Modern Screen 1940-03 Vol. 20, No. 4

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THE LARGES? CIRCULATION OFAN SCREEN | NAGA

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FEB —2 1940 ©cie 24 3329\” NOW SHOWING A BERNHARDT IN PIGTAILS MODERN SCREEN MODERN SCREEN Copyright, 1940, by the Dell Publishing Co., Inc. FEATURES MOVIE REVIEWS = Dickabine=ss ote Lee ee a een 6p Our Ratings=5Makemyour, Own eee: eee 66 Hollywood Editor THE PERVERSE MR. FLYNN! MOVIE SCOREBOARD A Kay Procter), fe: sonnet ae ee 46 General Ratings .................:.5- 78 | | HOLLYWOOD'S DARING EXPERI- Mite nan ica eo SE : : : , NT! rize. ethers ser.cecacoa.cthee toes eee 82 | Abril Lamarque WANE OUR PUZZLE PAGE ——RichandsChdcemme = hertir sire 48 : Y | Ce Movie: X-Wondis specs eau can cen 88 Art Editor A FIELD WHO CONQUERED INFORMATION DESK as SUH ey Sncwalll osadseucascangsacs seus 50 Questions Answered ..........+..-..-- 90 WOEFUL AND WACKY ALL JOKING ASIDE fon IUCWEIIG) siccoscacccsscsucecoeas 60s MovienOdditiests einai =e a enaeas 106 Cover Valentina, Courtesy of Norcross, New York City. Office of publication at Washington and Entered as second-class matter, Sept. 18, 1930, at the ‘Postoffice, Dunellen, N. J., under Act of March 3, 1879. Additional second class entries at Seattle, Wash.; San Francisco, Calif.; Houston, Texas; Savannah, Vol. 20, No. 4, March, 1940. Copyright, 1940, by the Dell Publishing S., Inc., 149 Madison Ave., New York. Published monthly. South Aves., Dunellen, N. J. Single copy price 10c in U.S. an anada; subscription price $1.20 a Year foreign subscription $2.90 a year. The publishers accept no responsibility for the return of unsolicited material. Names of characters used! in stories and» semi- fictional matter are Ga. and New ‘Orleans, La. Sy aes eden [eS =< fictitious. IF the name of any living person is used it is purely coincidence. says ZA ine NOT, ALICE 7 IT’S YOUR BIG CHANCE ~ TO MEET DICK! |} Here — smooru “YOUR SKIN GETS EXTRA DRY IN WINTER — NEEDS EXTRA SOFTENING” igs; AWFUL. I'VE GOT 3 oe TO STAY INDOORS NONSENSE! INDOOR DRY HEAT CHAPS SKIN, TOO. BUT WAIT A MINUTE — 1 CAN MAKE YOU LOOK LOVELIER ALICE, THIS IS é JIM'S BROTHER, "VE BEEN WANTING TO MEET YOU FOR A LONG TIME — Wednesday Night’s Fun Night with BURNS AND ALLEN GRACIE SAYS: “41 USE HINDS, TOO!” Columbia Network—Coast to Coast (N A JIFFY THE MOMENT 1 SHOOK HANDS WITH YOU, | KNEW YOU WERE THE GIRL FOR ME — YOU'VE GOT SUCH SOFT, TINY HANDS f x down CREAM ALL OVER YOUR FACE Trademark No. 301773. aA HINDS IS THE MOST SOOTHING { LOTION —MY HANDS AND FACE HINDS HONEY AND ALMOND 4 f AND HANDS, Now — AND AGAIN BEFORE you GO PN He IT’S EXTRA-CREAMY, THANKS, HONEY, PLL TRY HINDS.. SEE YOU TONIGHT ! WANT THRILL- SOFT HANDS? O matter how tough the weather or how hard you work, you can have the soft hands that thrill a man. Use Hinds Honey and Almond Cream to ease away chapping—help tone redness. It’s extra-creamy, extra-softening. Coaxes back the softness that cold weather and indoor heat take away! A grand powder base, too—not sticky. Contains Vitamins A and D. $1, 50¢, 25¢, and 10¢... TRY Hinds Hand Cream. NEW! Quick-softening, fragrant, not sticky. In jars, 10¢ and 39¢. TO RELIEVE THAT AWFUL CHAPPING Chapping e Dryness Rough skin, elbows, arms Weathered skin Hangnails e Calloused heels Powder base e Body-rub After-shaving lotion 7:30-8:00 E.S.T. See newspaper radio col- umns for exact time on your local station Copyright, 1940 by Lehn & Fink Products Corp., Bloomfield, N. J. ( EXTRA-SOFTENING, ALICE,

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There's no danger of little Miss Weidler's dramatic success going to her head— at least not at home When Virginia dawdles over drying the dishes, her brothers soon snap her to. ‘Cut out that movie stuff! Come out trom behing those eye- lashes. We know you!" they scott. Always conscious of her duty as an actress, Virginia's never satis- fied with herself. Be- low, a scene from "Young Tom Edison" in which she plays Mickey Rooney's sister. MRS. WEIDLER has taken charge of her youngest daughter’s interviews ever since a certain interviewer asked Vir- ginia what she wanted most to do, and Virginia answered, “I want to finish this mystery story,” pointing to the book at her side. And so I was grateful for the presence of the gracious, cultivated wo- man who helped me through my ordeal, and steered me away from equally bro- midic questions. Oh, yes, it was an ordeal. I regarded the little moppet with apprehension, not knowing whether to pat her on the head, or offer her a lollipop. I don’t know about children. Virginia is about four feet four inches tall, looks about eight or nine, and weighs sixty pounds. She 6 was wearing a print dress with panta- lettes (she said those things were panta- lettes) and she had solemn eyes and looped up pigtails. She had just come from a scene with Mickey Rooney in “Young Tom Edison,” in which she por- trays Edison’s little sister, Tannie. She shook hands, dutifully, and said politely that she was glad to see me. And I was glad I hadn’t patted her, or produced a lollipop, for I found out that she is very touchy about her age. Whether asked or not (I didn’t ask her) she tells one, emphatically, that she is twelve, and it won’t be too soon for her when she can admit that she’s thirteen! I suppose the little lady will outgrow this unique trait, some day. After all, it has been known. fh BERNHARDT I PIGTAILS BY DICK PINE We regarded each other in silence, until I remembered that I had to give Modern Screen readers some idea of Virginia Weidler, and had better get on with it. So I bleated something about did she go to school, and did she like it. She replied patiently (it seemed to me) that she attended the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer school, and that she hated lessons. Whereupon, I beamed on her, approving- ly, and it isn’t often I beam upon chil- dren. She almost beamed back at me. She twinkled, anyhow. I believe Virginia and I could get along very well together. I began to think of what else to ask her. I discarded the old, “What do you want to do when you grow up?” as too juve- nile a cliche, (Continued on page 80)

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bring cheers when it’s over! Let’s see ‘THE FIGHTING 69TH because ‘The Fighting 69th brings you history’s heroes —the story of their glory, which, once seen, no girl can JIMMY x: CAGNEY and PAT x O’ to their parts from their hearts; for of all the roles uy ve portrayed, of these they'll be proudest ever! | Let’s see “THE FIGHTING 69TH’ MODERN SCREEN Let’s see ‘THE FIGHTING 69TH’! Because if ever a movie moved this is the one! There’ve been exelune a before —but not this kind of excitement! Yow’ ve laughed | loudly and long in the theatre before, but never louder 1 nor longer than this time. And there will be a teardr)p too... but the kind of tears that ‘ and see grand screen stars like BRIEN and GEORGE x BRENT sive JAMES CAGNEY: PAT O’ BRIEN. | 2 GEORGE BRENT “THE FIGHTING 69TH’ with JEFFREY LYNN*ALAN HALE* FRANK McHUGH DENNIS MORGAN ¢ DICK FORAN WILLIAM LUNDIGAN « GUINN “BIG BOY" WILLIAMS HENRY O'NEILL © JOHN LITEL Directed by WILLIAM KEIGHLEY help but cherish. ea We a #® Original Screen Play by Norman Reilly Raine, Fred ee Jr. and Dean Franklin * A Warner Bros.-First National Pictur One

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% nt Oe eee Soe thee EL ie tae | R. } MOVIE REVIEWS By Lois Svensrud kk kwKK Gone With the Wind This is a picture of such magnificence and breath-taking beauty that it must be seen—and lived—to be truly ap- preciated. The picture opens on the gracious and lovely world of the Old South before the Civil War. Then follow the horrors of the war and the struggles of the heart-broken survivors to build a new life out of the wreckage. Throughout this se- quence of events runs the story of the most fascinating group of individuals ever imagined—Scarlett O'Hara, Rhett Butler, Ashley and Melanie Wilkes, Mammy, Aunt Pittypat and the many others you met in Margaret Mitchell's novel. Vivien Leigh is a superb Scarlett, leaving no doubt as to her talent and overwhelming beauty. nificent in the role of Rhett Butler. Clark Gable is mag- Olivia de Havilland gives a beautiful and flawless performance as the loving Melanie, while Leslie Howard makes the character of Ashley Wilkes completely believable. Bidding fair to steal every scene in which she appears is Hattie McDaniels as Mammy. Harry Davenport, Ona Munson, Laura Hope Crews, besides the numerous others of the cast, deserve countless laurels. Laurels, too, are due the exquisite Technicolor, remarkable photography, music and screen play. Directed by Victor Fleming.—Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. c (More about Vivien Leigh on page 90) **k* The Light That Failed This Rudyard Kipling classic is brought to the screen with a strict adherence to British characterization and mood. The splendid presentation of its dynamic chain of tragic events is an artistic triumph. Ronald Colman is splendid as the war correspondent who becomes a painter. Though he is surrounded by a cast of real actors, never, for a moment, does he let his audience forget the pathetic plight of a@ man so strong, so full of the lust for life, doomed to total blindness and a tragic end. Ida Lupino as the shallow and tempestuous model gives the best portrayal of her career. When she gashes the final and greatest painting of the near-blind artist, you hate and con-_ demn her, but you understand her. Walter Huston and Dudley Digges do some fine acting as Colman’s loyal friends, and the new British import, Muriel Angelus, deserves praise for her handling of the difficult role of Maisie. For an absorbing evening with familiar characters from a great book, we recommend “The Light That Failed.” Holly- wood has not meddled with the story; you'll find it true to the tale you remember. Produced and directed by William Wellman.—Paramount. (Ronald Colman’s biography on page 90) tex %& Swanee River A beautiful picture, the Technicolor “Swanee River’ will be enjoyed by every audience. The story is a fascinating one, recounting the life of the great early-American composer, Stephen Foster. The characterization of Stephen Foster has been entrusted to Don Ameche and in this reviewer's opinion it is his finest portrayal to date. At all times, one is in full sympathy with the man who was destined for fame and fortune but whose personal weaknesses hindered his greatest development, as well as his happiness and that of his family. In the role of Mrs. Stephen Foster, Andrea Leeds gives a sur- prisingly appealing and competent account of herself. She is lovely to look at in the crinolines and bonnets of the pre- Civil War period. Stephen Foster’s immortal melodies, ‘My Old Kentucky Home,” ‘“Swanee River” and “Old Black Joe,” are a vital part of the picture. Al Jolson is excellent as the minstrel king who puts over many of the songs. Felix Bressart gives a meritorious performance and the Hall Johnson Choir adds a great thrill to the picture. Directed by Sidney Lanfield.— Twentieth Century-Fox. (Additional data on Andrea Leeds on page 90)

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| MODERN SCREEN *%& kk Balalaika When Nelson Eddy, a prince and No Job for Nancy Header orine poseacre) SNeesers ute e & ce vase! ee ey eon te but a big Job for Mum | Ilona Massey, formerly of the State Opera in Vienna, making her stellar | debut as the cafe singer of “Balalaika.” Primarily a musical film, the story is of secondary importance. Eddy’s rendi- tion of the “Volga Boatman” and “Silent Night, Holy Night” are well worth the price of admission. As for Ilona Massey, she’s a genuine treat. She sings, she acts, ~ and there are few who can surpass her in looks. In the supporting roles, Charlie Rug- gles, Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, C. Aubrey Smith and Joyce Compton con- tribute top performances. Concert pianist Dalies Frantz, cast as a brother to Ilona Massey, merits praise for both his dra- | matic and musical talent. Directed by Reinhold Schunzel. — Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. kk & Everything Happens at Night Sonja Henie’s skating takes a back seat this time while her dramatic ability has a little heavier workout than usual, and the result is a short-changed feeling since the little Henie is, after all, tops on skates. The story is a rather frothy version of a cops-and-robbers thriller with the setting in Switzerland. Robert Cum- mings and Ray Milland are reporters for rival newspapers sent to a little Swiss town to search for a famed scientist be- ° TeTeAMBOMnG world te be dead: Both Why risk underarm odor—when Mum every day reporters fall for Sonja, who turns out to 2 be the missing man’s daughter, and each so surely guards your charm? hed CE coor in getting both HE TRIES SO HARD— goes everywhere More business girls prefer Mum to any | Pro ane skatinys seattenas diva Fe —but somehow for Nancy it’s a brief other deodorant. Mum is— one of the most beautiful numbers ever “no opening now!” For business is busi- @yick!: A daily pat under this arm, un- prom by ie shane sat she ness. And it never helps to have a girl der that, and through the longest work- t : 5 2 5 waltzes tanaoe and shure cp sates | around who neglecta se Mum! ing day you know Joure fet Maurice Aroscovich, Leonid Kinsky, Alan Constant personal daintiness isa busi- HARMLESS! Apply Mum after dressing inehart, Fritz Feld and others. Di- ness asset...asmuchindemandascheer- _,.. fabrics are safe. Mum has the Ameri- rected by Irving Cummings.—20th Century-Fox. fulness, ability, and speed. Why does any _ can Institute of Laundering Seal as being girl risk it? Why don’t all girls play safe harmless to amy dress. Safe for skin, too. with Mum—every single day? LASTING! Hours after your bath has | ae For it’s a gamble to depend ona bath faded, Mum still keeps underarms sweet. anh) alone to keep you fresh and sweet. A bath And Mum does not stop perspiration. 1 aw merely removes perspiration that is past Get Mum at your druggist’s today. Be | | ... but Mum prevents odor—keeps you wise in business... be sure of charm! | fresh and sweet for the hours to come. Make a habit of Mum every day. TO HERSELF: AND NOTHING BEATS MUM FOR LASTING CHARM. JUST A DAB KEEPS ME FRESH ALL| EVENING! MY DESK,TOO. | | USE JTANY TIME BECAUSE IT’S SAFE FOR SKIN AND CLOTHING. se Y, Deeps 5 exw v} Important to You — Before beginning work on "Three Thousands of women use I Cheers For The Irish,"' Rosemary Lane IA etna | Wi at it’s > a eo oft for New York. Clothes, not safe, gentle. Always use A 1 eaux, was the reason she gave. Mum this way, too. ~ TAKES THE ODOR OUT OF PERSPIRATION | Mh

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Accepted for Advertising by the Journal of the American Medical Association. TAMPAX INCORPORATED MM-30-A New Brunswick, N. J. Please send me in plain wrapper the new trial package of Tampax. I enclose 10¢ (stamps or silver) to cover cost of mailing. Size is checked below: (| ) REGULAR (_ ) SUPER (_) JUNIOR Name Add 6s Se City Sei 10 MODERN SCREEN *%&** The Great Victor Herbert Just as the Victor Herbert musical gems brought success to many a new- comer when the great composer lived, so today Mary Martin, Susanna Foster and Allan Jones have the same good fortune in “The Great Victor Herbert.” Although not a newcomer to movies, Allan Jones is splendid in the role of the matinee idol. When the story opens he is the reigning star of the Victor Her- bert operettas. He discovers the ambi- tious Mary Martin and makes her a star. Her popularity surpasses his and he gradually fades from public favor. The picture has many surprises, the greatest being the beauty and talent of Mary Martin. But sharing her success is fif- teen-year-old Susanna Foster, who soars to a B flat above high C with the great- est of ease, and also proves she can act. Since the story is not intended as a biography, Walter Connolly’s role—that of Victor Herbert—is a small one. Lee Bowman, John Garrick, Judith Barrett and Jerome Cowan are the supporting players. Produced and directed by An- drew L. Stone.—Paramount. *%&%&*& Gulliver's Travels The famous story of Gulliver’s adven- tures becomes doubly enjoyable when brought to the screen by animators Max and Dave Fleischer. Though this full- length picturization is bound to be com- pared with its predecessor, “Snow White,” it should be pointed out that every care has been taken to make it different in as many respects as possible. True, there’s a romance between the en- chanting Lilliputian princess and a hand- some prince from Blefusco, but there the similarity ends. Jonathan Swift’s story of the ship- wrecked sailor, Gulliver, who finds him- self in the realm of little people, is de- lightfully presented. There’s a _ timely message in the story, too, as the amiable Gulliver draws attention to the stupidity and folly of people going to war to settle their squabbles. In this particular case, the Lilliputians and the Blefuscos de- clare war because the two kings can’t reach a friendly understanding on the particular song to be sung at the wed- ding of their respective daughter and son. The character of Gabby, the night- watchman and busy-body of Lilliput, is particularly amusing and _ enjoyable. is a colorful and “Gulliver’s Travels” imaginative picture which the young are certain to enjoy—Paramount. *&*&* Four Wives A sequel to “Four Daughters,” this picture shows the four girls finally settled down to domesticity, though not without some complications. For instance, sister Rosemary Lane is after her man— Eddie Albert, who plays the role of a young doctor. But the good doctor isn’t too anxious to forsake all others and the combined efforts of the whole family are needed to bring him in line. Then Pris- cilla Lane has her troubles. Though she is all set to marry Jeffrey Lynn, the ill- ined Mickey Borden continues to haunt er. The three Lane sisters and Gale Page do very well with their roles as the Lemp daughters. May Robson, as always, gives an excellent characterization as the soft-hearted, sharp-tongued aunt. Frank McHugh and Dick Foran are again the husbands of Lola and Gale, and Claude Rains is the girls’ father. We think you'll have lots of fun seeing this group to- gether once more. Directed by Michael Curtiz—Warner Brothers. kk Charlie McCarthy, Detective Charlie McCarthy, as slaphappy a sleuth as ever prowled through a mys- tery, will delight his legion of fans in this melodrama. It’s pure hokum, pulled in the inimitable Edgar Bergen style, and ~ as such, is pleasing entertainment. Charlie further enchants his audience by singing for the first time on the screen. Dressed as Sherlock Holmes, he renders “I’m Charlie McCarthy, Detec- tive” in fine style. His closest competitor in the acting field is his dimwitted coun- try cousin, Mortimer Snerd, who pops up much too frequently to please Charlie. There’s a romantic twist to the picture which motivates Charlie’s detective duties, and these roles are. well handled by Constance Moore, Robert Cummings and John Sutton. Cops and robbers assignments are taken by Louis Calhern, Harold Huber and Warren Hymer, and good sympa- thetic work is credited to Samuel S. Hinds, Ray Turner and Edgar Kennedy. Produced and directed by Frank Tuttle. —Universal. That Casanova of Carvel, irre- sistible Mickey Rooney, is a sorry man when girl friend, Ann Rutherford, dis- covers he's been two or three- timing her in their newest screen adven- ture, ''Judge Hardy and Son."

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steak The Peach back: of Notre Dame If you are looking for excitement some evening, take in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” The picture teems with the grossest cruelties, miseries and hor- rors that have ever been _ screened. Masterly direction, however, has made the period it deals with a vivid and un- forgettable spectacle. The ignorance and ugliness is sharply contrasted against the background of the great Notre Dame cathedral, and there are moments of ex- quisite beauty in the characterization of Esmeralda, by Maureen O’Hara. Remarkable, too, are the magnificent mob scenes and the hordes of characters taking part in them, since every one of them is a credit to the painstaking ef- forts of the casting department and the detailed directorial efforts. As the Hunch- back, Charles Laughton is as repulsive as the combined efforts of his own artistry and that of make-up man, Pere Westmore, can make him; Walter Hamp- den is superb in the role of the Arch- bishop; Harry Davenport, as King Louis XI gives an outstanding account of him- self; Sir Cedric Hardwicke is a convinc- ing high justice, and Edmond O’Brien’s characterization of the poet was capably hondied: Directed by William Dieterle.— RKO. x Judge Hardy and Son The Hardy family returns to the screen in a story that will hold no dis- appointments for their many fans. Andy (Mickey Rooney) has his usual terrific troubles, and his “man to man” talks with his father (Lewis Stone) are more hilarious than ever. Daughter Cecilia Parker has her share of problems again, with the “kid brother” still the most an- noying one. But there is a new and interesting angle to this story which the former Hardy pictures did not have— that of a great sorrow which comes to the family and teaches Andy that all his little grievances and worries are nothing compared tc the really important issues in life. This part of the plot concerns itself with the dangerous illness of Mother Hardy (Fay Holden). Even sister and brother call a truce and admit that they really think well of each other. Of course, Ann Rutherford is in the picture, cuter and prettier’n ever as Polly. Oh yes, and Andy has several other girl friends to complicate his life, too. June Preisser is one and Martha O'Driscoll and Margaret Early are the other “wimmin.” Maria Ouspenskaya has much too little to do and Henry Hull, another fine actor, comes off with a very poor role, also. Directed by George B. Seitz—Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. kk Destry Rides Again You won’t go wrong on this picture, for it’s uproarious entertainment from first to last. A lawless western town is the background of the story, with Brian Donlevy the ruthless king of the outlaws, and Marlene Dietrich the dance hall queen. Into this explosive situation comes Destry ‘James Stewart,’ a deputy sheriff determined to bring law and order without toting a gun. He’s aided by Wash Dimsdale (Charles Winninger), the town drunkard. The clean-up drive is as bloodcurdling as anything you'll see in many a moon. The cast is excellent in every respect, _ with James Stewart doing his best work to date and Marlene Dietrich far sur- es on page 16) te MODERN SCREEN 1940 Dbutente Beauly says Pond’ Rose Shades Give Sette, Romantic With one of Pond’s “'Glare-Proof” Rose shades Peggy Anne has a melt- ing glamour even in harsh light . . . she can dance without worrying all . the time about “shiny nose” Hard and Shiny Under bright lights with just a pale powder, even Miss Peggy Anne Huber's dramatic young face would develop hard shadows New Rose Shades are ‘‘Glare-Proof’ . Shine- resistant... reflect only the softer, pinker rays N THE 1940 GLAMOUR SET, “‘sen- sational”’ is the word for Pond’s new Rosy Powders. Debutante “‘pret- ties” have learned that even bright night-club lights won’t cast hard shadows on their faces—with one of these new Rose shades that reflect only the softer, pinker rays. Create your own private “‘sensa- tion’’! Choose the Pond’s Rose shade that makes your skin look most rav- ishing—and open the door to ro- mance! Pond’s Powder comes in 7 lovely shades in 10¢, 20¢ and 55¢ sizes. Or send for free samples today of Pond’s 3 Rose shades—Rose Dawn, Rose Cream and Rose Brunette. Pond’s, Dept. 9 MS-PC, Clinton, Conn. Copyright, 1940, Pond’s Extract Company

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a aN IS SS LD SF Right, tamous Boston Baked Beans and Brown Bread are only two of the “yummy'' sugges- tions Bette Davis has for you. Above, her “special treat'’ ready in the kitchen, Bette lights the candles which give that cozy, inti- mate touch to a Sun- day night supper table. BY MARJORIE DEEN IT’S FUN asking Bette Davis a question. She always has such a ready answer and is so good at explaining things. For in- stance, when asked about her preferences in the food line, she replied, “Why not just ask me what part of the country I come from? That will automatically answer your question and at the same time give you a pretty good idea of how I like to have my favorite dishes prepared. “That is true of\most people, I believe,” she went on. “We all reflect our early training, in our choice of foods as well as in our other ideas. Now remember, I'm a New Englander. So, although I occasionally take delight in having an East Indian Curry, a Mexican Chili, or a Southern Fried Chicken, still my idea of a perfect dish continues to be—yes, you’ve guessed it— Boston Baked Beans with Brown Bread.” Bette, I learned, often serves these famous dishes from “down East” at Sunday night supper parties given for a few of her most intimate friends. Complete informality characterizes these gatherings. The simple menu is in keeping with the occasion and the meal is one that the charming hostess can serve herself without bothering to have any servants around. Besides the beans and brown bread already mentioned, there is always a simple salad, served in individual wooden bowls right along with the main course. Cheese and condiments are on hand so that everyone can help himself. The main course is followed by:a rich fruit pie or a hot pudding. In cold weather this would be, quite likely, an apple Brown Betty—rich with raisins in our star’s favored version, which is spelled ‘with an “e” to do her honor. It’s easy to see that a meal such as this presents the fewest possible serving difficulties for the hostess. No wonder Bette recommends it so highly. The beans, of course, cook through- out the day and require little or no last-minute attention. The recipe follows. If you haven’t planned on having beans, long enough in advance to make a whole day’s baking possible, you can still use the popular bean pot, and convince your guests that the beans are home baked, by following the direc- tions for preparing canned beans. At any rate, chances are you will probably buy the brown 14 LLIN HGLAND FAVORITE bread—traditional accompaniment of baked beans—in cans. It’s so easy to heat and serve, that way. The salad, in Bette’s opinion, should consist of mixed greens with a couple of cooked vegetables added, since there is no other vegetable dish. Beets and peas make a colorful and tasty combination but almost any left-over vegetables may be used. A fine, tangy French dressing, made up in advance but added only at the very last minute, and Bette’s individual bowl idea, will assure success for this salad—especially with the menfolk. The dessert, if it’s to be the Brown Betty, can be made up in the morning and re-heated. (Much better served hot, really!) And there you have it! A meal of New England inspiration, transplanted to California by Bette Davis and now ready to delight the rest of us the country over! BOSTON BAKED BEANS 1 quart pea beans ¥% pound fat salt pork 1 teaspoon dry mustard 2 teaspoons salt 1 cup boiling water ist step: Wash beans and allow them to soak overnight in cold water to cover. 2nd step: In the morning, drain and cover with fresh water. Cook slowly—just below the boiling point— until skins will burst. (This is determined by taking a few beans on a spoon and blowing on them gently. When skins of these beans will break and curl back, then the rest of the beans are sufficiently cooked.) 3rd step: Fill bean pot with cooked beans. Some people also like to add a small onion. minced fine, at this point. Pour boiling water over the salt pork, scrape the rind until it is white, then score deeply. at half-inch intervals. Press pork down into beans so that only the rind is exposed. Combine salt, molasses and mustard. Add the boiling water. Pour this mixture over the beans and add enough water so that beans are just covered. Cover bean pot tightly and bake beans in slow oven (300° F.) for 8 hours. If necessary add a little water (boiling) during baking period so that beans will not get too dry. Uncover pot during last hour to brown the pork. Serve in the pot in which they were cooked. % cup molasses

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Cote ach wasgy Delicious dishes to help you make your Sunday night sup- pers memorable occasions VEGETARIAN BEANS (Excellent for Lenten Fast Days) After the beans have been soaked ‘ overnight (step 1, on opposite page), add 1 cup peanuts tied in a cheesecloth bag. Cook with the beans (step 2) so that the peanut oil will take the place of the Baye 4 Fe haa sy ously. ~ fat of the salt pork. Remove peanuts from parboiled beans, proceed with 3rd step, omitting pork and adding an extra tea- spoon of salt. Or, if preferred, peanuts may be cooked and baked right in with the beans. ‘ BAKED CANNED BEANS (For a "homemade" effect, in a short time) Mix a large can of beans with 1 table- spoon minced onion, 2 tablespoons mo- lasses, 2 tablespoons brown sugar, 14% teaspoons prepared mustard. Place in bean pot. Bake, uncovered, in moderate oven (350° F.) 45 minutes. BROWN BETTE 1 cup seedless raisins 3 cups sliced apples 14 cup brown sugar ¥Y, teaspoon salt Y% teaspoon cinnamon grated rind of 1 lemon 2 cups stale bread crumbs ¥ cup granulated sugar Y% ‘cup boiling water 4 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons lemon juice Rinse raisins in hot water, drain and chop. Combine raisins and sliced apples, add brown sugar, salt, cinnamon and rind. Mix together the bread crumbs and granulated sugar. Put one-third of bread mixture in greased baking dish. Top with one-half of the apple mixture. Add half of remaining crumb mixture, then all the remaining apples. Top with remaining crumbs. Melt 3 tablespoons of the butter in the boiling water, add lemon juice and pour over contents of baking dish. Dot with remaining table- spoon of butter. Cover and bake in slow oven (325° F.) 40 minutes. Uncover, raise heat to moderate (375° F.) and con- tinue baking 15-20 minutes longer, or until apples are tender and top of pud- ding is well browned. Serve hot with Fluffy Lemon Sauce or whipped cream. FLUFFY LEMON SAUCE 1 tablespoon cornstarch ¥% cup sugar 1 cup boiling water 1 tablespoon butter 114 tablespoons lemon juice 1 egg white, stiffly beaten > Combine cornstarch and sugar. Add boiling water slowly. Cook 15 minutes in top of double boiler over boiling water, stirring constantly until thickened and then, occasionally. Remove from heat. Add butter and lemon juice. Stir until blended. Slowly add hot mixture to stiffly beaten egg white, stirring vigor- 0 (Continued on page 100) pel Seren = a>" MODERN SCREEN “I'll be the laughing stock of the town...” MARY: Oh, Mother, why did that snooty Mrs. Palmer have to drop in today! Now ivll be all over town that even my tea napkins look so gray, they aren’t fit to be seen! MOTHER: There! Just hustle home and put Fels-Naptha to work with its richer golden soap and busy, dirt-loosening nap- tha. Use the bar or the grand new chips. Either way, your wash will be so sweet and white, you won’t recognize it! Min MOTHER: Lucky I dropped in, honey. That soap you're using is so weak-kneed it doesn’t get things really clean. Come on—I’'ll show you how to say goodbye to tattle-tale gray. MARY: Whe-e-e, Mother! I'll say your tip about Fels-Naptha turned the tables! Mrs. Palmer came to tea again and her eyes simply popped when she saw my snowy linens. And she ended by asking Tom and me to a party! Now—Fels-Naptha brings you 2 grand ways to banish ‘‘Tattle-Tale Gray’’ Use Fels-Naptha Soap Chips—wherever you ve been using box-soap. They speed washing machines—because they’re HUSKIER—not puffed up with air like flimsy, sneezy pow- ders. And they whip up the creamiest suds ever—because they now hold a marvelous new suds-builder! Use the Fels-Naptha bar for bar-soap jobs—and get the extra help of richer golden soap combined with gentle naptha! ‘Together, these two cleaners make the grimiest, greasiest dirt let’ go—without hard rubbing! They get clothes so white, they fairly sparkle in the sun! COPR. 1940, FELS & CO.

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Please rush ‘‘Miracle Make- - up Set’’ of sample Tangee Lipsticks and Rouge in both Natural and Theatrical shades. Also Face Powder. I enclose 10¢ (stamps or coin). ® (15¢ in Canada.) Check Shade of Powder Desired: Peach Light Rachel Flesh LJ] Rachel Dark Rachel Tan Name. zs [Please Print) Street _ City. == State—— MM30 MODERN SCREEN MOVIE REVIEWS (Continued from page 11) passing anything she has done on the screen. Winninger gives a superb char- acterization of W. Dimsdale while Brian Donlevy leaves nothing to be desired in his. portrayal of the crook de luxe. Mischa Auer, a mad Russian with a frustrated cowboy complex, has many hilarious scenes while Una Merkel, his nagging spouse, does a grand job as usual. Allen Jenkins, Warren Hymer and Billy Gilbert are stand-outs in minor roles. Directed by George Mar- shall—Universal. %&%& Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President Youll want to meet Joe and Ethel Turp, for two more lovable and warmly human people would be hard to find. When their postman is arrested, the Turps’ loyalty is so aroused that they decide to call on the President to plead for a pardon. So you see, there’s no stopping this couple. Ann Sothern is Mrs. Turp and Wil- liam Gargan becomes Joe. Both players have only mediocre material with which to make their characterizations hold in- terest, and they do 100% jobs. Much of the story deals with the past life of Jim, the postman, as recounted by Mr. and Mrs. Turp to the President. As Jim, Wal- ter Brennan shows his usual excellent un- derstanding of a role, while Marsha Hunt deserves considerable credit for the good work she does as Jim’s former sweetheart. Lewis Stone gives a completely satisfac- tory portrayal of the President and Tom Neal and Don Costello contribute some high spots to the picture. Directed by Howard Hawks.—Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. %&% The Cisco Kid and the Lady Cesar Romero takes up where Warner Baxter left off in the role of the colorful Cisco Kid, and gallops his way into an exceptionally favorable characterization. If the story had measured up to Romero’s contribution, “The Cisco Kid and the Lady” would have been a fine show. Working with Romero in his benev- olent bad deeds is the very amusing Chris-Pin Martin, who manages to keep every scene on the funny side. But stealing thunder from both Romero and Martin is an engaging baby named Gloria Ann White. The Cisco Kid and his cohort find baby Gloria alone on the desert after bandits have murdered her father. They take her to town with them, turn her over to Marjorie Weav- er’s care, then find that they can’t stay away from either the baby or Marjorie. The Cisco Kid sees to it that the baby gets back her share of the gold mine stolen by the murdering bandits, then rides off with Chris-Pin to other ad- ventures. Trailing with him, however, is beau- tiful Virginia Field. Her clever portrayal of a dance hall queen will no doubt be continued in the next of this series. Other scene stealers are Robert Barrat and Harry Green. Directed by Herbert I. Leeds.—20th Century-Fox. ** Raffles Theatregoers have been familiar with the story of “Raffles” since the time of the first World War, and except for a new cast this picture does not differ _from former screen presentations. How- ever, it has an excellent cast. David Niven is entirely satisfactory in the role. of the suave and fearless Raffles who delights in baffling Scotland Yard with his exploits. Undoubtedly, Niven is worth the price of anyone’s theatre ticket when he’s good and here he is very good, indeed. Olivia de Havilland, sister of Raffles’ pal and inevitably Raf- fles’ sweetheart, is lovely to look at and gives a very competent performance. Dame May Whitty, however, is the real scene-stealer in the picture. When that talented and charming lady is on the screen, every other player fades into the background. Dudley Digges as In- spector Mackenzie provides some high- spots in the entertainment, while E. E. Clive gives a grand account of himself. Directed by Sam Wood.—Samuel Gold- wyn Production for United Artists. \ President in "Joe and Ethel Turp,"’ Ann Sothern visits Africa with John Carroll in their latest—''Congo Maisie.”

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A Doctor Tells THE INTIMATE SECRETS y OF APRIVATENURSE © y | The first cuthenue “inside”’ revelation of the cloistered, code-bound world of woman’s most intimate profession — probing deeply and dramati- cally the souls of those bitter women who know men too well, yet must somehow find love in the midst of terror, toil and disillusionment. THE WORLD- ae FAMOUS AUTHOR | a SBOE ‘OF “THE CITADEL’ Bares the Heartache and Despair of Women the World Calls Callous in a story even more search- ing and absorbing than his first great success— made trebly vivid and exciting by three brilliant stars. 66 From the Brilliant New Novel by A. J. CRONIN With JULIEN MITCHELL - ROB’T COOTE BRENDA FORBES - PETER CUSHING = Produced and Directed by GEORGE STEVENS PANDRO S. BERMAN In Charge of Production Screen Play by Fred Guiol - P. J. Wolfson + Rowland Leigh RKO RADIO PICTURE ViGIL IN THE NIGHT,

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ONLY RUDYARD KIPLING COULD WRITE SUCH A ROMANCE... ONLY RONALD COLMAN COULD PLAY SUCH A ROLE! “Laugh, you little fool, laugh...for I’m giving you something you've never had before... A soul...on canvas!" T. those who believe in romance, Paramount dedicates this glorious film re-creation of Kipling’s never-to-be- forgotten story of Dick Heldar, artist, adventurer, gentleman unafraid. For this is romance, the romance of far places, Abu-Hamed, Khartoum, Port Said, London, ¥ : and of the men who fought for glory beneath the . a ™ desert sun... but more than that. . . the romance of that strange wilderness which is the heart of man. Ronald Colman’s Scottie, Mr. Binkie, a severe critic, a loyal friend. “TE MIG THAT FAILED A Paramount Picture with WALTER HUSTON ida Lupino - Muriel Angelus - Dudley Digges Produced and Directed by WILLIAM A. WELLMAN Screen Play by Robert Carson Based on the Novel by Rudyard Kipling

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"Claudette believes in realism. She likes to be held the way a man really in love with her would hold her.” Sing 00 FUN And Fred MacMurray should know —he's made love to such glamorous beauties a Colbert, Lombard, Dunne, Bennett and Carroll BY GEORGE BENJAMIN |

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Bor pe Here's the One-Take MacMurray in a clinch with Carole Lombard. This shouldn't be hard to take! between scenes. THE GIRL Fred MacMurray really loves has never seen him make a love scene. He won’t let her watch. She made one of her rare visits to the studio a few months ago, to see a friend. During the visit, she men- tioned the fact that she had never been on a set. “What have you been waiting for—an engraved invitation?” de- manded the surprised friend. “Come on, Ill take you down to Fred’s set.” Lillian Lamont MacMurray shook her head. “Any set but that,” she said. And she meant it. Lillian explained, “If, by any chance, he should be doing a love scene, and he found out I was anywhere around— well, he just wouldn’t be any good to Paramount for a week. And he’d never forgive me. He knows that I know how self-conscious he is about his movie kisses.” To see Fred on the screen, you would never suspect him of agonizing through his love scenes. He may some- times build up to the Big Moment, or Clinch (as it is called in Hollywood), with a certain amount of embarrass- ment, but not always. Whenever the embarrassment does appear, it is entirely in keeping with the character he is playing. And every time the Big Moment does arrive, he looks as if he enjoys taking the heroine—invariably a pretty parcel of femininity—in his arms and kissing her soundly. You wouldn’t suspect that his enjoyment is the well-this-is-finally-over kind. With every new picture, he asks to do the love scenes first. It isn’t that he can’t wait to do them—that he has a ‘Don Juan or Casanova streak. He has no urge to give an attractive woman ideas about his romantic possibilities on first meeting. He makes the same request even if the lady is an old friend. He wants those scenes over with, Sanne out of the way. They haunt him, if they’re ahead oO 3 This is a strange complex for a top-ranking male star to have. No other Hollywood male, particularly one pop- ular with women, has such an affliction. Part of Fred’s trouble is that he is sadly deficient in actor’s ego. Even after five years of fan mail, he doesn’t harbor any illusions about his ability to sway the COE of the opposite sex. “I’m in Hollywood by accident,” says. “A lucky accident. What I don’t know about ee would fill a dozen books. I’m just fortunate that the folks . like me as I am. My only chance of remaining, as I see it, is to stay natural.” ‘ That’s what he has against love scenes. him feel natural. He grew up in Kankakee, Illinois, and in a small town, everybody knows your business, unless you’re on guard to keep it to yourself. Fred, who vaguely resented curi- They don’t let sity about why his mother and father had parted, and how he and his mother managed to get along, became lose-mouthed very young. And he also became very un- "Madeleine Carroll is a bit remote Love scenes, to Irene Dunne, are But she isn't that ali in the day's work. Her ap- way when the camera starts turning.’ proach is business-like, says Fred. demonstrative—the better to keep people at a safe distance. Six feet three in his teens, he was taller than any of his pals, and towered over girls. He vaguely resented that, too. It made him conspicuous, and this made him uncom- fortable. It wasn’t any different when he and his saxo- phone joined the California Collegians, and the leader called on all the boys to do solo stuff. Every time Fred did a bit of soloing, he was so unstrung that the leader couldn’t call on him again for three weeks. He’s still like that. He has made exactly one personal appearance. But that one, he says with feeling, shortened his life ten years. When you realize the permanence of Fred’s self-con- sciousness, and the habitual proportions of his reticence, you can begin to appreciate his dread of love scenes. Even though he has been making them for five years, and with actresses whom other men dream of holding in their arms. HIS EMBARRASSMENT isn’t as visible on a set as it used to be. He has learned how to cover it up a bit. But it’s still there. His approach to love scenes today is still the approach of a normal, natural chap whose mother didn’t bring him up to be a co-star of glamour girls. In this respect, he is unique. He is the one male star capable of giving men who have never acted in their lives an idea of what it’s like to get up in front of that camera, with fifty or sixty studio workers watching you, and make love to world-famous beauties. And, incidentally, he can also give the average man an idea of how the beauties react. Where love-making was concerned, Fred was distinctly an amateur when Paramount pushed him into the role of Claudette Colbert’s suitor in “The Gilded Lily.” They told him, “You’d better be good, because this is your big chance.” “How would you feel, if you were given an assignment like that, when you had never made love to anybody publicly before?” asks Fred. “T'll tell you how you’d feel. Scared. Scared stiff. For approximately one-half second, you might feel flattered. It isn’t everybody who gets the chance to hold Claudette Colbert close. But the next half-second, you’d feel like the condemned man, just after the hearty meal. Petrified with anticipation. You’d suddenly realize you had just one thing to look ahead to. Your finish.” That’s how Fred felt. “Claudette was small and poised. I was tall and gawky. She knew, from years of acting experience, how to express emotion. I hadn’t had any practice whatsoever, with an audience watching me. Up until then, it had all been done with mirrors—and even that made me self-conscious. I was going to stack up as pretty clumsy, compared to other leading men that she’d had. (Continued on page 85) 27

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PRS RETA BELINDA ELMS DRI ITE EEC STE SREB EB TELCOS BST BTN SISOS E EK SEEN Sg SO MOE SO SER ELON SRO EF PRIDE EEE SEI IT EATS ETE HBOS DO Es SALI LITE TO ETS ney OY MERTEN ee ee LU nL You ve seen it work on the screen, but now Marlene reveals just what she has BY IRVING WALLACE DIETRICH was angry. It wasn’t ordinary anger. She didn’t throw anything, not even a tantrum. It was like Vesuvius, holding back. its rage, seething. It began slowly, Dietrich’s anger did, until her eyes sparked and her slender body stiffened. She puffed her imported cigarette once, twice, quick- ly, and from behind the smoke screen, let blast: “You have come here to write a story about how Dietrich has changed. You think, just because I played a tough night-club girl in ‘Destry Rides Again,’ and because I threw myself into the part and worked hard —that now I am different. Well, I am sick of the non- sense. I’m going to give you something to write— the truth!” She leaned forward. Strands of hair fell over her eyes. She didn’t mind. With great intensity, she spoke: “T have not changed. Not one single bit! Even if I wanted to, I wouldn’t know how. I’m not enough the actress for that. I have not departed from my old roles. My characterization in ‘Destry’ wasn’t so startling and unusual as it’s been played up to be. Merely a throw- back to my German film, ‘The Blue Angel.’ “T will be utterly frank with you = Wherever I go, whatever magazine I pick up to read I learn, ‘Dietrich is now different. A new person.’ And then I pinch myself, and find I am exactly the same as always, physically and mentally. I think I should know better than anyone alive that I haven’t changed. And believe me, I have told writers that, and critics, everyone—but no, they decide that since I sang and brawled in ‘Des- try, I must be a new Dietrich. They don’t print what I really say. They need an angle for their stories, so they write about the transformed Dietrich.” “Okay,” I said. “You haven’t changed a bit. But can you account for this—that visitors to your set, during the making of ‘Destry, reported you were friendlier than ever, less temperamental and were trying harder? How come?” Marlene crushed out her cigarette. “Oh no, no, that’s not so. In all the pictures ’ve made, I’ve always been the same. Can’t people understand one thing—that I am human, that I have good days and bad days? I admit, in the past, there were times when I knew I didn’t have good pictures, and I was in a poor temper. When you're disturbed, you can’t wear a joking mask. At least I never could. But when I worked in ‘Destry,’ I liked the script. I knew it was a good show. It put FS ERR AEE TT am Men have been important in Dietrich’s life. Above is Director Josef von Sternberg, whose wife once called Marlene a _love-pirate. me in a fine humor, and I felt like laughing and talking. Do you understand?” Marlene Dietrich paused, came up for air, and then sank back on the sofa with a sigh. I sat a trifle para- lyzed and a little jarred. All publicity and gossip, in wake of the sexsational ‘Destry’ convinced me that a new Dietrich was being born—a Dietrich who, inspired by her bawdy portrait of Frenchy and her own recent American citizenship, had acquired the star-spangled manner—sans makeup, accent, slink and continental mystery. Ten minutes earlier, I had walked into the living- room of her bungalow, situated in the rear of the Bev- erly Hills Hotel, certain I would find a Dietrich who had shed her glamour, and who was about as mys- terious and exotic as your Aunt Sadie. I WAS early for the interview. I studied her room. It was bright afternoon, and the sun sent dusky shafts down on an end-table where lay an open German lan- gauge book and an astrology guide. On the mantelpiece was a cheap two-bit copy of Steinbeck’s “Pastures of Heaven,” and bookmarked in the center, Hemingway’s “Fifth Column and Other Stories.” And then Dietrich. came into the room. She didn’t have much make-up on, and her copper- colored hair was m . She wore wrinkled brown suede trousers topped by a white silk blouse and a yellow sleeveless suede jacket. And I am here to report to all citizens and patriots, that Marlene Dietrich looked like an improved carbon of Venus De Milo. I decided on the spot that she was the only human on earth who could really look glamorous without make-up. She was the same Dietrich who had come to Holly- wood a decade ago for “Morocco,” and taught Amer- icans the true meaning of glamour. I knew the lady hadn’t changed, and that all the inky-fingered lads were hoaxing the public. Yes, slowly I began to understand, because Marlene was speaking in such throaty and energetic defense of herself, and with such conviction, I began to see for the first time that maybe—well—maybe everyone had. her wrong. That sounds ordinary. And a trifle banal’ But it answers a lot of items about Marlene. I inquired about her future. “I am signed for two more pictures at Universal,” she explained. “Tl take any (Continued on page 68)

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Rudolf Sieber, her husband, is a nearly-forgotten man. Religion, it is said, prevents their divorce. Marlene is as sleek as a thoroughbred today, yet her normal weight is 148 pounds! Brutal dieting results in fre- quent fainting spells— but that's what makes forthe Dietrich glamour.

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’M GOING home for Christmas,” the girl in pub- licity had told Melvyn Douglas. “Saved my vaca- tion. That gives me two whole weeks, with pay, to spend visiting the folks.” “Wish I could get two weeks without pay,” grum- bled Melvyn hopelessly. And behind that mournful statement lies the fact that he hasn’t had a real breathing spell in five years— not since the Douglas stock started leaping up the movie exchange. Now girls in publicity think in terms of publicity. That’s what they’re paid for. They pounce on any observation Mel Douglas has no time for prettying up. It's not unusual to meet him at a Bowl concert or a_neigh- borhood movie clad just as he is here on bic own front porch. ‘more casual than “good morning.” The familiar calculat- ing gleam entered this one’s eye. “Sounds as if it might make a funny story,” said she. “Excruciating,’ Douglas agreed. Which explains why one day I decided to mount the Hollywood hill that leads to the Douglas home. Melvyn’s house is large and white and sprawls over the hilltop. There are porches, patios and windows open to the sun. Before it was built, the future householder indicated spots where he wanted walls knocked out to make room for the many windows. “Took,” said the architect finally, “you want the house to stand, don’t you?” “Not if it shuts me in,” said Douglas, and knocked out another wall. Five minutes from the center of a mad town, the house gives the impression of living alone with the air and sky, and liking it. When I walked in, Douglas was in the living- room. The radio was tuned to a news broadcast. War dispatches, horrible, unreal, were coming from the loud-speaker. “And you want me to babble about vacations or something?” he inquired. I meekly pointed out that he hadn’t stopped making pictures, that therefore he couldn’t

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logically reject what went with it. Being a just man, he agreed, “If you don’t mind waiting till this broadcast is over. It’s hard to think of anything else just now. We stayed up listening till four this morning.” It has been charged that Hollywood is aware of world events chiefly as they affect Hollywood’s pocketbook, that Hitler and Stalin are important, but less important than last night’s preview. If there is truth in the charge, it’s a truth with exceptions, one of the more notable exceptions being Mr. Douglas. The broadcaster said, “Good-by, everybody.” Douglas turned the knob and sat down. “Okay. I haven’t had a vacation in five years. Kids are going out to be slaugh- tered, and I haven’t had—l-cok, are you sure you want to go on with this?” “They said it was a funny story,” I offered, feeling like Nero while Rome burned. “All. about you leaping for Paris, kissing your wife ‘hello’ and ‘good-by,’ and catching the next boat back—” “Oh, that? All right, let’s be funny if it kills us. That happened two years ago last summer. Helen was going abroad for some singing engagements. I was working in G Ang el.” At noon one day, Ernst Lubitsch, the director, said, “That’s all.” “What do you mean, that’s all?” asked his leading man a TWO WEEKS — Douglas isnt as lucky. carefully. “Can it be, you won’t be needing me anymore?” “That’s all. We’re finished.” “Let me get this straight. I’m dismissed. I can go away. I can leave town—” Lubitsch took his cigar out of his mouth. “Good-by,” he said distinctly. Douglas dashed home. His wife was flying east that afternoon to sail on the Queen Mary. She found him in his bedroom, chucking shirts into a suitcase. “I’m going to Europe with you,” he announced. Together they planed to New York and boarded a ship headed for France. A few days later, early in the morning, the ship docked at Cherbourg. In their eagerness to glimpse the foreign shores, they hadn’t even dozed the night before. Douglas settled himself for a nap on the train to Paris, but found that he couldn’t sleep. His eyes simply wouldn’t stay shut. They reached Paris at two in the afternoon. “Bed,” said Helen. “Nothing doing,” said her husband. Common sense finally prevailed, and they slept till six. Then they called some friends, dined at one of their favorite restaurants, went to the theatre and stayed up half the night talking. Next day they cut short a visit to the Exposition in order to take a long walk through the city. They met more friends, dined at another of their favorite restaurants, saw another show and didn’t go to (Continued on page 98) WITH Pay . Even Joe the Office Boy gets that much—but Melvyn Mel hasn't had a vacation in the last five years and with his variety of activities, probably wont have one for the next ten BY IDA ZEITLIN

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Above, solemn-faced Direc- tor Michael Curtiz lends an ear to chatty leading lady, Miriam Hopkins. These wide-grinning prairie flowers are Alan Hale, Humphrey Bogart and Ran- dolph Scott. As usual, Humphrey Bogart is the villain in the piece. Above, he and two buddies use their trigger fin- gers in real badman fashion.

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Be ey el aad ae WER Having placed Dodge City, Kansas, on the map, they are continuing their push to the Pacific with a stop-over at Virginia City, Nevada. Once more, handsome Errol Flynn leads the parade and, ive of. that sage producers will not let a good cast die, of his “Dodge City” playmates again stand by his side. - With typical Hollywood casualness, Hungarian Director Michael Curtiz took his company to Arizona for the shoot- ing of this epic of Nevada. It was the largest production unit ever sent out of the film capital and included six passenger buses, ten limousines, twenty trucks and enough horses for a season at Tijuana. Along with the live stock and the motorized brigade went the entire directorial Boe the camera crew, the make-up artists, - hairdressers, elec- tricians, carpenters, grips, property men, wardrobe men, Looks Vie Ra hort sea giving Alon Below, Miss H.' horse wranglers and a couple of hundred extras. Reck- oning conservatively, the a of the location trip ran to approximately $13,000 Al outdoor scenes che filmed on a Navajo Indian Res- eevee, suet sixty-five miles from the city of Flagstaff, where company was staying. In order to travel that distance every day and still do a good eight-hour stint for Warner Bros., almost everyone had to roll off his mattress at 5 A.M. Flagstaff is not a latitudinal kin of Los Angeles and the transplanted movie folk, accustomed to caressing warmth, shivered pathetically in the bitter-cold Arizona dawn. Having arrived at the scene of their day’s work, they huddled around bonfires while husky men set up the equipment, and awaited Curtiz’s “start shooting” call which usually came at the heathenish hour of 8 AM. These pictures were taken after they had thawed out. aS \s rey \ ‘lays it on thick" before facing the camera.

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Jane Withers was once known as Dixie's Dainty Dewdrop—but that was before she bounced up and be- came Movietown's Modern Miracle. BY BETTY COLFAX TWELVE HUNDRED beloved dolls and several dozen live pets still have their place in the changing scheme of Jane Withers’ life. But in her consciousness has awakened the significance of newly important things—the charm of her own perfume cabinet, the art of the hairdresser’s salon, the delight of flattering party dresses, the pleasure of skating and dancing and eating ice cream sodas with boys her own age. The new Jane Withers—three inches taller and twelve pounds lighter than:she was a year ago—spread her velvet skirt about her and sat on the edge of a deep divan in her living-room. With the air of a duchess, she remarked enthusiasti- cally, “I shall go on acting in pictures for years—I hope— and then when I’ve finished with that, I should like to design costumes and write.” Concerning the writing, a short story is already sim- mering in the alert Withers mind. She wanted to talk about it. “I believe I shall dictate that to my secretary,” she remarked with adult composure. Jo-Jo, her secretary and friend, beamed acceptance of the probable task. At that, Jane most likely will write the story some day—and sell it, too. She gets what she wants because she makes things happen for herself. Jane is the important pivot of her own personal world. The California home of the Withers in Westwood Village evolves around her. Her mother, who has been the con- stant guiding star of her screen career, lives only for Jane. She’s with her continuously. Walter Withers sticks to his wholesale furniture business and declines to be known as a movie star’s father. But he, like his wife, Jo-Jo and the servants, knows that the most important problem in his home is keeping Jane contented and happy there for the next several years. Mrs. Withers has two definite hopes for her famous off- spring: First, that for a while at least she won’t grow any taller than her present five feet, three and a half inches. That would be disconcerting in the present movie plans outlined for Jane. The second is that when Jane really grows up to a marriageable age, shell wait long enough to be sure of her choice and take someone with whom she can make marriage last a lifetime. Jane and her family wanted a South American cruise this year. World conditions altered that. So instead, she made a personal appearance tour over the country—earn- ing money, instead of spending it. A few months ago, Jane appeared as the star attraction of a Food Show in Boston. Twice a day she sang, danced and gave her clever impersonations of other stars. As one of the side events that week, she was the guest of honor at a large gathering of a girls’ club in the poorer section of the city. One little girl, a member of the club, had been assigned to make the speech introducing Jane. The

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Lost, at the threshold of adolescence: a pudgy, round-faced, baby-banged moppet! What's more, she'll never be found—but in her place is a tall, attractive . . . _ youngster stood up, shaking with stage fright. Her eyes bulged in panic. She opened her trembling lips but no words came. Quickly, Jane rose and put her arm around the other girl. “I think we both want to say the same things,” Jane told her in a quiet, friendly voice. “Let’s say them together.” Jane, with utter lack of self-consciousness, started talk- ing to the hundreds of girls before her. In the back of the hall, Mrs. Withers and Jo-Jo listened with amazement, tears streaming down their cheeks. Though they’ve been with her in every step of her success, they’ve never ceased to wonder at Jane’s assurance and poise. They never coach her. They don’t even know what she'll say, but they do know it will be good. Jane’s never failed them yet. On the closing night of the Food Show, Jane did her ~ act before 21,000 people. She was calm, self-assured as usual. That was until she started her words of farewell. Then she was a little girl, sad at the thought of parting from anything that had given her delight. Tears were in her eyes, but her thoughts were smoothly expressed. Only those up front could see the tears. But later, in her dressing-room, babyish sobs came and she pro- tested, “I like it here; I don’t want to leave.” WITH THE attitude of youth which passes over sad moments quickly, Jane in talking about the Boston visit remembered only the pleasant things. Her very mobile little face reflected her quickly changing moods. Conver- sation about her career brought to her voice a sureness, an earnestness. And then just when the impression that Jane had outgrown her childhood was complete, she - proudly exhibited some dolls newly acquired in New York. She still finds pleasure in little girl things. But on that New York visit she bought compacts for her seven girl friends. A year ago she’d have gone shop- ping for live turtles or pen-knives. From dolls and dogs to thoughts of work, the Withers moods flow like quicksilver. With a new Marie An- toinette doll in her hand, she recalled having seen Car- men Miranda in “Streets of Paris.” And, as though she were merely repeating a lesson in Spanish, she did an impersonation of the zippy “Souz American” meteor that would make the efforts of older imitators pathetic. She has a gift of mimicry that emphasizes the gestures and affectations of everyone with whom she has worked or whom she has seen. It’s only when Jane cleverly assumes the personality of a well-known figure that you realize certain characteristics you hadn’t noticed before. A year ago, a fat little Jane Withers would have bounced into the living-room. Her bangs would have been disarranged, her denim slacks soiled and on her hands and face would have been the marks of playful pets. Things are different now. She wore a “junior miss” frock of brown velvet skirt and plaid blouse. Her nails were immaculate, her hair softly drawn back from her forehead and waved. There was (sssh!) the faint trace of taleum: powder on her nose. “I’ve got a new formal,” she said casually. The “for- “ mal” proved to be a billowing white taffeta skirt with a red velvet military jacket, all trimmed in tiny gold buttons. And low in the back! That’s what her thirteenth birthday and a natural slenderizing process did for Jane. “Stop Red is my fa- vorite color—oh, yes, and I like royal blue, too,” she re- marked. Jane Withers’ getting enthusiastic about clothes is a phenomenon on the Twentieth Century-Fox lot. Millions of little girls envy Jane Withers. They, and their elders, flock in hordes for a glimpse wherever she appears. Jane has a young idol, too. It’s the Princess Elizabeth of England. “Have you seen her?” Jane asks everybody who has ever been to London. “How does she look in person? What is her voice like? What are her hobbies? I’d give anything just to meet her close up. I want to go to Lon- don, especially to see Princess Elizabeth and her sister.” Heroine-worship hasn’t passed little Miss Withers by. The peppy little gold mine in the Withers ménage has two more years to go on her seven-year contract. But the plans of the movie makers cover three years beyond that. She has four pictures scheduled for the next few years. She is now making “Shooting High” with Gene Autry. Her most recent release is “High School” in which she plays a freshman. Jane really is a freshman in her own school. She’s the only pupil. Miss Vizard, her teacher, goes where Jane goes—on the set, to her home, on personal appearance tours. While Jane was holidaying in New York she en- joyed the luxury of her morning class in bed. That was because she went to evening performances at the New York theatres. It doesn’t happen often. History is her favorite subject. She “eats up” the records of famous women and has a doll for every historical heroine. Until recently the young star never liked any but swing music. Now her school work includes classical compositions and she’s keeping a scrap book of her fa- vorite pieces. She loves the Strauss waltzes, and “Loh- engrin” is her best-loved opera. Her instruction also includes sewing and cooking, but Jane’s idea of really concocting something delectable is shaking up ice cream sodas behind her newly acquired soda fountain. The fountain is in the recreation room of Jane’s new apartment over the Withers’ California ranch house. The charming “diggings” are her parents’ concession to the fact that Jane is growing up and needs a place of her own. The house was formerly a (Continued on page 79)

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WHY CARY GRANT 1S HARD WHEN CARY GRANT and Phyllis Brooks called off their wedding plans, the gossips looked wise and said, “We could have told you so. Cary is hard to get.” This was a bit unfair to Phyllis. It carried the implica- tion that, since she was less famous than Cary, she must have been the pursuer and that he must have wearied of being pursued. The accepted version of how their romance began doesn’t encourage such an implication. Phyllis, who used to be a model in New York, had a girl friend of those days visiting her in 1937. The friend assumed that Phyllis knew all the stars and said, “There’s one star I'd par- ticularly like to meet—Cary Grant.” Phyllis, then playing only small roles, was enjoying her friend’s mild awe. She said obligingly, “I'll fix it for you.” At the time, she was going with Michael Brooke, better known as the Earl of Warwick. She thought that he, be- ing English, would know Cary and told him of the. spot she was in. Amused, he took the two girls out to the Grant beach house the next Sunday. (It’s always “open house” there on Sunday.) The Earl said to Cary, “Of course, you know Phyllis Brooks.” Cary, who had never seen her before, took a good look and said warmly, “Hello. How are you?” Her girl friend, properly impressed and properly grate- ful for her own introduction to Cary, babbled afterward, “He’s even better-looking than on the screen. I’d like to see more of him.” Phyllis, who felt much the same way but had no hope of a second meeting, said nothing. A few evenings later the two girls were at a night club. ~The other girl soon spotted Cary at a table not too far away. With the courage of the star-smitten, she went over to speak to him. They had several minutes’ con- versation, which climaxed with Cary’s saying, “I’d like to take your friend to the premiere tomorrow night. Think she’d go?” That must have been a blow to the visitor. But, gamely, she smiled, “I don’t know. Why don’t you just ask her?” He did. They went to the opening together. And, after that, they became such constant companions that everybody said it must be love. Everybody, that is, cept oy and Phyllis. They phers' model, was wouldn’t talk. “ys ' Cary didn’t have to talk to con- Be £ a - ae vince Hollywood that he had eeor "Gi un if marrying ideas. Why else should y aes MCS ey, he be so attentive to a girl who split, both have wasn’t a star? Or why should he been making a fine go so steadily with any girl when, show of not caring. ever since his brief first marriage, he had been so intent on avoiding romantic entanglements? Up to now, he had scattered his dates far and wide and often. There were those who suspected Phyllis of doing the courting to further her career. These suspicions, how- ever, didn’t make sense. Wary Cary is too smart to be anybody’s stepping stone. He is too much on his guard to get involved in any situation not of his own choosing. From the conviction that he had marrying ideas, the gossips graduated to the notion that he had secretly carried them out. He denied this, but he didn’t stop dating Phyllis. That looked like a tacit admission that, this time, he wasn’t running away from “serious romance” rumors. Last summer, Phyllis went to England to make a pic- ture. As soon as he finished “In Name Only,” he rushed over, in the face of war threats, to show her around. That didn’t make him look like the pursued. He was in such a hurry to join her that columnists, try- ing hard to out-scoop each other, predicted when and Phyllis Brooks, 25, a one-time photogra- ‘where wedding bells would ring abroad. The. columnists were wrong. One of them confidentially stated that the only reason for the delay was that Cary wanted to be married in America, since he was going to become an American citizen. When he and Phyllis returned, Cary had nothing to say about that, particularly with his native England facing the possibility of needing every man it could muster. But he did tell reporters that he and Phyllis would be married “sometime in the Fall,” when picture commitments permitted. Instead, came Fall, and they called the whole thing off. Neither would tell why. Then an ironic thing happened. The ex-lovebirds, who had decided they didn’t want to see each other any more, had to face the possibility of not being able to avoid each other. Just about the time Cary appeared on the lot to make “My Favorite Wife” with Irene Dunne, RKO signed Phyllis to a contract. Press-agents, having visions of some day writing a story about how the studio had uncon- sciously play match-maker, asked Phyllis if there wasn’t a chance of a reconciliation. She shook her head. She was going to be too busy with her career. She was tired of marking time on the screen. Proximity has been known to do wondrous things. It may draw Cary and Phyllis together again. And, again, it may not. Meanwhile, the gossips might consider the possibility that Phyllis, not Cary, might have been the one who broke away. She also has a large supply of independence. She had to have that to appeal to Cary in the first place. People are unconsciously attracted to those in whom they see their own traits reflected. There is no question about Cary’s independence—though it is of a strange sort. It isn’t the positive kind. He doesn’t go around being the strenuous Free Soul. He is anything but an egotistical blow-hard. He simply makes a point of being elusive. His artful dodging isn’t confined (Continued on page 73)

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With women to the right of him and women to the left of him, the elusive Mr. Grant has his own good reasons for going forward alone BY JAMES REID He's been Wary Cary since his marriage to Virginia Cherrill didn't jell. Their di- vorce came through several years ago. Can it be that he still bears the scar? Phyllis’ lack of movie success i | placed her at a constant dis- advantage. Gossips fre- i quently inferred that she was pursuing Cary in order to further her own career. | 37

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“MASSEY TAKES MANWATTAN Extra! The tough little island falls helplessly before. _ Hona's barrage of charm 2 As though her beauty and brains were nsuicint Nona Massey's make-up is with ene honesty than any one woman should have. BY ROBERT EICHBERG ; aeue , pe ciet t | 18

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IT ISN’T often that hard-boiled New York critics and columnists go off the deep end, but that’s what they did for the little Hungarian girl who, but a few years ago, was being fired from a job in a Budapest stocking shop as “the world’s worst salesgirl.” In fact, one writer, who saw her visiting a night club, said, “She looks as though she had just arrived from Fairyland;” another said, “She talks like Garbo,” while still a third thought her “as beau- tiful as Madeleine Carroll, as alluring as Marlene Dietrich.” “Flapdoodle,’ muttered your re- porter. “No one can be that wonder- ful. But maybe—” Accordingly, at 5:30 one evening, filled with scepticism, he rang the bell of Ilona Massey’s apartment at the Sherry-Netherlands. The door was opened not by a maid, but by an en- trancing blonde who smiled exquisite- ly and shook hands with a good, hearty grip. - That handshake was the tip-off on Miss Massey. She’s just like that; real people. In fact, she’s so doggone regu- lar that you lose all sight of her truly amazing beauty when you talk to her. She’s full of sparkle, of life, of a fresh, young enthusiasm that makes you an old friend after she has talked to you for two minutes. Now, there are plenty of stars— especially those who, like her, have recently attained stardom—who feel their own importance, and are inclined to be a trifle reticent about their unro- mantic beginnings. Not Ilona, though; she’s just as willing to talk about her tough times as she is about her phe-A nomenal success. More willing, for she has a bubbling humor that enables her to get a laugh out of her troubles. And she still has a touch of wonder- ment that people like her and are nice to her! Speaking her recently acquired En- % _ & ’ at ome Pepe REP ide aa sada 1 ~she said. oe ae a glish with just enough trace of an ac- cent to make it utterly captivating, and using her hands and shoulders to em- phasize her words in Continental fashion, Ilona will discuss any and every subject you want to bring up. In fact, she’s so frank that M-G-M’s press department is in a mild dither lest she say something that might harm her “box office appeal’’—as though anything could. We started off, mildly enough, with a slight discussion of where she had been during her trip to New York. She had been taken to the famous “21” for dinner. She had wanted to go there because she had heard of its roast wild boar, a dish which she claims lives up to its advance notices, tasting much like ham, but better. She was mildly regretful that she did not dare let her- self eat more of it. “I’m always on a diet,” she explained. FROM there, she had gone to Madison Square Garden, to see some amateurs boxing for sweet charity. “I was in- terested in only one of those bouts,” “T was—how do you say it— rooting for one of the little boys. He is a printer when he isn’t boxing, and I was interested because my father was a printer.” That mention of her father got us started on her early youth. She re- members when that one-time big, strong man returned to Budapest from a Russian concentration camp, where he had been a prisoner of war. Siberia had broken his health. Ilona, too, was recently returned to Hungary. For her own safety, she had been sent to Holland with a lot of other children, but she had missed her mother so much that after a few months she was sent back home. The memory of this part of her life is still painful. She hurries over it as much as possible. She doesn’t like to think of the days when the er nengee Bs a veeesset ’ _* OSE. FE ba we eh eceteaeteer a f s Z ~> &. OF Fae Bagi be , ee ee ee beer a“ ‘= oesee Re ' =f 7 i’ t » ota a x af 2 Bo family had to stand in line for five hours in the cold dawn, waiting for the day’s meagre supply of food to keep life in their bodies, which shivered under ersatz clothing. But that look of sadness leaves her face when she talks about other things, such as her love for singing and danc- ing. “My mother tells me (of course I cannot remember, myself) ,” she said, “that I tried to dance before I could walk. She says I would sit on the floor and cry for a towel or a piece of old rag, and then wave it over my head, like this.” She illustrated with a napkin, for we were having tea by this time, and your reporter was sud- denly reminded of “Morocco,” and Dietrich with the drapery streaming behind her. And this girl captured that grace and beauty with a common napkin! After the war, her father’s impaired health cut down his earning capacity. Ilona, as she grew, wanted to help— and had enough good, common sense to realize that she needed an educa- tion. So she studied like mad, and passed her four years of high school work in two. She has some amusing memories of these school days—even claims she was the homeliest kid in school. When you express your utter unbelief of such a statement, she tells you, as proof, that the teachers would never let her appear in any of the class plays. “They thought I wouldn’t be any good, and they were probably right,” she says. Although money wasn’t at all plenti- ful in the Hajmassey (that’s her real name; it’s pronounced “Hi! Massey!”) family, there were still a few pennies for the movies—a very few pennies. “In Hungary,” Ilona explained, “there is a different system. The best seats are in the middle of the house, and as you get nearer the front, where you have to tip (Continwed on page 103)

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Lana Turner, below, was one of thirty-five beauties who acted as cigarette girls at Ouida Rathbone's huge party for a Holly- wood charity. Lana sold her wares at one dollar the pack. Right, the Fred MacMur- rays arrive with Director Leslie Fenton and his actress-wite, Ann Dvorak. - Above, Janet Gaynor and hubby accept the good wishes of triends who have just heard that the Adrians are “expecting.” = Spee

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Left, Louis Hayward leans over his roast beef to chin with Wendy Barrie. Like many of the girls, Wendy dressed to match the party's Swiss theme. Ty Power and Anna- bella forgot fo buy . tickets in advance. They were admitted, but couldn't get any food. That's Phyllis Brooks acting as checkroom girl. Roz Russell looked like one of the figures that runs round a weather- vane. Her fellow bachelorettes out- numbered the unmar- ried men more than two to one, Ann Sheridan, right, pauses between her sale of kisses for a word with Ida Lupino. Ann's contribution to charity was one of the evening's prime delights. eee es AMIGHT AY of MORITZ Rathbone, as she patted the last ten-spot into place. Wasn't it a lovely evening?” Mrs. Rathbone was guilty of understatement. It had been a terrific evening. But her comment was none ‘the less praiseworthy because the pile of greenbacks she happily fondled was not slated for her personal money bags. In- stead, her arithmetic completed, she wrapped the bills neatly and without a whimper turned them over to Ann Lehr. Ann Lehr is Hollywood’s Lady Bountiful and the head of an organization which administers aid to the town’s needy. Rather than knock on doors and beg for handouts, she and Ouida had conceived the idea of a mammoth party designed to give the movie folk a high time while shaking them free of some cash. One thousand guests at ten dollars a head did the trick. Now, Ouida Rathbone has even more imagination than the men who devise her husband’s make-up, and her party- DE ... $9,990... . $10,000!” gurgled Ouida (Mrs. Basil) giving talents make Elsa Maxwell’s wilt like a buttercup. The natural outcome of such gifts had to be a bang-up shindig—and that’s just what her friends at the Beverly Hills Hotel got for their money. Advance publicity advised that the party was to have the character of an evening in an Alpine village, and the curious who buzzed around the hotel were amazed to see a miniature winter resort rising on a Beverly Hills lawn. Certainly, a glistening skating rink, a _ thrill-a-minute toboggan slide and perilous ski jumps are not sights which daily greet the eyes of Movietown’s citizens. But we told you Ouida was marvelous. With little trouble, she had enlisted the support of five major film studios, a costumer, a publicist, several florists and dozens of society and movie women who all worked like fury for a month. When the wonderland was finally whipped up, the servants of charity discovered they’d made a horrible mis- take. The weather man, like (Continued on next page) 41 ooo ee a

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Hollywood big-wigs turn out en masse for sweet charity and the years best party Sleeping Beauty’s thirteenth godmother, had not been con- sulted. His revenge was the obvious one—a rainstorm. a The morning of the affair the drops began to slide along the ice and snow, and by late afternoon $7,000 worth of | scenery had dissolved ‘ite mud puddles. The washout discouraged no one. Eye-filling and radiant, the celebrities trooped in—Dunne, Morison, Del Rio, Bryan, | the George Murphys, the Brian Ahernes, Olivia de Havil- i ih | land, Ray Milland, et al. For the most part, the list of Ve arrivals was made up of all those names which do not | appear in the local telephone directory . .. that is, all the Ve | important ones. Since Ouida’s entertainment had not been limited to outdoor sports, there was still a variety of ways | for everyone to forget his day’s labors. In the ballroom a swing band gave out with the hottest in popular music, {| gaudy booths displayed souvenirs at knockout prices, and HT champagne flowed like water. i] An indecent number of the stars disdained these di- | i versions for the livelier pastime oe ee Stopping Tall just long enough to shed their wraps, they made a rapid- i fire dash to the game room and soon had the chips clicking merrily. Suddenly, exactly as in the movies, in strode te the cops. “Break it up, boys,” they ordered. And with all | the authority of a producer, they shooed your favorites | h onto the dance floor and watched them take up more innocent and strictly legal recreation. | At about 2 A. M., when the party began to break up, our | photographer tactfully refrained from taking any pictures. ae All about him he saw not visions of loveliness and sartorial ie elegance, but sadly bedraggled men and women who, after | ee | ee an evening of wrestling with tremendous mobs, were be- & pie 4 Davis, as re- | | ginning to have thoughts which were just slightly un- axed as a time charitable. _ bomb, sits in a cor- | “But $10,000!” said Ouida. “It really was a lovely party!” ~ ner and watches the crowds dance past. Loretta Young regally steps from her car and joins the folks on the curb, Ann Sothern, Designer Bernard Newman and Roger Pryor. 2. Orson Welles, who has glamour minus, sups with Lili Damita. However, we see no pos- sibilities of a romance between these two. 3. Allan Jones and Irene Hervey tucked their three youngsters into bed before stepping out with Ronald Burla and his wife, Una Merkel.

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Margaret Sullavan wields the paint be- fore getting up to dance —without shoes, mind you! Forrest Tucker lends a hand to Helen Parrish. Their skat- ing togs were just ‘‘in hopes." 4. Cary Grant seemed grim as he appeared with sweet-faced Fay Wray. He and Phyllis Brooks. skill- fully ducked each other all evening. 5. Joan Crawford, who came on the arm of Cesar Romero, exhibited a valuable ring she had just re- ceived from her very good friend, Franchot Tone. 6. In her next picture Kay Francis uD periay Deanna Durbin's mother, but she could pass for a debbie as she strolls with Louis Bromfield. 7. Binnie Barnes and Mike Frankovitch have fun exam- ining a doll house. They'll marry in September, the day after Mike's divorce becomes final. .

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WANT TO pull yourself out of the post-Winter, pre-Spring doldrums? Then give a thought to your hair. Is it shining and luxuriant or is it dull and thin? Does your present coiffure “do something” for you, or is it the wornout rem- nants of a hair-do that was becoming to you three years ago? Then let’s do something about it! Think of your face as a picture, your hair as the frame that sets off or ruins that picture. How far do you suppose Ann Sheridan, Paulette God- dard, Hedy Lamarr, Dorothy Lamour, or any other movie favorite would have gotten if she hadn’t had soft and lustrous hair? How many girls in your own set could be ten times more attractive than they are if they would only “do something” about theirs? A new coiffure will work wonders for you, but first of all remember that beautiful and healthy hair will look well whether you wear it up or down, straight or curled. Hair beauty begins with hair quality. Hair is of a sturdy horny structure, derived from the skin and consisting of layers upon layers of infinitesimal cells. When normal and not “dam- aged” by dyes, bleaches or repeated permanent waves, it is extremely elastic. In fact, it will stretch as much as half an inch when pulled. Normal hair is neither dry nor oily and, of course, does not have dandruff. Its health and beauty depend primarily on your own good health, active circulation and a loose, well-cushioned scalp. But close runners-up are cleanliness, stimulation by brushing and massage, and also the correct use Want to change your coiffure? Evening ornaments add sophistication. Up hair-do's require perfect features. Then read these tips from Hollywood of tonics, lubricants and other important aids to: good grooming. Illness, undernourishment, shock, nervousness, | insufficient sleep, lack of fresh air and exercise all | take their toll on lovely locks. However, the care | you give your hair locally has a tremendous effect | on its beauty and general condition, First comes stimulation. A tight, thin, unmov- | able scalp chokes out nourishment and literally| starves your hair. To grow shining tresses.scalps | must be loose. If yours is not, go to work on it right now with massage, regular brushing and) combing. Knead your scalp every day with your fingers until you can feel the blood surging through it. Massage the base of your neck in the back where tired nerves become tangled, and rub) crosswise across your shoulders to release the’ congestion caused by poor posture and insufficient) exercise. Now massage all over your scalp, be- | ginning at the hair line and working in toward the | center. Repeat this regularly every day and you'll’ be amazed at the improvement in the appearance] of your hair—to say nothing of the benefits to’ your nervous system in general. For tight scalps;| indicate taut nerves that must be helped to)) relax. Besides the scalp, your hair itself needs to be| exercised. A strong, firm, long-bristled brush or | two should be on every dressing table—and _ not! for ornament, but for daily use. Brush your hair’ upward and outward, away from your scalp, never! downward or against the head. Soft bristles aren’t! strong enough to do any (Continued on page 62) , Up front, down back, soft and flattering. Young, simple and invariably correct.

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Ann Sheridan can wear a remarkable variety of hair styles because her | face is oval and | her features requ- ‘lar, also because the health and quality of her hair are practically perfect. Careful conditioning is the principal secret. Paqe-boy bobs are always attractive.

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IT’S A crying shame they don’t pay Errol Flynn for his master talent for getting in people’s hair; he’d be a very rich young man if they did. The dictionary may define perverse as “the disposition to thwart or annoy,” but out here the mere name of Flynn adds up to the same thing. He takes an unholy delight in upsetting routine, defying rules, smashing precedents, and pinning tin ears on constituted authority. He does exactly what a young man should not do if he wants to get along in Hollywood. The amazing thing is the way he gets away with it. Anyone else who tried some of his tricks would be booted out’ of Hollywood and the picture business in double quick time with a broken neck and a couple of black eyes among his souvenirs. Yet Errol somehow manages to bowl blithely along to ever mounting success and popularity. Blast him as they may and heap curses on his head, the ladies and gentlemen of the films go right on forgiving his constant sniping at their dignity, patience and vanity. And they come back for more. They never fail to get it; his generosity in that respect is awesome! Nor is the perverse Mr. Flynn any respecter of persons. Big fry and small fry are all the same to him. He’d just as soon (and usually rather) give his bosses triple-bill head- aches by his cussed contrariness and drive producers half crazy with his unpredictable antics as annoy a prop boy. What’s the difference, he figures; it’s all in fun anyway. There, I think, is the secret of how and why he gets away with. it. For although his little plots may be coldly calculated or brilliantly spontaneous, they never are delib- erately malicious or cruel. There-is an impish, mischie- vous quality about them, a certain joyous abandon, which defies real or lasting anger. You want to kiss him or kill him—but you don’t want him to stop playing in your back yard. It would be so deadly- dull without him. Then, too, he cooks up his plots with such delightful imagination and earries them out with such devilish charm. It’s an irre- sistible combination. Errol honestly doesn’t know what drives him to “thwart” and “annoy” people the way he does, by being late for appointments, doing a disappearing act, making a pal of a man who gets on everyone’s nerves, showing up for a formal dinner in a sack suit, telling you he’s going one place and ending up in another, or leveling on the vulnerable spots of big shots and stuffed shirts.. All he knows is that he’d rather bedevil the daylight out of someone than eat— and he enjoys eating. “T guess I just want to see what will happen,” he tried to explain. “It’s like sticking a pin into a balloon. You know it’s going to pop, but you don’t know when or how. The fun comes in finding out.” It was his mother who first voiced the opinion in which Hollywood later was to concur with all its heart: “Per- versity, thy name is Flynn!” She still. complains bitterly about one memorable example of it. When he was a boy, she endeavored to teach him to be unselfish about his possessions and to share his toys with other little boys who had none. Dutifully, Errol parted with them. One day she came home to find her gold dressing table set missing from its usual place. “Errol, have you seen my toilet articles?” she asked. “Yes, mother,’ he answered promptly. ‘You said we ought to share what we have with others, so I gave them to the other ladies on the street who didn’t have any.” LILI DAMITA, his pepperpot wife, is his favorite target for perverse stunts, probably because she flies into such . spectacular and hence satisfactory rages when he per- petrates them. Why she didn’t scalp him one night in New York will ever remain a mystery; he certainly invited it. On a certain Thursday afternoon he casually mentioned that two of his very old and very dear girl friends were arriving from Ireland on Saturday. All day Friday he continued the build-up, speaking of their beauty, their charm and sweetness, and of his eagerness to see them again. By deft hints he intimated they had been childhood sweethearts, that a bit of his heart still belonged to them. The tempestuous Lili was goaded beyond endurance. “Rivals, are they?” she stormed. “You bring them around to meet me and we shall see! Tl show them!” — “T’ll do just that,” Errol promised. “They'll want to get a good look at you, too. They never could understand how I came to marry a French girl.” : An hour was set for late Saturday. Three hours before the appointment Lili began her toilet, taking infinite pains with her make-up and coiffure. She tried on gown after gown, viewing them critically and then discarding them as inadequate for the important occasion. Finally she decided upon a ravishing Schiaparelli which she had been saving for a great event. Groomed within an inch of her life she swept imperiously down to meet her overseas rivals. With a low bow, Errol presented them. “My dear, may I present Miss O’Reilley and Miss O’Shaughnessy?” he asked. Lili froze in her tracks. The ex-sweethearts from Erin The Flynns look peaceful here, but the pots and pans fly when Errol plays a prank on Lili

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turned out to be two colored entertainers Errol had hired for the gag from a Harlem night club! Discovering that Miriam Hopkins’ pet aversion was meeting strangers was all Errol needed to stage _ a Roman holiday when the “Virginia City” com- pany was on location recently in Flagstaff, Arizona. With fiendish delight he rounded up all available bores and personally conducted them to. Miriam. “Miss Hopkins,” he would say, “I want you to meet a little girl who got through high school in three years” or “I want you to meet Mr. Smith, who climbed the highest mountain in Arizona in six days” or “I want you to meet Mrs. Billingsgate who won the state quilting championship in 1912.” Then after making the introductions, he would calmly stroll away on some phony pretext, leaving poor Miriam boiling mad and hopelessly stranded with a tongue-tied stranger. She would have to converse politely with the person or lose a loyal fan. It was on that same focation trip he drove the twenty-five miles from Flagstaff to the Grand Can- yon where he charged his $2.00 dinner to the studio. He had plenty of money in his pocket to pay the check; he charged it only to give the boys in the bookkeeping department something to worry about. Two years ago sheer perversity sent him to Spain, where he almost got his head blown off, and had the Spanish officials and Warner Brothers in an uproar. He didn’t really want to see Spain until well-meaning friends insisted it was no place for him. He didn’t particularly want to go out on the street that night, when fragments from an exploding bomb knocked him unconscious, until a rule was posted specifically forbidding foreigners to be out after 8 p.m. But when they said he shouldn’t and couldn’t—he would and did. It was as simple a matter as that. Recently Errol was on the receiving end of a critical blast about his carelessness in applying make-up. He answered it in typical Flynn fashion. After renting a costume he spent three hours let- ting one of the Westmores apply a special make-up. Then masquerading as a haughty old dowager of sixty, he successfully crashed the lingerie depart- ment of the fashionable Bullock’s-Wilshire store! The barbed point of the escapade was not lost upon the self-appointed critics, you can bet. It is a happy day for Flynn when he (Continued on page 75) Competing with Damita in Flynn's affections is his dog, Arno, who snootily ignores every- one but his master.

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The embattled Joads—symbol of the Dust Bowl's fury and a monu- ment to the un- conquerable spirit of America's for- gotten people. Tom (Henry Fonda) is the eldest son of the home- less and dust-driven Joads. Ma (Jane Darwell) is the rock upon which the Joads lean for hope and peace.

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Ye Jim Casey, played by John - Carradine, is the amazing — win), foul-tongued and ob- self-ordained preacher. scene, but pved by all. Grandpa (Ché rley Grape- NO ONE can estimate, yet, just what impact it will have on that incaleulably large audience that has been waiting for it since late last summer. Contrary to all those dis- turbing rumors that persisted right up to the last day of shooting, “The Grapes of Wrath” is now ready for release. I say that no one can yet gauge its force, for the end is a dark, well-kept secret. All along the line, this secret has been zealously guarded by Twentieth Century-Fox, and even the cast were not given the final pages of the seript until the day of the shooting. Incidentally, Darryl F. Zanuck bought the book for $73,000 a few days before its publication. This was something of a tribute to his astuteness, for who could have foreseen, then, that this story of a migrant family was to become the best seller it did—and was to remain so for nearly a year? The only con- nection author John Steinbeck had with the picture, besides giving it his unconditional blessing, was to okay the final script. However, Nunnally Johnson, who adapted the story to the screen, kept close to the tragic spirit of the book. Practically every word of the dialogue was taken bodily from the original and you will be hearing Steinbeck’s own biting words throughout. The book, a terrific indictment of shocking con- ditions that cry out for solution, was invaluable in raising the problem of an inarticulate peo- ple and in turning popular sympathy their way. It remains now for the picture to crys- tallize that sympathy into action, for the appeal of the screen is bound to be more im- passioned than that of the printed page. To see the Joads, leaving their dust-ridden home in Oklahoma, slowly but hopefully crossing desert and mountain range to the promised land of California, and then to see them face new and heartbreaking disillusion- ment, will create a mood no audience can ever forget. Knowing all this, the studio went to great lengths to make the picture vivid without overdoing it. First, it acquired the ser- vices of Tom Collins, Superintendent of the U. S. Farm Security Administration and head of all the federal camps for migrant workers in California. He is the “Tom” to whom the book is dedi- cated and, as technical adviser, saw to it that no jarring note was allowed to destroy the reality of the back- iz Rosasharn (Dorris Bowdon), daughter and innocent sacrifice to the elements. Pa Joad (Russell Simpson) is the father of the vic- timized family of Okies. “The Grapes of Wrath” emerges as a startling challenge to Hollywood's courage BY RICHARD CHACE ground. The research department hopped into action as soon as the book was purchased, collecting all available material even remotely pertaining to the Dust Bowl and the migrant problem. Every reference in the dialogue, every situation touched upon in the picture, appears some- where in the record. Although the action may seem vio- lent at times, even occasionally overdrawn, actually the reverse is the case. The truth had to be modified, toned down, to make the story credible to a public unaware of the true situation. In their search for authenticity, Twentieth Century-Fox sent a corps of cameramen out to certain parts of Okla- homa and Kansas for background shots. They spent three weeks on the trip, filming the Dust Bowl and shooting scenes along Highway 66, the route of the migrants. . Everywhere, the book was so vigorously denounced that to avoid interference and adverse comment, the men were obliged to paint out the studio’s name on the sound trucks. Whenever people asked questions the cameramen said they were making a picture called “Highway 66.” ON THEIR return trip, they picked up an actual migrant family who were just setting out from Sallisaw, Oklahoma, for Stockton, California, and put them on the company payroll, thus getting some first-hand shots of the whole thing from beginning to end. The old jalopy these people had piled themselves into broke down three times en route, but they managed somehow to get to California. The cameramen reported back to the studio with 25,000 feet of film. All this before the actual casting began. At first it was rumored Spencer Tracy would play Tom Joad, but Henry Fonda was obviously the man from the start. He had read the story long before he was considered for a role and the plight of the Joads made a lasting impression on him. He interested himself in various organizations on behalf of the “Okies” and ended by taking on a migrant family of four as caretakers of his San Diego ranch. When he was finally assigned to the role of Tom, he felt he had before him the greatest opportunity of his career and. eagerly threw his heart and soul into the part. Beulah Bondi was among those considered for the diffi- cult role of Ma Joad, the courageous woman around whom so much of the action is played. But she, though a splen- did performer, was felt to lack the physical build. So Jane Darwell, simple, warm, maternal, with an earthy quality all her own, was selected. Miss Darwell steeped herself in the part to such an extent that anyone seeing her on the lot in costume would believe her to be the work-weary mother of a typical (Continued on page 71) / 49

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Betty Field, who's twenty-two, has had eight years of the acting game. BETTY’S THE attractive girl next door who was stagestruck as far back as she can remember. You know—the one who did something about it. She also had a mama who showed her where the stage door was and then let her do her own knocking. When Betty first crossed its threshold, her knees were wobbly and her voice wouldn’t come past the lump in her throat. She’s been that way ever since, and she hopes the fright angle is permanent. It’s so good for her. At an age when some girls are still in the col- lege which Betty never attended, the promising young actress has a long-term film contract. But even the coveted paper doesn’t make Betty feel secure. She went to Hollywood several months ago on a one-picture arrangement to appear in “What a Life” with Jackie Cooper. When Para- mount needed another link in its Golden Circle of new faces, they sent Betty to the studio pho- tographer. And that’s about all the attention the young actress received. Hollywood let her alone. She wisn't invited to dress up for openings, and parties got along beautifully without her. Even the ®tudio press department didn’t bother about intefviews. To them she was just a pretty prop for young Cooper. That is, until “What a Life” was gcompleted and viewed. Then the moguls opened their eyes and got out their pens. Betty signed her signature. ze Before the social side of the cinema citadel had a chance to catch up with her, Betty was loaned out to United Artists for “Of Mice and Men.” After that, she returned to the home lot and was cast again with Jackie Cooper in “Seventeen.” The third picture clinched things for Miss Field. Only she wouldn’t believe it. She put the contract in a safety deposit box and took a train for New York. She wasn’t in town a week when she got the lead in Elmer Rice’s new play. She was in a dizzy whirl, getting ready for re- hearsals and discussing new movie parts with her picture bosses. en But Betty took time out to buy a lot of new clothes that she hadn’t been able to afford before. She even splurged on a fur coat. To Betty, shopping was a new adventure be- cause, for the first time, she could really select dresses that were becoming, instead of those on which the price tags were right. She remembers a few years ago, trudging all over Fourteenth Street, New York’s famous bargain row, hunting vainly for a dinner gown she needed in a stock company play. She had thirteen dollars to spend on the creation, and the garments at that price seemed to have been made for girls who weren’t like Betty at all. In a paper, she read an adver- tisement about a small shop that specialized in evening dresses. It was owned by a fashionable designer who demands top prices for her artistic efforts, but Betty didn’t know that at the time. She walked into the place and asked to see eve- ning clothes. Clutching her thirteen dollars, she hoped there’d be something heavenly in white. The designer brought out sketches. “Oh, I want something ready-made,” stuttered Miss Field with embarrassment. The designer explained that her things were made especially to suit the personality of the wearer. “Kor how much?” Betty wanted to know. “From $200,” was the fateful answer. “T guess I’m in the wrong place,” Betty blurted out and fled. Betty Field is a real-life character out of “Stage Door.” She hasn’t the breath-taking beauty that wows audiences nor the. sort of glamour that sometimes takes a girl into high For a while it looked as though Betty's career was to be a series of dressing- room sitdowns, but she mustered her forces and defeated the jinx

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i ~ny ULL E* _ without having to worry. She also has brains and,:so far, she’s used them well. She’s twenty-two years old and looks younger, so young that she was ideal to team with sixteen-year-old Jackie Cooper. A product of Boston, Betty left that city at an early age. Her fam- ily moved around quite a bit. She was even a pupil in Puerto Rico for a brief time. But it was when her mother moved to Morristown, New Jersey, that Betty had her chance. On her father’s side, Betty is of old American stock. Cyrus Field, who laid the first Atlantic cable, be- longs on that particular tree. But Betty’s mother, once named Kath- erine Kearney, is Irish, and from her Betty inherited an apprecia- tion of the theatre and a thirst for adventure. While Betty was a New Jersey high school student, her mother and she were devotees of Saturday © matinées at the Rowland G. Ed- wards’ stock company productions in Newark. Betty wasn’t satisfied to be in the audience. She wanted to be on the stage. She wrote let- ters and letters to the company secretary, begging for a chance, until persistence had its reward. Betty was only fourteen, but she was to be an actress, at last. That’s when the halls of learning lost one of their number. Betty’s first speaking role was in a revival of “The Shanghai Ges- ture,” with Florence Reed as the guest star. Her whole part con- sisted of running onto the stage, hearing Miss Reed say to her, “Well, my dear, and how are you today?” and then smiling and re- plying, “I’m wonderful, thank you.” (Continued on page 96) In “Seventeen” Betty Field is a cute little city number who pays a visit to Jackie Cooper's hometown. When he falls head-over-heels for the fickle lady, she spurns his ardent courting and fills Mr. Cooper's young life with woe. a

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The man with the collar-ad fea- tures is Alan Curtis. His divorce is in the offing so maybe Sonja Henie will talk wedding bells. Lew Ayres sits in a dream and, judging from her shoulder piece, Greer Garson sits in a draft as they dine at the Florentine Room. Judy Garland and Jackie Cooper show plenty of teeth while whirl- ing. They're a cute couple— but where’s that guy Rooney? No, sideburns are not a new Hol- lywood fad. Richard Greene sports them in ‘Little Old New York,” but they make Ginny Field giggle. This beaming member of the sil- ver fox contingent is Lynn Bari. But why Husband Walter Kane looks the other way beats us. The wags are calling Ken Murray a cradle-snatcher since he began dating Nancy Kelly. We caught them sharing a bottle at Hugo's. Adolphe Menjou exhibits what the well-dressed man will escort. Observe the diamond stuck at the part of Hedy Lamarr’s hair. Ray Milland and his Missus step out on maid’s night off. Ray, whose career has been varied, is an expert marksman, horseman and aviator. Doug, Jr., sticks close to his wife and to the nifty sparklers on her chest. | Considering Mr. Fairbanks’ left hook, Mrs. F. need not fear jewel collectors. Alice Faye congratulates Rudy Vallee on his new directorship with Republic Pictures. Rudy’s also been putting on a swell show at the Victor Hugo.

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Marjorie Weaver, John Garfield and Sid- ney Fox dine together at the Beverly Hills Hotel. .Marjorie’s black velvet dinner dress has little puffed sleeves of ermine. When the Arrowhead Springs Hotel opened, Gail Patrick, of the lovely shoul- ders, and her-hubby, Bob Cobb of the Brown Derby, enjoyed being present The surprise romance of George Raft and Norma Shearer is. still very much. of an item. They say George has even gone in for conservative clothes of late. Bing Crosby, Paulette Goddard, Bob Hope and Ruby Keeler—excellent: golfers all— settled the matter of skill in a recent doubles match, Ruby and Bob won. Robert Shaw, a newcomer who has not yet hit the gong, goes dancing with that suc- cessful Texan, Linda Damell. When Marie Wilson returned to Hollywood after a successful per- sonal appearance tour, Director Nick Grinde’s eyes shone again. Producer J. Walter Ruben and Virginia Bruce do some table traveling at La Conga. They have had a second anniversary Frances Langford and Jon Hall have parked their bright red Packard at the curb and are seen entering Victor Hugo's. Vic Orsatti, the little man who's everywhere, adds Brenda Joyce to his impressive list of feminine companions. Charles Laughton, looking very fetching, enjoys a laugh at a Guild broadcast. Jean Hersholt doesn't catch on. Joan Blondell and Dick Pow- ell are in the Hollywood social scene again now that Dick’s p.a. tour is finished. Merle and Alexander Korda had fun at the Brown Derby before the bespectacled pro- ducer left for England. 53

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POWELL’S PARADE Although it wasn’t on the program, William Powell led a gala parade down Holly- wood Boulevard the other night. The star tried to drive his car across the ‘’main stem’’ just before an American Legion parade started, but was stopped by the crowd of people waiting for the event. Pow- ell honked until an officer came over, then explained that he had to get through some- how. The officer managed to clear a spot for him, but before Powell could get across the street the procession of Legionnaires was upon him. Unruffled, the debonair Powell turned right, led the parade the length of the boulevard, waving and nodding as he went, and proceeded merrily on his way when he reached the end of the parade’s route. POPULAR ROZ Rosalind Russell would cinch any popular- ity contest among studio workers. No mat- ter in what picture or studio she works, Roz has everyone raving about what ‘a grand girl that Russell is.” Rosalind’s explanation of it is very simple. “Certainly I’m nice to people I meet, and those with whom I work. Why shouldn't I be? After all, it’s the way my mother and father raised me. They told all of us that whatever we did reflected on them.” STORK DEPT. Billy Burke becomes a grandmaw in the spring, when Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson becomes a mama... Geraldine Fitzgerald Lindsay-Hogg will welcome a bambino in May ... Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lake deny those rumors of a blessed event, but Arthur will be a proud new father in the next Blondie” picture. ... Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Morris claim that the new son is so wonder- ful they're all ready for a dozen more... Wally Beery’s adopted another beautiful baby, nine-months-old Phyllis Ann ... Mr. and Mrs. Bing Crosby are soooco happy over the prospects of what they hope will be baby sister for their four sons. MIKE FRIGHT For perfect poise in front of the-camera, you can't beat Joan Crawford. But in front of a mike she’s different. The director of the “Gulf Screen Guild Theatre’ became so jit- tery himself after watching the star at her first guest appearance on the program that ‘tion?’”” asked Mrs. Gable. ‘most wonderful thing has happened!’ he decided something should be done to re- lieve the strain for both of them the next time. When Miss Crawford showed up for the rehearsal, there was a chair in front of the mike so she could hold onto it. It was nailed to the floor! WHAT, NO ASH-TRAY? On the way home from the dealer's in their new streamlined car, Carole Lombard lit a cigarette and absentmindedly flicked the ashes on the car floor. “On account of this being a brand new car, darling,’ Clark finally said, ‘‘would you mind using the ash- tray?” ‘Why, sure,’ said his amiable spouse. ‘But where IS the ash-tray?” Together they punched, pulled and poked at every gadget on the magnificent chromium dashboard. “Now, may I make a sugges- “How about the book of instructions?’’ So Gable drew the car up to the curb and sheepishly perused the explanatory pamphlet until he found men- tion of an ash-tray and its approximate location in the car’s gleaming interior. SHIRLEY’S DEBUT When Mrs. Temple picked up Shirley the other day after school, her daughter came running out to the car wildly excited. “What do you think?’ she said breathlessly. “The Her mother tried to calm Shirley, but the child didn’t wait to catch a breath before telling the great news. Her schoolmates were going to put on a play, and she, Shirley, had been given a role! ‘There are seventeen lines, but I think I’Il be all right, don’t you?” she asked anxiously. Shirley, you know, has been enrolled at the Westlake School for Girls, because her mother thinks she should have at least a few of the experi- ences of other children her age. TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS. TOO MANY Though Bette Davis hasn't started work on any picture since returning to Hollywood, don't think for a minute she’s just lazing around. The star's hard at work every day trying ta lose those twenty-five pounds ~ gained on her eastern vacation. Says the extra weight made her feel fine, but nearly caused six executives to swoon the first day she appeared on the lot. “Evidently,” sighs Bette, “I’m the type that’s at my best when exhausted.” : . ICE SKATING — Ice skating is the most popular sport among the movie colony today. The tropical Gar- dens Ice Rink, a palm-fringed outdoor rink in Westwood Hills, is the favorite spot for their tumbles. Wayne Morris appears there every morning, with Bubbles cheering from the side- lines. Ann Sheridan with Cesar Romero and Nancy Kelly with Edmond O’Brien are regu- lar Wednesday and Friday evening patrons. But the stellar attraction of the rink is Me- linda Markey, the four-year-old daughter of Joan Bennett and Gene Markey. It’s Mr. Markey who escorts this charmer to the rinks, because, as Melinda explains, “Mother can't stand up as good as me.” GARBO LOVES! Latest lowdown on Garbo romances: The Swedish star pooh-poohs romantic rumors linking her with Dr. Gaylord Hauser or George Brent. Her true love is a new star, that scene-stealer from ‘Pinocchio.’ His name—Jimmy Cricket. His headquarters— Walt Disney Studios, Hollywood, California.

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BY LOIS SVENSRUD It keeps our Hollywood editor busy snooping for you, but here she is with the latest on the film folk ALONG SUNSET STRIP A carload of tourists parked in front of the Cock ‘n’ Bull for hours waiting to catch a glimpse of Garbo “because they heard she ate there” ... George Raft a frequent visitor to his tailors shop, since dating Norma | Shearer means more and better looking clothes . . . Lana Turner not heeding a stop light, then halting traffic in the middle of the intersection, and smiling her way out of the mixup. . . . Robert Taylor breezing along in the sunshine with the top of his roadster down, and smiling as if he’s very happy. Incidentally, Bob certainly enjoyed the vacation he was given after ‘‘Remem- ber?” . . . Mary Carlisle tripping into the Raikes studio for her daily vocal lesson. ROYAL RECEPTION No warmer reception was ever accorded visiting royalty than that given Charles Boyer and Pat Paterson on their return to Hollywood. They're houseguests of the Tyrone Powers until their own home is ready for occupancy. Most delighted person in Hollywood, though, is Mrs. Adelaide Reaume, Tyrone’s grandmother. She, too, is a guest at the Powers’ home on her first trip to Hollywood. Mrs. Reaume makes no bones about the fact that Charles Boyer is her favorite actor—'outside the immediate family, of course.” CLOUD OVER OLIVIER There’s a dark cloud over the happiness of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, in spite of the fact that wedding bells are due to tring any moment and that both have-had as many honors heaped on them of late as it is possible to get in Hollywood. At any moment, Olivier may be called back to England for active service. The actor refused to explain the English regimental tie he was wearing the other night when he and Vivien were found dining at the Victor Hugo. 55 RRS EG SMA SKS ir =

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ALL'S WELL Hedy Lamarr’s back at Metro without that Taise in pay, so everything's quiet on the Metro front. There were rumors that Spen- cer Tracy would raise strenuous objections when he learned that the ill-fated "I Take This Woman’ would again go before the cameras for intensive retakes. But on hear- ing that he was to report for work on the picture, Tracy's only answer was a weary: “Okay. But why not ‘I Retake This Woman’'?” LEW’S DATE-BOOK Lew Ayres’ date-book is enough to make any young man green with envy. Patricia Mor- ison is a frequent companion of Lew’s at the night-spots, Ginger Rogers is occasion- ally spotted with him at a restaurant, and ted-headed Greer Garson has looked veddy, JACK BENNY veddy interested in what Mr. Ayres has been telling her as they dined téte-a-téte at the Brown Derby every night the past week. Helen Gilbert's name, however, doesn’t grace the Ayres’ date-book any more. When Helen separated from her husband, Mischa Bakaleinikoff, Lew took first place in her life. When Helen definitely decided on a divorce and began looking around for an attorney, someone suggested a lawyer by the name of Milton Golden. Helen met Mr. Golden, promptly gave him the case—and her heart along with it. THE NEW DIETRICH When Marlene Dietrich visited the Para- mount lot the other day, she arrived just at noon. Before proceeding to her appoint- ment in the executives’ building, the star asked her chauffeur to drop her at the commissary. The new commissary has been built since Dietrich’s Paramount days, so the star wandered in the wrong entrance and found herself in the lunch-room section —a line of counters devoted to speed rather than splurge. Dietrich looked lost for a moment but then climbed onto a stool, looked at what the overalled workman next to her was eating and called to the waitress be- hind the counter, ‘One of the same, please.” 56 WHEW! Do you know any woman who would turn down the chance to make ninety thousand honest dollars in her spare time? Garbo’s a@ woman who can do it without flinching. In the past few weeks, she refused to make a $25,000 radio appearance, refused $15,000 for a week's personal appearance in a New York theatre, and $50,000 was turned down by the lady for her signature on a ghost-written story. And did someone say all women are sisters under the skin? CONGRATULATIONS, GALE Gale Page is one of the busiest girls in town, between NBC broadcasts, picture work and the new class in which she’s enrolled at U.C.L.A. It's a course in Greek literature, of all things. “I’m proud of the strides I've made in my career,’ Gale admits, ‘but nothing has given me such confidence to date as the fact that I've attended eighteen lectures on Greek lit and haven't fallen asleep once.” WHICH BOY FRIEND, DOTTIE? On the set of “Road to Singapore’ Dorothy Lamour’s been all hands and needles be- tween every scene. Dottie’s just taken up knitting and admits that the object on which she’s lavishing all her spare time is a man’s sweater. She’s even having lunch served on the set so no time will be lost on her knitting and unraveling. But to date no one has been able to find out for whom the sweater is intended. ‘Just a boy friend,” says Dorothy. Since the La- mour boy friends are legion, that clue was considered hopeless. aaa. e) AVILL NOW, DEANNA! Ever heard of a $2000 piece of candy? Well, Universal studio has. The other day on the set, the director noticed that Deanna’s jaw was moving—rhythmically, but still moving —in a romantic close-up. “You're supposed to look dreamy, Deanna,” he said, “so how about parking the gum?” “It isn’t gum,” was the star's answer. “It's a caramel and I intend to finish it.” And so she did— while some forty co-workers stood by and production costs soared merrily up. ROMANCES AND REBOUNDS Cesar Romero had a squabble with Ann Sheridan because his ‘studio told him he was supposed to take Loretta Young to a preview and- party. He's forgetting his broken heart by taking Loretta, Joan Craw- ford and Ginger Rogers on dancing dates... Lee Bowman has fallen head over heels for Irina Baronova, the new MGM dancing star . .- Corbina Wright, Jr. is getting a rush from Bruce Cabot these days . . . Mickey Rooney swears he never was as seriousuly in love as he is with the pretty little Abbott dancer, Dolly Thon . . . Eddie Albert, who used to thrill Jane Bryan, is now concentrating on Rosemary Lane . . . Randolph Scott is now ‘ seriously interested in Eleanor Powell, and ‘tis rumored that Eleanor is equally inter- ested. Vic Orsatti is escorting Ruth Hussey to the night clubs, and seems to be forgetting Marjorie Weaver . . . Edna Best is really heading for that Reno divorce from Herbert Marshall, but soon, and her plans immediately following the divorce include matriage to agent Nat Woolf . . . Virginia Field and Richard Greene are still ponder- ing over blue prints of the house into which they'll move immediately following those planned wedding bells. JACKIE'S JAM SESSIONS There are plenty of moans in the younger set since Jackie Cooper discontinued his “jam sessions. Jackie’s mother has taken him to Palm Springs for a vacation, so the famous orchestra which supplied music for many of the “hops” attended by the youngsters, has been broken up. Bonita Granville, Freddie Bartholomew, the Mauch Twins, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney and Helen Parrish drew up a petition and sent it to Mrs. Cooper, begging her to let Jackie come back as soon as possible. The gang doesn't care for the substitute music of Rudy Vallee, Phil Harris and other orchestras. AT FARMER'S MARKET Harold Lloyd, alone on a household shop- Ring tour, downing a big dish of chocolate ice cream at Gills Ice Cream stand : Lucille Gleason telling her friends she’s out to restock the family vegetable supply, then buying so many flowers that she can’t carry GENE AUTRY

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even one carrot . . . Mrs. Sam Goldwyn buying artichokes, because Mr. Sam is very partial to them ... Mr. and Mrs. Noah Beery having early morning coffee and doughnuts at Mannings . . . Gail Patrick and her secretary wandering around at lunch time with a sandwich in one hand and candied apples in the other .. . June Collyer Erwin and young Master Stuart Erwin buying Papa Stu an ice cream cone. ANDY SHOWS ‘EM While “Buck Benny Rides Again’’ was being filmed Andy Devine took so much ribbing from the Murriel Abbott dancers that one day he ‘said, “Okay, girls. I may be hefty but I’m light as a feather on my feet.” To prove it, he went into the front line of their next rehearsal. The truth is that Andy did very well—for the five minutes he lasted. After that, he dropped into a chair and called for a chocolate malted milk and a three-decker sandwich to revive him. HE'S AT IT AGAIN If Rochester begins reiterating his oft-ex- pressed intention of terminating his connec- tion with Jack Benny, don't be surprised. Life as Benny’s stooge has reached an un- pleasant impasse for Rochester. It was bad enough playing nursemaid to an imaginary polar bear and submitting to the grunts and growls of Mel Blanc, the cartoon voice who impersonates Carmichael on the air. But ‘sek now Rochester has learned ‘that he must cavort before the camera with a real fur- bearing beast in Benny's new picture. When Rochester discovered that the bear had arrived at the studio, he turned as white as his new playmate’s fur. And un- less the new Carmichael has his finger- nails manicured every morning—under Rochester's supervision—Mr. Benny is apt to have an abdicating butler. IT’S INFORMAL AT THE GABLES Carole Lombard admitted the other day that es her attempt to keep life on a strictly informal “basis at the Gable-Lombard ranch has been carried a bit too far. Nowadays when she calls home and asks to speak to Mr. G., the maid cups her hand over the mouthpiece and yodels to the butler, ‘Hey, tell Paw that Maw’s on the phone!” THE AUTRYS Gene Autry is in love with one of the prettiest women in MHollywood—and her name is Mrs. Gene Autry. You don't tead about them being ‘Hollywood’s Happiest” for the main and simple reason that no one considers them a part of Hollywood, in spite of Gene corralling the biggest amount of fan mail in town. The Autrys long ago decided that Hollywood parties weren't half as much fun as a barbecue at their ranch, with the guest list comprised of cowboys and their girls and wives. GARY COOPER NO TRESPASSING Priscilla Lane has been eyeing the fine tennis court adjoining the producers’ build- ‘ing at: Warners for a long time. She never saw anyone make use of it, but didn’t quite have the nerve to ask if she could get in a daily game or two on producers’ property. Finally one day she gathered her courage in hand and marched into the building. “Could you tell me,” she asked the girl at the switchboard, “if you ever knew any- one to use that tennis court at the side of the building?” “Sure, I knew a guy who used it,” said the girl, “but he was fired next day.” Priscilla changed her mind! SHORT SHOTS — Sandra and Ronnie, pride and joy of the Gracie Allen-George Burns household, are now sporting new coiffures designed by themselves. They were left alone one morn- ing in their play-room, and found Mama Gracie’s manicure scissors . . . The beard Orson Welles is shaving for his new picture hasn't been touched since December, 1938, and he says he really grew the thing for the publicity . . . In “Young Tom Edison,” Mickey Rooney does the Morse code himself because it’s so easy for the fans to tell from his finger movements whether he’s really tapping or not .. . Richard Barthelmess’ seventeen-year-old daughter, Mary Hay, has her eyes on a screen career .. . Ted Healy's — a SHIRLEY TEMPLE widow, Betty, is opening a dude ranch at Victorville . . , Nigel Bruce has lost twenty- three pounds, and now the studio is worry- ing over whether Sherlock Holmes will be able to find his Watson in the usual shadows of the mystery pictures . . . Paulette God- dard had a terrific siege of stage fright the morning she matched with Bing Crosby in a golf tournament against Ruby Keeler and Bob Hope. The 3000 fans couldn't get in- terested in anybody but Paulette ... Jane Bryan learned that Austrian accent for "We Are Not Alone” in one day ... Mar- lene Dietrich is tired of being driven around by her chauffeur, and’ is taking driving lessons . . . Sonja Henie positively refuses to go brunette for any film roles ... Brian Donlevy has a clause in his new contract that says he doesn't have to die “yellow” in future roles. ‘Yes, I'll die, but honor- ably,’ says Donlevy ... Shirley Temple’s making her studio do some serious think- ing. She’s growing up so fast that a new type of story is needed. She’s not a has- been at ten years old, and the studio is going to make sure she doesn't become one ... Virginia Weidler is writing a new song which her brother is putting to music. Title— “"T Hold My Breath and Get Blue in the Face” ... Anita Louise says, ‘Hands off my harp,” and insists on personally pack- ing and unpacking the six-foot instrument even when on personal appearance tours. DIDJA KNOW That Lon Chaney, Jr., who plays Lennie in “Of Mice and Men,” owns a poultry and rabbit market . . . That Ann Sheridan takes a bicycle ride every day to exercise that famous “oomph” . That Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Kennedy are plotting a road tour of “Romeo and Juliet’’ and are going to play it as straight as the fans will allow .. . That Eddie Norris spends every available min- ute in his private plane . . . That Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom, whose middle name is Everett, is writing a book on life in Holly- wood ... That Binnie Barnes’ real name is plain Gittell Enoyce ... And that Tyrone Power once worked as a drug store clerk , . . That Don Ameche can concoct the fan- ciest dish of spaghetti in all Hollywood .. . That Marlene Dietrich went to her first American football game when U.S.C. played U.C.L.A. She (Continued on page 101) 57

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CUPID STRIKES THOUSANDS of men watched their dreams shat- ter with the marriage of Hedy Lamarr—but that amount is insignificant compared with the number who could cheerfully slit the throat of youthful Vaughn Paul. Vaughn, of course, is.the twenty- three-year-older who has won wide but unwel- come fame by becoming Deanna Durbin’s fiancé. By profession he is an assistant director on the Universal lot; by accident, the object of more publicity than a man with three thumbs. Vaughn first met Deanna when the studio as- signed him to one of her pictures. He was fresh out of the University of Southern California at the time and determined to be a success—yet it may be truthfully said that going with a movie star is not his way of “getting there.” Rather, it has been Deanna who’s been taking the initiative in their romance. When she discovered she “had a case on that Mr. Paul,” she behaved so unlike her usual reserved self that “Mr. Paul” finally had to become aware of her as an alluring young woman. Even now she makes no bones about her feelings. On the nights Vaughn works late, she goes down to the set and waits for him as a dutiful sweetheart should. When he’s finished, they tear away in his car (or hers—they have identical models) and take in a movie at some second-rate theatre. If he’s too tired, they go back to the Durbin house and just sit and talk. Since they recently bought property on which to build their own home, there’s no dearth of conversation. Deanna and her beau seldom join the cafe set because Vaughn hates flash bulbs exploding in his face. But as a screen star’s husband, that’s just one of the inconveniences he'll have to endure. At the studio, he and Deanna are on distinctly different planes. Her success is achieved; he’s still at the bottom of the ladder. Her salary is stagger- ing; his looks like pin money beside it. It’s an upside-down situation, but love’s a funny thing. We’re still betting that the Vaughn Pauls become Hollywood’s most happily wedded pair! Vaughn was once ashamed to escort Deanna because he thought she was just a kid. Before she is twenty-one, Deanna will have earned $1,600,000. Will her wealth be a stumbling block to marital bliss?

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Miss Margaret Biddle, attractive young daughter of Mrs. Henry C. Biddle of Philadelphia, enjoys one of society’s smart indoor polo matches. The younger social set loves skiing. To Margaret, a “spill’’ is just part of the fun, and she has a good laugh at her companion’s expense. QUESTION TO MISS BIDDLE: Miss Biddle, does a girl looking for- ward to her thrilling debut year take any special care of her complexion? BOTH ANSWER: “Oh, a good, regular beauty routine is terribly important! I use both Pond’s Creams every : day of my life—Pond’s Cold Cream Sid to cleanse and soften my skin night and morning, and freshen it during the day. It’s all wrong to put new make-up on top of old, so I always Cc | E E R TH E give my skin a good Pond’s cleansing before fresh make-up.” QUESTION: Doesn’t an afternoon of skiing make your skin rough and difficult to powder? ANSWER: “‘No, it really doesn’t. S KI N CA R E You see, I spread a film of Pond’s After an exciting summer in Europe, Margaret is now back in the whirl of sub-deb gaiety. Season’s high spots are exclu- sive Saturday Evening dances. QUESTION TO MISS BOARMAN: What does a good complexion mean to a high-school girl, Miss Boarman? ANSWER: ‘“‘It means plenty! No inferiority complex—and loads more fun! And it’s so easy to help keep your skin in good condition! Pond’s 2 Creams seem to be all I need— Pond’s Cold Cream to make my skin clean and fresh looking, and Pond’s Vanishing Cream to smooth it for powder.” QUESTION: Miss Boarman, your make-up looks as fresh as if you were just starting out for a dance, instead of just going home! How do you do it? ANSWER: “I have a system! Before even touching a powder puff, Vanishing Cream over my skin before I cleanse and soften my skin with going outside—for protection. When I come in, I use Vanishing Cream again. It smooths little roughnesses right away—gives my skin a soft finish that takes powder divinely!”’ Why should Phyllis worry about General Chemistry and English themes when Brenchbrook Pond is frozen over and she got new hockeys for Christmas? Pond’s Cold Cream. After that, I smooth on Pond’s Vanishing Cream for make-up foundation. Then comes powder. It goes on like velvet and clings for ages!”’ With the last strains of “Home Sweet Home” at the DeMolay “formal,” Phyllis and her date hurry to be “first come, first served” at Pal’s Cabin. — I eee ESS Rue aa Bae TF ; j R Miss Phyllis Boarman SF Ne is a much-dated senior Us uTY at East Orange High | ; ‘ 4 ape School in N. J. School basketball games are social as well as athletic get-togethers! ; Carsiip RIBMGd OTOH POND’S, Dept. 9MS-CVC,Clinton, Conn. Rush special tube of Pond’s Cold Cream, enough for 9 treatments, with generous samples of Pond’s Vanishing Cream, Pond’s Liquefying Cream (quicker-melting cleansing cream) and 5 different shades of Pond’s Face Powder. I enclose 10¢ to cover postage and packing. : State _ Copyright, 1940, Pond's Extract Company _

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a a Soa ata Ia eae ce WOEFUL HD WACKY BY JOHN FRANCHEY Sad-eyed but full of tricks— that’s Mayor Mischa Auer THOSE DOLEFUL eyes of Mischa Auer, so conspicuous by their contrast to the hilarious shenanigans he’s always pulling off, are no actor’s triumph. He deserves no credit. Life gave them to him. They mirror his personal history. They reflect war, work and woe. In his last picture, “Destry Rides Again,” he set even the hard-bitten critics in the aisles with his buffooneries as a transplanted Cossack who had migrated without rhyme or reason to a western town where he undertook a spot of hoss- wrangling. A Russian cowboy he was, as fantastic as a séance of rug-cutting in a cathedral or Tony Galento in the role of a ballerina. Funny? Ofcourse. But ironic, too. It so happens that Mischa Auer is a Russian expatriate, a scion of what he likes to call, with typical modesty, “the petty nobility.” And his real name is Mischa Simonowich Ounskowski. His father, a commander of a destroyer in the Imperial Russian fleet, went down with his ship in a skirmish with one of the Mikado’s men-of-war during the Russo- Japanese campaign. He was four when his renowned grand- father, Leopold Auer, the outstanding violin virtuoso of this century and the teacher of Zimbalist, Elman and Heifetz, to name a few, took him under his wing. When a fiddle was thrust in his hands, he stared at it ruefully. He made a clean break of it. There just wasn’t the im- mortal urge within him, he told his great kinsman. Grandpa Auer took it very hard. What he did have was a passion for the theatre. As a little shaver he used to haunt the back stages of the theatres at St. Petersburg, entranced with it all. The Revolution broke with all its sud- den fury and it became high time to think of self-preservation. Caught in the mael- strom, he was shipped with several hun- dred other boys of his age and social status to a forlorn town in Siberia, pre- sumably to learn how to become a true Communist. It was a miserable journey, four thou- sand miles across the steppes in coaches that offered only wooden benches on which to sleep. Once arrived at land’s end, they were dumped out and forgotten. Here he discovered how relentless life can really be. Faced with starvation, he learned to ignore the proprieties. To- gether with his friends he formed a roving 60 An inimitable harlequin, Mad Hamlet Mischa always has his fingers in some bit of mischief. band equipped with knapsacks. They trudged from farmhouse to farmhouse begging, in the name of God’s mercy even a hard crust. It wasn’t easy. Poverty reigned over the whole countryside. When they couldn’t beg food, they stole it—just enough to keep themselves alive. After two years, they were shuttled back to St. Petersburg. Some had perished. Mischa Auer had become a starveling gnome, and the mournful look had made its first appearance. Worse misfortune was yet to dog him. Now the dread OGPU, the political secret service arm, outlawed all those suspected of having sympathetic leanings toward the old regime. The Auers were on the list scheduled for immediate liquidation. One jump ahead of arrest and oblivion, Auer and his mother fled. It was a heart- rending trek they made, mother and son, forging their way South to the Black Sea, fighting plague and hunger, and eventu- ally reaching Constantinople then under the protection of the Union Jack. Here his mother was attacked by typhus and died. And here she was buried in a Greek Orthodox cemetery overlooking the harbor. A boy of fifteen, he was now left to shift for himself. In time he beat his way into Italy where he hunted outa . family friend who provided him with the address of grandfather Leopold, now in the United States. Soon help was on its way. The wanderer set sail for America, a wistful shadow of a boy who had com- pressed an eternity into his fifteen years. Under his grandfather’s protection, he picked up the life thread. He was sent to the famous Ethical Culture School. His record here is less than average. He had no inclination for studies. His mind was alive only with dying. He could not es- cape the recollections of things he had seen and heard. All concerned worked feverishly to salvage the shattered soul in the under- nourished body. It was slow work. But by the time he was seventeen, noticeable progress was apparent. Came the day when he remembered his former passion for the theatre. He decided to see what it had to offer him here in America. Not much, at first. But he persisted. Mere disinterest and rebuffs were nothing to him. He wouldn’t be downed. Finally Dudley Digges, just for his own amuse- ment, presented him with a small role, that of an old man, in a mob scene. This slight (Continued on page 76) Mischa Simonowich Ounskowski —ahem—is a scion of what he calls Russia's “petty nobility." The “photog's delight" with his wite. How feels the Missus about his clowning? She loves it! Mr. A. campaigned for: him- self with hammer and tongs. He's Mayor of Universal City.

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SSS AT . PREVENT CHAPPING with the Skin Softener that gives you COSTLIEST INGREDIENTS * SAVES YOU MONEY** *] Italian Balm contains costliest in- eredients used in any of the most pop- ular nationally - advertised brands. **2 ONE DROP is ample for both hands, per application. More is wasteful. 3 Less than 5% alcohol. Cannot dry the skin. & Promotes healing — counteracts drying effect of hard water, harsh skin cleansers, severe weather. 5 Accepted for advertising in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Priced at 10¢, 20¢, 35¢, 60¢ and $1.00 a bottle —at toilet goods counters. Over 90 Million Bottles Sold MODERN SCREEN HAIRWAYS 10 BEAUTY (Continued from page 45) good and wire ones may scratch or in- jure your scalp so a simple good quality, medium bristle is your best investment. Beginning at the hair line in front, brush all around in a complete circle. Then divide your hair into one inch rows and brush each one thoroughly on both sides. To properly polish, clean and exercise each single shaft, your brush must be turned so as to pull every hair through to the very end. Go over your entire head this way until every inch has been covered. Brushes should be kept immaculately clean. Wash them in warm soap suds and dry them in sun or fresh air when possible. Alternate brushing with comb- ing if you want to. _A wide-toothed comb is best for wet or tangled hair, a finer one for cleaning and arranging it. See that there are no sharp edges to the comb teeth if you don’t want broken hair or injured scalp. Now for the important business of hair cleanliness. Keep your hair clean whether that means shampooing it every few days or every few weeks. Much depends upon the season and the climate in which you live. Girls who live by the lens in Hollywood often have to wash theirs every two or three days, yet where have you ever seen lovelier, more ra- diant tresses? On the other hand, if your hair is dry or brittle, or if you live in a clean location, your hair should not need such frequent shampooing.. You are the best judge of this. Brushing, special tonics and dry sham- poos are perfect between-time measures for you with dry hair. But you girls with oily crowning glories remember this brushing. is just as important for you as for anybody else, for brushing coaxes and encourages your hair toward normalcy, no matter in which direction it tends to excess. Brushing also polishes off dust, perspiration and the dead skin which “collects faster on oily than on other types of hair. O= shampoos are very good for dry hair. Heat a bottle of oil, apply it with a bit of cotton, rubbing well into your scalp, then leave it on as long as convenient, twenty minutes, an hour, or all night if you can. (And keep a bright kerchief, a yard of pretty colored veil- ing or a snood handy to make yourself presentable while you’re beautifying. In these days of inexpensive chain store prices and beautifully styled merchan- dise, there’s no excuse for looking like an old hag in an oily towel. It isn’t good for your morale—or anybody else’s.) Just before the shampoo, wring out a clean towel in hot water, wrap it around your head and let it steam for five or ten minutes. This finishes the treatment. From here on, a shampoo is the same no matter what type of hair you have. A mild, liquid soap and warm soft water is the ideal combination. If possible, use a spray or, better still, get right under your bath shower. After wetting your hair well, pour on liquid shampoo as directed on the bottle. With the cushions of your fingers work this in thoroughly. Remove every trace of soap or stickiness. Lift your hair, rinse it underneath as well as on top, and continue this until it’s so clean it whistles. - And now is your time for a vegetable rinse to bring out the sheen and high- lights, and to add life to overworked tresses. There are many excellent and perfectly harmless rinses that add ever so much to the appearance of your hair without in any way harming it. Of course, they all wash out and have to be renewed with each shampoo but that is a simple matter. One excellent rinse is al- ready being used by millions of women. It accentuates the lustre of your hair and makes it sparkle with lively lights. It won't stain or rub off either, and it’s both safe and easy to apply. We know a lot of girls who wouldn’t wash their hair with- out using this efficient preparation, for it is not only pure and safe but adds so much to their appearance. D®* your hair in the sun and air if you can, separating and shaking it out in your fingers. Then, with clean comb and brush, stroke it upward.and out to let the air get through it. Hot air is not good for hair so, if you must use a dryer keep it at a medium temperature. If you just “can’t do a thing with your - hair”, we know the very preparation you need—a certain hair oil that has been used by Hollywood studio experts for years to keep the stars’ hair lustrously vital and abundant looking. This hair and scalp conditioner contains a balanced blend of rich animal oils and toning in- gredients which, almost instantly, gives your hair a beautiful sheen, softness and appearance of sparkling life. If you want to have lustrous locks, soft, clean and manageable, you owe it to yourself to massage your scalp and treat your hair regularly to this stimulating, time proven hair conditioner. It won’t be long before the permanent wave season sets in and it’s none too early now to start conditioning your hair in anticipation. Even the most expert operator is handicapped if you take him a head of hair that is too dry, too oily, - overworked, worn out or in any other way unhealthy. To get good results from a permanent, your hair must be in good condition to start with. For this the old brushing routine we mentoned a while ago is vastly helpful. A hundred strokes a day is a small price to pay for a- glamorous mane of radiant hair. Daily massage is an important pre-permanent conditioner too. Then, twice a week for a couple of months give yourself a series of oil packs. These are practically “musts” if your hair is dry or brittle. Follow the instructions given earlier for an oil shampoo. Just before your permanent, have all the old brittle ends cut off. And, if you don’t need a complete wave, by all means don’t have one. Often the back and sides are sufficient. That will give your hair a longer rest in which to regain its natural sheen and elasticity. After you’ve done your very best, trust yourself to a good operator. But insist that a test curl be made every time you have a new permanent, for the condition of your hair is constantly changing. Now, a few notes on coiffures and hair styling. Nothing is better for giving you a ‘“‘lift,’ a new sense of confidence, a fresh interest in yourself and the world (Continued on page 64) Now rinse and repeat the shampoo. This time pay special attention to the ends of your hair, rubbing them carefully through your fingers. If your hair is dry or normal, twice through will be enough. If it’s very oily a third shampoo and rinse may help. But whichever it is, |-make that last rinse a thorough one. a

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It will often change your whole outlook on life. There’s just one caution we’d like to make, and that is: In changing your hair style, don’t try to change your type. In following a new coiffure, don’t “lift” it “as is’ from the pages of a magazine or the picture of your favorite star now showing at your neighborhood movie theatre. Ginger Rogers’ or Ann Sher- idan’s beautiful hair-do’s may be perfect for them but nine times out of ten must be considerably modified for anybody else, no matter who she is. ERE are a few style hints which may be considered for what they’re worth. There is a noticeable trend to- ward sanity and moderation in all the new hair-do’s. That clean, shining, well- brushed look coupled with skillful ar- rangement is more important now than either careless, fly-away styles or over- intricate coiffures. The tendency toward soft, swirling waves, kept short enough to fit the contour of your head, still has many smart followers. (No shingled edges, of course. They went out years ago.) Ears have become more important. Waves may fall lightly over ear tops but lobes at least should show. Some young folks, for a long time to come, will un- doubtedly be devoted to shoulder length bobs, whether in page boy style or loose, soft curls, for these form a perfect frame for smooth, young faces. Of course it was never right for the older, less- cameo-faced lassies. Up-off-the-forehead hair-do’s with sculptured front curls and a down, chignon effect behind, is an- other style that is still good and that promises to last. Blondes can and should wear their hair softer and somewhat longer than bru- nettes. Otherwise no flattering frame is apparent. Dark-haired girls, because of the contrast between hair and skin, can wear shorter, more severe hair-do’s. By all means, though, preserve a _ simple, clearly defined, well groomed look if you're a decided brunette. Anything else on your type looks downright frowzy. Brownettes and redheads have consid- erably more latitude than either of the more definite types. Whatever your type, after dressing your hair, take a hand mirror and examine it critically from all angles, especially at the sides and back. Just because you don’t see the back of your head, don’t forget how many other people have to look at it. When you’re sure that your hair is the right length and dressed in the style most becoming to both your face and figure—then take another look. Will it stay that way? In these days of remark- able hair gadgets for every conceivable purpose, don’t overlook the versatility of those adaptable little bob pins. Used in the right way, with artful care, nothing can quite take their place. But be sure that you tuck them securely under your waves and curls. Don’t have them stick- ing out like stiff little clamps or braces. They weren’t made to be used that way and your hair wasn’t made to be treated so. Nail head decorations are fine on tooled leather but not on coiffures. Hair should look smooth and soft and casual, never stiff nor set nor sheathed in steel. Try concealing your bob pins and see the difference in your whole appearance. When stray wisps or unruly ends need a little special persuasion, have you ever tried dampening them slightly, then roll- ing them up on bob pins? Many of the stars in Hollywood practice this trick and find it gives just the right amount of soft, natural-looking curl. A word here about hair in relation to face shapes: If yours is an ideal oval, like Ilona Massey’s or Bette Davis’, keep your coiffure simple. Center parts will become you, but not low parts, deep dips or bangs. If your face is long, like Rose- mary Lane’s or Frances Dee’s; soft, loose waves will flatter you. Don’t ever at- tempt high hair-do’s or middle parts. Round-faced girls like Marjorie Wea- ver, for example, should keep any full- ness above the ears, and taper the hair line in toward the lower face. Always keep your forehead clear and don’t try tight, harsh waves. If your chin is nar- row and your forehead broad, center your hair interest low, in loose, soft waves. Don’t wear high hair-do’s and don’t center your part. Diamond - faced girls, like Merle Oberon, need to add width at the fore- head. Hair carried up and off the face is best for girls with these interesting lines. If your face is squarish like Joan Crawford’s, try a diagonal part, not too low, with wide, soft lines. No bangs or heavy dips for you. No tight small curls, and never straight, harsh hair lines. There, does that answer some of your questions? We sincerely hope so. We could go on and on, but we think this will be enough to start you on the right track. The only way to hair beauty is hair quality achieved through constant conditioning. Will yours be a crown of glory, or just a sad, dejected mop? * * * A& we've been saying throughout this article, all the curls, and bangs in the world won’t do you any good if your hair itself doesn’t shine with life and cleanliness. What kind of shampoo do you use? Does it soften while it cleanses, and does it lubricate and polish every single hair shaft, leaving your hair lustrous and uninjured? It should—and we know a shampoo that does all these things, besides cleansing away dirt and loose dandruff flakes that have accumu- lated around the hair base. What’s more, this shampoo leaves your scalp free to breathe, allowing the oil glands and hair — cells a chance to perform their normal functions efficiently. It practically gives an oil treatment at the same time that it cleanses, too. This shampoo is non-lath- ering and rinses out quickly and com- pletely, leaving no gummy film to dim the lustre of your locks. Your hair be- comes beautifully manageable and, if you don’t find all this true, you’re pro- tected by a money-back guarantee. Could anything be fairer than that? WE'RE SORRY... That "Socially Yours," the Hollywood Who's Who which we promised you, could not be included this month. However, this feature will appear in an early issue of Modern Screen.

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ANN: I dread taking this awful- tasting medicine. It always leaves me weak as a kitten. RUTH: You’re just plain foolish to take a cathartic like that. Try my stand-by... Ex-Lax. ANN: Why, this tastes just like fine chocolate! But will it really work? RUTH: Yes, indeed! Ex-Lax is thorough and effective—yet it doesn’t upset you. ANN: Thanks to you and Ex-Lax, I feel wonderful this morning. RUTH: I knew you would! In our family we all use Ex-Lax! 8 8 8 8 8 8 ee el ee ee le ee The action of Ex-Lax is thorough, yet gentle! No shock. No strain. No weakening after-effects. Just an easy, comfortable bowel movement that brings blessed relief. Try Ex-Lax next time you need a laxative. It’s good for'every member of the family. 10¢ and 25¢ MODERN SCREEN ie DIETRICH LURE (Continued from page 29) roles they give me, from a countess to a scrub-woman, provided the stories are good. Despite what others say, I have no set ideas on the parts I desire to play. Most other actresses, I know, do possess firm ideas. But I’m not built that way.” She brushed the hair from her eyes, and smiled. “Joe Pasternak, my producer at Universal, is a charming man. I trust him implicitly because he knows what he is doing. He has, more than anyone I have ever met, an instinct for the right thing. I want to cooperate. That is the only way to make a movie. You have to work with your producer, director and fellow actors. I know this. You can’t suc- ceed alone. Some try. But they usually fail. A person, alone, cannot acquire per- spective.” I mumbled some question concerning her present ambitions. I asked, “Now that your latest show is box office, and you're on top, do you have any special ambi- tion?” Her reply was trigger-quick. “I have no ambition at all. No goal. I don’t want to sound dull, but that’s the way it is. No one has ever bothered to ask me before. And now that you have, this is my answer—Never in my entire life have I planned a single thing ahead. I wouldn’t want my life that way, always fighting toward something. I never even desired to be famous. Never. When I landed in pictures, I wanted good parts. That’s all. I’ve gone with the current, flexibly, with- out rigid aims in mind. This is not the new Dietrich talking. This is just the real Dietrich.” SHE paused, nibbled on her cigarette holder and said, “However, I recall there was one thing I did want, achingly, for nine long years. To be an American citizen. And that came true recently. I feel proud to be an American, at last. But frankly, I did not feel safe. And I still don’t. One can’t shut the European war and the sorrow over there out of one’s mind. It’s all too big, too inclusive. Being an American doesn’t make me feel that now at last I belong. I cannot feel safe when people everywhere are suffer- ing, and the sensitive are weighted with moral worry. Many of my friends are in France and in Germany. It pains me deeply to see them suffer.” The phone rang. It was a good punctu- ation point. Someone was calling Marlene for a date. She replied in German that she already had an engagement for the evening. She argued over the phone. And as all this went on, I sank back on the sofa, lit my briar, watched Diet- rich curled in the armchair across the room and reflected on what a long way that strange German girl had come. As I heard her voice, and her husky laugh, there was a drumming in my ears and the years were rolling back. She was born in Weimar, when Germany had a Kaiser, in 1904 and her name, at first, was Mary Magdalene von Losch. This later became Marlene by combining the first part of her first name and the latter part of her middle name. Her father, a Prussian lieutenant, was killed on the Russian froft in 1915. In remembering this, I realized, suddenly, why Marlene had been so disturbed by the European situation when we'd dis- cussed. it. Her entire dramatic training had been obtained in Berlin, after the war, at Max Reinhardt’s school. She toiled as an extra in German UFA films to get money for that school. As an extra, she also got her break. She was one of the hundreds in a mob scene. A husky, blonde, assistant director named Rudolf Sieber spotted her, ex- tracted her from the mob, handed her a lorgnette and told her to play a bit. That lorgnette changed Marlene’s life. The glass reflected a spot of light on the camera lens. Technicians forgot to take this out. When the picture was shown, the reflection drew attention to Marlene’s natural beauty—and she was on her way. A few months later, she married handsome Mr. Sieber. In 1925, they had a girl, christened Maria. UT now, across the room, Marlene had placed the receiver on the telephone hook and was coming back to the sofa. I dismissed my thoughts of the long-ago and returned to the delightful ‘reality of our conversation. I decided to ask Marlene a provocative question. I was probing for a hidden chapter in her life, so I inquired, “What person taught you the most, about how to act and how to live?” Her answer came sharp and certain. “Josef von Sternberg.” Then, without pausing, “He was the only person who ever taught me anything. He taught me all I know. Absolutely all—mainly how to produce and transmit my real self. I owe no human being more. I'll tell you a secret. I didn’t originally come to Holly- wood because it was fascinating. Berlin and Paris were as attractive. I came to Hollywood because Josef von Sternberg wanted me to. He sent for me to come. If he had been in Australia, believe me, I would have gone to Australia!” She reclined on the sofa, silent—and I tried, in some psychic way, to imagine what she was recalling. What had the magic name—von Sternberg—conjured up? Maybe she was remembering the night she was a guest star at the Berliner Theatre, and von Sternberg, the mighty mite, saw her, went backstage. He was planning a picture to be entitled “The Blue Angel.” He wanted a woman with beautiful legs to play opposite Emil Jan- nings. He signed Marlene Dietrich. In 1931, the Dietrich thighs, torso and talent: were on display in “The Blue Angel.” It was a sensation. Von Sternberg went to the United States. He brought Marlene with him. He worked hard with her. Transformed her from a frail, awkward girl, touched with beauty, to a suave full-grown woman. For twelve hours a day he hammered her, playing Svengali to her Trilby, forcing her to do single “takes” more than a dozen times over. Sitting with Marlene, I remembered (Continued on page 70) STAR ADDRESS LIST Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope today for a new list of Hollywood stars with their correct studio addresses. It is a convenient size to handle or keep in a scrap-book. 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OVEN WARE-FLAMEWARE MODERN SCREEN _that von Sternberg was the only man she ever permitted to correct her in public. And he, at times, was brutal in his frank- ness. But it was under him that she earned $200,000 for making “Garden of Allah.” A fabulous and record sum. Today, the two men who found her, nursed her to success, are down. Her hus- band, Sieber, is unemployed and in New York. Von Sternberg, her teacher, dwells _in the valley, above Hollywood, obscure. Marlene Dietrich alone, ahead of them both, has come back today to a new fame, a brighter future and many tomorrows. I asked about her daughter, Maria. “She’s fifteen now,” said Marlene. “I have no plans for her future. I couldn’t make any if I wanted to, because she’s utterly American, so independent.” Mar- lene went to the piano, took down a picture of Maria on a bicycle. “Look, here she is. A pretty child, don’t you think? But T’ve had so much trouble with her. That’s the way with a child, I suppose. From the day of her birth, illness, kidnapping—worry, worry, worry. That’s life.” Over conversation jumped from topic to topic, like a busy Mexican bean. We discussed, with detachment, Marlene’s underpinnings. She said, “Frankly, I have never exploited my legs. When a part required I show my legs, I did. Never for any other reason. They have not helped or hindered me. But I suppose nice legs are a good thing.” It was getting late. And there was one more thing. In my pocket, on a slip of paper, was the report of a prominent movieland psychologist who had studied Marlene Dietrich’s life. I had asked him for some “inside dope” on what made Marlene tick, and he had given it to me. Now, with Dietrich relaxed, I fished into my pocket, took out the slip, told her what I had, and then read it to her. Here is what I read— “Miss Dietrich is psychologically in- teresting. Her early ambition to become a violinist was thwarted by an accident. But she wanted to become famous, so she turned to acting. To gain ease, she began staging situations in her private life. Do you know why Dietrich wears men’s clothes? To hide an inferiority complex fostered by a girlhood of hard-' ships and privations. Do you know why Dietrich appears in night clubs with sev- ~ eral escorts? It is an inner expression of her yearning for security.” I stopped reading. Glanced at Dietrich. Her face was an exclamation point. If she had been fed bombs for lunch, she couldn’t have been nearer blowing up. “It’s wrong, all wrong!” she exploded. “That psychologist is as inaccurate as everyone else about me. For instance, that nonsense he writes about men’s clothes hiding my so-called inferiority complex—dear me! Listen, I wear trous- ers and slacks and shirts because I find them more comfortable than anything else. And for no other psychological rea- son. “And furthermore, am I the only wo- man ever to go out to night elubs with several escorts? Was that to hide my inner yearning for security? How silly! Why, I have never, never had a mo- ment’s desire for security. I think se- curity is stale and awful. An artist, pre- suming that I am one, has too much imagination to worry about security. Why, if I had ever desired security, I wouldn’t have become an actress. I’d have taken some other job, a steady, certain job, and worked until I was sixty, and then lived on the savings until I died. But, God, that’s not the life I’ve lived or desired!” I. was on my feet. I had asked a mil- lion questions. There was still time for one more. “If you had it all to do over again, Marlene, what mistakes would you avoid?” Her reply came clear. “None. I would do exactly the same thing over again. I © would take the very same risks, the same crazy chances, the same blows. Because I don’t believe in playing safe. And I’m not confessing this for publicity, but be- cause I’m entirely sincere.” We were near the door. I stood across from her, and I looked into her eyes, briefly. They were deep blue—and hon- est. “Thanks, Marlene,” I said. “You were swell. ey “I just had to get it all off my chest,” she said. I walked away. I was singing, not out loud, but in my head. I had seen the real Dietrich. And I’m here to shout it to the world. She’s okay. A right guy. And she’s going to be around a long, long time! Meet Peter B. Good, baby star of ‘Brother Rat and a Baby." He's making friends with Far Away Tassabelle, one of the canine aristocrats of Hollywood.

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HOLLYWOOD'S DARING EXPERIMENT (Continued from page 49) “Okie” family. In fact, they have just hung a portrait of Jane as Ma on the walls of the Capitol in Jefferson City, Missouri, her home state. A clause in the contract she signed for the role gave the studio the right to pass on any other parts she might take during the next few months. As a result, she has al- ready had to turn down three offers be- lieved by the studio to be beneath the dignity of Ma. The only member of the cast who was really sure of her part from the begin- ning was Dorris Bowdon, the girl who did so well in “Young Mr. Lincoln.” As soon as Zanuck bought the book, he associated her with Rose of Sharon, or Rosasharn, as her family call her. Nun- nally Johnson, too, felt that she was the one for the role. In fact, the only oppo- sition seems to have come from her own mother who, back home in Memphis, Tennessee, disapproved of her daughter’s connection with such an unpleasant tale. Whenever possible, “Okies” themselves were selected for minor parts and those who were hired spread the good news back at the camps. The result was a flood of job-hunters at the studio gates and in the end it was necessary to an- nounce that no more “Okies” could be used. Deeply interested in this picture which was being made about themselves, they wrote, individually and in groups, to the studio, advising and suggesting. They were especially concerned about who was to play Rosasharn, and wanted not a Hollywood glamour girl, but one who had been hungry and suffered as they had. HE costumes, mainly overalls and coarse blue shirts for the men and mother hubbards or cheap ginghams for the women, had to be picked up from the local Salvation Army or purchased direct from the migrant camps at Bak- ersfield or Stockton. Nothing new, noth- ing made up at the studio, would do. Clothes had to be worn and old, tattered and roughly patched together again, for people long used to poverty. Denied even stockings, Jane Darwell went about for six weeks in an over-sized pair of men’s shoes. Sometimes she and Dorris had to go completely unshod and found it painful and unnerving, to stand before the cameras while chickens curiously pecked at their bare toes. The use of make-up, too, was out. Even the youth- ful Rosasharn was untouched by lipstick and rouge. The men grew more than a little stubbly about the chin, for they were allowed to shave only ‘when the script finally brought the Joads to a govern- ment camp. But Henry Fonda did have his hair cut before production began. His last three pictures, “Jesse James,” “Young Mr. Lincoln” and “Drums Along the Mohawk,” called for a long crop that curled prettily at his neck. Now, at last, to his obvious satisfaction, his hair is short again. It’s so short, in fact, that he sports a tell-tale strip ‘of white skin between his scalp and sun-burned skin —a characteristic of those who cut their own hair—and do it to last. During the course of production, the company made several brief location trips. The action that was supposed to _ have taken place around Bakersfield was i | is actually filmed there. The company also t MODERN SCREEN The Bedtime way to Loveliness At Bedt time’. leocee fe ie : thoroughly with. Woodbury Germ- . tree Cold Cream. _leaving on a thin cream film when you reti re: And _ through | the night... he ona invigorating cream will keep your skin Be as J Ww By JANET PARKER Woodbury Beauty Consultant IRLS! Those Woodbury skin scientists have done it again! They’ve brought out a new type cold cream. A germ-free cream that cleanses hygienically. A cream so light it melts at skin contact. Every girl knows that her complexion reaches its “low” at bedtime. She needs a cream that does more than remove make-up and grime. She needs a cream that helps restore the skin’s vitality and softness. “WOODBURY 3-WAY BEAUTY CREAM CLEANSES safely _Smooths as it LUBRICATES & INVIGORATES moist, supple, vitalized, preparing you. while you sleep for new loveliness and romance Woodbury Cold Cream gives three services skin needs at night: Cleanses safely .. . Woodbury stays germ-free. Smooths as it lubricates . . . Woodbury’s oils liquefy at skin contact. Invigorates . . . Woodbury contains a skin-invigorating Vitamin. Give your skin the extra beauty dividends of this germ-free, vitaminized cream! At all beauty counters, $1.00, 50¢,.25¢, 10¢. POC CO OCHO SOO LOEEEOEDO LODO OOOO ESOS OOOO DODO OOOO LODE SEM, MAIL NOW FOR GENEROUS TUBE... FREE! (Just Paste on Penny Postcard) John H. Woodbury, Inc., 6612 Alfred Street Cincinnati, Ohio (In Canada: John H. Woodbury, Ltd., Perth, Ont.) Please send me, free and postpaid, a generous-size tube of Woodbury 3-Way Beauty Cream, enough es for several ‘“‘Beauty Nightcap”’ treatments. Also 8 fashion-tested shades of exquisite Woodbury Facial Powder. Name. Address. Jeeeccesccnsccvveeeseve00000000 foo eeeeeoe esses sess soseees0s00e COCO OPCS OOOO OO ES OSES EE OO EEE O ESSER TOES ESOS EESE0R08 71

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On that eventful day, Henry Fonda stood on the fender of an already over-burdened 1923 car, load- ing a mattress onto the top. ; HE was right in the midst of his lines when the fender suddenly gave way, bringing with it Henry, mattress and all. The prop man rushed up, frantic and impatient. “That blasted car just won’t stick together!” he cried, and began a hasty repair job. But John Ford, the director, stopped him, “Don’t bother about fixing it. Itll take too long. We'll just move around to the fender on the other side.” He added, with a wry grin, “It?s one down and three to go.” There was also the time at a roadside camp when the Joads arrive’ weary and dust-covered, to spend the night. Before turning in, the men of the family get together with the others at the camp for a song or two. Much to the amusement of the others, Fonda was called upon to do a couple of verses from an old Arkansas melody, “Eleven Cent Cotton And Forty Cent Meat,” without accompaniment. He had never sung on the screen and it took more than a little coaching and encour- agement from Ford who, incidentally, isn’t any singer himself. When finally, in des- peration, Ford demonstrated how it should go, the smiles of the company broke into open laughter. In the end, Fonda managed, with more vim than ability, to get his song across. Eddie Quillan, who plays Rosasharn’s young husband and who once sang in vaude- ville, did several stanzas from another ballad written by one of the “Okies” who has a part in the picture. In his off-moments Fonda could, as usual, be found somewhere near the elec- tricians, helping them hook up cables, puttering around at this little thing or that. He used to be a trouble-shooter for the telephone company and when he has nothing better to do, stilb likes to fiddle around with the various gadgets only an electrician can understand. Speaking of Fonda, one of the incongruous sights, when the company moved from one set to another across the studio lot, was that handsome Packard of his winding up at the end of the long line of wheezing, broken-down jalopies. These daily incidents are interesting and fun to think about later, but the company’s single enthusiasm, their will- ingness to pitch in and work steadily so that the shooting could be finished days ahead of schedule, is the important fact in any story about “The Grapes Of Wrath.” Although it was a large and expensive production, John Ford wasted little time. A man of few words, he carefully rehearses a scene two or three times, then shoots it so that it stays shot. Occasionally he may redo it to alter a line or change some detail as, for ex- ample, the time he substituted his own battered hat-for the old hat worn by one of the “Okies.” He found his cast, most of whom he had worked with many times before, easy to handle and co- operative. 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ee EIA Ps ie 8 ETDS OEE ig er let he dd cl Lene LA? — Od Se Pg! Nal ame ad WHY CARY GRANT I$ HARD TO GET (Continued from page 37) to affairs of the heart. Glamour girls may find him invulnerable to their charms, but producers also find him hard to get, even for choice roles. Press agents find him hard to persuade, even in the in- terests of publicity. Writers find him hard to interview. Autograph hounds find him hard to catch. Co-workers find him hard to know. Why? When he first arrived in Holly- wood, he wasn’t this way. He was will- ing to take whatever roles were tossed in his direction. Anything press agents wanted to write about him was all right with Cary. He talked freely to inter- “viewers. He struck up new friendships on every set. He was eager to accept party invitations for any night in the week. He wasn’t afraid of pretty girls. What has changed him, made him hard to get? One of his closer friends has an odd explanation. This friend said re- cently, “Cary’s a queer bird—especially for Hollywood. Success has brought out the inferiority complex in him. When he was unknown, struggling to get along, he couldn’t afford to be self-conscious about anything. Now that he’s a star, and the struggle is pretty much over, he’s more like himself. He’s self-conscious about everything.” jp ee is evidence to support this con- tention. Cary himself, in off-guard moments, has shown he is cursed with self-consciousness. For one thing, he hates make-up, which he has to wear to cover a heavy beard. To put it on, he has to look at his own face in detail. He doesn’t like that. For the same reason, he hates to buy hats. To hear him tell it, you’d think there isn’t a hat in the world suited to his particular face. If you'll notice, you usually see him bare- headed, both off and on the screen. Then there is this revealing tale from his early theatre days. He was supposed to vanish through a stage floor by courtesy of a trap-door. He mistimed his disappearance and the door came down on his neck. He howled with pain and the audience howled with laughter. They never knew that, Cary couldn’t sleep for a week afterward, his embar- rassment was so great. He was unaware that everybody else had forgotten the incident five minutes after it happened. Once, in talking about Katharine Hep- burn, he said that he could never be grateful enough to her for letting him play the cockney sharpster in “Sylvia Scarlett,” because that role took him out of straight romantic leads. He went through agonies of embarrassment, play- ing suitor to sirens. It wasn’t bashfulness with him. It was plain discomfort. The discomfort of an ex-knockabout come- dian suddenly called upon to pose as a Great Lover. He tried to talk his way out of those romantic leads, but that didn’t work. He might still be playing them if he hadn’t finally saved enough money . to buy his way out of his contract and to finance a wait for less sticky roles. It isn’t any accident that he is a free- lance player today. Self-consciousness drove him to be one. It isn’t mere hap- penstance that he has made his biggest hits playing embarrassed men. Those _ parts came natural to him. Nor is it any 4: wonder that he’s a difficult star for a ‘producer to sign—especially if the pro- MODERN SCREEN “Glory, | never saw such discontented birds! You give ’em a whole pan of feed and they still stand around complaining. Hey you over there, don’t you know it’s bad manners to chirp with your mouth full?...Who, you? Yes, you!” er £ “Ouch! Ha-alp! This one’s a pecker. Biting the hand that feeds you, eh?...You “know, I believe they’ve got chafes or something. Well, I bit a few people myself the time I was chafed. Where’s that Johnson’s Baby Powder?” ““Ah-h-h! What powder! ... softer than my skin or your down! Chafes and prickles haven’t a chance. No shoving now, you fellows... line forms on the right. All those who want a sprinkle of soft, velvety Johnson’s say PEEP!” “No wonder babies love Johnson’s Baby Pow- der! Such soft, fine talc ... and it costs so little to keep a baby happy with Johnson’s!” JOHNSON’S BABY POWDER Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N. J. 73

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I enclose 10c for trial supply of FIBS, the Kotex Tampon, mailed in plain package. ; mantic. MODERN SCREEN ducer wants him to do much public love-making. He has been in America so long that he talks and behaves like an American, but underneath he is still an Englishman. It just isn’t in him to relish being pas- sionate in public. He’ll earn his living as an actor some other way, thank you. That also helps to explain why press agents find him difficult. He finds press agents difficult. They are behind most of the romance gossip that the column- ists print. They want to sell any unmar- ried male star to the public as a super- romantic. And Cary doesn’t want anybody selling him as that, when he is trying to sell himself as something else. FoR the same reason, he dodges inter- viewers as much as he can and, when a scattered few finally corner him, he won't talk about the subject they want him to discuss—his love-life. It would tickle the ego of many an actor to be considered an authority on things ro- It bothers Cary. Here he is, trying to get the public to think of him in terms of amusing entertainment and people ask him about women! When he does give interviews, he peppers them with wisecracks—many at his own expense. Between scenes, on a set, he kids with co-workers. It’s all a defense mechanism. He makes it hard to know Cary Grant except as an actor with a sense of humor. But he doesn’t want to be known as anything else. He blows himself down as a romantic actor, the better to build himself up as a character actor. His self-consciousness in those love-making leads made him see one thing he might have overlooked if he had enjoyed them. Namely: Ro- mantic actors don’t last; character actors do. He wants to last. Once you give him credit for being serious about being an amusing charac- ter actor, you can understand why he might be hard to get for straight love stories—either on the screen or off. But this doesn’t quite explain Cary. He isn’t the kind to let his career dictate his private life. He’s a little too inde- pendent for that. What, then, is the reason for his artful dodging of any “serious romance” rumors for the past five years, with the single exception of those linking him with Phyllis Brooks? Another friend, a cynic of sorts, gave a guess. “Once you fall and get hurt, you watch your step.” He was alluding to Cary’s first marriage. ; Practically the first time Cary saw Vir- ginia Cherrill, he decided, impulsively, that he didn’t need to look any further for The One Girl. He fell head over ‘whirlwind fashion, his heels in love. He didn’t ask himself if they could be happy together for life. At that time, he believed in hunches. A hunch told him that he couldn’t be happy with any other girl. He courted her in heart on his sleeve. When she went abroad on a va- cation trip, he followed. He persuaded her to marry him in London, in Feb- | ruary, 1934. 4 Then, when the honeymoon was over | and they had to settle down to everyday | living, they began to discover that love alone couldn’t make a marriage work. | Something else was necessary. For want | of a better word, let’s call it companion- | ship. They didn’t have it. Before a year was up, both wanted a divorce. The unhappiness of that year left Cary with emotional scars. A deep abiding | distrust of his impulses. A fear of fall- ing in love again. A determination never | to marry again until he found com- | panionship—the time-tested kind. He didn’t turn woman-hater. He did turn wary of himself. He sought safety in numbers. He scattered his dinner and dancing dates, looked at several girls at once to avoid becoming seriously in- terested in any one of them. The ego of most of the girls couldn’t stand the com- petition. Before Cary could find out if | any of them had companionship possi- | bilities, they were encouraging more demonstrative suitors. O make sure he wouldn’t do any- thing romantically rash out of lone- liness, he talked Randolph Scott, a pal of his from ’way back, into sharing liv- ing quarters with him. That was five years ago. (They’re still sharing quar- ters, which says volumes for Cary’s own talent for companionability.) When Cary met Phyllis, he discov- ered that she didn’t expect him to fall | in love after looking at her twice. She was quite willing to be a dining and : dancing partner with no expectations of | anything except companionship. He S stopped his restless scanning of the ranks of the bachelor girls, and started going everywhere with Phyllis. = They went together more than two years, long enough to satisfy even Cary’s idea of a. time-test of companionship. He said as much in admitting last sum- | mer that they had wedding plans. What spoiled those plans, only Cary and Phyllis know. All that anybody else knows is that, since they parted, Cary has been more elusive than ever. Perhaps they will reconcile. But, if 3 they don’t, he has perfected his “hard to — | get” technique to the point that, this time, if he has any scars, nobody is go- ing to see them. ? Jeanette Mac- Donald takes Nelson Eddy and_ Producer- Director Robert Z. Leonard | under her ample | taffeta wings as they ‘'sit out'' a scene on the "New Moon" set.

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i THE PERVERSE MR. FLYNN (Continued from page 47) ean baffle and annoy his victim at the same time. the bewildering predicament in which he placed a publicity man who had been sent ahead to arrange the premiere of “Dodge City” in Iowa. A thousand and one details were harassing the chap when he received a wire from Hollywood signed by the head of his department. “Flynn arriving Tuesday,” it read. “Have town’s five most beautiful girls in black tights on trapeze bar at station to meet him. Imperative.” ' Smelling a gag but not sure of it, since the tricks of the exploitation trade can be screwy indeed, the chap spent three frantic days trying fo fulfill the strange commission. He finally rounded up the girls and the black tights but couldn’t find a trapeze in the whole of Iowa. Thus stymied, he wired his boss for further instructions, stating: “Have girls and black tights but no trapeze. What shall I do?” That let the cat out of the bag for Flynn had sent the original wire. Recently he took a sly poke at the con- ceit of many of his fellow actors who think the public will go to any length to bask in the glorious warmth of personal contact with the great and near-great of Hollywood. A carefully boxed and business-like ad appeared in one of the trade papers asking stars to register at a certain address. They would be well paid, it stated, for permitting eastern tourists to California to meet and entertain them. Flynn wasn’t at all surprised at the number of answers he received to his ad. Nonplussed, however, as to what to do with them, he finally directed all queries to the home of John Carradine, a dignified and modest actor whom he had never even met! vy (oe recently he took an open dig at Orson Welles, the strange and cocky youngster who has come to Hollywood to teach the boys and girls how to make moving pictures. The town’s experts have been aiming at him for weeks but I doubt if anyone has succeeded in get- ting under his skin as thoroughly as Errol. Or with as little effort. Despite his youth, or perhaps because of it, Welles affects a startlingly black and full beard which tapers from his pudgy face into a tweakable fine point. The other day another Flynn-inspired ad appeared in the trade paper which is the Bible of the industry. This one was signed the “Anti-Muff-Dwellers of America” and flatly demanded that Welles stay away from Chasen’s (his fa- vorite Hollywood restaurant) on Thurs- days (cook’s night off). Hollywood chuckled appreciatively at the rib but it roared with delight the following Thursday when Flynn and his erony, Big Boy Williams, showed up at Chasen’s behind exaggerated black muff beards and sat throughout the dinner hour solemnly shaking their heads at Welles and then at each other! But mad as you get at Errol, you have to admit one thing: He can take it as well as dish it out! And with good grace. Flynn worships his Schnauser, called Arno, an independent and rather inso- lent deg who pays not the slightest at- tention to anyone but Flynn. Now dogs of anv size or breed have long been for- He chortled for days over. MODERN SCREEN “1M FED UP ON THE WAY YOU’VE BEEN BULLYING LITTLE HARRY!” “A /4 ey} Z, TE i 1. HUSBAND: Who’s bullying him? I’m only trying to make him take this stuff like a man. WIFE: But he’s not a man. And making a child take a medicine he doesn’t like can do more harm than good. err rer ee CCL ww roe nee EE ES SS y N) 3. HUSBAND: Are you kidding? WIFE: This is nothing to kid about. Babies should get a good-tasting laxative, but NOT one made for adults. After all, an adult’s laxative, even in smaller doses, can be much too irritating for a child’s tender system. 5. HUSBAND: Seems safe enough to try, all right. WIFE: And how! You couldn’t find a harsh “adult” drug in Fletcher’s Castoria. It’s pure as can be and really SAFB! Wi Uy, y 2. HUSBAND: Where'd you study medicine? WIFE: That’s not funny. I told you I was going to talk to the doctor. He said forcing a child to take a bad-tasting laxative can shock his entire nervous system. STN Ss SS Ce TSR S ENS Ce Hh ,_Zyi' Oy a BAAN 7 th) \ 4. HUSBAND: What can we give him? WIFE: Give him Fletcher’s Castoria, the laxative made ESPECIALLY for babies and little children. It won't upset a baby’s stom- ach because it works mostly in the lower bowel and it doesn’t form a habit. AON ans 6. HUSBAND: Fine. But how does it taste? That’s what started the argument. WIFE: Here’s where it ends. Children love Fletcher’s Castoria’s wonderful taste. Just see him take it down! It’s one laxative you never need force on a child! Cath eeteica CASTORIA The modern —S AFE— laxative made especially for children 75 ee

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fe IMAGINE ME HOOKED UP WITH | ASHARK ae ae ae Stuck at a bridge party with a real ex- pert —it was grim. Not one smile did he break all evening — till I fished out my package of Beeman’s. “Ah!” says he, with a longing look, “Beeman’s, the ace of flavors!”? So what could I do but offer him some? “Thanks!” he said, looking happy for the first time. “I can’t pass a flavor like Beeman’s! It’s got a freshness, a tempt- ing tang, that scores with me and scores big! Honors to you, partner — you hold the tops in fine flavor!”,—That cheered me up—and darned if we didn’t win first prize! ZEMANS AIDS DIGESTION MODERN SCREEN bidden the sound stages of Warners since one innocent bark might prove a grave and costly accident. Characteristically, Flynn chucked the rule in the ash can; where he went, there went Arno. Worrying over what might happen gave Al Alleborn, the unit manager on Flynn’s pictures, the heebie-jeebies. Arno was the bane of his existence. It therefore amused Flynn to present Arno, in a red bow and a bunch of mistletoe, to Al as a gag Christmas present. Un- expectedly, he accepted the gift and car- ried Arno home. Three bleak and mis- erable days passed before Al decided the brash Mr. Flynn had been punished sufficiently, and returned the dog to his lonesome master. But not once in those three days of anguish was there so much as one peep out of Errol. He took his medicine like a man. WOEFUL AND WACKY (Continued from page 60) encouragement was enough to show him he was headed right. He worked up to stage manager, also under Digges. Then he landed the juvenile lead in Suder- mann’s “Magda.” In due time the com- pany landed in Hollywood. Here the movie bug bit him. He chucked over- board the legitimate stage. If the stage was tough to crack, the movies were doubly tough. The studios wouldn’t even let him play an extra. Once, he will tell you, a director tossed him out of a Russian sequence because he didn’t look like a real Russian. He did everything while waiting for the magnificoes to see the light. He even rounded up a bunch of musicians and headed a jazz band, available for a modest fee for dances. T was Director Frank Tuttle who dis- covered him. He thought the sad-eyed Russian was wonderful. In fact, he man- aged to find a spot for him in every one of his productions. Before long the melancholy one became a figure in the film colony. He got bids right and left but only when they needed despicable- looking villains who’d blackjack one- armed widows and swipe their pitiful savings. In vain did he protest that his dish was comedy. No one seemed to care. Not until Gregory La Cava, assigned to direct “My Man Godfrey,” happened to recall some of Mischa’s high jinks at a party years before, in which he had hung from the chandeliers in the char- acter of a gorilla. La Cava felt that maybe this identical insanity would bolster the Godfrey saga. He took a chance, gave Auer a try. The waif pulled out all the stops. The fans howled, and at long last he who got slapped was definitely in. At thirty-four, wacky and woeful, Mischa Auer sits atop his own peculiar Olympus contemplating the world be- neath. An inimitable harlequin, never- theless he has a curiously humble philos- ophy about success. He simply figures he was lucky, Regarding his acting talent, a _ gift which some critic has been bold enough to hail in print as “an incomparable genius for mirth and merriment in a minor key” he is more curious still. He regards Mischa Auer as a “ham.” His explanation is child-like, very brief and simple. “I got some parts in shows and finally came to be a pretty good ham. There was nothing to it. In time I got out to Hollywood and eventually they went for my stuff. What I can do is just damned foolishness, but I’m crazy about pic- tures.” Outside of adding a few pounds to his frame and shooting same over four- teen inches skyward (he is now six feet two) the years have brought little no- ticeable change to the boy who fled from Russia. Today he’s as mournful- looking as ever, a streamlined, rapid- talking, mad Hamlet who hides his thoughts deep inside of him. For all this interior gloom, the Auer is a geyser of gags, antics and mummery. On the set he’s a volcano whose humor literally stops the show. Cameramen, directors, script girls—one touch of Auer’s laughter makes the whole set kin. When he played with Baby Sandy in “Unexpected Father,’ he had the little shaver gurgling all day, so much so that at night there was strange wailing in B.S.’s nursery. She missed this wonder- ful buffoon. No single individual is more liked in Hollywood than Auer. He’s the life of every gathering he attends, his baleful eyes providing such amazing counter- point to the high jinks he’s always per- petrating. Photographers covering the swanky premieres at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood never tire of ex- ploding their flash bulbs at him. Just to be a pal he’ll push a peanut down the block with his nose, or walk a tight rope dressed in a hooped skirt. “All you have to do is ask the guy,” a picture-taking admirer of Mischa’s explains. Hostesses implore him to come to their parties and fall on his neck out of grati- tude when he departs. He never makes an entrance. Actually, it’s an invasion. This general popularity is attested to by his political triumph of summer last. All of a sudden he up and ran for mayor of Universal City against Hugh Herbert and Joy Hodges. He pranced home the winner. Out of sportsmanship he made la Hodges the Chief of Police and then began worrying about funds to build a jail large enough to house the crime wave that was sure to result from this selection. EING Alcalde of Universal City is his pride and joy. He loves to talk of the Utopia he’s “going to make” of the little community. He bustles around sporting the most outlandish badge of office you ever saw. He'll unbutton his coat at the drop of a hint so as to show it to people. He’s the interviewers’ delight. He - makes it his business to astonish them by hook or crook. He'll put on a show, if he hes to. “Auer may never inspire the press, but he’ll never bore them,” he told a para- grapher. Once when he was being interviewed he decided on the spur of the moment to ring up his grandmother, Mrs. Leo- pold Auer. She kept him on the phone for almost an hour, while he groaned in his helplessness. When another writer, a lady this time, burst in she almost jumped out of her girdle. 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a an A 2s 4. and feet sprawled over the radiator, and spouting Russian at his relative lickety- split. The reporters looked at each other in amazement and wondered when the man with the straight jacket was com- ing for his charge. These same journalists get little infor- mation out of Mayor Auer. He’s too busy entertaining them. If he does do any serious talking, he steers the con- versation into the channel of the camera art, his favorite hobby. Then, what has started out as an inspection of the Auer life and personality degenerates into a volcanic monologue on the respective merits of the different kinds of film, a new filter that’s just hit the market or, maybe, a nifty developing solution dreamed up by one of his cronies who has the same hobby. The thought of an elf as a husband is inclined to take your breath away, but married he is. To a lovely non-actress, nee Norma Tillmann. He has a son and heir named Anthony, of whom he never tires of talking. They’re pals, father and son. Every now and then he and Anthony take a long walk, climb atop a little green hill and there Auer pere chants wild Slavic songs to the accom- paniment of a Russian balalaika. ANS home he’s a housewife’s delight— ready to tackle anything from dish- washing to beating the rug, if need be. He’s designed the wall-paper for his present home and equipped it with knick-knacks of his own creation. In matters of dress he’s as careful as a debutante dreaming of her coming-out party. Which is why he’s one of the slickest figures in any formal gathering. He loves evening dress. No one in Holly- wood looks jauntier in a white tie. His hobby may be cameras and pic- ture-taking but his passion is restrained roistering with fellow members of the old regime—and Hollywood has many of them. He and his playmates assemble at regular inlervals dressed to the hilt. They dine sumptuously and then begin to tell sad stories of the deaths of kings and princes. They toast the glory that ‘was old Raw-shya far into the night. Tears flow like rain upon the town when these sentimentalists start to relive the olden days. When it gets threeish, the man with the baleful eyes straightens himself to his stiffest, clicks his heels, salutes and departs. Tomorrow is another day and somewhere on the Universal lot Baby Sandy may be waiting for a camera ren- dezvous with her goofy parent. family is nine-months-old Phyllis Ann. She joins Carol Ann, eight, another adopted member of the household. The latest addition to Wallace Beery’s MODERN SCR There's a among | Ff ¢ re § os Sie You can dance into the wee he look lovely with Woodbury Fac. ELLE 3. You'll love the way Woodbury stays on, too... giving you a smooth, satiny finish for many extra hours ...ending unlovely “shiny nose”. Woodbury is th only popular face powder guarante “germ-free”—free of those impu- that may aggravate the skin and ca excessive oiliness. Woodbury never ca’ streaks or wears “shiny’’. It gives you flattering finish that “stays put” througi an evening of dancing or a day of sports. Fr | Try es free. Be in Ame. will drar Woodbu @00000000000% (PASTE OR John H. Wor (In Canada, } Please send Woodbury F> ion and bear generous tui WOODBURY POWDER SHADES THAT DRAMATIZE YOUR SKIN Name Address ____

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GR nan ” HIGH SCHOOL SIREN (Continued from page 35) one-story building with nine rooms, and now Jane’s apartment perches majesti- cally atop it. The bedroom is a melody of soft pastels. In the game room are all the things youngsters love. Away from the main building is the playhouse where Jane’s_ collections— dolls, stamps, knives and pennants—are kept. There’s also a guest apartment and, on the main floor, dressing-rooms for boys and girls. Last year, Jane’s par- ents gave her a swimming pool and there, through the warm months, she spends her leisure hours with young friends. There are even barbecue ovens for roasting hot dogs. These are all part of the scheme to make Jane happy at home, since she isn’t permitted to go out much with other girls. She can have erowds at all reasonable times in her own domain. Every Saturday night, she’s at the movies, and she thrills at every- thing from Spencer Tracy in an historic role to Mr. Autry riding the plains. @O= the grounds are her six dogs. Blue Boy, an English sheep dog, is one of the specially favored. She has two pointers which Leo Carrillo gave her, a Pekinese named Suzie-Q, a Chihuahua and a Spitz. She has all sorts of cats from a red Persian named Blinker to a tortoise-shell she calls Jitterbug. Then there are parrots, rabbits, pheasants, red squirrels and turtles. She even had goats until the neighbors complained. Jane was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and was acting on the stage when she was three years old. Seven years ago mama and daughter entrained for California, reassured by Father Withers that at least they would eat, because he would send them money every week. For two years they knocked at the studio gates, begging for screen tests. In that period, they pocketed their pride and compromised temporarily with extra parts, which came none too often at first. “That extra work was grand for me,” Jane remembers. “It taught me a lot and I’m grateful for it.”. Later, Jane appeared in radio skits in Los Angeles. Then one day Mrs. Withers heard that Fox was testing children for the second lead in Shirley Temple’s “Bright Eyes.” They weren’t deterred by the fact that two hundred girls had al- ready been tested. Jane and her mother managed an audience with Jim Ryan, the casting director. Before he could protest, Jane went into her impersona- tions. She did them for bigger exec- utives that same day at Mr. Ryan’s request, and was signed for the part without facing a test camera. Until the first shots were taken, mother and daughter lived in mortal terror that Jane might not screen well. Before the picture had been completed: she was signed to a seven-year contract. The rest is movie history. Her income would make a piker out of some indus- ‘trial moguls today, and her popularity is something for adult stars to envy. Recently a blue note crept into the Withers career, and $75,000 flew out the window. That was the figure offered Jane by a cereal company for twenty- six weeks on the radio. The producers decided it wasn’t a good idea and Jane couldn’t accept. “Do you always enjoy your work?” Jane was asked. “You “What work?” she answered. mean acting? Oh, that—it’s wonderful!” MODERN SCREEN | Lah Crh spe “Get 12 SHADES-FREE-of my 7-DAY Cream Nail Polish” “Magic Finger- tip’ which you can try on right over your own nail! Find your lucky shade! Each shade is on a O LONGER need you wonder about which shade of nail polish you should wear—which shade is loveliest on your hands! For now you can try on all the new- est shades—right at home—before buying a single bottle of polish! It’s all done with my Magic Fingertips! Tl gladly send you free a set of my 12 Magic Fingertips. Each is shaped like the human nail—made of celluloid—and coated with a different shade of Lady Esther 7-Day Cream Nail Polish. You simply hold each Magic Fingertip over your nail—and in- stantly you see which shade gives your hands enchanting loveliness—goes smartest with your costume colors. Choose your lucky shade, then ask for it in Lady Esther 7-Day Cream Nail Polish at your favorite store. You'll be thrilled with this rich, cream polish that gives your nails flattering beauty for 7 long days! Send for your 12 Magic Fingertips! y Let your own eyes reveal the one nail pol- ish shade that gives your hands enchanting grace and beauty! Clip the coupon now. 12 shades FREE! + (You can paste this on a penny Nees Lapy ESTHER, 7110 W. 65th St., Chicago, Ill. Please send me by return mail your Magic Fingertips showing all 12 different shades of Lady Esther 7-Day Cream Nail Polish. (53) NAME ADDRESS CT ae SE he FE STATE If youlive inCanada, write Lady Esther, Toronto, Ont.

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Everybody told us it would collapse right away, but it hasn't. You know, swimming pools are awfully expensive things,—the ones that don’t collapse.” She seemed to feel at home on this subject, even if I didn’t. But I’m sure she felt she was putting me at my ease. And so she was. I felt much better. “We did.a great deal of digging, and we bought things second hand, like bricks, and one of my brothers found a used electric pump. We swim in it almost every day.” “In the pump?” I asked, thoughtlessly. Virginia looked at me with pity in her eyes. I didn’t blame her. I hastened to reclaim myself, and kept her on out- door activities. “Well,” she went on, forgivingly, “we have five horses, and I love to ride. And I like to play volley-ball, football and baseball. And I have a bicycle, too, and when .. =.” At this point, a smiling lady. put her head through the door. The sparkle went out of Virginia’s eyes. She turned to.me. “I’ve got to go;to my class now,” she murmured, miserably, and as I watched ‘the little -pantalettes follow the teacher, I felt a surge of re- sentment against’ the ‘Board: of Education which insisted upon such things. Her mother smiled at me. “T wish I could get her more interested in her school work,” she told me, not plaintively, but calmly. “TI tried giving her lessons on the violoncello, but she didn’t show any more enthusiasm_ for music than she does for her school work.” I would have sympathized with Mrs. Weidler if she had looked as though she wanted to be sympathized with. But from she didn’t. ‘She didn’t seem at all wor- ried. She seemed to feel that every- thing was working out all right. ~ “What are her other enthusiasms, apart swimming pools, games, and things?” I asked. — “I think her greatest enthusiasm. is acting.. She wants to become a really great actress. When it comes .to ‘acting, she is never satisfied with herself. She is always moaning, ‘Oh, if only I could do that over again, I know I could do it better.’ Well, maybe she will bea great actress. Who knows? She was tremen- dously*thrilled when she was allowed to curl her hair as Norma Shearer’s daugh- ter in “The Women.” Her looped-up pigtails had become, more or less, a trade-mark, and here she is, today, working once more with her trade-mark. But I’ve heard no word of regret. It’s part of ‘the role,’ and ‘the role’ is as im- portant to Virginia as a first party dress to another little girl. It transcends trifles like pigtails.” [ BEGAN to think Virginia was too good to be true, despite her aversion to readin’, ‘ritin’, and ’rithmetic. I think all children must misbehave sometimes, and when you consider that little Vir- ginia made her picture debut at the age of two, with John Barrymore in “Moby Dick,” and has left behind her a whole string of successful parts, you must for- give me if I tried to find out what kind of a little girl she was to live with. There are, it appears, six young Weid- lers, ranging in age from twelve (Vir- ginia) to twenty. They all live with their mother, a former European opera star, in a small white ranch house, surrounded by two acres of fruit and nut trees (and the aforementioned swimming pool with electric pump.) There are no servants. Yes, you heard me the first time; there are no servants. I thought, at first, that I hadn’t heard aright. For after all, this is Hollywood, and Virginia is doing fairly Paw and Maw Gable just don't like to be sepa- rated. When Clark was plan- ning a short fly- ing trip, the stu- dio asked Carole to stay home. 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well in pictures, to put it conservatively. Anyhow, the children take care of the house, the garden, and the live stock. Each has his or her appointed tasks. There is a head gardener, a master of the house, a cook, a second maid, and so forth. I suppose Mrs. Weidler could be called a major-domo. Virginia, it devel- ops, is the second maid. She takes care of her own room, dusts the living-room, and dries the dishes. She doesn’t like it a bit better than she likes her lessons at M-G-M or playing scales on the violon- cello. But that’s her job. And when she dawdles (as she often does) she is treated to the dread but well-known sound of the raspberry. “Yah!” her brothers and sisters shrill, as only brothers and sisters can. “Cut out that movie stuff! Come out from behind those eyelashes. We know you!” So Virginia dries the dishes. And dusts. I think I love Virginia. HE live stock on the “ranch” con- sists of the five saddle horses, three dogs (two thoroughbreds—a Great Dane and an Irish Setter, and a mutt which looks like nothing in particular) and a rooster named, strangely enough, Mary- lin-Madeline, who hates to be separated from the dogs. “He’s a strange rooster,” Virginia confided to me later. “He doesn’t crow, and he’s always pecking on the door, wanting to come inside with the dogs and the rest of us, and he looks puzzled when he can’t.” I asked Mrs. Weidler to tell me about how Virginia reacted to the attention of her fans when she went out in public. “For a long time, she was painfully shy,” Mrs. Weidler told me. “She would enter a theatre hiding behind my skirts, for all the world like a baby chick run- ning to its mother when it has seen a cat. The rest of the family would troop in, looking cocky. Stories began to get about that Virginia was a silly little girl who was playing shy because success had gone to her head. The fact was that she was frightened stiff and didn’t have enough poise to hide it. “She has conquered that now and she can walk in with her head up and even manage to smile at the crowds—although I must admit that she turns a most un- becoming shade of pale green, even now. The sequel to all this is... .” Mrs. Weid- ler paused to twinkle, “her brothers and sisters won’t enter a theatre with her any more. They say, with great disgust, ‘Everyone knows the kid. And it’s all so silly. Virginia, you can just go to the show with someone else. We want a little peace.’ You see,” Mrs. W. wound up, ‘there isn’t much danger of Virginia getting a big head—at least not at home.” MODERN SCREEN HEADAC SPARKLING GLASS OF Alka-Seltzer Alka-Seltzer relieves headaches fast be- Cause its analgesic pain relieving proper- ties are in complete solution when you drink it—ready to start work quickly. For quick, pleasant relief from headache misery be wise—take Alka-Seltzer. AT ALL DRUG STORES $ On the far side of the big outdoor set, which was a replica of part of an Amer- ican village of the 1850’s, the little ruffled pantalettes twinkled and the pigtails bobbed. Virginia had finished a lesson and was hurrying back. But the bogeys, the “still men,” snatched her before she could reach us. There was a “layout” to be taken,’ with a rural background. Watching the proceedings, I began to realize what a true trouper this wisp of a child is. She posed in an old fashioned buggy, holding the lines over a placid, fat horse. She was very solemn until the photog- rapher called “Ready!” Then she gave him a smile as professionally brilliant as anything a Norma Shearer could have achieved. I almost laughed aloud at the expertness of this pig-tailed tyke. When she posed with a monumental bicycle, she begged to be allowed to try to ride it. It would have taxed the muscles of Tony Galento. She cheerfully wielded a small hammer on an anvil in the vil- lage blacksmith shop, turning the expert smile on at exactly the right moment. Work was disrupted for everyone when she discovered that she could play a gay little tune by tapping the hammer on various available surfaces. (I whispered to her mother just here that perhaps the xylophone would be Virginia’s instrument. Her mother re- plied, quite seriously, that she hadn’t thought of that but that maybe I had something there... . If Virginia turns out to be a xylophone player in some future picture, please don’t forget I told you! Bu Virginia’s real moment came when they asked her to pose with an old fashioned coffee mill on the platform in front of the general store. It was a real mill and it worked, and the little Weidler found a bag of peanuts which she joy- ously ground to a fine powder while the photographers snapped and flashed like everything. The real little girl, you see, is all child. Fascinated with a new toy, inter- ested in any novelty. But the actress is there, too. Conscious of her duty, try- ing hard to do that duty intelligently, anxious to give her best to the job at hand. A funny little tyke. A Bernhardt in pigtails. I don’t know whether Virginia knows it or even whether her placid mother knows it, but M-G-M thinks it has starring material in this round-eyed child. She is being carefully groomed, gently developed, deftly handled, all ac- cording to well-formulated plans in the big Front Office, to the end that there may be a new little girl star in pictures before the end of 1940. Wait and see! i ee

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————— THOUGHTS prizes given each month! There's Much In a Name } i f | In fairness to the supporting cast of pictures I think that, after the screen story is finished, the list of players should " be repeated. Many times there’s been | some marvelous acting by a bit player whose name I'll never know. I think we ] often give credit to the stars when it _ was really a “little miss nobody” who | put the show over. i You know how a machine wheel re- i volves around and around. The little gadgets responsible for the turning of the _ wheel are somewhere in the background, i out of our view. So it is with bit players. Perhaps, if we knew their names, we : could sort of make our own “discov- H eries.”—Jeanne A. Coggins, Upper Darby, Penna. Fair Enough Thank you M-G-M for “The Women.” Personally, I think it drew more women ' than men. When I saw the picture, the i theatre was packed with women. Curios- i ity, of course! The men more or less _ thought they knew us without seeing it. Rosalind Russell surely stole the show. i I sat on edge during the entire picture, | waiting for her appearances. a sr a Now, M-G-M, if you want to please the women tremendously, why not give us, “The Men?” Most men try to con- vince us they never think of women, much less talk about them to each other. We know better, and so do you. It will draw every wife, husband and sweet- . heart. Come on M-G-M, please!—Mary _ Fansler, Knoxville, Tenn. | , oe ge MODERN SCREEN Have you tried NIT Oe a cupful or more of Linit in your tub of warm water —step in—and relax for fifteen minutes. You will find yourself enjoying this delightful Linit Bath. It gives the body the feeling of being refreshed and rested. And the cost of Linit is trifling. AT YOUR GROCER’S

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I, and men everywhere, felt the poison of the propaganda seep into our systems and then suddenly we, too, were shout- ing, flag-waving lunatics in the mael- strom. Now we know better. Realism of mod- ern thought in story and film shows us Truth. Enough of that and some day war will become the outlaw it should be. Yes, Hollywood certainly is doing the right thing in showing us what we should fear so we can take steps to ward it off. Maybe it wouldn’t be so pleasant to see Lew Ayres shot down by a ma- chine gun; but even so, you know it’s only a story. In real warfare, it might be your boy or mine.—Clyde J. Ogden, Martins Ferry, Ohio. Pet Peeves When I attend a movie play These are the pests I want to slay: The girlies who attend the shows To talk about their latest beaux; The one who saw the show twice through And tells you what everyone’s going to do; The giggly little star-eyed dear Who pops her gum right in your ear; The man who hums all through a song— He ought to get the Major’s gong! The pest who wriggles like a worm And blocks your view at every turn; The girl with Fiji Island hair (Thank goodness for the heads grown bare!) The kid with gooey lollipop Who parks it in your curly mop; The ice cream smackers, candy crunch- ers, Popcorn crackers, peanut munchers. Please tar and feather all these bores— And don’t forget the man who snores! —Cora May Preble, Compton, Cal. Here's To Youth! Let Hollywceod concoct all of the socially significant sagas and elaborate extravaganzas it can afford, I'll still con- tend that the often “under-publicized” films that gayly portray youth at its mer- riest really provide the best entertain- ment. After all, youth must have its fling, and a picture that portrays the young things as they really are, is as priceless as the rarest gem. In this supposedly wonder- ful world of ours, why should all the modern screen fare be devoted to the struggles and hardships of life, omitting all its gayety? Everyday troubles are abundant enough without accentuating them on the screen. And what cinematic years these are for the younger generation! With such a variety of youthful, vibrant personali- ties as Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Ann Rutherford, Lana Turner, and others to carry you gayly through a mad-cap mix- up of first loves and college romances, you just can’t become bored—that is, if you’ve ever been young, yourself. So here’s to youth and wholesome en- (elec ng ree Clarkson, Portland, re. Drums Along the Mohawk Two weeks have passed and I’m still thinking of “Drums Along The Mohawk.” It impressed me so greatly because it was true to fact. I have seen and en- joyed many historical pictures, but this one I lived. I actually felt cold and tired when the couple arrived at their cabin (for once the heroine’s hair really looked a mess). The light and humorous parts made this serious story seem even more realistic. As a study of early American furniture alone, it would be worth seeing again. I think people welcome the historical pictures, as they not only offer good en- tertainment but a better understanding and appreciation of life today. Seeing the struggles of the past makes the prob- lems of this age mean a great deal more. —Mrs. Don E. Sears, Ashland, Ore. That Turner Girl I was getting so fed up with glamour girls that sometimes I was tempted to do like the ostrich and bury my head in the sand. But I'll have to eat my threat now because I’ve been jolted out of my boredom by a pretty lass who has, be- sides beauty and talent, an exhilarating freshness that comes from within. Her name is Lana Turner and if ever a star deserves orchids, she’s one. She has glamour but it’s the’ youthful, natural type (Allah be praised) and not the heavy-lidded, slinky type. The top of the ladder of fame shouldn’t be far away for lovely Lana Turner. She positively sparkles!—Mrs. Sterling Pel- frey, Frankfort, Ky. WRITE A LETTER— WIN A PRIZE So you've just left a movie and are bursting to jell the world about it! Fans, take pen and paper and speak your piece! Was it the best one you've ever seen? Was it the poorest you've ever sat through? Did some newcomer give you the thrill of “dis- covering a star?” Was it a supporting role of a veteran that entranced you? All the fans in the country are curious to know what you're thinking. You have your favorites and pet peeves and so have they. They'll arque with you, but that’s the fun! Then, too, there’s the chance of winning a $1.00 prize awarded each month to ten writers of the most original and in- teresting letters. Just one thing—we expect you to play fair with us and not copy or adapt letters or poems al- ready published. This is plagiarism and will be prosecuted as such. Send your letter or poem to: A Dollar For Your Thoughts, Modern Screen, 149 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y.

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Dec. 3, 1912 6'0” 170 Blue Brown High School ~~ | Feat Kibbee, Guy Guy Kibbee Kl Paso, Texas Mar. 6, 1885 5’10” 200 Grey Grey Public School | ; ti | Kilburn, Terry Terry Kilburn London, England Nov. 25, 1926 4’ 8” 95 Grey Brown Studio School | bi | Korjus, Miliza Miliza Korjus Warsaw, Poland Aug. 18, 1902 5/8” 130 Blue Blonde Private Schools Dh Kruger, Otto Otto Kruger Toledo, Ohio Sept. 6, 1885 5/9” 130 Grey Brown Univ. of Michigan i I Lake, Arthur Arthur Silverlake Corbin, Kentucky Apr. 17, 1914 6’ 0” 169 Blue Brown Private Tutors ie Lamarr, Hedy Hedwig Kiesler Vienna, Austria Nova rel Oloseo any, 130 Blue Black Private Schools i | Lamour, Dorothy Dorothy Slaton New Orleans, La. Dec. 10, 1914 5/5” 117 Grey Black High School | 1 ' Lane, Lola Dorothy Mullican Macy, Indiana May 22, 1912 5’3” 117 Violet Brown Simpson College ] \ Lane, Priscilla Priscilla Mullican Indianola, Iowa June 12, 1917 5/244” 102 Blue Blonde High School be i Lane, Rosemary Rosemary Mullican _ Indianola, Iowa Apr. 4, 1916 5/4” 106 Violet Blonde Simpson College aa Laughton, Charles Charles Laughton Searborough, Eng. July 1, 1899 5/104” 190 Grey Brown Royal Academy t ae Lederer, Francis Frantesek Ornstein Prague, Czech. Nov. 6, 1906 6’ 0” 170 Brown Brown Prague Academy Pl Lee, Carolyn Carolyn Copp Columbus, Ohio June 5, 1935 3/214” 36 Hazel Brown i Leeds, Andrea Antoinette Lees Butte, Montana Aug. 18, 1914 5/4” 112 Brown Brown Univ. of California - a: Leigh, Vivien Vivien Hartley Darjeeling, India INOvae Ds 1913 543% 102 Green Brown Private Schools | ane Linden, Eric Eric Linden New York, N. Y. Sept. 15, 1909 5’9” 140 Brown Brown Columbia University | aia Lindsay, Margaret Margaret Kies Dubuque, Iowa Seis GL We) ey ay 110 Hazel Brown National Park Sem. Litel, John John Litel Albany, Wis. « Dec. 10, 1894 5/11” 180 Hazel Brown Univ. of Pennsylvania ie Livingston, Bob Robert Randall Quincy, Ill. Dec. 8, 1908 6’ 0” 180 Green Black High School iz Lockwood, Margaret Margaret Lockwood Karachi, India Sept. 15, 1914 5/5%4” 121 Green Brown Royal Academy | | Logan, Ella Ella Logan Glasgow, Scotland Mar. 6, 1913 5/0” 105 Brown Black Public School Li iW Lombard, Carole Jane Peters Fort Wayne, Ind. Oct. 6, 1909 5/414” 112 Blue Blonde High School iy Lorre, Peter Peter Lorre Rosenberg, Hungary June 26,1904 5’5” 160 Brown Brown High School 1 ae Louise, Anita Anita Louise Fremalt New York, N. Y. Jan. 9, 1915 5/3144” 106 Blue Blonde Private School I i" Lowe, Edmund Edmund Lowe San Jose, Cal. Mar. 3, 1895 6’ 0” 165 Blue Brown Santa Clara Univ. ae Loy, Myrna Myrna Williams Helena, Montana Aug. 2, 1905 5/6” 110 Green Titian Private Schools oie Lugosi, Bela Bela Lugosi Blasko Lugos, Hungary Oct. 20, 1888 5/1” 167 Grey Brown Private School i ae Lukas, Paul Paul Lukas Budapest, Hungary May 26, 1891 6/2” 182 Brown Brown Colleges in Hungary | ie Lundigan, William William Lundigan Syracuse, New York June 12, 1914 6/2” 170 Blue Brown Syracuse University | ri ‘4 Lupino, Ida Ida Lupino Brixton, England Vaio, i Wenal yi? 110 Violet Blonde Royal Academy OL i Lynn, Jeffrey Ragnar Godfrey Lind Auburn, Mass. Feb. 16, 1909 6’ 0” 158 Blue Brown Bates College t Sa Lynn, Leni Angelina Ciofani Waterbury, Conn. May, 235 1925) 571” 100 Brown Brown High School i tt h Lys, Lya Natalia Lescht Berlin, Germany May 18, 1913 5/4” 108 Blue Blonde Sorbonne Lyceum ae i MacDonald, Jeanette Jeanette MacDonald Philadelphia, Pa. June 18, 1907 5/5” 120 Green Red Public School bi lg MacMurray, Fred Fred MacMurray Kankakee, IIl. Aug. 30, 1908 6'345” 185 Brown Brown Carroll College Hf Mahan, Billy William Mahan Port Townsend, Wash.July 9, 1930 4’12” 48% Blue Blonde Public School Ha Wi March, Fredric Frederick Bickel Racine, Wis. Aug. 31, 1897 6'0” 175 Brown Brown Univ. of Wisconsin aa Marshall, Brenda ~- Ardis Ankerson Isl. of Negros, Phil. Is. Sept. 29, 1915 5’3” 108 Hazel Brown Texas State College | i : Marshall, Herbert Herbert Marshall London, England May 23, 1893 5/10” 155 Brown Black St. Mary’s College 4 : Martin, Mary Mary Martin Weatherford, Texas Dec. 1, 1914 5/4144” 112 Brown Brown Univ. of Texas | aa Martin, Tony Alfred Morris Oakland, Calif. Dec. 25, 1912 6/0” 175 Brown Black St. Mary’s College eae Marx, Chico Leonard Marx New York, N. Y. Mar. 22, 1891 5’ 6” 135 Brown Brown Public School Bie |G Marx, Groucho Julius Marx New York, N. Y. Oct 2118955 56 155 Brown Black Public School ie li Marx, Harpo Arthur Marx New York, N. Y. Nov. 23, 1893 5/7” 140 Brown Brown Public School i I Massen, Osa Osa Massen Copenhagen, Den. Jan. 13, 1916 5’ 414” 116 Green Brown High School ba le Massey, Ilona Ilona Haymassey Budapest, Hungary July 5, 1912 5/6” 122 Blue’ Blonde High School kk Massey, Raymond Raymond Massey Toronto, Canada Aug. 30, 1896 6/2” 158 Brown Black Oxford University* f i | McCrea, Joel Joel McCrea So. Pasadena, Cal. Nov. 5, 1905 6/2” 185 Blue Brown Pomona College | hy |) McHugh, Frank Frank McHugh Homestead, Pa. May 23, 1899 5'7” 147 Blue’ Brown High School > | Hi Wee lia McLaglen, Victor Victor McLaglen Tunbridge Wells, Eng-Dec. 11, 1886 6/3” 225 Brown Brown Public School aE McPhail, Douglas Douglas McPhail Los Angeles, Cal. Apr. 16, 1910 6'0” 170 Blue Blonde Santa Monica Jr. Col | ae he Menjou, Adolphe Adolphe Menjou Pittsburgh, Pa. Feb. 18, 1890 5/9” 153 Blue Brown Cornell University 1. i Meredith, Burgess Oliver B. Meredith Lakewood, Ohio Nov. 16, 1908 5'814” 135 Blue Brown Amherst College aay Merkel, Una Una Merkel Covington, Ky. Dec. 10, 1903 5’ 4” 112 Blue Blonde High School W at Milland, Ray Ray Mullane Neath, Wales Jan. 3, 1907 6144” 170 Hazel Brown King’s College i A Mt Miranda, Isa Ines Sampietro Milan, Italy July 5, 1915 5/6” 121 Brown Blonde High School 1 fi Montgomery, DouglasDouglas Montgomery Los Angeles, Cal. Oct. 29, 1908 5'1114” 176 Brown Brown High School Hae lint Montgomery, Robert Henry Montgomery, Jr.Beacon, N. Y. May 21, 1904 6/1” 165 Blue Brown Private Schools | i q Moore, Constance Constance Moore Sioux City, Iowa Jan. 18, 1920 5/4” 110 Blue Brown Private Schools | I Moore, Victor Victor Moore Hammonton, N. J. Feb. 24, 1876 5/7” 190 Brown Brown Public School i i Morgan, Dennis Stanley Morner Prentice, Wis. Dec. 20, 1910 6/2” 195 Blue Brown Carroll College i eh Morgan, Frank Francis Wupperman New York, N. Y. June 1, 1890 6/1” 190 Grey Brown Cornell University } \ : Morris, Chester Chester Morris New York, N. Y. Feb. 16, 1901 5’ 9” 155 Green Black High School | i ‘j Morris, Wayne Bert DeWayne Morris Los Angeles, Cal. Feb. 17, 1914 6/2” 190 Blue’ Blonde Los Angeles Jr. Col. i. ae Mowbray, Alan Alan Mowbray London, England Aug. 18, 1896 6'0” 158 Grey Brown Public School i Muni, Paul Muni Weisenfreund Vienna, Austria Sept. 22, 1897 5/10” 165 Black Black Public School Ma: 86 : |

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MODERN SCREEN SCREEN NAME REAL NAME BIRTHPLACE BIRTHDATE HEIGHT WEIGHT EYES HAIR EDUCATION Murphy, George George Murphy New Haven, Conn. July 4, 1903 5/11” 178 Blue’ Brown Yale University . Nagel, Anne Ann Dolan Boston, Mass. Sept. 30, 1912 5’ 6” 112. Blue Brown Private Schools Naish, J. Carrol J. Carrol Naish New York, N. Y. Jan. 21, 1900 5’942” 152 Brown Black Private Schools Neagle, Anna ~ Marjorie Robertson London, England Oct. 20, 1908 5/5” 120 Blue Blonde Private Schools Niven, David David Niven Kirriemuire, Scotland Mar. 1, 1909 6’ 0” 170 Blue Brown Royal Military Acad. Nolan, Lloyd Lloyd Nolan San Francisco, Cal. Aug. 11, 1904 5’101%” 184 Brown Brown Stanford University Oakie, Jack Leis D. Offield Sedalia, Mo. Nov. 12, 1903 5/11” 170 Blue Brown High School Oberon, Merle Estelle Thompson Tasmania, Australia Feb. 19, 1911 5/2” 112 Green Brown La Martimere College O’Brien, George George O’Brien San Francisco, Cal. Apr. 19, 1900 6/1” 200 Brown Brown Santa Clara College O’Brien, Pat William O’Brien Milwaukee, Wis. Nov. 11, 1899 5/11” 199 Blue Brown Marquette University O’Keefe, Dennis Bud Flannigan Fort Madison, Iowa Mar. 29, 1912 6/2” 175 Blue’ Blonde High School Olivier, Laurence Laurence Olivier Dorking, England May 22,1907 5'10” 165 Brown Brown St. Edward’s School O’Neil, Barbara Barbara O’Neil St. Louis, Mo. July 10, 1910 5’ 6” 125 Brown Brown Private School O’Sullivan, Maureen Maureen O’Sullivan Boyle, Ireland May 17, 1911 5'3%4” 116 Blue Brown Private School Overman, Lynne Lynne Overman Maryville, Mo. Sept. 19, 1887 5/1114” 142 Blue Blonde University of Missouri Page, Gale Sally Perkins Rutter Spokane, Wash. Aull Pay; iGhlss | by By? 116 Brown Brown Private Schools Parker, Cecilia Cecilia Parker Fort William, Can. Apr. 26, 1905 5/314” 108 Hazel Blonde Private Schools Parker, Jean Mae Green Deer Lodge, Mont. Aug. 11, 1916 5/3” 105 Green Brown High School Parrish, Helen Helen Parrish Columbus, Ga. Mar. 12, 1923 5/3” 110 Green Brown High School Patrick, Gail Margaret Fitzpatrick Birmingham, Ala. June 20, 1912 5/7” 120 Brown Black Howard College Payne, John John Payne Roanoke, Va. May 28, 1912 6/2” 175 Green Brown Columbia College Pendleton, Nat Nat Pendleton Davenport, Iowa Aug. 9, 1899 6’ 0” 200 Hazel Brown Columbia College Pidgeon, Walter Walter Pidgeon East St. John, Can. Sept. 23, 1898 6/2” 190 Grey Black Public School Powell, Dick Richard Powell Mt. View, Ark. Nov. 14, 1904 6'0” 172 Blue’ Brown Little Rock College Powell, Eleanor Eleanor Powell Springfield, Mass. Nov. 21, 1913 5’534” 122 Blue Brown Public School Powell, Lee Lee Powell Long Beach, Cal. May 15, 1908 6’ 2” 190 Hazel Black Long Beach Jr. Col. Powell, William William Powell Pittsburgh, Pa. July 29, 1892 6/2” 168 Brown Brown Public School Power, Tyrone Tyrone Power Cincinnati, Ohio May 5, 1914 5/11” 155 Brown Brown Public Schools Preston, Robert Robert Meservey - Newton, Mass. June 8, 1917 6/0’ 175 Brown Brown High School Price, Vincent Vincent Price St. Louis, Mo. May 27, 1911 6’ 4” 180 Blue Brown Yale University Prouty, Jed Jed Prouty Boston, Mass. Apr. 6, 1886 5/6” 170 Brown Black Public School Quinn, Anthony Anthony Quinn Chihuahua, Mexico Apr. 21, 1915 6/2” 192 Brown Brown Public Schools Raft, George George Ranft New York, N. Y. Sept. 27, 1904 5/10” 155 Brown Black Private School Rainer, Luise Luise Rainer Berlin, Germany darn, 124, alenln) = bye” 102 Brown Black Private School e (Continued on page 89) tia al ! For the luscious, youthful, dewy-fresh lips yo ? al iT’S os be * that men find irresistible, use IRRESISTIBLE FOR |) GREATER SMOOTHNESS -!PSTICK, the lipstick that’s WHIP-TEXT for =} greater smoothness. Whipped again and | again by a new secret process, it is softer, 10° smoother, amazingly lasting, non-drying. 5 ae ee as a} In alluring new Flash Red, Fuchsia Plum, STORES Orchid, Red Oak with matching Rouge and Face Powder; as well as other ever-smart Irresistible shades favored today. Crewtditle byes PUTS THE YOU IN IRRESISTIBLE YOU rn! =a

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Mi (Continued from page 87) SCREEN NAME Rains, Claude Randall, Jack Rathbone, Basil Ratoff, Gregory Raye, Martha Raymond, Gene Read, Barbara Reagan, Ronald Rice, Florence Ritter, Tex Robinson, Edward G.Emanuel Goldenberg Robson, May Rogers, Ginger Rogers, Roy Romero, Cesar Rooney, Mickey Ross, Shirley — Ruggles, Charles Russell, Rosalind Rutherford, Ann Scott, Randolph Shearer, Norma Sheridan, Ann Shirley, Anne . Sidney, Sylvia Singleton, Penny Skipworth, Alison Sothern, Ann Stack, Robert Stander, Lionel Stanwyck, Barbara Starrett, Charles Stewart, James Stone, Lewis REAL NAME Claude Rains Jack Randall Basil Rathbone Gregory Ratoff Martha Reed Raymond Guion Barbara Read Ronald Reagan Florence Rice Ritter Nederland May Robison Virginia McMath Roy Rogers Cesar Romero Joe Yule, Jr. Bernice Gaunt Charles Ruggles Rosalind Russell Ann Rutherford Randolph Crane Norma Fisher Clara Lou Sheridan Dawn Evelyn Paris Sylvia Krakow Mariana McNulty Alison Skipworth Harriette Lake Robert Stack Lionel Stander Ruby Stevens Charles Starrett James Stewart Lewis Stone MODERN SCREEN BIRTHPLACE London, England San Fernando, Cal. Johannesburg, S. Afr. Petrograd, Russia Butte, Montana New York, N. Y. Port Arthur, Can. Tampico, Ill. Cleveland, Ohio Panola City, Texas Bucharest, Roumania Melbourne, Australia Independence, Mo. Cody, Wyoming New York, N. Y. Brooklyn, N. Y. Omaha, Nebraska Los Angeles, Cal. Waterbury, Conn. Toronto, Canada Orange, Virginia Westmount, Can. Dallas, Texas New York, N. Y. New York, N. Y. Philadelphia, Pa. London, England Valley City, N. D. Los Angeles, Cal. New York, N. Y. Brooklyn, N. Y. Athol, Mass. Indiana, Pa. Worcester, Mass. BIRTHDATE Nov. 10, May 12, June 13, Apr. 20, Aug. Aug. Dec. Sept. 1, Feb. Jan. Dec. Apr. July Nov. 5, Feb. Sept. 23, Jan. 7, Feb. 8, June 4, Nov. 2, Jan. Aug. Feb. Apr. Aug. Sept. July Jan. 2, Jan. Jan. July Mar. May Nov. 1899 1902 1892 1897 1916 1908 1917 1914 1911 1907 1893 1865 1911 1912 1907 1921 1915 1890 1912 1920 1903 1904 1915 1918 1910 1912 1870 1909 1919 1908 1907 1904 1908 1879 5/1044” 165 6’ 1%” 6/114” By) 5/415" 5! 10” 5 4” 6’ 0” 5 41” 60” SP By a! 5% 1034” 6 2” beat 54” 5 6” 55” 5 314" 6 2” By 1 BY ig Bae bY 4” Bt Ba5u 5 114” 6/1” 60” Baby 6/2” 63” 170 174 200 116 165 108 170 108 165 158 105 115 155 170 128 118 145 120 105 190 117 120 100 104 118 160 112 175 160 120 180 160 5’ 1042” 160 ' If your dealer cannot supply you fill in his name and address and mail to Dept. E, Pepsi-Cola Co., Long Island City, N. Y. Dealer’s Name HEIGHT WEIGHT EYES HAIR Brown Hazel Hazel Blue Blue Blue Blue Grey Blue Grey Brown Grey Green Blue Brown Blue Grey Grey Black Brown Hazel Grey Hazel Amber Blue Green Blue Grey Blue Brown Blue Brown Grey Hazel EDUCATION Private School Kemper Mil. School Repton School Private School Private School Private Schools High School Eureka College Dwight School Northwestern Univ. Columbia University Private Schools Public School Blonde Public School Black Private Schools Blonde Studio School Red Uni. of California Brown High School Black Columbia University Black High School Blonde Georgia Tech Brown Public School Brown N. Texas Teachers’ Col. Gold Public School Brown High School Brown Columbia University AuburnPublic School Brown Univ. of Washington Blonde Univ. of So. California Brown New York University Auburn Public Schools Brown Dartmouth College Brown Princeton University Grey High School (Continued on page 95) Black Black Black Brown Brown Blonde Brown Brown Brown Sandy Black Brown Blonde YOIE PERSISGOLA COPS NS HINT TO REFRIGERATORS: Keep this handy carton icy cold. Be ready for unexpected guests. ek es BY a pe ee eS

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And her success, past and present, is the result of years of study and careful plan- ning. It was after her first theatrical per- formance that she decided to become an actress. The place was The Sacred Heart Convent; the play, “Midsummer Night's Dream”; the time, 1921. Her career deter- mined, she undertook its inception in a manner most characteristic of the present Miss Leigh. When the final curtain came down on her formal education, Vivien en- tered the Academy of Dramatic Art in Lon- don. Studying diligently, undertaking any part that was thrown her way, she waited for a chance to succeed. In the meantime, she married Leigh Holman, a noted English barrister. But that fervent urge to act, though dormant for a few years, became increas- ingly difficult to ignore. Back to the stage, this time to small character parts and final- ly to overwhelming success in ‘The Mask of Virtue.’’ Though movie offers were plenti- ful, Vivien was reluctant to retire from the stage. She accepted parts in several out- standing plays, ‘Henry VIII” among others, and noi until she had acquired a liberal training would she consider the screen bids. Ultimately, she signed a five-year contract with Alexander Korda and next became a resident of Hellywood. That brings us up to the present and since her excellent per- formance in ‘Gone With The Wind” her future here is assured. Miss Leigh is twenty-seven years old, five feet, three inches in height and weighs one hundred and two pounds. She is the mother of one child, Suzanne, aged six. You can write her in care of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Stu- dios, Culver City, Cal. For a review of “Gone With The Wind,” turn to page 8. RONALD COLMAN’S screen success has re- mained unbroken these many years because, be- sides being a joy to the eyes, he is an unfailing joy to the ears. His voice, probably the most compelling in pictures, was first heard on the morning of February 9, 1891 when he entered the world as Charles Colman’s fifth child. The elder Col- man was a mildly prosperous silk importer NFORMATION who would occasionally allow Ronnie to travel up to his London office in the hope that the boy would find his father’s business talents contagious. The only thing Ronald developed was an urge to captain one of the ships which brought the silks in from the Orient. Ronald was sixteen when his father’s death necessarily shot him into the business world. He was a $2.50-a-week clerk for the British Steamship Co. at the time the war broke out. He enlisted the first day, not because of a scorching desire to defend his country but because the army offered an escape from the murderous monotony of his job. A fractured ankle brought him back from France and a chance meeting with an old friend brought him into the theatre. In 1919, he met and mar- tied Thelma Raye, an actress from whom he was later divorced. In 1920 he came to America and two years later a movie di- rector who had seen him on the stage sent — him to Italy to play opposite Lillian Gish in "The White Sister.” Sam Goldwyn was responsible for his return to this country and for his earliest movie triumphs. Today, Ronald is happily wed to the lovely British actress, Benita Hume. Address him at Para- mount Studios, 5451 Marathon Street, Holly- wood, Cal. ‘The Light That Failed,” his newest vehicle, is reviewed on page 8. ANDREA LEEDS’ new hus- band, Bob Howard, says she may continue to work. He really doesn't need her weekly salary but he be- lieves she’s too good an actress to retire from the screen. Fans everywhere have written ditto to his sentiments so we may expect Andrea’s brown eyes to twinkle in the movies for years~to come. The new Mrs. Howard was born in Butte, Montana and is the daughter of a mining engineer whose work often had to be done in exciting and out-of-the-way places. Wherever his work brought him, he brought» his family and that’s how Andrea happened to spend so much of her childhood in Mexico. When an attempt was made to kidnap her, Mr. Lees (Andrea’s real surname) sent her up to California to” receive her education. She graduated from a Long Beach high school and then entered U.C.L.A. where she ma- jored in philosophy and English literature. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree, she returned to Mexico, intending to get started as a writer. Daddy Lees welcomed her tenderly but seven months later, scent-_ ae

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MODERN SCREEN *JUNE LANG and ROBERT KENT— two popular Hollywood stars! Her soft hands are beguiling —as yours can be, if you use Jergens Lotion. for a personal reply ing trouble in the district, sat her in an airplane and had her flown back to the security of Los Angeles. She was busily knocking on studio doors looking for a writing job when an amateur movie film in which she had appeared in college was unreeled before the eyes of Director Howard Hawks. He promptly sat Sam Goldwyn down—the same Mr. G. who was responsible for Ronald Colman— and made him look, too. Goldwyn said Okay—and Andrea was a screen star! Andrea can be reached at the 20th Cen- tury-Fox Studios, Hollywood, Cal. A re- view of her latest picture, “Swanee River,’ appears on page 8. C. Jchnson, Chicago, Ill. Irving Thalberg passed away in 1936. Norma Shearer has two children: Irving, Jr., who is nine years old and Katharine, who is four. You're right, Norma made only “Idiot's Delight” and The Women” in 1939. So far she has not been cast in a new pic- ture. The other information you wish is found*on page 89 of this issue. Aurelia Dysert, Ferndale, Michigan. Ty- rone Power's sister's name is Ann. The four men in "Four Men and a Prayer” were David Niven, George Sanders, Rich- ard Greene and William Henry. Paul Muni married Bella Finkel in 1921. Martha Raye divorced Buddy Westmore in 1938 It’s so Easy, now, fine ingredients in Jergens Lotion—the Mi th and then married David Rose. Barbara Pp sen eee e ot lm etoromucc (ont helmine a s Stanwyck and Herbert Marshall were the to help Prevent disappointing fe acd e h , oa heey ne e) 1 yt oii stars of “Always Goodbye.” Rough, Chapped Hands SECON eh ne ne ES Cue. CaS Basins Hin | aa Even one application starts Jergens’ lovely, a Joan Hart, San Francisco, Calif. Basil MM GIRLS’ HANDS need extra help softening work. No stickiness! Have ro- | | el Rathbone was) bom) in! Johannesburg, these days to keep them adorably mantic ‘‘Hollywood Hands’’. Start now to | 2 ee Soe eae Here he a his boyhood, soft and smooth. Your hand skin so easily use Jergens Lotion. 50¢, 25¢, 10¢—$1.00, 0} = Una ne Wes Slewsie © evsigilemte| up attend loses its natural beautifying moisture! at beauty counters. Get Jergens today, sure. iil Repton School. Tennis is his favorite rec- ‘ i oad reation. He has six dogs and collects Thousands of lovely girls CUPID SAYS: turn to Jergens Lotion! Jergens quickly supplements the depleted natural mois- ture. Helps prevent unsightly rough, chapped hands. yt sculptured hands. (Cont'd on next page) ““More girls use =) bo) Jergens now than any other Lotion! It fur- nishes beautifying ‘ | moisture most girls’ hand skin needs for lovable softness.” | Dear Readers: You've been swamping us with requests for information on the lead- ing. stars appearing in Ky and ek Kk *& pictures currently playing in your neighborhood theatres. Therefore, we have decided to change our policy and print their biographies each month. Remem- ber that questions of general inter- est will be answered here as usual. If you desire a reply by mail, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Information Desk, Modern You apply to your skin 2 FREES purse-SiZE BOTTLE (Paste coupon on a penny postcard, if you wish) et See—at our expense—how Jergens Lotion helps you have adorable, soft hands. Mail this coupon today to: The Andrew Jergens Co., 3713 Alfred St., Cincinnati, Ohio. (In Canada: Perth, Ont.) FOR ADORABLE, SOFT HANDS RS SE St d | Screen, 149 Madison Ave., New New! For smooth, kissable complexion— : Name York, N. Y. Jergens all-purpose Face Cream. Its Giese Vitamin Blend helps against unattrac- : Te RT Gan a en Ta EE CE eT tive dry skin. Try it! 50¢, 25¢, 10¢. 8 City. State aati |

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Write him at Republic Studios, 4024 Radford Ave., North Hollywood, Calif. May Flor, Staten Island, N. Y. Charles Bickford’s last picture was “Of Mice and Men” for United Artists. His four most recent pictures, prior to this one, were “Mutiny in the Big House,” “Our Lead- ing Citizen,” “Stand Up and Fight,” and “Romance of the Redwoods.” Patsy Enoch, Columbus, Ohio, Brown- haired, blue-eyed Alan Curtis was born in Rogers Park, a suburb of Chicago, Ill. As Harry Uberroth he was educated at Northwestern University and later be- came a commercial model. He is six feet, one inch in height and weighs one hun- dred and eighty pounds. His marriage to Priscilla Lawson is in the process of being terminated. June Koch, Peoria, Ill. Jack Randall was born May 12, 1902 in San Fernando, California. He is six feet, one and a half inches in height and weighs one hundred and seventy pounds. He loves open cars, dneys Must premieres, animals and bright colors. He can also sling a “delish” dish of spaghet- ti—it’s his favorite fruit! You ask whether he is married. He married Louise Stanley, an actress, in 1938 and though divorce proceedings were once started, it’s one of those off-again, on- again affairs and at present writing, noth- ing definite has happened. His latest picture is “Pioneer Days”; his address: Monogram Studios, 4516 Sunset Boule- vard, Hollywood, Calif. If you write the studio and enclose twenty-five cents for postage, they will be glad to send you a photograph. Betty Sharpe, McKees Rocks, Pa. We can think of four actors who have be- come directors. They are William Die- terle, Ricardo Cortez, Gregory Ratoff and Eddie Buzzell. The four inveterate cigar smokers are Groucho Marx, Edward G. Robinson, Jack Benny and Pat O’Brien. R. Egidio, Buffalo, N. Y. Yes, your friend is right. Ingrid Bergman is an accomplished pianist and she had ample opportunity to utilize this talent in “In- termezzo, A Love Story,” her first role of accompanist to a violin virtuoso, played by Leslie Howard. She was born in Stockholm in 1917, has blonde hair, hazel eyes and is five feet, six inches tall. You can write ker in care of United Artists Studios, Hollywood, Cal. Ruth Wharton, Brooklyn, N. Y. George Sanders was born in St. Petersburg, Rus- sia, under the protection of the English Embassy and is an English citizen. He prepared at the Dunhurst and Bedales schools and attended college at Brighton. Later, he switched to Manchester Tech- nical school, where he specialized in tex- tiles. After finishing school, Sanders went to work in technical textile re- search. He gave this up to go to Argen- tine and Brazil, where he experimented in a tobacco venture. The depression came along and Sanders returned to England. At the suggestion of an uncle, he took vocal lessons and six months of rigorous coaching miraculously pro- duced a rich baritone. He was heard by a producer who gave him a spot in the revue, ‘Ballyhoo,” and, before long, was noticed by an ever-peering talent scout who awarded him a role in “Strange Cargo.” He is not married and his favor- ite type of woman is the demure sort. Frances Weimer, Columbus, Ohio. If you will write Gene Autry in care of his studio—Republic Pictures, Hollywood, Calif—you should receive a reply, if your letter warrants it. We never under any circumstances are allowed to give out home addresses of the stars. If you send twenty-five cents to any player or to his studio requesting a picture, you should receive it. Bill Morrison, Woodridge, N. Y. Here are the ten biggest moneymaking stars of 1939: Mickey Rooney, Tyrone Power, Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, Bette Davis, Alice Faye, Errol Flynn, James Cagney and Sonja Henie. 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Sian seycaewis ¢ (| iy 7" tee a \ patrons to the theatres from September 1, 1938, to September 1, 1939, without regard to age of picture, net profit, length of run, nature of competition or other conditions (weather, ete.) during exhibi- tion. Carl Schneider, Indiana Harbor, Ind. She was originally named Myrna Williams, became Myrna Loy for the movies and on June 27, 1936, became Mrs. Arthur Hornblow, Jr. As Myrna Williams, she was born in Helena, Montana, where her father was the owner of a ranch. When she was of high school age her parents brought her to Los Angeles. There she attended the Westlake School for Girls and later an art school. Myrna’s ability as a sculptress attracted the at- tention of Rudolph Valentino and his wife, who gave her a part in “What Price Beauty?” in 1925. She was given other small roles and worked in the stage pro- logues at Grauman’s Theatre in Holly- wood, and as a dancer. Her first leading role was in “Renegade” in 1931. That was during her “vamp” days. Things began to look up when Myrna was as- signed to “Animal Kingdom,” and since that time she has risen to great popular- ity in straight acting roles. She is five feet five inches tall, weighs 110 pounds, and has titian hair and green eyes. She loves dancing, collects paintings and sculpture, swims, plays tennis and rides. She is under contract to M-G-M, Culver City, Calif. Her last picture was “An- other Thin Man.” Frances Hyden, Brooklyn, N. Y. For any- one who definitely made up his mind that he did not want to be an actor, Brian has done very well. He made his stage debut when he was three and continued to play boy parts until, when he was ten, his MODERN SCREEN Irina Baronova, star of the Ballet Russe who debuts as an_ actress- dancer in ‘'Florian,'' with Bob Young. The perky coronet tops the head of family sent him to London. Here he at- tended a theatrical training school for a year. Rebelling, he refused to go back. He wanted to be educated for a business career. At eighteen, he entered mercan- tile work, but after two years over a ledger, decided he wasn’t getting any- where and quit his job. Down to his last five shillings, Brian remembered acting— but only as a temporary means of earning a living! Well, you know the rest of the story; he’s been at it ever since. His stage successes took him to Australia, then to Broadway and finally to Hollywood. His latest picture is “Vigil in the Night” with Carole Lombard. Brian has recently left the bachelor ranks for Joan Fontaine. You can write him at RKO-Radio Studios, 780 Gower St., Hollywood, Calif. Jean Mack, Buffalo, N. Y. Robert Shaw played the part of the ranger in the Jones Family picture, “Quick Millions.” His ad- dress is Twentieth Century-Fox Studios, Beverly Hills, Calif. Frances Modrak, Elizabeth, N. J. Since “A Midsummer’s Night Dream,” Olivia de Havilland has made these pictures. In 1935: “The Irish in Us,” “Captain Blood.” In 1936: “Anthony Adverse,” “Charge of the Light Brigade.” In 1937: “Call It a Day,” “It’s Love I’m After,” “The Great Garrick.” In 1938: “Gold Is Where You Find It,” “Robin Hood,” “Four’s a Crowd,” “Hard to Get.” In 1939: “Wings of the Navy,” “Dodge City,’ “Gone With the Wind,” “Elizabeth and Essex,” “Raffles.” Mary Carson, New York, N. Y. Zorina’s first picture since “On Your Toes” is “I Was An Adventuress” for Twentieth Century-Fox. Her leading man is Rich- ard Greene. Yes, she was a ballerina of the famous Ballet Russe for two years. She is a Norwegian. BECAUSE /M GUARDING AGAINST DRY, LIFELESS SKIN | WANT TO KEEP ROMANCE ! If you want to keep your complexion alluring, use Palmolive made with Olive Oil! NOW THAT I'VE WON THE MAN | WANT I'M NOT GOING TO RISK LOSING HIM BY LETTING MY SKIN GET DRY, LIFELESS AND OLD-LOOKING. AND THAT'S WHY I USE ONLY PALMOLIVE SOAP ! BUT WHY IS PALMOLIVE SO | DIFFERENT, MARY ? YOU REALLY ARE A DARLING, MARY, TO TELL ME HOW YOU KEEP YOUR COMPLEXION SO MAKE PALMOLIVE MY BEAUTY SOAP, Too! LOVELY ! I'M GOING TO TAKE YOUR ADVICE AND a /Made wae Oe KEEP SKIN SOFT, SMOOTH, YOUNG 93 BECAUSE PALMOLIVE IS MADE WITH OLIVE AND PALM OILS, NATURE’S FINEST BEAUTY AIDS. THAT’S WHY ITS LATHER IS SO DIFFERENT, SO GOOD FOR DRY, LIFELESS SKIN! PALMOLIVE CLEANSES SO THOROUGHLY YET SO GENTLY THAT IT LEAVES SKIN SOFT AND SMOOTH... COMPLEXIONS RADIANT ! *

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On the spring day in 1934 when diplomas were handed out, Betty was ab- sent. She was working! The first girl in her class to get a job! It was in “Sing and Whistle” with Ernest Truex as the star. The show didn’t last long and Betty held the job to the end, but never appeared on the stage because she was only an understudy. On her sixteenth birthday, she was sent to England for a role in “She Loves Me Not.” For Betty, the experience was love on a dime, and the play suffered a quick demise. In spite of dark, jobless days, Betty remembers London pleas- antly. But she can do without English- men. She thinks American boys are so much nicer. When Betty arrived in London for re- hearsals, she and another American girl in the show took a swanky apartment in one of the smart sections of the Brit- ish capital. They had a huge bath, two fireplaces and even gleaming mahogany antiques. They were all set for a pieas- ant winter. But the day after the play’s opening, Betty read the newspapers and packed her three dresses. The critics used their heaviest hammers and the production died of box office anemia in two weeks. She moved into a seven-dollar-a-week furnished room. Breakfast was included in the rate and during her English so- journ, breakfast was her principal meal. On the boat going over, Betty visioned herself walking down Bond Street, buy- ing British tweeds. Her London shop- ping, after the play’s fiasco, was limited to things that didn’t cost over fifty cents. She still yearns for some of those nice English sports clothes she used to see on other girls. When she came back to America, Betty went through that difficult time which stage people grandly eall, “between en- gagements.” Betty’s word for it is “job- less” and she didn’t like the experience. She was later given a part in “Page Miss Glory,” but her speeches were shortened at every rehearsal and when the play opened, there were only three lines left. Then along came a_ succession of healthy leading women whom Betty un- derstudied. Not one of them ever hbe- came indisposed, fought with the man- ager or quit the show. Betty began to believe that her career was to be a series of dressing-room sitdowns. She feared she’d grow old wearing greasepaint that nobody but stagehands would see. She was frightened then, too! Her break came when George Abbott engaged her for the roadshow lead in “Three Men on a Horse.” Betty actu- ally saw the ticket buyers in Boston and they liked her as the young wife of the greeting-card poet. When the New York lead left the cast, Miss Field was called in from the road. This career business was getting to look like some- thing, now! She was a leading lady on Broadway. 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Her subsequent roles were in “Room Service,” “Angel Island’ and “What a Life.” While she was appearing in “The Primrose Path,’ Director Ted Reed thought she’d be good for the picturiza- tion of “What a Life.” That’s now she went to Hollywood. While Betty was playing in “The Prim- rose Path,” she was considered for “Kiss the Boys Goodbye,” but she couldn’t get out of her other stage obligation. When she was signed for a long term by Para- mount, she heard her studio had bought film rights to “Kiss the Boys Good-bye.” Betty dreamed again of playing the Southern girl in that biting satire. It was while we were having luncheon in New York that Betty heard for the first time that Mary Martin was to have the part in the screen version. Betty smiled, said, “That’s nice for Miss Martin” and changed the subject. No regrets, no commiserations for Betty Field. She hasn’t use for them—yet. Betty’s been so busy being an actress since she was fourteen that she hasn’t had any time for hobbies, except horse- back riding and beaux. She likes horses and good-looking young American men. She never rode in Hollywood and if there are fascinating males in the movie ~apital, Betty’s only read about them. The ones at the studio are only actors to her. Jackie Cooper was the one she really got to know and he’s too young for any romantic angle. “It’s wonderful,” said Betty, “the way Jackie minds his mother. He’s always phoning her when he’s working and he does everything she tells him to do. If he wants to go some place and Mrs. Cooper says ‘no, Jackie hurries home. He asks her advice about everything.” Betty’s different that way. She’s a self-sufficient young woman. She knew MODERN SCREEN Ona Munson, ''Gone With The Wind's" lady of ill repute, is a 31-year-old blue-eyed blonde from _ Portland, Oregon. Her real name is Wolcott. what she wanted when she was twelve. She’s been working hard at getting it ever since. Even when she’s in New York, she lives at an apartment hotel and spends only her week-ends in Westfield, New Jersey, where her mother lives. Mrs. Field never interferes with her daughter’s career. She didn’t go to Hollywood with her and she won’t live there now, though Betty will be residing permanently on the west coast. Betty has a small furnished apartment and she’s doing no shopping for a movie house, even with her contract all signed and delivered. Being frightened about the failure to- morrow may bring, remaining somewhat leery of today’s success—that’s how Betty Field reacts to finding herself a movie star. What’s more, she hopes she can stay that way. Being frightened, she says, is wonderful for her; it makes her give just a bit more than her best. Betty’s story ought to be balm for other young girls who are willing to work hard at the exciting career of act- ing. She never had any “pull,” nor any connections that would help her. She wasn’t one of the beautiful stage sensa- tions who leave the New York columnists breathless. Her romances didn’t land her on the front pages nor did one stage role open all doors as it did in the case of Mary Martin. She decided early in her teens she was going to be an actress. She trained as well as she could for her life work and took what jobs were offered. In Hollywood it was the same story. She didn’t care whether it was a Class B or a Class A picture. She gave her best. The fact that she’s called a star by her bosses doesn’t mean a thing to Betty. All she wants to know is, “When do I re- port for work, and where’s the script?” | TWAS YOUR HUSBAND, MRS.STEELE. | HE WON'T BE ABLE TO GET TO THE HOSPITAL TO SEE YOU TONIGHT BUT HE'S STILL ME-BS HE HAS FOR I THOUGHT MY ILLNESS OATS MIGHT CHANGE THINGS. YOU'VE DONE A F/NE JOB, NURSE, AND I'M “Colgate’s special pen- etrating foam gets into hidden crevices be- tween your teeth... helps your toothbrush clean out decaying food particlesand stop the stagnant saliva odors that cause much bad breath. And Colgate’s safe polishing agent makes teeth naturally bright and sparkling! Al- Ways use Colgate Dental Cream — tegularly and frequently. No other dentifrice is exactly like it.” — MRS. STEELE, I'VE SEEN BAD BREATH BREAK UP Si MANY MARR/AGES THAT: WELL, WOWT YOU TALK T! YOUR DENTIST ABOUT. YOUR BREATH ? TESTS SHOW THAT MUCH BAD BREATH COMES FROM DECAYING FOOD PARTICLES AND STAGNANT SALIVA AROUND TEETH THAT AREN'T 7 CLEANED PROPERLY. | RECOMMEND | COLGATE DENTAL CREAM. ITS SPECIAL 1 PENETRAT/NG FOAM REMOVES THESE ODOR-BREEDING DEPOSITS.AND LARGE SIZE 20: GIANT SIZE 35¢ OVER Twice AS MUCH

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Address ireerceilotein s cisietelsteeiciel cancion ieiereaeiate eeitneietaeta steltels 98 MODERN SCREEN TWO WEEKS WITH PAY (Continued from page 31) bed at all. When dawn broke they left their companions and ambled along the streets, watching Paris wake up. At noon, having waved her husband off on the boat-train, Mrs. Douglas stum- bled back to the hotel and slept round the clock. Douglas was back in Holly- wood precisely two weeks after the day he’d left. “I’d have gone,” he says, “just for the walk.” AST summer it looked for a while as if he might get a month between “Ninotchka” and “The Amazing Mr. Wil- liams.” Mrs. Douglas—who is Helen Gahagan, the actress and singer, as I'm probably wasting space in telling you— had been playing summer stock in the east. He was to join her there, grab a boat and spend two weeks abroad. This time he had neither theatres, restaurants nor Parisian jaunts on his mind. He had pored over all the books, studied all the reports, questioned all the people from whom he could get a glimmer of in- formation about Europe. “There’s some- thing rotten in the air, like a pact be- tween Germany and Russia, God forbid,” he had said to his wife. “I want to get a first-hand smell of what goes on there.” They had phoned back and forth to make arrangements. At the last minute, Co- lumbia advanced its shooting schedule, and the plan fell through. Every now and then Mrs. Douglas will spur him to action. “Stand up and scream, Mel! Get yourself a vacation.” That’s as far as it goes. He can’t work up any real enthusiasm for himself as a man with a grievance. He sees the point of the executive who yelped: “These actors make me sick. They sign con- tracts for forty weeks, they get paid for forty weeks, then they yap like hell be- cause they have to work forty weeks.” “Of course,” says Douglas mildly, “there’s a fallacy there. Unless your contract specifically states that you’re to get your three months in a lump—which mine doesn’t—you get them any old way, three days here, five days there. What with costume tests, retakes and standing by, you don’t get much chance at relaxa- tion. Pm under contract to two studios. As a rule, the moment Columbia’s through with me, Metro’s on the phone, or one of the two has made a deal for a loanout. “There’s another thing that keeps you on tenterhooks. You never know what’s coming next. The studios are playful that way. They don’t tell you, they tell the columnists. Bella Spewack, the playwright, was working for the bill to permit the entry of refugee children. She asked me to fly to Washington. said I would if the studio didn’t need me. I phoned the studio. ‘How can you fly to Washington, they said, ‘when you're starting in “Ninotchka?”’ ‘Am I?’ ‘Sure. Youll see it in all the papers tomorrow.’ “Anyway, let’s be honest. In the final analysis, it’s often my own fault. I act for a living. I’m eager to get good parts, which are rare. I threw away a perfectly good vacation to make the Deanna Dur- bin picture. Metro was through with me and Columbia wasn’t going to be ready for four or five weeks. Joe Pasternak phoned that he’d like to see me, and came up to the house one night. I hadn’t met him before, but I’d liked everything he’d done. He told me about this pic- ture. It sounded amusing, and he sounded like a reasonable and pleasant Pretty little Pen- ny Singleton, who's been hay- ing some off- screen marital trouble, finds that her movie husband, Arthur Lake, can be a bit trying, too. The lovable Mr. and Mrs. Bump- stead—and Baby Dumpling—will next appear in "Blondie on a Budget."

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AES person to work with. I’m susceptible. The actor in me got pepped up and said, ‘Hang the vacation.’ “As for ‘Ninotchka, nothing short of paralysis could have kept me from it. The script was delightful. I’d worked with both Garbo and Lubitsch before and liked them both. Lubitsch is a peach. He was an actor himself, and is sensitive to the actor’s viewpoint. “Garbo? You couldn’t find anyone more pleasant. There’s been such non- sense written about her. All right, she’s shy, she’s scared of people, she’s uneasy with strangers around—excessively so, if you like. But there’s no fakery in her. She’s honest to the marrow. And a very exciting person to work with, because— well, how shall I put it without sounding stuffy? “Acting is to her what a piece of marble would be to a sculptor, even though this self-consciousness of hers makes it an extraordinarily difficult process. In nine pictures out of ten, you walk onto the set, the director says, ‘Well, do we know our lines?’ If you know them, you start, and after a minor bit of mechanical rehearsing, you shoot the scene. “With Garbo and Lubitsch, there’s no such thing as tossing off a scene. You sit down, you talk it over, you find out what it’s about, you play around with it, dig into it, and keep on digging till everyone’s satisfied that he’s exhausted its utmost value. In other words, you go through the process of chipping and hewing and shaping and studying and improving which results in the best piece of work you know how to fashion. Garbo can’t function under any other conditions. It’s part of her honesty.” Though he doesn’t admit it, he has certainly given up vacations for other MODERN SCREEN than movie activities. He is deeply con- cerned with the betterment of living con- ditions in California. Many stars lend the use of their names to adorn a letter- head. Douglas has put his heart and back into the work. He’s on the Motion Picture Democratic Committee. Not that he gives a hang about party politics but because he be- lieves that with the right men in office the right laws will be enacted. He is flooded with requests to speak, and meets as many as he can handle. His member- ship in the State Relief and State Wel- fare Commissions, entails monthly meet- ings and a voluminous correspondence. He sits on the Commissions’ Board of Appeals, which must balance heart- breaking drama against a limited budget. INES depresses him and his wife more than the wall of indifference or misunderstanding thrown up by some in self-defense against the misery of others. Mrs. Dougias personally runs a committee for the relief of those mi- grants whose plight Steinbeck set forth in “The Grapes of Wrath.” Several months ago, with a few unex- pected days off, Douglas took his family to Carmel, which has the charm of a little English town and the best air in California. Six-year-old Peter fell in love with it. He was enchanted by the smallness of the house they lived in, by the fact that his parents got up when he did at six, and then spent the whole day with him. After breakfast, they’d walk to the village to do their shopping. While his father read the paper, Peter helped his mother put up a picnic lunch. Then they’d be off to the Point, off to adven- ture. At Carmel, you not only had the cecean, but sand dunes to dig in, great CHAPPED HANDS ARE:GUI:HANDS THEY HEAL QUICKER rocks to climb over, strange woods to explore. The word “vacation” began to hold magic for Peter, too. “Why do we have to leave?” he wailed in Carmel. “When are we going back?” he de- manded in Hollywood. But with time, came wisdom. There had been a particularly satisfactory day. He’d come home from school to find his father at home—a treat to begin with. Melvyn was working in the garden that afternoon. Peter proffered aid. Then they swam together. Then mother joined them, and they listened to a symphony on the radio. Peter has inherited a feel- ing for music from both his parents— the whole family is music minded. Later they went out to visit baby Mary Helen, who spends the major share of her day sleeping or babbling agree- ably in the patio. She lay on her back in the crib, with Deedee, the setter, on guard beside her. Deedee had never shown symptoms of being a watchdog. 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I! MODERN SCREEN GOOD NEWS (Continued from page 57) arrived just as the two teams were coming onto the field and blithely thought all the cheering was in her honor .. . That Dorothy Lamour has a new bathing suit made of spun glass, and it’s frosted ... That Sonja Henie is really serious about taking avia- tion lessons and her studio is frantic . . That Judy Garland and Bob Hope always flip @ coin to see who gets to talk about their precocious children? “Judy,” year-old niece of the young star, and four-months- old ‘Linda,’ adopted daughter of the Hopes, are the topics of conversation . . That the Doug Fairbanks Jr.s are going to be papa and mama next summer That Charlie Chaplin’s sets are always closed to visitors . . . That Brenda Joyce got the enviable role of feminine lead in ‘Brigham Young” . That Richard Dix’s children think Chester Morris the cleverest guy in the world after seeing him do his magic tricks . . . That Joan Blondell nixed an offer for her four-year-old son, ‘‘Normie’’ Powell, to act in pictures? HALE, THE INVENTOR Alan Hale has invented so many things that off-hand he can’t remember them. So the other day on the set when he looked dreamy- eyed, someone inquired if he was pondering another invention. ‘Might be, might be,” murmured Hale. ‘In fact, think I'll get to work on a twenty-foot pole. Handy, don’t \ JOAN BLONDELL rT 0. “ce AMAZING MR. WILLIAMS’’ A Columbia Picture you think, for those people you can't touch with a ten-foot pole?” GARBO'S FOLKS The Gustafsons are just one big happy family since they've joined Greta in Holly- wood. The Silent One’s mother, brother and sister-in-law are planning to make this their home until the European troubles are settled. From the looks of things, they're “going Hollywood” with enthusiasm, for almost every evening since their arrival they have been seen around the popular restaurants and night clubs watching the stars with ob- vious enjoyment. No, Garbo is not along on these tours. Only time the four have been seen together was one evening in Jones’ Health Cafe, where Greta had ordered a round of spinach juice cocktails. She was downing hers with an enjoyment which ob- viously was not shared bythe other three members of her party. JIMINY WHISKERS! During ‘Gone With the Wind” Clark Gable often remarked that nothing could give him greater pleasure than a hair-cut. But since “Strange Cargo” has been before the cam- eras, the actor has decided a shave can mean more to a guy than a hair-cut. Relat- ing his miseries over the nine-day growth of beard which his role requires, Gable said he was awfully tired of being hailed as Mr. L wery Girts Zola. “And worse than having someone ask you why you don’t get a hair-cut or a violin,” he said, “is to have someone ask why you don't get a snood for the whiskers!” THE QUIET TEMPO Errol Flynn’s seemingly gone in for the con- templative life. On the set he spends all his spare time scribbling and has turned down invitations right and left with the explanation that he can’t afford the time away from his writing. Further proof that Flynn’s giving up the more tempestuous pleasures of life for the quiet tempo is the fact that he’s sold his plane (which gave the brothers Warner more than one grey forelock) and also has put his yacht, the Sirocco, on the market. Flynn’s present writing task is a scenario, called “Wings in the Dark,” and the studio has promised to give it a look when it’s com- pleted. 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May Robson strikes a pose with a sparkle in her black eyes that leaves no doubt about the kick she’s getting out of having her “pitcher took.’ When asked to pause for a pose, Mischa Auer al- ways bugs his eyes: and stutters, “Who— me?” Norma Shearer turns on the charm for the camera boys since discovering that all the flash bulbs went off in Joan Craw- ford's face at the preview of '’The Women.” Wally Beery hisses, “I'll push that camera down your throat’’ when. a camera sleuth tries to get a picture of him and a date. But when girl friend Carol Ann is along, Beery is all smiles. Bing Crosby won't will- ingly pose without a hat. Fred Astaire posi- tively won't pose without a hat. Franchot Tone puts a ban on _shirtsleeve poses. Norma Shearer prefers a profile shot. Hedy Lamarr refuses to be photographed in shorts, or short dresses. Madeleine Carroll insisis on a fresh dab of lipstick before the cameras snap. Deanna Durbin won't smile unless coaxed. Jack Benny won't pose without that cigar. Garbo won't pose at all. A TEN O’CLOCK SCHOLAR Jean Arthur's habit of keeping everyone on the set waiting for her has made many a director speechless with rage. But on her recent picture she reckoned without Frank Capra. That director arrived for the nine o'clock call and asked why Miss Arthur was not on the set. Miss Arthur, he learned, hadn't arrived. Come 9:30 and she still hadn't. But on the dot of ten the star wan- dered on the set and headed for her dress- ing-room. Mr. Capra tapped her on the shoulder before Jean had reached the door of her sanctum sanctorum. ‘And why, Miss Arthur,” he said pleasantly, “are you an hour late?” “I simply overslept,” said the surprised actress. ‘'I, too, like to oversleep,” said Mr. Capra. ‘But,’ he added even more pleasantly, ‘‘you must remember that you and I.are making a picture together. 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wey = MASSEY TAKES MANHATTAN (Continued from page 39) your head back to see the pictures, it gets cheaper and cheaper.” “Where did you sit?” “In my sister’s lap.” “And where did she sit?” “In the very first row. We had to put our heads back like birds drinking.” And she illustrated, laughing. Ilona has been an ardent movie fan ever since she can remember. Her first big crush was on Rudolph Valentino. When he died, she was broken hearted, for she felt that she knew him from having seen him on the screen so often. “A group of us girls in school decided we would go into mourning for him. We would wear black socks. But I didn’t have any black socks—only white ones. So I dipped them into the inkwell. My mother didn’t like that so much!” \ X J7HEN school days were over, Ilona had to look for a job. The theatre being her second love (movies were her first, but she felt that she could never rise to such grandeur), she went to a local theatre where a musical show was being put on and sought out the manager. Of course, she had had no experience. “What can you do?” was his first question. “T can’t do anything,” she replied. (We told you she was frank). Then he volun- teered some advice, saying, “Run along home and forget about the stage.” But Ilona really needed that job, and was never the sort who is easily discour- aged. She argued and argued, and when she added two years to her age which was really sixteen, he agreed to let her come in and watch the rehearsals for two weeks, after which period he promised to give her a tryout in the chorus. “There were three rows,” Ilona recalled. “The best dancers were in the front, naturally, the next-best dancers in the second row, and the worst ones in the third.” “Where did they put you?” we asked. “In the third row, of course,” she laughed. The show ran three months and was fol- lowed by another which also ran three months. Her next work was as cashier in her brother-in-law’s combination beauty par- lor and barber shop. There was no regu- lar salary, but she was allowed a tiny per- centage of all the money the store took in. She contributed to her family’s support, yet managed to save a few pengoes each week to spend on vocal lessons. But busi- ness slacked off, and soon she was pound- ing the pavement again. This time she got a job behind the stock- ing counter in a specialty shop. “I was the worst salesgirl in the world,” she says. “I was so sure the customer was always right that when a woman would look at the stockings and say she didn’t think they were very nice, I would agree. But I was there a month before they fired.me.” All this time she had been taking sing- ing lessons with Dr. Laszlo Geza and Revere Gyula. 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Nac City State —___Age 104 MODERN SCREEN production is a hard habit to break. “In singing for pictures,” she explains, “you sound best if you sing softly, close to the microphone. When I sing, they have to push the microphone to the other end of the studio!” She is trying to develop lower volume for her next picture, and works at it four hours a day: two hours practising scales, and two hours rehearsing selec- tions. “As long as you live, you never finish learning to sing,” says she. After a year in church, she went to the director of the Hungarian Opera House and asked for a tryout. “I’m sorry,” he told her, “but we don’t, need any sopranos.” Persistent Ilona begged him to let her do just one song, confident her voice would induce him to give her at least a small part. We asked her if that wasn’t what happened. “He heard my song,” she told us. “Then he said, ‘We still don’t need any sopranos!’ ” Nothing daunted, she went on to Vienna and secured a job at the Volkes opera. Her debut was made in the most im- portant role in “La Tosca,” and the next day critics were saying she had a voice like Jeritza’s. But there was one sour note. A wise reviewer said it was un- heard of for a newcomer to step right into leading roles. Miss Massey read and agreed; she applied for small parts at the Staats Opera, and was engaged. After a few months, she was singing leads there, too—and it was the most important opera house in Vienna. UT while she had attained artistic tri- umphs, financial success was still a long way off. The only amusement she could afford was reading movie maga- zines and going to the pictures. Her eyes grew even larger as she told us of it. “I feel so at home in America. I had read all about New York in the maga- zines, and knew it was the city where everybody wants to live. And I had read about Hollywood, too; I knew it was tops. ' “When I went to the movies, I used to sit there looking at the actors on the screen and hope that I, too, might be there some day. Then, while I was watching a musical picture—I think it was “Maytime”—I thought, I can sing. Maybe I might have a chance.” Timidly, despite her operatic success, she went to a noted Viennese agent, with some photographs she had had taken for the occasion. She asked him to send them to Hollywood. He refused. “Of course you are a pretty girl and have a . good voice, Miss Hajmassey,” he told her, “but Hollywood is full of pretty girls with good voices. You’d be out of luck.” However, he did not forget her, and it was indirectly through him that she got her chance. When two representatives of M-G-M came to Vienna to sign up Rose Stradner, he gave them a party, and in- vited Ilona. The men wanted to hear her sing, so she told them of a charity concert she was giving. 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: MODERN SCREEN She was amazed when Sherman Billings- ‘ ley, of the famed Stork Club, recognized her in his restaurant and gave her a bottle | of perfume. She thought it was “so sweet” of him, and got the bottle to show us how nice it was. In fact, she was still so pleased and excited with the gift that she dropped the box top into her teacup. And then not even a single solitary “damn!”; | she simply giggled, fished it out, and | dried it with her napkin. HERE 1S A LOTION WHICH DRIES QUICKLY— IS NEVER STICKY OR GUMMY | SHE also told about going to the Cotton | Club for the midnight show—which she loved. She is enthusiastic about swing in particular and Negro entertainment in general. When we asked her whether a photo- graph had been taken in any of the places she had visited she seemed surprised. “Of course not; why should they want to take my picture? There were lots of big ce- lebrities there.” This is not a pose. She really is un- spoiled—goes to college shops for her | dresses and buys simple ones for daytime wear. The one she had on when we saw her cost exactly $12.50. In Hollywood, she lives in a little four room cottage with her Aunt Terese, who does most of the housework while Ilona works at the studio. Aunt Terese draws the line at cleaning the garage, though, so Ilona does it herself on her day off. It must be quite a sight to see this perfectly gorgeous bit of femininity in overalls, and with crank- case oil on that cameo-like face. We'll bet she retains her glamour even then, too. Ilona doesn’t even consider herself pretty and tries to make excuses for her success. She says, “If you are born in comfortable circumstances, you may not feel that you have to work so hard—so maybe you take it a little bit easy. 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