Modern Screen 1944-10 Vol. 29, No. 5

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42 {Sb4 ©cie 645106 WE ARE STILL A recent portrait of Constance Luft Huhn, Head of the House of Tangee Lieasomeeonaastt mR THE WEAKER SEX by CONSTANCE LUFT HUHN Head of the House of Tangee Ele Finish Your Lips MANY OF US may be serving shoulder to shoulder with America’s fighting men —but we’re still the weaker sex... It’s still up to us to appear as alluring and lovely as possible. So remember, ask for the aids to beauty made by THE HOUSE OF TANGEE —TANGEE Petal-Finish Face Powder and Rouge and Satin -Finish Lipstick. You'll find you were never lovelier! Whether you're in or out of uniform, you ll want to be completely appealing and feminine—you ll want delightful satin-smooth lips and all the glamour of a silky, petal-smooth complexion. THE HOUSE OF TANGEE has created just what you need to keep you as lovely as you should be. For your lips, we have world-famous TANGEE Satin- Finish Lipsticks to give your lips long- lasting satiny smoothness. And with TANGEE Petal-Finish Rouge and the extraordinary new TANGEE Petal-Finish Face Powder, your complexion will take on a silky, radiant petal-smoothness that clings for many extra hours! SAMMY KAYE ts oN THE AIR IN TANGEE SERENADE...Listen Every Sunday at 1:30 P. M. (EWT) Coast-to-Coast. ...Blue Network ™ TANGEE

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hearts are drawn to Smiles are brighter when gums are healthier. Guard against “‘pink tooth brush”...use Ipana and massage. OULL celebrate Victory with a clear conscience. Because you're working hard toward it now. Good girl. After hours, you tate the best in fun and romance! So powder your nose—and smile. Go out and have FUN! That smile, now — how'd it look in the mirror? Did it spar- kle? Was it bright and captivating? That’s the kind of smile that turns heads and hearts! If you'll notice, most popular gitls aren't beautiful at all. But they all have a beautiful smile! Start today wit Ipana ano massage offi a bright, sparkling smile! So see to it that your smile is at its radiant Jest. Remember, a sparkling smile depends so much on firm, healthy gums. Never ignore “pink tooth brush”! If you see a tinge of “pink” on your tooth brush—see your dentist! He may say your gums are tender because soft foods have robbed. them of exercise. And, like many dentists, he may suggest “the helpful stim- ulation of Ipana and massage.” For Ipana is designed not only to clean Product of Bristol-Myers teeth but, with massage, to aid the gums. Let Ipana and massage help keep your gums firmer, your smile more sparkling. Your Country needs you in a vital job! A million women ate 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 schools — as well as in defense plants—are war jobs now. What can you do? More than you think! If your finger can press a button, you can run an elevator or a packag- ing machine! If you can keep house, you ve got ability that hotels and res- taurants are looking for! Check the Help Wanted ads. Or see your local U. S. Employment Service.

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SS ee aaa —_ 3 Rb Eb tb tb bb ob ob ob bb ob ob ot ot tb tt tt tb bb tb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb 0b bt bt tb >t tt ot ott tt tt ot ot ot ot ot ot ot tt = Ke Published In The greatest this space * star of the every month screen! All through 1944 it is the Twenty-Year Anniversary of M-G-M. In one recent week 16,449 theatre-owners—every movie house in these U.S.A.—showed an M-G-M picture. KLIK OK yk We bow, we blush, we thank you, kind motion picture showmen. The best way to show our gratitude is to continue to deliver satisfying hits as in the past. Two great films await your attentive eyes and ears—‘“‘An American Ro- mance” and “Mrs. Parkington’’. E aay eae, Clay. Of “An American Romance”, King Vidor’s great epic of our soil, you have heard great praise. Watch for it while we pause to impress you with a current triumph. Ke OK Ok, “Mrs. Parkington”’. Se aims fame ¢ Or, rather, Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon in “Mrs. Parkington’”’. KOK KB & This excellent film is a superb adapta- tion of Louis Bromfield’s best-selling novel and gives that talented pair a vehicle that is more than a vehicle. KK NK xk Many of our screen artists have looks, many can act, many have personality. Greer Garson is a triple threat. And “Mrs. P.” gives her the chance to prove it again. Kir Key Ske) ok. Her deft transition from the naive daughter of a mining-camp boarding- house proprietor to a dynamic cosmop- olite is one for the book. Or better still, one for the screen. FO. Ee ie Greer’s “‘Susie”’ finds an excellent dove- tail in the “Major Augustus Parkington”’ as played by Walter Pidgeon. Ruthless, dashing and with a roving-eye. KK Ok The dream-like cast includes such stars as Edward Arnold, Agnes Moorehead, Gladys Cooper, Frances Rafferty, Tom Drake, Selena Royle. FeO Sk Oe eae, Tay Garnett, director of ““Bataan’”’, has also performed bril- liantly — with the megaphone. x ak Wesuggest youpark yourself in a seat at “Mrs, Parkington’’. — Leo are fictitious. If the name of any living person is used it is purely a coincidence. i ; : Bek “3 z ; : ~ ESSE RR o STORIES | *NUTTY BUT NICE Maureen Reagan crows, “Mummy you’re a button-nose bunny. But look at Daddy and me, we’re a couple of jerks!” (see below) TRIO "CON BRIO" That triple-threat wisecrack club of Crosby, Hope and Sinatra is really the greatest Mutual Admiration Society in the world! *MODERN SCREEN GOES TO A BIRTHDAY PARTY Guest-of-honor Van Johnson still can’t sit down without stirring up some very tender memories! (see below)............-------:-- THE WOMEN IN HIS LIFE The first taught Jess Barker how to make banana splits, and he fell in love. The second was Susan Hayward, and he married her! JAKE OF THE MARITIMES The sea was in Dick Jaeckel’s blood, and all the movie contracts and home-cooked dinners in the world were of no account...... FRANK SINATRA ¢ In the lean days there was no time for women, no money. But he couldn’t get a certain Nancy off his mind. Part II, life story... *THE JAMES GIRLS These are Harry’s women: Vickie, a warm, pink morsel, and Betiy Grable looking as tho heaven had opened up. (see below) HI, MONICA! eeeene THE FIGHTING GRANTS Here’s Barbara’s and Cary’s side of the tragic struggle for son Lance, as confided to MODERN SCREEN’S reporter, Hedda Hopper. WHAT A MAN! When they asked Ginger Rogers to play opposite Bob Ryan, she gasped, “Why, he wouldn’t make love to me. He’d beat me up!” “THE MERRY MONAHANS" Jack Oakie and his two kids, Don O’Connor and Peg Ryan, were a tradition that neither money nor women nor prison could crack. COLOR *Jane Wyman in Warners’ “The Doughgirls” .................--- PAGES *Van Johnson in M-G-M’s “Meet Me in St. Louis”...... eS Ace *Betty Grable, Harry James and baby. Beitty’s in 20th-Fox’s “Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe”. ........2+-0ecesececcesees Asoo *Joyce Reynolds in Warners’ “Janie”.............0..ce0ceeee: Gloria Jean in Univ.’s “Reckless Age”. .....-...2ceeceecencees William Eythe in 20th-Fox’s “Wilson”... .......0-+sceeeceeccess FEATURES | Fannie Hurst selects "Since You Went Away".............. 4o0 s e vs Editorial: Pages. e:cis o:sataieiaeiee Siceie sence iets cleo ies GO 368 sso03 Headlines for Fallcies cease Taek anu talnve eres «+a. Let’s Face If... eee eee eee Si selia) wise (6:38 Wwe) 6'0\:0' 0’ 1010.0, feta BEAUTY FASHION DEPTS. ee ee Co-Ed Super Couponi.c... 6. cee les de ens spenke esas see Good News by Louella Parsons...............-..----------- What's Cookin’ America?—The Gene Kellys................... COVER: Capt. Ronald Reagan, U. S. Army ALBERT P. DELACORTE. Executive Editor HENRY P. MALMGREEN, Editor SYLVIA WALLACE, Hollywood Editor KAY HARDY, Hollywood Promotion Manager OTTO STORCH, Art Director BILL WEINBERGER, Art Editor GUS GALE, Photographer CeCe Service Dept.: Ann Ward. Information Desk: Beverly Linet f Label Form579 to 149 Madison Avenue, New York 16, New York. Vol. 99 No. 5, October, 1944. Copyright, 1944, the Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 149 Madison Ave., New York. Published monthly. Printed in U. S. A. Office of publication at Washington and South Aves., Dunellen, N. J. Single copy price, 15c in U. S. and Canada. U. S. subscription price, $1.50 a year. nadian subscription, $2.50 a year Entered as second class matter Sept. 18, 1930, at the post office, Dunellen, N. J., under Act of March 3, 1 tional second class entries at Seattle, Wash., San Francisco, Calif. Dallas, Texas, ant Or lishers accept no responsibility for the return of unsolicited material. Names of chara / i POSTMASTER: Please send notice Ue 3578 and copies returned under modern screen 30 32 34 38 40 42 47 54 56 Editorial Assistants: Charis Zeigler, Annette Bellinger, Mickey Ghidalia ddi- —

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Brig Hilton (Shirley Temple) tries to Yurnne Hiwsl m “Since You Went Away” takes life in its own hands and does quite well with it. It also takes its own life in its hands, and by being too diffuse, lengthy and emotion- ally extravagant, does not so well with it. Inherently, the theme is a natural. The ingredients are there. The pastry cook who goes into the kitchen and finds spread out before her all the rich materials necessary, For additional movie reviews by Virginia Wilson, turn to page 10. comfort Lt. Willett (Joseph Cotten) as \ he admits love for her mother. Sister Jane's infatuation complicates matters. {f SELECTS "SINCE YOU WENT AWAY" PICTURE of the MONTH > rich a cannot fail except by making too cake. And “Since You Went Away” is too rich. Two thirds through, the average spectator is not only going to open his belt, he is going to experience slight qualms of diges- tive unease. Mr. Selznick, without having-so intended, may find himself (Continued on page 8)

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«.. With the romance of two hot-headed sweethearts who love as only the Irish cant June Haver ... your beautiful blonde discovery. .-. puts @ smile in your eye! irected by GREGORY RATOFF Produced by DAMON RUNYON ~~ &creen Play by Earl Baldwin and Joho Tucker Battle : ae on a story by E. A- Ellington y

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PUBLIC ACCLAIM for his private life! © His romantic roistering story is being hailed as great entertain- ment all over the country! Don’t miss it! - MICHAEL O'SHEA ANNE SHIRLEY IN TiSco., GENE LOCKHART OAN DURVEA - STEPHANIE BACHELOR RAY WALKER - TOMMY BOND PA REPUBLIC PICTURE || heartache ee y the progenitor of a revolt against the in- dustry and self-hypnotized, the bit be- tween his teeth as author, producer and reluctant wielder of the scissors, he is running riot. Resultantly, our era, which takes its boullion in cubes, its reading predigested, and abbreviates expenditures of time in every possible manner, is about to stage a revolt. The public has a pain in the neck. Down with over-long, over-stuffed mo- tion pictures! “Since You Went Away” is both. One hour shorter, one hour less of emotional redundancy, and this picture would have come closer to what must have been Mr. Selznick’s good dream of a cavalcade Americana. Inherently, it is that. Imbedded in its themes, are concerns that lie close and contemporaneous to practically every American heart. The story rings a bell within our national soul. Occasionally, aside from the crippling effect of its enormous footage, the rouged kiss of Hollywood descends upon the story. “Since You Went Away” concerns itself with an allegedly middle-class, aver- age American family, but Hollywood in- sists upon putting them into too fine a house for their means and insists that they deport themselves a la the country club set. : The picture glitters with stars, some of whom are in strange firmament, indeed. Mme. Nazimova and Lionel Barrymore are dragged in by their talented heels for this American epic. And once again Mr. Monty Woolley’s highly personalized vin- dictiveness, vituperativeness and venom are in high fettle. Claudette Colbert is sweet- ness, forbearance and light; Shirley Tem- ple, charmingly Shirley Temple plus ten years; and that thar Jennifer Jones gal has what it takes. Ladies from coast to coast, and their men, too, are going to weep. And honor- able tears they will be. Wrung legiti- mately from hearts that alas, will be sore and troubled with some of the anguishes this picture brings home to them. The tears will be copious and too deep and too quiet to show, for every woman can know within her the loneliness of a house empty of a husband, every girl the tragedy of a lover lost, every man the ache of being separated from his loved ones. To treat so honorable an effort lightly_ would be to ignore dignity of concept and production. In spite of its ponderous, overweight body, “Since You Went Away” succeeds in being more than half as good as it could have been. Synopsis For all its length and production gran- deur, “Since You Went Away” is a simple story about simple people, caught in a frustrating, complex age. It tells of the efforts of Anne Hilton to get along, both financially and emotionally, when her hus- band, Timothy, enlists. Lonely and worried about the effects of a woman-dominated home on her two daughters, Jane and Brig, she decides to accept crusty, irascible old Col. Smollett as a boarder. The Colonel, it would seem, has a grandson. Jane, it would seem, is quite ready to rebound at any suitable young man. Preferably a cor- poral. So she does—violently. And quite a rebound it is, too. For Jane has been calf-eyeing dashing Lieut. Willett, a hope- less, helpless and very-much-in-love old - admirer of Mother, who, while enjoying his banter and the nice feeling of feminine security it gives her to have him dogging around, is very strong and unshakable in her devotion to her Tim. And then quickly, terrifyingly, the Hil- ton world spins, whirls and cascades about A telegram ar 2 OSS NG ak weep, then straighten up a the other telegram. And this tim “missing in action”—it’s “killed in thi of duty.” And it’s young Bill who is « and it’s young Jane who must break heart. And she does. But out of the weakness comes strength, and she becomes a Nurse’s Aide in the psychiatric clinic of © old Dr. Golden, dedicating herself to help- | ing other Bills return to other Janes. And so it goes. Nothing resolved, noth- ing solved. Mother takes a job welding, the crotchety Colonel rediscovers the purge of laughter, Brig goes about the difficult job of casting off the chrysalis of childhood for maturity, and the days fly past and the nights linger on. And again a third telegram. Tim is safe. Tim will be home. So much has happened, oh, how we've missed you, since you went away....U.A. 4 MODERN SCREEN QUIZ You’ve done it before, and you can do it again—meaning this quiz, you ickies! And a fine job, too, judging from some of your comments. So here goes. It’s awfully simple, really. We've given you 3 sets of 20 clues each. First go over the first batch and see if you can identify the movie personage referred to, and for each one you guess, give yourself 5 points. Then go on to the next group to catch up on the ones you’ve missed, and score yourself 4 points for your answers there. Now, if you're still shy a few names, on you go to Set 3, getting 3 points on those answers. Catch? And incidentally, if you put down an answer which you find on a later set of clues to be incorrect, it’s perfectly o. k. to change, scoring yourself the number of points due on the particular set where you dis- cover your error. Thus, if you put John Carradine as your answer on Set 1, and find in Set 3 that it should be Hedy Lamarr, give yourself 3 points for Hedy and forget about Johnny. We think maybe 80. should be par for you well-informed readers, you. And 75 isn’t too bad, but lower ... Why, shame! QUIZ CLUES Set 1 . He never left home . Oversea-ing blue angel . Cherokee chick . Feudin’ with Fred . Comeback since she went away AWOL . Thousands cheer . Large-footed vegetarian . Love-affairing Minnie . Bowery to big-time . How green are his streets . Chip-ped off fame . Sloe-eyed fastie . Hollywood gave Day break . Hep cat honey : . Ran old man Cole (anagram) . Feather-curled long-hair . Casanova of the Casbah . Suzanne Georgette Charpenti 20. Heller at heart § “(Car beep pp ps pp OMDARUNBRWNEPOCHOMDIRD KM RwWNH her

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rst in Case youve wondered why So many people are going around with large, happy SMILES and their hearts gorg bumpety~ | BOOM... its because theyve i just seen the HAPPIEST picture ever!! [5 the National JOY Show (why, i even the star is named SOVce Reynolds //... its from VARWVER BROS... |) i | Special prints of JANIE have already been delivered —gratis—to the Army, for showing to men in combat @reas, isolated outposts and Red Cross. hospitals.” Zi ee < - ‘ Z ee ee bane OC ae a4 a a Asse Gre - ‘JOYCE REYNOLDS « ROBERT HUTTON * EDWARD ARNOLD * ANN HARDING ° ROBERT BENCHLEY « ALAN HALE ' iBordciec ow MICHAEL CURTIZ ° Screen Play by Agnes Christine Johnston & Charles Hoffman * From the Play Produced by Brock Pemberton Produced by ALEX GOTTLIEB tc te uaa * Winey ee tee. OC a ieee aaree MS peel

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GZ] don’t find de luxe dates falling from trees ...So you make each one count... You wear your best dress, your slickest hair- do and jack up the feminine charm ... Why not use the same common sense about Bob Pins? You can’t count yours by the dozens, any- more than you can count your men that way—for a while, anyway. So use DeLong Bob Pins because they hold that line! They have a Stronger Grip, a longer life—and when you can’t have quantity, you've got to have Delong quality. Stronger Grip Won't Slip Out Quality Manufacturers for Over 50 Dears BOB PINS HAIR PINS — SAFETY PINS SNAP FASTENERS STRAIGHT PINS HOOKS & EYES HOOK & EYE TAPES . _SANITARY_ BELTS REVIEWS AMERICAN ROMANCE Do you believe in America? Of course you do, in a take-it-for-granted sort of way. But would you walk from New York City to Minnesota to prove your belief? That’s what Steve Dangos, Czech immi- grant, does in M-G-M’s powerful Techni- color drama. Brian Donlevy plays Steve with all the dynamic vitality that the part demands. This is an imagination-stirring picture of America, land of opportunity. I know you'll like it. Steve lands at Ellis Island in 1893 with four dollars in his pocket. Ordinarily, the authorities demand that you have $25 for admittance, but they are impressed by Steve’s faith in this new land. They let him in. Steve hikes all the way to Minne- sota where his cousin Anton will get him a job as a miner. On the way he learns some broken English, is more convinced than ever that America is the country for him. He goes to work in the mine, but unlike most of the other miners, he has an intense curiosity about all its workings. “Where does the ore go from here?” he demands. “Chicago, me lad,’ an Irish- man tells him. “Chee-car-go. Yah. I will go there some day,’ says Steve seriously. And go he does, leaving pretty Annie O’Rourke (Ann Richards) to follow later and become Mrs. Steve Dangos. By then Steve is foreman in a steel mill. He is making enough to rent a tiny cottage. Enough so that the five children who ar- rive in rapid succession can go to school and pursue the careers they want. Ambition drives Steve constantly, but e remains devoted to his family. It is a sad day when his oldest son is killed in World War I. But Steve squares his broad shoulders, and in memory of George, studies harder to become an American citizen. The day of the automobile has arrived, and Steve does some complicated experi- menting in that direction with the help of Howard Clinton (Walter Abel). Together they evolve a car with a steel safety roof and a new body design. Soon they have their own company. Things have hap- pened to the children, too. Abe has be- come a violinist as his father wished—but his act is a comic one, in vaudeville. Still, he’s a success. Teddy—well, Teddy is a problem to Steve. He is on the side of the factory workers in the strike against his father. It takes Pearl Harbor to show Steve that his son may be right after all—M-G-M. P. 8. Brian Donlevy graciously offered to buy a small fire truck for the local Women’s Defense Organization. Ladies were over- joyed—couldw’t wait to try it out. Since no hydrant was available to them, they hooked the thing wp to the Donlevy swim- ming pool—drained it completely dry .. . | Brian, who loves to make like a painter, carpenter or plumber on his days off, spent time between scenes building and painting experience. She pro BORA SS ath De By Virginia Wilson : Ann ... Residents of Pomona, California, — slowed down to a stop when they saw motorcycle officers stopping age-old relics — for speeding at a reckless 20 miles per. Didn’t know these were rebuilt replicas of the first automobiles built in this coun- try, and that they were props being used for “American Romance” . . . Captain of these motorcyclemen, incidentally, turned out to be Captain V. M. Moffett, a World War I buddy of Brian’s. Twenty-four years ago they had lain side by side in a French hospital—neither of them expected to live. Hadn’t seen each other since then until they met quite accidentally in Po- mona ... Ann Richards spent her first birthday away from her family. Mrs. Richards is still in Australia, and Ann’s brother is prisoner in a Jap concentration camp. Day before her birthday, Ann re- ceived a cake, baked by mama and shipped all the way across the Pacific . . . Another birthday celebrant was little Jackie Jen- kins, who was six and thrilled at the thought of entering the Santa Monica Grammar school where his big brother is enrolled. Breathless moment occurred when King Vidor, returning to the set from lunch, found Jackie about to jump from a twelve-foot platform. He shouted a warning, but Jackie assured him it was all right. “I know how Superman does it, Mr. Vidor!” Mr. V. finally convinced him — that Superman had powers far beyond those of Master Jenkins. JANIE Joyce Reynolds is a cute little chick who represents Warner Brothers’ white hope for teen-age pictures. She gets off to a flying start in “Janie,” as a sixteen-year- old heartbreaker. Clare Foley, who plays her kid sister, Elsbeth, provides most of the laughs. Elsbeth is terrific as a gag- puller, but if you had to live in the house with her, you’d probably commit murder. Someone asks her, “Why don’t you run along and play with your little friends, Elsbeth?” “I have no friends,” retorts the enfant terrible. “I’m anti-social.” And she’s not kidding. Janie has trouble enough with her par- — ents, without having to cope with Elsbeth, too. You know parents. They’re those people that always want to know where you're going or have to use the phone just as you're telling something terribly |} important to your best friend. Probably, | Janie admits, hers are no worse than most. Except for that editorial Dad (Edward Arnold) wrote for the town paper about how you should keep your young daugh- ter from going out with the soldiers at the camp nearby. It is a good thing Janie has a bachelor friend of Dad’s (Robert Bench- ley) to help her out now and then. i Janie’s current guy is a down-the-block J product called “Scooper.” Scooper is nice, jf but he’s nobody’s dream man, and when jf a college man, and sometimes J a feeling he’s a little acec

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CARY GRANT if “None the Lon Heat” WITH C ETHEL BARRYMORE 4 FITZGERALD - DUPREZ - WYATT Produced by David Hempstead Directed by Clifford Odets <_ Sy y ANOTHER ; OF THE Screen Play by Clifford Odets 5 he GREAT RKO RADIO From the novel by Richard Llewellyn, author of “How Green Was My Valley“

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Pas tation not too far from New Orleans. eslie wires them that she is coming and is surprised when no one meets her at the station. She waits in the afternoon sun Scenario for every girl with designs on a man! Anyway, to get back to Leslie, Dr. Grover drives her out to her uncle’s plantation, and on the way she tells him the story of her troubles. He is sympathetic and ob- viously attracted to Leslie. He says he'll try to help her. The plantation is hauntingly beautiful, but it’s a somber old place among the cypress trees and swamps of the sugar cane country. Aunt Emily (Fay Bainter) turns out to be a fluttering, ineffectual little woman. Uncle Norbert is absorbed in his books, completely unaware not only of his niece’s problem but almost of her presence as well. The most important char- acter in the house seems to be a large, elderly man named Sydney (Thomas Mitchell), who issues all the orders. It gradually becomes apparent that some- thing very mysterious indeed is going on at the plantation. Leslie’s friendship with Dr. Grover is discouraged, and soon her - mental condition becomes worse. Lights _ go on and off, and she hears a ghostly "voice calling her name from the bayou. ' Only through the help of a Negro (Rex Ingram) does she learn that a deliberate attempt is being made to drive her out of her mind. When she gets Dr. Grover to help her, they both become prisoners. The picture ends dramatically in the macabre gloom of a Louisiana swamp. You'll _ shudder in your chair. 3 The role of Sydney is quite a departure for Thomas Mitchell. You will be inter- ested to see what he does with it. Fran- chot, of course, makes a charming wolf, reformed by love.—U.A. “See—Jim’s telegram! He’s got leave. It says ‘SATURDAY, GORGEOUS, WELL FLASH MY NEW WINGS ON THE TOWN... Gorgeous! That’s ME! Saturday—that’s TODAY! Oh, what a beautiful mor-ning!” P. 8S. Producer Ben Bogeaus, searching for a _ mystery dealing with malicious minds and murder, discovered “Dark Waters” while it was still in galley form ... Later, when it came out in a national magazine im serial form, Publicity Man Jerry Dale ar- ranged to have each of the four issues it ran sent each week to all Hollywood corre- spondents, neatest trick-of-the-month to capture their interest . . . Merle Oberon proved herself a rugged soul, earned the sobriquet “Iron Woman Oberon” because of the way she stood up under all the physical punishment during the swamp- water scenes ... The bayou set took up three and a half solid acres, planted with 1500 water hyacinths, blue flags, special vines and Spanish moss. 500 trees were planted, included full-grown oaks, weep- ing willows ... In spite of gloomy, de- pressing scenes and heavy tension induced by the mystifying atmosphere, cast and crew had a gay time. Workers dubbed it a “happy” picture, and all were sorry to see it end after ten weeks of shooting... Director Andre De Toth is one of the most camera-conscious megaphoners in the business. For one scene in Merle’s bedroom, he placed the camera in the di- rect center of the room, had it make a complete 360 degree turn recording a pe- riod of twelve hours in the script. Four different mirrors, placed strategically in logical spots, recorded Merle’s different expressions during the long scene... An- other “longie” was a six-and-a-half-min- ute scene between Franchot Tone and Merle in which they perfectly completed . . Definite “My shower sure makes me feel ‘sweet and lovely—and a quick touch of Mum will 2eep me that way for hours!” A bath removes past perspiration—Mum prevents risk of future underarm odor! “Speed’s the word for Mum—and Mum's : the word for charm—if a girl wants daintiness to last. And I mean ME!” Takes only 30 seconds to use Mum— guards charm for hours! OE se eareas coe (Private thoughts of a happy girl.) “He's my dream come true—only more so! Already, he’s hinting I’m the girl to wear his wings. Thank goodness I can depend on Mum to keep me fresh as a daisy all my date long.” Mum works—fast, yet gently—won’t harm skin or injure the fabrics of your daintiest dresses. Use Mum anytime, every day—always before dates! Ask your druggist for Mum —today! TAKES THE ODOR OUT OF PERSPIRATION Product of Bristol-Myers

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But everything will work out fine when he gets back to Sonora. Only it doesn’t. The Janie (Jean Arthur) he finds when he gets home on furlough isn’t a bit like the impulsive, delightful girl he picked up in a restaurant in San Francisco and married three days later. This Janie is formal, distant and very preoccupied with the care of their son and the household in general. She is, her father (Charles Coburn) admits, turning into an old maid, married or not. Andy is prepared to snap Janie out of this in a hurry with a little love-making, but there turns out to be another angle. The other angle is Henry (Phil Brown). Henry has boarded with the Smiths for a year now. He’s walked the baby at night and changed its diapers and worried about it when it had the mumps. He is, he thinks, much more of a husband to Janie than Andy is. Mr. Smith complicates matters by talk- ing at the wrong time—with good inten- tions, to be sure—and Janie and Andy decide to get a divorce. 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Seventy-year-old Charley Grape- win does the youngest type of role of his career as the superannuated bellhop—the result of the modern manpower shortage. Charley, who classifies his roles in two categories—with teeth and without teeth— removed his uppers and lowers, good- naturedly adding more contrast to his part ... Jean, a great believer in music as an aid to creating mood, brought a stack of her own records to the studio. A man was assigned to play them outside her dress- ing room between scenes .. . When pro- duction was completed, Charles Coburn headed for New York to arrange for his return to the stage. Broadway playgoers will be seeing him next year in “Master of the Revels”... A large part of the back- ground for the picture was actually shot in Sonora, Calif. The town has played host to movie companies for years—this is the first time it’s been filmed under its own name ... 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ee ginia was boosted to the post of producer ... Tiny Vie Beaver (the ten-months-old baby) went temperamental every time the cameras began to roll. Even new papas, Phil Brown and Lee Bowman, couldn't quiet him. Coburn discovered it was his monocle little Vic was crying for. Since Charles can’t wear the thing in close-ups, he had to be photographed from his left side in all scenes with the baby—so the camera eye couldn't see the monocle but baby Vic could! THE GREAT MOMENT Suppose you had to have a leg ampu- tated. And the surgeon said, “Give the patient a piece of wood to bite on—that helps a little”’” Then took a saw and started to go to work. You'd scream your head off, wouldn’t you? You'd yell, ‘Where's the ether?” But can you tell the name of the man who made it possible for people to sleep through operations instead of suffering unbearable pain? Don’t worry if you don’t know the name. In 1855 the U. S. Senate was in the same predicament. Any number of claimants to the honor had appeared, and they weren't in the least sure which was the right one. While the Senate battled about it, Dr. William Morton sat in the gallery and remembered. . . . Morton (Joel McCrea) was studying dentistry when he married the lovely Liz Whitman (Betty Field). Liz’ father and mother were rather disturbed over her marrying a dentist. In those days a dentist went around the countryside extracting teeth while his wife beat on the dishpan to drown out the howls of the patient. Dr. Morton, however, had different ideas. He opened an office right in Boston, like a regular doctor’s office. And always in the back of his mind was the idea that there must be some way to make dentistry painless. Morton experimented for years. Ex- perimented while the Morton roof leaked, the Morton cook left in disgust, and the Morton children went around with holes in their shoes. He tried everything from hypnotism to laughing gas—almost killing himself with the latter. People said he was crazy. Only Liz kept her faith in him. Then at last through a combination of stubborn perseverance and blind luck, Morton discovered that ether inhaled would put a man to sleep. A sound enough sleep so you could pull his tooth. Or may- be even cut his leg off... . Dr. Morton gave medical science the use of his discovery. But at first he refused to give them the formula. After all, the roof did need mending, the children did need shoes. For his humble attempt to patent his formula, he was castigated in every newspaper in the country. As usual, only Liz believed in him. The story of his long struggle is a good one for all of us who need a lesson in perseverance. It is told in a fascinating way with the help of a cast which includes Harry Carey, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn and J. Farrell MacDonald.—Par. P. S. Folks at Paramount moaned and groaned when memos came around to their office asking for suggestions for titles of the newest Preston Sturges movie. “How,” they wanted to know, “can you get ‘love’ or ‘oomph’ into the title of a picture that tells the story of the discovery of ether?” ... After several tentative tags were con- sidered then rejected, “The Great Mo- ment” was chosen to show up on theater marquees ... Script is adapted from 'Rene Fulop Miller's biographical novel, “Tri- umph Over Pain,’ originally owned by In wartime as tn peace A special process keeps KLEENEX luxuriously soft ... dependably strong! Ne ZL In your own interest, remember—there is only OU 1108 K/IOWS — one Kleenex* and no other tissue can give you there S ony one the exclusive Kleenex advantages! KL, LENE a6 Because only Kleenex has the patented proc- ess which gives Kleenex its special softness . .. preserves the full strength you've come to depend on. And no other tissue gives you the one and only Serv-a-Tissue Box that saves as it serves up just one double tissue at a time. That’s why it’s to your interest not to con- fuse Kleenex Tissues with any other brand. No other tissue is “just like Kleenex”. In these days of shortages —we can’t promise you all the Kleenex you want, at all times. But we do promise you g this: consistent with government regulations, we'll keep your Kleenex the finest quality tissue that can be made! There is only one KLEENEX’ *Trade Mark Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. 15

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The instruments are not even mentioned in the dialogue . . . Bos- tonians will see exact replicas of such famous landmarks as Burnett’s Pharmacy, the Harvard Medical School and the Mas- sachusetts General Hospital . . . For the fight in the glassware shop between Joel McCrea and Emery Parnell, no doubles were used. Both camera and sound crews had protection from flying fragments by means of specially built shields. William Demarest was another who refused a double, preferring to do his own falls and leaps through windows. Bill, a former vaudevillian, used to do similar stunts in his fiwe-a-day routines that always wound up with one terrific dive into the theater’s orchestra pit. SWEET AND LOW-DOWN This is the story of a boy from the slums of Chicago who suddenly gets a chance to join Benny Goodman’s band. A boy who goes too far too fast and then has to learn all over again the hard way. Benny him- self and his band are in the picture, and there’s plenty of mellow jive for all the gates. The boy, Johnny Birch, is played by a REE OFFER! How’d you like a FREE copy of SCREEN ROMANCES? It’s jam-packed with stories of all the latest movies and color portraits of all your very favorite stars. All you have to do to get your free mag is fill out the following Ques- tionnaire. The first 500 to send in their coupon will get their FREE SCREEN ROMANCES pronto. Be sure yours is in the mail by September 20th. QUESTIONNAIRE What stories and features did you enjoy most in our October issue? Write 1, 2, 3 at the right of the titles of your Ist, 2nd and 3rd choices. newcomer who will de nd Name—James Cardwell, and you’d better get your fan mail in ahead of the rush. Linda Darnell and Lynn Bari take care of the femme half of the platter, and Jack Oakie is in there solid with the laughs. Johnny isn’t exactly a square when he joins the band but neither is he hep to all the hot licks. Benny Goodman takes | him on as a trombone player partly be- cause he feels Johnny has talent and partly because he’s an old Chicago boy himself from the same neighborhood. But Johnny has a chip on his shoulder from the beginning. He doesn’t want advice from Benny, about music or anything else. The anything else being Pat (Lynn Bari), the girl singer with the band. Pat thinks Johnny is a comer, and she’s always ready to hitch her wagon to a star, especially when the star’s a handsome hunk of man. Popsy (Jack Oakie) tries to warn Johnny about that, but Johnny knows everything! Then he meets Trudy (Linda Darnell), when he’s playing with the band at a military school dance. Trudy, the aunt of one of the students, has dressed to look as young as possible at her nephew’s re- quest. She has succeeded so well that Johnny is shocked when she asks him for a cigarette, and gives her a stern lecture on how fifteen-year-olds should behave. 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With this picture, fei exciting new star joins your fayorite leading men. Lee Bowman is a name you're going to. look for... star you'll 70 THE IMPATIENT GIRLS AND SOLDIERS WHO RUSH INTO MARRIAGE: For the first time, the screen brings ' you the story of marriage before combat...and combat after marriage! with EDGAR BUCHANAN » CHARLEY GRAPEWIN - JANE-DARWELL Original Screen Play by N IA VAN U PP Associate Producer

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| | the thing for the Baron to do is marry her | Anyway, it all adds up to a good picture a fast baseball while playing with the kids with a lot of music you'll really love — 20th-Fox. P. 8S. Two hundred jive-happy hepcats, drafted from dance halls in and around Los An- geles for dancing scenes in this picture, couldn't believe their good fortune. “Im- agine,” said the bewildered kids, “dancing on a smooth, roomy floor every day, all day, to the music of Benny Goodman and getting paid for it!” ... Benny (who calls swing “free speech in music”) proves he’s no stranger to the classics. With four fellow-jivesters interprets the Mozart Quintet which he once did. with the Budapest String Quartet in New York’s Town Hall... BG, hearing that Harvard Uniwwersity had set aside a fund of $250 a year for the purchase of swing classics, sent the college his entire collection—one of the most famous in the world ... Gus Sweeney, 60-year-old doorman on the “Sweet and Lowdown” set, was called to see Mr. Goodman one morning. It was Sweeney's birthday. As he walked onto the stage, the Goodman band broke into “Happy Birthday to You,’ and the cast and crew joined in the chorus. There was an enormous birthday cake and a fine leather wallet from “the gang” . . . Gus left the set with tears in his eyes . . . Goodman went home for lunch every day to shoot movies of his nine-months-old daughter. Baby was just beginning to crawl, and Benny didn’t want to miss getting pictures of her first steps ... Lynn Bari was given a few days vacation in the middle of production to go to Texas to christen a new Flying Fortress, “The Lynn Bari’ .. . One casualty while the picture was being filmed was Jack Oakie. Jack had a serious accident one noon, hit in the knee with on the lot... Buddy Swan, juvenile lead in the picture, was given free clarinet les- sons from “The King” himself. Benny heard Swan play the instrument—thinks he’s terrific! GYPSY WILDCAT Forget the fat, bedraggled gypsies you’ve seen at county fairs. They bear no resem- blance to the romantic, glamorous variety in this picture. The most glamorous of all, of course, is Carla (Maria Montez). One look at her, and the villagers stare be- mused while the rest of the gypsy band sell them broken-down horses or pick their pockets. The catch is that Carla isn’t really a gypsy at all. She’s the daughter of the Count Orso, who has recently been found in the forest with an arrow through his heart. No one knows Carla is his heiress except old Anubi (Leo Carrillo), who has no intention of telling. However, Rhoda (Gale Sondergaard) seems to have an inkling that something of the sort is true. Maybe, being a fortuneteller, she saw it in the cards. The gypsies are suspected of killing the Count. Another likely suspect is Michael (Jon Hall), a handsome stranger, who keeps turning up at odd moments, usually when Carla is around. This infuriates young Tonio (Peter Coe), Anubi’s son, who is planning to marry Carla. It’s espe- cially infuriating because Carla shows far more interest in Michael than she does in Tonio. Before long, Baron Tovar (Douglas Dumbrille) imprisons the gypsies in his dungeon on suspicion of murder. He then discovers that Carla is wearing a silver pendant which he recognizes as belonging to the Orso family. Obviously, Carla is the long-lost daughter of the Count, and immediately. That way he can get pos- | session of the Orso lands and fortune, which he’s had his eye on for some time. Unfortunately, or fortunately, the Baron is not a very bright guy. He allows Michael to get into the castle through a water pipe from the moat. Michael confronts him and accuses him of having murdered Count Orso himself. Quite a melee ensues, with everyone getting hit over the head, and the gypsies escaping their guards. They all stream out of the castle in mad pursuit | of the Baron, who has grabbed Carla and | a Justice to perform the marriage cere- | mony and escaped in a carriage. The chase that follows is really quite a thing, and you'll have to see it for yourself—Univ. P. Ss. Wardrobe department discarded all of Maria’s flimsy sarongs and put her into seventeen petticoats for this one. However, in each of the wild gypsy dances per- formed by Miss Montez, her lovely legs are very much in evidence ... The original song, “Gypsy Song of Freedom,” was writ- ten by Edward Ward and producer George Waggner . . . The medieval castle in this film (the ancestral home of Baron Tovar) is an adaptation of the Tower of London set, a famous Universal Studio landmark. Prop department added a drawbridge, a moat and a bastion to the old site... 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itson and handles a semi-comedy as nie Lord Mayor . . . Technicolor ography was supervised by Howard uke” Greene. Mr. Greene was the win- of the Academy Award ier his work on ‘Phantom of the Opera” . . . Peter Cole, alent scouts while working on the New ‘ork stage ... The screen play, from an ginal by James Hogan and Ralph Stock, “was adapted by Hogan, James Cain and Gene Lewis. Roy William Neil (another ecruit from the Sherlock Holmes series) directed. ATLANTIC CITY Here is a lavish musical, studded with stars of today and yesterday. It’s the kind a of picture that has something for every- one. Think of Atlantic City, and you think tor boardwalks, Miss Americas and the - Million-Dollar ‘Pier. The man responsible for all of them in this Republic version of _ the city’s development is one Brad Taylor _ (Brad Taylor). Brad intends to turn the little town by the ocean into a play- 2 for the entire nation. He doesn’t seem to care that his ruthless methods alienate all his friends. a % way. Look at his father, Jake (Charley Brad doesn’t think much of friends any- _ Grapewin), who runs the Sycamore ee ed, on page 23) INFORMATION DESK je ‘ i is usual Cpaeeensted role of If you were this junior hostess, would you say—[] “|! hate games” 1 “tLet’s join in” “I'd rather watch” Everybody on the floor for a mixer! (Just when you’re snaring that handsome Marine!) But a successful USO hostess forgets about herself—lets her guests have the fun. So you join in. At certain times, forgetting about yourself is easy when you trust your secret to Kotex. It’s Kotex that has those patented ends—pressed flat—not thick, nor stubby. That’s one important reason why Kotex is different from ordinary napkins. Skylark through a “calendar” evening, confidently. No outlines show . . . with Kotex sanitary napkins! (Questions of the Month) By Beverly Linet Say... Did you know that Frankie used to earn 70c a week for five radio shows? Or that Walt Disney always calls Mickey “The Mouse” and Donald “The Duck’? or that Basil Rathbone was one of the greatest “Romeos” of the legitimate stage? Or that ... But heck, maybe you did know all this. But there must be something stump- ing you about pictures and people and productions. If there is, make quick with the scribbling, and I’ll do my darnedest to dig up the info. If there isn’t—fer Pete’s sake let me in on your © crystal-balling! Be sure to enclose a SELF-ADDRESSED, STAMPED ENVELOPE. It’s still: Beverly Linet, Information Desk, MODERN SCREEN, 149 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. Johnny Coates, USN.: WHO WERE THE TEN TOP BOX OFFICE AT- TRACTIONS OF 1943? (P.S. If youll send in your address, Johnny, Pll try to comply with your other re- quest.) ...In order of popularity they are: Grable, Hope, Abbott and Cos- tello, Crosby, Cooper, Garson, Bogart, Cagney, Rooney and Gable. Sonia Cohen, Woodmere, L. I.: WHO : ARE GOING TO BE THE LEADS IN THE FORTHCOMING MOVIE PRODUCTION OF “WINGED VIC- TORY?” ... Mark Daniels, Edmond O’Brien, Dick Hogan, Don Taylor and George Reeves will be hold-overs from the original cast, with Pvt. Lon McCal- lister and Jeanne Crain as extra added attractions, Marvin LeBot, N. Y..WHO PLAYED THE 5 SULLIVAN BOYS, BOTH AS KIDS AND AS GROWN-UPS? As a child As an adult Al Bobby Driscoll Eddie Ryan Matt Billy Cummings” John Alvin Johnny Calki George Offerman a John Campbell James Cardwell If this happens to you, should you blame— [] Your waxed floors © Your scatter rugs OO Yourself Tain’t funny when falls cause 15,750 casualties a year! If your scatter rugs slip—blame yeur- self. Anchor them with rug cushions. And for safety’s sake on difficult days, why not choose the only napkin with the 4-ply safety center . . . choose Kotex. .. and get plus protection? You'll like the dependable sofiness of Kotex. Unlike other pads, Kotex does more than just ‘feel’? soft at first touch. Kotex stays soft while wearing—keeps its shape, keeps you more comfortable—longer! Which do you need, for this “trim” effect? (J Scraps of felt 1 Two weeks’ allowance Oo A milliner Yow can do it yourself! Just cut out simple flower shapes from scraps of felt . . . tack em with snappers to your gloves and beanie. Vary the flower colors, and have matching accessories for every outfit! They go together. Like daintiness and smooth grooming. Like Quest and Kotex. For Quest Powder, the Kotex deodorant, answers the urgent need for a powder deodorant on “‘those’”’ days. Used with sanitary napkins, safe, unscented Quest Powder banishes fear of offending. More women choose KOTEX* than all other napkins put together — *T. M. Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.

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Hotel. Jake has hundreds of friends—all broke. They’re mostly what Brad refers to as “vaudeville hams,” and they come and live off Jake every time they’re out of a job. It’s not Brad’s idea of how to run a hotel. Marilyn (Constance Moore) who had known Brad since they were kids, doesn’t agree with his outlook on life, but she loves him anyway. So much that she gives up a chance to be in a Broadway show to stay in Atlantic City and marry him. Gradually she sees that she has made a mistake. Brad is completely engrossed in business. He continually pulls “fast ones’ on his friends and business asso- ciates, till finally he has none left. Even Marilyn leaves him, convinced that he cares nothing for her. She becomes a star on Broadway and is seen everywhere with Carter Graham (Robert Castaine), but in her heart she still loves Brad. Atlantic City attains all the popularity Brad has hoped for. Beauty pageants are held there regularly. But Brad over- reaches himself financially, and he soon finds that even the city he has given his whole life to no longer wants him. That’s when Jake and his “vaudeville hams” come to the rescue. And what) rescuers they are! Sophie Tucker, Paul Whiteman, Belle Baker, Joe Frisco and Gallagher and Shean. No wonder the picture ends in a triumph of music, gaiety and happiness. Constance Moore is lovely as Marilyn, and youll go for Republic’s new discovery, Brad Taylor.—Rep. P. S. The seven-week original shooting sched= ule was raised to nine when Connie Moore - was carried from the set for an emergency appendectomy. Luckily, most of her danc- ing scenes had been done . . . Connie has 24 costume changes in this picture. Uni- versal costume designer, Adele Palmer, claimed one of the toughest jobs of her career. Seems the dresses for the post- World War I period are very much like those of today—round collars, low waist- lines and side-drapes. Problem was to make the dresses look like period clothes . . . Cast and crew, talking together over cokes in the afternoons, were surprised to find how many were familiar with this colorful period in Atlantic City’s history. Producer Albert Cohen, Charlie Grapewin, Ray McCarey, Paul Whiteman, Belle Baker, Joe Frisco, Al Shean (remember Gallager and Shean?) and Gus Van (of Van and Scamp fame) all had beginnings on the Boardwalk ... The gal who plays “Miss America” in this picture was once actually a bathing beauty. Won the Cali- fornia title at Venice in 1941. She’s 20- year-old Elna Carroll. In case you girls want to check yourselves, she’s 5'6”, weighs 115 pounds ... Brad Taylor, who plays the part of the same name in the MOVIE CONTRACT to picture, got his name from the script and 1 eee me PERMA: LIFT GIRL tures. Since this part takes him out of Westerns and puts him into big-time musi- cals, he took the name for luck ... Paul Zr ; rndorella Whiteman does the first singing of his NOtn High School to Hollywood mode G screen career when he warbles “On a Sunday Afternoon” with Miss Moore... Studio bought Connie the most beautiful ted by a pair of ball-bearing skates available for her The recent announcement that A talent scout, attracte y i ae number with Jerry Colonna. beautiful Greta Christensen had Perma-Lift advertisement, found that She couldn't stay on her feet in the things . . had to pair: a Hee pair from ioe won a Hollywood movie contract proves Greta was not only beautiful but pos- small daughter ... And wait ll you see : ie fiction. d unusual dramatic ability. Masti wihitenian (Cell 275 icine of him) again that truth is stranger than fiction. sesse Y come down a kiddie slide in a playsuit! A year ago Greta was an obscure We all hope that Miss Christensen’s KISMET Chicago High School girl who occasion- career will parallel the meteoric rise to Bagdad—city of enchantment! Gold and | ally modeled for photographers and stardom enjoyed by the Perma-Lift bras- filth, Caliph and beggar, mingling in its narrow streets, weaving the magic of a ; - thousand fairy tales. M-G-M has done | the Perma-Lift girl led to her discovery. Chicago*New YorkeLosAngeleseToronto ? artists. Her posing for the drawings of | siere she modeled. A. Stein & Company

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Marlene Dietrich is a queen who dances in a fabulous costume all of gold (you probably saw the pictures of it in Life magazine). James Craig, Edward Arnold and Joy Ann Page are also in the cast. The most colorful character in Bagdad a thousand years ago, was a fantastic thief named Hafiz (Ronald Colman). Thief, yes, and beggar, too, but witty, dashing and the delight of every woman he meets. Hafiz lives in the slums with his lovely daughter, Marsinah (Joy Ann Page). He keeps her behind a high wall—no one but a prince is good enough for Marsinah. But the girl has other ideas about that. Un- known to her devoted father, she has met a young man and fallen in love. The fact that the young man says he’s only a gardener’s son doesn’t bother her at all. Love in a garden sounds wonderful to Marsinah! Actually, the “gardener’s son” is the Caliph in disguise. Hafiz not knowing that, flies into a fury when he finds out Marsinah has been meeting him. Hafiz himself has been having a fine romance with a mysterious beauty named Jarmilla (Marlene Dietrich), but he takes time out from that to do something about Marsinah’s future. He steals an elaborate costume from a bazaar, tricks a police captain into giving him an elephant and presents him- self to the Grand Vizier (Edward Arnold) as a foreign prince. The Vizier is a thief and a scoundrel, but since Hafiz is a thief himself, he is not bothered by such details. He is bothered by the discovery that the Vizier is already married. Hafiz had planned to sell him on the idea that Mar- sinah would make an ideal wife. A further complication is Hafiz’ unexpected meet- ing with Jarmilla, who turns out to be married to the Vizier. About that time, Hafiz is arrested for theft, and the Caliph sends for the Vizier as an attempted mur- derer. The rest is sheer excitement, with sabers flashing in the sun and a harem full of beauties running for cover.— M-G-M. P. S. Production of “Kismet” started a nation- wide search for—of all things—camels! Seems there were only six to be found in all Hollywood, and at least twelve were needed for the Caravan scene. They were finally rounded up from zoos and. circuses all over the country ... This was all to the displeasure of Mr. Colman, who was pray- ing they would substitute wheelbarrows. Ronald had an unhappy experience with a camel while touring Egypt—the animal ran away with him. Since then he gets seasick each time he climbs up on one of the things .. . If you look closely, you will see an actual blush in Technicolor when Jimmy Craig kisses Joy Page. Scene was reshot a dozen times, but each time Joy would blush a more violent red. No num- ber of rehearsals would help, so the scene finally had to be let with Miss Page’s pink cheeks ... 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is musicians could play them. Collection was insured for te) dollars and was (4 A ‘ O 2 i under constant police protection. —— : ne C RAINBOW ISLAND TET e tee 0 @ _ Somebody at Paramount must lie awake W~Y Ue, { weeded { nights thinking up new excuses for Dor- ° ‘othy Lamour to wear a sarong. Not that this insomnia isn’t in a good cause! In says D eanna Durbi n “Rainbow Island” she plays a white girl See who was shipwrecked on the island as a cud and of course, Soe ae nauve: Long hours of war work and film-making never dim her dawn- : ? wi 1€— ° ° ° “ 4 : tive value of Bracken’s comfort vs. com- Hollywood's Beauty Night Cap: Every night cleanse plete destruction of delicate mechanism with Woodbury Complete B t decided to let Eddie stay inside the plant F Oe amis pees Seca, nen se as 2 until the power went on. When lunch night cream for extra beautifying. Use also for time came around, sympathetic pals passed sandwiches, Pepsi-colas through the plastic leaves to the luckless actor . . . Notice backgrounds in this one. Art Director Hal- dane Douglas introduced a new type of Z South Sea Island architecture. Richer _ color, more traditional backgrounds .. . _ Leading Man Barry Sullivan spent the are freshening daytime clean-ups. 10¢ to $1.25. entire picture in most males’ dream of perfect attire—dungarees, jacket and _ S | yachting cap... “Raffles,’ Carveth Wells’ COMPLETE BEAUTY CREAM | talking Mynah bird, has a prominent role. _No truth to the report he was.hired to rite additional dialogue for some of the | Shy MRA) OO La FORMERLY CALLED COLD CREAM. CLEANSES AS THOROUGHLY — DOES so MUCH MORE BESIDES! su male Sh: i Jay

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ped beet p32" TO OUR READERS... peta as History gets made in the craziest ways. I guess you noticed last issue that illustrious Fanny Hurst is now reviewing our picture of the month. For MODERN SCREEN, that is history. Going behind the scenes, let’s look at a pitifully palpi- tating young man (me), with awfully shiny shoes, riding in a mahogany elevator big enough for a concert. “T understand,” I said to the elevator girl, “that Miss Hurst is partial to animals.” “Well,” said the girl, “she sold the monkeys.” “Oh,” I said, relieved. But then I thought of the dogs. Hurst’s dogs. Genius dogs. The lot of them jumping through hoops in perpetual motion. Is it ever proper to call a dog “sir,” I wondered. Time marches on. Here I was in front of the door with my finger on the buzzer. A push would do the trick. Or a real hard tremble. I was groping desperately for a good opener. You couldn’t simply say “Nice day” to Fanny Hurst. She opened the door. “Nice day, isn’t it, Mr. Delacorte?” she said. A tiny speck of a dog wagged an invisible speck of | tail. Miss Hurst scooped him up and said, “Won't you have a cup of Turkish coffee?” _“Thank you, sir,” I said calmly. I sat in the corner of a huge chair, sipping alertly because you never can tell when you'll come up with a fez between your teeth. Think- ing, meanwhile, I gotta ask her to write for us, how shall I ask her to write for us, | gotta . . I think the inspiration came finally from Dunninger, the mind reading fellow. I wrote my question, real small: “How would you like to write for MODERN SCREEN?” To which Miss Hurst said, “Why not?” And that’s how history was made. | be AQ ke Executive Editor KS SAIS EOP Fu Oa SASS. —

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Although Janie makes Maureen toe the mark in important things like tellinc _the truth and washing, she doesn't make any hard-and-fast rules. ‘She isn't going to be a slave to a clock or routine the way | was when I-was a kid,” she chirps. et SSI Aad tyre, Cherishing her maid, Janie indulges her every request even to bringing her to studio to watch shooting on “The Doughgirls” set. That's Scotch and Soda with J. and M. Paso cem Maureen's nuts about Porky Pig book. Begs her mother to read story over and over again, until by now she can practically quote it word for word along with Janie! 30

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Ls ” * Ses wea E j As child, Janie was strictly reared, never had cute clothes she loved. Blessed with curly hair, she was denied “frivolous” ringlets, had "sensible" haircuts! whatever Maureen and Janie are still Ronnie's favorite Reagans want Maureen to g she chooses. They're bringing her up to be self-reliant, to like and trust people. pee © fo college, study tomatoes, but boy! the competition from that vegetable patch! nutty ™@“Sunday’s a fine day,” announced Maureen. “After the war, every day’ll be Sunday.” “T think you’ve got something there,” Jane agreed. Her daughter knows when she’s banged out a solid hit and makes the most of it. “Yes indeed,” she chirped. “I’ve certainly got something there.” To Maureen, Sunday’s the day for having fun with the people she loves. On Sunday, Nana—that’s Grandma Reagan—comes to take her to Sunday school. On Sun- day, Mother never goes to work. When Daddy comes home, it’s mostly on Sunday— When. he takes off his uniform and comes down in his other clothes, slacks and shirtsleeves, up goes the glad old cry. “You’re not Captain Reagan any but nice... ‘more. Now you're plain Mr. Reagan, Daddy—” Plain Gardener Reagan, Jane says, would be more like it. “Maureeny and | are still his favorite tomatoes, but we run into stiff competition from the vegetable garden!” He can’t wait to get out to the carrots and onions. He plays personal valet to every tree on the place. He calls one slope the Lower 40 and planted a deodar there as a Christmas tree— Maureen follows at his heels. Jane sunbathes and watches. Gardening isn’t her line, but she likes to con- tribute advice, which Ronnie treats with masculine lofti- ness. “Tend to your knitting, me good woman. Do I tell you how to dust ashtrays?” (Continued on page 96) i \

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By Kirtley Baskette Hope took -unmerciful ragging from Sinatra about his Weiss- muller haircut for Sylvester Crosby role in ‘Princess and the Pirate.’ “| Never Left Home" proceeds go to Army, Navy relief. % Bing’s never once turned down a Command Performance (above, with Frank, Judy Garland). Is staying on air this summer at G.l.'s request. ( on p = nl Holluwond May 12, 1944 Miss pan Walker c/o Wolkowltz 20 Clinton St. New York 2, N. ¥. Dear Wiss Walker: This is to advise that I shall be very happy to be an honorary member of your Frank Sinatra Fan Ciub, The photo is being forwarded under separate cover. trio : Bing averages camp show a week, and after next pic plans on overseas trek.. This summer Bob —~ Ga = C 0 1] h rl 0 7 toured S. Pacific bases with Colonna, Langford. Best wanes) a) Bins Crosby In music that means "with dash and noise,” which suits Father Bobby-Sox Crosby, Zoot-Snoot Hope and No-Blood Sinatra just dandy!

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Line from Hope! 5 new pic: stutfed crooner with laryngitis kept crabbing my act." Above, with Crosby in “Road to Utopia." "A broken-down, over-. In Billboard's men’s poll, Frankie runs Bing a close second. After "Anchors Aweigh’ he may flash on in Crosby's. ""Here Come the WAVES.” ™ Coming back from his overseas Army. entertainment tour a couple of years ago, Bob Hope landed in New York on his way to Hollywood and found himself with a night to relax. He looked up a pal of his and said how about an evening at the new late spots. “Fine,” said the pal. “We'll go over to the Waldorf and catch this new sensation, Frank Sinatra. He’s terrific!” “Sinatra?” Bob repeated blankly, juggler, or does he hoof?” The pal gasped and asked if Bob was Nddine? Then he remembered that Hope had been lost in a GI world for the last few months. Without further explanations he hauled him right over to the Waldorf-Astoria and a ringside table. After Frank Sinatra had crooned a few tunes and set the place on fire, Bob excused himself. “Pardon me while I make a phone call,” he grinned. “who's he—a He got Hollywood. He got a sleepy star out of bed at four o’clock in the morning, “Listen, Hips,” Bob told him. “This is your favorite tack-up boy, Hope. I’m just calling to warn you. Look out! I’m in New York listening to a boy who’s coming out to Hollywood and make you go to work.” “Bring him along,” yawned Bing Crosby sleepily. “I’m getting fat and lazy anyway.” Bing Crosby didn’t have to ask Bob Hope who the new boy was; he knew all about Frank Sinatra. And he wasn’t kidding when he said, “Bring him along.” Because above all the Old Groaner wanted a personal peek at the Swoon and a firsthand earful of his bent- notes. He was a Sinatra fan himself from the start, and there’s a fairly ancient note on Bing’s private stationery to testify to that in the possession of the Voice’s leading fan-club (Continued on page 124) 33 ERE GE A a

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™ The damn phone kept ringing. “Lo? Lana. Evie, I gotta tend Cherry .. .” “Hya, Van? Look, fella, I’m Hit Parading tonight, so . . .” But even so, the joint really jumped, jinx ’n’ all—a slew of “no can do’ers,” the hardware shortage, Jim Brown’s baby being almost but not quite born. . . . Seems the Wynns had just moved into a shack that had, Item: 1 cot, 1 table, 2 wicker lounges! Which left it up to the gang-to treasure hunt a la Sears Roebuck. And they dood it—scurried back with a dripolator, a set of chairs subbing as fugitives from an embalming emporium and tons of ice. Then, by gum, they sat—and gabbed: About tours and didies, war and peace, X’s new pic and Y’s in- duction and . . . Then Keenan whipped around some Jap mementoes till Neddy Poo woke up screaming. Whereupon the gang filed in and squatted near him making funny ha-ha faces till he fell off again. Could be Evie’s still picking up after us and maybe Neddy’s still yelping and Van probably can’t sit down without some very tender—memories. But, oh brother, was it fun! ee The blow-out was going bang-up till the gang sprang this little episode, master-minded by Evie. Before distributing birthday loot, they shelled out with gag gifts, including food pills, a ham—a mirror! Once a B'way pro, Evie is agog over Metro's plan to feature her in “other woman" roles, will start soon now that Pop, just returned from overseas with Chennault, Stillwell congrats, has been |-A'd.

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The fixin's were luscious, the music low, the spirit high, and the cracks corny. So here's hoping Van Johnson has many, many more of the same! Van and the Master traipsed over the huge grounds clipping cosmos and honeysuckle to pretty up the party, kept track of Neddy by those bells Momma ties on his shoes for that purpose. Van looking happy-slappy. Or could’ be it's just that he's trying to hoard up a good heave to blitz those 21 candles. Should be 7 more, but that's tradition and he’s stuck with it! Tae SOEs |

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MODERN SCREEN | GOES TO A i) BIRTHDAY PARTY Coop took time out to dazzle Bob Walker with tales of the time he once i Wy || de-gutted his Dusenberg, making 2 motors of original. Bob's desolate, ) M-G-M's "grounded" him for duration—no more motor scooting!

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Between checkings on car-contined pup, Judy told of thrill on learning her records had been aired on invasion barges, vowed gang with tale of 2 week vigil at mirror atternursing measle-bedded niece—y'see, she d neverhad ‘em! ca sO A No cis a sy ae a _. 7 ae Well-known artist Dick Whorf had kids scribble 5 unrelated lines on blackboard, and presto, by finis of one chorus of “'Gang's All Here'—a portrait! There was Van shuf- fling in slippers due to a tennis lesson Charlie Horse, and Evie birthday-whacked the wind out of him!

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@ It was Friday night at the Hollywood Canteen. Jess Barker was emceeing the usual topnotch show and looking around a bit on his own. Behind the snack bar was a slim, round-faced redhead, signing auto- graphs and in general making the G.I.’s happy. During a brief moment when his presence was not necessary on the platform, Mr. Barker stepped swiftly to the snack bar, leaned over to peer into Susan Hayward’s astonished eyes and observe with all the seriousness of a Senator during an, election year, “No, I don’t think you are that brave a girl.” Then he returned to the platform. Susan blinked and stared after the tall blond gentleman with the devilish grin. Probably, she decided hazily, he had mistaken her for someone he knew. Ten minutes later during an orchestral number. Jess suddenly bobbed into Susan’s line of vision for the second unexplained time. “No,” quoth he, “I’m cer- tain you don’t have that much courage.” He studied her critically, shook his head and dashed back to the platform. The third time this bewildering gentleman strode up to Susan, she was ready for him, as any properly curious girl would have been. “Just exactly what did you mean by those two remarks?” she demanded. Jess (Jeffrey Thomas Barker) wed Susie Hayward (Edith Marre- ner) in H'wood’s St. Thomas Episcopal Church, July 23rd; both “I’m not brave enough to what? I don’t have enough for first time. Her mom wanted them to wait, but gave blessings. courage to what?” (Continued on page 83) As kid, set cap for baseball career; parents hoped for scientist. Once played semi-pro. Claims he'd turn to pitching if acting game doesn't pan out. Currently star-climbing in “Stalk the Hunter.” Paz é Made B'way debut way back in '34. Still clings to Gotham cus- tom of wearing white shirts and faultlessly tailored suits after 6 P. M.- Never, never dons hat, is often mistaken for floorwalker! By Fredda Dudley 38

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PY. AT ei Maceo: Childhood leg injury from brush with train in Pop's railroad yard keeps him out of Army. Three brothers are sergeants. the women in his life That first syrupy soda-fountain romance was just a prelude to the night Jess found Susie Hayward behind the counter! ny

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} | ; } E Bisa e 2 a iS ee A Dick gladly swapped his $500-a-week film career at 20th Century-Fox for maritime service. He'd just finished work on ‘Wing and a Prayer." Home on first leave, he spent every available free second ogling movies! Graduated from high school at 16, a star athlete. Won letter in basketball, swimming, played football. Claims this experience gave him stage presence later. ss P In one of his weekly letters home, he wrete rather wistfully, ‘Can't even wear my whites. But | tried ‘em on, and gee, Mom, they really look sharp!"' 40 -

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Jake of the maritimes To Dick Jaeckel, going to sea wasn't just a whim. It 'was a passion, a crusade, the answer to a prayer... m It was 5 o'clock, and Dick had gone down for his physical at 7 that morning. Mrs. Jaeckel was beginning to worry. Heaven help them all if he hadn't passed! But he must have passed—that hunk of healthy bone and muscle. Then what was keeping him so long? The door blew open. “Whee! I’m a maritimer!” “You did pass then? Did it take all this time?” “Sure I passed. Otherwise, I’d have joined the Sea- men’s Union and left for Murmansk in two days. Took them exactly 43 minutes to okay me. Went to a baseball A fall guy for quarts of milk, he carries through to dessert. Ice cream preferred! On dates he and The Girl go to shows and wrestling matches, wind up at drive-ins for burgers and milk! By Jeanne Karr at game to celebrate. Here, Mom, sign these papers.” She laughed a little shakily. “Couldn’t wait till after dinner, I suppose?” “Nope.” She signed them. dinner?” “Fried chicken, corn on the cob, cauliflower, salad, baked Alaska—” “Very reasonable—” his current term of high approval. “I’m definitely hungry. Passed on an empty stomach.” It was good to see him. (Continued on page 79) “Thanks. What’s for

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i Frank has two ambitions. 1, large office with mahogany desk, push buttons. 2, retirement under tree in Hoboken! Below, with Lana Turner. Frankie sighed with relief when he and Nancy moved inte telephone-less H'wood home. "Now maybe I'll gain a pound!" He added five! Basking in reflected glory, Nancy has 44 fan clubs of her own in this country. Frank Sinatra By Jean Kinkead- Poverty was such a wee thing. What did Frank and Nancy want anyway—egg in their beer? | Twanged with CBS cowboy Cottonseed Clark on all-Western Command Performance. Scripters are dreaming up fall Sinatra television. show. M@ Frankie had finished a Hit Parade broadcast and was dashing out of the studio when two guys came toward him, a soldier and a sailor. They were smiling kind of tentatively, and he grinned back at them vaguely; and then they came nearer, and he saw their faces. He ran up to them and held out his hand. “Golly,” he said, “It’s swell to see you guys:” They were a couple of buddies from the old days. Two of the kids who used to think he could sing way back when he hardly thought so himself. He remembered their names and their brothers’ names, and when they asked if he’d have his picture taken with them, he. coralled the photographers and posed with them for five flash-bulb blinding (Continued on page 45)

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Gagsters gifted him with Crosby pipe, toupee, over a thousand Crooner platters. But he can give it right back as shown above, with Jerry Colonna's mustache. Named new boat "Little Nancy.” Frank Sinatra CONTINUED Took riding of life on “Anchors Aweigh": set. Gene Kelly dubbed him Nijinsky; electricians called him Cohan; watchman mistook him for George Murphy. Guested Judy Garland on Vimms show. bi Editors Al and Henry had farewell chat with Frank just before he left for ESS OND J Coast. Proud papas wigpped baby tales, and F. invited them to spaghetti | dolined” with admiral, general, at Banshee meeting, toast- Got kick out of signing Short Snorter. When he “Sweet and meatballs at his new house next time they're in H'wood. After illness, he | Master twitted, "—true democracy. Our boys are fighting sent out printed thank-you cards to fans who wrote when he was hospitalized. for the right to stop singing like this!" Right, Cass Daley. 44

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Just before Army induction, Rooney joined Frank in huge benefit for war wounded in H'wood Bowl before 18,000 fans. Mickey beseeched Voice to exploit numbers he'd composed. minutes. A couple of days later when the pictures were developed, he took time out at lunch to scrawl a few sen- tences on each one and to put them in the mail for the kids. “Why the fuss over those two?” A fellow at his table in the commissary asked him. “Who the heck are they?” Frank looked across the table at him coldly. “They’re my pals,” he said simply. Tell that to the next dope who tries to say that Sinatra’s gone Hollywood. Tell them that, and stick your tongue out at them for us. The Frankie Sinatra who lives in the lovely old house on Toluca Lake, who wears custom-made clothes and drives a long, lean Cadillac, is fundamentally the same little guy who used to sing for free with the Demarest High Band. That’s not saying he hasn’t devel- oped a fondness for caviar and good tweeds which he could never afford before. Or. that he hasn’t switched from third balcony seats at the Stanley in Jersey City. to loges at Grauman’s Chinese. But in his heart he hasn’t changed, and that—considering the roller coaster ride of the past few years—is really something. (Continued on page 106)

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If M.D.'s permit, Betty intends cross-countrying with Harry, was desolate ‘cause she couldn't dance at Astor Roof where 2000 fans greeted James opening. By Cynthia Miller ee ent a ee y ‘ "And Vicki makes 3." Presenting the newest PLT Teer James pin-upper—a wail, a grin, a tuft of fuzz. mw Betty, Vicki and Punkin James were all gathered in Harry’s music room and; of the three, only Vicki looked cheerful. Betty was forlorn because Harry had left that ‘morning. The poodle’s head was down on his paws, be- cause he hadn’t made up his mind about Vicki yet. On the recording machine, a platter was going—the James version of “J’m in the Market for You.” “We're lonesome,” said Betty, “so we're listening to Daddy’s music—” | Vicki didn’t look lonesome. The couch was soft and ti wide, the blanket was soft and blue, her mother was sitting. | beside her, and she couldn’t think of a thing she needed right then. So she kicked a leg, blew a bubble and guhhed. From another couch, set at right angles, Punkin watched her moodily. If she hadn’t been there, he’d have been %. nuzzling Betty. But he doesn’t know quite what to make \ 6f her daughter. It’s not that he’s jealous of Vicki, just a little leery. Nobody ever told him to keep away from her, it’s strictly his own idea. (Continued on page 1312) 47

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Joyce again, in Featherlite Persian lamb. In both pictures: Thornton hats, Emily Wilkens Young Originals, Wear-Right gloves. FURS! When you see ‘em on Joyce Reynolds _. it's love... love... love!

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modern screen’s fashion guide M@ Joyce Reynolds was purring. But who wouldn't be? “Janie” had turned out to be the kind of a hit that puts star dust in stars’ eyes. And, by way of celebration, here was Janie herself seeing New York for the first time. Besides, she found the coats she was modeling for us some- thing to purr about. Said so. “This is‘ how furs should be. No trimmings, no fixings. Just ... nice... fur.” Which proves that our Joyce is strictly on the beam in the gray matter department. Mink trimmed with sequins can happen, of course. You saw it yourself in- “Lady in the Dark.” But for real life, the better the fur, the fewer the gags. When “chiffon mink” (Continued on page 114) Looks ATA ears million! Stone marte n- Taccoon costs only about $400 By Marjorie Bailey

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——— 54 ey, Wowie! Paul Henreid's putty in the hands of that new baby. If a smile doesn't fix him, a kiss works wonders! At first, blond cocker Vicki begrudged Monica's stealing the limelight at her ex- pense. But she capitulated along with every- one else and now trails baby night and day. Bored with weakling parts, Paul hopes roles in “The Conspirators’ and “Of Human Bond- age" will be last of that type. Built high shelf above baby’s reach for glass bell collection. By Nancy Winslow Squire ™ Paul Henreid’s got another girl, and they’re both pretty shameless about the whole thing. He calls her Schatzi, Viennese for sweetheart. She makes love to him in front of his own wife. He buys jewelry for her. She has breakfast with him in her pajamas. One thing she hasn’t done is ask him to light two cigarettes for her. But then, she never: did get a chance to see “Now, Voyager.” She’s a blue-eyed, flaxen-haired charmer named Monica, fifteen months old, and the Henreids havyen’t been the same since she arrived. . “What was it like,” asks Lisl, “before Monica came?” “The world revolved,” (Continued on page 89)

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A 1M Barbara and Cary play host to wounded war vets trom nearby Army hospital. During fifth War Bond drive, ‘Cary trudged miles peddling bonds door to door. —_. = Barbara Hutton Grant, the saddest little rich girl I’ve ever seen, is putting up the battle of her life. The old courage and fortitude that must have been always somewhere deep in the character of Frank Woolworth’s granddaughter are coming to the front. For, after all, Barbara is an Amer- ican of seasoned stock who just happens to have had the heritage of enormous wealth wished on her. Would she be a happier girl, a happier wife and mother, without those millions that her hard- nosed, hard-fisted Yankee forebears garnered and dropped into her small lap? However that may be, and no one has the right to pass judgment, life and fate are giving her just as tough and bitter a lot as most of us have to put up with. Barbara was thirty years old, with two unhappy marriages behind her, before she learned to fight. Before she learned, perhaps, that an unlimited bankroll doesn’t constitute in itself a certified passport to happiness. When she made up her mind to put a stop, once and for all, to the inhuman actions imposed upon her as the price of a mother’s right to raise her child, I asked to come and see her. “Oh,” she cried pathetically, “Cary and I would love to have a baby! Cary and I both love children. We'd like to (Continued on page 102) 56 by Hedda Hopper Here, for the first time, is Barbara's and Cary's side of the tragic struggle, as revealed to Hedda Hopper ee ast Seep > Cary schneidered author Hopper*at gin rummy, wife "Babs," always "Barbara." New portrait of her hangs over mantel in his bedroom. Most recent picts “Arsenic and Old Lace.

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i) i] i } what a man! nun. "Scorpio? Bad," moaned the fortune teller. "An actor! That's hopeless!" But that ain't the way Bob Ryan heard it. Bob's agin glamour and the suede ‘n' silk outfits H'wood heroes sport. Shies from N. Y. due to formal dress-up. - (Instructing Marines Gilpin and Knapp.) 58 m™ Among the souvenirs Robert Ryan keeps in his lock box is a crinkled scrap of paper’ with some large scribbles on it in an excited feminine‘hand. He pinched it a while back off the desk of an RKO producer right after Ginger Rogers said, “So nice to have met you, Mr. Ryan.” Big Bob Ryan was in David Hempstead’s private office due to a frame-up. He didn’t know it, but he was there to get the very keen once-over by Ginger: Object—pos- sible matrimony. On the screen, of course, in “Tender Comrade.” Although it wasn’t very possible in Ginger’s mind at that point. In fact, she had ‘been saying “No” so steadily whenever anybody mentioned Robert Ryan’s name as the lead for her starring (Continued on page 117) Official USMC photo PELE: 1% E es A classics and Crosby fiend, Bob brings home every new instrument he spies, promptly forgets itl Recent buys were guitar, accordion. (At Base Sup. Room.) Both born under sign of Scorpio, the Ryans are often mistaken for brother .and sister. Jean quit career when Bob zoomed, is now big-time scenarist.

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60 “The Merry Monahans” Nothing could split up that Oakie, ‘O'Connor and Ryan song-and-dance act. Not even a woman. 1. In 1899 Pete Monahan (Jack Oakie), engaged to his STORY: They were The Monahans—Songs, Dances vaudeville partner Lil (Rosemary DeCamp), is tricked into d Pa cat, Trish sett d wedding conniving showgirl. She deserts him and children. an atter—and they were Irish and funny an Era gifted and inseparable. There were three of them: “ Pete, Jimmy and Patsy. Once they had been four, but that was a long time ago -when Jimmy and Patsy were still kids hardly able to take their bows. Pete never spoke (Continued on page 63) PRODUCTION: This was Don’s last picture as a single man. He and Hollywood High School’s loveliest, Gwen Carter, were married shortly after the production closed. It was Don’s scene with his make-believe mother-in-law in the picture that gave him courage to speak to Gwen’s mother. In the story, he convinces (Continued on page 62) 2. Pete and kids, Jimmy and Patsy (Don O'Connor, Peg Ryan), forge ahead in 3-a-day song and dance act, hit Keith bigtime. 4. Her widowed mother is L1l! Pete plans to propose, but her partner, Pem- broke (John Miljan), beats him to it. 3. En route to next stand, sooty Jimmy meets Sheila (Ann Blythe), is thrilled to learn she's booked at. same theater! By Maris MacCullers and Charis Zeigler

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9. When manager refuses to put their dad in show, kids quit and come back to him. They pretend they were flops without him, but he's read rave notices, walks out of their lives. They trail him and join him in huge Liberty Loan rally with Lil and Sheila in N. Y. Agent catches act. 8. Pete goes on wagon, hurls brick thru window in celebration, is jailed. Jimmy and Patsy are B'way sensation. LICENSE FEE plans to run away if her mom weds him. She con- | sults Jimmy who -persuades her to elope instead! “A 7. Clerk SOS-es their families. Pete. approves, but Lil and Pem- broke forbid it. Back home Sheila shames Pembroke into admitting he is using her and her mother for his own selfish ends. He leaves. 5. Heartbroken, Pete goes -off the wagon, misses cues right and left. One time when kids go on alone, B'way talent scout sees them, asks them to look him up. 61

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re both ex-schoolmarms. dn’t look that way when we went school, either.) Miss DeCamp has a d a Master’s degree from Mills ‘ollege, where she taught’ drama for a sar. Miss Jewell is a graduate of Hamil- ton College for Women, at which spot she aught Latin. Ann Blyth is the juvenile actress discovered in the road show of “Watch on The Rhine.” She was given a | movie contract when the show reached Los Angeles; has made one other picture for Universal which hasn’t as yet been: released. This will be her debut in the erican movie theater. Miss Blyth’s first assignment at Universal was to interview Jack Oakie for an edition of “Topper,” the Universal Studio school paper. She wrote uch an interesting biography that the comedian was honored by the title of ‘movie king” for a month. Those of you riding around on retreads and synthetic tires will find it hard to believe that the Oldsmobile Limited tour- ing car (1909 vintage) still has its original ‘es. All four of the old-time automobiles the picture are authentic antiques of the period, incidentally. They were all driven to the studio under their own wer, although the five-minute ride ough the Cahuenga Pass from Holly- ood required 30 minutes with these 1917 “specimens. The “Monahans” was directed by Charles mont, whose long and able experience ith handling comedy stems from his advent in Hollywood in 1919 as a Keystone cop for Mack Sennett. During shooting of this picture, Lamont celebrated the ghteenth anniversary of his marriage to e former Estelle Bradley. Mrs. Lamont peared in the first picture directed by her eC chond. The story is an original written by the team of Michael Fessier and Ernest Pa- gano. It required a great deal of research ork on that period of American life when e “two a day” medium of vaudeville Pert ininent was in full flower in every “legitimate ee ae from coast to coast. “THE MERRY MONAHANS” (STORY) (Continued from page 60) See ee rears about the woman he had married, the woman who had run off leaving a casual note of farewell, and the kids never asked. ‘Pete was father and mother, teacher and — boss of the act, and that was enough. ‘There was never anyone like Pete. _ It was because of Pete that they _ scrambled up through the ten.cent vaude- ville houses of the turn of the century. e kept after them, teaching them all the ibtle tricks of a performer: How to put ver a song, how to sock home a gag, how an audience up in their seats until drum in the orchestra. Of urse the kids had talent. But it was ay the man backstage had murmured the icredible words: Keith time. So now they were on their way to Philadelphia, on the big time, on Keith time. The Monahans. Monahan Rosemary “DeCamp and | < # LYNN BARI 20th Century-Fox Star appearing in ~ “Sweet and Low-Down”’ - PERSIAN Ail a womand go0d Vat te Kym ae The woman who earries a Wadsworth compact is a “marked” woman. Marked for her g00d taste . her sense of style and design ...her love of ioelty Exciting styles that aus shout but barely whisper all the things you are. a ™ VICTORIA FIRST NIGHTER “Victoria” for the young-in-heart and softly spoken “First Nighter” for the suave cosmopolite “Persian” for the dreamer. [he makers of fine Wadsworth watch eases have utilized their metal handling skill to make these compacts not only lovely to look at, but as exquisitely made as a fine watch case. Sold by leading department and jewelry stores, from two dollars to three hundred dollars. THE Wadsworth WwaTcH CASE COMPRHVY INC. = DAYTON, RENTUCKY

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When author Parsons visited-Sinatra and Kelly on “Anchors Aweigh" set, they painted canvas chair, Pen" for her. Tunesmiths Silvers and Van Husen wrote ballad "Nancy With the Laughing Face" for Nancy Sinatra's fourth birthday. Frank'll introduce it, and all royalties will go into annuity fund for her college tuition! ‘ a Le Nelson Eddy's and Jeanette, MacDonald's appearance in “Naugh- Beautiful rumor has Shirley Temple -engaged to ty Marietta’ on Lux Radio Theater marked their first reunion in pilot. Could be Roy Hotchkiss, U. S. Air Corps, who more than a year. Audience gave them tremendous ovation. squired her to “Since You Went Away’ premiere: Bs Just out of bed with sore throat, Gloria DeHaven partied at Mo- cambo with Dave Rose. Her new Brentwood apartment's envy of kids on Metro lot. Cuts-30 minutes driving time off her schedule. Lana's WAC wardrobe for. next pic includes new date dress. Bomber ''Turner” has completed 112 missions over Germany. Above, with Pete Lawford.

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Lt. Bruce Cabot welcomed home from wars... Deanna Durbin now a long-haired blonde ... Lana Turner discovers Turhan Bey! vonn Hodtak (above with June Allyson) lives in 2-room apart- ment with maid service. Maids love him because he makes his bed, takes care of his laundry, even washes his own breakfast dishes! - Deanna Barista ratnierad with eri Willson, wore furs to beat frigid alif. summer. Recent throat ailment’s kept her bedded / 's fear overwork, advise long vocal vacation. ®@ Let's face it! It's Turhan Bey, kids! He is the man of the hour. I have never seen anything like the demonstration for Turhan following the “sneak’’ preview of “Dragon Seed.” It was all I could do to get myself and my new hat through the mob of Bobby Sockers (ah, how fickle is youth ) who were determined to see, touch or yell at their new idol as we left the theater. Pushing along bside me in the jam was a beautiful blonde girl. I could only see the top of her head, but I could hear her sighing, “He's for me.” It wasn’t until a couple of sec- onds later I saw her face. It was Lana Tumer. P.S. The next night they were dining at a cozy table for two at the candle-lighted Beverly Tropics. So maybe Lana knew what she was talking about! * s On the set of “Anchors Aweigh,” Frank Sinatra calls Gene Kelly ‘The Feet.” Gene calls Frankie “The Voice.” And they both call Kathryn Grayson "The Body.” I was out watching The Feet, The Voice and The Body emote the day Frankie's four-year-old daughter Nancy, was paying her Pa a visit. She sat like a little owl on the sidelines watching her old man and Gene run through a dance number. “What do you think of your father’s singing?” I asked Nancy. Without a word- she went into a dead swoon! After she had straightened herself again I said, “And now —what do you think of his dancing?” With an equally dead pan Miss Nancy grasped the As) of her nose between two small fingers, clothes-pin fashion, and held it a long time. There was no added comment. * * eC The latest flash on the boy wonder, Richard Jaeckel, is that he has grown three inches in height since he’s been in the Merchant Marine. Right now he is an assistant engineer on a boat in the Pacific, ferrying recruits to a nearby train- ing island. It’s a promotion for Dick because, before that,’ he had been a “stoker.” As he wrote his mother: "Tt was ‘hot’ stuff in more ways than one.” * * * The “welcome home” party Errol Flynn gave for his pal, Lt. Bruce Cabot, was the prettiest party of the year. It was an evening long to remember. The night was balmy and warm for a change (we've had it cold out here all summer ). Errol had arranged the tables at his hilltop home on a terrace overlooking the swimming pool. The whole Valley of Beverly Hills and Los Angeles was spread out below us like a beautiful, lighted crescent-shaped fan. — Instead of dancers or the usual fortunetellers, Errol had provided some novel entertainment. There were six mar- velous professional swimmers and (Continued on page 68) 65°

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PE EN DP LIST eS Jimmy said: “You mean you think—” ‘Well, aren’t you?” she said. “A hobo? A tramp?” He laughed and then added: “And don’t forget. Fortune- teller, too. Young lady, I can see your future. A young, dark—anyway he’s dark now—man is entering your life. You will see him again—” : “Anything else?” Sheila said. “That’s all for now,” Jimmy said. it’s only part of my act.” “But ‘past performance ... It was in Keith’s Philadelphia Theater that Pete Monahan met Sheila De Royce’s” mother. Jimmy arranged it. He brought them to the dressing room and knocked on the door. Pete cheerily called “Come in,” and then they stood there facing each other. For a moment it was very quiet in the room. Then Pete was slowly getting to his feet and he said: “Lil.” “Pete.” Jimmy looked from one to the other: “You know each other?” Know each other? For Pete, time was reeling back through the years, swiftly as the silent slip of sands through an hour glass. He felt again all the press of emotion, and he could re- member—how clearly he could remember it!_the night in the Boston theater when Lil had promised to marry him. But the rest of it was like a nightmare. He had never loved anyone but Lil, and he had been the happiest man in the world when she had said yes. He never dreamt it could go wrong. But it did go wrong. Another girl, Rose, said he had promised to marry her the night before, had pro- posed. And he couldn’t remember. For the night before was shrouded in drink and gaiety. And perhaps he had— Lil believed it, and she had run from the theater, her footsteps echoing down the alleyway, the sound of it final and abrupt, | and over it the sound of her tears. That was the last time he had ever seen Lil. And out of spite, out of heartsickness and despair, he had married Rose. And he remembered the note Rose left when she had walked out on him: “. . . you never proposed to me at all. That night all you could talk about was Lil .. .” Know her? He had never forgotten her, never through all the years. He could remember the curve of her cheek and the sound of her laughter and the cool touch of her hand. So looking at her now, it was as if she had never left; because in memory he had always been with her. Life was funny, it ran in patterns. And now the pattern was repeating itself, and repeat- ing itself in double. theater Lil and Pete stared at each other; and in the corridor just outside, their children, Jimmy and Sheila, were standing together. Jimmy said quietly: “Hey, I think they can get along without me to push the con- versation.” Jimmy took Sheila’s hand, and they walked out of the room. They could hear Pete say again, in a tone of wonder and quiet tenderness: ri et, From the doorway of a dressing room a little further down the hall, a tall man was watching what happened. He was Arnold Pembroke. 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The wire read: ‘ IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU CONTACT ME AT ONCE (SIGNED) VAN. I received practically the same wire. Sev- eral other people received similar messages. ‘Van, who was perfectly well and in no trouble, has a hunch who has been sending the alarming wires, but he feels he cannot speak-until he is sure. The same trouble-maker started the rumor that Van and June Allyson were secretly married. * * * Margaret O'Brien very proudly showed me her autograph book the other day. “I guess,” sighed Margaret who has her practical side, “it is worth a lot of money but I would never sell it.” Walter Pidgeon wrote: ‘‘To Maggie O’Dear O'Brien.” Katharine Hepburn’s was: “To an angel who isn’t lost.” Robert Young penned: ‘No matter what anybody says, I saw you first.” * * * Speaking of autographs in stars’ “quest books” here are a few others: E ‘George Cukor inscribed in Ingrid Bergman‘s prized autograph book: “To the girl who rang the bell, au Ge who he bi Ti 54 Hedy Lamarr wrote to n Sothern at time she married Robert Ster ean Ann married Bob—not Hedy): “To the G-'den Girl —who tumed out to. be Sterling!” ; * * ss: I find in.my mail from Mopern ScREEN. readers many requests for the latest news about Gene Autry. 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He was the guiding genius back of the famous Lux Thea- ter of the Air. ; In the nine years the Lux show has been on the air, every great star in Hollywood has appeared as maestro Cecil De Mille’s guest— | that is, every star but Greta Garbo who is always a holder-outer in everything. Be | There are a brilliant parade of memories connected with this radio show—but certainly one of the most amusing concerns the digni- fied “C. B.” himself. ; Seems that after about five days of a typical California downpour, De Mille had attempted | to drive from his ranch to the radio rehearsal. But all the bridges were washed out, and there was nothing for him to do but to saddle one of his horses and gallop to town on | horseback! And galloping right behind him | was his pretty secretary! | Seven-year-old Margaret O’Brien set the ‘ record for a child actress when she starred in “Lost Angel’’—the first time in radio history | _that a child has appeared in an hour of broadcasting. 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ned, “I can spare twenty “Tt isn’t money. It’s... it’s...” Patsy said: “You're blushing!” Pete blurted it out then: “It’s about il You like Lil, don’t you kids?” “She’s swell.” : cue for cupid .. . “Well, ’'m glad. Because I think she’s swell, too. Always did. And now. Now— _ Well, kids need a mother and—” “And you need a wife,” Patsy said. “Is _ that what you're getting at?” _ “Q.K. Pop,” Jimmy said airily. “You’ve _ got our permission.” - “What does Lil say?” Patsy asked. “She doesn’t know,” Pete said. “I don’t think she knows I’m still in love with her. _ But I’m going to pop the question tonight.” He grinned. “Wish me luck.” “You can come live with us if things get tough,” Jimmy said. “Us?” Patsy said. “You didn’t ask me.” “IT meant Sheila and me,”. Jimmy said. _ There was a blare of music from out - front. A buzzer sounded in the dressing - room. Pete got up laughing. They walked _ to the door. The Three Monahans. _ “We're on,” Pete said. “There’s our cue.” Arnold Pembroke watched the Mona- _ hans trot toward the stage. Then he closed _ his dressing room door. Another man was seated inside, puffing a cigarette. He. _ was Osborne, Pembroke’s agent. “Vou heard me, didn’t you?” Osborne rasped. “It’s time you quit kidding your- self, Arnold. You're washed up in New York. You’re washed up in vaudeville, too. Except for one thing.” “Yes?” Pembroke said. 3 _ “The girl. Sheila. That's why they’re _ booking your act. And you know it. You can see what’s going on. You've got to _ keep that kid in the act. And now with ' that Monahan kid making a play for her and his old man out for Lil—’ “Yes, I know,” Pembroke said suavely. _ “T don’t need you to do my thinking for - me. Sheila won’t leave as long as her mother stays with me.” “But if Lil marries Pete Monahan? They were in love once. And it looks as if history is repeating itself.” “Not quite,’ Pembroke said. “Lil doesn’t know Pete is still in love with her. And she won’t find out.” : “Why not?” “Because she’s going to be my wife. I _ just proposed to her, and she accepted.” Osborne whistled. “You’re a first grade stinker, aren’t you, Pembroke?” Pembroke shrugged: “Just a business- — man. I have to protect my investments.” got the blues... Pete got drunk when he found out. And he stayed drunk. It was as if something _ had snapped in him, the thin taut rope _ of hope or love. There wasn’t anything for Jimmy or. Patsy to do except wait, hoping that time would heal it. Pete missed shows. The kids had to go on alone. The crowd liked them. A New York scout invited them to look him up on Broadway. But they stuck by Pete. They always told him they flopped when he wasn’t in the show. “They sat on their hands,” Jimmy said. “They were reading papers,” Patsy said. And Pete looked up at them with half _ sober eyes, knowing they lied. He always _ promised it was the last time. And then _ went out and got drunk again. i It was late one night in Salt Lake City that the phone rang in the hotel room the “Monahans shared. Jimmy heard it. He up rubbing his eyes, still half asleep, stumbled | inging phone. He e on pag t ae Give your things. | that crisp-as-new look Be ig _ 4 — = ~~ EIN 7 Oy REPPY — © Corn Products Sales Co. LINIT not only makes cotton look and feel like linen—LINIT penetrates and protects fine fabrics. LINIT renews their original finish. LINIT is easy to prepare— irons smoothly and easily. ALL grocers SELL LINIT. SHEETS AND PILLOWCASES — Cool, lightly-starched sheets invite you to for- get your troubles and sleep like a child. ©) TABLECLOTHS — NAPKINS — Neat, at- tractive LINIT-starched table linen is as much a part of good eating as good food. & SLIPCOVERS—Preserve hard-to-replace upholstery fabrics with gay slip-covers. _ LINIT starch for clean crispness. CURTAINS — Every window is a picture window when framed with pretty curtains. LINIT-starched, they stay clean longer. MEN’S SHIRTS—WORKCLOTHES— LINIT-starching is important for it tends to shed dirt and soil, giving longer wear. LINGERIE —BLOUSES— DRESSES— Girls who look as if they came “‘right out of the top-drawer’’ depend on LINIT-starching.

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Sees eat Soin pe pe Piao ya ee headlines for fall yet m Taking time out from thinking up bigger and better ways to beautify MODERN SCREENers, I twirled the radio dial, and Jack Carson’s show turned up. Someone was accusing him, “... youre jealous of Dennis Morgan’s curly hair.” Carson hooted, “Why shouldn’t his hair be curly? He sleeps all night on a Venetian blind.” ae Which set me right back thinking about business. Kids, you realize, don’t you, that sleeping on a Venetian blind is not the way to curl your hair? Jack’s a fine fellow, but what he knows about beauty shouldn’t happen to Venus. However, speaking of Venus just naturally brings Rita Hayworth to mind. Mrs. Orson Welles is one femme. who knows practically everything there is to know about beauty. Recently “The Reet,” as her pals call her, budded forth in a new and super Fall hair-do. MODERN SCREEN went to work to record this new coif in an exclusive pix. Nice work, eh? - And, thinking of you as I always am, how about a new hair-do for you? SHAMPOO SAGA. You can have fun deciding upon your new “do.” There’s Rita’s up-business or you can take your pick of the collection on p. 76.- But before you get busy with combs and curlers, give a thought to the condition of your hair. Summer’s past, but are you sure the fierce summer sun hasn’t left its mark? Hot sun, dust, perspiration and casual grooming methods conspire to leave it in a shabby state at the end of the season. Get busy on an intensive hair-conditioning program. Nothing fancy, just Intriguing! Helen Hunt's the sfylist. La Hayworth shows us how ‘tis done. Her new pic, “Tonight and Every Night.’

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heartbeat WHEN HEARTS ARE HIGH FINE AMERICAN PERFUME AT AN AMERICAN PRICE Fes A AMERICAN PERFUMERS « EST. 1890 a aac ata oe A’ Division of Shulton, linc ONE SIZE ONLY THREE FIFTY THE OUNCE Plus tox RISQUE * For The Daring DULCINEA * For True Love's Sake HEARTBEAT * When Hearts Are High POETIC DREAM * For Sheer Enchantment *Reg. U. S. Pat. Off, (Continued from page 71) half expected it was Pete. Sheila! He hurried down to the lobby where Sheila was waiting. There was a half determined, half frightened look on her ‘|'face. Then walking through the quiet _streets of the city, she began to talk 2. “T can’t stand it any longer, Jimmy. I’m afraid of Pembroke. There’s something cruel about him. Sometimes I can see his eyes on me, almost feel them, feel the evil in them. Maybe it’s my imagina- tion. I don’t know. It’s never anything you can put your finger on. But it’s there. I don’t want to stay any longer .. .” They were in a little park, and over the rim of the trees the moon hung fat and slack in the sky. A cluster of stars dimpled the sweep of heaven. The trees were friendly black shadows rimming the walk. They stopped, and Jimmy faced her, looking at her. “Sheila,” he said, “you always knew you could come to me—” nt did, Jimmy. You're the only one now. Z “Sheila, from the first, froni the first time I saw you on the train, I knew—” “Knew what, Jimmy?” she said softly. “That I loved you, Sheila. That I al- ways will.” “T love you, Jimmy,” she said. The Irish grin stole over his face then, and there was an impish glint in his eyes. “Then your troubles are over, my lassie,” he said. “For when the Irish love, it’s action and movement and living hap- pily ever after. Come on—” “Come on, where?” “To get married!” | They were the first ones at the Marriage License Bureau early that morning. The clerk eyed them as they stepped up to the counter. Then he read over their applica- tion. He looked up at them again. “You'll have to wait a minute,” he said. He took more than a minute. And it wasn’t until too late that they realized why. By then, he had called. Pete and Pembroke. They came in almost together. Pete came charging in with Patsy be- hind him, and there was a wide grin on his face. Pembroke was impeccable and cold-faced. Lillian was with him, and ‘ seeing Sheila, she ran to her. “Well,” Pete said, “you turned out to be a fine son.” ; “Pop,” Jimmy said, “it was just—” “Just what? Stealing off to get mar- ried? Do you think I wanted to miss it? Jimmy’s marriage! We'll make this the best marriage that ever happened on the Keith Circuit. Right, Lil?” Pembroke said: “What marriage? They’re much too young to think of it.” Pete looked .at Lil: “I was thinking of getting married when I wasn’t much older. Remember that, Lil?” “This is ridiculous,’ Pembroke said. He reached toward Sheila. Pete stepped in front of him. “Wait a minute,” he said. “These kids are in love. They have a right to do what they want.” “And you’re the man to tell them, aren’t you?” Pembroke said. “A sot! A drunkard! You’re drunk now. Have been for weeks.” Pete reached for him then; he held him by the scruff of the collar. Then the anger flared in his eyes, and as Pembroke tried to pull away, Pete swung his fist, and Pembroke dropped to the floor in a sodden heap. It was Lil who bent to Pembroke, looking up .at Pete. “Tt’s true, though, isn’t it Pete?” she said. Pembroke stopped the marriage that time. But it was the last chance he ever had. For it came out then, the fear Sheila had of him. And in their hotel Pembroke

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ki _telt the careful mask slipping from his face. true confession. . . “T hate her,” he said to Lil. “I hate her, and she knows it. Do you think it’s pleas- ant for me to have a chit of a girl support me? To know that I’m through? If I’m through, let’s make a good job of it and end this farce. I’m walking out, Lillian. I never loved you. Pete loves you. I needed a meal ticket. This is last act, last scene. You can ring down the curtain!” It was unfortunate that Pete picked just that time to get thrown into jail. With the peculiar logic of the Irish, Pete swore off liquor, and to seal the oath he heaved a brick through the nearest liquor store window, within plain sight of a policeman. Pete always said there was a moral hidden away somewhere that the day he swore off liquor he ended up in jail Jimmy and Patsy were waiting for him the day he got out. He looked fit, Pete did. He walked with a spring to his step, and there was a glint in his eye which didn’t come out of a bottle. “You're looking at the new Pete Mona- han,” he said. “The old one was good enough for us,” Jimmy murmured. “T hear you’ve been off to the big city while I was in the pokey this month.” “We had a tryout with ‘The Manhattan Follies,” Patsy answered. “How. did it go?” “We're no good without you, Pop,” Jimmy said. “We fell flat. on our faces. ‘ Not that it can do much harm to our Irish maps,” Patsy giggled. “TIl bet you did,” Pete said. Back at the hotel they waited for him while he showered and dressed. They . waited until the suspicious silence in the room next door roused them, and they threw the door open. The room was empty. There was no sign of Pete. There was nothing in the room except an old copy of Variety. They saw the headiine. MONAHAN KIDS SCORE IN MANHATTAN FOLLIES. So Pete knew. He knew they had made a hit, and this was his way of giving them a free hand. Patsy picked up the paper feverishly. On the back page something was missing, part of a column. Jimmy matched the paper with the copy he nee The missing column told of actors and actresses needed for a big volunteer show for the soldiers. Patsy yelled: “Come on! What are we waiting for?” “Who's waiting?” Jimmy said. They ran to the door. It was quite a show. Out front they thought it was all planned and rehearsed They thought it was part of the show when Pete Monahan turned up alone and started his act. They thought it was a prop smile that lit his face when Jimmy and Patsy came dancing out. And they still thought it was part of the act when Lil and Sheila came from the opposite wing. It looked rehearsed—the way Pete took Lil in his arms, and the way Jimmy.. held Sheila. But it wasn’t an act. Not to Pete. Or to Jimmy. THE CAST Jimmy Monahan..... Donald O’Connor Patsy Monahan............ Peggy Ryan Pete Monahan............. Jack Oakie Sheu asia o's eee bale vie eo sere Ann Blyth AMATI i3 scbleve as Rosemary De Camp OSE piesa ies cote eichacsioiaee Isabel Jewell Pembroke...........02000: John Miljan Weldon Laydon............ Gavin Muir For Sparkling Teeth Use this super value brush that anyone can afford! _ a For teeth that sparkle and a smile that charms, use the Dr. West’s “25”, a really good toothbrush that anyone can afford. Because its Nylon bristles are so perfectly anchored, they can’t shed in your mouth. And the tender gum tissues get the extra safeguard of smooth, precision-polished bristle ends. Not only that, but the specially designed head of this super-value brush makes it easy to reach the hard-to-get-at places in your mouth. So, start now to use a Dr. West’s “25”. Or, if you want the finest toothbrush money can buy, select a Dr. West’s Miracle-Tuft, the only brush made with waterproofed, anti-soggy “Exton” brand bristling! 75

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face it by Carol Carter, Beauty Editor - . a windblown disarray is fun for your pixie mo- some suggestions for hair-do’s to fit your particular ments. Here’s Paramount’s pet gamine, Paulette facial type. And on p. 72 I’ve gathered together the Goddard, to prove my point. Your daily social life, low-down on how to shampoo and care for your own i | however, demands a neatly coiffured head. Here are tresses, thus saving war-precious time and money. SQUARE: Balance your resolute jaw with height and softness. You may gain height by a modified pomp, but it’s even smarter today to keep your brow uncluttered. Brush hair into soft waves at the temples and draw it back over the ears. Avoid added width by keeping back ‘ hair neatly under control. LONG: You have a happy choice of coifs. For sophisticated moments, part hair in the mid- dle and sweep it up into wings over the temples. Weave back locks into a low bun or wear netted chignon. For less dressy occasions, brush your hair smooth on top and in loose waves that frame the face. TRIANGULAR: The short, gamine cut is a youthful, all-season favorite with this type. Fluff the curls up at the temples and wear a feathery bang. Another style that accents heart-shaped faces is the upsweep. Swirl your curls up to one side and fasten them with split-tooth combs that pre- vent straggly ends. ROUND: Your cherubic face will seem longer if you pile locks into an upsweep with a modified pomp. Keep hairline soft and varied to divert. attention from rounded contours. You can wear the comfortable short cut, especially if you break the circular line wala a deep wave at the fore- head and a side part. PERFECT OVAL: It’s easy to wear any hair-do with an oval face, but fussy lines aren’t flattering. The serene, smooth-top is your best bet. Part hair in center, brush back from your brow and let the waves cascade loosely. To look chic in a half-hat, maneuver your flowing mane into a sleek page boy or netted chignon. 26,

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CAE OS pS aE SRO ee tf aoe ee ae % a name of Alice Leppert. after the war, it all depends. JAKE OF THE MARITIMES (Continued from page 41) hungry again—and happy. With Dick, en- listment in the merchant marine wasn’t just an idea. It was a passion, a crusade, a cure to all ills and the answer to every prayer. When the lists closed down for a while, the world came to an end. When they re-opened for boys between 16 and 17%, he went wild with hope renewed. He had to be quick—17% was right on top of him. A certain guy who knew the ropes said he’d try to help, and had cause to rue his kindness. Dick would get him out of the bathtub and off the golf course. “How’s it coming?” He drove Henry Hath- away, director of “Wing and A Prayer,” crazy. “Does this scene mean anything, or could I get off to go to the merchant marines?” At the enlistment station every time they looked up, there stood Dick Jaeckel, that lost-dog plea in his eyes. Wait till he was 18? Not if he could help it! He wanted to be in a branch ne liked, and at 18 you have no choice. Be- sides, all his friends were going in. Too darn lonely, hanging around by himself. He might even have to make another pic- ture, which would be the last straw— Yes, he definitely feels the same way about pictures. “Wing and A Prayer” wasn't as bad as “Guadalcanal,” he got the hang ‘of things better, and he met a lot of nice guys like Bill Eythe and Murray Alper. But he doesn’t like acting. Acting’s not reasonable. Maybe he'll feel different He doesn’t know what it depends on—just depends. Maybe after the war they won’t want him back. Can’t understand why they wanted him in the first place. If it had been his cousin now. Dick hadn't seen his cousin in eight years. Just lately he was sent out to California—En- sign John Hanley, aged 20, good-looking as they come, the personality kid himself. Dick’s first name is Hanley, only nobody uses it except his mother. They took John to dinner at LaRue’s. Lew Schreiber, 20th- Fox executive, came over to their table. “Td like you to meet Ensign Hanley,” said Dick, very proud. Then he nudged Mr. Schreiber. “Say, don’t you think you've got the wrong Hanley in pictures?” He made “Wing and A Prayer” for two reasons—because Mom promised she’d sign his enlistment papers then, and be- cause the fellows talked him into it. Doug Stahl, Tom Smith and Jay Richards are his closest pals. To them he’s Jake—and ince it’s the name he prefers, let’s call him by it. They’re all JUGS—short for Just Us Guys, a club affiliated with | SAW IT HAPPEN Over twenty years ago I was visit- ing an uncle in that part of New York known as “Hell’s Kitchen.” One day I heard a terrific commotion outside, but as this was such a com- mon occurrence, I ignored it. Then I heard a girls voice shouting that no one could slap her kid brother and get away with it! I then opened the window just in time to see a blond-haired youngster of about eight beating up a boy at least three years | her senior. It was certainly a spunky and loyal thing to do, and I never forgot the Or do you know her as Alice Faye? Peter Sardo, La the Y. And Jake’s life is bound up with the JUGS. big jug... At first they took his movie job as a joke. But it wasn’t so funny to Jake, be- cause he was stuck with it. He hated talking about it. When they tried to dig things out of him, he’d clam up. What bothered him most was the fellows’d kid about his being a millionaire. He hated being different from the other guys—hav- ing more money or more clothes or more anything— So after “Guadalcanal” he quit the movies—got himself a job at Bireley’s with Doug, and good riddance to acting. But by that time, the fellows’ attitude had changed, they were proud of the kid, so they cooked up this deal to’ surprise him— He always spent a lot of time at Doug’s. They’ve been friends for six years, and Mrs. Stahl’s the kind of mother you dream about. What she’d rather do than any- thing is feed boys. “If you don’t eat at our house,” she says, “I figure you don’t like ihe cooking, so you don’t get asked Well, “Guadalcanal” was previewed at Grauman’s Chinese Wednesday night. Naturally, they didn’t have the kind of money it takes for a preview, so they cooked up this deal for Thursday, which was club night. There were eighteen JUGS left who weren’t in the Army yet, and each guy chipped in 35 cents and gave Mrs. Stahl so many ration points. Doug kept Jake out front, playing catch, and the fellows sneaked in over the back fence. You should have seen Jake’s face when Doug’s mom called them in. What tickled him most was, it showed how the guys really felt. “I think he’d like the picture business,” says Doug, “if you got about five bucks a day like a truck driver. It’s the idea that you’re supposed to be famous and filthy rich—that’s what gets him down—” There was a quart of milk at each place, and even Mom Stahl was satisfied with the way food disappeared down those young gullets. That part of the program was fine with Jake. The second half pleased him less. They were bound for the Chinese, bent on showing Jake off it if killed him. Ritzy and conspicuous in blue jackets and white shirts, they paraded him along the aisle of the theater to a section down front. Heads turned. “Look, that’s Dick Jaeckel—” Boy, was his face red, and did they get a bang out of it! All through the show he’d be trying to get up, and they’d keep shoving him back. gangway for tomorrow ... Weil, that was all right for clowning, but on the side Doug and Tom Smith got serious with Jake. “You're a darn fool,” they told him, “if you don’t get another picture under your belt, regardless of the guys razzing you. That doesn’t mean a thing, they’d all like to be in your boots. Have some sense, Jake. Okay, so you hate it. But you might feel different after the war, and you ll stand a lot better chance to get back in, if more people know you. If you still feel the same, nobody can make you go back.” “Tm scared,” said Jake. “I’m scared of getting caught some way—” “How you gonna get caught? Your mom promised to sign the papers in April. She never went back on her word yet, did she? And another thing. If you don’t like the money angle—” Ee ee Here’s what happens when you wear inferior sun glasses... Inferior sun glass- ~ es let annoying and harmful ultra- ~ violet (sunburn) -— and infra-red — (heat) rays strike s the ECS. Here’s what happens when you wear Cool-Ray Sun Glasses... Cool-Ray Sun Glasses, by ab- sorbing ultra-vio- — let and infra-red - SHFETY | rays, provide the — zie eyes witha “Safe: _— ty LOE os Cool-Ray Sun Glasses admit plenty of “seeing rays,” and keep eyes cool and comfortable. 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She’s little—just the right size for him—and awfully pretty, with soft brown eyes and hair. He’d dash over to school on his lunch hour from Bireley’s, and she’d ditch class, and they’d sit under a tree munching an apple or a blade of grass and she’d tell him her troubles. Mr. Anthony, he called himself. Pretty soon she didn’t seem to have any more troubles. But the fellows did. Be- cause their girls made a point of telling them about the wonderful time Jake was showing his girl. So they had a little talk with him. “Better slow down, Jake. Our limit’s two bucks a night, and our women are giving us the needle.” They didn’t have to tell him twice. By that time it didn’t matter anyway. The deal was cinched. The Girl liked him a) so she didn’t care where he took er. They’d dance at the Palladium or the Casa Manana. They’re both terrific dancers. Jake has a step all his own that the guys try to copy but can’t, his feet move too fast— Sundays they’d all pile in Jake’s car or Doug’s and go down to the beach. Jake’s a swell body surfer. Good at all sports, for that matter. Swimming, football, basketball. For his size, the guy really holds his own. Rainy Sundays, they’d sit around at Doug’s house with cokes and fritos, listening to records. Jake bought every King Cole and Dave Rose record the minute they came out. You know how most modern records have rides in them, taken by one instrument. Well, each fel- low’d pick a different instrument and take the ride as it came along. Jake picked the sax for King Cole, and the violin for Dave Rose. Shoulda seen him take that ride on “Holiday for Strings’—he really went to town— He spent a lot of time with Doug and Tom Smith that last month. Doug was going into the Air Force, end of June. They’d take BB guns and .22’s and go up the canyon to shoot frogs. Then back to Doug’s for dinner. Among the six of ’em— including Mom and Dad Stahl and Doug’s brother Charlie—they’d kill a leg of lamb and about a ton of mashed potatoes with gravy oozing out, and a huge lettuce and tomato salad and gallons of milk. Jake was always swiping everybody’s milk. He’d drink his down and switch glasses, then they’d all start switching and arguing till nobody knew whose glass was whose, and Mom’d bring another pitcherful in from the kitchen. “That’s it, boys,’ she’d say, beaming from ear to ear, “beyond what I salvaged for breakfast.” Then each guy’d have a pint of ice cream. They took it for granted that they had to eat themselves sick. Matter of fact, they’d eat the main course to the top and just stuff the rest into whatever space was left. Then they’d stagger up from the table and go play basketball. loop-the-loopers ... Jake and his mom had a pact—they al- ways spent Tuesday and Friday night to- gether. She’s young and nice-looking and smart, and he treats her more like a sister than anything else. Take clothes, for in- stance. She had to be dressed a certain way, or he’d come right out with it. “You don’t look very BeOS, a E Pe hata 5 And ho he’d we ‘That was a day he’d say, “but if you want me out, you'll have to change hats.” Sk z too, and Jake always appreciated it. “You look sharp now, Mom.” They’d go to dinner and movies, and they loved riding the chutes and roller coasters at Venice and pitching three balls for a nickel, giggling like crazy when they’d make a strike. Practically furnished their beach house with the corny stuff they won pitching balls. Only thing Jake couldn’t get her to do was go roller skat- ing. “I’d lose my dignity,” she’d say. “What's a fall between friends? Be your age, Mom.” And she’d laugh and say, “That’s what I’m trying to be.” Most ways, he could get around her though. She might fly off the handle, but it never amounted to much. Like here lately one night, she told him he had to be home at a certain time, or she wouldn’t sign his papers. Well, things came up, and he just couldn’t make it, not by a good couple of hours— “Guess I’m in the Army,” he sings out when he finally does walk in. “You beat me to it,” she calls back, and it sounds pretty grim. So he grabs his leg and goes lumbering into her room and collapses on the bed like a man in utter agony— Naturally she’s scared. “Oh, you poor boy, poe , happened? What’s wrong with your leg? “Nothing,” he grins, “that the merchant marine won't fix.” She pretends to be sore, but he Enows he’s got her, practice has made perfect. You can’t poor-boy a guy one minute and wreck his life the next. All kidding aside, Mom srauita never have stood in his way. She knew what it meant to him. Must’ve been pretty wear- ing on her, watching him chase around, up today, down tomorrow. She’d prepare an extra-special nice dinner, and he wouldn’t eat. That’s no fun for a woman, but Jake couldn’t help it. Too nervous to eat— Till that Monday the phone call came telling him to report for A physical Wednesday. First he yipped around, then he started getting nervous again. Knew there couldn’t be anything wrong with him, keeping fit was a kind of mania with Jake. But you’re not really in till youve in. Tuesday night he couldn’t sleep, kept watching the clock, was out at the crack of dawn— smooth sailing .. . Wednesday night was different. He ate like a horse and gabbed like a poll-parrot. “Mom, for being so nice and signing all my papers, I'll leave you my ear.’ “That’s sweet of you dear—” it’s a hopped-up jaloppy, “—especially when you know I wouldn’t be caught dead driving it.” “Well, you can pat it every once in a while. Yay, I’m a man of the maritime! Nothing wrong with this chicken.” “First kind word you’ve thrown me in weeks.” “True, very true. One more day in town, two more nights, four more meals. Ah, the maritime!” “T know this won’t do me any good, but—other boys stick around for a couple of weeks.” “Sorry, Mom, can’t be done. If I go Friday, they'll give me my shots, and I'll have all day Sunday to get over ’°em. Then Monday morning I can start practising how to move in at those beachheads.” They went to a movie, but didn’t stay. Jake’s head began bobbing and weaving, so Mom got him home to oee SOE SE slept the sleep of the just. (Continued on page 82)

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ES. SET ERTS PTT EE fm He THE WOMEN IN HIS LIFE (Continued from page 38) “To be impulsive,” grinned the triumphant Jess. “To come to Mocambo with me after the show. No—I don’t think you're that impulsive.” “T have another date,” countered Susan. Jess lifted his shoulders and eyebrows in twin shrugs. “See. That’s what I mean. You aren’t impulsive enough to break your other date.” And he walked away. Susan bristled at the challenge. Of the girl working next to her she demanded, “Who is that man?” “Are you kidding! That’s Jess Barker, of course.’ “T know that. But who is Jess Barker?” pursued Miss Hayward, growing more im- pulsive by the moment. Who is Jess Barker? He was born in Greenville, South Caro- lina, next to last in a family of five boys, to wit: William, John, James, Jess and Joseph. No girls at all. Their mother was a practical nurse, their father a railroader—yard master, to be explicit —which automatically made the Barker kids the most envied charac- ters in their set. Jess, forbidden by his father to do such things, made it a Saturday night habit to slip down to the railroad yards and look wistfully (in his best Butch Jenkins manner) at all passing engineers. En- gineers, being basically only boys grown tall, understood Jess’ dearest desire. They gave him the wink, and the next thing anyone knew, Jess was pulling the whistle -cord and chugging out of the yards, care- fully concealed from his father’s watchful eye. He saw a good deal of country from the cab of a locomotive. He would have seen more, but his business enterprises didn’t allow him a surplus of time for traveling. He hadn’t yet started to school when he took on the responsibility of his first news- paper job: Delivering direct to the cus- tomer. The first time he was paid, he counted the silver over carefully—first grade arithmetic or no—and realized that he had made exactly one dollar and forty cents. It was the riches of Araby. He jingled the coins in the pocket of ‘his knickers, tasting the first jubilance of wealth. Like any generous man with dough in his doublet, he bethought him of his lady fair. He wanted to buy a gift. He stopped at the shop of his choice and made a purchase. “Fifty cents,” said the salesgirl, beaming down on her solemn-eyed customer. Jess gulped, but manfully counted out the dimes. lollipop heaven... Then he went home and banged the back door with unnecessary emphasis. After all, he was a wage earner and entitled to a demonstration of masculine authority. “Got paid,’ he said; before his mother could mention the slammed door. From his pockets he produced ninety proud cents and dropped it into his mother’s apron. Then he handed her a box of sweets—fifty cents’ worth of litho- graphed carton, bright red ribbon and in- different chocolate—and said, clearing his throat, “Thought maybe you'd like some candy.” His mother said that he was a good boy and that she couldn’t imagine what was wrong with her eyes—probably those on- ions se has been pecling for the stew. Jess having made le beau geste, man- ee Le the MARJORIE REYNOLDS, SOON TO BE SEEN IN “MINISTRY OF FEAR” A PARAMOUNT PICTURE Mex certainly do like it ce when a girl’s hands are soft and feminine. A love-appeal any girl can cultivate—Marjorie’s way. The way most Stars do. By using Jergens Lotion. So easy, you can hardly be- lieve Jergens Lotion hand care is so effective. Made to order to The Stars’ own fland Care 1s Vergens Lotion 7to/ SAGE - =) S) help against roughness. “Like professional hand care”, youll say. Yes—2 ingredients in | Jergens Lotion have such a way of coaxing harsh, neglected skin to rose-leaf smoothness that many doctors prescribe them. | 10¢ to $1.00 a bottle. Never | | sticky. Your hand care, too, now . this famous Jergens Lotion. Jergens Lotion Jor cof Adorable Handy

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shane 9 nese its ecole a new one had to be pur- _ chased. Jess agreed. A partnership was a partnership. ABEL But the more he peered into the misty ‘distance of six years, at the termination of which he would come into operating possession of a car rapidly falling to pieces, the more convinced he became that Measures to Safeguard His Invest- ment should be taken. Quietly, he slipped around to talk to Bill’s wife. The con- versation ended with Jess, patently the possessor of true Barker persuasiveness, having borrowed back the full amount of his original loan to Bill from Bill’s wife. It is just as well that this involved financial transaction was completed long before maturity date. When Jess was only fourteen, he heard that a Shrine con- vention was to take place in Miami. Jess had heard—as who hasn’t—a great deal about Shrine conventions. As his gray-green glance watched the specials rolling down the main line, it occurred to him that here was a thing he shouldn’t miss. He walked downtown slowly. Ata haberdasher’s he paused long enough to invest in a beige camel’s hair cap; it came down over his ears, but it gave him a sense of touristing. Next, he visited the bank and drew out enough money for transportation by Pullman. Then he went home and made an an- nouncement. “I’m going to Florida.” He didn’t know how much dissension to expect. “Well, don’t eat a lot of silly things and get an upset stomach,” said his mother practically. “And write to me regularly.” He wandered the streets of Miami with “Gosh” engraved in smiles across his face. The boom was on. The convention was on. The city bulged at the seams. “There’s money to be made here,” sur- mised Mr. Barker. He wandered into a drugstore where a harassed manager, with too much business and not enough help, buttonholed him. “Looking for a job?” gasped the manager. Jess said he was. The manager rushed him into a white jacket, cap and apron and thrust him behind a counter where other employees were behaving like citizens of an ant heap trying to transport a watermelon. Jess helpfully began to wash dishes while keep- ing an eye on genuine soda clerks. He learned, between sudsing glasses, how to assemble a cherry coke and a chocolate sundae. He found out where various supplies were kept. Thus educated, he decided that he was ready to graduate to faucets and spigots. When an excessively pretty girl entered and sat down directly before him, Jess gave her the personality smile and asked, “May I serve you?” “A chocolate malt with chocolate ice cream,” said the Fascinating Face. Jess felt his sawdust raining out through his heels. Just before the jacket, apron and cap collapsed with Mr. Barker, the girl said, “You’re new, aren’t you?” He nodded. He moistened his lips and looked for the manager. “Never mind,” whispered the girl. “I'll tell you how to make the malt. Take that ae shiny can and put in a dipper of milk, em For an hour she sat there, sipping her malt and reciting recipes when customers appeared with appetites. more elaborate than Jess had anticipated. She was there, on the same counter stool, at approxi- mately the same hour the next day and the next. Three years later, after having danced thousands of mules together, after having hundred Ss ng from the sta having dis- rie ees in Orion’ s : aM Se aad eds internal — orection is 4 erful /” Yes! Meds’ internal protection is different! All the modern freedom and convenience of this method—with the special Meds’ features perfected by a woman’s doctor! @ Real COTTON for extra comfort @ “SAFETY-WELL” for extra security @ APPLICATORS for daintiness MMEOS “AF FOR 10 IN APPLICATORS Economy package—four months’ supply—40 for 65c! Meds’ exclusive “SAFETY-WELL” absorbs so much more, so much faster! Extra protection for you! Meds’ fine soft COTTON can absorb up to three times its own weight in moisture! The scientifically-shaped in- sorber expands gently and comfortably —adapting itself instantly to individual requirements. Because of these dainty, carefully designed applicators, Meds insorbers are easy-to-use!

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She laughed in the Barker face. “You'll never be earning that much money,” she chortled. “Never.” She should have known better than to challenge a Barker. Three days later, Jess told her, “Tll get in touch with you when I’m making a hundred a week,” and caught the next train out of Miami. Not, however, before he had given the source of his required weekly stipend some serious thought. sold short... Wall Street, he decided, was his pigeon. Every picture he had seen, every book he had read, contained references to boy wizards who were able to run a porter’s tip into a trillion. Briskly, he applied for a job at a famous brokerage house. Yes, they said, they actually did have an opening for a likely lad. He would start as board boy, wear- ing earphones and chalking market quo- tations. The salary? The usual thing— fifteen dollars a week. Jess stalked out of the establishment. He had been earning twenty behind a soda fountain; he certainly wasn’t going to trade customers chewing sandwiches, for customers chewing pencils—and sac- rifice five dollars in the bargain. Promptly he looked over the local eatery situation, found what he considered one of the busiest intersections in the world and applied to the fountam manager. Before long he had parlayed a soda straw into sixty dollars a week—still forty short of his goal, but not bad at all un- der the circumstances. There were others in the same company who noticed that Jess was doing okay, so a meeting was held at which several co-workers suggested that at the end of each day all tips re- ceived be pooled, then divided evenly. As Jess, by giving phenomenally good service, had worked himself into a condi- tion of physique best described by the fact that he could have hidden behind a tele- phone post while carrying a sleeping bag, considered pooling unfair, and said so. He added that if the system were put into ef- fect, he would quit. He had enough in the bank to tide himself over for quite a period, and—in addition—another oppor- tunity was looming on the horizon; an op- portunity that contained great promise of shattering that hundred dollar per week mark. Eventually, at least. A man living in the same building with him had suggested repeatedly that Jess read lines for a woman who was quite celebrated as a drama coach. The friend thought Jess possessed the indefinable stuff of which actors are made. silence is silver .. . From this particular school had come Clark Gable and Irene Dunne. Later stu- dents were Marsha Hunt, Jeffrey Lynn, John Sheppard and Cornel Wilde. Jess read lines and enrolled in the school. After three months’ training he secured his first part. 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e stage carrying a basket of fish—and never said a word! That experience was followed by sum- mer stock in Lowell, Massachusetts, then Jersey. After having played nearly a - hundred roles in outlying theaters, he was signed for a Broadway appearance—the _ Jimmie Stewart part of “You Can’t Take It With You.” Whereupon, Jess was spotted and signed by Walter Wanger. (The follow- ' ing phase of Jess’ career has been, until now, a closely guarded secret.) He came, _ a bewildered character, into the Holly- _ wood scene and remained long enough to speak a very few lines in two B-minus pictures. Then he gave up and returned to New York. One night after his return to the East Coast, he sat down with his mathematics long enough to determine that the lines he had spoken under contract in Califor- nia had cost his studio something like seven hundred dollars a word. Wistfully he wished that he.might relate this fan- tastic news to the little girl who had once questioned his earning ability. Of course, the word rate hadn’t been very steady, but then neither is a roller coaster—and think of the fun you have. However, he IT’S NOT JUNE IN JANUARY But it’s practically Christmas in July. No, December 25th will still be Christmas back home here, but if we want to make sure that our fellas % overseas really have a Merry Christ- mas with all the trimmin’s, we'd bet- ter start thinking about it—and pronto! The Post- Office Department is asking us to please, but please, make sure that all holiday gifts get sent out by September 15th and no later than October 15th. The regu- lations on size, weight, packing, etc., are the same as always, but no need for a letter of request. So looky, if you think Bill is hav- img enough of a show out there without being bothered with presents, o. k. But if he’s just a plain joe homesick for the States and you, a carefully bought gift, well-wrapped and arriving at the Nick of time will do a heck of a lot to prove to him that we realize that it isn’t always our morale that needs the boosting! had lost touch with his earliest critic, so his belated triumph was denied him. After several more Broadway roles, Jess was cast in a play entitled “Magic.” No one seems to have heard much about it, but a Columbia talent scout was in the audience opening night and—at sight of Mr. Barker—uttered contract noises to the head office in an urgent telegram. The next thing Jess knew he was back again in Hollywood, keeping it a profound secret that this was his second trip. He established himself in a small apart- -ment amid a large circle of friends. Wherever he went, he encountered persons he had known in New York, many of them girls from the theater. Now if Jess is one thing more than another, it’s convivial. When he wasn’t squiring some _ lovely, he was showing up at the Canteen _ to act as emcee. So successful were his _ Friday night appearances that some bright ‘mind asked him to introduce Tuesday hight’s entertainment, too. Which he promptly agreed to do. __ Then, one Friday night last November, Susan Hayward was working at the Can- sewer ariddic oui ceed Ra job with a repertory theater in New. Lj Mrs. John A. Roosevelt The youngest daughter-in-law of America’s first family is gifted with a lovely complexion and exquisite taste. She likes her make-up to look very soft . . . very casual . . . but perfect. “I believe that the best possible base for make-up is a smoother, fresher skin,’ Mrs. Roosevelt says. ““So— three or four times a week—I give myself a 1-Minute Mask.” Mrs. John A. Roosevelt—devotee of a 1-Minute Mask with Pond’s Vanishing Cream How to “pretty up” your complexion with the 1-Minute Mask Cover your whole face—except eyes—with Pond’s Vanishing Cream. Leave the Mask on just one minute—for “Keratolytic” action to take place. Tiny skin roughnesses and imbedded dirt particles are loosened . . . dissolved! Now tissue off the mask. Look at your skin. See how much clearer it seems. How much lighter. ..smoother. Your entire face has the supple, silky finish that takes and keeps make-up superbly! For quick-as-a-wink powder hase... a very thin film of Pond’s Vanishing Cream—left on. Not greasy . . . not drying—a genius at holding powder! IMPORTANT! Conserve glass, manpower— buy one large jar of Pond’s instead of several smaller ones.

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\ HL MONICA! (Continued from page 54) _ says Paul, striving for conviction. “Strange. What did it revolve around?” That’s the only difference between them. Lisl worships unblushingly. Paul pre- fends to cling 4» a shred of masculine objectivity. Till his daughter appears, rosy and tumbled from her nap, stretching to get out of Lutzi’s arms into his. Then all pretense crumbles. Then his face is flooded with such tenderness that you no longer even want to kid him about it. “This,’ he says, “is one of her papa- days.” . Like any mother, Lisl glories in the love between her husband and her child. Just to stir things up, she pretends she’s jealous. Paul explains gravely that Monica has her papa and mamma-days. Days when she’s specially devoted to one or the other. As a matter of fact, it was Lisl who had the head start. Paul’s just begun to catch up with her. . “Now she comes to an age,” says Lisl, “where the man is more attractive—” “Now I’m on vacation,” says Paul, “so we have time to play.” porcelain and poppa... There’s not much a man can do for a girl before she’s reached the age of one. He can hold her of course, but— “She’s so tiny,” said Paul, as Lisl laid her into his arms. “You're frightened. You hold her like porcelain.” ‘Ym not frightened!” “Then why is your forehead sweating?” “Because it’s hot.” He was working then and had worked almost constantly for over a year. “Devo- tion,” “In Our Time,” “Between Two Worlds,” “The Conspirators” followed each other in rapid succession. If he was lucky, he’d get home in time to see Monica bathed. Lisl did a good job, but Luizi—who used to be Lisl’s nurse—was the expert. It was something like a work of art—her sure, deft, gentle way with the squirming little body. “Ach, it’s nothing,” she’d say. “Here, you can do it, too.” He’d back away. “I’m a spectator sport.” That was Lutzi’s favorite joke. She'd chuckle as hard the hundredth time as the first. - But if Paul couldn’t bathe her, Lutzi couldn’t take her picture. That’s where papa shone. He’s the kind of amateur who does professional work, and his pic- tures of Monica from the age of one week on fill albums and albums. He could also buy her things. No girl’s ever too young for that. A charming doll in crisp organdie—hecause it was called a Monica- doll. A violet-sprayed cup and saucer— because she was born in April, the month of violets. He’s practical, too—heard Lisl complain of wartime safety pins and how they didn’t hold, so he went out and ordered a couple dozen that did hold. Another purchase was less inspired. One evening Lisl was bemoaning the rubber situation. It sounded terribly sad, and it made a deep impression on Paul. Next day he went into conference with a pal on the set, whose baby is about Monica’s age— “What does your wife do about rubber?” “Pants, you mean? Say, there’s a shop - in the valley still carries that stuff. Want me to take you there?” _ They dashed out during lunch hour, Paul in his make-up. Yes, they still had _a few pair of pants and some sheeting. In pink. Better take the black, ee b Sion Siew = ouncG lady, remember, soft light is de- ne ceptively kind to your complexion. But, most of the time your skin is exposed to glaring daylight or harsh electric light. So it stands to reason that a face powder which flawers your skin at high noon... will glorify it under soft light. That’s why we say “Judge Cashmere Bouquet Face Powder in bright sunshine.” For, this exquisitely smooth powder is Cashmere Bouquet Face Powder in all 6 Excit- ing ‘“‘Color-True” Shades, 10¢ and larger sizes. Make the Compact Close-up at Noon on a bright day! if harsh light is unkind to your skin, use Cashmere Bouquet Face Powder fo give It fresh, young color in any kind of light. made by Colgate’s famous Color-True pro- cess, made to stay Color-True in any kind of light. There’s one particular Color-True shade of Cashmere Bouquet Face Powder for you. Wear it to lend your skin subtle, flattering color. And be sure that your compact close-up, at any time of day, will say “This Color-True shade is fresh; young; ever so flattering.”

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Much better quality. Pink stuff’s flimsy. Can’t recommend it. Black’ll wear like iron— He walked in that night with the tread of a conqueror, and the parcel under his arm. They told him he was wonderful. They made such a fuss over him and his black rubber that he practically purred. When the door closed behind him, only two words were spoken. “Ach, men!” said Lutzi. Lisl stuffed the parcel into a dark corner of the closet, where it lies to this day. Rubber or no rubber, who could use black for a baby! Under the eyes of an adoring house- hold, she grew from a morsel that ate and slept and gugged, to a personality. | She accepts adoration sweetly, but if you don’t adore her, that’s all right with her, too. Take Maxi, for instance. Maxi’s getting old and can’t be bothered and goes G-r-r. She accepts that, too. All other dogs are Wah-wah—including Vicki, the gentle cocker spaniel. Maxi is G-r-r-, and she loves him just the same. She’s made friends with all the neigh- borhood children. Among her favorites are Pat O’Brien’s younger son and 5-year-old Jill Schary. “Hi, Santa Monica!” they hail her. “Hi!” she calls back. Her name has nothing to do with the name of the town. Lisl’s_ always wanted a blonde daughter named Monica—blonde, because Pauli was so fair as a child, Monica because it seemed to her such a happy name. Throughout their marriage, Lisl’s been in the habit of saying, “When Monica comes—” It was just a pleasant coinci- dence that she should have come to their home near Santa Monica. And another coincidence that she should have been christened in a little church called St. Paul’s. Last April she had her first birthday. Paul was very sad, says Lisl, because he was working in “The Conspirators” and couldn’t be there. “Can’t you tell Jack Warner that -your baby has a birthday, and you have to come back?” “Yes. I can also tell you what Jack Warner will say to me!” “Never mind. Ill fix the table so you can see it before you go.” There’s a lovely fenced-in enclosure on the grounds known as Monica’s garden. That’s where they had the party—with ice cream and a one-candle cake and Moni- ca’s friends round the table and Lutzi looking after them. Lutzi’s a prime favor- ite. Next day little Jill Schary paid a formal call on Lisl— “I have something important to ask you. Monica’s growing now, and pretty soon you won't need a nurse. But when I get married, I'll need a nurse for my baby. So Id like to book Lutzi now if it’s all the same to you.” Paul’s always had definite ideas on the training of children. He used to enlarge on them. “My child will be brought up as I was brought up. In the nursery. If we have guests, I don’t want them bothered with a baby. I don’t want a baby at the table when I eat. It disturbs me, and it disturbs the child.” turn-about tyke ... “You’re perfectly right,” said Lisl. 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Fortunately for us, Gene subscribes to the oft-heard state- ment, “Never call an Irishman a quitter!” So, though professing to know nothing about the dishes pre- ferred in the particu- lar region from which he hails, Gene did go on to give us his all- round favorites which we know would get feature billing on food programs everywhere! In this culinary “act” he had the enthusiastic support of his charming wife, Betsy. Once a promising ac- tress on the stage back in New York where they met and married, Mrs. Kelly is now more than content to devote herself to the welfare of her husband and their adored and ador- able daughter, Kerry. As to the foods of which they spoke and for which we secured the recipes, well, first and foremost there was Irish Stew. Naturally! Not that all Irishmen will necessarily like his version, Gene pointed out . .. Since there are almost as many types of Irish stew as there are of Irishmen who demand this dish as their inalienable right! The Kelly- style stew calls for lamb, potatoes, carrots and frequently dumplings. No peas or parsnips, mind you, but plenty of turnips as they contend this vegetable is the most important flavoring adjunct in this famous dish. Mrs. Kelly also adds two large lamb bones to the pot to improve the flavor of the broth. Kellyfornia Beans are another versatile main course feature at the Kelly dinner table, we were told. But where the Kellys really went to town was on desserts. First Super Shells—which are special fruit tarts the size of coffee cups because Gene objects to “sample size” portions. Offered as a sort of culinary Pas de Deux, the pastry that goes into these shells is also used for Lattice Apple Pie which is Gene’s favorite sweet— not only for dinner but also at break- fast! (A staunch believer in large breakfasts, anyway, Gene often tops off the first meal of the day with a couple of pieces of candy! He feels that candy is an important source of energy, which he realizes he needs for his Terpsichorean activities.) A big favorite with this family are refrigerator cookies . . . convenient to have on hand for quick cooking ... easy on ration points .. . fine for Kerry in a simplified version ... therefore named in her honor. * * * Want to have a FREE copy of the attractive leaflet which contains tested recipes for all these grand food favorites of the Kellys? Then mail your request to: The Modern Hostess, Dept. G.K. MODERN SCREEN 149 Madison Avenue New York 16, N. Y. (Please enclose a stamped, vb 1g hod again Ge Well, Miss Inquisitive, we weren’t talking to you, really. We wete telling your Mother about Fels-Naptha Soap ... but you can listen too. We were just reminding Mother that you'll soon be big enough to toddle around and ‘get into things’. You'll need a complete change of cos- tume often—on short notice. And that’s when she'll need Fels-Naptha Soap! She’ll need it to get your washing done in a jiffy. To get a// the dirt out without rubbing your little dresses into rags. To get them so white you look ‘sweet enough to eat’. Does she have to use Fels-Naptha Soap? No, but if she takes the advice of a lot of Mothers we know—she will!

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He also carries her picture in a locket on his money-clip. Insists he doesn’t show it to people. Not unless they ask him. bountiful bunnies . . . The upper floor of the house belongs to Lutzi and Monica. Paul risked life and limb to climb out on the roof and hang a bamboo shade over the big bedroom win- dow for added coolness. He had an idea | for the nursery, too. It’s papered most of the way. “But let’s paint it as high as a baby’s arm can reach. Then she can make fingermarks, and it won’t be a minor domestic tragedy.” There’s a shelf of honor for bunnies, sent to Monica by kind friends all over the country. That’s be- cause Paul told an interviewer once that rabbits were his luck-bringers. He still owns the one Lisl gave him for his make- up table soon after they met. The baby’s favorite toy is a duck-on-a- stick. That’s what Paul says. “Actually,” says Lisl, “it’s his favorite toy. Monica humors him.” They push it together, Monica in front. First, the duck just walks. Then you turn something, and he jumps. Then you turn something else, and he waddles. Monica screams with joy. Paul casts a smug sidelong glance at Lisl— “Ah yes, but you didn’t see her wink at me behind your back.” On Lutzi’s dresser stands a beautiful Viennese clock in the shape of a crystal sphere. Years ago, baby Lisl learned to tell time by it. Baby Monica will learn by the same old clock, and the same old nurse will teach her. A Rubens angel hangs over her bed between two silly- looking ducks. She can take her choice between art and comedy. In music, art lost out. She used to love Viennese waltzes. Now she’s all for jazz. Her par- ents have discovered how to send her to sleep happy. When they used to just walk out on her, she’d whimper—couldn’t bear to see them go. One night Paul grabbed Lisl and jitterbugged out with her. That did the trick. Sorrow was drowned in glee. Now Monica gets her floor-show every night. hi'ing henreid .. . It must be admitted that at bedtime she behaves better for Lutzi than anyone else. But once a week Lutzi goes to the movies. Not till her darling’s asleep, but it hap- pens sometimes that she wakes up when Lutzi’s gone— There’s one night the Henreids won’t soon forget. The baby woke up, and how she woke up. Sleep was the farthest thing from her mind. “Hi!” she kept call- ing. “Hi, hi, hi!” Mama and papa were about to sit down to dinner with a guest. Papa went up. Monica knows he’s an easy mark. If a smile doesn’t fix him, a kiss works won- ders. Her arms went round his neck and clung, so naturally he had to pick her up. She reached toward the bathroom door, where her flannel robe hangs. That means she’s ready to make a night of it. So No-Babies-at-the-Table Henreid got her into her robe and took her downstairs. “She couldn’t sleep,” he explained. After dinner, Lisl took over. “Now she’s got to be tired, she’s got to sleep.” Paul - SP ebay ROE Nd _ “When we have Mimi.” Paul’s not so sur oe a chess. When you play « unheeded. At ten o au on his watch. Where in 1eave was Lisl? He ran upstairs— “Hi!” said his daughter brightly. His wife said nothing. She was c He felt terribly sorry for her. “You down and relax, and I'll put her to sleep — “You'll never get her to sleep, and wha will Lutzi say when she comes ho Paul summoned psychology to his He paced the floor with his child and the first three bars of the “Brahms L by” over and over and over again “—la-! lah, la-la-lah, la-la-lah-la-la-lah—.” liked that—she liked it so much that started singing it with him. “La-la-lah? said Paul. “Aa-aa-aah,’ erooned Monica. | His arms went stiff, because he was afraid | to shift her, and his throat went dry. At last the obbligato faltered—the lids flutt —or was it a mirage? No, she was aslee But would she stay asleep if he put he down? At this point, he was taking ne chances. “Up-and-down, back-and-forth, la-la-lah-la-la-lala—” ‘i When he finally reappeared, Lisl offered to pin a medal on him. a “Just a little liniment for my arms i stead. And do me a favor, Lisl. Ne time you play the ‘Brahms Lullaby,’ ski the first three bars.” But even at the cost of singing her to sleep every night, he’d still like to _keep } her the way she is. “One year more ani then they start to go away from you.” “Pauli,” explains Lisl, “would like - skip 3 to 16, and then reappear when Mc nica will be very good-looking, and he car take her to the Mocambo. All the trouble in between I can handle.” o Today is enough for Lisl. Paul plans for the future. “When she’s twelve or thirteen, she goes East to school. To broaden her outloo To make her understand that Hollywooe isn’t the world.” a “I don’t listen,” says Lisl tranquilly. “I look only for the next eight days—or at most, three months.” . Paul continues gazing into his crystal ball. “A year in Switzerland, maybe.” “Certainly. EH the whole family moves to Switzerland for a year.” J This “whole-family” business brings uj another point. Just as she used to saj “When Monica comes—” Lisl now say: He’s so crazy about this one that he can’ imagine giving his heart to another, Lis has more imagination. Also more realisr not to mention an unquenchable matern spirit— . 4 “It’s not good for a child to be brought up alone. Anyway, you said it was won derful when you saw that picture of a man with 23 children.” “Darling, your memory is poor. I said astonishing.” “Well, I only want six. But,” she adds hastily, “we'll settle now for two.” “What do you mean by now?” a “By now, I mean now. What will be in three years, who can say?” Our bets are on Lisl. There’s a third room upstairs that’s going to be Monica’s room, when Mimi comes along— Meantime, Monica rules the roost. “So many people thought we'd be silly about her,” says Lisl. “But we’re completely normal,” says Paul. q “Of course. You don’t show people her picture. Unless they ask.” : | “And you sometimes talk about other f things. If you must.” Di. “Hi!” calls a voice from the garden. _ Lisl jumps up. Paul grins. “Let’s” silly,” he says, tucking her { his arm. And they .

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Exotic and tremendously vivid—these are the words that seem to describe best the extraordinary beauty of Gloria Vanderbilt De Cicco. Her features are fascinatingly unconventional. Her velvet- black eyes and hair contrast strikingly with the smooth ivory of her complexion—soft-misted and glorified by Pond’s Dream- flower “Rachel” powder. “For girls with coloring like mine, Dreamflower ‘Rachel’ is simply unbelievable!” says the young American heiress. “I can’t get over the lovely smooth creamy look it gives my face!”? New Pondi Lips ” shade! ¢ Super-exciting news about “Lips”! It’s a gorgeous new shade—rich, round, rosy crimson. Its name— “Beauhatl” is Two sizes— 494, 10¢, plus tax —6 perfect shades RACHEL—soft ivory s NATURAL—creamy shell-pink BRUNETTE—rosy-beige ROSE CREAM—delicate peach DUSK ROSE—deep, glowing DARK RACHEL—rich, golden NUTTY BUT NICE (Continued from page 31) He keeps at it till friends begin to drop in—intimates of the house like Betty Kap- lan and the Ken Niles with their two nice youngsters. Scotch and Soda go dashing round the pool, barking like mad every -time someone dives off the board. Once, Soda got too close to the edge and toppled in— “Save him, save him!” yelled Jane. Ronnie dropped a soothing hand on her shoulder. “Honey, that’s a dog. He’s not like you, he knows how to swim.” Preparations for supper get under way. A long table’s set in the patio for the grown-ups, a small one for the three chil- dren. Jane runs in and out of the kitchen, helping Velma. “See to it that Maureen eats, will you, boys? She’s not very good at it—” Wendell and Dennis, 11 and 9, take their responsibility seriously. “She couldn’t eat all that dinner, a little girl like that.” “T should say not. Only a big girl could | eat it. Or else a boy.” “IT can too eat it!” “Okay, we'll race you.” Jane would like to pin a decoration on the boys, or kiss them. When they see Maureen lagging, they drop some food back on their plates, so she can win the race. Presently, Ronnie passes the table. The boys are deep in a discussion of base- ball. Chin in hand, Maureen listens rapt- ly without the vaguest idea of what they’re talking about— “What goes on over there?” Jane asks. “Not a thing to worry about. Your daughter knows how to handle her men.” If it’s Nanny’s day off, Jane leaves her guests to get Maureen ready for bed. The big treat’s a bubble bath in Mummy’s tub. Then Ronnie comes up. One night for their child’s diversion, he and Jane went into a corny old Foy routine— “Hello, Joe, whaddayaknow?” “Just got back from a vaudeville show.” “Can you sing and dance?” “Tll take a chance.” “Well, all right, let’s go—” That went over, but big. Maureen clamored for it whenever Daddy came home. Now she does it for them, the little ham. Sits them down and takes both parts herself. “Just got back from a waterbill show,” she carols. And when she goes into the dance—a little thing she ran up herself in very odd moments—strangled sounds issue from her parents’ throats which they cover up with vigorous ap- _ plause. “my soul to keep.” .. . Then come prayers. Maureen bows her head, but keeps her eyes open so she can look at Grandpa Reagan’s picture. Some- times she holds it herself, sometimes she gives it to her doll to hold. Because Grandpa Reagan, who went to heaven when she was a tiny baby, loves her very much and always listens with God to her _eall anyone else a prayers. If she’s good, that is. If she’s been naughty, he feels sad and has to close the door. Another good thing about Sunday is she can have breakfast with Daddy Monday morning. “Daddy,” she said, eyeing him fondly on one such occasion, “you’re a jerk—” Ronnie has his own inimitable way of handling such crises. “That’s fine. Now I'll tell you something. You're a jerk, too. And I'll tell you gnoih thing. Don’t ever jerk. We'll be - tHe

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jerks in the world, just you and I—” When Jane came down—‘Mummy, you know what? You’re a button-nose bunny, and Nanny’s little woolly lamb, and Vel- ma’s a chickadee. But look at Daddy and me,” she crowed. “We're a couple of jerks—” Mother’s Day was a very special Sun- day. In her blue and white dress and. little straw hat, Maureen was presented to the church. The minister—who married Jane and Ronnie five years ago—gave her a certificate, and a pink rose for her mother. “That's from the minister, not from me—” If she said it once, she said it five dozen times on the way home, blinking furiously at Daddy and giggling her head off. It was all very subtle— She couldn’t wait to scramble out of the car and up to her mother’s bedroom. Jane found her standing breathless beside a package. “Here’s my muzzer’s day present from me—” When she’s excited, it comes out muzzer. Muzzer opened the box. A black night- gown. If there’s anything Jane detests, it’s a black nightgown. Strictly the Fuiji- silk pajama type, that’s Jane. “My, you’re going to look pretty in that,” cooed Maureen. Stifling a groan, muzzer went into the proper ecstasies. Ronnie’s face came edg- ing round the door and met a dirty look. “Don’t look at me. She picked it with her own little hatchet.” three for one... Jane dislikes waste. A week or so later, she approached her daughter tactfully. “That’s a beautiful present you bought me, but you know what we could do with it? We could take it back and buy three pres- ents instead—one for me, one for Daddy—” “And one for Maureen.” Blissfully unaware that her feelings should have been hurt, she was enchanted with the whole transaction. They bought robes and pajamas for themselves and pa- jamas for Daddy. Jane and Ronnie feel strongly about teaching her the value of money. For ser- vices rendered, she gets a nickel—called a big penny—which she puts in her bank. But she knows how to steer an occasional windfall her way. Two cents clutched in her palm, she’ll inquire wistfully: “How many little pennies does it take to make a big penny?” That’s generally good for a handout from Mummy or Daddy. She’s pot allowed to take money from anyone else. But she’s found that wealth entails re- sponsibilities. “I want a new pair of shoes,” she announced one day. “Fine,” said Jane, “if you’ve got the money to pay for them.” ‘Tl ask Daddy—” “Daddy buys things you need, not things you just want.” ‘Nana’s got money.” “Nana needs her own money to pay for her own shoes.” A long pause. them.” That started it. She discovered that if saving was nice, spending was nicer. Now she saves with a purpose. “Guess I'll take my two grannies out to lunch.” The bank disgorges three dollars. You can’t cheat on Maureen. If she’s taking you out to lunch, she foots the bill. So they go to the Tick-Tock, where the 75-cent table d’hote is so good that you have to wait on line for an hour. As hostess, Maureen keeps her grannies’ spirits up. “Oh my,” she burbles at two-minute intervals, “what a fine lunch we’re going to have bimeby.” Part of her income’s derived from house- work—picking up toys, setting dolls a 0 NS 4 Nanny co hee 2 “Oh, well—Ill pay for helpful way. Nanny takes care of her own room and Maureen’s. Jane takes care of hers. Otherwise, Velma would have too much to do. Because Cliff, Velma’s hus- band, works only part time for the Rea- gans now. And part time for the railroad, doing his share to ease the labor shortage. He comes and goes, and they call him Casey Jones. 2 “You off now, Casey?” “Casey’s off now, Miss Maureen.” “Well, don’t worry, I'll take care of the house.” For months now, Jane’s been getting up at 5:30. A change has come over the status of Miss Wyman of Warner Brothers. There was a time when she hadn’t enough to do, when she wailed for work. Since “Animal Kingdom” she hasn’t stopped working. Since “Make Your Own Bed” she’s been a star. Ann Sheridan says she'll be the talk of the town when “The Doughgirls” comes out. Of course she’s pleased, who wouldn’t be? Some reach stardom quickly. She made it the hard way. But Jane’s not one to get excited over billing. “So they call you Miss Wyman instead of Jane. Id rather be Jane.” What matters is that she’s been promoted from “Sorry-Janie-there’s- no-story-for-you-right-now” to “We’ve- bought-such-and-such - a- story - for - Wy - man.” What matters is the sense of breaking a stalemate, of being on her way at last— “T wanted to move,” says Jane. “Prefer- ably up. But even down would have been something. Only if you’re going down, go. He euine in one spot that drives you ma (Parad) She wrote to Ronnie: “Don’t look now, hon, but that little speck miles down the road behind you is me. Took me two and a half years while you were in the service to get even that close.” They had to talk her into doing Vivian in “The Doughgirls.” She made a test and thought it was horrible. Up in Mark Hel- linger’s office one afternoon, they all went to work on her. It was pressure, rather than conviction, that broke her down. “Ah, do it!” pleaded Annie Sheridan. “What can you lose? A lousy fortune?” Now she shudders at the thought that she might have missed it. There'll never be another picture like “The Doughgirls” —so good and such fun to do. There'll never be three sweller dames than Ann and Eve Arden and Alexis Smith. Or a director to beat Jimmie Kern— Jane and Ann and Alexis wanted to give Jimmie something to remember them by. Something unique and original and differ- ent. For days they racked their brains, till Jane was finally smitten by inspira- tion. “How’s this for an idea? Our three miniatures on ivory in a silver frame for his desk, inscribed, ‘From The Dough- girls.’ ” “Marvelous! I know a guy who does beautiful work,” said Alexis. “He’s right here at the studio. Let’s get him down.” The guy came down. Yes, he’d be glad to do it. A charming idea! It should be done thus and so and et cetera and et cetera. The spiel went on and on, embrac- ing every detail but one—on and on, while the girls listened fascinated, and no one dared mention anything so vulgar as money. down to earth k.. thump... It was Jane who finally took the bull by the horns. This was all very ethereal, but somebody had to find out one of these days— “TJh—what do you think itll cost?” “Cost?” He touched the word so dis- dainfully that she felt like a worm for Ting brought i 1D eA So Spx hovc COLUMBIA DIAMOND RINGS "Gums for Lady G 4 4 This Diamond Duette Inspired By The Diamonde Clear Voice of Lovely JOAN BROOKS Singing Star of the COLUMBIA Broadcasting DIAMOND ~~ ENGAGEMENT RING $140 DIAMOND : WEDDING RING £50 Fed. Tax Incl.

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_ $tardust Fashion propucts Pictured is lovely *RITA DAIGLE, chosen as Miss Stardust of 1944, posed in her Stardust blouse. Rita hae now joined the ranks of — f /, long sleeves, 13 2 Short sleeves, ]-39 Stardust Life-Fnowred Blouses GUARANTEED FOR L YEAR count CUT © %, S Guaranteed by © Good Housekeeping Hop WOKFECTIVEOR oy 45 Aovearisey THES BY THE MAKERS OF from 500 to 3000 dollars for my work.” | You never saw tongues go down three throats so fast. They were afraid to look at each other. Ann’s resistance to laughter is low. All Jane has to do is go boo, and Annie breaks up— Somehow they got rid of him before hysteria set in. By the time their shrieks had died away to moans, they decided it was too good a joke to keep to themselves. Jimmie had to come in and hear the whole story— “That,” he said, “is the best 3000 dollars worth of pictures I never got.” “At 3000 dollars,’ Ann snorted, “I not only wouldn’t have my mug painted, I wouldn’t have it lifted.” They gave Jimmie an un-unique, un- original and un-different cigarette lighter, with their names engraved on it. And they gave Alexis the name of I-Know-A- Guy Smith. Naturally, it wasn’t all fun. Work as such can’t be fun to Jane. She takes it too hard. It’s Ronnie who’s Irish, but Jane who’s moody. Up in the clouds or down in the depths of gloom—never a hap- py medium, no matter how she tries, and she tries hard— “My husband and I,” says Jane, “are like Scotch and Soda.” Soda takes after Ronnie, Scotch after her. One day Scotch got mad and started snapping at Soda. For a moment, Soda watched him tolerantly—“Pipe down, brother, pipe down.” When that didn’t work, he lifted his paw and laid it quietly on his brother’s nose. It worked like a charm. Scotch subsided, Soda removed the paw, and they trotted off together in brotherly love. “And if those aren’t my husband’s tac- tics, Pl eat my hat,” remarked Jane out loud, though no one was around.to hear. oil on the waters... Few people are as honest with them- selves as Jane. Few people see their faults so clearly. If things at the studio upset her, she gripes about them at home. She flies off the handle. She knows she shouldn’t, but she does. When Ronnie’s around, he tries to calm her down. But she doesn’t want to be calm, she wants to storm— “You don’t know what things are like. You’ve been away too long.” “Things like that don’t change. It’s just a question of diplomacy.” Time passes, and she cools off—realizes that Ronnie has his own problems, that it can’t be much fun to come home on a week-end pass and listen to her beef. Her conscience smites her. Jane’s temper is warm, but not nearly so warm as her heart— Only you can’t apologize to Ronnie. He doesn’t have that kind of self-righteous- ness. So she takes the indirect approach— “Look, is it all right with you if ’m a jerk?” “I don’t know—what—you’re— talking about.” “I’m talking about me: being a jerk last week.” “You suit me, hon. If you didn’t blow up now and then, you’d be somebody else. What’s on for tonight?” A movie’s on for tonight. Or a gin rummy game with Joan and Ken Niles. Or they’ll drop in on Gracie and George Burns. Jane’s admiration for Gracie knows no bounds. “You can’t imagine being any- one but yourself,” she says soberly. “But if I weren’t myself, the woman I'd like best to be is Gracie Allen. I’m not one to go off the deep end, as a rule, but to me Gracie represents a kind of ideal—as a wife, as a mother, as a friend, as a per- son.”

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othing but the war. If you talked abou ything else, he was very polite, but he didn’t really hear you. Now, as with most of us, the invasion has wrought a subtle change. The war remains all-important, the road remains long. But light glimmers ‘on the horizon, and sometimes he lifts his eyes to it for a moment. __ He and Jane had dinner out one Sun- day. While he made a phone call for her, she ordered more coffee. ‘Mor Mr. Wyman, too?” asked the waiter. She choked. “Don’t let him hear you say that, or he’ll murder the two of us.” But she was still grinning when he got _ back. “What's funny?” She told him. “Wait,” he said. “Just wait till I get out of this uniform.” It was the first time he’d shown any spark of interest in what was going to happen after the war. Since then, he’s shown other sparks. ‘Last Christmas, Jane gave him two lots adjoining their property. When the war's over, they’d remodel the house. Ronnie ‘couldn’t get worked up over the project. “The war’s not over yet,’ he’d say. Recently, he brought a big, cellophane- wrapped sheet of cardboard home from the post with him. “What’s that?” E “Something I’ll show you after dinner.” It was a plan of their remodeled house and grounds, all drawn to scale. He’d cut out little trees and pasted them in such a way, that they could be laid flat against the board or made to stand up. A girl with a golf club, a tiny girl scamper- _ ing behind her, chased two Scotties across the lawn. Jane went out of her mind. “But where in the world are you?” He pulled up a limb of a maple tree. Under it, smoking his pipe, lolled plain Mr. Reagan. “But the war’s not over yet,” teased ' Jane. “No, it’s not. And I'll be in it till the ‘last dog’s out. Like any soldier.” Then he looked down at the house and the girls and dogs. “But a guy can dream, can’t he?” CO-ED (Continued from page 22) how to dress to suit an occasion, how to make the very most of an unspectacular puss. (And our etiquette, beauty and fashion charts will be boons here. See page 26.) It helps to know what’s going on in the world, so that you’re not shivering on the outskirts of every conversation. (And your _ radio, newspapers and newsweeklies are the medicine for this.) It helps to have a couple of emergency measures up your sleeve. Stuff that you don’t find in books, like how not to get stuck at a dance, how to invite a boy to a party, how to stop being a girl’s girl or a lone wolf and become part of a gay co-ed throng. It’s on these uncharted items that we’re going to try to help. We've collected data from gals who have been through all the teen-age nightmares. Wallflowers who’ve bloomed into beautiful things. And the answers they’ve learned the hard way are all yours for a quick look- psee in this and subsequent Co-eds. getting stuck... The first step toward not getting stuck begins at home in the privacy of your own ' room. Dress with real care; apply your party face with skill; be lavish with the mouth-wash and non-perspirant. Be con- - vinced when you greet your fella, that you couldn’t possibly look better:

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a registry. If so, have your name added to the list of baby-sitters. Call the Cham- ber of Commerce and list yourself with them, stating the hours at which you are free to work. If there’s an Army camp near you, Army wives would be thrilled to know about your services, so put your- self on file with the War Housing Com- mittee or any comparable organization in your locality. You might also advertise in your community newspaper. It would be worthwhile to keep an ad running all the time giving your qualifications, avail- able hours, rates, etc. I am to be married soon and am simply appalled at all the details connected with the ceremony. Can you tell me the an- swers to these questions: Is the bride always given a white bible, and who gives it? If it is a double ring ceremony, does the bride buy the groom a ring? If the bride’s gown is formal, is it necessary for the bridesmaids to wear formal dresses? A. J., Phoenix, Ariz. The bride often carries a white bible in which there is a spray of white flowers, ‘but this is strictly up to the bride. A bouquet of flowers (white, of course) is perhaps more customary. The bride would buy herself the bible. Yes, in a double ring ceremony the bride gives the groom a ring. Be sure to ascertain his finger size and also consult him about style be- fore buying it. When the bride wears a for- mal wedding gown, the bridesmaids usually wear long dresses, but they don’t absolutely have to. They may wear short, afternoon dresses in pastel colors and carry small bouquets. Is mail to servicemen censored? Marks, Grosse Point, Mich. Betty Not all of it. One out of every five or six letters received at the Fleet or Army ‘Post Office is opened and censored. This spot-checking on outgoing mail should in- spire caution in all of us. Enclose no plans of machines with which you work at the war plant, give no statistical information about production, refrain from demoral- izing comments on the Government, the Tationing system, etc. I received a letter from my husband— he’s with the Seabees in the Pacific—and he says to stop dishing him sweetness and light in my letters. He tells me to let him in on the seamy side. Here I thought I was being a morale-booster, and I get my- self bawled out. What shall I do now? Mrs. A. S. Harrison, Los Angeles, Calif. The phoney cheer of some of our letters to servicemen worries them. They think, “Gee, things can’t be that good.” And they begin imagining fictitious catastrophes. There’s a fine line between out-and-out griping and the sharing of small disap- pointments and annoyances. Let him know that you ran out of gas and had to be pushed home, that the gal next door continues to bore you stiff. Just don’t wail about it, though. Give it a humorous slant, the way you would if you were telling him about it. Don’t burden him with financial anguishings, with in-law troubles. He’s absolutely helpless to do anything about these things, and it drives him crazy to think of you coping with them singlehanded. * * * Gosh, thanks for all the mail. We feel like Hedy Lamarr or someone. Keep it coming, won’t you, gals? And boys, too. If you’re overseas and need a trouble- shooter, that’s us. If you want a line to snare an Australian dream-puss, we've got it. Here’s where to write: Jean Kink- head, Moprern Screen, 149 Madison Avenue, New York 16, New York. “For a ‘quick-up’ When I rest, Royal Crown Cola Sure tastes hest!” says GAIL RUSSELL “¢1 was convinced by the famous cola taste-test,’? says Gail. ‘I tried leading colas in paper cups and picked the one that tasted best. It was Royal Crown Cola! Since then, I’ve discovered that Royal Crown Cola is a grand fresh start as well!’’ Best by Taste-Test / 101 ae Te TT STE TT DENT PTET MELE aT.

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es aren't so important. But ; going to cost her in overcoming e shyness that is her outstanding char- eristic is a great deal. Most of our ‘poor little rich movie girls are inveterate ‘seekers after publicity, lovers of the lime- ght. Barbara is the shyest, most self- " effacing little thing I’ve ever seen. She as shunned newspaper notoriety like the plague merely because she simply cannot bear to parade herself in public. I think it “must hurt her physically, and I know it ‘sears her soul. Maybe it hasn’t been too ‘wise a policy on Barbara’s part, for there have been many times when the reporters ere hounding her, and she shut herself ‘away. The press may have thought her ‘arrogant. Wrong, she was only frightened to death. ; - The love of Barbara and Cary Grant is ‘so deep that I think there’s little likeli- ‘hood of their drifting apart. I’m on a limb ‘saying that, knowing well that nearly every “ideal” Hollywood marriage has hit the rocks sooner or later. But with these _ two, that ol’ devil career is no hazard.’ “Barbara yearns only to be wife, mother. ‘and chatelaine. Their arrangement is . ideal. For instance, the day I was at their ‘house Cary was absent at Arrowhead having a five-day powwow with his agent, Frank Vincent. _ Friday night is fight night in Hollywood, and Cary always goes to the Legion Sta- dium with some men cronies. Barbara can’t endure the fights. “They terrify me,” ' she said, and I can sympathize with her. ' Years ago when I first came to Hollywood, ‘I was told that everybody who was any- ' body had to be seen at the ringside. So I got myself all done up in a brand new _ gown to make my escort proud of me, and before the evening was over, it was ruined and even a couple of flying teeth fell in “my lap. _ Barbara misses Lance dreadfully when he’s with his father. I asked her what she oes with her time. : “T play tennis every morning,” she said. ‘Afternoons, when Lance is home, we go the beach to swim or ride—and in the evening I like nothing better, believe it or ‘not, than to curl up with a good book. I “read lots. When Cary is home, we often play gin rummy, and he usually wins. But he doesn’t care for bridge. Most of the ' time we have a guest or two in the house. ust now Richard Owens, the art con- noisseur, is with us—the father of a friend _ of ours. He’s busy mending Lance’s minia- ‘ture boats so everything will be ready ‘when he returns for the summer.” “Please show me the house, Barbara,” I requested. Lance’s bedroom has windows on three ' sides—large and airy, done in cool green ‘and yellow glazed chintz. He also has ' a playroom filled with maps, ships’ models, _ ship prints and all that sort of thing. The “youngster has a definite yen for the sea. Barbara sleeps in a huge oversized bed hich sits on a dais. 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ropean Earitols and New York as Baile er eee araond, Cary was getting his start as a Coney Island barker. She was sur- rounded by nurses and governesses, al- lowed to play only with the right children; ' Cary was rubbing elbows with humanity’s _ dregs and learning life in the raw. _ and never the twain will meet? k Not that the seamy side ever really touched him. But it was a wonderful ' preparation for life for a man of Cary’s _ qualities, for this handsome six feet plus of - rawboned man who was to become the ' mate of one of our most famous women. Their courtship and marriage was story- _ book stuff. If the war hadn’t come along, it never would have happened. Barbara came to California because she couldn’t go abroad anywhere. She was lonely, dis- traught. Acutely sensitive, she had long ago instinctively withdrawn into her shell of reserve as a protection against her deep feelings of insecurity in a world made too boundless by her money. That it was a foolish gesture, she realizes now, but to the young, overly-shielded girl, it was the only way she knew of warding off the humiliations and indignities to which she was subjected. At the time Barbara needed, above all else, sympathy and com- radeship, and meeting Cary was the great- est thing that could have happened. There’s some of the charm of Valentino _ about Cary without Rudolph’s ingratiat- _ ing tenderness. Cary is, heaven knows, gentle as a kitten at times. On his bond tours women wait on the streets for a glance at him, and when he smiles at them, tears fill their eyes. Valentino had ' that effect on women. But Cary Grant _ never would permit'the build-up for him- self that Valentino received, and any studio _ publicity people who attempted it would _ feel the toe of his boot. _ The lawsuit brought by Barbara’s ex-husband has brought her and Cary _ closer together than ever. Incidentally, I _ can say from personal knowledge that his ~ accusations against her were not only the _ summit of injustice but absurd to any- ; one who knows the gentle, shy sweet soul _ that she really is. Haugwitz-Reventlow _ is forcibly trying to take Lance away from fe the Grants, and keep him with him in Vancouver. What an atmosphere it would _ be in which to bring up a healthy, spirited Bey. to forcibly alienate him from Cary, who is one of our most famous, loved and respected men—a man who lifted himself ' up by his own bootstraps to fame and | wealth! “Now you understand,” Barbara said to me, “why I’m fighting—right through to the bitter end.” 3 y ‘ D 7 QUIZ CLUES Set 2 (Continued from page 8) 1. Pepsodent salesman Maria’s momma Mrs. Peverell Marley . Waukegan wonder 16 and never been hissed . Latin from Manhattan Shelton’s shuddering . Camille His master’s voice . Started lipstick fad . Conspirator in Casablanca . Poodle petter . Hertz hurts . Salt Lake City Sugar . Keen with O’Connor . 20 years a heart throb . Mrs. Dr. Peter Lindstrom . Star of two cities Jacobowsky and the Colonel’s lady Holiday with Halliday (Continued on page 112) AT That fa . ” =—‘Love Lyrtes, Ja Ils so softly down” mes Whitcomb Fey 3% Like the dew?.-. Not when you wield a Welding Rod, lady! Must war work or any work AGE your hands? OU know that old saying about “look at a woman’s hands to know her true age.” Pacquins Hand Cream fights the effects of work and weather. Helps to keep hands smooth, white, ro- take the abuse° igs and scrubbings ANY DRUG, DEPARTMENT, mantic, looking as young as you! It’s creamy-smooth, divinely fra- grant, non-greasy. See if your hands don’t smooth out faster and stay smoother longer. Wonderful for elbows, knees, and ankles too. oe EE EE. aa : OR TEN-CENT STORE 105.

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The same open-heartedness that made him squander his life-savings at the age of five to get his mom a bottle of five- and-ten perfume for Mother’s Day, is still with him knocking hell out of his bank account. He can’t go by a jewelry store, a toy shop, a florist, without getting some- thing for someone. A musical doll for Nancy Sandra, silver foxes for his mom, a new ring for Nancy, the gal he’s been in love with for nearly ten years. love in bloom... He met her the summer he graduated from Demarest, and cornily enough, it was love at first sight. They were both vaca- tioning at Long Branch, New Jersey— Frank with his mother and father; Nancy with her parents and six sisters. She had on a pink bathing suit, he remembers, the first time he saw her, and her dark hair was down over her shoulders. She looked ! like a sea nymph or a cover girl. No, better than that. She was the most beau- tiful thing he’d ever seen. 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Take it easy,” he told him. “I’ve got ar, haven’t I? We can take her for a de, and you can stake her to a coke or something, can’t you?” ‘So Frank and Nancy, and Big Frank and his wife became a foursome. They played oker at the Big Franks’ apartment. anced in their tiny living room. Ate spaghetti in their kitchen. On the nights ‘Frankie took her out alone, there were ong walks, ice cream sodas and an occa- sional movie. One night they saw a Bing Crosby picture, and on the way home, Frank told Nancy, “That’s for me, honey. Ill never he happy till I’ve got a singing job.” ‘told him quietly. “What are you going to do about it?” ' Next day he quit his job at the Obser- ‘ver. An audition with Major Bowes was ‘the first step, and when he won First Prize for his “Night and Day,” he thought, “Oh ‘golly, this is it. I’m famous.” Only the tour with the Bowes unit took him thou- sands of miles from Nancy, and after three months, his loneliness was too big to bear, and he came home. He got auditions with a number of radio stations and was eventually heard on eighteen sustaining shows, getting not a ean dime for any of it, except his seventy cents carfare. He was ashamed that he could never take Nancy any place, but now their love for each other was so deep WE’RE COMIN’ Yes, we’re coming October 10. But seeing as how MODERN SCREEN is the biggest, fastest seller in the field, better place | your reservation for the big _| November issue today. You | know that sinky feeling when you look forward to a thing and presto, it’s all gone. So remember, October 10! 4 ; and strong that a wee thing like poverty _ didn’t really bother them. Nancy’s family _ adored him, and he felt warm and relaxed F in the big, noisy girl-jammed house. Nan- _ cy’s younger sister Tina, was his greatest _ booster, and he was as fond of her as if she were his own sister. He kept wishing | there was something big he could do for _ her, and eventually there was. __ One summer, Tina saved enough money _ to go away to camp, and Frank and Nancy took her over to the train. At the actual “moment of departure, all her enthusiasm _ forsook her, and she looked at them with _ great tragic eyes. She’d never been away _ from home before. She’d never wanted to be. Frank knew how she felt, and he _ knew if he said anything sympathetic, she’d ‘have been lost. He just dug into the _ pocket of his slacks and came up with _ sixty-five cents. “Here,” he said quickly, shoving it at her. “Have yourself a time on the train, You know, gum, magazines and stuff.” _ And then the train was moving, and Tina was waving at them and smiling and throwing a kiss to Frank. She’s never forgotten him for that. Giving all the ' dough he had in the world to a scared, silly kid. She didn’t know it then, but he ‘was giving her, too, the things he’d learned the hard way—courage and the ability to and on her own feet. Walking away from the train, Nancy “What are you going to do for e tomorrow?” she os him gently. “Of course. I know you won't,” she | ... Dy CHERAMY , perfumer When he comes home on leave ler roll: tl bin of Your hefyoiness. “ts a feifuine Made for fey Gd mooligtit: G0 cululatating soarkling fragrance 10 be worn with alight heatt...and tobe Tregsured 10 the last devastating dof. Perfume, 6.50; 3.50; debutante size, 1.10. Toilet Water, 1.75; Dusting Powder, 1.00; Talcum Powder, 50¢. (plus tax) BU

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The Sinatras thought Frank was too young, and the Barbatos thought likewise about Nancy. They bowed to the inevi- table, of course, and after the first shock, they were very happy about it. Even went so far as to furnish the newlyweds’ three- room apartment in Jersey City. When Frank and Nancy came back from their three-day honeymoon, they were like two kids living in a dream. Mr. and Mrs. Francis X. Sinatra. They’d keep saying that over and over and giggling like fools at the wonderful sound of it. Nancy hada job in a store, and Frank had to be out at the Cabin at dinner time, so there were few evenings together. But there was all of Sunday, and an evening here and there. And what did they want? Egg in their beer? It was enough just to be married, and the magic of it grew and grew until it used to scare them, they were so happy. One night while Frank was doing his stint at the Cabin, a long guy eased into the place and hung around for hours listening to him sing. It was Harry James, and when he offered him a spot with his band, Frank rocked back on his heels. “Who, me?” he said incredulously. i “Hell, yes,” boomed James. It was a eal. this dream’s on us... They were out of the woods at last, Frank and Nancy. Paying their light and gas bill on time and putting money in the. bank just like regular people. That sum- mer their little girl Nancy Sandra was born, and their cup of happiness ran over. It was only the beginning of good things, though. After James, came Tommy Dor- sey, and after Dorsey, Frankie struck out on his own. We all remember the way he sent those kids at the Paramount in the fall of *42. How he was signed for two weeks and held over for eight, breaking a fifteen-year record at the theater. We remember the shrieks, the swoons, the scrawls on the Paramount wall. “I love you, Frankie,” written a thousand times. And the predictions of the know-nothings that he couldn’t last. 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ssian towns under a Red Army tank ttack. And the strange and wonderful phenom- ‘enon is this. Half the people came to hear him prepared to scoff, and they would fo away converted. Like the cops who were detailed to guard his dressing room in Boston. Before he came, they used _ to gripe continuously among themselves. Who the hell cared if the kids busted the door down and clawed him to death? Not them. Good riddance. But then he came, and they heard him, and heck, he was all right. Gentle with the kids who mobbed him, friendly with the stagehands and the press. pad gee, he always had a big grin for the aw. they had him wrong Bueita They’d had him wrong. Before Frank left, they were smuggling him in sand- wiches and soft drinks so he wouldn't have to buffet the throng at lunch and dinner time. They were triumphantly bearing home authographed pictures to their kids. When, a week or so after he’d left Boston, they received a letter from him, thanking them and saying that Edgar Hoover couldn’t have taken better care of him, they were completely sold. The servicemen who jammed the Holly- wood Canteen the night Frank appeared there came prepared to dislike him. They thought he’d be a patronizing little show- off, and when he turned out to be just a good guy who was willing to sing for them fill his voice cracked, they couldn’t believe it. They kept him singing for hours, and finally, when it was very late, ‘they lifted him on their shoulders and araded him around the Canteen cheering ouder than anything in bobby-sox has ever cheered. No one at the Canteen has ever gotten an ovation like that before or since. The even stranger phenomenon is that fame touches him so little. He’s still amazed when newspapers carry pictures of Nancy and him at a premiere instead of people like Crosby or Gene Kelly. He’s still just as wrapped up in his family as when he was not much of anybody. When he’d finally finished “Step Lively,” and his cronies with whom he’d been living (Axel Stordahl, his musical arranger; Hank Sanicola, his manager—whom he’s chris- tened Cordell Hull; Junior, his jack-of- all-trades) wanted him to scoot up to Palm Springs with them for a week or two, he just looked at them as if they were completely out of their heads. “Are you kidding?” he asked them, and began throwing clothes into a suitcase. “You think I want to prolong this—looking at you mugs when I could be looking at that?” He gestured toward a picture of Nancy. “Don’t you know I’m going nuts to see my wife and kids?” “Okay, okay,” Axel said. “Forget we said anything. Confidentially, we can do very well indeed with no Sinatra for a while, too.” frank paused in his packing, a pair of socks in one hand, a shirt in the other. “What's wrong with Sinatra?” “He snores,” said Axel. “And wants too damn many windows open.” “He makes too much fuss over those couple of little setting-up exercises he does in the morning.” “And he snores,” reiterated Axel. Then they all began singing “Suitcase Packin’ Papa” at the top of their lungs, and laugh- ing so hard at themselves they couldn’t stop. What, no reverence at all in their ealings with The Voice? Well, no. And ie wW ie a thousand deaths if ‘Fin when he could them, “New ak God " 3) ¥ “DURA-GLOSS aid lh AE , THINCIEKOAG NET SAG FL OZ- < P22 TRSOL MAAK BES PIT HERMES S ORR LAB. pariese The polish is applied to the boitle- cap, so you can see what each shade will look like. You'll look and feel glamorous when you have Dura-Gloss on your fingernails. Use this superb polish which contains “Chrystallyne” for all important occasions and glamor moments. It’s so satisfactory and “right.” The smooth way it goes on the nails, and the speed with which it dries, are well-known to all who use it. Get Dura-Gloss today —at cosmetic counters, LO¢ plus tax. Polish Remover icle Lotion Lorr Laboratories, Paterson, N. J. Founded by E. T. Reynolds. a To 0

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the Keenan Wynns, the Gene Kellys, gangs of servicemen Frankie had picked up in his travels that day. They had only asked the people they 5 really wanted. There was no mob of big f shots, no frantic attempt to include the right people. When the newspapers got ; wind of the party and wanted to send over t photographers, Frank begged off. “It’s not i going to be that sort of party at all,” he told the editors. “Gosh, our pals would } think I was an awful ham. Skip it, will you?” They skipped it, scratching their | heads. Who ever heard of a movie star passing up a nice hunk of free publicity? } The photographers would have ruined its lovely un-Hollywood atmosphere. As | it was—except for the abundance of the t hospitality —they could have been any young couple entertaining their chums of | a Saturday night. Nancy, in a sweet off- the-shoulder cotton dress, showed each new arrival over the place, beaming when they exclaimed over the lovely dubonnet and green living room with its deep couches flanking the fireplace, the gleam- ing concert grand, the lovely flowered wing chairs by the window. “Do you really like it,’ she’d say. “I mean really. I’ve looked at it so much now I can hardly tell what it looks like.” She was thrilled when they rhapsodized over the master bedroom with the enormous bed, the pale blue quilted headboard and spread to match. The soft blue chairs and the chaise longue. “Who decorated it for you, Nan?” they’d | ask her. For in Hollywood when you buy ' a house someone almost invariably “does” f it for you. . } “Us,” she’d say with that kind of breath- } i less little girl way she has of speaking. “Qh, we had help. 1! asked people at the i stores a million questions. But we chose the actual colors and pieces of furniture. We just couldn’t live in anything that was } somebody else’s idea of a house.” f Just one room did Frank insist on show- i ing the people himself, and that was his 4 dressing room. He couldn’t wait to let the guests do their own raving. “Isn’t it ter- i rific?” he’d asked them before he’d even | gotten the door open. “How do you like the plaid wall-paper? Look at those built- in drawers. I designed it myself, you know.” “Obviously,” George told him drily. But he had to admit it was darned good-look- ing. They were both so proud of their house that night that they couldn’t stop grinning, and if anyone noticed a particularly lovely drum table or an especially striking pic- ture, or the flowered draperies, they just about burst on the spot. SHEER WHECHERY swinging om a star... The party wound up in the small hours. No one wanted to go home as long as Frank’s pal, the brilliant colored pianist Cal Jackson, could be induced to play one ' more song. Or while Frankie would give them just one last chorus of “Swinging on | Most subtle sorcery... a Star.” Or while their own voices held Hudson srosiery out on “Dinah” and “Casey Jones” and . pi ” ‘| “Workin’ on the Railroad” and the other that fe eeling of beauty ile oldies they all loved. Now with the excitement of decorating | filmy net caressing your shoulders... a gardenia | the place and warming it behind them, life has settled down a bit. It is new and Site wonderful to have breakfast together every mm your hair... and softly, clingingly sheer morning, even though six o'clock does i come pretty early, and they aren’t too x E SRati Ie a Hiclous, too, a have din- Hudson Hosiery to add a touch of enchantment. - ner together ,most nights, and Nancy Reale ere ae pte. ei Full-fashioned ae also available in extra-long lengths father like the other kids.” Frank, Jr. doesn’t say much, but he’s apparently and in no-seam styles SNe aha leading department stores. ‘ _ thriving in his new surroundings. At six _ months, he was wearing little boy ss

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Like Frank calling one afternoon and saying he was bringing eight of the kids home to dinner—the one day Nancy hadn’t gone to market pot luck pottage ... . “But honey,” she protested. “I haven't anything to feed them. Just a lot of odds and ends and junk.” “Swell,” he told her. “We'll fix our own supper.” They did, and the kids loved it, but the sight of them gorging on any old left-over aged Nancy twenty years. There was the crisis when he almost didn’t make the Hit Parade. He’d been doing a Command Performance with Bing Crosby one Saturday night, and it finished up at ten minutes to nine, giving Frank exactly ten minutes to get to the studio. He started to dash out, then he turned around and went into Bing’s dressing-room. “Hey, sit down, sit down,” said Bing, who has no idea of time and didn’t realize that Frank was practically on the air. “Can’t tonight, Bing,’ Frank said. “But I just had to tell you, it’ll never stop be- ing a thrill and thanks a hell of a lot.” He stuck out his hand, and Bing shook it hard. Then he streaked for his car and made the show by the skin of his teeth. But not before the studio had hounded the life out of poor Nancy about his whereabouts. Oh it’s not all fun, being Mrs. Sinatra, don’t think it is. She’ll sit around waiting for him to get home to dinner till she thinks she’ll go mad, and then he'll come in and say, “Sorry, sweet. There was a gang of servicemen around the car, and hell, the least I can do is sign a couple of autographs.” Or going over their bank book with Tina, she'll discover a check is missing and unaccounted for, upsetting the whole balance. She'll nail him at dinner. “Oh that.” He looks embarrassed about it. “I saw a little squib in the paper that a soldier on a furlough lost his wallet with a hundred bucks in it. I figured maybe he’d want to go home or something, so I sent it to him. He'll probably think I’m an awful horse’s neck—” And what can Nancy ever possibly say to that? Maybe a benefit will come up on their anniversary, and their little binge will be cancelled. Maybe he’ll have to do retakes the week-end they planned to whip off to Palm Springs. But what the heck? Once in a while there’s a free Sunday. What do they want? Egg in their beer? QUIZ CLUES Set 3 (Continued from page 105) 1. While there’s life, there’s—— 2. Mar-legs 3. Belita Linda 4. Benny’s from heaven 5. Temple of Fame 6 7 8 9 . Rumba Caesar . High C Kathryn . She talks! . A rat in cheap clothing 10. Never too Tone-y 11. The Fat Man 12. Her “son’s” wife 13. The thin woman 14, The love life of Dr. Wassell 15. A Merry Monahan 16. 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ae HEADLINES FOR FALL (Continued from page 73) What color for you? For redheads, there are henna and auburn rinses. Blondes can keep their gold glistening by using a light golden blonde shade. Titian blonde rinse gives light hair a fascinating dash of red. Brunettes who want a really dark effect should try blue-black rinse. Emphasize natural reddish highlights with henna. Brownettes will like a warm chestnut brown rinse that adds a coppery luster. Auburn gives a rich glow. SNOWFALL. A pretty sight, but not when it’s dandruff snowing on your shoulders! Dandruff forms in the first days after washing when the scalp is temporarily de- oiled; so as soon as you’ve shampooed with a special dandruff-removing preparation, massage your scalp gently with an oily pomade. If you’ve been indulging in orgies of perfume-spraying directly on the hair, you have one clue to your trouble right there. Perfume’s an aider and abettor of flaking. Substitute an elegantly-scented hair oil or tonic to perfume your curls, lubricate your scalp. Wash your comb daily to keep from re-infecting yourself. And don’t lend it to a living soul! HOW DRY I AM! Does your hair re- semble a discontented haystack? Then its erying need is lubrication, plenty of it, to counteract brittle ends. Follow along with a special hot-oil treatment which, inci- dentally, is more effective right before your shampoo. Massage the warm oil well into your scalp. Wring a towel out in hot water and wind it around your head so that the oil can get in its best work. After the lubricating job, rinse your locks in cold water (that’s so the shampoo on your oil- laden curls will lather easily) and proceed with your washing as usual. WIELD YOUR BRUSH. Do your locks have that 100-stroke sheen? Take a tip from Rita Hayworth and brush not only the top layer, but underneath the hair, too. Hang your head and brush swiftly from the nape of the neck to the ends of your curls. Work hard, particularly around the back of the ears. SET YOUR HAIR. Every girl her own Antoine is my motto! Learn to set your own hair, and you'll be hitting in Hay- worth’s league. Touring Army camps and such, Hollywood girls must look their best, and they can’t always bring along a hair- dresser. The solution: They do their own! And so can you if you invest in some hair- setting lotion, some precious bob pins and curlers. A contribution to the sleek-as-a- kitten look is a lacquer that coaxes flyaway hairs into perfect order and provides. them with a brilliant sheen. It’s good to know, too, about rose hair oil that, faintly scented, adds luster to all shades of hair. Featherweight, 3-way grip combs and comblike “hairtainers” are wonderful for all coifs. Every tooth is split, making it just like a tiny spring exerting gentle tension, They can easily be inserted in rolls, puffs, curls or pomps. Presto, the hairdo is held securely. Too, they can’t be beat at holding bows and flowers in place. Brides and bridesmaids (I’m incur- ably romantic) in current Fall weddings are using plenty of them. No bridal veil or orange blossom wreath can fly away when anchored with these clever little hair retainers. Treat yourself to a permanent to revive lank and weary waves. achine a—_| New Kind of Face Powder Makes Her Look Years Younger! Oe this lovely girl looked quite a bit older. Some people thought she was approaching middle age. For she was the innocent victim of an unflattering face powder! It showed up every tiny line in her face—accented every little skin fault—even seemed to exaggerate the size of her pores. But look at her now! Can you guess her age? Would you say she is 20-30- 35? At last she has found a face powder that flatters her skin—makes it look younger, more enchanting! Why Lady Esther Face Powder Is So Flattering Lady Esther Face Powder is extra flat- tering because it’s made differently. It isn’t just mixed, just sifted, in the usual way. It’s blown by Twin Hurricanes — blended with the speed and power of hurricanes—to look clearer, smoother and more flattering on your skin! Because of this patented, exclusive method of hurricane blending, the tex- ture of Lady Esther Face Powder is much smoother and finer than ordinary powder. The first touch of your puff spreads a delicate film of beauty on your skin, hiding little lines, little blemishes. And Lady Esther Face Powder clings longer, too—clings four long hours! But the most exciting difference is in the shades. Lady Esther shades have a subtle new quality—because the color is blown in by hurricanes. Many women say that the Lady Esther shades are so fresh and alive that ordinary powder shades seem dull and drab by com- parison. Try Lady Esther Face Powder! See for yourself, in your own mirror, how much smoother and younger it makes your skin look. Get the small-size box and try it today! TUNE IN Lady Esther “Screen Guild Players’ —Monday nights, CBS

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You know what to do with the money you save on a self- administered perm. That’s right! You buy war stamps. * * Yowre welcome . meaning that you beauty-page readers are welcome to any pretty-making info for which you pen me a note. I'll send you the answer post- haste. Fr’example, the names of any of these hair-beautifying products. Write to me: Carol Carter, Beauty Editor, Moprrn SCREEN, 149 Madison Ave., New York 16, N.Y. Good-by until November when the talk will be about lipsticks! MODERN SCREEN’S FASHION GUIDE (Continued from page 49) was recently introduced to the Money Bag Set at $60,000 a throw, it was cut along lines very much like the ones you see here. Coat hanger shoulders, tuxedo fronts, armholes deep enough to slip over suits, convertible turn-back cuffs. Aim for this simplicity if you want to look expensive. And don’t try to be too individual about furs. Short tunics, for instance, can be pretty super on occasion. But—come Winter—when your knees go it mayn’t be love. So think twice. Even about the shorties shown here. You buy for looks and for keeps when you settle on mink-blended muskrat. Northern muskrats are the most durable and the best coats use only the backs of the animals. If you want a really solid job, ask for a “let-out” coat. This means the fur has been cut in narrow strips and worked just like mink. Costs more than when the skins are simply pieced to- gether. But, whatever you pay for musk- rat, expert blending means permanent beauty. So focus on the hang tag before you buy. If it says “Hollander”—worry not. Persian lamb? Still tops among the slimming black furs. Not quite the all- around sport that muskrat is, but with fair treatment, it will give you excellent wear. Your cues to good Persian are: Soft leather, high luster, tight curls. The Hol- lander crowd is sorta wizard at making this fur lightweight, drapable and black- est black in color. Beavers and their ilk are hard-working casual furs—and beautiful! You spot a good beaver by its blue-brown cast and dim luster. Mendoza beaver-dyed coney presents a reasonable facsimile of the busy beastie itself. And I do mean reasonable. Coney, of course, is rabbit but not the Easter Bunny variety. The best fur coat breed comes from Australia or New Zea- land. Sturdy as the ANZAC in its own peaceful way. You can have it seal black, too, but it’s not in the running with beaver for smartness. Strictly on the sports side—Laskin Mouton (lamb, lambie pie!). Scarce as nylons last year, it’s back in circulation and will circuiate you plenty if you travel in school circles. Warm and hardy enough for Alaska. Satisfied? Seein’ spots before your eyes? Like leopard, ocelot or spotted cat spots? Per- fectly natural if you’re young enough to crave gaiety in furs. The coat on hand here is leopard-stencilled calfskin and— surprise!—it comes with enough extra fur for a hat. 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six different swoony styles. Slick idea? O. K. All this leaves you cold, because you're aching for glamour with a cap- ital glam. How about stone marten then? Sure, the McCoy costs thousands. But look how cleverly raccoon impersonates it this year. A new bleaching and blending treatment produces the identical shadings of precious marten. Terrific for afternoon and evening. Definitely not for the tweedy side of your life. In case this is too rich for your diet, skunk stands ready and willing to oblige. Teams with everything from formals to tweeds and positively teems with wear-re- sistance. So it’s not just luck that skunk’s still the most popular long-haired fur. * * * But... time’s up (paper shortage, you know), and now it’s your turn. If | you want to know where to buy these furry beauties. write and tell me where you live. If you want the low-down on a fur I haven’t mentioned—or want advice of any kind about clothes—just take your pen in hand pronto. G’bye fur now. Marjorie Bailey, MopERN Screen, 149 Mad- ison Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. THE PERMA-LIFT PRINCESS Once upon a time, there was a fair maiden with cool blue eyes and a be- witching smile. One day... Cinderella story? Plus a fairy god- mother, with the time being 1943, the place Chicago and the Cinderella slipper belonging to Greta Christensen, the starlet who has RKO swearing off the usual easy- come, easy-go publicity campaigns for fear they may magic-wand her right out of the stardom they’re sure she’ll achieve! Before her discovery, Greta was tops in the Chicago glamour clique, so when a friend of hers, famed magazine illustrator Pearl Frush, chose her to be the nationally publicized Perma-Lift Bra Girl, she ac- cepted the job as a routine, if flattering, assignment. Then came the deluge. A Hollywood talent scout spotted the ad in a State Street store, ferreted out her identity and telephoned to make arrangements for a screen test. Whereupon Greta promptly hung up! She knew that routine back- wards! But talent scouts are made of sterner stuff, and before she could say “Abra- cadabra,” the G. I. pin-up pet was whisk- ing off to the cinema city on her magic carpet of youth, talent—and Perma-Lifted figure! | | | | | | | sg nib tadbéemed to as these intimate physical facts! “fP\HERE was so much about intimate feminine hygiene I wanted to know but didn’t. And I was ashamed to let other women find out how ignorant I was. How glad I am now I didn’t ask them because I’ve learned since so many women know only “‘half-truths’’—or misinformation as out-dated as that of their mothers and grandmothers. Instead I went to my Doctor. He told me about a newer, modern, scientific method of douching with Zonite—the discovery of a world-famous surgeon and renowned chemist. He explained how feminine hygiene is so important to a woman’s charm, beauty and health. And how Zonite helps solve one of woman’s most serious deodorant problems.”’ Smart Women No Longer Use Weak Or Harmful Preparations— Old-fashioned mixtures of soap, soda or vinegar DO NOT and CAN NOT give the germicidal and deodorant action of Zonite. And don’t let anyone tell you they do! On the other hand don’t use old-time over-strong solutions of harmful poisons (many with warning on label) which Louite FOR NEWER CMILNLNE hygiene other women-, Address Gi can actually burn, severely irritate and damage tissues—in time may even im- pair functional activity of the mucous glands. Untold misery may come from this. But with modern Zonite you take © no such risky chance. So Powerful Yet So Harmless No other type of liquid antiseptic- germicide for the douche of all those tested is SO POWERFUL yet SO SAFE to delicate tissues as Zonite. Zonite actually destroys and removes offending odor-causing waste substances and helps’guard against infection by instantly killing all germs and bacteria it touches. Of course due to anatomical barriers it’s not always possible to con- tact all germs in the tract. BUT YOU CAN BE SURE OF THIS! No other germicide kills germs any faster or more thoroughly than Zonite! Zonite kills every reachable germ and keeps them from multiplying. Yet Zonite is so harmless. POSITIVELY non-poisonous, non-caustic, non-burning. Use Zonite as often as needed without the slightest danger. Follow directions. Buy a bottle of Zonite today for “feminine daintiness’’ and charm. FREE BOOK Gives Frank Intimate Details of Newer Feminine Hygiene FREE! 3 Tear this coupon out and send to Zonite, Dept. 404, 370 Lexington Avenue, New Tork 17, N. Y., and receive in plain wrapper enlightening new book edited by several eminent Gynecologists. State

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Harry will soon open a night club of his own in order to remain in Hollywood with her and the baby. She is on a strenuous diet to keep her weight down. Forget all that talk that she is starving herself. Betty has always been a gal who could put away a husky meal. * * % I've never seen more stars than turned out for the Hollywood preview of “Since You Went Away.” Shirley Temple was the darling of the eve- ning, and I noticed for the first time that Shirley is wearing make-up. Oh, very dis- creetly—but she had on lipstick, a bit of rouge and a hint of brown mascara. Deanna Durbin is wearing her hair very long and very blonde. Maria Montez had an enormous beaded shawl draped around her head and shoul- ders. Maria smiled constantly. Even when the lights dimmed and the picture went on. Joan Crawford wore a salmon colored cock- tail dress and with her heavy tan and russet colored hair, she was tres chic, Salmon seems to be the smart new color. There’s no rivalry between June Allyson, the blonde, and Gloria De Haven, the brun- ette, even though the girls are forging along neck to neck on the M-G-M lot. The gals even date the same heroes in- cluding the popular “Hi” Hodiak. They dress their hair alike and wear the same color nail polish and lipstick. “The days of feuds are over,” June told me, “It's so silly for players to have to work together to be jealous. Gloria and ! are friends, and we're going to remain that way.” That's all well and good—but as a news: paper woman, I think some of Hollywood's famous ‘feuds’ have been very colorful. Re- member Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer— and Crawford and Jean Harlow and Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins and Gloria Swan- son and Pola Negri? Guess those were “the good old days.” * ba * Rita Hayworth is hoping her baby will be a girl. But after the “arrival’’ she is not going to take a long vacation from the screen as Alice Faye and Betty Grable have done. 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WHAT A MAN! (Continued from page 58) picture, that people wondered if she could pronounce the words Y-E-S, or even M-A-Y-B-E if somebody wrote them up on a slate. It was to take a long last chance at this that producer David Hempstead, who had been eagle-eyeing every available leading man in Hollywood at that point to find the right guy to make Ginger happy in her work, staged this Hollywood frame-up. Although they worked on the same lot, Mr. Hernpstead knew the only time Ginger had had a gander at Bob was in a movie called “Behind the Rising Sun” where about all Bob did was to smash and tear in little pieces a huge Hollywood wrestler named Mike Mazurki in a Jap-versus- American battle that was probably the brusiest, goriest screen fight put on since the famous Farnum-Santschi scrap of the old silents. He also knew Ginger’s reac- tion to this sluggy scene was one of horror. ‘Why, that big bruiser wouldn’t make love to me,” gasped Ginger. “He’d eat me up!” “Have you ever met Bob Ryan?” in- quired Mr. Hempstead. “N-no,” admitted Ginger. “Will you?” “Why, yes—of course.” ‘Drop by my office this afternoon, and Tl have him there,’ promised the pro- ducer. And that’s how the trap was set. Well, right in the middle of one of those awkward two-stranger conversations about the weather and how have you been, Ginger strolled over to Hempstead’s desk and scribbled on this paper. Then she said she had to leave to pack for her ranch in Oregon and tripped airily out of the room. But when she left, everything was all settled—rosy-dosy, on: the beam—just like that. Because what Ginger wrote on the paper was, “Wow—What a man! This is the guy!” exactly like you... Now that may be a long, round-about way to get across the fact that Robert Ryan is something special in the male animal line. But if Ginger Rogers doesn’t know a Grade-A article in that depart- ment when she meets one, who does? And the point is, it took a look at Bob in the flesh. But even from those scattered pictures where he was usually messing somebody up or getting bumped off him- self, Robert Ryan’s charm has seeped through to the world until the postman made his RKO bosses sit up and take notice. It finally got around that a girl or two in the out-country could care for a man like Bob if he’d stop chunking other males around for a minute and relax. But still, like I say, it takes a personal look to convince thoroughly. "Cause when you meet Bob Ryan, you know you’ve met somebody. Like the sailor who came up to him at the premiére of “Lady in the Dark,” right before Bob left to join up with Uncle Sam. At that point he wasn’t too well advertised locally, and even though Bob and his pretty red-headed wife, Jessica, got all gussied up with evening clothes, they still drew no more notice at the gala event than a glass of milk at a cocktail party. In fact, they were standing with the crowd, gaping at all the glamorous stars when this sailor tugged Bob’s sleeve. “Can I have your autograph?” asked the sailor. Yo - . Underarm perspiration ruins -many a beautiful dress, and underarm odors ruin many a girl’s happiness, too. The action of perspiration will deteriorate and discolor even the finest fabrics. And the damage is permanent, because no amount of dry cleaning ever completely restores a fabric ruined by underarm odors. These odors spoil the gown and, socially, they make life wretched besides. NONSPI freshness and freedom last from one to three days. This liquid anti-perspirant does more than conceal odors. It prevents them. Stops them before they start. NONSPI protects your charm, your social assurance and your clothes. Feel free, feel fresh, this safe, swift, certain way. Use NONSPI . . . 35¢ © 60¢ Sizes (plus tax) ¢ NONSPI DEODORANT AND ANTI-PERSPIRANT - SKIN-SAFE - FABRIC-SAFE _ Bob said sure and wrote it. miin® RMR ITE PPLE LT MGS OS LTE NTT

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But usually it was just because the face and figure of Big Bob struck a familiar chord somewhere. He stood out. timber-topper .. . It isn’t all because he’s so tall—al- though Bob is a moose of six feet-three in his socks, and his 195 pounds are tailored to size. He was such a timber-topper, in fact, that he cost RKO some expensive re- takes on “The Sky’s the Limit,” where they had injudiciously slipped him in a couple of scenes with Fred Astaire, the star. When the picture was run off, poor Fred, along- side Ryan, looked like a midget. In the new scenes the director kept shouting at Bob, “Stoop down, Ryan! Bend over! Bend over!” Bob did, and even if he looked a little like a chimpanzee taking a stroll, it was easier on Fred Astaire, which is what counted then. But Bob Ryan has a lot more than mere altitude to keep his personality warm. It takes no slide-rule to figure out from his name—which is his right tag——that he’s Irish, all on his dad’s side and half on his mother’s. His facé is one of those pleasingly rugged maps, not pretty, but like Gary Cooper’s, mighty easy to look at, especially when he cracks a wide grin and dimples—just like Coop’s—pop out. His curly hedge of brown hair sticks up a little too far, and his ears wind-wing out a bit beyond regulations, but nuts—if you took Gable apart you wouldn’t end up with Ado- nis. Let’s say Bob’s a handsome hunk of rugged man from all angles and let it go at that. What’s better, he’s a regular guy, easy going as an Alabama freight train, and like most big bruisers, blessed with a Lincolnesque sense of humor and a dis- position like an angel cake. He proved that one night at a Frank Sinatra broadcast. Bob’s a great pal of Frankie’s. They got to know each other on the RKO lot, and despite his wafer size, Frankie is fast on his feet and nutty about boxing. 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she turned triumphantly to the mob of Sweet Hysterias behind her. “Girls—look,” she exulted triumphantly, “I just touched the man who touched Frankie!” That wasn’t such a compliment, espe- cially since by that time Robert Ryan had done a few things himself, like “Bombar- dier,” “Rising Sun” and “Tender Com- rade.” But he just grinned amiably and promised with a twinkle in his eye “not to touch Frankie too hard.” Bob just doesn’t rile easy. Right now, for instance, he’s assigned to physical instruction at the San Diego Marine Base and spends most of every day teaching raw rookies how to handle their dukes in case they get close enough to a Kraut or a Nip to use some knuckle dusting, Judo, alley scrapping—or what is required. Most of them are strictly from arms and elbows, and it’s a case of the elementals. But sometimes a wise guy who knows more than he lets on steps up sweet and inno- cent and inquires naively, “Is this the way you stand?” “Is this the way you put up your fists?” And then takes a pro- fessional poke at teacher aimed at a hay- maker and a certain prestige among his pals. ‘Twas ever thus with pupils and teachers, of course, and Bob is wary. “Some of them are good,” he admits can- didly. “But usually not good enough to do it more than once.” That's because Bob Ryan has studied boxing and practiced same ever since he was a nipper. He was heavyweight champ at Dartmouth College from his freshman year on and the only battler in college history to hold the school title four straight years. He got started in Chicago early, oddly enough, because his mother made him take violin lessons. Chicago, then as now, was rugged. “H-m-m-m,” mused QUIZ ANSWERS (Continued from page 112) : Bob Hope Marlene Dietrich Linda Darnell Jack Benny Shirley Temple Cesar Romero . Kathryn Grayson . Greta Garbo . Mickey Mouse . Joan Crawford . Sidney Greenstreet . Greer Garson . Myrna Loy . Laraine Day E Peggy Ryan . Ronald Colman . Ingrid Bergman . Charles Boyer . Annabella . Mary Martin SO CO NID OT OO DO Bob’s Irish dad, “if the kid’s going to lug a violin case through these streets, he'll get ‘sissy’ tossed at him every two blocks. If he gets that, he’ll have to fight. He’d better know how.” So before he hung up his knee pants, Robert Ryan could feint and jab and bob and weave with the best oe them. He still can at the age of thirty- our. i cover the water front .. . Bob looks like he hails from the Hills of Old Wyoming or at least from some- where West of the Pecos, but fact is, he’s strictly a city boy—always has been. A couple of years ago he and Jessica went in hock for a Hollywood house, the first bona fide house Bob had ever lived in. MEDICAL AUTHORITIES KNOW THIS ONE 1S — SUPERIOR- | PHILIP MORRIS L é | / i | Scientifically proved less irritating to the nose and throat WHEN SMOKERS CHANCED TS SUBSTANTIALLY EVERY C THROAT — DUE COMPLETELY, OF NOSE OR CLEARED UP IMPROVED! That is from the findings o* in clinical tests of men an s Fah SIR d in an authoritative r-tasting cigarette 18 d throat! OEE, —reporte Solid proof that this fine less irritating to the nose an PHILIP MORRIS, OF IRRITATION They rattled around, and it didn’t last long. Right now the Ryans are camping in a seaside “villa” at Pacific Beach, a bleak strand a few miles above San Diego. It’s built out on a pier, and the attractions, if any, are bathing and fishing. Bob gets a bad sinus when he swims, and he’s so allergic to fish that he turns green at the sight of a fin. But still he thinks at 25 bucks a week the candy box place is a bargain. “Real homey,” he sighs, adjust- ing his long frame to the sharp angles. You see, for years Bob, and later Bob and Jessica too, dwelt in rooming houses, dinky hotels, cracker-box apartments, in attics, basements, over garages and under delicatessens. Pursuing art they were, and fame—and as any dope knows, that’s no formula for creature comforts—espe- cially when you’re busted, as Bob Ryan usually was. He didn’t start out that way. In fact, the Ryans were pretty well fixed in Chi- cago when Bob grew up. His dad was a successful contractor, and Bob went to a good Chicago school, Loyola, where he not only starred in football, baseball and track, but even scribbled poetry and de- cided he’d be a writer of some kind some- day. His pop still had enough sugar to pack him off East when college time ar- rived, and Bob chose Princeton but got touted off at the last minute to Dart- mouth, and like all Dartmouth grads, he regards that nowadays as a holy place, slightly up the hill from heaven. That's an occupational disease of Dart- mouth grads, but still Bob Ryan had good cause to like his college setup. He joined a good fraternity, Psi Upsilon, made the football varsity until he wrecked his knee in the Columbia game, wrote some more poetry (which was very ripe, Bob admits) and did progress on that writer — TO SMOKING — OR DEFINITELY { distinguished doc: d women smokers dical journal.

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bucks in five months of back-breaking toil. He tried New York for a newspaper job, but instead of holding the presses, Bob ended up holding the torso of some strange tootsie and leering at her in con- fession magazine illustrations; posing his rugged map for dandruff ads, cigarettes and foot-eases. He signed on the black- gang of a freighter bound for Africa and got himself drenched in sweat stoking his way through the tropics. He came back to the States and peddled this and that, slaved as a mucker in another sewer gang, drilled with a dynamite crew, dug a ditch here and there. Ups and downs, mostly downs. ; But there was one strictly-from-hunger job Bob Ryan had that tips off the kind of fellow he was throughout all that big league loop of lousy luck. He didn’t mind breaking his back or tearing his big arms out by the roots, or even prostituting his manly beauty for sensational sheets. But —well, once he tied into what looked like a soft touch in Chicago—a white collar job as collector of bad loans. heart-on-his-sleeves legree .. . Bob spent a week shagging through the dismal slums of Chicago trying to pull pennies out of down-and-outers. What he saw made him sick at the stomach and sicker still when he realized he was work- ing for a loan shark outfit. When he got his check, he hustled right back down to the places he’d put the bite on. There he doled out every cent of his pay to the iniserables. Then he felt a lot better. To this day you can’t knock social progress or security for the underprivileged to Robert Ryan. He doesn’t see red very often—but if you’d like some fireworks, just start picking plutocratically on the common man—but choose a quick exit. How Robert Ryan ever hoisted himself out of that slough of shabby existences is a miracle. Isn’t it a miracle when you shoot your only savings—$300 bucks—in a Michigan wildcat oil well and the darned thing comes in? Maybe even more miracu- lous was a pose he got by with in Chicago— at a girl’s school, of all places. You wouldn’t think Bob’s activities then would have led him within a country mile of a young ladies’ finishing school. But for one thing, he’d never lost that literary ambition and dabbled at night with plays and things, and for two, he still had plenty of nerve that even a Depression couldn’t tame. So the minute Bob read that the Stickney School for girls was staging its annual play, he showed up and snagged the job directing it. “New York experience,” he lied airily and got by with it. Bob built the scenery and made the schoolgirls get to work, and ended up with a “Dear Bru- tus” production that wowed the mamas and papas. Right about then in came this $2,000 profit from the wildcat well. Guys and gals have climbed off the train in Hollywood with a lot less encouragement and very much less cash. Robert Ryan was going to be a great director. He figured the place to learn was with Max Reinhardt, who had a school in Hollywood. So there he was, in no time at all. love in gloom... On the care and feeding, past and pros- pects cf Bob Ryan, Actor, there’s no better authority in the world than~his wife, Jessica. Bob met her the first day he started cramming at Max Reinhardt’s, and that minute he knew he was a gone goose. Jessica is a tall, pert redhead with shiny, brown eyes and a frank and breezy per- sonality. She was just down from San Francisco where, as Jessica Cadwallader, she’d been exposed to the Anna Head School in Berkeley which usually turns out girl tennis champs (Helen Wills, Helen Jacobs and Alice Marble all went there), but in Jessica’s case the place brewed act- ing ambitions. By the time they met at Reinhardt’s, she’d already played two years with a San Francisco acting group and taken a crack at Broadway and Hollywood, too, which made her several up on Bob. How they ever managed to become one is a mystery to both; and a tribute, maybe, to Bob Ryan’s Irish bull headedness. Be- cause they got off to several flying wrong starts. As Bob recalls, he made a date the first day he met Jessica and decided he ought to take her somewhere fancy to make an impression. He was ready to blow a small wad of hoarded cash all right, but his knowledge of Hollywood night life was limited. He thought he was taking Jess to a swank place, but the joint turned out to have a reputation lower than a snake in a swamp, which Jess knew, but Bob didn’t. He couldn’t figure out why he wasn’t making much time. Then, he tried dancing, and at terpsichore Rob Ryan is no star. He hates it and—funy part—Jess hates it, too. So it turned out to be a rather grim evening. Incidentally, Bob Ryan’s still a bit back- ward on his cafe society, especially about what is what, where and when in Holly- wood. Some weeks ago an old Dartmouth pal of his came to town and wanted to make the rounds. Bob rallied, and not to let his pal down, boasted, “Sure—I’ll show you all the hot spots. Know the town like a book! First,” he stated recklessly, “we'll do Ciro’s.” With a fine, devil-may-care aplomb, he got on the phone for a reservation, but somehow he couldn’t locate Ciro’s. Finally ADVERTISEMENT

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Now do we own the hotel?” Jess and Bob were pretty close to the late directing genius, Max Reinhardt, and when they got hitched, he gave them a book inscribed thus, “Your nuptial hour draws on apace, with pomp, with triumph and with revelling”—a nifty from Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and signed it. It was nice—but for a long time Bob was inclined to ask “What pomp, what revell- ing?” His stake then was $100 cash. He and Jess also picked up a German acting charm from Reinhardt which they use each time Bob goes into a picture. At that point, Jess pretends to spit on him and yelps, ‘“Halsundbeinbruch!” which means “I hope you break both your neck and legs!” It’s a quaint German way of wishing you the worst so you'll get the best. Anyway, the charm and Reinhardt’s revelling prophecy took a long time to work, because after they left the drama school, the Robert Ryans embarked on a stretch of concentrated acting and starv- ing. To eat, Jess did some commercial pao deling and Boh save boxing eSSOn to Hollywood kids at a buck a lesson, and at his first Los Angeles stage bow a re- viewer cracked, “Mr. Ryan used to be a boxer. Last night he talked like he’d forgotten to take out his mouthpiece!” But Bob got sharper and sharper, especially in the East where he and Jessica attacked the “borscht” summer stock circuit at various “straw hat” stops, including the Cape Cod Playhouse, the Millpond Theater on Long Island and the Robin Hood in Delaware. The rewards ranged from $2 a week and room, such as it was, all the way up to $40 a week, for a couple of weeks. Anyway, they managed to live, and Jess, who had never fried an egg successfully, learned how to cook an eight- course dinner over a Bunsen Burner. And eventually, Bob rubbed up against big timers like Luise Rainer, Katherine Cor- nell and Tallulah Bankhead, and almost landed in Tallu’s play, “Clash By Night” on Broadway, only the Bankhead caught a flu bug, and his big break was canceled. Then, while Bob sat about biting his nails, that big break the Depression brewed caught him by the collar. Pare Lorentz, the progressive film fel- low, who made all those artistic docu- mentaries, had a gigantic opus on the string for RKO called “Name, Age, Occu- pation,” dramatizing an American guy’s struggle to lick the Depression. Hipped on realism, he wanted a rugged, sweat-of- his-brow actor who had been through the Depression mill for the lead. Somebody steered him to Bob, and one look at Ryan’s record was enough for Lorentz. Bob couldn’t miss, he figured. Maybe not, but “Name, Age and Occupation,” after film- ing for months, did miss. A studio shakeup took place at RKO, and the artistic epic lit on the shelf. 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eS ay _ and confusion. “Frankly,” Bob confesses, “they were stuck with me.” His rugged body caught their eye and so Robert Ryan became a muscle man about the lot, in such hairy-chesters as “The Iron Major,” “Bombardier” and cli- maxed by that bit of movie mayhem in “Behind the Rising Sun” where Bob re- enacted Captain Clear’s historic fight to the finish with a mammoth Jap Judo killer. Bob lost ten pounds the first day, got himself knocked colder than a pickle three times and chipped bones in half his knuckles. But that was his line of work at RKO. He wasn’t in one solitary scene with a girl until—well I’ve told you about Ginger and the Great Discovery. Offstage, Bob Ryan is probably the most unglamorous, unactorish star around. Around Hollywood, before he put on a Marine uniform, he usually needed a shoe-shine, and some of his leisure clothes horrified even his wife. She had to hide one rig he fancied, a canvas coat, denim pants and sneakers. He’s a guy of simple tastes in about everything—goes for beef- steak and lots of beer and cigarettes, hasn’t a speck of jewelry, except a thick gold wedding ring and a wrist watch the studio gave him when he left for service, which refuses to run. His idea of fun is to stay up late drinking suds and talking weighty world problems with his friends, mostly writers, and a lot of Russians he’s met through dabbling with the U. S. repre- sentatives of the Moscow Art Theater. Or reading weighty philosophical tomes and the lives of great men. He and Jess are both suckers for movies, and where they live now, that’s all the excitement there is, so they’re catching up on their movie misses about every night. bury me not in the lonely files... of Musical Knowledge to the San Diego Marine Base a while back, and as Bob and Kay had known each other at RKO, the old professor practically drafted him up on the stage to answer one of those jive quizzes. Bob was never so embarrassed in his life. All he could say was, “I don’t know,” and he flunked every question, to the bitter disillusion of his solid supporters. One girl wrote him sadly, “I am disappointed in you. You look so nice on the screen. I can’t understand why you’re so dumb!” Jessica is my authority for some other facts and figures about Bob. To wit: That he hates to shave, gets his pajama tops and bottoms all mixed up, talks in his sleep, breaks out in hives if he touches mustard, fish or eggs, averages 15 cups of coffee a day and stubbornly messes up their joint bank account writing indis- criminate checks. In spite of these failings, Private Robert Ryan, U.S.M.C., passed his Leatherneck tests with a 4-rating, which is doing ok. in a mighty tough league. He thinks he’s lucky to be with a rugged outfit, but it’s purely and simply an example of good casting. Bob Ryan is a rugged guy, as you might have gathered by now. 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And it set off with a cross-country bang what has since become the greatest three-ring circus of wildly running gags, knockout punch nifties and free-for-all fun that a trio of upstairs Stars ever put on in the Big Tent of Hollywood. No holds are barred, and there hasn’t been any time out called yet. It has rollicked and raged all over the radio and in the newspapers, in Army camps and hospitals, on golf course, studio sets, dressing rooms, club houses and cafes. It’s been beamed out to Saipan, Siena and St. Lo. But, if some sad people who had their Sense of Humor stunted at an early age, can call it a Feud with a straight face, well—they just aren’t hep, that’s all. triple-threat wisecrack club... Because what the triple-threat wise- crack club of Crosby, Hope and Sinatra cover up is really the greatest Mutual Ad- miration Society in the world. Bob can call Bing “Hips” and “Flabby” and “Father Bobby-Socks” and brand him publicly, as he often has, “The Frank Sina- tra of the Gay Nineties.” And Bing can label Bob “Zoot-Snoot,” “Jangle-Jaw” and “Hopeless” and shoot a dozen other off- the-cuff slurs at his looks, his acting ability, his golf failings, his ignominious canvasback past in the prize ring. He can expose Bob’s best jokes as a Joe Miller jumble from a stable of gag writers, while Bob baldly points out the hairless state of Bing’s noggin, the spavined gait of his race horses and the wild-Indian traits of his offspring. He can rag Bing’s blinding crazy-quilt shirts and the chest that oc- casionally slips down to his middle, and Bing can come back with asparagus cast at the froggy tones of Bob’s crooning attempts. That had been going on for years, rapid fire, before Frank Sinatra joined the Socko Society. The rubber bricks that Bing and Bob have heaved at each other would shoe half the cars on the highways by now—if they were real. Over the door of Bob Hope’s dinky dressing room, which he started in at Paramount and which he’s kept ever since because he’s superstitious about moving to more glorified quarters, hangs a picture of Bing Crosby. It’s about the dizziest looking portrait of the Old Booper you'll ever see, if you’re ever lucky enough to see it. Bing’s double-size eyes seem to float in a shiny mist of soulful surrender, and they’re crossed sappily. His ears are three times as large as Gable’s and stick out like handles on a chamber. The pic- ture says “My Ideal,” and Bob spent a long time cooking it up with a trick photographer he knows. He’s got another of Bing with that beaver beard he had awhile back, faked on to a lovely young lady screaming in terror and a dozen other poses of the Crosby, tricked to make him look all the way from a Mongolian Idiot to Little Boy Blue. 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jaw like a bulldozer and hair like a dish of wilted spinach. That’s just a sample. Those two nutty nimblewits have never stopped kidding, in good times and bad, ever since Bob cracked his way into Bing’s backyard at Paramount. Even when Bing’s house burned down, and he lost half his treasures, Bob accused him of being a firebug for the insurance. And when he took Bing and Dixie and the kids into his house to stay for a while, he set right out sharking Bing at pool in his billiard room and told all their friends, “It’s the only way I can get any rent out of the 1? But in all the mess of Irish confetti they exchange, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope have never had a mad-on for a minute, a pang of professional jealousy or even a tickle of temperament. They can both take it—plenty—and love it, maybe because both are so far out in front in their respective spotlights that they haven’t a thing to fear from each other, and maybe because they happen to be Bing Crosby and Bob Hope—which is to say, two terribly funny, friendly and fabulous guys. Anyway, when Frank Sinatra blew into Hollywood with all the squeals and shivers of female millions wafting after him, Bing and Bob were waiting for him. They needed new blood, and Frankie seemed a natural to make it three of a kind. But neither Bing nor Bob, and hardly anybody else in Hollywood, knew Frank. They liked the Voice, but what went on behind it was a mystery. So Bing and Bob decided to find out. Their first chance to apply the acid test was at a War Bond ex- hibition golf match at Lakeside Country Club where Bing and Bob slap the ball around. the acid test... It was a big Hollywood event, and thousands of people were on hand to watch the fun. It was also the first public appearance together of the Groaner and his sensational new rival, and to be fair, Frank was at a big disadvantage. Bing and Bob had played lots of Southern California benefit matches before. Both of them are super golfers: Bing had even been Lakeside champ for two straight years, and Bob was a close runner-up. Frankie was a mere dub at pasture pool. Although in a prize ring or a swimming pool he could make both Bing and Bob look awkward. They went ‘to work on Frank right away. First off, Bob turned to Bing. “Crosby,” he said, “your caddy can carry the clubs. Mine can carry Sinatra.” When Frank teed off, Bob got him talking while Bing traded a trick ball on the tee. Frank swung and “Bang!” it exploded all over the place. Then Bob had his caddy hand Frank a mammoth gag golf club, complete with rubber handlebars, a flashlight, a compass, a bicycle bell and other gags, gadgets tailored for a dub. 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Boy, were they laying for me!” He was right as a rabbit there. That pair certainly were laying for the Swoon King. But after they’d laid for him and got him, they liked him—plenty. And when Frankie Sinatra moved out to Bob and Bing’s home territory around Toluca Lake, going in hock for a house right off the eighteenth tee at Lakeside, who do you think proposed him for member- ship in the exclusive club? Why, Mr. Harry Lillis Crosby, of course. Frankie Sinatra is one of Bing’s firm friends today. But even though he knows him well, Frankie’s attitude toward the Great Groaner is still one of humble reverence. He’s a Crosby man, as he was at the start, and even now after all the fame he’s waded into, he still regards Bing with awe. It shows in all sorts of ways. Frankie, for instance, calls Bing, “the King.” The other day, he confessed to a close pal of his, Hugh Daniel, that the biggest thrill he’s had since he came to Hollywood was to watch Bing record a song that he, Frankie, had discovered and made famous. “There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Town of Berlin” is the num- ber. Frankie has already asked Bing for an autographed platter to add to his col- lection of Crosbyana. And you should get a load of Frank singing the parody - he wrote on “Sunday, Monday and Al- ways.’ Chances are you won’t, because Frank uses the little ditty just at Army camp shows and sometimes now and then to warm up a radio studio audience, but never over the air. So Ill have to slip you a look at the lyrics. You can see right off the bat with whom Frank Sinatra brackets himself in crooner ratings. The first verse starts like this: “Tl soon become a wreck. They’re breath- ing down my neck— Dick Haymes, Dick Todd and Como— They’re really coming fast. 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The fact that Frank’s style and Bing’s are two separate articles entirely, the fact that Frank belongs to an entirely different generation than Bing (he’s twenty-six, and Bing’s in his forties), and the fact that you can like them both at the same time and probably do, had nothing to do with it. After all, there has to be an angle for some hullabaloo. So—Frank’s radio producers thought it would be a good idea to have Bing and Frank show up on each other’s programs. Also RKO thought it might just be pos- sible the Groaner would consent to a quick appearance in Frank’s picture, and Frank could return the compliment in Bing’s current epic. “Tell your agent to get in touch with Bing’s agent,” said Frank’s radio boss. Frank was horrified. “My agent?” he gasped. “Why I wouldn’t think of that. Gosh! Ill go see Bing myself. Say—he’s too big a man to treat that way!” So he called up Bing, and Bing invited him over to lunch at Paramount. They really got together then, and although the picture and radio swap was nixed by various managers and things, that started the personal friendship of the King and the Crown Prince. Frank came away and told his crew, “I’ve been talking to Bing. I actually had lunch with Bing Crosby, honest!” Just like a movie-struck fan who'd touched Garbo. They kidded him about it around the RKO dressing room for days, but Sinatra kids easy. He didn’t mind. Since then, of course, getting to know Bingo better and better and thereby hav- ing to learn to crack back or get anni- hilated by the wig-parters Bob Hope and Bing toss around, Frank has managed to punch back. For instance, last time he was in New York, walking up Fifth Avenue, he looked in the window at Sulka’s, exclusive Manhattan haber- dashery, and spied a sport shirt to end all sport shirts. The thing had Oriental sunbursts on it, birds of paradise, Dali- esque alligators and maybe the Great Chicago fire, too. 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The insults and lowerations flow fast and furious. Bing and Frank were warbling off a duet, for in- stance, the other day for the soldiers, Cole Porter’s “You’re the Top.” Sud- denly Bing heard Frank change the lyrics. “You're the top,’ Frank sang, “you're the head canary!” Bing thought that was pretty nice. But the next line showed Frank was just suckering him. “You're the top,” he chanted, “though your top ain’t hairy!” That’s Bing’s real weakness, his shiny head of vanishing fuzz. Another time Frankie played on the same theme. Bing had just thrown in a snide remark about Frank’s emaciated frame. Frank got through bending his notes on “This Love of Mine.” “My, my,” whispered Bing, “to think that such beautiful music can come out of a rag, a bone and a hank of hair.” “Anyway, I’ve got hair,” chuckled back Frank. They go on like that for hours. “Just call me Bing,” pleads Bing in mock friendliness. “I wouldn’t dream of calling a man your age by his first name,” Frank comes back. 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When she saw Frankie trot off the stage when his empty spot came, she thought he’d gone crazy! So as he whizzed by, she grabbed him by the coat collar and hung on. That ruined the plans, but to everyone’s surprise, Bing Crosby laughed and said, “Ill just wait around until after Me show, and we'll make the pictures then. speech is silver... In the past ten years Bing had never been known to wait on anyone anywhere, he’s that relaxed and indifferent. Nor has he ever given a hoot whether or not he ever had a picture snapped of him or an article written about him or anything else. But the next morning bright and early, Bing was on the phone in person calling the publicity boys at NBC and CBS. He said he’d sure like a quick set of those pictures of, as he said, “the two vocalists.” As for Frank Sinatra—how he feels about Crosby, comes out all the time. 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The other day Frank read in a Los Angeles newspaper about an ex-sailor and his young bride (an expectant mother) who got in a jam with the law hooking some things off a store counter, to help them set up housekeeping. The sailor was just back from the wars, had seen rugged action, had a disability discharge. He wasn’t a real thief but really a casualty of the war and a preview of a problem that a lot of kids might be tempted to have. Promptly Frankie scribbled a hundred dollar check and sent it to the pair as “my wedding present.” “Keep your chin up,” advised Frankie. The sailor did and won a dismissal of his case in court. (And he’s going to name his baby after Sinatra.) That soft side of Frankie is probably incurable, thank goodness. On his radio program the other night he was singing “Tll Get By” when a little white-haired lady, about seventy years old, whispered to a girl seated beside her in the front row, “Isn’t he wonderful? I know now why all you girls swoon over him.” Frankie heard her, and a smile cracked his face from ear to ear. After the program switch to New York that followed, he leaned down and said, “Thanks, Honey—now be- cause you're so nice, I'm going to sing a song just for you.” He announced it to the audience, “Here’s one for my favorite fan here,” and he pointed to the thrilled and fussed little old lady. Then he got down and on his knees sang right to her, “I’ll be Seeing You.” The lady, by the way, had a taste of how it feels to be queen for a minute right after the show. Darned if the bobby- sockers didn’t gang up on her for the autograph of “the girl Sinatra sang to!” But Frank has one character spot that’s right in line with his pals. He’s nutty about kids. Bing has proved his passion for small fry with a dozen picture pals, from Don O’Connor on up and down. 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Little Dean Stockwell, who plays with Frank in “An- chors Aweigh,” found himself with a swell imported music-box the other day that plays Brahms’ lullaby when you lift the lid. And when the sound man on that same picture announced that his new daughter had just arrived, he went home that night with a $100 war bond for the baby. That’s Frankie, all the time. The Hope, Crosby and Sinatra families don’t see an awful lot of each other, so the fellows’ friendship is mostly a work-a- day one. All of them are so busy these days that home is mostly a place to grab a quick bite and expire on a handy bed. And all the wives, too, are tied down with grow- ing kids. But Frank Sinatra has bought Nancy a home on the shores of Toluca Lake, and already he has a couple of row- boats and some bikes to go visiting when he has the time. Bob Hope already lives there, and while the Crosbys are tempo- rarily in absentia, being burned out and living near Beverly Hills, they don’t like it, and it’s a safe guess that come V-Day, Bing wiil be building himself a chateau and making the San Fernando Valley his home, somewhere comfortably near the first tee at Lakeside Country Club, his home away from home. Then the Three Jokers can carry on their slam-bang palship over the back fence, and maybe then somebody can dream up a triple Hatfield-McCoy family feud—although you can bet right now it will be a phoney. Matter of fact, the only real jealousy I can uncover so far in the friendship of Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Bop Hope is the rankling envy of those two first guys for the last—and with a pretty good reason. 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Married almost a year, it’s as hard for the Jameses to say good-by as it was in those first months when Betty was working at Twentieth and Harry at Metro, and they’d meet halfway every day for lunch. Harry was to be gone two months, and Betty’d been torn between her two loves. She just couldn’t leave Vicki for all that time—being away from Harry was going to be terrible. But if she went with Harry, how could she stand not seeing Vicki? Like a sensible girl, she compromised. A month with the baby while Harry was on the road, then a month with Harry in New York— She looked down at her daughter. “You won't miss me, honey, but I’ll miss a whole month out of your life, and that’s bad. But Ill bring Daddy home to you, and that'll be good—see?” Vicki winked at me. which means, “Go ahead, Mom. Just leave Noony and Granny and my bottle, and ll be okay—” May we pause here to make a point? Because she’s blonde and luscious, be- cause she breezes around on the screen, because she’s our No. 1 pin-up idol, people get the notion that Betty’s a dizzy number, that she conga’s through life, snapping her fingers and cracking wise. Nothing’s farther from the truth. She’s reserved, she’s fastidious and a little shy. She doesn’t know how to bubble or gush or put her- self on exhibition. Her voice is low, her manner composed, and she rates as high in sound common sense as in curves. So you can total it up for yourself—and now that that’s off our chest— In her quiet way, she’s breathless with happiness. Like a child tiptoeing round a Christmas tree, afraid to touch and almost afraid to look. Talk about fairy god- mothers waving magic wands! Why, even the house they live in was a miracle— When she bought the house in Stone Canyon where she lived with her mother, Mildred Lahr heard her say she was look- ing for a decorator. “Come over and see if you like our place,” said Mrs. Lahr. “Then if you do, you can get the same man—” Betty thought it was perfect, inside and out, and did get the same man. Then what happens? While she and Harry were hunt- ing like mad for a house, she heard one day that Bert Lahr wanted to sell. She rushed Harry out there, and he bought it that same night—lovely furniture and all. All they did was change one room to a music-room for Harry and re-decorate the nursery— From the first, Betty wanted a girl. Harry said he didn’t care, but she felt a little guilty, because she knows men would rather have a boy. “You’re sure you don’t | ! i |

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She wanted to put all the little diapers away herself, and all the shower presents that had piled up, but she’d rather keep that for the last, like dessert. Then, boom! she was in the hospital, and not even a stick of furniture moved in. She could have wept. Her mother and sister had the fun of putting the diapers away. You’ve read about the tough time she had. According to her, she deserved a little trouble. “Because I had such an easy time beforehand.” Up to the last, she’d been going to the Palladium with Harry, going to his broadcasts, driving the car and eating too much. She was ravenous the whole time—weighed 144 when she went in. It’s okay, kids. Betty’s herself again now. She got to the hospital at 2 P.M. on Thursday. The baby was born 4:45 Friday morning. She was never wholly uncon- scious—they gave her a spinal for the operation—but her memories are hazy. Except for dashing to his broadcast and back, Harry never left her—she couldn’t bear to have him out of her sight. She remembers his walking in with a stack of the crossword puzzles she’s crazy about— and she remembers laughing in spite of the pains, which were lasting two minutes each. She remembers being shown a string of blue-and-white beads, tagged B. James, that would go round the baby’s neck the minute it was born— After that, she doesn’t remember much but pain till she heard a cry, and saw the doctor leaning over her. “What did you say you wanted?” So she started crying like a sissy. For a few minutes, everything broke her up. Somebody said, “Vicki’s a big girl,” and Betty cried. They wheeled her out into the hall where Harry waited with her mother and dad. “You’ve got a beautiful little girl,” said Harry, and Betty cried. But she managed to whisper, “Next time we'll have a little boy—” a promise is a promise. . . Then she remembered it was Friday. She’d promised not to have the baby on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, Harry’s broadcast days. “I kept my promise,” she murmured weakly to him. 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So they wheeled her across the threshold, over the floor of robin’s- egg blue to the bassinet that had once been a slave cradle. The first time she’d seen it at the decorator’s, it was full of flowers— “Now it’s full of Vicki.” She saw the marvelous highchair Alice Faye had sent, that collapses into a low chair with a playpen in front. She saw the wide, chintz-covered windowseat that looks out on the garden and thought, “What a lovely place for a little girl to read.” She saw the fuzzy animals on the shelf and the dresses in the wardrobe, and they opened the drawers to show her the diapers that she hadn’t been able to put away herself. Then they stuck her in bed, where she stayed a full half hour before she started wheedling. “Look, honey, I’m too excited to stay in bed. Just let me go to the nursery once more.” But when she got there, she almost fell flat on her face. Harry carried her back, and that time she stayed put. It was a heavenly interval. She had the baby, and she had Harry all to herself. His broadcasts were over, and he took almost a month off, just to be with her. It was the first time in five years he hadn’t worked steadily, and the first time for Betty since she was thirteen. Convalesc- ing might have been tiresome under other conditions, but she’s never bored when Harry’s with her. They had their meals together in the bedroom. They listened to records and played backgammon and gin rummy. Harry’d bring the baby in and lay her on the bed or convoy her around the room, and after a while he became very accomplished about changing her and burping her and giving her the bottle. His first present to Vicki was a musical lamb with a blue ribbon round its neck. He came in with it the day after they got home, and wound it up and held it to Vicki’s ear, while it played “Merrily We Roll Along.” “So she'll like music,” he grinned. “But if she doesn’t like music, she doesn’t have to.” That’s one thing they’ve agreed on. 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’ As Betty grew stronger, Harry’d carry “her out to a deckchair beside the pool, and they’d have breakfast there. Harry eats enormous breakfasts. He’s gained twenty pounds since their marriage, and if he doesn’t look fatter, it’s because he works off the calories playing baseball. If he hadn’t been a musician, he’d have been a ballplayer. Before the baby came, they’d never say, “If it’s a boy—” Either, “Tf it’s a girl” or, “If it’s a baseball player—” Six weeks after they got home, the James girls went out for the first time— 4o see their doctors. Vicki looked simply beautiful in her fancy pants—soakers to you—and a little white dress and a white silk bonnet and coat. She waited with Noony in the car, while Daddy took Mother to see her doctor, then they went over to Vicki’s doctor, and he said she was a fine specimen. Her parents knew it, but they thought it was sensible of the doctor to agree with them. Now, on Noony’s day off, Betty takes care of the baby. She was scared to death the first time— “You'd better do it,” she told her mother, "and Tl watch—” But it wasn’t two minutes before she was telling her mother what to do. “That’s a new kind of diaper. You fold it square—” back-seat mamma... Mrs. Grable’s very tactful. “Goodness,” she murmured, “what’ll they think up next?” Having seen two daughters and a grandson through infancy, however, she couldn’t quite take it all lying down. “You're supposed to hold her head,” said Betty the mamma. “Took, honey,” said grandma, “did your head ever roll off?” Betty’s an expert now. When the baby’s awake, she lugs her round the house like | a doll. Vicki never cries except when she’s hungry or wants water. Noony fixes the formula before she leaves, and all Betty has to do is warm it up and give the baby her bottle. Oh, and bathe her—she’s so cute in the tub. And stick her out on the nursery porch for her sunbath. And pop her into the bassinet for her nap— It’s a pleasant picture—Betty in the blue nursery, a yellow ribbon round her hair, laying her baby into the cradle, rocking it gently— “This doesn’t spoil her—much. I know it’s against the rules, but I don’t care. ’m going to spoil her—up to a point.” It?s a subject on which she has firm ideas. No books on child psychology for Betty. Just common sense. Common sense tells you not to disturb her when she’s resting. Common sense tells you not to overindulge her, so she gets false ideas of her own importance and grows up to be a pain in the neck. But this notion of never picking a baby up or cuddling her doesn’t sit well with Betty— : “We're not going to ignore our child. We're not going to give her to the nurse and say, ‘raise her for us.’ That’s what’s so nice about Noony. She’s not one of those characters that says, ‘Don’t come in now—the baby’s asleep.’ As if she didn’t even belong to you. We don’t moo and goo over her, but it’s good for babies to be talked to and played with, to have them know they’re part of your life.” Betty’s not planning to stop at one baby. She hopes to have that baseball player yet, but not for a couple of years. On July 31st she’s scheduled to return to work in “Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe.” Harry’ll be starting a picture around that date, too, so at least they'll be busy at the same time. She’s given a lot of thought to the marriage-and-career problem. Betty’s too sober-minded to Batisth it off with a care- ass “Oh. it can’t hanven to_us.” Thev’re so in love, she doesn’t see how it could, but believe us, she’s going to keep her eyes open, and any time the career threatens their happiness, she'll quit— Not that she doesn’t enjoy her-~ work. She does. And she’s grateful for all it’s brought her. But she’s not one of those who must have a career or die. It was quite by accident that Buddy de Sylva discovered those diamonds in her feet, and built up her role in “DuBarry’—the role that skyrocketed her. At Twentieth, she’s never made demands. She’s been satis- fied to let the studio pick her parts, and they’ve done plenty all right by her. She’s worked hard, she’s had fun, she’d like to go on. But while her responsibility used to be only to the studio, now she has a greater one to her husband and child— Right now, there’s a special reason why she wants to continue. Letters pour in from servicemen, begging her not to quit. Don’t get her wrong. She knows the war will be won even if she never dances an- other step. But the boys seem to like the kind of pictures she makes and, as long as they get a kick out of them, she thinks it’s up to her to make them. Harry’s never asked her to give up her work. He knows she enjoys it, so it’s all right with him. Being in show business himself, he understands the headaches. And Betty has this advantage—she’s mar- ried to a man who’s as well known as she is—at least—and who makes a lot more money. He’ll never be Mr. Grable. and baby makes three .. . So she thinks it'll work out, because there’s just one point she’s sure of. Harry and Vicki come first. If she finds that working means being away from six in the morning till six at night, coming home dead tired, not seeing enough of her family, not being able to give them enough of herself—well, there just won't be any argument, that’s all—the career will go— Sometimes she turns to Harry in a kind of bewilderment. “I don’t deserve to have everything work out—first the movies, then you, now the baby and a girl at that. No one deserves to be so lucky—” Harry doesn’t like to hear her call her- self lucky. “Say fortunate—” “What's the difference?” “T can’t put my finger on it exactly. Lots of people have luck, but they’re not all happy. 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