Modern Screen 1944-05 Vol. 28, No. 6

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* x SS Smiles are brighter when gums are firmer. Guard against “pink tooth brush’’—use Ipana and massage. OU’RE helping to end this war sooner and you're proud and glad to be doing it. But after houwrs—comes fun — comes laughter—comes romance! So put on your best bib and tucker. Take a last peek in the mirror and—smile. Hold on—was that a bright smile? Spar- kling? Thekind of smjlethat warms hearts? If you can smile like THAT—you don’t need great beauty! Just look at the popu- lar girls you know. Many aren't beauties at all! But we'll bet they've got a dazzling smile! So let your smile be that kind of smile — gleaming, alive! Just remember sparkling teeth depend largely on firm, healthy gums. Never ignore “pink tooth brush’’! If your tooth brush “shows pink’? see your dentist! He may say your gums are tender —robbed of exercise by today’s creamy foods. And, like so many dentists, he may suggest [pana and massage. For Ipana is designed not only to clean Start today wi Ipana ann massage teeth but, with massage, to aid the gums. Let Ipana and massage help you to firmer gums, brighter teeth, a winning smile. Your Country needs you in a vital job! A million women are needed to serve on the home front—to carry on the tasks of men gone to war—to release more men for wartime duties. Jobs of every kind—in offices, stores and schcols—as well as in defense plants—are war jobs now. What can you do? More than you think! If your finger can press a button, you can run an elevator or a packag- ing machine! If you can keep house, you've got ability that hotels and res- taurants are looking for! Check the Help Wanted ads. Or see your local U. §. Employment Service.

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meena Pee Ee ns ns Be nat — See ee I 1) if Yo ODO. bb bb bbb bb bab bbb bb bb ib tt boob i bb bb bb bb bbb Rb bE OR bb OR ER OF The greatest star of the screen! Published in this space every month “Gaslight” is no gentle flicker. xk kk OF An almost unholy light blazes about this drama of emotional conflict which comes to the screen by way of MGM. xk kek k& * Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten are the incandescent threesome.» y, + And theirs is a most unusual love story, set against a dark design for living. ri For Ingrid Bergman—those bells will toll again—with a clamour of applause. xk kk Ok Charles Boyer, whose gleaming eye has held many a feminine heart in mid-beat, adds to his strong fascination, a strangely compelling quality. Z x kok Credit MGM for bringing out the sinis- ter facet and adding to the Boyer draw- ing POWEl.yY * he And put another halo around the bril- liant head of George Cukor for his splendid interpretation of “Gaslight”. Ki OOK ROOK It’s the kind of direction you’d expect from the man who guided ‘‘Philadelphia Story”, and many other MGM triumphs. 1K KOK Something else to look forward to: Dame May Whitty’s performance and that of newcomer Angela Lansbury (she’s luscious but vot angelic). Ok ok. While we’re laurel-tossing, we present one to Arthur Hornblow, Jr., producer, and another to John Van Druten, who adapted the screen play from the stage hit. Ki Kel ky ak “‘Gaslight’’ holds the mysterious, threatening quality of a dark thought on a black night. KOK ke eK The under- —__ ene ee pee — currents* 2 | will sweep = ae \ you along CF : excitedlyto r the stirring © Ys ee end, says... ~ Z ij . STORIES COLOR PORTRAITS FEATURES BEAUTY FASHION DEPARTMENTS Vol. 28, No. 6, May, 1944. monthly. Printed in U. S. 15c in U. S. and Canada, ahis 1944, the Dell Publishing Co. A. Officesof publication at Washington and U. S. subscription price $1.50 a year, Canadian subscription second class matter, Sept. 18, 1930, at the post office, Dunellen iff class entries at Seattle, Wash., San Francisco, responsibility for the return of unsolicited mater DOES HOLLYWOOD HATE FRANK SINATRA? First day they were skeptical; second day they started -warming up. And by the end of the third, they were salaaming all over the set! ....+-++++.se+2eeeeeeres THE LITTLEST LADD It was killing, the icy stares Alana handed her pop at first. But where’s the girl that Alan couldn’t melt?.......-- 34 TERRIFIC TRIO! The Army’s given Lon new worlds to conquer. But always there'll be the old world of Hildegarde records, sailboats and “Barnaby” ........00cee cen e cents enenecenes 36 HALF-PINT, JR. They’re a pair to make you chuckle . . . Elaine, “hammy” as a Barrymore, wily as a diplomat . . . Veronica, stern and prudent as a mamma’s got to be ...+++-++++++++- 38 SEE HERE, MR. WALKER... . This could be a love story, if it had a different ending. It could also be the story of a guy growing up . - - the hard way ....ssccccen cere ccceeece ccs cesseeesss -- 40 IT COMES UP MARRIAGE! It could only happen to a Donald O'Connor. With love, induction and the rush of events, Small Fry got himself mixed up like a chef’s salad......+++.++++++++++-=> 42 "IT HAPPENED TOMORROW” Believe in swamis, globe-gazers, dealers in the future? You don’t? Well, just see what happened to Dick Powell and Linda. Dartnell <<... os: 00 200 0 + 0 oie sieetetahe lolol eaten ates 44 BING ON THE BEAM Wanna know what he means to guys in uniform . . . to a pilot of “Crosby’s Curse” in New Guinea . .. to the lonely G.I’s in the Arizona desert?........-eee eee c eer eeeeeeseneens 46 THE MAN IN DEANNA'S LIFE It’s love all right! And it started practically the minute chunky little Dickie was born! .....-+.-+++++++e+e+: 50 MEET BELITA! And meet a few skeletons in her closet. Awfully nice when you get to know them....--.++-+.++++++e++e+- 63 30 Marguerite Chapman in Col.’s new Kay Kyser musical.... 48 Tyrone Power, Ist Lieutenant, U.S. M.C.......--+-+-+-+-+-- 49 Linda Darnell in 20th Century-Fox’s “Sweet and Lowdown” 54 Joe Cotten in M-G-M’s “Gaslight”........--+--++++++-- 56 Editorial Page.......... 0202 eee e cece cece teste ee caeee 29 He Notices Your Hair............eeee cee ce eect reees 66 Curl-Cues From Vera...........0+2eeecere rere seers 68 Modern Screen Fashion Guide..........-.---------+-- 52 "Song of the Open Road™ Fashions............--.-+-- 70 Movie RevieWS: ....2.sc 2 ccc cis sec soee'e 50 alee slereeleitminne 6 Super Coupon.......-.--e2seeeeee eee ee erect ee eceee 18 (eye |: he Se ED Aote mano SA cas oso of 2S: 22 Good “NOWSE «cies csecne © ere a leen te © 10 tole) oenay= lege nelie eee nee 58 Modern Hostess.........-sccccccnccee cer te een sececes 80 WIN A FUR COAT!..... 2.2222 ee eee eee eee tena eeee COVER: Deanna Durbin in Universal's “Christmas Holiday” ALBERT P. DELACORTE, Executive Editor HENRY P. MALMGREEN, Editor SYLVIA WALLAGE, Hollywood Editor BILL WEINBERGER, Art Editor GUS GALE, Photographer Editorial Assistants: Kay Hardy, Annette Bellinger, Sylvia Katz. Service Dept.: Ann Ward. Information Desk: Beverly Linet , Inc., 149 Madison Ave., New York. Published | South Aves., Dunellen, N. J. Single copy price, $2.50 a year. Entered as N. J., under Act of March 3, 187 i Texas, an w O. characte os Galif., Pallas,

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‘DAME MAY WHITTY-ANGELA LANSBURY: BARBARA EVEREST | Screen Play by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch and John L. Balderston- Based upon the Play by Patrick Hamilton A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture - Directed by GEORGE CuKoR - Produced by arTHUR HORNBLOW,uR.

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By Virginia Wilson WOW iu REVIEWS For Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer and Sam Clemens, tiny, quiet town of Hannibal, Missouri, and Mississippi rolling beside it is fraught with imaginary danger, wild adventure. ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN QW a grassy levee by the Mississippi, a small boy lies day dreaming. His dreams are of the river— the lazy, powerful river that drifts by his home town of Hannibal, Missouri. The small boy is Samuel Clemens, and those young dreams are later to become known to readers all over the world as “The Ad- ventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn.” Warner Brothers have built an exciting picture around Sam Clemens’ life, and Fredric March makes a down payment on this year’s Oscar with his portrayal of the title role. He never gets out of character for an instant, and he makes “Mark Twain” as humorous and gallant and real a figure River jie Sam (Fredric March) ion brother's Sain Tes. BSE OU have ever seen on the screen. Alexis Smith, Later, with Steve Gillis (Alan Hale), he goes west to who is coming right along as an actress, plays his find gold. When that fails, he becomes newspaper reporter. sweet, inspiring wife, Livvy. (Continued on page 8) Sam's first story is reprinted throughout coun- try. Beautiful wife Livvy (Alexis Smith) prods him to recall his childhood, write ‘Tom Sawyer.” Financial failures, debts press him into tire- less globe-trotting lecture tour. Betore Livvy's death, there's swift, tender idyll in Italy. j-— fon

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7 AR GREATEST FIGURE W MOTION PICTURES BRINGS You 3 Ge ENTERTAINMENTS! JOEL MAUREEN LINDA McCREA - O'HARA - DARNELL TECHNICOLOR with Thomas Mitchell « Edgar Buchanan + Anthony Quinn 5 Directed by WILLIAM A. WELLMAN «© Produced by HARRY A. SHERMAN © Screen Play by AEneas MacKenzie, Clements Ripley and Cecile Kramer DARRYL F. ZANUCK’S propuction oF E f f —pirectea by LEWIS MILESTONE. with DANA ANDREWS - RICHARD CONTE - FARLEY GRANGER KEVIN O'SHEA - DONALD BARRY - TRUDY MARSHALL - SAM LEVENE Written for the Screen by Jerome Cady Technical Adviser Otto Tolischus SZ iff =} Featuri B Kay Francis - Carole Landis - Martha Raye Mitzi Mayfair wm Jimmy DOFSey amt His Orchestra John Harvey - Phil Sitvers - DICK HAYMES Guest Store ALICE FAYE - BETTY GRABLE CARMEN MIRANDA - GEORGE JESSEL S Sens ie 2 " CENTURY-FOX

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oS eerie The mysteries of life and love—bared for a fleeting instant in the eyes of a beau- tiful woman! A truly un- usual drama! VERA HRUBA RALSTON: RICHARD ARLEN fi HELEN VINSON _ SIDNEY BLACKMER _ GEORGE SHERMAN Director Based on the novel “DONOVAN'S BRAIN’ by CURT SIODMAK Se The rest of the cast is spangled with names like Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, Walter Hampden and C. Aubrey Smith. Did you ever wonder why Samuel Clem- ens chose the name of “Mark Twain” to write under? The answer goes back, like so much in his life, to his days on the Mississippi. Young Sam runs away from his brother’s printing shop to answer the siren call of the river. He becomes a dash- ing, handsome, afraid-of-nothing pilot on a river steamer. In one of the most beau- tiful and stirring scenes in the picture, he pilots his boat through a reef-filled chan- nel on a foggy night, into the safe water beyond. And safe water, to every river pilot, is known as “Mark Twain’—the words the negro boatmen call out as they take the depth soundings over the side of the boat. Sam Clemens remembers those words later, when he is a newspaperman in Vir- ginia City during the gold rush. He uses them as a “pen name” on a piece of humor- ous writing he is sending to an Eastern magazine. The sketch is called “The Jumping Frog” and is founded on a finan- cially disastrous, but very funny, experi- ence which Sam and his gold hunting partner, Steve (Alan Hale), had with Bret Harte (John Carradine). Sam is ready to try anything these days to make money—even writing. He has left his beloved river and come West in the gold rush for just one reason. He has seen a picture carried by a young Easter- ner, Charles Langdon, of his sister Olivia. “That,” says Sam firmly, “is the girl 'm going to marry.” On the surface it looks impossible for a wild, penniless Westerner ever to win beautiful Olivia Langdon. ERICH von STROHEIM But nothing is impossible to Sam Clemens —he is to prove that time and again in later life. The Civil War comes along now to interfere with his search for a fortune, and Sam joins a Southern regiment. When the war is over, he discovers to his utter astonishment that he is known throughout the country as “Mark Twain,” the author of “The Jumping Frog.” He is asked to lecture in New York, and there luck steps in. For Olivia Langdon is in the audience, and Sam succeeds in meeting her after the lecture. He not only meets her, he goes right back to Buffalo with her and invites himself to stay at her home. Her stern, conservative father (Walter Hampden) promptly “uninvites” him, but Sam gets around that, too. By now Livvy has fallen in love with this dashing young man with the unexpected sense of humor, and they marry in spite of her father’s disapproval. Eventually they have a son whom Sam adores. When the boy dies, he is inconsolable. Livvy, to dis- tract his mind from his grief, persuades him to write the story of his adventures as a boy on the Mississippi. The result is “Tom Sawyer” and fame. Sam turns out books thick and fast after that. Not the kind he would like to write —he’d love to do a serious novel that would be “worthy of Livvy.” But his pub- lic wants humor, and Sam gives it to them. He has to. His investments are always disastrous, and he does absurdly altruistic things which keep him broke. Some of his most delightful books are written with bankruptcy staring over his shoulder. And in the end he realizes that the gift of laughter is worth all the “serious” books in the world! You'll find that “The Adventures of Mark Twain” is a living, glowing pic- ture completely dominated by the gallant, laughing figure of the man himself—War. MOVIE REVIEWS (Continued from page 6) i P. S. Title is result of Gallup poll. Majority of the people questioned said they would prefer to see the adventurous highlights of the Samuel Clemens career to some fiction-laced version of his life... . So Producer Jesse Lasky decided to call his film, simply, “The Adventures of Mark Twain.” . Privileged visitors to the set were invited by Fredric March to inspect his built-on nose, most intricate part of a fabulous make-up that took sometimes as long as two hours to apply. Experts Pere Westmore and Gordon Bau had to make March look like Twain from his early 20’s through to his death at 75. They worked from hundreds of avail- able photographs plus 100 feet of film taken of Twain a few years before his death. March studied this film carefully, says it helped him perfect his character- ization. . . . Warner Bros. research de- partment had a stiff work-out on this one, compiled a 72-page Mark Twain bibliog- raphy listing its source material. 1750 books were used, 2345 photographs collected— originals or copies of every available por- trait of Twain. Thousands of authentic props had to be gathered before produc- tion began, ranging from Mississippi River steamboats to jumping frogs. . . . Alexis Smith announced her engagement to Craig Stevens the day before she became “en- gaged” to Freddy March in the picture.... Importance of character, not length of space in the script, governed the choice of the other roles. . . . John Carradine was engaged to portray Bret Harte. C. Aubrey (Continued on page 10) “ MODERN SCREEN QUIZ It’s awfully easy and more fun than a barrel of monkeys. But do keep score accurately if you want an idea of your Star Intelligence Quotient. The quiz offers three sets of clues, the first on this page, the second on page 24 and the third on page 74. If you can guess, on the first clue, the name of the actor or actress to whom it refers, score yourself 5 points. If you get it on the second clue, give yourself 4. And if you must turn to the third clue before guessing the name, score yourself 3. For your total score add up all 20 in- dividual scores. 70 or thereabouts is average, this month. For the answers, turn to page 113, but don’t look before you're finished. Peeking spoils the fun. QUIZ CLUES Set 1 . Tyrone County ancestry Oona’s only Battled with Bette Bela Blasko: Born Lugos, Hungary Snagged a guy named Joe . Picked Pickford 20th Century Gabriel . Dithery dame . Mickey Mouse’s mastiff 10. James H. Meador 11. Leslie Howard’s Juliet 12. Ball of fire 13. Coogie 14. Dates Payne 15. Singing Sam 16. Miss Bishop 17. Strictly from Hungary 18. Rangy and raucous 19. Tugboat Annie 20. Lord Cavendish’s brother-in-law (Continued on page 24) OOIAT RON E

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Direc by Frank Tutile * Screen Play by Michael Hogan + Adaptation by Lesser Samuels, © A Poramount Picture

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Whorf and Allan Joslyn are particularly effective as LaFarge’s comrades at arms, and John Qualen plays the Normandie farmer with something approaching genius.—Univ. P. S. This story of the Free French was writ- ten from an original idea of Julien Duvivier’s, director of the picture. The first draft was written entirely in French by Mr. Duvivier and translated into English by studio writers. . . . Script had been ready for three years, but producers re- fused to film it until Jean Gabin was available for the lead. Jean left immediately after this role to join the Free French Navy as a Lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps. This was his third enlistment in the French armed forces. He was in the Army during the German imvasion of France in both wars. When France signed an Armistice with Germany in this war, Mr. Gabin managed to get out of France and come to America to help fight for his country with the Allies. When General DeGaulle formed the new French Army and Navy he was one of the first to apply for enlistment....Camp DeGaulle, the original Free French head- quarters in the Congo Jungle, was dupli- cated at Sherwood Forest, California, and the cast and crew spent three weeks on location at this spot. Desert fighting scenes took place near Palm Springs. . . . First picture for Ellen Drew im eight months. She’s been in England entertaining troops and selling British bonds. . . . Peter Van Eyck plays his first sympathetic role, that of a Frenchman fighting for his native land. A German, Mr. Van Eyck left Ger- many in 1933 because he didn't like Schic- klegruber—and has played only Nazi parts im movies. ... Jean Gabin, originally a song and dance man in Paris, France, 1 SAW IT HAPPEN A friend of mine in the Army Air Corps recently visited the Hollywood Canteen and danced with a delight- ful, dark-haired girl whom he sus- pected was an actress. Still, he wasn’t sure. The soldier was a confirmed jitter- bug. So when the music got hotter, he offered to show his lovely young partner the newest steps. She watched him intently and conscien- tiously followed his lead. Consider- ably later he was chagrined to learn that she was one of the screen’s finest dancers—Ann Miller. June Streibig, Cincinnati, Ohio sings for the first time m an American movie. He does an American version of an old French folk song, “In Sweet Cherry Time”... The Gabins have been vaude- ville performers clear back to great, great grandfather Gabin who was the Barry- more of his day. SHOW BUSINESS There isn’t a better loved figure in show business than Eddie Cantor. Eddie started back in vaudeville, went on to the fabu- lous musicals of Ziegfeld and then to movies and radio. “Show Business” may not be exactly a biography of Eddie, but the resemblance is certainly more than coincidental. You'll see what I mean when I tell you the plot of the picture. Eddie (Eddie Cantor) appears on ama- teur night at a burlesque show. The star of the show, a song and dance man named TRRESISTIBLE cx ctucye! = We dedicate to the WAR WO Rh: R IRRESISTIBLE io” Achieve that fresh, alive, out-of-the-clouds look with the softer, lighter texture of Irresistible’s new AIR-WHIPT Face Powder. Whipped into a delicate mist by mighty whirl- winds of pure, filtered air, Irresistible is non-drying, color- true. Clings longer too, giving your skin that mat-smooth, wonderfully clear finish that is today’s badge of beauty. Try Skintone, the new Air-Whipt powder shade. 4 10c—25c SIZES George (George Murphy), likes the lit- tle guy with the banjo eyes and gives him a helping hand. After the show they go out for a beer together and run into a sister act, Constance (Constance Moore) and Joan (Joan Davis). George falls in love with Connie, but he can’t make any- one believe it’s really love. He’s been a wolf too long. Besides, there’s the little matter of Georgia (Nancy Kelly), the bur- lesque queen, who considers that she took out an option on George some time ago. Eventually, however, George, Eddie, Connie and Joan get together in a vaude- ville act. The act does pretty well. In fact, the foursome manages to save up $5,000. So what happens? Georgia gets in an auto accident, needs five grand for plastic surgery, and George sends her their savings. Connie takes that like a good sport. She even marries George right afterward. But a year later, on the night her baby is born dead, George is out with Georgia. Connie won’t listen to any explanation. She leaves the act and goes off on her own. The first World War is in progress, and George enlists. Eddie, too, goes over- seas as an entertainer. When they come back, the great Ziegfeld hires them for his new show. He includes Connie and Joan in the deal, too. But Georgia interferes again, and it takes a second World War to get the right people back together. There’s lots of nostalgia in “Show Busi- ness.” Old songs like “It Had to Be You” and “Whoopee” brings the memories flocking. For the kids who are just making their memories now, there are a couple of shiny new hits—‘You May Not Re- member” and “All for The Love of You.” —RKO. P. Ss. Producer Eddie Cantor kept Actor Eddie

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x ¥ ; a = ; : <P Se ia PRD NOT RPA production, made him learn to dance, kept him working until nine o’clock some nights, excused him on Wednesdays so he could work on his radio show. ... To those folks who seem to recall seeing Eddie dance, he explains, “I never reall danced— You can’t do everything so concentrated on singing and comedy—all the dancing I’ve ever done has been. kind of a shuffle.” .. . Eddie was so thrilled about making this picture, he isn’t back to normal yet. Did everything but record the sound—wrote, acted, produced, sang, sparked gags. Director Eddie Marin acted as @ cool foil to Banjo-eye’s excitability, was often pointed out to selected visitors as he sat toward the back of the theater set muttering, “Its a wonder they even let me in!” On stage, Cantor put the cast through its paces—Joan Davis and George Murphy and Connie Moore—rehearsed new breaks with dance director Nick Castle. . . . Because the picture is a glorified Cantor biography, five of the musical numbers are nostalgic—(“Dinah,” “I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl, etc.,” “Whoopee”). Three of the songs are brand new. . . . Halfway through production, the time of year rolled around for the annual March of Dimes. Cantor flew to San Francisco, did a 24-hour marathon broadcast, sold $37,000,000 worth of War Bonds, returned the next day and went right to work again. Day included a long, impromptu speech delivered ad lib at luncheon given him in RKO commissary. - . . Joan Davis was voted the nation’s “Queen of Comedy” last year, rates tops as radio comedienne in every survey and poll yet taken. . . . Eddie’s own choice for “the two best men I ever knew in show business” are Will Rogers and George M. Cohan, considers “Cohan” a synonym for “dynamo.” Says there is no truth to the rumor that vitamins take him. GREENWICH VILLAGE Don’t think for a minute that the battle between the “long hairs” and the “hep cats” began in the Benny Goodman era. It was going strong back in the Twenties, and for the purpose of this picture the battleground is Don Ameche—in Techni- color. Don plays a young composer from Kansas, Kenneth Harvey, who has written a Concerto. Don is strictly the Philhar- monic type, but he wanders into a Green- wich Village speakeasy one night, and the groove boys catch up with him. He has his fortune told by Querida (Carmen Miranda), who sees several hun- dred dollar bills in his wallet. She prompt- ly introduces him to Danny (William Bendix) the proprietor of the place. “A millionaire sucker,” i Danny, and tries to interest Ken in backing a show to be called the Greenwich Village Gaie- ties. Ken meanwhile has gotten a look at Danny’s featured attraction, a young singer named Bonnie (Vivian Blaine). From then on he doesn’t hear a word Danny’s saying. Bonnie persuades Ken to play his Con- certo at a party that night. “The gang” are bored silly, but just the same the next day they find themselves humming pas- sages from it. “We might use some of that in the Greenwich Gaieties,” Danny suggests. Hofer (Felix Bressart), a former symphony violinist, pretends to be shocked by this. He “cons” Ken into thinking he can get the Concerto played at Carnegie Hall for the trifling sum of 4,000 smackers. That, by an odd coincidence, being all that Ken has. Meanwhile, Bonnie is writing lyrics for _ those tuneful passages, hoping Ken will let use the music in the show. Danny es money for the Greenwich Gaieties iving a huge costume ( Oa ae , bi dre “I quit, Miss Jones— those girls burn 2228 Hi Z ates Mille | Ml ji Miss Jones: Amy, dear, we want you to be happy here. You’re pretty and capable — you can be popular, too! And perhaps I can be of help to you... il Amy: Of course I like the job, Miss Jones —but no matter how hard I try to be friendly, those girls snub me. I just can’t take it any more! DANY AAI! Amy: Jonesy was a darling to tip me off about Mum! After this, it’s a bath for past perspiration, and Mum to prevent risk of future underarm odor. Amy: Me—guilty of underarm odor? Why, I bathe every day! Miss Jones: But a bath doesn’t always last, Amy. Be smart—after baths, use MUM! 4 (To HERSELF) WERE RFAL FRIENDS NOW— AND / CAN KNITTING FOR THE BOYS IS THANK MUM! FUN_WITH YOU TO HELP US, AMY/ LEIP ic A ae : Se. ‘GF MUM ~&. é ¥y balls E : Mum has the advantages so many popular girls want in a deodorant! It’s quick —Half a minute with Mum prevents underarm odor all day or evening. It’s safe —Mum won’t irritate skin—even after underarm shaving. Safe for clothes, says Amer- ican Institute of Laundering. It’s sure —Mum works instantly! Keeps you bath-fresh for hours. Get Mum today! For Sanitary Napkins—Gentle, safe, dependable Mum is an ideal deodorant for this important purpose, too. TAKES THE ODOR OUT OF PERSPIRATION Product of Bristol-Myers

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love that—it’s the whole spirit of the 1920’s in one colorful scene. You'll have to go and see the picture to find out who wins the battle for Don’s music. But Vl give you a hint—you'll come out whistling “Whispering.” “Green- wich Village” is a gay, sparkling show that dates back to the speakeasy era— and you don’t have to “know Joe” to get in!—20th-Fox. P. S. Carmen Miranda was a sick chick when production began. She was still recuper- ating from a critical operation that had her just this side of death’s door for many long weeks. Biull Bendix managed somehow to squeeze this particular film into his frantically busy schedule be- cause he felt he should make one friv- olous picture to counterbalance the grim roles he’s been playing. Sings “A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody” and gets mixed up in a burlesqued adagio routine... . Femme singing star Vivian Blaine is the cream skimmed from the top of a list of 40 promising gals, all of whom were defi- nitely candidates for the role. Vivian won only after she came out ahead of four other finalists in exhaustive and exacting Technicolor tests that lasted for hours. Each girl had to sing the same song, act out precisely the same scene. Their tests were voted on by a board of studio executives. Alice Faye, was orig- inally scheduled to play the star role, had to withdraw when the stork was sighted winging over the horizon. ; Newcomer to the comedian division is B. S. Pully. To those who don’t know him, he’s best described as having a voice that’s a cross between Andy Devine’s and Don- ald Duck’s. And he looks just like he sounds. . . . Some of the sassier carica- tures lining the walls of the sets are the GOODBYE DANDRUFF’ YOU'LL WHISTLE too when you see how quickly the rich, abundant Fitch lather carries off the dandruff, dust and dirt. 1 SAW IT HAPPEN I was invited to tag along with some newspapermen a while ago to a re- ception given in honor of Ernst Lubitsch. When the introductions were over, my friends parked me in a chair and went their rounds of picture-snap- ping, etc., while I, usually so at ease, sat there, conspicuously alone. A love- ly-looking girl came into the room, waded through the mob to a vacant chair beside mine. “Are you saving this chair for someone?” she asked. “Nope,” I said. “That's a serviceman’s ring, isn’t it,’ she asked, pointing to the Air Force ring on my finger. Warmed by her friendliness, I blurted out, “Yes, my fiancé. I was just sitting here thinking of these people cocktailing while he’s on his way overseas.” My new friend was completely sympa- thetic. “My husband’s been overseas for months,” she confided. “May I show you his picture?” Later, when my friends returned, I asked, “Who is that girl. She was charming to me.” “Oh, her .. .” they laughed. “She’s nice to everyone. That's Carole Landis.” Jessyca Russell, New York, N. Y. work of Director Walter Lang, who stud- ied art for years here in this country and abroad. ... Lang whipped them up be- tween scenes. . . . Dance scenes had to capture the spirit of the °20s, so the rug- cutters had to be watched to see that no jitterbugging slipped in. . . . Leo Robin and Nacio Herb Brown wrote ten new songs for this one, but the theme number is an oldie, “Whispering.” JAM SESSION When Columbia named this one “Jam Session,” they weren't kidding. The ’gators will be hanging from the chande- liers when they dig the bands in it— Charlie Barnet, Louis Armstrong, Alvino Rey, Jan Garber, Glen Gray and Teddy Powell. Plus the Pied Pipers and Nan Wynn. It’s solid jaboo and plenty of it. Somewhere along in the picture a writer in search of a plot says triumphantly, “The Cinderella angle! It’s been done a million times, but it’s still good!” It must be good, because it’s the basis for “Jam Session.” It’s what they hang the music onto. Lit- tle girl comes to Hollywood, gets kicked around, finally succeeds. Doesn’t sound like much when you put it that way, does it? Let’s dress it up a little... A pretty tap dancer from Waterfall, Kansas (does anyone ever stay in Kansas?), comes to Hollywood to get in the movies. It ought to be easy—she has a letter from the movie critic of the “Waterfall Tribune” to Mr. Stuart head of Superba studios. The tap dancer’s name is Terry, and she is played by Ann Miller. (See, it’s getting better already!) Terry finds that she can’t get within even car- rier pigeon distance of Mr. Stuart—who doesn’t see anybody. Every time she makes a try at getting into his office, she lands on some set and ruins the “take.” She is soon the most unpopular girl in Hollywood. Only a kind old gentleman she meets in the park will have anything to do with her. Then she gets a job as secretary to a writer, George Haven (Jess Barker). 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dancer who tries to crash the movies. The story turns out fine. “Type it and send it to Mr. Stuart,” George says proudly and goes out. Not knowing that Terry can’t _ take dictation either, and that not a word __ he’s given her has landed on paper. George gets fired by Superba, Terry lands in jail. But the old gentleman in the park inter- venes at the right time, and the little girl from Waterfall gets not only a job, but a husband. No wonder nobody stays in Kansas!—Col. “The More Women at War —The Sooner We'll Win!“ Harness that housework ade and skill to any home-front service! very day, P. Ss. Jess Barker sets some new kind of record in films by doing a double double- take im one scene. As “George Carter _ Haven,” he passes a motion picture theater that has a large 3-sheet featuring “Jess _ Barker in his Greatest Picture, coming to _ this theater soon.” “Must be somebody I _ know,’ says Barker. “Must be,” replies __ his picture in the lobby. Then both Bark- _ ers do double takes. ... Some of the scenes for the picture were shot just outside the _ studio. Director Charles Barton tried to _ persuade “Cap,” Taylor Duncan, to play himself as man-in-charge-of-admitting- _ people, but “Cap” refused, asked only that __ he be allowed to choose the actor who. _ would impersonate him. “Cap” explained he liked his job too well, had been at it a long time and didn’t want to change now at this late date. ... Poor Director Barton had an accident that resulted in an eye infection, result being he had to work with one eye completely swathed in _ bandages, and the other aching sympa- thetically....Ann Miller sent jigsaw _ puzzles of a picture of herself to the boys ' im service who wrote to her, now carries _ on a hilarious correspondence with some _ of them who complain they didn’t get _ enough parts to make a complete picture. ... or the band fans, “Jam Session” as- sembled Charlie Barnet, Louis Armstrong, _ Alvino Rey, Jan Garber, Glen Gray, Teddy _ Powell with their respective aggregations, worked them into the story and devoted _ 40 minutes of the entire film’s running _ time to musical numbers. . . . Niftiest dance _ routine by Ann is called “The Victory _ Polka,” shows the Miller gal at her fastest _ —which is faster than machine gun fire according to latest tap-versus-gun tests. | THE COWBOY AND THE = SENORITA _ _ You know what I'd like to hear?: Roy Rogers serenading Trigger with a ren- _ dition of “Mairzy Doats.” But Roy is not one to be serenading horses when there _ are lovely ladies around to sing to. In this _ ease, the object of his songs is a fair senorita named Ysobel Martinez (Dale _ Evans). Ysobel owns the big Martinez ‘ranch. She has a ward, a cute’ but trou- _blesome youngster known as Chip _ (Mary Lee). As the picture opens, the _ whole countryside is engaged in a search _for Chip, who has disappeared. Roy and his friend Teddy Bear (Guinn Williams) -are returning from an unsuccessful gold hunting expedition, and they join in the search. Teddy Bear grabs a big roast chicken from the ranch house kitchen as they start out, and this acts as “bait” for Chip. 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But there are a lot of other people in- terested in getting that letter. And in getting Roy and Teddy Bear out of the way. The result is a false charge of rob- bery and a lot of highly suspicious activity around the old mine, culminating in a hell-for-leather ride to the county judge’s office. Chip does all right, as a result, and when last seen, Roy was still singing songs to Ysobel—Rep. P. Ss. First picture co-starring Roy with Dale Evans. They work so well together, studio hopes to do a series of movies with them. . . . Radio listeners know Dale from her work as vocalist on Edgar Bergen’s weekly Java show. Gave up air-lane work tem- porarily to concentrate on a picture ca- reer. To servicemen, she’s well known as a song writer, most popular of the many original songs she warbles for them at camp shows being “Will You Marry Me, Mr. Laramie?” As the senorita in this picture, she adds dancing to her list of entertaining talents, whirls through some fancy Spanish numbers with the greatest of ease. .. . Between scenes, Roy prac- ticed on his gee-tar and read and reread Roy Rogers Comics, a brand new comic magazine featuring adventures of Roy and Trigger. He’s mighty proud of the book. ; Trigger took an instant liking to the new assistant director on the picture, refused to leave his side between scenes. ... Much of the sound had to be re-done after the picture was finished. Mary Lee had a severe cold during production, and her voice, they discovered later, had changed in tone from one scene to the next as her cold had improved. . . . Roy is trying to figure out a logical way to get his racing pigeons into his next picture. He took 28 more prizes with them during production, puffs up like one of them when he tells other members of the cast how smart they are. ... After see- ing the rushes of the picture, Dale’s friends tried to persuade her to dye her honey-blond hair to match the black wig she wears—it’s so becoming. . . . Valley residents, used to seeing "most anything with three motion picture studios in their back yards, still do double takes in Roy’s direction when he zooms through town on his motorcycle dressed in those wild cow- boy shirts, chaps, ten-gallon hat and, over it all, his raincoat. (Because of heavy dew, not rain!) HOME IN INDIANA “By popular demand” is a much abused phrase, but this is one time when it really applies. By popular demand, young Lon McCallister has been given the starring role in a picture, and it’s a honey! You know about Lon. You saw him in “Stage Door Canteen,” and it was love at first sight. Now you'll see him as a boy who is a natural handler of horses, in an ab- sorbing story of trotting races and a “shantom filly.” The boy is Sparke Thornton, who, at 19, comes to live with his uncle, ‘Thunder Bolt (Walter Brennan). Sparke is a START PITCHIN’, KITTEN! Paper... tons of it...%s needed, as urgently as iron and steel. You can’t run a war without it. Our fel- lows are wearing paper raincoats now across the English Channel. Food and equipment for living is being dropped by paper parachutes to the poor guys marooned in out- of-reach places. Yep, paper's needed all right. And you're needed to save and salvage it. Besides, you'll be paid handsomely for it. So digest the rules below and then hop to it. 1. Save and salvage all paper. Get your family, your friends and club to do the same. 2. Fold newspapers flat and te them in bundles 12 inches high. Tie magazines in bundles. 3. Flatten corrugated and card- board boxes and cartons. Tie in 12 inch bundles. 4. 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As a result he gets a job exercising Boole’s horses, unknown to Thunder. He meets Boole’s daughter, Cri-Cri (June Haver) and the trainer’s daughter, Char (Jeanne Craine), who become rivals for Sparke without his realizing it. 3 Soon he has another secret to keep. Be- cause one dark night, Sparke has led | Hamilcar Chief into the stable of Lady, | Thunder’s blind thoroughbred mare. The f foal which is on the way will have one of the best blood lines in the siate. Maudeen IV arrives at last—as sweet | a filly as you ever saw. Thunder knows | the secret by now, of course, and has for- J given Sparke. He even teaches him, as Maudeen grows older, to drive her with | the true science of trotting races. “Some day,” says Sparke dreamily, “Maudeen and I will win the Hambletonian.” “You’ve got a long way to go,” Thunder tells him gruffly, and Sparke learns that he is right. | The trotting races will pull you right out | of your seat—don’t miss “Home in In- | diana.” —20th-Fozx. P. Ss. Picture marks Lon McCallister’s last film before reporting for induction in the United States Army. During production, Lon tried hard to do a good job, so hed § be fixed in the public’s mind for the duration. outside of incidental expenses, so he could buy a home for his folks before he actu- ally received his draft notice. A (Continued on page 20) Saved every bit of his salary, §

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CHICAGO (Continued from page 16) drama of the peace-time world, the gov- ernment felt this film really presented an excellent view of the values our men are fighting for and rushed prints of the picture overseas long before it was released in this country. . . . Charlotte Greenwood gets a long-awaited chance to go dramatic. Spent her spare time be- tween scenes teaching younger cast mem- bers new jitterbug steps for the ballroom scene. ... Young Jeanne Crain is getting “the works” in publicity build-ups by 20th Century-Fox as a result of her ability in the drama department. Is set to be starred in her second picture. ... Jeanne and Lon spent two weeks visiting a Santa Barbara ranch so they could learn the proper manner of driving trotting horses. . .. When the cast went on location—s4 days were spent in the Midwest—all non- working days were spent drumming up trade at local War Bond rallies. Visits to Fremont and Marion, Ohio, and Lex- ington, Kentucky, boosted sales way over the local quota. One manufacturer pledged to buy $100,000 worth when Ward Bond auctioned off his coat. . . . Entire cast also visited military hospitals and war plants. . . . Nationally known horse- man Paul E. MacPherson did a great deal of the technical advising—he’s a specialist in every phase of. racing. . . . Director Henry Hathaway put up a $1,000 purse for what he called the “Twentieth Century- Fox Stakes” and asked some of the drivers from the actual Grand Circuit to stay over a day to record a race sequence. The men gladly climbed back onto their “bikes” and gave out with a race that hasn’t been equaled for realism since the chariot rush in “Ben Hur.” Autumn came too soon to please the Technicolor experts. They had to send back to Hollywood for a couple of barrels of green paint, then spray the surrounding grass and trees back to their spring tones. . . . Maudeen Four, leading equine character, is really Miss Sarah Abbey, a 3-year-old trotter owned by Walter J. Michaels. Miss Sarah got a two-months’ trip to Holly- wood out of the deal, to complete added scenes, and was praised by one and all for her gentleness and fine temper. THE HOUR BEFORE THE DAWN Franchot Tone is turning out to be a very versatile lad these days. It’s quite a jump from the wolf he played in “True to Life” to a conscientious objector work- ing on a farm in England. But that’s his role in this new picture, and he handles it well, Weronica Lake plays a young Ger- man spy ensconced in an English house- hold, with equal effectiveness. The household is that of General Heath- erton (Henry Stephenson) and his two sons, Jim (Franchot Tone) and Roger (John Sutton). The spy is Dora Bruck- mann, who poses as a Nazi-hating refu- gee. She _ is secretary-companion to Roger’s giddy wife, May (Binnie Barnes). May is romantically trying to promote a marriage between Jim and Dora. “They’re so sweet together!” she sighs ecstatically. But Dora, for the present, isn’t interested ‘to look over Radio - but he hadn’t seen her a ye she is classed as be moved out of that distr ately, her attitude toward changes. She becomes much mc sponsive than usual, and after a few meetings at his tiny cottage, they decid to be married. When the order comes for the evacuation of enemy aliens, Dora is safely Mrs. James WHeatherton, British citizen. i But now odd things begin to happen. The headlights of May’s ear are mysteri- ously left burning during an air raid. Jim calls on a suspiciously Nazi-sounding “professor” and finds some of Dora’s spe- cial pastries on the tea tray. So the tension mounts, slowly and tightly, to the violent explosion which forms the picture’s climax.—Par. : P. S. This is Veronica’s first attempt at dialect. Speaks with a German accent im every scene. Dialect coach Lester Sharpe had Veronica read newspaper columns to him with a heavy German accent to train her for this. . . . Pay special attention to Ve- ronica’s hats—she designed them all her- self, including making the wire forms for them. ... While on location in Mesa, Ari- zona, she found her first pet: a stray Per- sian cat with seven toes which she brought home with her. ... Desert climate was so hard on her delicate skin she had to change from make-up powder to baby talcum... . Binnie Barnes’ fans will love this one. Binnie, once an English vaudeville singer, croons “The Beer-Barrel Polka.” Miss Barnes confesses she was known as “Texas Binnie Barnes,’ twirled a rope and sang cowboy ballads on the London stage... . Little David Leland is introduced to movie-goers in “The Hour Before the Dawn.” His English accent is natura] al- though David has never been in England. Born in Italy he moved with his English mother and American father to France while still small. Picked up his accent from the English school children who were his classmates before the German invasion. _.. More than a thousand people had to be transported to and housed in Mesa during the four-week location trip. Trans- portation department finally got buses for the cast and crew, but it was more diffi- cult to find sleeping accommodations. Problem was solved when the residents of Mesa offered to rent their spare rooms and extra beds to the studio. . . . Scme of the Mesans were so interested in the shooting of the outdoor scenes, they breught pil- lows and blankets and stood watching far into the night while camera crews worked filming explosions and fires m the Arizona fields. . ... Neatest trick on location was making an English farmhouse out of a *dobe cottage. This was done by making a thatched roof out of hay which was to be used in the fire scenes next day. ~ EVE OF ST. MARK You know how soldiers gather on street corners in New York, discussing where to go next. Here are three of them, One, Mulveroy (Michael O’Shea) from Brook- lyn, of course wants to see the Dodgers play. The tall Southerner, Marion (Vin- cent Price), who loves poetry and liquor, — wants to head for the nearest bar. And Quizz West (William Hythe) would like t their separate ways, and when they get — together again back at camp, love. “In love as none ever was he says and means it. The girl is from his home town her on the tour of in lo City. So they head hn Quizz is in Me) before,” Hy upstate, § 1

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ie writes to her every day. But you can’t sit around camp, thinking nd writing letters every night. Some- _ times you have to go into town with the _ boys. Marion always heads for the nearest _ place where they make with the bottles, _ Mulveroy heads for the nearest babe. Blonde, brunette or redhead, it’s all one to Mulveroy. Sometimes Quizz gets to wondering if Janet really loves him as much as he thinks. He momentarily con- _ siders trying Marion’s system—or Mul- veroy’s. But he doesn’t do it. And when he gets a final furlough before being _ shipped out, he’s glad he hasn’t. Because _ Janet does love him—just as deeply and _ passionately as he loves her. __ Later, on that little island in the far Pacific, the memory of Janet seems ex- _ traordinarily real, even in the midst of Jap _ bombs and malaria. When there is at last a final, fatal decision to be made, _ Janet in some curious reverse fashion, _ teaches Quizz the way to make it. _ _ Twentieth Century-Fox has given us a _ deeply moving war picture from the _ famous Maxwell Anderson drama. The _ whole cast gives a touchingly real inter- _ pretation, with Vincent Price particularly ' good as Private Marion.—20th-Fox. . 7 P. Ss. Story behind the sale of this particular literary property is an interesting glimpse into studio negotiation routines. Author + al MAY 122 Circle it on your calendar. It’s the day you'll find the June is- sue of MODERN SCREEN on your newsstand. Better get your copy the day the magazine is out; otherwise, with paper short- ages and such, you may have to do without it entirely. Maxwell Anderson wrote his play two years ago, sent it to 20th Century-Fox _to see if they wanted to buy it for “&@ movie. Darryl F. Zanuck offered to finance the play (if Anderson would _ take it to Broadway), paying $50,000 down and $3,000 for every week the play ran. Anderson thought carefully, reasoned. the play must be better than he had realized, ‘decided to finance it himself. When it proved to be a smash hit, Anderson was ‘offered $300,000 for the movie rights by four different studios. Fox was one of them, and he sold it to 20th because they had been interested in it originally. . . . Producer William Perlberg assigned eorge Seaton (who scripted “Song of ernadette”) to do the writing of their creen version and then cast the picture ith an eye to actors’ ability rather than ‘their box-office pull... . Heroine Anne Baxter passes along her recipe for adding inches to her height. Originally 5 feet 3 mches, she reaches for the molding above 7 bedroom door and hangs on daily from me to three minutes, now comes up to the 64 inch mark on the scale in the studio ken ear drums, originally shattered in childhood accident and later aggravated nightly beatings in the stage version of ‘he Moon Is Down.” He was Lt. Ton- V egies) duction, because FEAL | v=: tecosinncrionon Smooth it on before you tackle daily soap-and-water jobs! Helps keep busy hands soft! A marvelously different idea in lotions! Trushay, used before you wash undies—before you do dishes—guards smooth, white hands. Helps prevent soap-and-water dam- age, mstead of trying to correct it after it’s done. This rich, creamy lotion’s grand for all-over body rubs, too—soft and soothing for chapped elbows and knees. Trushay’s eco- nomical, so you can use it all these ways. Ask for it today —at your favorite drug counter. *Trushay was formerly called Toushay. A different spelling > atic PRODUCT OF —but the same wonderful “beforehand” lotion. i BRISTOL-MYERS

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\ By Jean Kinkead What's your problem? How to he smooth as a kitten’s ear? How to land HIM? Army wife blues? V-mail complications? We've got the answer ! WY S SV Ni SS + Se Gosh, it’s a beautiful feeling to get lots and lots of mail, and don’t think we aren’t happy about all those letters you’ve written us. The cute, jivey scrawls from you school gals; the sweet, serious notes from service wives; the neatly-typed jobs from careerists . . . We love ’em all, so keep them coming and we'll keep answering. Funny how many of you have the same prob- : lems. Men, babies, stuff. Some questions popped up in our mail so persistently that we decided to turn this “Co-Ed” into a question and answer session. Okay? “I’m madly in love with a boy in my class, but he doesn’t know I’m alive. I’m not beautiful, but I’m not bad. How can I get him to ask me out?” A. R., Pelham, N. Y. ; It may be a long hard pull, but if you'll jus polish up your perseverance, we'll bet you'll get that date. First of all stop whispering about him to the other girls. Let everyone forget you have acrush on him. Once he knows you're on his trail, | youve practically struck out. Now let’s take |

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bill of goods if you’re chubby. Exercise, stock of yourself. Are you the cutest gal in the class? You can be if you work at it. How is your hair—clean and bright? So attractively arranged that the guys turn around and look and then look again? And your skin—is it petally? If you wear make-up, are you an artist at it? Then how’s the figure? Too much in the wrong places? Uh uh. You'll never sell him a s \) chum. Then work on your clothes. Be sure they’re spotless and well-fitting. Neither too short nor too long, too young nor too old. So far so swell. Now that you look smooth as a kitten’s ear, turn on the charm. We know it’s awfully hard to be casual with someone you like a lot, but you can do it with practice. Instead of flying past him in the hall, dropping books in your excitement, toss him a big grin and a “Hi, Bob.” Have something interest- ing to say when you're asked to recite in classes you have with him. If he says any- thing the least bit praiseworthy in said classes, smile at him and tell him after- wards he was really mellow. If he’s in the Dramatic Club, join it. If he’s an athlete, go see him play. Ask him to your parties, but not as your date. Pursue him, but subtly, and not with a pack of equally smitten women at your heels. Above all, forget the gal you used to be. The tongue- tied one with the blah hair-do. Don’t ever let that character cramp your style. You’re the cutest gal in the class, remember? Ow go get your man. P.S.—Send for our charts (see page 18) if you want some good substantial ammunition for the cam- paign. Then watch out. Lady, you'll be Marjorie Reynolds featured in “MINISTRY OF FEAR” a Paramount Picture INFORMATION DESK (Questions of the Month) By Beverly Linet _ Theresa Doherty, New York: WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE PIANO CONCERTO PLAYED IN “PHAN. TOM OF THE OPERA’’? THE AUTHOR? CAN I BUY IT IN EITHER SHEET MUSIC OR A RECORDING? The title is “Piano Concerto,” based on “Lullaby of the Bells,” which was sung by Miss Foster. The authors are Edward Ward and George Wagner, and neither sheet music nor a recording is available. Pvt. Carlos Morales, Kentucky: WHO PLAYED THE BABY MARINE IN “GUADALCANAL DIARY”? SOME STATISTICS, PLEASE. Richard Hanley Jaeckel, born Oct. 10, 1926, in Long Beach, L. I. was “Johnny.” He’s 5’ 814”, 145 lbs., has blond hair, blue eyes, is a fine all-around athlete from skiing on down. Was discovered while serving as messenger boy for Fox, Next pic, “Wing and a Prayer” and “Chips, the Dog Hero.” Robert Camp, Georgia: WHY HAS THERESA WRIGHT DISAP- PEARED SO COMPLETELY FROM THE SCREEN? Theresa has been seriously ill these last few months. However, she is now com- pletely recovered and will next be seen in “Casanova Brown” , . . Wondering how to secure Photographs of stars, how to address fan mail, who took the part of whom in the last pic- ture you saw? Well, 8osh, instead of tacking your brain and probably coming up with the wrong answer, why don’t you scribble your questions down on paper and let me answer them for you? You know my address; Miss Beverly Linet, Information Desk, MODERN SCREEN, 149 Madison Ave., New York 16, N. Y. S fo) LITTLE TIME! So much to do! No wonder more and more Hollywood stars turn to Woodbury Complete Beauty Cream. It does everything for skin beauty. See it make your skin lovelier, lovable! Woodbury Complete Beauty Cream gives complete care: Cleanses. Softens. Smooths. Gives a velvet finish for powder. Acts as a night eream. Helps smooth away dryness and tiny dry-skin lines. sites cei Four special softening, smoothing ingredients make this cream extra-beautifying. An exclusive ingredient, Stericin, works constantly in the jar to purify the cream, helping guard against 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 some on all night. Use it for daytime clean-ups.

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Gi Sent FREE to members of the Armed Forces on receipt of 10c to cover postage and packing. QUIZ CLUES Set 2 : (Continued from page 8) . Power and glory Ladies’ man . Was Georgia belle “Night Monster” Married 1929: never divorced Out of pics . Poppa-to-be . Pandemonium in pantomime . In the dog house . In “Human Comedy” . Mrs. Irving Thalberg . Night-clubby : . Cartoonist and cook . Cried Havoc . And Time Went By . Schoolmarmish . Name rhymes with gory . Rudy’s protegée . Deceased 1934 . Makes with the feet (Continued on page 74) © 00 CUP Co Et fighting them off—we positively guarantee it! * * * “How does one cope with mothers? Mine still considers me an infant, although I’m fifteen. She won’t let me have dates, wear make-up or choose my own clothes. I’m slowly going mad. What do you suggest?” —Molly J., Ridgewood, N. J. How about a conference between you and Mom at which you both air your views? Be sure you have yours all neatly arranged in your head so that when you sound off you make sense. Listen patiently to her side, then have her listen to yours. If, when you’ve finished, she’s still uncon- vinced, at least get her to compromise a bit and tackle her again in a month or so. Some points for your side of the debate are these. Eventually you hope to get mar- ried, and even at this early age you should be gathering experience to help you know what sort of man you want. Settle for house dates or double dates or anything she'll agree to along these lines. About make-up. Her unfavorable reaction to it dates way back to an era when only the most tarnished ladies wielded a lipstick. In those days, you were terribly conspic- uous if you even put a dab of rice powder on the old schnoz. Now quite the reverse is true. Subtle skillful make-up is as so- cially acceptable as a Mayflower descen- dant, and really, by the time you're in your middle teens, you’re a bit conspicuous without it. Lipstick is the most important item, so get her to agree to a rosy pomade at first. Later, wheedle her into approving a good true-red lipstick. Now about se- lecting your own clothes. Let her see how smooth your taste is, first making sure it is. Show her clothes that you like in mag- azines and newspapers. Discuss the new spring things you’d like to have with her, and if your taste is as good as we think it is, we think she'll let you do your own selecting. If you want to please Mom— and incidentally, the rest. of your public— steer clear of frills for school. Stick to good-looking sweaters and skirts and blouses, with an occasional tailored dress. For dates, avoid too-tight numbers, too- low ones and over-fussy jobs. In the coat line, go for the classics every time. * * * “For once, I’m completely stumped. My husband is in an Army camp, and I have a furnished room in the nearest town. Can you possibly suggest any arrangement at all whereby we can read or chat in the evening without disturbing our six- months-old baby?”—Jane, Trenton, N. J. — 1 Sr6h by x2" oe Dea 2 ST ete Si Ee ee: i oe ae G. Your problem’s a pre Jane, and here’s the way a lo working it out. Push the crib a wall farthest from where you p sit. Then get two folding screens from a second — hand store or by advertising for them in the local paper. Arrange them around the crib so that it is walled off completely. If the light that shines over the screens is disturbing, drape a large sheet over them, roof-wise. If you have time and inspira- tion, the screens can be made awfully attractive by pasting baby pictures all over them and shellacking them with colorless shellac. Naturally, you'll talk softly, and as an extra precaution you can put cotton in your baby’s ears, if your doctor says okay. * * * “‘T’ve gone with a boy for ages, but he just never seems to get around to propos- ing. I imagine he considers us engaged, for he sees no other girls and I date no other boys, but the word marriage is never men- tioned. He has a good job and no ties. How can I make him propose?”—J. B., Waterloo, Iowa. Sounds like your little man is in a nice comfortable rut, and he needs a good jolt. Next time you see him, pepper your con- versation with the name of an imaginary man your sister or crony has introduced you to. Discuss him sort of dreamily, laugh a little over funny things he said or did. Seare your Butch but good. It may take a week or two of this routine, but if his intentions are serious, by gad he'll make them known pretty soon. This is surefire stuff, and if it doesn’t get a rise out of him, resign yourself to the knowledge that marriage isn’t on his mind. ~ * * * “I just got a letter from my favorite corporal, now in Italy, and it’s kind of worried me. He says, ‘A pal of mine who was practically engaged to a gal back home just married a WAC. The jilted dame, a cute bit of fluff according to her pictures, had been writing him silly, spineless let- ters for weeks, and he got fed and mar- ried this hard-boiled little sergeant. Says he’s outgrown the ex-heart-throb. Gosh, darling, that couldn’t happen to us, “cause I’m so sure you're growing up as much as I am,” Oh, golly. I want to, but I'm not very sure what he means.’—Betty W., Madison, Wis. He’s grown up, he says, and. naturally you wonder how. Having talked to a num- ber of World War II veterans, maybe we can shed some light. That corporal of yours cares less about superficialities, more | SAW IT HAPPEN Last summer when Sammy Kaye was in New York, he devoted part of — his program to a contest called, “So You Want to Lead a Band!” I was chosen with three others to conduct the orchestra and, probably with the help of my Navy uniform, snagged first prize consisting of five dollars, an autographed baton and a pass to the theater. Well, this winter my ship was torpedoed during the North African campaign, and I lost the autographed baton. Afterwards, when I returned home on leave, Sammy Kaye was play- ing at the Essex House. I visited him one evening and told him how disap- pointed I was in losing the baton. He promptly gave me another and, later in the evening, came over to our table to chat with my friends and me. He sure is one swell guy!’ William F. Vesely, — _ Phm 3/c, U.S.N.R. Nes) eee is = 4. te aoa @w on: 7 + ne ~@ { — ot

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[a eae a mre aS Ta ¥ F ' We're Upping the Ante from $1.00 to $5.00 Frankly we love gossip. With great- est relish we dive into the mail each day, pore over your intimate little stories of stars and finally settle on the best four or five to be printed in MODERN SCREEN each month. We think these true experiences with Hollywood people are bright spots in the magazine. And, too, we think that perhaps you ought to be rewarded a little more generously for them. So, mstead of sending you $1 for your let- ter if we use it, we’re mailing you $5, beginning with this issue. (Unless a self-addressed, stamped envelope is enclosed we cannot return your let- ter.) Do write us. It’s such a heck of a lot of fun hearing about the stars on Bond tours and vacation jaunts and other off-screen moments. Below is one of this month’s prize- winners. I SAW IT HAPPEN This scene, starring Mickey Rooney, _ took place in New York at 6th Ave. and o/th St. I saw a large mob of boys and girls running after a small but very agile figure as fast as their legs could carry them. They were almost upon him when he made a sudden dash into a drugstore, ‘sat down at the fountain and pretended he was one of the customers, but his trick was quickly discovered. He then ducked behind the counter and, on his hands and knees, crawled around to the back exit and made a leap for a taxi parked there. The fans saw him -... screamed “Hey, Mickey Rooney ... wait!” ... and the chase continued. Mrs. M. Rubenstein, Oakland, Cal. about essentials, and that goes for every- thing from women to a way of life. Sheer beauty of puss with nothing behind it, no longer cuts any ice with him. Give him a bright-eyed, shining-haired little riveter in a pair of overalls, or a freckle-faced lady Marine with a smudge of jeep grease on her nose. 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PEG IS MOMMY’S BEST FRIEND. Mine, too, | guess—she always brings me nice squashy animal toys. So one day I gave her a present—l plopped my pretty white cake of Ivory Soap smack into her hand. Mommy chuckled: ‘“Maybe baby’s trying to tip you off that her pure, mild Ivory is best for big girls’ complexions, too!” ad SAVE SOAPS! THEY USE VITAL WAR MATERIALS! * * 1. Don’? LEAVE SOAP IN WATER when you're through lathering yourself. Put the bar in a soap-dish when not in use. So-0-0, PEG MET ANOTHER FRIEND OF MINE. My doctor. And what do you know! .. . He said: “Change to regular, gentle cleansings with pure, mild Ivory.”’ "Cause he knows you can’t beat Ivory for purity! No wonder more doctors—like mine— advise Ivory Soap than all other brands together! ... THEN PEG GOT ANOTHER FRIEND! He’s all hers! Just can’t keep his eyes off her radiant new “Ivory Look.’ Golly, how he went for her soon after she switched to pure, mild Ivory cleansings. She’s going to be Mrs. Lieutenant soon! Happy-making stuff, Ivory. For all us gals—from the romper to the rhumba set! 99 44/100 % pure . . . It floats. 2. BE SURE YOUR SOAP-DISH IS DRY before you put your bar back. Keep a cloth handy to keep your soap-dish dry. 3. UsE UP SOAP SCRAPS in wire shaker or tied in cloth. Or make soap jelly by dissolving scraps in boiling water.

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Cee. To the stately strains of Glenn Miller's lovely “It Must Be Jelly,'' Sylvia Katz and Bill Wein- berger prepare to beat hell out of the rug! Sylvia Katz catches a flying salami fragment in her eye, and Ann (Service Department) Ward operates right on the scene. Sylvia regained partial use of the eye after brief rest. Awful moment in an editor's life. Al Delacorte with the weight of the world (Bill) on his shoulders and plenty of trouble (Henry Malmgreen) on his hands. The gang at Modern Sereen has itself a party ... and quietly proceeds to tear the editor’s house down. ANN ‘pst ane pei wns! At the height of the fracas, Al oy. sits up in bed with a pistol-packin’ look and says ‘Murder’ he says! ena i C : Bill's old lady dropped him on his head when he was an itty bitty boy. Good old Bill. He hasn't changed a bit, has he? bd Annette tells Bev (Information Desk) Linet's fortune. Handsome man in her life turns out to be merely a | postman with flat feet from carrying all her mail. i: 29

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By Ida Zeitlin Syaasanel Does Knocked chip off H’wood's shoul- der by ready ability to laugh at their pranks on him. Thinks Willie Howard's impersonations are screaming. Roars at Hope's cracks! Ket ver aoe an dihaaLE ABN 0 oe I Parcel from Nancy on fifth anni- versary held record of Frank, Jr.'s howl. Commented Pop, “l don't know what it would do to the bobby sox, but it sure sends me!” tra tever swept Coast, a phony Sinatra “th lesser film actresses. Hoax wasn't unearthed until Barbara discovered: his identity! Boys at Canteen couldn't get enough of him. Soon after Swoona appeared in town, enjoyed gay whirl w ; Hale, who had played opposite genuine article in “Higher and Higher,’

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Hollywood Hate FRANK SINATRA? Yep, they hate the guy the way you hate M Want to go along to a broadcast of Frankie’s, kids? Okay, don’t knock me down. MODERN SCREEN has room for a million ings and a 10-day furlough for your private! or so. All this and Frankie, too—for 15 cents. That’s CBS over there—with Bobby-sockers stretching from the door halfway round the block. They’ve had a long wait, some of ’em —camping since morning with their lunches and radios. But boy! what a claim they’ve staked out—seats in the first couple of rows —so close you can almost touch him— “Tm so nervous,” one sighs. : “What’re you nervous about? You'll be the first one in.” “Oh, it isn’t that. I’m always nervous Wednesday and Saturday.” The other nods an understanding head. “Who isn’t?” In Hollywood the first Hit Parade~broad- cast goes on at 6. The doors of Studio B are opened at 5:15. There’s a mad scramble, but positively no squabbling. The kids play fair. They try for the best, and if they lose out, settle for what they can get. After all, they’re sisters under the skin, and Frankie’s the tie that binds them for the next 90 minutes—45 of anticipation, 45 of concentrated bliss. Bits of news comment fly ‘back and forth— “Last time he sang ‘Night and Day’ for an extra, and this great huge sigh went up, and he flapped his hand and said, ‘Aaaw, shuddup—’ He said it so darling—” “You know that scar on his forehead? I read he got it when he was eight and another kid hit him with a milk bottle—” “Oh, thank you. I’ve been dying to know the story behind that scar.” In back (Continued on following page) Porterhouse steaks, 2 inches thick, nylon stock- On radio show, he shared swoons with Cecil B. DeMille, who mowed ‘em down by singing nursery rhyme in boogie woogie! Tie Frank wore in Higher’ brought 50 grand at war bond rally! 31

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32 RINVAG V/s) ‘ a Grossing over a million a year, he's setting up halt million of the gray curtain they’re rehearsing. Axel Stordahl leads the band. He’s a Norseman and looks it. He’s also Frankie’s arranger and one of his closest friends. Frank’s at the mike—gray suit, gray sweater, black tie, white handkerchief, a tiny rose in his buttonhole. He looks fine and gay—always was a happy guy, even when he didn’t have a swooner to his name. The rehearsal’s mostly for timing, so he doesn’t give out with the voice. Right there on the stage you can hardly hear him, but all of a sudden there’s that squeal from outside. They’ve caught a whisper. His shoulders hunch to his ears, and he tunes himself down. All through the rehearsal, he’s clowning— can’t keep his knees from jiggling or his shoulders from swing- ing to the beat—takes a couple of dance-steps, pops a stick of gum into his mouth (that’s to keep his throat moist), wads up the paper and snaps it at Axel’s bald spot. Axel’s the tran- quil type, goes right on conducting . . . Five of six. The producer’s outside, (Continued on page 112) trust fund for his two kids! out Erank's street in awed voice to passengers. Happens several times daily as he drives past. Above, on radio b Fans range from bobbies to bus driver who points roadcast with Judy Garland. Ba =F Sensational rumors hint The Voice will kiss his lead- ing lady in "Manhattan Serenade.” They also whis- per he'll dance. Above, with Geo. Murphy.

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Secretary is envy of Brigade. Works with him from 9:30 to 8 daily, and gets paid for it! Sinatra, shorter than she, nicknames her "Baby." Does Hollywood Hate FRANK SINATRA? Frank was tirst in line at Connie Haines’ opening at Clover Club. They used to sing together with T. Dorsey. Whenever he cooks meals in apt., does own shopping! No idle gossip in stories of staunch camaraderie between Crosby and Sinatra. There's not a speck of professional jealousy between them, and they've been practically inseparable ever since Frank's arrival in H'wood! ww Ge

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Alana Ladd, at 6 months, pulled 2500 fan letters a week! Like Pop, has murderous time battling cold germs, recently had severe intestinal flu. Ladds report her down with the sniffles again. When Laddie blandly announced that cook's fot had mumps, whole Paramount lot was thrown into jitters, afraid Alan might be spreading the germ. Sue and Alana. remained unconcerned. Careful count has Laddie's fan mail at 70,425 letters a month which is absolutely tops in movie history. When old stills of Ladd 1 "The Black Cat’! were found, studio considered reissuing pic.

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THE LITTLEST LADD Sue calls her chubby young ‘un Little-Gun-for-Hire, she's so like her Pop; same clear blue eyes, blonde hair, same level stare. By Rosemary Layng Bendix rides pal mercilessly since day Laddie was # Alana Ladd’s no dope. Her pop’s the only person she’ll trailed by bobby-sock crowd 8 la Sinatra. Bill, a lies fixture in Ladd pictures, will not appear in next. Her pop and her white felt kitten and herself in the mirror. Nothing and nobody else. She’s on friendly terms with men, women and dogs, handing out an amiable, four- toothed grin to all comers. But ask for a kiss, and she’ll shake her head. Persist, and you'll find a small hand shoved into your face. Even her well-beloved mum-mah gets the brushoff. On the principle, obviously, that where’s the fun in kissing another girl? But let Alan appear, and the lady’s ready and willing. Tight round his neck go the arms—smack to the middle of his cheek goes the soft mouth. Then she draws back her head and crows, as though she’d done something truly re- markable. From the look in his eyes, her dad seems to agree with her. This love affair started when (Continued on page 107) Alan says minute he met Sue, work stopped being At local radio station, Laddie used to rate $20 a week for 19 shows. painful grind, started being fun. "And Now Tomor- Took all parts, from fish-peddler on down. Threw newscast into row’ was rolling smoothly until Laddie's recent illness. bargain. Summers, when radio was slow, Alan would shoulder a pick. = at

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By Marcia Daughtrey TERRIFIC TRIO! They talk the same language, Lon and his buddies swallowing 3 lemon pies whole, harmoniously dating same girl, same night! . . ' First night newly-inducted Lon was permitted to call home, he stood 70 minutes in downpour waiting his turn in phone booth. Mom read his mail over phone, upped his morale for days after. The conveyance was a rather battered Buick coupe. In the front seat sat a chipper middle-aged man beside a pretty young woman. In the rumble seat sat a small, freckled-faced boy and a pretty bird- like middle-aged woman. The back seat was full of song. All the way across the United States and into Canada, dulcet notes were cast upon the sum- mer air. Perhaps they weren’t the hep stuff of the moment, but they had rhythm and melodic pas- sages, and they were rendered with such zest as few songs are accorded. There “was “After The Ball Is Over” and “Redwing.” There was the Alphabet Song which is used in every nursery to teach future government employees their letters. There was “Frere Jacques” and “I Dreamt That | Dwelt In Marble Halls.” The singers were Lon McCallister and his grand- mother, Mrs. Mary Goldia Hocking. The occu- pants of the front seat were Lon’s mother, Mrs. Mary Madaline McCallister, and Lon’s grandfather, Mr. Hocking: That summer instituted a clanship between the four that is as strong and important today as the blood brothership between political bosses during an election year. But the purpose of the Hocking- McCallister machine are entirely benevolent . . - and musical. With suck a tuneful beginning, it was only natural that the partnership between Lon and the little woman he calls “Granny” should continue musically. When Lon decided that he wanted to learn to play the piano, Granny volunteered to give him his basic training. She used to be a Sunday School teacher, so she struck out with a fine ecclesiastical repertoire; first she taught Lon to play “Rock of Ages.” That mastered, they moved on to “That Old Rugged Cross,” then prog- ressed to “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” “You’d now be a credit to any Sunday School,” compli- mented Granny, “And now you need greater scope.” Peas . So she taught him Chopin’s “Minuet” and pro- ceded to flabbergast the family by topping off this classic with an impressive playing of “Blue Moon.” Lon, his hazel eyes (Continued on page 72)

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<a Granny constantly stuffed his pockets with food, trying to get his 5' 6!/4"" frame above the 132-Ib. mark. Last pic, "Home in Indiana." E E Reaves tt Slide in Bere RET see Lon and closest crony Bill Eythe held their own private fare- well party, were out till the tiny hours visiting every night spot within a 20- mile radius of Beverly Hills. Above, in smile contest with Eythe, John Harvey. One of toughest moments of parting was taking leave of Mac. When his bull- dog Pat died, Lon and Mac held funeral ceremony, buried him on hillside over- looking the Pacific. Great Dane stood watch over grave of his friend for hours. ibe Ae

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HALF PINT. JR. By Cynthia Miller a Miss Elaine Detlie was having her breakfast. She had reached that stage of development in They agree on clothes, men, books! But which a junior citizen loiters from one delay no two women see eye to eye on everything— to another. Having postponed each spoonful Ud: es ercnica andikerdtinyetye! of cereal as long as possible, she suddenly thought of a new dodge—when her small mouth was full, she released the contents into her bowl. Her mother removed the bowl and considered the situation. Then she telephoned the pedia- ~ trician who has cared for Elaine since her birth in August, 1941. “Thank you so much,” she said at the end of her conversation, “Ill try , that. I want to handle Elaine intelligently.” The next morning the cereal was placed be- fore Elaine. She tried a few bites, then decided to play, so the bowl was removed. At luncheon, | ; the selfsame gruel, warmed, was offered to her | again. Somewhat nonplused, she took several \ bites, then spat it out. Veronica removed the 1 f dish, undressed the (Continued on page 85) Veronica, who nixed piano lessons when she was a kid, is beginning to brush up on scales again. (Above with Care: Ann Beery.) Upped weight to 106, gain of 24 Ibs. in yr.

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WOES EONS SA RRS eae — Veronica, currently in ‘The Hour Before Dawn," says, “John and | parted amicably. He's d fine fellow but we just don't think alike." Freak of the week: Allergy to orris root, which is base of theatrical make-up. About Veronica, who once sold lock of hair on bond tour for $186,000, Frank TutHle says, ‘She has temperament, a lovely face, and she's lazy —a female Bing Crosby." (Here with Rita Beery, whom she lives with.) ee | i tl ite | a be Nels ene Ps weg NY When Lake hair-do swept defense plants, managers feared dangling forelock would get enmeshed in machinery. War Production Board asked her to endorse safer pompadour. eas 1 \itle tor Of +h- ch caste @ het brea 1 mu a - oO ave { . may s alive yh ag Th nks taytDoOks , it. Seer Y=: histor study : bring Veronica. HOPS NT enough 19 ANH eronic es © histor! n sne § S Elaine WNP ction © 39

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he : | ) Nae aN After romancing with Bob in dramatic school’s “Barre when another gal was cast as Juliet to his Romeo. tts of Wimpole Street," Jennifer suffered setback K.P.'s his interest in See Here, Pvt. Hargrove"! See here, Mr. Walker...

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Nebody could understand you as a_ kid, going AWOL from kinder- garten, hopping freight cars out of town. But all you needed was a stage, lights, music! Bob feels right at home in Private Hargrove’s shoes. In fact, he was born to ’em. And it’s not so long since he outgrew them that he can’t still wriggle his toes comfortably within their familiar depths. When “Bataan” was released, Salt Lake City and Ogden staged a hair-pulling match over whose local boy he was. The marquees read BOB WALKER and BOB TAYLOR in “Bataan.” Mom and Dad were overwhelmed with attentions, and Dad had to take bows at the Rotary Club. Behind the glow of pride ran the bewildering vision of a skinny kid whose middle name was Trouble. Aunt Tenny saw the picture in New York. Bob’s Aunt Tenny is Mrs. Hortense Odlum of Bonwit Teller’s. What Bette Davis is to pictures, that’s what Mrs. Odlum is to department stores. With the strangers around her, she laughed and wept over the gangling sailor, (Continued on page 98) Walkers’ home life seemed ideal, Spurned night clubs to stay home with kids, study scripts together and hash over his amateur writ ing. Had mutual adoration for books, sports, their record collectior $ Sess sears ares -———~ —— a gales made him glad to be landlubber when ship docked! Jennifer was smitten first time she saw Bob at Academy of Dramatic Arts. Thought, He's handsome. He's got Jimmy Stewart's charm and Fonda's comic flair, only more so!" By Kaaren Pieck As kid, Bob devoured adventure yarns, vowed he'd go to sea and live ‘em! But summer aboard freighter in two 41

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oe It Comes Up Marriage: It was like being slapped on a merry-go-round that wouldn’t stop. So many things happened to Don in those three whirly days . . « u One recent Monday morning a puzzled gas station greaseball near Ventura, California, shook his head sadly as a skinny, dreamy- eyed young man whirled his car around and roared out of the drive. “Took at that nutty Los Angeles kid,” he confided to a customer. “He says, ‘Is Fort MacArthur near here?’ and already he’s 40 miles out of his way and heading for San Francisco. The dope don’t know which way is south!” Later the same Monday a drill sergeant at Fort MacArthur had approximately the same idea about the same skinny, dreamy-eyed kid. The sarge was marching a bunch of rookies across the post, and when he called “Halt!” one rookie stopped two yards out ahead of the rest. “Right dress!” barked the (Continued on page 89) 1. SUPerior the kids!"

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On Larry (Dick Powell) and Sylvia Stevens’ (Linda Darnell} It's the 1890's, and Larry is feting his cronies in golden wedding anniversary, they argue about a story she has celebration of his promotion to full-fledged "Eve- made him keep secret for 50 years. It all happened this way— ning News" reporter. Party winds up at tavern. It was incredible; it sounded as if they were arguing. Downstairs, in the large, gracious reception hall, the family looked at one another uncomfortably. They could hear the raised voices. Arguing. Grandma and Grandpa arguing? On their golden anniversary? They weren’t really arguing. After 50 years, they were too much in love for that. But she was saying: “Better not tell them. They won’t believe it anyway.” “Won't believe it? But I tell you it happened. You know it happened.” » Entertainers are clairvoyant Cigolini (Jack Oakie) and his "medium’’ Sylvia, who are predicting future. Larry falls for “They won't believe you, Larry. No one believes q Sylvia, interrupts act to wangle date for next afternoon. : : 2” T aca SSS in miracles any more. i a “But it did happen,” the old man said vehemently. Later that night, newspaper veteran Pop Benson (John Phil- liber) appears in mist, hands Larry newspaper carrying stories of next day's events. He reads of opera house hold-up. Snatching opportunity to cash in on advance news, he and Sylvia make beeline for opera house, arrive just as holdup comes off. He hands already written news item to his bewildered editor (Geo. Cleveland).

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BFE Happened Dick Powell found it tough, keeping up. with tomorrow’s headlines today .. . especially his own murder sereamed across the front page?! “Don’t you remember? Don’t you remember, Sylvia?” It wasn’t hard to remember, not even though it had happened 50 years ago. Of course things were different then; the clothes they wore were different and the streets looked different; there were still horses and cabs clop- pmg down the cobblestoned gutters, and gas lights flared on the street corners. Things were different in the 1890’s .. . They were drinking beer in the city room of “The Evening News,” drinking beer and singing. Larry Stevens swung his glass in a high arc and toasted News—Today’s, Tomorrow’s, Yesterday’s. Pop Benson, librarian, keeper of the “morgue,” shuffled (Continued on page 93) ie Two minutes later, police inspector (Edgar Kennedy) blusters into office, pinches Larry as accomplice in crime, jails him! Sylvia claims she's "seer'’ who told him of robbery. Jumps in river to prove her supernatural powers! By Maris MacCullers ») OW LAU Disappointed bookie grabs wallet. Wild chase ensues, and afternoon papers run story of Larry's murder. Catch: identifi- cation papers-found on thief's body belonged to Larry! After reading second phantom edition, Larry leads police to bandits, then rescues Sylvia. When his own murder is head- lined, he hurriedly weds Sylvia, piles up fortune at racetrack. 45

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By Jack Carson Crew of "Crosby's Curse’ (bomber) gave Bing copy of plane's log book. Cap- tain who delivered it bunked with Crosbys over Xmas. Bing did recording of 74h Air Force Bomber Command Song but says lyrics are too virile to repeat! Bing’s swinging into {3th year at Par. mtn new 7-year con- tract that will rake in about $3,000,000 for him. In Dakar, his and Harry James’ disks sell for $4 apiece. Nobody evér got Bing to knock himself out working—not when he could play golf or clock bangtails. But, heck, you should see him now - - - BING ON THE BEA @ Bing Crosby was singing for the boys at the San Diego Naval Hospital when, out of the corner of his eye, he saw them wheel this wounded sailor out on a balcony. He looked like a white mummy. He was petrified in a plaster cast from his hips to his eyes, and he was flat on his back all through the show. The sailor could hear Bing’s melodies, but he couldn’t see anything ex- cept the blue sky above. Bing Crosby took all this in, but he never said a thing until his act was over. Then he picked up the mike and climbed to where the sailor was. cracked Bing. “But anyway I can keep the sun out of your eyes. What'd you like to hear?” The sailor named a song and Bing sang it. “This one’s for Johnny So-and-so”—naming the sailor—he told the crowd. He grinned down at the rigid gob. “Say,” Bing drawled, in that easy way of his and with “Maybe I don’t improve the view,” those big, blue eyes wide and innocent, “How'd you like to step out and go dancing tonight—hey? Maybe I can line up a couple of babes. What you say we do the clip joints, kick up our heels—hey?” That was just what the invalid sailor needed. Wrapped up in cold storage, he’d had enough tongue clucking and sympathy. He wanted a good old Ameri- can good-natured razz, and nobody handed him one. He almost cracked his cast laughing, and Bing climbed down feeling happy as a lark with that laugh ringing for days in his wind-wing ears. The Old Groaner has had plenty of thrills in his day. He’s seen and done just about everything, when you look back. After all, Bing’s raised a generation of young Americans on his croons, and he’s still, as Dinah Shore states emphatically, “the singer than which there is nothing whicher!” Bing’s a prize family man with a slew of husky offshoots— (Continued on page 79)

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53] ogy Bing returned from Nevada ranch vacation month-old chin-tickler for part in "Road to Utopia.’ Studio switched sequence, started shoot- ing him clean-shaven. Bing grins, says he grew it as dare to Sinatra; Gypsum and cornflakes (cinema snow) snow-blinded Bing while working in “Utopia.” Named nag on his Nevada ranch “Going My Way" after new pic. Hopes both will grab the purse. (Here with Ed Gardner.)

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The Man in Deannas It’s strictly a case of leap year, the way : é : j The chief man in Deanna Durbin’s life at present is a personable gentleman named Dickie. He is three years old, chubby, out of the studio each night to steal a moment with him! curly-haired and inclined to refer to the love of his life as Aunty May Pole. For his birthday, Aunty May Pole gave Dickie an athletic slide and a playhouse ” large enough for him to play commando in, around and about. It was set up in an unpainted condition. The intention was that Dickie and Deanna were to paint it on Sun- day. When Sunday rolled around, however, Dickie had a cold, so had to remain in- doors. The following Sunday it rained all day. “While we’re waiting for the weather to improve,” Deanna told him, “we should decide what color to paint it.” Dickie is just learning the names of col- ors. He is fairly sure of red, and he appears to like yellow very well. “Red and yellow,” he said, being prodigal with his knowledge. “My favorite color for playhouses is white,” admitted Aunty May Pole, being diplomatic. “Then we'll paint it white,” said her gallant nephew. In addition to their exterior decorating conspiracy, Dickie and Deanna share an interest in music. When Deanna. was work- ing as an adolescent years ago, in a pic- ~ ture with Walter Pidgeon, he taught her a lullaby, a soft and lilting refrain which Deanna has now taught Dickie. He calls it the “Boo” song and demands a duet with Deanna the instant she steps into the house. His voice is true and his sense of rhythm and phrasing so developed that Deanna has already made arrangements with her own vocal teacher to give Dickie instruction as soon as he is old enough to understand written music. Meanwhile, Deanna is teaching him tune- (Continued on page 76) she showers tiny Dickie with presents, flies Before divorce, there was rumor floating around that Deanna had date with stork. Deanna received friends’ queries wide-eyed, said story must have been started by shopping jaunts in baby depts. to pick up small items for nephew Dickie. 50

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Three days before filing suit for divorce, Deanna denied split with Vaughn. also her fir Riveting scene in “Hers to Hold" was shot at Vega plant on Sunday. Deanna's stand-in came in for kleig-light attention in own right, and D. did her own standin g-in during film. During lunch tries to shut camera business out of mind, but Frank Ryan, Universal's writer and director, constantly heckles. Paul (Lieut., j.g.), assistant director of her first picture, was st beau. Gave her their new house in out-of-court agreement. Gale ete 2 During y & ey Da ‘ “Christmas Holiday," with ‘Gene Kelly, Sondergaard took script too seriously, slapped D. so hard, close-ups that day were taboo. By Jeanne Karr

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by Marjorie Bailey DANCE DATE Petticoat frill for hemline interest. Arkay. DINNER DATE Gardenia dress for above-table. lure. MOVIE DATE Doreen Dey's sheer print cinema suit. = Of course I know about you and your dates. You see, I thought you and I ought to be acquainted if I’m to give you pointers on clothes. So I asked Al Delacorte what you — were like. Hmmm! You know how Al is when he gets going on one of his pet subjects. And it seems you're it. I came out hours later with a whirring in my ears. But now I know. You’re the one who’s got a certain lad looking so misty-eyed these days. The gal who has him counting minutes ‘til his next leave or furlough. So-o-o... With date nights so precious, every one’s got to be good. First off, when he comes barg- ing in singing about a “paper doll that he can call his own,” don’t believe a word of it. Actually, he’d find her pretty flat. He wants someone with a lot more substance. Your cue to look plenty inviting—BUT there’s a limit! Judy Garland has this down pat. The clothes she wears when she entertains at camps are “feminine but not female.” The difference? There’s a future in femininity. The other rates only a two-tone whistle. Perish forbid! Key your duds to the date, and you'll put yourself over better. F’rinstance, if it’s dinner, you'll want to keep most of the lure above the table. There are lots of new ways. With gardenias set in a row across your square neckline ’stead of just being parked on your _ shoulder (dress sketched). New draped sleeves, — scooped-out U necks if this section of you warrants showing off. Otherwise, choose the kind that are filled in with frothy sheers. If your hat sports a veil, don’t let it be too much of a one. They’ve been known to get entangled with the soup spoon. But maybe you and he won't waste time over food if there’s jive in the offing. In this case, switch the interest to your hemline. The dress I like is the print with the petticoat frill. To gain height, take your ruffles in the form of lengthwise cascades like the ones on the gardenia dress, or fishtail-fashion in back. If it’s movies, be sure to remember what a

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double feature can do to the seat of a dress. Your best bet is the two-piece cinema suit of printed, crush-resistant Bemberg sheer. Mouth- watering in color combinations like pink, gray and white. Very hush-hush about any bulges you might have. Be a lady in the dark and wear a close-fitting half-hat. For an at-home date, don’t lay the garb on too thick. Be dewey-fresh ’n’ pretty. Wear a sheer printed cotton. Looks new and Shirley Temple-ish when frosted with eyelet em- broidery. Learn to read tags when you shop for cottons. The “soap ’n’ water” kind won’t fade or shrink. Keep their sparkly finish, too. In between times with him, you'll be helping at the canteen (in a purely platonic way, ac- cording to Jean Kinkead). Here, you'll want to look kind of crisp and impersonal. The plaid taffeta dirndl does it. Anybody can tell by that innocent round neck that you're not “come-hithering” the wolves. The button pa- rade gives you shoulder width, makes your waistline look Grable-slim in contrast. Sure, your héad’s in the clouds. But I know those Cinderella feet are on the _ ground solid, high heels ‘n’ all. Maybe you'd _ like a dress to stick by you for a long time _ to come. In this case, pin your hopes on the _ basic crepe with the dagger neckline and - money bag drape. The side trick helps conceal any tummy bulge. What next? You slim down your mid-section, take off the money- _ bags, do a double-take on the sleeve bows and replace the cloisonette buttons with tailored ones. Suddenly you’ve a new casual shirt frock. This honey-for-your-money comes in “cosmetic” pastels as well as black and navy. This is fun—but we can’t sit around chatter- ing all day. You’ve got a date coming up. If you want to know where to find these dresses and how very little they cost, or if you’ve got a special clothes problem bothering you, you know my address now: Marjorie Bailey, MODERN SCREEN, 149 Madison Ave., New Berk 16> NV Ghye ‘til next: time: "DATE 'N' FUTURE DATE Emily's money-bag dress—has nine lives! CANTEEN DATE § Scotch plaid ee FRONT PORCH 'N COKE- Pond 7\'B lily print lawn. Nan Scott. 4 How are The lcthad yoo lh slittin WE when warrior Conds tn rurnys taffeta dirndl. A Berkeley Jr. ag | ae

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DOROTHY M. FORRESTER of the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps to Charles C. Carmichael, an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps. ENLISTED IN A PROUD PROFESSION—Her nurse’s “white” Tends a special glam- our to Dorothy’s exquisitely smooth skin. “It would be wonderful,” she says, “if -high school graduates who see this would enlist as Cadet Nurses. We need FROM “HIM”! “Charles is as glad as | am that I’m one of the Cadet Nurse Corps,” Dorothy says. Dorothy is wearing the official Cadet Nurse suit of gray wool. It has red epaulets | more nurses so.” As a Cadet Nurse you would be given free training, a monthly and sleeve insignia. The beret matches the uniform and allowance. Write to U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps, Box 88, New York, N. Y. CADET DOROTHY FORRESTER is studying at the California School of Nursing in Los Angeles, not far from her home town in Vista. Her smooth, capable hands are learn- ing to bring comfort at a touch. Eyes smile gratefully after her trim young figure in its white on-duty uniform— especially becoming with her glorious, dark hair and the soft, fresh-as-a-new- day look of her lovely complexion. “Pm a Pond’s Cold Cream girl—al- ways.” Dorothy says, ‘‘I think there’s nothing half as nice as Pond’s for mak- ing your skin feel soft and clean.” Dorothy believes in a twice-over creaming with Pond’s—this way: 1. She smooths Pond’s fragrant soft- smooth Cold Cream over her face and throat. Pats it on briskly but gently to ASK FOR A BIG LUXURY JAR! Save glass and man-power! , And it’s so quick to dip finger tips of both hands PONDS | COED cnrAM yr. ~ . 5 4 “Ga a into the lovely wide jar! - Clann -—~ Sofie Cleans — Smooths Ly "OS ninac antes CS be CO Nee York Wien: v ey i Nae looks adorable with her soft-smooth Pond’s complexion. soften and release dirt and make-up. Tissues off thoroughly. 2. She rinses now with more snowy- soft Pond’s, working its softening creaminess round her face with little spiral whirls of her finger tips—over forehead, cheeks, nose, mouth. Tissues off again well. * * * Give your face this soft-smooth Pond’s complexion care that Dorothy loves. You'll see that it’s no accident en- gaged girls like Dorothy, noted society beauties like Mrs. Ellen Tuck Astor, Mrs. Ernest du Pont, Jr., and Britain’s Lady Morris use Pond’s Cold Cream. Ask for a luxurious big jar of Pond’s today. Use it every night and every morning—and for in-between beauty clean-ups! You'll Jove Pond’s, too! | Stedey Mili more women. Use Rub Win Ulli hes fue Clcam al. ily, pre 55

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By Fredda Dudley The Loders (John and Hedy) planned shindig at Hollywood Canteen to mark day they'd met there, just one year be- fore. John had portered that night while Hedy poured Java. my All stars turn out for MODERN SCREEN party! Milland on overseas camp four. John Payne to go on bond tour of nation! Ronnie Reagan, spent last couple of days off scouring golf course for wife's diamond ring. Janie, formerly top amateurwom who's been doing terrific job recruiting women for service, an golfer in H'wood, juststarted brushing upon game. m Undoubtedly the most photogenic event to take place during the month was the gala cocktail party given in honor of Mr. and Mrs. George Delacorte, Jr. Mr. Delacorte is Ye Editor's father (and looks like his slightly older brother) and the pub- lisher of all Dell Publishing Company's magazines. Mrs. Delacorte is a regal and beautiful woman who becomes instantly popular with the wives of celebrities, because she is genuinely interested in them and their families. Having six children of her own and one lusty grandson (whose picture appears on the editorial page of this issue of MODERN SCREEN ), she is by way of being an authority on youngsters. During the party, Mrs. Delacorte had long chats with Ruth Hussey Longnecker, whose first child is due in May; with Mrs. Barry Sullivan, whose second baby is due in June, and with Mrs. Jim Brown, whose second is due late in the summer. v Lana and Steve Crane were there, talking about Cherry an about the fact that Steve had just signed a long-termer with Columbia Studios. This department is: happy to predict that Steve Crane, at this time next year, will be considered one of the most exciting leading men in Hollywood. John Harvey, under contract to 20th Century-Fox, was talking enthusiastically about his young daughter who had just come home from the hospital with her mother. John professed him- self to be an expert on the problems incident to the well-being” of a debutante of 14 days; when John was nine, he became the owner of a baby sister. His mother had. been seriously ill, and a nurse had been unobtainable, so John attended to the triangular slacks situation, the sterilizing of bottles and the preparation of formulae. ‘Thus initiated at an early age, he is now a tried-and- true veteran. Alan and Sue Ladd came with Bill and Tess Bendix and con- vulsed the group by telling about their telephone troubles. It seems that Sue Ladd’s daughter, Carol Lee, was asked—at school—to supply her home address and telephone number. Innocently, she complied. The following night the telephone sounded like an electric alarm clock gone crazy: It rang steadily from six o’clock until. midnight. The following night, much the same record was established. In desperation, Alan went to the telephone company and begged them to change his number. The company is very busy these days. It looks upon number chang- ing as frivolous nonsense. Finally, after a company representa- tive had checked the Ladd line, it agreed solemnly that some- thing had to be done. The Ladds have a new listing.

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er _ Paul Henreid spent some time in a far comer, talking very seriously about the war, with MODERN SCREEN’s Ida Zeitlin, while Ida‘s artist husband—who is Russian— twinkled happily over Tamara Toumanova’‘s description of her first picture soon to be released by RKO. June Vincent came to the party with her great friend, Edgar Bergen, all unaware of the fact that less than a week later she would be in Jamaica, Long Island, where she flew to be at the bedside of her fiancé, Ensign William Sterling, who underwent emergency surgery. Handsome men anywhere have become ‘such premium personalities that it was orchids on the eyelids to stand in the same room to view Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak with the white-lightning smile, Dane Clark Cwho is soon to answer those “Greetings’), Jess Barker, Alan Curtis, James Craig, Sonny Tufts (whose wife is as beautifully brunette as Sonny is blond), Neil Hamilton, Robert Paige, who is to be Deanna Durbin’s next leading man, and Dana Andrews helping his wife to appetizers. Roy Rogers was one of the first guests to arrive and supplied an authentic motion picture atmosphere by coming direct from the studio wearing make-up, Stetson, plaid shirt, Jumper and levis. Someone asked an ob- server facetiously if Roy had brought his horse, Trigger. “No,” was the deadpan an- swer, “Irigger is coming later with Lassie from Metro.” ( Deanna Durbin was wearing a hat that looked like a giant black tulip pulled rakishly over her sleek hair; Laraine Day wore clusters of shocking pink flowers amid her updo, and further glamour was furnished by cute Peggy _ Ryan (with her palsy-walsy Patty Boniface), Janet Blair, Dale Evans and Ella Raines. MOMENTS WITH MINIATURES: Capiain Ronald Reagan is having a little domestic trouble with a subordinate. When he was at home on a recent leave, his young daughter, snowball-blonde Maureen, was trying to get © his attention at luncheon. Ronnie was busy _ talking with a friend and failed to tum around when Maureen tugged at his coat- _ tail. She tried with a more definite force, then said in a loud, clear treble, “Listen to me or Im going to give you a poke in the nose.“ That she had leamed in nursery school. : ; Her mother, in addition to Maureen‘s deport- ment problems, has troubles of her own. _ While she was playing golf. recently, she re- moved her wedding ring, fastened it to her slackbelt and merrily covered the course. Later when she changed clothes, she noticed _ that the belt clasp had slipped its moorings and had dumped her watch and ring some- where on the last green. The club employees _ went over the grass with rakes. They located the watch and several coins, but no ring. Incidentally, Jane is now ‘working in “Doughgirls” with Ann Sheridan and Alexis _ Smith, Director James Kern looked over his beautiful cast on the first day of shooting and | announced that there was going to be enough mischief afoot to make him a candidate for a by-hourly benzedrine tablet. The girls de- cided forthwith to employ a maid for the three of them, not only to take care of the ordinary maid chores on the set, but to help them perpetrate the gags dearly beloved by all three. They couldn’t find a maid—not for love, money nor a screen test. j * % * : When Dennis Morgan retumed from his _tecent Bond Tour, he delighted his youngsters (Stan, 10, and Kris, 6,) with a description of GEBIOTE / TE gue a. dazzling Warn tone Lends such £ : Ceauity Girls! ‘The look in his eyes will tell you — your Woodbury shade makes you lovelier than ever! .. . Hollywood film directors helped Woodbury create THE perfect shade for each skin-type . . . The Color Control blending process makes Woodbury Powder color-even, color-fresh always on your skin... gives it smooth, clinging texture that veils tiny blemishes. Choose now from the 8 exquisite Woodbury shades! YOUR MATCHED MAKE-UP! ... Now with your big $1 box of Woodbury Powder, you also get your just-right glamour shades of matching lipstick and rouge—at no extra cost... All 3 for only $1. ALSO BOXES OF WOODBURY POWDER 50¢, 25¢, 10¢ ys i !

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Dolores on the set and has spent luncheon hours with her in the commissary. As you kmow, studio teachers are benevolent watch dogs, charged with maintaining a select finishing school atmosphere despite the exotic aspects of studio life. Yet even these serious-minded and respon- sible women relent with a sigh when a charge reaches the age of 18. Dolores’ teacher gave her, in celebration of her newly adult status when she celebrated her 18th birthday, a tucked and beruffled black chiffon night- gown. Dolores, in turn, gave Jerry Asher—local wit and Warmer publicist—a glamour portrait of herself clad in a diaphanous black harem outfit, doubtless dreamed up by the ward- robe department after a dinner of lobster thermidor, warm beer and a basket of choco- late eclairs. Across the lower edge of the portrait Dolores wrote, “To Jerry from Whistler's ‘new’ mother.” * * * On the day Bonita Granville became 21, her attorney arrived with a bulging briefcase and began to spread acres of legal docu- ‘ments before that startled citizen. In answer to Bonita’s puzzled question, he explained that Bonita’s mother had now ceased to be her guardian, and that Bonita was to take over the management of her own affairs. Then he settled down to a description of this trust fund and that; of income taxes under this bracket, and deductions allowed under that category. Next he launched into an analysis of her insurance program, and from that decimaled his way through the purchase of Bonds throughout their various series. Bonita moistened her lips. “Isn't there some simpler way for me to handle this?” she asked weakly. The attorney said cer- tainly, that Bonita could simply give her mother Power of Attorney, and she could con- tinue to handle Bonita’s business affairs. BESTFOR] mucins best Wad : Brief confab with Sgt. Dave Rose resulted in Judy's decision to file divorce suit. Bobby Stack’s currently topping date list. (Here, Mocamboing with D. Loper.) Neatest trick of the month: Cornering, for one shot, such H'wood royalty as Lt. Com. Bob Montgomery, Capt. Clark Gable, Spence Tracy, Lt. j/g Bob Taylor. 61 --

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PR Ie Bs eee, door of the lobby and waited, it mightn’t have been so _ bad. But here was everybody she knew stopping to By Sylvia Katz ye wal A guy just doesn’t kiss his girl in a theater — | lobby with a million people milling around . . . and the lights of the . marquee shining in their eyes. Guys just don’t act that way at all. And if they did, they’d get slapped. Even if the guy's 14 years old and his girl is 10. All the worse. When you're 10, you can blush harder than when you’re 20. And getting kissed is no fun anyway. So Belita slapped him. But _ the incident left its scar. i If she’d been smart, she’d have forgotten about men right then, be: cause the next thing that happened was really a fiasco. You know how you feel about your first real date. The long gloves and the tulle way down to your heels and the smidgin of perfume behind the ear . . . just to make things authentic. Well, it was like that . . . only worse because the date was for a ballet, not just a movie around the corner. Only thing was, Johnny (we'll call him that) was the kind of a fellow you'd ask for dinner at 7, and he’d pop in at 9:30 because things were always turning up. Unexpected things . . . and, “Gosh, I’m sorry I'm late but you see . . .” Always. You | could count on it. Johnny’d given Belita her ticket and said to meet him at the Covent Garden Opera House. Knowing Johnny, it sounded risky, Risky, nothing. It was brutal! Belita had done enough dancing and skating in London so that almost everybody knew her on sight. If she could just have stood quietly behind a ask did she get stood up, or didn’t she think she was a little young to be getting around to places stag? As the curtain went up, she squeezed her way through the crowd thinking that if she slid deep down in her seat nobody would notice. But try being inconspicuous in the front seat of the very front box, when everybody in the (Continued on following page) x Belita's always wanted role in horror film; thinks they're most fun to do. Mean- while is doing, "Lady, Let's Dance.’

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NO ROOM FOR TROUBLES IN THE NEW KIT BAG... But plenty of room for magazines and note paper, cigarettes, sewing kits, razor blades .. . shall we go on? Or is it enough to say that all the small essentials servicemen keep writing home for are being packed in Red Cross kits and sent overseas. Trouble is, somebody’s got to do the packing. Somebody also got to make the thousands of surgical dressings . . . and the layettes for servicemen’s babies .. . and. sweaters and endless other items. Does a finger seem to point to you? Well, swell. Stop by at your local Red Cross and get the dope on their Pro- duction Corps. You know, if you're too tied up to come downtown, there’s work you can do at home... with patterns, material and instruc- tion furnished by the Red Cross. And if your club just happens to be casting around for a project, what nobler one than this? There’ve been lots of surgical dressing con- tests in high schools through the Junior Red Cross. And, boy, you viiaes have seen that white gauze Yy. your way half around the world, really sincere compliments are rare. Like the time a fellow in Wichita wrote, “You’re no Lamarr. Your smile’s luke-warmish, and you could do more with your hair. Also, your figure’s nothing to start a G.I. moaning low. But, holy cow, can you skate! How do you do it? Where’d you learn? And what do you haye to have, to begin with?” : Well, for one thing, you’ve got to get _ the feel of things early. You’ve got to start ballet lessons practically before you can walk. And ice skating lessons shortly after. Then, what you try to do is not fall on your face more often than you have to. Cf course, sometimes there’s nothing you can do about it. When you're a year old, and you can hardly toddle a straight line let alone point your toe, you’re bound to fall on your face. And when you’re two and they dress you up like a crumby old doll or something and tie you to a branch of a Christmas tree, what can you expect? Bad habit, though. Sort of sticks with you. Belita was opening an ice show in Washington when it happened again. The place was jammed to the seams. The spotlight flooded the crystal rink. Belita glided out swiftly, lightly, hardly touching the ice at all; cutting smoothly into the center of the rink; stopping sharply, so lithe and cool and poised that, watching her, you had to marvel. It was her night! You could tell it by the stillness of the place .. . and then by the terrific applause. Belita arched her body for another long, slow sweep. And then it happened! The scraping of skates in the ice... the thud... and suddenly, her fanny where her head should have been and her face where her feet should have been . . . and, Lord in heaven, where were her feet? That’s how you get to be a skater and probably an actress, too. And, holy cow, isn’t it awful? j } THE PARKER PEN COMPANY i; | MADE IN U.S.A. New-type ink protects pens against breakdowns / Solv-x in Parker Quink safeguards metal and rubber . . . helps keep pens out of the repair shop! Here is the writing fluid that proves most pen failures can be avoided. For remarkable Parker Quink contains solv-x that pro- tects all makes of pens in 4 ways: 1. Prevents metal corrosion and rubber rot always caused by high-acid inks. 2. Ends all gumming and clogging. Gives quick starting—even flow. 3. Dissolves and flushes away sediment left by ordinary inks. 4. Cleans your pen as it writes—keeps it out of the repair shop. Only Parker Quink contains solv-x yet Quink actually costs no more than ordinary, high-acid inks. So empty your pen today and fill it with famous Parker Quink. Bril- hant, smooth-flowing, fast-drying . . you'll find Quink is ideal for steel pens, too. Parker Pen Com- pany, Janesville, Wisconsin, and Toronto, Canada. * * * “MICRO-FILM BLACK”, the all-purpose black ink. Writes black, stays black. Ideal for V-Mazl; photographs perfectly. Quink comes in 7 permanent colors: Micro-film Black, Blue-Black, Royal Blue, Green, Violet, Brown, Red. 2 washable colors: Black, Blue. Family size 25¢. Other sizes 15¢ and up. Copr. 1944 by The Parker Pen Company MAKE YOUR DOLLARS FIGHT—BUY WAR BONDS NOW! rrr ——s—s—‘—sSSCS the only ink containing solv-x 65

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HE NOTICES YOUR HAIR “Blonde Bonnie Ever. avers a OHS pomp. If you want the man in your life to be pleased with your coif, follow these Hollywood hints for coif styling! @ That all-important he notices how your tresses look . . . so, ask you, how to ieee a fetching top-knot? Well, you've come to the right place, ’cause we know. We’ve been speaking to Nancy Walker, that female Rooney, about the curls and ringlets of Ginny Simms and Bonnie Edwards, her co-stars of “Broad- way Rhythm” and, too, we’ve. been chatting with Laraine Day (nice chatting). She has some bright ideas for your ringlets. m Here’s the sum of all this talk about tresses. We'll assume for the moment that your hair is in condition, that you’ve been quite fussy about shampoos and that you brush said hair every day . . . you can learn ways and means of hair care by consult- ing “Curl-Cues from Vera” on p. 68. Still, the way you arrange your locks, leaves something to be desired. Instead of putting up with them as is, check on your hairdressing skill. m First, check on your equipment. The kind of comb frequently used in Hollywood studios (half teeth and half handle to grab on’ter) may suit you better than the usual straight comb. The weensy, cheap number you carry in your purse for hasty re- grooming is not sufficient for full-time use. Get an efficient one. Then there are the small combs for holding coifs in place. Get good ones if you want them to stay put. There are those with teeth that poosh apart as you set the comb in, and then spring back together again. They’re fine. m@ Try using plastic curlers. Try rolling wool over a curler and | then rolling your hair over the two. A girl that Laraine Day knows whose hair is fine as silk and so unmanageable, does her curls up at the back in small strands, very flat and without dampening the hair at all. She secures each flat curl with two bobbie pins and then she sprays the whole thing with a little wave setting lotion which she keeps in an old perfume atomizer. That’s a hint for the girl with hair like a baby’s to whom the word “curl” is a red flag. @ Don’t overlook the male viewpoint, we repeat. Most men are taller than you, but how much thought do you give to the picture of the top of your head? Not enough, we'll bet! Hair parts are pretty when neat and sharply defined . . . but a menace if crooked and straggly. Be sure that yours rravele in a straight line and that it’s scrupulously ‘clean (cotton wound on an orange stick and moistened with hair tonic will attend to that). To complete the pleasant scene for your he-man, see that the hair on your crown lies smooth and untangled. — ™ Only last week one male, with an air of speaking for his en- tire sex, asked us, “Why don’t you tell girls about the backs of

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By Carol Carter their heads?” Far be it from us to dis- regard the masculine opinion on beauty, sO were passing this on to: you. If you're not sure that every little strand is at its well-groomed best, why not make a spring resolution to use. a hand mirror every day? And this habit will suggest brushing and using brilliantine, lacquer, pins and all those other gad- - gets which make your back locks live up to those that frame your pretty face. Now that you're all convinced of the need of a new male and male-pleasing hair-do, which will it be? We'll admit right off that we can’t tell you in detail (though our Super Coupon chart, “How to Have Beautiful Hair,” can). But what Aunty Carter can do right now is give you general rules to follow for your particular type that we filched from Hollywood, city of magic lanterns . and smart hair-do’s. Choose your hair style, suggests Ginny Simms, in front of a full-view mirror. If you’re tall and slender, don’t make yourself into a bean pole with a pompadour set on top of your head. If you're small, don’t cut your height by hair flat on top and fluffed out at the sides. Add several inches to your five- feet-or-so by piling your hair high and by holding your head like a swan. If you have a practically oval face with even features, you can take liber- ties that less-flawless mortals have no right to consider. You can wear your hair up, down or sidewise and still look like an angel . . . though you're really smartest if you stick to smooth, clear, classical coifs that frame your Lamarr- like face and do not distract attention from it. On the other hand (or should we say head?) if your face has irregularities— which, by the by, can be made just as endearing as the handsomest features ever molded—then you can have the fun of adapting your coif to tone down your bad (Continued on page 102) ONDER 7, PREVENTS opog 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¢ © 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! NEW DOUBLE-DUTY CREAM * REALLY STOPS PERSPIRATION * PREVENTS ODOR WS ARMS sep PIRATION- BETTER / 67

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CURL-CUBS FROM VERA Pe. By Carol Carter Pert Vera Hruba Ralston is in "Lady andthe Monster.” Vera helps her pomp shine with brilliantine. A beauteous blonde with brains! What charm, what loveli- ness! What an assignment! We stumbled from lunch at the Stork Club muttering pretty compliments all about Vera Hruba Ralston. At 22, Vera’s life has been a series of adven- tures starting with an escape from Czechoslovakia and culmi- nating in a starring role in Republic’s “Lady and the Monster.” Why that gal has already received three thousand proposals by mail. Gol-ly! Vera skated plunk . . . right through the golden door of Hollywood. From the Ice-Capades to stardom in one easy, icy pirouette. A gal on blades, with bright spotlights shining 3 on her, has to learn to outglisten the ice, La Ralston noted. “T learned to shine from my head to the tips of my figure skates. And the shining hair business I learned, I’ve remem- bered.” : 5 Z us sbrushy states igi vise uh TO THE CLEANERS. “The essence of a beautiful topknot,” or hee Vera confided, “can almost be summed up im three words: spanking clean hair.” You just can’t do justice to any glam- orous hair-do unless that hair is immaculate. Vera, like other movie folk, goes through the shampoo routine almost every night when she’s emoting under hot camera lights. Her normal, not-working beauty routine includes a shampoo every eighth day. First she brushes her hair, but thoroughly, bending from ithe waist. This combination brushing and bending loosens dandruff, stimulates the scalp and keeps her waistline down ~ to minute proportions. She dunks her head in warm water; pours over a bit of her favorite shampoo and vigorously rubs it up to a sudsy lather. (Continued on page 111)

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Lege Saeed . Fun filled clothes for your sun-filled hours. Gay, becom- _ ing and tailored for figure flattery. Shown here is “Peggy” named for pretty starlet, Peggy O’Neil, who poses in it. Ss Of fine Sanforized cotton in an exclusive Ameritex ric rac "print. Red or aviation blue in sizes 10 to 18. About 6.50 _at better stores everywhere. All the lovely starlets in “The Song. of the Open Road” wear Freshy Playclothes designed and made py the Goldman Co., 1410 Broadway, New York. OT SENATE SERRANO AARON eerie SANA eh RE AMMEN Tee SSRN RAAT RN S Charles R. Rogers presents “The Song of the Open Road” released through United Artists featuring Peggy O’Neil. Ir seeereaetstieraerimcmadimeesen ogame pager ne ECC ee ee ek ee ee |

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glinting, promptly sat beside Granny and worked out a division of labor to create a wonderful duet. Currently, Lon has two favorite songs, “Rasy To Love” by Cole Porter, and a nostalgic song called “I’ll Be Seeing You.” He and his two buddies, Bill Eythe and Ray Sperry, devoted several weeks of in- tensive research to finding a recording of the song. At last they found a band record made by Henry King, a vocal on another disc by Tony Martin and Frances Langford, and a third recording made by the brilliant Hildegarde, something about ‘Pll Be Looking at The Moon but Ill Be Seeing You.” The Terrific Triumvirate memorized the words and melody, tried a little close harmony and found the result good. The instant they set foot in the McCallister house, they played the recordings and com- mented anew on the perfection of each. In the midst of this jubilation over a swoony song, Lon received those celebrated “sreetings.” He was to be inducted, the little draft board said, late in February. Granny, on hearing the news, went on stirring up a cake. For a long time she made no comment. Finally, as if it summed up all the clutching things having to do with her heart, she said, “I'll be looking at the moon, but I’ll be seeing you.” And then, after an interval of quiet, she added, “T’ll never be able to look at the moon until Lon comes home when the war is over.” Lon’s mother, whom he called—as a very small boy—“doll-mother,” was even more TERRIFIC TRIO (Continued from page 37) terse and to the point. “When you leave,” she announced with carefully controlled accents, “I think I'll break that record.” That first day was the bad one. After each of the women in Lon’s life had al- lowed herself one emotional comment, they steadied down to a more humorous view of the situation. But the menus, oddly enough, began to consist entirely of Lon’s favorite dishes. There was as much ground round steak as the McCallister points would permit—always with plenty of cat- sup poured over both steak and bun. Night after night the table boasted a big casserole of potatoes au gratin, and there was no sparing of cheese. Granny labored might- ily in front of the oven, producing regi- ments of lemon pies—on one occasion Bill, Lon and Ray finished off three pies at a sitting. And when Granny wasn’t making lemon pies, she was whipping up a three- storey chocolate cake veneered with yummy white icing. “You,” accused Bill Eythe, poking his buddy’s ribs, “are getting positively fat.” weighty problems .. . “When they remake ‘The Invisible Man’, they won’t exactly scream for you,’ ob- served Mr. McCallister. To compensate for Granny’s luscious cooking, The Terrific Triumvirate ambled down to Chinatown one night each week for a Chinese dinner. Whereas chicken chow mein, almond duck, fried shrimps and egg foo young are filling and delicious and crammed with vitality-producing ele- ments, they have a very low caloric value. Pats One night shortly before Lon was ‘ ducted, Ray had a date, so Bill Hythe and | Lon went out to dinner in duo instead of | the usual triplicate. Offhandedly, Bill pro- | duced a small box. “Here’s something to | remember me by,” he said. “Aw, nuts, | don’t look at me like that—this isn’t any- | thing much. It’ll turn green in ten days || unless you paint it with your mother’s | fingernail polish.” : | The box contained a friendship ring—a | wide gold, very masculine band. “Tll wish | it on,” Bill said gruffly as he pushed it into | place on Lon’s finger. “Don’t take it off | until you get to your basic training camp. | And—er—when you take it off, weil then you can read the inscription on the inside.” Lon looked hard at the handsome ring. | Then he shook hands with Bill. “Gosh, the things you do find in dime stores,” he kidded, but there was no kidding and no } superficiality in the long, steady look he exchanged with the man who has been | his fellow-dramatie struggler and fellow | prankster for many precious years. Between them it wasn’t necessary to talk | about the things in both minds: Bill would | like to be going off to camp with Lon; he | would like to make Lon’s try for the Air | Corps, but he has two punctured eardrums, | so has been classified 4F. 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_ has just begun to catch on in pictures. ‘He and Bill had talked about working in a picture together at some time. To give up such dreams and the first small aura of success is not easy, either. curator of goose flesh... Incidentally, Lon returned from location in Kentucky only a week before he was inducted. He had been East with a com- pany making “Home in Indiana.” (Don’t be perplexed by a motion picture about Indiana being shot in Kentucky—it’s the picture business.) While there, the cast rolled out into the frigid dawn without benefit of hot shower or steaming coffee. And, because the scenes being shot during many of the sequences were presumed to have occurred during summer months, the boys were working in slacks and sneakers, their upper torsos bravely bare. To com- memorate this rugged situation, Lon and Hal Roach, Jr., formed “The Brave New World Athletic Club.” Lon was made Curator of Goose Flesh, and Hal was Vice President in Charge of Frost Bite. Had there been sufficient snow at Lake Arrow- head or Big Bear, nearby mountain settle- ments, Lon intended to initiate Ray Sperry and Bill in this quaking organization be- fore he left, but the weather was unco- operative—too warm for shivering cere- monial rites. Lake Arrowhead has been the scene of a great many McCallister-Sperry-Eythe con- claves. The lake is large and deep enough to allow a great display of seamanship, and the trio are thataway about boats of all kinds. Last summer, Ray Sperry and Lon were maneuvering a dinghy against a stiff breeze; a dinghy, as any sailor will assure you, is a craft as unreliable of bal- ance as a tipsy tightrope walker. Sud- denly it tossed its sail like a mettlesome horse, and rolled over; Lon, who is a com- petent swimmer, fell to one side and Ray, who can’t swim at all, dived into the blue on the other. He bobbed to the surface and clung to the bottom of the boat. There was only one other boat on the lake that day, so Lon yelled at Ray to hang on, and he struck out like mad for the other craft. He is still a little exasperated at this burst of heroics, because he decided on sober second thought—three days later —that it would have been more efficient to have crawled up beside Ray and joined voices in an attracting war whoop. Although Lon has won no medals for lifesaving, he does cherish three trophies won in school. One season he was the anchor man on their relay race which placed first in the interscholastic track meet. Each member of the team received a ribbon. He also won his basketball letter, and once won third ribbon for exhibition riding. Know how you win rib- bons for such equestrianship? Well, you have to know your Dobbin so well that you can induce from him the three conven- tional gaits (walk, trot and canter) at hand signals. If he happens to be what is de- scribed as a High School horse, the rider must also be able to secure a pace and a rack (which is also called a single-foot) on signal. In case Lon had not been inter- ested in the Air Corps, he would have made an excellent cavalry officer. Aside from his family, his two pals and water jeeps, Lon’s chief enthusiasm is his Great Dane dog, McDanois. Mac is a fragile creature of 153 pounds with a bark like the detonation of a 90 millimeter gun, and the soft soul of a Siamese kitten. He is now nearly four years old. His prede- cessor in Lon’s affection was Pat, a Boston Bull whom Lon owned and operated as a pet for 15 years. Lon can’t remember a time when Pat wasn’t part of his life. He was on the set of “Home in Indiana” when his mother telephoned Lon to say th at had died. “Thanks for calling er 7 Sar rar a LRT CAROLE LANDIS IN A 20TH CENTURY-FOX PRODUCTION ur (ale Landis’ Hands Such smooth feminine hands easily win a love match. You can prove it for yourself. Just use Jergens Lotion reg- ularly. And your hands benefit from 2 ingredients that are spe- cially suited to help coarsened skin to the “youth look”, the soft- JERGENS LOTION FOR SOFT, / POUR ATES TING A JEEP? ness that holds hearts; in fact, many doctors prescribe them. “Like professional care for my hands”, you'll realize using Jergens Lotion. Sticky? Never! Simple and easy. 10¢ to $1.00 a bottle. Only—be sure and use this famous Jergens Lotion. “The Staw’ Favorite Hand Cane — they wre Jergens Lotion, 7 to 1

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Before the rest of the cast and the crew, Lon broke down and cried. The director patted his shoulder and said he knew how it was, but would Lon mind standing in the scene just long enough to get the lights adjusted? Lon shook his head and took his place. There he stood facing the lights and camera and trying to get hold of himself. He didn’t know until several days later that the canny director had taken advantage of the moment by shooting the one scene in the picture which required a great show of emotion on Lon’s part. When you see the picture, watch for that sequence and re- member that it was genuine sorrow that prompted the tears, not over the picture situation, but over the lost life of a lovable Boston Bull. On Lon’s upper lip are two fine lines no more than pencil mark scars. Both me- mentos were secured in the same way, al- though several years apart. When Lon was still a pantywaist he was holding Pat on his lap one day, blowing softly in her face. Abruptly, Pat leaped forward and fastened on Lon’s upper lip, inflicting a cut as neatly delicate as a surgeon could have done. Mrs. McCallister phoned for a doctor, crying and insisting that Lon would have a hair lip. The doctor, a com- petent needleman, inserted a few stitches and said the laceration would leave only a hair line. He was right. double rip... - Time passed and the scion of the Mc- Callisters acquired Mac, the Great Dane. Mac was a humorous puppy who rolled and laughed when teased. One day Lon was holding the playful Mac in his arms and blowing softly upon his nose. Return to the paragraph above and reread. “Gosh, I should think you would have learned,” observed Ray Sperry upon learn- ing these details. With great dignity Lon responded, “I never make the same mistake three times, bub.” As one might expect, Lon’s favorite comic strip is “Napoleon and Uncle Elby.” Next comes “Barnaby” which is published locally in the “Hollywood Citizen-News”; the McCallisters subscribe to this paper principally because Lon considers that day lost on which he hasn’t carefully checked the doings of Barnaby, a precocious kinder- garten undergraduate who has a fabulous fairy godfather wearing a derby, topcoat and wings that any aeronautical expert will insist are too short to levitate his

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' fuselage. However, the fairy godfather does fly. And disappear. And materialize cer- tain animals such as a talking dog. It’s all very quaint and wonderful and very, _ very McCallister. After having read “Napoleon” and “Barnaby,” Lon turns to “Blondie” (he thinks Dagwood one of civilization’s great contributors because of the well-known sandwich), then reads “Terry and The Pirates.” Then he turns to the front page and studies the world headlines. After that the sports pages and the ads. Although Lon, in anticipation of a khaki wardrobe, has bought no new clothes for eight months, he would be a handy man with a hundred hangers if the situation warranted. He goes for shaggy tweeds, plaid shirts and argyle sox. Any tie with a design smaller than a goose egg would be considered primly Bostonian in the Mc- Callister press. His favorite basic color for accessories is dubonnet. Lon’s mother busied herself for months, knitting a colorful sox assortment for her Technicolor-footed son; then she had to give up the painter’s pallet yarn and con- vert to khaki. “There’s one thing about it, Doll-mother,” Lon grinned, returning for the occasion to his junior title for her, “when I make one of those celebrated 25-mile marches without blisters, your sox are going to become famous.” In times past, the Terrific Triumvirate have frequently dated one girl simultane- ously. It has been Marjorie Riordan, who had a part in “Song of Bernadette,” or Nancy Walker, who is under contract to M-G-M, or Jean Crane, under contract to 20th Century-Fox. The dates have con- sisted of beach parties or dancing at Lon’s or a movie terminated at a drive-in by a Pepsi and a sandwich. glowing dream girl... Of the current crop of Hollywood dream men (Alan Ladd, Ronald Reagan, Sonny Tufts, Barry Sullivan, Donald O’Connor, James Craig, Jean Pierre Aumont, Glenn Ford, Tyrone Power and Clark Gable), only Captain Gable and Lon McCallister are singletons. Lon has never been in love, but he has his dream-girl ideal, to wit: She should be petite, between 4’ 10” and 5’ 2”. He doesn’t care whether she’s blonde, bru- nette or redhead, as it isn’t coloring but personality that seems important to Lon. She should be sincere and natural. She should be a brain but not show-offish about it. She shouldn’t be infallible: she shouldn’t know it all. Her mistakes and her occasional reliance upon Lon’s judg- ‘ment would only endear her to him. But “most of all she should have a certain inner ‘glow, something shining and colorful—as if she had swallowed an Arizona sunset. If you wonder what kind of a soldier Lon will make, hang on because comes now a chronicle of his first GI. experi- ence. The day he was sworn in and told “to report one week later, he was sent up _to the fourth floor of the building and ordered to scrub the floor. He set to work, Giving the planks a water massage to re- ‘store that forest complexion. __ One of the WAC’s, around whose feet the scrubbing was being done, recognized ‘Lon. “Weren’t you in ‘Stage Door Can- teen’?” she wanted to know. Lon said yes. | “What are you going to do in the Army?” ‘she pursued. ' “As soon as I’m an initiated G..,” Lon id firmly, “I’m going to visit the nearest Trust a Tangee Satin-Finish Lipstick to give life to your lips! EM S| BY CONSTANCE LUFT HUHN HEAD OF THE HOUSE OF TANGEE How difficult it is to keep that brilliant smile and that well-groomed look these days...especially if you have added wartime duties to your daily activities! Yet, millions of you are doing just that with the help of our Tangee Satin-Finish Lipsticks! Don't misunderstand! Neither our cosmetics, or anyone else’s, will make you a better WAC, or a better war- worker, or a better wife. But a Tangee Lipstick WILL save you precious time— by bringing your lips an entirely new SATIN-FINISH ...a soft, exquisite smooth- ness that lasts longer despite weather or work! There’s no need to ration yourself ---on LOVELINESS. Choose the glorious Tangee shade that suits you best... Tangee Red-Red, Tangee Theatrical Red, Tangee Medium-Red, or Tangee Natural ...And be sure to wear it together with its matching rouge...and your own right shade of the new Tangee PETAL-FINISH Face Powder. TANGEE Yypsticks with the new Satin-Finith TANGEE Lace hooder with the new fetal Finish EEDLE HITLER WITH YOUR PIN MONEY — BUY WAR RONDS AND cTampeps el On

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THE MAN IN DEANNA’S (Continued from, page 51) _ secret: Dickie may be, according to years, a mere youngster, but cause he has a bushy white mustache! This puckish sense of humor. After Dickie has drunk a glass of milk, Deanna always lifts him up to a mirror where he can see the milk-foam line on his upper lip The first time he saw a picture of Santa Claus, he shook his head as Deanna does when she disapproves of some action of his. “You’ve been careless with your milk,” he told Santa Claus. Dickie takes up a great deal of Deanna’s and neat as can be. leisure time, of course, and his kid sister “Royledge lies flat—stays crisp (born October 20) is another hour-user- and clean—the best shelf upper. Deanna’s third hobby is the Holly- protection I've ever seen.” wood Canteen. No matter how weary she is, she al- ‘ways manages to appear every Tuesday night. One evening she arrived in an ex- rb AL a Up G ! hausted condition and made her way to | R Ls Z yh the table at which she is hostess. There WYyL was a lone sailor seated there. Everyone eo else was dancing or assaulting the snack bar or kibitzing the orchestra. Deanna looked at him and smiled. Then she tried to think of something constructive to say. whether he had ever been in Hollywood Apparently the seaman sensed her ef- fort because he grinned at her suddenly and said, “You don’t have to talk to me, Miss Durbin. I’m happy just to be sitting here looking at you.” So, in comradely silence, they sat to- gether, watching other couples dance and afterward listening to the hour-long show put on by other motion picture celebrities. The next day, in telling friends about it, Deanna said, “Isn’t that a reversal for you? I was supposed to be entertaining him, yet the way it worked out, he was really helping me to relax. It was just as cosy and comfortable as sitting in front of the fireplace with someone you know On another occasion she spent a hectic evening giving autographs. Every time she looked up, there were five more note- to be signed. She worked and she worked §f until midnight, then—a fugitive from writer’s cramp—she hurried home and The following morning she was on the | frames with a second enlargement beautifully hand tinted set when = telephone call came in from | her cousin, a seaman in the Navy. “Tf you | aren't surrounded by G.I’s” he said, 1 | certainly would like to see you. I visited | the canteen last night, but it was too much | for me—I couldn't get through the mob | Om\a) Lon Seem ee Ne WwW ay OT RR ELIEF i surrounding you. I decided to announce — ea myself when you would have time to look me in the eye instead of the fountain | notice from a parachute battalion in Italy| that she had been voted the girl with) whom they would most like to make a In a later mail delivery she had a letter| inimitable way. share one additional in mind he is a a little old man be- result of Deanna’s his home was, and don’t have to say a belts or letter-backs J y : Deanna’s mail is now} She recently received) ; ost in the South Pacific. of his ht about

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sation moved on to the general subject of the attitude of famous persons toward the general public or the private soldier. “Most of those dames wouldn’t even give a guy a nickel bag of peanuts,” summed up one disillusioned pfc. A second soldier begged to differ. He said he would wager a fancy sum in the coin of the realm that Deanna Durbin WOULD send him a nickel bag of pea- nuts. He had a flock of takers in less time than it takes a pair of ivory conga cubes to wipe out a pay day. So he wrote to Deanna, using pencil and paper and a slight flavoring of fox-hole mud. She promptly sent him a five cent bag of peanuts so that the terms of his bet would be fulfilled. Then she had a king-size carton of peanuts forwarded for the benefit of the soldier and the entire enrollment of his platoon. The long arm of coincidence reached out to bless one of Deanna’s canteen friendships recently. Some months ago she had spent an evening dancing with and talking to a personable Marine. He had been interested before induction in little theater groups, and so was able to discuss plays and pictures with wit and under- standing. He knew at the time that he was on his way overseas, so—in the months that followed—Deanna thought of |. him occasionally and wafted a wish heavenward for his well being. | SAW IT HAPPEN A few weeks ago my buddy and I were strolling gloomily down Holly- wood Blvd. . . . feeling pretty lone- some. Everybody but us seemed to be having such a good time. At a red traffic signal a big car pulled up along side of us with Eddie Cantor at the wheel. Without thinking I waved and said, “Hi, Eddie.” He grinned and motioned to us, “Come on, boys, get in.” We were driven to a drive-in where the three of us had a coke and a long chat. Eddie was so congenial and interested in us, we forgot we were friendless in a busy town. When he left us, my buddy turned to me and said, “Boy, there goes a white guy!” Corp. Darrell Roberts, Arcadia, Cal. fortunes of war.... Recently she received a friendly note from him saying that he had been honor- ably discharged after his overseas ex- periences and that he had been signed to a long term contract by RKO. His name is Chris Drake, and Deanna—pondering |the intricacy of human affairs—has ob- Served that it would be a neat summing up of things if she and Chris could one day work in a picture together. In other ways Deanna’s life and her ‘work are touched by the war. Recently ‘she received a letter from a girl who had ‘been engaged to be married to an Air Corps pilot. They had set their wedding | day, but he received orders which moved ‘him abruptly out of the country before | the nuptial arrangements could be com- pleted. His subsequent letters indicated that he was in England and that he was | Participating in the heavy raids over | Germany. On the very day upon which the girl had planned the heartbreaking telegram from the War | Department telling her that her fiancé had |een killed in action. The shock was so ite describable only as emotional coma. couldn’t ery, she couldn’t think, she [ ec to be completely cut off from life. to be a bride, she received | See Bonita Granville in “SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD” _A Charles R. Rogers Production for United Artists “Royal Crown Cola’s Really grand! It tastes hest— b My favorite brand!” ay | é says BONITA GRANVILLE “I'd like to tell you about the famous cola taste-test I took re- cently,’’ says Bonita. ‘I tried leading colas in pa- per cups and picked the one that tasted best. My choice was Royal Crown Cola. So you can see why Royal Crown Cola is my favorite ‘quick-up’!”’ Best by Taste-Test! be, “A7e AS < ‘an, co BUY WAR BONDS TODAY

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Deanna’s next picture, by the way, is “Christmas Holiday,” a film version of the distinguished book by Somerset Maugham. It was a Maugham vehicle, “Of Human Bondage,” that launched Bette Davis as a dramatic actress, and the same may be true of Deanna. Heretofore, Deanna’s screen parts have held a close likeness to her own person- ality development. She has been sweet, wholesome, blossoming. In “Christmas Holiday” she has her first opportunity to portray a difficult role, totally foreign to her own character. The casting of the picture was an aspirin special at the studio. A good deal of thought was given to the change in Deanna’s screen career. Would she be able to get her teeth into the part and extract the juice from it? Would the far-flung and highly voluble Durbin fans approve? Deanna, who is as bright as Babson be- neath that sugar-coated exterior, gave the entire problem a good deal of personal skull scrimmage. She read the book care- fully, re-reading those passages dealing with the character and behavior of the girl she was to portray. Then, when the shooting script came through, she decided that she was a big girl now, and there was no reason for her to forego the dramatic challenge of “Christmas Holiday.” When she is working, Deanna sets the alarm for 5:45 A.M. She awakens instant- ly to that clarion voice, shuts it off, closes the window and turns on the heat. Then she snuggles back into the dream sack for another 15 minutes. That means that she has to be a small tornado of speed when she does arise formally and officially, because breakfast is ready at _ 6:30—too early an hour for anyone to be able to look a bowl of cereal in the face without cringing. She forces herself to eat something because noon is a long way down a corridor of busy hours, and her appetite, unless appeased in the morning, begins to kick up about 10:30. From breakfast, she makes a_ beeline for the studio. While she is working in a picture, she has her hair shampooed twice a week, but it has to be set every morning. When she isn’t working, a shampoo and wave once a week are sufficient. She reports to the set in costume and make-up at 9. After luncheon each day she takes a 30-minute vocal lesson. Be- tween takes, while the lights or camera are being adjusted, Deanna knits in her dressing room. She is now champion purler of the bobby sox brigade, having made several non-dropped-stiteh pairs for herself. extra curricular activities .. . She tried, some time ago, to read be- tween takes, but she found that she be- came so interested in the dialogue and the situations in the book that when she returned to her own cinematic troubles they didn’t seem half so vivid or inter- esting as the fictional fiascos she had just put aside. Deanna occasionally brings recordings to the studio and plays them. This hap= SIU Tee es a is a slight but unmistakable stain of gre: ‘paint. But Deanna loves it with a to spent: over to her sister’s home for din: out stopping to remove the mak Dickie has been known to be foun after a vociferous kiss—wearing almc as much grease paint as Aunty May Po: birthday party that was given for her on the set. Every year the studio presents her with a birthday cake, the proportions of which have expanded as Deanna herself || has grown up. This year, because Deanna is now a senior citizen of 22, the local bakers did themselves proud. The sky-— scraper cake that was wheeled onto the — stage—where all work instantly ceased —looked like Hansel and Gretel’s dream of a merry-go-round. : “Line up, everybody,” Deanna called, arming herself with a long-bladed knife. She carved and she carved. At first th wedges she cut were three or four inches wide. After she had served several dozen members of the crew, Deanna glanced || down in consternation along the queue still waiting for a slice of cake. The por- tions became smaller. And smaller. % Her last guest had to eat his share in a hurry or it would have been waftec away, as light as a feather on the breeze. | Deanna didn’t get so much as a crumb o the cake. She made up for the lack tha’ night, however, when her sister served long and six inches high, a cera nic masterpiece in the form of a sofa on w are seated three exquisite ladies fashion. : Deanna hasn’t decided (1) exa which nook in her house is to be gra by this beauty or (2) how to get it home without accident. She thinks now she will persuade some very steady reliable member of the department nestle it fondly in his arms while drives her car home. ier And most assuredly she will wear lucky jacket while on this short jour The lucky jacket is a blue herring affair that Deanna wears over wi blouse and blue slacks when she has remove her picture wardrobe while has luncheon in the commissary. 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BING ON THE BEAN (Continued from page 47) he’s made his family happy. He’s tasted the glories of golf championships; he’s tingled to the kick of seeing his own racing colors come pounding down the stretch. MHe’s dabbled in the big business of sports pro- motion. He’s made his millions, collected more honors than a dog has fleas. He’s still the juke box king, radio rajah, box- office champ. But outside of possibly hav- ing his own kids, he has never had thrills like he’s collecting these days—bringing tuneful joy to the hearts of Uncle Sam’s soldiers and sailors. For instance, there are some colored doughboys in Arizona who don’t rate Bing Crosby’s efforts particularly pint-sized— and they don’t know half the story, either, of how Bing came to brighten their weary barracks load, and what a scuffing around that night cost him after he left their camp. Bing and his constant camp tour com- panions, song-writers Johnny Burke and Jimmy van Heusen, were waiting for a train in Phoenix, Arizona, after a big air training base show. As a passenger, Bing can take airplanes or leave them, and the gas shortage has made auto travel tough out West, so he used the cinder circuit while doing something for the boys. Anyway, there were a couple of hours to fiddle around that afternoon in Phoenix, and Bing heard about this camp for colored soldiers, only a few miles away. So far, nobody from Hollywood or anywhere else had ever showed up to give them a show. “What're we sticking here for then?” asked “Bing. He figured they could whiz over, sing a few numbers and get back in time for the West-bound rattler. But when Bing showed up in the camp, he found it gathered round to a man in a little hollow waiting him, with big white smiles that just ate your heart right out like a watermelon. So, instead of croon- ing an hour he sang four hours until he couldnt squeeze another note out of his limp larynx and until the purple dusk was inky black, and all you could see on the hills were those white smiles. But when Bing got back to Phoenix—no train! Some miracle had made it actually on time and so Bing and Johnny and Jimmy grabbed a taxi and chased it to the next stop—in time to sniff the departing dust. They careened in their car to the next, and finally at a third town, the flying cinders mocked them for keeps. It was midnight then and no more trains West. Bing and the boys trooped into a dinky, wooden station and parked on the rugged benches while the telegraph keys ticked away. sittin’ on a log... And to top it all off, Bing cut a gash in his leg and a rip in his favorite pastel slacks (he got it tumbling from autos to chase trains). But he even got a kick out of the wound, the ripped trousers and the restless night. In fact, he tags it the highlight so far in his entertainment career. There’s not really anything to stop the presses in all of this—except that for years and years around Hollywood Mister Bing Crosby has been notoriously tagged as the laziest man in town. But the Great Transformation took place not long after Pearl Harbor. First came the Hollywood Victory Caravan, and then when Bing was returning to Hollywood from a trip to Mexico, he docked at New | Orleans, traveled through Louisiana and Texas on the way home and impulsively stopped off at the brand new Army stations dotting those states. Unannounced, Bing ! just dropped in on the boys and, of course, (Continued on page 82) Do you fear EORRT se the ‘Compact Close-up in OFT light is fairy-kind to your skin... hiding all its faults. . . giving it dreamy, mystic softness. But lady, most of the time your skin has to face the hard re- vealing light of sunshine or electric glare. And this harsh light, as well you know, can make your skin look coarse, lined and oldish. But the exquisite color of Cashmere Bouquet Face Powder is especially created to flatter the natural young loveliness of Cashmere Bouquet Face Powder in all 6 exciting “‘Color-True”’ Shades 10¢ and larger sizes at cosmetic counters everywhere. the noon-day sun? See how Cashmere Bouquet Face Powder flatters your skin’s soft, youthful loveliness even in the harsh, bright light of midday. your skin, in even the harshest light. How can that be? It’s because Cashmere Bou- quet Face Powder is made by the famous Color-True process. Yes, the colors of this exquisitely smooth face powder stay true to your skin . . . remain fresh, vibrant, gloriously alive in any kind of light. Peek in your compact at midday or mid- night and be comforted . . . Cashmere Bouquet Face Powder gives your skin a look of bewitching smooth beauty.

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The twelfth in our series on TH E FOODS OF OUR ALLIES "| taste eet, then | season eet!’ says Carmen Miranda, famous samba specialist of screen and stage. She loves good food and favors dishes prepared at home in the Brazilian manner. "Where did you get that hat?" It's an old native costume in Bahia, laughs Carmen, who introduced her version in Rio, then added more ornaments for a towering Hollywood success. BRAZIL T= coat of arms of the Brazilian Republic, illustrated above, is outstandingly appropriate. Each ray of the five-pointed star is half-green, half-yellow—these being the national colors, chosen to symbolize the country’s forests and its gold—with a spray of coffee on the left and one of tobacco on the right, representing two of its most important crops. Within the star is a double circle in blue; the outer circle containing twenty stars, one for each of the twenty States, the inner circle featuring the five stars of the South- ern Cross. Across the handle of the vertical sword appear the words: “The United States of Brazil,” while under this is the date of the establishment of this vast, rich republic. m Singing sensation of many a musical movie and cur- rently starring with Don Ameche in the 20th Century-Fox Technicolor film, “Greenwich Village,” Carmen Miranda has been variously described in such colorful terms as vivid, exotic, torrid and even barbaric! But the description we favor, at this particular time, is “The Brazilian Bomb- shell.” For it is as the vivacious representative of this im- agination-stirring country that she appears here—to help us wind up our series on “The Foods of our Allies” in “The Sous American Way!” Fortunately for us, and for this story, Miranda “luffs to eet!” Stated—in that rapid-fire way she has of talking— that “What’s cookin’?” was one of the first American slang phrases she ever used, “maybe because I always hoped the answer it would really interest me!” Spoke of native Brazilian dishes with enthusiasm; mentioned by name the ones she likes best and—with the help of sister Aurora— gave us directions for making some of these Miranda favor- ites. Told us that in Brazil, as in so many South and Central American countries, rice is the outstanding food staple—always on the table at both lunch and dinner, “to eet it or not, as you choose.” Mentioned beans, prepared in many an interesting fashion, as also rating high in popular esteem. So necessary, it seems, are rice and beans to all Brazilians that a native is said to “earn his feijoa e arroz,’—meaning beans and rice—instead of his “bread and butter!” ; Our star also spoke of avocados, and explained they never appear in the form of a salad, but turn up instead in main course and dessert dishes. And, as was to be expected, since Brazil is the leading coffee producing country of the world, Carmen went on at length about this beverage which Brazilians—starting from childhood!—drink with a degree of enthusiasm perhaps unequalled anywhere else in the ee Ri,

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In fact, we learned, it is common for a Brazilian to consume from one to two dozen cups of coffee a day; in the 5 EH ME ae, Se — * GR eS Morning as cafe con leite (coffee with _ milk) but, during the rest of the day, with sugar but without cream. Coffee, to them, is not only the symbol of hospitality, but the necessary, the per- fect accompaniment to all social and busi- ness discourse, whether it’s a diplomatic or commercial call, a visit to a friend’s house, or a stopover at one of the side- walk cafés they love to frequent—where coffee is sipped at small, marble-topped tables in true continental style. No won- der, therefore, that although there are no special Brazilian decorations in Carmen Miranda’s Beverly Hills home, to “set the scene” for her, there is always a filled coffee pot on the back of the stove; so that the family, and members of her Banda Da Lua (Band of the Moon) who wander in at odd hours, may always feel free to help themselves to any number of small cups of their favorite beverage. And what of the Brazilian-style dishes we are featuring in this month’s attractive little leaflet? Well, you'll find that they’re the type that are “in season” the year around and will be welcome at your own dinner table. And our recipes for these food favor- ites of this South American good neighbor have been carefully tested and double-checked for accuracy. For, not content with accepting one person’s opinion on the subject of Brazilian foods—even though that per- son is a native of the country as well as a screen star—we went direct to the charming wife of Eurico Penteado, Financial Counselor of the Brazilian Embassy and representatives of Brazil on the Pan-American Coffee Bureau, UNRA, and other committees of inter- national importance. Senhora Filoca Penteado is a hostess famous in diplomatic circles, and among her friends, for the Brazilian specialties she herself knows how to prepare. We therefore consider our- selves fortunate indeed in having been able to go over with her the Miranda recipes we are offering you this month. _ You'll find in the leaflet a recipe for Picadinho—Carmen’s tasty version of hash, highlighted with further sugges- tions from Senhora Penteado. And Feijoada, a combination of feijao preto . (black beans) and meat—several kinds of meat, it seems, and all of it either of the low-point or no-point variety. There’s Camaroesa Bahiana— a colorful blend of pink shrimp and green okra—to be served with the inevitable rice, with directions for cooking the rice included. There’s an avocado suggestion which we think perfect as a party main-dish. And finally there’s Miranda’s favorite, Creme de Abacate—avocado dessert “that ees out of thees world.” THE MODERN HOSTESS MODERN SCREEN 149 Madison Avenue New York 16, New York Please send me—absolutely free—recipes for Carmen Miranda's Brazilian dishes. Unconditional Surrender !”” To the woman who uses Fels-Naptha Soap there is nothing vague about Unconditional Surrender. She sees it happen every wash day. Like all housekeepers, Dirt is her arch enemy—an invader and a despoiler. She uses Fels-Naptha Soap because she has no patience with half-measures. Or, to put it more plainly, with half-clean clothes. When she tosses the family wash into a tubful of Fels-Naptha Suds, the issue is decided, then and there. Those two inseparable allies—Soap and Naptha—drive Dirt from every seam and fibre. They ‘liquidate’ the invader without injury to fine fabrics or dainty garments. In the conflict with Dirt, you can’t afford to be unprepared—or ‘neutral.’ Fels-Naptha Soap is made for, and used by, women whose only terms with the enemy are— Unconditional Surrender!

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Tampax Incorporated, Pal- mer, Mass. Rent OR A RETUND op he sang. By the time he got back to Hollywood, he could hardly put his atten- tion to his radio show and the Paramount picture coming up. army clambakes .. . Soon as he hit town, too, something else happened. An Army lieutenant showed up in Hollywood one day. He came from the Muroc Dry Lake air base up north of town, and he was A. W. O. L. He'd practically hitched his way south with a purpose. He showed up at the Hollywood U.S.O. with a story that hit Crosby and Company right over the ticker. Up there at the air base there was noth- ing for his pilots and ground crew to see or do. No towns near, no nothing, except a vast expanse of alkali dust and dismal stretches of bare sun-baked hills. There weren’t even any barracks, just tents and revetments and a wind that never let up. But at that same place, Air Corps patrol bombers were taking off every few min- utes and winging their way out over the Pacific Ocean. Those boys were pitching for defense when the pitching was plenty tough, when Jap subs were off the coast blowing up ships and shelling the shore. Well, when Bing and his brother Larry heard about that, they got going pronto. They got together a gang of stars, took it up to Muroc the next day, and turned a “ | revetment into the Roxy to chase the mo- tor drones out of those hero guys’ ears. That cinched it. From that day on Bing and the Crosby clan have been on an all- out soldier entertainment basis. Larry does most of the management work, getting up professional vaudeville and movie talent, expertly rehearsed shows—no pickup stuff. “These guys are hep,” warned Bing at the start, “nothing but the best.” And that’s the way it has been. Bing can’t always make the shows himself, because there are still pictures to make, his radio pro- gram, a dozen benefits and small-time war chores here and there about Hollywood. But they go out regularly like Phil Silvers, Rags Ragland, Faye Mackenzie, John Scott Trotter’s band, all Bing’s Paramount and radio star pals. Bing has diverted all the proceeds from his biggest selling record, “Silent Night,” to help pay expenses for this good work. But he still has to dig when the going gets rough. Bing’s Crosbyettes—his sons—have had a little trouble in their war efforts. The spirit is mighty willing—but in the case of Gary, the flesh sags sometimes. Bing started cutting in the youngsters on his Army clambakes one Sunday when he was sit- ting around the house with nothing to do and got to feeling guilty about it. So he hopped in the car with Gary and Linny and ran over to the Hollywood Turf Club, where his own sugar-footed nags used to circle the track. Today it’s another Army post, and that Sunday Bing turned it into a circus. The kids came through with im- personations and a skit they’d worked up on “The Seven Dwarfs.” After that Bing told them they were on the team, and the < 40, © Guaranteed by @ Good Housekeeping No, PDEFECTIVEOR ow oO” 45 apvenristd TWN 3 Absorbencies REGULAR SUPER JUNIOR Accepted for Adver- tising by the Jour- nal of the American Medical Association next time he made a camp trip, he packed them along. When Bing finished his songs before the big audience, he said, “I’m running out of voice, but here’s a little gravel-throat who wants to take a crack at this crowd.” Gary was ushered up to the mike, but got stage fright and couldn’t make his legs move. The soldiers roared, but Bing wasn’t caught short. He summoned Linny, hardly more than a tot. “Never mind,” said Bing, ““ve got a mob of show-offs at our house.” Linny never batted an eye but came through right away with his version of “Pop Eye the Sailor Man,” whistle effects and all. He brought down the house, too. Well, that episode almost caused a fam- (Continued from page down in his own pocket now and then - ily schism at the Crosbys. Be Bing got home, he cluck-cluck and sighed, “Well, I guess Gary can’t 1 the team on any more camp shows. won’t work. Have to leave all excess bag— gage at home these war days, you know. Linny did a great job. He’s in solid.” Of course, such ignominy was not to be borne by anyone, let alone a Crosby with some Irish in him. Pretty soon Gary was begging his dad to please give him an- other chance. “I'll sing this time,” he promised. “Ill work up a real routine.” Which he did—spent a week on it, in fact. The act was take-offs on Papa Bing’s sing- ing tricks, and Gary covered everything from “I Surrender Dear” on up to date. But when the fatal camp appearance ar- rived, Gary gazed into the soldier mob and—again his knees wilted. Just the same Gary gritted through it, but he got all mixed up and boobed his cues. So he turned to Jimmy van Heusen at the piano and letting himself off the hook, barked crossly, “What’s the matter? Can’t you get it right?” the inner man... Bing rehearses a camp show twice as long as he does his radio program. He al- ways insists that a Paramount gag writer friend of his, Barney Dean, go along with his outfit to nose around among the soldiers beforehand and find out what G. I. dropped the tray of dishes on K.P. or who is having love trouble with a local blonde babe or something. Then he whips up some gags tailored to the camp, and Bing gets every- body happy right at the start. Bing has al-— ways made a point never to talk down to his Army audiences. He knows they're as sharp on the uptake as they can he. “They’re hep” he’s always repeating. For instance, at a camp show the other day Bing was introducing Faye Mackenzie, and the boys were giving her a real noisy welcome. When the roar died down, Bing complained, “Now what’s Faye got that I haven’t got?” : “Hair!” yelled back a soldier almost be- fore Bing got the words out of his mouth. Bing has even gone so far in his consid- eration for Army. audiences as to tidy himself sartorially for his camp shows. That’s sensational if you know Bing, who usually prefers to work dressed something like the Norther Lights going South with a gaudy sport shirt and outfits built for comfort, not style. One day coming into an Army camp town he was strolling down the main drag with his suit looking like an old pair of wet-wash pajamas, his hat on the back of his head and a day or so’s crop of blond whiskers on his cheeks. Crowds who’d heard the news of Bing’s arrival ran up the streets looking for him, but they all passed right on by without suspecting that the disheveled fellow ambling along was the mighty Bingo him- self. ~One citizen even came up to him— “Say, Bud,” he asked, “have you seen | Bing Crosby around? They say he’s in town.” ; on the nose... Bing laughed and gave him the old Hollywood thriller chase line, “He went that way.” And darned if the guy didn’t run off where Bing had pointed! Since then Bing has started slicking his sparse locks and wearing ties and pressed suits, when he goes out among ’em. He has even dolled himself up in a white coat, tux pants and patent-leather shoes a few times, at big Army camp shindigs. ‘Probably the thing that’s most surpris- ing of all about Bing’s reformation, though, is his fussy concern with time. Bing used | to have small regard for the ticking of — clocks. =

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( ll yo time.” f fussy about keeping soldiers g around. He knows spare time in Army camp is precious. _ Besides his camp appearances, Bing has taken it on himself to become a handy man for the soldiers overseas, boys he can’t reach with his gravel notes. They’re al- ways writing him letters and requesting the darndest things—but Bing manages to come up with the answer somehow. There was the bunch in the Aleutians who needed a trunk full of sound effects for their local radio shows—car-honks, train toots, auto smashes and even screams. They could have written any number of Hollywood radio people—but somehow they picked on Bing. So he and Larry went around to the radio stations in Holly- wood and got together the darndest collec- tion of gruesome sounds you ever heard and shipped them right out. He got a request a while back for a flock of his own records, preferably autographed. Well, Bing lost most of his own platters when his house burned down, and as anybody knows most of the numbers are as rare in music Stores as nylons at a hosiery counter. Just the same Bing put the bite on his friends, relatives and even himself and shipped them off as near a complete selection as he could find. : Just about the fastest writing and record- ing of a song that ever took place in Holly- wood can be hung up to the credit of Bing and those song writers of his, Burke and van Heusen, when the Seventh Air Force in New Guinea gave them a buzz. It was 4 7; 30 one recent morning when Bing’s phone ; jingled and the operator said “New Guinea calling.” Captain Charlie Erb, a former USC All-American footballer, was on the wire. He said the Seventh Air Force simply had to have a song of its own pronto —and they wanted one by Bing. Bing doesn’t write ’em, but he did the next best i thing—turned it over to Burke and van Heusen, who came up with a special anthem by 12 o’clock noon. Bing recorded the tune during his lunch hour, and the master record sailed away by bomber that afternoon to the South Pacific! Those are the kind of war pitches you seldom hear about around Hollywood but which stars, not only Bing, but a lot of others, too, are always coming up with. Bing hasn’t had a placid lunch hour for weeks. There’s usually a Bond rally short fe to be made or a war song to be recorded somewhere around the lot, or a bunch of _ Army visitors who want autographed rec- ords or a personal earful of Bing’s up-and- down notes. Bing was going over some songs on the set of “The Road to Utopia” _ the other day when a messenger came on the set and handed him a note. “From the O.W.I.” he said. . o.w.i.'s left-hand man... » You, too, can easily give yourself a beau- tiful, long-lasting cold permanent wave, in the comforts of your own home . . . as thousands of women and girls are doing with the sensa- tional “‘Cuic’’ PERMANENT Wave Home Kir. y It’sso simple, even a child can do it. ‘“‘Cuic’’ requires no heat or electricity, no machines or dryers, no harmful chemicals or ammonia. » A‘'Cnic” permanent ‘‘takes’’ beautifully on all types of hair—coarse, medium, or fine. “Cuic’’ is backed by ten years of home per- manent waving experience. Use “‘Curc’’ for complete satisfaction. x Enjoy the thrill and admiration of natural- looking curls and waves. . . easy to style for the ‘‘hair-do’’ best suited to your personality. GET CMIC. AT “DRUG STORES STORES - VARIETY STORES - 5 AND 10c nC ee |) PERMANENT |. WAVE 59: everywhere. COMPLETE SATISFACTION GUARANTEED The “CHIC” Home Kit, for only 59c, includes: 50 curl- ers, as well as finest qual- ity shampoo and wave set » -. complete, easy-to- follow illustrated direction booklet. Nothing else fo buy... “CHIC” is on sale at Hair Goods and Toiletry Counters, is + ae - - DEPARTMENT STORES roxtk wide te GR =

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enough to buy myself a suit of clothes, and the desert’s ruined the ones I have.” That set Larry and Bing to thinking, so they put a proposition up to him. If they got a pledge from his men that they’d be on their honor to keep things at the camp ticking like clockwork, would the general come over to Hollywood and get himself outfitted and let them show him around? The general laughed “Okay” so they buzzed around, got the pledge from the men—no job at all. And the general took a trip to the tailor’s in Hollywood, where Bing en- tertained him. He got his new duds and later on a long overdue leave to see his boy graduated at West Point! Needless to say, the men at that camp lived up to their end, too. Not one G.I. was out of line a minute while the general was away. Bing’s biggest ambition these days is to take a trip overseas to the battle fronts and bring his brand of melody up where the slugging is going on. Especially since his pal, Bob Hope, got back to Hollywood with heart warming tales galore of his North African tour. So far radio, movie and local camp programs have kept Bing rooted to his home shores, but he’s getting pretty impatient, and right now he’s work- ing on a deal to make a salty expedition possible. g. i. double... He doesn’t care where he goes—but if it’s to the Mediterranean sector, he’s likely to run right into himself. Other day he got a letter from a soldier there, Private Lee Jones of Illinois. “I was driving up to a British refueling station in our jeep,” wrote Jonesie, “when four little Arab kids ran out and wanted to know if I was Bing Crosby. Of course I said ‘no,’ but because I do look like you and have always been kidded about it, my buddies in the jeep with me said that’s just who I was. So these Arab kids, in perfect English, break into a solid quartet rendition of ‘When the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day’! “That got such a howl out of my buddies that they’ve kept on insisting that I’m you, ever since. So if the story gets around that you’re in North Africa—I want you to know how it started.” That letter didn’t make Bing Crosby a bit mad—he thought a dough-boy-double was a swell idea. At this point his stag- gering daily schedule could do with a couple dozen extra Bing Crosbys. And so could the boys in uniform, from all reports. re HALF PINT, JR. (Continued from page 39) young lady, and tucked her in for her nap. That night the identical dish of cereal was again presented to a pout-mouthed, arch- eyebrowed young lady. Hunger won, and with that capitulation, little Miss Detlie learned one of her first bits of philosophy: Take advantage of what you have while you can. One of the next lessons that Veronica Lake taught her intelligent infant was the right of ownership. Around her house Veronica had placed several valuable specimens of bric-a-brac, and she had no intention of removing them because of the clutching hands of a small daughter. “No, no,” she said quietly when Elaine made a pass at a blown-glass pigeon, “that is Mommy’s. This is Elaine’s.” And she panded the young lady a Raggedy Ann doll. smooth, shining and tabu... Elaine sat back and thought this over. "MOST HOSPITAL NURSERIES, BABY GETS A PROTECTIVE ANTISEPTIC OIL BATH DAILY Why do hospitals do this? Important to every mother: A leading medical journal asked 6,000 physicians, including QUESTION: “Do you favor the use of oil on baby’s skin?” ANSWER: Over 95% of doctors said yes. (Most hospitals, as in scene above, instruct mothers to use Mennen Oil—because it’s antiseptic). QUESTION: ““Should oil be used after every diaper change?” ANSWER: 3 out of 4 physicians said yes. (Anti- septic oil helps prevent diaper rash caused by QUESTION: “Should baby oil be antiseptic?” § most U.S. baby specialists, these vital questions about baby care. Read answers below: QUESTION: “Should oil be used all over baby’s body daily?” ANSWER: 3 out of 4 physicians said yes—helps prevent dryness, chafing. (Most important — antiseptic oil helps protect skin against germs). QUESTION: “Up to what age should oil be used on baby?” ANSWER: Physicians said, on average, “Con- tinue using oil until baby is over 6 months old? Many advised using oil up to 18 months. Z Z Z ZZ Z ANSWER: 4 out of 5 physicians said baby oil should be antiseptic. Only one widely-sold baby oil zs antiseptic—Mennen. Helps check harmful germs, thus helps prevent prickly heat, diaper rash, impetigo, other irritations. Hospitals find Mennen is mildest, safest, keeps baby’s skin smoothest. Special ingredient soothes itching, smarting. Use the best for your baby—Mennen Antiseptic Oil.

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If you touch it, Pll spank the baby’s hands.” Elaine stared at her mother for several seconds while she weighed the chances of the threat being carried out. In the past she had discovered that when Mommy said she was going to spank, zowie! she did just that.. Just enough to make a chubby hand sting, you understand, but quite sufficient to joggle an infant’s dig- nity. Elaine glanced quickly from her moth- er’s serious face to the pigeon. Such a lovely pigeon, shining and smooth and tabu. Elaine grabbed it and jerked it onto the carpet. The guardian angel of pigeons and small girl’s fingers must have been on the job because the glass didn’t break. Mommy arose to her full five feet one and advanced upon the culprit. “I said that ’d spank you if you touched that— remember?” she remarked. Then, delib- erately and with a measured pressure, she spanked Miss Elaine’s hands. The little lady yowled with rage. “Rag- gedy Ann is yours,” said Mommy Veron- ica, setting the doll beside Elaine. “T want my pillow,” said Elaine between sobs. So Veronica got the pillow and handed it to her daughter. This pillow has a history. It was one of the first things Veronica made during Elaine’s pre-stork days, and it matched the blue bassinet. As Elaine emerged from babyhood, the one possession to which she clung on_ every possible occasion was her pillow. To this day, when she is tucked in at night, she cuddles this pillow. There may be a pan- da, a teddy bear or a doll in her trundle bed, but the roll call isn’t complete until she has her pillow. The pillow naturally represented Veron- ica’s Sunday punch. She decided that, the next time the little lady appropriated something that didn’t belong to her, Mom- my would lay possessive hands on the pillow, thus bringing the problem home in terms the juvenile could understand. However, this wasn’t necessary. Little Miss Detlie got the idea after one positive treatment. Sometimes this portion of her ethical training has funny results. She is the soul of generosity, so when she goes calling on some of the neighborhood children, she al- ways carries along several of her most treasured toys. “This is for you,” she will say with a cherubic smile. “And this is for you, and you, to play with.” But when she is called for, at the end of the visit, she solemnly gathers up her belongings— sometimes over the protest of recipients who don’t understand the Detlie logic— and takes them home. The acid test of a little girl’s viewpoint on possessions is applied by Veronica’s collection of dolls. Not yet have glass cases been made to house the 50 different representatives of doll craft that Veronica started to assemble when Elaine was born. Eventually the collection will belong to The Fair, The Lovable when she has reached an age of appreciation. Among the dolls is an Indian with a crumpled face made from a prehistoric McIntosh or maybe a Delicious apple. There are a number of stocking-faced dolls typical of different peasant types. At present, in a shop in New Orleans which specializes in such manufacturing, a complete set of presidential dolls and their wives is being constructed. Once that array from Washington, George—complete with powdered wig—to Roosevelt, Franklin Delano—complete with cigarette holder—is completed, Veron- ica wants to start a collection of European historical dolls. Another collection currently fascinating to Veronica, which will be passed on eventually to Elaine, is a gold charm bracelet. So far it consists of a gold jeep, a perfect miniature reproduction of the Air Corps’ B-19 (complete with insignia), a hula dancer wearing a fine gold chain skirt, a hurdy-gurdy man with a tiny monkey at the end of an equally delicate chain, a St. Christopher medal, a four-leaf clover, a wishbone, a pirate’s chest, a champagne bucket, an ice-cream freezer, a cross and heart-shaped locket that be- longed to Veronica as a child, a book that opens into a locket, a covered wagon and an 8-ball. Elaine’s favorite—there’s no accounting for a sub-deb’s taste—is the 8-ball. Veronica trusts that this is no forecast of the young lady’s future. Incidentally, Elaine now wears her first article of jewelry, a slim gold band in which is set a tiny chip diamond. She had admired Veronica’s jewelry for so long that Veronica decided to test her daugh- ter’s ability to take care of fine things. The ring was not expensive in view of the danger of its being lost. However, that danger now seems remote. Elaine treats the ring in the manner of a trainer caring for the favorite on Derby Eve. When Veronica is going out in the eve- ning, Elaine is allowed to remain up long enough to watch the preparation. She is feminine incarnate in her love of pretty clothes. She tries on her mother’s gloves, her shoes and her tiny hats. Her eyes are moons of wonder as she observes the dress Veronica is wearing. “Mommy’s dress sooooo pretty,’ she breathes. ‘“Mommy’s hair sooooo pretty. Mommy so pretty.” pint-sized pretties . .. Elaine is now getting large enough to wear half of the mother-daughter clothing sets that have become so popular. Cur- rently the two lovelies each own a brown tweed suit with matching topcoat and a white wool suit with a series of bright blouses. When Elaine first tried on her suit, she gazed at her mother in rapt admiration. “Mommy’s pretty suit,’ she said-in her accustomed refrain. Then she marched to the full length mirror and scanned her diminutive self. She turned ‘round and ’round. Then she nodded. “Me pretty, too,” she announced with critical satisfac- tion. Their slack suits are currently identical, and those who have seen half-pint Veron- ica, and gill-sized Elaine strolling along hand in hand, wearing their sport togs, recommend the sight. One Sunday they were driving the short distance from Grandmother Keane’s to the house which Veronica and Elaine share with Carol Ann and Rita Beery, when Elaine spied a pony driving ring and de- manded a ride. As she was too small to be trusted on the pony alone, Veronica climbed into the saddle and held her daughter on her-lap. Around and around they went, the fat pony loping along be- neath two laughing riders. After the ride, Veronica passed a small knot of observers. One high school kid said to the other loitering nearby, “You’re right—she’s just a kid. I thought at first T’d seen her around school or somewhere. Gosh, her little sister sure looks like her, doesn’t she?” Of her mother’s considerable status as a celebrity, Elaine is completely oblivious. Veronica has always kept movie maga- zines around the house in profusion, and Elaine goes through them with the same enthusiasm with which she attacks her comic books. “Picture of Mommy,’ she

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croons to herself. “’Nother picture of y lommy. ommy.” JE repeat performance .. . ‘Cc ° She has been a frequent and very wel- _ come studio visitor, and she has never yet spoiled a take by pouring a treble ad lib into a horrified microphone. “When the bell rings, you must be very quiet. You mustn't cough, nor chuckle nor speak a word,” Veronica had warned her. “Okay, Mommy,” said Elaine. Several evenings later, Veronica overheard the small trouper going over the instructions to her dolls. Silence having been achieved among the ranks of Raggedy Anns and pandas, Miss Elaine went through a brisk drama of her own authorship. She is a great mimic, and she wants no interference. One night Veronica was waltzing around the house singing one of Elaine’s specials: “Shoo-Shoo Baby . . .” Elaine listened as long as she could, then took a fistful of her mother’s skirts and jerked. “You not sing, Mommy,” she ordered. “Baby sing.” Aside from “Shoo-Shoo, Baby,” Elaine’s repertoire contains a song called “Piston- Packin’ Mama.” (Mr. Linotyper, please don’t change that word. Elaine doesn’t ' say “pistol.” She insists that it’s “piston.’’) The radio is one of her great sources of amusement. She can turn it on and tune it in to the program of her choice, which is always jive. As soon as the program changes, she finds another swing session. -She has never been really ill. But, having observed -the signs of illness in others, she occasionally turns the knowl- edge to good advantage. Veronica asked _ the young lady to pick up her toys and put them away one evening, whereupon Elaine looked as piteous as possible and explained in a funereal voice, “No, Mommy, can’t. Baby got tummy ache.” (Groan.) “Baby got headache.” (Groan.) ; And in other ways she is exhibiting the arch beginning of feminine wiles. When _ Veronica came in from the studio one afternoon, Elaine met her with a rush of affection. The Mommy-pretty routine was gone over thoroughly. The Mommy-so- feet (which is Elaine’s version of sweet) _ routine also got a workout. Then, after the briefest pause appropriate, The Diplo- mat added, “Mommy give Elaine candy?” - Her spurts of affection have to be al- lowed to arise without encouragement from Veronica, and in this respect she is her mother’s own daughter. Veronica told Rita Beery one day, “I understand Elaine because she is exactly as I was. In hun- dreds of small ways she shows it.” Ki _ If Elaine feels affectionate, she will caress her mother with great concentra- Bon: for a oy ones then elk away bh CH ER AMY e f without a backward glance to become en- grossed in something else. If Veronica rai y a ’ f I u mer ' tries to instigate an emotional passage with her daughter, if she catches the baby at _ play and swoops her up, Elaine’s expres- sion is one of passive forbearance. She doesn’t like it, but she tries to be polite _ about the interruption. Unlike some children, Elaine has never been afraid of animals. She will make _ friends with the mangiest cur or the most _moth-eaten cat alive; placing two dimpled _hands on her knees, she will bend over to _ dog’s-eye level and carry on an involved ‘conversation in that language held secret _ between small children and friendly ani- ‘mals. So specific has her observation been ‘that she became the life of one of her embarrassed mother’s parties. _ Elaine, dressed in organdy, ribbons and ruffles, had been allowed to make an ap- ance and conducted herself with great Relaxing, Veronica turned to the i she had been talking, was making up to x <7 A fresh, young fragratice that will Wt your spirits... and tis... tight op 70 the stratosphere! 71 head- Stig, heatr- wining pejuime hare aMuriag as mOCNiGh?... joa . 70 wear, aad lasting Yoo. Perfume, 6.50—3.50—debutante size, 1.10. Dusting powder, 1.00. Other Frolic fascinators— aoa Toilet water, 1.75. Talcum powder, 50,

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Occasionally she stopped at a chair and sniffed the leg in innocent mimicry of canine behavior. “Me a doggy!” bogie sweeper... Of one thing she was, for a long period, violently afraid. Veronica thinks that someone in the household in Seattle must have run a vacuum sweeper at Elaine when she was a crawling infant. At any rate, she used to seream and tremble every time the machine was turned on. Veronica thought it over, then perfected a stratagem. She brought the sweeper into her bedroom and left it there, instead of storing it in the closet. Occasionally, after Elaine stopped shying away from it, Veronica took her for rides around the house, with= out turning on the power. Then came the day when the power button was pushed, and the vacuum bag shwooshed out as the brushes began to worry the carpet. Elaine must have felt much as Dr. Jekyll’s wife did upon her first sight of Mr. Hyde. Here was a dear and familiar thing turned into a vivid monster. She opened her small mouth and uttered a large bellow, so Veronica pushed the switch to turn off the power. Then she showed Elaine how to control the panting beast. That did it. Elaine laughed. But she still doesn’t like it. Veronica’s small daughter has been a great influence upon Veronica’s choice of friends. Elaine is usually an excellent con- versationalist, replete with anecdotes about birdies, horsies and other fascinating fau- na. This evening, Veronica’s tilted ear could catch no glib soprano despite the bass attempts to chat. As she entered the room, Veronica was astonished to see her daughter rise from the floor where she had been studying a book, glower at the visitor and say, “Men!” closing the epithet with the emphatic hissing sound of a small, very disgusted cat. Veronica hasn’t been out with the man since. On the other hand, one chap whom Veronica has known for a long time is looked upon as Elaine’s prized vossession. 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_ in “Blackouts”—watching the tryouts. Don (Continued from page 43) sarge. The kid stuck out his arm, failed to find a shoulder to stop it and fell right over on his face! “Wake up, soldier,” snapped the ser- geant. “This ain’t Dreamland. This is the Army!” Well, to be fair, it was kind of tough for Donald O’Connor to get himself strictly on the beam that Monday morning, his very first as a soldier for Uncle Sam. Small Fry had had himself a man-sized week-end—yes indeed! Even a sharp show business kid who has done and seen about everything in his 18 years and knows all the answers, like Don, had to admit that for three dizzy days life had slapped him on a merry-go-round—a very pleasant one, sure enough—but guaranteed to make anybody stumble and stutter. Because, look what had happened: — In three short days Don O’Connor had: One, finished up “The Merry Monahans,” his last jumpin’, jivin’ Universal picture for the duration. Two, he’d knocked off a knockout farewell broadcast with Bing Crosby. Three, he’d signed a brand new studio contract guaranteeing him full salary every week he’s in the Army. Four, he’d married the most wonderful girl in the whole world. Five, he’d joined the Army of the United States; and six, he’d finally passed his exams for what he wanted to be more than anything else in the book—A U.S. Air Corps flying cadet. No -wonder Don got his time signals all mixed and had to wait in the dawn’s early light for the California-Mexico border to open so he could get married in Tia Juana. No wonder he found himself on his honey- moon without a pair of pajamas to his name, and had to use a pair of his bride’s fancy chiffon numbers. No wonder—well, leave us face it—Small Fry—with love and the rush of events, was all mixed up like a chef’s salad. And to avoid that chaotic condition ourselves, let’s start at the be- ginning of what’s the most thrilling event in Donald O’Connor’s already thrill-packed young life (or at least a toss-up with be- coming a flyer-cadet)—his marriage to pretty little Gwen Carter. Don’s heart went into a tailspin the mo- ment he laid eyes on Gwen, and it has stayed that way, flopping around help- lessly for over a year now. If you could see Gwen, you’d understand why. She’s a little dream dish, sweet 17, with skin like the cream you used to get, eyes. black as jet beads, real golden red hair and a young Venus figure that Don swoons is “out of this world.” It really comes as close to a young edition of a Petty girl drawing as anything I can think of. She has a low, musical voice, a wonderful smile, and—well—one look and _ listen would melt a banker’s heart. hollywood at vine... That was about a year ago and Cupid picked—of all places—the El Capitan theater on Vine Street, right above Holly- wood Boulevard, to draw a bead with his bow and arrow. It was at a tryout for some new acts in Ken Murray’s “Black- outs” that Don first saw Gwen and started breathing irregularly. He was there to help with the audition of an old vaudeville pal of his family’s, and Gwen’s stepfather, Carleton Kelsey, led the band in the pit. Gwen herself was sitting with a girl friend of hers, Joyce Elaine—who did a specialty ZR friend, Joyce Elaine, so he ‘Connor was strictly 7 lamorous Joan Blondel! d S Hollywoo Famou Screen Stat says: * Luse Arrid! % be with- nderful a mo- ple “You be I wouldn out its wo tection for _ Some pee nk it isn’t pro ment may th Ze tj) NEW...a CREAM DEODORANT which Safely helps STOP wunder-arm PE RSPIRATION mle rR 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. 5. Arrid has been awarded the Approval Seal of the American Institute of Laundering for being harmless to fabric. Use Arrid regularly. 39¢ a jar (Also in 10¢ and 59¢ jars) At any store which sells toilet goods E aT OR | REFUND z Ss D> S Gaara by ® \ Good Housekeeping orf DEFECTIVE OR a ARRID t 7S THE LARGEST SELLING DEODORANT | ee ee

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Instead he croaked to his friend, Joyce Elaine, “Get me her phone number!” Joyce shook her head. “I couldn’t do that without asking Gwen.” “Then,” gasped Don, “give her MY phone number. Tell her to call me.” “She wouldn’t do that. You don’t know Gwen.” Don didn’t know Gwen, not at all. He had always been independent himself with girls, but he forgot that girls can be in- dependent with boys, too. Gwen had plenty of beaux at Los Angeles High where she went to school. Her best boy friend at the time was Tommy Breen, son of the Hays office boss, Joe Breen. When Don finally traced down Gwen’s phone number that afternoon and called that night for a date, Gwen wasn’t impressed. “Yes, I remember you,’ said Gwen sweetly. “No, I’m sorry I have a date tonight.” That was a fib. Gwen didn’t have a date because her mother didn’t let her have dates except on Saturdays and Sundays. But she knew about Don O’Con- nor, and her private opinion was that he was a stuck-up young movie star. Don called the next night and the next and the next. Every time, Gwen said sweetly, “I’m sorry, but I’m busy.” By then Don was fit to be roped-and tied and tossed in a padded cell. And only when he got a little humble and desperate did Gwen give in. two strikes... They went out to dinner on their first date, a Saturday night. Don arrived slicked and combed and dressed in his Sunday best, and he brought along a soldier friend of his for moral support. They drove down to Chinatown and half way down—boom —it happened. A tire went flat as a Brown Derby pancake. The soldier pal offered to change it, but that would show up Don as a sissy so he wrestled with the tire himself and ended up looking like a garage mechanic in the rush hour. When they finally ate dinner, everybody was starved, and Don’s coat was ripped, his shirt streaked with grease, and all in all he was a mess. It was a very bad start. He drove home with an empty feeling that he’d fumbled the ball. Instead of impress- ing the lady with his grandeur as a movie star, he’d ended up looking and acting like a greaseball. But at home Gwen chuckled as she told her mother about the big eve- ning. “He’s cute,” she said. But girls are funny—as everyone knows —and maybe that’s why Gwen and Don hit it off from the start. Don never got a chance to be a movie star with Gwen. Something always seemed to go wrong. Take the time he planned a big ski trip to the mountains. Don had been working day and night for months, but finally they told him a two-day breather was coming up. He planned to take Gwen on a trip to Lake Arrowhead for snow sports. Well, there had to be a chaperone. First, it was Brownie, Don’s stand-in, and his wife. But then Brownie’s wife got sick. Then Jack, Don’s brother, and his wife Millie said they’d chaperone the kids. But at the last minute Jack had to work in a picture. Don was frantic. Finally Don’s mother, Mrs. O’Connor, volunteered and off they went. But the minute Don and Gwen and Mrs. O’Connor arrived at Arrowhead, Don’s car broke down. He to spen ay § working it so they could co: < Si no skiis, no nothin’—and ne bi event was fritzed. Rhy oe What Don didn’t realize until he kn ie Gwen better was that she didn’t give a whoop about glamour or movie stars or the high life. All that counted with Gwen was what people were like. She’s a sen- sible young lady. Gwen was born in Miami, Florida, and she’s been educated in private schools in New York, Chicago, Atlanta and California. When she was ~ nine, she took a trip to Europe. At times in her childhood she has been used to plenty of money, and that sort of thing doesn’t bother her a bit. In fact, in spite of her dreamy looks, Gwen has never had a speck of movie ambition with it all around her in Hollywood. Gwen’s mother, Lillian Kelsey . (who looks like Gwen’s sister), works at Twen- tieth Century-Fox, and when Gwen and Don got a little too serious too early, she thought it might be good medicine to get Gwen a screen test at the studio and take her mind off marriage. The test was fine, and the studio said they'd give Gwen a stock contract. But Gwen just never got around to coming back out to the studio. — glitter for gwen... Don asked Gwen to “go steady” on their fifth date. They were really engaged then, as far as Gwen and Don were concerned, but neither Mrs. O’Connor nor Mrs. Kel- sey were taking them seriously. That didn’t happen until about four months ago when Don put the bite on his mother for $700. “What for?” she asked. “T want to buy an engagement ring,” said Don. That’s the first Mrs. O’Connor knew about how serious her son was about his girl friend. He got the $700 by the way, and Gwen got the ring. But long before that they saw each other with the regularity of formal fiancés and acted that way, too. At first Mrs. Kelsey laid down the law: Saturdays and ~ Sundays were “date nights.” School nights — Gwen had to stay in. She is a senior at Los Angeles High, and the home work in ‘the last year is tough. Gwen has always had excellent health and a strong body (she’s an expert swimmer, horseback rider, and she once won a prize at a diving match ~ in England)—but Mrs. K. wasn’t taking any chances. As for Don—he was tearing himself to pieces on the set almost six days of every week and tearing one of his three hopped-up cars apart with a wrench when he wasn’t making faces. But in spite of that killer-diller schedule, he couldn’t bear to see Gwen only on week- ends. They finally high-pressured Lillian Kelsey into Wednesdays, too. But as for fancy courtin’—that never did enter the picture. For one thing, neither Don nor Gwen smoke or drink. And by the way, that’s one Mother- knows-best advice that paid off for Gwen- — nie! Most of her high-school girl friends puff cigarettes, but when that problem came up on Gwen’s 12th birthday, Mrs. Kelsey asked her to leave them alone. — “How do you know?” she argued shrewdly. “Maybe the boy you fall in love with won't want you to smoke. There are boys like that, you know.” Funny part is, Don O’Connor was one just like that. He hates to see a girl smoke or drink! But with no vices like that, Don and Gwen were a cinch to stay away from the hot stuff hangouts and juke-heavens. Oddly enough, too, Don O’Connor never wanted to go dancing. Gwen’s a good dancer, but Don, after jitterbugging around on the set all day, was just too tired to ‘swing it for fun when it wasn’t fun. So their dates, by most standards, were tame affairs—only they weren’t tame to Don

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and Gwen. They took in movies and went to parties with Gwen’s high-school set and Don’s movie set. They ate in drive-ins and cooed over cokes at drug stores and malt shops. They made the beach fun- piers and tried nut some of Don’s hopped- up jalopy triumphs. lovers’ knot... Naturally the course of true love never runs smooth, as the poet gent said. Don and Gwen had a few spats. Mrs. Kelsey could always tell when she came in on them in the front room of her apartment. If everything was rosy-dosy, Don would be slumped on the floor looking up at Gwen with a mesmerized, idolatrous stare. If they’d quarrelled, they’d be sitting on opposite sides of the sofa, quiet and miserable looking. There were romantic tragedies, too. For instance, the time that Gwen rashly stated that she could cook. That harked back to once when Gwen was a little girl and her mother let her “bake a cake.” The cake was pretty awful unless you planned to use it for a cornerstone, but the family bravely ate it up. They said it was swell. Re- membering this, in a soft, domestic mood Gwen told Don she’d bake him a cake. And she did. The result was exactly the same. Mrs. O’Connor, Junior, has a lot to learn about cooking and sewing and such, and when Don arrived he had to tell the same kind of flattering fibs while he bravely tried to swallow Gwen’s brick. “Gwen,” Don finally cracked, “Can I take the rest of this swell cake home? I want to show it to Mother.” “You don’t want the whole cake, do you?” asked Gwen suspiciously. “Why not just take a piece?” “No!” protested Don wildly, “the whole cake!” BIG WINNERS IN MODERN SCREEN’S *“S‘HIGHER AND HIGHER” CONTEST First Prize—Miss Mary C. Fiore, Lackawanna, N. Y. Second Prize—Mrs. Eva K. Welch, Easton, Pa. So he took it and then made a hurried exit, and after he was out the door, Gwen burst into tears. She told her mother that she knew Don wanted the whole cake be- cause he wanted to destroy it! Don and Gwen wanted to get married long before they did—in fact, ever since they decided to “go steady.” But they had both their families working against any- thing as hasty as that. Really, neither Mrs. O’Connor nor Mrs. Kelsey had much of a position to stand on in that respect. Don’s mother had got married when she was 14, and Gwen’s only a little later in life. People think she’s Gwen’s sister today, and they wear each other’s clothes. Mrs. Kelsey stalled Don and Gwen along with promises of “in a few months,” and both she and Mrs. O’Connor knew they were safe from an elopement, be- cause at the tender ages of Don and Gwen, their parents’ consent is what counts. But there were signs that things were get- ting serious, and both mothers knew darned well if it came to a showdown, they’d never have the heart to spoil their kids’ happiness. First Gwen started col- lecting herself a trousseau in a small way, and at Christmas Don helped out with a won er:ul lush fur coat. Then, only a few days before they ran away, he drove ' up with a Ford car for Gwen. Everybody knew anything could happen soon. But they didn’t know everything would hap- pen all at once. Then Don got his induction orders. He finished his picture, and the studio came through with a surprise. They told him they were going to write a contract that paid him his regular salary of $350 a week all the time he was under contract to Uncle Sam. It was only fair. After all, Donald O’Connor has made Universal millions of bucks and worked his head off turning out pictures to beat the band. He went into the Army with a backlog of four unreleased hits. But the only way Uni- versal could reward him heretofore was with bonuses. The government, you know, said studios couldn’t raise salaries of movie stars. Anyway, Don found him- self down at Superior Court one day hear- ing Judge Emmett Wilson tell him it was all very legal for him to cash a $350 check every week from now on until the war is over—whether he worked or not. small fry... Before he went to court, Don had re- hearsed with Bing Crosby for the Kraft Music Hall, and after court he went on to do the “Small Fry” number with Bing— which was where Don came in. Because that was the number in “Sing You Sin- ners” that first made Don O’Connor a Hollywood star—away back when he was in knee pants. in all, events were tying themselves up neatly. It was Saturday evening when Don tried to act nonchalant as he told his mother, “I think Ill get married.” He’d said it before, but this time Mrs. O’Con- MEDICAL AUTHORITIES — AVOW PHILIP MORRIS — - Proved less irritating to ‘the smoker's nose and throat! WHEN SMOKERS CHANGED TO PHILIP MORRIS, _ EVERY CASE OF IRRITATION OF NOSE OR THROAT _ — DUE TO SMOKING — EITHER CLEARED UP COM- PLETELY, OR DEFINITELY IMPROVED! Facts reported in medical journals on clinicol tests made by distinguished doctors.

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She wondered what he would be needing money for. Then she knew. And now she said: : “You know I’ve devoted my life to your happiness. If marrying Gwen will make you happy, then I’m for it. But my advice as a mother is to wait until you're 21. You have lots of time—and remember you're going away to war.” k Don didn’t say anything. He went over to Gwen’s house. There Don blurted right out, “Mrs. Kelsey, Gwen and I are going to get married—see?” Gwen’s mother tossed his words right back at him. “Qh, so youre going to get married —see?” Don blushed and said, “I mean, with your permission, of course.” Well, what could she do? Fate, circumstances and war and the Army and all of it were stronger arguments than any that either cautious mama could put up. “We're going to keep it a secret,’ added Don. “Oh, no you aren't,” replied Mrs. Kelsey. “You can get married, but none of this secret stuff. That’s not fair to Gwen.” Don went on to explain to Mrs. Kelsey what she already understood—that the reason they wanted to marry in such a hurry was that he was going into the Army and he wanted Gwen to stay true to him. He felt, he said, he couldn’t ask this unless they were married. He made a pretty good talk about it, and it made sense. They left the house with Gwen’s mother’s blessings, although by that time it was one o'clock Sunday morning— cold and windy. The last maternal act Mrs. Kelsey took care of was to see that Gwen was bundled up good and warm with a new gray slack suit under her new coat Don had given her. With Alan Kirk, an actor chum of Don’s, for best man, they headed South. It wasn’t a very exciting elopement, since nobody was chasing anybody. But at that Don and Gwen felt their hearts flop when they arrived at the border station between San Diego and Tia Juana. The gates were locked. The guard said, “The border’s closed.” All their plans seemed to fade into the black night. Then the guard explained, “It’s only four o'clock. You can’t cross until six.” “Is that all? Why didn’t you say so?” yelled Don. “Gosh—waiting’s a pleasure!” So they crossed at six o'clock on the dot and found a Mexican justice of the peace who spoke English and proved that a Mexican marriage was all on the up and up with all kinds of official seals and letters and government decrees. They left Mexico at 8 that morning, - after a wedding breakfast at a lunch stand, and drove back home. At Del Mar, Don’s luck caught up with him. His car broke down. .He called his mother. But he didn’t say what went on, only that he would be home soon. Mrs. O’Connor never knew Don was married until he walked in the house where a bunch of neighbors were visiting. But she had her suspicions. When Gwen walked in, she reached over at the coffee table. “Oh,” she said, “let me see this book.” And there flashing all over the room on her outstretched finger was that wedding ring. the groom wore pink... those Universal sound stages. geles), an he got ready for bed didn’t have any pajamas! ; morning, Mrs. Kelsey saw an apparitio tip-toe out of the bedroom. It was Don in ~ Gwen’s nicest pink chiffon pajamas, pee>- — ing out from under Gwen’s very best silk housecoat. He looked like a cross between a harem beauty and a misplaced mandarin. “I’m after some water,’ croaked Don. “My wife’s thirsty!” — see And then, after he’d run home to tell his mother good-by before he left for Fort MacArthur, Don came by his bride’s house again. She was asleep. So he left her a note, telling her he was leaving. The very first day, the Army took him off to Camp Haan for a big Army camp show that very night. On the way, com- ing through Los Angeles, Don again dropped by his bride’s. He was lonesome already and wanted her to come along. “I can’t,” wailed Mrs. O’Connor. ' “Why not?” pressed Mr. O’Connor. ‘T’ve got to go to school!” wailed Gwen. Gwen will finish up high school this spring. She’s going to stay with her folks until graduation. no time for comedy ... As for Donald O’Connor, he won’t be worrying much about his schedule from now on. The Army will take care of that. Don didn’t get off to a very auspicious military start, Pl admit. First of all, he missed the bus at the Los Angeles in- terurban station the night after he got married and had to drive down to Fort MacArthur—and you know what his bliss- ful coma did to him then—headed him up the coast toward San Francisco instead! But in spite of that and his awful drill errors and the sulfanilamide tablets he chewed all day and the serum shots they poured into him and his struggles with making a bed—in spite of all these early Army tragedies that beset every rookie— still Don managed to take and pass the Air Corps cadet exam that he’d flunked weeks before when he was trying to get in. — : What Don flunked before, of all things, was “current events.” Which is under- standable, the way they’ve had him salted away from the great outside world on But he caught up on his newspaper reading after that and went to town. Now he'll be a fighter pilot (he hopes). 2 So when he’ll ever get to see his sweet, blushing bride and ever-loving wife, Gwen, the Lord only knows—that is for more than a quick “hello” and a “good-by.” When he got back home after his wed- ding, his older brother Jack, who is Patsy O’Connor’s dad, started kidding him. _ “Well, Don,” he said, “I guess now that you’re a married man, you'll start rais- ing a family—eh?” Don came right back. “Sure,” he said. “Isn’t that what you get married for?” : That handed all the O’Connors a laugh— and they really like to laugh, even wen their baby brother, the last one, too, gets married and goes off to war. It made ~ Don’s mother remember a jingle her hus-_ band, big Irish John O’Connor, used to hum when he felt all right with the world. “Faith and begorra—when I’m dead ~ and gone, There’ll be another O’Connor a-trottin’ along!” = Well, and why not? Eprror’s Note: Don O’Connor’s marriage | and Army induction caught us and almost | tly staring the wrens) way. | Ee t 4]

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q IT HAPPENED TOMORROW” {Continued from page 45) through the room, stacking files. “Pop,” Larry said. “Drink to the new reporter. Larry Stevens is back from the dead. No more obits for me, Pop. No more dead news—” “Dead news?” Pop said. “What’s dead news? Here’s my file for 1845. For us its dead news. But for the people who lived in 1844, it was the future. All news is like that. It’s all there, stacked up wait- ing. Do you want next year’s file, Larry?” “Always kidding, eh, Pop? Next year’s? Till settle for tomorrow’s paper, Pop. Twenty-four hours, what do you say?” “I say,’ someone remarked, “that we’re running out of beer. Let’s get some more.” The street stretched like a dim lit ribbon into the night, and they linked arms, singing down the street. The stores lay dark and shuttered; the gas lights flickered fitfully. Down the street, near the corner, lights blazed on a gaudy hand- painted sign: EDEN GARDENS. And, under it, even more gaudy, a poster dan- gled against the wall: NOW—PROF. CIG- OLINI AND SYLVIA—NOW! THE FU- TURE REVEALED! THE PROFESSOR KNOWS ALL, SEES ALL, TELLS ALL! The Professor was in the midst of his spiel when they entered. He was on the stage jabbering in the queer gibberish of the fortune tellers, while his assistant, Sylvia, stood immobile in a_ supposed trance, responding to his directions, an- swering his questions in a queer, dream- like voice. She was dressed in a soft, white, flowing gown, and the light seemed to melt over her. Larry stared at her. _ And, still staring, he stumbled between her outstretched arms. He blushed vio- lently. “I beg your pardon,” he said. From the stage, Cigolini said pomp- ously: “Miss Sylvia accepts the apology. Of course, she is not even aware of your presence. Everything but my will does not exist for her at this moment.” lady in a trance... Still staring at her, Larry said: “Then ask her—” “About an affair of the heart?” Cigolini said slyly. “About a young lady?” “Yes,” Larry said slowly: “Whether a lady will lunch with me tomorrow?” “Sylvia!” said Cigolini. “Answer!” “Yes,” said the girl. “Yes, she will .. .” “Will she meet me at ‘The Evening News’ office?” ewe -s.she will...” “And what time?” “Ah!” cried Cigolini, “that is for the _ young man to decide with the young girl.” PPPS) , “Td like tc,” Larry said. “Only I can’t. The girl I’m inviting to lunch, you see, is in a trance just now!” ’ The cabaret exploded into laughter. Cigolini came roaring down from the stage to lead Sylvia off. But, standing close to her, so close that his lips almost brushed the curve of her cheek, he saw | her mouth curl into a faint smile, and her | head nodded slightly, and he called after br t her: “My name is Stevens. Lawrence Stevens. Ask for Larry!” <= Keep your date, with poise! Meet him, proud that you look utterly lovable... from the sparkle in your eyes to the unspoken invitation on your lips. vx Confident, too, that your lips will keep looking lovely—with no time out for frequent retouching. For, used as directed, Don Juan—the million dollar lipstick—stays on DON JAN Lipstt BEAUTY QUIZ: Quiz yourself —does the lipstick you're using give you ail these four beauty extras? Try the lipstick that does—try the new Don Juan Lipstick .. now. Don Juan MILLION DOLLAR Lipstick STAYS ON! hours longer. ¥% Today, discover Don Juan’s four beauty extras (they’re listed below). 1 DON JUAN LIPSTICK STAYS ON when you- eat, drink or kiss .. if used as directed. 2 LIPS LOOK LOVELY without frequent re- touching. No greasy, “hard” appearance. ' 3 NOT DRYING or SMEARY. No ragged lips. Creamy smooth, easily applied —imparts appealing, soft “glamor” look. 4 STYLE SHADES. Try new Military Red— a rich, glowing red, acclaimed by beauty editors. Or Hostess Red—smart with furs and for evening. Five other alluring shades. Over 7,000,000 sold. De luxe size $1. Refills 60c. Junior size 25c. Matching powder and rouge. Prices plus tax. At department stores, drug- gists, beauty parlors. Trial sizes at 10c stores.

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It was his name, the neat by-line on the front page: “By Lawrence Stevens.” He hadn’t written anything for the front page yesterday! What was this? Sleepily he opened the paper. It looked somehow strange, differ- ent: It wasn’t last night’s “Evening News” at all. His eye caught the headline over his name: “Bandits Steal Cash at Opera House While Melba Sings.” A chill ran down his spine as the idea formed hazily in his mind. This was today’s paper! This was about news that was going to happen! shadow of events... For a moment he couldn’t think. His story! And he hadn’t even written it yet! Why, Melba’s concert wasn’t even on yet! He didn’t know why or how, but somehow, somehow what he was holding in his hand was tomorrow’s newspaper, with tomorrow’s news today. In a frenzy, he climbed into his clothes and rushed down to “The Evening News” office. Out- side, he remembered a line from the paper: “Today at eight-thirty in the morning, the city suffered an unseasonal snowstorm.” He looked up to the sky. It was beginning to snow! At the offices of “The Evening News,” Gordon, the editor, saw him come dash- ing in. Gordon stepped to the front of his office and roared: “Stevens!” He came over breathlessly: “Have you seen Pop?” he said. “Anywhere?” Gordon said icily: “Stevens, you're late. I hate reporters who are late.” “Sure,” Larry said. “Where’s Pop?” Gordon’s voice was frigid: “Stevens, are you drunk?” “Drunk? Of course not. You'll see. Wait until I do my front page story on the Melba concert.” Gordon roared: “You’re not going to the Melba concert. You're fired!” “Wired?” Larry said. “I quit. Besides, youll give me a raise. You'll see—” The door slammed shut in his face. Quickly he went to his desk. He slipped the paper out of his pocket. Working hur- riedly, he began to copy the story, writing it out swiftly. He was still bent over his work when Sylvia came in. “Mr. Stevens?” He turned then and saw her, and for a moment he forgot about the story. She was beautiful, even more beautiful than he had remembered. He glanced up at the big clock. Melba’s concert. He took her arm and hurried her out. “Listen to me: At the concert this afternoon, some- thing is going to happen—” “How do you know?” “T know,” he said. She smiled: “Do you read the future, too?” He looked across at her: “I can read one part of it. I’m going to see more of you.” At two o'clock Melba began to sing. One minute later Larry edged out into the lobby. At two minutes after two, three armed men ran in. They worked swiftly. A cop wandered in. A shot rang out. The three men began to run toward the exit. Larry grabbed Sylvia’s arm and was out of the lobby almost with them. At two fifteen, he gave Gordon the story, all written, all ready for the press. At two seventeen, the police came roaring into “The Evening News” offices. They had a few questions for Larry Stevens. ' How did he know a robbery was going men? Wher were they now? What nis cut ho was the brains of the ou F : “What are you talking abou = Inspector Mulrooney, his face like a bulldog’s, grunted: “Who you trying to | fool, sonny? You're in this up to your neck. How did you know about that robbery unless you were a part of it?” “TI just knew, I tell you.” > “Well, just tell us how.” — “I can’t. You wouldn’t believe it.” “That’s a bright answer, sonny. You bet I wouldn’t. Because there’s only one answer. You set that job up yourself.” brig-time . . . Three policemen closed in on Larry. Sylvia said suddenly: “Wait a minute. I told him. I saw it. I’m clairvoyant some- times. Working with Professor Cigolini—” Inspector Mulrooney wavered: “You told him?” “Yes,” Sylvia said quickly. ; “Don’t believe her,” Larry shouted. “She didn’t have anything to do with it.” The inspector shook his head. “We'll take you both down,” he said. Larry looked out of the narrow cell win- dow into the night. “Larry . Larrys It was old Pop Benson. He smiled gently at Larry through the barred window. “Well, Larry,” he said. “You wanted the paper. Do you want tomorrow’s, too?” “Sure,” Larry said. “Confessions of a jailbird—” “It?s all about how you were a hero, pulling an unknown woman out of the river. See, it’s all here right next to the story about the arrest of those bandits .. .” “Bandits?” Larry shouted. “Arrest? Where?” “At the Union Bank. It says so here—” | Larry dashed to the door and began to hammer on it frantically. Inspector Mulrooney peeked in. 5 “Well?” he said. : “Will you let me out if I tell you where you can get those bandits?” “Sure,” Mulrooney said. “That’s what T been telling you. This ain’t no gag, is it? I almost believed that gal Sylvia. That girl can see things. She said she saw a woman jumping into the river tonight—” “What?” Larry yelled. “She said that?” He began to run. Mulrooney put out one surprised hand, but he brushed it | aside, and he ran out into the street. He | headed for the river. Sylvia! Crazy kid! Making that prediction. He could add it up. She was going to jump in herself. He heard the sharp cry coming from the bridge while he was still a block away. | There was a knot of people gathered about the center of the railing. He pushed | through. Swiftly he climbed to the railing, swung himself over and off into space. ” talking pidgeon ... . a He hit the water witna<shock and. clawed his way to the surface again. | Something was moving there, a little off to the right. He could make out a woman’s | hair, vaguely familiar. Sylvia! 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on his feet, staring curiously ahead. A shot rang out; it nicked the wood behind Larry’s head. Cigolini yelled: “Get down. They’re shooting.” “Tt’s all right,” Larry said. “This isn’t the St. George Hotel.” Once in the city they almost lost the man as his carriage doubled around cor- ners. The thief suddenly jumped. Larry was after him in a moment, Then it was a nightmare of alleys and doorways. In one, out the other; always that fleeing figure in front of him. Up stairs. Out to a roof. Then across the roofs of the city in a wild dash. Down a fire-escape. Then up to the roof again. The thief disappeared down a skylight. Larry followed, jumping. Locked in each other’s arms, they dropped down a long sloping chute. stalking death... The fall jarred him. The thief was loose again. Larry, dazed, looked around him. A large room. The thief was running to- ward the door, a gun out in his free hand. Larry started for him. A shot. Wild. Larry ducked, still running. He ran full into someone in uniform. He rolled to his knees, completely dazed. He heard more shots, He saw someone in blue go by. The police. At the end of the long lobby there was a clock on the wall. Fascinated, Larry watched the hands drop a notch: 6:25. Then his eyes suddenly riveted on some- thing on the floor beside him: a hat. A doorman’s hat. Embroidered on it in gold thread was ST. GEORGE HOTEL. A shot rang out. Someone said: “That got him.” Then there were voices. Still dazed, Larry heard them: “Search the guy. Find anything? His wallet? Let’s take a look at it...” Larry sat up shaking his head. He felt his body carefully. No. They weren't talking about him. They must have shot the thief. Still the paper said .. . Someone was talking excitedly into the phone. He could hear the man’s voice clearly: “‘Evening News’? Get this. Shot. Six twenty-five. Who? His name was in his wallet. Lawrence Stevens. Right... .” Very slowly Larry Stevens stood up. Because a thief had stolen his wallet and was later shot and because an excited man phoned the story into “The Evening News” without checking on it first, the headline would come out: LARRY STE- VENS ... SHOT TO DEATH ... He began to laugh. He couldn’t stop. And so 50 years passed, and the whole family was downstairs waiting for them to come down to their Golden Anniver- sary, Old Larry and Old Sylvia now. “Why shouldn’t I tell them?” Larry said. “That’s the way it happened.” “But how did those papers get printed .. . before there was anything to print?” “T_ don’t know.” “Why didn’t you ask Pop?” “Because,” Larry said slowly, “Pop was dead. They found him dead in his room. Just an old man, dead of old age. Just an old man who didn’t believe in time . . .” Dick Powell Linda Darnell Jack Oakie Inspector Mulrooney...Edgar Kennedy Pop Benson John Philliber Jake Schomberg Edward Brophy Mr. Gordon George Cleveland Sig Ruman Paul Guilfoyle George Chandler Eddie Acuff An Arnold Pressburger Production Released through United Artists RISE STEVENS Speaking : Soon fo be seen in“’“GOING MY WAY” a Paramount Picture Zan OR A RTUAD a ‘* Guaranteed by — Good Housekeeping FECTIVE OR for ff ETIEON "In Hollywood, a singer needs Sparkle... 'Tra-le-la calls for radiant smiles. "T use CALOX 7 TOO tit Powder A dentist’s dentifrice — Calox was created by a dentist for persons who want utmost brilliance consistent with utmost gentleness. Calox offers you:— 1, Scrupulous cleansing. Your teeth have a notably clean feel after using Calox. 2. Unexcelled efficiency. Calox gently cleans away surface stains, loosens mucin plaque. 3. Especially lustrous polishing. 4, No mouth-puckering, medicine taste. Con- tains no strong ingredients. Even children like the cool, clean flavor. 5. Made by McKesson & Robbins, Bridge- port, Conn.—a laboratory with over 100 ° Cex De ence 1D MaAakiIn#’g nneg CS

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t day. Nobody gave them a lift. dren ‘So they hiked back to Las Vegas, by which time home with its regular meals didn’t look so bad. But Bob had set out for adventure, and adventure he meant to have. > In his shoe was a silver dollar which even the pal of his bosom didn’t know about. “Let’s go in this store and grab a couple of Baby Ruths and run.” “We'll get arrested.” “They wouldn’t arrest a couple of poor little children.” Bob liked that line. Ashen-faced, Adrian grabbed and ran— straight into Bob’s arms. “Whatcha runnin’ for? I got money to pay for a million Baby Ruths.” Drunk with freedom, Bob reached home to find his mother sick over his disappear- ance. He got mad at her for being sick. Thea he got mad at his father. There was a good 20-buck car on the market, and he’d saved 20 bucks, delivering papers. Dad said he was too young for a car. Bob decided this was a kind of disease with parents, butting into their kids’ affairs. He got a job, left home and boarded out. The elder Walker threw up his hands and called on a psychologist friend for help. That guy must have known his business. In no time at all, he had Bob home, bawl- ing his eyes out. But by now the family was walking on eggs. Aunt Tenny was drawn into their counsels and offered to send her maverick nephew to the military school her own boys attended—the San Diego Army and Navy Academy at Carlsbad. At first it " was just a change of battling locale. Bob continued to skin his knuckles and crack his head against a world he’d never made and didn’t like. Meantime, Virginia Atkin- son, who taught dramatics, watched him with an understanding eye. And one day she said: “How would you like to read for a part in a play?” : the saving grace... It was like sulfa drugs to fever, and a bottle to a famished babe. Six months later Bob didn’t know himself. His grades had picked up, the chips were gone from his shoulders, the sun was out, he loved his fellow-man and worshipped Mrs. Atkin- son. The whole thing looked like magic, but was perfectly simple. He’d found in self-expression the freedom his nature craved. He stayed at Carlsbad five years and in interstate dramatic contests won _ best- actor award twice in a row. There was no doubt in his mind about what he wanted to do. But he was diffident, and Mrs. At- kinson was his oracle. He couldn’t ask for the go-sign, he waited for her to give it. She gave it one night when he drove her home from a performance. “You've got to decide if you’re willing to face the heart- break. All I can say is, I think you’re good enough to be an actor.” Bob’s reactions are quiet. “That’s good enough for me,” he said, and you couldn’t have told that his heart was doing hand- springs up in the sky. The Pasadena Playhouse offered him a scholarship. Aunt Tenny offered him a two-year course at the American Academy in New York. He’d have liked to take both, but when you’re 18 and New York beckons, you don’t give her the air—not if you're in your right mind, you don’t. There was a girl in Tulsa named Jenni- fer Jones who wanted to be an actress. Her folks happened to send her to the Academy that same year. She and Bob met, attended classes together, fell in love, finished their first year and went hunting for summer jobs. Jennifer found one with a tent show in the Midwest. Bob was still luckier. He tried out for and copped the part of a skinny boy in a Broadway play. Jennifer was sick over missing the open- ing. They said good-by reluctantly and made a date for the fall. Three days later the Broadway producer said, “I’m sorry, Bob. We're changing this skinny boy to a fat boy.” Something happened then that hadn’t happened since Bob was 13. He got sore at the world, marched out of the theater, down 44th to the Hudson. Nuts to the stage! He’d get on a steamer and go around the world. The steamer happened to be a United Fruit liner that didn’t go round the world, just hauled bananas back and forth from Central America. By summer’s end he’d sweated the peeve out of his system. Magnanimous, that was Bob. Ready to forgive. American Academy, here I come! He’d reckoned without Aunt Tenny, whose word was her bond and who ex- pected the same of others. By her stand- ards, Bob had walked out on their deal, quit under his first blow. That made the deal invalid. He was on his own. He had no squawk, thought she was per- fectly right. American Academy, here I don’t come. Jennifer decided not to go either. Practical experience, that was bet- ter than any old school. They got Paul Gilmore to let them put on “Springtime for Henry” down at the Provincetown. Boy, was that fun! Money? Don’t be silly. Who makes money at the Provincetown? Besides, they didn’t need any. Jennifer ate on what the family sent her. Bob lived at a Yonkers co-op and slung hash for his room and some of his meals. His good brother Walter, practicing law in New York, gave him ten bucks a week. ; Then came the wire. Tulsa was opening a new radio station. Would Jennifer come a mn $ |= | i@ y | e , | Pa aS ADVERTISEMENT “. .. Eagles on the shoulders. Pepsi-Cola on the table— officer and a entleman if I ever seen one.” _

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They were young and in love and all their beautiful life lay ahead. Daytimes Bob looked for work. Jennifer couldn’t, be- cause a baby was on the way. At night he synopsized movie scripts at six dollars a script. Jennifer helped. One unforgettable day came an emer- gency call from a radio agent. Bob tore up and tore back with a check for 21 dollars. Five words he'd said. They figured it out on the back of an envelope. Four dollars and twenty cents a word— “One word for a hat,” said Bob. “We're going to buy you the best hat in New York for four dollars and twenty cents.” They took the bus uptown. The hat was blue with white ribbons. It cost four dollars, and the face underneath it made it look like a million. lucky in love... Radio began breaking. The day Bobby was born, his dad got three jobs, and they called him their good luck. By the time Michael came 11 months later, Bob was an established radio actor with five regular programs. 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He got really steamed up when they gave him the script of “Bataan” at the studio next day. That night he read it aloud to Jennifer. Baby, what a part! He almost didn’t get it, too. Played it too old when he tested. But Tay Garnett, the director, called him to the office and watched him as he talked. “You don’t have to test again,” he said at last. “The part’s yours.” “Tay Garnett, that’s my pappy,” says Bob, and the way he says it, you can peslively see the halo round Garnett’s ead. storm in heaven... Everything was happy and exciting then. Everything was perfect. A few years back Hollywood couldn’t see either of them. Now the movie plum of plums lay in Jennifer’s hands. “Bataan,” intro- ducing Bob Walker, was finished and about to be sneaked. Sneak previews are just what their name implies. They’re run for audience reaction. Players are supposed to stay away from their door. But information leaks out. In this case it leaked out to Bob Taylor, who took pity on the other Bob. “Come on, you can go along.” Only the other Bob wanted Miss Jones along, too, so he hid her in the back seat of the car where Taylor found her. “I thought a sneak preview meant you could sneak in,” said Jennier meekly. I don’t have to tell you what the sailor did to that audience. If you saw the pic- ture, he did it to you, too. M-G-M promptly cast him as Private Hargrove. Everyone said, how wonderful. Everyone said, those lucky lucky kids—they’ve got everything. Then the heavens split with one of those lightning bolts Hollywood never gets used to, though they’re frequent enough, more’s the pity. Bob and Jennifer separated. Only they know why. We know only that few separations have saddened the town more. It’s none of the town’s busi- ness, but nobody who’s seen them together can squelch the feeling that they belong together. Of them, the old cliché is literally true. They remain friends. When Bob finished “Hargrove” and “Mme. Curie,” he moved over to Selznick’s to play opposite Jennifer in “Since You Went Away.” He’s a stickler for promptness. If he says he’ll meet you at two, he’ll meet you or break a leg. One day he came in 15 minutes late, and ter- ribly upset. He was late because he’d stopped in to see Jennifer. He was ter- ribly upset because she had a cold. His Sundays are devoted to the boys. They’re three and four now, but Michael’s the same height and weight as Bobby, so they look like twins, and they’re the twin apples of his eye. When Michael was named Michael, his parents vowed he’d never be called Mike. So he’s called Mike. Of the two, he’s rather more introspective. Music sends him off into daydreams, and he’s got those bedroom eyes that say come-and-get-me. Bobby doesn’t wait to be got. He goes after what he wants and what he seems to want most is people. Traveling to and from Ogden, he collected every heart on the train. 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He said he would if they’d buy it. They said they needed it like they needed a bullet in the brain. “Then I'll be awfully tempted to ride it,” said Bob. So they bought it. He loves the piano and wants to take lessons, so he can play swing and more swing. His favorite writers are Saroyan and Warwick Deeping—even if they are sentimental—and Nancy Hale, because she’s sophisticated. He goes for anything Brooksy in clothes, plain colors in ties and heavy wool socks all year round. Jewelry leaves him cold, except he thinks it would be classy to own a pair of nut-and-bolt cuff-links. All he owns now is a watch that he never wears. He eats like a wolf, drinks two quarts of milk a day and cream when he can get it, but doesn’t gain weight. He likes pie for breakfast, and the only thing he hates worse than cabbage is gossip. He’s in Florida at the moment, on loca- tion for “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.” Their friends can’t down the hope that whatever went wrong between him and Miss Jones may yet be mended somehow by them. They want boy and girl together again, under the sign of a blue hat with white ribbons. See here, Mr. Walker, that’s not mere idle gossip. That’s just the good old American prayer for a happy ending to stories of youth and love and dreams. ee EEE HE NOTICES YOUR HAIR (Continued from page 67) nn ee EEEEEEEEEEEEE points and high light your good ones. Suppose, for example, that yours is a round, fullblown sort of face. What to do? Simply wear your hair high on top and close to the side. Steer clear of fussy, fancy or frilly entanglements. Any up- swept, sleek, sculptured coif is safe. Perhaps you want to soften a long face. Wear your hair full above the ears and avoid stiff, evenly balanced lines. Try softly irregular, slanting lines like side parts and loose waves. How now, you demand of ye Beauty Ed., to achieve this dazzling coif, once decided upon? A good first step is to comb a wave set through your hair while it is still damp (but not wringing wet). To achieve pin curls, begin at your part, separating your hair into triangular sec- tions about a half-inch wide. Comb each strand out smoothly, place your finger half- way up its length (you are holding it straight out from your head), then stretch and wind it, not too tightly, around your finger. Pull the ringlet off with the thumb and finger of your other hand and roll it down to your head. Next, anchor the curl with two hairpins or bob pins, one from each side, letting them cross in the hollow center. When this handiwork atop your head is dry, comb each ringlet out care- fully and glamorize it with brilliantine. If you hanker for the sleek effect, spray your hair with lacquer to hold each strand in place as part of one smooth surface. 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A SHOT OF B & B: (Brief dialogues on the “Road to Utopia” set: The scene is one in which Crosby is making his usual brand of lackadaisical love to Dorothy Lamour. During a kiss, Captain Howard arrives as a set visitor. ) Hope: Jiggers, Crosby, here comes the Cap- Kebbel, Crosby: Oh, the guy with TWO chips on his shoulders. (Scene in which Bob Hope is feeding a large sheep dog originally named Curly.) Hope: Look, Veronica, when you come to an elbow, it’s mine. (Scene in which Hope and Crosby, stripped to the waist and covered with grime, are stoking a boiler on a freighter in northern waters. Suddenly a door opens, and a char- acter in white tie, tails, top hat and cane strolls through the stoke hole.) The stranger: Could I trouble one of you for a light? Hope: Sure, sure. (He lights the cigarette for the guy, then does a double take. ) Say, where do you think you're going? The stranger: Just taking a shortcut through here to my own set. FURTHER REVELATIONS ABOUT A PAIR OF WONDERFUL GUYS: Because of the gradually increasing num- ber of servicemen who were visiting the “Road to Utopia’ set, and because neither Bob nor Bing could be persuaded to resist ad libs toward their khaki audience—which promptly responded with laughter so deafen- ing that production was being held up day after day—Paramount had to close the set, i.e., forbid any visitors whatsoever. This ban had been in effect for several days when Bob, in passing through the main gate, noticed that a little cluster of G.I.’s had just been turned away by the gateman. “Say, how about it?” he asked. “Why can't these guys go through the studio at least?” "Orders from the front office,’ said the officer. "Have you ever had orders to hold a foxhole, no matter what happened?” Bob asked. The G.I.’s followed Bob through the gates. 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I guess everybody gets a little rough behind scenes because it's in the air. Just shoosh, Baby.” And that, kiddies, is how popular songs are born. TEASE & REPARTEES: Luscious Maria Montez, beautifully gowned as usual, and wearing on her ears a pair of tiny solid gold bees sent to her from overseas by husband Jean Pierre Aumont, stepped onto the platform at the National Press Club in Washington. From the appre- ciative male audience arose a series of two- toned whisiles. When a measure of silence had been tegained, Maria said softly into the micro- phone, “In my country, when a man whistles at a girl it is an insult.” The silence deepened into abashed gloom, “But,” continued Maria, “I am not in my country.” Residents of Atlanta, hundreds of miles away, are still wondering what that explosive noise could have been. BAG GAG: A friend of Ray Milland’s dropped in, several months ago, to tell that charming Welsh gentleman and his wife good-by. The Milland’s were leaving for a brief New York vacation, so Mrs. Milland was packing. Ray, contrariwise, had been reading, his neck sunk into the back of a lounge, his feet propped on an ottoman. “Pack?” he said in answer to the visitor's question. ‘Sure, I’m going to pack later on. I know exactly what I need, and it will take me just 20 minutes to stow it in a bag.” This comment was typical. Mr. Milland, world traveler, learned the “travel light’’ slogan early in life and has always abided by it. When his wife, who is expected to carry on the star-wife tradition, takes a hat bag, jewel box, make-up kit and two large cases, Ray is astounded. When his male friends show up at the station with a Gladstone and two wardrobe cases, he is amazed. “What on earth do’ you think you can't buy, instead of taking it along with you?” he likes to ask. Sooo . . . when the troupe with whom he was going overseas, gathered at the station, Ray—as usual—had two small bags. 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OVALTINE Remarkable re- sults reported with new Kel-Ray method. You DON’T CUT OUT starchy, fatty foods, you merely CUT DOWN on them. Take half teaspoon- ful Kel-Ray (a purely veg- etable product) daily, fol- low easy, lazy plan, and fat vanishes. _ : a $1 00 $ 00 at enclow_gucins e e sent Pe ewurn © 08 Og KARO johed | er Ue Ss ed. vf noo rio8 arc o.D. orders cage chee nee) cept! isan ackesirennonin ew = Reese Sone eS GOOD NEWS (Continued) nd each group is always appointed to look after the baggage throughout the trip,’ he told the man who hates baggage. “Since you are the only man in this troupe, 1 presume that duty falls to you.” BOGEY BACK: Humphrey Bogart, having returned from his overseas jaunt, is currently at work at Warners’ in “To Have and Have Not,” in which Dolores Moran is his leading lady. 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The closer he came, the louder she screamed. Mr. Ladd can take a hint. He backed away, and his stricken look is something Sue will never forget. “My baby doesn’t like me,” said the tough guy. Sue didn’t know which of the two to comfort first. love affair... Once they’d both recovered from the shock, Alan planned his campaign. He’d go up and stand beside her without talk- ing—sort of sending out beams of good will in the hope they might penetrate. He’d hand her toys she was fond of. The time she grabbed his finger, his heart turned over. But by now she had him so bulldozed that when he opened his mouth, the voice came out strangled. So she screamed again— It took him about a week to make the grade. In another week she was falling all over him. He also became her favorite pin-up boy. At sight of his picture, she starts yelling “Da-da” and strains out of Rinsje’s arms to kiss it. Like sensible parents, Sue and Alan try to be objective about their child. 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Jumped up and down like a yo-yo, making idiotic noises, which so astonished the baby that her mouth popped open, and Sue popped the spoon in. There was another time when he really went to town. Alana wouldn’t drink her creHee juice. Even Rinsje couldn’t make er. “That’s bad,” said Alan, who never touches citrus. “That’s very bad. We'll have to do something about it.” He wrapped her in a blanket and carried her out to the porch. Sue and Rinsje laid bets on the event. Half an hour later he reappeared with a sleeping baby and an empty bottle. “How did you do it?” He shrugged. “Just drink it.” “And she just drank it. Scared of the Killer, I suppose.” If anyone’s scared, it’s Alan. Sue flips and swings and turns her upside down. Alan handles her like eggs at a diamond a dozen. “What's the matter?” scoffs Rinsje. “You think she breaks?” But they can’t laugh him out of it. “She’s such a little girl,’ he says. One thing she didn’t get from him. Alan hates having his picture taken. 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The title sheet reads: “MY LIFE WITH ALANA—A Ladd Production —Directed by Sue and Alan Ladd—An Original by Sue and Alan Ladd—Any Similarity between this Baby and any Other is Strictly Impossible.” He spent Christmas Day with the cover- let over one arm and the album under the other. He called people up to come over and take a look. He still hauls them out every chance he gets and is no whit abashed when friends say: “It’s a dilly, Alan. I said so the last ten times and I still say so.” He gets a terrific kick from Alana’s fan mail. Most of them ask for pictures of the three Ladds together. It bothers him that the pictures can’t be sent. To send them all would be just impossible. beamish baby . - - He gets his biggest boot, though, from his daughter’s disposition. Alan, _ the toughie, loves kindliness in people. Alana’s a sunny baby. She wakes with a smile and goes to bed without a murmur. 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Bring him on—” The curtains part, and Frank stands there grinning at them. They adore him, but they don’t stand in awe of him. That’s his doing. His manner’s friendly, casual, matter-of-fact. They might all be his kid sisters. He likes and understands them. It’s not so long since he was their age, pasting up a scrapbook on Bing Cros- by that would have knocked your eye out. They feel he’s their friend as they’re his, that they have a part not only in him but in Nancy and the kids. They ask for the latest family news and get it. He talked to Nancy in New Jersey yesterday. No, the baby’s not singing yet, but brother, does he squeal! That goes over big. Someone sent him a box of candy. Thanks, and he'll start on it after the show. “And, may I add, the boys in the band’ll help me.” Someone else wants to know what color socks he’s wearing. He pulls up a trouser leg and makes like he’s coy— “Now that’s enough foolishness.” He calls on producer and assistant to take a bow. “And last but not least, Sibelius himself.” That’s Axel. “Here we go, and I hope you like the show.” for whom the belles fold... If you want to get the measure of what these kids are like, watch them while he sings. The upturned young faces are rapt, but there’s nothing hysterical about them. They’re lit by a kind of soft wonder, fresh and sweet and moving in its starry imno- cence. Okay, they’ve got a crush on him, so what? Where’s the healthy adolescent who doesn’t go through some such phase of calf-love? Five years hence they'll be smiling over it with maybe a touch of rue. Meantime, praise the Lord that they’re swooning with Sinatra, not heiling some Hitler. After each song, a little bow of thanks. Between Hit Parade tunes, three or four extras. “Anything special you’d like to hear?” he asks and ducks under the bom- bardment. 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Coming at the song’s end, most of it can be tuned out. On the Vimms broadcast, it throws the performers off, interferes with the lines. This particular Wednesday, Frankie came down to the footlights, and he wasn’t smiling at all. “Tve talked to you kids about this be- fore,” he said. “I’ve asked you to confine your—sounds of appreciation to the end of the song. These broadcasts are being shortwaved overseas. It’s tough enough to get them in a foxhole without inter- ference by a lot of noise. “I know you’ve got to applaud and, be- lieve me, your applause is music to my ears. The screaming isn’t. I’ve asked you many times to cut it out. Now they’re getting mad at me, and I don’t blame them. They tell me that unless the scream- ing stops, there’ll be no studio audience for this program. I won’t like that, and I don’t suppose you will either. But it’s up to you.” QUIZ ANSWERS (Continued from page 74) . Tyrone Power . Charlie Chaplin . Miriam Hopkins Bela Lugosi Irene Dunne Buddy Rogers . Harry James . Zasu Pitts . Pluto . James Craig . Norma Shearer . Lucille Ball . Xavier Cugat . June Havoc . Dooley Wilson . Martha Scott . Peter Lorre . Joan Davis . Marie Dressler . Fred Astaire oe BP SOCONM os ODE They sat like mice. “Will you co-operate? Will you wait till the end of the song to applaud? Will you do this for me?” Came a subdued chorus. “Yes, Frankie, we will.” The show went on. There wasn’t a sound till the finish. Then penitence, en- thusiasm, and all were released in a burst of wild clapping. Best of all, Frankie was smiling again. They were forgiven. hollywood's from missouri. . . We doubt if he ever read Dale Carne- gie’s book. He doesn’t have to. He wins friends by being himself, even when the cards are stacked against him—as they’re sometimes bound to be, with human na- ture the way it is. In the face of a Sinatra phenomenon, human nature tends to rear its bristles. Who is this guy? What’s he got? Let him show me. I dare him. 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What would I use it for?” “Resting between scenes—” “Are you kidding? When would I hang around and gab with the guys—” He and Marcy McGuire were talking one morning, when she broke off in the middle of a sentence, eyes widening in dismay. “What's the matter?” “It’s my mother’s birthday, and I forgot it this morning—” “That’s bad. What’ll you do?” “What can I do? Call her up now. But it won’t be the same.” “Want me to sing her ‘Happy Birth- day’?” “Oh, would you, Big shot or sm: —simple, offhan thy Frank? That way I can fix it up fine.” They both ran for the phone. “It’s a_ special day, Mother,” chirped Marcy, “so I’ve got something spe- cial whipped up for you. Introducing Frank Sinatra—” _ “_Happy birthday, dear Anona, happy birthday to you.” Frank gave it the works, then handed the phone back to ED Ss NEW RING worn. unclasp as_ illustrated. SEND NO MONEY now, just name, address an y ring size. 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Maybe the toughest nut he had to crack was his first appearance at the Hol- lywood Canteen. What bunch of Ameri- can males would pass up a chance to heckle the idol of the bobbies? Their guns were primed and their ammunition ready. You could feel it in the air— Frank was introduced. “Hiya, fellas.” For a moment he stood there, looking them over. “There’s one thing I can see about this audience,” he drawled. “And that is, nobody’s going to swoon.” That gave him a bridgehead, which was strengthened by his first song. They didn’t swoon, but they liked the way he sang. He asked what they wanted and gave it to them if he could. If he couldn’t— “You want to get me run out of here on a rail?” or “Think I’m Caruso? All to- gether— NOoooo!” He got them to sing along, and before the evening was over, a crowd was up front, close harmonizing all the old sentimental pushovers with him, while the rest sang from the floor. How he feels about servicemen was made clear at Brittingham’s one day. He’d run in for a bowl of soup between re- hearsals. A sailor asked for his autograph and thanked him. Frank winced. “I’m the one that’s honored,” he said. His appearance at the Shrine netted a million in bonds—most of them sold by the bobbies to parents and friends. At the Lakeside Country Club he and Crosby and Hope auctioned off miscellaneous treasures for bonds—a pound of meat, Marlene Dietrich’s garters, Dotty Lamour’s sarong. One man, who bid on a model air- plane, gave it to Frank. “For your kid.” “Mind if his papa plays with it first?” The largest single bond—$20,000—was bought for the pleasure of hearing Bing and Frank sing “People Will Say We’re in Love,” while they leered at each other. Frankie’s still nuts about Bing. 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a dope!” he moaned. He’d said all along it would be a boy. Half an hour after he got the news, the AP boys showed him wire-photos of his son. “Hey, look at his hand!” One of them was spread out like a_ starfish. “Knuckly, like mine. “Looks cuter than I thought. Little Nancy was more wrinkled up. This guy looks like he’d been around a couple of weeks.” Then he came to, and his grin was shy. “Makin’ noises like a poppa, huh?” And why not? All the world knows how he feels about his wife and kids. Reading a letter from Nancy on the RKO set, he let out a whoop that brought peo- ple running. “Look! Little Nancy dictated it. ‘Papa, come home soon— ” When he’s at home, he sings her to sleep every night. The new baby got his first lullaby over the air. It was strictly against the rules, but nobody seemed to mind when Frankie said: “I’d like to sing one of my favorite songs to my little son in New Jersey. So pull up a chair, Nancy, and bring the baby with you. 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Used to wear a 14 collar, now it’s 15%. He thinks it’s funny when they call him the hepcat’s boy. He’s a singer of ro- mantic ballads—the kind of animal no jivin’ slick chick wants any part of. He can’t read a note. All he’s got is a good ear—sez he. That's why he gets a bang out of the classics—they’re so full of pretty melodies to pick out and remember. He collects symphonic records and goes to symphony concerts every chance he gets. Between radio and movies, bond rallies. and command performances, he hasn’t much time for social life. Get’s to an occasional ice hockey game, but prefers to relax at home with the boys—Axel, Phil Silvers, Sammy Kahn and two or three others. Has them to dinner and fusses over the table himself. The food’s always prepared Italian style, and there’s always spaghetti. He can tuck away plenty when he’s not working—otherwise, he’s too nervous to eat much—orders eggs or soup or a custard—anything you can gobble down in a hurry. He’s got a yen for good clothes—prefers three-button, single-breasted jobs—still wears bow ties, but not as much as he used to—likes wide-mouthed collars that leave plenty of space for a Windsor knot. Picks quiet colors except for an occasional sweater. Owns one that’s orange. After the war he hopes to build in Cali- fornia. Not that he won’t always be crazy about New York. But from all indications most of his work will be here, and besides it’s a great place for kids. He wants a big backyard for them, and he’d like to rig up a little gym where he can teach little Frankie to box. If he’s anything like his sister, he’ll be a scrapper. Frank himself’s a handy man. He’s going to hack him off a slice of garage, turn it into a workshop and fix everything that breaks. He’s got a temper—oh, definitely—but keeps it under pretty steady control. Be- ing ribbed doesn’t bother him. He howls at imitations of himself and would sooner miss his breakfast than Al Capp’s “Lil Abner.” The day Abner signed a song- by-song contract because he might not survive to sing the next, they found Frank hysterical. In Boston Al Kapp called and took away a month’s material. Frankie’s good-natured. Some of the jabs aren’t. He still refuses to let them get under-his skin. “Better people than I'll ever be get fun poked at them. If they can take it, what have I got to yap about?” One thing does burn him up. He can’t stand having the bobbies panned. That’s come to be quite a peeve with Frank. They're swell kids from nice families. They’ve got growing pains, that’s all, and if growing pains make you a moron, then aren’t we all? The kids are less articulate about their feeling for him. All they know is, they’re mad about him—because he’s cute and darling—because his eyes are like two blue spotlights that go right through you— because his voice sounds like a marvelous clarinet, and he can hit a riff with it, same as Harry James does with his horn—be- cause sometimes he’s like a little boy and you want to take care of him, and some- times he makes you swoon. One of them hit the nail pretty straight on the head. Her father expressed a cer- tain disappointment that a daughter of his should have come down with Sinatritis. _ | “T thought you had more sense—" “Daddy, how old are you?” “Thirty-eight.” “Well, that explains it. You're just too old to understand. That’s why you think I’m purely out of my mind. If you were younger, you'd be glad I adore Frankie. Because all it proves is I’m normal.”

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