Modern Screen 1939-03 Vol. 18, No. 4

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MODERN SCREEN “'Pink Tooth Brush -—- So that's why my smile has grown so dull!” Protect your smile! Help your dentist keep your gums firmer and your teeth sparkling with -IPANA That dull,dingy, dreary smile —it can't be yours! Why, yours was the smile that had such magic—yours were the AN D MA S S AGE brightest of bright, sparkling IPANA TOOTH PASTE teeth! What happened— who's at fault? You, dear lady! You saw that warning tinge of “pink” on your tooth brush—knew it meant trouble. You knew the step you ought to take —the step that, as an intelligent and sensible person, you're going to take right now! You're too wise and too lovely to go on tak- ing chances with the beauty of your smile. So see your dentist—and see him today. And when he tells you how to help guard against “pink tooth brush’ —and if he suggests the healthful stimulation of Ipana and massage —follow his advice!’ Protect Your Smile Against "Pink Tooth Brush” “TINK TOOTH BRUSH” is only a warning —but when you see it—see your dentist. You may not be in for serious trouble, but find out the truth. Usually, however, it sim- ply means gums robbed of work by our modern soft and creamy foods. His advice will probably be, “more work for lazy gums” and very often, “the healthful stimulation of Ipana Tooth Paste and massage.” For Ipana with massage is especially de- signed to help the health of your gums as well as to clean your teeth. Each time you clean your teeth, massage a little extra Ipana into your gums. As circulation is increased within the gum walls, gums tend to become firmer, healthier—more resistant to trouble. Don’t gamble with your smile! Get an eco- nomical tube of Ipana at your druggist’s to- day. Make Ipana and massage your daily, common-sense dental health routine. Help keep your smile as attractive as it should be! TRY THE NEW J). JD) 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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FEB 14 ©cip 405491 4 1939 Pe ce MODERN SCREEN . ee -Holly Art Editor 4l ADDOX Now SHOWING UNMASKING MAGGIE BEN M WILLS DRESSING YOUR PART 48 ANN HUGHES VERY GOOD EDDIE 16 MACK SERVICE Le 50 FAITH psoas GEORGE BENJAMIN 6 Oe ee aoe cue MODERN CINDERELLA 116 — THA KERR y 28 MAR CAGEY CAR pys HALL AR IS BORN—AND MADE 30 GLA AST TS RT SUBIJEC STER ANN TELLS ON TY 32 JAMES REID sH | ) S| E x-WORD OUR PUZZLE PAGE 8 MOV! AY PROCTOR HOSE MARRIED CAREER GIRLS 34 K T SWERED ORMATION DESK 10 QUESTIONS AN , HOYT INF WANTED A BOY 36 CAROLINE Ss HE Cc E Ni os PORTRAIT G y THOUGH M Ms no eee GUARD) 51 CANDID SH ws WHAT SHE WANTS ; cee : L244. MARY MARSHAL SHE KN WHAT HAS THE SOUTHERN GA R GOOD NEWS 62 MOVIE CHATTE NE MESPUN HERO 46 ROBERT McILW AI HO SEE MOVIE REVIEWS 69 WHAT TO KNITS EARLY SPRING TONICS 82 NEW Modern Screen, No. 301773. Copyright, 1939, by Dell Publishing Co., Inc. Published monthly. Office of publication at Washington and South Avenues, Dunellen, N. J. Executi and editorial offices, 149 Madison Avenue, N. Y. Chicago, Ill., office, 360 No. Michigan Avenue. George T. Delacorte, Jr., President; H. Meyer, Vice-President; Sel, rises Vice-President; M. Delacorte, Secretary. Vol. 18, No. 4, March, 1939. Printed in the U.S.A. Price in the United States, $1.00 a year, 10c acopy. Canad i $1.00 a year. Foreign subscriptions $2.00 a year. Entered as second class matter, September 18, 1930, at the Postoffice, Dunellen, New Jersey, under act of March 3, 1879. Additional second class entries entered at Seattle, Washington; San Francisco, California; Houston, Texas, an hn for the return of unsolicited material. anadian subscriptions, and d New Orleans, Louisiana. Sole foreign Agents: The International News Company, Ltd., 5 Breams Building, London, E. in humorous and semi-fictional matter are fictitious. The publishers accept no responsibility am: . 4, England. Names of characters used in stories IF the name of a living person is used it is purely a coincidence. “To look your Loveliest you must have Lovely Skin!“ BROOKLYN, N. Y. ‘Any girl looks her loveliest when her skin is fresh and appealing. Camay’s the beauty care I recommend because its gentle cleans- ing has helped my skin to look so radiantly fresh.” (Signed) PATRICIA RYAN January 3,1939 (Mrs. Joseph J. Ryan, Jr.) d bere a special charm in a lovely complexion —a charm you ought to have! And Mrs. Ryan, like so many happy brides, says, “Use Camay!” You'll soon see why! So many girls who use it say they’ve never found another soap with quite | the same rich, fragrant lather. Camay cleanses thoroughly, and yet it’s wonderfully mld! Thousands of girls rely on Camay for com: | plexion and bath. It’s so refreshing to the skin— helps bring out all-over loveliness—yet costs so little! Get three cakes today!

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MODERN SCREEN SPENCER TRACY in the most romantic role that this grand actor has ever por- trayed on the screen. HEDY LAMARR THE GLAMOROUS : BEAUTY... YOUR SENSATIONAL NEW DISCOVERY Welcome her to her first Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer starring role—an exotic orchid of cafe society... y iy: MAN | | | with INA CLAIRE \\"\ WALTER PIDGEON Mona Barrie ¢ Louis/Calhern « Jack Carson Produced by LAWRENCE WEINGARTEN - Directed by FRANK BORZAGE) - |Story by CHARLES MacARTHUR A METRO-GO DWYN-MAYER PICTURE In addition to appearing in the motion picture publica- tions, this column also appears every month in McCall's, Pictorial Review, Redbcok, Look and Liberty Magazines. Mickey Rooney, whose Hardy adven- tures have pressed him close to our col- lective bosom, is about ready for you in “Huckleberry Finn’. Ker KX, : Rally ’round! All friends of Mark Twain this way! Think of it! We're in for the delights of “Huck”’, Jim, the Duke of Bilgewater, the Lost Dauphin, the Widow Douglas, Captain Brandy. oS SP RS Shifting the scenery for the moment to Hawaii and the art of waving a grass skirt, there is Miss Eleanor Powell, the girl born to dance, in ‘Honolulu’. oS. ee RS 8 oe Lest you think that ‘“‘Honolulu’” is a solemn treatise on Polynesian folkways, there is in the cast that female brain-trust Miss Gracie Allen. k sk «* * Pause for Station Announcement: M-G-M broadcasting the news to watch impatiently for “Honolulu”, ‘“‘Huckle- berry Finn’ and “I Take This Woman”’. Kees KOK, i ; GIFT-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB This game involves the use of your scissors—it is hence known as “Shear Nonsense.” If you crave a photo of Mickey Rooney as ‘“‘Huck’ Finn, fill in name, address, and mail to Leo, M-G-M Studio, Box D, Culver City, Cal. IMRE ooo0000000000000n afolotckelerofeletoteieleretelerers C INCEES a6 00408000000 GotsauachonooaodnbaD 0 Kw Ok kk This is about the time when those New Year resolutions are beginning to feel the tug. But rest assured we'll keep to ours. KK ae Which is, to see that Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer continues to lead the way in entertainment. : Kk Ok kk See you on the screen. —Lee

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Connie Bennett bets with her best J. Walter Ruben and Virginia Bruce never miss a beau, Gilbert Roland. race. They usually come out on top, too. Guy Kibbee studies the track litera- Randy Scott and Fred Astaire must have picked a ture very carefully. It helps! winner. But Mrs. A. looks pretty doubttul. Here we have the highlight of the Hollywood social season pictured exclusively 6

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SANTA ANITA S Se if ips The Edward Robinsons look as they have good t board. Spencer Tracy, and ing ] hopefully watch the morn s foremost actor 1 issus The screen the M tated as much attention as the horses. Mickey Rooney day at the famous Santa Anita race-track Their stable’s okay! The Bing Crosbys, who have a horse running, are thrilled spectators. ing opening for you—the thr

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IVETOVOUUUUUTTTOUUCUUUUUUTVVOQUOUUUUUUTUTOOQUUUUUUUUUUOTOQOCUULUULCCOOIOUCUUUULULLCCCOCUCCLULCLLCCECCCLLUOLLLLLCL Acces PAGE DOWN Crinkled silk fabric . Father of Jason, the Argonaut . Star of “The Citadel”’: init. . Anglo-saxon money Tiny opera-screen star Brilliant success Star of “Boys Town” . “Love Bef--- Breakfast” 9. Comedies our star first played in 10. Inclines 11. Medley 12. “I --- My Love Again” 13. He was in “Merrily We Live” : init. 14. One of “The Sisters” 15. Screen parts ONAN WHE 16. “We're Not ----- ing” starred 1 across 17. With 1 across in “Swing High, Swing Low” 26. Mickey Rooney’s screen dad 28. Edge 30. Possessive pronoun 31. Labor union 33. Laths 35. New Zealand parrot 36. Our star’s favorite escort 38. Lowest female singing voice 40, “===-s Kor Scandal” 41. An Astaire-Rogers film 42. Circle 43. Man’s name 45. Greek letter 46. Spoil 47. Twisted 48. Girl in “Youth Takes a Fling” 50. Smudge 58. “---geant Murphy” 59. Mother in “That Certain Age” 60. Expired 61. Actress in ‘Room Service” 62. Birthmonth of our star: abbr. 63. The “singing cop” 64. Closed car 65. Consumed 67. Singer in “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” 69. Simone’s surname 71. One of the “Men With Wings” 72. Sick 73. Fastening 76. 1002 (Roman numerals) 77. Negative 79. Fruit 80. Hindu princess 81. Silly 82. Slender rods 83. Co-star in “Lady and the Cowboy” 85. Bake 86. Flat tablelands 87. Princess Natalie P---- 89. “There ---- My Heart” 91. Stain 94. Sonja Henie performs on this 96. Mongolian tribe member 98. Compass point 101. Measure of area 104. Lady in “Breaking The Ice”: init. OVVFUTPUVTHTRUUTRRUV ULE UUCOAIUERAUUOT HUERTA PLLC COODOUUOOOENOOUTAAETTEOCOCOSOUOOOTTATCETDCTOCOOSOOAETACVCECTVCUCTOOTETATRTETLUOCCCTT TATE COC TVNDQUIOUULI COUT OUTILTEETIEY ' 1 PUCUUUVUCHOOOQOUOOIAUUUUUOCUUOOOOOOATOUUUULUUUCOOOOOOOORULUULLUOCUUCLOOOAOHAROLUULLUUTUULOOLOUUOMOGLEUULUUUULUUCOCOUEEA MODERN SCREEN Girls who click, in jobs and on dates, avoid underarm odor with MUM ALLY thinks the whole world’s against her. She works so hard at her job. She tries so hard to make friends. But somehow all that she gets for her pains are snubs. Strange that such a pretty, capable girl should find others so unfriendly? Not when you know what ¢hey know about Sally! For no one likes to be near a girl who offends with underarm odor. And everyone finds it hard to say, “You could be popular—with Mum!” Girls who win, in business and in love, know a bath alone is not enough for all-day underarm freshness. A bath IT'S ONE THING MEN WON'T FORGIVE. EVEN IN WINTER, > YOURE NEVER SAFE - UNDERARMS ALWAYS NEED MUM. For Sanitary Napkins— Mum leads all deodor- ants for use on napkins, too. Women know it’s gentle, safe. Always use Mum this way, too. GIVE ROMANCE MORE CHANCE...USE MUM! removes only past perspiration—but Mum prevents odor #0 come. Mum is such a dependable aid to charm! MUM IS QUICK! In a hurry? Mum takes 30 seconds, but keeps you fresh all day! MUM IS SAFE! Any dress is safe with Mum, for Mum has the American Insti- tute of Laundering Seal as being harm- less to fabrics. And even after underarm shaving, Mum soothes your skin! MUM IS SURE! Without stopping perspi- ration, Mum stops all underarm odor. Get Mum at your drugstore today. Let Mum keep you always sweet! OC RRA DARE TO HERSELF: LOOKS LIKE MUM HAS SAVED MY ROMANCE. BILUS RUSHED ME ALL EVENING. TAKES THE ODOR OUT OF PERSPIRATION °g

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MODERN SCREEN g eee SS RVAT X "aw Ve DESK \\ (ln 4 § s S NELSON EDDY 2835 DONALD CRISP has had SONJA HENIE: On the FACE POWDER has a light touch! You need never fear that stodgy, over-powdered effect when you use Luxor “feather-cling”—the face powder with a light touch. It sits lightly as a feather, stays on smoothly for hours. Shine-proof and moisture- proof too,so it doesn’t cake or streak. At toilet goods counters in smart, new shades (55c). For generous size FREE trial package send coupon. one of the most fasci- nating careers of any- body in pictures. Born in London, the son of a famous English sur- geon, he began his pub- 2611 lic career as a choir boy at St. Paul's Cathedral there. He was educated at Oxford and in 1906 came to America to see what the earthquake had done to San Fran- cisco, On the way over Ea 1403 he sang aboard ship and was invited to be- come the stage manager of an American Opera Company headed for Cuba, Mexico and parts of the United States. \ 903 He also sang tenor with this company. Return- ing to New York he di- rected pictures for the old Biograph Company, and played.a few stage roles. He came to Hollywood in 1913 to play General Grant in D. W. Griffith’s ‘Birth of a Nation.” He left Griffith to direct ‘‘Ra- mona,’ later “Secret Service,” “The Mark Of Zoro” and many others. He often both directed and acted in a picture. Donald Crisp, besides being highly respected in the profession, is also much sought after for his advice on financial matters. He is a director of the Bank of America and is in charge of passing on film loans. It is said that it was he who gave the okay for the large loan which made the production of “Snow White” possible. If he seems indif- ferent toward his screen future, Crisp can well afford to be for he is one of the wealth- iest men in pictures. Next March when his present contract expires Crisp wants to take a leisurely voyage to Sumatra, Bali, Java and Borneo. He is happily married to Jane Murfin, an ace scenarist. His hobby is gar- dening. He also loves the sea. His yacht is one of the best known on the West Coast. He says that one of the secrets of his long active career is that he knows the value of vacations. Every year he sails away for about two months on the high seas, often heading for Copenhagen, Denmark. Crisp’s most recent pictures were “The Sisters” and “Dawn Patrol.’ His next will be “Oklahoma, Kid’ and ‘Suarez.’ Address him in care of Warner Brothers’ Studios, Burbank, Cal. SEND A STAM Send a stamped self-addressed envelope today for a new, enlarged list of Holly- wood stars with their correct studio ad- dresses. Hundreds of names, including contract and even free lance players. This list has been completely revised and re- arranged alphabetically for your greater convenience. It is a convenient size to handle, or keep in a scrap-book. Do you want to write a fan letter, request a pho- tograph, or just trace the studio connec- GENE AUTRY TYRONE POWER ERROL FLYNN SONJA HENIE _ PED ENVELOPE FOR NEW ADDRESS LIST tions of your favorite players? Then you'll find one of these lists indispensable. night of April 8, 1913, in Oslo, the capital of Norway, a baby girl was born to Selma and Wilhelm Henie, a fur merchant. Her maternal grandmother was Irish and the rest of the family Norwegian. Son- ja is her real name, and ever since she can remember, she wanted to go on the stage. At three she started to dance, and at eight to skate. Now she dances on skates. Sonja has a roomful of silver cups, gold medals and plaques she has won skating. Three times she won the Olympic figure-skating cham- pionship, seven times the Huropean, and ten times the world’s cham- pionship. She used to practice six and seven hours a day but not now. She studied Russian ballet in London, and has performed all over Europe and America. She speaks four lan- guages fluently and has performed for most of Europe’s royalty. Sonja Henie is an extremely active little person, alert and friendly, with simple tastes and a refreshing naturalness. She loves white things, is “crazy’’ about America, especially California, and has taken out U. S. citizenship papers. She is five feet two inches tall, weighs one hundred and ten pounds, has brown. eyes and natural blonde hair. She eats what she pleases and never gains weight. Sonja must sleep at least ten hours a night to keep in condition and she doesn’t eat for four hours before an exhibition. She plays championship ten- nis too and is an expert horsewoman. She buys new skates every year, though has one favorite pair now four years old. Sonja reads everything from newspapers to Shakespeare and has one of the most astute business heads in Hollywood. She has three stand-ins, one for long shots, one for close- ups, and one for dramatic work. She hopes to become a famous dramatic actress. Sonja’s last two pictures were “Happy Landing” and “My Lucky Star.” Her next is to be “Love Interest.” Address her in care of Twentieth Century-Fox Studios, Beverly Hills, Cal. ~ Ty To receive a list for yourself all you Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. 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 requests to Information Desk, Modern Screen, 149

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GEORGE MURPHY: In a mine up near Portage, Penna., one day in 1926 they let down an aspiring young mining engineer fresh out of college and, when the cable broke, dumping a load of black diamonds on his head, they hauled up an actor, one George Lloyd Murphy, son of the fa- mous Michael Charles Murphy, Olympic coach and one time coach at the University of Pennsylvania. Or, to begin at the begin- ning, George Murphy was born in New Haven, Conn. on July 4th, 1903, and was educated at Newton, Peddie and Pawling Schools for boys. Then young George worked his way thru Yale by waiting on tables and helping in a tailor’s shop. You see his father had died when George was nine years old, and his mother a year later, so his married sister had seen him thru prep sehools. But from there on George wanted to be on his own. He was graduated from Yale in 1926 in the same class that turned out Peter Arno, the artist, and Rudy Vallee, crooner. George had planned to be a mining engineer but the aforementioned ac- eident, which laid him up for six months, changed his mind, and he ended up in New York as-a runner for the stock exchange in the day-times and a dancer in local night elubs during the evenings. At Yale George had won his letter in football, tennis and track, and participated in just about every other sport on the docket, dancing in his spare time, for the fun of it. In New York George came across a childhood friend, Miss Juliette Johnson, who was studying dancing with Ned Wayburn. They teamed up as ball- room dancers, using their own names, and took New York by storm. From here they went to London and then back to New York where George made his stage debut in 1927 in “Good News.’ Between engagements of Broadway George and Juliette, who were now Mr. and Mrs., filled dancing engage- ments all over this country and Burope. George’s first movie was with Hddie Cantor in “Kid Millions.” George Murphy bas brown hair, blue eyes and a ready smile. He is six feet tall, weighs one hundred seventy-five pounds. He col- lects stamps, maps and hats. He once pat- ented a liniment to relieve ‘‘charley horses” and still uses it himself. George is devoted to old shoes, likes to sleep late, enjoys being asked for his autograph, reads his own fan mail and adores fire crackers. He swims, golfs, plays tennis and is an excellent boxer. His last two pictures were ‘Little Miss Broadway” and ‘Hold That Co-ed.” Address him in care of M-G-M Studios, Culver City, Cal. Leola Roberts, Pike Co., Kentucky. The ten biggest box office draws in 1938 were Shir- ley Temple, Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney, Alice Faye, Tyrone Power, Sonja Henie, Spencer Tracy, Robert Taylor, Myrna Loy and Jane Withers, in the order named. So you see your little favorite is right up among them, which is pretty wonderful for a young lady of twelve years. George Goodwin, Wilkes-Barre, Penna. Flor- ence Rice is the only daughter of Grantland Rice, famous newspaper man and sports authority. She was born February 4, 1911 in Cleveland, Ohio. She was educated at schools in and near New York City includ- ing the Sargent Dramatic school. She played her first Broadway role in 1930 and did stock (Continued on page 101) INFORMATION DESK, MODERN SCREEN, 149 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. Please print, in this department, a brief life story of: Tf you would like cur chart listing the heights, ages, birthplaces and marriages of all the im: portant stars, enclose five cents in stamps or coin with your coupon. MODERN SCREEN BEAUTY ADVISOR, Cs SNOWY WEATHER IS FINE —IF YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT CHAPPED HANDS” Nice chapping = My hands never chap, )| |That’s hard to believe, Alice, because gees Geis having thank goodness hundreds of girls write and ask me — but swe' hat to do for rough, chapped a aatiag wnd io Tor ug y Chappe ; » After that snow-bath, Il’ bet your hands | will be feratbly red and rough are Ye _ {Let's watch and see what Honey uses for her own hands t Yes — and since Hinds luse Hinds lotion | guess soothes this harsh skiing and (need Hinds, chapping , just think how chapping after all. Oh f( good itis for every-day use never how nice &C gets a it feels ! start. Try some, Alice 7, ‘ \ Copr., 1939, Lehn & Fink Products Corp., Bloomfield, N. J. EXTRA SOFTENING TO CHAPPED HANDS VEN one application of Hinds Honey and Almond Cream makes chapped hands feel smoother! It’s extra creamy. Coaxes back the softness that raw cold, steam heat, hard water, and dust take away. Gives your hands a soft, lovely look. Use regularly for smooth hands like ““Honey’s’”’! 10¢, 25¢, 50¢, $1 sizes. Chapping ° Dry skin Windburn ¢ Chafing Cracked lips Hangnails e Body-rub Chapped heels, legs After-shaving lotion Powder base EXTRA BONUS BOTTLE A 2-bottle bargain! Hinds medium size and Bonus Bottle—both for price of medium size. Nearly 20% extra lotion! Money back on medium size, where you bought it, if Hinds Honey and Almond Cream doesn’t make chapped hands feel smoother. At toilet goods counters. 11

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Don't tell us Jane Withers actually sits still long enough to study! Oh, it's a@ candy recipe—that’s differ- ent! She does her own measuring, what's more—and spoon-testing, too. (What, no pan-licking?) And will you cast your eyes on these yummy-looking results! Seems to us as though a good cook was lost to the world when little Withers turned actress. Draw up your chairs and read how to make Jane's fa- vorite tid-bits, and Valentine treats. NO COMIC Valentines for Mrs. Withers’ irrepressible child, Jane, this year! For that young lady has declared herself in favor of sweet ones. “T mean really sweet ones, too,” she informed me, “like candy! Of course, if you're a sentimental silly,” she’ went on with that depth of scorn that young ladies going on thirteen feel towards such things, “well then, pink satin hearts and lace paper frills and ribbon bows and_lovey- dovey verses for you. But my favorite Valentine is one that says, ‘Sweets to the sweet !’—and means it!” Funny, isn’t it, what a decided sweet tooth all children have. Not so funny at that, though, when you stop to consider that candy is an energizing food. And certainly kids use plenty of energy during a day’s activities! That’s one important reason why they are unconsciously seeking something that will quickly repair their energy loss—and find it in candy! Why, just trying to follow Jane as she rushes from studio school to the set and then home would make me long to share a candy bar with her just to see if that would help me keep up with her pace. In the course of our interview I dis- covered that not only is Jane an advocate of candy giving and getting, but she’s also an enthusiast over candy making. It may surprise you to know that this young star already is an inveterate recipe collector and quite an experienced little cook. Of 12 ” Corn Syrup course, recipes for candy are at present most prominent in her large collection. These include fudge, as you might well expect, and divinity and some of those easily made cereal sweets that children, and older candy cooks alike, love to make be- cause of their extreme simplicity as well as their good taste. In addition most of the candies suggested here include corn syrup among their ingredients, which is a professional confectioners’ rule that will also simplify your home candy making and give added assurance of success. Follow- ing recipes carefully is further guarantee that you will turn the trick every time! And a candy thermometer is highly recom- mended if you make candy frequently. One of the simplest of these recipes is for Puffed Petites, shown in our illus- tration. For St. Valentine’s Day these can be made up into tiny golden balls, each of which is then placed atop a little red cafdboard heart. No trouble at all to make and with a little added ingenuity they can be turned into place cards for your Valentine party! Another cinch of a recipe is the one for “Snax,” as crunchy and delightful as you could well: imagine. Other candy favorites of Jane’s which are here are Coconutted Fudge and Nutty Divinity. These are illustrated on our red heart “tray” with its lace doily frills and golden arrow, just to further tempt you to try your hand at making them. Also in- cluded on the tray, by the way, are little Jane Withers shares her favorite sweets recipes with you BY MARJORIE DEEN slices of those popular chocolate candy bars that have a nut fudge filling and a caramel center. They are most attractive sliced and you'll be surprised how home-made they look in this proud company. Though it certainly won’t surprise you to find that these slices will receive a royal welcome, along with the rest, from both kids and erownups, for Valentine gifts, parties and right on through the year. So work up some of that Jane Withers enthusiasm, get together the necessary ingredients, then make home-made candies to your heart’s content, for sentimental reasons, for gifts, for favors, for energy or just for fun and enjoyment for everyone from six to sixty. SWEET SNAX 4 squares semi-sweet dipping chocolate 1% cups shredded ralston

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Break the ‘chocolate into small pieces, place in top of double boiler, over boiling water.’ Heat chocolate until partly melted. Remove from boiling water and stir rapidly until entirely melted. Drop three or four of the little shredded cereal bits at a time into the chocolate. Lift out with. a. fork and place on waxed paper. Cool until firm. PUFFED PETITES 1 package puffed rice or puffed wheat 34 cup white corn syrup cup sugar Y% cup boiling water 2 tablespoons butter Y% teaspoon salt 14 teaspoon almond extract, if desired Crisp the puffed cereal’ in a pan in a hot oven. Place in large buttered bowl. Mix _ the corn syrup, sugar and water in heavy saucepan. Bring to a boil slowly, stirring constantly until sugar is dissolved. Cover and boil gently for 5 minutes. Then un- _cover and continue cooking first to ‘‘soft crack” stage (that is, when a little of the mixture dropped in cold water will “crack” when in the water but becomes soft when removed from water—264°F. on candy | thermometer).-Remove from heat. Add . butter and salt, also 14 teaspoon almond -extract, if desired. Pour over - puffed cereal. Stir until syrup is thoroughly distributed. While mixture is still hot, shape into balls 2 inches in diameter, with slightly buttered hands. Cool on waxed paper. COCONUTTED FUDGE 2 squares unsweetened chocolate 2 cups sugar Y% cup milk ¥Y cup dark corn syrup 2 tablespoons butter cup shredded coconut 1 teaspoon vanilla Cut the chocolate into small pieces. Place in heavy saucepan. Add sugar, milk and corn syrup. Cook very slowly over low heat, stirring almost constantly, until mix- ture is smooth and blended and.sugar is dissolved. Then bring to a boil, slowly without stirring. When mixture boils, cover and cook 3 minutes. Uncover and continue cooking until a few drops in cold water will form a soft ball (238°F. on candy thermometer), stirring only occas- ionally, while cooking, to prevent burning. Remove from heat, add butter but do not stir until cool. Meanwhile, prepare a square pan by buttering it and sprinkling it with one half of the shredded coconut. When fudge has cooled to lukewarm (110°F.) add the remaining coconut and the vanilla. Beat until fudge is thick. At the moment that fudge loses its gloss pour it quickly into prepared pan. When almost cold, cut into squares. NUTTY DIVINITY 1 cup white corn syrup 3 cups granulated sugar ¥Y% cup boiling water ege whites ¥4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 34 cup chopped mixed nuts Combine corn syrup, sugar and boiling water in heavy saucepan. Bring to a boil slowly, over low heat, stirring almost constantly until sugar is dissolved and mix- ture is smooth and blended. When mixture boils, cover and boil gently for 3 minutes. Uncover and continue cooking, without stirring, until a few drops of mixture will form a hard ball in cold water (254°F. on candy thermometer). Remove from heat. Beat egg whites until stiff. Pour the candy syrup slowly onto whites, beating con- stantly. Continue beating until mixture starts to thicken, add salt, vanilla and nuts. Beat until thick. Turn into slightly buttered square pan. Cut in squares when almost cold. xX MODERN SCREEN DeAR GRANNY, Re ALW CCOUNt OF YOU Ne Ni Pane pACK About the oe ee reo AND ON ACCOUNT OF | ALWAY. ee at LADies Like to Get VALENTINES | AYS GRUMDLING FUNNY ON@ FOR MOM: \ \ pee“ haw O Listen to the DONKeY bRA MY MOTHERS clothes hAVe tATtLe-tALe GRAY 5 AS tN tROUbLeE! MOM W x wooDsheD ants i Gosh, Dip it Get LL FOR WALKING Me OUt TO the epheD Li TOLD heR how you SAID her Nes nae tAttLe-tALe GRAY cause neR S$ i icKING | es. A, sissy AND Leaves DIRT sticKine iN the cloth oo ce : then 1 TOLD her hOwW YOU sAip She OUGH UNt to CchANGe TO FeLS-NAPthA Sot ON, Nt t Nest-to-GOODN d a ak Dé Dit Gets in the RicheR GOLDEN SOAP AN i OWDALLS- clothes whiter thAN SN ai ™~N i e to the Vick LiKe A RAbbIT, Mom Sent M aay: see OR SOME FOLS-NAPtHA AND N GeL FOR ShOWING heR how tO GROCERS F tATTLE-TALE GRAY. says I'M AN AN chase AWAY ieee teve that Nt beLIEVE COURSE ee put i suURe DO L/ ANGEL STUFF, vit im € CowbOY S — ook SWeLL IN th Beane! — she cave Me FOR A PR (<p = Jee Aol Ke \ | 4 / JOhNNY Copr. 1939, Fels & Co. P. S. If you want to see tattle-tale gray hurry out of your clothes—do what Johnny’s mother did. Get Fels-Naptha Soap at your grocer’s and try it! You’ll find it easy on hands. Fine for your daintiest things. And it gives you the whitest, loveliest washes you ever pinned on a line! BANISH “TATTLE-TALE GRAY” WITH FELS-NAPTHA SOAP! TUNE IN. HOBBY LOBBY every Wednesday night. See local paper for time and station. 13

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Tonic to help regain and maintain your red-blood- cells .. . to restore lost weight .. . to regain energy ... and to give back to your skin that much desired natural glow. Buy and use with complete confidence, and we believe you, like thousands of others, will be enthusiastic in your praise of S.S.S. ‘Tonic for its part in making “you feel like your- self again.” At all drug stores in two sizes. You will find the larger size more economical. ©S.S.S. Co. SSS Fonte shmuldles the gyprdlileand helps change weak Mood cells lo strong ones 14 MODERN SCREEN BETWEEN YOU A school teacher “back in the sticks” thanks the movies for a helping hand. $5.00 Prize Letter Visual Education | As a high school teacher and director of very amateur Senior Class plays, I] am doubly indebted to the movies, the only form of public entertainment in our mining community. Few of our four hundred students have even been more than twenty miles from home, but they are avid movie fans. Visual education is considered the great- est medium of education. Description, no matter how good, can never supplant actually seeing an object, process or phe- nomenon. So in every class, I try to con- nect the new and unknown with what my , pupils haye seen in thé movies—oceans, | city | plains, mountains, . factories, busy streets and the customs of each. Without such correlation, students see only the ac- tion or story of the movie and the dullness of the lesson. When I begin to coach each new play, I ask my cast to study the mannerisms, entrances, make-up of movie actors. If they shy from some bit of acting, I usually over- come their reticence and awkwardness by asking if that was the way their favorite star acted. And I make it my business to know each student’s favorite stars. Or, if any current movie is the same type as our production, I urge all of the cast to see and study it. I recently took four members of a cast to a neighboring town to see a movie containing several cockney Englishmen so they -could study the accent carefully for our play. So don’t forget, Hollywood, that for us “back in the sticks,” your movies often serve a much more serious purpose than mere “light entertainment.’”—Mary’ Resley, Ellsworth, Penna. $2.00 Prize Letter A Plea Has it ever occurred to the picture execu- tives who are asking the public why people are staying away from the movies that the answer might be very simple? Better actors and actresses ! In the early days of the talkies, Ruth Chatterton’s name filled any theatre. Her magnificent performance in “Madame X” will never be forgotten. Yet a series of bad pictures has reduced Chatterton to the rank of has-beens. And then to put her in a picture in which Simone Simon played the lead, and Chatterton—the greatest actress of them all—a minor role! Why not concentrate some of the effort expended on the glamor girls and pretty boys on finding suitable vehicles for Ruth Chatterton and others of her calibre? Give us less of our pretty, grinning automatons, both masculine and feminine, and more of such actors and actresses as Chatterton, Helen Hayes, the late Marie Dressler, and Lionel and John Barrymore, and thousands of us, who have quit at- tending movies, will go back again in such crowds that the shows won’t hold us !— Margaret Ramsey, Houston, Tex. $2.00 Prize Letter Crepe Suzettes In a scene in “Three Loves Has Nancy,” Janet Gaynor showed her ignorance by not recognizing Crepe Suzettes. Of course, it _ wasn’t necessary to her life, just as it may never be to mine, to know Crepe Suzettes when she saw them. But knowing them, what they are, and being able to talk knowingly about them, should they be the subject of conversation, is something learned, isn’t it? Which brings up the point I want to make: Thanks to the movies, a lot of us have gotten in good groundwork in knowl- edge that might stand us in good stead some day. One never knows! Bits of information that make life much more in- teresting are planted firmly in our con- sciousness by movies with their painstaking accuracy in all details. As one girl said to me—and believe me, she is considered a “smart number” in our set—‘“Honestly, until .I learned about it in the movies, I thought Crepe Suzettes were a Frenchy way of saying drapes.” (As if I didn’t too.) % Which goes to show you, doesn’t it?— Alma Donavan, San Francisco, Cal. $1.00 Prize Letter “Angels With Dirty Faces” I have just returned home from seeing the most vividly acted and the best directed motion picture that it has ever been my privilege to view. “Angels With Dirty Faces” is second to none for sheer drama “and directorial genius. The death-house scene is imprinted in my mind permanently. Father Jerry’s lips moving in silent prayers for the soul of Rocky Sullivan. The bravado of this same Rocky Sullivan crying for mercy and fighting for life. And the tears, my own tears, rolling unashamedly down my face. I have never been so deeply touched. So, double orchids to James Cagney whose “Rocky Sullivan’ was superb in characterization, and to Michael Curtiz, whose directing was a gem of perfection. —Mary J. Ransom, Sandusky, Ohio. ‘$1.00 Prize Letter Comes the Don In too many pictures lately, two’s com- pany and Don Ameche makes a crowd. ’Tain’t doin’ right by Don. There’s a girl and another boy and then comes. the Don to complicate things. But the Don comes and goes. z

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ME A fan trom California wants her glamor straight—no slap- stick mixed in, thank you! Why not ‘let him win the girl for a change instead of being the man with a heart of gold who loses the girl but wins all the sympathy. Don Ameche is too at- tractive to be tossed aside so lightly, and I know many other girls who feel as I do. It just isn’t true to life for girls to be immune to his charm and thrilling voice. So I say—give the Don a break. Let the Don come—and stay. Why not let Tyrone go and find a girl on his own’ Power ?—Florence Metz, Kansas City, Kan. MODERN SCREEN Every month fortunate ladies and gents win cash prizes for their letters! $1.00 Prize Letter Hedy Lamarr Hurrah! Hedy is here. Finally, we hope, glamor is returning to the screen. We, the public, are tired of seeing our glamor girls, our heroines, being slapped and knocked down, black eyes, ice packs and all the trimmings. Hedy Lamarr has come, we sincerely hope, to stay and show the pro- ducers the type of stars we want. Keep Hedy a glamor girt! We trust that after her first few pictures you will not cast her in slapstick comedy roles like Carole Lombard has been featured in. I like Carole when she plays a sophisticated role but not a knockdown, dragout kind. For goodness sakes, don’t ruin a true glamor girl, when you finally find one who meets the public’s requirements—Yvonne Metheney, National City, Cal. $1.00 Prize Letter Alan Mowbray It seems to me that producers have too long overlooked the excellent comedian represented in the person of Mr. Alan Mowbray. He is a man with a peculiar aptness for recognizing the frailties and comic weaknesses of us humans. His forte is not direct comedy—his method is far too subtle for that. He goes Have you tried? WRITE A LETTER— WIN A PRIZE This is an open forum, writ- ten by the fans and for them. Make your letter or poem brief. Remember, too, that your con- tributions must be _ original. Copying or adapting letters or poems from those already pub- lished constitutes plagiarism and will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Following are the prizes awarded each month for the best letters: Ist prize, $5: two second prizes of $2 each; six prizes of $1 each. Address: Between You ’n’ Me, 149 Madi- son Ave., New York, New York. about his business in a perfectly serious manner which plainly tells us that such nutty guys as he portrays really do exist. On the other hand, one can almost imagine his turning around to his audience with a big wink, grinning and inviting us to euffaw as loudly as we please at someone (Continued on page 99) Pasty Face— Under brilliant : evening lights, color ‘ flatiens out—make- up goes dead! Now with the new pinker make-up, a subtle enchantment in your face! Pond’s Rose Shades preserve flattering rose-tints in your skin even when lights blaze bright- est! “Glare-proof,’? they soften the glare of harsh lights. Try Rose Cream (Natural) or Rose Mrs. Thomas M. Carnegie, Jr. “~Pond’s Rose Cream adds a flattering touch to the new make-up. | love it!” Copyright, 1939, Pond’s Extract Company Brunette. 55¢. Also 10¢ and 20¢ sizes. Or send for free sample—Pond’s, Dept. 9MS-PC, Clinton, Conn. Loi o “Glare-Proof’— Pond’s Rose Shades reflect only the softer rays—add rosy flattery J oflects softer nays wilh Rosy Aallery 15

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i H MODERN SCREEN VERY GOOD EDDI BY MACK There’s a reason why he’s tops in his profession—and here it OF COURSE, there are many varied interpretations for that_ overworked word, good! Candy’s good, but, not if it’s old. Actors aren’t usually good until they’re old! That is, aged in experience, technique and the many things that go into de- veloping their histrionic ability. In short, we're about to foster the opinion that actors are not born, but made! In so saying, we offer as an excellent example that very good Eddie Albert, of the cinema, the stage, the air lanes! “It’s funny how you'll start out to. do one thing and end up doing another,” Eddie Albert philosophized. “I used to be a bond salesman out west. Later, I managed some theatres —movie houses. I wasn’t bad either. But, do you know what I always wanted to do? Sing! I guess subconsciously I worked at it harder than anything. Anyway, before long, I found myself pushed right into the thing Tl’d thought I wanted. And like a Frankenstein, it devoured me. First I sang on the radio, just for fun of course, then I went into some stock companies and then came to New York. Now Pm completely living and breathing the theatre, every minute. “T think you have to be pretty crazy about your work to succeed and I’m in love with acting! Of course I’ve been awfully lucky. Take Bing, for instance, in ‘Brother Rat.’ I got wonderful notices, but the average person doesn’t figure it was the part that made them possible. Why, it was a natural! Most anyone who could look like him could have played Bing and been good.” “Oh, I see! Then how do you account for such excellent notices in ‘Room Service’?” we cautiously inquired of New York’s most popular young leading man. “Well,” Eddie well’d, “I did an awful lot of work on that part—months of it. I guess that’s why it showed .up. The same’s true with Bing.; I worked months to get down the right enunciation and the proper feeling* for him” I read everything I could lay my hands on about ball players and athletes, till I even walked aid: lookedJike one. “When I figured him out and knew he was the sort of fellow who'd wear his hair clipped, I made a“bee line for the barber. “But, you know,” Albert continued, “the story and~situa- tions are the important things. If the character’s believable, he’s successful with the audience. However, with Bing, the minute people don’t believe in him enough to feel sorry for him, the play’s lost. When we first opened “Brother Rat’ (the play) on Broadway I had to feel that boy until I got hold of him enough to be able to sit back and watch the effect. Well, a lot of times when I’m playing a character I cry. I did that one afternoon with Bing: and some of the front row saw me with tears in my eyes and said, ‘Gee, what an actor.’ Boom, the scene was lost because their attention was focused on me and not the plot. “Take pictures. It’s the same. Not many people analyze things enough to tell whether it’s. the actor that gives a performance or if the part is responsible. For instance, take a young girl we both know and who’s very good for light comedy. They have a scene where all the characters are wring- ing their hands and nearly dying with erief. Then there’s a closeup of the girl looking out the window with tears stream- ing down her face. Wow, she’s a great dramatic actress! That’s what everyone thinks and she’s done the simplest thing in the world. It’s a cinch to look right into the camera and cry. “On the other hand, take John Garfield. He’s handed a few pages of script and figuratively stuck in front of the camera as they yell, ‘Take it away, Garfheld.’ That’s what happened in ‘Four Daugh- ters. In one speech that’s half a reel long, he has to build and spout a few pretty hoaky lines without becoming HUGHES is monotonous or losing the audience’s attention for a second. That’s a real job, for if he loses the: fans one second, the whole scene is lost. Now there’s what I call real dramatic ability !” Having seen both John Garfield and Eddie Albert on the stage as well as in films, it was enlightening to realize the wisdom in what our host pointed out. For, in reality, nine times out of ten it’s the play and not the player responsible for a great success. “The studio is pretty set in its ideas out there,” continued Eddie. “Why, they didn’t even want me to cut my hair for the part of Bing. I argued like the dickens, finally agreeing to cut it and do a test. If they didn’t like it, we’d do it the other way. Of course, once they saw the test they were crazy about it. And, I'll bet you anything when I get back for my next picture they have my hair clipped just as before!” “We hear you're in line to do ‘The Poor Nut?” “Oh, I'd like to do it if they don’t hoak it up. That can be a grand picture, but it’s got to be done right. If they’re not careful it'll turn out to be just (Continued on page 108) Nothing Eddie Albert does is hit or miss— it's always hit, al- though, modestly, he believes in luck.

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MODERN SCREEN “HE WAS AN OUTLAW...A KILLER...HIS LIFE WAS THE EPIC STORY OF A LAWLESS ERA!” He was hunted, but he was human! And there was one—gentle yet dauntless—who flung her life away—into his arms! “ Jesse, you're a hero now! But this will get into your blood! You'll turn The spectacular drama of the nation’s most sea | inlo a killer and a wolf!” famous outlaw and the turbulent events that ; “TI know, but I hate the railroads, j gave him to the world! __ and when I hate, I have to do some- 7 \ thing about. it!” Spa OS DARRYL F. ZANUCK’S ~ production of ESS starring TYRONE POWER HENRY FONDA NANCY KELLY RANDOLPH SCOTT and HENRY HULL SLIM SUMMERVILLE J. EDWARD BROMBERG BRIAN DONLEVY JOHN CARRADINE DONALD MEEK JOHN RUSSELL JANE DARWELL Directed by Henry King Associate Producer and Original Screen Play by ‘Nunnally Johnson A 20th Century-Fox Picture 17

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MODERN SCREEN Will your baby grow as fast as Johnny? A fine start... on Clapp’s Johnny at 3 months .. “This picture was taken at the time Johnny had his first food from a spoon,” relates Johnny Davies’ mother. “We had agreed to let him be one of the test babies in our town (Westfield, N. J.) and the doctor started him off on Clapp’s Baby Cereal first. After that came Clapp’s Strained Spinach...and he loved it, right from the first...” The good work is continued ... with Clapp’s Johnny at 22 months...“A regular husky! He could already play ball with his Daddy. Of course, he’d outgrown Strained Foods, but, luck- ily, Just at that time the Clapp people started to make Chopped Foods. They’re more coarsely divided, the way doctors advise for older babies and toddlers. And such a blessing! No special marketing or cooking, yet the baby has his own menu and the family have anything they like!” See — Johnny at 12 months .. .“Everybody said he was the happiest baby they ever saw—and he cer- tainly was a healthy one! He had every food on the Clapp list from five months on—I’d give him a new one every few days—and he gained better than a pound a month right along. That speaks well for the vitamins and minerals in Clapp’s Foods!” Johnny at 3 years. . ““Here’s Johnny now. Isn’t he a big boy? And solid as a little rock. We think he’s a great credit to Clapp’s Foods—but then the other babies who had them are all fine, sturdy children, too. He still gets Clapp’s Chopped Foods and he’s specially fond of those new Junior Dinners. They’re Beef or Lamb with vegetables and cereals. Very substantial, and flavory, too— you ought to try them.” CLAPP’S BABY FOODS Strained Foods 17 Varieties of Clapp’s Strained Foods Every food requested and approved by doctors. Pressure-cooked, smoothly strained but not too liq- uid—a real advance over the bottle. The Clapp Company—firrst to make baby foods—has had 18 years’ experi- ence in this field. Soups — Vegetable Soup e Beef Broth Liver Soup e Unstrained Baby Soup Strained Beef with Vegetables Vegetables—Tomatoes e Asparagus Spinach e Peas e Beets e Carrots Green Beans e Mixed Greens Fruits—Apricots e Prunes e Apple Sauce Cereal—Baby Cereal Chopped Foods 11 Varieties of Clapp’s Chopped Foods More coarsely divided foods for chil- dren who have outgrown Strained Foods. Uniformly chopped and sea- soned, according to the advice of child specialists. Made by the pio- neer company in baby foods, the only one which specializes exclusively in foods for babies and young chil- dren. Soups —Vegetable Soup Junior Dinners — Beef with Vege- tables e Lamb with Vegetables e Liver with Vegetables Vegetables — Carrots e Spinach Beets e Green Beans ¢ Mixed Greens Fruits—Apple Sauce e Prunes Free Booklets—Send for valuable information on the feeding of babies and young children. Write to Harold H. Clapp, Inc., 777 Mount Read Blvd., Rochester, N. Y. STRAINED-FOR BABIES....CHOPPED FOR YOUNG CHILDREN 18

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ON THE SET she is called O-Bee. Her chair, her dressing-room, the elec- tric fan rigged up as a sur- prise by one of the boys, are all marked O-Bee. A member of the press-shy crew was pre- vailed upon to tell why. “It wouldn’t sound right to call her Miss Oberon, no more than you'd call the fella workin’ alongside of you Mr. Smith. She don’t go for that razzle-dazzle stuff. She’s plain. Likewise the other way round. If we didn’t like her, we wouldn’t be taggin’ her with no nicknames. It’s mutual.” She is also known as Merle, the giggler. Her giggle has a lower, more agreeable sound than the word usually connotes, something like the sound of water gurgling in a spring. It does nice things to her face, which is nice enough un- der any conditions, but lights up in laughter like the face of a child who still trusts the whole world. People who’ve seen that happen say silly things to see it happen again. She’s spotted by her giggle, as a firefly is by its spark. Hearing it from the other end of the set, some- one is likely to Thalea bless e\ abl ines “There’s O-Bee TOW! 2 ave ds comic sense iS well developed. - You needn’t be particularly witty to get a response. al on ae a a

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BEE Her own good will is such that the will to entertain her is almost enough. : Goldwyn started by trying to make an exotic of her, a slant-eyed star of the East. He didn’t get very far, because what she was came through. In appearance exquisite as a figurine, he felt that she ought to be exploited as something a little too rare and precious for this world, set apart on a pedestal, veiled in mystery. Before long he discovered that she’d jumped down off the pedestal and broken through the veils, not in any spirit of conscious revolt but because she doesn’t breathe well in a hothouse. He discovered a sunny-hearted girl who liked people and wanted them to like her, who preferred to giggle with them than be kowtowed to by them, whose natural friendliness broke down artificial barriers and established instead a bond of human warmth. He was astute enough to realize that this same girl, transferred to the screen, would win more friends than a hundred synthetic mystery women. Thus the movies lost a sphinx and gained Merle Oberon. Her gayety does not proceed from any lighthearted acceptance of life as a joke. She has had ample cause to be aware of the contrary. Her mother’s courageous but losing struggle to make a living after her father’s death’ stirred in Merle a fierce sense of protectiveness. Her mother belonged to an untrained generation. She, Merle, would train herself, remove the burden from the older woman's shoulders and make up to her for all the priva- tions she had suffered. Merle had taken part in amateur theatricals in Calcutta, but the idea of being an actress wasn’t planted till one day she went to a movie theatre that was showing the silent version of “The Dark Angel.” For some reason she can’t define she saw herself in the Vilma Banky role, and from then on, her mind was made up. When she was seventeen, an uncle took her to England for a visit. She refused to go back with him, and the next few years saw her bucking the hardest game in the world, going cold and hungry, rain seeping through the shoes she couldn’t afford to have mended, being turned away from door after door and plodding hopefully on, though nobody gave her anything to hope for. It’s the story of thousands of stagestruck girls, too familiar to bear against doctor and nurse and her own weakness. A recounting. Merle was the one in a thousand stubborn enough to take it on the chin and come back for more—not giggling, certainly, but not whining either. When success came, she took a deep satisfaction in doing for her mother all the things she had dreamed of. Ferrying, as it were, between England and America, they had always lived in hotels. Merle was sick of it. On her return to England two years ago to make a picture with Laughton, she decided to rent a house and found one in Regents Park that utterly charmed her. ‘“‘How can the owner bear to rent it?” A kind friend told her that the owner had taken a superstitious dislike to it, that she was bound to get rid of it—by sale, if possible, by rental in any case, for ill luck had. dogged her footsteps from the time she’d bought it. “Pooh!” said Merle, and moved in. A few weeks later she was almost killed in a motor accident. Her injuries put her to bed for five months. Her pictures had to be abandoned. Hardly had she recovered, when the flu laid her low again. Her mother’s visits to the nursing home suddenly ceased. They told Merle she wasn’t feeling well, nothing serious, she’d be up in a few days. Metle tried to struggle, out of bed. “I’ve got to go to her.” She hadn’t a chance, however, day or two later her mother died. It wasn’t long before she was faced with the neces- sity of making a decision about the house she had rented. The owner had a buyer, but would give Miss Oberon first choice. Some of her friends regarded the prospect uneasily. “Of course, we don’t believe in the silly stuff, but see what’s happened to you.” “What’s happened to me,” said Merle steadily, “has nothing to do with the house. I love it and I’m going to buy it.” As bogies couldn’t affect her funda- mental sanity, so grief has left her fun- damental gayety unimpaired. The hurt of her mother’s death was ag- gravated, and probably always will be, by (Continued on page 95) They tried to make her exotic, but Merle persisted in being her sunny self a y BY IDA ZEITLIN

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Cary Grant, one of the screen's most popular players: with Victor McLaglen in their . latest. “Gunga Din.” Here is Cary with pretty Phyllis Brooks, the gal that everyone says will soon be Mrs. G. Lucky Cary! said, NOW LOOK,-£ press and all, this story February. A” y, the magazine looks pretty. The world is probably full of men wi to be nosey OF takes to go to “Pye no wish disagreeable, but what ‘with the time it won't appeat t i Phyllis Brooks d if you are married to othing about 1, py that time and the magazine says ™ silly. “Phyllis and J won't be married by “We won't be married that time,” said anywhere neat had been unfortunat right and he knew ite denly ceased to care. screaming it from the housetops if they had even the remotest chance of marrying 4 girl as lovely as Phyllis bachelor 1s going to be fussed over considerably. Brooks. But— hese other men are not Cary Grant, been through it. We've all been through it. who has been on the receiving end of considerable “Tf I say good evening to a girl and ask her if her journalistic bad taste where his private life is con- cold is better, 4 ‘new romance is reported in the cerned. His dander is way UP over the poking and papers the next day. It’s irritating, but unimportant. which—he I personally can't see why anybody should care for probing which has feels—are nobody's business one on about matters put Cary’s. “J jsten,” he said, “there was an item in one column about Phyl entertaining her pridesmaids at @ juncheon that column of purveying public and you'd be quite u NICS, T know I would,” he sal makes me mad is that everybody s always looking for dish. They're always looking thing to leer about. Any man in precisely repulsive to jook upon, suit and who doesn't eat with e, this girl had b “T mean,” I said, “you do, “na way, belong to the nhappy if the public sud- d honestly. “But what details, about me or hoever. Well, it seems So okay. Somebody makes a living out ial and everybody's happy- een essentially Hollywood who isn't at Twenty-One. There was at item in about Phyl buying her trousseau at Madame Whoop- Except Grant, Gable, Power, Stewart and the rest, de-do’s. The git couldn't take 4 couple of als to and they're only mildly unhappy and the recompense 1 For that. At least, that’s the starting something. Mi-god—I guess we We'll have to & they receive makes up body “The other day, 4 writer came in here. An especially job depends upon intelligent girl. well writer But 1 shall have ve Ghee lO cooperate. ense with any masterpiece she might have turned out “Oh—and sure. Ym about me. she asked me how my second wite—my flower that last sentence second wile, Virginia Cherrill. and I told her so. Her answer was that [ma movie and therefore { should not feel en- life to myself. The hell titled to keep any part of my get it-—stacked up wit ’ _{ should and, what's more, { pointed out that, though her manner of putting it first wile, in the sun. But I have, it seems, nobody wants will. makes me squirm to talk [’m getting something out 0 used to think it helped my C4 ‘What do you think of women derable trouble. putting such things through. 5° it. Same when the pub- Some- not the self-effacing little long such ( reer, my me sound like, either. about Cary Grant for them as cared to read. And now, to ask me ? and all that mush. I anything Continued on page ate on Het hey Steseseisss wees unt HHH

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THE THREE most-talked-of players in Hollywood to- day, not forgetting the Garbos, Shearers and Gables, are young Hedy Lamarr, young John Garfield and very young Nancy Kelly. Wherever you go these three names rise above the surface of conversation. They are Today’s Children in Hollywood—the latest claimants to the title, “A Star Is Born.” : At her studio, from props to producers, you hear that seventeen-year-old Nancy Kelly is the “find” of the year. You are told that Nancy is to be given every rich dramatic plum in every big dramatic picture to be produced by Darryl Zanuck. And it isn’t merely ballyhoo, because she has already appeared in “Submarine Patrol,” “Tail Spin” and “Jesse James.” Now Mr. Z. is not putting a new- comer into “Jesse James,” in Technicolor and opposite Tyrone Power unless that newcomer has been tried out over a hot flame and found not wanting. Hollywood is inclined to be skeptical when any studio begins to ballyhoo a new “sensational discovery.” Pro- ducers have done this once or twice too often. However, in the case of Nancy Kelly, you’re in for a refreshing surprise. Nancy reminds you of a young Katharine Cornell. She has the same broad planes to her face, the same mobile, generous mouth, much the same warm, dusky coloring as the great Katharine. There is, implicit in her personality, that rich feel of theatre which is Miss Cornell’s. Nancy looks at routine blondes lunching on the studio lot and sighs, “Now, that girl over there . . . she’s beau- tiful. If I looked like that!” Failing to consider, of course, that if she did look “like that” she might be doing what the so-beautiful blonde is doing—extra work. Nancy is fiercely critical of herself, perennially dis- satisfied with her work. She comes naturally by this self-criticism. Her mother has praised her only once in Nancy’s already thirteen-year-old career. Only once has her mother said, “That scene couldn’t have been done better.” That was the scene Nancy made in “Jesse James” when she is lying in bed with her new-born baby, her tears falling on its fledgling head. She will break you all up in that scene. 2 There are other signs which point, not only to the rising of Nancy’s star, but to her established stardom. One is that she didn’t want to come to Hollywood. She pre- ferred the stage. She felt that the stage was “better training.” And better training is more important to Nancy Kelly than better billing, glamor or bigger money. That’s how she is. When, a year ago, for instance, David Selznick offered to fly her out to Hollywood to make one picture for him, offered to fly her back again at the picture’s end, told her that she could “take her vacation” that way and, at the same time, pick up some sizeable money, Nancy said, “Thank you very much, but I’d rather take my vacation at the seashore.” And she did. Moreover, Nancy has an ambition, an ideal, indeed, an idol. She says, “My favorite actress is Bette Davis. And my ambition is to become just one tenth as good as she is on the screen. Just one tenth.” Now, how is a Nancy Kelly born and raised? Here is how:

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She was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on March 25, 1921, on an extraordinary, windy tumultuous day. Back of every successful man, they say, there is an exceptional mother. Back of almost every successful movie star, certainly, there has been an exceptional mother. Remem- ber the mothers of Mary Pickford, of the Talmadge girls, of Bette Davis? And young Nancy has a very exceptional mother who has been, and still is, with her every step of the way. Nancy also has an exceptional father, which is a rare asset in the biographies of most screen stars. What is more, Nancy has a brother Jack, aged eleven, who has already appeared in five Broadway plays, and a small sister, Carol E., aged six, also on the stage, besides a baby brother, Clement, aged three, who, in no time at all, I daresay, will be making his contribu- tion to the American stage and screen. There are those who say of the Kellys that “a new First Family of Broad- way (and Hollywood) is now growing up.” All right, a star is born. So then what? What ingredients go into said star’s making? Well, a mother with theatrical am- bitions of her own seems in- dicated. And Nan Kelly, mother of Nancy, wanted most awfully to “be an actress.” She did do quite a few things in silent pictures back east. She organized a dramatic society in _ Astoria, Long Island, too, where, after the birth of Nancy, the young family took up residence. That’s where they _lived until Nancy came to Hollywood. Nancy’s father, Jack Kelly, was in the theatre ticket _ brokerage business back east. So it can really be said of ' Nancy that the theatre is “in her blood.” Both Nan and Jack Kelly are still in their thirties, vital and gay and wise. Jack is Nancy’s best and only “beau.” She would, she told me, rather go out with Nan and Jack than anyone she knows . . . “because they are such fun and so much in love with each other.’’ Which seems to suggest that a happy family life contributes to the making of a star. When Nancy was two years old her mother told her bedtime stories every night. Well, don’t we all? But Nan Kelly did more than read bedtime stories. She and Nancy acted them out. She took little old Red Ridinghood and Hansel and Gretel and other. juve- nile favorites and dram- atized them for Nancy. One night Nan would be the Wolf and Nancy, Red Ridinghood. The next night they would exchange roles. When Nancy was three, Nan and Jack took her, one night, to a meeting of their dramatic society in Astoria. The group put on “Daddy Long Legs.” When the play was finished, and while the members of the cast were having refreshments, small Nancy wandered onto the stage. And suddenly, from across the footlights, came a manly voice declaiming, “No, I will not! No, no, I will not!” More of the same and then the transfixed amateurs realized that it was the infant Kelly being “Daddy Long Legs.” The toddler was not only letter perfect in lines—no one had taught her—but she was also at home and at ease on the stage, taking the applause of her audience, unem- barrassed and gracious. And Nan Kelly realized, with a pang of pure, wish-fulfilled pleasure, that unto her an actress had been born. (Continued on page 72)

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BY JAMES REID Fame, fortune and good looks don't fool her, so Ann reveals a new, intimate side of the “perfect” Power

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THE MOUTH of a blondined extra fell wide open. “Well I’ll be darned!’ she spluttered. “Get a load of that busman on a holiday!” “That busman” proved to be Myrna Loy. Clad in a simple frock of wool and wearing only a trace of street make-up, Myrna was strolling arm in arm with Producer Arthur Hornblow, Jr., through an elaborate set of “Mid- night,” the new Colbert picture being filmed under his supervision. With obvious interest she was inspecting the details of the set, chatting with the director and exclaiming over the beauty of Claudette’s cloth of gold evening gown. : “Jeepers,” the extra went on, “you’d think she’d get her fill of movie sets and stars without spending her spare time poking around like a movie-mad tourist. She must be nuts! You wouldn’t catch me doing a dumb stunt like that on my day off. Not if I was the big-shot she is!” You probably wouldn’t. She’d be out getting her eye- lashes dyed, or shopping for dresses beyond her means. But that’s one difference between the two women, and one darned good reason why Myrna’s home and marriage to Producer Hornblow is one of Hollywood’s happiest, while the extra is having trouble with her mate who sells used cars. For Myrna’s interest that day was not the professional interest of one great star in what was being done for another in a rival motion picture. It simply was the genuine and wholehearted concern of a wife in the work of her husband. Myrna is Hollywood's perfect screen wife, Maxie Baer and Clark Gable agree. “Nothing remarkable in that, is there?’ she observed. “Tt’s just part of the trade of being a working wife.” ““And there were tricks to that trade as any other?” “Well,” she parried, “I wouldn’t call them ‘tricks’ exactly. Let’s say, rather, unwritten rules for happiness and harmony. But whatever you call them, to me they are the safeguards women who work will do well to cultivate if they want to keep their husbands as much in love with them as the day they said ‘I do.’” Furthermore, she pointed out, those rules were ap- plicable equally to stenographers, filing clerks, maids and writers as they were for the glamor girls of the movies. Basically, all wives are sisters under the skin. I struck a snag, however, when I suggested she tell other wives what those rules were, and how to make them work as successfully as she has done. It was giving advice, she said, and she hates to give advice. Thinks it is presumptuous on her part. “Besides,” she said earnestly, “it isn’t always fair because I have so much more to do with than many women, and a financial advantage is a powerful one. For example, I could say it is a worthwhile idea to keep a man’s home running smoothly at all times, even if the woman does some kind of work outside her home, because a man’s home is his castle and he has the right to expect that much. That is easy for me to say, and practise, too. All it involves is keeping the proper servants and giving them the proper orders. But what about the wife who is employed all day in an office and still must prepare the meals, keep his clothes in order (Continued on page 105) There’s no question as to who's head of the family in Mr. and Mrs. Hornblow’s household.

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JANE’S MOTHER wanted a girl. Her father wanted a boy. Nature satisfied them both by giving them a girl who could meet any boy on his own ground and give an excellent accounting of herself. The story of Jane and her mother has been told often. This is the story°of Jane and her father. He’s a big man with the softspoken drawl and courteous manners of the * ; x 4 Jane's dad pr é South, with a quiet, deliberate air that inspires confidence and masks a store of humor as infectious, if less boister- ous, than Jane’s own. One night before the baby was born, Mr. and Mrs. Withers were walking home from a picture show that had featured Mitzi Green. “Won’t the name Jane Withers look nice in lights?” said her mother-to-be dreamily. This was nothing new to Walter Withers. When he’d asked Ruth to marry him, she first said yes and then, with her face hidden against his chest, “If we ever have a little girl, Walter, I want her to be an actress. Promise me you'll say nothing against it, because I just couldn’t bear it.” He had laughed. “That’s okay with me, honey. Let’s wait, though, and see if she can act.” He hadn’t promised to wish for a girl. “I want a boy,” he insisted. “I want a boy to go hunting and fishing with me. I want him to be a boy scout. I want him to lick that sissy down the street. I want a boy,” he con- tinued, his imagination soaring, “and I want him to be so mean that when he comes out on the front porch all the other kids’ll go chasing into the house.” “Yes, you do!” scoffed his wife. “T give you fair warning, if she does turn out to be a girl, I’m going to make her the finest tomboy in Atlanta.” The family doctor grinned over the controversy. As he slipped from Mrs. Withers’ room the night the baby was born, he came on the palsied father in the hall. “Ruth’s fine,” he said. “The baby’s a tomboy, weighs eight and a half pounds.” Mr. Withers went in to his wife. “You don’t really her the finest tomboy in | Atlanta. saa territory comslt Jane C sionally ¢ but mind it’s being a boy and not a girl, do you, honey?” She gave him a weak smile. “It’s a girl, you crazy.” Jane was kind to her father. She saved him the effort of making a tomboy of her. Strange as it may seem, she grew into a miraculous combination of what both parents wanted. She took naturally to dancing, singing and general cain-raising. She uprooted the neighbor’s prize tulips, imported from Holland, and stuck them into tin cans as table decorations for a tea party in the backyard. The neighbor didn’t talk to the Withers for weeks. In need of a spade, she appropriated the handsome sword that went with her father’s lodge uniform, and buried it underground for safekeeping. She used his new razor and every blade he owned to sharpen her pencils. “One blade would have sharpened all the pencils in Atlanta,” he objected. “Well, then what would I of done with the rest of the blades, daddy ?” Whatever he may have told her, his private feeling was one of pure content. Just as she was, she suited him better than any boy he could conjure up. His cup of satisfaction brimmed over when, hearing a commotion on the walk one day, he sallied out to investigate. Jane stood, arms akimbo.. The sissy, a buxom lad, four years her senior, was blubbering his head off. “Jane licked me,” he wailed. And Walter Withers knew that dreams do come true. Mrs. Withers had another dream. At five, Jane was already active in radio work. She had conquered Atlanta, but her mother felt that the field was too narrow. “Why don’t you take her to Hollywood, Ruth?” Mr. Withers would hear their friends suggest. She’d eye her husband wistfully. “if Walter were willing.” He hadn’t forgotten the promise he’d made before Jane’s birth, and he’s not a man to take his promises lightly. “But we’ve got our own home here, honey, and “T would in a minute, our family and friends, and (Continued on page /4)

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BY RAMON ROMERO IF HOLLYWOOD could add up the millions of dol- lars it has spent in blind attempts to make great stars of imported European actors, the sum would make some of the foreign war debts look like a Scotchman’s tips. Between Pola Negri’s landing in New York fif- teen years ago and Danielle Darrieux’s recent embarking to fulfill a Universal contract, a whole army of thespian recruits have come and gone, leaving in their wake shattered careers, broken dreams, bitter denunciations and, in some cases, very much depleted treasuries. TCH, TCH - The cinema executive, ever in search of profitable and exciting merchandise, recognizes no boundary lines in his determined and eternal search for screen talent. On the premise that art is international, he invades wherever there is promise of reward, and does not hesitate to plunder foreign studios for future Holly- wood stars, just as, for years, he has robbed our own Broadway. When the bait of a glamorous career via American billboards fails to entice the wavering foreign actor or actress across the Atlantic to a California swimming pool and mansion, American dollars turn the trick. Simone Simon’s thirty-five-hundred-dollar-a-week sal- If producers and their “imports” would cnly realize that we dont want

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ary was a minor example. In her own native Paris her weekly stipend was probably less than one-third of this amount. The same is generally true of the rest of the gilded importations. While capable artists warm benches around Hollywood casting offices, waiting for a chance to be discovered, Hollywood producers, like thirsty men chasing a mirage, scurry off in mad pursuit to lasso every available actor on the continent. _The past year has seen a deluge of foreign talent. Each major studio has contributed to this melting pot. At Paramount there is Isa Miranda, the Italian actress, noted for being Mussolini’s favorite screen star, Fran- ciska Gaal, from Budapest, and Georges Rigaud, a new sheik type, featured in “Spawn of the North.” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with the largest list of im- ported players, boasts Fernand Gravet, Miliza Korjus, Ilona Massey, Della Lind, Hedy Lamarr, Robert Mor- ley, and others. Columbia brought over Luli Desti and Dolly Haas. Zanuck of 20th Century-Fox has on his roster Anna- bella, Richard Greene of London, and Mickey Hood, his latest contractee, not yet arrived. Of course, departed are Simone Simon and Germaine Aussey. Universal brought over Danielle Darrieux at one of the highest salaries ever paid a performer in Holly- wood, while Walter Wanger (Continued on page 80) another Garbo or Lamarr, but a brand new and individual personality!

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Humphrey Bogart has aq I HATE WOMEN who are brainless cl male. type of in Hollywood who, » who are so POssessi hot let adore women who do things, ORR ie es ee 9 who can Stand up to a ae eae ae * P wrong’ when he js See B if Ske , 3 on their own two fe nh oy: pr 3 q ‘and in case of DOR A A Ly f E RT to apply it. Which ee a ne 4 Mayo Methot.” Sas umphrey Bogart Paused and ryh chin Teflectively. € were sitting at Country Club, a gay, j trousers, looked 1 Humphry ey Bogart, “There’s Somethin reg about my face — that anno ys. : Most people,”

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than you’ye any idea from just seeing him in movies. “It’s pleasant here, isn’t jt?” his frown deepened—+his story was utterly wrong for umphrey asked, with im, he thought and the role the studio wanted him to Sweep of his hand, taking in the lunchroom and the roll- play was such 4 colorless part he Was sure it would do ing countryside Surrounding it and the golf course 1m a great deal of harm. Now, as it ha nearby. Then he Swung right into his favorite subject— phrey was very tired when Mayo Methot.’ usual 800d-natured Self. Tayo is a frail-lo and attractive as a Sentment he had @ year suddenly Tose in him. He was seething with a nger. All logic and reason were wiped out in the tide of his fury the women a e bit,” he told m cally, “J Sot so mad I didn’t know what | Ww imagine that if Mayo had lived doing, for, you see, a man feels kind of ineffectual buck- : ing a great studio, €n seriously ill, and needed a “At the time me at my home, he was home. The drink? Often drink “as feminine y be, yet she me a good resounding wallop Again Humphrey’s hand stroked his chin, Then he I doctor and Save me some laughed out loud. sleeping pills. That night I slept |j “Tt still hurts, where Ma awoke in the morni Humphrey in “Chalked ut,” their I She calls him “Bogey:” he. calls her ; “Sluggy.” Lavender and old lace don’t 9° with the Bogarts,

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Eddie Albert and Jane Bryan did a grand job in their latest, “Brother Rat.” IT WOULD BE a grand thing if American girls—yes, and American boys, too—could take a leaf from the book of Jane Bryan. That leaf, I mean, on which are written down in a strong, clear hand the well defined ambitions from which Jane hasn't wavered a wiggle since she was a little girl; on which are written down the ideals which go hand in hand with those ambitions, the resolutions, many of which begin with, “I will not.” “I will not be satished with a cheap, easy success, no matter how well paid. I will not waste my substance on cheap, easy romance, no matter how much pleasure seems to go with it. Though I shall, of course, make a thousand mis- takes as I go along, I will not make mistakes about im- portant things like my work, love, my family, husband, children and home.” Ah; yes. If the millions of young people who come - out of schools and colleges every year—some of them pathetically starry-eyed, others pathetically cynical, so few of them knowing what in heaven’s name they want to do—if they could acquire some of the blessed certainty about important things which little Jane Bryan possesses, they'd be in a happier position to tackle this none too happy old world that we five in. I talked with Jane over a late break- fast in a hotel dining-room. She hasn’t changed, outwardly, in the something over a year that she has been in pictures. The combined wiles of the studio make-up department haven’t been able to make her change her glossy, natural brown hair to a shade more golden. Her eyebrows have remained where nature put them on her intelligent young brow. She wears lip- stick and nail polish and simple, straight, unbedecked clothes. There was nothing about her to cause the other late breakfast-ers to look up and wonder where the Klieg lights were. Otherwise—yes, most decidedly—she is dif- ferent from other girls. She brought along a girl friend. Not a member, as I feared at first, of her studio’s publicity staff or of the Mutual Protective Association. Because both girls in- dulged in a little mild studio panning, much in the manner of a couple of New York wage slaves exchanging details of office hardships over Schrafft sandwiches. Jane said she isn’t very good at interviews yet and she thought Peg might be helpful. I found that though the little Bryan’s intelligence goes way ahead of her twenty years, her little girl appetite BY MARY MAYES Hig Bette Davis has shown Jane what it is like to be a star—and J. B. doesn't fancy it. hasn’t quite caught up yet. She tucked into a hearty amount of cereal with cream and drank considerable cocoa. Lucky girl—she doesn’t have to count up the calories and drink black coffee. While I drank black coffee, I launched into Interviewer’s Stock Question II A —hbut I did not receive a stock answer. “You've come quite a way in a short time,” I said. “What do you feel you owe to yourself, and what do you owe to others.” “Well, of course, I owe a tremendous amount to Bette,” said Jane. She ponders a moment before speaking, which is another good idea. “Bette Davis has helped me im- measurably in the tricks of the trade, for one thing. I mean, make-up, and technical points about acting before the camera and all that. But mostly, I think, I’m thank- ful to her for giving me a picture of what a really im- portant star is like. The whole thing .. . her problems and difficulties, and all the sadness that comes with the glory, and everything. She’s shown me what I might be like if I ever achieve what she has achieved. And,” Jane’s big gray eyes looked straight into mine, “I don’t want to be like It’s too tragically lonely.” This made me ponder for a moment before speaking, and Jane went on. “T adore Bette. I worship her. She’s a deep-feeling, warm-hearted woman. She’s tempestuous and vivid. She’s the kind that starts a gale of excitement the minute she enters a room. She’s the stuff of which great women are made. But she’s a woman before she’s an actress, and she has struggled so hard to keep the things which are precious to a woman . . . and she has failed.” “Yes, lately she has been going through a bad time,” I said. “But perhaps it will work itself out. Perhaps she and Ham Nelson may even yet get back together again and be wiser and happier for it all.” “No, I don’t think so,” Jane answered slowly. “I don’t see how any Hollywood marriage can survive such a set-up. I really don’t. As a matter of fact, I don’t see how any important woman star can have a happy marriage. I think those who stick just muddle through, at best. If any two people ever struggled to keep things on a sane basis, those two people are Bette and Ham. “Bette doesn’t have a thing that money can buy that I couldn't buy with my modest salary. Clothes, jewels, cars, house—nothing. She (Continued on page 78) 43

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She has something the rest of us seem to lack, but we're willing to learn RIGHT SMACK off at the beginning, let Auntie Marshall put it on the record that, in this attempt to analyze the undeniable charm of the southern girl—and southern woman, too—she is talking about the very nicest kind of Dixie belle. Not the empty-headed little flutter- budget whom I guess we've all metten up with at one time or another, who honey-chiles and you-alls folks to death and who has little to offer beyond a cute accent and a pretty face. She is rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth, anyway, praise the Lord. The attractive southern miss or matron is just like any other attractive person except—except—that she is a darn sight smarter about men. What started me thinking along this tack was a cocktail party I went to recently. Practically everybody there was from Charleston. Our host and hostess and their twenty-year-old daughter were leaving next day for their native city and it was just an informal affair to say good- bye. Two of the daughter’s girl friends dropped in after school. One was a tiny thing—about five feet tall, very cute. Her pal, I give you my word, was at least six feet tall. They were a comical pair together. The tall one had a very pretty face, but my land, the height! But do you think she was the least bit self-conscious about it? Think you that she slouched or slumped? Not she. She carried herself beautifully. She walked like a—like a—well, like a queen, which isn’t very original, but that’s the way she walked. An older woman, mother of the cute little half-pint, arrived, attired in nondescript blouse and skirt. “I apolo-— gize for my cooking clothes,” she said laughing, “but So- and-so called me up and asked me to a matinée, and I flew out just as I was and haven’t been home to change.” She stayed a little while and then she had to leave, and after she had gone, everybody said what a charming person she was and our hostess added, “You should see her in an evening gown; she is really beautiful.” A group of us, mamas all, congregated in a corner and began talking, as mamas will, about our children. One parent’s child was going thru the teeth-straightening stage. “We were fortunate, with Ann,” the hostess said. “We were in England and we were able to get it done by an excellent dentist for under two hundred guineas.” That’s a thousand bucks, American. Mind you, these people, while comfortably off, aren’t wealthy and never have been. But Ann’s teeth had to be straightened, and Ann’s teeth would have been straightened, if the family had been poor as Job, for they realized the importance of it. Gail Patrick, left, an Alabama campus belle with what it takes! It was down Texas way that Margaret Talli- chet charmed them.

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here's the way You see what I’m driving at? The whole southern idea about wo-' ; men is that women are meant to be beautiful. If they’re not born so, they must be made so. ‘The tall girl has had it instilled imto her that she’s lovely. She has not been allowed to be self- conscious about her height. She has been schooled to stand and walk beautifully. She has been made to feel, by a hundred small, con- siderate, daily teachings, that it’s simply swell to be so tall—why, she will be a queen among wo- men. Let the tiny girls be cute and all that. She (Continued on page 113) Petite Margaret Sulla- van, below, hails from “ol’ Virginny.” Dorothy Lamour clicked in New Orleans long before we knew _ her.

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The Erwins love the races—-sometimes they win, too, and then again, ouch! THEY SAY—and you know that never-ending line of hypothetical theys—that it’s impossible to remain married in Hollywood. Further, they say they won't even let a couple stay happy out there where the beauties come a dime a dozen. But, don’t make the fatal mistake of trying to find “they.” Because as soon as you do, they’ll vanish into thin air. Nevertheless, the Stuart Erwins may be the exception to the rule—for, it’s nigh on to nine years since they said “I do,” during which time, we hasten to add, they have been unable to mar the happiness of Mr. and Mrs. E. On the camera coast this in itself is a record. However, to get on with the Erwins, their family life is little different from yours or mine. In fact, it’s just about like the Joneses or the Smiths. Each. morning, Stuart doesn’t catch the eight-fifteen, because he catches: his station wagon and drives himself to work. Each evening dusk finds Mr. Erwin turning into the driveway with but one purpose in mind—to see his wife and kids. It’s no simple matter when Stu gets an assignment in New York for picture work. There’s an extra room on the train for the kids and their maid, to say nothing of an additional suite in the hotel. Many a man would bring on his family for a few days; then, when work began, send them home. Not Stu Erwin. It’s all to- gether or not at all. That’s the way he likes it, and, that’s the way it is—just as the Jones family or Smiths. When they go a-visiting it is en masse or not at all. Stuart Erwin is the movie actor who's as real as the man next door | 46 A SPU BY ROBERT McILWAINE What do you mean, you can't stay happily married in Hollywood! The Erwins have. FRO Having completed a picture made in New York and tenatively titled “Frankie,” Mr. E. was ready and willing to return to the quiet life in Beverly Hills. “Why, do you know,” he explained, “at home we don’t go out when I work, but here-in New York, you do- | nothing else! Your friends call and if you’re working they get very considerate, making it ‘just for dinner.’ The thing we forget is that dinner isn’t over ’til midnight and by the time you ease out, it’s after one, and two by the time you’re in bed. Boy, does five a. m. roll around fast! But, | never feel low! I just wonder if | can get up! The bad part is by six o’clock that afternoon you're all pepped up and raring to go. I guess this New York stimu- lates you. An average evening out hack home is over by twelve; one, if it’s a cele- bration and that’s not often. But here! Wow, I don't see how you stand it the year around.” Our host lost sight of the fact that New Yorkers don't have to crowd into four weeks what they have the entire © i Fifty-two weeks are consumed in ~ year to accomplish. the pursuit of those same things the average guest crowds into a couple of days. However, there’re no regrets in the Erwin menage, since this New York trip is responsible for our hero broadening his histrionic concepts. Stuart, as you no doubt know, has for years played the home town hick who invariably makes good, one way or another. In “Frankie,” he evolves a com- (Continued on page 80) |

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UNMASKING MAGGI ‘ ra hd * & Abe Lincoln said, “You can’t : fool all of the people all of @ But Margaret ‘ the time.” Lindsay did. That accent! That glamor! That colossal faker—Margaret Lindsay WHAT HAPPENS when you adopt a ter- rific line and it goes over—but big? Margaret Lindsay knows. That’s why she doesn’t use it any more! On the other hand, if she hadn’t posed outrageously, she wouldn’t be where she is, and she knows it. If she hadn’t deliberately assumed her phony front, hadn’t lied brazenly, hadn’t hoodwinked all the influential men she met as soon as she began her pretense on a major scale, she’d certainly not have won the big stakes for which she gambled. She wanted that special excitement which a lot of money and fame and far-above-ordinary escorts can bring. Margaret sockoed. And then—? I have run into no one else in Hollywood who has mapped out and put over such an amazing cam- paign of personality faking. But, though her great idea for herself worked marvels, now she’s swung BY BEN to the other extreme, absolutely abandoned those tricks which caused her rise from obscurity to promising fame. Why? What did she come up against that she didn’t expect? I think every girl who's ever imag- ined creating a glamorous reputation, who’s longed for an escape from the humdrum, will be intrigued with the Lindsay frankness about her own reasons for calling a halt to her adventurous glamor system. You've read too many of those long-winded schemes on how to get your man, how to be a beauty, and how to get far away from existing-alone-and-hating- it. But here is an actual case history. oe the ‘You, too, can be a charmer’ stuff riled Margaret declared candidly. “li I really could ee myself, I most definitely wanted to! But was it possible? “I wasn’t born a fatal (Continued on page 89) MADDOX

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DRESSING YOUR ‘Opulent fabrics, huge jewelled trimming are “used when Hedy Lamarr adopts simple, straight lines as in this shell pink lamé wrap with plush — velvet sleeves. BY ‘ANN WILLS

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Es Madeleine Carroll's cos- tume has good lines for a - campus outiit. THE NEXT time a saleswoman says to: you, “But everybody is wearing full skirts,” just keep on looking until you find something sleek and slim. If she says, “Stripes are all the rage” hold out for polka dots, or checks, or a flowered print, or a plain fabric—or anything a little bit different. Encourage her to tell you what her other customers are buying. That will tip you off to what you don’t want. But don’t be swayed when she says with an air of authority that this is a fluffy-ruffles year, or that short jackets are out and long ones in. What she says may be all very true for the mob. But you are going to stand out from the crowd as Madeleine Carroll always stands out in a scene full of good-looking extra girls. Rosella Towne's tweed suit would be a fine main- stay in a wardrobe. Hedy Lamarr wears the perfect siren dress for that important date! Even if a saleswoman treats you as if you didn’t know Hedy Lamarr from Sonja Henie, don’t let her bully you. You’re the one who is going ‘to wear the clothes you are buying. And you know best whether you are buying a standby that you can wear for months, always looking neat and well- groomed though you ride in your beau’s open roadster, or a languorous siren formal to put all those coquettish full-skirted belles in their places at the next big dance. It is not entirely by accident, or by more. vivid personality, that the star of a picture stands out in every scene. If you had been around the Holly- wood studio lots as much as I have, you would know that the star watches (Continued on page 97) The star stands out in a crowd—and so can you if you try her tricks

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There’s nothing new about Clark? It’s all been told? Well, just listen! Why is Gable in the ah ke fame, art or money? He frankly and gladly tells you. him, a picture not of himself but of Robert Tavlor. The Gable gutfaws came ! No, I won't write again about how Gable is a “man’s mani,” pal of Spen- cer Tracy and W ally Beery, loving hunting and fishing and flying , nos- talgic for freedom and the wide open spaces. Gable is generous. Not only with money. He is generous of spirit. free from spites and rancors, resentments and rivalries. 1 knew, too, what he thinks of fame. How honestly he debunks’ this business of being a star. He has said time aiter time, “I just happened to get the breaks, that’s all. It could have happened to anyone.’ Which is all very Gable-illuminat- ing. But—what else? Plenty else. For Gable turned the. table on me. Gable passed by or passed up all the Gable’ highlights, the “man’s mannishness,” the love ot hunting, the zest for practical. joking. He opened the back door and took me in with him, into the. “house” where he lives. It is more important I WENT to interview Clark to know that Gable whistles “The, Gable with a distinct feeling of Daring Young Man On The Flying discouragement. For, what would Trapeze” when he - takes his cold t find to say about the man, that shower than it is to know what he THAT GUY hasn't been said before? does when he attends an exhibitors’ I knew about his days in the dinner. / Y / lumber camps and oil fields. [ The kind of things that are not for knew of his early stage struggles, publicity are the kind of things Clark his first frustrations and later told about himself the other after- blazing triumph here in Holly-. noon. It all began at mention of wood. new about his marriages. Robert Taylor's name. We. were. I knew his peoraant for practical laughing about the birthday cake gag. joking, Immediatel y Clark’s face lighted. He " oT new that Gable can take a said, “He's a man, Bob Taylor, a real BY joke, too. There was the occasion honest-to-God he- -man, make no mis- of the birthday cake, ablaze with take about that.” candles and gay with Jace paper I didn’t think I ever had made any FAITH SERVICE ‘trills, which was presented to him mistake about the he-mannishness of on the set on his last birthday. Bob Taylor. But leaving Bob out of When he removed the top frill, it for a moment, I thought I had there was a picture staring up at made a (Continued on page 100) \

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: s OFF THEIR GUARD Tea for two, at which Constance - Moore and Boris Karloff toast the latter's brand new baby. Yep, B. K. became a pappy on his fifty-first birthday and he’s that proud! You'll see him and his eighty-five pounds of make-up—but really— in “Son of Frankenstein.”

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mun — Jeanett MacDonald, of course —who is a sen-sa-shun "GQweet- a TOSy, the in movie stat- She is one- Nor- ma Sheare! dines wit Mervyn Le Roy-

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When Greek meets Greek, they open a —make-up kit. June Lang shows Jean Parker how to wield a mean lipstick. 22 a Pelt hace Le bata

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‘Walter -Wanger and Joan Bennett are de- Even Buddy Ebsen’s wife, ‘Walter Winchell’s ex-Girl Friday, laughs at his “wind- blown” haircut. When a star’s without a date— that’s news which makes Jimmy Stewart a headliner. You know Leo ‘Carrillo, so he wants you to meet the missus.

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"i 2 i Shirley Temple scoots around Palm! Springs on her favorite birthday gift. 4 What do you mean Joe E. Brown | has no sex appeal? Just looka! | aaa ene 2iherest es setae re wae icra NWeKAe ane NANAN 4 * beeetiel Si Wills and his | wife, Joan Davis ANY he *

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Believe it or not, Mrs. Crosby can get If you like male pulchritude—and who Bing into a dress suit. So there! doesn't—cast your eyes on Jon Hall. Evidently Marian Nixon and Randy The gent whose face you can't see is Scott just heard a good one. Claudette Colbert's husband.

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They met first in 1932 working in “No Man of Her Own.” It was distinctly not a case of love at first sight, for Carole was Mrs. William Powell and Clark, the husband of Rhea Langham. Meet Josephine Dillon. Clark did in With his second and present wife, Rhea 1924 when she gave him diction lessons : Gable. She is that surprised that he wants and he presented her with a wedding ring. a divorce! Can you imagine?

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} ; } f ee Nes, O/ i THE MARITAL OF CAROLE AND CLARK There’s a woman in their cards who, Canal. they say, is blocking out the altar flourishing. Their marriage lasted but two years. and they say he'd yf, “HD The most glamorous friendship on the ° In 1931, when Carole and Bill Powell were one, they kept a great many night spots The clubs are still going strong. ii ¥ She’s free to become Mrs. Gable he, a A like to be free. he + Vey,

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Again Modern Screen is the first to show you what makes Ginger Rogers and Fred’ Astaire tick in their tango—from ‘The Castles.” Let's follow them as they whirl around the floor and see if we can't catch onto this thing. Left, in an open ballroom position they go into a slow glide. Above, after four steps, they break and face each other. THE TANTALIZING as performed by the gay- | est of Senors and Senoritas - —Rogers and Astaire to you

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With hands behind their backs, the dancers do Then, facing forward, they take long dipping a slow tango step forward and backward. steps toward each other in a semi-crossover. The lady steps forward and goes into a back And snapping suddenly into an upright posi- bend, supported by the gent's right arm. tion, they stamp three beats of the bolero step.

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| Billie Burke and Alic Brady are two of our very favorite scatter- brains. Judy Garland’s getting to be a habit with | Mickey (fashion plate) | Rooney.

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- prowing him kisses. But of late, Nelson hasnt >> be plowing any kisses back. matic ability was the t= : teeth on a trapeze! — ® e oh oe Freddie Bartholomew should really be out of the red if ot ee things keep on 45 they're going. He has had to pay only Cast and 5 WY: x and has had his weekly amazement the © to fervently embr a half for personal extrava- — gances. Item number one under Luxuries on the Bartholomew budget is Judy Garland. Though Freddie could only afford an occasional gardenia for her last year, he hopes to Say it” now with bigger and better posies. Not only because of the increase in his exchequer, but because Judy‘s opened a new d him the whole- flower shop in Hollywood and has promise sale price on an orchid on her next birthday. 6 d to a dollar an: Ginger Roger tion from the countries “The Castles” go into another picture right away——4 following for “JT shouldn't be crab, though,” on the set, “I guess ’m taking my They’re letting me sit down between takes.” + brought a visitor to the set of "Idiot's De- Norma Sheare mall daughier, Katharine. light” the other day. It was her s : “7 just had to bring her.” explained Norma. ‘It's the first interest in seeing me act.” The time she’s ever shown any MEWS. * GOOD NEWS + GoopN take advantage he made the scene his ar: init.) ee sprained h (in which... On the set Boris Karloff could be sho ing faces at me.” The Martha Ray’ : but they were ad jin a very mar never been happier an the divorce and stori< ¥ mors ever,” she ad tha ee

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| Wi hoes : ores eres a gay dapeag you'll find e ddie Robinsons. one evening Jackie ie career go anyhow: was that She grabb , who floun- artha under m. sly around and finally im!’ she yelled, 1 a desperate gurgle ue etricians j werent rupa told him re ments- you on, commit! for movie To celebrate at the Co od. Rudy’ to salevy- no more Tarzan pict! pounds any- 1 n swimmi hadn't lost an . e basking- There'll be and eighteen Springs Johnny wire da ba jours @ e know his absence. vise jhusban' spinning along however- halt plock be- Evans Brown, him for peing old Ford run- of a few © i took place in a ays d an inter a private jike= flies. He x Only 4 few in such 2 My about in fr s i i 3 i he i Simin 2 2D NEWS + GOOD NEWS * GOODNEWS + 60 = GOOD NE e ¢ NEWS * GOOD NEWS * GOOD NEWS -

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A deluge of rain soaked many an ermine wrap and top hat the night of the “Kentucky” premiere but it didn’t dampen the gala spirit of the affair, Hundreds of fans huddled under umbrellas to gape at the stars as they swept up the Carthay Circle theatre promenade. But the biggest cheers went up for the guests of honor of the occa- sion—Governor and Mrs. A. B. (Happy) Chandler and their two pretty daughters. You couldn't have found two more excited and thrilled girls in the country that evening than Marcella and Mildred Chandler, the sixteen and fourteen-year-old daughters of the governor and his wife. At the Trocadero party which followed the picture's showing, the girls were introduced to all the stars and Marcella had the first dance with her favorite actor, David Niven. She was given a screen test by one of the studios, too, before her parents got her safely back to the old Kentucky home. Kay Francis was given a very warm reception at the plane when she returned to Hollywood. Burnt a gorgeous golden tan from the Haiti sun, Kay did a deeper burn when a reporter asked what her plans for the future might be, and Kay replied, “To be a good wife.’ “Nothing more interesting than that?” asked the news-sleuth, “You mean you haven’t any picture plans and are just going to marry the Baron?” Garbo’s on a sit-down strike. She refuses point blank to discuss any picture plans unless she can have George Cukor again as di- rector. And Mr. Cukor has been borrowed by David Selznick to direct "Gone With the Wind. The solution to the whole problem may yet be a Scarlett who tanks she go home to Tara. Now that the dove of peace has settled on the Chester Morris household, plans are being made for a second honeymoon. The Morrises will check the children with friends and be off for Honolulu for a month. After their reunion, Chester told his wife to pick out the largest star sapphire in town as a second engage- ment ring. Tiffany’s or Marlene Dietrich may have a larger stone than the one Mrs. Morris selected, but it’s doubtful. Which brings to mind the fact that U.C.L.A. students will tell you George Burns pulled a : Gracie when supplying There were those meanies who his wife with her late said it would not last, but John lamented jewelry. and Elaine Barrymore will soon You've no doubt read be celebrating onother wedding eee gles a anniversary, which proves again these adage eden that you never can tell. dora is a “Gracie.”

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“CAMELS ARE SO SOOTHING..: 9 SAYS MISS DOROTHY LEWIS, petite performer who thrills society throngs at the Hotel St. Regis in New York _ ““FIGURE-SKATING IS A NERVE-STRAINING JOB” Above, Miss Lewis caught by the. photographer as she does the “Camel Spin.” Following this, she may swing into the “Butterfly” ‘—a difficult feat which she per- forms on a block of ice no larger than the floor space of a room! ss Whirlwind spins, turns, and y The Dog instinctively gives his nerves a rest... Loox at the Gordon setter above —a fine-spirited sporting breed. When his instincts warn him: nerves need rest —he obeys his instincts and rests. His ner- vous system is like our own—highly strung. When our instincts warn us to rest our nerves, they are often overridden by our will-power...we keep on the go till nerves are tense. Yet think how much more pleasant life can be when nerves are smooth, unruffled! So pause frequently... Let up—light up a Camel. Smokers often say, “Camels are really soothing to the nerves!” “| LET UP= LIGHT UP A CAMEL!” she adds, “... whenever I can, I break nerve tension. I let up — and light up a Camel. Such an en- joyable way to rest the nerves!” So enjoyable to Miss Lewis, and to millions of other smokers, be- cause Camels are mild, rich-tast- ing. They are a matchless blend of finer, MORE EXPENSIVE TO- Baccos—Turkish and Domestic. — porcine Peay Wateatis HIS Copyright, 1939, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem, N.C. LOOK HOW THIS DAZZLING-SWIFT SKATER EASES NERVE STRAIN (above) A close-up of young Dorothy Lewis wear- ing her skating costume of white silk, turban of silver fox. Her skill on the ice makes her a favor- ite with those who dine and sup in the stately Iridium Room of the St. Regis. She excels in intricate figure work, dances the Lambeth Walk on skates. “If my nerves were jittery,” she says, “I couldn’t keep my performance up to par. So what do I smoke? Camels, of course! They certainly are soothing to the nerves.” “RUNNING A HOME can use up a woman’s ner- vous energy,” says Mrs. Frank E. Smith. ‘It would really run me rag- ged if I didn’t ease up now and then. So when I feel myself getting tense, I let up and light up a Camel—a grand com- fort to my nerves.” Smoke 6 packs of Camels and find out why they are the LARGEST-SELLING CIGARETTE IN AMERICA - Smokers find Camel’s costlier tobaccos are _ SOOTHING TO

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Meee bi hE VIEWS kkk Sweethearts Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy singing the Victor Her- bert melodies from ‘Sweethearts’? reunite for their best picture since the captivating “Naughty Marietta.” The music is superb, the dialogue provocative, the story plausible and absorbing, and sheer magic is achieved with the color photography. Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, writing a play within the original stage version, concocted an amusing plot. The ‘“Sweet- hearts” are not only hero and heroine of the Broadway success, but man and wife in real life and much in love. They’re allowed to stay that way until Reginald Gardiner, a Hollywood talent scout, breaks up the six-year run of the play with promises of an utopian life for the team in the film capital. Mischa Auer, playwright of Sweethearts, conspires with producer Frank Morgan and the heroine is made to believe that her husband is really in love with their secretary, Florence Rice. The team splits, the play closes, and into the story comes Young Douglas McPhail and Betty Jaynes to co-star with the separated lovers on different road tours. All ends happily, of course, but not without a thoroughly satisfactory sequence of comedy, song, and dancing from MacDonald and Eddy, the talented Ray Bolger, and an excellent cast. The gentle satire on Hollywood and the fun poked at typical Broadway theatrical families are very amusing. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke.—M-G-M. CUT TT EE Far LLL LLL LL LL Le kkk A Christmas Carol The familiar and well loved story of Tiny Tim is here brought to the screen with all the charm and warmth found in the pages of the Charles Dickens story. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has as- sembled an excellent cast and spared no effort to keep the photo- graphic and musical background in accord with the simplicity and beauty of the tale. Young and old will find this picture deeply enjoyable. Gene Lockhart gives a fine and memorable performance as Bob Cratchit. Kathleen Lockhart, in the role of Mrs. Cratchit, is entirely satisfactory, while all the little Cratchits are admirably portrayed by a well selected group of youngsters. It would be hard to imagine a more perfect Tiny Tim than Terry Kilburn, whose understanding portrayal of the role is enough to melt a heart tougher than Scrooge’s. The character of the bitter Scrooge, to whom Christmas is just another day, only worse, is well done by Reginald Owen. His characterization of the dour old gentle- man who is finally saved by the spirits of Christmas past, present and future, is convincing throughout. Others in the cast who deserve special credit are Lynne Carver and Barry Mackay, who provide the romantic interest, also Ann Rutherford, Ronald Sin- clair, and Lionel Braham. Directed by Edwin L. Marin.—M-G-M. Lr KS PRES kkk Kentucky “Kentucky” easily heads the list as the best picture entertain- ment of the month. Beautiful photography in Technicolor, excel- lent production and direction, an engrossing original story and capable performances distinguish it. Its impressive scenes are laid in the blue grass country and the story revolves about the horse breeding and racing for which Kentucky is justly famed. The picture is climaxed with a thrilling sequence of the Kentucky Derby. Hollywood will be a long time topping this offering in the minds of horse racing fans. Though the racing beauties steal every scene in which they appear, the acting honors go without dispute to Walter Brennan. As the crotchety Uncle Peter, the best judge of horse flesh in Kentucky, Brennan gives a performance that should put him in the running for an Academy Award. Loretta Young looks beauti- ful and her performance as Sally Goodwin, a Southern belle and hoss fancier, is notable for its sincerity and charm. Richard Greene, in the romantic lead, suffers somewhat by comparison. High points of the picture are the scenes in which the darkies appear. Among several excellent performances that of George Reed is outstanding. “Kentucky” is a picture you'll enjoy and remember. Directed by David Butler.—20th Century-Fox. BY LOIS SVENSROUD NT pve + x | 69

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bad seas Fe Gee TTT ¥%«* Dawn Patrol A powerful screen drama, “Dawn Patrol” is a stirring plea for peace as well as excellent entertainment. Without such notably fine performances by the principals in the cast the picture might have verged on the melodramatic, but as it is, even the most harrowing scenes have credibility and plenty of punch. The story deals with a group of men in the Royal Flying Corps, stationed close to the German enemy lines. Each dawn several of the flyers in their rickety planes are sent out to battle and almost certain death, And each day new replacements are sent up to the station—boys with only a few hours of experience in the air to their credit. Basil Rathbone, as the British. squadron com- mander whose job it is to send these boys into the slaughter, gives a memorable performance. Errol Flynn, in what is undoubtedly his best role to date, portrays one of the intrepid flyers with re- markable, sympathetic insight. But it is David Niven who steals the honors with his characterization of “Scotto.” Whether his role calls for tipsy gayety or starkest tragedy, David delivers unerringly. This performance should put the English actor right up in the front line of big screen names. Donald Crisp is splendid as the adjutant, whose job is to save the squadron from blowing up from nervous hysteria as well as enemy bombs. A fine pic- ture. Directed by Edmund Goulding —Warner Bros. **k Dramatic School This is Luise Rainer’s best picture in a long time. There is good entertainment here, particularly. for those with dramatic leanings, inhibited or otherwise. The routine of a dramatic school, the trials and errors of its students, the disappointments and triumphs of those who devote their lives to the art of drama are all rolled into the script and put in the hands of a competent cast. Luise Rainer brings to her role of the little factory worker who longs to be a great actress a warmth and charm that is irresistible. Paulette Goddard, a student who is more practical than idealistic, again comes to the fore as an actress of promise. And there is an attractive assemblage of other students, emong them Lana Turner, Virginia Grey, and Ann Rutherford. Anthony Allen, a new ju- venile, distinguishes himself. in a minor role and Henry Stephen- son and Gale Sondergaard are stand-outs in their respective roles. Though there is a romance, the most interesting sequences re- volve around the school. Embittered Gale Sondergaard, formerly an actress of note but now unable to face the fact that she’s twenty years too old te piay Juliet, delights in taking her ire out on Luise Rainer, whose youth and talents are unmistakable. The other pupils indulge in the same sport. The tables, however, are turned before long. Directed by Robert Sinclair.—M-G-M. *x* Thanks for Everything A guaranteed gloom-chaser, “Thanks For Everything’ can be recommended for the entire family. It’s a homey and hilarious story of the average American’s reactions to current problems. The small-town background provides the homey touches and Jack Haley, Jack Oakie, Adolphe Menjou, and Binnie Barnes ably supply the hilarity. : Menjou, a crooked but brilliant advertising executive, picks Henry Smith (Jack Haley) as his guinea pig for testing Mr. Average American’s tastes. Menjou is aided and abetted by his assistant, Jack Oakie, a gent not quite as brilliant but equally crooked and Binnie Barnes, secretary to the big boss, and a fine little helper on shady deals. Between them they almost succeed in breaking Henry Smith spiritually, mentally and finan- cially. But they forget that the Average American always muddles through. So in the end Henry winds up with a bride and a bank- roll while the Messrs. Menjou and Oakie end up in strait-jackets. The story in itself might have proved pretty dull, but a well chosen cast brings it through with flying colors. Laughs through out are timed to just enable you to catch your breath between. Arleen Whelan, as the home-town sweetheart, is a dainty dish, if no Duse, and Tony Martin isn’t half bad at his singing.—Directed by Wm. A. Seiter.—20th Century-Fox. (Continued on page 84) Here’s an unbiased guide to this months outstanding screen entertainment

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MODERN SCREEN SA ae lize FOR THEM \\ WISE GIRLS DEPEND ON THIS EXTRA SKIN CARE — THEY CREAM EXTRA ‘SKIN-VITAMIN INTO THEIR SKINI* SY SS Boy Teaches Girl— Nancy Hoguet gets a lesson in the fine art Most Snapshotted Engaged Couple—Anne Clark Roose- of hitting the bull’s-eye. Her fresh young skin gets simple and __ vel faced the camera squad cheerfully for 4 hours straight in intelligent care. ‘‘I cream my skin every day with Pond’s Cold exchange for 3 weeks’ privacy before her wedding! She says: Cream. That puts extra ‘skin-vitamin’ into it, besides cleaning ‘“‘‘Skin-vitamin’ helps skin health. I’m glad to have this and softening it.’ plus element in such a good cream as Pond’s.” Vitamin A, the “skin-vitamin,” is necessary to skin health. Skin that lacks this vitamin becomes rough and dry. But when “‘skin- vitamin”? is restored, it helps make skin soft again. @ Scientists found that this vita- Big Moment—Camilla Morgan (now 245 Presents—Marjorie Fairchild sails for Bermuda min, applied to the skin, healed Mrs. Remsen Donald) finds it takes honeymoon day after her wedding at St. Thomas’s— wounds and burns quicker. two to cut a cake. “‘I’ll always use one of the prettiest weddings of the season. She says: @ Now this “‘skin-vitamin” is Pond’s,”? she says. ‘‘When skin needs “Pond’s was famous when I was stillin my high chair. in every jar of Pond’s Cold Vitamin A, it gets rough and dry. I use it for the reason they did then—to smooth skin Cream! Use Pond’s night and Pond’s Cold Cream helps make up beautifully for make-up.” torning and before make-up. for this.’’ Same jars, labels, prices. * Statements concerning the effects of the ‘“‘skin-vyitamin”’ 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. Copyright, 1939. Pond’s Extract Company 7

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A STAR IS BORN—AND MADE (Continued from page 31) “From that night,’ says Nancy, “mother went to work on me in earnest. I’ve never been to a dramatic school in my life, you know. I’ve never had a diction lesson. Nan was afraid I would lose my naturalness. So she has taught me every- thing. She taught me expression. She taught me how to cry at will. I was emotional anyway, still am, and deeply devoted to Nan. When she used to tell me about sad things that had happened to her, I would burst into tears that were not at all make-believe. I use the same method now. When I have a crying scene to do I think of Nan and of pitiful things that happened to her or that might happen to her and I am dissolved in my own tears. And it isn’t make-believe, either.” When Nan Kelly felt that she had got the child to the point where she could register any emotion from maudlin mirth to cold fury she talked to Mr. Cohill, then casting director at a Long Island studio. Gloria Swanson, said Mr. Cohill, was looking for a child to play in “The Un- tamed Lady.” Why not bring Nancy to see Gloria? Nancy was brought to be interviewed and remained to play the part. HUS, at the age of four, Nancy’s career was launched—and_ stayed launched. Picture followed picture almost faster than her small legs could carry her from studio to studio. “Say It Again,” with Richard Dix, ‘Mismates” with Warner Baxter. At which time Warner said, “I never want any other little girl in any picture of mine.” There was cemented between little Miss Kelly and Warner Baxter a friend- ship which was not to end. Warner took her to the Zoo and the Aquarium. He dated her at the Ritz for luncheon where he introduced her as “my future leading lady.” All through the years that have followed, Nancy and Warner have corresponded. And when Nancy stepped off the train in Los Angeles a few months ago, the first person she called was Warner Baxter. “I adore that man,” says Nancy. And so strangely pat are the workings of the Kelly destiny that now here are Nancy and Warner on the same lot again. All told, Nancy appeared in fifty-two pictures before she was old enough to count that far. Before she was five she was known as “America’s most photo- graphed child.” You couldn't pick up any magazine of that time without Nancy’s cherubic face greeting you, wistfully, laughingly, from some elaborate advertise- ment of ships or cheese, or sealing wax. Another item worthy of any star-maker’s attention is that a star-in-the-making should be made of, not ethereal stardust with a permanent wave, but a healthy little body in which to house the gifted spirit. Nancy looked so healthy and handsome that a committee of physicians. once pronounced her “100 per cent perfect.” Nor was she kept in a glass show case lest bruise or scratch mar her starriness, as is the sad case of many youngsters whose parents have professional ambitions for them. Nancy roller-skated, skipped rope, played cops ’n’ robbers, got as dirty and as black and blue as she pleased along with the other kids. I’m sure I don’t know where she found time, but somewhere during this period she appeared in a number of Red Seal Comedies in which she was something of a feminine Tom Mix Junior, riding horses, doing daredevil stunts, making Wild West whoopee. “The Girl On The Barge” was 72 her last picture until “Submarine Patrol.” For then Nancy was ten. “And,” she confides, “I began to get a little, well, stocky. I just couldn’t continue to climb winsomely, onto people’s laps. Nan and I put head® together and held a ‘What now?’ conference. I had an idea. I said, ‘Nan, why don’t I hide behind a microphone until I get over being tubby?” Nan set to work on the airways. Result: Nancy “hid behind” a great many mikes. She was the first and only ingenue on the ‘March of Time” program. She was the first dramatic star of her time on the air at all. Dialects were like mother tongues to her. She says, “I did everything from playing Freddie Bartholo- mew to the Princess Juliana.” She played Dorothy in the “Wizard of Oz” broadcasts for six months with such success that when she was compelled to be off the air for two days she had 50,000 letters from children all over the country plead- ing, “Dorothy, where are you? Nancy, don’t stop being Dorothy! Dorothy, come back to Oz!” She played the role of Nancy Miller on the Myrt and Marge broadcasts. Somewhere during this period, too, she appeared in the Broadway pro- duction, “Give Me Yesterday.” ’ Nancy was just about the busiest young lady on the air when she got the call to try out for the part of Gertrude Lawrence’s daughter, Blossom, in the stage play, “Susan and God.” The part was coveted by every ingenue on Broadway. On a certain afternoon the producer, John Golden, was feeling very weary and discouraged. He had listened to a legion of pretty ingenues with their dramatic school voices, patterned gestures, and trained walks. Suddenly the author, Rachel Crothers, whispered, “Wait a minute, Mr. Golden. I think . .. here she comes!” Just then a slender girl walked effortlessly across the bright empty stage, with the light grace of Spring. Her voice was not the voice of a_ tutored ingenue. It was what they hadn’t been able to find—a girl’s voice. Mr. Golden sat erect in his chair, all weariness gone, and cried, ‘“That’s the girl!” And “That's the girl!” is what Darryl Zanuck, star-maker, cried when he saw Nancy’s screen test. He had won the prize Pretty as an Reeeaiaaea ‘Val- entine is Merle Oberon. coveted by all producers in Hollywood. For practically every studio in town had made offers to Nancy. But Nan and Nancy, also astute, decided on Fox be- cause that studio has fewer young actresses than any of the others. And that brings Nancy to Hollywood, to being the talk o’ the town, to the after- noon when I sat with her and her mother in Nancy’s portable dressing room on the “Tail Spin’ sound stage. F course,” said Nancy, “there wasn’t only professional work in my life. There was also school, plenty of it. When- ever I left school for the theatre, I had a tutor. When I came to Hollywood the Board of Education advised me that if I could pass a certain examination I could get out of having school on the set. I took the exam and, if I do say so, I was surprised at myself! They rated me as in my second year of college. And so my tutor on the set turns out to be a child welfare worker, whose mission seems to be to make sure that I am not hit over the head and that no one uses “indelicate language” before a ‘minor. Isn’t that delicious? How- ever, [ am going on with my studies with a tutor. “My greatest ambition is to live up to what Nan expects of me. In order to make that exacting grade I must work very hard. But that’s about all I really enjoy doing anyway. I read a lot. I’m studying music. I have fun collecting “little things,’ all kinds of tiny things. My most precious possession is a charm bracelet given me by Gertrude Lawrence when I left the cast of ‘Susan and God,’ to come to Hollywood. “T love to play with the children. Carol E. is my special charge. I act out bed- time stories with her the way Nan used to with me. When we were in Astoria I used to get mad at Carol E. because she was forever going into my room and mess- ing around with my theatre make-up. Then when Nan and I came to Hollywood be- fore the rest of the family joined us, I’d hear ‘Little Lady Make-Believe’ on the radio and I’d cry my head off. It fits Carol E. perfectly. So, when she got here, I threw open the door of my room and told her, ‘It’s all yours, darling. Make just as much mess as you like.’ She does. “No, I’ve never been in love,’ Nancy said honestly. “I’ve never even been inter- ested in any boy. Oh, I get crushes on Nelson Eddy, Robert Taylor and others, just like all the girls. But my crushes are all shadows. “What do I do with my time when I’m not working? I work! I go home, eat my dinner, study my lines and go to bed. Every night of every week ex- cept Saturday. Saturday night is my night to howl. Then Nan and Jack and I go out and have ourselves.a time. Oc- casionally some boy I know goes with us. But I have never gone out without a chaperone. I don’t think much about going out, dates and things like that. I don’t think about love, yet. I just want to be an actress. My whole heart’s in that.” And about fame? Glamor? About all the things people are saying about her? “Vou know what people say,” said Nancy, maturely. Then, with a laugh and a “seventeen” shrug, “I just think, so what? So I’ve got to die sometime, so what? While I’m on earth, if I can do anything to entertain ‘anyone, in any medium, I’m happy.”

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MODERN SCREEN Daisy got orchids for telling— &: I could hardly keep a straight face at the bridge club Here’s what happened. I ran into Daisy “So that’s what ails you,” said Daisy, when I'd yesterday. In strolled Daisy—with her whole shoul- downtown on Monday. 'dbeen shop- explained more fully. And with that she marched der aquiver with orchids. Naturally, the girls were _ ping all afternoon, and I wasn’t up over to a counter and came back in a flash with dying to find out who'd sent them. But Daisy just to par anyway. “Daisy,” I moaned, a package. “I just got you a box of Modess,” smiled mysteriously and said, ““Wouldn’t you like “I’m so chafed and uncomfortable I she said, “‘and Ill deliver zt and you right to to know?” Ha-ha, I thought, wouldn’t Daisy like can’t go another step. Let’s stop in your door. Come on—my car’s outside... .” to know! here and have a soda.” “Now for some scissors,” were her first words “You bet Modess is softer,” Daisy con- So—the truth is that Daisy’s orchids came from me! when we got home. I handed them to her— tinued. “And what’s more, it’s safer! | Modess gave me such wonderful relief—both from and she cut a Modess pad in two and showed There’s a moisture-resistant backing in- chafing and worry—that I thought a corsage of me the soft, fluffy filler. I was amazed at the side every Modess pad!’? Whereupon __ orchids was none too great a reward. And to make the difference between the “‘fluff-type”’ filler in she took out the backing . . . and dropped thrill greater, I left out my card—so Daisy would Modess and the layer-type pads I'd been some water on it. Safer is right!—Not a think they came from an admiring beau. in the habit of buying! drop went through! Get in the habit of saying ‘“Modess’”’! (IF YOU PREFER A NARROWER, SLIGHTLY SMALLER PAD, ASK FOR MODESS JUNIOR)- 73

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MODERN SCREEN HE WANTED A BOY (Continued from page 37) Hollywood’s a mighty. long way off.” She began selling him the idea “in a ‘| roundabout way,”as he put it. “Jane and _I could go out there.on a three months’ vacation, and while: we’re there, we could just look around.” At length he yielded and off they went. Each letter he received was a buildup. They hadn’t landed anything yet, but they'd managed to get inside a studio and they’d bumped into Roscoe Ates and Jane had done one of her imitations for him and he thought she was wonderful. Please have patience. It wasn’t patience he lacked, but faith. Jane was talented, yes, but so were plenty of other children and Hollywood was a hard nut to crack. When were they coming home? REE three months stretched into six. There was a good chance that Jane might get into an “Our Gang” comedy next month, Mrs. Withers wrote. She’d sung at a benefit attended by lots of movie people, and someone was sure to spot her In all this Walter Withers found scant comfort. But to his friends, and neighbors he sang the same tune. Loyalty forbade anything else. “When's Ruth com- ‘ing back?” they’d ask. “Is: Jane in the movies yet?” “Well, not exactly, little radio job.” “She could do that here too.” A few of the blunter-spoken gave him unsought ad- vice. “If I were you, I believe I’d lay down the law, or else quit sending money out there for rent. That way she’d have to come back.” He'd smile his slow smile. “Kind of hard on them, wouldn’t it be? After all, they do have to eat.” One night he was feeling pretty low. He sat down and wrote Ruth a letter, asking her what she intended to do. It didn’t seem fair to expect him to go on much longer without his wife and child. Her answering letter bubbled with hope and joy. “It won't be long before we're together again. Jane’s just been signed to a _ part in “Handle With Care.’ We start work Mon- day. Please tell all the folks to be sure to see the picture and to watch for Jane.” “T told every one of ‘em,’ says Mr. Withers, “and then I was sorry I’d ever mentioned it. First day the picture came to town, I went down during lunch hour and carried three or four people from the store with me. There was a flash some- where round the middle of the picture that might have been Jane, or again it mightn’t, depending on your eyesight. That after- noon my brother came in. ‘I spent two or three hours at the theatre looking for Jane, he said. ‘Where is she? Next day | went back but I went alone—so I could concentrate better. After that I just took the ribbing that was coming to me.” But Mrs. Withers had tasted blood. Left on the cutting room floor or not, Jane had worked in a picture. More months rolled by. Mr. Withers waited, because he wanted Ruth to get it out of her system, get it out so completely that the word Hollywood would never be mentioned again. With a second Christmas in the offing, however, he decided that the time had come to act. He would go to Holly- wood. He figured it would be a nice vaca- tion for him, and he also figured that he’d “oet it out of Ruth’s head once and for all that Jane could ever be in pictures.” “Well, I figured wrong. Once I got out here, I wasn’t so keen about getting Ruth to go back. Not that I was sold on but she landed a Jane in pictures—nothing like it—but I was sold on California. It’s so pretty out here I wanted to stay myself.” Mr. Withers is known as one of the best salesmen ever employed by the Good- rich Tire Company. He sold them the idea of transferring him to the west coast. The following February saw him in charge of the Goodrich store in Whittier, some forty miles from Los Angeles. He spent the week-ends with his family. No ideal arrangement, it was still a considerable im- provement over what had been. One day his wife phoned him. One of the big studios had asked her to bring Jane over—something about a part in a Shirley Temple picture called “Bright Eyes.” “Well, don’t get steamed up,” he cau- tioned her. “It’s just another one of those interviews. And look, honey—don’t spread the glad news around. Remember ‘Handle With Care’ ?” Still remembering “Handle With Care,” he refused to turn handsprings when Jane was cast in the part. The day after the picture was previewed, came another phone call, Half laughing, half crying, Ruth managed between a gasp and a sob to con-: vey the information that this same studio wanted to sign Jane to a contract. “This is where papa begins to be thrilled,” chuckled papa. “Go ahead and sign it.” As his daughter’s career progressed by leaps and bounds, Walter Withers kept his humor and his level head. “What! A kid in the movies, and you still working!” If he heard it once, he heard it a dozen times a day. “Well, it’s this way,” he’d tell them. a eat an awful fot.. I may not look it, but I sometimes eat as many as four eggs for breakfast. And I like ’em fresh. In fact, I’m so cranky that way that I’ve got to go out and buy those eggs myself. Where would I get the money if I quit my job?” “Why don’t you quit the tire business and be Jane’s manager?” he was asked frequently. “Pm a salesman. I don’t know anything about the picture business. And Jane’s got a perfectly good manager already.” BOUT two years ago he left Good- rich to become distributing agent for a group of eastern manufacturers. The new work gives him more time with his wife and tomboy. They've built a house on a hill, overlooking the campus of UCLA, a site chosen by Jane so she can watch the team, whose mascot she is, while they are at football practise. Last year they put in a swimming pool. A friend of Jane’s gave her swimming les- sons as a birthday gift, because her father refused to teach her. “It’s like teaching your wife to drive a car. You both get fussed. Now Jane swims and dives like a little water-rat, and we're still good friends.” “As jf that would’ve made any differ- ence,” scoffed Jane. She was busy in a corner with a bead-loom, minding her own business for the most part but moved to toss in a comment now and then. This year they built a guesthouse. At least they call it a guest-house, because that’s what it started to be, though it turned into something quite different. Jane has a vast and ever-growing collection of dolls. Her father would open his shirt-drawer, to find a doll tucked cozily in among his intimate belongings. He’d reach into his closet for a hat, and find himself grabbing a cold bisque leg instead. “When we build the

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In the end, they approached Mrs. Withers hand in hand. “We'd like to sell you a_ two-story idea, mommy. Gameroom downstairs, playroom on top of it.’ Eventually, mommy was sold. The huge gameroom, with its fireplace and barbecue, is as pleasant a spot as you can imagine. The family spend their evenings in it, playing Monopoly or a version of three-handed bridge that appeals to Jane. B N Sundays she and her father start off at nine to collect Sunday School scholars. The Buick has held as many as twenty. They sit on the floor and on each others’ laps. So long as he can close the door on them and snap the safety catch, Mr. Withers sets no limits. He attends the Bible Class while the children are at school. At eleven they tumble back into the car, and their host drives them to the drugstore for ice cream cones. Three o’clock finds them gathering at the pool. Then follows an hour or so of what might be described as unorganized water sports supervised by Jane’s father or Uncle Jack Trent, her bodyguard. The day’s crowning event is an elegant wienie roast and, as Jane waves goodnight to her friends, trooping home- ward in the dusk, she hugs her father’s arm and sighs blissfully, “That was a swell two-story idea we had, Dad.” Satisfactory as he finds her in_ most respects, he has failed to make a fishing and hunting companion of her. | Thirty minutes of sitting still with a rod is about all Jane’s energetic young body can stand. On the subject of hunting she and her father will never see eye to eye, for there she is pure girl. She used to take his activities in that direction for granted, but since she was presented with two baby deer, rescued from a coyote by a friend of hers, she has become a fierce anti- hunting crusader. The deer known as Dot and Dash live in a large enclosure from which, if they care to, they can also watch the boys at football practise. They have a little log cabin into which they retire when the weather is inclement. The day they ar- rived, Jane was so happy she cried, and they were so small that they had to be raised on a bottle. Their favorite dessert is rose petals. “And they kiss me right on the cheek, the little darlings,” mur- mured Jane, her eyes. shining. “Yah!” gibed her father. bribe them with rose petals.” “tT do not,’ cried the indignant Jane. “They kiss me first, they don’t even know they’re going to get paid for it.” “Not long after their arrival, Jane came on her parent, polishing his gun. “Dad, come with me, will you please? There’s something I have to show you.” She led him out to the enclosure, where Dot and Dash were enjoying their inno- cent lives. “Look at them, dad. Just look at them once, and then I dare you to ever go hunting again.” “After you “T?’s not only deer, though,’ Mr. Withers complains. It’s anything that breathes. We had three. frogs that croaked so they shook the house. I had to coax ’em away when she wasn’t look- ing. About three months ago I bought fifty-five perfectly good fryers. I haven't had a single one on the table. When I want to eat chicken, I’ve got to go out- side and buy it. I figure the eggs we get from those fowl cost us ten or fifteen cents an egg. Jane goes out there and pours the food on the ground. She won't have any of her chickens on a diet. “Henry Wilcoxon gave her twenty-four ducks. We raised twelve of them to the quack-quack stage. Well, rather than have the neighbors running us out, I figured we’d eat barbecued duck. Jane took one look at that bird and started crying. She cried for half an hour and she wouldn’t touch the duck. What’s more, she’d harp on it. If an argument came up, she’d say, ‘Another thing. You killed one of my favorite ducks and bar- becued it.’ Well, they went on yapping, so I finally got her permission to give them away, provided I found good homes for -them. Now we're down to two quackless ducks.” Problems of discipline are handled just as they were before Jane became a movie star. Her great joy is to see a picture on Saturday night, her great woe is to be deprived of it, as she is for any major infraction of good conduct. There was the historic occasion when she emptied a jar of tadpoles into the pool, because she thought they’d like some nice clean water to swim in. “Yah!” chuckled Jane. “I missed the show for two weeks, but it was worth it to see pop’s face.” SHE had acquired the habit of saying, “Aw nuts!” which her family frowned on. “If you say it again,” her father warned her, “I’m going to take some Octagon soap and wash your mouth out. She said it again, and he washed her mouth out while she yelled. . “That’s pop for you,’ she commented. “Tf he says it, he does it. I can talk mommy out of things once in a while, but I haven’t been able to change my dad’s mind yet. ” She sent him a sweet smile. “Tf I were a boy, could I say it, daddy?” She delights in the story of the boy he wanted and didn’t get, and rubs it in whenever she can. Last Christmas she was given a handsome motor bike. Going out to exercise it, she found that her father had had the idea before her. He turned to discover his daughter in her favorite attitude of exasperation, arms akimbo. “Say, Dad, what did you ever think you wanted a little boy for?” He recognized that he was in no position to argue. “Why bring that up?” “Because you don’t need a little boy,” she crowed with the wisdom of the eternal feminine. “Because you're a little boy yourself.” Solution to puzzle on page 8 CAROLE] SOS) LOMBARD FIRIEIDIRI TIC EILIEIAINOR DIEISMBAILIL All TMi ILIE EIDIOSMY|A NIOMMAITIES DIEIN TSM CRIGIDIAISIS OLA FIAT BIOINIAIL|D PIOBIERIT LIOIRIEITITIA HIOIL|LIOWS EIRIGIESIOIN OLIEMN TIM Ele : DIE DIRISME LIDIA OPIS MAILIA SITIEIAIRI LIN CIMIEISITIE AIBILIEIEIN THD 1 EID rIND LIAIM DIRT ICiEmW Mii NORMA LIAINIEMIGIA EIS MINIOIE UNIAM LOIN POERAISIE MIE|NIAICIEID LITINIDISIAIV SIEIEIRIEISIS EILIEICITIS

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That’s why I say, much as I love Bette and much as her success is to be envied, I wouldn't want to be like that.” SIMPLY couldn’t, in that shining, young presence, summon enough crude courage to bring up the gossip which has linked the Davis name with the name of an actor who is young, handsome, famous and wealthy. Anyway, Jane continued talking and gave me another slant on the Davis break- up and, at the same time, another slant on her own mature personality. “You know,’ she said, “I think it may be much more important to like the person you marry than to be passionately in love. Of course, I’m not going to even think about marriage for many years to come, so maybe I shouldn’t talk. No, there’s nobody in my life,” she made a little face over the phrase, “and there never has been. But some day I shall get married, I feel sure, because I shall want children. “T do honestly feel that, though the idea of romantic love is exciting, wouldn’t it be just awful to be madly in love with a man and yet be driven crazy by niggling, unimportant little traits of his, little per- sonal idiosyncracies that make you want to scream? I think it’s much more important for two people to live in sweet accord than to be fainting with love at the sight of each other.” I maintain, folks, that that is an unusual point of view for a girl of twenty. I asked if the Davis situation had prompted this opinion, but Jane deliberately avoided the question. “T read an article a while ago,” she said, “in a woman’s magazine about career girls. It said that over sixty percent of all the patients who go seeking aid from psychia- trists are married career women. The reasons for their mental mix-ups are familiar to us all. Wife more important than husband, wife makes more money than husband, wife subconsciously despises husband because she 7s more important than he is. It all wound up with the rather depressing conclusion that woman’s place is in the home. The most depressing thing about it is that, in my heart, I really agree.” “Well, what are you going to do about it, Jane Bryan?” I asked. ‘““You say you don’t want to be a star.” “T don’t want to be a movie star,’ she corrected me firmly. “Vd give my eye teeth to be a really great stage star. For that matter, I'd give my eye teeth to do even the smallest, if good, role in a play.” “Really 2” “Really.” “Usual objections to pictures?” I asked. “No chance to sustain character in scene- ; |} by-scene shooting? No audience? All those | things ?” “That’s part of it. But mostly I feel that, . on the stage, I could look back on a piece | of acting I had done and say, ‘I did that. Me. Jane Bryan.’ Not the director. Not the cameraman and the electricians. They make the pictures—not us. T’m going to do a stage role soon,” she finished. “When? What will it be?” “Oh, I don’t mean I’ve anything lined up,” she laughed. “No Broadway producer has been scrambling for my services, drat it. But I know I’m going to, because that’s what I’ve always wanted. Pictures are just an interlude. A lucky interlude, and I’m happy enough, but I never lose the | feeling for a moment that I’m just waiting.” “Well, now,” said I, “do you think you'd stand a better chance of combining fame with happiness in a stage career than in a movie career?” “Perhaps. The life isn’t so out of focus. But I don’t think I'll try any combinations,” she said slowly. ’M young, for which I’m devoutly thank- ful. I don’t want to get married for at least five or six years. In that time, I shall find out whether I’m a really good actress or not. Versatility, interest, excite- ment—there are all those attributes to ac- quire, as well as doing a sincere job with nothing phony about it, as I’ve tried to do so far. “I’ve wanted to be an actress ever since I was a child. I know exactly the kind of actress I want to be: I'd like to be a composite Bette Davis, Margaret Sullavan and,’ she ducked her head, eyed me quizzically over her shoulder and just ee Oh, for the bliss of the dietless teens! Boater Granville and Frankie Thomas are together again in ‘Nancy Drew, Reporter.”

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Maybe Pll get an awful blow between the eyes one of these days and find out that I haven't got the stuff. If so, I hope I can take it. I think I can.” “And when romance comes along?” I asked. “Career is tossed out of window,” she answered promptly. “You think you mean that, but you don’t. You wouldn’t quit when it came to a show down.” “T do! I would!” she cried emphatically. “To think any other way would be a most greedy way of looking at life. It’s just too much to hope that I'll fall in love with a man—and he with me—who will be as important in his way as I hope to be in mine. Even if a staggeringly happy break should come my way, I don’t see how it would work out. “T don’t want to marry an actor. And a man in any of the professions—lawyer, doctor, engineer, whatever—why, such men want a home to live in, not a hotel. They want a wife, not a room-mate. And then— children. I don’t want anybody to bring up my babies but me! No nurse and governess partnership for my kids. Oh, I'd like to feel that there was some way of having everything—career, love, marriage, husband, home, children—but I’m _ con- vinced that there just isn’t. And I know what I want most. After I’ve had my little chance to prove myself, I want love, mar- riage, home, husband, children—and the deuce with a career. Any female who says she doesn’t want these things and prefers her ‘independence,’ is lying in her teeth.” There. I said she wasn’t like other girls. Remember the little’ Bryan is twenty. “But Jane,” queried the girl friend, who up to that point had had no chance to take a part in the conversation, “what in the world would you do if you weren't acting? You would die with boredom if you tried to take part in the usual sort of social life. And I can just see you being the leading lady of some amateur Little Theatre Group. You'd be miserable.” ‘Would you get any kick out of running a house—beautifully, efficiently, being a charming hostess and all that?” I asked. “T’m afraid I wouldn’t know the first thing about it,” she said in a small voice. “Well, then?” demanded the girl friend and I together. H, those details would work themselves out,” Jane maintained stoutly. “In the first place, I’d have two or three children as fast as the statute of limitations would permit. I hear tell that can keep a gal pretty busy. And I’d want to be respon- sible for seeing to it that somebody provided tasty meals and dusted and sent out laun- dry and all that. Id want to be a good manager—a good household executive. Ii you don’t think that the haphazard man- ner in which these mundane details are looked after in some of our best Holly- wood homes has a great big effect on the divorce rate—you’re crazy. Many a big, strapping man is dining off lettuce to such an extent that his nose begins to wiggle the minute he enters the house.” “Hmm. I can’t quite see you in the role,’ I said. “I wish you luck. I hope you don’t run smack up against some situ- ation that won't fit into your scheme of things.” “T euess I’ve sounded pretty smug and know-it-all,” said Jane. “But I’m honestly not. I guess I’m like the trite folks who say, ‘I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like.’ Me, I certainly don't know much about life yet, but I know what I want.” HOMESPUN HERO (Continued from page 46) pletely new type home town boy—that of a jail bird. This is really a charac- ter role for Erwin and therein lies a story, but let’s hear it from him. “The story begins when we’re all kids,” Stu began in his folksy manner. “Then five years later—movie time—Wally Ford comes in and after getting in plenty dutch is shipped to the reformatory. Another five years later, the scene is Leavenworth, and we're just getting out from a stretch. Things happen and we’re no sooner out of cold storage than back we go again. I’m always around to get into messes even though I don’t commit the deed. I guess I’m just too dumb to clear out once the cops head our way. “You know, it’s a real life story. <A true one, too. Bill Howard, the director, Jim Tully and a fellow called Makeley, who ended up with the Dillinger mob, actually lived it. Bill heard about it when Makeley was killed and decided to one day do the story and this is it. I believe it’s going to be good. At any rate it'll be entertaining and that’s what seems to count nowadays. “What Mommy thinks I should do,” Stu generalized, “is to stay here now and do a Broadway play. She’s probably right, too. But, a play is a gamble, with the chances of success entirely problematical. I might be the one to rehearse four weeks only to open and close the same evening! Stranger things have happened, y'know. So, Mommy and I will stick to a sure thing for the present, and go home.” With an amused glint in his eye, Erwin told one of his experiences during the filming of “Frankie.” “Did you ever visit the prison out on Rikers Island?” he began. “Nope? Just as well! We had some outside stuff to do there the other day and I’m still not sure whether it was I or the red tape that got us in a jam. Anyway, the scene was supposed to be of us in the can—at play! We did the one in the ball park and moved into the courtyard for the final takes. When the sequence was over and we asked to get out, the guard took one look at me, shouldered his gun and marched off in the opposite direction! Try as we might we couldn’t get an inch nearer to freedom than the big gate. “Well, to get on, I’ve got a very sen- sitive skin, so by five I looked like a broiled lobster, or Jack the Gyp! About five-thirty, when the rest of the inmates were taken in, they herded us into the main hall and, luckily, found no place for us. After much ado the authorities let us go home, and not a minute too soon.” “T think Stuart would still be there,” June broke in, “if I hadn’t gotten worried and telephoned, when he didn’t come in. Even then it took an hour to locate them! He won't have any trouble making people believe he’s a graduate of any local jail.” “No siree,’ Stuart confirmed and con- tinued, “I’m pretty darn sure I'll be con- vincing. But the funny part is, I still don’t know whether it was on the level or whether it was a gag. I wonder if they think I’m dumb enough to fall for a thing like that?” We don’t.

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handles her role in as adept a manner as one could ask. Sleuth Reardon and his busy- body blonde wife sail through impossible situations with the greatest of ease and plenty of hilarity, making good entertain- ment of an otherwise trite “whodunit.” The plot again has the Reardons in danger of their lives for every minute of the picture’s sixty. People are being popped off right and left by a mystery woman, later identified as Margaret Lindsay. She’s a heartless beauty who loves not wisely but too well and when it looks like Mrs. Reardon is going to gum up her amour, the villainess plots to do away with her, too. It is only through the adroit actions of Melvyn Douglas and his faithful stooge, Stanley Ridges, that the heroine is saved for further Columbia serials. Besides the good work of the stars, the supporting cast is excellent. Margaret Lindsay does a swell job and models some Kalloch numbers and a collection of jewels that will make feminine mouths water. Directed by Alex- ander Hall.—Columbia. %&* Smiling Along The popular English star, Gracie Fields, is here presented in a sparkling musical comedy. “Smiling Along” is crammed with diverting songs and comic situations. As the leader of a struggling theatrical troupe, Miss Fields displays all the talents which rank her as the world’s highest: sal- aried actress. The story deals with the adventures of the show folk who have been cut adrift from a chiseling manager and the troubles they have producing ‘their plays in both countryside houses and swank houseboats on the Thames. Roger Livesey, working opposite Miss Fields, gives a likable ac- count of himself and the pretty and tal- ented Mary Maguire romances convincing- ly with Peter Coke, a pianist who be- friends the stranded troupe. Last but not least, Skippy, a gifted pooch, gathers his share of credits for intelligent work throughout the picture. But the show belongs to Gracie Fields. Here is your chance to become acquainted with an actress who promises to make an enviable collection of American fans as well as English.. Jack Donohue, Joe Mott and Philip Leaver as villains turn in com- mendable performances too. Directed by Monty Banks. Produced by Pinewood Stu- dios, England.—Twentieth Century-Fo.. ** Charlie Chan in Honolulu Best news in regard to this picture is that Charlie Chan, as played by Sidney Toler, is as convincing a sleuth as was Warner Oland, with many ingratiating qualities which should endear him to Charlie Chan fans. The renowned Chinese detective goes out to a ship in the Honolulu harbor, where a murder has been committed, only to find that his No. 2 son has beat him to it and managed to mess everything up, to say nothing of No. 5 son (Layne Tom, Jr.) who has sneaked aboard to see what he can do to help his honored father. Sen Yung, who takes Keye Luke’s place as the aspiring young detective of the family, is likable and capable, but it’s Layne Tom, Jr., who walks off with every scene. Aboard the ship is a beautiful blonde (Claire Dodd) who obviously is up to no good, a pretty young thing (Phyllis Brooks) who has been robbed of $300,000, an untasty gentleman (George Zucco) who dotes on collecting live brains, a couple of escaped convicts, a sinister captain and a handsome young officer for romantic purposes. Before the second corpse shows up you'll be sus- pecting even No. 5 son and having a fine time. Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone. —20th Century-Fox. s MODERN SCREEN as “‘T call that a shame, Mrs. Panda! Here you are, a stranger in a strange land—your baby comes down with a common ailment like prickly heat—and what has anyone done to help you? Absolutely nothing! ...Well, I’ll say this...” “You've come to the right place at last. I’ve got a mother who can hop to the Johnson’s Baby Powder can quicker than any woman you ever saw. Watch her come running when I whistle!” “Is that powder good stuff? Say, I’ve been dusted with it every day since I was so long. Of course, my skin looks kind of monotonous compared to your baby’s, but it’s mighty comfortable. And Johnson’s helps keep it that way!” “‘Now —never mind the thanks, Mrs. Panda~—it’s a pleasure to tell people about my powder. The talc in it’s so fine, and no orris-root, either. I wonder what else can make a baby so happy for so little money!” JOHNSON’S BABY POWDER Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N. J. 85

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GLAZO Protish Wears Longer Ask your dealer, too, for Glazo’s NAIL- COTE, a marvelous new polish foundation that contains wax. Nail-Cote gives super wear and brilliance to your manicure. Guards your nails against splitting, cracking and breaking. Helps relieve nailbrittleness. 86 MODERN SCREEN TCH, TCH—THOSE FURRINERS! (Continued from page 39) induced Madeleine Carroll to sign a con- tract well up in four figures. RKO was content to pay the passage of only one actor from abroad, Anton Walbrook, the Prince Albert of “Victoria The Great.” Having used him in one picture they al- lowed him to return quietly to the seat of the British empire. Many of these most recent “brought- overs” have already proven themselves box-office fiascos, completely unadaptable to the Hollywood scene, and must be listed as bad stocks. Yet the producers, recog- nized by renowned bankers as astute busi- ness men, continue to play this will o’ the wisp -game, for instinctively they are gamblers who find their fortunes ina smile, a voice, or the way a man kisses a woman. Always there is the hope that another Valentino will be discovered or a second Garbo brought to light. But only once in a blue moon does a Hedy Lamarr flare on the film horizon. Hedy’s sensational debut in “Algiers” is the talk of the industry. Not since Marlene Dietrich captured the American imagina- tion in “Morocco” has an imported movie queen rated the raves that are being showered upon this Viennese charmer, who first aroused interest as the scantily clad heroine of the much censored foreign film, “Ecstasy.” Miss Lamarr already com- mands star billing on the same lot with Greta Garbo and is being hailed as the Swedish star’s. most logical successor. Her career apparently is to be ‘tailored to the peculiar standards by which Holly- wood measures glamor. It is:more than a coincidence that she will be made to follow in almost the exact footsteps of her prede- cessors, Garbo and Dietrich. if It is too soon yet to prophesy anything definite for Miss Lamarr’s future. On the face of things it looks as though her suc- cess will be more than a mere flash. In her first Hollywood film, she is introduced to the public in as glamorous and mys- terious a setting as any actress with exotic inclinations could wish. She wears the atmosphere of the sexy, tropical Algiers with real grace and lets it frame her strange beauty without seeming to so much as move an eyebrow. The question is, how long can she last? Critics of the movies have practically agreed that Miss Lamarr’s histrionics are nothing to write home about. Furthermore she makes no attempt at acting. In “Ec- stasy,” she was a dramatic, lovely and innocent exhibitionist. In “Algiers,” fully clad, she is still an exhibitionist. The girl can’t help it. With time and experience Lamarr may develop. into a competent actress, depend- ing a great deal on the way she is handled, the stories assigned her and the direction she receives. If Hedy is to become a fixed star in the film firmament she should be humanized, for sooner or later the Great Public, who make and break careers, will begin to ask, just as they did of Dietrich, “Can she act?” If the answer is “no” the box office will tell the sad story as it already has in the case of the marvelous Marlene. (COLD statistics prove that the foreign stars who have survived the longest as public favorites are the personalities dis- covered by the public itself. Remember that Garbo came to this country a lanky, un- attractive Swedish girl with but little actual experience. Contracted by Metro at Mauritz Stiller’s insistence, they took Garbo into their fold as an intruder, paying her a very small salary. After months of weary waiting, during which she posed in shorts for the publicity department, she was at last assigned a role opposite Ricardo Cortez in “The Torrent.” Over night the movie fans discovered her, demanded that she be made a star—and in turn made her a legend. To each fan she was a personal discovery, and they began immediately to take an interest in her career. Therein to a large extent lies the secret of her lasting success over a period of years. Hedy Lamarr’s discovery by the movie going public parallels Garbo’s first Holly- wood triumph in many ways. Contracted by Mr. Mayer, Hedy came to this country with a flock of other imported actresses, hams and screen acrobats. Her salary This butler and maid (Bob Hope and Martha Raye to you) put plenty of life into “Never Say Die.’ Here they re studying their lines be- tween scenes.

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would hardly pay for the rental of quarters such as foreign celebrities are supposed to occupy during their sojourn in the cinema capital. Forbidden to give personal inter- views, it was whispered about this was because the studio was saving her for something important. But she was permitted to languish for months, until gradually curiosity and interest in her American debut waned. Nothing more was heard of her career until it was announced, quite without any fanfare, that she was being loaned to Wal- ter Wanger for a secondary role with Charles Boyer and Sigrid Gurie. What happened is now history. The public dis- covered a new star of their own free will, without ballyhoo, and minus the blowing of press trumpets. And at what a saving in cash dollars to her studio! Zukor and Zanuck spent thousands of dollars introducing Marlene Dietrich and Simone Simon to the American public in impressive introductory campaigns that dis- played their names on billboards all through the country. Hedy Lamarr, like Garbo, got a word-of-mouth introduction that no amount of money could buy. Marlene Die- trich’s career is now at a standstill, her tricks for keeping it alive having given out. Simone Simon is back in Paris to start all over again. But Hedy stands at the threshold of success, where Garbo stood a dozen years ago. Time will tell whether or not she is a comet. It cost Samuel- Goldwyn a million to learn that a star cannot be thrust upon the public. Anna Sten, Soviet Bernhardt, was hailed by the press agents as Europe’s gift to the American screen. She was elamor plus, twice a Duse. Nature’s composite of Garbo and Dietrich. There were hardly enough adjectives with which to describe her. By the time Mr. Goldwyn had pre- sented Miss Sten in a half dozen million dollar epics ranging from “Nana” to “Resurrection” even he had to raise the white flag and give Anna back to the Soviets. AS PRESENT Mr. Goldwyn is concen- trating his amazing showmanship on the home-grown brand of foreigners, like Sigrid Gurie, Scandinavian actress from Brooklyn, and Zorina, Russian ballerina and present star of the New York musical hit, “I Married An Angel,’ whose back- ground is strictly Broadway, even if her accent isn’t. In passing, let it be said for Mr. Goldwyn that he has had his hits as well as his misses. Lili Damita, who is Mrs. Errol Flynn now, was one of his early cinema miscarriages. But on the other side of the ledger there is Merle Oberon, whom he brought to Hollywood after her triumph as Anne Boleyn in “Henry The Eighth,” and even before that, Vilma Banky is another shining example of a great foreign star he created. Paramount and Metro have imported more stars from abroad than all the other major companies combined. Out of literally dozens, only a scant half dozen clicked like Dietrich and Maurice Chevalier. But on the deficit side there were Emil Jannings, Dorthea Wieck, Charles Laughton, Jan Kiupura, Ida Lupino, Carl Brisson and a great many others whose names already are blurred from memory. At the Culver City studio Garbo was of course the first imported actress to achieve unusual distinction. Her reign has been long and glorious, with the end not yet in sight. Then came dozens of others, men and women who sat around Hollywood drawing four figure salaries sometimes for a year, and then departed without ever having appeared in a picture. Then Luise Rainer emerged from the pack of dark-horses with accents, the lone thoroughbred since Garbo to rate a star dressing-room. Miss Rainer has since MODERN SCREEN A NEW HIGH LUSTRE LIPSTICK eS 4 ly: | / New..exciting. .daring..glamorous beyond "dreams! Twin Sisters Dewy-SHeen Lip- stick’s s exclusive ingredient keeps lips looking moist, not for moments, but, for _ hours. 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been the winner of Academy awards. So has Garbo. Perhaps Mr. Mayer feels well repaid with the dark Rainer’s success in spite of the arithmetic that says his invest- ment on the duds would hardly be covered by the profits realized on Miss Rainer. Nevertheless, on his last jaunt to Europe he took another suitcase of contracts along, ‘and before one could say “Quota” the Normandie and the Queen Mary had reser- vations for Ilona Massey, Della Lind, Miliza Korjus, Robert Morley, Vivian Leigh, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, The Earl of Warwick, known on the screen as Michael Brooke, Hedy Lamarr and so many others that it was said someone with a sense of humor and an ironic appreciation of the truth, had signs posted about the lot read- ing, “English is also spoken here.” This is not intended as an indictment against foreign actors in American pic- tures. After all, motion pictures are as international in their appeal as music. It is rather a decry against the futile practise of signing up so many continental actors who are unsuited to the demands of American audiences, when Hollywood is full of foreign-born players more adapted to our standards, and who are allowed to go job- less while producers import less competent performers at salaries far beyond their worth. Rudolph Valentino is a good example of a foreigner who was given his first chance to screen fame in Hollywood, and became one of the immortal stars of the business. Sonja Henie is another foreigner who has been made a great star by Hollywood brains. Errol Flynn, brought from England, is Hollywood-made. In truth, one rarely even thinks of him as foreign. Cary Grant, another Englishman, came to Hollywood on speculation and through persistence and SCREEN MODERN Petite June Duprez is a pleas- ant reason for seeing the Lon- don Film, ‘Four Feathers.” EEE hard work has developed into one of the most sought after leading men. Perhaps the gravest mistake made by producers in importing stars from abroad is the way they attempt to change their personalities once they have set foot in Hollywood. When the make-up experts, the cameramen, the publicity department and the studio hairdressers get through with their job of Americanizing the alien celebrities, their own mothers wouldn’t recognize them. They look as like as two Frigidaires given away on Bank Night! Another reason for the failure of most foreign stars who come to Hollywood is that the American public is fed up with glamor. We know the greatest stars of the American screen have been homespun personalities like Mary Pickford, Will Rogers, Marie Dressler, Janet Gaynor, Shirley Temple and Deanna Durbin. Only occasionally a Valentino and a Garbo. Check the box office records of these homespun stars over a long period of years and you will find that their popularity has been consistent. It is doubtful that you will be seeing Fernand Gravet, Franciska Gaal, Isa Miranda, Miliza Korjus and Anna- bella on American screens in three years from now. What happened to Chevalier, Tala Birell, Lillian Harvey, Elissa Landi, Lil Dagover, Conrad Veidt and Marta Eggerth can happen to them too. Not so long ago a bill was brought up in Congress asking that foreign actors be barred from this country except in cases when their services were required for a specific production. Long term contracts were out. This was a slap back at England and other countries where laws have been enacted allowing outside performers to stay only long enough for one or two pictures. The bill was defeated. So Hollywood will continue to have foreign invasions from time to time. Right now accents are ten cents a dozen on the Boulevard. But it won’t be long again before every studio will be looking for another Hedy Lamarr. From Paris, London, Budapest and Berlin will come a new band of foreign importations, most of them with round trip tickets. And, as others have learned before them, they will find out for themselves that America is looking for individuality, will applaud it and reward it. But they are not looking for another Garbo, a duplicate Rainer or a carbon-copy of Lamarr. ALWAYS FRESH! Doubly protected by not one but two jackets of Cellophane. OUTER jacket opens at BOTTOM of pack. 88 TUNE IN on “Swing-master”.. . ARTIE SHAW FOR YOUR ADDED PLEASURE extra choice, extra long- aged tobaccos give extra rich flavor . . . extra Cello- phane wrapper assures eX- tra freshness. TRY THE 1939 oe weliow LG Gold Copyright, 1939, by P. Lorillard Co., Inc, ««Melody and Madness” with ROBERT BENCHLEY and ARTIE SHAW’S Orchestra, Sunday nights, Columbia Network |

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UNMASKING MAGGIE (Continued from page 47) beauty, you see. I wasn’t brought up in a Park Avenue penthouse nor in romantic old Budapest, but in Dubuque. My father had been a respected druggist, and not an aloof continental banker with little time to devote to me. There was no picturesque tragedy lurking behind me either. I had a sensible mother to guide me, and I’d not only never seen a villa nor ridden in a Rolls-Royce, but my boy friends could keep me off their minds when that was necessary. I just didn’t have Paris in my eyes, it seems!”’ Newly installed in the fashionable house she has taken in the swank Los Feliz district, Margaret looked her vivid best. A cerise velvet cocktail suit cleverly com- plimented her abruptly smooth long bob. She had just given instructions for the kind of liqueur she wished served after eight o’clock dinner. “I persuaded my mother to send me to the best dramatic school I could spot in New York. But soon after I started I discovered I’d be sunk before I ever began in the theatre or in pictures. I never could compete with women of the world.” A LESS spirited nineteen-year-old would have folded up and resumed her ap- parently destined routine back home. Mar- garet, typically middle-class until then, got a wild notion. “T wrote a fifty-page, burning letter to my mother. Both Broadway and Holly- wood were then hopelessly impressed by sophistication served with a British accent. A young, docile amateur from Iowa, like myself, would be treated like a ridiculous aspirant. My only chance was to pretend to be poised. So, instead of going on at the dramatic school I should go to England for a surface polishing. Then—success, a wonderful husband, everything!” Few mothers have the understanding and sympathy Margaret’s mother evidenced. “She trusted me,” Margaret remembers gratefully. “So off I sailed on the Aqui- tania. It wasn’t as hair-brained as it sounds. I really planned. First of all, I went directly to the very north of Eng- land, to Harrogate. I picked it because it was the most out-of-the-way place I could have had stock company training. Of course, I didn’t do any acting in the tiny theatre there. I’d never done any pro- fessional acting at all. But it was to be my elementary reference, so I mastered all the local legends and names. And how! “Next,” she smiled, “I went to Leeds and visited friends ’d made crossing the Atlantic. No, I never confessed my objec- tive. I always explained that my mother felt I was too shy and so I’d come over to see a modest bit of the world. “After five months in these two towns, I had six or seven weeks left to spend in London. I registered at a family hotel and attempted to put my finishing touches on. T’ve an amusing memory of that coaching school that rejected me firmly. I went over to the Regent School of Languages, 153 Bond Street, to be coached. But they turned me down flatly, said a convincing British diction couldn’t be learned in less than three months. I keep the receipt for what I paid to be rebuffed—seven shillings, six pence—in my desk. “T couldn’t accept the ultimatum of defeat, however. I had to pass as British, and in short order, too. So I crammed on my own. I memorized the names of streets, golf clubs, restaurants. I read all the newspapers and magazines, observed the customs, watched the popular actresses MODERN SCREEN Girls guard against body odor with this MEN DO FIND YOU MORE ALLURING ! WHEN, BEFORE DATES, YOU BATHE WITH THIS LOVELY CASHMERE BOUQUET SOAP ! ALL THE MOST POPULAR GIRLS | KNOW BATHE WITH THIS LOVELY PERFUMED SOAP ! FOR CASHMERE BOUQUET’S DEEP-CLEANSING LATHER REMOVES EVERY TRACE OF BODY ODOR...AND THEN ITS LINGERING PERFUME CLINGS—LONG AFTER YOUR BATH, IT KEEPS YOU ERAGRANTLY DAINTY ! ae CUT IN? NOT ON YOUR LIFE! NOT WHEN IM DANCING WITH ANNE! IT’S TRUE! A GIRL DOES HAVE MORE ALLURE WHEN SHE BATHES WITH CASHMERE / BOUQUET SOAP...ITS THE LOVELIER WAY = TO GUARD AGAINST \ Body ODOR! 1 USE THIS PURE, CREAMY-WHITE SOAP foe MY COMPLEXION, TOO + CASHMERE BOUQUETS GENTLE, CARESSING LATHER REMOVES DIRT AND COSMETICS SO THOROUGHLY, LEAVES SKIN SMOOTH AND RADIANT ! 1O0¢—3tor2 5¢ at drug, department and fen-cent stores R PERFUME 89

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and imitated their manner. I spent my week-ends at the country estates of inter- esting people I met. “When my experiment-study time was up I wrote letters to the foremost producers and managers in New York. I said I was coming to America, mentioned the plays I’d done in England, and hoped I'd have the pleasure of knowing them.. I explained that, while I’d lived all my life in London, I was an American citizen because [Td been born in New York. My father was in the American embassy in London, On the boat I believe I switched “fathaw” into the law, made him a barrister. When I reached Hollywood the pater was a broker and I’d been born in Kenley, an austere suburb of London! In those letters I signed my newly-concocted name, Mar- garet Lindsay. It’s rightfully Margaret Kies, you know!” N New York, which she’d left seven months before as a mere nobody, she was immediately accepted at face value. She still had never been in a play, but there were a dozen notes from important producers awaiting her. Casually, she called the men who would have rudely ignored her had they known who she truly was. When she met them they hailed her as a young find of finds! She consented to enact the lead in a play and was ready for rehearsals when she was swept west and onto the screen. Be- cause of her deliberate transformation, she was much too good for the stage! “T didn’t admit I had a line until after Td been in Hollywood more than a year, until I’d clicked and had signed my long- term contract.” Sinking further in an easy chair in her formal-but-friendly drawing room, Margaret tossed one slip- per off and there was a glow of amuse- SORRY, JACK...I/M CUTTING IN. BUT LISTEN, FELLOW, WAIT FOR ME AFTER THIS DANCE, WILL YOU? | WANT TO COLGATE'S COMBATS BAD BREATH see MAKES TEETH SPARKLE! “You see, Colgate’s special penetrating foam gets into the hid- den crevices between your teeth. Ithelps your toothbrush clean out decaying food par- ticles and stop the stagnant saliva odors that cause much bad breath. Besides, Colgate’s soft, safe polish- ing agent cleans enamel—makes teeth sparkle. Always use Colgate’s —regularly and frequently. No other dentifrice is exactly like it.” MODERN SCREEN ment in her black eyes. “My line skipped me from outside to inside here, but it was no fun! You may have read that it’s so stimulating, so developing to your poise to assume a glamorous personality. That's not so! I know. I forced myself into a strange mold and it was an awful strain. I couldn’t afford to slip up once, for more than a year, and so my deception was any- thing but gay for me. “T had to be on guard continuously. I even suffered for months with an aching wisdom tooth because I was _ literally afraid that if I took gas I’d talk and give myself away. I came to know fear as my everyday companion. I no longer had good friends. I had to be cagey with everyone, and so all of a sudden I had only acquaintances who weren’t confidants. “T was forever praying no one would pop at me and expose me. Oh yes, I had my terrible moments. There was_ that night, for instance, in the Cocoanut Grove. A girl friend from my school days rushed over to my table and I had to blankly deny I’d ever seen her before. She had recognized me. Now imagine trying to so change yourself that everyone who'd known you couldn’t tell on you, couldn't expose you! “Luckily, I did get away with my fancy line. But even if I was fortunate, believe me, I learned how to be an actress the hard way. I acted steadily, with no time off at all. It was playing an unending scene. At first it was like a dare to have to be astonished at your Americanisms over here. It flattered my ego to be accepted as a cool exotic when lord knows I wasn’t. But when the pose stretched through a year it was all on the nightmare side. “T threw the whole idea of a line over- board because a line is an outmoded ap- proach to success—and to love! = TELL YOU SOMETHING WELL, AS / LIVE AND BREATHE---|F IT ISN'T THAT DAILY DOUBLE, JACK AND JUDY, AGAIN! BEHIND HIS SPARKLING smite! “Today a girl can’t get half as far with as without a pose—and what she can get she'll not want. I got in on the dying days of magnificent hooey. Id have gone on putting on if I’d felt it'd help me. But times and people have changed unmistak- ably and 1 decided I'd be smart to be streamlined, too. LINE used to work because a whole generation was raised on superficiali- ties. There was little honesty between men and women, between bosses and employees. But today men can spot subterfuge in a woman, and fast! They can detect stalling, and all the quaint gags. They recognize a poseur, no matter how hard she works at it, and then they leave her strictly to her silly self. They’re bored by nonsense. No, you can’t fool the men of this realistic era. They want us to be wholly sincere, to make our lives worth living by trying to be what’s best for us, whatever that is. “When you adopt a line you severely ‘limit the men in your life. I found that out. You attract only those few who are drawn to the very definite type you've made yourself. When I was attempting to be so veddy, veddy, only much older men asked me out. In turn, they supposed I was undoubtedly a woman of the world. Any girl who isn’t knows what maneuver- ing I became involved with! “Now,” Margaret sighed contentedly, “I can relax when I want to, and I am begin- ning to meet the sort of man who truly fascinates me. I can go. out on the spur of the moment. I don’t have to be self-con- scious every second I’m out on a date. I might have gradually become mercenary with that line, and then I’d have gotten what I deserved. ‘ “I’m still postponing marriage until [ve accomplished more. 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WAG Mr. Fairbanks’ talented son, Doug, Jr., is glad to be back after his European holiday. to drive to the beach for roller coasters and hot dogs. I can get gardenias instead of orchids and complications. “T was missing the friendship of the kind of people who are important to every woman, no matter where she is. Id always had girl friends before I began that act. In high school I was president of our dramatic club, captain of our bas- ketball team. But in Hollywood, doing my ‘stuff,’ I had no women friends any- more. Because, I learned, one woman can tell if another woman’s a phony! “My artificial personality could even have ruined my career. Darryl Zanuck told me to get’ rid of that English elegance. It’s your performance that counts now. You can even come straight from Iowa and be proud of it! So, from my own experience, I’d advise any girl to shun the obsolete line as if it were poison. I myself wouldn’t be caught dead with one! “But,” sighed Margaret, “do you know, it’s a job to turn a pose off, too? Honestly! [ve had more trouble getting rid of my broad A’s than I had getting them. And I was so into the mood of being cautiously cool that I’ve had to. work like a fiend to warm into a natural American again. I doubt if I’m yet satisfactorily melted!” Well, she’s melting, if I’m any judge of femininity! And I think I am. So her big experiment helped, and hasn’t handi- capped her—because she was _ smart enough to know when to quit. MODERN SCREEN Because Joan makes upforRomance, avoids Shiny Nose — wears Powder that Dramatizes her Skin HAT a nuisance... that horrid oiliness W that gleams on your nose! Preys on your mind! Did you know that a germ- condition often makes it worse? Blessings on Woodbury Powder, which contains a special ingredient that discourages oily- nose germs. And its protectiveness lasts, because Woodbury Powder stays on. No “powdered look”, either. Woodbury’s 7 shades dramatize your own coloring. Champagne, the very newest, is sponsored by Mme. Suzy, fashion-famous Paris mil- liner. Windsor Rose flatters pink-toned skins. Know your man’s eyes must always find you vivid. Wear Woodbury Facial Powder—only $1.00, 50¢, 25¢, 10¢. And wear Woodbury Rouge and Lipstick. 0000000 00000000002000890900000800 Woodbury Facial POWDER YOURS ...SMART NEW MAKE-UP KIT John H. Woodbury, Inc., 9102 Alfred St., Cincinnati, oO. (In Canada, John H. Woodbury, Ltd., Perth, Ont.) Please send me new Woodbury Make-up Kit, containing attractive metal compacts of Woodbury Facial Powder, Rouge and Lipstick: tube of Woodbury Cold Cream. I enclose 10c to cover packing and postage. CHECK MAKE-UP DESIRED CHAMPAGNE[ | WINDSOR ROSE[ | (For golden skin) (For pink skin) Ls 00 00000000000000000900000 Name. Address ecccccccccccccccecccoceccoosoecocsscoeoocec soso eset 91

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MODERN SCREEN SISTER ANN TELLS ON TY he had to learn about acting himself. “He was never able to take attention for granted. He was always wondering if he had earned it. He was still wondering that when I came back to the States for a visit, just after he had made ‘Lloyds of London.’ If you remember, he was billed in that as ‘Tyrone Power, Jr. He didn’t realize just how famous he had become in his own right. He didn’t believe me when I tried to tell him. “T went back to Hawaii and didn’t see him again for nearly two years. I knew what Hollywood, and sensational success, sometimes do to people. And there didn’t seem any doubt about it: Tyrone was sen- sationally successful. I ached to see how he was taking it. When I came back to the States this time, I half expected to find many changes in him. I found just one. He had grown more mature. He had more ‘poise, more sureness. He had himself more under control. , “But the thing that I noticed most, after living in the Islands, where everyone is very relaxed and easy-going, was _ his energy. I realized, more than I ever had before, what a human dynamo he is. I could sense immediately this tremendous surge and force. This restless urge to accomplish something more than he has accomplished. This driving lack of satis- faction with himself. “He’s still wary of anyone, either male or female, who tries to flatter him. It’s almost a fetish with him. It’s the reason why he’s slow to make friends, despite the (Continued from page 33) fact that he’s a good mixer. He doesn’t trust flatterers. Tyrone can’t fool me by being polite to them. I know what he’s really thinking. And he can’t fool me, either, by pretending to be easy-going.” Behind that warm smile of Tyrone’s, according to Ann, is grim determination. E will never trust flatterers, never be easy-going. He’s too determined not to let anything sidetrack him from his acting ambitions. That determination goes ‘way, ’way back. When we were little, Mother played six summers in The Mission Play at San Gabriel. Her dressing-room was our play-room. And, even then, acting was on Tyrone’s mind. Not only was he always getting me to play-act, he was always hounding the producer of The Mis- sion Play to give him a little part. The producer kept telling him he’d have to wait until he was grown up. ‘Well, when will I be growed up?’ Tyrone would want to know. When he was seven, he wore the producer down. He got a small role in the play. I can still remember sitting in my nurse’s lap, watching him. “Until we were well along in school, we had home instruction in dramatics from Mother—elocution, deep breathing, and all the rest. Both of us were conscious very young of our dramatic heritage. But Tyrone was more conscious of it than I was. My inclinations ran to music and books. I was a bookworm, a dreamer. Tyrone was more restless, more of a doer. “When he was fourteen or fifteen, he THIS [IS FOR ALWAYS, DARLING! 92 NAN HOPES SO, TOO! VE SEEN TOO MANY WIVES LOSE DRY, LIFELESS, OLD-LOOKING. | WANT ALLURING! THAT'S WHY | USE ONLY BUT WHY IS PALMOLIVE SO DIFFERENT ? AND BECAUSE PALMOLIVE IS MADE ONLY WITH OLIVE AND PALM OILS, ITS LATHER IS REALLY DIFFERENT! IT CLEANSES SO GENTLY, YET REMOVES LEAVES COMPLEXIONS RADIANT! ROMANCE BY LETTING THEIR SKIN GET TO KEEP MY COMPLEXION SMOOTH AND DIRT AND COSMETICS SO THOROUGHLY. IT’S MADE WITH Ss THAT’S WHY PALMOLIVE | SO GOOD FOR KEEPING SKIN SOFT, SMOOTH, YOUNG ! started cataloguing all the movies he saw. He had his own system of rating them. He’d note down performances he liked, and why. He was very observant of little tricks. When an actor got a certain effect, Tyrone would analyze how he had got it. He read all the fan magazines and made notes, too, on what he thought were good interviews. So that when he was a screen actor, himself, he’d know what to talk about. It was ‘when’—not ‘if — with Tyrone. “All the time he was growing up, he went in for all the dramatic work in sight. He prepared for college, but he never in- tended to go. And, when the time came, he talked Father out of making him go, and into letting him study acting with a stock company, instead. “He was in Hollywood, playing a small part in a picture with Father, when Father died. That was a great blow to him. But it was only the first of a series of blows. First, he lost the small part. Then he couldn’t get anything but ‘extra’ work. In spite of all the slaps, he stuck it out for a year and a half. And when he finally left, to try Broadway, it was only to learn enough more about acting to come back to the movies in leads. “Don’t let anyone tell you he isn’t de- termined.” Even to the point of being stubborn—? Ann smiled. “I used to think so. 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then, and there was snow. He was pulling me ona sled. I thought he ought to be the complete young gallant and carry all our books, too. He refused. I said that if he didn’t, I’d drop them in the snow. He dared me to. I took the dare. He wouldn't go back and pick them up. Neither would I. We lost them. We both were stubborn, I guess. “He has always been good-natured, but he has never let anyone—even his sister— impose on his good nature. No one will ever use Tyrone for a doormat. He’s too independent. Sometimes independence is a synonym for selfishness. But I’ve never known Tyrone to insist on his own rights and then infringe on someone else’s. “Tf he made a mistake, he wouldn’t shift the blame onto somebody else. I remem- ber, one time at school, a bunch of us were throwing snowballs at passing cars. Tyrone threw one that broke a taxicab’s window. He didn’t run. He stepped up and took the blame and paid for the win- dow out of his allowance week by week. “Not that he had any urge to play the heroic martyr. Any time that he could get out of a scrape without hurting some- one else, he would. He just had compunc- tions about letting anyone else pay for his mistakes. Whenever he was scolded, it always distressed me. But it never dis- tressed him. He was always able to take it on the chin.” In Ann’s eyes, Tyrone is “almost a dual personality.” “Most of us can’t be very practical and yery idealistic at the same time. But Tyrone is as much one as he is the other. An amazing combination of Mother and Father. His practicality comes from Mother, and his idealism from Father. “He was realistic, admitting to himself during his struggling days that the name ‘Tyrone Power, Jr., probably was a handi- cap. But so idealistic that he never thought of changing his name. PYO OTHER thing about Tyrone: He has never wasted time breaking his heart over things that he couldn’t have, that were beyond his ability to get. He developed that philosophy very early. I think football had something to do with it. He went through a phase where he was crazy to be on a football team. He tried hard, but his build was against him. He was a string-bean sort of boy. That was a hard fact to accept. But he did accept it, finally. “That may seem a small thing now. It was a big thing then. Big enough, I think, to have an influence on his whole life. It taught him that ambition, without the ‘right qualifications, wasn’t enough, You had to be fitted for something to make sood at it. “That's his attitude today. About roles he wants some day to play. About mar- riage. About everything. He doesn’t say much about it, but he’s an ardent fatalist. Secretly convinced that he won't get those coveted rdles, or find the right girl, or achieve anything else, until he’s qualified.” When Tyrone does find the right girl, Ann asserted, she won't have to put up with his acting at home. “That’s something he has never done. And she won’t have to put up with tem- perament, either. Or ‘temper,’ as Tyrone calls it. It takes him a long time to work up a temper. It always did. He realized very early that loss of temper is a foolish thing. I have a dim recollection of his having a tantrum once, when we were both small, and Mother’s telling him that she would have to take him out of The Mission Play if he didn’t have any better control of himself than that. Perhaps, that’s the answer. I know that all the time we were growing up, if Tyrone found himself in a Situation that tried his temper, he’d extri- ———— eee - HELEN: That’s why the doctor said to give MODERN SCREEN “She made me BOIL... with her know-it-all air!” How Helen raised her baby by up-to-date methods while living with an old-fashioned aunt! aS i a & pe Cas se elen, if I were you— AUNT: Tush! You’re mollycoddling the child, and you know it. Why in our time children grew up without all this fiddle-faddle. AUNT: Now HELEN: But Aunty, we’ve been over that a million times already. I know exactly how to handle the baby ...even if he is my first. : HELEN: Of course! Doesn't it stand to reason? After all, Bobby’s only 7 months. His tiny system is still delicate. Wouldn't it be risky to give him anything but a mild, gentle laxa- HELEN: Times have changed, Aunty. Our doctor says that today children should get special care .. . special food, special clothes. Yes, even a special laxative! AUNT: What! A special laxative for babies? tive, one made especially for a baby’s needs? AUNT: Well, he certainly takes it willingly enough. Pll say that much. HELEN: He ought to. The doctor says Fletcher’s Castoria has a grand taste...Isn’t it wonderful to know we're giving Bobby a laxative that’s so dependable? G+tltleteern CASTORIA The modern— SAFE— laxative made especially and ONLY for children him Fletcher’s Castoria. He said it’s the mod- ern laxative made ONLY for children. It’s on the SAFE side... has no harsh “adult” drugs. It works mostly in the lower bowel and won’t disturb his tummy. 93

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He keeps his emotions, his inner thoughts, to himself. He doesn’t talk about them. He lets his actions do the talking. “T’ve known him to hide his thoughts to the point of fibbing about them. But I could always tell when he was fibbing. There was always an odd little quirk to his mouth.” One reason why Ann thinks Tyrone is a good actor is that, as an actor, he can express emotions so vividly. F one thing was true of Tyrone when we were growing up, it was this: His loves and affections had roots that went very deep, but he never was one to make a great demonstration of them. JI remember one time he broke my favorite doll. He said, at the time, that he was sorry. But I had no idea just how sorry—in fact, I won- dered if he was sorry at all—until Christ- mas came along. His gift to me that year, bought with his own money, was a doll to replace the one he had broken. “That was very typical of him. He is such an enthusiastic person, has so much vitality and force, that all his emotions seem to be in plain sight, where anyone can see them. But that’s an optical illu- sion. Actually, Tyrone’s deepest feelings are far below the surface, hidden. The practical side of him demands a time test of his emotions. Because the idealist in him makes him very impressionable, and the world takes advantage of impression- able people. “T suppose I’m partly responsible for that—putting things over on him as a youngster. It got so that he wasn’t im- pressed at all by sudden displays of affec- tion. And I couldn’t go ‘grand’ and impress him, either, after a while. Neither can anyone else, today. “He gives the impression of being im- pulsive. That’s an optical illusion, too. When Tyrone does something, he usually has it thought out long in advance. He must believe in something before he’ll do it. He must see it clearly, in all its ramifi- cations. He analyses a lot, and very quickly, too. “I’ve always envied Tyrone his mind. It isn’t a vacillating mind at all. It’s quick and clear. And photographic. He could always look at a lesson once, and know it. T’d have to study it a while. That used to annoy me no end. It used to annoy him, too. He’d accuse me of being ‘lazy.’ “He has never had any patience with laziness, either mental or physical. He never will have. He’ll never marry a girl who is beautiful but mentally lazy. Ora girl who is clever but languid. “He's thoughtful, and he doesn’t talk much about what he’s thinking, but that doesn’t mean that he’s moody. He isn’t, never has been. He’s too energetic to make a good brooder. He’d rather do some- thing about a thing than brood about it. “Pye had people ask me why Tyrone took that trip to South America. ‘He’s the type, you’d think, who would rush off to Europe and hit all the high spots,’ they say. ‘What impulse led him down toward Brazil?’ It wasn’t an impulse. He’d thought about it for years. _ “Color is very important to Tyrone. He likes it around him. There must be fresh flowers in the house all the time.’ Ann gestured about the large living-room, call- ing attention to the bowls of vari-colored flowers. “He likes warm colors particu- larly. The tropics have always appealed to him, and that’s why. Father painted a ereat deal, and talked a great deal about the tropics, the cloud effects, the blue skies, the riot of colors, ‘the untouched display of Nature.’ Those are things that Tyrone wants to see. This seems to be news to most people.” S° it may be. But, if you can believe the gossip columns, Tyrone’s interest in girls isn’t news. When did that start? “Well, one of my earliest memories of it goes back to when Tyrone was about five and I was about four. Our nurse took us to visit some friends in Bristol, Pennsyl- vania. The first thing Tyrone did, after we arrived, was to discover a cute little girl next door. He forgot, temporarily, that I existed. I was only a sister. Here was a different kind of attraction. He was so smitten that the nurse took a pic- ture of the two of them together—Tyrone smiling at the little girl. Mother still has it around somewhere. Mute evidence of Tyrone’s first interest in the opposite sex and their first interest in him. “He was popular in school, and was always going to dances and movies and having dates with a variety of girls, most of them blonde. I don’t ever remember his going off the deep end about any particu- lar one. Or, maybe, that was something else he kept to himself. Anyway, he never gave any outward signs of puppy-love. “He wasn’t fickle in his attentions. He wouldn’t drop one girl cold for a new one. He seemed to have a knack for rotating his attentions between old and new. He just didn’t seem to lose his heart. I think he broke hearts, though. But that didn’t go to his head. He kept a very even bal- ance. He didn’t seem to have any play- boy urges. His only urges, so far as girls were concerned, seemed to be a search for companionship. “T think that’s still the way it is with Tyrone. People are asking him to give more and more interviews about marriage, as if he should be thinking about marrying pretty soon. When Tyrone finds the right girl, he’ll marry; not before. I don’t have any idea of what she will be like. But I do know that I’ll be very happy to have her as a sister-in-law. “T told him that once. much as to say, ‘Maybe I’ll fool you.’ he won’t fool me. He smiled, as But I know him too well.” Roland Young, one of our best tea-takers, rests on the “Yes, My Darling Daughter” set. ' | i | { i \ |

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MODERN SCREEN O—BEE JOYFUL! (Continued from page 27) the fact that Merle couldn’t go to her, by the fact that she didn’t live long enough to enjoy all the things Merle loved to lavish on her. For the most part, her daughter keeps her sorrow to herself. On those rare occasions when she speaks of it, her eyes take on the bewildered look of a lost child’s. But hers is a nature that rejects morbidity. As her healthy body craves sunlight and open air, so her healthy mind turns instinctively to the warmth of kindly human relationships and the release of laughter. She loathes Hollywood chi-chi. She has none of that false graciousness that smacks of Lady Vere de Vere condescending to the peasantry. She is unimpressed by her dignity as a movie star. She was rehears- ing a scene with Walter Brennan for “The Cowboy and The Lady,” a picture so long in the making, incidentally, that Merle amended the title to “The Tired Cowboy and The Very Old Lady.” “T don’t smell, do I?” she inquired anxiously. “We had snails and garlic at Claudette Colbert’s last night, and she said the flavor lingers.” Next moment her voice, polite English accent and all, rang out indignantly. “What do you think you're doing, Walter?” He had turned his head slightly, so as to give her full advantage of the camera. “Will you put your face back or shall I sock you one?” the lady demanded. Gary Cooper’s stand-in is shyer, if possi- ble, than Gary himself. Girls terrify him. He writhes visibly when he has to go into a clinch with the feminine stand-in. One day he electrified the set by marching over to Merle, and thrusting a picture of herself under her nose. ‘Write something hot,” he muttered. “No good wishes stuff.” Merle giggled and wrote, “Something Hot from Merle to Slim.” When luncheon was called, someone yelled, ““Obee’s private car.” The assistant director pedalled up on his bike, Merle settled herself on the handlebars and was wheeled off, the sun in her eyes. HE takes her fun as kids do, on the giant roller-coaster at Venice, Holly- wood’s Coney Island, swooping and shriek- ing in terrified glee. She eats, by her own admission, like a horse and loves to dance, but not at the Trocadero. Her idea of a well-spent evening is to dine at a chop suey place, then go to the Palomar, where the jitterbugs hang out, where they pay a dollar for the privilege of dancing them- selves into a state of exhaustion, where a movie star is just another Big Apple-er, ignored unless she steps on their feet. Her studio held its annual picnic re- cently. The stars were asked to attend. Some of them dropped by for half an hour. Merle arrived at eleven and stayed till three, not as her good deed for the day, but because she couldn’t tear herself away. She ate hot dogs and hamburgers and spilled soda pop down the front of her dress. She howled when they put Sam Goldwyn into the jail house for coming late—the jail house being an ancient con- traption on wheels that you have to buy your way out of. an you dance 1 HOUR AND 34 MINUTES without tiring? Lively people are gay, interesting partners in every kind of activity. Their energy lends them charm and personality. The energy of the body comes chiefly from Dextrose, which is the primary ‘“‘fuel”’ sugar of the body. Baby Ruth candy, so pure and delicious, is rich in Dextrose—rich in real food energy. You'll enjoy Baby Ruth—and you'll find it helps you to forestall fatigue. CURTISS CANDY COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, OTTO SCHNERING, President A baseball game was in progress. ‘““What the dickens is baseball?” They tried to ex- plain it, she tried to understand it, and finally wailed, “I’m just an English ignora- mus,” and gave it up. Strong hands seized her, dumped her into the jail house, and wheeled her, squealing, round the park. “Fifty cents to get out.” “Ride me round again,” she offered, “and [ll give you a buck.” She had sent her two maids to the picnic, and ieft them there when she went home to prepare for a dinner party at Norma Shearer’s that evening. She couldn’t find the shampoo, she couldn’t find the towels, she couldn’t find the makings for a cup of tea. She soothed her feelings by carrying on a dialogue with herself. “Blast it, why did I let them stay?” “Blast it, why shouldn’t you let them stay and whip up enough gumption to find out where things are kept in your own house?” She left a pathetic little note propped up on her dressing table, asking them please to tidy up her room. She found a note from them on her return, thanking her for the lovely day they’d had. Hilda is the cook; Frances, the maid. She brought them with her from England, “because I like them and they like me and it’s nice to have friendly people around.” Since they’re strangers in a strange land, she feels a special responsibility for them. She sends them out with the chauffeur to see the sights. She is often at Norma Shearer’s for dinner, and when Norma plans to show a picture in the evening, she asks for permission to have Hilda and

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You will be amazed at the results. Approved by Good Housekeeping Bureau. LOVALON the 4 purpose vegetable Hair Rinse 96 5 rinses 25¢ at drug and department stores. 2 rinse size at I0¢ stores. MODERN SCREEN Frances come over. They seek her expert advice as to dancing places, and come home to tell her, “Oh, miss, when we get back to England, they’ll think we’re mad if we dance like that.” As between California and London, her heart is torn. Her friends in both places are legion. A sun-worshipper and fresh- air fiend, she revels in the outdoor beauties of the south. She lives at the beach in a house rented from Norma Talmadge, and the beach is her happy hunting ground. On working days she gets up at six to swim. On non-working days, she swims and lies in the sun and goes up and down the beach to visit her neighbors, the Goetzes, the Zanucks, Norma Shearer. She walks in the sand by preference. When her shoes get full of it, she takes them off. When it sifts through her stockings, she takes them off. When it gets between her toes, she wriggles them and feels simply elegant. But London is her home. It’s the place her people came from, it’s the place where her beloved house is. She was frantic be- cause she had to leave while the house was in process of renovation. She sends long cables describing to the last fraction of a detail how she wants her curtains hung. She sighs, “Those lucky contractors. They can walk up my beautiful staircase, and I can't.” To no picture has she looked for- ward with greater eagerness than to “Wuthering Heights,’ the next on her schedule. Yet, even “Wuthering Heights” has taken on something of the guise of a dragon, looming inexorably between her- self and her house. pone is also the home of Alexan- der Korda. What Korda means to Merle can only be guessed at. Their friendship blossomed during the period of her last stay in London, during the period when so many things happened to her, when after her illness she made “The Divorce of Lady X” and “Over the Moon” for him. That, at least, is the supposition. Hollywood, the world’s best smeller- outer of romance existent and non-existent, suspected nothing till the slender Hun- garian, with his sensitive face and great personal charm, arrived a couple of months ago, ostensibly on business only. He and Merle were constantly together, taking candid joy in each other’s company. The air bristled with questions, which remain unanswered. The principals smile and keep their mouths shut, the curious con- tinue to burst with curiosity, but the only conclusion safely to be drawn is_ that Korda and Miss Oberon are excellent friends, and that she’s looking forward to making “Lady Hamilton” with him when she goes back to England. Her extravagances are jewels and fur coats. She loathes imitations and will wear only genuine stones, contending, rea- sonably enough, that they’re not really an extravagance at all, but a canny invest- ment. She offers no such alibi in vindi- cation of her passion for fur coats. “I love them,’ she admits, “for themselves.” Otherwise, her interest in clothes is that of any woman. She doesn’t go in for frip- peries and, in Hollywood, at any rate, fol- lows the fashion of informality. “Dress up and be glamorous, Merle,” begged a publicity woman who was bringing an im- portant newspaper representative to call on her. Merle appeared in a dirndl, look- ing all of twelve. The newspaper man, needless to say, was enchanted. When she does dress up at night in something slinky, she is not immediately recognizable to her friends. “Is it you or your aunt?” they’ll inquire sarcastically. She’s a cinch for puppies and_ babies. She pines to adopt every stray she meets up with, and compromises by feeding them SO DIES We'd risk breaking a few of our own bones if we could look as cute as Mary Carlisle does on skis. crackers and milk, and sending them off _by private car to The Tailwaggers. She owns two noble Dalmatians. Unable to take them to England because of the quar- antine laws, she was forced to leave them behind in kennels. En route to Holly- wood, she drove her traveling companion crazy. ‘Do you think they'll know me? If they don’t know me, I’m going to turn around and go right back home.” Not only did they know her. By some sixth sense they’d got wind of her com- ing, broken loose from the kennels, torn madly down the Santa Monica beach and leaped her own gate in time to welcome her home. One of her favorite babies is Katharine Thalberg. “Likewise the other way round,” as the grip put it. They call on-each other, they tell each other stories, they admire each other’s clothes. D 9 - PES € Katharine’s mother came in one day to find them both crosslegged on the floor, identical blue ribbons, supplied ‘by. Merle, holding their curls in place. Katharine was handing Merle colored beads from a bow] in her lap. Merle was stringing them and listening to a complicated tale of how Dopey had caught cold and couldn’t find his handkerchief. ‘Which of you two is the baby?” Norma asked. Merle looked at Katharine, Katharine looked at Merle, and they both giggled.

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That is fairly easy. Our heroine is put in a simple dark dress or suit, beautifully fitted, with a little white schoolgirl collar or a crisp lingerie blouse, and the idle rich are fairly smothered in lavish fabrics, drapery, intricate shirring. Their clothes may be very beautiful and within the realm of good taste, but, by contrast, she will be as refreshing as a hamburger after a round of parties that offer nothing more sub- stantial than caviar and champagne. There is a lot to be said for girlish innocence in clothes, but I don’t need to tell you. Just imagine how ridiculous even the haunt- ingly-lovely Hedy Lamarr would look if she broke into a broad grin and tried to hop into a rumble seat. F your clothes are going to help you be the star of your crowd, you are going to have to do some home work, as well as some careful shopping. Your clothes must first be suitable, then becoming, then smart, then different from what the girls around you are wearing. If that all sounds very difficult, just keep it in the back of your mind while you go to see some pic- tures. And suddenly you will discover that the clothes girls wear in pictures illustrate those very points. When the scenario of a picture is fin- ished it is sent to the wardrobe depart- ment, and, before the chief designer dis- cusses her costumes with a star, he figures out what sort of girl she is playing, in what locale, what action is called for, and then what styles are best for her. That is what you must do for yourself. But I am going to ask you to skip lightly right past the question, “What sort of girl am I?” and take up, “What do I want to be?” Maybe, struggle as you will against it, you are a blunt sort of person with a strong will, and you want to be willowy and poised and softly-appealing. Clothes can help you. First, choose fabrics that are soft and smooth, then choose lines that are curved rather than straight—a round neck rather than a V; a shirred bodice in preference to the shirtmaker type; a gathered or pleated skirt with graceful fullness rather than a plain gored one. Maybe you are a quiet, droll, inconspicu- ous sort, and you long to be more definite. Simple tailored lines, sharp color contrasts will give you a big lift. Now—what is your setting? Do you fall out of bed, hurl your clothes on and dash off to early classes—either as pupil or teacher? Do you work in an office, travelling in buses or street cars? Do you go to market, have lunch with the young- sters home from school and then go to a bridge club? Whatever activities fill the major part of your day should dictate the choice of an outfit that will be the main- stay of your wardrobe. If you are off to school, a casual sports outfit is a good choice. 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He” BLONDEX “THE BLONDE HAIR “SHAMPOO | MODERN SCREEN almost wrist-length jacket, require height to carry them gracefully. The extreme simplicity of this outfit matches the seren- ity and directness of her temperament. Madeleine is an anti-gadget girl. And, be- cause she is essentially a soft and luxurious sort of person, the fabric is a soft flannel. Madeleine Carroll wears this costume in “Café Society.” Simple and unadorned as it is, you will find that it helps her to stand out in the scenes where she wears it. For the girl who is brisk and active and energetic, take a look at the herring-bone tweed three-piece suit that Rosella Towne wears in “Adventures of Jane Arden.” Closely-fitted, slim as a reed, here is a suit that is wonderfully practical as well as smart. A girl could travel in it by air, by train, by subway—and arrive at her destination immaculately well-groomed. Vivid-colored accessories should be worn with such a suit, if you are inclined to be neutral in coloring, but Rosella is such a vivid personality herself that she can wear black accessories without looking in the least dull or grim. . You will notice that the jacket is quite short and snug, while Madeleine Carroll’s is boxy and longer. Which is the fashion? Both. ae time is long since past when Paris dictated that jackets should be a cer- tain style or length, and skirts pleated or plain, and women took it to heart. Holly- wood has made it possible for women to wear whatever is most becoming to them and yet feel in the height of fashion. The two fashion centers borrow from each other, and it takes time. Paris coutourieres have their showings four times a year, as ever before, at which they introduce radical changes in fashion. Hollywood designers dress stars, not in the mode that was launched in Paris last week, but in whatever is most becoming, so that when the picture is shown six months or even a year later, players will look beautiful and chic, but not dated. Sometimes months after a picture is made, a Paris designer will see it and copy a sleeve or a hat or the drapery of an evening gown. Sometimes a Hollywood designer will read in a cable from Paris that huge jewelled trimming is being used, and decide it is a refreshing change for glamor girls to have jewels on their dresses instead of their wrists. This division of authority is all to the good for you and me. We don’t feel out of date every time some new Paris whimsy comes along. We can observe what the fashion creators in both places are up to, and select what will pep us up most. In both places designers ‘are clinging to exaggerated shoulders. They are not only built out, but up—the better to make hips look won- derfully slim. Hats perch forward and have something to give them height, an upturned brim or trimming that points to the sky. Clothes are more colorful, and instead of having all your accessories match, it is a new idea to have them in two colors. For instance, hat, handbag, and shoes may be blue, gloves and belt or scarf a purplish tone. Browns and yellows can be mixed equally well. At Palm Springs and in the Southern states that are already sunny and warm, a fashion has been introduced that will probably sweep the country. You may want to be the first of your crowd to take it up—and the first to drop it as soon as it ceases to set you apart. This new mode is to match some of your accessories to your lipstick, some to your eye shadow, and some to your face powder. With white or black dresses, beige or gray suits, it is most effective. Match your stockings and your handkerchiefs to the shade of your face powder; get hat, gloves, and maybe shoes to match your eye shadow; then) carry a handbag that matches your lipstick. One girl in Hollywood whose cleverness | and smartness far exceeds her clothes. budget could not afford a lot of new acces- | sories, but she achieved the same colorful } effect by using ribbons in the three colors as a belt on a white sports dress. And | chiffon handkerchiefs knotted together as a girdle on a chiffon evening dress. | But before I put you up to any such tricks as that, let me ask if you have one | absolute knockout siren dress in your ward- j robe. Every girl ought to have one for the sake of her morale, and for the sake of that big moment that may be just ahead | for her. And she should never—let me re- | peat it, never—add a gadget to a dress like that. A siren dress may have one lavish spot of trimming, like the heavily- jeweled bib on the dress Hedy Lamarr is wearing on page 49, but with such a dress: there must be no hair ornaments, no brace- . lets to distract from its svelte simplicity. | And now that that fatal word svelte has crept in, let me ask if you plan your | clothes from the skin out, or just put them on over whatever you are accustomed to wearing. If your clothes do not fit smooth- ly, without ever a budge or a ripple, you are not taking advantage of all the ward- | robe helps that are right at hand. Avail- | able in shops all over the country at very moderate prices are the sort of underwear | and girdles that cling to the streamlined figures of the stars. Maybe you love | satin and lace, ruffles and monograms, em- | broidery and frills. You can have them in nightgowns and negligees. When it comes | to underwear, the simpler the better. “The simpler, the better” is a good slogan | for you to adopt every time you go shop- | ping, particularly if your budget is very limited. Classic pumps or sandals with medium heels are appropriate to wear with all outfits except evening dresses. Get | those first, and then add all the giddy open- work toes for evening, wedge-heeled flats for sports clothes, and spike-heeled pumps to wear with afternoon dresses as you can afford them. Plan your wardrobe around certain basic colors, so that one set of accessories can do multiple duty. And don't forget to observe what your friends are up to in the way of dress innovations, so that you can do something quite different. [® you just notice the general effect oi what women are wearing, and don’t re- member details—as many women don’t— here is a very pleasant way to train your fashion eye. Take a copy of Mopern | ScreEN and turn to the candid camera shots of Hollywood parties. Who stands | out in each picture, and why? J have just been looking at an issue several months old, and I find that Joan Bennett and Barbara Stanwyck were con- sistent standouts at huge gatherings where practically all of Hollywood was on dress parade. All the other women present at the party where Joan took the sartorial honors were practically submerged in ruffles and lace, flowers and jewelry, bouffant skirts or puffed sleeves. Joan’s dress had a very low-cut V bodice, fitted smooth as could . be, and there wasn’t a particle of trim. | ming to distract from the sophisticated ' elegance of her dress. At the party where | Barbara shone, the other women wore ' low-cut, sleeveless dresses, and looked very worldly. Barbara wore a frosty-white jacket over her dark dress and looked very much like a little girl at her first party. Next month I will tell you about some exciting new Spring fashions—some new motion pictures that should be a required course for the girl who wants to dress effectively—and do you want me to tell you how certain stars go about planning their wardrobes? Which one would you like to hear about first?

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BETWEEN YOU 'N’ ME (Continued from page 15) or something that might have been hap- pening in our very own home. Alan Mowbray, I am sure that all your fans salute you for the superbly comic per- formance you gave in “There Goes My Heart.’ We want more pictures with you in them—Blanche Grossman, New York City. $1.00 Prize Poem Ann Sheridan Ann—so gay and blithesome, Bright and debonair, Willowy and lithesome, Radiantly fair. Though your role be tragic, Though your role be gay, There is always magic, In whatever part you play. In the days of flapper girls, I thought my visioned dream Was just a glimpse of Clara Bow, As brought upon the screen. A scene with Lombard held some zest, Grand was a part with Dunne; But tops for me o’er all the rest, Is Annie—ten to one. Crawford, Colbert, Garbo too, All held me in their day. And certainly I can’t omit That buxom gal called Mae. But now those lovely creatures, Have lost for me their thrall For you combine the features, And glamor of them all. —Mrs. Marylin Boiski, Milwaukee, Wis. $1.00 Prize Letter “Men with Wings” Give us more pictures like “Men With Wings.” It will remain in my memory as one of the finest pictures ever made. This mighty air drama was a perfect blend of comedy, romance and action. When one’s throat tensed, one’s eyes went out of focus, then a bit of comedy intervened and eased the pain of sadness. I believe people like to be touched by a good film. When the actors move one to the point where the eyes blur and the throat tightens, they are good. The story was true and plausible—the kind we need more of. All in all my hat is off to the director and the entire cast of “Men With Wings” for their sparkling contribution to America’s list of truly great pictures !— Jack Rohrer, Cedar Rapids, Ia. DEANNA DURBIN TALKS— FOR GIRLS ONLY! in April MODERN SCREEN MODERN SCREEN *Tda Lupino and Warren William in a Columbia production based on the exploits of “THE LONE WOLF”. ‘Romance is sweeter when HANDS feel soft; says Hand Skin, ill-supplied with Moisture, Uf ly (Lovely Hollywood Star) suffers from Winter Dryness’ OLLYWOOD HANDS”, girls call them —the soft hands whose touch is delightful! Even busy girls can have them! shin moisture-glands are less active in winter; water, ae and cold tend to dry out your hands. Then’s when roughness and chapping threaten. But Jergens Lotion supple- ments the insufficient natural ON NEW FACE CREAM— Jergens All- Purpose Face Cream—gives special help against dry skin. 50¢, 25¢, 10¢. LONON JerGENS | e : : I moisture; helps do beautifying and softening work for your hand skin. Doctors have experience. To soften and smooth rough skin many physi- clans use 2 fine ingredients you have in Jergens Lotion. Regular use prevents chapping. Never sticky! Get Jergens to- day. Only 50¢, 25¢, 10¢, $1.00. FREE: J GENEROUS SAMPLE and BOOKLET ON HAND CARE The Andrew Jergens Co., 1651 Alfred St. Cincinnati, O., (In Canada: Perth, Ont.) I want to see for myself how Jergens Lotion helps to make my hands smooth, soft and white. Please send your generous free sample of Jergens! Name. (PLEASE PRINT) Street City. State. at

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Warrior Queen wins with smile! Roman soldiers feared her— but admired her beautiful smile. Her teeth were kept sound and sparkling by exer- cise on rough, chewy foods. We moderns eat soft foods that fail to give our teeth enough healthful exercise. HELPS KEEP TEETH WHITE YOUR TEETH NEED DENTYNE! Dentyne, the “chewier” gum, gives your mouth and teeth the invigorat- ing exercise they need. Stimulates healthy circulation of the blood in gums and teeth-roots—and increases the flow of cleansing saliva. Helps keep your teeth cleaner, healthier, more lustrous white. FOR SHEER PLEASURE, TASTE THAT FLAVOR! You'll find it a delight as well as a sensible health habit to chew Dentyne daily — its spicy flavor is so delicious, so lastingly good! The flat package (exclusive Dentyne feature) slides neatly into your pocket or purse —a treat always in reach. DENTYNE DELICIOUS CHEWING GUM 100 MODERN SCREEN THAT GUY GABLE (Continued from page 50) mistake about what Clark said. I caught a glimpse of a hitherto only partially- revealed facet of Clark Gable. For however much a man may disparage his own fame, he can seldom stand by with equanimity and see that fame challenged by another, younger man. So he really is, I thought, totally devoid of professional jealousy. Never before has he been face to face with any serious rivalry. For Bob Taylor is Clark’s greatest “menace.” Unless statutes have changed, Shirley Temple is No. 1 Box Office star, Astaire and Rogers, as a team, come sec- | ond. Clark comes third. Taylor, fourth. Which means that Gable ranks first among the men, Taylor second. A _ precarious position for both. ‘Taylor is the first young man to rise from the ranks and challenge the supremacy of Gable. CLARK, then, by all the tenets of troup- ing should fear Bob, resent him, en- deavor to continue to top him and out-rival him. Yet Gable used his own interview time to talk about Taylor. He talked of the sportsmanship and regular-fellowness of Taylor. He even worries about the boy’s career. He doesn’t know that he is getting the right kind of parts. Bob is, Clark declared, more than good looking. He’s got a head on his shoulders and a brain in that head. “And he deserves a lot more credit,” Clark said, “for not losing his head than I ever did. I had to work long and hard before I got the breaks. He didn’t. He just got a break and there he was, up tops. He’s kept his head level like the sound sport he is. “T’d like to see Bob play the kind of parts I've had. What he needs is to get all mussed up, get grease on his face and in his hair. He should be allowed to scrape off the make-up and go to town as he is. I'd like to play in a picture with him. I’ve been to the front office and suggested that they star us together in some kind of a story where we could play brothers. It’s a question, however, of finding a story.” “But they'll kill him,’ Clark was saying, “Sf they keep on stressing his looks, the romantic stuff to the exclusion of all else. Taylor isn’t like that. He’s got what it takes. Even without that pan, he’d be good. He can go on forever if they give him the stuff that endures.” “No professional jealousy at all,’ I re- marked, as a statement of fact. “Not a molecule,” grinned Clark. “The more men there are on the lot, the better I like it. When I first eame here, there were only Bob Montgomery and me to carry most of the male roles. Kept us hopping like overworked mosquitos. It was awful. Now there are five men to distribute parts among—Montgomery, Spencer Tracy, Bill Powell, Taylor and me. The more the work is divided up the more time I have to myself.” I made another statement of fact. ‘Not interested in fame,” I said. “Not even now. No desire to hog the limelight.” Clark answered as I knew he would. Less interested in fame than ever, he said. The money’s the thing. He never goes to pre- views or openings. He never reads his own reviews unless they pan him. He said, “I don’t have a good time tear- ing to night clubs and places. So why go in for it? I prefer dinner in my room, a good book, unless I can be with a few people I know and like, can have some fun playing backgammon, chatting, or singing off key—I’m quite a master of the latter. “The things that get under my skin,” Clark continued, “are what are called the ‘little things.’ But they’re the big things to me. They’re the things I’ll remember to tell my great-grandchildren when they say to me, ‘Tell us, Grand-pop, what was it like to be a moom pitcher star in the olden days?’ “TIL tell ’em about the fan mail. And about the letters I value now. And they are the letters from kids asking how I keep in physical condition. There is sense to those letters. “There was the mother who named her son after me and wrote and told me why. I got a wallop right in the solar plexus out of that. That wasn’t one of those transient things. That was for keeps. She named her son Clark Gable and she had to stay with it. She couldn’t change his name to something else tomorrow. There was the tribute of the time element to that. “There was the scene in one of my pic- tures which brought a divorced couple to- gether. That was really something. That actually knitted something that was broken. “There was the dear old lady, half blind, who knitted me a cap to wear while making up. She took her time and money to do that for me. She didn’t want anything in return, not even an autograph. There was the chap who sent me the gold latch key so that I could distinguish it from other keys in the dark. There was thoughtful- ness in that. |p Bee don’t ask anything in return, the folks who do this sort of thing. They put it on the premise that I happen to give them entertainment, lighten the load a bit. And these are the things I appreciate. These are the kind of things,” Clark said, “that make up the business of living. You can’t eat fan mail. You can’t sleep in the box office or on an electric light sign. You live with comfortable things like latch keys and fellows who give you a hand when you're in a jam. “T’m a putterer at heart, I guess. I like to monkey around with things. I spend more time fussing over my horse’s feed than feeding myself. That horse gets a lot more care than I do. The other day my groom told me he ought to have a mixture of alfalfa and molasses. I spent two days going to every feed. store and stable for miles around trying to find sacks of the stuff. I kept at it until I got ’em, too. “T get a kick out of figuring out the proper size for a duck blind for two men. Every time I get a chance that’s where I go—duck hunting this side of Oxnard. “T like to tinker with my car. I spend more time taking it apart and putting it together again than I do riding in it. I’m a practical mechanic, too, if I do say so. Monkeying about with cars entertains and amuses me as no Troc’ing could do. Joe Mozetti, the mechanic, and I figure that we may build us a car of new style en- tirely. Car manufacturers better look out. There may be a new Gable V-48 on the market yet! “The part of picture making I like best is the location trips. I like to mix with the boys on the crew and meet all kinds of out-of-the-run people and there’s always a chance to fool around with machinery, cars on the bum or something.” The director called Clark to the set. And I was left marvelling at the “little things” which make so big a man.

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MODERN SCREEN INFORMATION DESK (Continued from page 11) after that. She has been in and out of movies Since 19384. Florence has traveled all over Europe and America and numbers many distinguished personages among her friends. She is five feet four and a half inches tall, weighs one hundred eight pounds, has blue eyes and light brown hair. Her last picture was “‘Sweethearts.’’ Her next will be “Stand Up And Fight’ with Robert Taylor. Ad- dress: M-G-M Studios, Culver City, Cal. Mrs. M. Ryffel, St. Louis, Mo. We were glad to again explain the way our barometer works. The figures that appear under each star’s name represent the total number of votes that star has received during the last six months. Hach month when the new figures are added, the figures for seven months ago must be subtracted to leave the correct six months’ total. That is why the results ap- pear to fluctuate crazily at times. Is that clear now? Thanks for your inquiry. Gilbert Inafortu, Hilo, Hawaii. Wendy Barrie was born in Hong Kong, China of British parents on April 18, 1913. Her real name is Wendy Jenkins, and she has red gold hair and green eyes. Wendy is five feet four inches tall, weighs one hundred ten pounds. You may reach her in care of Columbia Pictures, Hollywood, Cal. Her last picture was “I Am The Law.” Alexander Jaffee, San Francisco, Cal. Lionel Stander is a New Yorker and proud of it. He was born in that city. He is six feet tall, _ weighs one hundred sixty pounds, has brown eyes and hair. His last picture was “The Crowd Roars.” His next will be “Ice Follies.” Address him in care of M-G-M Studios, Culver City, Cal. Phyllis Larson, Onida, So. Dak. Florence George was born in Dayton, Ohio, the daughter of Florence and George Guthrie. \ MrATaIeauiiacior, locedce studied muste says IPI INUIN Y SUING Es 1h @an it at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio and ii 5 ee “8G 6 ’ . . i Co ae Ree Lovely star of “BLONDIE”... Columbia Picture | Opera, and appeared on many radio pro- grams before entering the movies. She has y) bl es, blonde hair, stands five feet four aaa @ half Sache - GOIN and weighs 115 ; D @) n t e nvy b | O n d e S ar pounds. OO UIE A ieee? aera ae omer have beautiful, lighter hair yourself a rue Fonda was born at Grand Island, Nebraska, May 16, 1908. He is six feet one inch tall, weighs one hundred seventy pounds. He has . | black hair and blue eyes. Fonda is a grad- ; Let Marchand’s take you safely, surely | uate of the University of Minnesota and is : A 2 married to Frances Brokaw, a society girl. to highlight and sunlight in your hair. His last two pictures were “The Mad Miss M i . Manton” and “Jesse James.’”’ Address him Thousands of young women who RACES beautifully blonde as children have let time and lack of care darken their hair, at United Artists Studios, Hollywood, Cal. With Marchand’s Golden Hair Wash you can acquire this natural - looking Frank Morris, Scranton, Penna. Frankie Thomas played the first mayor of ‘Boys Town.’ Address him in care of M-G-M Studios, Culver City, Cal. Always enclose twenty-five cents when requesting any player’s picture. Photographs must be ob- tained from the player or his studio. MOD- ERN SCREEN has no facilities for dis- tributing pictures. This is in answer to hundreds of similar inquiries. blonde loveliness at home. Marchand’s is a scientific preparation, designed solely to lighten and beautif fy all ads, of hair. It will not interfere with permanents. So swing to the blonde side for new glam our and attractiveness! Helen Biernat, Cheecktowasop, N. Y. Robert Wilcox was born in Rochester, N. Y. May 19, 1910. He is five feet eleven inches tall, weighs one hundred sixty pounds, has brown hair and blue eyes. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, started his stage career in Buffalo, N. Y. and went from there to Hollywood. His i next picture will be “Gambling Ship.” He is } with Universal Studios, Universal City, Cal, Beverly Peterson, Pennington, N. J. Billy Lee | was born September 12, 1930 in Nelson, Ind. He has dark brown hair and eyes, weighs about forty pounds and is three feet five inches tall. His father is Pete Schlansker, a Oo L D H rN I R W A S H baseball player. Write Billy Lee in care of Paramount Studios, Hollywood, Cal. His AT ALL DRUG AND DEPARTMENT ST OUR TERS } last picture was “Say It In French.” 101 \|

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So long as the discussion remains general and some scribe and I just drizzle around on a hypothetical question, I’ll play ball. “But when something important is go- ing on in my own life—a private, personal thing—I see no reason why I shouldn’t get a little tough about it and fight to keep something to myself. Whatever I say will be held against me, that I know. The press will have no consideration for me, that I know, too. Maybe that’s the way it should be, and maybe it isn’t. If I get myself into a spot where the column- ists can enjoy a juicy Roman holiday at my expense, maybe I’m better off than if no columnist cared whether I lived or died. But I happen to have a disinclina- tion for getting into such a spot. “Look at John Barrymore, now. If ever a man was a prince to reporters, he’s it. Crazy, mad, if you like, but al- ways colorful, always interesting. Why, he has crawled out of bed with stupendous hangovers to talk with reporters, has given as much time as they wanted, never pulled his statements. They always got swell copy out of Jack. But when he got in a spot, did any of them show him the slightest consideration? No.” E hunched his six-foot-odd over to a low table and poured himself another cup of tea. Yes, a cup of tea. A vestigial remainder of his British raising, no doubt. “Tt has almost as much bucking-up effect as Scotch and soda,” he said, “and doesn’t rise up and bite you afterwards. How in the dickens did we ever get. wound up in this depressing topic, anyway? I didn’t mean to sit here and crab for.the duration of the interview. Let’s talk about some- thing pleasant.” “All right, but you’re not going to put me off my track completely,’ I said. “However, to change the subject tem- porarily, I did want to ask you if you re- member C. J.?” I mentioned the name of a gent I know, who. had known Cary Grant some years ago, when he was Archie Leech, and not the least bit famous. This man had told me how Archie and several other fellows lived in Bohemian bachelor- glory in a dump on Barrow. Street in Greenwich Village. Bert Lytell had fur- nished the apartment. He was the only halfway prosperous one of the group. There was Archie and an impoverished newspaper man and Don Dickerman, who later ran a Village night club. When one got a cheque, he bought a supply of canned goods, some alcohol to make bathtub gin, and paid the collective laundry bill so that everybody could have a clean shirt. They all lived handsomely until the cash was gone. Then somebody else would get a cheque, or an honest tradesman was fast- talked into extending credit. The Lord, it seemed, always provided. “Old C. J.!” whooped Cary: in answer to my query, and so spontaneously that I knew he really did remember and wasn’t just being polite. “I should say I do. Where is he? What’s he doing now?” “Oh, he’s all married and settled down and has two kids,” I said. “You don’t mean it. the marrying kind.” “Yeah, I’ve heard some tasty tales about those Barrow Street days, Mr. Grant. I’ve been told that the parade of belles who drifted in and out of those untidy rooms would have made the great Ziegfeld look like a poor picker.” - He was hardly “Aids to Beauty’ Is the title of a fascinat- ing free booklet which many women say has shown them the simple, easy way to SECURE and KEEP —A BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION This helpful booklet was written espe- cially for women who want to know how to make the most of their appearance and personality—for women who miss the popularity, admiration and attention which are the natural reward of being lovely. 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Cary grinned and for the first time looked matey and friendly and lost that on-the-defensive, formal look. “You know,” he said, “that apartment got to be taken for a sort of night club, I think. A bunch of kids would get in a taxi uptown and tell the driver, “Oh, it’s down on Barrow Street somewhere. We'll tell you when we get there. What’s the name of the place?’ That’s what one would ask the other. We really thought of putting up a sign and having a small cover charge. Gosh, did we have fun! Nobody ever got any sleep. The phone rang all day and all night. I guess only extreme youth could have stood the pace we went. And C. J. married and settled down? Well, maybe he’s to be envied.” DGING cautiously back to my theme, I answered that this former acquaintance of Grant’s dizzier days was, in a sense, to be envied, for I knew that he had caught the knack of playing a truth game with his wife and it had worked beautifully. They were known the country round as a gay and congenial pair. Did Mr. Grant think that a guy should and could, with success, be absolutely truthful with a gal? “Oh, here we go again, boys!” he said, but with a smile. “Well, Ill tell you . . I think people make too much fuss about being on the level and straight-from-the- shoulder and all that. I mean, as soon as love enters the picture, so many are apt to take themselves sternly by the ear and say, ‘Now, this here is serious! This is love!’ And they lean over backwards about confessing all past romantic experiences and expect the other party to do the same, instead of acting as one would with a good friend—being kind of casual and easy and not burdening the friend with heavy confidences to weigh down his loyalty and MODERN SCREEN liking and not seeking too deeply into the friend’s confidence. “T think that sincerity and loyalty—and love, too—prove themselves in time. And— since you ask me—I don’t think that a man can be brutally frank with a woman. Not to most women, anyway. I don’t hold with spinning up a tissue of lies to whisper into a shell-like ear, but I do feel that a little sugar-coating is not only nice, but necessary. Heck, I shouldn’t want a girl to be too grimly frank with me. Why shouldn’t I respect her feelings—her van- ity, if you like?—to an equal degree? I shouldn’t want a girl to be too lov- ing with me. As I say, I like the light touch. To be swaddled in attention would make me feel like a mummy. To have the outward manifestations of love served up to me three times a day at meals would drive me nuts. I’d want to know that the basic business was there, all right, but I’d run a mile if it crowded me. And I shouldn’t want to be expected to put on the balcony scene from ‘Romeo’ constantly myself, either.” Perhaps, for these reasons, Cary bides his time. For these reasons, plus the usual Hollywood hazards: (a) a first marriage, which began with a publicity- bedecked honeymoon and ended in a pub- licity-spattered divorce; (b) the battle any Hollywood marriage must put on with the gossip mongers which must make it diffi- cult for even the most devoted couples to keep their perspective; (c) the women, who, in spite of the most exemplary be- havior on Cary’s part, would throw them- selves at his head unless Phyllis kept him under lock and key; and (d) the men who, in spite of the most exemplary be- havior on Phyllis’ part, would be drawn by her golden beauty unless Cary put her in a safe and kept her there. “T would want to be sure, the next time,” he said. “And right now—well, we can’t be sure for numerous personal considera- tions. We’ve each got a great deal of family business to settle. We've had grand times together, are still having grand times, and will probably continue to do so. She’s a marvelous companion. When, as, and if we do take that step, it will be without any of the fuss or the fixings. This is okay with Phyl. I’m not of a nature to say— now, on April the Umph, at three o’clock in the afternoon, I will get myself married. ND all the blither and bother and your friends getting drunk and crawling into the church on their hands and knees— ugh! No wonder so many marriages get off on the wrong foot. And now, madam, that’s the last word I’m going to say about love, marriage, women, and divorce. It’s not a bit of good, your trying any inter- viewer’s tricks on me. I’m an old hand at this game.” Just to show that my heart is in the right place, I switched the subject abrupt- ly and asked him if he’d had a nice time on the journey to England and during his stay in New York. He was stopping in Bert Taylor’s apartment—the same Bert Taylor who is brother to the Countess di Frasso, party-thrower extraordinary. Un- der the Taylor wing, Miss Brooks’ dates with Mr. Grant had been chaperoned and much café society had been graced by the handsome pair. This, he said, he found quite boring. The shows, now—he had en- joyed some of them immensely. But he was really homesick for Hollywood. “You have no sneaking urges to do a play on the stage, before real people?” I asked. “No. I wasn’t on the stage long enough, you know, for the virus to enter my blood. BEFORE | GO TO BED, I'LL LUX MY UNDIES. HOW AWFUL TO RISK UNDIE ODOR — IT RUINS ANY GIRL'S POPULARITY Foriall fine $¢ UATETING LUX TAKES AWAY ODOR-KEEPS UNDIES F- NEW-LOOKING LONGER, TOO. BUY THE THRIFTY BIG Box !

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But give me pictures, any day, in preference to the legitimate theatre. “Tf I’ve sounded like an old sourpuss up to now, talking about the terrible time us actors have, you’re about to see me do a lightning change to the role of Cary, the Pollyanna Boy in Cinemaland. I am crazy about working in pictures. I think pictures are getting better all the time. I think there are more good pictures than there are good plays, in proportion to the number of each produced. When I’m working in a | good, meaty role, I get up in the morning simply busting out at the seams with eagerness to get to work. I don’t care if they do shoot pictures piece-meal, and start at the end and then go to the be- ginning and then have a whack at the middle. This is what stage folks complain about. It doesn’t bother me at all. F course, I’m sitting in a very pretty spot right now, as far as work is concerned. It’s no wonder I’m all full of sweetness and light about the picture busi- ness. I’m not bound down with any iron contract. And I am allowed to have some say-so about the pictures T’ll play in. Not all the say-so. I wouldn’t want that, for I don’t think any actor is capable of being the sole judge of what he can and cannot do. But no man on earth can shove me into a cut-rate opus, just because I happen to be handy and he has to fill out his pro- duction quota. And I can say, ‘No, I don’t want to do another screwy comedy right now and would you show me something else, please.’ Yep—it’s swell. I had to put up a fight. But I had waited for a long while and had been a good boy and taken whatever assignments were handed me and I began to wonder whither is Grant drift- ing: “Tt isn’t, mind you, that I entertained any delusions of grandeur about my artistic ability. I want to do a good job in each picture and all that—sure. But I do think of it as my job rather than my art. And the way things were going, I had a nice mental picture of Grant sitting out on the ash heap while passers-by murmured ‘Oh, yes, he used to be in pictures.’ “Tm daffy about working in pictures and, having sense enough to know on which side my bread is buttered, I realized that if my most recent picture was poor, Mr. and Mrs. America would soon be saying, ‘Oh, let’s not go and see Jum. Charlie McCarthy is at the Bijou. Let’s go there.’ So I got sort of cagey and sort of tough and put over a good deal for Grant, Incorporated, which I hope will keep me playing around in pictures until T’m an old, old man and have to be brought onto the set in a wheel chair.” ‘Do you suppose that, by that time, nosey people like me will have ceased to ask you if there’s any truth to this rumor about a romance between you and Susie What’sthis?” I asked. “What say?” asked Mr. Grant, cupping a hand to his ear. “I’m a leetle mite hard of hearing. Oh, the title of my next pic- ture, did you say? 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MODERN SCREEN nnn nnn ne e ULEEE EE ESSE aE SSSSSS a THOSE MARRIED CAREER GIRLS! (Continued from page 35) ee and the house tidy? I wouldn't blame her for saying, ‘Yeh, you try pounding a typewriter all day and_ then standing over an ironing board half the night and see how you like your own advice!” EVERTHELESS, she conceded, there were many things a working wife could do or avoid doing that have nothing to do with material possessions or the state of the family pocketbook. Things that in- volved only an expenditure of time, tact, and effort and didn’t cost a red cent. Things that, in turn, proved as effective for a $20 a week stenographer as for a $2000 a week movie star. The secrets she had discovered for that sort of thing she was more than willing to share. “Divorce court judges, sociologists and research scientists in human relations tell us the employed wife is proving an alarm- ing threat to the stability of American marriage even if she has helped to put it on its financial feet and raise the gen- eral standard of living,” Myrna said. “They are right to a certain extent. The whole idea of the woman carrying part of the financial load of a marriage is so new comparatively, that we've had no time to adjust ourselves. We've had no time to work out the fine points in the new relationship between man and wife. “But I cannot help feeling it is the little things she does or forgets to do that are responsible for a large part of the trouble and misunderstanding that oftimes arises between a man and his working wife. Things that rob him of that feeling of inherent authority and command that has been his by right since the days of the caveman: Things that tend to make it obvious that he no longer is the lord and master of his household.” -That feeling is important to a man. Let him keep it, Myrna _ counselled. And if the wife happens to be holding the more important job of the two, or by a lucky break, earning more money than he, work to make him keep it! That is her real job if she wants a happy home. “The pity is, so many of these im- portant little things really are too easy to do or to avoid, so we go stumbling blindly along, wrapped up in our own little world, giving hurt and offense where none is intended. Men are so much more sen- sitive than women credit—and so very unselfish about hiding their wounded feel- ings,’ Myrna explained. When you come right down to it, it really is no trick at all to preserve a man’s independence and sense of superi- ority, she went on. The cardinal rule to learn is: never belittle the importance of anything he says or does. Show him by word and action that you depend a great deal upon his sage guidance and help. Do him the courtesy of consulting him on all but the most trivial matters that affect you, your work, and your home and abide by his decisions when possible in all major matters. After all, smart women long ago learned the parlor feat of making their wishes appear to be men’s. Sincerely interest yourself in the workings of his business and share his enthusiasms for it and his new ideas. Encourage him to talk about it when you are together, and listen attentively when he does talk. “And I mean listen!” Myrna said. ‘Don’t give him one of those ‘uh-huh’ routines with half your mind while the other half is racing ahead with some little problem of your own, like the letters you must get out tomorrow or what was the matter with the day’s sales, or how to play a certain scene that’s coming up. 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“T think statistics will prove that most wives are working today because they want to, not have to,” she said. ‘Usually, it is because they are not satisfied to live within the earning capacity of their husbands. They want a finer house, more clothes, or a newer car. That being SO, they must be prepared to pay the price of that ambition. They cannot expect a hus- band to be satisfied with a glorified housekeeper.” HE wife who must work is entitled to extra marital consideration, of course, Myrna amended, and in fairness to the husbands of such women, they usually receive it in full measure. That is another story. Whenever possible, it is a smart move for the working wife to breakfast with her husband. It starts the day off right, makes the home life seem more normal. It is smarter still, Myrna said, if the wife can squeeze the time and make the effort to preside at the breakfast table clad in a fussy something eminently feminine and alluring. “That little effort gives the husband the right kind of a mental picture to carry with him during the day,” she said. “In- cidentally, that | thought holds good for clothes in general. It is so easy for a busy business wife to let her workaday ward- robe become her personal one. And so disastrous! The severely tailored outfit is fine for the office but it is a flop at home, particularly when the husband is seeing tailored women all around him all day at his own office. Soft silk and curves can and do work wonders around a hearth and a wise woman doesn’t forget. it.” If you are lucky enough to have a jewel of a husband who offers * to help with the housework now and _ then, ' wise monkeys, ‘ nothing, seeing nothing, and saying noth- | ‘and frying pans higgeldy- piggeldy MODERN SCREEN don’t ever criticize his methods when he pitches in to give you a hand! Emulate the three Myrna advised, by, hearing ing when he tucks a little excess dust under that throw-rug in the-far corner of the room, or washes the dishes, glassware, under the tap instead of in proper order in a pan of steaming suds. . you're apt to lose the help—and the man! ' Then where are you? _ wife has herself but certain Take the time and make the effort to | do little things for his especial pleasure, Myrna advocated. “For instance, I know a busy wife whose husband likes to stop on his way to. the garage in the morning and pick a corn- flower for his buttonhole,” she said. “The no time to do the gardening she sees to it the gardener keeps a small bed of the flowers bloom- ing by the garage door as long as they are in season. That bed is more important to her than the blossoming of the: gar- den’s rare roses which are her hobby. ' And when the flowers are out of season for outdoor gardens, she strives to keep a bowl of the hot-house variety on the breakfast table.” Or, for instance, I might add the way Myrna devotes many of her free after- noons to replenishing Arthur’s supply of fine handkerchiefs or prowling through a little Italian -store in the com- mercial district of the city, far from her home, in search of .special foreign deli- cacies he enjoys like creamy goats’ milk cheese and spicy salamis.. Or. the way she carefully plans all the menus for the household, whether’ she is. working at the studio, or not, to insure the kind .of a Carp or nag, and meal her husband likes. Or the way she will stop on the way home to choose personally the boutonniere for his lapel when they are dressing formally. “The smart working wife, no matter qow busy, always can (1) find time to pamper her man, and (2) is willing to make the effort,” Myrna stated. “To me, it is one of the basic essentials for a happy marriage.” From time immemorial, the right of dictating the way his leisure time on. holi- days, Sundays and vacations shall be spent yas belonged to the husband, Myrna con- tinued. Therefore, it is not smart to_pre- sume to encroach, on that right just. be- cause you suddenly find they, constitute your only leisure hours, too. If he wants to play golf with his buddies instead of you, let him do it. And cheerfully. . Not with one of those grudging, “Oh well, all right if you want to, but I thought - assents. That is worse than a “downright scene about it and spoils what. little fun he might have had. 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But this play I’m in now, ‘The Boys From Syracuse,’ might run for two years, so—!” Concerning Eddie Albert’s current suc- cess, for it seems he’s yet to appear in any- thing that’s not the hit of the town—New York, we mean, it reminds us of a slight lamentation we overheard recently, while in California. Just after favorable re- ports began pouring into the studio con- cerning their new star, Mr. Albert, one of the Big Boys from the front was purported to shake his wise head and say: “He’s certainly good, but he'll be an awful problem to cast. Not much in the way of romantic parts that he’ll fit.” Well, just to make a fibber of the bigger and better variety out of said gent, Eddie no sooner opens in New York than first nighters found a new romantic interest in front of them. Little short of being the matinee idol this season, Eddie emerges the toast of the town. And, with the cream of the crop of leading thespians surround- ing him, too. 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MODERN SCREEN the pages of a Noel Coward play, except that they’re much more real and alive and vital than even Noel Coward could have created them. Remember “Private Lives,’ the story of two people who fought like wildcats, but who couldn’t be happy away from each other? That’s Humphrey Bogart and Mayo Methot. While I was talking to Humphrey, Mayo came into the Lakeside Country Club. A slim vital person with yellow hair and blue eyes, she gave the effect of sunlight dancing into a room—that’s how alive she is. The blue bow which caught her hair on the left side seemed to dance, her eyes danced, and she sparkled like champagne. “Humphrey and I have had perfectly grand arguments,” she said. ‘People who don’t know us well can’t understand it— sometimes theyll find us scrapping away like mad, and they'll think all’s over be- tween us, and the next day we'll be sitting across the table from each other, as calm as we are right now. “There are times when Bogey would like to kill me, and other times when I'd like to kill Bogey. One night, when his mother was present, we had a terrific discussion. We couldn’t agree on anything. The next morning I called Bogey’s mother and said, ‘I shot Bogey this morning. The dismem- bered pieces of his body are in the bath- room. What does one do with a body?’ She understood what I meant perfectly. From the other end of the telephone I could hear her laughing.” HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED (Continued from page 41) There must have been times, too, when even Humphrey’s mother must have won- dered what to do about her son, who was always in hot water. She understands him so well that she was never amazed at any woman’s wish to kill him or, on the other hand, at the great adoration he arouses in women. ANY years .ago, before Humphrey married the auburn-haired darling of Broadway, Helen Menken, he met Mayo— and instantly they hated one another. It was a strange party at which they met— at that sophisticated club for New York- ers—the Mayfair. “The queerest party I ever went to in my life,’ Humphrey assured me. “The strange thing about the party was that nearly all the men and women present at it, no matter with whom they came, were carrying the torch for someone else. “Tf everyone had turned around and faced someone else instead of the person with whom he came,” Humphrey said, “every- thing would have been perfect. Then the people who loved one another would have been facing each other. And Mayo might have turned around and faced me, and all the long years in between, and all the mis- takes we made might have been avoided.” But Mayo didn’t turn around. Just catch- ing a glimpse of Humphrey at that party was enough for her. Immediately, she was convinced that he was the most conceited, insufferable, arrogant person she had ever in her life met. “Everyone dislikes me on sight,’ Hum- phrey explained. ‘‘There’s something about my face which annoys most people—some- thing about the cast of my head or the look in my eye which makes people think I’m conceited. At that, I guess I was a pretty arrogant person in those days. When people mentioned me, Mayo probably said, ‘Why, that conceited, arrogant, stuck-up person.’ ” “That’s exactly what I said,” said Mayo smiling, but with a faintly sad tinge to her smile, as though a lump were rising in her throat. Humphrey also thought Mayo conceited. Certainly it was obvious that she would never want for masculine attention, that one. The men swarmed round her. No wonder she was so spoiled, he thought. “We were like a couple of cats on a back fence,’ Humphrey explained. “I recognized in Mayo an equal opponent, one who gives no quarter and who asks none, and the hackles on the back of my neck went up in resentment.” Not long afterwards Humphrey married Helen Menken. It was the marriage of dynamite to dynamite. Both were very young. Humphrey at the time still retained his little boy quality of getting into diff- culties, and many were the hot arguments between the two. The real cause of trouble between the two of them, however, was that both still had their careers to build and, caught up in the maelstrom of their careers, their marriage suffered. “T don’t like to talk about my previous EVERYBODY THOUGHT SHED BE AN OLD MAID YOURE MY BEST GIRL FRIEND, ANITA. TELL _BUT SHE DISCOVERED /N TIME WHY MEN DIONT LIKE HER... / IMAGINE — A GIRL LIKE ME GUILTY OF “B.0.” BUT IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN! IM PLAYING SAFE —I'M USING LIFEBUOY IN MY DAILY BATH ME WHY IM SO UNPOPULAR. PLEASE ! WELL, RUTH_ SINCE YOU ASK_I THINK YOU SHOULD USE LIFEBUOY. ITS A BIG HANDICAP FOR Ee A GIRLTO HAVE C : e It’s the fault unforgivable. It comes be- tween people—destroys affection—ruins ro- mance. “B.O.’”’ makes such a bad impres- sion—betrays the offender at once! Why not play safe the way millions do? Use Lifebuoy in your daily bath! Kt contains an exclusive ingredient not found in any other popular toilet, soap. Lifebuoy in your daily bath stops ‘“B.O.’’—assures Le Fine for the one too. 109

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Besides, they and their hus- bands are very good friends of mine. “Long separations are mostly to blame for the failure of theatrical marriages. How can a marriage endure when for months at a time the wife is in New York and the husband in California, or vice versa? The only type of person who has the same prob- lems as an actor is a traveling salesman. His marriage also is likely to suffer from too many temptations and too many separa- tions—but even he doesn’t have quite as many problems to face, for usually his wife is tied down at home by a lot of chil- dren, so only one member of the family— the man—does the traveling.” Ree the danger of long separa- tions, Mayo Methot has decided that while she will continue to work in pictures, she will never accept any offers of jobs on the New York stage, no matter how tempting the offers may be. “T do not believe in marriages that are too modern,” Humphrey told me earnestly. “T did once, but time proved me wrong. 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dear, I don’t give a damn.’ When a man tan no longer be angry or jealous, then a marriage has truly gone on the rocks. It is only the corpse of the marriage whose bones you hear rattling.” “When did you and Mayo decide that you teally loved one another?” I asked. Mayo and Humphrey looked at each other, and suddenly there was something in that room which sounded like the pass- ing of enchanted wings. They were swung back in time and space, back to the time when they really began to know and love one another. “T don’t believe in fate exactly,” Hum- phrey said, “and yet there is some system that must work to make a pattern of our fives. If a member of Mayo’s party hadn't become ill at the Screen Actor’s Ball, we might never have fallen in love.” Dressed in flaming red, Mayo had come to the party with a group of friends. Hum- phrey was with his own group. Then this certain person became ill, and her friends went home with her, thus giving Humphrey a chance to say to Mayo, “Why don’t you stay anyway? IJ’ll take you home later on.” And suddenly they were talking together, and Mayo was telling Humphrey how much she had hated him the first time she saw him, and he was telling her what a con- ceited, spoiled girl he had thought her. Neither of them meant to fall in love, but two people as vital and alive as Humphrey and Mayo cannot build a wall around their hearts to shut love out, no matter how much they may try, for life inevitably will break down such walls. Against all reason Humphrey and Mayo were attracted to each other. “T remember the very moment we really fell in love,’ Mayo told me. “I know it happened to me at that moment, and Bogey MODERN SCREEN has told me since that it did to’him, too.” Mayo was working in the garden back of her home, wearing a pair of yellow shorts, with a yellow bow, like a great big butterfly in her hair, and as she stood there, Humphrey came to call, and saw her standing on the other side of the fence. Do you remember the scene in ‘Four Daugh- ters’ where Jeffrey Lynn swings on one side of a fence and Priscilla Lane on the other, and while they swing, they fall in love? It was much the same way with Humphrey and Mayo. Suddenly they looked at each other—and each knew that this was love. UT after all, they weren’t children in their teens falling in love for the first time. They were sophisticated adults, and no matter what their hearts told them, they knew how often love had deceived them in the past—and they were determined not to make any mistakes now. What if they were wrong after all, and this wasn’t real love, but mere infatuation? Oh, they knew very well that this was real love, but just suppose. Didn’t they owe it to them- selves and to each other to be sure with the utmost certainty that two human be- ings can possibly attain? And so they de- cided to do the hardest thing in the world for two people in love—to separate and let time test their love. If it was real, they knew no separation could hurt or harm it. And if it wasn’t real, better by far to let it die than to risk marriage once again, if it wasn’t going to last. At the end of four months they knew even more surely than they had known in the beginning, even more surely than they had known when Humphrey stood on one side of the fence and the fair-haired Mayo on the other, looking at each other as though they would never be able to stop. They were married at the home of Mel- ville Baker, the writer, a very close friend of Humphrey’s, and Mayo looked so radi- ant in a gold cloth mesh dress with a Juliet cap on her hair that once again Humphrey couldn’t stop looking. When Judge Lindsey—that very ‘fine, humanitarian judge who cares little about the letter of the law but worships its spirit —married them, he went rapidly through the marriage ceremony, as though the actual words of the ceremony were not the main thing. When he had completed it, he paused and said, “And now, Mayo and Humphrey, what I’ve said means nothing. Whether or not: your marriage is a success is up to you. No law of God or man can make a marriage successful, unless the two people who are married work at it.” “T thought that was a splendid thing to say,’ Humphrey told me. ‘So many people think that because a priest has said certain words over you, you don’t have to work to make your marriage a success. I know that I’m the last man in the world who should be asked for or give an opinion on how to be happy though married or how to stay married, but I hope I’ve learned from the mistakes I’ve made in the past, and Mayo and I will both work to make this marriage a success.” Humphrey believes that ex-husbands some times make the best husbands, be- cause the rough edges have been taken off. They have been trained not to do the things which annoy women. 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If a woman must wear heavy corsets, she should wear something over them, and she _ shouldn’t lounge around the house in housecoats or negli- gees that aren’t immaculate. I’ve never seen Mayo at any hour of the day or night when she didn’t look as attractrve as she does right now. 2. “Don’t be inconsiderate in little ways. I have seen men shave, leave whiskers around the edge of the hand basin, use three towels, get the brush all soapy and emerge from the bathroom with soap be- hind their ears—something those men would never do on a Pullman car. The very same man in a Pullman works out a regular ritual, cleaning the basin, washing off the top of it, and putting the towels away very carefully. Why should a man be more polite to other men than he is to his own wife? 3. “Argue with your wife, but argue only about impersonal matters. Frequently, Mayo and I argue about politics, she taking one side and I the other. We love these arguments, and find them very stimulating, for nothing is so dull as to have two people agree about everything. If one person says, “I think it’s hot,’ and the other says, “Ves, it is hot,” the conversation dies. But if the other person says, ‘““You’re wrong, I don’t think it’s hot,” that opens up wonder- ful possibilities. But of course you have to remember that it’s dangerous to let the conversation get personal. It’s all right to say to your wife, “I think the policy of So and So over in Europe is terrible,” and for her to say, “I think it’s swell.” But if the wife suddenly interrupts to say, ‘““Who do you think you are to say whether or not the policy of So and So is any good?” then the argument gets personal, and that’s really bad. 4. “Don’t try to be too modern. When two people start living their own lives, they end by going separate ways. This modern business of living your own life is not my idea of marriage. In fact, I’m even in favor of the old-fashioned double bed. It’s pretty tough for two people to fight like hell, get into a big double bed and still stay mad at each other. 5. “Be polite. Sulking is what kills marriages. I know a woman who recently separated from her husband, after a very unhappy married life. ‘Before we married, my husband warned me that he was not the type of person to remain faithful to one woman,’ she told me. ‘I forgave him that and could have gone on forgiving him, if at least he had been polite and amusing at home, but he was such a sulky so-and-so I couldn’t stand him.’ ” Mayo and Humphrey rose to go, and as they went out into the bright sunshine arm in arm, I remembered something that Helen Hayes had once said of Charlie MacArthur. “When we were first mar- ried,” she said, “Charlie promised me that no matter what happened J should never be bored, and I never have been.” Humphrey Bogart is exactly the same sort of person. 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MODERN SCREEN WHAT HAS THE SOUTHERN GAL GOT? will be different. And, by gosh, give that girl a few more years and let her grow up to sophisticated clothes, and she will be a stunning person. Don’t you know that in many other parts of our fair land, that girl’s height would be regarded by herself and her family as an unsurmount- able handicap? Certainly, six feet is too tall for a girl. I shouldn’t want to be that tall myself, nor would I want my daughter to grow to such a height. But since this kid’s problem did happen to be too great height, wasn’t it smart to make a virtue of it, rather than a blight? And then, the hostess’ manner in speak- ing of the mama of the halfpint: “Beautiful in an evening gown,’ as if she were a young girl and not a woman in middle forties. And the teeth-straightening ex- ample. If Ann’s possibilities were going to be realized to the fullest, that expen- sive bit of orthodontia simply had to be attended to. Of course, I don’t mean to imply that you never see bands on young teeth except in the Sunny South, but I do think there is elsewhere a tendency to regard this costly job, which undoubtedly does so much for a girl’s looks, as some- thing that would be “nice if we could atRORG ge tee Well then, aside from this training in the belief that women are meant to be lovely, what else has the southern gal which others haven’t? I’ve already said it—she’s a darn sight smarter about men. She seems to be born with the secret of attracting men. How can others swipe (Continued from page 45) a leaf from her book and learn a coupla things which will bring greater happiness, romance, or just plain good fun, into their lives? That’s a hard question and I shall have to answer it in a roundabout way. I would suggest, for the first point, that you plan your attack where men are con- cerned. Say you meet a new man and like his looks a lot, and he seems to be attracted to you and asks for a date. On your first meeting with him, look, listen and observe, and say little. Don’t keep your trap shut all evening, naturally, but let him do most of the talking. That’s a very simple piece of advice and an old one and you probably don’t need me to tell you about it- OWEVER, while you're doing this, do not, as so many girls do, keep won- dering, “Oh, I wonder if he really likes me. I wonder how I look. I wonder if my nose is shiny.” Instead, glean every possible lead you can about his likes and dislikes, the things he’s interested in. Is he the type that will like you clinging and sweet, or pal-ly and companionable, or does he strike you as a volatile sort of chap who'll like you one’ way one date, another way the next. Then, for the next meeting, plan to be the sort of gal you think he'll like. Once you have dressed the part and made up your face—and your mind—for the role you’re going to play, try to for- get yourself completely and spend the eve- ning finding out more about the guy. Another rule; learn to size up a man. _—${$—— So many young girls are so eager for ap- proval and fun and romance and dates— which is perfectly natural—that they’re not particular enough about the men they go with. You wouldn’t become friendly with another girl, would you, who wasn’t hon- est and considerate, or who was conceited and untrustworthy? Yet many young things do get involved, and often fall in love, with a man who isn’t good enough for them to step on. Here’s another point in planning your at- - tack. In the south, more than elsewhere I think, the home is still a place to enter- tain. This is nice, and a great help in furthering pleasant and perhaps more ex- citing relationships between young people. In big northern cities, everybody goes out to have fun and this is okay part of the time, but, in the first place, it costs more —and many a likely young man is scared away because he simply cannot afford to take a gal out. 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And time is short. So— here’s for a. few new (I hope) specific beauty suggestions. We hear a great deal about trying to look younger, but we seldom hear any- thing about trying to look older. Yet, for young girls of too-kiddish an appearance, this is not silly, but serious. It is a handicap to look twelve when you're seventeen, though later on, docking five years from the calendar may be a de- sirable goal. How to add maturity and a leetle sophistication to yourself without infuriating mama by crying for slinky gowns, green eyeshadow and exotic per- fume? Your hair, dears, will probably solve the problem. F YOUR face is small and childlike, do not let your hair hang flowing and care- less like. It pinches your face and does nothing for you. Have it shorter, or lift it up, or both. Soften your features with high side curls, which will also add width to your face if it is thin. An upward feeling in front and longer back hair, softly curled in the neck, is youth- fully sophisticated and not too set and elaborate for your age. See if I’m not right. Change your hairdo to a slightly more formal style and go right on wearing young, simple clothes and young, simple make-up. I am just before shutting up like a clam on this up-and-down hair business and going back to my old preachments about suiting your type and being indi- vidual and all that. An operator in a large beauty salon told me recently that up hair was a flop because Hollywood would have no truck with it. Generally speaking, she was right about the Holly- wood part. The four girls on pages 44 and 45 have remained constant to their individual coif- fures—which suit them, so why try to improve on things? Dorothy Lamour has kept her hair long because it is beau- tiful. She dresses it in an ultra-simple, almost old-fashioned style, because it suits her. Swell. 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