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> sok tb bb ob tb bbb ab bbb bb bb bb bt bb bb bb bb bb bbb bbb tt tt tf >t bt tb bt tt OO Published in this space every month The greatest star of the screen! “IN snappy salute is in order—as M-G-M brings ““See Here, Private Hargrove” to the screen. KR Oe The Big Studio has made a very special issue of the best-seller G. I. story! KOK SKK Robert Walker whose own private life reads like a composite biography of the average private, plays the title role! Walker worked in a garage, punched cat- tle in Texas, jerked sodas on Broadway, survived a wreck at sea, then turned to the film-world for more excitement. KO LK OK He made his bow to picture-audiences as the sailor-boy in “‘Bataan’’—followed this with a role in ‘“Madame Curie”. His checkered past partly accounts for his splendid performance as the naive rookie. xk kk hO* “See Here, Private Hargrove’ should be seen. It’s definitely in the nature of acommand performance forevery sweet- - heart, wife, mother, dad and kid brother. i) Cokin i Or even if your closest association with the service is the memory of the smil- ing kid next door! tok Ore OG M-G-M’s film is a rollicking, entertain- ing revelation of a masculine world! So ik ee IS With lovely Donna Reed providing the feminine touch—and it’s a delightful one. p Ki ee KG Robert Benchley, Bob Crosby, Keenan Wynn, Ray Collins and Chill Wills also answer to the entertainment roll call! © FO SR Ty Wesley Ruggles, one of Hollywood’s foremost comedy directors, pilots the screen Hargrove in top-flight fashion. FSU I OK George Haight produced with great gusto. Kk Ow OK OK Leo gives a hand to Harry Kurnitz for the screen play and the initial pat on the back to the newspaperman who became a private—then told the world all about it! De sek eS Sie ake Our closing phrase is a paraphrase: “See — Hear — Pri- vate Hargrove”! 7? we RU OR ee STORIES COLOR PORTRAITS FEATURES BEAUTY DEPARTMENTS DONALD G'CONNOR : ; B The toughest, wickedest, smartest kid in show biz—that’s what they said about him before he was washed up at 13! Part Us life. stony. sail eee PARAS a oareiais 6 3 S5 EVEN IN THE BEST OF FAMILIES... For all the bickering about brother-in-law, politics and bringing up Maureen, you couldn't find a moonier clan than the Reagans! . 0.42.30 52 «+ ee eee Na iets FOR ALWAYS zr It’s all so terribly typical . . . Glenn marrying Ellie on furlough, taking her up to the big city for their honey- moon, leaving her 10 days later to race back to camp “CALIFORNIA"—HERE .HE COMES! : Lon McCallister just about had H’wood in the palm of his hand, when the Call came. And now he’s off to the SODEM* SCMS. 3.55 Sais wis are ee Ps ene ooo Ss ook eels IT'S A BOY . ; i Sure, one kid’s wonderful. But~think of the thrill of a Frank Sinatra, Jr.,‘of your very own. Then yowll know how Nancy felt! Na. waits ote Sie) sce meee sroharern SINCE THEY WENT AWAY There’ve been bad times and good—like Shirley's brother in Pearl Harbor, popping up when they weren't looking HUTTON, INC. Betty thought the way to- break down a wall was to butt her head against it. Marion thought there must be other ways "LADY IN THE DARK" Ginger was having nightmares all day long until Milland barged in—and made it all a heavenly dream!........ CANTEEN KID Joan Leslie’s getting a short course on “men” at the Holly- wood Canteen . . . learning what to do about the home- sick, guy and the toughie and the calf-eyed romantic one Joan Leslie in Warners’ “Rhapsody in Blue”.............- Lana Turner in M-G-M’s “Marriage Is a Private Affair’.... Susan Peters in M-G-M’s “Song of Russia”.......... en ae Margaret O'Brien in M-G-M’s “Lost Angel”.............- Editorial Page ..........2eceeeee cer ece cscs cece oO A Smile That Glistens. ...........2 ccc cece cence nceeees Smile Routine... ..2......--. eee eee eee etre eect ees Movie Reviews....... fee aa. 2 ae 8 sharer eeenete bane Coned: i hie ei ib ee Baresi alls edie! « fare caller pete ee ened Super Coupon.............--.----. dnt ete e eee eee ae Good NEWSss oe .cKscieue ood Shae 20) oe hiaro eke tete ee oc Modern Hostess.......-.+--s+secececees PS ier moi 0 BE A CONOVER MODEL!.............-+--++e-2- ° COVER: Shirley Temple in U.A.'s "Since You Went Away” ALBERT P. DELACORTE, Executive Editor ‘HENRY P. MALMGREEN, Editor SYLVIA: WALLACE, Hollywood Editor BILL WEINBERGER, Art Editor GUS GALE, Photographer 30 36 40 42 48 50 52 55 54 56 29 10

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: M-G-M Presents A NATION! | Yes! The riotous > Best Seller is =, on the Screen! Produced by GEORGE HAIGHT by UGGLES ° ar egieiie coMt ee Ee te sna Wararove the book b rry Kurnitz. Based upon eS - evRO.GOLDWYN-MAY ER Picture

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Donald Res Y dates ehner) on ©ggy R S or USPensio en) botch hinge ei : ewy-ey By Virginia Wilson CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK Wou can’t help liking Donald O'Connor any more than you could help liking a cocker spaniel puppy- They have the same exuberance, the same endear- ing appeal. Donald, who in real life sticks to one girl like gum to your shoe, has a new leading lady in every picture. This one is Ann Blyth, pretty and charming, who can sing like the well-known night- ingale. As usual, Peggy Ryan is around, trying to get Donald to view her with something beside a caustic brotherliness, and getting nowhere. Arthur Treacher, the world’s most famous butler, is in the cast, too, playing—yeah, sure, a butler! Donald is in trouble right from the picture’s start. It’s tough when you're in love with a girl, and you find out that her mother and your father used to be in love but quarreled and parted. Ditto for her grandmother and your grandfather. It sort of cre- ates a family tradition. Glory Marlowe III (Ann (Continued on page 8)

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MAKE ROOM IN YOUR HEART FOR ALL OF THEM! © THE (Qvale ARE MOVING. IN! %* THEY DON’T MAKE 'EM eM BIGGER! ee DETER! we THEY ae MAKE ‘EM ANY GREATER / ANI BANTER: THOMAS MICHEL | Wirt fo | DARRYL F. ZANUCK’S EDWARD RYAN + JOHN CAMPBELL - JAMES CARDWELL Fs fist production since his return JOHN ALVIN + GEORGE OFFERMAN, It. As the Sutivon Boys” eat ba er | LLOYD BACON ‘ess SAM JAFFE f JHE. | Directed by ” Produced by Seer | 4 J PURPLE WN : | | ROBERT T. KANE * Screen Play by Mary C. McCall, Jr. - Story by Eaward Doherty and Jules Schermer

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f ae MM. Kerrigan KM SEVEN SE DENNIS o William Frawley Paul Pix . OF THE AS They're tal to Vic- 4 ‘KEEFE Leonid Kinskey Grant Withers : | Director—Edwarq Ludwi be ie 4 REPUBLIC DicTypr j MOVIE REVIEWS (Continued from page 6) Blyth) has a famous actress for a mother and an even more famous one for a grand- mother. But they are definitely allergic to Corrigans, and Donald is a Corrigan. Glory doesn’t know about the tradition when she meets Donald on a train on her way home from Honolulu. He is going to New York on an extended leave from Naval Academy. Extended by the head of the Academy—‘“and don’t come back until you can behave yourself!” Every- thing is fine on the train. But when they get to New York, Peggy, a young actress (Peggy Ryan), is at the train to meet Donald, and she greets him with a scene that would have done justice. to Juliet! Glory looks the situation over and goes off with her nose in the air, while Donald tries to shake Peggy off. When he follows Glory to her home, he runs into the anti- Corrigan campaign waged by _ Glory I (Helen Broderick) and Glory I (Helen Vinson), aided and abetted by Quentin (Arthur Treacher), a retired stage butler. Don goes dejectedly off to his father’s apartment, and there the first thing he hears is his dad (Patric Knowles) talking in surreptitious whispers to some guy with a Teutonic accent about “secret plans” and such. The conversation goes on with, “Be sure you aren’t suspected” and, “Tiet’s settle the money part of the deal.” Obviously Donald’s father, a commander in the Navy, has become a spy! Well, anyway, it seems obvious to Donald, who is worried half out of his wits. He does manage to solve one problem, though. He persuades Peggy to call up Glory and explain that the scene at the station was just the “ham” coming out in her and that Donald is not really her “one and own true love” as she indicated at that time. Glory is relieved to hear it. She really likes Donald a lot and thinking about Peggy hasn’t done her peace of mind any good. Now she’s so happy that she invites them both to her “welcome home” party. When they arrive and find the place full of producers and theatrical celebrities, Peggy almost knocks herself out trying to attract attention. Glory sings a song, which delights everyone. Then Peggy makes Donald do a dance with her, but by then all the producers have adjourned to the library. They are in a huddle with Glory I and Glory II, persuading them to let Glory III star in a show. Everyone finally agrees that it’s a good idea—except Glory Ill. She’s been planning to do some special war work, and anyway she doesn’t care about the theater. Donald persuades her to agree, and the producers sigh with re- lief. But the sigh changes to a scream of anguish when he adds firmly “on condition that all profits go to war relief.” Glory goes into the show, and Donald is sent back to the Naval Academy, to spend the next week -worrying over the “spy” angle. But things happen fast when you get kids like Glory and Peggy and Donald as catalytic agents. The first thing you know, all the problems are solved, and everything’s “very okay”!—Univ. P. S. This was Don O’Connor’s next-to-the- last epic before reporting for Army duty. _.. Production marks the cinematic debut of famous Quiz Kid Joel Kupperman, who was not aware of the rumors that he had been hired not only to act but to figure out the income tax of the studio’s top executives. . Joel learned his lines (Continued on page 12) ars UN WINNERS There are things you'd hate to face life with- out. Like a butter-smooth lipstick. Like good, sturdy moccasins and perfume and sweaters. Especially sweaters. Because you live in them, you're a perfect fiend about details. You've got a right to be. Lois-Anne, who styled the Glamour-Knit below has turned out a collection for Spring in baby-soft colors. The no-droop, no-sag kind! For dope on Glamour- Knits and the booklet they're giving away free, flip to pg. 74. And what better time than this to tell you that if Dorothy Gray's new scent, “Lady in the Dark,” were the only prize offered in our contest, this month, we'd still call it worth your while. Instead of stand- ing at a beauty counter fingering its gold- plumed bottle, try snagging it free through the contest. You never know! Betty Lynn in Glamour-Knit's classic slip-on sweater of 100% wool. Done by stylist Lois-Anne in luscious colors. Dorothy Gray's tender new Spring scent is caught and held in a clear crystal bottle topped by golden feathered stopper. bf >

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é = : N We bisSE throws a kiss to the two lovers in the comedy of the decade about the pretty secretary and her boss who pose as cook and butler and turn Washington-town topsy-turvy! . PAULETTE FRED GODDARD - MacMURRAY A Paramount Picture with Edward - Roland ARNOLD - YOUNG Hillary Brooke. Porter Hall Directed by SIDNEY LANFIELD Screen Play by Darnell Ware and Karl Tunberg They took Edward Arnold Washington pours it on! COPYRIGHT PARAMOUNT PICTURES, INC., 1944 11

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quickly, explained it was just like mem- orizing multiplication tables, only with aords instead of numbers. ... Mr. and. Mrs. Kupperman and sister Harriet made the trip with young Joel, convoyed him safely through a maze of luncheons, guest appearances, radio broadcasts... . Asked what he liked best in Hollywood, seven- year-old diplomat Kupperman answered, “Hyerything’. . ... Director Charles Lamont decided to save wear and tear on his vocal chords and began summoning young Ann Blyth to the set via an old-fashioned school bell. Ann is just 17 years old, has to spend three hours each day im school. Class hours don’t run in consecutive se- quence, so Ann has to _grab lessons be- tween scenes wherever she and her teacher can find a quiet spot. The bell idea went over big with everyone but Peggy Ryen. Kidded Peggy, “Sure, it saves your voice— but what about our ear drums?” Peggy herself, now 18, is enjoying her first year out of school, sadly tsk-tsks at the sight of Ann struggling with her daily home- work. . . . Picture has had three name changes, final one chosen to follow pattern of Don’s other films, “Mr. Big,” “Top Man.” _, . Kids had real acting competition from experts Helen Broderick and Ernest Truex, both of whom were top stage stars years before they came to Hollywood. Helen and Truex spent their spare time between scenes recalling favorite curtain speeches, punch lines from their long careers. COVER GIRL It takes something pretty special to be a Cover Girl. The kind of thing Jinx Falk- enburg has, and Betty Jane Hess. Just the words “Cover Girl’ have come to mean glamour. There’s plenty of glamour and beauty in this picture, but there’s a lot (Continued from page 8) SEE YOU AGAIN APRIL 11! The May issue of MODERN SCREEN will be on the stands April 11. With dealers selling out as quickly as they have been, even a small delay might find you go- ing without your May issue. Bet- ter buy your MODERN SCREEN the day it hits the newsstands. more than that. There’s a lovely red- haired dancer from Brooklyn, who becomes a Cover Girl overnight. And a man who’s in love with her and wants her to be successful, but not the easy way. And another man who offers her the world of diamonds and mink and caviar every night for dinner. It’s quite a story—I think you're going to like it, and the people in it. Rita Hayworth plays the dancer, Rusty. Rusty works in a “joint” in Brooklyn—. Danny McGuire’s place. Danny (Gene Kelly) knows his place is a joint. It has to be, he hasn’t the money to make it anything else. But he runs it right, and he has ambition. Maybe some day he and Rusty will have a real place. “Oh well, what’s the use of just dreaming?” Danny says. “Hard work is the thing— that’s the way dreams come true.” But Rusty gets tired of it. Rehearsals all the while and her feet hurting. So, unknown to Danny, she goes to New York to enter “Vanity” magazine’s Cover Girl contest. She sees Miss Jackson (Eve Arden), the wisecracking editor, and then Mr. Coudair (Otto Kruger), the publisher. Mr. Coudair is entranced with Rusty. She’s definitely the girl he wants on the cover. So every- thing’s fine, isn’t it? Everything but tell- ing Danny. Once the cover appears, no- body has to be told anything. The column- ists and reporters attend to that. Danny’s place is swamped with photographers, sob sisters and baskets of red roses. The latter arrive every hour on the hour and are’ from a producer named Wheaton (Lee Bowman), who is determined to get Rusty in his show if it takes every rose in New York. The rest is an exciting romantic tangle, with the “Cover Girls” featured in a number that’s a honey. La Hayworth is gorgeous in Technicolor, and Gene is as good as he was in “Pal Joey.”—Col. P. Ss. “Cover Girl,” in case there is anyone who doesn’t know, is a phrase describing a young beauty who has become famous through having her face appear on the cover of one or more national magazines. _. . Fifteen beauties were brought to Holly- wood by Anita Colby, dean of the cover girls, and ensconced in a huge mansion rented for them by Columbia studios. . . Only one of them not called by name in the film is Dusty Anderson, “Farm Jour- nal’s” choice. Her name was too similar to “Rusty,” Rita Hayworth’s character name in the picture. . . . Mexico has offi- cially adopted Jinx Falkenburg as the ideal American Tourist—by order of Senor Alejandro Buelna, chief of the Depart- mento de Turismo... . In one of the most spectacular dance scenes, strips of tinfoil one inch long drift down from a studio mountain top. Between takes, every bit of the silvery stuff had to be picked up for the next shot. All the experts’ in- genuity couldnt figure out a way to do it quickly. 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y hand was the only way... . Rita got a bit cloud-sick during her dance among the synthetic cumuli. And having to trip gaily down anarrow trail with sheer drop- offs on each side (no hand rail) didn’t help her unhappy tummy one bit... . Biggest event of the production, outside of the picture itself, was the marriage of Rita to Orson Welles. Entire cast and crew knocked off work and staged an impromptu party when she returned to finish her scenes for the day. . . . Most elaborate costume Rita wears is a red velvet coster- monger outfit studded with 1866 white pearl buttons. Required the full time of wardrobe mistress Roselle Novello to check before each take to see if Rita had all her ‘buttons! SONG OF RUSSIA This will probably be Robert Taylor’s Swan song to pictures for the duration, since he has joined the Navy. Quite a song it is, too, combining stirring Russian music with a tender love story and a background of war. Bob (he’s almost unbearably handsome in this role) plays an American composer who goes to Russia on a concert tour. The tour is arranged by his manager, Hank (Robert Benchley), but it is no part of Hank’s plan that John should fall in love with a Russian girl. However, love has a way of catching up with us when we least expect it. It catches up with John in Moscow. The girl is Nadya (Susan Peters), who has come from a little village near Smo- lensk to ask him if he will attend their music festival there the next month. John talks to her, listens to her play the piano, gazes into her eyes. “This,” he says firmly. to Hank, “is the girl to show me Russia.” They have some happy days together in ‘Moscow, but then Nadya steals away, back to her own village. She is sure that the difference in their background is too great —that the famous composer can’t really love her, as he says. John comes to her village for the festival, and this time he will have no nonsense about backgrounds. They are married, amid the delighted approval of the vil_ lagers and set off on his concert tour to- gether. They are far too wrapped up in each other to notice the threatening signs of war. Until that black day when the Germans march into Russia. Nadya—a -Russian before anything else—leaves im- mediately for home to do what she can to help. John must go on with his concert tour. But when he hears that the Nazis are near Smolensk, he drops all his plans and hurries away to be with Nadya. The journey to the village is a perilous one. John must take his chances with German bombers and advance guards of Nazi sol- diers. What he sees along the way, and the scenes of desolation that greet his ar- rival, show us the strong, bitter courage of the Russian people. The ending is not only romantic but a tribute to Russo- American friendship. Susan Peters lives up to her earlier promise in her portrayal of Nadya. John Hodiak is excellent in a small part. And you'll love the music!—_M-G-M. P. S. Metro turned tattle tale when studio ' play safe with Mum, every day! “Why does that red head always pick on my date!” Jean: With all the men she’s got, you’d think she’d let my date alone! I’d like to give her a piece of my mind. Bob’s skated more with 4er than with me! : Ann: She’s a snazzy skater—but that needn’t curdle you, glamour puss! You’re much prettier, Jean, and you can stop wor- trying if you'll listen to a word of wisdom. Jean: ... but underarm odor! You know I never miss my morning bath! Ann: Baths can fade fast, my pet. Why not Jean: What a silly goose I was not to know baths simply wash away past per- spiration. But Mum after every bath pre- vents risk of underarm odor to come. HEY, HOW ABOUT TURNING THAT SWEETNESS MY WAY? we (To nerseur) M-M-MM/ 60B REALLY THINKS 11M SPECIAL - SINCE /MADE A HABIT OF MUMS Don’t let underarm odor spoil your charm! MUM is quick! Only 30 seconds to use Mum— prevents underarm odor all day or all evening. MUM is safe —safe for your skin, even after un- derarm shaving. Won’t harm clothes! MUM is sure —Trust Mum to guard your dainti- ness through busy days: or dancing evenings. Without stopping perspiration, Mum prevents underarm odor—keeps you nice to have around. TAKES THE ODOR OUT OF PERSPIRATION Product of Bristol-Myers , e e e For Sanitary Napkins—Gevnile, safe Mere is dependable —ideal for this important purpose.

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t separate them. The gs. vans always stick together! . tch particularly for Bobby Driscoll playing “Al” as a child, and Edward Ryan as “Al” grown up. Thomas Mitchell is wonderful as “Pop,” and. Anne Baxter plays Katherine Mary with charming sin- cerity.—20th-Fox. P. Ss. - “The Sullivans” is based on the real life story of the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, who were lost in the sink- ing of the cruiser Juneau in November ’42 But it’s not a war picture. Sam Jaffe and Lloyd Bacon, after talking to Mom and Dad Sullivan, decided on a comedy of family life. Actual combat lasts three and a half minutes on the screen. ... Mom and Pop visited set. The movie was shot in Santa Rosa, masquerading as Waterloo, Iowa. On a blistering, 104 de- gree day, they shot the snow scenes— sprinkled ersatz flakes on the sweltering streets. ... Three of the boys, Eddie Ryan, James Cardwell and John Campbell wound up with long termers at 20th because of their wonderful acting. Toughest thing for Jimmy C. was learning to ride a motor- cycle. Took him two weeks. - THREE CHEERS FOR THE BOYS Married people quarrel over the silliest things! And then they’re both too stub- born to say they’re sorry, and the mis- understandings pile up, and the marriage goes on the rocks. That’s what happens to Tony West (George Raft) and Gloria Vance (Zorina). Tony is used to being the boss—he has managed the “Three Wests,” a vaudeville unit, most of his life. When vaudeville dies, he leaves his father (Charles Grapewin) and his sister Kitty “(Grace McDonald) in New York, and starts for Hollywood and pictures. There he meets Gloria, who is a dancing star. In spite of the fact that Tony is only a “gentleman of e ensemble,” he manages to high-pressure Gloria into thinking she needs a dance partner. Him. It really works, too, and the Vance-West combination becomes a spectacular click with the box-office. You’d think Tony could relax a little, | then. Well, he does take time off to marry Gloria. But then they go tight back to work, and he just doesn’t ever get around to remembering anniversaries or saying, “Darling, I love you.” And the war comes along. Tony can’t get into the Army be- cause of a bad heart, but he starts organ- izing show business into units to tour the camps, eventually even go overseas. He’s the busiest guy in Hollywood. And Gloria? Well, Gloria has a little secret she’d like to tell Tony if she could ever catch him -_ when he wasn’t at a meeting or on the _ long distance telephone or away on tour. But Tony goes on being “too busy,” and finally Gloria walks out on him. Without telling the secret. They are both hurt, and both bewildered by what’s happened to them. If they could only talk things over—but something al- ways intervenes. So Tony books himself _ and his father and his sister as a US.O. unit to go to Australia. 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~ on the Quiz Kids program. She speaks four # ~ the General politely. “Yes, sir!” says Mar- Bebe] Gammm VURI-GLOSS NAN, POLISH a, Tos ros young mese | from the Broadway run of “Watch on e Rhine.” Tessa is now under contract to avid Selznick. Is already known to radio fans through many appearances as guest languages fluently, escaped from Europe just two steps ahead of Hitler’s hordes. BROADWAY RHYTHM Step up to anybody from Timbuktu to Teheran and say, “What’s the most famous street in the world?” You'll get just one answer—“Broadway.” It’s the street of glamour and music and heartbreak. It’s the street ef stars on the way out and others on the way in—of success that’s soon for- gotten and failure that turns into success overnight. It’s the street of people like the Demming family... . Jonnie Demming is a song and dance man—a successful one. He is played by George Murphy, which is a good thing, because George is one guy who really looks and acts like the Jonnies of Broadway. Jonnie, with a record of three successful shows behind him, is producing another. His father, Sam Demming (Charles Win- ninger), gets a wistful look in his eye every time the show is mentioned. He’d love to be in it. “You're retired!” says Jonnie firmly. His kid sister Patsy (Gloria DeHaven) gives Jonnie the same sort of trouble. She’s sure there ought to be a spot for her in the show, but he unsympa- thetically sends her back to school and mutters, “What a family!” A visiting star from Hollywood, Helen Hoyt (Ginny Simms), has been suggested as the lead, but Jonnie says no, he wants a Latin type. So Helen comes around in a black wig and a mantilla, trailing a couple of duennas, and he goes for it and offers her the part. But by then Helen has “changed her mind and refuses it, to Jonnie’s baffled fury.” Especially since he promptly fallen in love with her. Meantime his dad has unearthed a play from an old trunk of Jonnie’s, and he and Patsy are going to produce it in a barn up in the country. Helen hears about it and not only backs them financially but agrees to play the lead herself. They hire Lena Horne and Hazel Scott, and their manager, Rochester, who doubles in brass as 2 chauffeur and valet, and they’re all set. Just then Jonnie finds out what’s going on, and the sparks start to fly—in Technicolor. In fact, the whole thing’s Technicolor. And very pretty, too—M-G-M. ; P. S. Ginny took a _ short vacation from “Broadway Rhythm” to make her first personal appearance in San Francisco since she sang there years ago in night clubs. This time she sang with the Symphony Or- chestra. . . . George Murphy became a papa for the second time when Melissa Elaine was born while picture was in pro- diction... . Johnny Green was mar- ried to Bunny Waters just before the completion of the picture. Cast wasn’t lucky enough to see the ceremony, but Johnny and Bunny brought back great hunks of gooey wedding cake for all to share. FOUR JILLS IN A JEEP Martha Raye is talking to a general. “General,” she says impressively, “I sure wish I was a man! I'd be right over there in the thick of the fight!” “Really?” says eee tha, beginning to believe it herself. “ \ \ ys 2 Copr. 1944, Lorr Laboratories » Paterson, N. J. they’d just send me over there as an , Founded by E. T, Reynolds entertainer of something, I’d be the hap- i Dura-Coat Polish Remover Cuticle Lotion

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the General, “it’s a wonderful idea. Be ready to start next week!” That noise you hear is the girls falling in a faint on the floor. Anyway, that’s how it happens in the picture. The girls are sent to England where they get the greeting of their life from the troops. They put on shows in all the camps, big and little, and between shows they do their laundry and pour pails of water over each other in lieu of showers and are adopted by a sergeant named Eddie (Phil Silvers). Eddie takes them everywhere in his jeep. “It’s a wonderful car,” he says, taking four bumps in a row without slowing down once. “Paid for, too.” “Now I know how a chocolate milk shake feels,” mourns Martha, holding her head. While they’re in England, Carole falls in love. The man is a handsome Air Force captain named Ted (John Harvey). Mitzi is in love, too, with a soldier, Dick (Dick Haymes), who used to do a vaudeville act with her, Carole and Ted get married, but before they can have a honeymoon, Martha meets another general, and the girls are off for Africa. Africa is full of sand and camels—and Nazis. Life isn’t very funny in Africa. Death is too close. The girls help the nurses in the hospital, and duck into fox holes when the bombers come over. And they give shows to the boys who are going into battle tomorrow. The kind of shows that for a short, enchanted hour make them think they’re back home. For the soldier’s dough, the four jills are tops. So is the picture. Martha Raye has never been funnier. You'll like the jills and their jeep:—20th-Fox. . P. 8S. Girls had sworn that the first thing they would order when back in the good old 1 SAW IT HAPPEN Last April when we attended a junior press conference for Frank Sinatra, my editor and I expected a real glamour guy—and a stuffy studio interview. Instead we found a young fellow in sport clothes surrounded by a crowd of kids. He answered nearly every question we asked him, and be- fore long we found ourselves laughing and talking to him just as though he were the fellow next door. That's the real Frank Sinatra—a very regular guy. : C. Fannan, Franklin Square, L. I. U. S. was ice cream, so they headed for the café at the edge of the flying field and said, “make ours vanilla.” The waitress who hadn’t had ice cream to serve for two weeks, asked them if they didn’t know there was a war going on... Wedding dress Carole wears m the picture is an exact duplicate of the gown she wore when married to Capt. Tom Wal- lace in England. . . . Altogether Carole figures she has traveled over 165,000 miles entertaining troops since the war began. _.. Martha and Carole returned to England after doing their shows in North Africa. Carole wanted to see her groom, and Mar- tha needed time to recuperate from an at- tack of malaria. 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i See ie 74 é aN , : cCrea left for his overseas jaunt imute production halted. . .. Re- out again. . . . His wife, Frances Dee, is touring Army and Navy stations through- out the country. . . . Maureen O’Hara Spent every spare minute of her time between scenes writing to husband Lt. Will Price of the United States Marine Corps. He is stationed at Quantico, Va., could get only one short leave to spend with her. They'll become parents soon... . _ This is Linda Darnell’s first character _ role. Linda is one-eighth Cherokee Indian, herself and has been hoping for years to be assigned to an Indian characterization. Thomas Mitchell and Maureen banded together in a Society for Overcoming Fear _ of Horses. Both Mitchell and Miss O’Hara _ have had serious accidents while riding, and it was a real problem. THE PURPLE HEART Here is a picture that will make you so mad you can’t see straight. No. Wait a minute. Maybe it will make you so mad you can see straight—straight through the complacency and smugness which still fog our all-out fighting spirit. “The Purple Heart” is the story of a trial by jury. The jury is Japanese, so are the lawyers and the judge. The defendants are eight _ American fliers who have bombed Tokyo. They are accused of murder. “According to Japanese law, they will be presumed guilty until proven innocent. “Don’t bother, __ boys,” Lt. Bayforth (Charles Russell) tells the others as they protest. “This is a lynching.” And in a cruel, formal tortur- ing way, that’s exactly what it is. ___ The fliers are an oddly assorted group. _ Their leader, Captain Ross (Dana An- _ drews), is a lean, calm Texan. Lt. Vin- cent (Donald Barry) is a tough Irishman. Sergeant Greenbaum (Sam Levene) is the philosophical, humorous type, who tries to look after Clinton (Farley Granger), the baby of the group. They are all united in one steely determination not to reveal a single detail which could harm America. _ Not for food or relief from pain or for life _ itself. The entiré picture is founded on the Japs’ struggle to break that resolve. To break it by torture or trickery, but to break it. One by one the fliers are taken away from their companions and subjected to an ordeal _ calculated to drive them past the limits _ of human endurance. But endurance, backed by an iron will, can stretch to in_ credible lengths. Eventually, of course, something snaps. Sanity, perhaps. But by then it is too late for the torturers to _ get the information they want. __ This story of a mock trial isn’t pleasant. But it is effective, inspiring drama and the sort of enemy we're up against and the courage we need to defeat him. The whole cast is good, with Sam Levene and John Craven and Farley Granger espe- cially convincing —20th-Fox. | P. S. _ Director Lewis (“All Quiet on the West- ern Front”) Milestone knows exactly what he wants in these stories of men in war, their hopes, fears, loves, reactions to dan~ ger. ... Dana Andrews and Milestone are the best of friends, held many a long dis- “cussion after working hours about the part Dana plays . . . Donald Barry, who plays ‘Lt. Peter Vincent, is the same “Red” Barr who stars in Westerns for Republic. “Red? also a prolific.story-writer, has sold sev- eral scripts to RKO and other studios. Farley Granger is the boy Sam Goldwyn covered by advertising in the local e was looking for a second “North Star. a : y ned safely and asked to be sent right Ww allt | need. says Teresa Wright Teresa Wnight Starring in Samuel Goldwyn's Production - “THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS” “ TUST this one cream—and I’m all set for complete beauty care, says lovely Teresa Wright. “Woodbury Complete Beauty Cream does everything for my skin.” It’s your easy way to look adorable. Yes, Woodbury Complete Beauty Cream is all you need. It cleanses thoroughly. Freshens. Softens, smooths exquisitely. Gives a silken finish for powder. Acts as a night cream, helping smooth away tiny dry-skin lines! Four special softening, smoothing ingredients make it extra beautifying. Another exclusive ingredient, Stericin, works constantly right in the jar to purify the cream, in case dust brings blemish-causing germs. Get a jar today. 10¢ to $1.25. EVERY NIGHT take the 3-minute Beauty Night Cap: Cleanse with Woodbury Complete Beauty Cream. Pat on more—leave a little on over- night. Use it for daytime clean-ups, too. WOODBURY § Complete '

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In huge over-crowded transports, they went, in Flying Fortresses, in small, uncomfortable cargo ships. To Bataan, Guam, Sicily, New Guinea, North Africa. To the enormous floating hospitals that brought home the wounded. At home, civilian hospitals became dangerously under-staffed, and_ civilian health was beginning to suffer. Slim, tired girls were working long hours. A hand- ful of nurses were left in a hospital that had once considered a staff of 50 essen- tial. Something had to be done to relieve these over-burdened women and to keep the stream of nurses flowing into the ever- widening battle areas. There was an enormous drive to recruit more nurses. Thousands responded, but there still weren't half enough. So in June, 1943, the U.S.C.N.C. was founded by an Act of Con- gress, its purpose being to give a complete nursing education to every girl and woman in the United States who could qualify. life-savers ... Hundreds of the first gals to enlist in it are already a third of the way through their training, and because of them, there were enough nurses available to the Army to care for the terrible casualties of Cas- sino. Enough to staff the hospital ships that brought boys home from the fighting in the South Pacific. “Tt makes me feel kind of wonderful,” a pre-Cadet told us yesterday, “to know that if it weren’t for me, some graduate would still be doing my job, instead of patching up a Yank somewhere. I’ve never done anything very important before, and gosh, here I am saving guys’ lives. Isn’t that terrific?” That then, is why the U.S.C.N.C. was created, and here is what your enlistment in it will give you. Full tuition in an accredited nursing school of your own choice, the course taking between 24 and 30 months. Your room, board and uni- forms, indoors and out. (And these, inci- dentally, are knockout.) A monthly al- lowance of $15 during the first nine months of training. 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And just in case you didn’t sanitary napkins—and when 8 out & Nurse Corps even come Victory, at a base salary ranging from $1,800 to $4000 a year. Additional note: It’s now possible for nurses in executive and supervisory positions in public health centers, hospitals and nursing schools, to earn up to $6,000 or $7,000 a year. Which ain’t peanuts. As for what goes on in a nursing school —lots. And while much of it’s work, there’s a hunk of fun thrown in. Like the Satur- day night dances and the bull sessions when you’re through cramming for an anatomy quiz. : You'll live in a nurses’ residence, which in addition to bedrooms, will have a nice living room. It may also have a kitchen, a laundry for-general use and a library. During your first nine months, you'll see demonstrations of nursing technique, in- cluding supervised work in hospital wards, classroom and laboratory. As a Junior, you'll spend less time in class, more time : ‘s in operating rooms and in out-patient 10,086 women took the time to ‘write frank, intimate letters telling why they’re glad eerie ont eee they switched to Modess! They were women of all ages—in every kind of job you can im- ing emergencies head-on. As a Senior -agine. Women who’d used other kinds of napkins (almost eyery brand and type.) But | cadet, you will assume, under Supervision, | they'd switched to Modess—they said they were glad of it—and 8 out of 10 gave its wonder- the duties and responsibilities of a graduate ful softness, its comfort, or its dependable safety as their reasons! Now remember . we nurse. When you graduate, you're called a cadet nurse, and you may become a registered nurse by Passing a state exam. That’s the story, and if it sounds good to you, write immediately—this very in- stant—to us: Cadet Nurse Corps, Moprrn Screen, 149 Madison Ave., New York 16, N. 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a) eee Modern Screen’s Contest Saries: No. iu4— BEA CONOVER MODEL: 1ST PRIZE—For a beautiful “Lady in the Dark”......A test by Harry Conover. Excellent chance of becoming a glamorous COVER GIRL..-. . ALSO round trip travel expenses to New York paid—one week at a large New York hotel—CONOVER GROOMING COURSE, FREE!—Television test—a com- plete going over by Dorothy Gray; her $35 Personality and Styling Course given FREE! 2ND PRIZE—For a “Gorgeous Hunk of Man’? $300 in War Bonds* 38RD PRIZE—For an older woman...---+---> I. J. Fox Fur Coat ATH PRIZE—For an older mam...-..+-+-+-+:-; . $100 in War Bonds 5TH PRIZE—For a beautiful child wee eee - - 9100 in War Bonds 6TH PRIZE—For a beautiful baby...------ . $100 in War Bonds Try and try again prizes** 7TH—1 GTH PRIZE. . Dorothy Gray’s “Lady in the Dark” Perfume 1050 Prizes of $1.00 each in War Stamps—Open to all “‘types” * All Bonds and Stamps donated by Paramount Pictures. *# If you win one of these/prizes, you are still eligible to compete in future contests. a The pictured person in each case will win the prize, regardless of who submits the entry. 3rd prize—this silky Persian lamb |. J. Fox fur coat. ; Are you a “Lady in the Dark'"—in the dark about yourself? Maybe RULES: you've got the makings of a Ginger Rogers or a Paulette Goddard I. Paste a contest coupon on the back of EACH picture submitted, or write the pictured person's FULL NAME (see Rule 3) and address and just don't know it. Harry Conover, creator of the Conover artis Helou sachi pice: G Girls, i ki tiful girl— ‘Il be that girl, over Girls, is looking for a beautiful girk—maybe you'll be that gir 2. Send as many pictures as you like, but only ONE picture of each or maybe you'll fall into one of the other categories, an older woman person. type, a handsome hunk of man, an elderly man or a zooty teenster. %. Be sure to give FULL NAME and address. ‘ State whether Mr., Miss Maybe you've got an adorable baby that'll walk off with a prize. or Mrs. (If Miss. give Wwolmans first name, not. her husband s.) If oe your coupon is not complete, your entry will not be valid. z hi : to b ing beauty—that' es ' Remember you don't have to be a raving beauty af's ‘not always 4. Anyone may enter the contest except employees of the Dell Publish- the type that makes the best model. Maybe your mouth is too wide, ing Company and members of their families and those who -have already won big prizes in MODERN SCREEN'S 1944 contest series. 5. Entries to be eligible must be postmarked not later than May 10, 1944. ‘ = * rs 5 oe fi ‘ : i G. The entries will NOT be returned. Inci t t t tickets to "'L i a ~ ; Beidentally. why not blew cae te eee dag gae ge ue "7. In case of ties, duplicate prizes will be awarded. Dark"? And if you don't win, go see it anyway. Honestly, it's the but your eyes are something terrific! Or maybe your fella’s one of those clean cut G.l.'s that looks too wonderful in a uniform. It you win any one of the 1066 prizes offered—gosh! what a thrill! rE 8. The contest will be judged by Mr. Harry Conover. His decisions best thing to comex«MODERN SCREEN'S way in a long, long time. will be final. HERE’S HOW: Modern Sereen’s Contest Series: No. 14 Lady in the Dark” (Please Print or Type) To enter the "Lady in the Dark" contest, all you have to do is send us a picture of yourself, your mother, father, husband, sweetheart, = Full name of person pictured Street City : State 3 baby, girl friend or child. Send pictures of as many members of your family or friends as you want; one picture of each. Paste the contest . | coupon on the back of each picture or write all the necessary data | understand that this picture will mot be returned. Mail ‘your picture to: Contest Editor, MODERN SCREEN, ~ | 149 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. ge. Sask “tisk bi on the back. Any size picture will do, snapshots, candids or portraits, but remember, we cannot return them to you. Mr. Harry Conover 26 will judge the contest. me > em TO LE LT I ¢ :

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“TLOST YOUR LAST FRIEND?’ Mommy asked my nineteen-year-old Cousin Kate. “Not my last friend, just my best beau,” Kate sobbed. ‘‘He’s too interested in an- other girl. I’ve lost him, I know!” “He’s not lost yet, darling,’ Mommy com- forted. ““My dimpled dumpling (that’s me) has a beauty secret that may bring your lieutenant back into camp.” “SoME VELVETY CHEEK—EH?”’ Mommy chuckled, pinching mine. “Switch to regular cleansings with pure, mild Ivory and I’m sure your complexion will grow clearer and lovelier. More doctors advise Ivory than all other brands together. It has no coloring, medication or strong perfume that might be irritating.” _.. the soap more doctors advise than all other brands together! “Q00000H—LOOK AT THEM! That’s Kate with Tom—and they were married at our house! See how happy—and pretty _she looks. As a matter of fact, right after she started those regular, gentle cleansings with ‘Velvet-suds’ Ivory Soap her complexion began to bloom like a dewy rose. And Tom forgot the other girl! Ivory is wonderful!” 9944/100% pure... It floats x * * Save Soaps! They use Vital War Materials! 1. Don’T LEAVE SOAP IN WATER when you're through lathering yourself. 9. BE SURE THE SOAP-DISH IS DRY before you put your bar back. 3. USE UP SOAP SCRAPS in wire shaker or tied in cloth.

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TO OUR READERS... We are just recovering from a bad case of false modesty! It's al acet a year since we began publishing bee OVERSEAS EDITION FOR THE ARMED FORCES ... a bright magazine with the best pin- -ups and the best stories from both MODERN SCREEN and SCREEN ROMANCES. In Algiers, Naples and Bombay, American boys are keeping up with pictures and picture folk with our help. And all this time we've sort of taken it for granted. Somehow we never felt too puffed up peut it. One gold och on a seryice flag makes any civilian contribution small. A single American boy dead on the field of battle outweighs all the magazines ever published. That's tough talk, but it gives you an idea why we never felt like saying much <e about our Overseas Edition. We kind of fi gured we were like a guy who shipped out dehydrated eggs—maybe a little ‘less important, because you . can't eat magazines. That's. where we were wrong. From all corners of this battered globe the good word keeps coming: “We love the damn book. We eat it WBE That's a gorgeous tribute! We think we understand what it means. It means that MODERN SCREEN'S simple, true pictures of : typical American families bring to the dead ends of the world a vital seed of home. Maybe the seed is small. But if it can grow strong and alive in a soldier's heart, we think we're doing a pretty good work. ae pis oto EXECUTIVE EDITOR ee 3 : cae a

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DONPLDO O'FOnroR His crib was a scarred suitcase propped on a dressing room wall, his lullaby the brassy slur of a slide trombone. Part 1, life story. One afternoon five years ago a skinny kid of 13 sat on a chair in the wardrobe department at Paramount studios and tried to ‘stuff his feet into a pair of shoes that were obviously too small. He twisted and pushed and perspired, but he couldn’t make it. The wardrobe man watched him with a half-amused, half-sorry smile. Another man came in the door, stood and watched, too. ; _ “Having trouble?” the new man asked. The kid grinned apologetically. “They’re kinda tight.” “How’s the rest?” The new man was talking to the ward- robe fellow now. | “-. “Pants are two inches too short and the coat sleeves ; : the same. That shirt looks like a joke on him. “Mr. Ruggles,” protested the wardrobe man, “the truth is, this ward- robe just isn’t big enough for Donald. I think—” a " : Wesley Ruggles. preparing to direct a picture, broke in. “Dora he said, “when you get dressed come into my office, will you?” Behind closed doors, Ruggles, a veteran Hollywood director, did what he hated to do. He explained to Donald O’Connor why A, he would have to take him out of the picture he was about to shoot, “Invitation to Happiness,” with Fred MacMurray and Irene Ey Dunne. Don’s part was the small son of Irene, and he’d shot Sa we up so in size in the past months that he was list : : "Variety" ee young Just too big. Ruggles’ eyes (Continued on following page) Donny, predicted terrific future in show bus.

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Vo Npto O'ZOn ROR Continued were suspiciously moist as he told Don O’Connor the blunt truth that afternoon. “You’ve come into that awk- ward age, Don,” he said. “It’s tough on kid stars. Some can hold on but not many. Here’s the straight dope: There just aren’t any parts around here for you any more.” When Donald O’Connor’s option came up in a few days, the front office told him the bad news: It wasn’t going to be renewed. What they were telling him really was that he was through in Hollywood. Through at 13! Don O’Connor ‘had made 11 pictures and had his named billed with Hollywood greats like Bing Crosby and Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Betty Grable and a dozen more. He had even been starred in a couple, “Tom Sawyer, Detective” and “Sons of the Legion.” He'd made hits on the screen, ever since he played Small Fry with Bing Crosby in “Sing You Sinners.” His salary was $900 a week. He had fan mail flowing in and stories in 8 a — sb the magazines about him, pictures in the papers. And This is the O'Connor clan in “Bombay Unit” of Fanchon and Marco vaudeville act, when Don was 4. Back row, Mom, Billy, Jack, Mildred. Foreground, Don, niece Patsy. couldn’t help kicked him out of all this—just plain now something as normal as breathing, something he growing up. Donald 0’ Connor tossed back his head with a de- fiant tilt to his cocky, (Continued on following page} i a : ee J Don and Patsy used to play backstage between acts. Don always wore diamond rings for luck, often had to go to bat to keep ‘em trom hoodlums! ore SS At 12, had first teatured role in "Sing You Sinners” playing kid brother to Fred MacMurray and Bing Crosby. Role fit like an old shoe; routine was same he'd gone thru with his own brothers. Scored solid hit singing “Small Fry.”

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A ladies’ man from way back, Don can't even remember first date but recalls that first kiss was planted on Boston chorus girl. After H'wood stretch, returned to fam- ily's act, appeared in World's Fair trish | Village. In '41 Univ. rediscovered him. 33

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Up until he was II, he'd never had time tor regular schooling. Even with Don, currently in “Chip Off the Old Block,” work, he's maintaining above-average grades under tutelage of L. A. says when he's in role, he lives character high school teacher. Also took navigation course for future role in the war. he's portraying at home as well as studio! “What's Cookin'2" with Gloria Jean and Peggy Ryan started onslaught of fan mail boosting him to stardom. Bees eraery cmos EE

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Says most embarrassing moment was when he took Gloria Jean to movies and forgot. the money. Had to borrow from her dad. ‘Worse still, studio publicity department spread the story around. DONpLo O'LOn ROR Continued Irish chin when they told him the bad news. “So we're closing the run,” he said. He was a show busi- ness kid from the word “go,” and he’d been in spots like this before. “So what? Tl play this circuit again!” : It was a bold boast. Not one in a ‘hundred kids leaves Hollywood, as Donald O’Connor did, and comes back to set it on its ears. Usually they vanish into the limbo of forgotten child stars. Unless they stay runty like Mickey Rooney, or grow up quick like Deanna Durbin, they’ve got two strikes on them and a fast curve ball coming their way. But Donald O’Connor has made good his cocky boast. At 18, Small Fry O’Connor was back in Holly- wood as Mister Big—from the Universal picture of the same name. a What made that a hit and all the O’Connor hits be- fore it was—Donald O’Connor. And what brought him back again as the biggest new juvenile star of Hollywood’s year was the same buzzing, bright and fascinating little guy, simply ‘spilling over with per- sonality and talent. That’s all there is to it. The public discovered Don O’Connor again. Universal, an He and Peggy Ryan will be 20 this August; birth- days are two days apart. up-and-coming young-minded studio, can take a bow for handing Don a second chance. But Don really pushed his program pictures across to the Hit column. Now he’s the hottest thing on the Universal lot, and only postage stamp rationing can stop the 7000 letters that swamp him every week. They’re calling him a new Mickey Rooney out in Hollywood, and a lot of people think that Don O’Con- nor has as much on the ball as Mickey the Great ever had. If “This is the Life,”.““Top Man” and “Chip Off the Old Block” don’t boost Donald O’Connor into the top ten box-office honor roll this year—then a lot of movie prophets will have to swallow their long grey beards. So he’s done it—has Donald O’Connor—what has never been done in Hollywood before: Been a star once. . . . Left Hollywood cold to grow up. ... Made a comeback—bigger, better and brighter than before. And made chumps of the wise ones who cracked, “It can’t happen here!”. ss But, looking back, it’s hard to see how Donald O’Con- nor could have missed this bright destiny. From the day he was born he has been (Continued on page 96)

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Even in the Best of Families... Things do happen. Nothing to send Janie By Ida Zeitlin fluttering home in tears to Mother, buat still ... Things have been happening to Captain Ronald Reagan’s women. Button-nose Senior—Jane Wyman to Warner Brothers —has burst into stardom. Button-nose Junior has slipped out of babyhood. She’s no longer Murmur, nor even Mau-ween, but an inde- pendent 3-year-old who can lick her weight in Rs. “I’m Mau-rrreen Rrreagan,” she says and looks as if she dared you to contradict her. As for Ronnie, the Army’s got him, body and soul. For him the movies have ceased to exist. Jane tells him about something that’s happened at the studio. He listens quietly—too quietly— “You don’t hear a word IJ say, do you, Ronnie?” “Hmm? Gee, I’m sorry, hon.” (Continued on page 79) Ronnie's mom, dishing doughnuts at H'wood Canteen heard G.|. say aim of his life was to buy Jane a drink. Mrs. R. phoned Jane, who scooted down to oblige. After Ronnie left Jane and H'wood for Army, his fan mail swelled to second place on Warner lot. Errol Flynn, Ist in hearts of mash-note-writers, beat him by couple of stacks.

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Capt. Reagan's wife can lure Can- teen with "St. Louis Woman," in 5 languages. G.l.'s say she's terrific. eee Janie rapidly tumbled from. hairdressing to switch- board operating, office work, modeling, scorch sing- ing, writing (recently had two stories published). Reagans get mildly hysterical every time they think of their “hammy'" child sweetly kissing photographer at Danny Mil- land's birthday party. (Mom's next, ‘One More Tomorrow.") |

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—— i date, . first 5 : eaking on ¢ tes in one Pane sred like tastes Discove / Night Ellie and Glenn Wound up gt Florentine her trousseqy shopping, they found Eng. ter orchestra had Packed UP instruments Sach of ‘an, twirled Ellie round once, By Abigail Putnam

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dling, $ Cues for Ellie a Sometimes it's a smile or a sweet, quick glance that says what you can't put into words. To Glenn and Ellie it's a tune... They knew they’d be married in 1943. But not till a week before, did they know it would be on ‘Oc- tober 23rd. Ever since he joined the Marine Corps, Glenn - had been. saving days. “I won’t ask for anything. now, sir,” he’d say when the question of leave came up. “Because I would like to have ten days when I get married.” The minute he came in from Camp Pendleton that week-end, Ellie knew something was up. In moments of excitement, Glenn can be very calm and collected—only his eyes give him away. They look as if a small bonfire had been lighted behind them. “Doing anything special next Saturday?” he asked. “Because if you’re not, I have a furlough, and I’d like to get married.” * % * The stars represent an interlude that has noth- ing to do with us. When we see them next, Ellie’s Glenn (who's 44" ae so befud- ther 4 hrs. a doy. to be near Glenn. = ncations of 19 ; ong “Sensations © 4 Se uidaion: rehearse toge ARs 1 wk. P.A. tour down $7500 a wk. won sha rpshoott \Is. .M. phone cat ‘{Above,, Glenn with eyes are on fire, too, but they’ve both reached the stage where plans can be discussed. The first plan was to be married at Santa Barbara ——with no witnesses but Ellie’s mother and Glenn’s. There was so little time for preparations, it seemed the sensible thing to do. But sitting there in front of the fire, Ellie’s heart cried out against the sensi- ble thing— She turned to Glenn. “Tve always wanted a wedding to think back on. I’ve always wanted to be married in a white dress—” “Me, too,” he smiled. “And if you think you could manage it in’a week, I’ll manage dress blues.” : That was all she needed, if she needed anything —the vision of Glenn in dress blues. On Monday morning she was at Magnin’s, where she always shops. If you think her best talent lies in her danc- ing feet, you’re wrong. It lies in her talent for human relationships. Magnin’s isn’t just the place where she shops. It’s the place where the girl be- hind the bag counter waves hello as Ellie passes, and Ellie knows exactly how long it is since the elevator girl last heard from her husband some- where in the South Pacific. (Continued on page 116) o rout the Powells ng medal) used + inutes later, d Marine Raiders’ Col Three m Bil! Lundigan an out of bed wih te two a Gay Ellie’'d start Jette ra evans Carlson.)

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They’ve got Lon McCallister so darn tied up that a day off is a blank check straight from heaven. = There’s a clause in Lon McCallister’s contracts that says nothing ¢an be printed about him that’s not the truth. He’s been in the movies, playing bits and extras, since he was 12. He knew lots of movie kids, and it embarrassed him to read stuff about them that was all hoked up. So when his turn came to sign with Sol Lesser, he had the no-hokum clause put into the contract. “The truth never hurt anyone,” says Lon. He’s 20, but he eyes you with the clear candor of a child. His smile trusts the world. He thinks people are the most important thing in life, and the most important thing to be is a friend. His other am- bitions include movies, writing and boats. . He doesn’t think he’s an actor. If people continue Lon's California” role paced career that started 40 pictures to like him, it will be because they like him as Lon ago. Climb was blocked by Army induction Feb. 16 at Fort Mac- McCallister, not as Hamlet or Mr.. Hyde. He loves Arthur where exterior shots of "Stage Door Canteen’ were made Shakespeare to read, but not (Continued on page 104) ‘ = Ns 3rd e ang 303° \yish eye sve Se, durind: cation “Grete wire nied ler “CALIFORNIA?—|

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Swoon Boy of 1944 kicked up a racket with im- provised words and music 5:50 A.M., Jan. !1, "when he arrived weighing 8 Ibs. 12 ounces. _

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By Jean Kinkead Three lovelier words he never heard—poor frazzled Frankie, pacing the floor a continent away. And now Pop’s singing a lullaby in blue. : zs f a hy = oa ‘ Nancy Sandra was just about two days old when Frank began talking more babies. “What’s one kid?” he said. “Nothing. It’s pathetic. You need five or six . before you’re a family.” Frankie had been an only child, lonely as the dickens. Nancy had been one of seven, constantly stalking a bit of privacy and solitude. “One kid’s all right,” she said softly, from her throne of pillows. “One kid’s kind of wonderful.” _ Frankie squeezed her hand and looked deep in her eyes. “Yeah, it is, isn’t it?” he said, feeling all gooshy for a minute; then added doggedly, “For a starter.” Nancy was right, it so happened. One kid was wonderful. Maybe she did tie you down a little. And maybe she did knock hell out of your best clothes Usually about 10 o'clock, Mom throws breaktast together while Pop tumbles Nancy, fusses over newest doll sent by a via tiny white-shod feet. She was still terrific, and fan. Birthday means shower of gifts from Pop's public. : for a long while she was all he wanted. Nancy, soft and aK ic e - lovable, impish and (Continued on following page) ee ce 2 ' Quick review of headlines, trade news over juice, cereal, ham and eggs, toast and coffee. Daily routine is dictated by rehearsals, interviews, shows. After breakfast, 3 Sinatras huddle over Mother Goose tew minutes, then Frank dashes. Once, when Nancy Sandra was en route Frank's bookings got mixed and he and Nancy ate onion sandwiches 2 days.

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When Frank leaves, Mrs. S. tears into household chores, has never had maid more than 2 days a week. With |0-room set-up comes playroom, gym, practice golf range, archery. When time allows, heavyweight Tami Mauriello bangs Frank around Gotham Health Club gym. When day's jammed, gets quick workout bymasseur. Frank, who's proved he can lick his weight in hecklers, says, “Sure, I'm skimpy, but I'll take on any 3 guys at once.” Always wears identifi- cation tag given him by Mauriello, with ditto’s name on inscription.

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, z XY. Back in 1939, Frank was staggering through 18 radio shows over local stations, netting 70c a wk. (for carfare). Studied Dorsey's music then, learned about those long, sweet notes uninterrupted by breathing. 12 o'clock rehearsal. Finicky about phrasing and -such, Frank very often grabs baton to show swingmen how. After last year's tangle with Dorsey, manager announced, "Sinatra now owns Sinatra 190%": Swoonster turns up at Lucky Strike Hit Parade rehearsal 4 : looking like fan: tweeds, loungy sport stuff. Wears specs cause of spotlight glare. Present pic, “Higher and Higher." = aOR; E77 Te LS SE rR Isa Boy! Continued noisy. Nancy, pink-cheeked and laughing in the day- time; all scrubbed and shiny in the evening. She was enough. j Then suddenly she graduated from overalls to pina- fores, and one day Frankie came home to find her with pink on her nails and her hair up in a pompadour. “Look, Mom,” he told Mrs. Sinatra at dinner that night. “That babe’s practically grown-up. I wish we had a nice tiny new job around.” “That,” said Nancy smugly, “is what I’ve been trying to tell you ever since you got in, only you got so involved with your daughter . . .” Sees “What do you mean?” Frankie flew over to her side of the table. “What do you mean?” “The new baby, dope. It’s all set for December.” “It is? Oh gosh. Oh gee, that’s wonderful. Are you okay, Mom? I’m gonna call the boys right away and let them know.” Frank was like a wild man. “Butch, sit down and finish your dinner. And for the love of Mike, don’t go telling everyone already.” Frank didn’t answer. He was too busy thinking how he’d spring the news on people. By the next day, everyone knew. Including Dotty Kilgallen and Lou- ella Parsons. Including Nancy Sandra. “What do you (Continued on following page) boas ta ig is + oe ue et = | ¥ , ‘

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While orchestra runs through things “just once more, boys, Sinatra sleeps. Sweetest dream was ‘This Love of Mine” (written ,with Hank Sanicola). Sold 1,000,000 platters. Frank stews over orchestrations, often cocks ear toward individual instrument, asking special effect. Hopes Nancy Sandra will be harpist some day. Anyhow, hopes she'll be some kind of musician lesa Boy! Chnanuea want for Christmas?” is how Frankie led up to it. “Haven’t you any whims, Mom?” he’d ask her. “A train—a doll—a doll carriage—a dog—and a “All expectant mothers have whims.” tricycle,” she rattled off without a moment's hesitation. “Not a whim, Frank. Not even one.” He'd bring The promptness of the comeback sort of threw her her pickles anyway, and spiced ham and candy, just yom and pop, considering it was only May. in case. And she ate all of it, which pleased him. “How about a brother?” Frank prodded. “Would The first of December, Frank left for a Boston book- you like a baby brother?” ing, positive that the minute he got out of town his “Sure,” she said. “I told Mom that already. A - son would arrive. (He’d been calling it “my son” from train—a doll—a doll -carriage—a dog—a tricycle— the very beginning.) He’d hang on the phone with and a brother with blond curls.” Nancy by the hour. “As I see it, Mom, he should ap- “Okay, honey. I’ll tell Santa Claus right away, so’s pear on my birthday at the latest.” That was the 12th. there won’t be any hitch.” “The doctor says around the twentieth, honey,” There now, there wasn’t anybody left to tell. Frank Nancy soothed him. “You'll be home by then.” __ sat back in his chair and eyed Mom dotingly. Life “Yeah, but Nancy came so darned early, he prob- was indeed good. He doted on her all through the ably will, too.” (Nancy had been born two weeks ahead summer. Everytime she looked around, there was of schedule, on June 8, 1940, while Frank had turned Frank with a glass of ice water or an electric fan or his back for a couple of hours for a rehearsal with both. Tommy Dorsey’s band.) “I give him till the twelfth.” “Relax,” she’d tell him. “I’m perfectly all right, When the baby didn’t show on the 12th, Frank [I’m not even warm.” He ignored that and gave him till Christmas. “That’s the deadline,” he honey. said grimly. This business (Continued on page 85) pushed a chair under her—just in case. \

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Junior brigade gallantly convoys The Voice out of CBS Suave night clubbers sardined into Waldorf Wedgewood Room to see studios. June '43, Par. Theater grossed $11,000, gave what teensters were moaning over. “Night and Day," which won him first F. $2500 weekly plus extra weekly bonus of $1000! contract, won over older set at Waldorf, making Sinatra a universal thing. At swank Waldorf or backstage at Paramount, night ends same way; with tight huddle of autograph hunters mesmerized by Sinatra's tender tones. Hollywood fans are doing the honors now that Frank's on West Coast shooting newly hatched RKO flicker. hag sara Sages

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ee 66 Lid “nth Sark dall cad that 1 te use he ie To Ginger, brilliant, secure, fantastically successful. uld have e pro ms in W ny “meraes sin dor Kendall -- j ind- : life’s a headache. And, it turns out, Ray’s the Bromo. STORY=—She was frightened. That never happened; it might happen to other people, the little, worried people who were clerks and stenographers. But not to Liza Elliott. Not brilliant Liza Elliott, editor of the smartest magazine for wo- men in America; not Liza Elliott who thought of, created, pushed and scrabbled until “Allure” was the cream of the whole fashion parade. But she was frightened; there was no denying it. What was it Dr. Carlton had said? “It’s not your health, Liza. You're fit and sound. It’s something in your mind.” He had wanted her to see another doctor, a Dr. Brooks—a psychoanalyst. She? Liza Elliott? What in the world did she need a psycho- analyst for? She was happy, wasn’t she, secure in her job, successful? But why was she frightened? The office door swung open a bit, and she jumped a bit nervously and then bit (Continued on page 71) PRODUCTION—The technical experts assigned to “Lady in the Dark” read the script before production began, groaned and asked themselves why they hadn't chosen some simple profession like weaving baskets under water. For the circus sequence, they had to construct a jury box that would bob and sway in time to the music, yet be strong enough to hold 15 clowns. The two circus rings, the focus of attention for much o 9- Chorley of the scene, had to make revolutions in exactly nine Charley? ; : and six-tenths seconds. After the details essential to their correct timing were completed, the arc lights were turned on, and immediately the amount of power was reduced (a small item that had been overlooked). The rings slowed down to ten-second revolutions and spoiled everything. Auxiliary generators had to be borrowed, and practically all other filming on the lot had to cease ‘til the electric lines could cope with the heavy load again! (Continued on page 89)

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By Marcia Daughtrey “You won’t remember me.” Bill wrote. But he was wrong. As long as Joan lives shell remember. @ne night Joan was serving coffee behind the Snack Bar at the Hollywood Canteen, when a boy came up. “T don’t believe it,” he said. Now lots of boys might have said the same thing, and she’d have recognized it as an invita- tion to some breezy give-and-take, and replied in the same spirit. But this boy was handing it out straight. Sin- cerity was written all over his quiet face. “What don’t you believe?” asked Joan. “That I’m seeing you. Maybe that sounds silly, but here’s what I mean. I got in a couple of days ago, and | was pretty thrilled, especially coming from overseas. Hollywood’s something wonderful to us fellows, and I kept looking for something wonderful to happen, but (Continued on page 109) i ; sey of Ib A e eh ©t a grin sub titus. rmy WAS so rigid 1% eons forbade: their tain oe Oy en" Military cae alking to J 4 ¥y re 4 ean during work rs . - € E ; aaa u io, Rhapsody. ce routine Pi. Around Scene Blue’ sinc Scie assorted bruises »R in Black o swith sprained ankl\. Joan downstair ; 55

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By Fredda Dudley food Vews Cooper troupe invading South Pacifie! Lt. Eddie Albert with Coast Guard in Tarawa land- ing! Irene Dunne launches S.S. Carole Lombard! ‘BABY OF THE YEAR: The J. Walter Thompson Company is an august business enterprise, ensconced in elegant offices behind dignified double doors. One afternoon in January, the Thompson Company eye- brows ascended as one arch; the Thompson Company was being mobbed. The invading army wore a uniform: saddle oxfords, bobby sox, pleated skirts and sloppy joes. The invad- ing army spoke a language all its own, “Murder, he says!” “Roger and Wilco.” “Who's beating her gums about what?” “Take a pleat in your tongue, your jaw is hanging.” Here and there appeared the obvious officers of this force: leggy characters wearing blue windbreakers on the back of which was the gold felt inscription, “I am a Sinatra Swooner.” Frank Sinatra, the Sultan of Swoon, was to inaugurate his series of broadcasts, and the B. Sox Brigade was stampeding for tickets. When the supply was exhausted, a small red sign was hung on the door, to wit: “No More Sinatra Tickets.” Nonplused late-comers had to content themselves with writing bitter comments on this sign. The line before the Lux Radio Theater began to form around 3 o'clock for the 6 o'clock broadcast. The conversation along the line dealt with prized Sinatra recordings and favorite Sinatra anecdotes. One favorite confidence, bandied about from one ardent group to the other, was that Frank was to caddy for Bing Crosby at a forthcoming charity match. The second most: engrossing item was the advent of Frank‘s second child. One partisan summed up the group emotional condition neatly, “We've just been suffering like crazy with Frankie, waiting for that baby to get here.” Ten days later, Nancy and Frank became the parents of a boy, to be named Francis Wayne, (Continued on page 62) 1943's been gold-plated for Jameses. She—first actress in 12 yrs. to climb atop Motion Pic Herald Pall. He—$7000 a week at Palladium.

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MARY JANE IS DEMURE AND. SPRING-BLOSSOMY. Her smooth, silky hair has a baby-fine quality. Her exquisite complexion is so clear and so soft. “I just take care of my face with Pond’s Cold Cream,” she says. “The more | use it, the more I Jove it.” he’s so pretty!” people ex- claim after they meet Mary Jane Maxson. Her heart-shaped face has a sweet elfin charm—quiet stillness one minute, mischievous laughter. the next. Mary Jane herself has definite and prac- tical ideas about how to keep her lovely . face looking its prettiest. “You’ve just got to have sparkling clean skin,” she says. “Tt has to look and feel soft, too. That’s Today—many more women use Pond’s than any other face cream at any price es VICTORY FARM —consult local why I’m so keen about a Pond’s cold- creaming for my face every night and every morning. Pond’s is such heavenly soft- smooth cream, It feels grand to use and makes your skin look so nice.” Copy Mary Jane’s beauty care with Pond’s Cold Cream. This is what she does! First—She smooths Pond’s snowy Cold Cream all over her facé and throat and pats _ with quick fingertips to help soften and release dirt and make-up. Tissues off. Next—She “rinses” with more Pond’s, ENGAGED! MARY JANE MAXSON of West Orange, N. J. to William B. Eppler of Maplewood, an army officer, now overseas. She is a graduate of Mary Lyon Junior College; he attended Princeton. HAND—Mary Jane’s war work on the family’s victory farm is no glamour-job! She’s working where she’s needed! All kinds of jobs need women workers. Check Help Wanted ads U.S. Employment Service. ANOTHER POND’S BRIDE-TO-BE working her white-tipped fingers over her face in little spiral whirls, “This teice-over creaming makes my skin feel extra clean, extra soft,” she says. Beauty-clean your face with Pond’s every night, every morning. Use it for daytime clean-ups, too. You'll see why it’s no ac- cident engaged girls like Mary Jane, society beauties like Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel. III and Britain’s Viscountess Milton love this soft-smooth cream. Get a big jar of Pond’s Cold Cream today. ASK FOR A LUXURIOUS BIG JAR! a q Large sizes save glass and man- = power! And it’s so much POND'S quicker to dip finger tips of both hands in the wide jar! COLD CHEAM Ceansuye Schtens= Cleans Smoe'ht eb sci co nc vat SHES ENGAGED! bet oale/Mhe wes oud!

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ae ee his heath o other Shampoo leaves hair so lustrous, and yet so easy to manage! Only Drene with Hair Conditioner reveals up to 33% more lustre than soap ... yet leaves hair so easy oe to arrange, so alluringly smooth! Springtime! Time for hearts to be young and gay - . . time for you to be lovelier than ever with radiant, glamorous hair that invites romance! So pon’T let Springtime find you with hair that’s dull from using soap or soap shampoos! Instead, use Drene Shampoo with Hair Conditioner! See the dramatic difference after your first shampoo . - . how gloriously it reveals all the lovely, sparkling highlights, all the natural color brilliance of your hair! See, too, how the wonderful hair oes : conditioner now in this new, improved : Drene leaves hair far silkier, smoother eee and easier to handle . . . right after shampooing. EASIER TO COMB into smooth, shining neatness! If-you haven’t tried Drene lately, you’ll-be amazed! So for more alluring hair, insist on Drene with Hair Conditioner. Or ask your beauty shop to use it! And remember . . . Drene gets rid of all flaky dandruff the very first time you use it. Tiny HATS which show most of your hair are among the smartest this Spring. So lovely hair and a becoming hair-do are more important thanever! For the shin- ing-smoothness so essential to any smart hair-do you'll find no shampoo that equals Drene with Hair Conditioner! Soap film dulls lustre—robs hair — of glamour! 1) Sh - on oT Avoid this beauty handicap. Switch to Drene Shampoo! It never leaves any dulling woe 5 Good Housekeeping film as all soaps and soap shampoos do. with S Ady raristD KE yo EO B32) e : That’s why Drene reveals up to f s e ( d th e 33% more lustre! P. roduct of Procter & Gamble 61.

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Good News Continued from page 5/ ae ms Bs Say Sate ey . ps Dilemma at the Ladds: The. day they sold almost every snitch of furniture, expecting new stuff. to arrive momentarily. Bendixes offered bed and board till new equipment turned up. Be a aie 7 i Big moment: When Lana and Steve suddenly real- ized that tiny Cheryl was stacking up-more Christ- mas presents than her Mom. Bad moment: When Mrs. Turner took to bed, threatened by pneumonia. At tea party, Frankie gave rugged rendition of "Old Man River’ for Admiral Halsey, who ap- plauded wildly. Frank was ‘honored till he learned he'd sung through dead mike. (With Ginger right.) and adolescence by and to be observed critically through infancy er accorded a junior the largest group of vicarious Little Mothers: ev citizen. BRASS BUTTONS: The troupe consisting of Gary Cooper, Una Merkel, Phyllis Brooks, and Eddie Arcari, landed ct an airport somewhere in the South Pacific and noted with interest the presence of great quantities of gold braid on smortly squared shoulders. Obviously, something dramatic was in the offing, but none of the welcoming committee youchsafed an explanation to the entertainers. They just waited around. By and by a second plane landed, ane from it descended General Marshall. j That afternoon the General addressed the troops briefly. There- after, Gary, Eddie and the girls put on their show, an entertainment which General Marshall remained to watch. “We were so excited wa almost blew our lines,” Una confessed afterward. At the close of the show General Marshall met the four wanderers and explained in his modest way that he hoped they didn’t mind his addressing soldiers who had really gathered hours early to hear the Cooper show. “I was just a fill-in,“ he grinned. looked at the sky and the earth for an answer. Then he grinned right back. Days went by, and the incident was not discussed. Then one evening Gary suddenly observed, “Gosh! Some fill-in, huh?” x * * We have been snooping, in your behalf, through the fan mail of certain persons, and we come up triumphantly with the following: "Our dear Miss Lamour: “We, the commissioned members of the crew of the United States submarine Gudgeon, have taken it upon ourselves to send you our most cherished possession—not a Jap battle flag or the scalp of an enemy commander, but a picture! A picture placed within an unused gauge, many months before, in the engine room of our gallant vessel. A picture that has done wonders in seeing us through numerous engagements with the Nippers. It was looked upon for protection and comfort countless times during depth charge attacks—and comfort and protection was always found. It is a veteran of ten war patrols in enemy-controlled waters, scores of depth charges (hence the name "Depth Charge Dottie’ ) and has witnessed extensive damage to our enemy. “You became a veteran early in the war when, during an espe- cially heavy attack, the glass covering your face was shattered, leaving an ugly scar across your cheek, Beyond that, excluding a little scotch tape and good old Gudgeon dirt, you look none the worse for thirty months of sea duty. : “Rnd so, itis with kindest regards that we send you the enclosed picture and hope it will find its way to your scrapbook. Most sincerely, Ship’s Company, U.S.S. Gudgeon.” See: ~ a er a —

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The picture went into Dottie’s scrapbook, and a new and luscious portrait went to the ship's, company of the gallant Gudgeon. Those of you who have seen “Destination Tokyo” know what sort of action Dottie’s pic- tures—and the men to whom she gave comfort —have survived. * * * Lieutenant Van Heflin was able to place a@ second overseas call to his pretty wife immediately after Christmas. He said wist- fully, “I'd give almost anything if I could only see you and Vanna in front of our Christmas That did it. Frances can't bear the idea of taking down the tree. So she has decided to leave it where it stands in the living room until Van comes back to Hollywood. When last seen, the tree was more haystack than needles. * * * As you undoubtedly know from news dis- patches, Lt. Eddie Albert participated with the Coast Guard in the landings at Tarawa. _ It was there, a fact that none of us must ever forget, that over a thousand men gave up their lives in 76 short hours. Fiercely attending to duty, which in this case was the evacuating of wounded men and getting them back to the ships, Lt. Albert lit- erally swam through a sea that broke red on blood-soaked shores. He told friends with wry solemnity, ‘I’ve al- | ways said I craved adventure. Well, I got it.” But he had never expected adventure to wear so hideous a face. However, any man who emerges from such an experience abruptly finds himself to-be the possessor of such riches as heart can scarcely hold: He is the owner of life, of being, of awareness of the magical power of laughter. -Out of the depihs of this laughter, Eddie told of several Marines who came upon a cache of Jap beer and got to work, opening cans with anything that would penetrate tin. Ab- ’ tuptly a grenade landed in their midst, and » everyone leaped backward into fox holes and _ behind cocoanut logs. When, after a fearful few moments, there was no detonation, some- ) one gingerly lifted his head to find another ' Marine calmly stacking his arms with cans CHERYL WALKER, IN SOL LESSER’S MOTION PICTURE, ' of beer. | “STAGE DOOR CANTEEN” “Take cover, you lug,’ someone yelled. “That grenade’s about to go off.” The Marine, almost invisible behind his loot, observed urbanely, “Nope, it won't go off. I took out the powder before I tossed it in there to scare you monkeys away from my beer.” GOLD FISH: 4 Because their house seemed too big for Ann’s _ wartime need, and because she and Bob have _ postwar plans for a one-story, rambling house Out in the country somewhere, the Sterlings have offered their Beverly Hills home for sale. _ Sob came in from his current job of acting in Air Corps training films and made a bee-line ‘ t ea F et : are a moatcer my compkexion, Roole “\ — bfouden.. Lends Gaby-shin cleorner , velvet Smocthness, she Saya ie Girls! . . . your shade of Woodbury Powder will do glamorous things for you . . . Because Hollywood directors helped Woodbury create THE perfect shade for each for the shower. The sequence which had skin-type... And the Col pes ‘ been shot that day involved the technique of a pee ol nrcerse rwekes handling a plane on which the oil line had ae Woodbury Powder color-even, super-fine—to stay broken. To simulate oil, yet not dissipate such valuable material or run the risk of start- color-fresh, velvet-smooth on your skin, hour after hour . . . ing a real fire, the Army producers had been Choose from the 8 exquisite Woodbury shades including: using chocolate sauce. in the oil line. Bob : was a sweet sight—face the color of molasses Natural, Flesh, Rachel, Brunette, Windsor Rose. _ and hair likewise. ; The shower felt wonderful. He tried a few ' bars of some unrecognizable air. Hearing Le ( voices—apparently from the neighboring bed- COLOR room—Bob opened the sand-blasted shower Oo ae, ow _ door and thrust out a dripping head. ‘’Zat you, é _ Ann?” “It wasn’t Ann. It was the local realtor, : _ showing a family of prospective buyers through YOUR MATCHED MAKE-UP! . . . Now with your big _the house. “Personally conducted tours at $1 box of Woodbury Powder, you also get your |) all hours,” said Bob cheerfully and closed the | just-right glamour shades of matching lipstick |) door in the faces of the ogling visitors. and rouge—at no extra cost... All 3 for only $1. | 3 ALSO BOXES OF WOODBURY POWDER 50¢, 25¢, 10¢ 63

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| (00d N@WS continued RUMOR BLOOMER: If you-haven’t seen “Lifeboat” with the in- comparable Tallulah Bankhead, run—do not walk—to your nearest theater. Playing oppo- site her is one of the most exciting personal- ities to hit town in a long time, name of John Hodiak. After the picture had been seen gen- erally in Hollywood, Metro executives cast a covetous eye upon 20th Century-Fox Studios, where the picture had been made by Alfred Hitchcock, and. where—presumably—the de- sirable Mr. Hodiak was under contract. Tactful negotiations were begun to borrow this rarest of all local wartime commodities, a rugged leading man. 20th Century was polite and regretful. They would, they al- | lowed, dearly love to lend Mr. Hodiak to Metro, were it not for one technicality. Mr. Hodiak had been borrowed, in the first place, by 20th Century. His contract was held by Metro. RING, DOUBLE RING: When Alexis Smith announced her engage- ment to Craig Stevens, she posiscripted the news with a firm declaration that there would be no wedding until the war was over. Re- cently, however, Craig was given his medical discharge from the Army. A few days later q Alexis was spotted amid the lonely floor spaces | of a fumiture store (no Los Angeles home outfitter has enough merchandise to soil a | good-sized dustcloth ). Perhaps this means that | a . Alexis has changed her mind about being a MCANI best form lady-in-waiting for the duration, since her per- sonal soldier is home from the wats.

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RE-TAKE: Christmas, 1943, has long been just a mem- ory. About all that remains of the festive Season around your house is that Christmas card from a distant friend, giving her new address. You are positively going to write her a long letter—in June. This being the case, perhaps you can en- dure. a final report on Hollywood Yuletide Highlights, to wit: Annie Sheridan—gifted with a toy train that wound through her entire house —was determined to supply the donor, Steve Hannagan, with a pair of firehouse red silk pajamas to get even with his stunt of having her met in Chicago by the fire chief. Unfortunately, the demand for red silk pa- jamas is practically nil, and the haberdashers whom Annie telephoned verbally recoiled from her query. So she bought a pair of white pyjas and had them dyed. * * Ed Just before Christmas, incidentally, Jane Wyman had poked her head into Perc West- _More’s make-up department in time to catch him displaying—to his employees—the full- length maribou negligee he had bought for his wife, beautiful red-haired Margaret Donovan. Janie advanced to model the coat and promptly went into ecstasies over it. On Christmas morning Jane received a dupli- cate coat from Perc. * * * And the following is a somewhat belated report on the Whiskers Situation, Hollywood Division, Rental Department. As you probably know, Cary Grant is the only male member of the Hollywood Women’s Press Club, and, as such, acts as Santa Claus by delivering the grab bag (25c) presents which they exchange each year. It has been the custom for some member of the entertain- ment committee to rent a set of flowing white whiskers and a red cap for Cary. This year he passed gifts around, wearing a face unblemished by even so little as a faint five o'clock shadow. Someone demanded to know why the traditional beard had been shed. Explanation: it seems that beards were so much in demand (the supply being scarce) that the rental time was stated in hours instead of days. Cary’s whiskers had been rented from 8 A.M. until noon on the day before Christ- mas, and presentation of Golden Apples took so long that Cary didn’t play Santa until 2:30 P.M. By that time the uneasy-footed rental com- pany had taken its whiskers and departed to its next customer. “THE FLOOD MAY BEAR ME FAR": Undoubtedly you read the newspaper ac- count of the launching of the S.S. Carole Lombard, and saw the pictures of Irene Dunne wielding the christening bottle of wine. Many Hollywood know-it-alls have asked why Miss Dunne was selected, as she and Carole had been acquaintances but not close friends. It happened this way: Mrs. Walter Lang, the beloved “Fieldsie,” had been Carole’s closest friend. This was so well known that Mrs. ,.Lang was asked to give the short dedi- catory speech and to launch the boat. She declined, saying that she would be so emo- tionally overcome that she would be unable to utter a word. Who, then, the officials asked, would be suitable? Fieldsie thought it over and reached a con- clusion. Of all the women in Hollywood, Irene Dunne had always been the actress most admired by Carole Lombard. Miss Dunne’s voice, her graciousness, her perfect poise had been cited repeatedly by Carole as her ideal, So it was she who consigned to the honesty of the unchanging sea, the honesty of the un- changing spirit called Carole Lombard. * * * The Beedle family had three sons: Bill, Bob and Dick—all tall, all. handsome, all likable. Bill went into pictures several years ago, made his mark (Continued on page 113) ° See how effectively FRESH stops perspiration—prevents odor. See how gentle it is. Never gritty, greasy or sticky. Spreads smoothly — vanishes , quickly. Won’t rot even delicate fabrics! cf i PIERERS Make your own test! If you don’t agree that FRESH is the best underarm cream you’ve ever used, your dealer will gladly refund full price. Three sizes—50¢—25¢—10¢ NEW DOUBLE-DUTY CREAM ° REALLY STOPS PERSPIRATION * PREVENTS ODOR 65

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oe By Carol Carter Mayhap, sassy one, you've been disposed to poke fun at the stories of eternal youth that trickle out of Hollywood via } | ee the pens of precocious publicity peddlers. But here’s something you can swear by any time you feel the urge: the gilded gals who leave the most famous footprints in the slabs at Grauman’s Chinese Theater are the ones who’ve learned to take care of their health. If you follow their example in hygiene as faithfully as you copy | their coifs, you’re even smarter than grandma gives you credit for being . . . Take the matter i} of teeth. Teeth are terribly important, not only to good looks, but to good health. The girls who live by the lens know this. Glance at the pix of June Allyson for a smiling example . . . When June was doing a stint at New York’s Capitol Theater, your gallivanting beauty editor fought her way backstage through a crowd of milling fans and cornered June in her dressing | room. We were there to pick up any ideas she might have on brightening and improving smiles . . . and we had come to the right place. This Allyson lass is gay as an M-G-M musical. The audience was happy. no end, when June flashed her dazzling white smile . . . “First impressions,” said she, “are so important . - - and nobody fails to notice your mouth!” A person just can’t be healthy with sick teeth. Teeth grind food. If the teeth are sore, broken-down or missing, digestion is imter- fered with at the start. "Nother thing: nothimg causes an ill-smelling breath more quickly than decayed teeth or an unclean mouth . . . Brush-work. “Make the tongue-test,” is June’s idea. Run the tip of your tongue over your teeth .. . inside and out. Feel that filmy coating? It doesn’t belong on teeth. It collects stains, makes teeth dull, dingy-looking. Your tongue tells you what others see—filmy coating «<— June Allyson boasts a bright smile “cause she cares for her teeth. -She’s in “Two Sisters and a Sailor” with Van Johnson.

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a a” 4 - Yow’ll be the proud ‘smile. ' June select a toothbrush for the color of its han- dle instead of the quality of the bristles?” While we were busily denying any such ‘thing, June went on to chat about the all- ‘important brush. “A toothbrush shouldn’t be used oftener than once in 24 hours.” Right, she is! Its a bright idea to own two toothbrushes. With proper care (which means only cold water is ever applied to the. bristles) and 24-hour drying in the open air, a pair of brushes used alternately will do efficient work for about four months. Choose a toothbrush to fit the mouth. Don’t, oh don’t, use one whose bristles are broken or loose. Brush the teeth, if possible, after every meal. Also, of course, upon ris- ing and before going to bed. Never saw back and forth, for this injures the gums and cuts grooves in the teeth. Simplest and most effective method consists of a slight rolling, away-from-the-gums motion for the outside walls of the teeth, small-circular ‘strokes for the biting surfaces and a vertical scrubbing for the inner surfaces of the front teeth. “It's important,” added June, “to brush the gums as to brush the teeth.” Care must be taken to brush them only in the proper direction; toward the crowns of teeth, never away from them. Brush the upper gums downward, the lower gums upward. This massages them and also sweeps out food particles from between the teeth. June’s enthusiastic about the whole subject. °Fact, - she spends ten minutes every morning and evening in caring for her teeth. Dandy Dentifrice. June’s a gal who likes variety. Sometimes she uses a paste, some- times a liquid, sometimes a powder dentifrice. Whichever you hit upon, if it’s a nationally advertised product you can be assured it’s Scientific tooth cleansing at’ its best. When you make your choice, use it regularly. possessor of beautiful white “tooties!” } Dental Floss. June, bright girl, always uses it. Of course,- were talking about dental floss. Don’t jam it against the gums. ' Just insert the dental floss carefully be- 1 [: tween the teeth and run it along the sides. _ Floss is wonderful at removing food debris from spots that your brush can’t reach. It’s important, any dentist will tell you, to re- move this stuff for it rots and, among other | cheerful things, helps to decay teeth and to _ taint your breath. ay 4 _ after the use of dental floss. you're a smart girl, you'll use mouth wash . all the time. Mouth Wash. Use mouth wash to rinse away any and every particle of food debris In fact, if In this day and age, we into the hazards of b-a-d Come, come, does yours make needn’t go b-r-e-a-t-h!. _ you a girl to be looked at, but never danced ’ with? Well, do something about it. Gargle _ with a fresh, clean-tasting mouth rinse every _ time you wash your teeth. And here’s an _ extra gleam-tip that June passes along to _ you: “Once a week scrub your teeth with a _pad of cotton saturated in your pet mouth rinse. To reach the back teeth, I twine cot- _ ton on an orange stick.” This is a neat trick _ to keep your fangs a-gleam and is espe- ply helpful for lassies who like to smoke a lot. Food Facts. While we were chatting June “Mmunched a ham-on-rye. With pickle on the side. June loves dill pickles and is mighty ‘glad that rationing hasn’t hit them yet. All of which brought up a discussion of food and its importance to gleaming teeth. And it’s mighty important, say we, joining our soprano to the chorus of all U. S. medicos. ee (Continued on page 104) — int. “y f a is, fixed us with a stern veye: “Do you — the natural brilliance of your | MY WIFE SURE MAKES FOOD TO MAKE THE MOST of the grand things out-of your Victory garden, use this Pyrex Double Duty Casserole! Saves time and fuel by cooking 1/3 faster. Clear glass lets you see exactly when food is done. Won- derful too for scalloped dishes or small roasts. Cover keeps food hot on ges the table and doubles as a pie, ¢ plate. Three sizes. Family (2 quant): Sizeuicen eee oe only = THIS PYREX MATCHED BOWL SET de- signed for baking, serving, storing or mix- - ing. Clever new rim makes pouring easy. Perfect for serving salads, cakes, custards, puddings or fruits! All ¢ 3 bowls—2¥4, 1%, andl qt. nested _ {oO Save space..........4-.. only THIS PYREX FLAVOR-SAVER is the first Pyrex Pie Plate with glass handles. Special fluted edge and extra depth keep flavor and juices in the pie—wot in the oven. As lovely a dish as you’d ¢ want to set on your table. Full ‘a 10-inch size-~<..)..5.-...... Only FIGHT FOR FREEDOM |! HERES HOW / SAVE PRECIOUS FOOD WITH Uncle Sam wants stronger nephews and nieces and leaner garbage cans. Here’s how you can help! Ever notice how much food gets wasted when you cook in an ordinary baking dish? Look at the chart below. You probably lose at least a full helping. Now see how you save with Pyrex Ware. You bake, serve and store in the same crystal clear dish. You even reheat leftovers in it and use it again for serving. You haven’t made a single dish-to-dish transfer. You’ve saved precious food. And you’ve saved time and dishwashing, and soap and hot water besides! NO TRANSFER FROM DISH TO | “WITH PYREX WARE ONE PYREX DISH DOES THE WHOLE JOB. ““PYREX"’ IS A REGISTERED _ TRADE-MARK OF CORNING GLASS WORKS, CORNING, N.Y.

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| SWEEP "EM CLEAN. Have two tooth- | brushes both tagged Private Property. | You‘re to use ‘em three times a day. | And when you spread your dentifrice, it can be liquid, powder or paste. Grasp your firm-bristled brush at an angle and swivel it among your molars. lower set of teeth and down from the be removed by putting a little dentifrice on a piece of clean gauze and rubbing carefully over the discoloration. SLICK "EM SPRUCE. No matter your conscientious sweeping and rinsing, persistent food particles will stick in the crevices and crannies of your teeth. So tote a roll of dental floss with you jz and use it discreetly after each meal. Za And we mean discreetly in your own room, not surreptitiously at the table. Do not jerk the floss down under the gums, or saw it back and forth at the gum line. Slip it gently between the teeth. Then slide the floss up and back until every errant food particle has been thoroughly routed. It’s a bright idea to go through this routine each moming and at night before turning down the covers. It’s an extra bit of insurance against decay. SWISH "EM SWEET. A_ vigorous swishing with mouthwash follows your tooth brushing and that cleansing with dental floss. A mouthwash will remove all the particles that have been loos- ened by the brush and leave your Si mouth feeling cool, clean and invig- orated. Try a mouthwash immediately after you get up. following each meal and before you retire at night. Hold it in your mouth a few minutes swishing it lazily round and round. It'll give you a baby-sweet breath. Your toothbrushes will give you better service if you remember to wash and rinse them in this same antiseptic mouthwash after each brushing. Why, it just murders those germs! CHEW 'EM STRONG. The gum chew- ing habit is a good one for teeth, gums and chin line. But it isn't practical or pretty to do your face grooming in the subway or at a dance. Chew gum as you catch up on your knitting, at your : machine in the defense plant, in. your good-morning shower. It will keep your smile bright and shining and your chin a firm, lithe, determined line. You can chew your teeth strong the vitamin way, too, if you tuck a raw carrot, two pieces of hard bread, or a stalk of crunchy celery in your lunch basket. Or if yours is a white collar job, slip a hard apple in your pocket- book and gnaw away at it during your lunch hour. CHECK ‘EM OFTEN. Your dentist is not an ogre. Visit him at least twice a year. Let him do a professional ‘cleaning and simonizing job to remove stubborn stains and tartar. He'll polish your teeth until they shine. He can catch tooth decay before it gets too serious and wretched toothaches result. If yours are problem teeth that just break out in cavities, ask your dentist to recommend a special diet. Crooked, uneven teeth can be straightened even if you are over sixteen. And all sorts of wondrous magic can be worked with your molars whether they've been neglected or not. So visit the man with the drill regularly. He'll keep your- teeth pretty. SMILE ROUTINE Laraine Day, an M-G-M star, smiles. brightly. ear ee

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_her lip, trying to laugh at herself. It was _ only Charley Johnson. He popped his head around the edge of the door, grinning. _ “Got time for an advertising manager, | Boss Lady?” he said. _ boss lady... She pursed her lips in annoyance; he was always calling her that, Boss Lady. She didn’t like Johnson, for all his vaunted eharm; he was a conceited puppy, but for all of that he was the best advertising man “in the business. “What's on your mind, Johnson?” she _ said shortly. _ “The usual thing. Girls,” he said. _ “That’s not very funny,” she said. “J don’t like funny girls,” Charley said. “TI. like them beautiful—and feminine.” * “So Paxton tells me,” Liza said. “Look nere Johnson, I don’t mind what you do after hours, but Paxton’s been hollering his head off that you kept his models out all night, and they look like wet dish rags now. They’re not worth a dime for posing, and weve got to get our picture layouts taken today. Stay away from our girls, will you, Johnson?” ‘ _ “T can’t,” Johnson said. “It’s a hereditary weakness.” She didn’t want to argue. She said ab- ptly: “What did you want?” “Tt’s about the Easter issue,” Johnson said. “I’ve got a wonderful idea. A circus cover and carry out the same motif all through the book. The advertisers would go for it like a million. I could line up enough ‘ads to tide us over for a year.” _ “We have a traditional Easter cover,” Liza said. _ “Traditional—and dull,” Johnson said. _-He laid his layouts on the desk, and she looked at them blankly. Johnson was talking excitedly. His voice was like a dim montage of sound. She felt tired. - “Can I go ahead?” Johnson said. “Youll do nothing without my okay,” she said sharply. - _ Johnson shrugged: “Okay, Boss Lady.” He looked at her insolently, and then quite casually he reached over and stroked he lapel of the smart, tailored suit she as wearing. “Just like mine,” he said. “Only I like ow ties better with it.” ; He turned laughing and started out of office. For a moment she hated him and gibes. Blindly, angrily she reached ard the desk. Her hand closed around aper weight. In a sudden, conclusive vement, she flung it. It crashed against wall an inch from Johnson’s head. He ed sharply and then bent and picked the paper weight. He grinned a little. Thanks,” he said. “I always needed one.” Then he was gone, and Liza Elliott was one in the office. Alone with the bitter d feeling and the fright and the ebbing nger. She buried her head in her arms. dr. Brooks was a calm man, surprisingly g. He listened impassively while Liza iott told him that she had come almost ainst her will. She didn’t want to come, he didn’t believe in it. But if there were other way—she’d try it, be fair. For ' was frightened, depressed, panic- cken. There had to be something that be done. Dr. Brooks asked her to only a very simple thing. He asked her on a couch and simply to tell him ver thoughts passed through her ‘She lay there a while relaxing. s odd,” she said. “I keep thinking of le song. I can’t re- “EADY IN THE DARK” ~ : STORY (Continued from page 53) member all of it. Not even the words. But it’s been running through my mind for days. Last night, just before I fell asleep, I remember trying to think of the rest of it, beyond this little fragment I know. And it kept running through all of the dream .. .” : “The. dream?” Dr. Brooks said. “What did you dream?” “TI can’t remember all of it.” “Try,” the doctor said. “Try.” “I was in a large room .. . a little like my office ... but immense .. - and then suddenly there was music .. . out of no- where a dress came floating down .. . it was ornate and beribboned .. . blue.” “Ts that a color you usually wear?” “TI loathe blue,” Liza said. “I never wear ate? pe ee “The dream?” the doctor said. “Go on.” “Suddenly I was wearing the dress... there was a whole crowd of people... they were admiring me... I seemed to like it...I danced for them . . . and they ap- plauded wildly ... then there was a loud blast of trumpets and a figure came in... dressed like a Marine . . . I seemed to recognize the face . .. the face of the advertising manager at the magazine .. . he insisted on painting my portrait .. . he did it there immediately ... suddenly everyone was laughing at me.. .” For a moment there was silence in the room and then Dr. Brooks said mildly: “How long have you been working for the magazine, Miss Elliot?” “Ten years.” she said. “I started it.” “Your own money?” i “No,” she said. “A publisher backed me. Kendall Nesbitt.” She paused slightly and then added dryly: “Perhaps you might as well know now. Mr. Nesbitt is in love with me, has been all the time. He’d marry me, but his wife won’t divorce him.” Dr. Brooks nodded calmly: “About the dream. Doesn’t it strike you odd that you should dream of a woman who is so en- tirely your opposite, one who likes glam- orous dresses, wants to be admired for her beauty. Or is that what you really want?” Liza said sharply: “Of course not. I de- spise useless women. If I wanted glam- orous dresses, do you think I should have to dream about them. I’d only have to reach out my hand and take.” - é She was still thinking of the doctor’s words when she returned to the office a little later. She swung down the smart hall, and out of a doorway one of the girls, a clerk, brushed by her hurriedly, apologized quickly and then went running down the Hall, saying ecstatically: “He’s here!” Her office was empty. Almost all. the offices were empty, it seemed. She frowned. Then she heard the noise coming from the photographic studio. gorgeous hunk... They were all in there, the whole staff, girls and women, crowded around the figure of a man. He was tall, handsome, broad-shouldered. She heard a fragment of words as a girl said, sighing: “. . . what a hunk of man .. .” Then she recognized him. Randy Curtis, the movie star. Of course; he’d been due for a series of pictures for a layout in the magazine. But to create such an uproar! 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COMPOUNDED ESPECIALLY FOR THIS USE] Take KURB tablets only as directed on the package and see how KURB can help you! Good for headaches, too ‘sounded like a wedding march . . | tor one last look, she apologized to nim for their rudeness. “You don’t remember me,” he said. “We met once before. A year ago. You promised to have a drink with me. We never did get around to it.” _ “Tf it will make amends—” Liza said. Randy said eagerly: “This afternoon?” “Tm afraid not.” ; “Then tomorrow. Tomorrow night.” Liza smiled graciously: “All right, then. Tomorrow night. I may be a little late. We're going to press, and I may have to stay overtime.” no time for love... She walked back to her office swiftly, a little eager to get at her work. That was the only thing that saved her really. Im- mersed in her work, she could forget the other things, the nagging fear and the sudden depressions. She was glad she'd gone to Dr. Brooks. She felt a little better. She found Kendall Nesbitt waiting for her. Kendall seemed to be in an odd mood. There was a repressed gaiety about him. He took her arm and mysteriously steered her out to the terrace. Below them New York lay silver with sunlight. ‘ “Liza,” Kendall said. guess.” “Guess what?” she said. E “Kate’s promised to give me a divorce. Did you hear that, Liza? She'll divorce me. Of course she’s driving a hard bargain. She gets almost everything but the kitchen sink. But we'll be free, finally. It’s worth anything to me. I’ve been worried about you, Liza...” “Tm all right, Ken.” “Think of it, Liza. Free. We'll be able to do what we’ve always wanted. Isn’t it wonderful news?” Was it? Was it? Was she too tired to think? Or was there something else. She could feel nothing. What was it Ken was saying? A divorce. And then, free. Free for what? To marry. “Liza,” Ken said. “It is good news,’ isn’t it?” “Wonderful, Ken,” she said. “Only I’m a little tired now. Just let me think about it a while.” His name kept whirling through her mind: Kendall ... Kendall . . . Kendall Nesbitt . . . On the way home and then later in the little study in her apartment: Kendall, Kendall, Kendall Nesbitt. She found herself humming and then stopped abruptly for it was the same fragment of a song, the song she couldn’t remember. She flung herself face down on the bed. ~ She was tired. So tired. The name kept whirling through her mind: Kendall, Ken- dall, Kendall Nesbitt. “Youll never Was that her . . . where was she... oh, all the girls were running . . . where were they running . . . wasn’t that a statue there ... no it wasn’t a statue .. . they were running toward a man... she knew him ... of course, she did .. . it was Randy Curtis . . . look at me Randy, look at me... wasn’t she beautiful . . . wasn’t she? . . . what was that music .. . it . why, it was for her .. . look at the dress she was wearing ...it was a wedding gown... it was Liza Elliott’s wedding day .. . here comes the bride . . . and the minister ... why, he looked familiar . . . it was Charley Johnson ... do you take this man... of course she did, wasn’t it Randy Curtis... why no, it wasn’t... it was Kendall... what happened to the music . .. why were_ all the girls shouting at her . .. what were they saying . . . you don’t love that man, you don’t love that man .. . get away ...get away ...she was climbing... away... away... and then suddenly she wasn’t wearing the wedding dress any- more... it was the blue dress... and she could see someone . .. it was her father... ~ she was running t stretched . . . Daddy him of the dream. For a moment he didn’t say anything, and then he spoke carefully. “In your dream you think you're marry- ing Randy Curtis, but it turns out to be Kendall Nesbitt. Then you see your father, and you run to him, is that right?” “Yes, that’s right.” “You’re not sure you want to marry Kendall Nesbitt, are you?” “No. I’d given up the idea. I was satis- fied with things at they were.” “Isn’t it possible that you never wanted | to marry him. That your affection for him is based on the fact that he resembled your |} father. That really, he was a refuge to | you; as long as you thought you were in | love with him and there was no chance of © marrying him, it kept you safe from com- | peting with other women for a man~. .” “You mean that I’m afraid to com- pete with other women?” See “Exactly. You don’t dare.” She said angrily: “That’s ridiculous.” “Is it?” the doctor said. “I think you'll | find the interpretation is correct.” “Tl find nothing,” she said sharply. “Be- | cause I’m not going on with the analysis. | You're entitled to your interpretation, Doc- tor. I’m entitled to mine. Good-by.” Back at the offices of “Allure,” Charley Johnson was waiting for her, his good- natured face a little sober, but still grinning that infectious, maddening grin. “Well, Boss Lady,” he said, “what about the circus cover?” “T haven’t decided yet.” “I wish you would,” he said. “I want to go out in a blaze of glory.” “Go out?” she said. “What do you mean?” “It’s my last issue, Boss Lady. I'm quit- ting. Got a better offer. I hate breaking | a your heart, leaving. But you'll bear up.” | “Look here, Johnson,” she said sharply. | “T don’t like you. I admit it. But I like your work. I’ll meet any offer you can | get elsewhere. Fair enough?” insolent pup... “You couldn’t meet the offer, Boss Lady. You see, I’m after your job. At this other } place I run the whole show. Here, well here you’re married to your desk, aren’t | you, Boss Lady?” “You insolent puppy,” she shouted. “Now, now—” Johnson said. “Naughty.” | “Get out!” she snapped. Charley Johnson grinned. He took the paper weight she had once thrown at him } out of his pocket and toyed with it in his hand: “Mind if I keep it?” he said. } “Get out!” She had no peace. Suddenly her whole, small tight world was crumbling around! her; the familiar world she had dominated, for so long was becoming a frightening place, full of alarms and fears. She went back to her office, determined to work. But she couldn’t make her mind concentrate } on the details before her. Every small} decision was painful. She couldn’t make | up her mind. She was staring angrily at: her desk when her secretary announced } Randy Curtis. She had almost forgotten. Randy was splendid in white tie and tails | He came into the office with a great, hand- } some rush. He stood staring at her, plain} in her tailored suit. js { She said: “I’m sorry if I’m a little late,} Randy. I haven’t had time to change.” || ‘Don’t change,” he said eagerly. “Gof as you are. I was so afraid I’d run into aj glamour girl again. I’m sick of them.” “Are you?” . ay “That’s what I always liked about you.’ Liza Elliott frowned deeply. “What?”| s (Continued on page 74) = |

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ve soft, swanky classic that sets off the figure beautifully. About $3.50 — at the best stores from coast to coast. Look for the ''Glamour-Knit" label... Write for Sty Folder (Continued from page éa) “Youre so smart, so tailored, so efficient. You don’t know what a relief it is.” As from a long distance the memory of the doctor’s voice whispered in her ear. “ "you're afraid to compete with other women... you're afraid . . . you don’t dare.” She was suddenly angry. “Pm afraid I am going to dress, Randy.” They went to all the swank places, and she was striking in a wonderful gown. Randy was attentive. Sometimes, it seemed as if he were in love with her. At the Monaco Club, later that night, they ran into Charley Johnson and a_ blonde. The blonde knew Randy from Hollywood. She prattled on while Liza sat stiff. Charley Johnson slipped into the seat next to Liza: “Boss Lady,” he said. “You look almost human.” The blonde was saying to her: “Of course, everybody’s crazy about Randy. I am, too. But he won't give me a tumble.” “You don’t like me,” Charley said. “Be- cause I want your job. You don’t like my blonde either. She wants your man...” Liza stood up suddenly; Charley Johnson said. “What’s the matter, Boss Lady?” “Randy,” Liza said. “You won't mind, will you? I’ve got to go now. I've still work to do, you know.” She started toward the door. Randy was following after her awkwardly. She heard Charley Johnson’s mocking laugh, “What's the matter? Can’t take it? Can’t stand com- petition, Boss Lady?” On the desk in her room the Easter cover for the magazine gleamed in the soft light. Next to it lay Charley Johnson’s layout for the Circus cover. She ‘wanted to do some- thing. To stop thinking about Randy Curtis and Kendall Nesbitt, she stared from one cover to the other, concentrating. One or the other. The Circus cover or the Easter cover. She grinned wryly at herself. She couldn’t even decide that any more. The covers whirled before her tired eyes. The Easter cover or the Circus cover . . . which _.. Easter... Circus . .. Circus .- .- Cireusia- What happened . . . look, the animals were moving ... the circus cover was alive . . . they were pulling a cage into the ring .. . who was that in it... why it was herself... and there was Charley Johnson ... the ringmaster .. . he was opening the cage .. . he was leading her toward a shadowy figure . . . why, it was a judge ... they were putting her on trial... they were going to make her make up her mind .... and there, there on the white horse ... that was Randy Curtis .. - he was going to defend her .. . now there was a witness in the box . . . Kendall Nes- bitt . . . she can’t make up her mind . . - what was that music they were play- ing ... the song again . . . no, no, not that, please don’t play that... Dr. Brooks said gently: “So you had this dream or hallucination, call it what you will, and you’ve come back to me?” “T must get to the bottom of it,” Liza said. “I’m sorry I ran out. I'll do every- thing I can to help.” “The blue dress,” Dr. Brooks said. “Evi- dently it has something to do with your father. Can’t you remember anything about it at all?” = “Yes,” she said. “It was my mother’s favorite dress. She was a beautiful woman. She was disappointed in me, and I knew she was. It hurt me terribly, I wanted so to be beautiful. “J remember, after she died. I was only a child. I saw how sad my father was, and I wanted to do something to please him. I stole up to my mother’s room. I found her favorite blue dress there. I thought somehow it might please him if I put it on, let him see it again. He found me there, trying it on. I think it was the only time

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Saou in aee aoe See -JANX FALKENBURG AND nd ever since then you've hated plue?” JESS BARKER IN ; Tes. I vowed then that I was going to win a place in the world. I knew I could | “CQVWVER GIRL,” NEW . poreeeds paernd was paspcress rie COLUMBIA PRODUCTION ‘An e song... the fragment tha i keeps running through your mind?” | IN TECHNICOLOR “Tt was a song my father taught me.’ _ For a moment Dr. Brooks pene cecd _ Then he spoke quietly. oT think we can see the full pattern now,’ he exclaimed. “You've been afraid of beauty because your mother was so beautiful, and you were so plain as a child. You were shocked, then. You built a wall against the outside world. This breakdown is a_ rebellion against that wall. You can’t deny your womanhood forever, Miss Elliott. Perhaps what you need now is love.” “Thank you, perhaps you're right.” Randy Curtis was waiting for her. For the first time in months she felt herself free to smile. The weight was gone. “Liza, I want you to marry me.” “Marry you?” _ He said quickly: “It won’t mean giving up anything. Look, I’ve been offered a _ chance to set up my own production unit ‘in Hollywood. I’m afraid of it. But if I _knew someone like you would help me, I’d take it. It hasn’t got anything to do with why I love you. Or maybe it has.” . - Suddenly she wanted to laugh. Poor ‘Randy. He needed the same thing she needed. Security. A sense of being cared for. He wanted a mother. _ She said no to him as gracefully as she could. He finally left, and then she sat down calmly at her desk. Now is the ime, she thought wryly, for all good men o come to the aid of Liza Elliott. Some- _ one knocked on the door. Charley entered. “Look,” he said. “I have an apology to make, or should make. I’ve needled you -and egged you-on. But I can’t really apolo- 'gize because deep down I feel I was right. ' “Maybe it’s because down deep, really, LI Felhenbang a (00, I've always liked you. I got a look at ou last night, Liza. You're lovely.” Suddenly she was looking at him. Nice lair. Nice smile. Nice way of talking. Charming. She felt a deep hidden stir. _ “Charley,” she said, “I want you to “stay. Don’t quit.” _ He shrugged: “I’d like to,” he said. “You ow my terms.” “Maybe we can run the magazine to- Charming hands like Jinx’s can Lotion—the famous hand care 'gether, Charley. And then if it works out ‘ ‘ > : p 2 right, oe even get a aioneceo eons | be cultivated—and easily. that’s practically professional. my desk. You might like that.” eecsslela i 7 “For more reasons than one,” he said. Ae ENE SUNIL loveliest You know the way many doc- The other 2 seasons came. out while they _ way of caring for my hands, tors help gratey skin become “were working on the Circus issue. She says Jinx ee i ‘was bent over the layout, and then sud- j y J Halkenburg: ae es soft and smooth? They apply 2 _denly Hs Eos ee | beside her, pointing out oes help prevent skin-rough- special ingredients, which are “some detai eir eyes met. It was ness and tha ee Pirance: Suddenly the whole room seemed ; Udy) loos both in your Jergens Lotion. to melt away, and there was nothing in the Jinx Falkenburg uses Jergens And Jergens never feels sticky. world but the even stare of his eyes. And it wasn’t until a little while later that she : = “afraid? Liza Elliot afraid of love? Favorite Hand Care with Hollywood Stars is Jergens Lotion, 7 to 1 _ She kissed him again. CAST wliza PMihiott.......... ....Ginger Rogers | Charley Johnson..........Ray Milland | Randy Curtis.................Jon Hall | Kendall Nesbitt........Warner Baxter | Dr. Brooks.............Barry Sullivan | Russell Paxton..... ......Mischa Auer | Maggie Grant.............Mary Philips Allison Grant...........Phyllis Brooks BIOL ATICOR itor cic apaudor eth -Don Loper Br Carltons: 4. . _.. Edward Fielding If.........-.-.-.....Mary Parker iss Foster............Catherine Craig rtha........-........Marietta Canty

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Mother said she wasn’t hungry. 4 | “Then I won't eat either,’ stormed | Betty. : | Marion, dividing the beans, gave her a ff look that shut her up. “Listen,” she said, | low-voiced, “you’re not helping mother | any. She’s got to be tough. It would only hurt her worse if we didn’t eat. She’d lose | that toughness she needs to stand up to | things. Now you eat if it chokes -you—” | Betty ate. : RRS When Marion got a job in a drugstore, | she’d sneak candy and sodas home to the | will never forget. Once in a blue moon Marion got a new dress. Betty never did. | Being the younger, she’d have to wear Marion’s hand-me-downs. “Worse than anything else, she wanted a dress no one | else had ever worn, and Marion bought § it for her. Not only the dress, but a hat | and bag and shoes. It took her months to | not till both were |

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Marion was singing at the Nuthouse in Detroit when Betty got her job with Vin- eent Lopez. Marion had never sung before . —but if Betty could, why couldn’t she? _ That was fine with Betty. She knew their money lay in the entertainment field. Mother’d had it all fixed up for her to- be a secretary, Marion a nurse, but Mother reckoned without the driving ambition of her youngest. The world with a fence around it—that’s what Betty wanted. Nuts to 25 a week. With the Lopez outfit, she went to At- _lanta. A hotel manager said: “Where can I get a vocalist like you?” ‘Tve got a sister who sings just like me.” Which was true up to a point. Their style is similar, only Marion’s not so wild. On Betty’s say-so, her sister was hired. Next, she talked Lopez into giving Marion a four-week engagement. Both girls sang with the band in Boston, and Betty did the managing. Marion had to take her name— she’d been changed from Thornburg to Hutton by the process of numerology. Marion had to wear the same kind of dress—a style Betty herself had designed to work in. The night Glenn Miller came in, Betty gave Marion her best numbers to do. Then she collared Miller. “How about giving my sister a job?” “Til try her out. If I keep her, you pay the plane fare. If not, I'll pay it.” He kept her. Pretty soon they were both in New York, Marion making 50 a week, Betty a smart 65. Betty wowed ’em at the Casa Manana, Marion’s chance was coming up. Miller was about to open at a big Hiehy spel and Marion came down with a cold. 2 now | lay me down fo sleep... But a cold. Pneumonia, practically. On opening day, she wandered into Betty’s place, looking like a ghost. Mother’s heart dropped into her boots. Betty started tear- ing round. Phone the chiropractor. Let him fix her up enough, so at least she ean go on. Get her into bed. Make a hot stew. Get her out of bed. Dress her. Make her up. You look swell, kid. Come on, let’s go— But first they knelt down beside their mother. “From pups on up to big cows,” as Betty tells it, they’d said their prayers every night at their mother’s knee. And at moments of? crisis, they continued to pray together. Putting themselves on the right side of God, they called it. Marion was a sensation that night, and zoomed on up from there. The two are as different today as when they were kids. Everybody still loves Marion. “Not me,” says Betty, who still can’t be bothered with lies. “I’m not sweet and charming, and I never intend to be. It would bore me stiff.” Marion remains serene, like a mountain lake. Betty’s turbulent as ever, a plung- ing torrent that no dam can hold. It takes Marion months to be your friend, but once she’s accepted you, she’s your friend for life. Betty can love today and hate to- morrow— Marion takes time to sit down and write long letters. Betty wires or phones. mother by proxy... “Tm selfish,” she says. That depends on the point of view. Several weeks before Christmas, Marion wrote that her husband had been called to the service. It was a lonely letter, and between its lines, Betty _ tread an appeal. Christmas was coming. _ Marion would be alone at Christmas-time. _ But if Mother went to her, Betty would be alone. She’ couldn’t quite face it— So she went to work, and couldn’t keep her mind on the work. Marion’s letter haunted her, Marion’s face got between her and her lines. At home, the phone rang. Pring Mose Tar Your Skate? A Tangee Satin -Finish Lipstick will help you be attractive as well as efficient! BY CONSTANCE LUFT HUHN HEAD OF THE HOUSE OF TANGEE Minutes are as valuable as ration points these days—so many of you are piling wartime duties on top of your already busy day-to-dayschedule! I believe that is why women every- where have turned to our Tangee Satin-Finish Lipsticks in search of a beauty aid that really lasts...smooth, soft, and flattering for hours on end. In the Tangee Satin-Finish Lipstick of your choice—Tangee Red-Red, EVERY DAY AMERICA NEEDS $140,000,000 TO FIGHT THE WAR! HELP WITH WAR BONDS AND STAMPS 77 Tangee Theatrical Red, Tangee Medi- um-Red, or. Tangee Natural—you will find just what you need. .. vital, lively color as well as a remarkable new texture that brings an exquisite grooming to your lips. Lineless and satiny, your Satin-Finish lips will resist wind and weather. Forget your make-up worries when you start using Tangee Satin-Finish Lipstick . . . with Tangee’s matching rouge and the startlingly new Tangee PETAL-FINISH Face Powder. TANGEE Sipsticks with the new Satin-Firish TANGEE rece fcder with the new fetal Finish

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EAT OR A REFUND, Co FF Good Housekeeping IF DEFECTIVE OR Lor, i rats cont A qt AYWORTH ss oe . Columbia's new Technicolor production “COVER GIRL” "Hollywood knows all the glamour Creve ks. iKsuehn as teeth that shine beautifully. "Movie work taught me to use CALOX." A dentist’s dentifrice— Calox was created by a dentist for persons who want utmost. brilliance consistent with utmost gentleness. Look for these professional features: 1. Scrupulous cleansing. Your teeth have a notably clean feel after using Calox. Unexcelled efficiency. Calox gently cleans away surface stains, loosens mucin plaque. Especially lustrous polishing. No mouth-puckering, medicine taste. Con- tains no strong ingredients. Even children like the cool, clean flavor. Made by McKesson & Robbins, Bridge- port, Conn.—a laboratory with over 100 years experience in making fine drugs. Mrs; Hutton picked it up. “Bi bags packed, Ma, and be on your way. With Marion husband and child come first. She turned down an M-G-M contract because it would have meant long separa- g tions from Jack. Now Jack’s in the Army, ~ so she’s got to work. But she’d rather be | at home with him and the baby. With Betty, career comes first. She looks at her sister and yearns for what Marion has—marriage to the man she loves, an adorable kid. She knows that Marion’s | still wiser than she in the ways of the i} heart. But she knows herself, too. ‘ Jack Philbin was managing Glenn Mil- ler’s band when Marion joined it. They fell in love and married. For Marion, it was as simple as that. From the moment she heard a baby was on the way, Betty went wild. “Our baby” she called it even before it was born: As she was getting ready for a show one day, Marion walked in. “Sister, I feel so strange. I’ve got spots in front of my eyes—” She phoned the doctor, and Marion was rushed to the hospital. Somehow she got through her performance, tore Over to the hospital and arrived as they were taking “the baby from the delivery room. All she could see were the two blue marks on his forehead where the instru- ments had touched him, and brother, she was fit to be tied. Out she stormed and flew at the doctor. “You’ve scarred our baby.” He managed to keep her at arm’s length. “Now hold it, Betty. What are you talking - about?” “Those two blue marks. What kind of a thing is that to do to a kid?” “They'll disappear.” “When?” 2 “In a couple of weeks.” Her eyes filled. “If they don’t,” she gulped, “you’re a dead duck, doctor.” '-Soon after, she went to Hollywood. Last time she saw her nephew, he was just under two. He looks like her and, when she takes him out, she pretends she’s his mother. One day they were in a taxi together, John standing beside her, peering out the back window. Suddenly he turned and looked at her, as if he were seeing her for the first time. With a funny little gurgle, he put his arms round her neck and planted a soft wet smack on her cheek. For that thrill she wouldn't take a thou- sand bucks. She bawled*for 15 minutes. Yes, she wants home and husband and baby, but she can’t compromise. Because you can’t have her kind of am- bition and divide your energies. It’s no ordinary ambition. She’s driven by a force beyond her understanding. She aches and hungers with a burning intensity to get to the top. She wants all of life; she wants something way up there that she can’t reach, and she’s going to reach it if it kills her. For that kind of success, you've got to gamble. Marion won't. Betty begged her to go out alone when she left the band. Marion was scared. She joined the | “\Viodernaires” instead. Later she quit them § to stay with her family. Then when Jack | was called, her place with the “Moder- f naires” was filled. So she had to go out - alone, and she’s doing fine. But she didn’t | jump from the diving board, she was pushed. No gamble’s too great for Betty. When | “Incendiary Blonde” came up, the Para-. mount biggies sent for her. “Are you ready to shoot the works?” ‘She knew what they meant. If she @ missed, it might set her back five years. | She was scared blue, but they weren't going to know it. ‘Pm ready,” she told them, “God help me,” she said to herself. When the day’s over, she’s too tired for @ anything but bed. She couldn’t be a wife |

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to be. She might try to talk herself into it, but deep down in her heart she knows ‘it’s not in the cards. And no matter how hard. she fell for a man, if he tried to take her work away, she’d hate him. mr. genie... i Marion’s life is happier, hers is more ; exciting. Marion’s- proud as punch over Betty’s success. No touch of professional _ jealousy clouds her feeling. “If it had been the other way ’round,” says honest Betty, “T wouldn’t have been so happy.” Marion says: “It doesn’t mean that much to me. Only the people you love matter.” Betty cries: “All of life is important. If you've lived, you’re rich and it shows. Otherwise, you grow old and get narrower and narrower till you’re nothing.” But if some genie showed up and said, “Love or career, sister! You can’t have both. Take. your pick,” she’d knock him down and sit on him. E “Tm having both. ’m squeezing all I want out of this first, and I’m getting the other, too. Want to make something of it?” Mr. G., being no dope, would holler uncle. After all, why not? The whole girl | is 22. She’s got time. a EVEN IN THE BEST OF FAMILIES .. . (Continued from page 37) It’s not that the screen has permanently lost its savor, but that the war has dwarfed everything else. Acting is something he did in another life. His mind has no room for it now. Morning or noon, mid- night or five o’clock, he’s buried deep in the war. Every scrap of news, every anal- ysis, every commentary is duck-soup to Ronnie. Nothing else is worth reading, nothing else worth talking about. _ The war’s also of paramount importance __ to Jane. As you know from Moprern _ ScREEN, she’s poured her time and strength _ into war work, in Hollywood and out. __- But like most of us, she needs occasional surcease from the subject. Ronnie doesn’t. Jane has served a long apprenticeship ‘at Warners’. Time was when her recogni- tion as a star would have called for cheers and whoopee from Ronnie. His own brand of whoopee, to be sure. Nothing ostenta- tious on the surface, but definitely steamed up inside. i ! a aa i armchair generals... As it was, he only said: “That’s swell, _ Janie. It’s about time. By the way, did you see that story on page 3 of the p ‘Times’? It says—” i . She looked wildly about for something to E hit him over the head with. __Jane is devoted to her brother-in-law. i But when Ronnie’s home of an evening, _ Neil’s arrival sends her heart into her _ boots. Argument is meat and drink to 3 them both, and they’d rather argue about _ the war than sit down to a pre-Pearl Har- bor steak. As for trying to break them up, a butterfly might as well try to break up a couple of bears. They don’t even _ hear her. Or at most, one or the other _ will flap an abstracted hand— _ .“Shoo-fly, huh?” she said bitterly one a ene “Okay, gentlemen. I’m going to q e 2 to the bedroom, where she was trying to read. She stuffed her ears with her fingers, Suddenly d mother, too—not the kind she wants injuries overwhelmed ce : ES, soft lights may flatter but bright lights can play spiteful tricks on your skin. They exaggerate every tiny flaw; deepen every aging line. But you can step confidently into the brightest sunlight with Cashmere Bouquet Face Powder on your skin. When you see your “compact close- up” at high noon or midnight, you'll Cashmere Bouquet Face Powder in all 6 exciting ‘“Color-True” Shades, 10¢ and larger sizes, at cosmetic counters everywhere. Cw Do bright lights’ make your skin look older ? f= %\\ Then try Cashmere Bouquet Face Powder because its color is spe- cially created to flatter your skin even in harsh unfriendly light. discover how softly and lovingly this heavenly smooth powder clings to . your skin, how long it stays on. Our Color-True process brings you six exciting new shades of Cashmere Bouquet Face Powder, each one made to stay Color-True on your skin... each one created to give you appealing young loveliness, in all kinds of light.

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PIS ee e Your Own Bed”—a _ honey of a script. _ “Glad you like it,” said Gottlieb. “We’re _- teaming you and Carson in it—” SP, tin, a a script, calle claim te fame... That was to Jane’s career what the first robin is to spring—a harbinger, a symbol of new birth. Because here was a pro- ducer telling her about her next picture. Whereas for lo! these many moons she’d been getting the glad tidings from the - wardrobe department. “Come in for a fit- ting,’ they’d phone. And being no dope, she’d deduced that a picture was coming up. All that’s changed now. No fanfare ac- companied her graduation to stardom. It never does. Nobody sends you a notice or throws you a party or even gives you a passing pat on the back. One day you happen to see an advance billing. Instead of “Hearts and Flowers” with Winnie Whatapuss, it reads WINNIE WHATA- PUSS in “Hearts and Flowers.” So you know youre in. That’s how it happened to Jane: She meandered over to Ann Sheridan’s dress- ing room. _ “What's different about being a star, Annie? Do folks tip their hats? Or serve : you golden pickles in the Green Room?” Ann. was busy with a lipstick. “The _ difference,” she threw back over her shoul- der, “is that when you take a suspension, | you get bigger headlines in the columns.” k b _ NOSE coming into her own. (Adv). Just the same, don’t miss “Make Your Own Bed,” if you want to see BUTTON- Between her duties as Jane Wyman and | Jane Reagan, life continues at a mad clip. Thanks to Nanny, she no longer has to wield the dust cloth, though it wouldn’t be Jane if she didn’t run a finger over the - woodwork in moments of abstraction. On _the whole, however, the household spins smoothly. X, the unknown quantity, stands for Maureen and the dogs. “TI Scotty and Soda weren’t our chil- dren in another incarnation,” says Jane, “they should have been.” _ Scotty takes after her, Soda after Ron- ‘nie. Scotty rants and tears and ties him- ‘self up into bowknots. Soda watches the goings-on with reflective detachment, and Jane wouldn’t be too surprised to hear im say: “Take it easy, hon. Now about the Polish question—” _the great sinner... _ They have one thing in common—the wanderlust. Gates and hedges can’t hold ‘them. They crawl through one, and “sooner or later, somebody’s bound to leave the other ajar. Also, as if by pre-arranged plan, they choose that moment to disap- ‘pear when Jane is about to leave for the ‘studio. While she’s beating the bushes for them, the phone rings. They’ve been picked up, trotting in brotherly companion- ‘ship round the corner of Melrose and Fair- fax, miles away. _ “How'd they ever get this far?” asks the picker-upper. “Must’ve hitch-hiked,” groans Jane. It turns out that Scotty has a conscience. Not long ago he killed a neighbor’s chicken. Plunking down two fifty, Jane bethought ‘herself of the huge hen it would have bought, and turned a cold eye on her dog. Next day a strange voice called. “Have you lost a black Scotty? We und him under a pew in our -church. oked so woebegone, we figured he must a great sinner.” for Maureen, she’s reached the copy- stage, and Mother’s her model. It efore behooves Mother to watch’ her p. Some of Maureen’s imitations are Others are funny but. z to) red. She says she’s wi panto THE L NEW...a CREAM DEODORANT which Safely helps STOP wunder-arm PE R SPIRATIO N . 1. Does not irritate skin. Does not rot dresses and men’s shirts. 2. Prevents under-arm odor. Helps stop perspiration safely. 3. A pure, white, antiseptic, stainless vanishing cream. 4. No waiting to dry. Can be used right after shaving. ; / 4 5. Arrid has been awarded the Approval Seal of the American Institute of Laundering for being harmless to fabric. Use Arrid regularly. 39¢ “ jar (Also in 10¢ and 59¢ jars) At any store which sells toilet goods 33 ENT OR 4 REFUY, To b.4 ° Ora ‘* Guaranteed by @ Good Housekeeping ARGEST SELLING DEODORANT 81

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Maureen’s arm rests on the table, her head on the arm. “What's the matter, Maureen?” “Oh, I’m so tired, Mummy.” That one’s just funny. On the other hand— The Reagans don’t go in for conventional terms of endearment. When Jane’s feel- ing really affectionate, she’s likely to ad- dress Ronnie fondly as “you old goat—” On the bus with Nanny one day, Mau- reen looked particularly fetching in a white bunny coat and cap. Smitten with her charms, an elderly lady began whin- nying over her in the way elderly ladies have. Maureen eyed her stonily— “Say hello to the lady, Maureen—” “Hello, you old goat.” Nanny jerked her off the bus. At home Mother gave her a talking-to, uneasily conscious that this was all her own fault. Maureen was conscious of it, too. “Well, you said it—” “Well, I made a horrible mistake.” The child seemed to be thinking that one over, so Jane let it rest. 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i _ The bus game is played on a long bench that stands at the foot of Jane’s bed. All’ three bestride it, Maureen’s chubby legs sticking out in front, Daddy as conductor in the rear, Jane tucked between. “Lady, where are you going?” the con- ductor asks. “Tm goin’ to Cucamonga.” (That’s an- other word she likes the sound of.) “Where you goin’?” ' “Ym going to San Francisco. Fares, please.” That’s Jane’s cue. “Just a moment. I | know I’m a mere mother, but would any- — one on this bus care to know where I’m, | going?” For some reason, that hits Maureen as the joke of the world. It takes the com- bined efforts of her fellow-travelers to keep her from rolling off the bus in hys- terics. : é _ For the camp game, Mother and Daddy are-lined up on the sofa. They’re soldiers. f Enter Maureen. “Fellas, I’m goin’ to | | sing you a song, want to hear it?—Packin’- : pistol mah-ma, yay yat pistol down. Yat’s good,” crows Maureen, th being the only E sound that throws her. '™“ Or: “Shoo-shoo, baby, your daddy’s ' off—” An anxious frown gathers. “Where you off to, Daddy?” __ She wanted Santa Claus to bring her a doll’s house, but Jane couldn’t find one. ' Nor a doll’s buggy. She did finally man- | age to run down a doll’s bed. ; “That’s from me,” she told Ronnie point- be edly. “What are you giving her?” “I don’t have time to wrestle with ' - Christmas crowds. Can’t the bed be from ‘both of us?” me “But you're the child’s father. You _ should get her something or other—” 3 She might have relented and bought it for him, if she hadn’t come down with the flu just before Christmas. So sure enough, Ronnie appeared on Christmas Eve, pleased as Punch, a long something-or-other un- ‘of absentees are women who miss every woman absentee should know A WAR-PLANT NURSE WROTE KOTEX that their greatest number 1 to 3 days of work each month, frequently on “problem days”. 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EMTS ISL FLL Ee as IT’S A BOY (Continued from page 47) a of hanging around waiting for the little guy to make up his mind was a bit of a strain. And Nancy was beginning to heckle. “Do you think Santa will remem- ber my baby brother?” “Sure, sure,” Frank said with an effort at heartiness. : Came Christmas, but no baby. “He was delayed, sweetheart,” Frankie told his in- quiring child. “Transportation is lousy these days.” She wasn’t terribly disturbed. After all, she had a doll carriage and stuff, and you can’t have everything. Mrs. Sinatra gave Frank all kinds of things, shirts, pajamas, ties, books—all tied up beautifully and sitting under the tree. For a while it looked as if he’d forgotten to get her anything, but when he couldn’t bear her crestfallen face another minute, he produced his gift. A diamond bracelet consisting of one hundred stones, includ- ing four 5-carat square-cut diamonds. She just sat and looked at it for a minute with all the lights from the Christmas tree re- flected in it, and then she -began to cry. “It’s too beautiful,” she whispered damply. “And I love you so.” time stood still... The time was drawing near when Frank would have to go to Hollywood for his new picture. The studio had expected him long before Christmas, but he’d stalled them off for a couple of weeks. Finally, on the 27th he could stall no longer, so he deposited his two gals at Nancy’s mother’s in Jersey City, and left. His publicity rep- resentative, George Evans, who’s also about his closest pal, saw him off, and the ad- monitions at the station were something. _ “Call me the second Nancy thinks things are happening,” Frank told him. “Don’t wait till it’s all over. I want to know everything. Get her whatever she needs. Call me if she gets scared and wants me to come home. I'll come—” “Take it easy, kid,” said George. “Stop worrying. She’s got a wonderful doctor, a swell family right on hand. She'll be okay. Ill take care of everything. I'll even bite my nails while she’s in the delivery room.” And he would have, too, if she’d give him a chance. He called her a couple of times a day to check on how she was doing, and on January tenth, he called her about 4:30 for the usual bulletin. “Noth- ing doing yet,’ she reported glumly, and George said something joshy like, “If you don’t have it soon, it’ll probably have you.” They hung up, and she started down to the kitchen to relay the conversation to Mama. Halfway downstairs she felt a funny twinge, and she dashed to the tele- phone. “This,” she said triumphantly to a startled George, “is it.” George called Frank immediately, and in true expectant father tradition, Frank lost his mind. “She’s going to the hos- pital, you say? She is? How far apart are the pains?” He held on while George called Jersey City on another line to ask her. “Eight minutes,” he-told him. “Gee,” said Frank, “Isn’t that awful close? Well, what are you waiting for? Aren’t you going over to the hospital?” _ George tied up a couple of loose ends at the office and then dashed for Jersey City. She’d just gone to the delivery room when he arrived, and he got on the phone to tell Frank. “Yeah?” The Voice was hoarse with ‘nervousness. “Well, I’ll hold on.” “Listen, Pop,” George told him. “It may take time. [ll call you back.” At six EVEN IN A CLOSED BOX, | WOULDN'T BE SAFE FROM NASTY GERMS THAT CAUSE LOTS OF BABY SKIN TROUBLES. I'M LUCKY THAT MOMMY PROTECTS My SKIN WITH MENNEN ANTISEPTIC BABY POWDER ! Germs often cause common baby skin‘troubles such as prickly heat, diaper rash. To protect baby, best powder is Mennen. More antiseptic! Round photos above prove it. Centers of plates contain 3 leading baby powders. In gray areas, germs thrive; but in dark band around Mennen powder (far right), germ growth has been prevented! | WIGGLE EVEN WHEN | EAT - AND EACH WIGGLE RUBS MY SKIN! I'D BE SORE ALL OVER IF MOMMY } DIDN'T USE THE POWDER THAT'S SMOOTHEST ‘CAUSE (T'S “HAMMERIZED” THAT'S MENNEN POWDER. - ee Which baby powder is smoothest is proved by round photos above; they show 3 leading baby powders seen thru microscope. Mennen (far right) is smoother, finer in texture. That’s due to special “hammerizing” process which makes Mennen Baby Powder the best protection against chafing. Delicate new scent keeps baby lovelier, 3 out of 4 doctors said in survey —baby powder should be antiseptic. It is if it’s Mennen. 85

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Practically a nine- pounder.” } Frank tore around his hotel room like a maniac, yelling the news at Frank and Axel and Hank, who’d been sitting around sharing his vigil. “Jeepers, it’s a boy!” he screeched at them over and over again, while George poured quarters into the hospital telephone. Finally he got on the wire again and rasped, “How’s Nancy?” “Fine; just swell.” : “Will you have three dozen red roses right by her bed when she wakes up?” “Sure. What’ll I say on the card?” JOEY WRITES FROM ITALY My brother is in Italy now, after a journey through England,. Scotland, Ireland, Tunisia, Panteleria and Sicily. This is what he writes: “Dear Harriet, 3 It wasn’t until recently that I came to realize the things we take most for granted are our most effective weap- ons. White bread is our greatest ally. The people in this war-torn place . haven’t had it in at least three years. They sit around the table and look at~ it. The minister comes and blesses it. Finally, the father takes a bit and tastes it, then gives a morsel to the family. It must last. The bread is then placed under a glass where everyone—even the neighbors—can come and look. We are slowly sup- plying their needs, but it takes time— a long time. I read your plan about saving more than 10% of your allow- ance for War Bonds, and I think it’s a grand idea. You see, Harriet, soldiers have to buy Bonds and fight also. Tell this to your friends. Tell them my buddies get awfully homesick, and I do, too, sometimes. Don’t tell Mother because I don’t want her to worry. So buy Bonds and Stamps. I can’t stress to you how much 10ce more means to a soldier who needs just one more bullet. So long, Sis, and take care of Mother. Love, Joey” Frankie tried to toss it off casually, but you could see he’d been working on the wording for weeks. “Say “Congratu- lations to. you, darling, and to the little guy, for picking himself such a wonder- ful mom. All my love—” About 45 minutes later, Frank called the hospital for a late bulletin, and whose cheery voice did he get but the little mother’s. “How do you feel, sweetheart?” she asked him. _ “Me? I’m perfect. Wonderful. But you, Mom, are you doing okay?” : “Pm doing fine.” ‘“Hlow’s my boy?” “FIe’s beautiful, Frank. He isn’t even red. And he’s got sort of blond curls.” “Gee, I’m lonesome. I’m coming home.” | “Don’t be goony. I get along without you very well.” But she was lying in her teeth, and when she’d said good-by she cried and cried. mS soe | All her sisters came to see her, Jewel and Tina, Aida and Mac line and Lillian, i Nr Nag Ei tl

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F * brother, ents and Frank’s. All beaming at her. _ All making her feel like the queen bee. _And it was fun to be so important, but -when they’d gone home, it was lonesomer than ever. She asked the nurse to turn Frank’s picture around so she could see it better. Then she looked and looked at it until she fell asleep. melancholy moma... The next day, there were the photog- raphers, and Nancy smiled and looked light-hearted, and nobody dreamed how blue she was because her guy wasn’t around. : “Td rather have him right here,” she told Aida, “with a couple of bucks in his pocket, than out there with a couple of thousand.” “Cheer up, Nance. He won’t be away very long.” Nancy managed a grin, but it wasn’t too good. There were long confabs outside her door on how to go about raising her morale. “Be funny, George,” Tina would tell George Evans. “Be a scream,” and George would go in and be very, very quiet. Once he attempted a quip. “Gosh, Nancy,” he said, “When I saw you the night the baby was born, you looked as if you’d just been given birth to. What did they do to your hair?” She obviously didn’t think that was very funny. “They didn’t do anything to it. T’d-washed it that afternoon, and it was up in a net.” r “Oh.” Well, that was that. “I can’t cheer her up,” he told Tina, when they were going down in the elevator. It remained for Miss Sweeney to do that. On the third night, she became Nancy’s regular nurse, and from that day forward, the big room at the end of the sixth floor corridor was literally jump- ing. The other nurses had been kind of awe-struck by it all. Not so, Miss Sweeney. She was a Bing Crosby fan herself and completely unimpressed. Nancy loved her from the first minute she saw her, and it was mutual. By Thursday they were calling each other Nancy and Sweeney and howling at each other’s wit. 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What Moprrn Screen asks you to do is stop by at your local Red Cross and find out where you fit in. Wouldn’t it be a thing to be able to write your Bill in Italy, “Darling, ’'m now in the Red Cross Motor Corps.” Can't you just see him crowing to the otner guys about it? { \ ‘ to see the baby, and if they were cute, shy kids, Miss S. obliged. If they were heckly, she disposed of them with a look. ~ Every day, Mr. Evans would come over with a bunch of mail that had arrived at the office. Letters from Eddie Cantor and Toots Shor and Michele Morgan. Letters and packages from the fans. Baby books; silver spoons; tiny sweaters. He’d also bring news on the nurse and diaper situa- tions, usually bad. / “George,” Nancy beamed at him, “you. think of everything.” 2 “Don’t think I don’t,” he said. “Here’s a bunting to take the kid home im, and here’s the cap you left at your mother’s.” | He handed her the infinitesimal woolly cap. — “Not that that thing will ever get on the big lug’s head. That guy’s a strapper.” “Stand-in father,” said Sweeney. “Even has delusions of grandeur about the child’s size.” ‘ “Well, he is big,” Nancy said a trifle huffily. “He leoks about two months old.” — So the days passed, and finally January 20th, going-home day, arrived. Sweeney packed Nancy’s bag. The lush bedjackets, — the nail polish, the perfume, the book she’d brought but hadn’t had a chance to read. Before she put in Frankie’s picture she gave it a kiss. “Uh-uh, Sweeney, Crosby could get you for infidelity.” That was Nancy. : “Pye decided,” Miss Sweeney said, “that my heart is big enough for two.” | She’d kind of fallen for the gent listening to his Vimms program the night he sang “Oh What a Beautiful Morning,” and stuck in “Nancy is feeling okay” instead of “Every- thing’s going my way.” She’d thought that was terribly cute, though she hadn’t con- fessed it to Nancy. Sweeney wasn’t much for drool. - oe At last everything was packed. -The baby was dressed, and Nancy was en- sconced in the wheel chair looking darling in a brown gabardine suit that was the twin to one of Frank’s. The new nurse was on hand, and George, and swarms of | people. Sweeney waved them onto the elevator, then watched the door close with a funny lump in, her throat. She went to the window and saw them get into - the car. g “Bye, Butch,” she said out loud to the | tiny man in the blue bunting. “Hope | youre as nice as your mom and your old

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ae es a las ~ “LADY IN THE DARK” » PRODUCTION (Continued from page 53) Specialists in the art and paint depart- ments were assigned to paint faces on 180 three-foot eggs. Care had to be taken to get exactly the right degree of mobility in the egg-head’s expressions because they had to turn and twist and appear to be watching the action. Special prize went to the artist who turned out his egg-face with a leer, for Ginger Rogers’ semi-strip tease number. : Ginger’s gown in this number was the fabulous mink-and-sequin creation Edith Head designed for her. She couldn’t enjoy wearing it, because she had to do her dance on a coco-matting covering the cir- cus ring, and something in the atmospheric conditions caused electrical charges to sweep through the fur into Ginger! The sets are the work of Designer Raoul Du Bois, who drew hundreds of color sketches. Luis Vance was assigned to execute them practically, and he reports that to make dreams photograph-able takes the combined efforts of some 17 studio departments. Du Bois uses French poster paint for his sketches, which isn’t easy to match with American dyes. So that was the first headache. Next, all, every inch, of material used had to be flame-proofed because Technicolor arc lights often throw dangerous carbon sparks. In the dance scene with Don Loper, Gin- ger had to be shown apparently floating on clouds, so the boys dreamed up a “cloud cooker,” a contraption that creates carbon dioxide by blowing steam through dry ice immersed in hot water. For clouds higher up, Britt gums were used. These machines spray white smoke-producing chemicals in the air. To clear the air be- tween scenes, mammoth vacuum cleaners were constructed. The hoses on these Sweepers were nearly 100 feet long, 5 feet wide and had a 35-foot nozzle made of wood connected to air-conditioning equipment. Seems smoke gets in the Tech- nicolor camera’s eyes, unless this is done often. Ginger wore a wig in this particular number that had to be glued to her head, then pinned. Then the bangs were sewed on with needle and thread! This was nec- essary to keep her hair in place during the strenuous dance routine. The limit of $5000 on any new material for a set stymied the producers at one point. They thought the set had been completed, but when everything was checked, a complete backdrop was still to be built. Paint for it would have’ cost $600 more. There is no priority on labor, however, so it cost the studio $2500 extra to hire four women to work days applique- ing velvet and satin on the huge wooden expanse! Ginger worked approximately 84 days out of an 89-day shooting schedule, in addition to three weeks of dance rehears- als before camera work began. Of her five days off, three were a honeymoon with Marine John Calvin Briggs, now overseas. spangled milland.. . Ray Milland blushed bright red the day he saw his costume for the circus se- quence. The coat and top hat were made of red, blue and purple sequins in a sun- flower pattern, the breeches were pure white, and his boots were constructed of red suede, The days he had to wear the outfit, he used to sneak back and forth from his dressing room to the set envel- oped in a great ankle length polo coat. : se hands come out of ; The wash soft e , and pretty, ee Never.red or . chapped:since ° using HINDS u before and after —work...A HONEY of a lotion for hard-working hands!” * Qur plant is making ammuni- tion fuzes. If your favorite store is temporarily out of Hinds lotion please be patient. PHOTO BELOW shows results of test. before dipping into dirty oil. Grime Hand at left did mot use Hinds lotion clings after soapy-water washing. Hand at right used Hinds before dipping into same oil. But notice—it washes up clean! BEFORE WORK—housework and factory wotk—use Hinds to help protect your hands against dryness, ground-in grime. Hands wash up cleaner, whiter looking. AFTER WORK—and after wash-ups—use Hinds Honey and Almond Fragrance Cream for smoother, softer hands. | @ New cream! Hinds ‘Complete Facial” — | cleanser, softener, powder base in one! 2-o0z: jar, 25c. Plus tax, At toilet-goods counters. | at home Les HANDS ae 99 :

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stra inch. Next jave, where he’s stationed right now, she plans to measure him. There’s no argument about how tall Jack _ is; he’s six foot four, but built on slightly _ less colossal lines than George. He’s a ser- _ geant in the Army Air Corps, and George _is master tech sergeant in the Marine Air Corps—she thinks that’s equal to chief petty officer in the Navy. He’s the best- looking thing you ever set eyes on. She’d call him the all-American boy, except she has an idea it might not hit him just right. _ Jack’s awf'ly goodlooking, too, but in a _ different way. He’s the intellectual type, _ kind of dreamy-eyed and sensitive like ; Jimmy Stewart. Shirley’s more like George, | easy-going and rather obstinate. She thinks _ she’s obstinate anyway. She asked Mom _ once, and Mom gave her that dry- look and said, “Let’s call it independent, dar- ling.” So she guesses she’s obstinate, like George. - ' Then in other ways she has lots in com- mon with Jack. He talks to her about _ books, and it’s on account of Jack that she got to love music so much. He’s mad - about it, simply mad. He used to send her _ records from Stanford and told her he _ could always study better when he had a P symphony: going in the background, and ' why didn’t she try it? Now she can’t do E her lessons unless the radio’s on. It’s not _ always symphony music, as Mom points ; out on various occasions, but is it Shirley’s Ke fault if the symphony goes off and Inner Sanctum comes on? | Jack plays bridge and gin rummy with her—and she has to admit, if you ask, that she beats him quite often. Card games are too settled for George, he’s up and away. Jack’s the home-loving one. George _ doesn’t spend much time at home, but he likes to know it’s there. If they’re all not - around when he gets in, he’s very upset. _ He used to keep writing from Hawaii that he wanted to come home and find every- thing the way he left it. The most important thing that happened _ to Jack was getting married. The most im- _ portant thing that happened to George was Pearl Harbor. And that’s another thing _ that shows how different they are. Jack _ told Mom and Dad he was going to elope. _ George just went ahead and enlisted. _ Really what Jack did was elope with permission. He’d been going with Mims - quite a while—her real name is Miriam, _ but they call her Mims, and she’s just _ darling. Anyway, Jack phoned one night _ and said they’d like to get married with- _ out any fuss, and was it all right with Mom and Dad? Mom told Dad, and Dad _ said, “Sure, tell them to go ahead,” so they did... . _ The only one that really got gypped was _ Shirley. Ever since she was little, she wanted to be a flower girl at her brother’s wedding. Maybe it was just as well though. She was 13 at the time and really too old for a flower girl. Maybe when George _ gets married, they’ll be kind enough to let her be a bridesmaid. She loves church weddings and everything that goes with them, like having your engagement an- nounced by your Mom and Dad. That’s how she wants it if she ever decides to get married. Not that she has any plans, almost-16 still being a little young... . It was way before the war when George enlisted. He didn’t come home one night, and Mom was a little worried but not much, because sometimes he’d stay over- night with a boy friend and forget to hone. Then Dad called from the office by CHERAMY. perfumer A precious PUfHEe, [ve pia @ fresh, sparkling fragralice ... with the quality F joyous Mmuste th evety lngeting drop Youll wear it for gayety ... for happiness... for the Jun Gf being sought after, wherever you gol Perfume, 6.50—3.50—debutante size, 1.10. Dusting powder, 1.00. Other Frolic fascinators— n hadn’t. . Torlet water, 1.75. Talcum powder, 50€. said, “Your son’s in the Marines.” pret _ exciting, and he

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The reason Hopper’s Facial Cream is so PER’ = Ania ila active and it so expertly lubricates the skin is that it’s homogenized. Faithful use helps you maintain truly dazzling face and throat beauty thruout the years. Hopper’s Facial Cream is also a marvelous powder base. At all cosmetic counters. Another Great Beauty Aid Hopper’s White Clay Pack is mar- velous asa “quick beauty pickup” —makes youlookravishingly lovely on short notice. Wonderful for blackheads and enlarged pore open- ings. It also helps clear away faded “top-skin” debris with its ugly dried up skin cells which make any girl look much older. HOMOGENIZED | gag and said, “Oh, go aw FACIAL CREAM But he x oe «. Gos: yi ee a looked simply super i then he was sent to Hawaii, which 1 all right, too—better than some other because Hawaii was almost like a second home to Shirley. She’d been there three times and she just adored it. George sent her a darling little Marine pin with pearls around it, and he wrote to her an awful lot. It was funny. At home Jack ex- pressed himself more, George was always quiet. But he certainly expressed himself in his letters. She never knew he liked her as well as he did till he started writing. ... : happy tears... Then, that Sunday she was down at the pool, and she saw Mom coming and she knew right away from her face that some- thing dreadful had happened. First Mom and Dad thought they’d try to keep it from her, on account of George. But you can’t keep anything as important as a war from people when they’re 13. So they told her the Japs had attacked Pearl Harbor. Shirley’s not much of a weeper. When things happen, she goes off and wrestles with them by herself. Mom says she’s calm on the surface—that’s the Dutch in her—but seethes like a pool underneath. This time she didn’t go off by herself, she wanted to stick close to Mom and Dad. For a while she couldn’t say anything, then she broke down and really cried. It was nothing she could help, it took hold of her like something outside herself, and she thought she’d never be able to stop... . “She doesn’t like to think of the days that followed, when, they didn’t know about George. She’d rather think of two days before Christmas, when the news came that he was safe. It was merry and ~ unmerry Christmas all mixed up together —unmerry on account of the war, but very merry for the Temple family on ac- count of George. About six months later they talked to him on the phone. The call didn’t come through till one at night, but Mom prom- ised to wake Shirley up, and did. George was frightened because he thought some- thing had happened to them, and by the time they got him calmed down, you couldn’t say much but hello, how are you, good-by. Except George asked her how tall she was, and he thought she said five foot eight, and he kept saying, “You can’t be!” and he was perfectly right, you can’t be five eight when you're only five and half an inch. It was all pretty confusing, but simply miraculous just to hear his voice. That was nothing, though, compared with when he came home. Shirley’s told you Moprrn ScrEEN readers how she was sit- ting in the car, waiting for Mom who was shopping, and how George stuck his head through the window, and first she was stunned and then she started to bawl. Then Mom came and all they could do, driving up Wilshire, was_hold George’s hand and cry. They stopped in at Westlake because she wanted Miss Mills to see him —Miss Mills is the head of Westlake School. The girls were all buzzing ‘around, and Shirley was pretty proud of her brother, put in Miss Mills’ office, she started crying all over again. . . . That was the cryingest — q day— Then they went home, and George had © to see every inch of the house and garden, and he noticed every little change, like, “This radio wasn’t here before” and “That's a new picture of Shirley.” He told them about Pearl Harbor, how he’d been to a wedding the night before, and all the other boys were sleeping out in tents that morning, he was the only one in barracks, and someone came in and said, “The Japs are attacking,” and he thought it peeve heard the sounds as ay wt ee ‘Then he

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any more after that—anyway, not Shirley, though she has a deep suspicion he told Mom and Dad and Jack. ... All she wanted to do was look at him. He looked older and more serious to her at first, but not any more—and she guesses she looked all right to him. Now he gets in about once a week from Mojave, and she says hello to him and that’s about all she sees of him; he’s off with his gang. When her friends are around, he’s very nice to them, he just doesn’t pay any at- tention to them at all, especially girls. They don’t mind though; they know he’s an older man. * Jack’s been in the Army Air Corps a year now. First he was stationed at Palo Alto. That's where the baby was born. They wanted a girl, but Shirley told them a long time ago it would be a boy, be- ’ cause most first babies are boys. She had a name all picked out for him, too—Dwight, after Eisenhower—but before she had a chance to tell them, the baby was suddenly John Stanley Junior. That’s because Mims was so disappointed, she turned her head away and said, “Oh, just call him after his father.” Now she can’t stand it to think she was disappointed even for a second, so she loves him twice as hard. Shirley got the usual thrill out of being an aunt. She didn’t see the baby till he was two and a half months, when Jack was transferred to Culver City. He looks - like a professor and, having such an intel- lectual father, she expected him to walk and talk like a fiend, but all he did was blow bubbles... . Jack and Mims bring him over week- ends. You can’t do much with him yet beeause he goes to sleep a lot—just tickle him gently, or hold him for a while and put him down again. They call him Johnny for the present. Later on he’ll be Stanley, which sounds more adult. | SAW IT HAPPEN About two years ago Warner Bros. were filming “Flight Angel” at an air- port right behind our high school. We kids naturally hounded the field for autographs. After we’d gotten all the ymportant ones, we noticed a good- looking young man in grease paint and asked him for his. He laughed and said, “Oh, I’m nobody,’ but we thought maybe some day he would be. And that some day came sooner than we expected, for the young actor is John Ridgely, star of Warners’ “Air Force.” Jeanne Henry, Temple City, Cal. closed corporation .. . Shirley thinks it’s quite a coincidence that the picture she’s in now for Mr. David O. Selznick is called “Since You Went Away.” Because she thinks she can un- derstand it better since the boys were away and came back again. She doesn’t know if she can explain it, not being very good at analyzing, but—if you’re sad or happy, it makes the sadness easier and? the happiness more so, with people you love around. For instance, she thought she couldn’t bear it when Chingie died. (Ching is the Peke who’s been her beloved playmate for years.) But when George put his arm around her and Jack said, “I’m sorry, sis,” it somehow helped the hurt... . And for happiness—well, she was having a very good time one night at the Riviera Country Club when her two brothers walked in. And she danced with them both and didn’t tell anyone they were her brothers, and everyone thought, “Well, now, who’s that fine-looking soldier and that handsome Marine?” So the dance was twice as much fun. Christmas was twice as much fun, too. Jack gave her the score of “Showboat” and some lovely gardenias, and George gave her a pair of Marine wings. And it’s fun if they’re there when she comes down dressed for a dance, and they like her dress. She can always tell, because George goes “Whew-whew!” and Jack says, “Gosh, that’s sump’n!” She doesn’t even mind when they tease her about boys—all big brothers do. Sometimes she thinks it’s not so won- derful for brothers to have a sister in the movies. As if it were their fault. Not that she thinks they’d want to change her for anyone, she’s not that silly. But Jack— he’s.a whiz of a technician and all steamed up about television—Jack took lots of rib- bing when he worked at the studio. He doesn’t even know she knows, but you kind of catch on to things. And when Sonny first went to camp, the other boys said, “Just wait till he gets here, we'll take him apart.” A friend of * Sonny’s who was there told Mom about it. And this friend said, “Have you ever seen Shirley’s brother?” And they all said no. , And he said, “Okay, wait till you see him.” And they said it was very funny how they seemed to forget about taking him apart when they saw how big he was. Except one corporal who saw him doing k.p. “Not much like home, is it, Temple?” And George went kind of grim and said, “What anyone else around here can take, I can take.” He can, too. And more. They both can. You don’t have to ask Shirley what she thinks of her brothers. It shines out all over her. But she doesn’t mind telling you either. “Whew-whew!” she thinks, in a treble imitation of Sonny’s best whistle. “My brothers are sump’n!” medical journal—show that: — tating to nose and throat => a Hs the proof—from clinical tests with men and women smokers. The findings by dist n- PROVED less irrit guished doctors —reported in an authoritative WHEN SMOKERS CHANGED TO PHILIP MORRIS, __ EVERY CASE OF IRRITATION OF NOSE OR ~ __ THROAT—DUE TO SMOKING-—EITHER CLEARED _ _ UP COMPLETELY, OR DEFINITELY IMPROVED! _ es thorities__ THIS CIGARETTE RECOGNIZED by medical au ee

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The eleventh in our series pee } Xavier Cugat, assisted by the wife of the drummer in his band, prepares a wine-flavored specialty in the kitchen of the Maxie Rosenbloom house which he rented in Hollywood. ie fbi UES 75 a3 ss "Ah-h,"" says the Rumba King as he samples this dish. He stars next in M-G-M's ''Mr. Co-Ed," "Two Sisters and a Sailor.” I, si-si-si, SI, si-si-si! To the softly throbbing strains of a rumba, punctuated by the staccato sound of the maracas, we continue our culinary tour of the Caribbean by taking an imaginary trip to Cuba—only a short plane ride from the Dominican Republic which we visited last month with Maria Montez. ee ; Our guide to this “Holiday Isle of the Tropics” is—as you can see—none other than the Rumba King, Xavier Cugat. Cugat, the colorful orchestra leader whose Latin American rhythms survived with equal success the crazes for swing and swéet—to stand out in the dance world as a beacon pointing to our good neighbors to the South. Cugat, the cartoonist, whose clever and often devastating black and white sketches of famous folk are regularly dis- tributed all over the country by King Features. (His draw- ing talents, by the way, were originally developed under the encouraging eye of a feHow-cartoonist—the opera star, Enrico Caruso!) Cugat, the movie actor, by virtue of the fact that—sur- prisingly enough—he turned out to be, on the screen, a comedian as well as a baton wielder! Cugat, the Spanish born American citizen, whose early childhood years were spent in Cuba—which country bestowed upon him its highest decoration, The Grand Cross, “. . . for promoting good will between Cuba and the United States through popularizing Cuban music...” Which is still another link in the historic chain that binds our two countries together. Cugat, the versatile, who here steps into our own par- ticular spotlight as a connoisseur of Cuban foods. Which in his eyes, as well as ours, is no mean achievement in itself! “In Cuba, where I spent fourteen years of my childhood and early youth, I learned to look upon food as a verrry important subject,” Coogie started our interview by declar- ing with conviction. “Why, Havana,” he went on, “between — the hours of one and three is a ‘dead city’ because its citizens — invariably take two hours for lunch—crowding all means of transportation to return to their respective homes for this important mid-day meal, which is followed by a short siesta. This daily ‘intermission’ is a habit I should hate to see them” give up in favor of the weighty business discussions and the drug-store-snacks-eaten-on-the-run which we go in for in this country. is “Cuban dishes,” continued Mr. Cugat, obviously warming to his subject, “are very simple. The fact that they are also very bland and not at all rich may surprise many people! This is because foreigners are familiar only with the dishes that are served them. But these are ‘exhibition’ dishes and, like ‘exhibition’ dances, are not meant for ordinary use but — oo,

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aa a ve are reserved for special occasions only. Why, if the natives were to eat that way every day it would ruin their digestion! “Among the foods that Cubans enjoy and eat constantly are such essentially simple things are Frijoles Negros (Black Beans) prepared with a tasty sauce; and Arroz Blanco which is nothing more than White Rice; cooked really well, for a welcome change from the soggy grey mass that one so frequently encounters elsewhere. Then there’s Picadillo which you can translate into Hash, if you must—although so plebeian a name scarcely does it justice. And we mustn’t omit one of my favorites—of Spanish origin as are so many Cuban favorites—Bacalao @ la Viscaina. It’s made of salt codfish—of all things, in a country famous for its fresh seafood! “It may also surprise you to learn,” went on Mr. Cugat (who surprised us even more by sketching away madly while he was being interviewed!) “that probably 99 percent of all Cuban men are excellent cooks. This is doubtless because they have such high regard for the pleasures of the palate. I, for ex- ample, take pride in making Sufrito.” (Our photographer caught Mr. Cugat in the very act of adding a little wine to this specialty of his, which combines chick peas with ham _and other interesting items.) “While my | for Xavier Cugat's Cuban specialties, in 4 friend, Roberto Hernandez, the Cuban Con- sul General in New York, is famous among gourmets for his Fricase de Pollo. You must ask him to give you the recipe, because read- ers of MODERN SCREEN will find this particular dish a far cry from the anemic Chicken Fricassee that is served in so many American homes.” aah Well, Senor Hernandez did give us the recipe. And, at the same time, he made the helpful suggestion that we get in touch with New York’s Havana-Madrid, noted as the most authentic of the Cuban-Spanish clubs in North America, and ask them for further information on Cuban foods. Well, we did! And as a result we se- cured from Anatole Pujol, the capable chef of that famous restaurant, directions for making the very dishes we had discussed with Mr. Cugat. Thanks, therefore, to this all-Cuban team we have a prize collection of easy-to-follow recipes to offer in this tmonth’s attractive little leaflet, which will make Cuban Cooking @ la Cugat a pleas- ure as well as a novelty for us all. They sound like Latin-American song titles—these Cuban dishes that Cugat recommends: Bacalao & la Viscaina, Picadillo, Arroz Blanco, Frijoles Negros, Sutfrifo and Fricase de Pollo. But they're practical, too. And the coupon will bring a leaflet telling you how to pre- > pare them. THE MODERN HOSTESS MODERN SCREEN 149 Madison Avenue New York 16, New York Please send me—absolutely free—recipes THE FOODS OF OUR ALLIES series. MeN ingyen hich fhe at. j se eee \ > Ts there a Doctor We keep his picture as a constant reminder that millions of mothers and housekeepers are getting along on lim- ited supplies of Fels-Naptha Soap. Sometimes even doing without. And being pretty patient about it. You have our assurance that we are making as much of this famous soap as we can. That we’re making it as fast as we can. That we're trying to give every grocer his fair share. If you use Fels-Naptha Soap carefully—and shop pertsis- tently—we believe you'll get your share, too. mre ee in the House”? Dear Reader, don’t be alarmed... it’s not that serious. The young man with the pained expression is just our Permanent Pin-Up Boy... for the present emergency. ! cu. sue |} FELSNAPTHASOAP_banishes'TattleTale Gray’.

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his wife Effie had had six children. Three were dead, but three survived; Jack, the “eldest, then 19, Billy, 12, and Arlene, 5. And in Chicago in a modest theatrical hotel her seventh and last baby was born. Effie O’Connor was alone. That didn’t ‘strike her as unusual. Nor the fact that up until a couple of weeks ago she had played every night in the act. The O’Connor fam- ily was booked for small town fairs at little Illinois towns around Chicago. That’s where they were now, singing and hoofing and joking and doing acrobatics while she lay and looked out into the dingy dusk of the big city, and occasionally gripped the side of the bed with pain. But that’s what happened to show people; they were a separate breed, Effie O’Connor thought— born to keep people laughing. A woman from the next room poked her head inside and asked, “How are you feel- ing?” She saw the path of pain that crossed Effie O’Connor’s face, and not waiting for an answer she said, “I’ll get Martha tucked in bed, and then Ill stick in here with you.” The woman’s name was Peggy Reed, and the daughter she tucked in was to grow up and become Martha Raye. It was three o’clock in the morning when she called a taxi. An hour later at four A.M. the baby was born at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Peggy Reed stayed there all night at the bedside, and in the morning when Effie opened her eyes, she said, “He’s a fine boy. And his name’s Donald O’Con- nor.” “Who said so?” whispered Effie weakly. “Me. I’ve always liked the name Donald. And this one seems just like my own boy.” sound as a watch... Donnie, as his family called him, did grow fast, although the more eminent pediatri- cians would hardly prescribe the formula and routine he got to grow on. He was a funny little kid, with snow white fuzz on his skull and snow white eyebrows and lashes, like an albino. He had the same gray laughing eyes of his Irish dad and a wide, mischievous mouth. He wasn’t big, but from the start he was sturdy and sound as a dollar watch. He had a voice, too, like a cavalry bugle’s blast. Effie O’Connor’s biggest problem of the day was to get Donnie to sleep backstage in time for her to go on with the act. Usually she succeeded, but the trouble was Donnie didn’t always stay asleep. More than once, in the middle of her tumbling, she would see the theater manager out of the corner of her eyes—standing in the wings, dancing anxiously on one foot and then the other. “P-ss-ss-t!” he’d stage whisper, “Hurry and wind up the act, Mrs. O’Connor, and come take care of your baby!” They traveled around plenty then, these vaudeville vagabonds, the O’Connors. Trouping was their life, and six children had had to face it and three had survived. Little Donald, like the rest, shared the family’s good breaks and bad luck from the minute he was born, it’s soft touches and it’s hardships. Early in life Don O’Con- nor found he could take it. John O’Connor had rigged up an old Reo Speedwagon for the family to tour in. It had bunks and lockers, lanterns, tables, a tiny stove, blankets, cupboards and even closets. That was the first home Donald O'Connor knew. In his infant memory the world jounced and rumbled by and curious people looked inside. The kaleidoscope of his baby mind whirred with images of gas flares and clowns and hoochy ladies and red show banners with gilt lettering. With long all-night trips between towns, and dawn breaking through the dusty windows of the Reo as it parked beside a country _ road, busted down, or out of gas or just stopped for the night because a hotel was too far away or it wouldn’t take in “show aly, ROU whee Se 7X. DEPT. 14 Your Own Favorite Snapshot pb Aon ¢ 5x7 inc Just to get acquainted! 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Hse ei —even the trip to New York, . ch they couldn’t afford, and the risk of tangling again with the Gerry Society. When it fizzled out, they found themselves _ broke in the big city. They didn’t have a speck of work for nine weeks and not a penny to eat on. Show business friends fed the O’Connors, with the big heart that show people always have and the spare bit of emergency cash most of them keep tucked away in an old shoe or somewhere. Rescue came at last with a four week engagement at good pay. Things looked rosy. Then tragedy struck again. And this time Donald O’Connor’s brilliant future almost died aborning. He missed being killed by the merest chance. & heart-break ahead .. . The engagement started at Hartford, fine for part of the first week. Then one day Arlene, six years old, took Donald out for an airing in his baby buggy. There | Was a candy store across the street from the Capitol, and Arlene had a sweet tooth. She started to push Don’s buggy across the _ rough cobblestones, neighbors said, but _ decided it was too big a job. So she left | him parked on the sidewalk and dashed _ across to the candy store alone. | _ Effie O’Connor was ironing out some of Don’s baby things in her dressing room when she heard the scream and the screech of brakes. When she ran out, she found her daughter pinned under an automobile. Arlene was killed instantly. The O’Connors went on with their en- ' gagement. They had to. More than ever now they needed the salary checks. So, right after little Arlene’s funeral they sang and joked and picked up their heels on the stage as the act swung north through New England. Then one night, in aa ie eR aaa Conn., at the Capitol, and things went ' | Full of surprises—that Don O’Con- nor! Up and elopes as we’re going to press! But don’t miss next month’s big issue! Don’s giving us an exclu- sive tell-all story! Brockton, Mass., only nine weeks later, the O’Connor Family heard the band cue for their family entrance. They all trooped out on the stage. Last came John, daddy of all the O’Connors, running out, red-faced and jolly, greeting the people with a big laugh and a quick tumble to warm up the audience. But this night when he tumbled he didn’t get up. He lay still, and Effie O’Connor screamed when she saw the color of his face. John O’Connor was dead at 49, mercifully quick from a heart attack. Young Donald, still a mere infant, was too young to know about these tragedies. But he heard about them from the minute he could understand what words meant, and he always felt that he had shared in them, too. He sensed at once that the world could be rough on show business folks. In some ways it made him tough, standing up to the world, even as a tot, going after what he wanted. Even when he was barely out of diapers, Don O’Connor was known around vaudeville haunts as “the toughest little kid in show business.” junior black bottom. . . Donnie walked when he was eight months old, about twice as soon as most babies. At the old Kedzie Theater in Chi- cago, when he was still wearing diapers, he broke loose from his dressing room pen one night when the O’Connors were on, toddled out before the lights with his “paci- fier” still in his mouth. He grinned at the orchestra professor, dropped the pacifier SR ee ee ee SE PRR IE \ I. Save money .. . Pebeco Powder gives 4 you 60% more than q the average of 6 other leading tooth powders! i 2. Safe, efficient. Con- 4 tains no grit; doesn’t harm or scratch pre- cious tooth enamel. Soe "The brightest smiles hav And I tM up your PYY 3. Grand for bright- ening teeth! No other - dentifrice cleans and polishes teeth better than Pebeco! 4. Tastes so tangy, too—freshens the mouth. Get Pebeco Powder today! 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In fact, although Don was always short and small as a boy, he was tightly knit with a web of muscles all over him. Like his dad, Chuck, he was just naturally tough. He learned to dance early, too, and sing. One of his first suc- cessful routines was a team dance with his two brothers. He sang “Looking at the World Through Rose Colored Glasses,” “My Mom” and “Keep Your Sunny Side Up,” and right after he could talk, he learned how to time gags and dialogue. When he was no more than three years old, Donnie worked in a tiny tuxedo. He was crazy about clothes in those days, as he is today. Nothing pleased him more than to strut down the street in his stage finery and watch the other kids stare in awe and admiration. Once in Lancaster, Pa., he disappeared when his mother was busy backstage. She rushed out on the crowded streets looking for Donnie fran- tically, then called the police. Finally, one came back leading Don by the hand. 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“Guess where I found him,” rinned — cop. “Down in front of the Good W Mission with the Salvation Army Band. el The kid was singing to beat the band EVERY WOMAN NEEDS S and dancing in this monkey suit. And the THIS LIP-CARE coin was rollin’ in.” The normal life that normal kids led was something Don O’Connor never knew. Normal kids had houses and back yards and a home town, and they went to school. In his whole life Don O’Connor went to a real public school only twice and then YRIPLE-CHARM LIPSTICK for only a few months each time. His ~ oo . _ | mother taught him his ABC’s and his mul- It Beautifies..It Benefits..It Lasts‘ _| tiplication table and everything else, in : bemen? shows eee: dressing room. ene a : : : . used a correspondence course put out by Michel helps your lips reveal their : ue Pennsylvania Board of Eau esos ae ae oes an O’Connor, among all the hundreds of things Aull magnetic appeal ty a | she had to do daily, held class each morn- ing in the dressing room of whatever show house the O’Connors happened to be play- ing. She remembers Donnie now, poring over his lessons while the rest of the family dabbed on grease paint. He used to mix her rouge, powder, cold cream and | | mascara all together when she wasn’t the lips, looks gloriously fresh, watching and paint pictures on the wall — . to dusk and after . . . maintain their tranquil softness throughout the years . . . capture hearts by the moment. Michel feels velvety on : : : with it. He studied his lessons on the clings as long as any girl could wish. ——_| cindery seats set jerk eee Le wrote re : them out, and she mailed them in. He That’s why Michel stands alone as did his Lome ‘work. by Aiheedaenmaelema the beauty aid that does so much __| hotels where show people paid in advance, : and they nailed down the towels. more than you'd expect of a lipstick. That was the kind of childhood Donald O’Connor remembers, “turkeying” all over : . S | the country, eating at “Maw’s Places” or 3 sizes: 39¢—65¢—$1.00 » | sending out for sandwiches and milk be- 8 FLATTERING SHADES q tween shows, because there wasn't time AMAPOLA ¢ RASPBERRY « VIVID « AMARANTH. - | for anything else. 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Outside of the white rat a traveling entertainer gave him or the rab- bits that Blackstone, the magician, be- | stowed as reward for help in his act, Don never owned any pets. His playground was no back yard or school ground, but the streets outside theatrical hotels or the | empty rows of seats in a theater before | New thousands every day are switching to Sifroux Tissues. Be- cause they're proving three ways LIGHT BROWN to BLACK tHe. FARRS Gives a natural, youthful better: softer... stronger... appearance, Easy to use in the clean “ag more absorbent! Try one thrifty privacy of your home; not greasy; will not and after shows. As a result he found box and you'll prefer Sitroux Tis- rub off nor interfere with curling. For 35 ways to spill his dynamite spirits around Gye for coldsumermouinanmaketo years millions have used it with complete the show house. 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ored. It was ruini _ was laughing at the snores instead of the *Connors, and that burnt all of them up. irst Brother Billy started stamping his feet on the stage, but the man snored peacefully on. Then Jack shot off a blank pistol. But still he snored. The audience was roaring now, and the joke was on the -O’Connors. Don ran off stage, sore as a boil, grabbed a bottle of seltzer water and squirted it right in the sleeper’s face. He jumped up, ran out of the theater like he had been stung—and then sued the _ O'Connors, the theater management and everyone. It put them in a nice pickle - for a while. : hen Don was only seven, the O’Con- - nors landed on a bill with a Fanchon and Marco revue of beautiful tootsies. The _ girls had a dressing room of their own, built of beaverboard and set apart back- stage. One afternoon there was a commo- | tion and indignant girlish outcries, and when the O’Connors investigated, they found Don in the middle of the outraged - chorines getting the daylights spanked out of him. _ He’d punched holes in the beaverboard _ walls to watch the girls change costumes! Another time they found him, dolled up in his stage outfit of cutaway coat, gray _ spats and cane, leaning against the wings ' like an old roué as the chorus tripped on ' the stage. As each girl skipped by, Don looked soulfully into her eyes and repeated | “I love you ...I love you... I love you.” _ He was all of eight years old. ! Don was just as tough with boys as he | was bold with girls. Like his Irish dad, | who had punched out his living in the ring, ' Don loved a fight, just for the fight’s sake. _ He wasn’t mean, but he was belligerent. | And he was good. Don is slim today and ' light, but his punching muscles are over- _ developed, and his favorite sport is still d CREAM GOES GRAINY? 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That was Danville, Illinois, where his Uncle Will and Aunt Josie and their big family lived in a big house. Uncle Will was John O’Connor’s brother. Irish, like Chuck, he had done all right in Danville in the plumbing business, and with his natural Gaelic gift for politics, had even been elected mayor a couple of times. Sticking around one place, he had also outdone his brother Jack by siring eleven children to Chuck’s seven. A few extra visiting cousins make little difference in a family of 13. So between layoffs, or when they. ran into bad luck or got busted, the O’Connor’s made quick tracks for Danville. They had another haven, at Peru, Illinois, where an old friend ran a country club and where they could earn their keep entertaining until bookings opened up. But Danville was where Don remembers feeling like he belonged to a place longer than just for the run of the engagement. ' Being a real stage actor, Don was a great glamour boy in Danville, and he played it to the limit. 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He himself had been named Alonzo after his father, but was Bud— and still is—to family~and friends. Not till “Stage Door Canteen” did he become Lon, and he’s just getting used to it. Girls sometimes call him Lonnie, which irks him. Billy and Jackie irk him, too. He’s always lived in and around Los Angeles. His parents, divorced when he was five, have remained friends. After ’29 they all had it tough. Iya’s real estate business went to pot. He got a job as parking lot Mother and Granny took in sewing. One Christmas they couldn’t scrape up enough to buy Lon a gift, so they had to tell him there was no Santa Claus. At the ripe age of eight, he had it pretty well figured out for himself. It didn’t seem right that everyone should work but Lon. Things got a little tougher. People weren't having much sewing done. Mother worked as a waitress, then as receptionist in a dental office. Iya went from night watchman at Universal to gateman at RKO. Through him, Granny got some extra work. “I want to make money,’ Lon told his mother. ° “You're pretty young.” “Some of the boys at school make money in the movies.” the hard way... You got into movies through dancing or singing. Lon took tap lessons first, decided he wasn’t much good and joined the Max- well Choristers. M-G-M sent for them. If they’d been asked to sing, Lon would have been sunk. As luck would have it, he was picked as one of the torchbearers for the ballroom sequence of * ‘Romeo and Juliet.” He thinks maybe “Romeo and , Juliet’s 8 lucky for him. Other jobs followed in movies and radio. Nothing startling. Extra work and bits. But enough so that, after a nervous break- down, Mother was finally persuaded to quit work. Iya seemed to be set at RKO. Granny was managing the apartment house where they lived. He discovered the world of books and ideas. He entered Chapman College, ma- jored in English and took as many units of philosophy as he could squeeze in. Girls?—Oh yes. 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There are a few pictures scheduled for her— one of which is “Caesar and Cleo- patra.” Write her at 2 Cities Film Ltd., 15 Hanover Sq., W. I., Eng. - I suppose I should be satisfied by the - tower of mail stacked up on my desk each morning. I’m not. I probably never will be, as long as your letters go on being as much fun as they are. If you’ve written once, please write again. If you haven't, get that note otf to me today because I’ve got the intormation you want about Holly- wood and its stars—you might as well have it. Address your envelope: Beverly Linet, MODERN SCREEN, 149 Madison Avenue, N. Y.-16, N. Y. He closed his ears. “I hear they like you,” his agent phoned. That made him feel as if he’d been lifted into mid-air and sort of left hanging. It was Mother who cut the string and sent him up like a balloon. Mother and Mr. Sutker. Mr. Sutker’s been kind enough to call Mother. “Lon has the part. 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Abso- lutely mad.” But Mac wasn’t unhappy in the apartment, and Lon was very happy, having him. Mr. Lesser sent Mother along. Marjorie ‘Riordan and her mother went, too. Mar- jorie’s the girl Lon kissed in the picture. The four traveled together and had a won- derful time in the big town. And in the end Lon signed his contract. He couldn’t afford not to, what with the terms and bonus Mr. Lesser offered. But he didn’t expect to make any more pictures till after the war. He’d had his physical exam for the Army. A week before the second was due, Twentieth Cen- tury-Fox intervened. They wanted to borrow him for “Home in Indiana.” They asked for his deferment on the ground that the picture would be released to all over- seas outposts before being shown at home.. Since movies have been classified as an es- sential industry, the request was granted. -And Lon bought a house. treasure hunt yee They’d wanted one for so long. They were so house-hungry that they’d study ads and even go looking at houses for the sake of looking, knowing they couldn’t afford even a small one. Now Lon made one of his decisions. His bonus from Mr. Lesser would almost cover the cost of a house. Then the folks would have it, no matter when he was called. Because Lon loved the ocean, it had to be on the beach—and they found it at Malibu. He and his mother went down to look at it first, and the minute he clapped eyes on it, Lon knew that was his house. Green-and-white. One story—which made it nice for Granny who’s beginning to get winded, climbing stairs. A high wall— which made it nice for Mac. The biggest fireplace they’d ever seen in a house— which made it nice for them all. Granny took Iya down to see it. Having been in the real estate business, Iya catches flaws invisible to the amateur’s eye. Be- sides, he’s English and reserved. But even Tya said, “Maybe,” which amounts to enthusiasm with him. So Lon bought it. 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When he’s not working, Lon’s a night owl—stays up till two and loves to sleep till eleven. Breakfasts on dry toast and hot chocolate, except when he gets an urge for waffles. Likes sandwiches for lunch— tuna and peanut butter—and his favorite dinner is ground round, new peas, salad, milk and lemon pie. Lemon pie the way Granny makes it. A day off—especially now at the beach— is a blank check from heaven. He spends it outdoors, paddles around on his surf- board, hauls his typewriter out and an- swers his fan mail. Mother helps him with that. And he studies. Wants to get his degree if he can, though right now the prospect looks dim. However, he’s still carrying eight units of college work. twilight and fire light... The hour before dinner finds him in front of the fireplace with some reading matter— Whitman or Conrad, Don Blanding or Stephen Benet. Twilight and fire light and a quiet house and the smell of good cook- ing and an open book—that’s something to keep with you as long as you live. He never misses Sam Grafton’s column and, when he’s home at night, always tunes in on the gas company’s music program. Cole Porter’s his favorite popular com- poser and “Easy to Love” his favorite song. Anything Koussevitsky conducts, he'll listen to. At the beach he wears as little as pos- sible. Generally speaking, his interest in clothes is lukewarm. He’d rather stay at home than go out formal. His wardrobe is about evenly divided between browns and tans, which he likes, and blue, which his mother likes him in. Just now he’s going through the tie-buying stage, be- cause ties are about all a fellow can pick for himself that have color. But he rarely wears them. He’s a regular at the Hollywood Canteen. Used to work as a busboy, but now that the fellows know him, they seem to like him mingling around with them. He and Marjorie go out together quite often. If it’s a twosome, they play miniature golf and stop in at a drive-in for nutburgers and a soda or a malt or a shake—doesn’t matter, as long as it’s chocolate. Mostly they go with a crowd—the Gene Kelly crowd you’ve heard so much about. Gene and Betsy Kelly are among Lon’s closest friends. They all gather at the Kellys or the Cronyns or the Wynns for | KNOW, DAUGHTER— GET PAZO FOR THOSE SIMPLE. PILES AVE EF G Don’t just suffer the agonizing pain, torture, fiching of simple piles. Remember, for over thirty years amazing PAZO ointment has given prompt, comforting relief to millions. It gives you soothing, welcome palliative relief. ts How PAZO Ointment Works 1. Soothes inflamed areas—relieves pain and itching. 2. Lu- bricates hardened, dried parts—helps prevent cracking and soreness. 3. Tends to reduce swelling and check bleed- ing. 4. Provides a quick and easy method of application. 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< (Continued from page 55) er nothing did. Then they told me about this place. One guy said I’d see movie stars, and another guy said, ‘Nah, nobody shows up, and I walk in and there you are. And now—well—now here I am talking to you.” He flushed, conscious of having been car- ried away. “I hope you don’t mind. What I’m trying to say is—on account of seeing you, Hollywood hasn’t let me down.” “Why should I mind?” said Joan gently. “You've said some very nice things, and it makes me feel good.” That boy, symbolizing many, is why Joan goes to the Canteen week after week— every Tuesday night. Once you're in, you forget you were ever tired, the boys are so smiley and glad to see you. Sometimes Joan dances, sometimes she’s at the Snack Bar. Not long ago she sprained an ankle and couldn’t dance. The boys were inclined to be skeptical— “C’mon, Joan, don’t give us that oldie—” She had to stomp out and show them, after which they went protective on her. “Just sit on that high-chair. 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If someone in your family needs building up, try giving Ovaltine 2 or 3 times a day to speed the return of vigorous health. It’s funny when they give her what she calls the familiar-face routine. They stand and stare—who is she? Do I know her? Sometimes the light dawns in a grin. Or it doesn’t dawn, and some bolder spirit puts the question direct. “Are you one or aren't you?” “Yes, I’m in pictures.” “Don’t tell me, let me guess. What were you in last?—Oh, I missed that one—” “Pm Joan Leslie,’ she says and ducks for the coffee urn, so she won't have to watch. their faces get red. There was one boy standing at the edge of the crowd, looking so white and miserable that she wanted to push her way through and find out what was wrong. But you can’t do that; they hate being made conspicuous— At last his turn came at the Bar. “Would you sign this to my mother, Miss Leslie?” “Anything special you'd like me to say?” “TJ just had word that she’s pretty sick. Maybe ‘get well’ or something—?” She took her time and wrote a warm little message. Reading it, his eyes filled with tears, and she felt her own lids sting. She looked for him the following week, but he didn’t show up. The next Tuesday she heard a jubilant “Hi!” Wreathed in smiles, he looked like a different boy— ‘Viom’s going to be okay. She’s got your card propped up against the medicine glass and shows it off to all the neighbors. Says it’s the thing she’s proudest of—except me,” he added bashfully. running the gantlet.. . As a rule, you can’t go for special re- quests. There are too many boys and not enough time, and the boys understand and are satisfied with just the name. But once in a while you get somebody with ideas—~ Holidays are special at the Canteen. They always need extra help, so Joan volunteered for Thanksgiving Day. She and Bob Alda worked together, Bob carv- ing turkey, Joan heaping cardboard plates. In between they signed autographs— Along came one of Uncle Sam’s more enterprising gobs and stuck a cardboard plate under her nose. “Look, here’s what I want you to write: ‘My heart belongs OVALTINE TEETHING PAINS RELIEVED QUICKLY Waren your baby suffers from teething pains, just ruba few drops of Dr. Hand’s Teething Lotion on the sore, tender, little gums and the pain will berelieved promptly. Dr. Hand’s Teething Lotion is the prescription of a famous baby specialist and has been used by mothers for over fifty years. One bottle is usually enough for one baby for the entire teething period. Buy it from your druggist today DR. HAND’S TEETHING LOTION to you, Joe— Joe Allen’s the name, but you just put Joe—My heart belongs to you, Joe, I'll be waitin’ for you, love and kisses—’ then a lip-print and your name through it. Cute, huh?” Joan tried to laugh it off. “Don’t you see I can’t?” she protested. “Tf [ did it for you, I’d have to do it for everybody.” “Well then, just love and kisses and the lip-print. I gotta have the lip-print—” In desperation she grabbed the plate and wrote “To my favorite heckler—” Before she could sign, someone yelled for coffee. She turned back just in time to see a busboy pick up Joe’s plate, scoop a mess of half-eaten beans into it, stack it on top of a pile of dirty plates and march off, whistling. Joe stood and stared in a kind of paralysis. Then he shook his head slowly. “Fate!” he muttered. “It ain’t to be—” and lost himself in the crowd. Her most embarrassing moment came ‘one night as she herself danced with another sailor who took his title as King of the Jivesters seriously. Joan had come straight from the studio where they’d given her a beautiful up-hairdo which wasn’t, however, built for heavy seas. The music grew Warmer and warmer, ditto the King. 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Every time they FT danced, he’d tell her about some friend who | was dying to meet her— “He’d come three thousand miles across | broken beer bottles to dance with you.” “Barefoot, no doubt?” she flips back. “No doubt. Where would he get shoes?” This went on and on till the gag got to | be pretty tired. But Joan played along. Why not, since it took so little to amuse him? Then one night he asked if she’d sit the dance out. He said he wouldn’t be coming back to the Canteen, it looked as if they were headed overseas— “I want to thank you for putting up with my stale jokes. They must have been pretty tiresome. You know—you’re a good sport, Joan. I guess I was trying to get your goat. But he. never showed—” “He’s got a long way to come,” said Joan demurely— “Three thousand miles across broken beer bottles,” they chanted, and people turned their heads to see what was so funny. There’s also the romantic type, as ex- emplified by the boy who’d seen “Stage Door Canteen.” His eyes were rapt, his voice intense— “Miss Leslie—? Not J oan—perish forbid! —did “California” call his deity Katharine? —“Miss Leslie, do you remember the poem you said in ‘The Sky’s the Limit’?” “You mean the one about the man I wanted to m ss “Yes. Would Miss Leslie?” She glanced hastily around. Well, let them laugh. The only thing was, would she be able to go through it? Looking back into the lost-puppy-dog eyes up- turned to her, she took the plunge— “A creature not too bright or good For human nature’s daily food. For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles—” He pulled a sigh up from the toes of his GI. shoes, murmured a simple, soulful thank you, turned on his GI. heel and walked off, gazing into space. Joan dabbed a handkerchief at her face. “Coffee, boys?” the broken record... There was another young romantic pres- ent one night—Gerard Darrow, aged 9. He and the other Quiz Kids collected auto- graphs as zealously as if they'd never heard of an I.Q. As Joan handed the book back, Gerard spoke with impressive fer- vor, “This is the most exciting moment of my entire life, Miss Leslie. I'll never forget you recite it for me, please, it.” Joan was charmed. The words echoed | | in her ears—or were they an echo? There was nothing disembodied about the clear treble, sounding off yet more fervently a few feet away. “This is the most exciting moment of my entire life, Miss Hayward. Til never forget it—” That’s what he said to all the girls. Her own most exciting moment occurred | one night when a voice called, “Hii, Ter- | th | ror!” She whirled swiftly, her face alight— On a bond selling tour in Washington, | she’d been shown through a bomber. As she talked to the crew members, one said, “Hey, wait a minute, fellas, we haven’t | named this ship yet. 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The Leslie Terror—” Thai’s why “Hi, Terror!” set her pulses leaping. Yes, it was one of the original crew. Yes, their ship had seen action in the Attu and Kiska fighting, had been damaged but not beyond repair. The boys had come through okay— “Maybe because youre a redhead.” “Maybe because I prayed,” she said to herself. What impresses Joan most about the servicemen she meets is their spirit— the way they accept the job, the way they loathe any trace of hero-worship—even those that come back with stripes and medals—you’re not supposed to notice such things. The way they're so grateful for what you do, when what you do is so little. Often, when her shift is over, she doesn’t have the heart to go home if they ask her not to— “Why do you have to go?” “Pye got to be up at i “ “We've got to be up at 5:30—” “Oh dear, I know—” Her hours are long, but theirs are longer. Her work is safe, theirs is difficult and dangerous— It makes her ashamed. _ One letter she treasures especially, be- cause it expresses so simply and beauti- fully what she herself feels and can’t put into words—the spirit of the men, the spirit of the Canteen, the spirit of America. “Dear Joan Leslie: I’m one of the hundreds you were dancing with Tuesday. You won't re- member me, but Ill never forget you... 1 want to tell you why. It’s not because you're pretty, though you are. It’s not because you're a goo dancer, though you're that, too. It’s not even because you're becoming a big star. To be honest with you, I didn’t even know who you were till they called you to the platform. I'll never forget you because you made me want to live. Your sincerity, your friendliness—those are the things that made my heart beat faster. No, not for you, Miss Leslie—I haven't a crush on you—I have a crush on the things you stand for. 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Like sewing a blue fourleaf clover into the bodice. Like making her bring one of her white slippers down, so they could stitch a six- pence into it for luck. And after her last fitting, they were all lined up to wish her happiness. And the doorman said, “Not today you don’t get your own Car, Miss Powell. Today’s something special,” and he brought it round himself. The whole thing was like a wedding present—a box of good will tied up with friendliness—that sent her home in a glow. * * It was to be a home wedding—15 or 20 guests, with more coming in for the re- ception later. The mantel in Ellie’s living room was banked with white chrysanthe- mums and gladioli. She wanted to stick to every possible tradition, but they had to break the one about not seeing each other before the ceremony, because Glenn didn’t get in from camp till that afternoon, and. they had to rehearse. The bride made no pretense of hiding her excitement. 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Horrors, suppose it rang while they were saying “I do.” Against all the rules of the telephone company, she stuck the receiver under her mattress. Let it ring there. The hairdresser came in. “I just saw your bouquet. Such lovely sweetpeas—” A swift twinge, which Ellie refused even to acknowledge. She adored sweet- peas. Sweetpeas were beautiful— “A, little everydayish for a wedding, though,” said the twinge. In came the bouquet. White orchids. They’d been ribbing her. “Just the same, I’d have loved sweetpeas, too,” she told the twinge firmly. More days and months— Eight o’clock. In the living room, Dave played softly as the guests were being seated. “Oh Promise Me” and “I Love You Truly.” Then he did something sweet and unexpected. At opposite ends of the house, Glenn and Ellie smiled as he broke into “Sweet Leilani,” which has a special significance for them. It was almost as if the walls had melted, and they’d sudden- ly looked into each other’s eyes. As the last guest took his place, Dave struck a chord. Glenn came in from the dining room with Ned. To: the strains of the “Wedding March”—old but always new for the new troth it plights—Ellie ap- peared on her mother’s arm, preceded by Stebby in powder-blue. All she and Glenn saw through a haze were each other. Mrs. Powell stood between them till the minister asked, “Who gives this woman?” Then she joined their hands and stepped back. All they heard was, “I now pronounce you man and wife.” All they felt was in their eyes as Glenn kissed his wife for the first time. ‘ * * _ * Everyone cried but Glenn. All eve- ning he was the busiest person. Ellie hardly saw him. But then she was pretty busy herself. They did cut the cake to- gether, and they did snatch a minute to look at the inscriptions in their rings. And that was another miracle, because they’d never said a word to each other about Tt yet the inscriptions were almost identical. 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Presently Glenn said in desperation, ‘Tet’s go.” Back in the compartment, they clung to each other and howled. “Anyway,” gasped Ellie, “it was awfully sweet of that man—” All along Ellie’d been saying, “How nice if we could get Bob to take us around.” And he was at the train to meet them. Stebby had let him know— “Hope you two’ll be as happy as me and the missus,” grinned Bob. And Julius said as he opened the cab door, “Welcome home, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Ford, and no more blue envelopes.” Nowhere could they have had a lovelier homecoming. Harry Owens and his band were playing at the St. Francis. Not only did Harry write “Sweet Leilani,’ but he and Glenn were old friends. There were flowers on their table in the Mural Room that night. Harry came over. “T hear they played “Sweet Leilani’ at your wedding. Well, from now on, it’s your song. I’m going to find the original and dedicate it to you—” Returning to the grandstand, he called for a fanfare. The room fell silent. “I'wo people are here who were married Sat- urday,” said Harry. “This is their song, which I’ve just given them for always.” The silence was broken by the first notes of “Sweet Leilani.” Across the table Glenn and Ellie smiled at each other. Next mo- ment she was in his arms, and they were dancing to the melody of their own song, and to a deeper melody in their hearts. Whether anyone else danced, they wouldn’t know. For them, nobody else was there. Ten perfect days. Never by any chance did Ellie refer to Glenn as Glenn or Mr. Ford. It was always, “my husband.” Look- ing back, she thinks maybe she overdid it and wouldn’t mind having it all to over- do again— Dinner downstairs every night. Thei first-week anniversary at the Copacabana. The day the flowers came, and she stood mooning over the box, because it was the first thing addressed to Mrs. Glenn Ford. But who in San Francisco could be send- ing her flowers? The mass of fragrant — pink carnations told her. Who but her husband would know that pink carnations were her favorite flower? * * * . There were no tears at parting. Ellie | would have felt like a pig to cry. They | were too happy and grateful to have had so } much—ten perfect days. — Glenn gets in a couple of times a month ~ —for part of Saturday, and Sunday. He drops in at the studio where Ellie’s making “Sensations of 1944” for Andrew Stone, then goes to see his mother. Saturday evenings, he and Ellie are alone. Night — clubs never meant much to them; now | Glenn revels in the quiet of his home. i They go for a walk with Tanz—short for Tanzer, or dancer. He takes his name~ literally—does wild Nijinski leaps when he smells Glenn coming. ; After dinner they sit before the fire, reading, talking, listening to records. Ellie | used to wear slacks round the house, but no more. Glenn doesn’t like them. ie. Ellie’s usual breakfast is a poached egg on toast and coffee. Sunday morning she | tries to keep up with Glenn, but flounders” halfway. He starts on eggs and toast, moves on to sausage and wheatcakes, winds up with cinnamon buns and apple- sauce. Yes, he eats lunch, too. j Afternoons they get together with the family, and maybe one or two clo; friends. Glenn and his mother have — couple of hours alone. Incidentally. Glenn’s mother hasn’t yet got over the wonder of having a daughter—a daughter who phones from the studio every noo just to say hello—a daughter you can woman stuff to, like shopping and recipes Ellies making no picture plans. Glenn’s still at the base when “Sensation” is finished, she’ll go down there and be with him as long as she can. .| Among dancers, the name of Eleanor | Powell outshines most. Her kind of work i more exacting than that of an Soe takes more time and energy and self- discipline—so many hours for rehearsals, so many for rest, else you won't be in shape. You can’t meet those grinding deman and give your best to your husband. And she won’t give Glenn second best. That's not her idea of marriage. ; So when the war ends, there'll be just one career in the family, and she'll be Mrs. Glenn Ford, trying to help in what she calls an invisible way. She’s in training |// already, takes lessons from Anna, her | cook, because Glenn’s crazy about Anna’s | Hungarian dishes. “— She also takes care of Glenn’s fan Ellie’s no glamour girl. She’d rather bu a lamp for her house than a diamond for } her throat. She’s rather get a mono-| grammed handkerchief than orchids be- | cause the handkerchief shows that youl friend thought of you beforehand be | didn’t rush out at the last moment just to} . buy you something. That’s what she adores about Glenn—his thoughtfulness—the sweetheart bouquet he sent her when the} picture started—the little notes he writes They’re all worn thin from being carried around and lying under her pillow. ; Glenn didn’t fall in love with a danci marvel, but with the warmth and kin ness and simplicity of a girl named E _ Harry Owens gave them a song for ways. We string along with Harry. Y Glenn and Ellie without beli : | 7

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