Modern Screen 1944-01 Vol. 28, No. 2

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Smiles are brighter when gums are firmer. Guard against “pink tooth brush’”—use Ipana and massage. 7 OU RE WORKING on the home front —backing our heroes on the battle front. But when your day’s stint is done— its time for relaxation—for fun, for dates and romance. Do you need beauty to win hearts? Not at all! Look at the popular girls about you. Few can claim real beauty. But they all know how to smile! So let your smile be bright—warm hearts With its magic! But for that kind of a smile you need bright, sparkling teeth. And re- member, sparkling teeth depend largely on firm, healthy gums. Never ignore ‘pink tooth brush”! If your tooth brush “shows pink,” see your dentist. He may tell you that soft foods have denied your gums the exercise they need for health. And, like many dentists, he may suggest the “helpful stimulation of Ipana and massage.” For Ipana is designed not only to clean teeth but, with massage, to help make Product of Bristol-Myers Start today with Ipana ann massage 4 en ae ee a ‘ gums firmer. Let Ipana and massage help you to have firmer gums, brighter teeth, a lovelier, more attractive smile! Your Country needs you in a vital job! 3,000,000 women are needed to serve on the home front —to release more men for wartime duties. Jobs of every kind—in offices, stores and schools —as well as in defense plants—are war jobs now. What can you do? More than you think! If your finger can press a button, you can run an elevator or a packag- ing machine! If you can keep house, you've got ability that hotels and res- taurants are looking for! Check the Help Wanted ads. Or see your local U.S. Employment Service.

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Sob bt bb bbb tO tb tot bb tb bab tb ab ab bb bb bb bab ai i bb tb bb tb abt tat at ttt tb ttt tt tot ttt tt tt ttt - Published in The greatest this space star of the every month screen! On all the Broadways of America, there’s a milling to get into the most extravagant extravaganza in years en- titled “Thousands Cheer’’. Ke Ke Kink It is “M-G-M’s Thousands Cheer” if you please, for practically every big name on the big roster of that big studio is represented in the cast. Fe Ke oR It is essentially a love story that revolves around Kathryn Gray- son and Gene Kelly. But they are the baton wavers in a pa- rade that brings y oe out the exact and thoroughly demon- strated talents of— vate are arlene oh) ome Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Lucille Ball, Virginia O’Brien, Frank Morgan, Lena Horne—Shall we go on? IE Caakge nike ioe. Oh very well—Marsha Hunt, Marilyn Maxwell, Donna Reed, Margaret O’Brien, June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven, John Conte, Sara Haden—get- ting winded? KS KIN Well — Ben Blue, Frances Rafferty, Mary Elliott, Frank Jenks, Frank Sully, Dick Simmons, Ben Lessy, Don Loper and Maxine Barrat—whew! b SL Gtr, COURS. d Plus three great name bands—Kay Kyser and Orchestra, Bob Crosby and Orches- tra, Benny Carter and Band. eK OK OK And lest we forget, theincomparable Jose Iturbi not only plays his immortal piano but acts like a Lunt. * * Kk This remarkable three- ringed show is photo- graphed in Techni- color, directed by George Sidney and produced by the vet- eran Joseph Pasternak. It is an original screen play by Paul Jarrico and Richard Collins who dreamed up a dream of a story about Private Miss Jones. ) * It has the true Army * * * gs flavor. That’s why the _ en most important letters in A Ny Af “Thousands Cheer’’ are U.S.A. Ky Oo os You'll be one of the ‘®&: millions to cheer M-G-M’s Thou- sands. We’re in it too—at MODERN SCRE ] STORIES THE MEN ! LOVE ‘ ie She could show an Alka-Seltzer how to fizz, but Betty Hutton’s not all jump and jive. She gets plain soupy sometimes—over those’ big, joshy guys in khaki..... ee ZZ BIG BOY He tells you he’s a mug. But you never saw a mug with a i @ more fabulous, gold-plated background than Sonny Tufts 26 |) THE CHRISTMAS ALAN WILL NEVER FORGET It was too much for a little boy! The big, lovable dog dying. The shiny new BB gun and the bike. There was too much anguish in it .. . too much sudden, stabbing joy 28 "HIGHER AND HIGHER" ee Money has charm .. . but it doesn’t hold a candle to love. Michele Morgan and Frankie Sinatra know that from the beginning. But Jack Haley’s a little slow to learn...... 32 GOB AND A GIRL a They've got so terribly much to do, these Youngs—with Gig in the Navy and bright-eyed, beamish Sheila ix a war plant io. os ov oss soo VS a de eae MODERN SCREEN GOES FARMING WITH GEORGE MONTGOMERY | Our photographer grabbed his hat and flash bulb, scooted to Montana to catch the guy on furlough. These are the pictures he slapped on our desk three days later....... 2 pee SOMETHING FOR THE GIRLS ( He’s no droop in a drape, this Donald O'Connor. The guy . has a mind of his own and a heart the size of a 50c Valentine oii ose 5 os i eh ee ee 38 1944—WHAT WILL IT BRING? f Grant Lewi, editor of “Horoscope,” doesn’t pull his ~ punches ... gives you his nineteen-forty-four cast, straight as it affects both you and the stars............:.....-.- 44 THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE | You can pop in at Gene and Betsy Kelly’s for baked beans and popcorn any night at 11 or kickball Sundays at 3 46 | TYRONE POWER | So much is crowded into the second half of this wonderful | life story. Ty’s first, dizzying success; then Annabella I} and marriage; and now the toughest, finest job of his life 48 | COLOR ion Ford. Ser eee ie Marine Corps and Eleanor Powell | PORTRAITS in!’ M-G-M’s “I Dood It? 0. oo. oc eas ints eee ee ee 531} Greer Garson in M-G-M’s “Madame Curie”................ 55 | Susan Hayward in U.A.’s “Jack London’................-- 58. | Rita Hayworth in Col.’s “Cover Girl”.......:.....--. ee OO | FEATURES Editorial Page....... 60.666. sie cus cee ee 21 | BEAUTY Christmas Shopping with Carol Carter................ 56 | FASHION Cover Girl Fashions.................... te clbsgeteee ey Sie ocean OAR: | DEPARTMENTS Movie REVIEWS «oo oc os bee w Ru etenece one cin 6 bie epee eer 6 | Super “Coupon’....3. c:,o5.0.8): baer seem ip a eee gh2 Candidly Yours...............- shoe else eta sa) eos oe eee 42 Good News............ “e)Siausan ne peesae Glee Sie alae «(s/h coe 52 | Modern: Hostess... «2.5. 55 «evecare = oon 'd ol ane alee 2 enna 14} Win $1750 COVER: Betty Hutton in Par.'s "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" ALBERT P. DELACORTE, Executive Editor HENRY P. MALMGREEN, Editor SYLVIA WALLACE, Hollywood Editor BILL WEINBERGER, Art Editor JACK WILKES, Photographer : : = Editorial Assistants: Kay Hardy, Annette Bellinger, Sylvia Katz, Service | : the very beginning we roar. — pg | hers ie cee Dept.: Ann Ward. Information Desk: Beverly Linet _ Vol. 28, No. 2, January, 1944. Copyright, 1943, the Dell Publishing Co., Published monthly. Printed in U.S. A. Office of publication at Washington and copy price 15c in U. S. and Canada; U. S. subscription price 1.50 a year, Entered as second class matter, Sept. 18, 1930, at the post office, Dunellen, ditional second class entries at Seattle, Wash.; San Francisco, Calif.; D publishers accept no responsibility for the return-of unsolicited materials “If the name of ar v:living person is _u:

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DIRECT FROM ITS WORLD PREMIERE ENGAGEMENT AT BROADWAY’S FAMED ASTOR THEATRE! S ‘RAND MUSICAL HIT GRAYSON sie KELLY * a GARLAND Ww BALL ELEANOR POWELL x SOTHERN x ASTOR 3 HORNE 3° MORGAN 3 x a SBRIEN DCOBRIEN yr KYSER >> CRUSBY 3'c iia jt va Iso; Marilyn Maxwell, Donna Reed, June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven, Benny Carter, John Conte, Sara Haden, Don Loper, Maxine Barrat, jen Blue, Frances Rafferty, Mary E!liott, Frank Jenks, Frank Sully, Dick Simmons, Ben Lessy. Directed by GEORGE SIDNEY, Produced by JOSEPH PASTERNAK. Original Screen Play by Paul Jarrico and Richard Collins. Based on their story ‘‘Private Miss Jones’’

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atahiadl MOVIE | ROVIDWS RIDING HIGH Hlere’s some merry musical nonsense,-with Dorothy Lamour playing an ex-burlesque queen. Dottie carries her costume for this one around in her | handbag—and it’s not a very big handbag, either! . Dick Powell plays the handsome hero, Victor Moore has his best part of the year, and Milt Britton and his band produce some nice tunes. Penniless Steve Baird (Dick Powell) needs money to finance i 2 a silver mine. ‘Doctor’ Mortimer Slocum (Vic Moore) If you have money, you don’t need to spend it. gives him several $1,000 bills "to flaunt but not to spend!” That's an’ old principle, neatly illustrated by the late John D. Rockefeller’s habit of passing out dimes as tips. If anyone else tipped a waiter a dime he’d get a Mickey Finn in his demi-tasse, but John D. was a multimillionaire, so it was O.K. If you have a few thousand dollar bills tucked away in your dirndl, you won’t need a mink coat or a f diamond bracelet. Just flash one of the bills, and everyone will start asking you to dinner. This valuable lesson should be taught to us all | at an early age. Dick Powell, as Steve Baird, doesn’t learn it until he meets “Doctor” Mortimer Slocum (Victor Moore). (Continued on page 10) } The scheme works, and Dick's friends, thinking he’s rich, gladly invest in his scheme. Meanwhile, Vic is pursued by Tess (Cass Daley), owner of ranch where they're staying. \ : As last resort Vic bets $20,000 “hot money” vs. Cass’ rival's 20 grand on a wagon race. Insures victory by sawing axle 1 of what he thinks is enemy's wagon. See pic for results! RPE When Dick meets burlesque queen Ann Castle (Dottie aa wo Lamour) he falls like a ton of bricks. Trouble begins when law puts clamps on Vic, who counterfeited greenbacks!

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You’ll laugh your head off when Martha and Joe get together again! Li—-——. 7 Make your ~ Christmas gift 5 a War Bond. Your Movie Theatre is happy to serve you. com o es ee ORSON WELLES » JOAN FONTAINE in JA Here’s the girl in every service» man’s dreams... set to music, set to dancing, set to loving. . ., in a musical you'll never forget! SONGS THEY'LL BE SINGING FROM BROADWAY TO GUADALCANAL! “You're My Little Pin Up Girl’) “Time Alone Will Tell” “This Is It” “Once Too Often” “Yankee Doodle Hayride™ “The Story of the Very Merry Widow” “Don’t Carry Tales Out of School” “Red Robins, Bob Whites N D and Blue Birds” \ie by Mack Gordon ay 72) and James Monaco Another BIG one in 20 CENTURY-FOX’S mighty parade of HITS! EDWARD G. ROBINSON ° LYNN BARI inT MERLE OBERON » GEORGE SANDERS °* LAIRD CREGAR inT Three great DARRYL F. ZANUCK productions: THE PURPLE HEART »* WILSON * WENDELL WILLKIE’S ONE WC

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I “Hivher and Higher” Crossword See page 18 for contest details ACROSS 44. Animal’s den 17. Behold : if 47. Dissolve—what Sinatra does” 20. Plays Mr. Whiffen J ; to his fans 22. Studio producing “Higher and 1. Miss Drake 50. Musical wind instrument Higher” 6. Miss Morgan 53. Coarse cotton goods 24. Forbidden—place a curse upo! 12. A musical drama 55. Second note of scale 25. At an angle 13. Myself 56. Secreting organ in the body 26. Deposit at river mouth 14. A couch : 57. The lad in the picture ‘a 27. Loosen 15. Permits 58. Mr. Wilson 29. What a bird lays 16. Millie met Fitzroy Wilton 31. Cooking utensil zie 2 34. Burns with a hot liquid 18. Those who make debuts 35. Masculine title of respect (Millie and Katherine) DOWN 36. Conjunction 19. Bind 37. Humorous movie, as “Highe 21. Mineral 1. Make polite and refined—as and Higher” 23. Streets (abbr.) Millie was 40. A melody 26. That which is owed 2. Monkey f 41. Plays Millie (initials) 28..Plays Mike 3. Encountered 42. Preposition” 30. Unfastens ~ 4, Formerly (rare) 43. Mr. Sinatra singing alone 32. Sack 5. Sixth note of scale 45. First three vowels i 33. Aged 6. Mr. Torme 46. What the Drake mansion used 34. What Sinatra sings 7. Casting director (abbr.) | to be 36. Where Millie goes before the 8. Animal’s skin 48. A period of time wedding \ 9. First woman 49. Plays Mr. Drake (initials) 38. Small bed 10. Laboratory (abbr.) 51. Balance (abbr.) | 39. Fuss 11. Follows 52. Single unit 40. Part of the body 13. Mother 54. Plays Marty (initials) 42. Advertisements (abbr.) 16. To exist a 56. Po depart aaa Zee aan 2s 2a | |) rT nT oD Ss ee : % Wherever you go folks are . ES asking, “Have you seen Mary . Lee?” She’s the most re- freshing thing that’s come to the screen in a month of Sundays!... How she. sings! What a personality! And here she is in a perfectly grand picture—gay, roman- tic and melody-filled! we ww Modern Secreen’s Contest Series—No. I: Please Print or Type Full NOMEN ase ee ett re ek tien ee a, Streetice a. See ei es AEs eg horse Gite ee ce eee oe oe e My definition for Sinatra is.........:. 22.25.2022 ese ee Se aba HEAR MARY SI : Blow, Gabriel, Blow! I'm Always Chasiag Rainbows = It Had 40. Be You — and mo Mail this puzzle and coupon to Contest Editor, MODERN SCREEN, 149 Madisoi : Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. : es r | | | | |

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e ITS THE SEASON'S TOPS! in LOVE! in LAUGHS! in SONGS! in STARS! Wait'll you see and hear Frankie wow ‘em as he woos ‘em with song! It's an entertainment treat that'll make your heart skip a beat! MICHELE MORGAN JACK HALEY FRANK SINATRA DA od LEON ERROL-MARCY McGUIRE i awl PAUL and GRACE HARTMAN BARBARA HALE - DOOLEY WILSON Produced and Directed by Tim Whelan Screen Play by Jay Dratler and Ralph Spence Additional Dialogue by William Bowers and Howard Harris. Hear Frankie Sing His Own Hit Parade! “| Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night,” “The Music Stopped,” “You Belong) in a Love Song,” “A Lovely | Way to Spend an Evening.” es f ote eee ee Seen ee

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| The most . entrancing |, i Whi a JEROME KERN IRA. GERSHWIN with TEE BOWMAN - PHIL SILVERS JINX FALKENBURG- LESLIE BROOKS THE ¢0 15 of 4 ig! Merica’y Most Beautify We Screg, oO 1 Play by VIRGINIA VAN up P Directeg by CHAR LES ’ COLUMBr, pon PICTURE a> -has a silver mine but no silver. fe ee ———— MOVIE REVIEWS (Continued from page 6) Sa eee VM ee Ea ae ee Steve is so broke he’s thinking of turn- ing himself in to the salvage drive. He He’s sold a part interest’ in the mine to a nice old boy named Castle, and now he’d like to buy it back so he could go into the Army with a clear.conscience. He'd like to even before he meets Castle’s daughter, Ann (Dorothy Lamour), who is “resting” between burlesque engagements. That’s when Steve encounters Mortimer Slocum. The “Doctor,” an amiable gentle- man in a faded Prince Albert, kindly pro- vides him with several thousand-dollar bills. “Don’t spend them,” he says. “Just show them to people.” So Steve, some- what mystified, shows them to his old col- lege classmates who have been pretty con- descending lately. They do the double take of all time and jump to the conclu- sion that the silver mine has started pay- ing off. They shower him with checks for shares in the property, and Steve believes he can start the mine producing. Ann arrives on the scene just then, and, looking over the checks and thousand- dollar bills, thinks Steve has been holding out on her father. He has the devil’s own time explaining, but finally he gets her out in the moonlight and sings her a couple of songs, which fixes everything. In fact, the world has taken on a distinctly rosy glow, when Steve finds out that the bills he’s been.showing around so airily are only a reasonable facsimile of the stuff the government puts out. In a word, the “Doctor” is a counterfeiter. It’s quite a blow, particularly since the local sheriff, a dim-witted character called “Foggy” (Gil Lamb), has spotted Slocum. He has matched up his picture with the one on the “Wanted” posters, and the chase is on. But in order to arrest*Slo- cum, Foggy must catch him in possession of the counterfeit money. And right now Steve, not Slocum, has it. The hand is quicker than the eye, and from here on practically nobody knows where the money is at any given time. Meanwhile, Tess (Cass Daley), the lady owner of the dude ranch where they are staying, is pursuing Dr. Slocum with in- tentions that are all too honorable. He isn’t interested—he’s too busy playing Cupid, trying to find a way to help Steve get Ann, plus some real money. There is to be a “chuck wagon” race, as a climax to a local celebration, and Tess is sched- uled to drive a wagon. When Slocum sees a sample of her driving, he’s sure she'll win. He bets twenty thousand dollars (counterfeit) against her rival’s twenty grand’ (government issue), and the race begins. Slocum has taken the precaution of sawing through the axle of the wagon which he thinks belongs to the rival, but he finds out too late that it’s the one Tess is to drive. The result is a burlesque race to end all races. Paramount seems to have a nice gay touch with its escapist comedies, and this one is especially recommended.—Par. P. 8. This is the first time Milt Britton’s zany band has been filmed, although they've been doing musical acts in vaudeville and night clubs for 12 years. . . For their movie debut they perform their hilarious rendition of the “Poet and Peasant Over- ture,’ which concludes with Gil Lamb crashing through a grand piano 5 Breakaway duplicates of a stageful of mu- sical instruments, chairs and music stands were made for this scene. In one num- ber, 25 violins and two full-sized grand piano props are smashed to smither- eens ... Near tragedy when one of Gil’s opponents got hold of a solid chair by mis- take and whopped him over the head with it... One of the largest scenic panorama backgrounds ever made was painted for an outdoor production number in “Riding High.” It’s an Arizona desert scene of sand, cacti and rock formations with the blue range of the Santa Ritas rising im the distance. Scene was painted in two sections, and the total length was 310 feet. It stands 30 feet high. Took artist, P. T.. Blackburn, and his two assistants, only seven days to complete it .. . Only loca- tion trip was made to Tucson, Arizona. Only camera man and stunt men made the trip, however, and all the shooting necessary was done in a few days. MADAME CURIE Every once in a while a picture comes along which reminds us of the extraordi- nary advance Hollywood has made in the last 25 years. Back in the days of Key- stone comedies, none would have believed that people would go to see a picture about the scientific discovery of radium. But people will go, and they'll find it as exciting as any serial. “Madame Curie” as a story has tremen- dous dramatic tension. And you'll be car- ried away by the triumphant performances of Greer Garson as Marie Curie, and Wal- ter Pidgeon as Pierre, her husband. Their long years of labor together have poign- ant overtones which will bring a lump to your throat. Eve Curie, their daughter, wrote the biography on which the picture is based, so every scene in it rings true. Back in 1892, we find a young Parisian scientist named Pierre Curie, who is at the moment a very disturbed young man. He has promised to let a student share his laboratory, and now he has found to his consternation that the student is a girl. “Woman is the natural enemy of science,” he tells his assistant, David (Robert Walker), forebodingly. “No true scientist should have anything to do with women.” But of course Marie Sklodovska is not an ordinary woman. She is first and fore- most a scientist. Pierre soon changes his mind—and his heart. In less than a year he and Marie are married. Marie is work- ing for her doctor’s degree, and the sub- ject of her work is the strange radiation given off by pitch-blende. None knows its cause, and Marie is determined to find out. After a few experiments, she and Pierre realize that she has stumbled on an entirely new element. They decide © to call it radium, and they devote the next five years of their lives to trying to iso- late it. At the end of that time all they have to show for their heroic, almost unbelievable labor, is a faint, luminous | stain on a saucer in the dark. They have | found radium, but their task has only begun... . Few of us are given the courage, per- sistence and devotion of Marie and Pierre Curie. But seeing this magnificent story | come alive on the screen is an inspiration to us all. Pierre’s father and mother, as played by Henry Travers and Dame May Whitty, contribute much to the picture-—M-G-M. P. 8S. To prepare themselves for their roles, (Continued on page 12)

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GO — ' (Continued from page 10) Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon went over the script together, added several simple, everyday things to give their char- acterizations warmth, exchanged ideas about what the Curies must have been like . . . James Hilton, author of “Random Harvest” and other best sellers, was nar- rator for some of the sequences in the film. Has a very distinctive, unusual voice . Bob Walker gets another acting plum as second male lead, approached his first Scenes slightly tongue-tied. Was com- pletely thawed out in no time by that special Garson charm . . . Walter Pidgeon’s shoes got an “extra” a job. When the man had to have another pair to get a speak- ing part as a waiter, Walter loaned him a pair of his 13 triple C’s. CROSS OF LORRAINE This is type casting at its best. M-G-M has given Jean Pierre Aumont the part of a sergeant in the French Army. Jean Pierre was a sergeant in the French Army, so he is very good at it indeed. In fact, he’s even better than he was in “Assign- ment in Brittany,” and you remember how he won your heart in that. ~ He plays a soldier named Paul. Paul is a brave man, but he is too reasonable to be a good fighter—he sees both sides of everything. When Marshal Petain de- erees an armistice, Paul persuades his com- panions to lay down their arms. The Germans have promised to send them back to rebuild their homes—surely that is better than to be dead heroes! Victor doesn’t agree with him. Victor (Gene Kelly) doesn’t trust German promises. They find how right he is when they are tricked into going to a concentration camp instead of back to France. After that, Paul comes to hate the Germans with a feeling that is as deep and perhaps more bitter than Victor’s. He has gotten his comrades into this—some way he will get them out. Meanwhile they are subjected to the con- stant brutality and sadism of the German sergeant, Breger (Peter Lorre). Not just physical cruelty, although there is plenty of that, but small mental tortures that are even worse. Things are made bearable only by the deep courage of a Catholic priest, Father Sebastian (Sir Cedric Hard- wick), and by the devotion and skill of Dr. Francois Le Maire (Richard Whorf). The plan which Paul finally evolves for their escape is so dangerous that it seems impossible it will work at all. But some- times Nazi viciousness can be turned against itseli—and Paul is a clever man. They do escape from the camp, but they are not free of Nazi power w. ich holds their beloved France in a strangling net. Paul and Victor defy that power in a scene that will make you stand up and cheer. This may be a propaganda picture, but you'll admit it’s effective. The whole cast is magnificent, and includes, besides those already mentioned, Tonio Selwart, Joseph Calleia and Hume Cronyn —M-G-M. P. S. This was Jean Pierre’s last film before leaving for Africa to join the Fighting French Army. Spent his last day at the studio bidding good-by to pals, shaking hands all around, promising to send post- cards ... Author Robert Aisner was the second member of the “Cross of Lorraine” company to enlist im the same Army. Aisner formerly was a lieutenant in the French Army, was captured during the German invasion and imprisoned in 1940. Screenplay of the picture was based on his experiences in the prison camp .. .- Hume Cronyn was signed to a long term contract after M-G-M executives saw rushes of the first few days’ work. Cronyn _ = ay ~ ae ae THE MAN FROM DOWN UNDER - It’s odd the way any picture in which Charles Laughton’ appears turns out to be strictly a Charles Laughton picture. The rest of the cast is apparently just there for background, like the scenery. There’s no question about Laughton being a great actor, and when his role is suffi- ciently interesting, nobody minds his be- ing in every scene. Fortunately, this is the case in “The Man from Down Under.” “Jocko” Wilson is a fascinating character—you can’t get too much of him. It all begins at the end of World War I, with “Jocko” sailing from France back to - his native Australia. He is gloriously drunk and has completely forgotten that he had a date to marry one Aggie Dawlins (Binnie Barnes) ‘before he sailed. But he isn’t so drunk that he forgot to smuggle a MODERN SCREEN QUIZ Remember the way it goes? Below there are 20 clues. On pgs. 65 and 77 © there are two more sets of clues, and on page 92 are the answers. If you can guess, after mulling over the first clue, the name of the actor or actress to whom it refers, score yourself 5 points. If you must turn to the second set of clues before you get the answer, score yourself 4 points. And if you guess on the third try, the question’s worth 3. For a perfect score, you'd have to guess all 20 questions on the first set of clues. 20 questions . . . at five points each . . . adds up to 100, and a shiny gold star for you. Simple, no? Go ahead, you quiz-ical brighties, and no cheating! 60’s normal this time, 70’s good, 88 or so is in our class this month, and anything over is strictly genius. No fair peeking at page 92 for the answers, either. QUIZ CLUES Set 1 . Crane’s dame . Rooting for Ronnie . Ray is gay! In Livvy’s footsteps Ss . Pasteur G-stringer Ex-elevator girl Shuttles between H’wood ‘ 9. Lassie’s master . Janie’s jumpin’ . Concert-hall heart-throb . Yodeling cowgirl . Benny’s Man Friday . Among first stars to wear khaki . Divorce plans jolted H'wood , . Gadding with Gabin . Discovered Ginny 0 ID OTR oo PO ‘way and

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couple of little Belgian orphans aboard ship. They are a boy and girl he found in y a_street fight, and they already adore “Jocko” with utter devotion. Time marches on, in Australia as else- where, and the boy orphan grows into “Nipper” Wilson (Richard. Carlson), con- tender for the Empire Boxing Champion- ship, with “Jocko” as his manager. The girl, Mary (Donna Reed), whom “Nipper” believes to be his sister, has been away at an exclusive finishing school, but she eémes home to see “Nipper” try for the championship. It’s a tough fight, and when “Nipper” finally wins, he has injured his shoulder so that the doctors say he will never be able to box again. “Jocko,” who wagered every cent he could lay hands on, and some he couldn’t, on “Nipper,” has won enough to buy a hotel in the country. It’s a fine hotel— it has everything but guests. When one finally does appear, complete with maid, chauffeur and limousine, she turns out to be Aggie Dawlins. Aggie is bent on revenge for the way “Jocko” left her wait- ing at the church. She wins the hotel away from him in a crap game, and about that same time “Nipper” walks out on the family. “Jocko” can take the: first blow, but the second breaks his heart. He doesn’t know that “Nipper” had to leave MONOGRAM proudly presents Bill Jf It's the big, musical smash that sets the pace for 44 «.. with a great cast starring Belita, the most tal- ented personality in Hollywood ... 4 name bands, dance-happy tunes ...and magnificent spectacle! BUTTON YOUR LIP! If you're dying for Johnny to get those furlough papers for Xmas (and we certainly hope he does), you just can’t be nosey! Don’t you dare ply him with “Where have you been?” and “Where are you going?” If he drops maybe just a hint, keep it under your bonnet. You know the one about the walls having ears! because he felt a most unbrotherly affec- tion for Mary. It takes World War II to iron out all : <a : A P.S. Richard Carlson trained for his fight scenes with former middleweight champ Freddie Steele . . . Binnie Barnes once cured herself of smoking too many ciga- rettes by changing to a tiny trick pipe. Now smokes only two cigarettes a day, = has given up the pipe altogether . Carlson went through the embarrassing with a great cast when he was scheduled to tonne or: | JAMES ELLISON duty, then showing up for work again to FRICK & FRACK - WALTER CATLETT face all his friends who had given him bon voyage presents. Last minute, Navy LUCIEN LITTLEFIELD - MAURICE ST. CLAIR changed his orders, postponed his call. AND $F BC BANDS GUNG HO yssé yRes é : eh, HENRY Fyirce A-pole : Li Remember the pictures in Life maga- : zine a while ago of Colonel Carlson and his Marine raiders? Universal has made Produced by SCOTT R. DUNLAP a picture based on their expedition, and Supervised by William D. Shapiro it’s a thriller-diller. The title, “Gung Ho,” Directed by Frank Woodruff | is Chinese for “work together,” and that’s Original story by || the way the raiders do it. Bradbury Foote & Scott R. Dunlap Screenpi : a by } Just the regular training a guy goes Ms 8 oat Ge ct Smith || through to get to be a Marine is tough | enough. But the training given the lads | who are to be sent on a special commando- | type mission—well, even Superman would (Continued on page 16)

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By Marjorie Deen : : } Let's all resolve to invite boys in — service to share our holiday feasts. So near and dear to every serviceman’s heart is the sub- ject of food that there are those who elaim—and we think rightly—that where our boys in uniform are concerned, there is no more effective morale builder than a good, home- cooked meal! ‘ This opinion is shared by Irene Manning, Warners’ — lovely new singing star. And Irene certainly ought to know. First off because she is a war time bride herself and has first-hand information on how her own service- man feels about a dinner that features homemade spe- cialties and that is served on a snowy tablecloth with gleaming silverware and all the trimmings! Secondly, Irene recently asked three boys from different branches of our armed services to share a big turkey dinner with her. “And you should have heard them- rave and seen them eat,’ she told us with a reminiscent chuckle. Fortunately a camera man was on hand to catch their pleased expressions so that you can actually see for your- self how delighted they were with the fine fare that Irene provided for their enjoyment. Of course we'd be the first to admit—having met Irene—that the charm and beauty of the hostess contributed greatly to the success of the occa-~ sion. But the home atmosphere and the home cooking also played star roles in this particular picture. If you want to garner your share of appreciative smiles and heartfelt thanks, too, then make it one of your 1944 Good Resolutions to ask some of the lonely, homesick boys from nearby camps to your house for dinner, often—es- pecially on holidays! Irene Manning, Warner Bros.’ lovely new singing star, now appearing in "The Desert Song,’ is shown here entertaining Marine Neil Thomas, Seaman Waldo A. Rowell and soldier Dick McMullen at a turkey dinner. “But what about the necessary food points?” you may well ask. Well, Miss Manning has some suggestions to offer along those lines. First, she advises building your menu around poultry. Not necessarily turkey, either; because roast duck, goose, chicken or capon will also receive a hearty welcome from guests and family alike. That is, as Irene sagely remarked, if you also provide a liberal amount of rich brown gravy and plenty of tasty bread stuffing. — Irene further advises omitting the first course entirely in favor of a simple salad served right along with the main course. Team up now-plentiful white potatoes with turnips for the necessary vegetable accompaniment; or | serve sweet potatoes with some other inexpensive fresh vegetable and your point score will be gratifyingly low! End the meal with a Steamed Fig Pudding which gets its fine flavor from this flavorsome, non-rationed fruit and its unusual color from a most surprising source—as you'll discover when you study the recipe. Such ‘a meal would be a festive one indeed—worthy of your best efforts | and of your uniformed guests. : 5 | By the way if you ever have any questions you’d like to | ask about recipes or rationing, be sure to drop us a postal or letter, and it will take but a short time for the MopeRN Screen envelope to reach you with our reply. For we realize that food is more important now than ever before ery way we can to make t d sup for servicemen—whether you feature having

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dry stuffing—the kind that men est—you must have dry bread. ; not mean remembering to buy it sek ahead, however. Instead, simply ad out the slices of fresh bread on large baking sheets and place in warm oven to together and cut into 4%” strips, then cut crosswise inte 4%” cubes. In a large skillet melt 1 cup shortening. _ We suggest using half vegetable shorten- ing or other bland-flavored fat and_ half poultry fat which can be purchased with- out point penalties if you have none “saved up.” Sauté 2 small minced onions and 1 cup chopped celery in the melted fat until soft but not brown. Add the prepared crumbs or cubes; also 1 teaspoon salt, 1% teaspoon pepper, 2 tablespoons chopped parsley and 1-2 teaspoons sage, marjoram or poultry _ Seasoning. Toss all together, lightly. (A _ little of the liquid in which giblets and neck have cooked may be used to moisten the dressing. However the amount used—if __ any—should be small, as a soggy dressing "is not desirable.) Pile the dressing into _ ¢avity in bird lightly—leaving room to ex- _ pand during roasting. Sew up opening .or lace together tightly with string wound around skewers placed across the vent. Use some of the stuffing to stuff the loose skin _ at the neck. And now you’re ready to truss and roast the bird in the usual manner. STEAMED FIG PUDDING 2 cups sifted enriched flour 2 teaspoons baking powder ¥ teaspoon baking soda __1 teaspoon cinnamon _ _% teaspoon nutmeg _ 1% cups chopped figs & 4 tablespoons shortening 1 cup sugar 1 egg, beaten 1 can condensed tomato soup Sift flour with baking powder, soda and spices. Wash figs, dry, chop fine, sprinkle _ with 2 tablespoons of flour mixture. Cream _ shortening, add sugar gradually, creaming _ until light and fluffy. Add beaten egg, then _ the flour alternately with the soup. Stir _ until smooth. Fold in figs. Turn into a _ greased mold, filling it two-thirds full. Place on rack in steamer or deep kettle, _ over boiling water. (Water should not touch _ the pudding mold since it’s the steam that _ does the cooking. More boiling water may ee be added, as needed, after the first hour of _ Steaming.) Steam 2 hours. Serve with the _ following sauce. Serves 8. _ PUDDING SAUCE: Mix ¥, cup sugar, 1 _ tablespoon flour and % teaspoon salt. Add an egg which has been beaten with 1 table- spoon cold water. Beat with a fork until ‘smooth. Slowly add 4 cup corn syrup ne with 4 = & i hs ae, 22 cup boiling water. Cook in top of double boiler about 5 minutes—or un- _ til smooth and slightly thickened, stirring _ constantly. Remove from heat. Flavor with _ % teaspoon vanilla or a couple of table- _ Spoons of rum, brandy or sherry. Serve hot. Many will recognize in “Steamed Fig Pudding” a worthy first cousin of the long famous “Tomato Soup Cake,” now destined for a popular revival because it calls for only 2 tablespoons of short- ning! If you would like to have a _tecipe for this unusual cake, FREE, just end your request—a postal card will Annie isn't Absent Any More! —since her lant pals use ; KLE ENEX to help keep colds = from spreading. “& They use a tissue once then destroy, germs and all! m @ letter by J. M.S., & EYore Pa.) >. | Only KLEENEX* has the Serv-a-Tissue Box: that saves time, saves trouble, saves tissues! E *T. M. Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. MIGHTY IMPORTANT! — for authorities say % of all war— work time lost from illness is due to the common cold! WHEN WILL SHE LEARN STAINS OFF TOWELS — SAVES LAUNDRY, SOAP MANPOWER! (from a letter by R.G. A., Elmhurst, L. I., N. Y.) A > ZE See ‘S dark dresses to prevent those powder that won't brush off — Keeps down cleaning bills! c WE COULD MAKE MORE KLEENEX IF _ we made the tissues thinner or skimped on size. But re- gardless of what others do, we are determined to main- tain KLEENEX QUALITY in every particular! KLEENEX KEEPS LIPSTICK I tuck KLEENEX ground the neck of powder *rims’ KLEENEX catches the (from a letter by A. L., Springfield, Ill.)

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(Continued from page 13) 2 probably fold up about the third week, Take the group that’s training under Colonel Thorwald (Randolph Scott). They’re so tough it scares you to watch them. They are still plenty human though —like the two half-brothers, Kurt Richter (Noah Beery, Jr.) and Larry O’Ryan (David Bruce) who are in love with the same girl. Kurt and Larry have fought all their lives, and now they are battling for Kathleen (Grace McDonald). The day comes when they both have to tell her good-by. The Raiders move out on the first leg of their long journey. At Honolulu they board a submarine, and once in its cramped, narrow quarters, are told the object of their mission. They are to raid Makin Island, a fortified Jap posi- tion which threatens the Hawaiian Islands. Afer a long, nerve-racking voyage in the crowded sub, they finally sight the black, palm-fringed outline of Makin Island. The moment for which they’ve been training all these weary months is at hand. Efficiently, silently, the Raiders make their landing. They are greeted by Jap snipers at every hand. You'll want to see that battle, not hear about it from me. When you do see it, you'll find yourself saying, “So that’s how they do it.” Be- cause those scenes give you the real inside on guerrilla warfare. _A string of young actors has been as- sembled for this job. Sam Levene an Alan Curtis rate special mention—Unw. P. S. _ Thirty U. S. Marine Raiders, including four survivors of Lieut. Col. Evans F. Carlson’s original raiders of Jap-held Makin Island slightly over a year ago, checked in at Universal from Camp Pen- dleton to play their parts for this picture _.. Two complete companies of camera- men, extras and technicians were used, one at the San Diego Marine Base and one at Camp Pendleton, California . . . Loca- tion at Camp Pendleton was an exact replica of the beach at Makin Island .. . Studio crew and officials lived at a Guyule Camp and commuted to Pendleton every day, a trip of 130 miles. PIN UP GIRL To our armed forces, “pin up girl” is just a synonym for Betty Grable. Pictures of la Grable in a bathing suit have be- come practically standard GI equipment, and: Twentieth. Century-Fox has now dreamed up a movie to prove it—in Tech- nicolor. It has pretty girls, pretty tunes and a pretty funny plot. Betty plays a girl named Lorry Jones. Lorry’s theory is that truth lacks glamour, so she dresses it up a bit here and there. You couldn’t really call it lying—or could you? Lorry is the toast of the local USO, and all the boys take along pictures of her to wherever they’re going. In fact, by the time she leaves home to take a typist job in Washington, she is engaged to—in round numbers—three hundred stalwart mem- bers of the U. S. Army. Not to mention a Marine named George. Lorry and her girl friend, Kay (Dorothea Kent), stop in New York on their way to Washington. There they palm themselves off on the haughty Club Chartreuse by saying they are pals of the great Tommy Dooley (John Harvey), young war hero just back from Guadalcanal. As friends of Dooley they are greeted with cham- pagne, corsages and perfume. “We’re sitting pretty now,” Lorry thinks. “Yeah,” says Kay, “on a keg of dynamite.” It looks as if the girl has something there when Tommy Dooley arrives in person. Lorry’s imagination starts working over- time again and gets them out of the frying pan—right Gnto the ane s ne she’s a glamorous singer, | hen later follows her to Washington, he does recognize her with glasses on, poun ing a typewriter.’ Although the legs do look | familiar! the day shift as a mousey typist, and the swing shift as a night club singer, and both — ways, she’s in love with Tommy 100 per cent. Complicated, but fun! Martha Raye is wonderful as an enter- tainer who loves all the soldiers and sail- ors. You'll find Joe E. Brown and Eugene Pallette in the comedy department, too. Listen for an embryo Hit Parade tune called “Time Alone Will Tell.”—20th-Fox. P. S. Betty Grable prefaced production of this one by her marriage to Harry James, one day before the picture started .. . New- comer John Harvey was last seen emoting on Broadway in “Kiss and Tell”... Martha Raye and Joe E. Brown were kept busy between scenes introducing their visitors to Betty. Guests were servicemen Martha and Joe had met on their overseas enter- tainment tours . . . The Sonja Henie of the roller skates is 20-year-old Gloria Nord, who leads the Skating Vanities . . Top song writers Mack Gordon and Jimmy Monaco teamed for first time to turn out seven numbers, among them: “You're. My Little Pin Up Girl,” “Time Alone Will Tell” ee “Red Robins, Bob Whites and Blue " Birds.” i HANDS ACROSS THE BORDER This one starts right out with Roy Rogers on a horse, but that’s where it fools you. The horse isn’t Trigger. In fact, Roy and Trigger don’t get together till along in the second reel, but when they do it’s love at first sight—naturally. It’s love at first sight, too, with Roy and Kim Adams (Ruth Terry)—at least on Roy’s side. Kim’s father is the genial, gambling rancher who owns Trigger. Mr. Adams is training horses in the hope of selling them to the U. S. Cavalry, but so is Brock Danvers (Onslow Stevens) who wants no competitors. So maybe it’s an accident, and maybe it’s not, that Brock urges Adams to ride the as-yet untrained Trigger. Maybe it’s an accident that the saddle comes off and Adams is killed. Maybe—but Roy doesn’t think’so. — With Adams out of the way, Danvers concentrates on persuading Kim to sell him the ranch. Kim has been spending her winters as an actress in New York, and he urges her to go back to Broadway and forget the ranch. Bewildered and heart- broken by her father’s tragic death, Kim is ready to agree. She is even ready to let Danvers shoot Trigger as a horse too~ dangerous to have around, but that’s where Roy steps in. He spirits Trigger away, while Danvers fumes impotently, and goes _ to work to train the horse to do every trick under the sun. By the time he gets through, Trigger could star on Information Please. During a Mexican fiesta, Roy sees Kim and points out that her family has never been the quitting kind, and that her father would want the ranch to stay in her hands. Roy can be pretty persuasive, especially when he backs his arguments up with songs by Hoagy Carmichael. It’s no wonder that Kim changes her mind and decides to stay. So Danvers has plenty of competition after all, in trying to sell horses to the U. S. Cavalry. The contracts are to be awarded on the basis of a cross-country race, complete with a simulated battle and gas attack. Wait till you see that race! Bob Nolan and the Pioneers are around, and so are Guinn Williams, Mary Treen and Duncan Renaldo—Rep. = © | Pretty soon Lorry is working © :

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P.S. + 2 e 4 Roy has made nearly 50 pictures since Wh Tt h d t M ? 1938 - Made a trip to New York during a Ss appene 0 our arfria e ° production of “Hands Across the Border” to star in the Madison Square Garden Rodeo. Begged to be allowed to ride up front with the motorman on his first trip | through a subway. Was champion dart thrower of the Sixth Avenue Penny_Ar- cades. Garnered more space in New York | newspapers than any other actor since Valentino . . . While the picture was be- ing prepared for shooting, Roy was work- ing full time with his pigeons which he trains for the Signal Corps. Gave Gen- eral MacArthur, Winston Churchill and Jimmy Doolittle to Uncle Sam just before he climbed back on Trigger for H'A.T.B. NORTHERN PURSUIT Errol Flynn in an old tweed suit can create a tidal wave of fainting femininity. Errol in the uniform of the Northwest Mounted Police will have you swooning | in the aisles. The role he plays in “North- | ern Pursuit” fits him like the uniform. Steve Wagner is dashing and handsome and brave as 16 lions. He is also not 5 too bright—or anyway that’s what Colonel ; aay, Von Keller (Helmut Dantine) thinks I. I met Stan when I went to work in a war plant. We fell in love, were married . . . Von Keller is a German flier who has been and at first had a beautiful life. Then suddenly .. . a barrier between us! L, who counted landed in Canada, with several com- | s0 on our precious hours together, was crazy with grief! panions, from a submarine. They have a | sinister and important task to perform, but there are obstacles in the way. One of the obstacles is: Steve Wagner. When Steve first encounters Von Keller, | the flier is wandering through the wilds | of Northern Canada, lost and snowblind. His companions have been killed by an avalanche, but he is plowing on with Teu- | tonic determination, trying to reach his rendezvous with a secret agent from the | States. Steve and another “Mountie,” Jim | (John Ridgely), find Von Keller. But Steve | who is of German descent, sends Jim in | alone to headquarters and stays in a cabin with the sick flier. | Orders are immediately sent out to get both Steve and Von Keller. Steve, appar- ently furious at the treatment he receives from Headquarters, resigns from the force. | 2+ Then one night, we went out with Kay 3. “See here, Sue,” she suggested. “Why Von Keller is put in a concentration camp, | and George, our closest friends. Later,Kayand don’t you try Lysol disinfectant? My doctor but escapes, and Steve is again brought | I were alone and she asked why I looked so recommends it for feminine hygiene . . . says in for questioning. This time he knocks : tragic. Anxious for sympathy, I told her my many modern wives use it.”” Then she told me down his superior officer and says “To hell troubles.“Sue, darling,” she said when I finish- how this famous germicide cleanses thoroughly wan Canada!” In fact he’s thrown into ed.“‘It’s so simple. You know, a wife can often . .. deodorizes, too. “And besides,” she added, to Dies So her husband’s love if she’s neglectful “Lysol’s so easy to use. Just follow directions Is it just an act? Is he baiting a trap | a -_s es 0 F > = AC es apg cies AF _ for Von Keller? The one who wonders | about... well, about ...feminine hygiene... —it won’t harm sensitive vaginal tissues. most about this is Stevye’s fiancée, Laura (Julie Bishop). Steve is bailed out of jail by a mysterious stranger and promptly | disappears. Somewhere he and Von Keller | and the agent from the States are together | —somewhere in the vast bleak wilderness north of Bear Lake. Steve is facing Nazi | cunning with Canadian courage, but the | odds are heavy against him. You'll find this an exciting picture. Hel- | mut Dantine is almost unbearably con- vincing as the German flier. And, as I keep saying, there’s Errol!—War. Check this with your Doctor Lysol is Non-caustic— gentleandefficientin proper dilution. Con- tains no freealkali. It ‘ is not carbolie acid. Ez. ——— Effective—a powerful germicide, active in presence of organic Matter (such as mucus, serum, etc.). Spreading — Lysol solutions spread and thus virtually search out germs in deep crevices. Economical—smail bottle makes } almost 4 gallons of solution for feminine hygiene. Cleanly odor — disappears after use. Lasting — Lysol keeps full strength, no matter how often it is uncorked. P.S. Between scenes Errol managed to finish his book, “One Man in His Time,’ which | is his third novel. Second, not published, | is “Charlie Bowtie Comes to America.” . el sa Helmut set a precedent by writing one of 4. Now, Stan and I are more happily in love is scenes. Job was turned over to him be- | than ever before! Kay was absolutely right = 3 about Lysol. It is easy and economical to use FOR FEMININE HYGIENE cause of his knowledge of Nazi psychology | - . Russell Hicks, a bit player in the | and it works wonderfully! 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= % Modern Screens Contest Series No.10- “Higher and Higher” WIN Shia! IST PRIZE........----+--Ke S- FOX FUR COAT IND PRIZE........---+- $200 IN WAR BONDS* Try and try again prizes** 3rd—1,352nd PRIZE............----++-: $1.00 each in War Stamps * All Bonds and Stamps donated by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. ** |f you win one of these prizes, you are still eligible to compete in future contests. Well, kids, here it is—a brand new 1944 contest series! -Anyone of you, regardless of how big a prize you won in last years series, Is eligible to walk off with this lush |. J. Fox fur coat or the wad of War Bonds. All bars are down for “Higher and Higher’! HERE’S HOW: Work the crossword puzzle on page 8. It's based on Frank Sinatra's new picture “Highar and Higher.'' But first, you'd better whip over to our story of the movie on page 32 before you start working the puzzle. Makes it much easier! After you've worked the crossword puzzle, take a look at your Swoon King in the picture. You'll notice we've filled in his last name in number 57 across, SINATRA. We'd like you to make up a crossword puzzle definition for Frankie. Maybe you'll stick to the accepted title, "Sultan of Swoon,'' or maybe you'll get kind of weak in the knees after seeing’ him in “Higher and Higher’ and give with something like "Dizzying Dreaman’ or "Out of This World!''"—anything goes, and good luck. RULES I. Solve the crossword puzzle on page 8. 2. Write your own definition for Frank Sinatra. 3. Fill in your FULL name and address on the coupon. State whether Mr., Miss or Mrs. (Mrs., give your own first name, not your husband's.) If your coupon is not complete, your entry will not be valid. 4. Submit only one entry. More than one will disqualify you. Dell 5. Anyone may enter the contest except employees of the Publishing Company and members of their families. G. Entries to be eligible must be postmarked not later than Feb- ruary 10, 1944. 7. Neatness. will count, though elaborate entries will receive no preference. B. Prizes will be awarded each month to different persons. No one can win more than one big prize in the entire 1944 series. Those who have won prizes in our 1943 series are eligible to enter this new series. 9. In case of ties, duplicate prizes will be awarded. 10. This contest will be judged by the editorial staff of MODERN SCREEN. Decision of the judges will be final. TURN TO PAGE 8 FOR THE “HIGHER Something for a white Christmas—this luxurious °1. J. Fox sable= blended muskrat fur coat. It's going to be MODERN SCREEN'S Xmas present to some lucky reader! Maybe it'll land under your tree. WINNERS IN MODERN SCREEN’S CONTEST NO. 8 “HERS TO HOLD” [STAPRIZE eo he eee Miss Lee Pavalow, Bronx, N. : IND PRIZES = ens Mrs. Joyce Henning, Calamus, la. 38RD: PRIZE. vee ok Mrs. Ruth Chastain, Decatur, il. 4TH PRIZE........ 5TH PRIZE.....- AND HIGHER” CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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Come to think of it, this will be out first Christmas together. wontiit 2. East year. this page didn’t exist. and we didn’t really know you .+: Especially because Christmas 15 coming UP- were glad we can chat. At Christmas We sends: Its like having lots of logs piled on the fire W e's frost on the windows—and thinking, “to heck with the frost!” - _'This Christmas: of course. nothing can keep all the frost out. At oe family tables. there are empty chairs; empty plates. empty hearts: Church bells ring this year: But stifling their message of peace on earth is the thunder of guns, the muffled agonles of a tortured world == - But. like we said. friends help. We have grown awiully close to the readers of : MODERN SCREEN. Every month, some fifty thousand of you write to us- We laugh with you. And sometimes you tell us your troubles. Through our questionnaire, you help us edit the mag azine. From your letters we get warm glimpses of you—and the shy, fine admiration you show for fine people like Laddie, Ronnie Reagan or Frank Sinatra - - So do you know what we 7d love just because it’s Christmas? A Christmas card from you: Just send us one, and see what happens! « She Modem So0emn Gang is

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She never does anything in a small or inconspicuous way; she is lusty, gregarious, whole-hearted. “When I sing,” she told Dorothy Lamour one day, “I don’t stop by putting my neck in it. I put my feet, ankles, knees, torso, teeth and topknot into every note. Gosh—do I knock myself out!” When she sings “Murder,.He Says,” she exercises more muscles than Bernarr Macfadden has ever examined in the body beautiful. When she sings “I’m Doin’ It For Defense,” she brings admiring chiropractors from miles around, inartic- ulate with admiration for such mobile joint mounting. When she sings “The Fuddy-Duddy Watchmaker,” the Amalgamated Union of Mexican Jumping Beans gets up a picket line bearing the placard “Unfair!” After she had finished her stint in Madison Square Garden recently before an audience of 22,000 customers (breathing hard out of sympathy), Betty Hutton stepped to the microphone and gave the bond buyers their final joyous jolt by announcing her engagement to radio-writer Charles Martin. Mr. Martin was in the audience at the time, but he is a wise man and knows when a fiancé should be seen—flanked by the rest of the audience and not heard—beside such a master of sound as Betty. The wedding, Betty told reporters, won’t take place until Janu- ary. Hollywood wisenheimers, delighted with Betty’s efferves- cence and her eagerness for change, will (Continued on page 25)

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BRetty’s joshed and jitterbugged with them, sung till her throat’s gone froggy. She loves the whole Army. And the feeling’s terribly mutual. By Cynthia Miller

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Vr— Magnepan atl oem After first night at Casa Mahana, owner Billy Rose said, “All | ask is, dont tear down the house." Betty eats like a prize fighter, practically never tires, sleeps in dibs and dabs (in gigantic bed), is easy bait for round of penny poker. Betty was heller in grade school. Played sand lot baseball, “shinny,” tin-can hockey in neighborhood alleys. Even earned scar (on left cheek). At 14, stormed B'dway with peanut-sized band, flopped miserably. (With Don Ameche at Command Performance.) 24

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RTP AN LT LEER Bara We 4 THE MEN yi LOVE — continued give you 20 to one that the marriage never occurs. Maybe they’re wrong. Maybe not. Meanwhile, everybody loves Betty. What tabasco is to steak, what Roquefort dressing is to salad, what Manville is to Reno—that’s what Betty is to Hollywood. And to camp shows. And to personal appear- ance trips. And to bond tours. : Although this was possibly her most spectacular appear- ance to date, there have been other trips and other climaxes. ‘That swing to Army camps through the South, for instance. After leaving the continental train, Betty, her publicity man and Doris Harris, her hairdresser, took a local. It was hot. It was dusty. There was no food on the train. And Betty was supposed to be a glamour girl. She wore a simple dress that indicated several of the rea- sons she photographs so well, but which was also utilitarian because it could be washed. She wore no stockings. She wore spectator pumps. So the famed-Hollywood glam repu- tation had to find an exemplar in her hairdo, of course. Each morning, Doris combed the fragile, fine, glinting Hutton hair. _ She swirled it and upswept it; she added a cluster of flowers and—because Betty’s own hair kept shedding curl as a roof sheds rain—a dreamy set of artificial bangs. “Those bangs,” ‘someone in the group allowed, “make (Continued on page 88)

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126 “Im a lunk! A ¢igarette-in- the-side-of-the-mouth guy.” says Sonny Tufts. But don’t let that fool you. The effect is strictly Boyer. By Jeanne Karr Paulette Goddard saw his screen tests run off and said, “He’s for me.” She calls him Flash Gordon. Also the Amiable Ambler. He’s six-foot-four, blonde, loose-limbed. slipjointed, and moves at an easy lope across the Paramount lot with his grin, his Hi! and his lifted forefinger. He calls a bird a ees only giveaway that he comes from Boston. Whether his eyes are blue or gray has been a question for years. There’s no question about the humor behind them. He takes his sudden startling emergence on the Hollywood scene with the same kind of balance and sanity that you felt in “Kansas” on Corregidor. Only time he got excited was on hearing that his younger brother, Lieutenant David Tufts of the U. S. Navy, had been decorated at Nova Scotia for saving a munitions ship from destruction by fire. Himself, he’s 4-F by virtue . a cracked pelvis, an enlarged heart, two knees that slip out, when he’s not looking, a crushed right hand, a bursa of the shoulder and some minor flaws that we won't zo into. They skiid wild in Winchester when he Wite Berseen s limbering up for the dance rannine she'll do in Sonny's coming pic, "When |. Come Back.’ Blond giant's sloughed 15 lbs. for part. Says Par.’s signed him for rest of life. was a boy, and Sonny skiid wildest. It got to be something of an event when he came home unerecde At the draft board, his chart was so full of red marks you could hardly read the thing. “What the hell do you do for a living?” asked the man at the desk. “I’m under contract to Paramount.” “Yeah? What are you? A stunt man?” He was christened Bowen Charleton Tufts III, to be known thereafter as Sonny. The nickname’s juvenile flavor doesn’t worry him. To him, it’s just the name he’s always been called by. Even Charles Seymour. the President of Yale. called him Sonny. The president is a distinguished . looking gentleman with silver-gray hair and a clipped. iroueiaelie: Against a background of bearded Monty Woolleys in hooded gowns, he was handing out the diplomas on graduation day. The ceremonies were going out over the air. The names ‘rolled im- pressively. T. Uppington Uppington: Van Rens- selaer Cabot-Lodge Jones. Suddenly the president looked up into a familiar (Continued on page 91)

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At Yale, drum-boogie Tufts threw 5 dance bands together, took one on 22 summer cruises across Atlantic. At one Point in career, gridiron hero was M.C.-ing in beer joint. Prd ps » = dst one week after Sonny was introduced to studio execs, 2 was on the set—acting. Did most of his business out of amera range till Goddard and others straightened him out. d As assistant editor of Yale record. Sonny says he used to drape himself over typewriter and read Benchley and similar stuff all day, then bat out what were practically carbon copies. “I'm no actor," says Sonny. “'l just go to the studio at 9 and come home at 6. In between | say lines.’ The Tufts range from 6 ft. 245 to 6 ft. 8, swear it's due to milk. Sonny's 6 ft. 4.

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| Hle was only nine, but privation had made him old before his years. He remembers that Christmas for | many reasons. But mostly as the Christmas when he grew up. Not that he put it in so many words to himself. It | wasn’t till years later that he recognized it as a kind of turning point. His first encounter with the shock and erief of death. His first realization that you couldn’t | do anything about it. His first glimpse of the knowl- edge that material values don’t count beside those of the spirit. If that’s not growing up. what is? : At the time, it just seemed that a lot of things all - happened around Christmas. that year. They hadn't been in California long. His stepfather had just bought | | | if The Ciristmas Alan Will Never Forget ; back when Laddie was nine and Sam, his shaggy mongrel, died. “it was Sam, all right. The boy knelt down in the road beside his dog and saw the dog was dead. Though’ he wos small for 9 and Sam had been a big dog, Alan managed to gather him up and carry him home. » * it was a Christmas of stabbing paim But in it. too. there was a kind of wondrous joy. the little lot in Alhambra and put up a garage. The house was supposed to come later, but it never did. Alan thinks they knew even then that it never would, - because his stepdad had partitioned the garage into front room, kitchen and tiny bedroom. Alan had the bedroom. They got water from the filling station across the road. They bathed in a gal- : vanized iron tub. Their heat, such as it was, came from a little old oil burner. But Alan felt fine. He- liked the man his mother had married. It was no longer just the two of them against the world. Mom. had been right. But then, she always was. “Eivery- thing’ll work out.” That was her slogan. It might be’ potato soup now, but next week it was going to be

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“Ue stuck Chris inside his pajama top and started-back. There was a funny look on his stepdad's face. Not mad, just funny. Below Alan's pajama top, Chris's toil waved gently. something wonderful. So surely and calmly did she believe in the future that Alan accepted faith as a matter of course. Tough luck was only temporary. Everything would work out. Now, after years of struggling alone. Mom had someone to help her. After months of camping out, they had a roof over their heads. Alan was helping, too. Every day after school he’d whistle to Sam, his collie-police dog, and they'd trot off together to sell papers at the El Sereno junction. It was the best spot. because a two-car track came in from Alhambra, and a three-car track from Pasadena, and people got off and changed cars and went in to Los Angeles. Mom was always afraid of his getting hurt, but shucks! he could take care of himself. It was Sam he used to worry about. No more, though. Not. since he’d trained Sam to go lie down in front of the drugstore till he got through. He was a smart one, that Sam. He'd

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budge, but his eyes would keep 0. owing Alan till he saw him pull _ the last paper out from under his arm. Then he’d start barking like crazy and run out to the curb and wait. No mat- ter how excited he got, he wouldn’t step so much as a paw over the curb - till Alan came and got him. _ Walking home, they’d stop to look in at the Christmas windows. Alan wished he could have a paper route. With a route, you earned more than _ standing on a corner. But you couldn’t have a route unless you had a bike, and bikes were for rich kids. You could dream, though.- You could dream you had a bike and a route and could walk right into this store and buy a Christmas present for Mom. _ Mom said presents didn’t matter. = What mattered was how you felt in- _ side on Christmas and every other day. - ‘Mom ‘said, if you couldn’t afford to " give, then wanting to give was just as F good. But Alan noticed that she always _ managed to give him something. Even last year, which was the worst, she bought him some books and hid ’em in , PRR ee mee Ee ez PG ee & Fi Bey i re ise _ Then, at last, he put his hand out, Solid. Real. _A bike. His eyes went first to Mom's face, then his stepdad's. He couldn't talk. His feelings “were too mixed up. He was crying inside.'' the closet, and he found ’em ahead of time and read ’em. Never let on, though. Acted just as surprised on Christmas morning. He squashed his nose against the win- dow glass. “What would you buy for Mom, Sam, if you had money ?” It was two weeks before Christmas. He was playing ball with some fellows in the school yard. Just as the bell rang for the afternoon session, a boy came running in from the street. “Alan! Hey, Alan! Your dog got hit by a car on the road.” Alan laughed in his face. “You must be crazy. I just saw him when I was home for lunch.” “Yeah? Well, I just saw him about two seconds ago, and he’s layin’ there. and he don’t look good to me—” Alan’s feet were taking him down the street. They felt like lead. Why didn’t they move faster ? Everything felt funny —his head was light, his chest so heavy he could hardly breathe. What was he worried about, anyway? That kid must've seen some other dog that looked like Sam. Sam (Continued on page 71)

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By Zachary Gold One moment Michele Morgan’s in a hog, the next, she’s whirling higher and higher. It?s love, all right, but strangely enough, its name is not Sinatra. STORY Mr. Cyrus Drake was wak- ing in his usual manner to a fine spring day in New York. Byngham, the butler, shook his shoulder gently. Mr. Cyrus Drake opened one eye, found that it didn’t focus properly, closed it rapidly and_ threshed promptly to the other side of the bed. Byngham shook again. This time, in response, Mr. Drake him- self shook in imitation of a startled dervish. “Go away,” Mr. Drake said. “Tt’s seven o'clock,” said Byngham. “In the evening.” “When I want the time,” Mr. Drake said, “I’ll buy a sundial.” “You did (Continued on page 81) 1. Valet Mike (Jack Haley) tells Cy- 2. But later that evening, when he rus Drake (Leon Errol) he's broke, announces plight to staff of ser- bankrupt. Drake grunts, turns over. vants, Mike gets a whirlwind idea. 5. She goes, but, as Pamela Drake, sits haughtily in patrons box. Mike, eyeing Sir Wilton (Victor Borge) with Katherine Keating (Barbara Hale), No. | deb, literally throws Millie at him. asking Sinatra's a '@. Mike plans strategy. Millie lures Wilton, though she’s really starry-eyed over Mike. Unsuspecting, Mike finds her in park dvice, drags her back so Wilton can propose.

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a. a ‘itchen maid Millie (Michele Mor- 4. For nights, Millie's waved to Sinatra n) is to be palmed off on N. Y. as thru window. He finally marches in with ake’s daughter, snag wealthy husband. flowers, invites her to butlers’ ball. N : PRODUCTION Don’t need to re- mind you of tke wallop Frank Sinatra packed singing Jimmy McHugh’s “Let’s Get Lost.” Had us all in a Sinatrance (still does! ). But you'll really oh and ah when you hear him do the five McHugh- “Adamson numbers in “Higher and Higher.” All tailored just for Frank, too. Wait till you hear him give with “The Music Stopped” and “You Belong in a Love Song” for something right out of this world. Besides these lush numbers, there are five more new songs with some 15 starlets chiming in, including Marcy McGuire whom you’ve heard ae oo’ guesting (Continued on page 81) | of events, wedding to Wil- 8. Months later, returning to Drake's ed off, Mike finds fabulous new night club, he finds Sinatra married aves Millie to marry Sinatra. to Katherine and Millie waiting for him.

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Goh and a Girl They’re wonderfully typical, these two, with Gig Young im Navy blues, Gig wants a little girl just like Sheila. wants a replica of Daddy, green-brown eyes, dark brown wavy hair. Both agree on two kids. He and Sheila make hobby of collecting war Delight catching Sheila in a war plant, and the whole darn crew piling into the kitehen for Sunday dinner. The day, nine months ago, when Gig Young ceased to be an actor and became Byron Barr, seaman, was one he will long remember. He had been told to travel light; he assembled only the bare necessities for the trip. Razor, shaving soap, comb, brush, toothpaste and brush, half a dozen handkerchiefs and Sheila’s picture were carefully wrapped and arranged in a cardboard shoe box. Perhaps, for a moment, he looked at the meager belongings that a man can carry from one physical life to another: the bodily comforts and the single symbol of love. Then he reported to the railway station and was assigned to a Pullman equipped with tier bunks. Friendships began to develop. Gig met a boy who had been halfway through his medical training when he (Continued on page 85) Gives orders to Cesar Romero in their voices. Guard. Hitch-hiked home first leave, se Ann Sheridan. Best pic, “Old Acquaintance,

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chin de uphetbh k WLAN ROIS Gig kinda misses his ci- vilian togs, especially his prized red ties and con- trasting coats and trousers! Crowning glories: Ability to wiggle ears, one at a time; to sign his name with a pencil held between toes.

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George shuttled around 3 days getting home to Conrad, Montana, from camp. Met brother in Fresno and came part way with him. 3 days traveling back left 6 with family. Big guy finally dropped: bag in front hall at | P.M. At 2 he was at work on combine. Timed furlough for harvesting. Grows peas, flax, oats on 600 acre farm run by brother. See, tamara tetageine ge: ns son ; MM: ET a ane Typical furlough day: Up at 5, in fields by 6. Lunch, with neighbor's ty wheedling him into ride on pet nag- Work thru sundown. Dinner at 9. Bed at Work togs: Jeans, broken-down shirt. Dinner clothes: Jeans and clean jersé “<. Mh

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We sent our photographer hot-footing out to Montana to cateh the big guy on furlough. | found him knee-deep in clover—and hayseed. Furlough at end of 6 months come, luckily, so George could skip home for the season he's never yet missed ... even while he was in Holly- wood. It's Corporal Letz now, on duty somewhere outside the country. George scooted over to new 10,000 acre ranch first chance he got. Burst with pride at 3,000 acres of white pine, grazing land for 750 head of cattle. Brothers bough t it for him last April. Ses a8 te | = =a Si Routine was upset when George hitched to Great Falls to sell $10,000 worth of bonds at dry goods emporium. The whole clan turned uo for farewell dinner and Mom's chicken a la Russe.

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38 Razin With ena Se Auris ah eo 5 lc te The coke crowd thinks he’s snaky. The bridge set thinks he’s Henry Aldrich in a reet pleat. And a sweet-faced girl named Gwen thinks Don 0’Connor’s Clark Gable—without the ears. Till last January, Mom was the only. woman in the life of Universal’s “Top Man,” Donald O’Connor, Now there’s Gwen Carter—1l7 in October and a senior at L. A. high school. Don was 18 last August. She wears a gold bracelet he gave her. There's a key, then “DON,” then a heart, then “GWEN.” On his 18th birthday, she gave him a silver identi- fication bracelet. It says “DON” outside, and inside, “I LOVE YOU. GWEN.” His two women met in Mom’s kitchen. Don had a date with Gwen and two other kids. He was late getting ready, so he guessed he’d go pick ’em up and bring ‘em back, and they could listen to records or something while he finished dressing. Mom was washing the dinner dishes as they trooped in. She knew the others. So the little one— soft brown eyes in a heart-shaped face, floating chestnut hair— “You must be Gwen,” smiled Mom, “and Don’s got good taste.” : Gwen’s answering smile was a little shy. But when the others headed for the living room, she hung back. “That looks like an awful lot of dishes. Could I dry them for you?” “Lord love you, child, they don’t mean a thing to me. Now if you really want to be good to me, go in and play the piano nice and loud. I always did like a lively tune ‘with my dishes.” oy The O’Connors, close-knit to begin with, have drawn closer through the years. Of seven children, only Don and Jack are left to Mom. Three died in infancy. A small daughter was killed in a street accident. Then there was Bill, (Continued on page 40) _ Don says marriage can wait—2 years. But tied Gwen Carter up with whopper of a diamond. Says he wants 5 kids some day, 3 boys, 2 girls. Also wants to play “Hamlet'’ in movies. a om nee 7 4 iS ~ we < t "Er 3 r “ L 24 q When Don was tyke, Mom said only way he could wriggle out of practicing the piano was to break a finger, so he promptly broke a finger.

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By Ida Zeitlin Couple months ago, Don arrived at Gloria Jean's house to take her to movies, for- got wallet, blushingly accepted Joan from Gloria's pop. Most valued possession: gun that belonged to John Barrymore, whom he hero-worshipped, given him by Diana. After scanning date possibilities at studio, Don found gal who looked young enough, asked her out, found she'd been married couple of years. (With Annie Rooney, niece Patsy and Gwen.)

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40 ui Peggy Ryan's pet story's about Don spotting prowler on grounds. Shouldering 22, he yelled, "Hands up or | shoot.” Character behind bush snorted, “Who you kidding, sonny? ' Semthing for The Girl ae Don’s pattern of perfection. In their vaudeville act, Bill would pick Don up by the scruff of his neck, whirl him like a pinwheel and land him on his feet, to mad applause. To express the height of his ambition, Don used to say: “Maybe some day I'll be as good as Bill—” Two years ago Bill went to Peoria for the Christmas holidays, contracted scarlet fever and died after four days’ illness. It was months before his brother’s face lost its stricken look. Having worked literally from infancy, Don grew up with a sense of responsibility. After Bill’s death, it deepened—especially in respect to Mom. Sometimes Patsy, Jack’s 14-year-old daughter, also under contract to Universal, wishes he’d confine it to Mom. His nor- mal greeting to Patsy is: “What's the matter with your hair? What’s the idea painting your nails that color?” “Make him leave me alone, grandma,” she wails. “The minute I show up, he starts picking on me.” Gwen describes him as the kind of boy who decides he’s going to do a thing and does it. He decided to buy a house for Mom and bought it—with the money he’d saved while he was at Paramount. Mom’s been travel- ing “round all her life, working pretty hard—it’s just about time she had her own house, he figured. Himself, he didn’t particularly want a house. Made him feel funny. Settled down, kind of. But he got over that pretty quick. It’s nice not to worry where the dough for your next hotel bill’s coming from. ‘Mom has fun buying furniture and working ‘round the house all day. Help? Hers is the age-old cry. “I’d rather do it myself than go chasing behind some- -one else to do it.” “Sure it’s not too much for you, Mom?” “Know what would happen if we got a maid? | wouldn’t know what to do with myself, and I'd start getting cranky.” Don watches it, though. If he thought she were over- doing things, he’d put his foot down. He’s got quite a lot of say over things—more than his brothers had when they were his age. And he thinks it’s all right being boss, if you don’t take advantage. The screen prepares you for a jumping jivester. He’s anything but. The exuberance is there, but under leash. Even when he’s laughing his head off inside, his face doesn’t show it. Slapstick’s the only thing that makes him laugh out loud. “Me, I’m all mouth,” says Mom, “but the boys are quiet.” His steady blue eyes make you feel he’s a guy you can tie to. His emotions are warm, if casually ex- pressed. He says hello to everyone on the lot, whether he knows them or not, and it makes him mad if they don’t say hello back. His ambition is to learn all their — names, so he can say “Hello, Fred” instead of just hello. That way you feel closer, says Don. He never leaves Mom without kissing her. It may be a quick kiss, but that’s fine with her. They both hate to be fussed over. Being busy and young, he'll sometimes forget her birthday. The last time it hap- pened, a jeweler called on Mom a few days after the event— “Your son sent me over. He said you're in the | market for a watch. Here are five watches. Which do you like best?” pee! She made her choice, and he handed her a card. — “Don said this goes with it.” The card read, “I’m a drip, but I love you, Mom.” One day last December he was watching the audi- tions for “Blackouts” at El Capitan. His eyes wandered and came to rest on five-foot-two-and-a-half, brown § eyes in a heart-shaped face, floating chestnut hair— ‘ “Whose that girl?” asked Don, trying to be casual. 1 | i i

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_ “Gwen Carter,” said the girl he knew in the show. “Her father’s the orchestra leader.” ~ “Introduce me, will you?” She introduced them. ‘Presently Gwen left. “Do you know her phone num- ber?” Don asked his friend. _ She eyed him coldly. “What if I do?” : _ That stopped him till New Year’s Eve. At the party _he went to, a girl mentioned Gwen’s name. “Do you _ “Well, I'd have to ask her first.” _ “Okay, you ask her. And in case she doesn’t want to give it out, maybe she wouldn’t mind calling me just ‘this once. Sure, I know it’s not etiquette, but I have to get hold of her some way.” _ Call him! Gwen should say not. Who ever heard of _a girl calling a boy? “You can give him my number, ‘though. I don’t mind.” | _ She says their first date was at Grauman’s Chinese. He says it was Chinatown. They argue about it all the time— E _ “We went to Casa d’Amour for dinner,” says Gwen, “then to Grauman’s Chinese, and next night to China- town. He thinks we went to Chinatown first, but we idn’t really.” “We went to Chinatown and got a flat tire,” says Don. “She thinks we went to Grauman’s Chinese, and you know how women are—have to have their own ae - Wherever they went, it was together—and neither dated anyone else since. They bowl or play minia- ure golf. They go to Venice and do the rides. Gwen balks at the roller-coaster, which Donald dotes on. Once he went 18 times in a row. _ When the boys can get week-end passes from training amps, they go to Larry Krieger’s—Don’s best friend— ad jitterbug. The crowd includes Ann Rooney— ywen's best friend—Gene Reynolds, Larry Nunn. The Lindy and Slicker are their favorite dances. They don’t Go to night clubs, and they don’t smoke or drink. Don ook a sip of Dubonnet on his 18th birthday and didn’t e it. As for smoking, he won’t even kid about it. “I it,” he says soberly. “Especially for girls. It some of the sweetness away.” When he works next day, he’s supposed to be in 0:30. His intentions are good but, you see, it’s you stop at a drive-in for turkey sandwiches and Then he takes Gwen home. Gwen says, “You and the next time they look at the clock, it’s 11:15. Mom says she can’t fall asleep till Don gets home. Every time she hears a siren, she thinks it’s Don. He tries to talk her out of it, but you know how women are. His brother Jack’s 37 years old, married 15 years; and Mom still isn’t relaxed about him yet. She says she can’t fall asleep, but half the time she ts asleep, so he tries to get in without waking her up. Leaves the car out, because the garage makes a racket. Listens at the back door for the refrigerator to go on. If he can time it to slip in while the current’s on, he’s okay. Sometimes she hears him open the refrigerator to get his bottle of pop, and down she comes. He takes the words right out of her mouth. “Sorry, Mom, I’m late. We got to talking. I'll make it up tomorrow night.” What more can a fellow do than say he’s sorry and he'll try to do better? Mom lets it go at that. Besides, you'd never get anywhere with Don the strict way. He’s got too much of the bullheaded Irish in him. Besides. there’s no argument. He thinks she’s right. Can he help it if something always comes up? So he climbs into bed with (Continued on page 90) O'Connor's a jive artist, tropeze aerialist, acrobat, skit writer, willing stooge for Anne Gwynne or anybody handy. Clan was once called, "The Royal Family of Vaudeville." Seen ee

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1944-what will it bring? Grant Lewi, editor of the world’s Eprror’s Note: We asked Grant Lewi to give us a picture of 1944 that would thrill every reader. Here tt is. 1944 for the stars. And, in case you care, 1944 for you. _ He has limited his personal predictions to your love life, your family life, your work—and travel. By “love.” Mr. Lewi means you and your joe, if “youre single—you and Hubby, if you’re married. The business about work applies equally to school, home or job. By travel, he refers to any activity that brings you into contact with new places, new people, new ideas. We offer you Mr. Lewi’s predictions with a word o f warning. Don’t laugh them off. They have a fantastic - knack of coming true! If you were born in Aries (March 21-April 20) Love: Romance favored March-July, especially favored Apr. 11-May 4. Except glamour, permanence. Family: Changes in home life around the end of June. Be progressive, alert to opportunity; avoid i strife and rebellion; be independent but friendly. . Make a new start after July 5. Don’t quarrel with Donald O’Connor widdle-aisling .. . Goddard 1 largest horoscope magazine, gives out with another set of his uncanny predictions. your elders, those who share your life with you. Employment: Major opportunity breaks for you after the end of July. Look for happiness and prog- ress through routine. Protect health from excess. Travel: New starts at end of June and after may take you into a new environment, perhaps through marriage, work, Very active travel influences after Nov. 25. Broaden and expand, but avoid breaks due to temperament, strife, mere discontent. Short journeys likely anytime this year. Aries-born Sonja Henie faces disappointments, perhaps hardships. There seem to be disruptive in- fluences in her home life, which can affect her health through nerves, worry, responsibilities piling up on her. That house she’s just bought may prove a headache—she’s going to find that she needs the man in the family, may rebel against the war that keeps Dan away. _ Sonja’s year seems centered in her personal life rather than in her career. Start- mg at the end of March, she must watch health care- fully; vitality isn’t what she’d like it to be, and if she doesn’t heed the warnings of fatigue and other symptoms, she can run (Continued on page 76) pound ay Errol Flynn 1; arry atoreh . .

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As French prisoner of war in “Cross ot L No fashion plate, he hates to doll up, calls The Beautiful People ow. Gene Kelly’s world revolves around Betsy and Kerry. Betsy’s world revolves around Kerry and Gene. Kerry’s just over a year old. Her world revolves round her stomach, with her parents somewhere close to the hub but still outside it. She welcomes them with cries of simple pleasure. She welcomes food with a moan of pure ecstasy and falls on it like a wolf in babe’s clothing. That’s by her father’s account. split personality where his child is concerned. Part of him stands outside himself and says, “So she’s our kid, so what, there have been others.” That part tries to be objective, but who does-it think it’s kidding? The other part just lets go and wallows in adoration. _ He thinks he’s lucky. Out of all the guys in the world there were to marry, the only girl in the world married him. They met at Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe Show. Gene was dance director, Betsy Blair came looking for a job. If the movies were shooting it, they'd Gene’s a orraine, Gene was required to wear a thick beard. Yipped the day script called for clean-shorn face. himself a ‘walking slum.” _ see tumbleweed.” _yeached the state’s western edge. Beshrewing © aa Peddled war stamps between scenes, made big sale to Pierre Aumont. First pic gave him the "Screaming meemies. Current one: "Cover Girl.” show a flash of dark eyes and- blue, ‘meeting and holding. It was almost as swift and sure as that. She was still only 17 when they married. Gene had been tapped for Hollywood, and by that time there was no question but that, where he went, he was taking his lamb along. ‘Their honeymoon’s all mixed up with tumble- — weed. They drove out West—this was well before Pearl Harbor—and Betsy had never been out West before. “When we hit Texas,” Gene told her, “you'll He described the prankish : ee grace and gayety of tumbleweed. He got her all hot and bothered about tumbleweed. They ‘crossed Texas, their eyes panting for tumble- weed, and there was no tumbleweed. They the day he’d ever mentioned the stuff, but grimly resolved not to let Texas get away with it, Gene turned the car round and doubled back. — No tumbleweed. Betsy (Continued on page 74) er, fikx

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“a ei Scar on Gene's face date he hit on hoofing. Paid Sunday night pienices on the kitchen table. Receptions for baby at 3 A.M. A kiss in the middle of a tea party. Life with the Gere Kellys reads like a fairy tale! ’ s from bike fall 25 years ago when he was five. In pre- ‘college days he wanted to be a priest, studied journalism, law, medicine, before tuition mixing cement- by day, soda-jerking by night!

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By Kirtley Baskette Ty was 18 when he got to H’wood, eager, confident. But one year changed that. Here’s the 2nd, tougher part of Ty’s moving life story. \ous « tobe xory 2° untys tind i Tyron oe rel ning aeas mile en PIC beat AW eS rom tee 48 Tyrone Power is signed up for the biggest fight of his life © today as a Lieutenant of United States Marines in the battle for freedom. Already, starting as.a private, he has won his | bars with distinction in less than a year. Hollywood is not surprised. Nor is anyone who knows the story of the slim, eager, intense son of an illustrious father who became one of the greatest stars Hollywood has ever known. Battling through desperately sick days as a baby in Cali- _ fornia, Tyrone, Jr., grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his mother, Patia, taught in the Schuster-Martin Dramatic School. But his frail boyhood body was no measure of his spirit, his fierce determination to.lead in whatever he undertook and to run his own affairs. He made his mark in school, had his normal helping of mischief and adolescent romances. But smoldering within him always was the call of the Power heritage, a name great in the theater since the 1700's. At high school graduation, Ty announced he intended to act. “All right,” said his mother, “but you've got to be the best.” Tyrone adopted that phrase as his secret advice. Skipping college, he joined his father, (Continued on page 50)

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TYRONE POWER continued who promised to teach him all he knew of acting. Tyrone, Jr., 17, played Shakespearean roles with his father in New York and Chicago, then came with him to Hollywood where Tyrone, Sr., had a part in “The Miracle Man.” Young Ty met movie celebrities, was welcomed everywhere with his famous father. The outlook couldn’t have been rosier. Then one night, between Christmas and New Year's, he awoke in the Hollywood Athletic Club to hear his father gasping for breath. Tyrone Power, Sr.. died in his son’s arms. Stunned and desolate, his rosy future now black, Tyrone Power III realized he was no longer a kid, the son of a famous father. He was Tyrone Power, on his own. And he was just 18. It was up to him, alone, to make—or break his future. His first days alone in Hollywood were to young Tyrone Power an unbelievable, empty dream. A wise Chums around studio dubbed him “Phantom Bridegroom’ when wed- man once said that no young man actually believes in ding scenes in 3 pics ended in waste basket. At his own wedding were % j Don Ameche, whom he'd met in radio, Pat Paterson and Charles Boyer. death. Ty at 18 had never met it before. Once when his dog, “Nig,” had got old and rickety, they took him away. But all his family, even Grandmother Reaume, were hale and hearty. He remembered nothing about his own babyhood struggles to live. What he had been through’ could not have actually happened, he felt. When his father’s rites were over, he tramped the streets of Hollywood trying to figure things out. There wasn't any answer. But he knew one thing: The (Continued on page 64) 1939, year they were married. Camera men trailed the aow famous Mr. and Mrs. Power trom Port Washington, L. |, when they pulled in on Dixie Clipper trom Europe. Carole Lombard. used to rib Ty about title of “Mr. America,’ won at Chicage Foir. {Myrna Loy's behind her.) Critics disagreed on “Rose ot Wash. Square. | One reviewer said Ty, playing grand larceny kid, stole everything but the pic

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Ty's answer to Marine Cor certain.” Hank Fonda enli Ist day's leave together PS questionnaire asking civilian ambitions: ‘“'un- sted in Navy same day Ty joined M.C.. spent in lushest H’wood hotel, wallowing; in luxury. Buddies said Ty took training at Quantico hard. No grumbling, but he lost pounds, was always dog-tired. Annabella nixed all activity so he could sleep when he got home. Last week at O.C.S. got 3 hrs. a_ night. Ty at boot camp. Ran James and Crosby close. second when he recorded "Ballad of Leatherneck Corps" for U.S. Treasury. Disc sold 525,000 when released, still selling wildly.

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= Y By Fredda Dudley | SNe Vic Mature and Anne Shirley had wisenheimers up a free last month when they suddenly announced their engagement, just as abruptly cancelled it. Unpredictable pair may be wed by time you read this! GooD NEWS Ellie Powell-Glenn Ford wed. .- - Gene Tierney. Cobina Wright mamas . - - Alan Ladd returning to eivvies ... Vie Mature back in the running! Shortly after Glenn Ford had joined the Marine Corps, Eleanor Powell asked him—during one of those hurried week-end trips | to Los Angeles—’Why dont you buy one of those Marme dress blue outfits? I think theyre awfully good looking.” Glenn, listening raptly to a Shostakovitch recording, shook his head. “Not for me,” he said. “Someone around town might think I’d grown too big for my olive drabs.” i Somewhat later he was advanced to the rank of corporal, and Ellie greeted the announcement with a blissful sigh. “And think | how nice your gold stripes would look on those Marine dress blues.” she added, flirting at Glenn from a corner of her eyes. Glenn shook his head. “TI will not be cajoled,” he said. “No dress blues.” When he became a sergeant, Glenn and Ellie began to make wedding plans. Glenn wanted Ellie to wear white satin; he wanted a double ring ceremony, which would be performed in Eleanor’s house in the exact room in which they had spent so many hours getting acquainted, then fallimg in love, and finally | planning for the future. “Just a small wedding. with only our families present,” he said. sticking to the Ford tradition of no swank. Ellie was in complete’ accord with the plans—with one small addition. “Now, for the wedding,” she suggested, as if for the | first time, “I think you should wear dress blues.” From the L. A. Times: “Mr. Ford, with (Continued on page 54)

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54 GOOD NEWS. continued Columbia studio before entering the Marine Corps, wore the tra- ditional dress blue uniform of the Marine Corps. He is a sergeant, stationed at Camp Pendleton.” Bs Ellie wore a white slipper satin dress, made with short, puffed sleeves and a throat-hugging cowl neck. Over each ear was a small bouquet of orange blossoms which held her tulle veil in place, and she carried a bouquet of white orchids. Mrs. Blanche Powell gave Eleanor in marriage, and Eleanor's matron of honor was Mrs. Joel Delson, the sweet-voiced secretary who has long handied the Powell affairs with tact and efficiency. If you remember your romantic dope from previous issues of MODERN SCREEN, you will realize that this marriage was actually the work of that cleft-chinned cupid, Mr. Pat O’Brien, who knew both Glenn and Ellie long before they knew each other. He considered this to be a mistake. He told Glenn, “You aren't the average guy, so you'd never be contented with the average girl. You should meet and fall for someone special—like Eleanor Powell, for instance.” é The next time the O’Briens were giving a party, they invited both Eleanor and Glenn who—with that cognizance of two naturally wary people—decided that this was a set-up, and that in a diplomatic way they would have nothing of it. Which proves how wrong a girl and a boy can be when trying to outwit an Irishman. As soon as the war is over, you will be seeing Glenn again in the vigorous roles he likes so well, but probably there will be no more glorious dancing Powell pictures because Eleanor plans to make marriage her career. Class of 1963 He was a second lieutenant of cavalry, slim, tall and very, very worried as he assisted his wife to board a plane. On the flight to Washington, D. C., where his mother-in-law was eagerly await- ing the couple, the lieutenant repeatedly glanced from his wife to the expanse of countryside sliding beneath the wings of the plane. He was keeping a close watch for the busiest bird in America. ee Lie WN ~ However, the plane outsped the stork this time. Lieutenant and Sein jan Mrs. Oleg Cassini reached Washington in ample time for Miss M oe Hutton Sou De z slemed Antoinette Cassini (to be called Toni) to put in proper and unhurried poate Nes us Oe OU rue hone tad appearance, weighing a mere four pounds. Despite her small size, omber to Ariz. for pic, did camp show en route. Miss Toni was lusty. Gene was doing so well that doctors said she would be quite robust enough to (Continued on -page 59) Until Dolores Moran's 21, she's sworn off night clubs, substitutes studying and canteening. Was electrified at Garfield's card tricks, conjured up for his new role! At lena Beach bond rally, baseball game between Harry James's band and Freddie Martin's men brought in over three million dollars! Betty's last pair of cobwebby nylons brought forty thousand from eager bidder.

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GOOD NEWS: oontinued report: to 20th Century-Fox for her next picture around February 1, 1944. Cobina Wright Jr. Beaudette’s young son was born at 10:10 A.M. one morning. Shortly after luncheon that same day the telephone of a friend rang and a cheerful voice announced, “This is Cobing. Have you heard about my baby? It arrived this morning!” And that wasn’t the only call placed by the enthusiastic young mother. You might quote that to the next biddy who says our generation is soft, and starts to give you that rugged grandmother routine. Little Red Riding Points, or Geldilocks and the Three Steaks: While Dennis Morgan was in Oregon on a bond tour, he snatched a few hours from government business to go buck hunting. “Ah, venison for the Morgans,” he sang triumphantly, rubbing his hands together. He had the deer meat properly segmented, packed in dry: ice and. shipped to Los Angeles where it was placed in cold storage against the winter's dearth of red coupons. Now Dennis and his elder son, Stanley, have fre- quently gone hunting together with a BB gun. They have knocked tin cans off fence posts and peppered an occasional oak tree in the valley shallows, so Dennis felt certam that Stanley would be interested. He described his feat glowingly, and Stanley listened care- fully, finally observed in a sorrowful voice, "I know you did it for us kids, but after you had seen ‘Bambi,’ Daddy, it must have been awfully hard on you to shoot that poor deer.” Mr. Morgan has said nothing about his hunting trip since that moment. He thinks he should write to Mr. Disney and sign the pledge. On Thursday, when the maid is out, Joan Fontaine has been rushing home from the “Frenchman's Creek” set to prepare dinner for herself and Brian Aheme. Ordinarily the maid leaves some succulent dish in the ice box ready to be heated. What was Joan’s delight recently to find two pre- pared salads in the cooler, fresh rolls ready to be slipped into the oven, and a thick cut of steak back in one comer of the refrigerator. In front of it was a covered dish which the delighted Mrs. Aheme, having spotied the steak, simply ignored even as you and I would. She broiled the red points, then set up the feast. Brian found the dinner delicious, the steak done to a turn. The following moming the maid mished from the kitchen just as Joan was departing for the studio. “You didn’t eat the stew I had cooked and left in that covered dish,” she said, swallowing rather-care- fully, “so you must have eaten the horse meat I bought for the dog.” : Beef Grief: When Homer was a little boy calf, he had guileless brown eyes, soft ears and uncertain legs, but he liked to wrestle with Jimmie Craig. Whenever Jimmie had a day off, from “Kismet” or some such Metro picture, he spent it on his farm doing odd jobs and wrestling with Homer for exercise. Homer's shoulders enlarged and his weight in- creased; still he liked to wrestle gently with his owner. Then came the day when Homer heard, from a@ gossip columnist no doubt, those stories about bulls. He took the rumors seriously and catapulted Mr. James Craig against a concrete retaining wall, luckily some 15 feet distant. X-rays revealed three broken ribs. So Metro took advantage of Jimmie’s sedentary state by assigning him to the nearest studio (Continued on page 79) It's only rarely that Mrs. C. can drag Jimmy Craig away from his beloyed 10-acre ranch for a spree at Mocambo. chickens, rabbits. Lately acquired another hand—his mom from Nashville, Tenn.! He's more intrigued tending cattle, Shirley Temple (between Bob Walker and Claudette Colbert) is tickled to be back working after four years of school. Is crossing her fingers that she can come East to visit her closest crony in a N.Y. school, for the holiday whirl!

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ep! The famous Cover Girls stepped right out of the cture to give you their camera angles on clothes. First —while they can be strictly siren in slither-and-slink ups, they feel more like themselves in happy-go-lucky gs. Like lumberjackets or slacks, for instance. They im good posture’s even more important than your gym teacher says . . . that it’s a sign of brightness to be able to dress well on small change . . . that a fur coat’s second only to War Bonds as an investment, especially if you use your head and get a fur that’s dependable. They also think wacky lapel gadgets are super-solid. All sounds sorta like you, doesn’t it? Say—d’ya suppose you'll ever be a Cover Girl? t Jinx Falkenburg! Is it you or your Shire- slacks giving that snake-hips effect? One 's cettain—this new peg-top cut sure helps keep a gal’s shirt-tails anchored, doesn't it? fer Girl Martha Outlaw calls it=a "Go- here" jacket and she's not kiddin’. Grant's twin if you want it. Jacket about four plaid gadabout skirt around three. »» » for active days or leisure hours Join the 1944 Fashion Parade in SHIRE-TEX Slacks —the preferred wardrobe of not only “Cover Girls,” but of sophisticated women everywhere, Enjoy the youthful slenderizing lines by SHIRE-TEX man- tailoring . . . the snug fitting “peé top” (that helps keep shirt tails in)... and the roomy man-type pockets and comfortable pleats. You'll look your best, feel your best, in SHIRE-TEX Slacks. + See these outstanding fabrics at all fine stores — Gahbar- dines, Military Twills, Tropicals, Cashmeres, . | Flannels, Rayons, Herringbones, Glen Plaids, Stripes. DAVENSHIRE, INC., Davenport, lowa Colorful ofring Shades MILITARY TAN BUOYANT BLUE CHOCOLATE BROWN COLONIAL GREEN NAVY ALGERIAN SAND FORMAL BLACK 61

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V <9) Cover Girl See Francine Counihan in Columbia's new Technicolor production “Cover Girl” * Famous Bradley Cardigan of imported wool yarn In the new nubby knit! Just one of the many Bradleys you'll find at Grants! 4.98 See dozens of other budget Bright colors. priced fashions as worn by glamorous Cover Girls in ~ your nearest Grant store! Yes, Grants has really smart fashions at prices you can easily afford! W. T. GRANT COMPANY 493 stores in. 39 states BSR REE sin sen USN ee "Cover Girl" star, Rita Hayworth, matches her glamour with a tuxedo coat of Featherlite Persian Lamb, wisely picked for its deep lasting blackness and marvelous drapability. "I+ isn't necessary to wear expen- sive clothes to be a Cover Girl,” says Harry Conover, head of the Conover Agency. Model Helen Mueller gets the low-down on budgeteering as stylist Bonnie Foster Kelley and Art DirectorJohn G. Boete! of the W. 1. Grant Com- pany view the new clothes gallery of Grant's Cover Girl fashions. Cover Girls Dusty Anderson and Karen Gaylord go for the new "shirtwaist’ look in spic-and-span crepe Joyce Lane blouses. Could “they be for you? Could be, if you have two or three dollars and you know your way to Grant's. Cover Gol FASHIONS FOR YOU continued: ; f Mink? Guess again! It's mink-blended musk; rat that Cover Girl Peggy Lloyd's wearing, Because it was blended by Hollander, ou: Peggy knows it will keep its loveliness

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Glamorous Rita Hayworth .. . star of Columbia’s technicolor production, “Cover Girl,” poses for you in Featherlite Brand Persian Lamb, dyed by Hollander for lasting, loveliness, Persian Lamb’s loveliness will. add to yours! You'll wear it every day, every- where— proud of its deep black luster, its tight curl, its supple peltry that drapes as easily as fabric. ~ Fiance 7889 the Hollander mark on furs has been a sym- bol of enduring beauty. You will find it, too, on your present fur garment when you have it cleansed and tejuvenated by Hollanderizing. PHOTOGRAPH BY HOLLYWOOD'S PAUL HESSE

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Know youll understand.” Mrs. Power under- stood. She and Ann came out soon to Hollywood to tell him so. There were other letters, from New York and London and cities all over the world. And a great stack of wires and, telephone messages from Hollywood. * 4 Bay ei try this exciting past studio gates... These heartened Tyrone. They made him feel his Dad was still with him, still intro- ducing him to the people he must know in his new profession. He pulled himself together and shook off the despair of lone- liness. He moved out of the Athletic Club into a one-room Hollywood apartment. He got his clothes pressed and his hair cut, and then one day he hopped a bus to a studio. : He asked for the big studio man who was his father’s friend and who had writ- ten such a warm letter. Secretaries smiled and opened doors promptly at Tyrone Power’s name. Ty was ushered into the big office like a prince. The producer greeted him warmly, had him sit down. “So you’re Tyrone Power, Jr!” he smiled. “Well, I knew your father when he was the greatest Brutus that ever played ‘Julius Caesar’! Yes sir—I’ll never forget one night in London—” He reminisced for an hour and a half. He traced Tyrone Powers career over finally he said, “Well, you'll have to come in and see me again some time—any time.” Before he knew it, Ty was outside the studio. He still hadn’t said what he had come to say: What about a job? typical. Studio doors opened like magic to Tyrone Power’s name. He spent hours with people telling him about his father. At last it dawned on Ty that he was really a curiosity. He was Tyrone Power’s son. He wasn’t a personage himself. He just went around cold and hunted a break. Then he heard what was really the matter with him. “Too young.” “No experience.” “Nothing for your type.” And so the months passed. Tyrone had a little money to live on. There was a small inheritance, pitifully small, from his father. He couldn’t get it for a-while, but his father’s attorney volunteered to ad- vance him $10 a week against it. That’s what he had to live on—and that was all. Tyrone moved all around. In that first apartments, dinky hotels, guest houses, shacks—about everything. It wasn’t always by choice. One day his landlady came in, apologetic but determined. She said she’d have to have her rent, or else. guess it’s ‘else.’ I'll move.” And he started (Continued from) page Ey “manent-extra type of kids whose only | three continents. He was charming and _ That was the way it went. That was- He stopped seeing his father’s friends. year he lived in 15 different places, rooms, “All right,” said Ty, “I’m broke. I then, she knew who he was. She was ve: polite. “Your trunk hasn’t been touched,” — she assured him earnestly. “Everything is just as you left it.” Ty thanked her and winked to the friend who had come with him. When they got the trunk out- side, Ty opened it. Inside were a stack | of old telephone books. y In the summer following his father’s death, Patia Power drove out to Holly- wood with her dramatic class from Schuster-Martin. She found Ty living over a garage on Orchid Street, right up from Hollywood Boulevard. She was | shocked at the state of his wardrobe and general underfed condition. But she was happy to see the same eager sparkle in | his black eyes. Enthusiastically he -told her he was “working.” The job turned out to be a speculative rehearsal for a local Hollywood show, “Lo and Behold,” that later went on to New York to make a hit as “New Faces.” Ty didn’t go with the show. ayes The home town kids who journeyed out with his mother that summer—seven of them in an old Pierce Arrow limousine— | the “Traveling School of the Theater” |! Patia called it—did Ty a lot of good. He } had made friends in Hollywood, but they |) were mainly the casual hard-bitten per- 4 real ambitions were to hang around Holly- |: wood and have fun. i broken hopes... - Patia Power took a house in Hollywood | that summer for her crew, and while they ' were in town Ty ate regularly. When it }} came time to leave, she suggested that Ty drive back to Cincinnati for a visit. She |: thought it would do him good, and she | knew he could stand some more home } cooking. But about that time what seemed the break he’d been waiting for came |t along. At Universal a picture was getting | ready that would use lots of juveniles. || “Tom Brown of Culver,” starring Tom || Brown. Ty knew Tom and had _ been }i tipped off. And Tom put in a plug. While |p his mother was in town, the studio cast- |n ing office called, actually called him. He jd got the part; $500 salary. They mentioned |i a contract. This was it! Ty was always |} an optimist. The Traveling School of|f the Theater traveled on home to Cincin-| nati. Everyone was happy, especially |, Tyrone, waving them off. He’d show them |} now! Ty almost wore out the script of “Tom Brown of Culver.” He had a re-} spectable little part at first. But in the | end it was cut down to nothing much | When the picture came out, Tyrone Power || showed up in a brief bit, and nobody no- |} ticed him. He asked Universal about the}) contract. The answer was: “What con- | tract?” poe For the first time since he had tried t crack Hollywood, Ty was discouraged. Ur until then he had grinned at all the kic in the teeth and laughed off the tou: - times. He was young; he could take — He worked for nothing and lived like « tramp, but cheerfully—because he thought} some fine day the break would arrive. __ || Ty quit going out with his friends. 1: did a few bits when studios called | But he stopped haunting the casting rectors. He felt betrayed. 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Rie Te aes ~ er ae He placed himself, as much ould, in the role of father- confessor to the youthful Ty. _ Arthur Caesar’s home was always open _to Ty. Whenever he needed a square _ Meal or good advice, he went to Arthur’s. 3 To keep his independence, Ty contrib- uted his part. He refused to take a job with anyone, but since Arthur couldn’t drive a car, Ty became his chauffeur. For a while he lived over Caesar’s garage, _ driving the writer around the studios and eating with the family. It was natural that now, discouraged, mixed up, he should go to Arthur for advice. Caesar gave it. __ “You can hang around here and scratch for a break,” he said, “and you may get it. Lots of kids have. But what if you do? Will you be able to handle it? Listen: _There’s only one solid way to make the grade in Hollywood—that’s to rate it. That “Means acting experience. You haven't got it. Go get it. If you’re asking me—I’d take the first train to New York.” __ Ty didn’t tell him that he’d already been down to price tickets East. That’s the kind of a kid he was—still. = Tyrone had been in Hollywood a little “over a year the day he climbed into a day coach at the dingy old Los Angeles ‘Station. Ann, visiting in San Diego, came “up to see him off. It wasn’t an auspicious departure. Ty had just enough in his pants to eat on. He didn’t have quite | enough to get to New York, so he’d bought a ticket to Chicago. Chicago was where he had first trod a professional stage with his father. Ty knew some people there. He thought he might get a job and stake enough to start him off in New York. star of the side show... When the train pulled out, Ann cried. Her brother looked so frail and lonely ‘waving out the smeary window of the day coach. She knew how he hated to quit anything, to admit defeat; she knew his pride. But if Ty felt bad about leaving Hollywood, defeated, he never let it show. He kept a brave smile beaming until the coach vanished down the track. In Chicago he found something going on that changed his plans. The World’s Fair Century of Progress Exposition was go- ing full blast. On the Midway there were plenty of jobs for entertainers. When Ty mentioned he was from Hollywood, he didn’t have any trouble. He signed up for skits all over the Midway. For a while he had an. ironic job—at the Hollywood Pavilion—a place that purported to show ° QUIZ CLUES (Continued from page 12) Set 2 . Breathtaking blonde’ . Maureen’s mama . Smoothy . No Jenny Jitterbug Lola . Brooklyn babe Paramount peach . Sad-eyed young’un . Wild Injun grows up . Yummy in a uniform . Chatterbox - Coffee colored . Drawling; shaky-voiced . Smart girl . Daughter crashing pictures . Bespectacled professor The Captain’s lady . Drifted to B’way 20. Whom Set. York came home to xt set of clues on page 77) not pats on the back, but aid | Ra RA ea aR EG eee NSUNS LTD TAME sae AWL DY ire 2) Ady = el) ol cal) Ge A PARAMOUNT PICTURE / “The . | ing , Jean Parker — Any girl can have smooth, soft that are so effective against hands Jean Parker’s way. roughness, that many doctors prescribe them. “My hand care is specialized pa 5 and practically professional.But You'll love it, too, says Jean. so simple,” says Jean. Jergens Lotion never feels - sticky.”... 10¢ to $1.00 a bottle “Your skin will benefit from for this famous lotion, the favor- 2 ingredients in Jergens Lotion ite hand care of the Stars. Ahe Teuonall Hand Cane of the Sta — they a Jengens Lotion, Ttol JERGENS LOTION FOR SOFT, ADORABLE HANDS

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aL net SS See ae ee ae ea Sh ks) 66 i exactly how pictures were made in Holly- wood. Ty acted a movie star in the make-.. believe set. He got $30 a week. Some- times he got his check, sometimes not. He found a place to live in a barn on North Dearborn Street, a bunk-together deal with other youngsters working the fair. He needed to save some money. Chi- cago was a great radio center. So he haunted the stations in off hours and kept in touch with theatrical circuits, too. It paid off. Ty got some jobs. He appeared on a couple of programs with a fellow named Don Ameche, who was to get his Hollywood break the same time as Ty. shadow of things to come... He had better luck in the theater. Eugenie Leontovich, Gregory Ratofi’s wife, starred that summer in “Romance” in Chicago. Ty grabbed a small supporting part in “Romance’—his first real crack at any sort of steady play. It lasted eight weeks. He saved his stake. Anyone seeing the peaked youth pile off the crowded bus in New York, his suit looking like an old pair of pajamas and three days of black beard on his pale cheeks, would never have guessed that in less than two years the same young man would be mobbed in the same indifferent city, as the most sensational young star out of Hollywood! Broadway was a lot like Hollywood as far as jobs went. Everyone knew the name, Tyrone Power. None was inter- ested in’ giving that name a job. Like a million kids before him and a million more to come, Ty haunted the agencies and producers’ offices, smiling at the icy- eyed secretaries—and getting nowhere. His bankroll shriveled. Plenty of times it was a toss-up whether to spend the last nickel at the automat or on a bus. Later, on his first trip to Manhattan as a Hollywood celebrity, Ty stayed at the Waldorf-Astoria. Naturally, he was be- sieged by reporters, photographers and famous people. Invitations to dinner and swank soirees swamped him. Social leaders and cafe society- queens like Elsa Maxwell bid for his handsome presence to make their parties buzz. One night, after a steady round of this, the biggest affair of all came up. Ty was in his dinner jacket, all set to go, sitting in his room with a pal from Hollywood. The pal said, “Ty, I'll bet everyone in New York knows who you are by now— think of that!” “Nuts,” replied Ty. “I can take you to a place where nobody will give me a tum- ble.’ They made a bet of a buck. Then Ty left the hotel, giving his society hostess the slip. He took a cab down to an address way below Forty-second Street, ducked down a side street and led the way to a base- ment restaurant. The air was heavy with smoke, garlic and stale wine. A fat Ttal- ian waiter waddled up. “Why you stay away?” the waiter grunted. “You no lika da food?” Ty said he’d been busy, but he liked the food and he wanted some right now, including wine. The waiter looked him up and down ap- praisingly, then, suspicion in his voice, he asked, “You a-workin’ now? You sure?” Ty said he was sure. So the waiter took a chance, served them, and Ty won his dollar. Nobody in the place gave him a second glance. Katharine Cornell —the Incomparable Kit—really discovered Tyrone Power. Darryl Zanuck made his name ,a house- hold word and his face romantic to mil- lions. But it was Cornell who first had any real faith in the son of the famous father. The idea wasn’t entirely original with her. When Tyrone and his father first played Shakespeare together in Chi- _ cago, Helen Mencken, a good friend of Cornell’s, mentioned in a letter: “Tyrone Power is here with a tall, handsome son, Tyrone, Jr. The boy is green but watch out for him. He has talent, and he’s defi- nite Broadway material.” Cornell remem- bered that. When her husband-producer, Guthrie McClintic, mentioned that Tyrone Power’s son had been in the office and said he was in New York to crash. Broadway, Miss Cornell had an idea. spook stuff... So had Tyrone. His idea was that if he was ever going to be a Broadway star himself, he’d better be seeing some of the top shows. At that point it didn’t look like he was due to be the main attraction very soon. But that posed a problem. WE'LL MATCH YOU $10 for 10% We get a kick out of minding other. people’s business. For example, we'd like to know just how you’re managing to sock over 10% of your weekly pit- tance into War Bonds. In fact, we’re so darn eager to know that we’re offering $10 in War Stamps for the prize-winning letter each month. This month's prize winner: Perhaps this isn’t the kind of a letter yowre looking for but, if it’s sacrifice yowre hunting, consider this: Have you ever crawled on your belly through a stinking: jungle and listened to the whine of machine-gun bullets just over your head, or waded through vermin-filled swamp clear up to your hips wondering when your number was coming up? Walked a lonely sentry post in the dead of night, when a twig snap sets your nerves tingling, never knowing what might come out of the blackness at you? No, but you probably know someone doing this very thing and doing their share of War Bond buying, too. A guy thinks a lot of things when he gets into things like that. Mostly about home and those he loves. Some of us get back in pretty good shape, others arent so lucky. We try to make the whole mess out a bad dream, but no go, it’s very real. Were anxious as hell to get it done, - so along with our regular business of soldiering we like to feel that we're buying in on the future and give some of our dough back to our Uncle Sam every month, so’s he can give us the stuff we need, when we need it. Don't let anyone kid you, he’s doing a swell job of it, too. 10 percent? It’s that and a lot more. Pot. David M. Yerkes Army Air Force Bushnell General. Hospital How can you see Broadway shows at $4.40 or worse, when you are needing two-bits regularly for a dinner at the automat and no visible source of income? There was one show Tyrone particularly wanted to see—Katharine Cornell in “Flowers of the Forest” which was just opening. He re- membered that her manager, Stanley Ghil- key, had known his dad. He thought he would just sort of drop around and chew the fat, and he might get across a hint that he could use a couple on the aisle. He dropped in Ghilkey’s office. “Mr. Ty- rone Power? Oh, yes,” brightened the sec- retary. “Mr. Ghilkey’s expecting you.” Ty raised a black eyebrow in surprise, but he walked right in. The Wet ptiivinpyt ts manager said, “You got our call, then—that’s f tickets.” Ty’s head buzzed. W “Sixth row, center,” said the ma “Drop in tomorrow. Mr. McClintic pecting you.” That was even goofier! E Ty wasn’t spoiling this by asking questio: He grabbed the seats, got on the telephone } and got a date. That night he went to the | play in style. Next morning Guthrie Mc-| Clintic hired him as understudy to Burgess | Meredith’s lead opposite Katharine Cornell} in “Flowers of the Forest.” oh straw hat circuit... When summer came, Ty joined the straw) hat circuit at Katharine Cornell’s advice.| as “Flowers of the Forest” closed. He went) up to West Falmouth, Mass., with a con-} tract to play “Romeo and Juliet” with Cor- nell in the fall. He worked like a Trojan} all summer to be ready. He played cooks} and cops, heavies and heroes. He shifted) scenery and painted sets. #. “Romeo and Juliet” tried out in Balti-) more. Patia Power came up from Cincin-} nati to see it. Ty played Romeo’s friend]! Benvolio. The part wasn’t sensational, bu'} one critic said this, “Small though his par|} is, Tyrone Power gives it a feeling you don’t forget.” After the performance Cor-| nell told Ty, “You did. very well.” Thai} was high praise from her. Ty grinned, “| was scared stiff.” Patia Power was mor() critical. She pointed out to him -where hij, was okay and where he was weak. Shij said, “You'll have to work hard.” 4 From then on he developed a mania foj work, and so he lived modestly in an apart} ment with a couple of’ friends, spendin}]) all his waking hours studying the stag¢j Katharine Cornell rewarded him with th) part of De Ponlengney in her production aj “St, Joan.” Ty received a telephone cal} backstage one day. } The other actors heard him laughing int} the mouthpiece. H “Somebody,” he roared, “wants to know || I’ve ever considered acting for the movies!) That was a joke to Ty—after all the tim} he’d spent trying to get a nod in Holly wood! The talent scout was persistent. Buy Tyrone wasn’t having any. He told hit} flatly that he was going to stay on th} stage until he knew acting backwards anj forwards. The critics liked Ty in “S} Joan.” He was better and he knew it. Th) Hollywood offers came again. Ty kept say ing “No,” but he began to wonder if hp meant it. He took his problem to Katha : ine Cornell. Although she had alwajy spurned movies, Cornell advised him |} make a screen test anyway. He did. ~ The test was terrible. ee In fact, Ty’s test was so gosh-awtul, thi} by all the rules of show business he shou'f never have rated a train ticket West. Ar} he almost didn’t. One of the stories the tell around Fox today is about the dé -Darryl Zanuck, Twentieth’s head man, at his production _ staff watched Tyroij Power’s test. Ty, badly photographed, wi thin and white, all eyes, eyebrows alp forehead. He was badly directed, tcf} Everyone squirmed with embarrassmeif In the middle Zanuck picked up the boog, *phone. “Stop it,” he said. bh A producer grinned. “I was wonder! when you’d end the agony,” he said. “Wh is it—N.G.?” Zanuck puffed his cigar. “That's right he said, “N.G. That is, the test. Wire Nq@ York,” he told his secretary, “to make' decent test of that kid.” | So Ty made another, and while it wh no prize-winner, it showed some of f electric personality that was later to recy ter on the screen. Tyrone Power was Nj Lucky this trip. For several reasons. § One was that Zanuck was hard up # players. He had taken over the old Fox § not long before. He inherited two stars (Continued on page 68) ea ee: Spas OE so VER

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He didn’t tell his decision to anyone— his mother or Ann or any of his pals, ex- cept Katharine Cornell, until he had his ticket West. He came to Hollywood and rented an apartment at the swanky Sunset Towers. It took about all his small check but Ty told himself, “If I make the grade this time, I’m going to jump, not creep!” grand entrance... He started his first picture of the new contract on May 5th, his birthday. It was “Girls Dormitory,” designed to introduce the French charmer, Simone Simon, to America Tyrone Power, Jr. (they tagged that “Junior” back on his name at the studio for prestige), played about two minutes on the screen in “Girls’ Dormitory.” He played the lonely school- girl’s cousin who pretended to be her suitor. He sat on a park bench and pre- tended to make love to Simone. His part was incidental, and you could hardly find his name on the cast and credits. But there was an odd little omen. As Tyrone made his entrance in the picture, the scene showed him bursting through a door at the girls’ school, smiling full-face right into the camera. His first lines were: “Well—here I am!” It was as if the words were meant for Hollywood. Here Tyrone Power was. No one at the studio had any idea what would come of that tiny scene. Fox big shots the reception of Simone Simon. Simone didn’t click as expected. But for some- strange reason a ton of letters swept into the studio. “Who was the boy who played the cousin?” “Where did he come from?” “We want to see him again.” Darryl Zanuck had a sensitive ear. He thought he sensed. something stirring. He called Ty into his office, handed him a script. “Take this home and read it,” he said. “Never mind a test. The part’s yours.” ~ Ty will probably never forget the first days on the set of “Sing, Baby, Sing.” He played a fast-talking newspaper reporter, and he thought he was doing all right. But he noticed the director had him do scenes over again and again. He noticed the rest of the actors acted just a little funny to- ward him. He had the feeling something was going on, and he didn’t exactly get it. What Tyrone didn’t know was that the director didn’t want him in the part. He thought Ty was too green and too un- known. He’d obeyed boss Zanuck’s instruc- tion, but grudgingly. And whatever Ty did was not right. ee Tyrone got the boot. It hurt him— bad. But he drew a consolation prize in “Tadies in Love.” There were three stars in that—Constance Bennett, Loretta Young and Simone Simon again. All had leading men. Ty’s part was the smallest lead for the smallest part. The picture was only fair, but once again letters swamped 20th Century-Fox about Tyrone Power. And Darryl Zanuck still had to have new blood. His directors told him this Power kid was just so-so, too stiff and stagey for the camera, too perfect in his talk for one thing. Damned near as correct as an Englishman. That gave Zanuck an idea. One day Tyrone found a note in the dinky little dressing room he occupied, in the rows reserved for bit players and extras. It was along about option time an he ruefully crumpled it up in his fist and tossed it into the wastepasket. “See me—Darryl Zanuck” meant, he imagined, strike number two in Hollywood. He was snakebitten for luck at this studio. Direc- tors were hostile. Stars were standoffish. What the hell! But he reported. Zanuck handed him the screen play of a super-special the studio | was banking on to lead the year’s program, ‘Tloyds of London.” “Take this home,” suggested Zanuck, “and read it. Maybe you'll do it.” Ty’s spirits zoomed. He said nothing to his. friends, not even his mother, but, secretive as always, locked himself in his room that night. He read the script from cover to cover, and as he read, his heart began to-sink right into the rug. He knew Freddie Bartholomew was already cast as | young Jonathan Blake in the picture, and Freddie was at the height of his sensa- tional career. Ty could discover no other possible part for himself than Jonathan Blake. As he read he asked himself anx- iously, “Where the heck do I come in?” He took the script back. Zanuck eyed him keenly. “Think you can do it?” Ty shrugged. “What is there to it?” At that Zanuck exploded. “What is there? Are you crazy? Just the whole picture— that’s all. Listen, son—this one’s a star- maker!” Suddenly it dawned. on Ty that Freddie Bartholomew’s part was the small one— Jonathan Blake as a boy. What Zanuck had in mind for him was the star job— Jonathan Blake grown up! This time it was no give-away part. Ty had to earn it. He came up for a test, and tests were always his Jonahs. A little stock actress was assigned to emote with him. But when Ty got on the stage, shaky and seared to death, he almost fell over. There was a star he’d hardly dared approach before—Alice Faye. “Thought I might help,” she smiled. “Can I run through this with you?” Could she! Alice had always felt bad about Ty’s get- ting booted out of “Sing, Baby, Sing.” She has a heart built for size and, cannily wise in show business, she sensed this was the time to use it. Ty realized he did have friends after all. He calmed down. The test was a honey. love on ice... “Lloyds of London” made Tyrone Powel the hottest star in Hollywood. The picture made tons of money, and the picture was Ty at Sonja’s symphony on skates. After performance, gratulate her. “I hope T’ll see you aro the studio,” Ty said. “I’m sure you will Sonja laughed. They had a date the ne wide tour. Power, finishing “Lloyds of London,” to his first vacation. |

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East on his vacation, after chas- a telegram from the studio. “Report back __at once,” it said. “New picture going right into production.” It was signed by the studio casting director. Quickly they had whipped up a picture to co-star Tyrone Power and Sonja Henie. “Thin Ice” was a be rushed out while the headlines were ot. Theirs was a gay, young healthy ro- mance. Both were in their early twenties, and neither had had a serious love before. It may have been a coincidence that from the minute he fell in love with Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power couldn’t miss. Per- haps the emotion—an experience of a love affair—was what he needed to mold him into a confident actor with a deeper, wider range. Anyway, all Ty’s pictures were hits from then on, in rapid succession: “Love is News,’ “Cafe Metropole,” “Thin Ice” _ (they finally made it), “In Old Chicago,” “Second Honeymoon,” “Marie Antoinette.” Tyrone Power became the biggest roman- tic young star in Hollywood. And with his own rising star that of Sonja Henie kept pace. Nothing at all loomed in the path of their marriage—except that both Ty and Sonja were pretty young, and neither Patia - Power nor Sonja’s mother was too keen to see their brilliant’ children haltered by matrimony—yet it might have happened, this story book wedding, if Sonja Henie hadn’t taken a trip back to Norway. Ty saw her off on the train. She meant to be gone only a couple of months. She stayed six. That was too long. fio story book ending... Tyrone Power was young, handsome, at the peak of his career and for the first _ time getting an intoxicating taste of glam- orous Hollywood life. He was meeting celebrated people everywhere, and they were introducing him into the pleasant social life of the glittering screen colony. And he liked it. Ty never “went Holly- wood” in all the time he was there. He always drove a modest car: He never threw his money around, became a clothes horse, night club barfly or a playtime Charley boy. The only extravagance on record that Tyrone ever indulged in, in fact, while he was a great star, were foreign trips, an airplane, and once he leased an island off the Mexican Coast with great plans to make it a romantic paradise retreat. A vivid, romantic imagination, never one of Ty’s deficiencies, inspired that. But he sel- dom went overboard—and never for girls. Although they besieged him (who -wouldn’t?), Ty simply could never be a Casanova. He was far too sincere for that. But Sonja, his one girl, was away for a long, long time, and those months of Tyrone’s life were too full and exciting to sit and pine. One night he went to a _ Hollywood premiere and sat enchanted at a petite, auburn-haired actress making an amazing comeback. Ty watched the pic- ture with all the adoration of a fervent fan. He remembered those days when he was ushering in the Cincinnati movie house, how he would stand back of the curtained rail in the rear and dream about this girl. Janet Gaynor was romantically free _ then, and “A Star is Born” had invested her with a new glamour. Ty fell hard. _ Sonja Henie learned about that in the newspapers. It was more of a social, party and cafe mance than the Sonja Henie love. Janet V n an established big-name Holly- iced b went to smart dinner the latest, brightest around the country, when he got | fey Set : which safely STO PS under-arm PERS 1. Does not irritate skin. Does not rot dresses and men’s shirts. 2. Prevents odor. Safely stops perspiration for 1 to 3 days. 3. A pure, white, greaseless, stainless vanishing cream. 4. No waiting to dry. Can be used right after shaving. 5. Arrid has been awarded the Approval Seal of the American Institute of Laundering for being harmless to fabric. Use Arrid regularly. | 39¢ a jar (Also in 10¢ and 59¢ jars) At any store which sells toilet goods THE LARGEST SELLIN rr “OF course Tuse A NEW...a CREAM DEODORANT id, and any person d ’ how J don’t see cs fail to of refinement use it . “The way I look at it 1S can protect ae onderful pro am delighted t° © PIRATION _. ee 3 WT OR 4 REF UW, Re * ° Fay © Guaranteed by @ Good Housekeeping Moy , FDEFECTIVEOR ww 7 _ S245 Anvreriseo THES ARRID G DEODORANT 69

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TENDER FEET Dr. Scholl’s Foot Powder relieves tender, chafed, perspiring, odorous feet; eases tight shoes. 35¢ D! Scholls REMEDIES - PADS - PLASTERS - ARCH SUPPORTS FOR MOST ALL COMMON FOOT TROUBLES a gone goose... - But in this period, Tyrone made the pic- ture that put him at the peak of his career, “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.” By then his small-time beginner’s contract had been ripped up time and again and a new one written. “Alexander” brought him a new boost. He was in the top money. On the face of things, Tyrone Power at last had everything he had ever dreamed of. He had everything but one thing very im- portant—a home. Tyrone Power’s romantic dreams of Janet Gaynor and any he had left over about Sonja Henie vanished one afternoon at the entrance to the little test stage above Stage 4 at 20th Century-Fox, one afternoon in 1938. Two tests were scheduled that afternoon. A mere make-up one for Ty- rone Power, the star of “Suez,” soon to start shooting. And another of a new French actress who had never made an American picture. Hardly anybody in Hollywood knew Annabella Carpentier. Tyrone Power never had seen her. Annabella had finished her test and hurried out the door at the exact moment Ty hurried in. They collided with a good, solid bump. “Qh,” gasped Ty, “pardon me!” Annabella was so confused she lapsed into French, “Pardonnez moi!” They looked at each other until the silence was embarrassing. Then the ward- robe girl introduced them. They didn’t meet again until “Suez” began, but all the time Ty couldn’t think of much else be- sides the pert, blonde beauty of Annabella and that intriguing way she talked. It wasn’t a romance at first. There were some handicaps. First, because Annabella, though estranged, was still legally married to Jean Murat, a French actor. She had a daughter, Ann, in France. Even if Ty had fallen hard, which he didn’t right away, Annabella could not have said yes. But she was something that the too- serious, high strung and ambitious Tyrone Power had never met in Hollywood. She was a real person, a warm human being —that first, and an actress second. For the first time in his life, Tyrone was not leading; he was being led. And so, finally, Annabella went to France to get her divorce, and after “Rose -of Washington Square” Tyrone and a pal made a flying tour of South America. Tt was triumphant. It was riotous. All the Latin warmth, adoration and en- thusiasm Swamped Tyrone Power as he traveled from country to country. . But at last in Rio de Janiero he had had enough. : He was at the Copacabana when the cable came. “Boat docks Rio tomorrow. Love, Annabella.” And so at Rio, as the tiny boat lights twinkled out in the bay, and distant Sugar Loaf loomed blue-silver in the night, Ty whispered what he knew he would whis- per one day and got his answer— Yes!” They came back together and were mar- ried one Sunday in the Bel-Air house where Annabella lived. Charles Boyer gave her away, and his wife, Pat Paterson, was maid of honor. Patia Power was there and Sister Ann and Grandmother Reaume. There was no official honeymoon because Tyrone was working in “The Rains Came.” Later on, they had the honeymoon at, of all places, the Grand Canyon. grand finale... - With Annabella, Tyrone has found a personal happiness he never approached in the restless striving days of his eager youth. With her he traveled to Europe, returned to the stage for summer stock. With her he bought his home at last, the lovely white house on a canyons brink that Grace Moore had built but vo NCVER. AIVCG EE 0 ON RSE ie eee ' remodelled and furnished it to a bride- and-groom’s dreams. With her, too,,Ty went on acting, never lagging in the standards he had set for himself as a star. ' “Johnny Apollo,” “Brigham Young,” Sines Mark of Zorro,” “Blood and Sand,” “A Yank in the R.AF.,” “Son of Fury,” “This Above All,” “The Black Swan”—great pic- tures all. And in this ripened phase of his life Tyrone, too, developed as a person. He had leisure to read and quiet evenings to talk and develop his philosophy of what it’s all about. He has had the seasoning responsibilities of husbandry and adopted fatherhood to broaden his character. Even his slim body has matured into a powerful physique that makes his frail boyhood days unbelievable. He has become a re- sponsible citizen and a man. And so he was ready to face another more real and trying test. He was fit to serve his country when his country needed men. Because Tyrone Power’s short but out- standing record as a Marine is no acci- dent. Months before he was enrolled he plunged into a rigorous regime of exer- cise to harden his body for the beating he knew he must take. For years he had seriously studied flying, buying a plane, winning his pilot’s license and taking off steadily in defiance of his own studio’s ban. That’s why he tried desperately to get in naval aviation when war broke, and then, considered. too old for that, he applied for the glider group, until it was discontinued. Now at last, after winning his bars the hard way in the Marines, Ty is in the air, in training at the Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi, Texas. He was home in Hollywood on leave a few weeks ago—tall and straight and tan with his dark hair cropped close and a keen enthusiastic look in his eyes. He spent his ten-day leave at home with Annabella and his family. Only once did Ty leave his home. That was for a Naval Aid performance at the Playtime Theatre. The day after he left for Corpus Christi, Annabella left on a bond boosting tour. The brilliant career that lies behind him today is only a memory, and the future, bright again though it can be, is something ' he isn’t worrying about yet. The other day at Quantico, Lieutenant Power saw ayvyoung Marine in his teens slumping around the grounds with a sloppy carriage. He called him to: atten- tion and dressed him down. “At your age,” he said severely, “you ought to be ashamed of yourself. I can hold myself straight and look at me—pushing 30!” Pushing 30. Ty thought that over afterwards, and his own words amazed. him. He felt exactly as young and strong ‘and as cocky and confident as he was at 17 when he set out alone from Cincinnati lugging his dinky imitation leather valise, headed on the quest to make Broadway and Hollywood yield to him the fame and fortune which he sought. Now he was 29, pushing 30! It didn’t seem possible. Yet so much had happened. | SAW IT HAPPEN We'd been sitting through Jimmy Dorsey’s stage shows from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. Finally, Mr. Dorsey looked down_at us (we were sitting in the first row) and said, “I know you're hungry because you've been here all day, so I’ve had a little lunch fixed for you.” And out he came, a tray of milk and sandwiches for each of us. Nice guy that Dorsey, isn’t he. ; ~~" Nancy Arford, Indianapolis, Indiana

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& DIAM (Continued from page 31) - THE CHRISTMAS ALAN WILL NEVER FORGET SLT Gist oT arcana ne me om nite te nn eee rr couldn’t be hit by a car. Not Sam, who’d never step so much as a paw over the curb unless Alan took him. It was Sam all right. down in the road beside his dog and saw that the dog was dead. Though he was small for nine and Sam had been a big dog, Alan managed to gather him up and carry him the short distance home. Mom wasn’t in. She’d gone out to market when Alan left for school. He carried his bur- den round behind the house and laid it down. He wasn’t going to cry. He was too big to cry. Mom hadn’t cried when his father died—anyway, not where he could see her. He’d been too young then to understand the implications of death, that he’d never see his father again. He understood now. A swift vision formed—of himself’ at the -junction, pulling the last paper from un- der his arm—and no answering yelp of joy, no dash to the curb, no eager eyes up- turned, no feet trotting beside him. A tide of agony washed over him, flung him down with an arm across Sam’s body—where he lay and let the sobs rack him. Presently he rose, found a spade and buried the dog under the window of his “little bedroom, so he’d always be near. Then he walked off. alone toward El Sereno. 5 e * * * When Mom found out about Sam, she said, “I’m sorry, son,” and that was all she said. It was all Alan wanted her to say. The boy knelt Mother and son were alike. When they felt most deeply, they talked least. But it couldn’t have been more than two or three days later that the kitten ap- peared. Alan found her curled up one afternoon on the old Army cot that was his bed. Mom said she’d just walked in. When he sat down, she jumped right into his lap and started purring. Pretty darn cute. From the first, she attached herself to Alan, and her devotion and furry help- lessness warmed his heart. He pretended Sam had sent her as a Christmas gift, so he named her Christmas and called her Chris for short. A slight family differ- ence arose on the subject of her sleeping habits. Chris thought she belonged at the foot of Alan’s bed. So did Alan. His step- dad said it wasn’t healthy to sleep with an animal in the room. Cats should be put out at night. So between them, Chris and Alan de- veloped a system. He’d put her out, she’d run round to the back window, he’d climb through and bring her in. Next morning he’d toss her out again, and everyone was happy. On Christmas Eve he went to bed early. Something mysterious and pleasant was in the air—he could tell by the way he’d been kidded at supper-time, by the way Mom’s eyes shone. He’d brought Chris in, and they lay together in the dark corner farthest from the doorway that had no door. Quietly, breathlessly, Alan waited. “Tm going to nail up some planks,” his stepfather called, “so you can’t see Santa. He might get sore if you caught him.” Alan grinned to himself. He’d known for a number of years who Santa was. “Okay,” he said. “Meow,” said Chris. “Alan, I thought I told you to put that cat out.” “Yes, sir.” He picked Chris up and went slowly toward the front door. Of course he could bring her back later by the window, but it just didn’t seem right to put her out at all on Christmas Eve. She might get her feelings hurt. They didn’t put the animals out of the manger when the Child was born. He opened the door, stuck Chris in- side his pajama top, closed the door and started back. There was a funny expres- sion on his stepfather’s face—not mad or anything, just funny. Alan looked down. Hanging below his pajama top, Chris’s tail waved gently to and fro. James Beavers must have decided that, for tonight anyway, he’d risk hypothetical germs against a kid’s longing. “Some cats have no tails,” he said gravely, “and some tails have no cats. Now get in with you, so I can nail up these boards.” Chris slept sweetly all night. Alan didn’t. At intervals, he’d stick his head out to look at the sky, which was full of stars. The family had agreed that, when (Continued on page 73) CLOSING OU, MANCe Jee DESIGN Za SOLITAIRE Just to get acquainted we will send you smart, new, yellow gold plate, sparkling Simulated cents mailing cost and tax. Send no mone coupon giving your name and ring size. they are, them and Z IOND RINGs; Diamond engagement ring and matching design wedding ring. Romance design engagement ring set with flashing, simu- lated diamond solitaire in sentimental, orange blossom mounting. Wedding ring is deeply embossed, yellow gold plate in exquisite Honeymoon design (the perfect bridal . pair). 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d from page 71) Pe inked out, he could call it ngs a rule, Alan loved the E They made him feel peaceful. That n though, they just acted stubborn. He said, “Please stars, go out.” He said, “If I was a star, I’d go out for you.” He said, “All right, you ole meanies, see if I care.” Next time he woke up, the sky Was gray, but one star still twinkled. He kept his eyes riveted on it, till at last it _ faded. Then he jumped up and pounded at the planks. _ He’s had his fair share of thrills in re- _ cent years, but they haven’t overshadowed _ the thrill of that Christmas morning when _ he stepped through the gap to be dazzled _ by _a Christmas tree, under which lay a B.B. gun and—!!! He looked again and rubbed his eyes and looked a third time. Yes, it was still there. A bike! __ You’ve got to understand that to Alan the _ thought of owning a bike was something as far-off, as unattainable and glorious ‘as, _ say, a phone call from Garbo would be to _ a fan mag writer. Neither could happen except in a dream, and Alan’s dream had _come true. He doesn’t know how long he _ stood looking before he moved. Then he _ circled it. Then at last, afraid it would ~ vanish under his touch, he put his hand out. Solid. Real. A bike. His own. His _ eyes went first to Mom’s face, then to his _ stepdad’s. He couldn’t say a word. His feelings were too mixed up. He was Bone inside. Bal eck) bs * * * his life story, you know what happened xt. The rich kids lived on the hill, Ne ea RG ire: : - They attended the same school as the poor kids down below, and some were swell and others were stuck-up brats. One, a bully as well as a brat—whom Alan had disliked from the first—rode a shiny new bike of his own and broke into noisy guffaws at sight of Alan’s. “Secondhand Ladd with a secondhand bike. Whyncha give it to the junkman?” It was easy to fire Alan’s temper. This time he controlled it. “Wanna bet my bike’s better’n yours?” he asked steadily. “You’re nuts.” “Okay, I'll race you.” They raced down to Alpha Street, and Alan won. Without even waiting to gloat, he steered his way home. © “Mom, have I got a secondhand bike?” “Yes,” she said quietly. “We couldn’t afford a new one.” “Tt’s better’n a new one,” he blazed. “I just beat a kid on the hill, and his was new.” Through his loyalty and defiance, the hurt was plain. “Sit down a minute, son. I want to tell you something. “You know what Christmas means. You know it’s not presents. We give things to_children because the wise mén brought gifts to the Child at Bethlehem. He died so many years ago that some- times people forget that the gift doesn’t matter. Only what goes with it. “So in a way, I think maybe you're right. Maybe your secondhand bike is better. But not because you beat the other boy. You see, if we had a lot of money, we could just have gone to the store and bought the best bike in the place, and that would have been the end of it. Well, we couldn’t do that. So we had to start a long time ago, saving a little here and a little there and getting a thrill out of it, thinking how happy you'd be. And the biggest thrill of all was seeing your face this morning. “Can you understand, Alan, or are you too little? It’s not the bike. It’s being glad to give up things because you love someone else very dearly. It’s being happy because you’re making someone else happy. That's what Christmas means. That’s what went with your bike. That’s what makes it better than a new one maybe.” “Sure, Mom,” said Alan. “I understand. It’s like when I was little, and I asked you was there a Santa Claus, and you said ae was God. That’s the same thing, isn’t it?” She gave him a swift hug. “Exactly the same.” They weren’t given to demonstration, but for once Alan didn’t disentangle him- self. Against her shoulder, he found words for the question that had ached in his heart for two long weeks. “Mom—you said the angels took Daddy, D’you think—they took Sam, too—even— even if he was just a dog?” “T know they did, Alan.” “D’you think—he’s happy?” “I know that, too.” Then he broke away. Mom,” he crowed. paper route.” “Tm happy, too, “Tm gonna get me a * * It was the nicest Christmas any boy could have had. Last Christmas was the nicest any man could have. Alan wishes Mom and Sue could have known each other. Sue gives Christmas the same feeling his mother did. Last year was special. The baby was due in March. Alan would be entering the service in January. Sue didn’t know yet and he couldn’t spoil things. He’d tell her when the holidays were over... . 73 . Ls ill nF ime MUR SapSe gy PSR LD nce RU DERAILED Ue an Fas ee,

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F Christmas Eve. Holly and mistletoe and little Santa Claus nooks all over the house. — (- | Christmas cards lined up on the mantel. The tree standing ready to be trimmed. - But first they had packages to deltver. In Beverly they picked up a soldier, headed by the mei who downtown. They couldn’t let him be late for a Christmas party, so they took make-up the him downtown. On the way home, they picked up a sailor. : “Where you going for Christmas?” Hl {| | | W fh 0) | \{ dl rs “Nowhere particular.” “How about coming home with us?” So the sailor helped Alan trim the tree. Sue wasn’t allowed to help. (If Alan had had his way, he’d have packed her in cotton wool till the baby came.) They hung ‘up five stockings. Two soldiers were coming in the morning. Alan disappeared and returned, hiding something behind him. He was very busy at the mantel for a couple of seconds. When he moved away, a tiny stocking, filched from the baby’s layette, hung beside the others... . Christmas morning. Like Christmas morning in millions of American homes. Sobered by the shadow of war, but Christ- mas just the same. Ohs and ahs and tissue ite of Princess 0 ROURKE finally persuaded him that she could live A Warner Bros. Picture without ie oe a deat Caio A month or so after landing in Calitornia, WESTMORE they drove down to San Diego. “You'll see MAKE uP gardenias,” said Gene. ‘ y; 3 “This,” Mrs. Kelly said, “I'd like to see. They drove and they drove. No gar- denias. “Nothing,” mourned Betsy, “but FOUNDATION , : t CREAM a bunch of old milkweed rolling along— Gene let out a yip. “Milkweed! It’s PAGE (POWDER tumbleweed, Betsy, good old tumbleweed, followed us all the way from Texas—” wikimdac Having been introduced, Betsy watched Pee with respect. Then—‘“Where d’you s’pose the gardenias’ll catch up with us?” The experience paid dividends. They had a mob at the house one night, playing their favorite game, Indications. It was Gene’s turn to act out the word. The minute he came rolling into the room like a hoop, Betsy shrieked, “Tumbleweed!” Their friends were awed. “You people are hypnotists.” One of the many beauty aids offered by the Before Kerry, they lived in a little house House of Westmore is a perfect foundationcream. | in one of the Hollywood canyons. They're It gives you a lovely, attractive, natural beauty incorrigibly social. They hate to go to ...goes on smoothly, and really stays on. It effec- sleep. Almost any night would find their tively hides tiny lines and blemishes... does nof | gang ‘at the fireplace, popping popcorn, dry the skin because if contains lanolin . >.never | eating hot dogs and beans and potato gives you a “masked” feeling or appearance. salad. Betsy loves picnics, Gene hates The Westmores—Perc, Wally and Bud—not only them. “They’re young,” he says. make-up the Hollywood stars, but have actually eee oY ee Saas Pe ees was somethi created the make-up with which they do it. And it ‘ ; is that very make-up you get when you buy House the little house. Fut Kerry was coming, of Westmore’s lipstick, rouge, face-powder and and they needed more room. They were foundation cream. You can get House of Westmore seared at first by the size of the places Make-up at toilet goods counters everywhere. they looked at—especially Gene, who'd spent his New York years in hotel rooms and small apartments. They finally rented what still seemed to them a mansion. But though the rooms were spacious, they were simply furnished. And one of the bedraoms could be easily converted into a sunny nursery for the baby. And their friends, the Dick Whorfs, lived on the~same street. And in time they'd get used to a kitchen where you had to walk from the stove to the refrig- erator, instead of just reaching. : baby talk... ‘ key commeiete On Broadway, Betsy was one of those Warner Bros. Studios, | overnight sensations in Saroyan’s The ollywood * | Beautiful People.” Her baby’s the reason a she doesn’t go back to work. She won't have In 25 and 50 cent sizes —regardless of price, you can- not buy better. paper flying and laughter and hug maybe a tear or two. Practical g and a bedrest and comforter for Sue, the expectant mother. Sports jacket and suede - shoes for Alan—who was just as tickled as if he didn’t know they’d have to be put in moth balls till the war was over... - People dropping in all day. Fifteen for turkey and plum pudding at five, with Alan carving. It’s a job he hates. But Sue likes the bird brought in whole, brown and noble-looking. So he grunts and carves. ... Much later that evening. The guests ‘had left. Sue and Alan sat watching the fire burn down. He spoke of his mother. She’d died in ’37 before he became Alan Ladd of the movies. Too soon to enjoy the years of ease that would have followed the years of struggle. Too soon to share his happiness. But Ladd, tough guy of the screen, re- mains her son. ; “Tf she could only have waited,” sighed Sue. “If she only knew—’ He spoke with the quiet conviction of faith. “She does know.” | | OLIVIA | THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE “DE HAVILAND (Continued from page 47) ; ET a nurse because the baby’s bound to do something cute today that she didn’t do yesterday, and heaven forbid Betsy shouldn’t be around to see it. Gene’s pretty deft about doing infant chores, while protesting loudly. “Who, me? Kelly, the movie actor? Change a baby’s pants? You must be crazy.” He’s nonchalant now, though he used to be a little tense. The one time he really got scared was when she was three weeks old and wailed through the night. Betsy was still in bed. He had 60 pages of script to study and a 7 o’clock call. Chasing between his script and his child, he grew distracted. “She hates me,” he informed’ Betsy gloomily. “I can see it in her eyes.” At 14 months Kerry’s such an agreeable girl that her dad likes to hear her bawl once in a while. “Just te prove she’s not slap-happy.” He addresses her indis- criminately as Dopey or Angel, and is firmly convinced that she’s going to be a- dancer. This stems from the day when she pulled herself up by the edge of a cigarette table, stood on her toes and admired herself in the mirrored top. Like him, she’s a night owl. “Won't go to sleep till you hit her over the head.” This fails to bother her parents, who don’t go by the psychology books. Deaf to the cries of the orthodox, they’ve been known YOU, UNDER THE MISTLETOE There'll be mistletoe this year, just as there’s always been. And plum pudding. And dancing and fun. But when your conscience keeps nudging and pricking, you can’t be very gay, can you? Especially when you think of all the fellows who aren’t around this year. The Red Cross needs you . needs your nimble fingers and your quick, unfuddled mind. _They need you in a hundred different ca- pacities. And you need them because they give you a chance really to do things, to be of genuine use. Get down to see the Red Cross people today at your local chapter. Ask them what you can do. Then go and have the best darn Christmas ever! —

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aa to haul her downstairs at 3 A.M. to meet the people. “Trains her to cope with life,” the Kellys maintain. The one thing she resents is the end of a meal. Take the spoon away, and she _ sputters all over her bib. Pop eggs her ~ on. “Attaboy, Kelly, stand up and fight.” ; Like most families in wartime, the Kellys _ now have a maid and now they don’t. - Betsy takes the maidless intervals in stride. _ “So what, lots of people never have any help.” She looks like something moonlit out of a fairy tale, but there’s nothing frail about her capacity for work. for the love of pike... She loves to cook—learned partly by watching her mother, partly out of a book. _From Gene she learned to cook fish. She’d always loathed it, but the first time they went out to dinner, he took her to a fish place and—well, you know how it is on your first date—she choked it down— Gene, for his part, is a convert to cus- tard, her favorite dessert. But only the way she makes it. Otherwise it’s still pablum _ and the hell with it. He’s also one of those who can’t understand why God made little vegetables. Betsy serves them and looks hopeful, but that’s as far as she'll go. Things don’t matter enough, says Betsy, to make a fuss about. Dishes, for instance. She hates them. _ Gene hates them worse. So she washes _ them. Once in a while conscience pricks, and he offers to help. He’s the Sunday chef. “The way I slave Sunday mornings!” They eat heartily around noon—melon and potato cakes made from leftover spuds, and scrambled ~ eggs—no one, brags Kelly, can tie him for scrambled eggs, they’re’ eider down—and _ honey from the comb and sausage or bacon, . for which they save their ration points. Betsy goes to the butcher in pigtails and what Gene calls her “Claudia” look. “Takes _ a mean advantage of the guy’s protective _ instinct and brings home the bacon” By 3 the neighborhood kids have gath- ered in the backyard for a game of kick- ball. Gene’s nuts about kids, and it works _ both ways. They call on him for aid, _ advice and plain conversation. One lad, a doctor’s son, lugged his printing press over _to be admired. “Got a business scheme I’d like to talk _ over with you. Thought I’d print my dad’s _ cards and leave ’em around at doors. Drum - up a little trade.” _ “Did you tell your father?” “No, I want to surprise him.” _ Gene persuaded him that the surprise _ might be on the other foot, and switched _ him to selling War Bonds. _ Keenan Wynns, _ Walker, _ There’s always someone around to sing nothing important, darling . . . A Ask them what made the first year the rdest, and they’ll eye you blankly. Gene vers first. “If I’d married anyone else, e’d be a million things. Not with Bet- aes “CHIC” PERMANENT WAVE HOME KITS include everything you need for beautiful, long-lasting hair curls and waves. CHIC" is safe to use for women and children. No experience needed, no machines, no electricity or driers. Just follow sim- ple illustrated directions furnished with every package. CHIC” Home Kit at 59c, also includes quality shampoo and wave set. COMPLETE Get "chic" at all DRUG, DEPARTMENT, And VARIETY STORES sy. She’s so serene. her—” “What's there to bother me?” “Well, I read too late—” “All right, you read too late.” “Once I read till 7:30. You thought that was silly—” “It is silly, but not when you do it. How about rhe? I mislay things—” Once she left her ration books in the glove compartment of Van Johnson’s car. * They were having dinner that night with Van and Nancy Walker to celebrate Van’s birthday. He tried to slip Betsy the books under the table, but Gene caught them. Chin in hand, he regarded his wife. “What did I ever marry you for?” Next day he went off to Columbia— where he’s on loan for “Cover Girl’—in- advertently taking her car keys along with his own. At noon she was on the phone. “Nothing important, darling. Just, what did I ever marry you for?” There is also the hat question. Gene has a flair for women’s clothes and yearns to see Betsy in ravishing hats. Any hat on her head makes her feel like a snared pigeon. Ever hopeful, he buys them, and she doesn’t wear them. Last winter they were going to New York to see her folks. His Christmas gift was to be a fur coat for the trip. As a fillip to this lovely sur- prise, he designed a little fur hat to go with it, and took his creation_to various shops —where they gave him that here’s-a- sucker look and told him what was wrong with the hat. In the end, he found an ap- Nothing bothers preciative soul who respected his genius and made the thing the way he wanted it. Betsy wore it to the station and as far as Pasadena, and that was the last time he saw it on her head. “I did wear it,” she protests. “Once last year, and once this.” p A few weeks ago he thought he’d found the solution. A beret. She’d love a beret. They were casual and cute. But it had to be right. Not too floppy, like most of them. He scoured the town and finally found it at Bullocks—the ideal shape, the ideal shade of brown for her coloring. “It’s beautiful, Gene,” she said. BOnly——w “Only what?” “Well—I don’t know when I'll wear it.” At that point he gave up. He’s got a temper but he never gets mad at Betsy. Bad manners rile him. Take the modern ¢c’assic example—the guy who sees you make for a parking spot and cuts in ahead of you. Then he really explodes— jumps out, arms flailing, Irish vocabulary unleashed. What makes Betsy mad are people talking in the movies behind her. Gene gives this the haha. “Mad like a butterfly. She turns round, gives with the appealing smile and says, ‘Please.’” ; At Gene’s first preview, Betsy got so excited she cried. “Thousands Cheer,” his latest, was recently released. It belongs to Kathryn Grayson and to Gene. In it, he picks up where he left off in “Me and My Gal” and goes on—a long way—from there. We don’t know whether Betsy cried at this one or not, but thousands cheered. 7:

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Take KURB tablets only as directed on the package and see how KURB can help you! | year: into very serious trouble. If you were born in Taurus (April 21-May 21) Love: Glamour near home till August,. especially powerful May 5-29. Great popularity starting July 26 for about a love and social life swell, with a high point Aug. 11-Sept. 3. Family: Opportunity centered in home, family life till July 26, especially around June. You may change your locale here, get off to a new start in an altered en- vironment. , ‘ , Employment: Steady work likely; whatever is done consistently benefits you. Unselfishness pays high dividends. Progress via routine leads to recognition, success. Travel: Short trips in April, May; longer ones, or more permanent removals, in June, late October, November. But don’t be jumpy: nearby things demand attention especially after June. Report says that Marine students under Lt. Tyrone Power learn more in two weeks from him than they learn in months from anyone else. Ty’s_ horoscope shows suc- cess in the armed forces. This year in- creases his popularity and his luck. Change around the end of May starts the ball roll- ing for him in a new direction. Something about love or children takes stage center in’ his life. Anyone heard any reports that Annabella is expecting? Could be, this year. Even though Alice Faye Harris is look- ing forward to a blessed event, it looks like trouble for her and Phil. Starts in late March, early April, gains speed in late June and becomes decisive soon after. It’s possible that this will take some form other than a split—divorce isn’t the only trouble a married couple can have— but if they survive together this bear- ing down of the planets, nothing will ever break them up. But will they? If you were born in Gemini (May 22-June 21) \ Love: Glamour catches hold for a long stay. Romance and good times are a per- manent part of your life. Marriage chances increase after July. Have fun, look for lasting ties. Family: New home conditions in lat- ter half of the year make for happiness. Could mean a home of your own. Employment: You'll work hard for what you get, but can win by persistence: New start in routine matters in October- November should be grasped confidently. Travel: The most permanent thing about your life seems to be change. Be ready for anything. Trips, new starts, new locales especially likely in June-July. Johnny (Gemini) Payne leads the male 20th Century fan mail poll, doesn’t seem to get less popular in 44. Fact is, he can zoom in the service, may turn up with _ medal. He has courage, the capacity to take chances and get away with it. Danger at the end of May, end of July, through September, bears watching. = Paulette Goddard’s secret heart may make her Mrs. Secret Heart this year. She’s under very magnetic influences, can charm ’em plenty. She’s also got lots of luck developing now, which can bring Temperament can trip her at the end of June; before the luck comes, there’s by indisereet, badly-timed flare-ups. — oon ee ~~ 1944—WHAT WILL | (Continued from page 45) ean get back in the chips this year by her financial stability for a long time. 4 chance for her to stymie it, lose heavily Errol Flynn’s troubles won’t b till after March, and actually, ti the end of June, he has to watch h Then it’s smoother sailing with less of — the limelight on unpleasant things. He ~ conservative means, but has to look out for financial loss if he lets his impulses run away with him. He’s going to have a tough time settling down, but apparently makes the effort in the last six months of the year. The house in Mexico will cost — | him plenty, may prove a headache. Errol isn’t stable enough yet to make a go of it, will cut and run from the settled es- — tate probably in late November or De- cember. Looks like ‘globe-trotting, the cover-up of a serious heartache. If you were born in Cancer (June 22-July 23) Love: Take it seriously! You can at- tract older men, establish something sound and lovely. April-May find you magnetic; October-November can clinch things. . Family: Put down roots of your own, avoid being rutted in the past. Avoid dis- _ cord at end of June in putting family relations on a new basis. Employment: Decision right after Jan. 20 gives you a grip on routine. Every- thing’s changing around you; stick-to-it- _ iveness makes everything better. Changes of work, or attitude toward it, from Oct. 23 on, should be achieved discreetly. Travel: Look for it after mid-July, es- pecially through the end of August. A brief trip may lead to unexpected results. Olivia de Havilland’s got to make up her mind about something important. Love hold’s stage center—she may_ thi she’s hurt before the end of March and crawl into her shell. She’s awfully sen- sitive, anyway, and now her capacity for feeling misunderstood is tremendous. She'll decide this year whether to go on with pictures or not. She’s got the making of a recluse, despite her roman- tic history. Marriage? That’s hard to say. She’s a very complex little person, doesn’t know what she wants or how to get it. If you were born in Leo (July 24-August 23) Love: You can get what you want this | year, especially May 23-July 12. A friend jj may turn into a sweetheart swiftly, with lasting results. ff Family: Relatives, neighbors, those close by are important; but home-life § isn’t the most important thing to you now. § You make and achieve happiness by be- | ing unselfish with those who share your § daily life. Ke Employment: Big chances for gain | after July, through things done- quietly, | without boasting. Even if your role seems | behind-the-scenes, results are worth it. Travel: Frequent short trips_likely, | long ones not. Change, October-Novem- ber, may bring removal to a nearby place, for keeps or at least for a long | time. a oe Bob Taylor’s health needs watching, | January-June, and especially at the end™ of March. Danger from accidents and to} the heart is present. He’s a natural lead-| er, has plenty of daring, can lack judg-# ment wlten courage or ego is challenged. # Bob’s sense of duty and personal worth} are terrific, a combination that makes a strong fighter, a b leade dari

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f you were born in Virgo (July 24-August 23) Love: gets more important this year; Ou acquire lasting friends after June, are magnetic (July-August), can find real ve Aug. 11-Sept. 3. Be ready for hap- iness! : Family: Leadership is expected of you n your circle. f you seem over-burdened, look on responsibility as opportunity. Establish _ your duties, stick to them, avoid rebellion, breaks, temper especially after Nov. 25. Employment: Swell opportunities to progress, achieve recognition, success. Luck smiles especially after July. Take the lead, win friends, influence people and stabilize bank account. Chances to -do all are numerous, the influences bene- fiting you stable and enduring. should be used up in a vacation trip. A short journey (Oct.-Nov.) can lead to unexpected change. : ‘ __Virgo-born have zoomed in "43: five Virgo's were top-flight stars in 43, only one in 742. Leading them all was Alan ‘Lada, getting more fan mail than Val- entino in his prime. Alan has long-lasting get. Both have lots of luck especially in the last four months. : George, reported on duty in the Pacific orthwest, is delayed and apparently held ack till after mid-January. Then it looks ke travel and far places. Donald O’Connor’s jitterbug career is probably over. Very likely it’s the armed forces for him—he’s just 18—and the end of his movie career. Might marry that elf. If he escaped the terrific planetary QUIZ CLUES (Continued from page 65) Set 3 1, Marital mix-up 2. Button nose 3. Ex-member of British Guards 4. Rebecca’s successor 9. Juarez ). British import . Stashed college plans for Army camp tours . Starred with Stevens . Radio wren — . Frog-throated gag man . Friend of Fonda . Hummingbird ; . What the boys in the back room will have '. Genial, bandman 3. Thriller diller . Returned to H’wood opp. Bette Davis | Sweet ’n’ simple _ (Answers on page 92) Travel: Restlessness (July 13-Aug. 29) _ $1.-50c-25c-10c Why have women bought over 25 million HAMPDEN POWD'R-BASE sticks? Because it does more for their complexion than any other make-up foundation. NEVER CAUSES DRY SKIN Helps hide lines, blemishes. @ it really does! Makes powder cling indefinitely. @ it really does! Gives a smooth, youthful appear- ance. @ it really does! HAMPDEN'S powder base is the cream stick that really spreads evenly and cleanly . . . is applied directly to your face, without water or sponge . . won't dry out your skin! Try it—and you'll have lovely make-up always. POWwD’ Buy Bonds FIRST -BASE influences operating then, he can live orever, even though it did make him 4-F, Van’s looking for his ideal woman, and it’s not an easy search. He wants perfection. Look hard around the end of July, Van—maybe you won't have to be lonesome any more. If it isn’t Judy Garland, look for an older girl. Van has the makings of a great dramatic actor, will start bigger roles soon., If you were born in Libra (September 24-October 23) Love: Libra is glamour and love, and now it’s emphasized by very favorable. influences. Keep ideals high to get what you want and hold it. June-July, and Sept.-Oct., find you irresistible. Family: You incline to be self-centered, must be ready to take on responsibility after the end of June. Look out for re- sentments, bad judgment June 20-July 5. Elders may look to you for a lot: Be happy to do your share and maybe even more—it’s your way to happiness, even if obligations seem to cramp you. Employment: Look for betterment after July 26, for swift-developing chances July 13-Aug. 30, for gain Oct. 14-Nov. 25. Travel: Expect anything; far places hold widening opportunity. Jan. 20-Mar. 28 can take you almost anywhere. Be pro- gressive, don’t get into a rut—the essence of your development is found in change leading to increased standing and prestige, perhaps far from where you start. Greer Garson should be lovelier than ever, go on to new highs of popularity— she’s likely to become the first lady of the screen and hold the place for a long time. The latter half of the year is difficult for her, may require her to drop every- thing for something dear to her in per- sonal life. She values her love for Richard Ney above anything, will go to him with- out hesitancy if he needs her, and he may. If you were born in Scorpio (October 24-November 22) Love: A friend may become a sweet- heart (Sept. 29-Nov. 25)—you can meet someone through relatives who'll be im- portant if you’re taking your emotions seriously. Family: Change in family status can widen your scope, bring you new op- portunity and advantages, though you may feel more “on your own” than be- fore after the end of July. Don’t keep ex- pecting too much from elders. Employment: You gain through co- operative effort, via chances coming Jan. 20-Mar. 27. Those whose Opinions count favor you May, June, July. Seek added prestige, popularity, responsibility. Good things come your way if you keep con- science clear, self-respect high. Travel: Need to stand on your own two feet takes you to far places where there’s opportunity after the end of June. Your world enlarges—grasp opportunities to “Go places and do things” confidently. Roy Rogers is going great guns, seeing new parts of the world and riding the crest of a wave of popularity, especially after the middle of the year. A woman is important in his life and helps his luck immeasurably this year. Good year for Roy to buy property for long-term hold- ing; a new start at the end of the year gives him a push in the right direction. If I have Hedy Lamarr’s correct birth data, 1944-5 are crucial years in her life, bringing big change and a new viewpoint. 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Crikistivies OF 74s: BUY WAR BONDS FOR CHRISTMAS %* THE PRESENT WITH A FUTURE % ON SALE DAY AND NIGHT AT MOTION PICTURE THEATRES or some similar center of the 5th Free dom. Money runs through her fingers; she has to look out for debt, sponging friends and hare-brained financial schemes that appeal to her get-rich-quick impulses. If you were born in Sagittarius (November 23-December 21) Love: Feet-on-the-ground till June prevent costly breaks, keep you calm for glamour to come later. Idealistic tie can claim you May 23-July 12, can lead to swift, glamorous marriage and a new life for you. But look before you leap—don’t marry just to get away from something you don’t think you like! Family: You're likely to be resenting all kinds of restraints till the end of June. Elders seem harsh—but take it and like it! Your opportunity to “be yourself” comes later: don’t hurry it rebelliously. Employment: Opportunity zooms after June; take on new responsibility, aim for a new high of prestige, earning power. Favor of important folks is yours May 23-Aug. 29 if you don’t let ego and tem- perament put you in a false light. Travel: Distant places beckon May 23- July 12; take trips, perhaps establish your- self permanently elsewhere. Avoid jump- iness, fickleness of purpose—wherever you go, have some purpose bigger than just plain adventure; thus make adven- ture mean something lasting. Mrs. Harry James is slated to be just Betty Grable again before the end of 1944, according to the way I read the planets’ influence in her chart and Harry’s. Plenty of glamour surrounded. both of them when they were married last July, but by mid-1944 the sober real- ities of life have cracked down, and it looks splittish, even though a little James is on the way. Too bad. Neither chart is too good for marriage, and there’s more pressure on them than they’re likely to take together. ; Frank Sinatra’s a Sagittarian who’s sky- rocketed in ’43. He won't hold the peak he does now, for the englamoring in- fluence passes. Hope he’s saved his money—but it wasn’t till August that ‘Prank Sinatra owned Frank Sinatra 100%.” Till then, his partners, bosses, promoters and managers took most of what he made, typical of the influence that splot-lighted partners in the lives of Sagittarians. Frank’s a lot more stable than his sanctified sex-appeal career, will | be better off in every way when the smoke clears, and he isn’t quite so mag- netic. He may not make so much money, able to enjoy life. If you were born in Capricorn (December 22-January 20) Love: Best social periods are Jan. 29- Feb. 21, and Oct. 14-Dec. 11. This isn’t a glamour-year for you, but there’s a chance for a good, permanent tie after the -énd of June, if youre grown-up enough to value what’s offered then. Family: Peculiar conditions with el- | ders, who'll either expect a lot of you or swing to the other extreme and tend to spoil you. Be a mature, responsible benefit you tremendously. 5 Employment: Regular daily chores develop past the drudgery-point, lead to self in connection with work Jan.-Mar. 28, assume more responsibility along co- operative lines. : E Travel: Swift developments in June- July can take you far, cause a kind of break with the past. Be courageous, grasp- ing new opportunities at a distance, with- out auarreling with those you may be but he'll prosper financially, be better member of the family group; an adult can _ recognition, advancement. Better your-— <— y — e OO ee {S- (e =t £ —_ = Spee mony

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é fee a ane rg We eav. eh éhind. July 13-Aug. 29 good for rips, removals. ang Judy Garland takes on responsibility— both are lonely at backgrounds and probably will. But there must be deep and sympathy between better than even that, having got acquainted, they’ll click. Basically, both are afraid of _ being hurt, but may discover in each _ other precisely the safe refuge they seek. If you were born in Aquarius - (January 21-February 19) Love: Good stable influences heighten your popularity and magnetism through- out this year; restrictions drop off after _ the end of June. You’re slated to get some- _ gagement, marriage before end of July _ thing that’ll make you very happy. En- individualism doesn’t family lines this year; relatives at a distance, are ant than those close by. Make _ sure you don’t hurt those you love most by neglect. Employment: Routine won’t appeal to be you till after the end of June; then you'll find that your continued happiness de- _ pends on consistency. Look for practical ' ways to lead your own life in the last six months of the year, by taking on _Yegular duties soberly. _ Travel: comes easy to you; you seem to take it for granted, can spend lots of time moving from place to place. Op- | portunity lies afar, even though it en- tails a lot of. hard, consistent work. Go places and broaden your outlook. _ That baby of Lana Turner’s came just in time to worry everyone. Born in Leo, _ Sign opposite her mother’s, she came just a week before an eclipse, and it ' wasn’t till the day after the eclipse that ‘little Cheryl was pronounced out of “danger. Lana’s got a swell year ahead; 3 2 eS on - she goes right on, works hard, and every- one keeps right on loving her. Health com- plications in June, July, August tell her to slow down, rest. If she doesn’t she can make unhappiness for herself. Love’s im- portant for Lana, but low vitality this year can cause temperament and trouble which by common-sense moderation she can avoid. I can’t get Steve’s birth data, but if Lana’s chart is any index, and it prob- ably is, their marriage should last. Capt. Ronald Reagan, U. S. A., is rarin’ to go. He’s doing important work where he is near home, but in some Way seems to be in the thick of things December 1943- January 1944, Maybe just an extra press of work that finds him in the middle, but it looks like action of some kind. If you were born in Pisces ° (February 20-March 20) Love: You'll have to take yourself seri- ously this year, to benefit by the social- love influences. Jitterbugging won’t bring out the best in you; but there’s a chance for the Real Thing, especially after July 26. Be alert to chances for engagement, marriage. Sones Family: Changes at home start popping right after January; you or your family may move. Whatever has. been looking like a restraint seems to be removed; elders are easier to deal with. Strike out on your own—you might even be start- ing a home of your own! Employment: Excellent chances Jan. 20-July 26, especially May 23-July 12, bring progress, gain. Assume respon- sibility in your job, to benefit by expand- ing chances later. Travel: Change can mean travel, and since change in. home-life, fundamentals, is likely, you can look for travel, a new locale for your home and family. A long trio Oct. 14-Nov. 25 is excellent. Betty Hutton has marriage high- lighted this year, though it may be no more than an off-again, on-again proposi- tion. Her career takes a new turn; she seems to get more mature and serious- minded, can surprise everyone by doing roles of depth and importance. She’s got a touch’ of genius, has Betty, and great self-assurance. Watch health, last part of the year, Betty ... and look out for gossip in November and December. NEWS ES (Continued from page 29) 2 ‘Projection room where he spent day after ‘day reviewing old Clark Gable pictures. The (studio wants Jimmie to learn to emulate the ‘Gable voice. \Brass Buttons: _ By the time you read this, Alan Ladd will ‘be wearing tweeds instead of khaki and (Preparing to make your hearts gladd with ‘more characterizations as deft as those in “This Gun For Hire’ and "The Glass Key.” |The serious recurrence of difficulties caused iby old swimming injuries b first, in a hospital near his Army base. Later he was moved to a second hospital (where he could be given more ‘specialized tmedical attention. Sue, frantic, of course, left Hollywood immediately to remain with ‘him. At present it is not known whether (Surgery will have to be undertaken or not. _ The only certain thing is that he has been \given an honorable discharge from the Army. Cr * * - EYou can't, no you can't, no you really, teally can't, oh, you can’t get them up in me morning . . . Reveille, kids, with hot licks in the sizzling Harry James manner. ~ bedded him> In the barracks, bestirred by a_ boogie- woogie beat, foggy joes sat up and aimed an appreciative ear. “What a war,” said one. “Getting bugled out of bed by Harry James!” . Yep, he was hep. The terrific trumpeter has recorded all of the Army bugle calls, and these are being used on all posts where recordings requlate the khaki life. However, when the first group was recorded, some of them were rejected and had to be done over again. Harry, who may some day soon be awakened by his own music, thought that the rejection might have been caused by his mild addition of a few jam session Passages. Investigation indicated that even the colonel was a brother under the tin—he liked the variations as well as any ex-gator in the Army. The difficulty was entirely in the technicalities of ithe waxing. So, on the set of “Two Sisters and a Sailor,” the Pied Piper of Pin-Up Girls re- recorded several of the bugle calls before Gn appreciative audience of officers from nearby Army posts. Music has charms to Sousa Savage beast. ” * * LOVELY HAIR WILL DO ITS PART If your man is hard to capture, And his eyes keep wand’ring round, Here’s a helpful “guide to glamour,” (Lovely girls have found it sound) Menlovehair that’s brightand shining, Dancing highlights catch their eye, If your hair is dull and mousy Sweet romance may pass you by. Let Colorinse come to the rescue, Use it after each shampoo, _ Colorinse adds richer color, Lustrous sheen and highlights, too. Pek _ Try Colorinse and you'll discover __ Glamorous hair makes glances linger, f ! _ You'll thank us for this “guide to glamour” oo As he slips his ring upon your finger i] idl i { ') hee Bet hill r=) Ss. FOR YOUR NEXT PERMANENT, ASK FOR “e=* A NESTLE OPALESCENT CREME WAVE

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A: A real Christmas, with comradeship and laughter. @: How does one send comradeship and laughter in a package weighing not more than five pounds? A: By sending something that will enhance the man’s popularity. So Paulette sent Burgess Meredith a huge box of vitamin pills to keep him healthy, and four pair of nylons (her last) with six lip- sticks (different shades) to make him popular. There is a chap on Hollywood Boulevard who will tell you that Captain Clark Gable is one of the finest characters on earth. This chap has long earned his living by making briar pipes. Along came the war with the result that his shipment of briars from Eng- land was stopped. : But recently he received a parcel from Captain Gable, who had been a peace-time customer; the parcel contained enough briars for many, many pipes, so the chap is flourish- ingly in business again. Dinah Shore is now addressing all those "Corporal George Montgomery Letz” letters to an A.P.O. number, probably one trimmed with fur. George had one idea and one alone when he was inducted: to get overseas aS soon as possible, preferably to some post where his knowledge of languages would be useful. He excels at Russian especially. He was blond and dashing. He wore the slate blue uniform and the gallant cardinal cap of the Fighting French. From his expres- sion it was obvious that he was concerned with his own thoughts, hence utterly oblivious to the interested glances of strollers along New York’s Fifth Avenue. Suddenly a sub- jitterbug stepped up and-said, “Excuse me, M’'sieu, but may I have your autograph?” That started it. In a few moments Jean Pierre Aumont was the astonished vortex of a circle of laudatory fans. It was his last day in New York. The day before he had kept a promise to Universal, by putting Maria Montez Aumont on a Hollywood-bound train. When Maria arrived in Hollywood, how- ever, she had a roaring case of influenza, caused partly by change of climate, partly by her previously heavy picture schedule and partly by her wretchedness over Jean Pierre’s departure for a combat area. * * * _The Domestic Scene: His head was bent. He walked slowly about. His dark eyes scanned the expanse of the sound stage with great concentration. “Any luck today?’ someone asked. Our hero pursed his lips. “One this morn- ing,” he admitted, but added with a sigh, "none this afternoon.” : "Bny contributions?” the friend queried further. ‘ Le Mr. Charles Boyer turned back the lapel of his coat to reveal four safety pins. “The script girl gave me two yesterday,” he said. Explanation: When the Boyers bought the layette for their youngster (due in December), they remembered to buy everything, but every- thing, except safety pins. So prospective-papa Boyer has been collect- ing pins from every possible source. Trying to buy them in Los Angeles is like trying to buy an excursion ticket to Biarritz. * * * Ingrid Bergman's five-year-o - Pia, was a recent visitor to the set of “Gas light” where she incited the crew to riotous laughter. Someone asked Miss Pia if she wanted to be an actress when she grew up. “No,” she said definitely, “I want to be a — director like Mr. George Cukor, because a | director is the only person who can tell my mother what to do and she will mind.” — Somewhat later she was seated comfortably on a ladder, watching the filming of a very - difficult scene. In the midst of the take, Miss — i Pia—who had watched her mother in acertain | pose studying her script the night before—piped shrilly, to the utter destruction of the sound track, “You're not doing it right, Mother. You're | supposed to be lying on your tummy on the | bed when you speak those lines.” Director Pia was hustled off to the confines | of her mother’s dressing room. 4 * * * Bette Davis, thinner, quieter, but obviously if enjoying her work, has told everyone in the © studio how delighted she is that Claude Rains i} was given the role of Mr. Skeffington. Paul — i} Henreid was originally set, but refused to i do it because he felt that he wasn't right for | i | | the part. Finally the part came back to Rains, || who was on the Warner lot under contract, a fact that-Bette had pointed out repeatedly. -Gowned in one of the frilly dresses of the period, Bette was chatting with a set visitor be- | tween takes. Something about a magazine | article entered the conversation, and Bette said | naturally, “Farney was such a lot of fun when ifr I was working on that. He and the writer and Ig spent a lot of time together. He kidded the | life out of both of us.’ Her tone was entirely || natural. Once again, as she has before, Bette || appears to have accepted a major event of || her life with a courage which has extracted | the sweetness from memory and left all | bitterness to those of smaller heart and || narrower vision. iy * * * This department, striving as it does to brin happiness to all, has a super-duper announce- ment to make. It has to do with “Shoulders” Johnson,. otherwise known as Van, a sterling || character who is to tweeds what Frank | Sinatra is to a microphone: a swoon-maker. || Recently a group were having luncheon in . | the Metro commissary, and someone kidded ip Van about a girl he admired. Van, grinning, admitted that he had been squiring an aggreg I tion of lovelies. But, he added, it was all part || of a system. He really wanted to meet the right | a il 7 i | | j | Quickies: : ; Hs The good neighbor policy is about to get an | : elevator ride when esta rubia, Veronica Lake, ' - goes to Mexico City as a guest of the Mexican | | Government. She will be accompanied by | § her close friend, Rita Beery, but she will leave! i her chubby young daughter in Hollywood || -with her nurse. 4 The Bob Crosbys are painting their baby} ! buggy for a third occupant, due in the spring.|) Miss Cheryl Christina Crane, nicknamed }} “Cherry,” is losing her babyhood black hair} and becoming a blonde like Mommy Lana. Jj ° Ann Sothern went down to Texas to be near} her husband, Bob Sterling. After an elapsec} six days, she had spent exactly three hours} with him, so Ann sent for her sister to com keep her company. . ate q They do say that wee Bonnie Baker will marry Lt. Holly Morse of the First Motion Picture Unit when his decree bec in . Another bit of 1 imer ) : ee et we the lo O ft e

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=" oo SS pave aie sea “HIGHER AND HIGHER” PRODUCTION _ (Continued from page 33) s -. SS around on all the big hook-ups. They’re not kidding about this being a real filmusical.. . Jack Haley plays the same part in the movie that he did in the Rodgers and Hart Broadway production of “Higher and Higher” back around 1941. This is definitely a pre-war affair. No tears or worries, just wise-cracking by Haley at his best and swoon stuff by Sinatra. . It’s Michele Morgan’s first comedy in this country, and Frank’s first crack at acting, He did appear in a picture recently ‘singing with T. Dorsey’s band, but gosh, in this, he walks, talks and sings, too, all for the same admission price! <) _ We've got a Cinderella in Barbara Hale. She started out as a model in Chicago and has only been in pictures a quick six months, doing bit parts. In “Higher and Higher” she not only got the second feminine lead, but gets to kiss Sinatra, marry him, ‘n everythin’! ... Tim Whalen, the director, is getting himself a reputation as a perfect jinx—the nice kind this time. The man’s positively psychic as far as picking out talent goes. He’s the lad who discovered that Victor Mature Was nothing short of a dream man, and a whole year ago, he cooked up this deal with Sinatra. If that isn’t foresight ’r somethin’. — “HIGHER AND HIGHER” STORY (Continued from page 32) SS ee ee buy one, sir,” Byngham said. “It’s seven o’clock by the sundial.” yelled. “Get this “Mike!” Mr. Drake man out of here.” Mike O’Brien sat up sleepily on the other enormous bed in Mr. Drake’s bed- room and rubbed his eyes. He looked at Byngham and nodded. “O. K. Byngie,” he said. “He’s up now. Tll take over.” Byngham nodded imperturbably. He crossed to the door and lifted Cyrus Drake’s jacket from the floor. He dusted it off carefully. Reaching through the pickets he extracted matchbooks that showed that Mr. Drake had visited, in succession, the previous night, the Club ala, Happy House, The Tombstone, The Pelican Club, the Bit O’ Paree and Lefty Houston’s Third Avenue Bar and Grill. He also extracted a letter. The letter was still sealed. : “The letter, sir,’ Byngham said. “I’ve been telling you about it every night for a month. It is still unopened.” “Well, mail it,’ Drake said. “What aca I paying you for?” y “It was mailed,” Byngham said. “It wa mailed to you.” ; “Terrible service,” Drake said. “I'll have to talk to the O. P. A.” — Mike said: “Leave it there. [ll take care of it now.” When Byngham left, Mike got up a little groggily and picked .up the letter. “Want me to read it?” Mike said. _ Cyrus Drake sat up in bed once more, shook himself thoroughly and said: “Busi- ness before pleasure. Read it.” __ The letter contained two paragraphs. The first one, in words of three syllables or more, made a point about bankruptcy. _ “It means,” Mike said pleasantly, “that DO YOU CHOOSE? LOVELY GLAMOR-GOWNS On DRESSES TO CONCEAL— on the outer layer of the skin. If or when your psoriasis lesions recur, light applica- tions of SIROIL will help keep them under control. Applied externally, SIROIL does not stain clothing or bed linen, nor does it interfere in any way with your refunded basis. SIROI FOR SALE AT ALL | DRUG STORES | ADDRESS. | Siroil Laboratories, Inc., Dept. E-1, Detroit 26, Mich. Siroil of Canada, Ltd., Box 488, Windsor, Ont. Please send me your free booklet on Psoriasis. NAM Write today for interesting booklet on Psoriasis, using coupon— | CITY. ST f id Sees Beautifus ITF POEMS WANTED To be set to music. Send your song poem today for free examination by nationally famous hit composer. Our new 6 step plan is most liberal and complete ever offered. Write today for free booklet. SCREENLAND RECORDERS Dept. M, Hollywood 28, California. RHEUMATISM e ARTHRITIS - NEURITIS e Get Mendenhall’s Number 40 from your druggist or by mail postpaid for $1.25, Money back if first_bottle fails to satisfy. J. C. MENDENHALL MEDICINE CO. Dept. D Evansville, Indiana THERE'S NO SHORT CUT TO VICTORY Keep on buying more WAR BONDS Q) AT ALL TO: STORES FOREST CITY PRODUCTS, INC., CLEVELAND, OHIO Be Your Own MUSIC Teacher LEARN AT HOME FOR LESS THAN 7c A DAY how. Soon you may become an excellent musician. Mail coupon for our illustrated Free Book and Print ana Picture — ee ee ee 1, NY. U. S. School of Music, 1441 Brunswick Bidg.,N. ¥.10, N.Y. Please send me Free Booklet and Print and Picture Sample, I would like to play (Name Instrument), Have you Instrumeni?........... Address ..,

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~ T i ps agen \= -youre broke. In a_word, washed up!” “Qh,” said Cyrus Drake; he slid back to the pillow again. “Wake me up in a half hour.” At eight-o’clock promptly, Cyrus Drake rose, dressed carefully and walked down the gilt and gold staircase of his New DOING A BIG JOB entered the baronial dining room lit for dinner. The dining room, that is, was lit. He inspected the long, beautiful table for a moment and then decisively walked to the swinging doors that led to the spa- cious kitchen. family retainers ... “You are all invited,” he said to the servants, “to dine with me tonight.” That is exactly how it happened that Mickey and Marty, footman and first maid, Hilda, the upstairs maid, Byngham, the butler, Mrs. Whiffen, the cook, Millie, the slavey, Oscar, the chauffeur, Mike O’Brien, valet extraordinary, and Sandy, the social secretary, happened to dine with Cyrus Drake one spring evening. At the dinner table, Cyrus made a short speech and to the point: “Friends,” he said, “T’m broke. The bank says so. They added up all the numbers, and it came out minus.” Marty said: “All the dough that’s been in the family all these years!” “What are we going to do now?” Hilda asked. / “Yes,” Drake said, picking at the food, “what are we going to do now?” Mike O’Brien said: “Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I got an idea.” Byngham said: “We can use one.” “The Drake name is still money in the bank. Top drawer. Best in New York. Now if he had a daughter—” “T have one,” Drake said. “You have one!” _“She’s with my wife.” “Where’s your wife?” “There are some questions,” aR WEST'S ‘O" she was in Switzerland.” “What’s her name?” * i Take care “Pamela.” ; of our “Now if Pamela Drake were in town,” splendidly, flanked by Cyrus Drake on i IN CARTONS : y Mike said excitedly, “she’d be able to one side and by Mike O’Brien on the ! : health and hook herself a guy and a million bucks other. In the second of the two boxes, hb in no time at all. She’d be terrific.” Katharine Keating, whose place as Num- your job ‘But,’ Byngham groaned, “we don’t ber One Deb of the Year, had seemed | know where Pamela Drake is.” secure until Pamela Drake had arrived, J} x etdaught sat haughtily, flanked also: on one side, her _ Cee eG ten aay mother; on her left a rather languid “So what?” Mike said. “That’s fine. gentleman who went by the eet! from Made hy the makers of the famous 50¢ DR. WEST'S MIRACLE-TUFT TOOTHBRUSH era en NOW! NAILS ~/* AT A MOMENT’S NOTICE NEW! Smart, long tapering nails for everyone! Cover broken, short, thin nails with Nu-Nails. Can be worn any length and polished any desired shade. Will ae not harm nor soften nat- ural nails. Defies detection. Waterproof. Easily applied; remains firm. No effect on nail growth or cuticle. Removed at will Set of Ten, 20c. All 5c and 10c stores. AL ke ke kw ke we ke kK To protect your nails against injury—infection, breakin or discolora- tion, always wear NU- NAILS! Marvelous protec- tion for defense workers, housewives — women everywhere. : kkk kk ak ARTIFICIAL 2 N U-N Al LS FINGERNAILS 5251 W. Harrison St., Dept. 15-A, Chicago slavey, just suppose,” he said, came Pamela Drake!” of making Millie into Pamela debutante, So natural WBZ they even have half moons. joy to the eyes. member. Who are you?” “No,” Mike said. “Pamela Drake.” “Yes, Mike.” Don’t you want, to be “T don’t know, Mike,” “Why not?” Mike groaned.: Sandy said: “Maybe she’s in “With whom?” Mike said. saw any guys around.” “Well,” Sandy said, love.” York mansion, crossed a small hall and ~ Drake said, “that I leave alone. Last heard from, Neither does anyone else. Now just sup- pose—” his eye traveled over the table; Mickey to Sandy, from Hilda to Mrs. Whiffen and then finally to Millie, the looking up at him excitedly. “Now “that Millie be- The plan was so simple, it was fan- tastic. Mike O’Brien took over the job Drake, heiress of the Drake millions. Millie was beautiful. Under the drab of the servant girl’s costume was pure gold. Transformed, Millie was a willow, poised ‘and beautiful; dressed in the best Fifth Avenue had to offer, she was breathtaking; coiffed, manicured, shining, she was a pure Mike O’Brien stood back and_ looked at her: “Wonderful,” he said. “Now re- “Millie.” + “Put a little more enthusiasm into it. Pamela Drake?” she said slowly. “IT never “maybe it’s the Cae guy next door. It's a possibility. — “What guy?” Mike said. 2 Re, “She waves to him every night through pra. 4 the window.” “Yes, he’s nice,” Millie said. “Who is he?” Mike said. es | Just then the door bell rang. It wasa ~ |f young man, a _ little thin, with large, . | pleading eyes. There was something very appealing about him. He was carrying i a bouquet of flowers. The servants gath- ered around him curiously. But when he saw Millie, he walked toward her boy- ishly and extended the flowers. _ “You haven’t waved the past few days,” he said. “I thought you were ill.” “Is this the guy?” Mike said. “Yes,” Millie said. “That’s him.” “Who are you?” Mike said. The fellow grinned at him modestly: “Pm Frank Sinatra.” Mickey, the upstairs maid, fainted. “Sinatra,” Sandy said faintly. — “Thank you for the flowers,” Millie said. ; “Not at all, Miss—Miss—” “Millie.” Mike O’Brien yelled: “Pamela Drake. She’s Pamela Drake. Millie’s just a nick- name.” . f “Oh,” Frank said, puzzled. “Funny, I thought she just worked here. I was go-— ing to ask her to wear the flowers to the Butlers’ Ball. My chambermaid in- vited me to sing there.” “Qh, I’'d love to go to the Butlers’ Bally Mike said desperately: “Of course, you're going. You're one of the patrons. Don’t you remember they invited you to sponsor it this year—” , Millie ‘said: “What?” Mike said hurriedly: “So long, Frank. Glad you dropped in. See you at the Ball.” He opened the door and almost pushed . the pleasant young man out. The Butlers’ Ball glittered sedately in one of the fanciest ballrooms of one of New York’s biggest, handsomest hotels. In the boxes that lined the balcony two groups eyed each other rather hostilely. In one of the patron’s boxes, Millie sat Wilton Fitzroy Wilton, K. B., Mike O’Brien leaned over and whispered in Millie’s ear: “See that thin slice ‘of corn by Keating’s side? Take a good look at him. That’s your next husband.” “But I don’t even know him.” “A detail,” Mike said. “That's the boy we're after.” . bumpsi-daisy . - - On the stage now, Frank Sinatra was singing, his voice almost caressing, soft, whispering of romance and moonlight. The orchestra played softly behind him, weaving a spell of magic around the melody. Katharine Keating and Sir Wil- ton rose to dance. Mike was on his feet. “Come on,” he ‘said. “That’s our cue. Here’s where we meet Sir Wilton.” They circled the half darkened floor, and in Mike’s arms, Millie looked up at his face. “I like to dance with you.” “Do you?” Mike said. : = “Do you get that feeling?” Millie said. “you're walking on air. You’re away from this world floating higher and higher.” “That’s just Sinatra’s voice,” Mike said. “Maybe,” Millie said. “But maybe it’s—” Mike said tensely: “Now!” He twirled her out and, caught by sur= prise, Millie almost stumbled. She triec to recover. One leg went out awkwa dly - ie Taras: ae ci co er a er = aes

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He saw her at the Debutantes Dan- sant when Millie was voted Number One Deb of the Year. Everything went won- derfully. It was only a matter of time until he proposed. And Mike O’Brien saw to it that Sir Wilton got his chance to propose. He arranged a party at the Drake mansion. half a love... “This is the big night, kid,” he said to Millie. “This is when we collect on all the bets. This is the payoff.” “You think he’ll propose tonight?” “If he doesn’t, you can put me in a corner and call me dopey,” Mike said. When he left, Millie stood despondently by the window. Someone came into the room and sat down at the piano. It was Frank Sinatra. Frantically, she motioned to him to come outside and meet her. He looked at her, puzzled. Then he under- stood, nodded yes. Millie slipped out the back door, hurriedly. She thought no one saw her, but Mickey standing in the shadow of the stairs, saw her go out. “Frank,” Millie said to Frank Sinatra, “you’ve got to help me.” “Sure,” Frank said. “Were you ever in love?” “Well,” Frank said. “Well, no. Not yet.” “IT am,” Millie said. “That’s fine,” Frank said. “The man I love wants me ried.” Frank said, “Good fellow.” “He wants me to get married to some- one else.” ° “What?” Frank said. “Say that again.” They had come down the street and into the park. Under the soft lights a night wind whispered between the trees. The music welled up, and Frank’s soft voice took up the refrain. Then out of the darkness, Mike O’Brien came storming. “Listen, you imitation bird,” he said heatedly. “What are you doing out here?” “I asked him,” Millie said. “Well, ask me to take you back. Sir Wilton’s burning up waiting for you.” “Mike,” Millie said softly, pleadingly, “do you want me to marry him?” “Sure,” Mike said harshly. “And that’s all I want. 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You're beautiful.” She looked up, seeing him: “Am ye “Wonderful,” he said. : a woman's privilege .. - She came toward him walking a little sadly. When she passed the music box she lifted the lid curiously. The old gay music spilled out. She laughed, and she was going to drop the lid. “Wait, let it play,” Mike said. “Tt’s music for you. Dance?” They waltzed slowly around the musty old attic. Mike was looking down at her softly, fondly, holding her gently. “You don’t want to marry Sir Wilton,” he said, “do you?” “No, Mike. Not really.” “You don’t have to,” he said. “I didn’t know it before. I can’t make you do rns There was a Clatter of steps on the attic floor, and Byngham, Drake and Marty broke in. “We thought you ran out on us,” Byng- ham said. “Sir Wilton’s suspicious.” “Tet him,” Mike said. “Millie isn’t go- ing to marry him.” “What!” Byngham yelled. “Listen,” Mike said harshly. “The kid’s in love. We can’t make her marry him.” “We need the money,’ Byngham said. “Millie’s going to get married to the guy she loves,” Mike said. “To Frank Sinatra.” Behind. Mike an open dumbwaiter shaft yawned. Marty yanked Millie and started her out of the attic. Mike moved. But not quickly enough. Byngham . was even quicker. He pushed. And Mike tumbled into the waiting dumbwaiter. running interference .. . Tumbling out of the dumbwaiter at the bottom of the shaft, Mike found him- self in a large room that he had never seen before. It was a huge panelled room; in one corner was a tremendous fire- place. One wall was lined with wine racks. Mike reached for a bottle curious- ly, blew the dust off, read the label. Then suddenly he understood. There had once been a tavern on the site of the Drake Mansion, back almost in the days of New Amsterdam. The meaning of the whole thing dawned on him. The in- valuable old furniture, the wines aged enough to be worth their weight in gold: money! Millie didn’t have to marry Sir Wilton! He realized suddenly that he could hear the whisper of voices. Checking, he found an open vent in the wall. The voice he heard was the voice of the preacher reading the marriage ceremony. The voice droned: “. . . anyone who can show cause why these two people should not be joined in matrimony . . a If he could hear voices, Mike thought swiftly, they should be able to hear his. He shouted: “There is cause. She isn’t Pamela Drake. She’s Millie. Just a servant!” And he spilled out the story. He grinned as he heard the shouts of consternation wafting down to him through the wall yent. That stopped the wedding all right. Stopped it cold! : So he was Waiting for them when they broke into the room, Byngham and Drake and Marty and all the others, fighting mad. But when he got through explaining to them about the old tavern, they calmed down. Fis: ‘Byngham said: “My apologies, old man. Stay here and take over this place for us. We can run it as a night club. You BA hee lined the sides: in. one “No,” Mike said, “1 Just tell Millie to Frank—” ie Se ae He walked out quickly before -them had a chance to stop him. out and left it all flat. He wanted away. Maybe he’d forget Millie, forg girl with the large, charming smile. She wasn't for him. She was for another guy. Just pull up stakes, then; get away— f ; So it wasn’t until two months later that the news came through to him that Frank Sinatra had married Katharine Keating. And when he heard it, he came raging back to New York, back to the Inn on the site of the old Drake mansion. He found it full of charming people. It was a success, the biggest night elub success in New York for a decade. It had an air, different, amusing. But he didn’t stop to look at it. He was searching for a face, a smile. He walked swiftly through ar $1 FOR YOUR THOUGHTS We love getting letters. Who doesn’t? But, unlike other people, were offering you an out-and-out — bribe. 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Through the swinging doors of the kitchen he could hear the orchestra playing, of Frank Sinatra singing of love and romance, moonlight and the touch of lips in the dark. But he didn’t need Sinatra to tell him about love now. He didn’t need anything. ; All he needed was Millie. CAST Vine is ress cieecee Michele Morgan |¥ Wikers > seen: Sees vais Jack Haley || Frank Sinatra........ Frank Sinatra — Drake acne eee Leon Errol Mickey ..........-- Marcy McQuire — Katherineseemic ss: eer Barbara Hale Hilda .............-Grace Hartman |) Byngham ....-0..+-+> Paul Hartman |} Sdndy.p.65. 0 haste Mary Wickes | Marty 9 os su-icc cieente Mel Torme — Oseat teh eee aria Dooley Wilson Mrs. Keating. Elizabeth Risdon | Mrs. Whiffen ..... Mr. Green.. . i. to get et the © lovely eyes ahd the’ through to the kitchen. He i and over it came the soft voice |

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He was rushing down the corridor, one arm full of clothes, and a bottle of Clorox under the other, when a petty officer suddenly emerged from the chief's quar- ters. “Where are you going, mister?” Ne gas ~~ ATS months in boot camp, he kn “pass, : be allowed an occasional week-end pass, — so he sent for Sheila who joyously moved north. She finally found an apartment large enough to accommodate herself, the phonograph-recorder she couldn’t force herself to store, and the few other things she and Gig really needed to set up war- time housekeeping. Then she settled down to being a Navy wife. She learned in the first two weeks that the greatest problem was loneliness. If Gig didn’t get home for two weeks, that meant day after day of cleaning an already spotless apartment; of cooking for one; of being remote from friends and familiar surroundings; of having too much time to think about her family, who are prisoners in the Philippines. She talked the situation over with another Navy wife with whom she had made friends. “Why don’t you get a job?” the friend asked. ~ j ; “Pm not much of a commercial asset,” confessed Sheila forlornly. “I've never worked, so I don’t know a thing about an office.” : \ “You could learn, couldn’t you?” en- couraged the friend. “It’s no trick to learn- ing filing or switchboard operation.” When her friend made an appointment for Sheila with the office manager of a defense plant, she filled out the applica- Gig explained. “But you’re supposed to be seeing a movie with the other men,” the petty officer said coldly. “Who gave you per- mission to be absent?” Naturally, Gig didn’t want to get the subordinate officer into trouble if per- mission shouldn’t have been granted, so he stumbled over a few words, mumbled a few syllables and started to extend one arm in a gesture of pure amnesia as to the officer’s name. The gesture was too wide; the bottle of Clorox, spurting a dozen small rivers of chemical, promptly . crashed onto the “deck.” Without a word, Gig and the officer darted to the far end of the corri- dor to get an armload of swabs to clean up the mess. , Vigorously they worked side by side. Some of the Clorox had even seeped un- tion forms with a. trembling hand and der the chief’s office door .. . luckily high hopes. The manager said, after he wasn’t there at the time. When the scrutinizing Sheila, “I think we can use you. You strike me as_ being the sort of young woman who will get on well.” Sheila proved, in short order, that she was an exceptional wife in more ways | than simply learning business routine in a rush. She has only one ration book, of course, because Gig isn’t allowed extra deck was dried, Gig was allowed to go on about his washing without further explanation. Oh, yes, he borrowed the Clorox belonging to another boot. navy biues... 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However, Gig awakened groggily one night, under the impression that he was at home and started to get up. That first step was a bad one. The next day he suggested that the sleep walker be a Young house guest over the next week-end. “You can sleep on the couch and spare yourself some bruises,” said the prospective host who had learned the hazards of an upper bunk. With this descent of hungry service men upon her kitchen in mind, Sheila bought up a supply of macaroni and spaghetti. By adding fresh tomatoes, as much ham- burger as her red coupons will afford, fresh or canned mushrooms and plenty of seasoning, she keeps a kettle of simmer- ing stuff ready to blitz salty appetites. Perhaps the greatest change to take place in the lives of Sheila and Gig is their return to comparative anonymity. They had just reached the stage in Hollywood, where they were generally recognized wherever they went. If “Old Acquain- tance,” the picture in which Gig does such a stratospheric job opposite Bette Davis, had been released before Gig left, he would really have been on the gravy train. One night he was hitchhiking from the base to town and was picked up by an obviously well-to-do citizen of consider- able culture and background. This citi- zen launched almost immediately into a description of his daughter. She had just appeared in a high school drama. “She’s got the stuff. She’s an actress, all right,” said her fond father. “Why, she’s remark- able! Do you know that she memorized 50 pages of script and NEVER FORGOT A GINE.” The father talked on. His daughter was going to a dramatic school next—then she would probably be trained in some little theater. “Provided she doesn’t get married,” said the father. “That girl will have her name in lights some day’ They drove on in silence for a few yards, then the man asked Gig, “What were you in Civilian life?” : “An actor,” said Gig. The man regarded his passenger through pince-nez glasses. “That so? How did you get started?” “When I was in high school I was in all the plays,” Gig explained cautiously. strictly the ticket... The man cleared his throat after having given Gig another brief glance. “Well,” he said comfortingly, “not everyone gets to be tops in that profession. It requires an extra something. Now, that girl of mine . .. shell have her name in lights some day.” After Gig had thanked the gentleman for the ride, hé stood on the corner and watched the sedan roll down the street. “Your name in lights,’ he said thought- fully, grinning to remember the watts | he had been given for “Air Force.” He adjusted his white cap; he straight- ened his shoulders. He looked down at his navy blue arm. “Brother,” he said, “it’s going to be a great day when I get that red chevron and that crow on my sleeve. Yes, sir, a great day. Pharmacist’s mate, third class. 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By the time the girls arrived at camp, the bangs strongly resembled the twiggy flotsam tossed up by the Mississippi after a flood. “The heck with it,” said Betty. “Glamour is a snare and a delusion. From now on it’s going to be just the kid her- self.” The kid herself did all right. She lost her voice every day because of the aban- don with which she entertained the boys. Then, at night when she should have been getting sleep, her hotel room sounded like the inside of a cave during a rock slide because of the uninterrupted knock- ing. Everyone who could walk in tri- cornered pants or with two canes wanted an autograph. She and Doris, after three such noctur- nal experiences, perfected a plan. Doris always occupied the room assigned by the hotel clerk to Betty, and vice versa. Doris would open the door and hold a slim fore- finger to her lips. “Miss Hutton is in an- other part of the hotel—asleep. You’d better be quiet or you'll awaken her, even on the next floor. Besides, the rest of the guests are complaining, and you know that if we get thrown out of here, there really isn’t any other place to stay.” The nobleness of human nature always won; the callers went away quietly, and Betty—in sleep—reassembled her disper- sed voice. “Girls on camp shows soon learn that, in addition to possessing the stamina of a commando, it is useful to employ the tact of a diplomat. j ice After a performance there were always a dozen elegantly eligible young officers small, HE MEN | LOVE (Continued from page 25) she visited the officers, too. to share her own boundless energy with 70s ae Scr | rounded, dimpled but aggressive, would — look up, up, up into the bronzed faces and announce fiercely, “You can’t take Betty out unless you take me out, too. That’s official. I have to keep an eye on Betty; she’s always getting herself into predica- — ments unless I’m there to protect. her.” | Results were phenomenal. Brass buttons | with honorable intentions laughed and took both girls out on the town; wolves silently slunk away. Surprises on a trip of this kind are al- ways many. A boy from Brooklyn barged up to Betty one day to demand, “Will you autygraph me arm?” Betty obliged, using his pen which was said to contain in- delible ink. The task completed, the over- joyed soldier contemplated his arm with solid satisfaction. “I ain’t never going to wash it again,’ he vowed. Someone was always saying to Betty, “I was in Philadelphia, when you sang there with Lopez. How are things up in the old town now?” Or it was Cleveland, or Memphis, or Denver or Des Moines. Nearly always Betty could tell them something about the town—the name of the hotel at which she had stayed or the name of a restaurant at which some famed pre-war food could be found. It was a connecting link with home for the homesick kid in khaki. As Betty came off the platform one night, a dark-eyed boy with a shock of curly hair, took her gently in his arms and kissed her in a manner that would have sent the Hays office reeling for a schooner of smelling salts. The entire epi- sode happened so fast that Betty was un- able to forestall it in the first place, and the impact was so profound that it took her a few minutes to begin to struggle, in the second. Then, with words massed on her tongue like bees ready to swarm from an outraged hive, all Betty’s ire was dis- | pelled when the boy asked pardon. “You're | the first girl I’ve kissed for nearly a year. And I won a bet big enough to take me home on my next furlough, so I can kiss my real girl,” he confessed. “Gosh, you're i swell.” es Not all the experiences on such a trip }} are joyous. Betty made it a practice to } visit the hospital at each camp; a good many entertainers call on the enlisted men, then rush away for lack of time. Betty refused to discriminate in this way: As she strolled along one corridor, she |}, spied a man in an oxygen tent, so asked | to enter. The nurse considered for a mo- | ment. “His condition is critical,” she ad- }) mitted. “The doctor doesn’t think there is much hope for him. You see, he’s lost | interest in everything; he makes no effort | to get well. He just lies there without even | so much as moving his head if he can| avoid it.” , | conundrumming major . . - That. Bettv had to see. No one can ex- I. plain those things—least of all peripatetic, } hep cat, jitterbug Betty—but it may be I] that some instinctive thing made her want! the weak and sick. She tiptoed in, beaming. “Hi, soldier,” she f§ said. “He’s a captain,” whispered the nurse. }j “They should put rank on pajamas, 1} guess,” grinned Betty, saluting. “W) are you from—just give me a hint and see} if I can guess the town.” — ee hi

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With difficulty he whispered, “A river named after a state flows beside a capital.” Betty’s index finger pointed to her fore- head; her features writhed as she smeared thought all over her face. The captain’s accent was soft, his voice was easily local- ized. “That, now,” said Betty, imitating the accent, “sounds like Austin, Texas!” The captain’s right hand moved out to take Betty’s in congratulation. She chat- tered. She told about making a personal appearance there. She tramped around the room in a perfect lampoon of a cowboy on Saturday night. Softly she sang, “Hand me down my boots and saddles.” The next day, as Betty was leaving the post, she met the nurse who was off-duty. Jubilantly she told Betty that the captain had eaten what was, for him, a terrific breakfast. His entire condition had im- proved to the point where the doctor was positive the man would live. murder, she said... On another occasion the blonde blitz al- most lost her zoom. She was rocketing through a ward, stopping at every bed to shake hands with the occupant, finding out where the man had lived, then remi- niscing about his home town. She rushed up to this particular boy and thrust out her hand. He shook his head, then—so that she might not think him ungracious—he lifted the cover with his left hand to reveal a bandaged right stump. Betty swallowed hard. But her expres- sion didn’t change. Pity, she knew, would have hurt him more than he could have endured. The casual attitude, the flippant crack was the only possible refuge. “Gosh, looks to me like you had an accident, bub,” she said lightly. The boy relaxed. He grinned, then laughed. “You’ve got something there, Betty,” he agreed. Abruptly he began to ask her questions about Hollywood about make-up—‘I’m lucky, see. 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H114, Drexel at 58th, Chicago 37 On the sidewalk two children were tak- ing turns riding a tricycle, while a third child was pulling his kid sister in a little red wagon. A pretty woman emerged on the porch when a car drove up and called, ‘Darling, were out of bread. Do you mind picking up a loaf at the grocery?” The masculine voice boomed from the car. “Okay. Say, honey, come along with me for the ride.” “This, brother,” said Betty in a small his script, his bottle of pop and his buttered the borscht circuit that he acquired his passion for buttered matzoth. Every morn- ing Mom cleans the crumbs out of the bed. He used to start taking his clothes off at the door and finish up in his room, leaving a trail behind. “Saves bother,” he’d ex- plain. “Next morning I can put 7em back on the same way.” Since they bought the new house, he hangs things up. First, he’s got more clothes—described by Mom as all drapes and droops—and he’s reached an age where they mean more to him. Sec- ond, when a guy has a couple of nice rooms, like his bedroom and playroom, floor. The playroom, glass-enclosed, is his pride and joy. It’s done up in rattan now, but Jack gave him a white polar bear rug for his birthday, and rattan doesn’t go with polar bear. So after the war he plans to fix it up with brick glass and blue mirrors and modern stuff—that’s his idea of gorgeous. Big, beautiful blue mir- rors and brick glass and white fur rugs, zowie! They can always stick the rattan in the backyard. It’s okay with Mom. She trusts him that much, to let him do what he wants with his own room. He hates waking up fast. He wants to float for a while. While floating, he croons his favorite Crosby tunes. Sometimes Mom has to wake him up fast, so she turns the light on or starts talking to him. He hates having the light turned on, he hates being talked to. “I’m asleep,” he growls. “Tell me when I wake up.” Still asleep, he shuffles to the piano and plays his two solos—boogie-woogie and classical. The classical’s “Clair de Lune,” the-boogie-woogie’s nameless. Still asleep, he dresses and eats—cornflakes every day in the week. Mom eats with him, but there’s little conversation. He’s still asleep. He trails the body outdoors, gets into the car, and the miracle happens. The min- ute he hits the car, he’s wide awake. Cars are to Don what babies are to their mothers. On the one hand, they thrill him to the depths. On the other, he can make them sit up and say momma. Give him a ear to build or pull apart, and the world is his. The gift of gifts, on his birthday, came from Mom—a Jaguar 738, righthand drive and all. She meant to surprise him, but got so excited herself that she spilled the beans ahead of time. When the car was delivered, Don circled it for a full five minutes. 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The kids grow up in happy homes. Everybody belongs to a woman’s club, aes ; en and the country club. They have solid- | 47? ity and permanence. Happiness, kid SOMETHING FOR THE GIRLS (Continued from page 41) $e her. “Now I believe it,” he said. He hadn’t been driving it more than a month when someone backed into him in a parking lot and dented a fender. He didn’t say a word—just drove out, went half a block, turned round and went gun- ning back. “Where you going?” asked Gwen. “Back to fight.” 5 ‘What's the sense of that? Why didn’t you do it rightJaway if you had to?” “First I thought, what’s the use? Now I’ve got myself steamed up.” ; When he gets that tight look on his face, you might as well keep quiet. Gwe kept quiet. : The guy was still there. Don jumped out and pointed to his fender. “See that? See that—?” “Yes,” said the guy. “It’s awful.” ‘Vll say it’s awful. That's a new car. If my fender’s getting dented, I’d like the pleasure of denting it myself.” “Ym terribly sorry,’ said the guy. “I'll be glad to pay for it.” se said Don, climbed in and drove off. “Feeling better?” asked Gwen. “No. He was so nice I couldn’t start a brawl. But I’m still more mad because I couldn’t start a brawl.” He hates arguments, but feels the nee of a fist fight now and then. Takes it out in boxing at the Y and yearns just once to muss it up in the ring. “Out of town ' 1 somewhere,” he pleads with. the powers— ik: that-be. “Under a different name.’ The idea leaves them cold, so he compensates by going to the matches Friday nights. Gwen doesn’t like them, but goes along and hides her face at the worst parts. Don | ‘ae doesn’t act excited. All he keeps saying is, “Left jab, left jab, left jab.” But then he’s just naturally deadpan. | He can slay the rest of the crowd without fF moving a muscle. | an Englishman. Or the time they hap- 9} pened to see a smash-up, and everybody: ff got out and started arguing which. car | hit which. “Iet’s draw matzoth,” said Don, | “and decide.” Came the audience re- | sponse. “Yeah,” he agreed, “that was | pretty funny. said it so I could’ve laughed.” He wants his women to look nice. “wear something young. terday looked like you're somebody's \ “And what’s the idea, did you run out | of lip rouge?” res “Oh, get along with you, help the wrinkles.” . “What wrinkles?” he asks. “Bless you,” she answers. Like when he imitates 9 son, That won't Somebody else should’ve | <r fh you're coming to the studio,” he tells Mom, ff That hat yes- ff The dress he likes Gwen best in is the | F one she wore on their first date—yellow’ crepe with pleats all round. The suit she — likes him best in is a brown-and-white | stripe. He used it in “The Third Glory,” | he was supposed to catch and tear it. in e Pry ne ee pa: ee ee 2S OE each OS eta le cielo I” eee. - his coming picture. 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an electric fan. He kept saying “no.” 3 “But why, Don? The studio’ll make it Zood.” — : “It’s not that. Only—well, this is my girl’s favorite suit, and I won’t tear it. Not for anything.” _ He’s generally late for dates. With the program lined up for him by Universal, _ he’s got so many darn things to do that _wnen he gets home, he’s torn two ways. ¢ Wants to hurry so he'll be on time, and doesn’t want to hurry so he can relax. ___ Anyway, you can’t dress in a hurry. He _ found a hair on his chin a few months ‘ ago and shaved it off. Now he’s got enough hairs so he has to shave every day—he thinks. Also he’s fussy about the hair on his head—and about his teeth, which he brushes 99 times a day. And he’s got to get all the drapes and droops right. When he finally presents himself at Gwen’s door, there’s likely to be a box under his arm. Not flowers. Some fuzzy animal. They both love fuzzy animals. ‘Gwen's bed 1s piled high with specimens brought by Don. You can’t be too sore at a boy who brings you an animal. BIG BOY (Continued from page 27) aa face. “Sonny Tufts,” he said before he’ _ could catch himself-and blushed purple. _ Made a quick recovery, though. Hang- _ ing on to the diploma as though loath to _hand it over, he eyed the young giant ' sardonically. “I'd never have believed it,” _quoth President Seymour. __ It took a good five minutes for the _ howls to die down, and no one howled -any louder than Bowen Charleton III. _ Except for anthropology, his major, he’d _ gone clipping through college at a fast 61. Too busy rowing, playing footbaii and organizing bands. __ Among his curiosities, he preserves the _letter his mother wrote him when he announced that he was going to Yale. The first Tufts settled in Winchester 300 “years ago, and the family hasn’t moved three square miles since. So Harvard’s _ been a tradition with them. Sonny plumped for Yale, because that’s where his crowd at Exeter was going. “Yale,” wrote his mother in stately measures, “may be for some people. Not for us.” '_ Mother’s a Beacon Street stalwart, and ‘Sonny gets a bang out of her ways— especially since he broke loose at the age of 14. (They amused him less when he wanted to play football Saturday af- _ternoons and had to go riding instead, because nice boys went riding.) A year _ago he was doing night-club work. When “people inquired, Mother’d go vague on ‘them. “Oh, we don’t know exactly where ‘Sonny is just now—down in New York ‘somewhere, doing something or other—. ‘Tell me, how was the season at Newport last summer?” E “So_ Proudly We Hail” brought her “round. The home town turned out in ‘Style for the local boy. Sirens and po- dice escorts. Cameras and reporters and yelling crowds. Two lines of ushers to ‘get Kansas out of the theater in one piece. Mother was impressed. The camera- men wanted pictures of her meeting with Sonny, and she played up like one to the business born. : __Dad was a different proposition. All that mattered to Dad was guts. A banker himself, he did tentatively suggest that ‘his elder son might like to follow in his footsteps. When Sonny pointed out that ‘the couldn’t even keep his checkbook Straight so how could he be a banker, Dad conceded the point. do From there he was off. Banjo, sax, guitar, i d on up to string instruments. Then he started organizing bands, he ed for the drums, which were easiest made the most noise. His first sing- models were Eddie Cantor, Bea Lillie the Duncan Sisters. He sang with the Trinity choir. Mother thought that was lovely. She thought it revolting when he learned all the songs from “Topsy and Eva.” Dad roared, got him to the piano when people were at the house. The showdown came the sum- mer he was 14. Tito Bruin was a Harvard boy who liked Sonny’s work on the drums. He had a_band set for a Mediterranean cruise. “How'd you like to make the trip with us. kid?” Sonny would have made a trip to the moon with big Irish Tito—a swell Pianist, a guy who said phooey! to society stuff. Besides, he was flattered. tramp in white linen .. . That started the pattern, which con- tinued through Fxe er and Yale. At col- lege he organized %?s ewn band for the cruises. Winters ‘hev’d play at girls’ schools, at proms ard house parties. Sum- mers they’d sail the sotirhern seas, get off at Naples, play Rome, Florence, Venice and catch the boat back at Trieste. Once he missed the boat and shrank from wiring home for money. Money meant nothing to Dad, but initiative meant a lot. In one white suit he took himself to Barcelona and hired out as stoker on a tramp. Only thing—he forgot to ask where the boat went from there. It went around Spain, by river to Seville, down to Casablanca and the Gold Coast. 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Send me your booklet and full par- ticulars about your course. ‘ oR ycesuRe it AND port 'N. W. Age BEE RBBB ESSE =SS8an —State City = | yourself something special.” 'Egli’s office at Para., Sonny So when they landed, Sonny checked his — drums in and, as they were crossing the bridge, dropped the check into the water. There’s nothing like recognizing your own weaknesses. He knew he'd never have the heart to sell the drums. No drums, no band. He studied opera instead through his senior year. Then to Paris for more study. Then to New York, where his ambitions got a sudden shot in the arm. A friend of his knew Earl Lewis, as- sistant director at the Met. Lewis ~hap- pened to let fall a testy remark. “Where are all these American tenors you hear about?” “T know one,” said the friend promptly. . “Tell him to come down.” In a blue funk, the operatic aspirant tried to wiggle out of it. His sponsor led him by the hand to the stage of the Met- ropolitan. In the glare of a spotlight, with terror beating his brains out, he sang. Ap- parently his voice was unaffected. They said it was fine. They told him to come back after he’d studied some French and Italian roles. Mother was elated. She phoned every week to find out why he wasn’t at the Met yet. This time it was Dad who seemed a little leery. Dad would have enjoyed the outcome of the story, but he didn’t live to see it. He died while Sonny was still doing this opera stuff and left a trust fund which made possible further lessons at 45 bucks a throw. Meantime Sonny had practically immured himself behind a brownstone front, where he pecked out scores with one finger. In the midst of all this, Leonard Sill- man offered him a spot in “Who’s Who.” Tf the truth must be told, Sonny was growing weary of the Spartan life. Its rigidity cramped his natural spirits. To make the Met, he’d have to go on study- ing for another two years. Hie did all right in musicals. He did all right at night clubs. But not till he took Dad’s advice, did he\ go over big. “There are one million voices in these United States,” said Tufts to Tufts. “Get So, tongue in cheek, he sat down and wrote a little fantasy about a cowboy who first got tangled up, then fed up with a society dame. He wove it through a medley of cowboy songs, presented the number in his big bashful way and plunk! he was a headliner, pulling down three times as much as any but the top singers at the Met. Which failed to console Mother, ~ Meantime he’d married. There was this girl in “Who’s Who” he’d been traveling around with. She ups and introduces him to Barbara Dare, her best friend. One look at the tall, soft-eyed brunette, and brother, that was all! Four months later they hustled over to New Jersey and got married. Officially, Sonny was still studying for the opera, so they thought they might as well keep it to them- selves for a while. | They came out to California with an angel and- a hotel manager. Alexis Thompson was the angel. He’d been a ‘year behind Sonny at Yale and thought his friend ought to be in pictures. Not only thought it, but did something about it. “I’m going out to California on my last fling before I join the Army. Til take you and Barbara along. Tll get someone to act as your nursemaid, front for you at the studio—Jack Donnelly, say. Vl sign a contract with you and pay you a sal- ary. That way, you don’t have to let them push you around. Just sit till they offer you something good.” | Jack Donnelly’s a little red-faced Irish- man, Having spent ‘his life in hotel busi- ness, he’s innocent of the subtleties of the movie game. So he pushed right into Joe trailing right behind. in “Would he now, O€ Sonny blushed and headed where Egli nailed him with an app sweep from head to toes. “No harm i giving your friend a test,” he observed. For his singing test Sonny did the cowbody medley. For a dramatic test, they gave him something vaguely familiar and stood his hair on end—“we have only ten days—let’s make them bubble like vintage champagne—” “Ym strictly a lunk,” he groaned, “—a cigarette-in-the-side-of-the-mouth-guy. I can’t talk like that—” 5 “Talk,” they said. So he gagged it. : ui mock romeo .. . Two executives watched the test run off. One scratched his ear. “Hither the guy’s sensational or he stinks. I can’t ‘figure which.” “Tet’s figure why they gave him Charles Boyer dialogue from ‘Love Affair, and we may get the answer.” The answer came out right. They signed him. Mark Sandrich gave him the star-building part of Kansas in “So Proudly We* Hail.” At the preview, his first appearance was greeted by silence. When he lumbered on for the second time, they took the roof off—RKO snatched him for “Government Girl.” Sandrich grabbed him back to play opposite God- dard in “When I Come Back.” He and Barbara are in San Francisco now, where most of the picture’s being shot. You wouldn’t think it to look at her, but Barbara’s domestic. With her height, her dark beauty, her smooth Spanish hair- do, she suggests the exotic. Instead, she’s incurably sweet and feminine—the Mel- anie type, her husband calls her. He has | yet to meet the person she dislikes or | criticizes. Only one thing bothers Sonny. Movie stars are supposed to be immaculate. He thinks that’s a pain in the neck. He’d sooner have a tooth or his appendix out, than his nails manicured. He went through “Government Girl” in one pair | of shoes and never had ’em shined. His hands are always grubby, his hair’s al- | ways mussed. When it gets too bad, Bar- | bara takes a comb to it. In New York he blew his topper and invested in a fancy suit of pajamas. They lie unmolested in his drawer, while he goes to bed in a broken-down T-shirt. “Fine thing,” says his wife. “What did | you buy them for?” “To wear when I play my next Boyer | part,” grins Kansas. QUIZ ANSWERS (Continued from page 12) Lana Turner Jane Wyman Ray Milland Joan Fontaine Paul Muni - Barbara Stanwyck . Dorothy Lamour . Fredric March . Roddy MacDowall . Jane Withers ja . Nelson Eddy ; 12. Judy Canova . Rochester ~ . James Stewart . Deanna Durbin . Marlene Dietrich . Kay Kyser . Carole Landis . Paul Lukas . Joan Leslie = aE) aes 7 He BSonr aR WN }

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