There are swell performances from the entire cast. Elizabeth Patterson is per- fect as the harassed mother; Donald O’Connor and Ellen Drew, in their screen debuts, are definite finds, and Fred Mac- Murray does his usual good work. There are two hit. tunes among several sung by Bing and by the trio (Bing, MacMurray and O’Connor). “Pocketful of Dreams” is one and “Small Fry” another. Wesley Ruggles directed—Paramount. kk | Am the Law A good rousing interpretation of the racket-busting industry usually makes fine screen entertainment, and since “I Am the Law” is the best racket-busting film that has come along so far this year we can promise you a thoroughly enjoyable eve- 82 ning in the theatre. With Edward G. Robinson in the lead, furnishing one of his best performances, the picture has everything to recommend it to audiences interested in an exciting and an intelli- gent treatment of one of this country’s most topical problems. In a city overridden with rackets, Rob- inson, a law school professor, steps in to take charge of a clean-up campaign. De- nied funds by a city council backed by supposedly legitimate business men who are actually the men behind the rackets, Robinson drafts his best law students and continues on his own. A well-constructed screenplay avoids the pitfalls encountered in the usual racket picture, and Alexander Hall’s direction accounts for its speed. Robinson runs the gamut in the role of the prosecutor—he even exhibits an ex- cellent version of the big apple. Barbara O'Neil is handsome and dignified as his wife, Wendy Barrie is a svelte and be- so ase Myrna Loy and Clark Gable together again in “Too Hot to Handle.” lievable racket queen, and John Beal per- forms credibly in the role of Robinson’s assistant. Best performance in the sup- porting cast, however, is Otto Kruger’s splendid portrayal of the racketeer who poses as a civic leader—Columbia. *x% Give Me a Sailor We are happy to report that the star of this picture is Martha Raye—not Moutha. For she doesn’t indulge in one blood-curdling yip, not even a “yeah man,” and the result is a performance of which Martha should be proud. It’s a good-humored story of home, sweet home —as happy a home as could be expected when there are two daughters, one a beauty and the other an ugly duckling. Betty Grable’s the gal who’s got allure and Martha’s the one who’s got the left- overs—left-over clothes, money and beaus. This state of affairs has been going on for years but comes to a climax when the man they both love (Jack Whiting) gets shore leave and has marriage in mind. The ‘sailor’s sweethearts forget all the bonds of sisterhood in their tactics from there on. Martha enlists the help of Bob Hope, Jack’s brother, to help snare her man, and in return promises to get Betty for Bob. But overnight Martha becomes a femme fatale. Through a mix-up, when she en- ters a picture of her cookie “Yum Yums” in a prize contest, a shot of her “Yum Yum” underpinnings is included. She suddenly finds herself the winner of “the most beautiful legs in the world” contest. It’s all pretty silly but there’s a genuine laugh a second to offset it. Martha’s performance shows a sympathetic under- standing and dramatic ability which has heretofore remained hidden. Betty Grable is an eyeful, as usual, and handles her role competently. Bob Hope scores decidedly. Directed by Elliot Nugent.—Paramount. ** Always In Trouble You know that a title like this can mean only one thing—Jane Withers. Jane actually manages to get into more trouble here than in all previous pictures put to- gether. . And that, you also know, is going some. But though she tackles every scene with customary gusto, the picture does not measure up to former standards. The story concerns a family who get into one predicament after another, all dating back to the day when Dad (Andrew Tombes) becomes a millionaire over night. As far as Dad and his youngest daughter (Jane) are concerned, they see no reason why a million dollars should change their lives. But Mother the eldest daughter (Jean Rogers) see no reason why all that money can’t make society folk out of them. - Drastic methods have to be taken to save the family from going phoney and Miss Fix-It Withers is just the girl who can do it. Among other things, in a whole-hearted attempt to get them straightened out, Jane man- ages to get them ship-wrecked, puts them at the mercy of smugglers, and just misses getting the whole outfit kidnapped. But in the end she gets the high flyers, mother and big sister, down to earth and even imports a fine young man (Robert Kel- lard) to make a sensible wife out of Jean. Directed by Joseph Santley—Twentieth Century-Fox. ** The Gladiator They've given Joe E. Brown his best script to date in “The Gladiator.” And he takes full advantage of every oppor- tunity, which guarantees a fine time for all. This time Joe E. goes collegiate with rah rah aplenty. Some twelve years previ- ous he has had to quit his freshman year because of financial embarrassment, but when he wins $1,500, at a Bank Night he beats it right back to the old Alma Mater. It looks like Joe’s in for an awful beating from his classmates—particularly when they start using him for a tackling dummy on the football field. But the second day he comes out and mows ’em down. No one is more surprised than Joe E.— for during the night an eccentric professor has injected a serum into his arm which gives him super-human strength. After winning glories for old Webster he next tackles Man Mountain Dean in the fight of the century. Man Mountain’s tossed about like a tooth-pick for the first fifteen minutes. Then Champ Brown gets his— for the serum begins wearing off. Sus- pense is terrific, not only for the audience but for June Travis, queen of the campus, who’s managed to get the obliging Joe into all his troubles. The supporting cast js entirely commendable. Directed by Ed- ward Sedgwick—Columbia. (Nana Bryant) and .

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kkk K You Can't Take It With You With more human appeal than his last production (“Lost Horizon”) and almost as much as his greatest (“Mr. Deeds Goes To Town’), Frank Capra’s latest film achievement will easily rank among the best pictures of the year. Capra, who is accustomed to turning out hits, has taken the Kaufmann-Hart Broadway success and with writer Robert Riskin has as delight- ful and heart-warming a picture as you'll see in many months. “You Can’t Take It With You” is the story of the Sycamores, an amiable and eccentric family which believes in doing exactly what it pleases. Headed by Grand- pa Sycamore, who decided some thirty-five years back that he didn’t like his work (and stopped working that instant), the family consists of Penny, who writes plays because someone left a typewriter at the house by mistake; Paul, her husband, who makes fireworks in the basement, assisted by a Mr. DePinna, an iceman who stopped one morning and decided to stay; Essie, who makes candy and studies ballet danc- ing with a Russian exile who manages to drop in every evening at dinner time, and Alice, who is Penny’s daughter and the only more or less conventional member of the family. When the Sycamores encounter Anthony Kirby, the financial tycoon, and his family, there is conflict, fireworks and everything. Even love has its inning. Of the cast, Edward Arnold as Anthony Kirby is probably the standout performer. Jean Arthur and Jimmy Stewart are ex- pert in the romance department, in roles which will add to the prestige of them both. Spring Byington is amusing as the rattle-brained Penny, and Ann Miller DO MOVIE STARS =) (i) 5¢ MODERN SCREEN furnishes excellent comedy as the ballet dancing Essie. Mischa Auer, as her Rus- sian instructor, makes the most of his comic moments, and there are perform- ances deserving more than passing men- tion by Donald Meek, Sam Hinds, H. B. Warner, Mary Forbes, Halliwell Hobbes, Eddie Anderson, and especially by Harry Davenport, whose fine portrayal makes his one scene one of the picture’s most impor- tant- Only fault this reviewer can find is Lionel Barrymore’s performance in the im- portant role of Grandpa Sycamore. Lionel Barrymore, even under Capra expert guidance, is still playing Lionel Barrymore. Directed by Frank Capra.——Columbia. *** Carefree “Carefree” is a happy union of song, dance and story, plus a happy reunion of the screen’s ace dance team, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. Miss Rogers and Mr. Astaire celebrate the occasion by giving us the best performances of their careers. “Carefree” is as good as any previous Astaire-Rogers musical, and it will be looked upon by some as their best. Cer- tainly it is the most imaginative. Another definite advantage is a sound story which admits their dancing as part and parcel of the plot. We may as well go the whole route and say that for the first time in the screen history of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers there is not a single case of mistaken identity in the entire picture. Astaire is a _ psychiatrist hired to straighten out the love life of Miss Rogers, a radio singer. When he places her in a hypnotic state in which she loses all her inhibitions, she becomes infatuated with him, tosses bricks at store windows, makes faces at her radio sponsor and tells her listeners that his toothpaste is positively IT'S SC HOLLYWOOD'S > FAVORITE CANDY the worst stuff on the market. Later, con- vinced by Astaire that he is not worthy of her, she is about to mary her original suitor, Ralph Bellamy, when she snaps out of her trance on her wedding day and marches up the aisle with the right gent. Irving Berlin’s songs are excellent, but neither Rogers nor Astaire are vocally up to the job of putting them over. Their dances, however, are skillful and beautiful to watch. A dream sequence, done in slow motion, is so good it will be copied by many future musicals. Their feature dance, “The Yam,” is everything you’d expect of the team, even though it’s much too intri- cate for ordinary mortals to copy on the ballroom floor. Mark Sandrich directed.— RKO-Radio. ** The Road to Reno It’s difficult to classify this one, because it combines two distinctly different types of opera—grand and horse—and winds up as a satire of sorts on the Nevada divorce laws. If you are a lover of any of these three brands of entertainment, perhaps you'll find your moments of pleasure in the picture. The combination would have been a happier one, however, had the story fashioners contrived a more logical tale and embellished it with dialogue without so much of a manufactured ring to it. Hope Hampton, returning to the screen, photographs well and sings beautifully. She has difficulty, however, making any- thing genuine out of the character she plays. The blame here can be handed to the scenarists, who present, at the pic- ture’s start, an opera star about to enter divorce proceedings against her husband, a cowboy with whom she hasn’t lived for (Continued on page 107) WORK HARD? |

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DOWN WITH DULL DINNERS The Lloyd Nolans offer fine recipes in their campaign for more exciting menus AT A TIME of year when politicians are filling the air with there are turkey napkin holders as well as special favors for each adjectives and agitating for all kinds of urgent reforms, Lloyd guest and an extra-special centerpiece arrangement. Easy to do, Nolan wishes to go on record as advocating the complete easy to secure—and free. So don’t forget to mail in the abolishment of routine, unimaginative, cut-and-dried, coupon with your request for either or both. commonplace meals! He feels even more LLOYD AND MEL NOLAN’ : : : N’S INDIAN strongly on this subject when such meals CURRY DINNER include foods that are served “because 1? Vegetable Soup Curry of Lamb Baked Bananas Rice Chutney Molded Tomato Salad Rolls, Split and Toasted Raspberry Ice Tea CURRY OF LAMB, a la LLOYD NOLAN 2 pounds lamb (shoulder, breast or leg) boiling water to cover 'Y%% cup butter 1 large onion, chopped fine 1 large apple, diced 5 outside stalks celery, chopped fine 2 teaspoons curry powder* Y% cup cold water ¥4 cup seedless raisins 3 egg yolks Y% cup milk salt and pepper, to taste grated cocoanut, shredded almonds they are good for you “Just combine dullness with duty in your menus,” declares this dashing young character actor, “and you'll never win a vote of approval from your family. You won't be elected ‘the people’s choice’ as a hostess, either!” “Y’m convinced,” broke in his charming wife, Mel, “that enjoyment affects both digestion and nutrition. Women would be wiser if they paid more attention to flavor, seasoning and origi- nality in preparing every- day meals.” Acting upon her own sug- gestions, Mel Nolan _ has evolved—for the special de- lectation of her attractive husband—many grand dishes, combinations of foods and menus that are distinctive and different. Furthermore, in her food researches she has discovered that the familiar cooking directions, “season to taste,’ can mean a deal more than just adding salt and pepper! Roast stuffed breast of “Tt’s surprising, for example, what a pieces, after removing all bone, fat and gristle. Wipe meat, cover with boil- ; ing water and cook slowly until meat is little curry powder can do to a dish that veal, Carolina. tender. Strain and measure stock. There might otherwise be thought of as just another should be 22 cups (add more water, if necessary, to lamb stew,” this Hollywood hostess observed sagely. make required amount). Melt butter in large skillet Courtesy SunMaid Have lamb cut into one-inch © And how delightfully changed is a roast of veal when it boasts or dutch oven. Add the onion, apple and celery. Cook until | a special stuffing which the Nolans favor, one that I'll wager you tender, without browning. Add curry powder which has been have never tried before. Why, even baked apples become mixed with cold water to a smooth paste.* Cook and stir until proud, aristocratic “beauties” when prepared accord- blended. Add lamb and lamb stock, then the raisins ing to the recipe I’m about to give you here. : L The first of these treats—the Curry of drained. Season to taste with salt and which have been rinsed in hot water and’ | Lamb—is the featured dish on the in- pepper. Cover and simmer gently for | twenty minutes. Just before serving beat yolks of eggs with the milk. Add a little of the hot lamb liquor triguing menu shown further along, as set down for us by Mrs. Nolan. Her recipe for this prime favorite of hers also follows, together with directions for making two other Nolan specialties which are quite as deserving of your at- tention. That is, if you intend to adopt Lloyd’s stirring slo- gan: “Down with Dull Dinners!” Remember, too, that when you try your hand at the unusual, every meal will seem like a party. And, by the way, there are a couple of special occasions coming up soon which you'll want to celebrate fittingly. Not only from the standpoint of foods, but of table decorations. I refer, of course, to Hallowe’en and Thanksgiving, both of which present as good an ex- cuse to entertain charmingly as one could hope to find. You can serve the Lloyd Lamb Curry and very slowly to the curry mix- ture, stirring constantly. Con- tinue cooking and stirring un- til smooth and slightly thick- ened. Serve on very dry, grated cocoanut and shred- ded almonds, to be sprinkled over the curry. Chutney is the traditional accompani- ment, you know. ROAST STUFFED BREAST OF VEAL, CAROLINA 4 pounds breast of veal 1% cups sifted flour 34 teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons baking powder 14 teaspoon soda 1 tablespoon sugar Y% cup yellow corn meal 1% cups milk the baked apple “Beauties” the firs ai ees ea Loe oie AG you ae The Lloyd Nolans ready _ 1 £88) beaten, make both events outstandingly successful for one of Mel's dinners. 74 cup seedless raisins 14 cup minced onion by sending in the coupon which will bring ; : MA eS : : phe sec sae. YZ cup sliced mushrooms or diced celery you directions for making attractive, yet inexpen- sive, table decorations. Those for Hallowe’en feature witches and pumpkins; while for your Thanksgiving dinner table For a very hot curry add a dash of Tabasco sauce, advices Mel Nolan. 84 to them, then add this mixture | fluffy rice. Pass bowls of | * Add more curry powder if a stronger curry flavor is desired.

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BY MARJORIE DEEN 1 cup canned bouillon a pinch of sage salt and pepper, to taste ¥Y% cup hot water ; Have your butcher bone the veal. Rub inside and out with salt and pepper. Com- bine flour with the 34 teaspoon salt, the baking powder, soda and sugar; sift to- gether. Mix in corn meal. Beat in milk and eggs. Fry on hot oiled griddle or in greased iron skillet as for griddle cakes. When all are fried and cooled, break in small pieces into a bowl. Rinse raisins in hot water, drain and add. Fry onions and mushrooms (or celery) in small amount - of fat until onions are soft. Add this mix- ture to raisin mixture. Moisten with % cup of the bouillon, add sage and salt and pepper to taste. Mix together thoroughly. Lay the boned veal out flat. Spread stuf- fing on boned side and roll up as for jelly roll. Skewer in three places; tie around the rolled meat and through the skewers, securely, with white cord. Brush entire outside of roll with melted fat. Place meat on rack in baking pan or roaster. Pour remaining % cup of bouillon, com- bined with water, in bottom of pan. Bake, uncovered, in moderately slow oven (325° F.) until meat is tender, about 3 hours, basting every 20 minutes with liquid in the pan, adding a little more water, when- ever necessary, to prevent burning. BAKED BEAUTIES 4 large baking apples ¥Y cup seedless raisins 4 cup chopped nut meats tablespcons honey teaspoon Angostura tablespoons butter cup water Choose extra-large apples, suitable for baking. Peel the top half only of each apple. Remove each core generously but carefully so as not to cut the apple all the way through (this will keep juices in the apples as they cook). Rinse raisins in hot water, drain. Combine with chopped nuts and place a couple of spoonfuls in each apple. Mix honey and Angostura. Pour a tablespoonful into each apple, and spread a little of the mixture over the top of each apple to glaze it. Place apples in shallow baking dish. Dot apples with butter and pour water around them, to prevent burn- ing. Bake in moderate over (375° F.) for one hour, or until tender. Serve plain; or with whipped cream or hard sauce. WSIS EN HOME SERVICE DEPARTMENT MODERN SCREEN Magazine 149 Madison Ave., N. Y. C. Please send me illustrated, easy-to- follow directions for special Hallow- e’en (] Thanksgiving [] table decora- tions. Check either or both. MODERN SCREEN 1. | said somethin’ a couple of weeks ago that made Mom so hopping mad, T almost caught a licking. 2. We were at Aunt Lola’s and I piped up: “Gee, Mom, look at how white this nap- kin is! Our things must have tattle-tale gray or somethin’ ’cause they never shine like this.” .. . Zowie! Mom flew for the hairbrush. MOM WAS SO MAD, SHE JUST FLEW FOR THE HAIRBRUSH 4. So Mom forgot to spank me and went to the grocer’s for some Fels-Naptha. 3. But lucky for me, Aunt Lola stopped her. “It’s the truth, so why getangry?”’ she told Mom. “Your lazy soap leaves dirt behind. If you’d switch to Fels-Naptha Soap as I did, your clothes wouldn’t have tattle-tale gray.” This morning, she was raving about how its richer golden soap and lots of gentle naptha wash clothes so white and nice. And, golly, if she didn’t give me a quarter for a pony ride! BANISH “TATTLE-TALE GRAY” WITH FELS-NAPTHA SOAP! COPR. 1938, FELS & CO. NEW! WONDER FLAKES! TRY FELS-NAPTHA SOAP CHIPS, T00! 85

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NEW TROPIC SHADES 86 MODERN SCREEN AND FATHER IS DOING WELL (Continued from page 36) We smoked each other’s cigars.” Shortly after the baby was born Joan was put on a strict diet, with a special diet nurse in attendance, and at the same time Dick received one of his bi-annual notes from Mr. Warner—a note which al- ways says simply, “Dick, take it off—” and Dick knows all too well the meaning of that. It means that he’s put on an extra pound or two and had better get rid of it. On this occasion he made it an excuse to be with Joan at the hospital for three diet meals a day. “It’s hard to diet alone,” he told the nurse, “but if I diet with Joan, it'll be easier for her. So how about it? Can’t I join her at meals?” And the nurse, swayed by the Powell grin, had to let him have his way. All new papas are a little nutty, of course, but Dick was one of the most jittery about-to-be-papas that we've had around Hollywood in a long time. Sev- eral weeks before the baby arrived Dick was at work in “Head Over Heels” and had to be on location several miles from a telephone part of the time. That meant he would be out of touch with Joan, but Dick devised a scheme to remedy that. FEW people realize that Dick is a true handy-man at heart. Just last month he took the ailing Powell washing machine apart and put it together again, and the month before he built a fence. But, unlike Tom Sawyer, he white-washed it himself. Also on his sailing boat, the Eroica (which is a Beethoven Symphony, in case you are curious about the name), he has a short wave radio transmitting set and is licensed by the radio commission as an op- erator. It was Dick’s experience in this con- nection which gave him the idea for keep- ing in touch with Joan, even while he was on location: to install one of those new two-way short wave marine telephone sets, with which he could pick up anything with- in a radius of a hundred miles of the har- bor radio station. All Joan would have had to do then was to telephone the sta- tion and they would broadcast a message to Dick. Without this safety precaution to ease Dick’s mind, he might not have been able to finish the picture with so much calm and ease. However, now that that is all over, father is doing well. He naturally receives con- gratulations on every side, and when asked how the baby is, he answers enthusias- tically, “Prettiest thing in town!” They named her Ellen just because they liked the name. It was simple and not gaudy, and not theatrical—just like the parents themselves. Had Ellen been a boy she would have been David Blondell Powell. But Ellen is Ellen and they are glad of it, since they already have Joan’s boy, Nor- man. Normie is three-and-a-half now, and quite the first light of Dick and Joan’s lives, and will remain so, since there is to be no nose-throwing-out-of-joint in the Powell household. “Normie is strictly a boy’s boy,” Dick said. ‘One month he is a cowboy, with all the contraptions and all the whoops. The next he’s a fireman, with wailing siren and a fireman’s helmet slipping down over his eyes. This morning when I left he had gone Mexican. The next thing I know he’ll be an actor. Now we're very glad to have a girl. “You know, Joan simply adores children, not only her own, but everyone else’s too. During the last few months before Ellen was born she spent every day on the beach, with Normie. They went to the beach club, but Joan never spends any time with the grown-ups there. You'll always see her off down the beach somewhere, with about sixteen kids grouped around her. She builds sand castles with them, digs tunnels, tells them stories, somehow man- ages to keep them amused, and herself too. She and Normie always took their lunch with them. Sand in the sandwiches makes no difference to them!” Dick has always been mad about sail- boats, so while Joan stays in the sand, Dick sets sail on the sea. It’s a very real compliment to them, that they can and do leave each other to their own par- ticular likes—when it comes to pastimes and sports. They are so thoroughly de- voted to each other that they actually en- joy seeing the other do what appeals most, whether they are together in the doing or not. : Dick bought his very first boat several years ago. -Then he tradéd it in on the larger Eroica, and last spring he had dreams of capturing the cup in the “around the island” race, off Catalina, sponsored by the California Yacht Club. “The first race I had ever been in, and it would. be the time of the greatest storm on the West Coast in twenty years! Just my bad luck. I was one of twelve racers who started out, and only two boats even finished at all. The wind and rain started, that same wind and rain that brought on last spring’s terrible flood, and my skipper and I soon saw that we were being driven into the Isthmus, and if we didn’t turn around and start back we'd be dashed against the shore. We had to use the motor and it took us eight and a half hours to go back eighteen miles—so you can know how bad it was. But I’m not going to give up. The next race, you can be sure, barring an act of God, I'll at least be in on the finish!” Few people think of Dick in this light— as a man seeking adventure, a man who keeps fighting for his goal. He has al- ways seemed so smiling and good natured, sO easy come, easy go. But behind the placidness of the Dick exterior there is the battling spirit. ND not the least of the battles he has waged has been the one in his career— his wish to be allowed a chance as an actor, in a non-singing role. For years Dick has sensed that a motion picture career built on song had weak links in its chain, and recently he rebelled and refused to do the next singing part which the studio had lined up for him, the one in “Garden of the Moon,” which John Payne did eventually in his place. He sat tight at home, and then finally re- turned for “Head Over Heels,” in which he sings only one song. Dick said to me with humor and honesty, “Tf there is one thing I hate it’s being known as a boy who is always ready to break into song, and I think audiences, after too much of it, will begin to hate it too. That’s the thing I want to look out for. I love to sing, as every singer does. But I want to act, without singing, now and then. The only non-singing pictures I ever did was when I first came to the screen. I did one with George Arliss, and another with Will Rogers. But people have already forgotten about those.” Dick has another unfulfilled wish too. “Joan and I would like more than anything to make a picture together. I think, naturally—” with another grin, “that she’s

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one of the best actresses in pictures, and I want to work with her, but there’s that old bugaboo to be overcome: that married couples are not romantic in pictures. I can’t see that point of view, but producers seem to feel that audiences wouldn’t be excited about man and wife appearing to- gether. And yet what is more romantic than marriage? But maybe I am too old- fashioned about marriage.” Those words coming from Dick are a bit astounding since a few years ago he was a complete cynic as far as love and marriage were concerned. Having had one early first try which was unsuccessful, he had let it blight his outlook. Then, too shortly after “Flirtation Walk,” -when Dick’s stock and his salary went up and up, and he found that girls were delighted to appear with him here, there and every- where, he was beset with the very serious question of whether he was being liked for his company, or for the accompanying flash of photographers’ lamps which trailed him wherever he went. Dick Powell certainly is not one to thrive on artificiality, and it was this aspect of Hollywood romances which wor- ried him. He wanted marriage, if he was to have it at all, for a home and content- ment, and not to make of it a double bar- relled bid for publicity. HAT?’s what Joan and Dick have now, a perfect home, an ideal family life. And it’s the most that these two want of life. Their careers are still important to them, but their careers are not a drain and a strain in their lives. Dick is quite frank in saying that if Joan had to stop acting she would probably miss it more than he would, for she was born and brought up a trouper. As for him, if his career were finished he could turn to something else without one backward look because the desire to be in the public eye is one which has never hit him. The one thing that Dick Powell knows he will have to face, if ever that time comes, is an adjustment in his living expenditures. The Powells do not live extravagantly now (the boat is really the one luxury Dick allows himself), but they do live in pleasant comfort, such as another less lucrative business might not allow. But when Dick reaches his forties and fifties, you will never find him flinch- ing and flushing when he overhears some- one say, “That’s Dick Powell. Remember him when he strolled down Flirtation Walk and had twenty million sweet- hearts?” If you could meet the Powells at home on one of their drop-in Sunday afternoons, you would know yourself that the aura which radiates from them is one of utter happiness. Their home itself is an invita- tion to cheer. Windows open to the sun- light, doors thrown wide, big easy chairs and divans everywhere on which to lounge and relax. They practically live in the study, and there, on the tremendous round coffee table around which everyone gath- ers, is a perfect indication of their hos- pitality, a cigarette box two feet long, filled with cigarettes, open so you get the mes- sage at once, “Help yourself.” The whole house is like that, everything for convenience and ease, everything with a spirit of generosity, of wanting to be shared. Ask Dick who comes there on Sundays and he says, “Anyone who likes to laugh. We have lots of just silly fun—games, stories, conversation about anything and everything but shop.” Sometimes Dick does not even join in. While the merriment goes on he may be off in the corner fixing an electric light plug, or rigging up an extension for some lamp, for Dick and Joan are never host and hostess in the organizing sense. MODERN SCREEN low the Cylleaun pw UL SUBDUE ate on YOUR BRILLIANT season of silks and satins, A gleaming with highlights. Of glittering jewels and sparkling ornaments. ‘You may shine from head to toe’, says Fashion, “all but your nose!” Nose shine is often due to an over- activity of the oil glands, a condition which, in the presence of germs, may go from bad to worse. But now Woodbury helps subdue *% SHINE NOSE - this hateful shine! Woodbury Facial Pow- der is germ-free. It discourages germ-life. And it stays on the skin loyally for hours. Seven vastly becoming shades make your skin appear young and glowing. Try Champagne, the newest, or that flattering favorite, Windsor Rose. $1.00, 50¢, 25¢, 10¢. Wear Woodbury Germ-proof Rouge and Lipstick. Four smart shades. Send for Seven Fashionable Shades John H. Woodbury, Inc., 9195 Alfred St., Cincinnati, Ohio. (In Canada) John H. Woodbury, Ltd., Perth, Ontario. Please send me 7 shades of Woodbury Facial Powder; trial tubes of two Woodbury Beauty Creams; guest-size Woodbury Facial Soap. I enclose 10c to cover mailing costs. Name. = =a Street City. State In the rich blue boudoir box at drug and cosmetic counters everywhere. 87

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When she came to one in the fifth grade, a little girl, who had evidently been chosen to make a speech welcoming Shirley, stood up, opened her mouth, gulped, was so over- come with excitement that she couldn’t speak, and remained standing there, mouth still open.” “““She wanted to make a speech,’ ”” some- one whispered to Shirley, “ ‘but she’s em- barrassed.’ ” ““Oh, that’s all right,” said Shirley. ““T’ll make a speech instead’” “And Shirley, always mistress of the situation, said, ‘It’s lovely to be visiting here. Today I saw Boulder Dam, and thought it was wonderful. Have any of you seen the Dam?’ “Since the fathers of most of the girls at the school worked on the Dam and they had visited it many times, that broke the ice immediately. HEREVER Shirley went—in Zion Park, where she stared amazed at the peaks, in Bryce Canyon, where the but- tresses rise like minarets of every color, and at the north rim of the Grand Canyon, where she caught her breath in wonder at the sheer majesty of the Canyon, Shirley took color pictures with her. “Though Shirley was having a swell time, she didn’t forget her friends at home. In Bryce Canyon she bought things for her two brothers, and remembered to send them cards—a card with a picture of a- mail bag to remind Jack to write and a card with a little pair of riding chaps for George, to serve, she said, as a mascot for his horse. At Zion National Park she bought an Indian doll for May Isleib, her stand-in, and sent her a card. “One of the things that interested Shirley most during her trip was discovering new kinds of animals that she had never seen before. In Hollywood she had seen camels when she played in ‘Wee Willie Winkie.’ She had seen elephants and occasionally a monkey, but she had never seen tigers, panthers and giraffes. Whenever she came to a city where there was a zoo, Shirley made a bee-line for it. At Colorado Springs, she and her parents stayed at the Broad- moor Hotel, which Spencer Penrose, who discovered the famous Cripple Creek Mine, built as a hobby. Back of the hotel was a zoo containing three hundred animals, which Shirley, fascinated, visited. “In Chicago, she visited the Brookfield Zoo, and said that of all the animals she liked the does most—they were so gentle- looking. She also adfnired the peacocks, and exclaimed over the fact that their tails quivered. At the Chicago zoo was a baby panda named Mei Mei, only eight months old and very tame. After watching the trainer handle the baby panda, Shirley was asked if she would like to go inside the cage and make its acquaintance. Breath- lessly she nodded, and then without a quiver of fear, she walked inside the cage and stroked the fur of the beautiful animal. “One of the things that impressed her most in Chicago was her first sight of the elevated. ‘Why, it’s a railway on stilts,’ she exclaimed. When the Temples were asked if they would like a special train for their party, they readily agreed and for two hours the Temples traveled around Chicago on a train which contained only Mr. and Mrs, Temple, the president of the railroad and his son, two conductors, the motormen, the bodyguards and myself. “Since there was a ‘dead man’s switch’ which worked automatically, the motorman, who stood just behind Shirley, let her handle the switch, which operated the car. “Among the sights which impressed Shirley most on her trip was her first view of Great Salt Lake. Amused she watched the bathers go in, swim around, and come out covered with layers of salt. Shirley herself didn’t go in swimming, but she went out to the edge of the lake on the float, put her finger into the water, and tasted it. Then she made a wry mouth, It certainly was salty. “In Washington, D. C., Shirley was brought in to visit President Roosevelt, who asked for her autograph. Then, glanc- ing over the collection of boats on his desk, he said, ‘What do you think of these boats?” Shirley, who seems instinctively to un- derstand what it took Dale Carnegie years to learn, that people like it when you talk to them about their hobbies, said, “I like boats very much and I understand you like fishing. The only fishing I ever did was once when I caught a salmon.” “With what kind of a hook did you catch it?” asked the President. “T don’t know,” said Shirley, “but I caught it.” Shirley pointed to an empty spot at the side of her mouth and sighed, “I’ve just lost a tooth.” The President smiled. “You don’t know how lucky you are,” he said. ‘“Sistie and Buzzie lose ’em in front.” Later she met Sistie and Buzzie, the President’s grandchildren, at Mrs. Roose- velt’s home at Hyde Park, and frolicked with them through one golden summer afternoon, playing ball, watching them swim and lunching with them. When Shirley attended the horse races at the Westchester Country Club at Rye that evening, with the Governor’s party, she was almost the only person who watched the races, for everyone else was watching Shirley. “When a group of newspaper photog- raphers in New York wanted to take her picture,’ Jack Mulcahy told me, ‘Shirley said, ‘I bet you don’t know the national theme song of photographers.’ “What is it?’ they asked. ““T won’t tell you now,’ she said, ‘but you'll say it, and then I'll tell you.’ FTER taking several pictures of Shir- ley, the photographers said, ‘One more please, and then we'll be through.’ “Shirley grinned. ‘That’s the national theme song,’ she said. ‘One more, please.’ Then she posed for another photograph. “In New York, Shirley was impressed by the Hudson Tubes and couldn’t under- stand how there could be water over them. Like any tourist, she was thrilled by the skyline and took a picture of it from her window. Looking out at the Chrysler Building, she said, amazed, ‘But how can it stand up? Isn’t there any danger of its falling down? It looks like a pencil up- side down.’ “Her first sight of a Broadway produc- tion, ‘I Married An Angel,’ astonished her. When the curtain rose, she said, ‘This is funny. There are no microphones.’ In Hollywood, there are microphones on every motion picture set. “When she saw the Statue of Liberty, she said, ‘I guess her arm is so big, be- cause it has to hold that great light.’ “During her visit to New York, she was taken to only one night club, the Interna- tional Casino, where she saw the Ice Ballet, the most elaborate spectacle she had ever

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seen. The Temples went to an early show- ing, and were out of the Casino by eight- thirty. Although Shirley was on her vaca- tion, nothing was allowed to interfere with her regular bedtime hours, and she was in bed by a quarter of nine every evening.” One day during Shirley’s stay in New York, I was invited to a small party given her at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Nearly always at parties for important stars, cock- tails flow in profusion, but at Shirley’s party, tea, coffee and orangeade were the only drinks served. Throughout the course of the party, she wandered from table to table, asking at each table, “Is there anything I can get for you? Tea? Some cake? Ice cream?” No hostess could have been more charm- ing. There a famous editor tried to stop her. “Will you sit down? I'd like to ask you some questions,” he said. O®: Im! so sorry. said’ Shirley, “I can’t stop now. I’m too busy.” “What keeps you so busy you can’t an- swer questions ?” “T have to travel round all the tables,” Shirley said, and resumed her tour as hostess. Because of Shirley’s importance on the screen and the constant adulation to which she is subjected, many people have won- dered if the real Shirley might not become spoiled. That question was answered, once and for all, during her trip across the con- tinent. “We in Hollywood knew and loved Shir- ley ever since we first met her,” Jack Mulcahy told me, “so that it did not sur- prise us when she revealed herself as the dimpled, sweet, lovable little girl she really IG” Two incidents that occurred during the trip reveal the real Shirley. In Craig, Colorado, when it was discovered that the Temples were staying at a tourist camp, almost the entire population of 1500 people congregated to catch a glimpse of Shirley. One man who ran a theatre in the town was very much put out, for, after having run a full page ad, he had expected a large turn-out. When he learned that all the towns- people were hanging around the tourist camp, he went there himself and bursting in on Shirley and her parents, he said, “You're wrecking my business. Do you know that I’ve lost lots of money tonight because of you?” Shirley’s smile disappeared. This was indeed serious business and must be rec- tified. “Vm sorry,’ she said. “I don’t like to have you lose money because of me.” Then she whispered to her parents, and they all got into a car and drove around to the front of the theatre. The -towns- people followed her, and the exhibitor at- tracted a larger crowd than he ever had before ! To me the most charming story of all about Shirley concerns the night Walda Winchell slept in the same room with her at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria, after the two children had played together for sev- eral days. Shirley, very much disturbed when she discovered that Walda was tossing around in bed and hadn’t fallen asleep, said solemn- ly, “I know why you haven’t gone to sleep. Nobody tucked you in.” “Why, that doesn’t make any difference,” Walda said. “Nobody ever tucked me in.” At this Shirley was aghast, because Mrs. Temple always tucks Shirley into bed. “Why, that’s terrible,” she said. “I tell you what, Walda. I'll tuck you in.” And getting out of her own bed, Shirley, all smiles and dimples, walked over to Walda’s bed and gently tucked her in, MODERN SCREEN She succeeded in Business Pretty smart... But she didn’t know how important “Lysol” is in Feminine Hygiene Ss" thought it was jealousy of her suc- | 1—Non-Caustic... “Lysol’’, in the proper cess in business that had made her dilution, is gentle and efficient, contains no husband more and more indifferent. She @!mful free caustic alkali. 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All the vacation I need is makin’ pic- tures.” At seventeen, he’s still the typical Amer- ican kid—snub nose, cocky grin, bantam swagger, hair like a tumbled hayrick. Aside from his special interest in the movies, all life is divided into five parts— sports, cars, swing music, clothes and girls. He’s never been afflicted with the melan- cholies of adolescence. His spirits are al- ways in high. He’s a natural comic, and clowns on the set up to the moment of going into action. Where work is con- cerned, he’s strictly business. BOUT to make his first scene for “Love Finds Andy Hardy,” he came sliding out of the dressing-room and tap danced into position. Sylvester, his valet, held a mir- ror while Mickey dragged a comb through his hair. The results were negligible. Grabbing a hammer and nails from a pass- ing carpenter, he went through the mo- tions of tacking his tufts down, then tugged at his scalp fore and aft, as one who set- tles a toupee. “Ready,” called the di- rector, and Mickey dropped foolery, slid to the side of Fay Holden, who plays Mrs. Hardy, kissed her and slid back to his place. This is the rite, without which he will begin no Hardy picture. He calls it his “good luck charm.” Sylvester is a recent acquisition, and Mickey makes it plain that the idea was none of his. Not that he has anything against Sylvester. On the contrary. “Only it looks like I’m tryin’ to be a big shot, having a boy work for-me at my age.” Nevertheless, he brought Sylvester on himself. At home a fellow’s mother, as most mothers know, picks up after him. Mrs. Pankey extended the service to the studio, till Mickey was sixteen. Then she bought- him-a Ford and sent him out on his own. Which was all very fine, except that neckties flung into corners failed to re-hang themselves on the rack, and shoes, Mickey swore, walked off by themselves. The studio decreed that something would have to be done about it. Sylvester was the result. Mickey did his own hiring, which took him not much longer than it takes in the telling. “I asked the bootblack if he knew a boy, an’ next day Sylvester came around an’ I told him his requirements, like takin’ care of my wardrobe an’ maybe runnin’ out for a sandwich if I get a little hungry in the afternoon, an’ we discussed money, an’ I said, all right, it’s a deal.” He still goes to the schoolhouse on the lot, and will until he’s eighteen. He doesn’t dislike school, just doesn’t see any sense in it, “not at the age I am.’ He hasn’t, however, cast all childish things aside. He refuses to get up in the morn- ing till his mother has massaged his back and scratched his head. She started the practise when he was three, and he feels it’s coming to him. “A big bruiser like you,” she jeers. “Sure, but I’m still your little sonny boy,”’ comes his voice, muffled against his hands. ‘‘Now scratch the other side, and Til get up.” On his way to the shower he uncovers Pete, the canary, takes him out of the cage, rubs his topknot, exchanges a couple of peeps with him and restores him to his perch, with a parting admonition to keep his shirt on. He carols under the shower, often one of his own compositions, for, among other ambitions, he nurses that of becoming a song writer. He’s found a collaborator in his friend, Sidney Miller, but thus far, no publisher. “So what?” he philosophizes. To call Mickey a hearty eater is under- statement. He puts away an awe-inspiring breakfast of melon, cream of wheat, bacon and eggs, an occasional lamb chop, potatoes always, and a quart of milk. His allow- ance of thirty dollars is enough, but not too much, since it must cover, besides trans- portation and incidentals, his notion of six adequate luncheons a week. Mostly he stays within his budget, but his impulses are generous and sometimes a little fenagling is indicated to keep the books balanced. He got leave from his mother to spend a weekend at Catalina with the boys. His first thoughtful act was to phone her of his safe arrival. His second, to reverse the charges. “You didn’t have to do that, Mickey,” she reproached him later. “I’d have given it back to you.” “Yeah, I know. But that way I figured I was safe.’ He thrust a box at her. “Might as well open it, Mom. Maybe you won't like it.’ She drew forth a blazing orange jacket. In an effort to conceal her dismay, she stammered. “But how did you know the size?” “Got the littlest salesgirl to try it on,” beamed Mickey. Last Easter he appeared, clutching be- hind a huge lily, adorned with two pink bunnies. He was going out that evening. “You're probably short, Mickey. I'll give you back the money for that lily. The sentiment’s there, just the same.” : “Aw, no—’ he protested feebly. “Come on, take the five dollars.” Mickey whirled indignantly. “Five dol- lars! That bloom cost ten!” E doesn’t smoke nor drink, though he’s got to puff at a cigarette in “Boys Town,” and practises at home, looking sheepish. ‘Mom, d’ya hate to see me smoke?” “Not if you want to, Mick. Only you’re so set on swimming and exercise. All it does for you, is cut your wind.” At which Mickey will drop the cigarette like a viper, -and fly to the window for ten minutes’ deep breathing. He plays the piano by ear, and the drums by preference. “Just a music lover,” he explains. “Just a noise-lover,’’ amends his mother. On entering the house, he makes straight for the radio, turns it on full blast, grabs the phone in one hand, bangs on the piano with the other and lapses into a state of pure content. He’s proud of the fact that he’s played the drums with every famous swingband that’s come to Los Angeles. ‘Like other people collect autographs, I collect drums. Say, put ’em all down, will ya—Benny Goodman, Jan Garber, Freddy Martin, Hal Kemp, Skinny Ennis—it’s not many people can say they’ve played with all those bands, can they?” His taste in clothes is akin to his taste in music—the louder, the better. Shoes are his hobby, toilet water his passion, and sports clothes a minor career. “A small (Continued on page 92) 08

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SHE’S A SMARTIE (Continued from page 35) the screen. No, here is vitality, capability, strength. Here is no clinging vine. Here is comradeliness, here is a slap on the back, a deep laugh and a hearty voice that makes itself heard across a room. And I like these traits. There is nothing helpless about Sonja Henie. On the screen she may be a bisque doll, but off, she is pretzels and beer. I could not help calling to mind the prophesy of an editor I know, a man who is usually very wise. He had said, “Some day someone is going to carry that little girl away and marry her for her money.” Not Sonja Henie. Men may try but she will be too smart for them. She 1s not squandering her money. She knows how to drive a bargain. She is very much aware. And I don’t think she has many boy friends. I think men are scared of her. There is something so forceful about Miss Henie. The suite alone told a story. It was an exceptionally modest one, one living room, one bedroom to be shared with mama. At that, she considered the living room an extravagence. “I wanted two bedrooms.” Her habit of quick appraisal, her knowl- edge of values, came to the fore when she met her chum. “T like your dress. Where did you get it?” she said, all in one breath, and then fingered the silk print as if she were about to guess the price. Again I saw it when the chum showed her a new diamond wrist watch. With the practiced eye of a connoisseur, Sonja held the bracelet to the light and scrutinized the diamond as if she were a pawn broker. In one corner stood some newly delivered boxes of shoes. Their labels were that of New York’s cheapest cut rate shoe store. “Mama bought them,” said Sonja. N2 this year’s take may have netted the Henies over a million dollars, but they’re not throwing any of it away. She sat at the dressing table and, true to her promise, autographed pictures for those waiting fans. Between autographs she turned on a smile for the photographers. But in the middle of one of these pictures she spied an executive who had just made his entrance. Immediately the smile vanished. She rose, a calculating business woman, looking out for her own interests. She walked towards him and pro- ceeded to unburden her mind. It was all about a photograph which had been pub- lished in an ad. It had been printed with- out her permission. She didn’t like the pose and she didn’t like the ad and she didn’t do those things for nothing and they should please put a stop to it at once. I am sure they did. When this was over she went right back to the smile and accepted a bundle of Nor- wegian newspapers from a foreign corre- spondent. Again we were in the bedroom. “Tell me, who is on the boat?” she asked. “Grace Moore.” “T meant men,” said Miss Henie. All the while I marveled at her energy. Only the Saturday before she had been out in Hollywood finishing “My Lucky Star,’ at two in the afternoon. She had gone home and they had called her for re-takes. She had worked then until midnight. The following day she flew to New York. It had been a bad trip. “Very bumpy,” said her mother. She arrived in New York Monday night, (Continued on page 93) MODERN SCREEN “1T’S THE WOMEN with velvet-smooth fingers who win—and keep—a man’s heart’’, says ANDREA LEEDS*, star of the Uni- versal Picture “Youth Takes aFling’’. Help preventyour hands from getting rough, red and chapped by regu- lar use of Jergens. ge Andrea leeds | * Andrea Leeds’ Bande thrill Joel McCrea in Universal hit “Youth Takes a Fling” ale 1 (Charming Hollywood Star) Help Yourself to Smooth Soft HANDS this lovely easy Way O YOUR HANDS feel a little harsh? Look older than your age? Prob- ably the skin has lost too much of its beauty-protecting moisture, from ex- posure to cold and wind or from being often in water. That dried-out moisture can be quickly supplemented by using Jergens Lotion, which furnishes mois- ture for the skin. Never feels sticky! Contains 2 ingredients—used by many doctors to help soften and whiten rough skin. Hands are soon like creamy velvet— inviting to romance. Start now to use Jergens. Generous sizes only 50¢, 25¢, 10¢—$1.00 for the special econ- omy bottle — at any beauty counter. ERGENS Lomion FREE: GENEROUS SAMPLE «, See—at our expense—how wonderfully this fragrant Jergens Lotion helps to make red, rough, chapped hands Contains 2 ingredients, often used in medical practice to help soften and smooth rough skin. Name Street City. smooth and white. The Andrew Jergens Co., 1647 Alfred Street, Cincinnati, O. (In Canada, Perth, Ontario). (PLEASE PRINT) State 91

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Millions of tiny, live plants in each cake of this fresh food act to help keep intestinal waste poisons from the blood . . . and so help your broken-out skin. Start eating Fleisch- mann’s Yeast now—one cake 14 hour before meals. Buy some today! ——ES See 92 MODERN SCREEN (Continued from page 90) man should go in for sports clothes,” says Mickey, and he has the unabashed courage of his convictions. He'll wear a green hat with a yellow feather, and a brown coat with a red necktie. ‘Mickey,’ sighs his mother, “I wish you’d try to blend your colors.” “Listen, you know what I’m considered? A fashionplate.” For a formal dance he donned a pair of iridescent green trousers and a hound’s tooth coat. His mother protested in vain, and waited in some trepidation that night for the whistle with which he signals his approach, as he slips his key into the lock. Mickey’s cheerfulness was undimmed. “Know what, Mom? They were all wishing they’d come like I did. Their old tuck shirts were melting to their spines.” ICKEY’S mother feels that he reached the climax of sartorial originality the night he joined Otto Klemperer’s or- chestra on the platform of a Los Angeles concert hall. A brilliant audience had gathered to hear Klemperer conduct “Mid- summer Night’s Dream.” Mickey was to give Puck’s prologue. She looked down at him from her box. The black-and- white of his evening clothes left nothing to be desired. Only a couple of wisps stuck at right angles from the sleek casque of his head. Suddenly a flash of color blinded her. Mickey had crossed his legs. Between black cloth and black leather stretched a brief but dizzying rain- bow of candy-striped sock, red and green and yellow and red and green. She man- aged to catch his eye and signalled as frantically as stealth would permit. Mickey sent her a reassuring grin, uncrossed his legs—and crossed them the other way! They’re living in a Hollywood apart- ment at the moment, but they’re going to build in the fall. The house is to be a gift from Mickey to his mother, “for her niceness to me.” Since he plans to live there too, he’s given notice as to what he wants—‘‘a rambling ranch house with a pool and a tennis court and a rumpus room and my bedroom in knotty pine with six bunks so the fellas can stay over night.” Mrs. Pankey was doubtful. “All I want’s a little cottage, Mickey. Mother’s not going to have you all her life. You might want to take bachelor apartments when you're twenty-one. Then you'll marry—” “Listen, Mom. When I’m gonna marry is a long way off. Anyhow, if the girl doesn’t like you an’ wouldn’t want to live with you—” a gesture blotted her out. Mickey doesn’t remember his first date. “Do you?” he wanted to know. “Well, naturally, with a girl it’s different. To a boy, maybe, it doesn’t mean so much.” He’s taken plenty of ribbing on the subject of Judy Garland, which he shrugs off with resignation as “kid stuff.” “All that talk about Judy and I—that’s a laugh. We're the best of friends, and always will be. Every once in a while we go out on a date together. She’s a perfect girl, and the fella that goes around with her is lucky. But Judy and me, we just don’t care for each other that way.” He likes brunettes with blue eyes. “June Lang’s the kind of girl I could go for—if she was about three years younger, maybe four. Sure, I know she’s a blonde, but what a blonde! Pardon me if I’m a little flighty, but foolin’ aside, I’m not serious about any girl. Sure I like ’em, an’ I like to take ’em out, an’ I like ’em pretty, an’ I like ‘em good dressers. But in my position you gotta be careful. Lots of girls think that because you play certain parts in a picture, you're kind of a ruthless fella. That’s the bunk. The girls 1 go round with are college or late high school girls. We might take in a show or maybe go bowlin’ or drop up at my place an’ listen to records. An’ every Friday night we go to the Cocoanut Grove, me an’ my pal Tobias, an’ a couple of girls. Me an’ Tobias, we’re always the same, but the girls are always liable to be different.” Tobias, the friend of his bosom, is nineteen and Mickey’s inclined to trust his judgment in girls, as in everything else. Not blindly, forever. “I swung a deal for you, Mick,” he’ll come in and announce. “Sa-a-a-y!_ Tm not goin’ out with any blind date. How do I know how tall she is?” “Well, she’s just about the size of your mother.” “Mom, take off your high heels, will you?” Mrs. Pankey is then led through the measures of a dance, escorted to a table, helped into a car, with Mickey grimacing down at her from the vantage of his three superior inches. After which he dusts his hands briskly. “Okay, Tobe, it’s a deal.” Recently she overheard one end of a phone conversation between her son and a girl who rang him up. Mickey’s voice was unheated but firm. “Well, frankly, I didn’t care for your attitude last time I called you. I mean, you hung up in my ear, that’s what I mean. Sure, a girl can have a headache, an’ a guy can have measles an’ mumps an’ chickenpox, but that don’t give him any call to hurt a girl’s feelings, like you hurt mine. Yeah, I’m sorry too, but there’s nothin’ we can do about it, an’ I'll tell you why. When you hung up, you did something to me—I’m not the same Mickey I used to be—” Occasionally he’ll come home dreamy- eyed and plank himself down at the foot of his mother’s bed. “Gee, Mom, I had a swell time. We didn’t do anything much, went to a show, then I took her home and her mother made us sandwiches. You know, Mom—maybe I'll marry that girl some day.” “That’s up to you and her, son. She’s a sweet .girl.” “Yeah.” But the romantic mood can’t hold Mickey for long. He jumps up. “Well, g’night, Mom. Guess I'll sleep over it.” ; Meantime, the world’s his oyster. Tobe’s joined him on location for “Boys Town,” to be his temporary Sylvester. His moth- er’s going to buy him a new car. Some day, later on, he plans to be a director— “but not until real later.’ Now all he wants is to keep on acting. School won’t last much longer. But swing bands and girls and green iridescent pants go on forever. Vo-do-de-o-do! Bobby Jordan and Judy Gar- land help Mickey celebrate his seventeenth.

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(Continued from page 91) never feeling the change of climate nor the loss of hours. She was out of her apart- ment by nine the next morning, running her manager ragged trying to find a projection room where she could see some rushes she had brought with her, transacting tedious business with the income tax bureau, sit- ting for hours at the haidresser’s, visiting the shops and arriving home at seven that evening. Immediately she was out again. This time to do the town, not with a boy friend (evidently there was none in New York), but with one of her managers and his wife. She arrived home at three a.m. OW, here it was the next morning and she was on the ship, her only regret being that she didn’t have time to buy hats. And she seemed surprised that she felt a little tired. So she ate some candy, butterscotch for energy. And she talked to her chum. “T got telegrams,” she said, “from Bob and Harry.” Then she thanked her friend for a birth- day gift. “A diamond and gold powder box,” she explained to me. “It was beauti- ful. -I showed it to everyone at the studio. But I didn’t tell them who gave it. They thought it was a man. And they wrote about it in the columns.” Smart little Sonja, already wise in the ways of American publicity. - And she turned to the man who de- livered the fur coat. It was an ermine wrap. She inspected it minutely. “Just an old one,” she said. “I had it fixed.” She talked about “My Lucky Star.” “It has an ‘Alice In Wonderland’ se- quence. I wish it could have been done in color, the costumes were so beautiful. I hope my next picture will be in color. They are talking about it.” She was thrilled because she will arrive in Norway in time for the opening of “Happy Landing.” “I am just going to rest,” she said. “I did not bring with me one pair of skates. I am going to sleep and sleep and get up in time for lunch, and if I sleep longer, get up for dinner.” She talked about skating in Florida. It had been difficult in a tropical climate. “But when you have to, you do it.” This I think is her creed. She certainly is the best disciplined woman I ever met. The ship’s whistle blew a warning. She stared at her manager, her chum and me. She dimpled and said, “Come on, all of you, stay aboard.” I hesitated. She said, “You don’t think I mean it. Of course I mean it, but I know there is no more room .. . not a cabin.” She laughed at her little joke. A man poked his head in the door, in- viting her to broadcast. She paid no at- tention. “Grace Moore did it,” he said. Still she paid no attention. Then he said Darryl Zanuck had done it, and she flew. After all, what’s good enough for the boss .. . She was out of the door and down the narrow corridor, the man leading her by the hand, I following, and the fans, now multiplied by dozens, crowding down upon her from all sides, closing in... shriek- ing, “There she is!” Anyone else would have turned back; anyone else would have lost all presence of mind. But not Sonja Henie. She quickly spied news reporters and more executives, She thought of another Hollywood star due in New York and she remembered her alma mater. So she smiled that smile, for playing to the gallery is her forte, and she called back, so everyone could hear, “Goodbye, and give my love to Shir- ley Temple!” ACTIVE DAYS ARE CAREFREE DAYS... THANKS TO THE “CUSHIONED COMFORT” OF KOTEX* SANITARY NAPKINS When you buy Kotex you can be sure that: * Kotex stays Wondersoft—it’s cushioned in cotton to prevent chafing. * Kotex doesn’t show—thanks to its flattened and tapered ends. * Kotex can be worn on either side —both sides are fully absorbent. * Kotex is made with a special patented center section that guards against spotting by keep— ing moisture away from the surface. *& Only Kotex offers three types— Regular, Junior and Super—for different women on different days. KOTEX* SANITARY NAPKINS Use Quest* with Kotex... the new positzve deodor- ant powder developed especially for use with sanitary napkins — soothing, completely effective. (*Trade Marks Reg. U. S. Patent Office) 93

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It’s just in the man himself.” In Myron Brinig’s new novel, “May Flavin,” there is the ‘following passage: “So it is with all great men and women, they not only live their own lives but an inner life into which many other figures are crowded, men and women of their own oe strangers who have passed them Nunes I read that passage aloud to Mickey Rooney the boy’s Irish eyes were quick with tears and he said, conclusively, “Yeah, that’s him!” I thought about these things as Spencer told me about Father Flanagan and the boys he shepherds to young manhood there in his Boys Town. Spencer didn’t speak of the picture except when directly questioned, nor about playing the part of Father Flana- gan. He talked about the real Boys Town which started over twenty years ago and will be going on long after the studio has ceased turning its cameras on the authentic story of this great humanitarian project. ND just because he was not speaking in 4 % terms of the picture seemed to me ad- ditional proof that Spencer’s screen great- ness lies in the fact that he doesn’t play a character with greasepaint and a costume and lines put into his mouth, but with the heart of a man crowded with the problems and plans of the character he is portraying. He is the man, that’s all. He isn’t making believe. The quality of each character he plays is a quality in him. He was the victim of mob cruelty in “Fury” because he feels that bestial cruelty in his blood. He was Manuel in “Captains Courageous” because that quality of gruff, rough tender- ness is in him, too. He was the appealing mechanic in “Test Pilot” because there is in him that profound capacity for friend- ship which he expressed in the role. He is Father Flanagan in Boys Town because those homeless, orphaned kids are living. “Father Flanagan started Boys Town twenty years ago,’ Spencer was saying. “He started in his own house with five boys.. Before that he was a welfare worker and fooled around with old guys. He real- ized that you can’t put the cart before the horse nor the man before the boy and get anywhere. You can’t ‘reform’ adults. But you can mould the growing boy. It’s Father Flanagan’s conviction and motto that ‘There is no such thing as a bad boy’. And so be began. “Now the place is a regular little town. 400 acres, all told.. The place is run en- tirely by donations—donations of money, food, clothes. Father Flanagan figures that it takes one hundred and eighty dollars to keep a boy there for one year. One hun- dred and eighty dollars,” said Spencer slowly, “and one kid gets one year of education, food, lodging, clothes and secur- ity. A chance to grow straight instead of crooked. One hundred and eighty dol- lars . . .” and I knew that Spencer was thinking again, of the wealthy children with their toys costing thousands of dol- lars, with their guards to protect them from such men as the Boys Town boys might have grown to be if it were not for Father Flanagan. “The first and only ‘entrance requirement’ to Boys Town,” Spencer went on, “is that the boy have no semblance of a home. Nor any living relative, no matter how distant, who could give him a hand-out. Father Flanagan prefers to take boys under twelve years ago, too. But he some- times takes them older than that because they can’t stay in orphanages after the age of twelve. I didn’t know that before, did you?” I said that I didn’t. “There’s a lot of things we don’t know,” said Spencer, “we smart mugs who are in the picture business. “There are no prejudices of any kind in Boys Town, either. There are no lines drawn, neither color nor religious denom- ination nor any other. There’s a boy out of an insane asylum. He’s not insane now. He hasn’t got Fear for a bedfellow these nights. There’s a kid so bowed down with some horror in his life that he walks all the time with his head bowed down to his feet. One day I happened to see the Father pass this kid. He put his hand under the boy’s chin, turned his face up to the sky and said: ““You have a beautiful face, my son, don’t be afraid to show it.’ “T’m saying that line in the picture,” said Spencer. “T asked them to write it into the script. It’s the kind of thing everyone should hear—and think about. Makes you feel kind of useless sometimes when you think about the kind of work a man like Father Flanagan is doing... but when I get a chance to play a part like this of Father Flanagan, a chance to say words like that and mean them, I have the feeling that I’m doing something worthwhile, too. “The only question that Father Flanagan asks is, ‘Are you homeless?’ ” said Spencer. ““Are you homeless ?’—kind of a beautiful question, at that. Imagine how it would be if that’s all any of us ever asked a fellow being .. . ‘are you homeless?’ .. . and if the answer were ‘yes’ that would make him eligible to share and share alike with us. Kind of far-fetched, isn’t it? Sure it is. Sure, I know. ATHER FLANAGAN doesn’t believe in heredity. He believes in the child. And so there are all kinds in Boys Town. There. are two little hillbillies from Ken- tucky there. They never saw a pair of shoes nor heard of a motion picture nor listened to a gentle word spoken until they came to Boys Town. There are two kids there who murdered their own fathers. One kid’s father had the habit of getting drunk and beating the living daylights out of the mother. The kid, not more than ten years old, had often threatened to ‘get’.the father. The old man, always laughed at him. But one night the kid let him have it, and shot him dead. “Another youngster, not more than eight or nine, had taken a violent dislike to his school teacher. So he’d burned the school- house to the ground. One kid had been deserted by his father. His mother was a street-walker. The boy used to get letters from her every now and again. He was proud of them. He was about the only fel- low to get any mail. “One day one of the boys wanted to go fishing with me. 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MODERN SCREEN Town. One of the boys is the Mayor of Boys Town. The boys elect their own Coun- cil from among themselves. They mete out their own punishments. They have their own police force. They grow their own food, do their own farming and milix- ing. There are no fences around the place. They can run away if they want to. They are told that they can. They never do. Makes you wonder about the value of bars of any kind, contracts, bonds, chains. Be- cause you can’t run away from yourself,” said Spencer, “and, nine times out of ten, when a man wants to run away it’s himself that he’s trying to escape. “When the boys are through high school they’re on their own. They have to clear out and make room for others. And in all the twenty years since Boys Town began Father Flanagan has never had a jail sen- tence passed on any one of his boys.” “Yeah,” said Spence, “it’s good for a fellow to make a trip like that, see what we saw there in Boys Town. We haven’t any right, we who are in Hollywood, to give stories about ‘hardships.’ “Yeah,” repeated Spencer, “it makes you appreciate your rations.” Yeah, and now I have the answer to the quality in Spencer which is the secret of his greatness on the screen. Now I can name it. It’s caring. It’s really caring about the other fellow. When he played “Fury” that hunted thing he played was in his heart. When he played Manuel, the tenderness was not acting only. It sprang from a nat- ural source. When he played Gable’s friend in “Test Pilot” that capacity for friendship was a living fact. In “Boys Town” he is Father Flanagan, with the boys of Boys Town walking through his heart. And so it will be in all the char- a es Gan life: Pes ae Be pee The Robert Youngs take Bob Taylor out to dunk a doughnut. Quite which many figures are crowded.” a feast—eh, wot? Well, they like it! COLD WE. HO NDS VANISH D's VA tO HELP SMOOTH AWAY A LITTLE ROUGHNESSES WITH ONE APPLICATION (3 I'VE ALWAYS USED POND'S VANISHING CREAM TO SMOOTH MY SKIN FOR POWDER. NOW | USE IT OVERNIGHT TOO. IT SMOOTHS EXTRA "SKIN-VITAMIN" INTO MY SKIN bd Ul Oe NOW SMOOTHING AWAY — Now-—sive your skin extra beauty care —Smooth extra “‘skin-vitamin”’ (Vita- ROUGHNESS . min A) into it by using Pond’s Vanishing Cream! When skin lacks BRINGS LXTRA this vitamin, it becomes rough and dry. When “skin-vitamin” is 4 M restored to it, it helps skin become “© SAIN-VITAMIN smooth again. If your skin has enough of this vitamin, it stores some of it Too! ie against a possible future need. Same jars. Same labels. Same prices. Copyright, 1938, Pond’s Extract Company *E Statements concerning the effects of the “‘skin-vitamin”’ applied to the skin are based upon Tune in on “THOSE WE LOVE,” Pond’s Program, medical literature and tests on the skin of animals following an accepted laboratory method, Mondays, 8:30 P.M., N.Y. Time, N.B.C. 95

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She bade her husband a happy good-bye. He would join her soon and they’d go back to England together. Mean- time here were new worlds to conquer, and she wouldn’t have been Binnie if her heart hadn’t leaped at the prospect. Sam did come over, but Binnie didn’t go back with him. If you’re a movie actress, if your work comes first, if Hollywood wants you, Hollywood is where you stay. For a while they closed their eyes to the inevitable. Sam hopped over as often as he could. Binnie dashed back. He never asked her to give up her chosen work. He understood her well enough to realize that she wouldn’t have been a whole woman without it. “We never quarreled,” says Binnie, “we never had so much as an argument. He’s the best and kindest person I’ve ever met or I’m ever likely to meet. It sounds so infernally silly to say you divorced him. Things never turn out that way in the story books. No matter how much the gir] loves her career, she always gives it up for the man. Love conquers all, or if love doesn’t, the patter of little feet does. “Well, my case proves one of two things —that life doesn’t go by formulas, or that I’m a freak. Here was I, established in a paying business, there was Sam in the same spot. Perfect, except for one thing—we were thousands of miles apart. No one would have dreamed of suggesting he give up his work. ‘What, that marvel- ous business that’s been in the family for hundreds of years! That business you love! Give it up? You'd be crazy!’ And I agree. It would have been crazy. Bee for me to give up the business I loved, that had been my life—lots of people took that as matter of course. Well, I didn’t. Don’t think it was easy. I went through Hades and probably put Sam through the same. But I kept coming back to this: If I did give it up, I’d be so miserable that I’d be bound to drag Sam into misery with me. He couldn't be happy with a restless, discontented wife. “Primarily, it wasn’t a question of money. Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not one of those airy creatures who can live on sunsets and a lettuce leaf. I think the laborer’s worthy of his hire. When I say it wasn’t money primarily, I mean just that. My husband had plenty. He was more than generous with it. What was his, was mine. But since I was a kid, I’ve stood on my own feet, been obliged to no one, dependent on no one but myself. That's the thing I couldn’t get along without. “You may ask, why couldn’t I get a job in England? I could, but not as good a job. It’s as if you said to Sam, ‘Why can’t you run your business in America?’ He could, but it would have been bad. “Tf you’ve got any pride in what you’ve built up, you want to build it as solid as possible. Don’t think for a minute it's what they call the glamor of pictures that’s got me. I don’t care a whoop for it. Pic- tures happen to be my work, that’s all. Ii fate took a hand and washed me up in pictures, there’d be nothing I could do about that. But you can bet your last nickel I’d find other work to do—also that I'd try to find it in England. “People say to me, ‘Why did you and Sam have to divorce? You didn’t want to marry another man, he didn’t want to marry another woman. Why couldn’t you stay married and take the chance that some day you’d get together again?’ I COULD think up all sorts of pretty answers to that one—that it wouldn’t have been fair to Sam, or that one ought to be a hundred percent wife, or none at all. Sounds pretty noble, only it isn’t the truth. I would have hung on to Sam for dear life, but for one reason. Are you sentimental ? Then prepare to be shocked. Me, I’m a realist. My reason, bald and unblushing, was the income tax. “Sam’s a resident of England. As his wite, I’m a resident of England, no matter where I live. That means I paid income tax in two countries. Do you know what the income tax in England is? Well, I won't spoil your dinner by telling you. And you see, Sam earned a lot of money too, which brought the tax still higher for both of us. So high, in fact, that I found myself practically working for nothing. On nothing it’s hard to feel independent. “So we divorced. I think a really mer- cenary woman would have sat herself in her husband’s pocket, and said, ‘Now pay up, old boy, for all I’ve sacrificed in order to be your dear and loving wife.’ I’m not out to pin any medals on myself, but I did refuse to hang the burden of my boredom around Sam’s neck. I claim a feather for that, here on the left shoul- derblade—nothing so gaudy as a wing, you understand—just one small pinfeather.” When Binnie makes one of her flying trips to London, it’s Sam who finds an apartment for her. It’s with Sam she hes dinner night after night, it’s with Sam that she goes out dancing. At least once a year he turns up in Hollywood to see her. Each continues to feel an active in- terest in the other’s work. “And though he’s no longer my _ hus- band,” says Binnie, “I still love him. He’s too good not to love. If I were in trouble, its Sam I’d turn to—yes, even if he mar- ried again. I can’t say I hope he doesn’t —that would be unfair. But if he doesn’t, then maybe some day we'll end up to- gether, when I’m through. “You see, I’ve no illusions about my place in the movies. I’m not the world’s best actress, by any means. I'll never be a star and I don’t want to be. But I’m adaptable. That part in ‘Three Blind Mice, for instance. We didn’t know how we'd play it until we started. She was a nice dame, but nuts. Well, I suddenly remembered some women I’d met in the south of France. They live there so long, they get cracked. So I copied them. “Producers know they can rely on me. ‘Pick Barnes up,’ they’ll say. ‘Old Barnes’ll go through it all right’ I’m aware of that. It used to bother me, but not any more. What’s the difference? People like me to a certain extent, I’m happy, I’m grateful, I get money for what I do. I should start worrying whether I’m a star or not, as long as I have enough to eat.”

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MODERN SCREEN A MAN WHO CAME BACK (Continued from page 41) intriguing suggestion was made, is still made, that they never have divorced be- cause they are still in love. Some day, whispers Hollywood drowsily, any day perhaps, there may be a reconciliation. I said to Lew, “If these whispers are true, don’t let me write a story about you, omitting all mention of a possible recon- ciliation between you and Ginger only to have the newspapers headline the news.” “I wouldn’t want that to happen, either,” Lew told me. “‘Reconciliation, by the way, is, essentially, the wrong word to use about Ginger and me. We are really good friends. We see one another now and then. We talk on the phone occa- sionally. But, currently, we have no plan for resuming our marriage. If there were any such plan, I would certainly tell you about it. I have no reason to be secretive about anything concerning either Ginger or me.” So anyway, there it was. There would be these little geysers of talk about Lew, interest in Lew, speculations, now and then, as to why so brilliant a career had, seemingly, petered out so vaguely. And that was all—until “Holiday.” And then, Hollywood gave itself Ayres again. Then the come-back of Lew Ayres made tap- room talk at the Trocadero, at the Brown Derbies, at all the meeting places of pro- ducers, agents, directors, critics, where careers (and reputations) are both glam- orized and guillotined. More importantly, the studios became Ayres-minded again. - fresh off the “White Collars’ set. Then one of them signed him to a contract. Now he is making “White Collars.” Yes, interest in Lew has taken a power- ful shot in the arm. People are asking questions about him. Was his pride hurt? Was his self- confidence shattered? Has he been bitter ? What caused his slip in the first place? I asked my questions of Lew himself. I had lunch with him in the studio com- missary. There was Lew, in make-up, Lew once again among the Gables, Mont- gomerys, Tracys, who were lunching at tables around us. Lew, I thought, come into his own again. I said, “Tell me the story of a come- back. I know it will be exciting.” “Tm sorry, I haven’t suffered,” smiled Lew. “I know what good copy mental agonies can make. But the flat truth is, I’m glad I went down in those B, C and even D pictures. Because the backsliding has made the kick of coming back all the more intense. I can appreciate being in a big studio now, not having to be on the set until nine in the mornings, not being pushed around quite so much or so fast. I can appreciate it more than I could ever have done had I maintained the level on which I started. “You know, it’s something like never ap- preciating happiness until you have been unhappy; never knowing the blessedness of relief from pain until you have been in pain; never knowing how to celebrate peace until you have been at war. “Not, I am sorry to tell you, that I have experienced anything so dramatic as un- happiness because I slipped from my high estate. I haven’t worried. I haven't en- vied. I haven’t been bitter. I have worked out of any bewilderment I may have felt at first. In fact, I was much more be- wildered when I sat on top of the hay- stack than I was when I began to slide down. I have never even been distressed. The only thing I’ve missed is that feeling of wanting to go to bed early so that I would be on tip toe in the morning for the day’s work. Otherwise, there are too many things in life to do, to appreciate, for me to feel downed by failure in any one field. “So many things interest me,” said Lew, “that I’m afraid I could never be a fanatic. To be a fanatic you have to be absorbed by one idea, one passion, one ideal. My interests are so many, so diverse, that pictures couldn’t be my whole life. [’m afraid, too, that I have a funny bone. And I’m afraid that to be successful you can’t have a sense of humor, especially where you yourself are concerned. “So, the ‘many things’ have saved me from bemoaning the—shall we say eclipse of the one thing. There are so many things I want to do, could do, or try to do, if I never made another picture. And if I should never make another picture I’m still lucky for all I’ve done. I know that. Even before I played in ‘Holiday’ Just the shoes you’ve been look- ing for! 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Because his curiosity would be greater than his sense of fear. Sim- ilarly, he has watched his career being op- erated upon, rallying, sinking, rallying again, with the same clinical interest he would display in a surgical amphitheatre. He said then, “My case history goes something like this: I was too young when I started in pictures. Nineteen years old and a banjo player. That was ten years ago. I was too raw, too inexperienced. I knew no one in Hollywood, not even an extra. I just acted in the pictures they told me to act in. Just acting isn’t enough. You’ve got to know what to fight for. I didn’t know what to fight for. “T came to Hollywood as raw a re- cruit as ever stepped foot in a studio. I was playing and singing at the Cocoanut Grove with Ray West’s orchestra. Ivan Kahn saw me there and offered me my first chance. PLAYED bits in two pictures then. People said nice things about me. My third picture was “All Quiet On The Western Front.’ After that came ‘Door- way To Hell’ and ‘Common Clay.’ All three were big hits. I was all ready for the knife then. But I didn’t know it. “So there I was, sitting on top without having had to climb there. It can’t be done. Read the biographies of men like Muni, Tracy, Gable and you'll realize that, at one time or another, they've done some powerful climbing. I had to do my climb- ing a little later, that’s all. And it’s all right. It’s been good for me. For if you put a child of seven in high school be- fore he’s been to kindergarten the chances are that he’ll be demoted to the first grade once they catch on to him. “T was too successful at the start for the continued good health of my career. Then I didn’t fight. There didn’t seem to be anything to fight for. I didn’t try to improve myself as an actor because, I thought, why should I? I realized that there was plenty of room for improvement but they seemed to like me as I was, so maybe I’d better stay as I was. I did. “Then I made a series of bad pictures. The skids were under me and I knew it. Then my looks were against me because I was, unfortunately for me, a leading- man type—young, regular features and all that. I wanted to play character parts. I did not want to pose in profile among romance and roses. “And so the see-saw began. Id go down, then I’d come up again, and then in reverse. Little by little the ups became less up and the downs would be more downs and stay down longer. It was like a pendulum swinging, slower and slower and ever more slowly. “T was twice married and twice unsuc- cessfully. I am completely unembittered by these experiences. I am not one of those who believe that Hollywood mar- riages cannot last, that, because a wife is a star and independent, the marriage is foredoomed to failure. On the contrary, I think it’s a very fine thing for both hus- band and wife to be totally independent. “T’ve bought a small house atop the highest hill in Hollywood. And I live there, alone. And like it. It’s a very selfish way of living, I know. And I don’t say that I want to live this way for the rest of my life. But right now I am, and for some time have been, well content to be alone. “lve never been discouraged about any- thing,” Lew continued. “Inclined to be moody, lve had my ups and downs, of course, good days and days not so good. But at least I’ve had enough perspective on myself to realize that I have the same good days and bad days whatever I’m doing at the time. “Things were going along in this fashion when I ran into George Cukor in the lobby of the Biltmore Theatre in Los Angeles one night. Cukor was the dialogue director on ‘All Quiet. I hadn’t seen him for years. We exchanged greetings. He said to me, laughing, ‘I thought you’d be an old, gray-headed man by this time!’ That was all. A week later he called me on the telephone, said he wanted to talk to me about the part in ‘Holiday.’ : “We talked. I made the test. That wasn’t enough for Cukor. He talked to me about the part again. He made me read it to him, not once but many times. He then made me take lessons in diction. “Tt was a thrill. Of course it was. I realized fully that here was an opportunity that was, literally, battering down my door. But, although I knew it was my big chance, I wasn’t nervous about it. I’d been work- ing very hard and perhaps I was too tired to feel nervous. Perhaps that was just as well, too, for the young man I played was also tired, all the way through. Then came the work, the hard work, but enor- mously stimulating because it was something that mattered. And then the preview, the reviews, and the word pdssed that I had ‘come back. And so, here I am. “T don’t believe,” Lew said slowly, “that it’s luck, the ‘breaks’ when good things happen to us. I don’t believe that life is that shallow. Id hate to think that life hinges on luck alone. It’s a defeatist sort of philosophy to believe that everything depends on a throw of the dice. “It might be called luck, my happening to be in the lobby of the Biltmore the same night that Cukor was there. But luck alone wouldn’t have done it. If Cukor hadn’t had some residue of faith in me he would have said, ‘Hullo and goodbye.’ And I—I would have stayed back. “T have faith, you know, in a sort of divine justification. I think that we get things when we are ready for them. “But that meeting with Cukor was not the first step in my ‘come-back,’” smiled Lew. “It was the last. The first step was taken when I took the first step down.” You'll be seein’ Nancy Kelly in Jesse James.” Nice?

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MODERN SCREEN GINGER’S MAMA SPEAKS HER PIECE (Continued from page 33) These were to be played the day after Lela left. On the train, Lela, whose humor is a great deal like her daughter’s, wired, “Tf you don’t win its bread and water for a week.” The following morning she re- ceived, “It’s bread and water, get it.” The minute Ginger heard about her six- week vacation, the first she’s had in years, she called Lela in New York with, “I don’t know where we'll go, but when the time comes get ready to fly to me!” And, as a surprise, she shipped Lela’s car, equipped with four new tires, to New York. Of course this is nothing new. With her first big pay check (it was a thousand dollars) Ginger took the whole thing and with it bought a brooch for her mother. And she designed that brooch. Lela, too, is no slouch at surprises. It was she who gave Ginger the now famous soda fountain. “T never dreamed how popular it would become. It’s a boon for servants because all the guests insists upon making their own. Ginger doesn’t drink, you know. She lives on malted milks and sodas. I gave her the fountain as a mark of luxury, as a way of saying, “You have arrived!” Well, a mother-daughter friendship like that, with its attendant sense of humor, doesn’t break. As for the normal life... “Tf any star’s life is normal, it’s Gin- ger’s. And it’s much easier to live nor- mally in Hollywood than here in the East. Why, it took us two years to build our house. Twenty-five towns lie under our noses, we’re ten minutes from the studio, and yet, we’re so surrounded by hills that - we're isolated. I didn’t wear a pair of stockings all summer, or a summer dress; just lived in my bathing suit. Ginger goes to work in slacks. When I say work I mean work. You've got to be a trouper to get on top or stay on top. “TI wish you could see all her clothes hatiging in the closet because she has no time to wear them. The night I left for the East we figured she had been out for dinner exactly twice in six months! She did manage to get to her own preview, but that, in its way, is work. But she was broken hearted because she couldn’t get to Maggie’s—Margaret Sullavan’s, you know. Ginger is crazy about her. The night of that preview the studio kept Ginger until seven-thirty, and by the time she came home and had dinner, it was, as she said, ‘As usual, too late.’ “Every Sunday we serve a buffet supper in our basement playroom and Ginger’s gang comes—Maggie and Leland, Doro- thy Fields, Bob Riskin, Phyllis Frazier, Jimmy Stewart. “Ginger is the one who started all those quiz games that became such a fad. Every free night Bob Riskin would head one team, Dorothy Fields the other. And they would come armed with diction- aries and encyclopedias, literally playing for blood. It’s great mental exercise, and Ginger loves it.” FOR NIGHTS of ROMANCE 4 Let this entrancing odeur bring thrilling romance to you. Park & Tilford No. 3 Perfume surrounds you with provoc- ative fascination .. . exotic and intoxicating as the moon- kissed breeze in an Oriental garden. This mystic fragrance makes tonight the night for love. At leading drug and de- partment ‘stores, in $1 and 25c sizes. Smart tuckaway size for your purse — only 10¢ at all ten-cent stores. PARK & TILFOR NMS Feyfume Echos fags Of all Ginger’s boy friends Lela seems to favor writer Robert Riskin. ‘He’s the sweetest boy. Of course Ginger goes out a lot with Jimmy Stewart these days, but,” Lela added significantly, “Jimmy manages to distribute himself among all the girls. He’s very popular, you know.” She paused. Then, “Ginger has changed a great deal. Her faults have always been for blood. It’s great mental exercise, and the chief fault of all the Rogers women, that of being too frank for their own good. Men don’t like honest women. They’re scared of them. It’s always a straight ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ with Ginger, no side-stepping. She likes you or she doesn’t. She’s in- herently honest, and that doesn’t make for happiness. But if you’re made that way there’s nothing you can do about it. I know. “Certainly, she has grown more serious. And her tastes have changed, especially in clothes. . Her dresses used to be much too fancy. Now she is going in for the simple kind. She had to learn that by herself. Good taste grows as we grow. “And,” Lela Rogers hesitated, “this sounds unkind to the past, but, naturally, Ginger’s taste in men has also changed. Nobody can bank on the idiosyncracies of love, but I have a hunch that the next im- portant man in Ginger’s life will be older and serious thinking, not just a boy. Here- tofcre, she’s always had a youth complex, but now maturity has set in.” Her voice softened.. “As Ginger’s Other famous odeurs: Adventure; Cherish; Gardenia; Lilac; and No. 12. 99

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Ginger was so proud because Brooke paid her first call on us. Ginger took up knitting so she could make Brooke a sweater. And every once in awhile Ginger asks about babies, funny little details, and whether I think she is too old to have one.’ Mrs. Rogers laughed. “Ginger, at twenty-seven, wor- rying about her age. But you can see what she is thinking about—in what direc- tion her mind lies. “Not that I think she could actually quit working for any great length of time. Ginger would never be happy idle.” She paused as a trim maid passed us iced coffee and little cakes. And I had time to sit back and study this Lela Rogers, whose face is stamped with living and work, and yet, who looks so much like Ginger, the expression around her mouth, the shape of her legs, a turn here and there. The sitting room makes a perfect back- ground, with its white mantelpiece, its Venetian blinds, the vases alive with flowers, the chintz covered furniture. On the mantel stood a picture of J. Edgar Hoover with the inscription “To Lela E. Rogers, in appreciation of a valued friendship.” And on a table the only photograph of Ginger . . . Ginger wearing a plain sports frock, Ginger, her arms folded and looking straight at you with that frank, likeable stare of hers. Lela Rogers looked at the picture too. “It’s not easy,” she said, “for a mother to talk about her daughter’s faults. Every duck thinks her chick is white, but to me, Ginger’s worst fault is the fact that when something bothers her she keeps it within herself. And it eats inside. I can always tell. Then I say, ‘Out with it!’ NCE I said this and she began, ‘Pan (meaning producer Pandro Berman) said three months ago...’ “Three months ago!’” I shouted. “And you’ve been worrying about this all that time! Go to him and have it out! When she used to be afraid to do that, I often started the battles for her. “Tn that instance Pan had promised Gin- ger she didn’t have to work with a certain person, and there he was, cast just the same. Please don’t misunderstand, the person was not Astaire.” And then Lela Rogers made a startling and generous announcement. “I consider the success of their pictures due to Fred Astaire. He is tireless, painstaking, a glutton for perfection. what he wants. So he fought for Ginger too. He was the first-person to insist upon having a dance photographed all the way through. The producer said it would lose camera interest. They wanted to shoot away to a man chewing gum, a woman powdering her nose. Astaire said, ‘If you don’t do it my way, you don’t get the dance!’ So they gave in. And you know the result. He must have things right, or not at all. Because Ginger was his partner and believed as he believed, he fought for her rights, too. By herself, she never would have fought. “Ror, believe it or not, Ginger has a great inferiority complex. She thinks everybody is better than she is. Do you know she was scared to death to tackle a dramatic part? And now, I believe that’s And he fights for . the only kind she should go in for. Why, she was frightened stiff to act with Hep- burn! Ginger is a square shooter. Give the other fellow a scene, and she practi- cally turns her back. You can notice this in ‘Vivacious Lady.’ When it was Jimmy’s turn, the camera was his. But Ginger knew Hepburn is an actress with every trick up her sleeve and ready to use them all. She felt she never could stand a chance playing in the same picture with Hepburn weaving around her. She herself felt she was no match as an actress. But she has will power. So she went to it. It was her job and Ginger faced it. When it comes to her own faults I must say she is painstaking about trying to overcome them. She has more will power than any- one I ever saw.” And I thought to myself, no wonder, she comes by it naturally. For what other mother would have the nerve to walk out and just stand by while her chick fends for itself? Only one with tremendous will power of her own—one like Lela Rogers. IN BETWEEN (Continued from page 78) to New York we stayed on for my health and I sort of ‘lucked’ into pictures. I had done a couple of small parts when they started looking for a child that looked like Ann Harding. A lady living in the same apartment house with us told about me and I got the job. From then on, it was easy sailing; that is, till now. It’s pretty tough when you’ve grown up, but aren't old. enough to do things you enjoy.” You can see, too, that despite her cries of maturity and for all her fifteen years, Bonita has grown up! But, she hasn’t ar- rived at the age when she looks roman- tically toward a handsome gent following in her footsteps, love aglow in his eyes! Seems, Bobby Jordon, one of the “Dead End” kids got a crush on Miss G. and followed her wherever she went. But to no avail! However, she did go into ecsta- sies over one gentleman of the cinema. “Do you know who I really adore?” Bonita began. “Spencer Tracy! I think he’s the finest actor I’ve ever seen in all my life. Everything he does seems so easy; while, with other actors, you’re continually conscious of the struggle they’re making to portray a part. With Mr. Tracy every- thing he does is the character. Yet each man he plays is entirely different and a real person. That’s the test of acting, when you can play yourself, or submerge yourself into a character and not make the audience conscious that you're doing it. He seems to have something that no one else has on the screen. I think that’s why he is great. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to act like Spencer Tracy?” Indeed, it would, we agreed. It’s something quite remarkable for a girl fifteen to have such good judgment as Bonita Granville. In fact, that is probably one of the main reasons she is such a good actress. She doesn’t know why she feels about things as she does. She only knows that by instinct she feels what is right and acts accordingly. Many a youngster would pick as her ideal a handsome John Payne, or a_ beautiful Virginia Bruce. But not Bonita Granville! She’s far too intelligent. She chooses the two top acting names in the movie world, tops because of their ability and not for their photographic angles. These are the stars little Miss Granville sets herself to emulate and, knowing Bonita, our guess is that in the future she will come into a place of her own that will equal any of the great stellar lights of her day.

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MODERN SCREEN MAKING THE MOST OF THINGS (Continued from page 45) nature with art, make up your mouth along its natural lines and let it go at that. Then make expression do what you can’t do with make-up. Our pal Number One, for example, should consciously turn her mouth up at the corners until the habit becomes natural to her. More hints for Number One: Do notice, please, how that double strand of pearls exactly reproduces the unbucked-up line of the chin. The lesson here is never to repeat a bad line.. If Nature has treated you shabbily in some feature, don’t re- peat that line by any detail of dress or ornament. The high, draped neckline on Number Six also calls attention to her chin. If the dress were in a light color, it would be all right. But better necklines would be broad necklines or squares. Tailored collars would be okay, too, but best in light colors. She should avoid V’s. You can do wonders for a weak chin by this very simple exercise. Results won’t come quickly, but they will come with time. Rest your elbow on the table, your chin in the palm of your hand. Open and close your mouth very slowly, resisting the push of the chin all you can. That’s _all. You can do this exercise in any con- venient odd moments. Number One might, when she is some years older, lengthen her brows the least bit at the outer corners. She is right in leaving them in their natural straight line. An arch would add to the illusion of length and narrowness which her face gives. I can’t find much fault with the hair, since it is youthfully and simply arranged to suit her age. Perhaps there might be a little more fullness at the crown to give the face added width. Finally, this girl should never wear high hats, for obvious reasons, and she will never be able to wear too sophisticated a hat. Girl Number Two, now, has a _ very short chin, and a very full- mouth, par- ticularly the lower lip. And, again, a tiny, too narrow face. The nose is just a wee touch long. She has done her hair out in that big roll on one side and a whoosh of curl on the other in the mistaken idea that it widens her face. It doesn’t. Now if this girl had been a blonde, the contrast between her hair and her skin wouldn’t have been so pronounced, see, and perhaps the stiff, rather formal coiffure would have had the desired effect, but as it is, the con- trast between the dark hair and the skin makes the narrowness of the face all the more apparent. What to do, what to do? With a little skill, this girl can have that desired blessing, the heart-shaped face. She has the small, delicate, but nicely cut chin. But she can’t have all that forehead. And it’s a nice forehead—it’s a shame to hide it. Probably that’s what the girl figured, but in acquiring beauty, we must consider proportion. A’ center part and a pressure forward onto the forehead of soft waves would be one solution. If she looks ghastly with a center part (and the rather long, thin nose might thus be ac- centuated) she might continue to part her hair where she does and have a short, thin, slightly curled bang. It would help. Another thing: this girl’s cheeks seem full when contrasted with her small chin. If her hair were a little longer and a ten- dril or so were allowed to escape over the jaw line, it might be a good idea. But that isn’t so important as concealing part of the forehead height. Number Two’s mouth is full and sensu- ous. That’s all right. A cultivated up- turn in expression would be more at- tractive, as in the case of Number Six. The eyes are rather prominent, with deep lids—that is to say, a lot of space between eyelash and eyebrow. This is the ideal type of eyelid for eyeshadow. The nose, as I said, is a trifle long. In general, I advise you not to worry much about your noses. You can’t do a great deal about ’em anyway, and if you play up your eyes and your mouths, people aren’t going to notice noses nearly as much as you think. However, there are a few tricks to kid the public about noses, and Til pass them along. With a long nose, make sure that the inner point of the eye- brow doesn’t come any further in than the inner corner of the eye. This girl is okay in that respect—in fact, her eyebrows start a little beyond that point, which also helps to widen her face. If your nose is large, powder it a little darker than the rest of your face. If it’s small and _ buttony, powder it a little lighter. Number Three is a_ swell, friendly, outdoorsy looking gal. 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The only thing I’d want to do would be to glamorize it a little for certain occasions. She looks like a girl who would be very popular on the golf course—but on the dance floor, she might be overshadowed by more languorous, less wholesome looking belles. Number Three’s face is a little on the wide side, and I’ve a hint to pass along about that. The nose is slightly bulbous at the tip, and I’ve a hint about that, too. Those brows are the least bit heavy at the inner corners, but they’re so black and de- cided that, in this particular case, I think I’d leave them alone. Widening the space between the brows, you know, detracts from the effect of a blob on the end of one’s nose. Reams have been written about cutting down—and increasing—the width of a face by the placement of rouge. It can be done —by an expert. But the trouble is, if you put your rouge in the right spot to narrow or widen your face, it never seems to be the logical spot for you to have a flush of color. I think it’s much easier to make one’s hair do the trick. Number Three’s face isn’t so full as to be unattractive, but she could narrow it a little by bringing her hair down another inch and possibly letting it come forward a bit over the cheeks. If your face is too wide, don’t make the common mistake of thinking you narrow it by slicking your hair back. Over-plump—and over-thin—faces profit by concealing part of the facial outline with a wave or a curl. Another thing, while I’m being so fussy. This gal is young—in her early twenties. Come later years, I have a hunch that she’d better watch that chin. A fine exer- cise for keeping away—or getting rid of— a double chin is the following simple little stunt. Lie face down on the bed, with your head and shoulders hanging over the edge. Drop your head down. Then pull it up slowly and back as far as you can. Feel the pull in your throat muscles. This is also good for that little cushion of flesh which comes on the back of the neck— commonly known as dowager’s hump. I SAID something about glamorizing the face of Number Three, didn’t I? Well, let—me—see. If you are in danger of be- ing eternally classed as a “swell egg”... It used to be “a perfect peach’—ugh !— in my day. If, as I say, you're tops on the golf course, but find romance staying away in buckets on other occasions, what’s to do about it? You can’t make yourself all over just because there’s moonlight and music, can you? No. Nor would you wish to. But girl Number Three could, for example, romanticize herself by three means: eye make-up, hairdo, - and ex- pression. The eye make-up would consist of nothing more revolutionary than putting mascara on her lashes, which should go unadorned in the daytime. She should make them up to match the luxuriance of the brows. The hair, now. She wouldn’t look so good in a long bob. No. Then it geefs an Up Coiffure—or false hair. Personally, I~ think this type of girl would look regal and distinguished with a false coronet standing up on the top of her head, her own hair smoothed into a rather slick, severe line around her face. True, this suggestion isn’t the latest scream from Paris in the hair line, but nothing is more stunning for the right type. She should wear plain, beauti- fully cut, rather revealing evening gowns, of beautiful material, in black or some smashing, vivid, solid color. Never a frill or a bouffant line in sight. The young snips in the male line may prefer the Itsy-Bitsies and the Cutie-Pies, but I'll bet that the Interesting Older Men come flocking. And —oh, yes—the expression. Just cut down that smile, Number Three, please. Reduce it from the hail-fellow-well-met sort of thing to the half-smile, of the Mona Lisa variety. Number Four was an exceedingly pretty girl. Therefore, I haven’t a whole heap to say about her. Just a coupla things. Notice how charmingly her hairline is shown to advantage. If you still consider the longer bob most becoming and practical for general wear, here is a nice style for a well-proportioned, good-featured face. An upward feeling is achieved by securing the front hair with two tiny, efficient combs. For evening, this girl could lift the back hair onto the crown of her head, hold it with the combs, curl the ends flat and pin them with a few judicious invisibles. HE particular reason I included this picture is that this girl’s eyes are deep set and not nearly as large as they appear. Notice that the brows are not arched and that they are left in their natural position— fairly close to the eyes. This is the first trick to remember in making deep set or small eyes appear larger and more promi- nent. The amateur does the opposite— plucks or pencils the brows into a high arch. All wrong. Remember that. If your brows grow naturally too far from your eyes, train them down with vaseline and brushing. Pluck a very few hairs from the upper edge. Put mascara on the tips of your lashes only, and brush the outer lashes out in a diagonal line. Numbers Five and Six—they’re the sad birds. But each one has possibilities— oh, yes. That is proved by the fact that dear old Number Five is the selfsame girl as the one posing for the five sitting pictures. Perhaps you’ve noticed that al- ready. Only, in the small picture, she has on no make-up at all, her expression is that of one who has just received a nasty letter from the Collector of Internal Revenue, and her hair is—well, need I say more? It is this girl’s coloring, however, that I want chiefly to discuss. She is a redhead. Redheads can be either stunning—or down- right homely. Because usually, aside from the shining hair, they seldom are blessed with natural beauty. Their features are apt to be difficult—piquant, perhaps, but rarely classic. They usually have light eyes. Nothing much in the way of brows and lashes. Delicate skins which almost in- variably freckle. They are the most difficult of all types to make up, and they need make-up very badly. In the larger pictures, you see Number Five with her make-up on, her hair simply and becomingly arranged. She is a red- gold type of redhead, with big gray-green eyes, light brows and lashes, a wide mouth, a face that is very interesting in bone structure and plumb-full of character, but not pretty. This girl uses a very clever shade of eyebrow pencil and mascara. It is what used to be labelled in my childhood paint- box “burnt sienna.’ A light brown-red. More brown than red, but not a definite browny brown. It was perfect. A darker redhead, now—one with mahogany or henna hair—could use the usual brown mascara. But strawberry blondes, golden redheads and carrot tops should shop around until they find this brown-red shade. It comes in theatrical make-ups and in some of the higher priced brands. No rouge is a good rule for redheads, but if you look terrible without rouge, get a shade which has a touch of brown in it. The same goes for lipstick. It may mean extra trouble, but it’s worth it. In choosing powder, each redhead must experiment. That’s absolutely all I can say. In general, a light rachel is best. But 00)

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sometimes, the florid coloring of this type demands more of a blush tone. In summer, when the freckles become more apparent, a mixture of a light suntan and a blush shade may be good. If your skin is nice, you could go without powder, fight each season’s batch of freckles with a good anti- freckle cream, make up your eyes and mouth and let it go at that. On Number Six, we see what disaster can befall when hair isn’t properly taken care of. Perhaps her coiffure is all wrong and perhaps it isn’t—I can’t tell. The point is that her hair is in such a limp, lifeless condition that even if the hairdo were good, I wouldn’t like it. The effort to lift the face up a bit by that coxcomb over the forehead is pathetic. The hair won't lift—it won’t stay put. First of all, then, Number Six needs a good course in mas- sage, gentle brushing, and plenty of good, warm olive oil. She needs to get her hair in condition above all else. The eyes need make-up. The brows need to be lengthened, the lashes mascaraed. Since the eyebrows aren’t much account any- way, I would suggest that they be arched a little, by means of judicious plucking, over the center of the eye, and then pencilled and brought out at the edges. This girl might soften her decided jaw by fluffing her re-conditioned hair a little more forward. Rouge might be brought down onto the prominent jaw and blended with great care, and then powdered over. If your jaw is a decided one, remember to powder your neck carefully the same shade as your face. Number Six should cultivate a less starey expression. Her mouth should be made fuller and softer with lipstick. Well, sir, I’ve spent so much time on my six young friends, I’ll have to hustle through my lecture on gestures. The five larger pictures on pages 38 and 39 pretty much tell their own story anyway. Four Her Freshness Charms A twinkling dancing star, Dixie Dunbar charms movie-goers with her freshness. Hollywood claimed her only a few years ago and today her fresh talent is a feature of ‘Alexander’s Ragtime Band’. MODERN SCREEN of them point out certain common faults committed, through nervousness and lack of poise, by girls who are as pretty or even prettier than our model. That’s why you sometimes see the poised plain girl having a better time and catching more beaux than the self-conscious beauty. You recognize, I’m sure, the girl who has tobacco-trouble. Either she shouldn’t smoke, or she should manfully swallow the tobacco, or she should learn how to smoke without getting shreds of the weed in her teeth. You recognize the belle who can’t keep her straps up. She should have a dress rehearsal in her evening frock. So often we are apt to stand like a mannequin in the new gown in front of our mirrors, and think it’s going to stay that way when we sit or lounge or dance. Remember to sit straight so that straps don’t flop-doodle down the arm, or else shorten the straps, or choose something with a stronger bond between you and indecency than four strings of chiffon. You recognize the “fiddler.” She hap- pens to be fiddling with her hair. She probably also fiddles with her hanky, packets of matches and anything that comes handy. Keep your hands stil/—until you have occasion to use them, and then use them as gracefully as you possibly can. And then there’s the picture where our model has fetchingly poised one hand on her shoulder, crooked the other one into her chest, and is favoring the world with an ear-to-ear grin. She is indicating to the gent who is talking to her that she’s just too, too enthralled with his conversa- tion—and she is overdoing it to beat hell. Contrast this picture with the quiet, poised girl with her hands clasped under her chin, her head bent charmingly forward just a little and the absorbed, half smile on her lips. Much, much better. Just one last warning to you all. There are a lot of girls who look like perfect knock-outs—until they open their mouths. And then—you guessed it—dull, unattrac- tive teeth ruin the whole effect. Well, there’s a remedy for that too. What kind of dentifrice do you use? Is it too soapy, or does it contain grit? I know an ex- cellent tooth powder which contains no grit, pumice or bleach but it does contain Irium, that wonderful cleansing agent which helps brush away surface stains that hide the beauty of teeth. If you'll fill out the coupon below we'll be glad to send you a seven-day free trial packet of this tooth powder. Remember, not only the voice, but the face with the smile wins. And, in order to make yours winning, your teeth must be the proverbial pearly white. That is absolutely, positively all the space I can take up. I could go on forever —each individual beauty problem is so different. There is so much to say about so many types. 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For FREE pamphlet ‘‘ Which Way Are Your Baby’s Feet Growing’’, address postcard to Moran Shoe Co., Dept M., Carlyle, Ill. you THINK (M »eand Then He Learned They Cost hy CoB fast learning e that expensive-looking only ea CLopays cost only 15c, in- = cluding the exclusive Lintone texture that doesn’t crack, curl or pinhole, hangs straight, rolls evenly, wears two years and more. Ready to attach to rollers, 15c (no tacks or tools need- ed). On rollers 25c. And, only 10c more buys the new CLopAY WASHABLE Shade. Oil-paint finish both sides. Wash clean time and again, leaving no streaks or watermarks. Sold at 5c and 10c and neighborhood stores everywhere. Want sample swatches? Send a 3c stamp to Cropay Corp., 1330 Exeter St., Cincinnati, O. (a aaaaeaanees MODERN SCREEN You ask the questions—we ll RONALD COLMAN: It’s not easy to picture the dashing Ronald Col- man in black face, but he actually made his professional debut under a generous ap- plication of burnt cork. The occasion was a playlet by Tagore, en- titled “The Maharanee of Arakan,’’ the time, 1916, and the place the Coliseum in London. Ronald played a herald. Born in Richmond, Surrey, England, February 9, 1891, Colman attended the Hadley School at Littlehampton, Sussex, until he was six- teen, when the death of his father made it imperative that Ronald find work. He found a job as an office boy at $2.50 a week, and within five years rose to the position of junior accountant. At night he continued to indulge his interest in amateur theatri- cals, which had its origin during his Had- ley School days. He also enlisted in the London Seottish Regiment, the equivalent of our National Guard. 1914 found him in the front line trenches, a private in Kitch- ener’s “Contemptibles,” that first hundred thousand of England’s army to land in France. He saw action in the first battle of Ypres, suffered a fractured ankle at Mes- sines and was sent back to England and given clerical work for his second year in the army. Finally he was discharged, after an unsuccessful attempt to get back into action. His blackface stage debut was followed by roles in ‘‘The Misleading Lady” and “Damaged Goods.” He took a very small fling at films, making a two reel comedy in an improvised studio rigged up in a vacant house, and today expresses ex- treme gratitude for the fact that it was never shown. In 1920, he came to America armed with thirty-seven dollars and three clean collars. He was down to his last dol- Jar when he got a role in “The Dauntless Three.” In 1922, he was sent to Italy to play the male lead opposite Lillian Gish in “Phe White Sister.’’ He remained there to make “Romola” with the same star. After that Colman returned to Hollywood and made many successful pictures, including “Bulldog Drummond,” “Arrowsmith,” “The Masquerader,” ete. After another European yacation, Colman signed a new contract, made ‘Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back” and ‘Clive of India.” His last two pictures were: ‘Lost Horizon” and ‘Pris- oner of Zenda.’ His next will be “If I Were King.’ Ronald Colman is five feet eleven inches tall, has dark brown hair and eyes. He weighs one hundred sixty pounds. He enjoys tennis, motoring, reading and swimming. He was married once and di- voreed. At present Colman’s name is often linked romantically with that of Benita Hume, English actress. You may address him in care of Paramount Studios, Holly- wood, California. SIE TYRONE Poy 603 -? answer them LORETTA YOUNG: Don’t let her record of twenty years in the movies fool you, for this talented star is still a youngster, unless you call twenty- five middle-aged. Lo- retta Young was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 6, 1918. Her real name is Gretchen Young. Loretta’s whole family has been pretty closely identified with the movies. Her two sisters, Polly Ann and Sally Blane, have done consider- able work in pictures. Loretta made one appearance at the age of five, then went to school in Los Angeles and Alhambra, Cali- fornia. When she was fourteen years old Polly Ann’s studio called one day for that young lady to come in for a new role. But Polly Ann was away, so Loretta went over in her sister’s place. She got the role, too, and played it so well that she won a long- time contract. She’s been in the movies almost constantly ever since. She has been cast in a great many big productions, and at one time or another has played oppo- site almost every one of the screen’s lead- ing men. Loretta is as active as three aver- age girls. Some of her hobbies are dancing, riding, swimming, yachting, flying and HUNDREDS OF ADDRESSES FOR A STAMPED ENVELOPE! Want to know your favorite player's address? In fact, would you like to have a complete list of all the Holly- wood stars' mailing addresses? It's yours for the asking. So many of you have written to this department wanting to know where to write this one or that one for an autographed picture, or per- haps you just want to write a fan letter, that we've compiled a complete list for you, naming the players alphabetically, according to their studio, and giving their complete mailing addresses. They are all there, even the featured players, printed in such a compact form that you'll be able to keep the list in your movie scrap book for reference when- ever you want it. To receive one of these lists, all you have to do is write to us and ask for it, enclosing a large self-addressed and stamped envelope. Don’t forget that last item, as no request can be complied with unless we receive your stamped and addressed envelope. Send your re- quests to the Information Desk, Modern Screen, 149 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y.

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ping pong. She selects her own wardrobe both on and off the screen, and is a tireless movie fan. She also is quite a camera ad- dict and takes her own movies everywhere she goes. Photography is probably her favorite hobby. Loretta Young is naturally reserved. She does a lot of reading, and prefers the intellectual type of man. She comes from a charming, harmonious home, and was educated mostly in convents and by private tutors. She is five feet three inches tall, has light golden brown hair and deep blue eyes. She weighs one hun- dred and nine pounds. Loretta is consid- ered one of the best camera subjects in the movies because she photographs well from every angle. Loretta’s last two pictures were “Hour Men and a Prayer” and ‘‘Three Blind Mice.” Her next will be “Suez.” You may address her in care of 20th Cen- tury-Fox Studios, Hollywood, California. LEO CARRILLO: This versatile character actor was born in Los Angeles, California, on an August 6th at the turn of the cen- tury. He is one of the eleven children of Juan J. Carrillo, first mayor of Santa Monica, California, and of Francisco Roldan de Carrillo. Leo, a direct descendant of the California dons, possesses a historical heri- tage unequalled by any other motion pic- ture celebrity. His great-grandfather, Carlos Antonio Carrillo, the first provision- al governor of California, fought the Battle of Cahuenga Pass a century ago against Michael Torena Bandini, an Italian admiral, and settled in San Diego early in the nine- teenth century. At one time the Carrillos, through inter-marriage with other prom- inent early California families, owned nearly all the territory between Monterey and the Mexican border. The future actor received his early education at Santa Mon- ica High School and at St. Vincent’s (now Loyola College). He admits he was a rest- less scholar but a good athlete, and at one time he held the coast championship for long distance ocean swimming. His mother hoped he would become a priest, but his father favored the boy’s desire to become an artist. Leo travelled north to San Fran- cisco, working on the railroad en route, and became a cartoonist on the “Examiner.” There he was assigned to Chinatown. He picked up Chinese and Italian dialects and became popular in San Francisco ama- teur theatricals and as an after-dinner speaker. He prepared a vaudeville act and was booked by the Orpheum Circuit. He remained in vaudeville for several years as a headliner, but his career as a legitimate actor began when, while playing polo at a fashionable Long Island club, he ad libbed a comic Italian, was overheard by a thea- trical producer, and was given the part of an Italian in “Twin Beds.” His greatest stage triumph was “Lombardi, Ltd.” eg- pecially written for him. In it he starred for four seasons, touring New Zealand, Australia and Tasmania. Carrillo made his screen debut in “Mr. Antonio” in 1929. Since then he has made some forty or fifty pictures. His role of Corelli, the warm- hearted music-loving Italian gambler in “Love Me Forever” with Grace Moore, ranks as his favorite. Carrillo is married to Edith Shakespeare, a non-professional, and they have a seventeen-year-old adopted daugh- ter, Marie Antoinette. They live on a ten- (Continued on page 115) 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 listing the heights, ages, birthplaces and marriages of all the important stars, enclose five cents in stamps or coin with your coupon. MODERN SCREEN A Nick goes a long way.. Here’s Joy Hodges, whom you'll soon see in ‘Personal Secretary’ with Constance Bennett and Vincent Price. After a successful Broadway season with George M. Cohan in “I'd Rather Be Right,” Joy hied herself to Hollywood. Her on-and-off romance with Rob- ert Wilcox has kept the whole film colony guessing. 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[WORK FOR THES —S OKIE za Y START $1260 to $2100 YEAR Men—Women Many Appointments Yearly Qualify Now Mail Coupon jo Name Today DOIN NRO Feroiconceiceercticaon OFC OCH ED barprcnboctcon tee 106 MODERN SCREEN SHE’S LOOKING FOR LOVE (Continued from page 39) refused Joe Doakes. There isn’t much left nowadays of that sort of mewling and mooning. With the exception of the few fanatic fans who can see no romance in The Boy Next Door because he can’t sing like Nelson Eddy, croon like Bing Crosby, wing an arrow like Errol Flynn, look like Tyrone Power or sweep them off their feet like Clark Gable. “Today,” said Olivia, “we think with the man’s side of our brains. I know that I’m learning, too. I’ve seen to it, this past year, that I did some growing up. I’m not the girl I was a year ago. realize that God gave me a brain as well as a body and I’m using the brain. Now I make my own decisions. I guide my own existence. I haven’t much time to dream. There are too many things to do. A year ago I regretted that I didn’t have more time for dreaming. Now I don’t. I know that it’s healthier. “[’m not susceptible, I guess,” laughed Olivia. “I never imagine that I am in love with anyone. When I fall in love, T’ll know it. And when I do fall in love I want something honest, something sub- stantial, something, well, inspiring and completely human. I want to know, when I fall in love, that I am not dreaming. “TWlusion is all very well in its place. Screen illusions are fine, in their place. People see me on the screen as Arabella, as Lady Marian, false eyelashes on, hair just dressed, giving it all I’ve got. That’s all right. Masses of people have no right to know me too personally and too well. And they don’t. For you have to remem- ber that they don’t see me washing my teeth, cold-creaming my face or putting out the cat! “I suppose,” said Livvy, “people may wonder why I don’t splinter my young heart to pieces over the handsome men I meet and work with in pictures. I don’t because, for one thing, it’s work I’m doing. When Errol Flynn and I are doing a love scene on the screen, when he says, ‘I love you, he is thinking of his next line and I am thinking of my next line. We are both hoping we won’t go up in them. We’re hoping we'll deliver them with the proper inflection and feeling. “When Errol kisses me on the screen, he’s not kissing Olivia De Havilland, he’s kissing Lady Marian. When I kiss Errol Flynn on the screen I’m not kissing Errol Flynn, I’m kissing Robin Hood. “T don’t mean that the girls and men who play together in pictures don’t like each other a lot. We do. We usually like each other a great deal, enjoy being together, talking together. But we don't often fall in love with each other because love is not on our minds. “Take some of the famous screen teams,” Olivia suggested, “if you want to be con- vinced that propinquity during the making of a picture has nothing to do with Dan Cupid’s blood pressure.” I “took” Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, Ann Sothern and Gene Raymond—and was convinced. For certainly if propinquity on sets, if embraces under the camera’s eye does induce the fever called love, then Jeanette would be married to Nelson, not Gene; Gene would be married to Ann, not Jeanette, etc. “Tt would be too pat,” laughed Olivia. “Tt would be much too pat for love to wall right into a set where Errol and I were about to go into a clinch. Dan Cupid is too subtle for that. ’ “Besides, I see so much of men, you know. We all do, working in pictures. Ever think of that? On the set, you know, there are usually three women, the star, the hairdresser, the wardrobe girl. All of the rest are men, producers, directors, members of the crew. We get to know men awfully well. And so, men are not mysterious beings to me. They are fellow human beings, that’s all. We don’t need men so much. If anything, when I go home at night I want to go home alone. I find that I don’t need company of any description. I want to have dinner alone, go to bed alone, have breakfast alone. When I go home that’s my real life, you know, that’s me.” I said, suspiciously, “Oh, so? And what do you do at home?” F she says that she cooks dinner on cook’s night out, I thought, reads good books, plays Russian bank with her mother or knits, I'll never talk to her again, but will confine all my future efforts to Hedy (Ecstasy) Lamarr and the Ladies Known As Lou. But I was saved from that fate. Livvy plays ping-pong—a crashing game. Livvy goes surf-board riding with Billy Bake- well. Livvy and Billy have been two- soming it pretty steadily of late. But it is not, said Livvy loudly, a romance. It is a friendship. “There is such a thing as friendship,” declared Olivia. Billy calls Livvy “Little Wall-Eye.” Livvy calls Billy “Little Bat-Eye.” Livvy also calls Billy “my Booer-Wooer.” What this means she doesn’t know. She doesn’t even know how to spell it. So I’ve tried. Well, she warned me that she is slightly mad! “Billy often calls me on the phone and reads philosophy to me by the hour,” Olivia said. “Sometimes he comes over carrying stacks of books on philosophy and stacks of strawberry ice cream and we have a wonderful time. Now, there’s nothing dreamy about doing things like that. “T go out with other boys, too, now and then. But I’ve been going out mostly with Billy these past few months. We do things . we have fun.” I said, “But do you ever, well, sort of fix up for a date?” “Why, yes,” considered Olivia, “I sup- pose I do. If some young man is coming to the house and I know that he likes me I make an effort not to disappoint him, of course. I won’t say that I put on the old false eyelashes or wonder what dress to wear, but I do make up—once—and hope to heaven that it will last. “And I’m trying lately to dress up more when I’m not working. As you have noticed. I’ve noticed you noticing. Yes, I realize now that I mustn’t disappoint the fans who see me as Lady Marian and the others. My business is to maintain their opinion of me. It’s lazy and stupid not to. “Tt’s just that women have come into their own now,” said Olivia. “We don’t sit around imagining and dreaming. I know that I don’t. But when the real thing comes along I’ll recognize it. I won't be fooled by appearances, cheated by a deceptive illusion. I don’t need a man to lean on. I want a man as a friend, as a lover, as a husband and companion. When love comes along I think I'll be wise enough to take it, for keeps. “T am sure that it will happen to me,” said Olivia, then, “because, as I said be- fore, I am a woman. I can’t get away from that. I don’t want to.” RNG RI SS I GR, ene i enn, Mees Fae Se

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(Continued from page 83) some time. Audiences will wonder how two such opposite personalities could have met and married in the first place, a little detail which the above-mentioned scenarists don’t even mention. Some of the typical western stuff is good, and the final scene, which kids the Nevada divorce laws, is bright and effective. Randolph Scott does well by the hand- some cowboy husband, and Alan Marshall is splendid as a well-mannered rival for Miss Hampton’s hand. Helen Broderick subdues her customary acidity out of re- spect for the noble traditions of the West. Glenda Farrell plays her wisecracker role with the assurance which comes from hav- ing played it often before, and Dave Oliver supplies comic aid as Scott’s pal. Spencer Charters stands out in a bit role as a Reno judge. S. Sylvan Simon directed.— Universal. we *& My Lucky Star Mr. Zanuck’s grown-up Shirley Temple —Sonja Henie—returns again to her screen public, and once more Boy meets Girl, when Girl isn’t busy skating. Shiny and cold as the ice on which she performs, Miss Henie is mechanically perfect in her skating routines and perfectly mechanical in her romantic interludes. Audiences, however, do not seem to expect Sonja to be a first-rate dramatic actress. They come to see her skate and they go away pleased, feeling they’ve had their money’s worth. Because of that, little Miss H. is one of the screen’s top box-office draws, a phenomenon which Academy Awards win- ners might well ponder. This time Sonja goes to college. She’s a department store clerk and the store sends her to college with trunks of clothes, hoping with typical movie optimism that she will increase their trade immeasurably. At good old Plymouth, Sonja is doubly fortunate. It seems to be winter all the time there, and Richard Greene is also present. Sonja falls in love with all three —winter, Plymouth and Mr. Greene—and after a barage of college songs and a bit of intrigue involving Cesar Romero (the boss’ son) and Louise Hovick, the eventual happy ending arrives. A lovely “Alice in Wonderland” ballet on skates, the picture’s feature number, is beautifully staged, and Sonja’s other skat- ing numbers are well done. Richard Greene is an adequate college hero, and Cesar Romero turns in nice comedy as the play- boy son of George Barbier, who is excel- lent as the department store owner. Louise Hovick, much improved over her past per- formances, makes a small role stand out. Buddy Ebsen and Joan Davis are well matched as a comedy team. Roy Del Ruth directed.—20th Century-Fox. #& Three Loves Has Nancy In this new M-G-M comedy, Robert Montgomery plays a best-selling author who goes on a lecture tour to escape a de- signing woman. After giving his views on life and love to the ladies of a particularly small town, he meets Nancy (Janet Gaynor), spends the rest of the picture avoiding her, and in the end turns square. Franchot Tone is involved in the story as Montgomery’s bibulous publisher. When Janet Gaynor follows Montgomery to New York, Tone falls in love first with her cooking, then with her own simple self. It is Tone’s interest in her that finally awakens Montgomery to her charms. The comedy is all of a type that you’ve seen before, but some of it is amusing, and there are one or two really funny scenes. Miss Gaynor gives a good per- (Continued on page 111) MODERN SCREEN CVE IS FRUE Yesterday, romance was distant . . . today, love is singing in her heart. That’s because she discovered the secret of allure—the magic fragrance of Blue Waltz Perfume—the haunting, flower-like scent that no man can resist. You, too, can win adoration. Dab the exquisite bouquet of Blue Waltz Perfume on your hair, your throat—and the very air about you will seem transformed by the witchery of your charm. 10c, at 5 and 10c stores. 4 BLUE WALTZ PERFUME ©. FACE: POWDER > LIPSTICK © BRILLIANTINE © COLOGNE AND IT’S SO EASY WHEN YOU USE THESE GRIFFIN POLISHES GRIFFIN A.B. C. LIQUID WAX requires no brushing or polishing. Just spread it on...it dries toa real shine in a {iffy! GRIFFIN A.B.C. WAX POLISH in the famous jumbo tin with the easy opener for the nearest thing to a professional shine at home. It's water-re- , GRIFFIN LIQUID WAX 7 HOE POLISH# & y THE GREATEST NAME IN SHOE POLISH BLACK BOTTLE OR CAN oF % 10¢N Or pos 107

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Leslie Howard and his wife are another couple that are blessed with a fine com- panionship. They have their mutual in- terests in the children and in the literary and cultural things of life. Despite the fact that he is a matinee idol pursued by women, Mr. Howard is essentially a home man and his life centers there. This is indeed a tribute to his wife. “The woman a man loves,” he said to me, “is the one who is gentle, unaffected, liberal-minded and nonpredatory. “She must be a ‘womanly’ woman,” he went on to explain. “Here I make a distinction between her and the ‘womanish’ woman. The one who is ‘womanly’ has a maternal quality combined with what one might call the greatness of her sex—a generosity of soul which makes her big, understanding and, one might almost say, divine. “The ‘womanish’ woman is one who stays down on earth. She is tied to her petty feelings and personal prejudices. She has none of the greatness of the other woman. 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Dissolve Saxolite in one-half pint witch hazel and apply. Try Phelactine Depilatory For quickly removing superfluous hair from face. Sold at cosmetic counters everywhere. 110 MODERN SCREEN to what keeps a man in love. “Tf a woman is tolerant of her hus- band’s habits and faults, if she’s willing to overlook little things and not magnify them, she will keep her husband in love with her forever,” he insists. “A wife should have a fair knowledge of housekeeping so that the home runs smoothly,’ he further specified. ‘She shouldn’t be too vitally concerned with en- tertaining people and giving parties. <A man who has been working hard all day doesn’t always want to have people in his home. Nor does he want to be going out on a round of pleasure. “T like a woman who of the things done for her, who has a sense of humor and who doesn’t nag. Nag- ging, to me, is one of the big sins of married life and is responsible for more divorces than any major offense. “A man also seeks in a wife a certain calmness and understanding that will allow him to relax after business hours by mere- ly being in her presence. He likes to get sympathy from her and to be petted when he is’ in trouble. He wants her to take an interest in his work and to know some- thing about it so that she can give an opinion. “He desires her co-operation in other things, too—in sports or in the hobbies or in any other interest he pursues. He wants her to be ready and eager to be with him. Whether in work or in play, the ideal wife is always a pal.” INEZ EDDY expressed surprise at the question when he was approached. He didn’t see why there need be any specu- lation as to what holds a man. “It’s very simple,’ he said with an en- gaging grin. “It’s kindness and understand- ing. “Married life can’t always be smooth. There are times when jealousy and doubt will appear. Kindness and understanding will help to work out these problems as well as any others that arise. “Jealousy, mistrust and excessive vanity destroy love very quickly. On the other hand, I think that too much love is prob- ably the worst enemy of love. There’s nothing more terrible than that stifling at- tention of someone constantly around your neck.” Mr. Eddy agrees with the other men of Hollywood that it’s important for the wo- man to make herself an essential part of her husband’s life. “She should be his companion in every enterprise. The wife is foolish who doesn’t realize that every man has to have some woman to whom he can tell the things he would never tell a man, some woman to whom he can boast of his triumphs and who sympathizes over his disappointments and blighted hopes. Some woman who en- courages him and who restores his faith in himself and gives him the courage to go on. That is why a wife should take an interest in her husband’s work and be his best friend and pal. ; “But,” he added, “she shouldn’t dis- courage him when he wants to get away with other men. There are times when a man wants to change to the companion- ship of men. Then he returns to her with renewed pleasure and interest.” According to Ronald Colman many a woman loses her husband because she tries to make him over. “By the time a man marries, his habits are formed and his tastes set. A woman should accept them as they are and not try to change them. “T think that tolerance of his tastes and idiosyncrasies is the secret of keeping his love. To my mind it would make a dull and boring married life if the husband and wife thought and felt alike and had the same tastes and desires. is appreciative Ronald Colman says not to try to make a man over. “The wife who is easy to get along with will never lose her husband to any other woman. It’s the one who is critical, who always complains and is dissatisfied who turns her husband from her. A man gets plenty of hard knocks in the outside world. A wife doesn’t have to add to them by finding fault with him. “A wife should praise her husband and make herself his most ardent admirer. If she feeds his ego,” smiled Ronnie, “she will keep him at her fireside.” Richard Dix advises the woman to culti- vate her sense of humor and to learn to laugh at things. ““A man wants peace and quiet and gayety in his home after a day’s work. My wife realizes that my work puts me under a mental strain. When I come home, she sees to it that I forget work. She talks about other things,: gives me a lot of attention. In that way it helps to shut the door to the work-a-day world. “She never tells me what to do. She makes some casual suggestion and because I know she’s interested in me, I’m inclined to weigh it. We have splendid times to- gether because we like the same things. We enjoy books, the theatre, sports and home life. We love travelling and we love being on our ranch. My wife isn’t socially ambitious, and although she’s pretty, she doesn’t want a movie career. Instead she’s making a good home for our twin sons and me. That’s why my home has become my greatest interest.” Paul Lukas believes that the secret of the whole business is to make the same effort after marriage as before the wed- ding knot was tied. For love has to be earned. No one is automatically bound to love you. : “Naturally,” he pointed out, “love can’t thrive if the woman lets down after mar- riage. A man will fall in love with a wo- man because of her gayety or her sympathy, her admiring and looking up to him. He likes her daintiness and grace and her lovely figure. “After marriage she changes and the man finds as a life partner a woman he never selected. You can’t blame him if he feels cheated. The woman should do the things she did before marriage. She should keep carrying on romance just as though she weren't married to him. In that way she won't make the mistake of relaxing all effort. She will try to be pleasant and agreeable and interesting, and discover it to be worth-while.”

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Charley Grapewin, as Miss Gaynor’s grandfather, is outstanding in the supporting cast. Producer Norman Krasna_ deserves credit for attempting a story different from Hollywood’s run-of-the-mill product, even though his effort is not entirely successful. Richard Thorpe directed—M-G-M. 3% Crime Over London Here is an amusing yarn concerning the manner in which Scotland Yard might deal with a band of ‘so-called’ American gang- sters. It will probably prove a box-office success, as it contains well-known ingredi- ents for pleasing Mr. and Mrs. Average Movie-goer. There is plenty of action, sus- pense, thrills and the usual love interest. The story concerns the Silver Anni- versary of Sherman’s Department Store. When a member of the gang spots Joseph Cawthorn as the shop owner’s double, the fun begins. The gangsters plan to use this as a means to effect their big haul. How- ever, there’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip and therein lies the suspense. Bruce Lister, nephew of the concern, is in love with Rene Ray, who goes to work for her future uncle-in-law. To make Bruce jeal- ous, she flirts with Inspector Paul Cavan- agh, which brings the law into the picture. After reels of tense excitement, Cavanagh manages to capture Basil Sydney and _his gang, and all’s well that ends well—G-B. 4 Strange Boarders The prolific G-B gives us another of those mystery melodramas. This one, however, is far superior to those of the past and will no doubt reap rich returns for it’s producers. A pleasant surprise is a new and com- pletely charming Miss, apparently hailing from la belle France—Renee Saint- Cyr. In fact, we think you'll be hearing more of her very soon. This is a saga in which we glimpse the Intelligence Service solving a major prob- lem of national importance. With the sud- den death of an old lady, police discover that military secrets via photostats are be- ing stolen. As the picture unreels we see Tom Walls, forced to abandon his bride on their wedding night. There are mo- ments when apparently all is lost, but by the last reel Walls, with the aid of the fire department, surrounds and captures the criminals. At last bride and groom can safely look forward to that belated honey- moon, so everyone’s happy.—G-B. %** Drums Following an old formula, G-B gives us our second glance at their young star, Sabu. In this one, however, they have missed an excellent opportunity to turn out a really great picture. With the colorful background of the Northwest Frontier of India it seems conceivable that they could keep things going at a lively pace. Sceni- cally, the picture is without reproach, the color enhancing the beauty and natural- ness of the majestic mountains of India. The story deals with tribal wars, headed by the villainous Raymond Massey, who shoots his own brother to gain his throne. 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Address. Check shade desired! Here’s Jack before he met Gym. There was plenty to Oakie then. BY LOIS YOU CAN have a lot of fun piling up the poundage,” said Jack Oakie, “but you can’t laugh it off. Believe me, streamlining the chassis is serious business. “How did I get started? Breathes there a man with soul so dead who never to himself hath said ‘Am I getting a pot- belly’? And the answer in my case was obvious. I could be seen coming through a door three feet before the final Oakie appeared. Besides, Venita had said just once too often ‘Sure I love you, honey. Everyone loves a fat man’. Now, being a studio laughing-stock is okay by me—but a man has his pride. It was just about time to start something anyhow. They were beginning to bill Oakie pictures as double features. “Yeah, it was serious business,” Jack said. “And of course,” he added. reflec- tively, “since I weighed two hundred and ten pounds it was hardly a matter to be taken lightly. Reducing’s no fun for any- one around you, either. I tried it, that first week, at home. Each day experimenting with a different trick Hollywood diet— and stalking around like a starved cannibal with a missionary in mind. Under strain of trying to keep my appetite down and my spirits up, Venita, who’s desperate to gain, was slowly dissolving before my eyes. “And since Jack could eat no fat, his wife no lean, the cook was going quietly mad jugeling menus. Then I ‘stepped on the scales at the end of the week. I’d gained eight ounces! That was my cue. I took off to a sanatorium where I could pay to Believe it or not, half an as the former blown-up O. found lamb chops and pineapple. A mere shadow, eh? After Mr. SVENSRUD have my worrying done for me. And that,” said Jack, with a look of remembered sorrow, “is the place to lose weight. “Tn less than two months they'd peeled off forty-five pounds of fat—excess avoir- dupois to be as fancy as the price. A cinch? Nope, you've got me wrong. Life was real, life was earnest to those guys— and one hundred and fifty pounds was my goal. I didn’t have a minute to call my own. My trainer woke me at six, walked me for eight miles before breakfast, and then no breakfast. A couple of fast sets of tennis followed and then it was the masseuse’s turn at me. Followed a lunch of lettuce salad and a spoonful of cottage cheese to take the curse off it. By that time I was ready for a nap—but not on your life! My other trainer was ready for eighteen holes of golf (my morning trainer, exhausted, was having a nap). For relaxation after this bout I was allowed a half-mile swim in the pool followed by a quick work-out on the rowing machine and a two mile dash around the lake on my bicycle. Came dinner, a tasty meal of lean meat and a variety of greens. The fastest road to svelte lines is a diet of green stuff, accord- ing to the head doctor who'd evidently never seen an elephant. Well, after that gy, both trainers would race Inmate No. 17435, otherwise known as yours truly, to his cabin. I'd fall into deep slumber, too intimidated to even dream of a baked potato. I was beginning to wonder if half an Oakie wouldn't be better than none when the boys (Continwed on page 114) Ouakie is twice as funny version, you will agree

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Ruth Gehrig, Waco, Texas. A brief biogra- phy of Nelson Eddy appeared in this sec- tion of the August Modern Screen. A story appeared in April 1938, a portrait in July, and there will be another story soon. A. Wing, Toronto, Canada. Walter Pidgeon was born in Hast St. John, New Brunswick, Can. September 23, 1897. He is six feet, two inehes tall, weighs one hundred ninety pounds, has black hair.and gray eyes. His hobbies are golf and music. He began his professional career with Elsie Janis in ‘At Home.” He appeared in vaudeville, and made phonograph records before entering the movies. Marguerite Balzer—Moberly, Mo. Louis Hayward is his own name. His first pic- ture was “Sorrell and Son,” made in Eng- land in 1935. The “Flame Within” was his first American picture. Dorothy McNutt, Detroit, Mich. Edward Arnold was born in New York February 18, 1890. He made his stage debut in ‘‘The Jazz Singer.” with Al Jolson. He has been in movies since 1933. Nancy Carter, Elbow Beach, Bermuda. 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L; Lig & Ss¢ Joy Sp brig, *80, <2q ¥ Cur S wy No, “Lh lhe, (Continued from page 66) Dorothy Lamour, who, attired only in a yard of cloth, has worked in her studio’s deepest jungles with everything from leop- ards to crocodiles, has sud- denly gone prissy on us— and just when we were be- ginning to admire her as a symbol of everything fine and rugged in womankind. The disturbing note turns up in a paragraph about the filming of Miss La- mour’s latest venture, “Spawn of the North.” Concerning a seal named Slicker, the paragraph said, “Smelling of his favorite food—fish—Slicker had to be doused with eau de co- logne before doing a scene with the sensitive Miss La- mour, who is allergic to fish.” Now, Dottie! Statistical note: The money the Dionne Quints were paid for their work in “Five of a Kind” boils down to $6700 per hour—divided, of course, by five. In other words, it is almost as profitable (as far as pay per working min- ute is concerned) to be a Dionne quintuplet as it is to be heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Unfortunately for ambitious youngsters, all of those positions are filled. From friends of Barbara Stanwyck comes a report on the activities of her handsome young son, Dion. He came home one afternoon flushed with excitement, and, when questioned by his mother, he said, “Louise and Johnny found a dead cat today and they’re going to have a funeral. Can I go? ” Barbara granted the request, and when Dion returned later she asked about the funeral. “Well,” said Dion, “they didn’t have it. The cat was too dead.” ® The rumors that Norma Shearer turned down the Scarlett O’Hara role because she received so many protesting 116 letters from fans have been denied by those close to Miss Shearer at her studio. Our information is that Miss S. had no intention of playing Scarlett in the first place, and had never even considered the role at any time, feeling, even before her fans did, that it wasn’t her type of thing. Things are looking up for the cowboy heroes of the screen. What we mean is that in “The Lady and the Cow- boy” a cowpuncher wins Merle Oberon. Of course the cowhand is Gary Cooper, but the fact that Merle Oberon has never before given in to a strong, silent man from the sagebrush definitely means that the open-air Romeos are moving up a notch or two in the screen social scale. We knew the lovely Miss Oberon when nothing less than a Noel Coward epigram would budge her. When Loretta Young finished “Suez,” the studio gave her a month’s vacation. Loretta had planned to take a trip but, since she’s now a mother, she had her adopted daughter Judy to consider. Judy is still too young for travelling, so Loretta, a dutiful mother, spent her vacation at home, with a few side trips to Sally Blane Foster's beach home. @ As part of the ballyhoo for “Boy Meets Girl,” her stu- dio had Marie Wilson sell- ing tickets in the box-office when the picture opened in Hollywood. Marie claims she cost the theater eighteen dollars because she gave some of the customers too much change, and her studio claims that one young gent got in line five times to buy tickets just to be near Marie. Freddie Bartholomew is growing up, but his voice is dropping down—524 frequen- cies, according to his studio’s sound department, which should know about such things. All of which means that in Freddie’s current pic- ture, “Listen, darling,” they‘re really listening (darling), be- cause the sound recorders have to control the variations in young Mr. B.'s tones. Printed in the U. S. A. by Art Color Printing Company, Dunellen, N. J. a

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