Modern Screen 1945-01 Vol. 30, No. 2

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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Published in The greatest this space star of the every month screen! We're full of the milk of human kindness at this writing. * * * * We're gay, carefree. You can borrow money from usif you want to. wk Soke oe In short, we’re in good humor, and all because we’ve seen the most alluring musical motion picture since our movie- going began... M-G-M’s “Meet Me In St. Louis”. Ke Ke Ie Whoops! Back you go to the old World’s Fair in St. Louis as the guests of the Smith family, of which our favorite members are played by Judy Garland and Margaret O’Brien. ; Per Se OR What gay, nostalgic, wonderful enter- tainment thisis, enriched in every scene by rainbow Technicolor! Kw KE Judy Garland seems to have been born for the part of Esther, a high school girl just awakening to love— for the boy next door. Esther is young, innocent, viva- cious, and golden-voiced. Sa KE x You will have to decide for yourself whether you prefer Judy’s provocative presentation of a young girl in love or Judy’s singing. Perhaps you'll find, as we did, both talents perfectly fused in ““Over The Banister’, “The Boy Next Door”, or that bell-ringing success, “The Trolley Song”. And these are only three of eight songs! Te Ke Ie Judy (that is, Esther) hasasister— animpish, devilish, utterly lov- able kid named “Tootie’’. In this part, Margaret O’Brien will become everyone’s sweetheart—if sheisn’t everyone’s sweetheart already. KR OR Tom Drake, one of M-G-M’s latest finds, plays the boy next door and heads a splendidly-chosen supporting cast in- cluding Mary Astor, Marjorie Main, Lucille Bremer, Joan Carroll, Henry H. Daniels, Jr., Leon Ames, and Harry Davenport. * * * * The script was written by Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe. Arthur Freed, who gave us “Girl Crazy’’, produced, and Vincente Minnelli directed. They all have cause for pride. KO kek Mark our words: M-G-M’s “Meet Me In St. Louis” will strike you as about the best tuneful re- past ever displayed for your delight! — Lee STORIES | *A CHRISTMAS SHE'LL NEVER FORGET ; On Christmas, you weren’t meant to be away from Mom, cold and hungry and whimpering inside. That was one June Allyson Christ- mas, though, and that’s why she’s working to make up on this ; one (color spread) ...++++e++ssrcererr er secce ets tes sees 22 * JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME To a flock of medium-rares, breakfasts in bed, plaid shirts—and everybody’s appreciation for a GI job well done. It’s Payne, we mean (color spread) .+.++s++eecrseecrrs ee sss eters seers 26 NOBODY'S SWEETHEART While there’s a war on, Van Johnson is sticking close to his stag apartment—and keeping an eye peeled for a likely missus.....- 30 OH, KAYE! For a split second, Danny Kaye stops looking like a gremlin, glances at his wife and murmurs, “Sylvia’s the head on my shoul- ders—can’t think of a better head I'd rather be attached to.”.... 32 DREAM WALKING For a while there, Diana Lynn thought her “star bright, star light” routine was losing its kick. But when yowre 18 and swarming with dimples, how can you Tose? oss bos teicis ee eile 1 lela wy 84 YOUR FAVORITE STARS OF 1944 by Louella Parsons You picked ’em out, voted *em in and boosted ’em up—here are the 10 top stars on your MODERN SCREEN POPULARITY POLL 36 LON McCALLISTER, Life Story, Part 1 Raised in Hollywood, utterly unknown, with no more pull than a broken-down jeep, he was to become one of your top stars ..---- 38 "IF HE WERE SINGLE .. .!" by Hedda Hopper Walt Pidgeon’s crazy—about dogs and opera singers and big feet and sh-sh—his wifel.....sse0 «0% c+ +r) a 44 JOURNEY AMONG WARRIORS It was a tour Garfield will never forget .. . flying a starry path across the Atlantic, playing to front-line Yanks and staunch Jugoslavs, ducking bombs in Naples...--+---:::++22:72*77"" 48 *COLOR | June Allyson in M-G-M’s “Music For Millions”. .....-++++++++%% 22 PAGES | John Payne in 20th-Fox’s “The Dolly Sisters” ....-+-++-++-+++*- 26 Margaret O'Brien in M-G-M’s “Meet Me In St. Louisesc 2s ei 50 Mary Arderson in 20th-Fox’s “Colonel Effingham’s Raid’....-- .. 54 FEATURES | Editorial Page.....-------ssrrrct ret 21 BEAUTY | Perfume Weaves a Magic Spell... neces = oe ee ee 52 FASHION | *Modern Screen's Fashion Guide (color spread).......----+-- 46 DEPTS. | Movie Reviews: -.-:- 2-2-0009 ey $ Co-Ed oc cc ccepiscgeeetemees Ste usce =” * 2 780 se ena aan 18 Good News by Louella Parsoms....-------+-+s7 ss 777777" set 56 Super Coupon.....-- +02 +ecs esses es sas ae 62 What's Cookin’, America?—The Ronald Reagans...------------ 72 COVER: Joan Leslie in Warners’ “Rhapsody in Blue” and "Hollywood Canteen." Kodachrome by Albin. 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 Editorial Assistants: Charis Zeigler, Annette Bellinger, Mickey Ghidalia Service Dept.: Ann Ward. Information Desk: Beverly Linet oS eee POSTMASTER: Please send notice on form 3578 and copies returnea under Label Form 3579 to 149 Madison Avenue, New York 16, New ork Vol. 30 No. 2, January, 1945. 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. Canadian subscription, $1.80 a year. Foreign subscription $2.70 a year. Entered as second class matter Sept. 18, 4930, at the post office, Dunellen, N. J., under Act of March 3, 1879. 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GAY WITH iL \ P*GARLAN ASTOR - LUCILLE BREMER - TOM DRAKE - MARJORIE MAIR Screen Play by Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Based on the Book by Sally Benson, Directed byVINCENTE MINNELLI, Produced byARTHUR FREED, A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

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s J Sa Goodbye 3 LOG le cn MIO WY Ws IRIBAY ULI & S ey Vi ee By Virginia Wilson says Mrs. Ruby Thorne, : “__and NO starvation diet, either!” TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT _ wisi I'd be willing to bet that the year’s most famous love scene will be the one in “To Have and Have Not” between Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Bogart’s tough, casual-but-romantic love-making has always been tops, and the sultry blonde Lauren is a perfect foil for him. That girl is really dynamite. Sexy one minute, almost child-like the next, and always with that tremendous charm. The picture has all the fascination of “Casablanca,” and its theme song, “How Little We Know,” will probably rival “As Time Goes By.” Hoagy Carmichael wrote it, and he sings it himself with Lauren. You'll love him as the odd, plaintive piano player in the hotel in Fort de France. Fort de France, on the island of Martinique, isn’t a very safe place in 1940. The Vichy group is in charge, but there are Free French forces at work, too. Henry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) takes fishing parties out in his boat and tries to mind his own business and keep out of politics. He succeeds, until Marie (Lauren Bacall) comes along. Marie is tall and blonde and so thin that Morgan calls her “Slim.” We'll call her that, too. “Slim” is broke, and when “Your Course | she gets pushed around by the Vichy police, Morgan decides to get her out of gic oe Martinique. To obtain the money for her plane fare to the States, he takes on a pictures won't job for the Free French—and thereby gets himself into plenty of trouble. The job is to smuggle a couple of De Gaullists (Continued on page 8) show. I?’s like magic I’ No wonder Mrs. Thorne zs thrilled. From 4a too- heavy 40 to a slender- ized size 16 with 4 inches off her waist and Buca OES 4 off her hips—wouldn’t BEFORE you be thrilled? clowman's- ? FIGURE- OLDING COURSE Can Correct YOUR Figure Faults You can lose the pounds you're away from a trim, beautiful figure . . . and the inches, too! All in 8 short weeks and in the privacy of your home. ‘The cost? Low, amazingly so. Write today for free booklet. Yes, NOW you can have the ersonal help and advice of amed Josephine Lowman, a national authority on health and figure control. Over 100,000 women consult her each year. Mail Coupon today. Josephine Lowman’s Figure-Molding Course = Dept. M-1, 715 Locust, Des Moines, Iowa ¢ i I i | i Yes, send me your free illustrated booklet I about your figure molding course. 1 Miss | I | 1 i i Mrs. Street From the moment strange, fascinating ''Slim'' (Lauren Bacall) comes to the island of Marti- nique, she brings trouble to Henry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) and pal (Walter Brennan). They become implicated in an attempt to help her escape the Vichy police by plane to the U. S. Z City 7p ne beams Lait cena (_.ces oe os ee ee ee

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OL POLES , EMDVER Sk into Fort de France. It would have been all right if the patrol boat hadn’t come along. As it is, there’s some shooting, and while Morgan gets away with it, the eyes of the police are upon him. Furthermore, “Slim” hasn’t taken the plane home. She cashed in the ticket and is waiting at the hotel when Morgan gets back. “Did you want me to go?” she asks. She and Cricket, the piano player, are writing a song to- gether. She sings it the night the police captain and his men come for Morgan. The night Morgan really goes into action in the old Bogart manner. In addition to everything else, “To Have and Have Not” can boast one of the best supporting per- formances of all time. Walter Brennan, as old Eddie, Morgan’s rum-soaked pal, is something. Excuse me while I go back to see it again —War. P. S. The water front of Fort de France, capi- tal of Martinique, was duplicated on the Warner Brothers back lot as a major setting for this production, as much of the ac- tion takes place at sea... . The thirty- foot cabin cruiser is almost an identical duplicate of Bogart’s own boat, the Sluggy. It was chartered and brought to the studio to cruise the tank sets with Bogey at the wheel. ... Hoagy “Stardust” Carmichael makes his debut as a screen actor. He plays a piano in the Fort de France café and introduces his own new composition “How Little We Know.” Mercer did the lyrics, and Hoagy and Lauren Bacall sing. FRENCHMAN’S CREEK In swashbuckling elegance, this story of handsome pirate and lovely lady wends its leisurely, romantic course. Technicolor gives the scenes on the coast of Cornwall a spectacular beauty, and red hair does the same for Joan Fontaine. Arturo De Cor- dova is properly dashing as the pirate. This Dona St. Columb, beautiful as she is, cannot be commended on the score either of virtue or prudence. She breaks her marriage vows, is a traitor to her country and murders a man. Yet there is a gay, reckless courage and gallantry about her that makes it easy to forget all this. Her husband, Harry (Ralph Forbes), is a fat gambler, too stupid to see that his friend, Rockingham (Basil Rathbone), is determined to seduce Dona. To escape from them both for a while, Dona takes her children to their country place in Cornwall. She finds the house practically closed up, the regular servants gone, and in their place one William (Cecil Kella- way), a sly, disconcerting old fellow who seems to know far too much about her. The first night, Dona discovers tobacco and a book of French essays in the stand by her bed. She sees William hasten off to answer a low whistle from the dark wood nearby. So when, the next day, she hears that a French pirate is terrorizing the coast and is thought to hide in that neigh- borhood, she puts two and two together and gets five. It turns out to be the right answer, and the pirate turns out to be the right man for Dona. Their romance is passionate, tempestuous and dangerous beyond belief. Dona accompanies her lover on a pirate raid and gets back just in time to avoid discovery by Harry and Rocking- ham, who arrive from London. é ‘Rockingham takes one look at Dona’s glowing eyes and knows that another man has succeeded where he has failed. He in his turn adds two and two and gets five. “Frenchman’s Creek” is Joan Fontaine’s picture throughout.—Par. MOVIE REVIEW ot ae (Continued from page 6) ue fingers it from time to time with a mad, P. S. * Nearly six months in the making, this Technicolor film nicked the company ex- chequer for a sum of $3,600,000. ... One of the reasons for this tremendous figure was the long location trip necessary. Only 4} available stretch of California seacoast re- 4| sembling the coast of Cornwall was found in Mendocino County, 600 miles north of Hollywood. An inlet of the sea called Little River was chosen, and the location troupe of 250 persons set wp headquarters on the site of the abandoned lumber town of Albion. . .. A second unit, working under the direction of Hal Walker, re- mained another four weeks shooting back- ground material. 3 THE BRIGHTON STRANGLER Do actors really live the parts they play — on the stage? Here is the story of one || who lived it <1 too well. Reginald Parker | (John Loder) is a charming, popular actor || who has achieved a terrific success in a play written by his fiancée. The play is |} called “The Strangler.” It has been running | for a year in blacked-out London to — packed houses, but now Parker insists that he'll play it no longer. “I’m _ tired of || strangling people,’ he says. “I’ve been ||. doing it too long.” The play’s last per- — formance is given on New Year’s Eve. || Afterward, at midnight, the theater is hit || by a bomb. No one knows what happened || to Parker, and when his fiancée hears | nothing from him, he is presumed dead. | Actually, he was only hit on the head | and stunned. When he comes to, he has | forgotten that he is Reginald Parker. He | remembers only the character of Edward — Grey, the “strangler” in the play. He | knows that Grey went to Brighton and © strangled the Lord Mayor and the Chief — of Detectives. So, obeying a terrible inner compulsion, Parker entrains for Brighton. He talks with apparent normality to a | pretty WAAF who happens to sit beside | him. Her name is April Manby (June | Duprez), and she’s going home to visit her mother and father. She finds this hand- © some stranger pleasant and considerate and | introduces him to her family when they | arrive. He tells them his name is Edward | Grey and that he is “on business.” 1 A weird, grisly business it is. For | Parker’s subconscious mind tells him he must strangle the Lord Mayor and the | Chief of Detectives. He has the silk cord he used in the play in his pocket, and he unholy eagerness. He makes his plans carefully, and everything goes according to schedule. The Lord Mayor is an old } man. Too old to fight off this terrible | stranger who wishes him to die. t The next murder is equally easy. Chief | Inspector Allison is walking alone on a dark street when the silk cord tightens around his throat. But now the strangler is haunted by fear. Does April Manby sus- pect him? If she does, she too must die. John Loder gives a brilliant performance as the mad strangler. Rose Hobart, Michael St. Angel and Miles Mander are among the cast—RKO. P. S. This picture was adapted to the screen by Arnold Phillips and Max Nosseck from an original story they had planned for publication as a novel. . . The well- known European director, Max Nosseck, brings to its production the continental - (Continued on page 10) pee cru es fabs ee

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TL NH, WR en: OF scREAMFvUL id E (= - ge a A pani FROM WARNERS: é (tARIOU ” Tue 4 peo! with JOHN RIDGELY - JOHN ALEXANDER «© CRAIG STEVENS «© BARBARA BROWN +- ALAN MOWBRAY Directed by JAMES V. KERN Screen Play by James V. Kern and Sam Hellman Additional Dialogue by Wilkie Mahoney From the Stage Play by Joseph A. Fields» Produced by Max Gordon Produced by MARK HELLINGER

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I aj = gia eek os 2 eee MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS It is 1903, and a pretty high school girl is sitting on the front porch humming ‘Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis.” The rest TAKES ONLY 10 MINUTES | Whisk away grime, oil and hoir : odor in 10 minutes with Minipoo | Bry Shampoo, Think of it—no. soap...no rinsing...no drying. | This fragrant powder leaves hair ‘ soft, lustrous, delicately scented . ...with wave or curls enhanced. Ideal for the sick room, At drug or department stores. SHAMPOOS With Mitten Applicator plu tax COSMETIC DISTRIBUTORS, ING NEW YORK 17, N. Y¥- MINIPOO DRY SHAMPOO He inquires about the weather in St. Louis. | Jinx Falkenburg Ella Raines \S J th Fa el) ! di «| | Alice Faye Martha Raye Ne eS as your HA OR Then the time’s up! Very discouraging: | Errol Flynn Ronald Reagan 2 Cig Esther is discouraged, too. John (Tom Donna Reed 2 wo RTE ~KITTEN-SOFT ie yeep iT IN PLA i : i 00. q] ) of St. Louis is singing the same song, for it won’t be long now before the World’s there, and so far he has shown no signs of her breath to her sister, Rose (Lucille Bremer). “Lighting his pipe,” Rose tells her. Esther sighs ecstatically. “I love a man that smokes a pipe.” Rose isn’t much interested. She’s worried about how she can get the rest of the family out of the dining room by the time her long distance phone call comes through from New York, at six-thirty. Her Yale beau, Warren (Robert Sully), has said he would call her then. Maybe he’s going to propose at last! She can’t bear it if she has to talk to him in front of Mother (Mary Astor) and Dad (Leon Ames) and her little sisters. The little Smith girls, Tootie (Margaret O’Brien) and Agnes (Joan Carroll), are usually considered “adorable children,” but Rose gets her call, but it’s not a pro- posal. Warren asks her how she is and reports on the weather in New York and Drake), the boy next door, continues to ignore her. In fact it takes her all that summer to get him to the point where he | Paulette Goddard Eddie Ryan calls her Esther instead of Miss Smith. | Betty Gabe phason G Farley Granger Randolph Scott Then one day they go out with a crowd to | Cary Grant i aa look over the site of the Fair which will | BotiS. Graysox Dinah Shore ‘open soon, and somehow they get separ- ated from the rest. Esther makes with the eyelashes, and—at long last—love blooms. Mr. Smith picks this awkward time to decide to move the family to New York. Just when everything is exciting, with Warren coming to St. Louis, and Tootie almost getting arrested, and Esther going | John Hodiak Sonny Tufts around with stardust in her eyes. Do | feoshe'tunt hee they go? Well, I'll leave you to find out. Walter Huston Rober eero Given Judy Garland and Margaret See Cornel Wilde O’Brien, supported by a fine cast, any picture would be good. This one has the additional advantages of an amusing story, and Technicolor—M-G-M. P. S. Fair opens there. But Esther Smith (Judy gine uae pene Garland) happens to be humming it extra | Mary Anderson Kay Kyser loud, as out of the corner of her eye she De ee Alan Ladd glimpses the boy next door. He’s a very | _. Bee ais handsome boy who has just moved in Lynn Bari Carole Landis Lionel Barrymore Anne Baxter b serine William Bendix knowing Esther is alive. 3 Joan Bennett eas Ce What’s he doing now?” she says under | Instid Bereman Ida Lupino Turhan Bey Janet Blair Joan Blondell Humphrey Bogart Charles Boyer Eddie Bracken Barbara Britton Jim Brown Eddie Cantor Claudette Colbert Ronald Colman Gary Cooper Joseph Cotten James Craig Jeanne Crain Dick Crane Laird Cregar Bing Crosby Xavier Cugat Helmut Dantine Linda Darnell Bette Davis Laraine Day Gloria De Haven Olivia de Havilland Rose knows how devastating their com- poms Gregory Peck ments can be. Pat DEAKe y Susan Peters Jimmy Durante William Eythe John Garfield Judy Garland Peggy Ann Garner Greer Garson Kathryn Grayson Sidney Greenstreet Alan Hale Dare Harris Signe Hasso June Haver Dick Haymes. Susan Hayward Rita Hayworth Paul Henreid Katharine Hepburn Richard Jaeckel Harry James Gloria Jean Van Johnson Jennifer Jones Brenda Joyce Priscilla Lane Joan Leslie Diana Lynn Roddy McDowall Lon McCallister Dorothy McGuire Irene Manning Trudy Marshall Marilyn Maxwell Ray Milland Carmen Miranda Thomas Mitchell Maria Montez i George Montgomery Constance Moore Dennis Morgan George Murphy Lloyd Nolan Jack Oakie Merle Oberon Margaret O’Brien Virginia O’Brien Donald O’Connor Maureen O’Hara Dennis O’Keefe Michael O’Shea John Payne i Walter Pidgeon William Powell Tyrone Power Frances Rafferty George Raft Ginger Rogers Roy Rogers Rosalind Russell Ann Rutherford Phil Silvers Ginny Simms Frank Sinatra Red Skelton Alexis Smith Ann Sothern Barbara Stanwyck Shirley Temple Gene Tierney Franchot Tone Spencer Tracy Esther Williams Jane Withers _ Monty Woolley Teresa Wright Jane Wyman Loretta Young Robert Young ae ea | 1 Gang on the set learned about Judy's famous Thursday, maids-night-out fried chicken dinners. Flocked over to share the fun of helping toss salad and open the Pepsis. It’s a free for all, make-it-yourself dinner where everyone, especially the cook, has fun. . . . Margaret O’Brien, be- coming famous for her recitation of the Gettysburg Address, is asked to recite at | Enclosed please find 25c in stamps, [] paper-wrapped coin, for an NAA card autographed by i £ hair-texture OF thedee d heads ae AIRTAINERS* exclusive - action — pie the dif- way, it actually grips Fe ae even the most difficult hair. ‘At beauty salons and notion ae fers everywhere: Card of one extra length (or two small) 25c. For regardle hair-style. well-dress® Grip-Tuth spring-too | | | | | | I understand I am to enclose 25c for each most every party she attends. Went to | additional autograph I request but that only | | | | | l Mama with a weighty new problem (they $1.00 will now pay for 5 autographs. arise daily). 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If that “vacation from prison” business sounds a little odd, just remember that prisons aren’t like they used to be, and wardens are learning psychology. Mary (Ginger Rogers) is a well behaved prisoner who has served four years of her seven- year term. The warden thinks she should begin to adjust herself to the outside world again. Mary is guilty of manslaughter, in the eyes of the law, although it’s difficult to see how she could have avoided doing what she did. She was working in an office, and her boss invited her to a party. When she got there, she found she was all the “party” there was. The boss was drunk and on the make, and in the ensuing struggle he fell out of the window. If it had been a first floor window, no one would ever have known anything about the incident. But it was the fourteenth, and Mary was, in the eyes of the law, the cause of his death. Zach (Joseph Cotten) isa psychoneurotic case because he has been a good soldier. Too good. He did his job and killed a lot of Japs, and finally his system couldn’t take it any longer. He cracked up. He and Mary meet on a train. They both have ten days, but Zach doesn’t know where Mary is from or that she has to go back. He only knows she gives him such a feeling of calm support that he wants to stay near her. So he gets off with her at the small town where she’s going to visit her aunt and uncle, the Marshalls. The Marshalls have a daughter, Barbara (Shirley Temple). At seventeen, you're inclined to dramatize things, and Barbara regards Mary as definitely an outcast from society. One day she talks too much, and the delicate, beautiful love affair which has begun between Zach and Mary is shattered. Still, it might be possible to pick up the pieces, if two people cared enough.—U.A. P. S. A brand new motion picture institution is launched with the release of this picture. It’s Vanguard Films, Inc., which is offering “Pll Be Seeing You.” . . . Ginger Rogers has the fashion tables turned on her. Had to step down from her sartorial platform and let Shirley Temple climb up to be glamorized. Ginger, as a prisoner on Christmas furlough, couldn't have much of a wardrobe variety... - Speaking of Christmas furloughs for convicts—Van- guard, seeking information on such a plan from parole boards, discovered it’s being widely discussed, pro and con, in all of the forty-eight states. Specialists at Hoff General Hospital at Santa Barbara were called in as technical advisers on scenes dealing with Joe Cotten as a re- turned soldier, victim of psychoneurosis. TOMORROW THE WORLD Can a boy reared under the Nazi regime ever be a decent citizen by American standards? That problem is presented with fascinating realism in_ this picture made from the Broadway play. The re- markable performance of young Skippy State Homeier is responsible for much of its INFORMATION DESK (Questions of the Month) By Beverly Linet Hello: Gosh, Christmas already! It doesn’t seem possible that so much time has elapsed since I gazed longingly at the beach ads and sort of wondered why my office didn’t sprout an adjoining swimming pool. But time has flown, and a lot has happened since then. T’ve seen scads of new pre-release pix and premieres, and have dis- . covered some terrific new up-and- comers. Have patted Trigger, taken cowgirl tintypes with Janie Withers, rubbed shoulders with Joseph Cotten at an opening night, and run plunk into Orson Welles in my rush to get to the movies. I was even present when that villainous character threw those eégs when our Frankie was ap- pearing on the Paramount stage. So, isn’t there something you want to know? If yes, just drop a lime with that stamped, self-addressed envelope to: Beverly Linet, Information Desk, MODERN SCREEN, 149 Madison Avenue, New York 16, New York. Luv, Bev. Ethel Miller, Brooklyn, N. Y.: WH Y IS IT WHEN I REQUEST PIX FROM THE STUDIOS AND STARS, I NEVER RECEIVE THEM? ... Due to the severe paper shortage, all the studios are unable to distribute free photos, with the ex- ception of M-G-M, which sends out 3 x 4’s. However, if you wish photos” from any studio, include 25c with your request for size 8 x 10, and 10c for 5 x 7's. Florence Shack, L. I.: MAY I HAVE LON McCALLISTER’S ARMY AD- DRESS? .. . It’s agin’ studio rules to spout service and home addresses, but since Lon is not at any camp now (he’s touring in “Winged Victory”), you can best reach. him at Box 2990, Hollywood, Calitornia. appeal. He is aided by such expert crafts- men as Fredric March, Betty Field and Agnes Moorehead. Joan Carroll is effective as the small girl who tries to teach the Nazi boy sportsmanship. _ 5 She has very tough going indeed in her attempt. Emil Bruckner has lived his twelve years in Nazi Germany. He has nothing but contempt for the softness and stupidity of these American relatives who take him into their home. He regards his uncle Michael (Fredric March) with cu- riosity and his cousin Pat (Joan Carroll) with condescension. She is a girl, and girls are not important in the Nazi world. Emil is shocked to find that his uncle is engaged to a Jewess. Leone (Betty Field) is an attractive, intelligent school | teacher, but Emil can’t understand how } Michael can marry a member of an out- | cast race. He decides to break up this | attachment immediately. ; i It is odd how slow the members of the household are to realize the sinister char- acter of their visitor. Perhaps it is because in America boys of twelve are occupied with baseball or making toy airplanes, not spy work and doctrinization. Only Frieda, the German cook, sees the danger. Emil ingratiates himself with his aunt Jessie, and she soon is on his side against Leone. He even persuades his uncle, who only | sees him on his. best behavior, that he is becoming Americanized. So Michael is shocked and angry at Leone’s increasing antagonism toward the boy. (Continued on page 14)

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It is twelve-year-old Skippy Homeier, who created the role on Broadway, and reaches heights in villainy that would embarrass a Karloff, a Lorre or a Lugosi. . . . Fred- ric March had seen the play in New York and knew that Skippy was likely to steal the picture, but eagerly accepted Cowan's offer because of the importance of the story. . Miss Betty Field, almost for the first time in pictures, played a straight role. Through all the assault, bat- tery and mayhem in the picture, Skippy and Rudy Wissler were the only casualties. They came down with poison oak as a result of falling into the stuff during film- ing of their battle on the final day of the shooting schedule. THE THIN MAN GOES HOME Crime statistics should take a rapid drop, now that the Thin Man is back on the job. William Powell as Nick Charles is still the most fascinating detective on record, and Myrna Loy is still the most charming detective’s wife. Asta once more leers happily at lamp posts. » Nick and Nora are transposed from their usual gilded haunts of sin to a new locale. It’s the sleepy town of Sycamore Springs, Here they are—come and get ’em! birds, and they’re FREE! All you fill out the following Questionnaire, time in sending you a another wonderful Dell book. at the right of your Ist, A Xmas She'll Never Forget (June Allyson)..... Ds, eae aaa (a) Johnny Comes Marching Home (John Payne)..........----- Oo Lon McCallister, Life Story, Part I | Dream Walking (Diana Lynn)... oO Nobody’s Sweetheart (Van Johnson) 1 My name is My address is I am. years old. FREE OFFER! We're holding 500 have to do to rate a FREE MAG this nfonth’ is © but quick, ’cause our supply won’t last long. Shoot your coupon off to us not later than December 20th, and we won’t waste any FREE COPY of Screen Romances or Screen Album or QUESTIONNAIRE What stories and features did you enjoy most in our January issue? Write 1, 2, 3 2nd and 3rd choices. Which of the above did you like LEAST?. What 3 stars would you like to read about in future issues? Seo) ONS DI bro pO. tO 001m. 0 OG ADDRESS THIS TO: POLL DEPT.. MODERN SCREEN 149 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK 16, N. Y. i heey Fe i ees ms where Nick grew up. He hasn’t be: back for a long time. His father D Charles (Harry Davenport) doesn’t ap- prove of detectives, particularly the Scotch-drinking variety. When Nick is asked to take a case involving subversive activities in his home town, he protests wildly. “I’d die of thirst!” But he goes at last, still protesting, and Nora goes, too. Nick’s mother (Lucille Watson) is de- lighted to see them. And when Dr. Charles finds that Nick has switched from Scotch to sweet cider, he greets them with enthusiasm. Not so enthusiastic are some other characters around town. “Crazy Mary,” for instance, a witch-like fugitive from a strait-jacket, conks Nick over the head with’a coffee pot at the first oppor- tunity. The president of the bank regards Nick’s detecting with a coldness that might stem from a guilty conscience. Something peculiar is certainly under way in the town. Nick’s arrival acts as a catalytic agent, and within a few days, there are two murders. Then there is the matter of the painting which Nora bought as a birthday present for Nick, and which appears and disappears in the most out- rageous fashion. Nick is not entranced with the painting, but he objects to having his possessions swiped at regular intervals. Nora, of course, knows who did the murders. She even confides his name to Nick. Unfortunately, her candidate for the electric chair is a New York police detective in disguise. But he makes a nice suspect to keep her out of mischief, while Nick does the real sleuthing. Until you’ve seen Nora “tailing” her suspect, you haven’t lived! 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eee 2 a ee i SE aa m 8 i P. Ss. A painting of Bill Powell, copied and photographed onto canvas by an Italian artist, was discovered on the walls of a Venetian castle by Sgt. J. C. Lewis (Diana’s brother) in Italy. Sgt. Lewis mailed the picture home in a shell case. Bill gave it to his mother as a birthday gift. . . . Dur- ing production Mrs. Asta (wife of the fam- ous movie star) gave birth to quintuplets. Present for the proud father came to the set. It was a box with five tiny fire-plugs, and the card said, “From one doggoned good family to another. Lassie.’ ... Donald and Mrs. Meek left for Mexico after Don’s scenes were completed. It’s their first vacation for ten years. Both have been studying Spanish for several months. . . . Myrna learned to jitterbug from her maid, Theresa Penn, who is a national champion. Theresa supplied the jive records, and the two spent hours to- gether cutting rugs. AND NOW TOMORROW When Alan Ladd plays a doctor, he leaves out the bedside manner. He uses a hypodermic needle as if it were a ma- chine gun. In “And Now Tomorrow” his Dr. Merek Vance is as hard and cynical as any gangster he ever played, yet under- neath the hardness are the qualities which a good doctor needs most—courage and understanding. He needs understanding especially for the case of Emily Blair. Emily, played by Loretta Young, is the aristocratic and beautiful owner of the Blairstown mills. She has never come into contact with poverty or illness—until she has an attack of meningitis which leaves her stone deaf. Emily is engaged to Jeff Stoddard (Barry Sullivan), but she has too much pride to let the marriage go through, now that she has lost her hearing. She tries to give Jeff back his ring, but he makes her keep it and tells her she’ll soon be cured. His optimism is not justified. For two years Emily travels from one specialist to another, only to learn that there is no cure for deafness caused by meningitis. At last she comes back to Blairstown, and her. family doctor (Cecil Kellaway) per- suades her to let his young assistant, Dr. Vance, try some new serum treatments. Vance and Emily are antagonistic from the beginning, yet they feel a subconscious attraction. Vance is the son of a mill worker and has hated the Blair family since his poverty-stricken childhood. Em- ily resents this attitude and also his cavalier rudeness to her, as a patient. Yet when she knows him better, she admires him both as a doctor and as a man. Jefi, meanwhile, has involved himself in a secret romance with Emily’s sophis- ticated sister, Janice (Susan Hayward). You can’t blame him too much—Emily has been away a long time, and she never did love him in Janice’s wild, reckless _ fashion. But he doesn’t want to hurt Em- ily, and in spite of Janice’s pleas, is pre- _ pared to marry her if she still wants him. She thinks she does want him. She even plans the wedding and rehearses it. Then two things happen in quick succes- sion which change her whole life.—Par. P. S. Paramount's picturization of the Rachel Field best seller brings Alan Ladd back before the cameras. following ten months’ _ service in the United States Air Corps. . . . Cecil Kellaway bicycled between the sets of “And Now Tomorrow” and “Prac- hieally Yours.” N.Y. was also paging him for “Out of This World,” but other com- ments prevented him from accepting. ead ie In wartime as in peace A special process keeps ALEENEX | luxuriously soft - dependably strong! a (Or In your own interest, remember—there is only one Kleenex* and no other tissue can give you the exclusive Kleenex advantages! 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 Sery-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 this: consistent with government regulations, we'll keep your Kleenex the finest quality tissue that can be made! There is only one KLE Sour nose knows- theres onyone KLELNEX ENEX’ *Trade Mark Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. 15

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ADDRESS ____-..--------------------------------2-2enee= === [Sent FREE to members of the Armed Forces on receipt p of 10c for packing and postage. a beweeeee een eee eene eee seeoeeseneeeme FAREWELL, MY LOVELY Not since “The Glass Key” has there been as tough, fast-moving and absorbing a thriller as “Farewell, My Lovely.” The characters in it aren’t nice people, and they’ll probably give you nightmares, but they'll also give you an exciting two hours. Marlowe, the private detective, is a new kind of role for Dick Powell, and he han- dles it well. Marlowe is no Sunday School type, but he has his good qualities. One of them is that he never lets a client down. Even after the client has been murdered. As you can imagine, this doesn’t endear him to the murderer. In fact, from that first moment when a huge hulk of a man called “Moose” Malloy comes into Mar- lowe’s office, no insurance company would give you a dime on the detective’s life. On the face of it, what “Moose” (Mike Mazurki) wants is simple. He wants Velma. When he went to jail six years ago, Velma, a beautiful redhead, said she’d be waiting for him when he came out. Now he’s out, and where’s Velma? That’s what he wants Marlowe to discover. Marlowe gets another case the same night, but an odd coincidence. Or is it a coincidence? A man named Marriott asks him to go along while he buys back some jade stolen by crooks. The trip doesn’t turn out so well. Marlowe is slugged, and while he’s unconscious, someone murders Marriott. Tracing his late customer’s activities leads Marlowe into some peculiar situa- tions. He meets old Mr. Grayle and his voluptuous young wife (Claire Trevor). He also meets Grayle’s daughter, Ann. Anne Shirley makes her the only nice, normal person in the whole picture, so it’s no wonder he falls in love with her. But he still has to find out who killed Marriott, so he plays along with Mrs. Grayle—who plays rough. Through her, he is led to a psychiatrist, is beaten up thoroughly and finally meets “Moose” Malloy again. Marlowe makes some fancy deductions, and the shooting starts. When it’s all over, you'll need hot milk and aspi- rin to soothe your shattered nerves——RKO. P. S. This is based on Raymond Chandler’s book, which is one of the most widely read of modern detective novels. YOUR FAVORITE On page 36, you'll see our spread on a way, this is a sort of ps., because we 1. Frank Sinatra 2. Alan Ladd 3. Pvt. Lon McCallister 4. Van Johnson 5. Betty Grable 6. Capt. Ronald Reagan 7. Lana Turner 8. Gene Kelly 9. Shirley Temple 10. John Payne 11. Bing Crosby 12. Lieut. Jean Pierre Aumont 13. Pvt. Donald O’Connor 14. Alice Faye 15. Dennis Morgan 16. Lieut. Tyrone Power 17. Sonny Tufts 18. Merchant Seaman 19. Rita Hayworth 20. Greer Garson 21. S2/c Farley Granger 22. (Tied) Judy Garland 23. (Tied) Helmut Dantine *Low rating due to fact that star has caught public fancy. For example, June SREEN poll since include the first forty-five on the M. S. popularity poll. Dick Jaeckel only recently appeared in a movie which months, has skyrocketed from place 31 to place “Two Girls And A Sailor” rng oe zi Locale is Los Angeles and environs, and 7 movie-goers will see shots of the notorious © “skid row,” glamorous Hollywood, swanky Beverly Hills and beautiful Malibu Beach. . . . The giant heavyweight wrestler, Mike Mazurki, while still active m the grunt-and-groan profession, has been scor- ing well as an actor. He won the part of Moose Malloy against three “name” com- petitors, via a screen test taken the day after he returned from a wrestling tour. TOGETHER AGAIN As light as a powder puff, and as mad as the flower hat upon which the plot hinges, this is a perfect vehicle for Irene Dunne. Playing opposite her is suave Charles Boyer and not-so-suave-but-very- helpful Charles Coburn. Mona Freeman, Charles Dingle and Adele Jergens com- plete the roll call. If Anne Crandall (Irene Dunne) hadn't bought that hat, she would still be the mayor of Brookhaven, Vermont. She would still be devoting her time to carry- ing on in her late husband’s footsteps and ~ spoiling her step-daughter, Diana. Anne’s husband had been the mayor and central character of the town, and when he died, Anne took over. “But Jonathan wouldn’t approve of the way you're wasting your life,” her father-in-law (Charles Coburn) tells her. “He’d want you to have fun.” Anne has gotten out of the habit of having fun. When the statue of her hus- band in the village square loses its head in — a windstorm, Anne is asked to go to New York and get a sculptor to do another statue. But she is shocked by her father- in-law’s advice “to get a crazy hat and have a good time for yourself.” However, she does succumb to a crazy | hat, and the rest seems to follow. The hat, — consisting of a single rose, is devastatingly becoming. So much so that the sculptor Corday (Charles Boyer) mistakes her for a model. He takes her out to dinner, and there Anne runs into trouble. She spills wine on her dress, and while she’s changing — it in the powder room, the night club is raided. The police think Anne is the strip — tease artist, and she’s tossed into jail. She leaves New York the next day, but — The hat has — caused Corday to fall in love with her. | the damage has been done. He follows her to Vermont where Anne’s STARS OF 1944 “Your Favorite Stars of 1944.” And in °d now like to extend those first ten to . Dana Andrews . Bob Walker . Paulette Goddard . Roy Rogers . Gloria De Haven* . Sonja Henie . Betty Hutton . June Allyson* . Errol Flynn . Cary Grant . James Craig* . Joseph Cotten . Sgt.Glenn Ford _ . George Montgomery . Gloria Jean . Bill Eythe* . Clark Gable . Dick Haymes* . Turhan Bey* . Deanna Durbin . Danny Kaye . Peggy Ryan Allyson, on the poll for only about three 3 on the monthly MODERN was released.

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stepdaughter gets a yen for the sculptor. The rest is catch-as-catch-can until the statue of Jonathan once more loses its head, and Anne loses her heart.—Col. P. S. Irene Dunne has learned to jitterbug! Claims she had the best teacher in the world—her own daughter, Mary Frances Griffin. . . . Requests from overseas servicemen often ask for records. Since it’s impossible to send regular discs through the mails because of the break- age, Irene has been recording songs on cardboard discs which are just large enough for a verse and a chorus. : Irene has also turned composer and written a song for the WAVES titled “Long May They WAVE.” She’s the first Hollywood star to make U. S. service- women her personal concern. When she learned that they are not admitted to many ' of the canteens in the Celluloid City, she started inviting them to her home for a weekly tea when she is between pictures. THE FUGITIVE Gloria Jean has to cope with the diffi- cult role of a blind girl with supernatural powers, in this new picture. She is more convincing than you might expect. The title role is played by Alan Curtis—a fugi- tive from the police throughout the picture. Frank Craven, Frank Fenton, Grace Mc- Donald and Minna Gombell give him moral or immoral support, depending on which side of the law they’re on. Cliff Banks (Alan Curtis) is a fugitive because he has been innocently involved in a bank robbery. The origin of the in- volvement dates back a few years to San Francisco. Cliff comes into a night club there, a fresh, cocky kid who thinks he knows all the answers. He falls for the singer, Phyllis (Vivian Austen), who in- troduces him to a bad hat named Sam Baker. Through Sam, Cliff gets mixed up in a safe cracking job, and after that the cops catch him and pop him into San Quentin for three years. When he comes out, he’s determined to go straight. He goes to work in a factory and is leading an upright, if monotonous, existence when whom should he meet on the road to town one day but good old Sam! He gives him a lift to town. He isn’t even suspicious when Sam asks him to wait in front of the bank while he cashes a check. It isn’t until he hears shots that Cliff realizes he has once more been tricked into taking part in a robbery. The police are hot on his trail, and he’s once more a fugitive. Cliff stops in his flight at the ranch of Clem Broderick and his daughter, Jane (Gloria Jean). Jane is blind, but nature has endowed her with senses the rest of us do not possess. Cliff is impressed by her lovely innocence. That night he dreams that he kills Clem and pursues Jane madly across the ranch. He wakes up shuddering and decides to leave before he succumbs to the temptation to make the dream come true. Does he go? Or does Jane’s sweetness reform him? This department will be glad to hold the stakes if anyone would care to bet.—Univ. P. 8. Gloria rehearsed for her scene, which co-stars a swarm of bees, garbed in net- png and a long, tight-fitting robe. In actual shooting she had to brave the swarm with bare arms and legs. Strangely, she didn’t suffer. one sting. . . . Frank Craven celebrated his sixtieth year in the theater by stating he intends to die with his stage make-up on. He’s one of America’s outstanding collectors of theat- rical keepsakes, and on his birthday he was presented with the stage door of the Bos- ton Museum Theater—famous in the 1800’s. HOLLYWOOD ’S PAN-AMERICAN MUSICAL ROMANCE! Romance rides onthe wings of melody and gaiety! Thrill to the new delights of an en- chanted land abounding in exciting escapades of dash- ing vaqueros and dazzling senoritas. “Brazil'’ « “Rio de Janeiro“ “Tonight You're Mine’’ “Moonlight Fiesta” “Upa Upa” « “Vaquero Song” e “Cafe’’ / “Choro” 17

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18 2 INFORMATION, ToORMA TOW neg — amen: ree NS nonsensical babbler? You needn't be any more! | ol Tongue-tied at strategic moments? Or worse, @ ® Making with the right words comes awiully hard to some of us. Oh, we speak the language all right; it’s not that. It’s coping with difficult situations—like ac- cepting a compliment or dishing one out; like brushing off a persistent beau without crushing same; like dis: agreeing with someone violently but with dignity. How can you possibly be smooth when you keep finding yourself speechless at crucial moments, or worse still, uttering all the wrong noises? That’s right, joe, you can’t, but take heart. Here are some bright, right words for you to study and remember. “Cee Yowre Beautiful!” Maybe he won’t say it in so many words. More likely itll come out, “Whee, lookit you!” Anyway, sugar, it’s a compliment, and it’s your cue to be pleased. If you get flustered and fluttery, saying, “My hair never looked worse,” of “What? In this old bag?” you'll embarrass him to death, and he’ll wind up thinking you don't look so hot at that. Next time he says something sweet, beam at him and say, “There you go stealing my line. I was just thinking how wonderful you look,” or “TI don’t believe it, but I love it,” or just plain, “Gosh, thank you, Bill.” The guys like a kind word too now and then, so don’t forget to say approving things about new jackets, new overcoats, even a new hair-cut, if you can, in conscience. Don’t lay it on; just let it go at, “Mmm, mad for the new coat,” or—unfeminine, but okay nonetheless—give them the old double whistle. I Disagree: It starts off just plain chit-chat with you and Jane and Dot, but somehow (Continued on page 68)

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; . at Z Merry Ghri simas from WYesterday, Al Delacorte called me on the phone, “Frank,” he said, “I know you’re.a busy guy. But would you like to . . . I mean would you be willing to speak a little piece about Christmas on our readers’ page? ow see...” I cut in. “Sure I see. And if I’m busy, so what? I love Christmas. I love your readers. And, if you must know, I love MODERN SCREEN!” So here I am—a writer! I ought to call this the “Re- venge of Frank Sinatra.” All this year (not to mention last year), everyone has been too nice to me. Everything has come my way. I’ve been dying for this chance to get back and tell how I feel about you . . . at Christmas. I’m a pushover for Christmas. I go for the tall, sweet- smelling trees, the tinsel balls, the puddings and eggnog —even Crosby’s “Silent Night.” But above all, I cherish ar. the thought that Christmas is the day dedicated to friendship. These days, when hatred is still fighting crazily for its dictatorship, it is good to know that the sacred legend of Christmas is alive in the hearts of Americans: Peace on earth. Good will toward men. -My one regret this Christmas will be that I cannot go to each loyal friend and say, “You’ve been wonderful. Merry Christmas, And God bless you!” aes P.S. If I were to get a Christmas card from you (ad- dressed to Mopern Screen), I’d not only be tickled silly. I’d be deeply touched.

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a xmas she'll never forget 22 June Allyson can't forget it—rain and tears and aching for Mom and ™ June trudged along in the rain, and her small suitcase flopped against her leg. Three days before Christmas. Fine Christmas it was going to be. She’d probably get pneumonia and die, and then she’d be sorry. On second thought, si/ ‘as lief not die just yet. But she’d certainly “hover on the brink for a good long time, and the doctor’d say, “She’s sinking rapidly,” and for one awful minute they’d think she was dead, then her lids would flutter, and she’d smile this angelic smile, faint but forgiving— People turned to look at her. Rain pouring down and no umbrella. Could they tell she was running away? After all, twelve wasn’t so young—she just eee June and Gloria ("The Comb") live in almost identical apts. across the street from’ each other, yet never double date. Puppy, whose trainer didn't know its name or sex, is a gift for Margaret O'Brien. running away. happened to be small for her age. Besides, you couldn’t call it really running away—not when you were going to New York to find your mother. oe There was the station now. If only she had the money for a ticket, how easy it would be. Hop on the train, change to the subway, get off at 138th and wait in the flat till Mother got home from work. Mothers understand. She always understood. Maybe she’d let June stay till after Christmas. Well, she didn’t have the money, not even a penny of it, so she’d just have to walk. Her eyes turned from the station to the rainswept road ahead, and back. It wouldn’t hurt to go in and rest for a while—give the rain a chance to let up maybe. Separated early from her mother, Jun e had a lonely childhood. She'd like this coming Xmas to be brightest yet to make up for last years | when, sick and tired, she was p.a.ing at N. Y.'s Capitol Theater.

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By Ida Zeitlin June shares her love of dogs with Bette Davis, still has a soft spot in her heart for her mutt "Winsocki'' who one day went out looking for her—and never returned! ca Denying those 4 baths per day are for weight-whittling purposes, June washes her hair daily but is careless about her clothes, drops ‘em all over the apt. and neglects mending and pressing angle. Al Delacorte had a finger in the sizzling John Payne-Glo De Haven romance. Seems Sue Ladd arranged to have John pick her up for Ye Ed's party and bingo! they've been dating 3, 4 times a week! continued-w ; Le) caNy

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ee 24 a xmas she'll never forget She sat down at the end of a bench near the radiator, took off her hat and shook out some of the water, adjusted her braced back to the back of the seat. If not for the brace, she wouldn’t get tired so quick. Three years now she’d been wearing it— three years since she’d been caught under that fall- ing tree in front of Granny’s little house. And the doctor said she’d have to wear it two more years _ at least. Well, anyhow they’d stopped shaving her head where the wound had been. Her hair was getting almost long enough to stick a bow in—if she had a bow— My, it was nice and warm here. The radiator was even making her drowsy. She leaned her head back, and pictures began forming . - - Last Christmas at Granny’s. Something twisted inside her, the way it always did when she thought of Granny. But last Christmas she’d still been happy. Come to think of it, she’d never been sad in Granny’s little house. Not even through those long months in bed after the accident. -Granny’d always been there to make her feel good, and Mother stayed with them a lot. It didn’t cost as much as coming out to Long Island. All she had to do was ride to the end of the subway line for a nickel, then take the streetcar. Last Christmas she’d come in laughing out of the cold and put her packages under the tree. June’s present was the loveliest white silk blouse. This Christmas— : June’s eyes filled. She knew she’d been bad, but it hadn’t seemed so dreadful when she did it— All she wanted was to keep her father’s picture for a while, so she could look at it again. She’d never seen a picture of her father. She'd always kind of hated to ask Mother, because it might hurt her. But it wouldn’t hurt Auntie, who wasn’t even related to her father— So she’d begged till Auntie finally showed her the picture. Just for a second, without giving her a chance to see what he really looked like. It wasn’t enough for June. So after the others were asleep, she tiptoed out and took it from the dresser drawer and slipped it under her pillow, thinking she’d take a real good look in the morning and then put it back. Generally, she woke up early but this morning she didn’t. She was just kind of half waking up when Auntie came in. “June, did you take your father’s picture?” “No,” she said sleepily, (Continued on page 85) Holiday parties always include marshmallow roast. . She has no pca- tience with games, would rather chat. Home from date, she beelines for housekeeper Bess’ room, and they sit in dark and gab like kids. June sieeps all year in flannel pyjams. In summer Uses twin bed near window; in winter, moves to one near door. Toy horse, "Tomby," came from ex-fiancé named Tommy, stands near bureau.

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“Goes to great lengths to have her holiday table fes- tive, then eats next to nothing at party. Declines creamed foods and desserts; favors meats, eqgs,-coffee. cm, rae MODERN SCREEN's Sylvia Wallace helped June pick out hat for holiday whirl. -She tends toward dark clothes, has to force herself to wear bright. colors. fem PN ae While Christmas shopping, June couldn't resist buying teddy bear tor crony’s baby. A reckless shopper, she'd grab everything in sight if Bess didn't rein her in. She won't return anything because she's afraid to offend salesclerkl Cn

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Terrifically clothes-conscious, he goes to a very expensive tailor till his conscience steers him to a cheaper one where he’s never satisfied. Before moths banqueted on wardrobe in storage, he hung on to every suit for years, mostly for sentimental attachment. First post-Army role will be lead in "The Dolly Sisters.” 1S Dina tara aes Tae TONIR EEO ‘e y 3 Solitaire’s too frustrating to be fun for honest John. Pre- fers bowling, composing, writing, talking. But he was often too tuckered out in Army for anything but cards. Johnny once held job on strength of his piano-playing, does all nis composing at keyboard. First song he peddled, “In My Heart," brought $25, sold “all of 50 copies’ and then dropped into oblivion.

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On Johnny's last leave before discharge from Army, he shopped for Julie's Christmas presents and wrapped em because he didn't know where he'd be come Dec. By Fredda Dudley . J Pr bent But Mr. Payne, Army Air Forces retired, in his red and blue shirt and houndstooth slacks, couldn't forget to salute the colonel! m™ When John Payne was ordered to the Monterey Separation Center in Northern California, as one of a group of 5000 pilots, he knew that the job he and they had been doing for the Army was completed and that they were to be placed on inactive status. John had been a little too old to be trained for combat flying, but he had done a good job in the training program—all that is asked of anyone—and now that he was to be graduated from reveille, he was as eager as every other demobilized man will be. On his way to Monterey,. he stopped at the storage company—where his wardrobe was fighting it out with the moths—and discovered that he was the owner’ of one pair of houndstooth thecked slacks, one some- what weary navy blue suit, and one salt and pepper tweed suit. Everything else had been devoured. With a few choice comments on the patriotism of American moths entrusted with a serviceman’s property, Sed John packed his remaining clothes and reported for rR Be —. Bs separation from the armed forces. Once a professional wrestler, Johnny has magnificent 6' 2", That task accomplished, he proceeded first to a 185-Ib. physique, which he keeps in shape by dail i ( ; j Pre i vortacieta lorvy Bate cease Fetes EN peaceful resort town (Continued on following page)

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lng Lew Simple pleasures of home—eating kumquats off the tree! An ardent sunworshipper since he came west, he works hard at getting tan, strips to waist every time Sol peeps out! [3 , gs OF Bhs. eal; a Dy" Johnny got royal welcome from everyone he ever knew, including po- 28 nearby (Carmel-By-The-Sea) and rented a hotel room, then went shopping, to wit: One red and blue plaid wool shirt, one orange and yellow plaid shirt, one red silk cow- boy neckerchief, one Paisley ascot scarf. On the double he returned to his room, shed his khakis and accoutered him- : self in his houndstooth checked slacks, his red and blue plaid wool shirt, and his red silk neckerchief—knotted at the side of his throat—and surveyed himself in the mirror. Very sharp citizen. Emerging upon the streets, he set out in search of reading matter. The sale of dark glasses in Carmel rose 1277 in an hour. As John stalked along he met a full colonel, and habit being stronger than his awareness of his civvies, he saluted smartly. pe The colonel returned the salute, then smiled. “How long have you been out, son?” he wanted to know. “Five hours, sir,” said John sheepishly. : He bought a copy of Fantastic Stories and a tall bottle of—say—Pepsi Cola, and returned to his room. Pulling off his shoes, he plumped up two pillows, turned on the reading lamp beside the bed, and subsided into the feathers with the magazine in one hand and the beverage in the other. A deep mattress, a sense of aloneness unknown in barracks, no lights-out order pending, no reveille. Ah, wilderness Were Paradise enow. The following day John varied his routine by wearing the salt and pepper trousers, the orange plaid shirt and the Paisley ascot. He was having a thick, rare steak at the Russian Inn at noon when two girls from Hollywood (one of them being Kay Hardy of MopERN ScrEEN) strolled past his booth, recognized him—despite a suntan darker than It was great to be back in make-up room at Fox and liceman on corner beat. In his 25 mos. service, he trained’ in Tex., sniff the beautiful smell of greasepaint again! Johnny Utah, Col., was transferred to Ferry Command just before discharge. started shaving at 10... until Mom caught him at it! ah eS yr rin 2 A i a

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a G.I. shoeshine, and 4 mustache that made Colonna look like a stripling—and joined John. That afternoon the three of them hailed a taxi to take the world-famed Seventeen Mile Drive around the Monterey peninsula. The cab driver was wearing khaki, so John asked him how come. The cabby explained that he was on 3-day pass, and he drove a cab to unravel the trans- portation snarl and to make a little extra dough. “I just got out of the Army,” John said, to explain his interest. The cabby looked back over his shoulder and nearly drove over, a cliff. “Whatcha do with your old khakis?” When John said they were lying around the hotel room, the cabby made a deal to acquire the outfit. John took his name and address and made it a point to deliver the outfit personally. Good deal by a thoughtful guy. They reached the celebrated Del Monte Lodge at dinner time. “Food,” drooled John. “Steaks, broccoli with Hol- landaise sauce. Potatoes. au gratin. Oh, my shattered nerves, such food.” He ended by having a steak and a dessert concocted of bananas, two kinds of ice cream, chopped nuts, assorted syrups and a dash of whipped cream. During his stay in Carmel, John had been trying des- perately to get train reservations to Hollywood, but it began to look hopeless. So Saturday morning he arrived at the apartment of his friends and verbally thumbed a ride south. They set out at noon and drove along the magnifi- cent coast highway, singing as they sped. The trio stopped at a small town to buy gasoline and the girl manning the gas pump stared admiringly at John as he crossed the street to buy fruit and sandwiches. “Mmmm. Good looking, isn’t he? Might be a movie star.” reads favorite over and over. of Pirates” and Plato. Reading in bed was pleasure long untasted. Great book-lover, he -re- Among 50 on shelf by bed are ‘Book Doesn't start novels at night; he'd never snooze! One of the girls, always good for a gag, asked, “Don’t you think he looks a lot like John Payne?” The petrol polly shook her head in a judicial negative. “More like Ray Milland,” she said. Only when John was tagged by a group of loitering school kids, and agreed to. give his autograph to the gang, did she admit an error of identification. John’s first problem upon arriving in Hollywood was to find a place to live. He was to be a hotel guest for the single week now allowed travelers, but at the expiration of that period he had to have a house so that Julie, his hand- some 4-year-old daughter, could join him. John’s notions about a house were extremely flexible; there were only two positive requirements, a fireplace and ‘a convenient spot for his Capehart phonograph recorder. John’s method of securing housing, was direct and in- genious. He started out in an-attractive district, on foot, and cased the homes. When he found one that appealed to him, he marched up, rang the doorbell and said to the astonished householder, “I admire your home very much. Is it, by chance, for sale?” After three days of this, he actually located an elderly couple in Brentwood who were planning to place their home on the market the following week. Happy ending: John bought the house and moved in the following family: J te, her nurse, a cook, one dog and one cat. His home established, John left town on a vacation to be followed by a Bond tour. Upon his return, 20th Cen- tury-Fox will have a script ready for him. Also awaiting his return will be a G.I.’s dream of romance, Gloria de Haven, with whom John has enjoyed most of his recent dates. In '39, he spent $5000 on clothes, had reputation as one of H'wood's best-dressed. Lives in sweaters, slacks around house. panes Best war r property boom, he invested in 15 acres. _ 2 SON e at a AES

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Who ne we ddan ¢ Boras while 50,000 gabe ara ottion too yon Wal Hoo fd to Aurson 6) Vow Joeman or till ov. the Aunt | i na Ouer lenna. “Just back foot a rest at Arrowhead, Van grabs a dance with Janie Wyman. He still chuckles over time he swept into club—fell flat on his face! Whereupon 4 gals rushed to pick him up, dust him off! B One day last March a girl named Betty, who works for M-G-M, found on her desk a box brimming over with flowers. The card said: “Thanks again. Van Johnson.” Betty was enchanted, but puzzled. Why the flowers, and what was Van thanking her for? Suddenly her eyes flew to the calendar. March 30th! Of course! It all came flooding back— : A year ago today—working late at the studio—leaving around 8—reach- ing Venice Boulevard just in time to hear the horrible sound of crashing cars—fighting back the sick sense of shock—racing across the street— helping Keenan Wynn pull Van out of the overturned car—phoning for help—sitting beside Van till it came, and the awful drip of blood from his head—Van lying there, trying to smile, speaking only once—“I can’t stand that sound—” wadding up her scarf, putting it where it would deaden the sound— ; Betty brushed the scene from her mind. Van was all right now. Nothing left but fading scars and the plate in his head. She smiled at the flowers. How like him to remember the day this way— | Something’s left beside the scars and the plate in Van’s head. Something that makes him feel he can’t live a full-time life (Continued on page 60) 30

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After guesting on CBS Burns and Allen show, Yan Brown Der- by'ed with them and their daughter, Sandra, who is engaged’ to Van along with 6-year-old Linda Leroy, the director's child. ol £ M-G-M's recent birthday gift was the late John Barrymore's portable dressing room where Van takes time out from “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo’ to personally autograph those NAA cards. (See p. 10 for details.) Van's part in the "Dr. Gillespie’ series is being terrifically built up with the next one to feature Gloria De Haven in "a junior Bette Davis’ role. (Kibitzing with ''Good News'' Parsons.)

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‘ King Leg All Danny needs is a twist of the heart to shift from a kid with a shoe-box bank to a pixie with a double-talk jabber. f On a recent weekend trip to Chi’s ‘Chez Paris,’ the Kayes sold $1,252,- 000 worth of bonds, then searched ‘Cradle’ for youngster to adopt. Writer-wife Sylvia is sure new number's tops—it at first Dan hates it! An opera and ballet fiend, Danny can reel off fluent Chinese and Japanese he picked up while touring the Orient. (Discovering Virginia Mayo in "The mTwo kids grew in Brooklyn—on the selisame street—-and never met. Sylvia’s father was a dentist. Danny minded his office for a dollar and a quarter a week, but never ran into his daughter. They attended the same high school. Sylvia went in for music and dramatics. Danny was wrapped up in baseball and lived for the day he could start pre-medical work. He didn’t so much as join a debating club. Years later he walked into a New York loft building to rehearse for a show. The lyric-writer, a dark-haired girl, sat at the piano. They were introduced. “Sylvia Fine—Danny Kaye—” “And if I hadn’t met her,” he says, “I wouldn’t be where I am today.” ‘ Where he is today, is in a class by himself. Try to bracket or compare him with anyone else, _and you're lost. The most original talent since Chaplin, somebody called him. Over four years ago, he became the rage of New York. Thanks to Samuel Goldwyn, he now belongs te the millions. Wonder Man.')

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He remains a little leery of the movies. They couldn’t drag him to the preview of “Up in Arms.” “I’d sit there and die inside,” he said, | “or ('d jump up on the screen and try to change it.” Toughest thing about movies is having no | audience. An audience is the match that sets him alight. On first nights he sits in his dressing room, quaking and sweating. The minute he’s onstage, something happens between him and the people out there that sets him free, gives him buoyancy and power and the same kind of mas- tery over his medium that a musician has over his violin— = Making movies, you have to imagine your audience. Same as at rehearsals. Danny’s no good in rehearsal. “Let’s Face It,” his first star- ring show, featured a fairy-tale number in baby talk. They opened in Boston. Danny walked out for the dress rehearsal, to an empty stage and an empty theater— “Once upon a time,” (Continued on page 79) The first comedian to play 5 straight weeks at N. Y. Paramount, Danny signed his 5-year contract after only 5 mos. on B'way and now draws $100,000 per pic; $16,500 per air show. (Right, at “Ice Follies.'’) Just recovering from leg fracture, Dan was pros- trated from earmuff, overcoat scenes during heat wave! (With Gene Kelly at Truman rally.)

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Still padded with baby fat, all sweets turn to hips. Worse, eat- ing's her joy. Mom severely raps her knuckles at slightest veering toward goodies. Mrs. L. gave up music teaching to be daughter's bus. mgr., chauffeur, housekeeper, personal maid and pvt. teacher! dream walking Diana Lynn's lilting along in a dreamy — 18-year-old world of roller coasters, dates and ice-cream binges! >A HM Mother said, “You’ve always got your piano to go back to.” Dolly burst into tears. “I don’t want my piano to go back to. I want to act.” Tt was silly to cry. But now she’d started, she couldn’t seem to turn it off. Guess she’d been waiting to cry for a year and a half. Might as well get it over with. 5; She understood how Mother felt. Music would always be Mother’s first love. Once it had been Dolly’s, too, but now she loved acting more. So you've-got-your-piano- to-go-back-to was like waving a red flag under her nose. Which certainly needed blowing at the moment— She looked up. A watery smile came through. “Tm all right now:” if 2 OEE eT SPA as Mer ae Tg pene : rs eis i ie ay ins pegs Evenings at home, Diana retires to her suite on second floor. Bathes | right. after dinner, turns on bedside radio full blast, does nails or hair, reads in bed. House is Colonial inside and out, patterned after Southern mansions she fell in love with on trip 4 years ago. “Look, Dolly,” said Dad. “Youre 15. Your mother. and I both think you're old enough to make decisions. If acting’s what you want, that’s fine with us.” “Ti’s what I want all right, if they’ll ever let me do it.” “Well, they haven’t fired you yet.” That’s what she couldn’t figure out. They wouldn’t © release her, and they wouldn’t put her to work. Ever | since “There’s Magic in Music,” she’d been hanging around the Paramount lot, doing absolutely nothing. Except cry on Bill Russell’s shoulder. ‘Bill was the dramatic coach,‘and an angel. “Wait, honey,” he’d say. “Don’t get discouraged.” But how could you not get discouraged? Every once in a while she’d gather -_ herself together and go see Mr. Meiklejohn, head of the studio talent department. (Continued on page 83).

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By Karin Pieck Naseer arnt Graduated from studio high school last June, D, wants col- lege education but not at expense of hard-won career that : took 4 years to build. While working on “Out of This World,”’ she'll spend eves book-larnin' and piano-practising. Cooking fascinates her; she can't understand how mixture of egg, flour, etc., comes up cake! Dates often between pics; » - Sat. only during production; different guy each night. If =~ oe she overstays Mom's curfew, she must call and explain.

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2nd place: Alan Ladd— "Edward G. Robinson—with dimples . . .'' (From sneak preview card of ‘This Gun For Hire.* 1942.) ~ Ist place: Frank Sinatra— “Listening to that boy sing is like getting kissed." (From sneak preview card of "Higher And Higher." 1944.) 6th place: Capt. Ron- ald Reagan—''He’'d be so nice to come home to...” (From sneak preview of ‘Kings Row." 1941.) 5th place: Betty Grable— “Just saw a dream walking.” (From sneak preview card of "A Yank In The RAF." 1940.) 8th place: Gene Kelly— "Kelly talks with his feet, and manages to say plenty.’ j (From sneak preview card : of "For Me and My j Gal." 1942.) 9th place: Shirley Temple— “She's always had the face of an angel—but what's this new look in her eye?” (From sneak preview card of “Kathleen.” 1941.) 10th place: John Payne— "Superman's kid brother.” (From sneak preview card of 'Gar- den of The Moon.’ 1938.)

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3rd place: Pvt. Lon Mc- Callister—'"He reminds me of an lyory Soap ad grown up." (From sneak preview card of “Stage Door Canteen." 1943.) Gillespie's New Assist- ant.’ 1942.) - 7th place: Lana Turner— “How do you spell a long, low whistle?" (From sneak pre- view card of “They Won't Forget.’ 1937.) by Colle Parrono FAVORITE STARS OF 1944 ™ One more New Year for this writer. She’s had many of them writing for the motion picture public. I have a number of people on my list to whom I want to hand a few posies this New Year 1945. High on my list is MopeERN ScREEN because it is doing something special for the Hollywood I love. It is giving many movie-goers of our country a chance to express themselves through the Modern Screen Poll. The first time I heard about this Modern Screen Poll was soon after the release of “Stage Door Canteen.” I mentioned young Lon McCallister and used a few of my best superlatives in complimenting the young man. Sol Lesser, to whom I was talking, grinned sort of sheepishly and said Mopern Screen was right, so I asked him what he meant. Well, it seems the Lesser organization put their money on another player in the picture and sent out scads ef publicity, thinking “Stage Door Canteen” would make this player a star overnight. MopERN ScREEN wouldn’t use the publicity. Sat tight and waited to see what their poll would tell them. The poll skipped that _ certain person and cheered for Lon McCallister. All this made me curious. What was this poll, and how did it work? I discovered that it works through all of you who read the magazine.. That you vote for your first three favorites. That number one scores three points, number two scores two, number three scores one. Whoever scores the highest is top man for the month, and so on down the line. In other words, you spot the coming stars. And let me congratulate you. So far you’ve never missed. I’m not talking about people like Jennifer Jones. That’s too obvious. As “Bernadette,” a blind man couldn’t have missed her. What amazes me is the way you point straight as an arrow at youngsters who first appeared in relatively small parts—(Continued on page 91) 4th place: Van Johnson— "Yessir, he's my baby!" (From sneak preview card of "Dr.

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ee ee g By Kirtley Baskette 3 sya oe ; Pert 2 Sa : . a During babyhood Lon was watched over by Great Dane, Baby pics are bane of Lon's existence. When his mom Blue Lady," and that's been his favorite breed ever and grandma aired them to M. S.'s ed for this story, since. Early treat was riding around yard on dog's back. he pounced on them, refused to reveal sillier ones. | | There was plenty of everything a boy could dream for— i a candy factory, a Great Dane. And then, suddenly, there was nothing. | The cool late afternoon breeze swept off the Pacific and sent the white Malibu sands swirling to pepper about the brown shoulders of the good-looking young guy stretched out on the blanket. Lon McCallister reached for his faded sweater, tugged it over his head and stood up. He folded the gay umbrella, shook out the striped beach towel, dusted the pillow and slipped it under his arm. For a moment he gazed thoughtfully down the curving, wave-washed point that pierces the ocean like a white finger pointing back to } Hollywood. Then he brushed back his wind- mussed hair and flashed the shy, boyish smile that has made him famous. “Sometimes,” said Lon, “Sometimes, I 2. > Sri th) can’t believe it. “J said someday I’d have a house at Malibu, oe 4 cane = ae - ee aiere Wem. cad one day V'd be a ric One of first bit parts was with Walter Brennan in “Joe and Ethel Turp." Since : ; ; joining Army he's shed 9 lbs. and has to have trousers nipped in at waist. Of star and, well, there's (Continued on page 4]) current crop of books, he prefers “A Tree Grows in B'klyn" and “Razor's Edge.”

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~ 4 He shares hovel Gets up at 6:30, Free every P.M., Day off "Winge crony to phone beach. Friend rags him but fails to rattle poised Pvt. McC. i continued with 3 guys in Tent Row at Santa Monica takes G.l. bus to studio, starts work at 8. he drives to Malibu for dinner with his mom. Victory’ set and Army chores, Lon beat and invites Jeanne Crain to spend day on one uke ed 3 blowouts in week, a MODERN SCREEN'S ed, Sylvia Wallace, and photog Gus Gale pick Jeanne up, meet Lon at camp, drive to his Malibu home.

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¢ 3 P= oe They never talk politics; he thinks women are idiotic about subject. Top compliment is that she always looks the woy he envisioned her first time he phoned for date. Upon arrival, first move is diving into bathing suits and getting out on beach. Between dips, they play leaptrog, sing all verses of "One Keg of Beer for the 4 of Us.’ Great Dane Mae is lacked (i oom because Jeanne’s scared. She'd been to Lon's hduse once before when he hosted "Home in Indiana’ crew and invited her to act as hostess. ‘Home in Indiana.’ I said I’d fix things so my mother and grandmother could quit work, and they’re right inside the house. I said I’d keep my old friends, and I still have them. I said I’d live a larger life than just acting; and I’m in the Army Air Corps. I said all those things to my grandmother one day after a Hollywood Boulevard movie. And they’ve all come true. It doesn’t make sense, does it?” Lon grinned apologetically and gave that defiant, self- conscious toss to his head he always does when he’s embar-. rassed. As if to say, “All right, go ahead and laugh if you want to—but that’s the truth!” I didn’t laugh. You don’t laugh at a boy who makes his gallant dreams come true. Besides, I was thinking that maybe the joke was on me. It was morning when I came down to the beach, and the California sun was low in the East, but not quite so low as my opinion of the drama to be found in the life of a twenty-one-year-old star. How can you write the life story of a kid who’s just begun to live? How in the world can enough happen to a boy be- fore he turns voting age to make the story worth telling?

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When gust of sand blows in Jeanne's face, Lon whisks it off. He offers use of pvt. beach to Sylvia and Gus, who'll take him up on it next Sun. — It was dusk now, and the day—Private Lon Mc- Callister’s one-day furlough after finishing his Army Air Corps job in “Winged Victory”—had streaked past like a P-38. I drove home down the Coast Highway — beside the Malibu hills that had turned purple in the sifting mist, dimming the very real 1944 homes and villas on the mountain sides into imaginary castle and fairy towers. Magic mountains, and beyond them lay a magic city—Hollywood. A fabled town, a Bagdad- on-the-Arroyo, where Aladdin’s Lamp and the Flying Carpet and tales as strange as Scheherazade’s came true every day. Cinderellas, Prince Charmings, magic wands. Rags to riches, dreams come true, glamour, glitter, gold. Oh, yeah? Who was I kidding? On trip to corner drug, Lon shows Jeanne his top comic in ine 1B, | pleased to find her hep. Before going in Army he gave her a St. Chris- topher; got pipe from her, which he smokes only when she’s with him. — continued- Hollywood is a factory town that makes movies, grinds them out like sausages. It’s the hardest working, dullest joint in the world, jam-packed with ordinary, harassed Joe and Jane Jerks. It’s cut and dried, now— you have to have a name or know people to get ahead. All that Magic Hollywood stuff is as out of date as a director’s megaphone. Maybe so, in the good old days when these Malibu beach villas, which the sun’s slanting rays still spotted as I passed, were fun spots for fabulous silent stars—Bebe Daniels, the Talmadge girls, Fatty Arbuckle, Tom Mix and Charlie Ray—(what columnist had called Lon McCallister another Charlie Ray?) And yet— : In one of those very houses on that fabled Malibu strand I had just left a boy (Continued on page 70)

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“After filling up on grandma's lemon pies, kids can't down whole milk- shake, share one. .He never brings orchids, thinks they're overrated. Buys her camellias and rosebuds which she usually tucks in her hair. Back at house they sing and dance to his half-dozen recordings of pet tune, "Easy to Love."’ He'll be in Chicago with troupe this Xmas, his first away from home. Jeanne'll write once weekly. Good-night kiss is friendly, but nothing more. While they're no great romance, they're No. | on each other's date list. If he gets invitation to bring “a friend," he takes her and vice versa.

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At one time, Walt would warble “The Rosary’ at parties, ruin the gay mood. Now he sings only in bath or while preparing a garlic-olive oiled steak. (With Mrs. P.) H I’ve known Walter Pidgeon for years—never mind how many—and only once have I wanted to slug him. That was when Frances Marion and I took him up to the Hearst ranch. Our train got shunted off on a siding, and we didn’t arrive till 4:30 A.M. The scene was out of the Arabian Nights—mist-drowned hills and valleys and, floating high -over the mists, this lighted castle like a wedding-cake, with nothing to hold it up. In my childish fashion, | started raving. “We've got to wait and watch the sunrise melt the mists away—” “Not me,” said Frances. “I’m going to bed.” “Likewise,” said Walter. I didn’t mind Frances so much, she’d seen it before. Walter hadn’t. “Where’s your. soul, where’s your sense of poetry?” I stormed. “Sleeping,” says he, and darned if the big lug didn’t march off and leave me to rhapsodize alone. That was in the old days, before he and Ruth were married. When he first came out, he didn’t know many people. East was East and West was West, and my house was a place where the twain frequently met. lf New Yorkers didn’t know anyone (Continued on page 87) or romantic roles till he proved self in first of 4 Garson Now he's set, will do famed priest of Dannemora prison in “Church Of Good Thief"! (With Author Hopper.) Pidge fought f co-starrers. Is there a Pidgeon-fancier in the house? Don't rush, girls! Canadian-born Walt thanks Fred Astaire for first break, thinks Sinatra is: ‘one swell kid.” A new citizen, he cast first vote this year. (With L. B. Mayer at "SYWA" preem.}

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fs mw It’s June in January. June Allyson, in case you didn’t get it first off. ’N she didn’t just breeze in with a snappy “Happy New mag Year” and let it go at that. She’s got ideas, q 2 swig that gal! 4 -What’s it got to do with you? Come out 4 of the dumps, and you'll see. Sure, I know — | what you're up against. Everything you LY own looks strictly pain-in-the-neck. It’s too ong74 late for more Winter duds, too early for Spring. But this doesn’t mean youre to stand there just marking time til the robins come. Now’s the season, says June, to pin your- S = = cheted accessories by Greta Plattry It’s a peplum that adds zip to - = 4 ~~ @ basic black, make-it-yourself ; dress, Simplicity Pattern (053. 4 46

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It's a smart, long-sleeved jacket that transforms your ae dress into a costume suit. all on the old faithful black dress. That one in the closet—remember? Or you can whip up a new “old faithful” from a Sim- plicity pattern. With curve-smoothing lines, new bateau (boat-shaped) neckline, tiny cap sleeves. Plus a matching jacket for presto- chango into a dinner suit. But hurry up, will you? Because the fire- works are starting. Hand-crocheted acces- sories. That hot-pink business that June’s got on her head is-called a “coif” (cwaf, mind you, not coyf). The gloves pick up the sparkle with a fake jewel placed, ring- fashion, in the (Continued on page 90) It's a datemaker, dressed up with a giant flower tucked into a velvet band at your waist. June Allyson, bright star of “Music For Millions," sparkles in gay, be-jeweled coif and gloves by Greta Plattry.

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Sa a. ie Way before Pearl Harbor, John, along with Bolger, Laurel and Hardy, Chico Marx and others, went USO touring in the Caribbean.’ The War Dept. nixed publicity, didn't want it known men were stationed there. ™ David Garfield was a year old on July 25th. “He can’t be,” said John. “He was only born the other day.” . Roberta glanced at the clock. “A year ago. Al- most to the minute. Remember? Winchell was screaming about Mussolini, while I screamed about David.” He remembered all right, but it just didn’t seem possible. This had been the swiftest year of a not uneventful life. Garfield’s the kind of guy things happen to. Eager, sensitive, burningly interested in the world and all its doings, he lives twice as im- tensely as the average man. But the things that had happened this year were stranger, more significant, more exciting than usual— First, his son had been born on a very fine day. The day Mussolini was kicked out of Rome. The news had just started coming in over the radio, and Roberta couldn’t bear to leave it, but the baby aS wouldn’t wait. He was very impatient. At the hos- All of Johnny's aes in ‘‘H'wood Ce had-to be redone— : > mG > 5 seems the real self shown is so unlike his reel self, he had to pital, John hadn’t even hit his pacing stride before portray Garfield, the actor, so people would recognize him! the smiling nurse came out and said, “Tt’s a boy.”

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"Little Eoat Side boy’ he Kapt thinkin, * Qowmg {0 ‘moot the Qrosidout.” Thats what the Qanfields ore fighting {a ~ 0 drove, now world (er wdutbedy \/>-hour show for Tito's Partisans took twice that long—interpreter had to get in has licks. John added their gift of Nazi gun to souvenir arsenal given him by G.I.'s. (With Handyman Luther and Cook Ida May.) journey among warriors They, let him see Roberta for a minute. “What’s his name?” she asked drowsily. “David.” “That’s nice.” < In the Garfield family, it’s Daddy who picks the kids’ names. Robbie hadn’t known Katherine would _ be Katherine till after she was born. Her theory is: “The mother has the children. The father just stands outside. So the least you-can do is let him pick the name. That makes him more part of it. Besides,” - she adds with an impish grin, “if you’ve got enough faith in a guy to marry him, you ought to trust him enough to let him name your child.” Before dozing off, she murmured, “Go cele- brate—” “What’ll I do?” “Go see a leg show.” So he collected some male cronies and took them to Earl Carroll’s and ordered champagne for the girls and didn’t say why till the glasses were lifted. rinse Then: “To my son,” said John, and got much Phoning wite of a Lieut. he'd met in Italy, he learned she and i infant were homeless. In 2 days, he and Red Cross had them set up drunker on the words than (Continued on page 91) in own apt.! Baby David Patton was named for famed General.

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YOUR GOOD NEWS GOSSIPER RIFFLES THE PAGES OF SOME OLD COLUMNS TO TELL OF CHRISTMASES LONG PAST. Wi Merry Christmas—to each and every one of you! } This is the day and the season to put behind us all the. heart- aches and unhappiness of the past, if even only for a little while, and to cling hard to the belief and hope of the beautiful thought, “Peace on Earth—Good Will Toward Men.” Christmas days have a way of changing with the changes in our hearts. This year, in Hollywood, it is the same as in any other little town in the country. There are hearts that are saddened by separation from dear ones. There are movie homes where a son, or a brother or a husband has been lost. But just as elsewhere— there are smiles of courage on faces in Hollywood for the Yuletide. Christmas trees may, not be so big or bright. Packages may not have such gaudy wrappings. But there are fires in the hearth— and good cheer for old and new friends—and wonderful, splendid memories. I love to go over my scrapbooks around Christmas time. The memories they revive are as warm as though I were living through them again. Some of them bring a sentimental tear to my eyes. Others make me smile. I think you might be amused to look back with me over some Christmases I recorded that read like some- thing out of Arabian Nights, It was back in the days when Hollywood was gay, extravagant and brilliant. Come along and share a chuckle with me over this Christmas day column I wrote (very nonchalantly, too): “Carole Lombard’s gift from her new beau, Bob Riskin, was huge diamond and xuby clips and a silver fox cape. (Just simple little remembrances! ) "Francis Lederer gave Mary Anita Loos a Persian lamb coat, a bracelet and a jade pin with matching earrings. : “Pat O’Brien handed Eloise a gorgeous new emerald ring. "Clark Gable treated himself to a Duesenberg car. “Darryl Zanuck surprised Virginia with a new Packard car, and just so she wouldn't feel slighted, a fifty-carat star sapphire. “Claudette Colbert's favorite gift is the new baguette diamond wedding ring put on her finger by her husband, Dr. Joel Pressman. “Dick Powell sent Mary Brian a lovely sable jacket. _ "Joan Crawford's Christmas was made cheerful by Franchot Tone’s gift—a new star sapphire necklace and bracelet. "George Raft took Virginia Peine’s little daughter to see Santa Claus and hasn’t been the same since. (Who? George—or Santa? ) “Nick Stuart is caroling to Alice Faye (Cont'd on following page) ° / Sinatra designed and built intricate home-recording ma- = chine with built-in record player and radio with loud = speakers throughout house. With vocalist Eileen Barton. Soule res Va Kay Williams have it bad. He's gitte her with lush compact. He's making radio debut as m.c. 6) Command Performance, Armed Forces Radio Service sho} When Harry's away on tour, disinterested on Fox lot.- She hopes to go along next time. Above, with GOOD: a PF wa Betty Grable gets blue and NEWSer Louella Parsons.

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EA», is y :. ill Pte , ak Despite suitor Pete Lawford's return to town, Lana Turner's continuing with Turhan Bey. She's redecorating only part of her new Bel Air home: waiting till war's end to do rest. Just 21, she cast first vote this fall. | Soon as John Payne (above with Jimmy Durante and Gloria DeHaven) Vis settled in his Brentwood home, has water and lights under control he'll head for Carmel for rest. Claims he's dog*tired after Army life : “da a “Christmas Booed an see ioe ‘Bob Land ryt a iter studio's helpless if Anne Baxter decides to marry John Hodiak. ter contract provided she wouldn't wed until age of 21, which she reached last spring. Above, at Ice Follies with "Hi" and June Havoc.

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birds for decoration.” If you ask me, Lana is more excited than Cheryl. A lonely but proud mother in Hollywood this Christmas is Dick Jaeckel’s mom. This is the first Christmas Millicent, as her friends call her, has been without her boy who TRUE-LOVE and FRIENDSHIP RING cannines’ and the matching earrings is 42 is now with the Merchant Marine. He's only so unusual and attractive is ‘ 17—which is awfully young to be at sea. the Sua Ss pay wg But it's what the kid wanted. He wanted hc! jf pendant hearts tha . i i ae F : PST aaintily like sentimental and : fies 2s (reining: tho, hard. way, 8 wate ee a : charming settings. Either\ lonely, Millicent is as proud as punch of the es i the ring or earrings can be : letters she receives telling of his experiences toni £ ; woun Bena ae togethers . and how wonderful it is to be completely sees this altogether new and alluring ‘s on his own doing a man's job in the world. wants a set. 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His | this Christmas Eve—and I understand he is likewise in the market for a racer.” papa is one of Brazil's richest men. Mary dropped a pearl frame av miniatures in cher” * * * Pickford made an excellent speech stressing Christmas stocking. (I had forgotten Nickand Turning to a 1936 book, I found: the importance of the Good Neighbor policy. i “Jean Harlow is celebrating the 1936 New Signe Hasso was there, looking so smart. Alice were ever that way. ) “Zeppo Marx's gift to Mrs. Zeppo was a check for $2500!" : il Whoops! Wasn't it atl just TOO wonderful! Year by discarding her platinum locks infavor She has come up suddenly in Hollywood ~ of her own light brown tresses. This decision and is due to be one of our top ranking © was made simultaneously with the signing of stars. She had her little boy with her over HI * * ® a new seven year contract with M-G-M.” Thanksgiving, and they dined together with © it And then, there was this zany item: Poor little Jean—she didn't live to complete one of Signe’s admirers. | “Ted Healy (who was the Errol Flynn of that long contract. Joan Fontaine came in for a brief moment ~ his day) furnished the highlight of the Christ- "Paulette Goddard is with the Chaplin after dinner. She was lovely in a filmy biack ~ mas festivities of 1935 by being accused of children at Palm Springs. How the boys adore dress with touches of pink. Now that she’s ys setting fire to his best girl's clothes. Said their step-mother! I believe Charlie and back at work she is happy again. Ted, ‘I’m too old to play with matches!’ “Paulette are happier now than ever before. I wish I could say the same for her sis- i “He was generally kidded and took it all “The New Year hasn't caused Katie Hep- ter, Olivia De Havilland, who seems sad and good naturedly, adding, ‘Besides, I don’t want burn to turn over ad new page. She’s up to depressed. Her romance with Major John to go to jail because I hear they “~have to her same old elusive tricks. Out of the blue Huston is over and her career is still in a | eat pork chops—and I don’t like pork chops.’ “ she disappeared—and when she cropped up tangle with her Warner lawsuit. * * * : in Kansas City, a reporter dubbed her “A * * es I greeted the Christmas that Santa Anita Gross between Sarah Bernhardt and Huckle- Betty Grable has a sentimental idea 10r f race track opened in the following fashion: berry Finn!’ “ (still goes.) Christmas for Victoria Elizabeth James, Queen | “Christmas has always been a home day * * of the Harry James household. She has 7 | in Hollywood me one exception—today— The brand new babies and two eae three bignted a small cedar tree exactly the same : | when Santa Anita opens. Stars celebrated year old debutantes are the center of interest Gye as Miss James. This year it will be dec- — | with their children bright and early and then this year in Hollywood. crated with tiny lights—and then as the © took themselves out to the beautiful new track. Lana Turner's Christmas present to yeOI- tree grows—and Miss Vicky geis bigger, it “T hear that Bing Crosby has gone into and-a-half Cheryl Christine will be a com- i] be decorated each year just for her. — the horse breeding business (and I just bination ‘ dollhouse-playhouse. It is being * *, * | { heard it is a rumor!). ‘Tis said that he built-in the back yard and is big enough for THINGS-I-CAN‘T-GET-USED-TO: Z owns twelve yearlings which are now going Cheryl to play in until she is a big girl. Turhan Bey smoking a pipe when he | through their schooling period. (Poor Bing “Of course she’s too young now to really dances. : | and his nags. This was the beginning of appreciate it,’ Lana said, “But it will have Greer Garson’s new short hair cut for © all the Crosby horse gags that practically three tiny little rooms and we'll furnish it with “Valley of Decision.” | made Bob Hope famous!) e little miniature furnishings which will be pre- Judy Garland in’ the matronly hats she ~ | “Connie Bennett is another racing enthugiast. sented to her on her birthdays and Christ- wears. : ee ~ ¥ i She has entered her horse "Rattlebrain’ and mas. We already have a tiny little Coo-Coo Lupe Velez with any other beau but Arturo | | 58 __ is looking for another bangtail. Fred Astaire clock and a set of dishes with all kinds of de Cordova. (Continued on page 66) 3 |

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_he’s till the war’s over. But for his accident, he’d have been in the fight. He hates being out of it. His dad sends him the home town papers with their casualty lists _kids Van knew at school, killed and miss- ing in action. His mouth goes hard. He’s no crazier than the next guy to be a dead hero, but every instinct pulls him toward the side of those kids. g.i. civilian .. . He knows it’s no use. They won't let him fight. So he takes his own way of keep- ing faith with the millions who do. Lives as simply as possible—works as hard as he can so as to pay the maximum income tax—won’t haunt night clubs—spends his leisure time with the Keenan Wynns, his: adopted family. Once he spoke to Jean- Pierre Aumont of the way he felt. “T have no right to a normal existence. Not till everyone’s home, living normally again—” ‘T know. I feel the same way—” “But you have no reason. You fought in France. You're going back in—” “As much reason as you, Van,” Jean- Pierre replied gently. “Each of us does what he can.” 5 So Van lives quietly. Though it’s been a year and a half since the accident, he still needs plenty of rest. The only way he can get it is by turning in early, because he’s been working without a letup—“T'wo Girls and a Sailor,” two “Dr. Gillespies,” six months on “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo,” “Thrill of a Romance,” “Weekend . at the Waldorf.” With a schedule like that, you don’t have much energy left for the social business. Even at the studio, he lunches alone.. Hates the noise and con- fusion of the commissary. Has a tray in his dressing room, goes over his dialogue, takes a few minutes’ snooze. Not that anti-social. He’s husbanding his strength, that’s all. When the war's over, he'll quit working so hard because there'll be room in the world for fun again. The only new thing in his life’s a house. And he didn’t plan that, it kind of sneaked up on him. Hugh Marlowe phoned the Wynns one Sunday when Van was there. Hugh was leaving for a play in Chicago, and he had this little Chevvy that Keenan thought of taking over.. So Van went up with them to look at the Chevvy— You drive up a steep hill_think you're never going to reach the top—then you hit it just as the car is coughing its soul out— and first thing you see is the ocean spread out, and this Cape Cod cottage with a green lawn and flowerbeds and a dog chasing round—like a home in the East. “Who’s renting it?” Van asked. ‘Friend of mine and his wife. moving in tomorrow—’ “Wish I could have it—” he said, the way you say things, and never give it another thought. : Next morning Hugh called him at the studio. “Still want the house, Van?” “Qh. Why, what’s the matter with it?” “Nothing. Guy that was taking it got called back East for a show. I asked the owners to give you first crack at it. But you'll have to make up your mind by eleven tomorrow. Ninety million other peole want it, too—” ; Van spent the noon hour calling every- one he knew. Should he take it or shouldn’t he? “Be nice, wouldn’t it? I always wanted a garden to fuss over—’ “What's the inside like?” “How should I know?” They’re 60 “Didn’t you see it?” NOBODY'S SWEETHEART (Continued from page 31) “Sure, but who pays attention? Like a home, I guess. Chairs, tables, long cord on the telephone—” The consensus of opinion was that he’d better snap it up, so he did. Professional movers came for his Capehart, kind friends did the rest. Everyone took a carload— books, records, clothes, photographs, un- answered letters and a ton of old movie magazines. He’d marked the magazines: “COLLECTORS’ ITEMS, NOT JUNK. HANDLE WITH CARE.’ Some day Van expects to read them all. Essie was there to receive the stuff. Essie’s the jewel who’s put up with him for two years. He got her through an ad, when he lived in Coldwater Canyon. She was supposed to show up for an interview at 10. Came 11, and no Essie. At 11:30 the phone rang. “Mr. Johnson? I’m down at the Beverly Hills Fire Department—” ‘Who's on fire?” “I am, Mr. Johnson. I been drivin’ up and down that canyon for hours, an there’s no such house at the number you gave me— Van looked wildly around. “There must be. I’m in it—’ - “Well, you better get out of it then and stand where I can see you—” “Okay, Essie. Til be wearing red hair and freckles and a checked cowboy shirt—” That was all the interview they needed. Minor items like salary and duties were taken in stride. It took a while for the new house to register. That first night he drove clear to the old apartment, and started up the stairs before he remembered that Vannie didn’t live there any more. He felt funny. His hand fondled the banister—good old apartment—they’d been through a lot to- gether—what did he want to be rattling around in a house for? Reluctantly, he got back into the car. By now it was dark. Might as well have dinner in Westwood. He saw the Red Cross Blood Bank, with its banner waving. Be- fore the accident, Van had donated blood regularly. That had helped save his, life, the doctor said. If his body hadn’t grown used to losing blood in a small way, it might not have survived the greater loss. Since 1 SAW IT HAPPEN It was at the Ambassador East Hotel in Chicago. The Hollywood Victory | Caravan was there, and as a terrific movie fan and autograph collector, I was right on hand. With me I had some friends, a beau- tiful picture of Betty Hutton which I wanted her to sign, two autograph books and various other articles. All of a sudden, out popped Betty from an elevator and bang! Down went the books, down went the picture—and down went me. But in a minute I was up and at her heels, “May I have. your autograph, Miss Hutton?” “Pm sorry, honey,’ she answered, “but were not allowed to sign unless you buy a Bond?” “Well, then, can I have your lip print in my book?” — “That’s the same thing, but I can put it on YOU.” And over she came, cround me went her arms and Bang! Down went the books, down went the picture, but UP stayed me! Bob Hertzberg, Chicago, Illinois > the accident, he hadn’t been allowed to a) give blood. “Not for a year,” the doctor |) had said, on discharging him. 4 home is where the heart is .. - Van made some rapid calculations, Golly, ); it was a year. Just about. He went in and gave them a pint of blood. When he came out, he didn’t feel nearly so lost. And when he got to the house, somebody’d done something for him. The two lovely — ladies who owned it had turned all the lights on. To welcome him home. He walked all over the place, getting — acquainted—picked the bedroom with the most wind blowing through, located his — Capehart, built a roaring fire, found the — phone with the long cord, flopped into a = chair and called all his friends. “Hello,” he said, “I’ve got a house—” Later, Evie and Keenan appeared, and they opened a = bottle of champagne for good luck. It’s only on Sundays that he really gets © chummy with the place. And even then, © it’s the garden more than the house. He wakes up around nine, and remembers he 5 can stay in bed. That’s all he asks—the simple pleasure of knowing he doesn’t have to get up. So he gets up and into a © pair of shorts. If you want to know why — he really bought the house, it’s so he could put on shorts and no top and trail his big — bare feet through the grass. He starts the coffee and ambles to the q bottom of the hill for the morning papers— drinks his coffee on the front steps, with — news flashes from the portable radio and the fog rolling away to show him the view. Essie’s given up trying to make him eat a decent breakfast. He’d starve before _he’d fix anything for himself. She used to ~ buy bread. She’d stick two slices in the toaster. “All you have to do is push that jigger down in the morning— ~ | “Who, me?” ets ; ; Sometimes he’ll do her a favor, and eat one of the cookies she leaves in the cookie | jar. But mostly it’s just black coffee. If - he’s empty, he takes a second. That’s the Swede in him. He’s never ‘really hungry — till night time. That’s a throwback to the New York days when he couldn't afford — more than one solid meal a day. 3 His gardener’s a thoroughly understand- ~ ing fellow. Leaves the grass a little long || on Sundays. Van gets the old iawn mower out, mows forth and then back—turns over : the flowerbeds and waters the driveway—— wipes the honest sweat from his brow, sweeps up the walks and steps, cleans off © the wheelbarrow and outside furniture, looks at the view and has another cup of coffee. Then he washes the car. By now he’s beginning to feel pretty pleased with him- || self, and decides that the good boy de-— serves a rest. So he drags out this dead old mattress, flops and goes over Monday’s — script. That takes an hour or so. Then | his stomach speaks up. Funny thing— | stomach knows it’s Sunday—never gets || hungry till night time except on Sunday. || “Go wash yourself,” says his stomach, “and let’s get out of here—” ~ ; 3 First a tub, then a shower. He bathes like a porpoise. Slops soap on the walls” and water all over the floor. Doesn’t leave the soap in the water any more though. — Not since the war started. And he cleans up afterwards. That’s his early training.” Dad’s three thousand miles away, but Van can still hear him, “Clean it up, son.” — He hates to shave. Never shaves on™ Sundays. -To any objections, he’s got the perfect alibi. “I’m on a picture.” If peo- - (Continued on page 64) .

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If it’s late, little Neddy fixes him with a baleful eye— photos, Dad wrote that they were being displayed in the local A&P and the bank. “How did they know you had ’em?” Van inquired. No answer to that one. And then —he takes most of his meals at the same little restaurant. On Van’s last birthday, came a card signed by five names—“From the girls who feed your father.” Father and son have drawn closer since Van’s been away. Rather, they've grown” less shy—at a distance—of showing their love for each other. Once a month Van ™ phones his father— Dad says, “I saw your new picture—” “Has it hit town already?” q “I went up to Providence for it—” “Golly, I rate! Same as a baseball - game—” He wants every detail of the new house— how many rooms? How close to the neigh- 7 bors? Always asks when Van's coming home. “Your room’s just the same—movie stars all over the walls and ceiling.” Dad always calls a halt to the conversa= tion. “You’ve talked long enough—” “Worried about the bill?” “Someone's got to worry—” : Van’s convinced he lives on an eighth™ You DON’T CUT OUT starchy, fatty foods, you merely CUT DOWN on them. Take half teaspoon- ful Kel-Ray (a purely veg- etable product) daily, fol- low easy, lazy plan, and fat vanishes. That’s all there is to st “Thought you were going to take me to the outside things—” of his monthly check. Probably sticks the In the center of town there’s a little rest in the bank for the boy. Figures the amusement park with a creaky carousel boy’s doing all right at the moment, but and a couple of brokendown mides tho how can you tell about this movie busi-" : Tie ah ness? So Van gets back at him by send- eae renee He Ce hear ing stuff—oranges from the Farmer’s = “No gas,” Van explains. Market, Martha Smith candies, sweaters material for suits— q USERS SAY: “Tost 5 lhs. in 5 days. “Fy . 9 1k2” Mri. A. C."Lost 2 inch eneREG) ow did you get here? Walk? ; and d ; Mrs. AG, Dems GEL,” Lostwele bt “Here’s close by. The outside things “Did You have that suit made up?’ Yes, but I’m saving it till you come are far away—’” : “And long ago,” quips Neddy. tell me a story.” Which settles that. In what’s left of the afternoon, Van helps Keenan dig round the garden. Or they polish up the motor- cycles that M-G-M won’t let them ride. After supper, it’s gin rummy or records Van leaves ‘and ate everything. Kel-Ray iswondere ful.” Mrs. J. C. “Doctor approved. ‘now I have a slim figure.’’ says J. G. \ , ONE | MONTH'S |e | SUPPLY home.” That’s the first thing he wants to do after the war. He’d also like to get married, and have a lot of kids—a happy mixture of boys and girls—the more, the merrier. inks he’d make a good father, except he might have a tendency to spoil ’em—especially “Okay, . Y on 3 months or just chewing the breeze. : : ‘ ; : ( | i Bo UP supply oF i ie hie sedpt to bed with tum, (6 See picture is of Mi dere UG, $ d Mrs. Van Joh lus kids plus dogs | f ie [J*2,00 eats an apple, smokes a cigarette, catches 22 rs. Van Johnson pilus Kids pilus oss : Ww pA in a homey house with a green, green lawn. When he’s married, he won’t go anywhere; they'll have everyone at their place. By himself, he’s no good at entertaining. Takes the responsibility too hard. When Keenan Wynn got back from overseas, Va gave him a welcome home party. All he remembers is leaping around, shovi plates and glasses at people, under illusion that an empty hand reflected on hospitality and disgraced his name as 4 host. 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Van Japs are finished. After that__ hopes she'll show up—with other good Well, he’d like a new car and four good things—when the war's over. | tires and a tankful cf Bas, 8° ae Zot ; | cross-country to see his dad. Da ’s really 3 3 the one who stays put. The farthest he'll C'MON, SHELL OUT, RAKE IN! | stir from Newport is up to Providence for a baseball game. The mere mention of Hollywood scares him stiff. When Van lay smashed up, half-conscious in the hospital, voices came through—“Don’t you think we'd better send for his father?” He managed to move his head. Someone (i bent down. “Don’t—send—for Dad. He’d y be frightened—lost. V’d—worry—’ Even now Van worries about him. He’s essa = E alos pet so en eat Hew } a ea Waa people have toun' out he’s the father of a Se ee a eet eee acid eae ana movie star. Kids fall all over him. 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Gloria de Haven eating three husky meals a day and still never putting on a pound. Paulette Goddard's “little girl” voice com- bined with her truly sophisticated personality. % * * Desi Arnaz (Lucille Ball's ex) has been seeing cute little Marianne O’Brien, but the torch he still carries for Lucille lights up every little table where Desi dines even when he is with another charmer. * # * A song was written for Betty Hutton titled, "I'm the Bobby Sox Sinatra Doesn't Send—" and she wouldn't sing it. Betty says she likes Sinatra, and he sends her. * * * I'm in the dog house with Bette Davis. I'm afraid 1 was responsible for the Atlanta newspapers finding Bette living in a small house down there with her sister and her maid. I had printed that she was meet- ing Corporal Louis Riley, her new heart, somewhere in the East, and since the Corp was stationed close by Atlanta—well, Bette’s incognito visit was no longer a secret. The one and only Davis is plenty annoyed at me for interrupting her peaceful vacation, and hot wires were sent to Warners’ Studio asking how—and where—I got the tip. But poor Joe Cotten really got the bad end of the deal. He was in Atlanta appear- ing with “Since You Went Away" and would have grabbed off plenty of space if the ex- citement of finding Bette on hand hadn't over- shadowed his visit. * * * Dennis Morgan was attending an art exhibit and was very much taken with one of the lovely pictures. "Yes, yes, Mr. Morgan—it is a delightful subject” enthused the dealer, “and a bargain, Mr. Morgan. Only $5,000.” “Listen,” grinned Dennis, “My name is Dennis Morgan. Not J.P.” * * * Van Johnson and Kay Williams are the cutest couple in town—and the blondest. Van's hair is almost as light as Kay’s, and they look wonderful dancing cheek-to-cheek. Their favorite number at their favorite spot Ciro’s is—oddly enough, “I'll Walk Alone.” No, I don’t think it is because Kay is carrying a torch for Clark Gable, either—or Van for June Allyson. The Gable-Williams romance is finis—to be sure. But they were never more than good playfellows, and it became embarrassing when it was insisted that they would marry. I think Clark felt the only way to solve the tangle was to make a clean break. s s * Is Robert Walker's face red! The other day he went over to Jennifer Jones’ house to see his two kids, Bobby and Michael. - “Daddy,” said Michael, “are you an actor?” "Yes,'" said Bob. 7 "Kre you a good actor?” persisted the boy 3 “Why—er—" Bob stalled. & "I guess you aren't very good,” said Michael, “or you would have one of these things’—and with that he brought out the Oscar Jennifer for “The Song of Bernadette.” S The argument was permanently closed. * * * Betty Grable is calling the hair-do she - created for herself in “Diamond Horseshoe” by the unflattering title of “Flat-top.” ] Another fashion tip from Grable: She's wearing her nails very long but completel 1 minus polish. * * * Who said that all actors hate their agents?” Dick Haymes, the swoon-maker, and Helen” Forrest have the same agent, Bill Burton, ‘ whom they are deeply devoted. j Recently they took out a joint life insur-_ ance policy for $100,000 which Bill will collect if either of them should die. q * %* * j Oh, what an actress is Tallulah Bankhead! Had the time of my life spending a couple of hours on her set, “Night For Scandal,” for- merly “The Czarino.” She looked like a million wearing a regal upswept hair-do and a voluminous gree n velvet gown that weighed twenty-five pounds. | “Louella!” she called in her rich, throaty | voice when she caught sight of me, “Wait a minute, darling. I want to show you some: | thing funny.” She came over with a small | photograph in her hand. “Don’t tell Veronica Lake—but look!” It was a photograph of Tallulah taken when she was eighteen wearing a peekaboo | bang with one eye completely hidden! "Now tell me who started that damned : thing!" she laughed. * won * * Vignette on Gloria De Haven: She hate) carrots . . . men who hum when they are dancing . . . girls who call each other} “honey big hats . . . fried apples . .. getting up early in the morning . . + escorts who argue with waiters ... cha - treuse . affected accents . . . New York charmers who turn up their noses at Holly- wood beaux . She loves cinnamon . - = Crosby records . Perky little hats wi , veils . . . red sports clothes . . . men with low pitched voices .. - peach ice cream ‘cones... blue night gowns ..- - rubies . . = violets . . . Sunday mornings . . . cheese - & men who use nicely scented shaving lotion. * * * 2 That's all for this month. See you ne cl month. But I don’t want to ‘close without} thanking all of you who have written meé such interesting letters. Please keep on writ ing, for I get valuable tips from you about your favorites and what you want to read, : - a | ©

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~~ af lea ia os ah 7 thought I had all that out of my system, but I guess these darn gray vel- vet drapes Mr. Jennings uses set me off again. You’re with me everywhere I go, Joe, dar- ling...we scattered so many memories around in our few short weeks together. You climb the old mill stairs with me when we picnic on Strawberry Hill. You tease poor Miss Burrows at the post office so unmercifully about read- ing the mail she blushes at the very sight of you. You share my sodas at the corner drug store, my laughter at the movies, my dreams at night. And here where we had our wedding pic- ture taken, I can almost feel your hand in mine. Oh, Joe, Joe—you’ve loved me, cared for me, spoiled me outrageously. Certainly I said (when you asked me) that I’d never had a fur coat, but I’ve never had the sun, moon and stars either! And when your sister brought IT over on Christ- mas Day with your dear letter... all I could think was a lifetime isn’t long enough... to be with someone like you! “’M READY NOW, Mr. Jennings. Please make it your best picture—it’s for my husband over- seas. The Hollander Mink-Blended Muskrat is a gift from him ... and I want him to see... how very much I love it!” ...next to WAR BONDS, the best loved gift... FURS ain Toe ae Please wait, Mr. Jennings, ?m crying a KEEP THEIR BEAUTY LONGER *& YOUR FAVORITE FUR RETAILER HAS 67

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Admit his faults, thus taking half the wind out of your dissenting friend’s sails, but say you'll string along anyway. “Then How About a Month From Next Tuesday?” How to dispose of the persistent swain, the one who will not take no for an answer. You’ve tried pleading other dates, sick headaches and visiting cousins, and he still doesn’t get the picture. The boy will just have to be told very gently but firmly that you’re a girl who likes mobs of men, and that you can’t possibly give him a date more often than every two or three months. Say you don’t blame him if that makes him mad, but it’s just the way it is and you're sorry. Say further that you don’t make the dates weeks in advance, it’s just first come first served. S’posing a boy you're out of your head about asks you for a date on a night you're already spoken for, how to say “no,” with- out terminating the whole thing? By your expression let him see you're heartsick that you can’t make it, and say something like, “Darn it, not this Saturday, Bill, but T'll be hanging on the phone till you ask me again.” Bold? Well, frankly, yes, but faint heart never won slick guy, y'know. co-ed mailbox... I am quite nice-looking, have attractive clothes, am popular with the girls—but draw a complete blank swain-wise. Why do you suppose the guys don’t like me, and is there any hope for me at all? M. R., Denver, Colorado. With slightly different wording, and various postmarks, this problem has shown up at least a hundred times in this month’s mail. And isn’t it a stinker? We asked the boys what it is that perfectly darling, smoothly dressed gals lack so heartbreak- ingly often? It’s a subtle combination, they told us, of warmth and casualness. An easy friendliness. A grin or a wink or a whis- pered “hi” when you eke into class five minutes late. Warmth and casualness. As small a business as that. How do you get it when you're just plain frantic at the sight of a boy? This way, kids. It sounds impossible, but try it for a week and see for yourself. Imagine that you are a very popular girl. Imagine it so hard that you get a feeling of security and self-confidence right down to your very soul. Clutching that feeling tight, whip off to school or work and act ac- cordingly. The feeling of terror, of des- peration will be gone, and you'll find your- self able to grin at familiar male faces on the bus, actually able to say “Hi, Joe,” in a perfectly natural voice. Don’t you see, it’s only the fear that boys can’t stand you that makes you act so differently with them than you do in the warm friendly circle of gals or family. Once you overcome that nonsensical, but ever-so-real terror, we promise you that within a month you'll be date-bait. Johnny and I are very much in love, but recently another girl has come into the picture. She’s new at his school, and I’m at a bit of a disadvantage for I go to another school. What can I do to keep him from liking her more and me less? A. R., Birmingham, Alabama. You don’t give us too much evidence, but we imagine that he’s been dating this gal and that is why you're alarmed. Well, don’t get Maggie-and-Jiggsish and start heckling him about her. Ask him no ques-—— tions, and—if it kills you—show no signs of jealousy. Above all, do not belittle her in” any way within his earshot. A new girl © is always kind of fascinating to the boys, 7 and your boy will come out of it without a scratch. Only if the thing goes on and on — should you make an issue of it, and at that time do be serene and unfeline. Offer him his freedom. We feel sure he won't take it, but if he does, youll at least have your pride. And say, if he does choose her, you're well rid of the old fickle-puss. : I am a teen-age girl who is simply © crazy about Frank Sinatra. I live with my grandmother who seems to think Frankie - is awful. I lose my temper a dozen times ; a day with her and am anzious to know how I can make her feel differently about him. Kathryn M., Menasha, Wisconsin. If it’s his voice your grandmother can’t bear, we’re afraid nothing you can say will change her mind. It’s just one of those things, like olives or bridge. You like it. or you don’t. However, if it’s Frankie as” a person she doesn’t like, we guess she | doesn’t know him very well. Get her to read our life story that ran in the Septem= | ber and October issues, and bet youll |) have a new fan on your hands. : a My sister was a regular devil and con- sequently got into all sorts of trouble when she got out of school. Now my parents have the idea that I have to be protected from the evils of the world. I’m 17 years old and have never been allowed on a date in my life. They won't even let me go with the boys I’ve grown up with. My mother insists that she trusts me, and certainly she has had no reason to doubt me, so’ why must I suffer because of my sister's mistakes? Gwynne, North Dakota. We certainly see your point, chum, and | we can see your parents’, too, although we think their tactics are off the beam. They probably feel that your sister got into trouble because she wasn’t watched care- fully enough. This business of policing you” is sort of overcompensation. We think the only solution is a really deep discussion of the situation with your mother. Ask her if she thinks it would be fair for the state to punish an entire family for the wrong- doings of one of its members, and let her see that that’s the very theory she’s going on. If you are self-supporting or expect to” be soon, you can make her realize that whether or not you live at home is really a matter of choice, and if things continue the way they are that you will have no alternative but to move elsewhere so that you can conduct your life normally and happily. Try not to get excited during the talk, but be at your most clear-headed | and logical. Agree to compromise at first on home dates or double dates, until you've. established your “credit,” so to speak; then proceed gradually and belatedly to the average dating schedule of a 17-year-old. * * Were the original problem-gal, you know, so if you’ve trouble with a guy, a career, a baby, write and tell us about it, We'll answer by mail if you like, but hb sure to put your name and address on thi actual letter, not just on the envelope: They have a way of getting separated. Stop getting gray hair over your own fiendi h dilemma, and write us about it this very second. Here’s who and where we are; Jean Kinkead, MODERN SCREEN, 149 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N.

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Raised in this modern factory town, Hollywood, utterly unknown, with no more pull than a busted-down jeep, no money, no name and often not enough food. But still a kid who never dimmed his natural sunshine, never let disillusioned cynics of the studio extra ranks touch his high hopes or blight his faith. A kid who still doesn’t drink or smoke or swear or chase around. That is the modern movietown miracle of Lon McCallister, more miraculous be- cause what has made him an idol of mil- lions is the fresh, honest, unspoiled, Ameri- can youth nature of his personality. The rare charm which made a great author like James Hilton call him “the most charming boy discovered in Hollywood in many seasons,” and which made the great Katha- rine Cornell write after “Stage Door Canteen,” “when I saw our picture I though of sending you a telegram .. . I was so touched and impressed by your performance. Time and time again you made me cry ... I felt very lucky my scene was with you, for you were the one who gave it reality.” Spring came late to Southern California in 1923. Rain washed the streets, and the morning ocean mists were still cold when Madaline McCallister entered the Angelus Hospital to have her first and what was to be her only child. On the evening of the seventeenth when her baby was born, it should have been daylight, but electric lights still blazed in the maternity ward rooms. A white clad nurse glanced briefly at the chart marked, “Mrs. H. A. Mc- Callister” and waited for her patient to wake up. When her eyes fluttered open at last, the nurse smiled cheerily. “A fine baby boy,” she said. “How is he?” “Don’t you worry about that boy,” chuckled the nurse. “He'll do all right. I’ve never seen a baby get started so quick. Why, he’s already opened his eyes—they’re blue—opened them up bright and wide, just a minute ago. Stared right up into the electric lights and kicked his coverlet off! And, Mrs. McCallister, you know what? The little rascal looked at me, and Ill swear he laughed!” Madaline McCallister smiled. just your imagination.” “No—that’s exactly what he did. By the way, you aren’t the only one who’s had a paby Mrs. Hoot Gibson is right down the all, “The movie star’s wife?” “That’s velvety future... The nurse nodded. “Now we'll fix you up nice and comfortable, and then we'll let you see your new boss.” 2 Madaline McCallister settled back on her pillow and smiled. A baby boy, healthy, the nurse said, and happy. Already she made plans. He’d be Herbert Alonzo Mc- Callister, Junior, named after his father, only they’d probably call him SORTe oA around the house as most Midwestern families did when there were Juniors and Seniors with the same first name. He’d grow up to be something important, a doc- tor or a minister, maybe. He’d have the best of every care, the finest schooling, the biggest chance a baby ever had, that was certain. Madaline McCallister said a little prayer thanking Heaven she had plenty of means to raise little H. A. with every ad- vantage. It never remotely occurred to her that the wealth which now made her feel so warmly secure could ever vanish. “Because the Scotch-Irish McCallisters 1 and the English descended Hockings, her side of the family, were people of property — —always had been. Around Carmi, The | nois, R. B. Hocking, Lon’s grandfather, ~ had his finger in a lot of profitable business — pies, jewelry stores, theaters, farm lands © and city property. When Lon’s parents married and moved down to Little Rock, ~ Arkansas, they sold out their Mlinois holdings and acquired new ones there. © Always they prospered, it seemed, and © after 1918 when Lon’s dad came back from Army duty in the first World War and decided to settle in California, it was no Arkie-Okie migration. The McCallis- ters settled in style. i boom town... They chose the town of Inglewood, Lon’s mother and father and her parents, Grand- ~ father and Grandmother Hocking. They owned the biggest house in town, so roomy ~ that today it has been made over into a sanatorium. Herbert Alonzo McCallister, — Sr., and his father-in-law went into part- 4 nership in the real estate business, ran” smack into a California boom, and in” hardly any time owned half the town and “| had a mortgage on the other half On ~| paper Lon’s father and grandfather soon ~ were millionaires. No wonder Madaline | McCallister felt content and secure about ~ her new son’s future. f It seemed to Lon in his toddling days that his papa must own everything nice there was in the world. There was the bowling alley in the Hocking Building, © named after his grandfather, of course. | When Lon was barely able to walk, his” grandfather would let him tumble the tiny duckpins with his hands or help him push © a bowling ball into the “blocks,” as he called the pins, and send them toppling.” And there was the even greater wonder, the fantastic child’s dream come true, of | his father’s candy factory down in indus-~ trial Los Angeles. There his father would take him among the rich, tantalizing smells | of chocolate, taffy and butterscotch and a million kinds of creams and nougats. He’d- hold him up, screaming with delight, and — let him dip his tiny fingers into the vat of | cooling chocolate and smear his face hap- pily with the nectar and ambrosias of moppethood. % Particularly Lon liked the big Packard © roadster with the rumble seat and its won- | -derful smell of leather upholstery. The McCallisters and the Hockings liked to” travel. They had the highway adventure | spirit of a generation that had discovered — wheels and distant horizons. Lon was | bundled in blankets and put with Grand- | mother Hocking in the rumble seat where he insisted on riding. He liked to sit back there and have his grandmother sing old- time songs. Then he’d try them himse None of his family wanted to have hi out of sight a minute. He went tagging | along, as soon as his stubby legs could } carry him, with his mother and grand- | mother when they shopped in Los Angele Their greatest dread on these excursions | was that somehow, despite extreme vig-_ ilance, Lon would get lost. For this reason) as soon as Lon could talk, he was trained | to spout his name, address and telephone number right back at anyone who even said, “Hello” to him. Kindly ladies, at- tracted by his rosy cheeks and bright blue } eyes, would stop to pat his yellow curls and coo, “Hello there, little man.” To their surprise Lon would recite rapidly, “Her-= bert Alonzo McCallister, corner of Hill- crest and Locust, Inglewood 5433!” He was a friendly little guy from the | |

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eer ye. sits t Laie : " + 7 oe \ 4 ¥ , 4 start. He seldom cried. He never got mad. On the block of the big Ingle- wood house he played serenely with his first. chum, Billy, the kid who owned a tricycle and coveted Lon’s wagon, while Lon envied his tricycle. They got together right away, hitched the trike onto the wagon, and everybody had fun. Lon learned right away the benefits of friendship, something that has since become almost a religion with him. Lon had a mess of distant cousins in California, too. Some of them he was crazy about. One or two were the kind of kids who make trouble. kiddie crises... But in all his kiddie crises, Lon was open, aboveboard and naively honest as he is today. Once a troublous cousin and Lon were playing around Grandmother Hocking’s fishpool. The cousin stepped on a slippery spot, and down he went with a splash. He set up a loud wail and out ran the family, terrified. “He pushed me,” cried the cousin. “H.A. pushed me when I wasn’t lookin’. He’s mean to me. Wah-wah-wah!” That astounded Lon. He had never been unjustly accused before. All he could think of was to tell the truth. “I didn’t push him,” he said, and then frankly, “but I didn’t pull him out either.” Lon’s first real chance to stray away from the shady side of the house and the apron strings of his adoring family came when the family moved from Inglewood to Los Angeles, selling the big mansion and building two white stucco, California- Spanish homes on Crenshaw Boulevard, down the hill from Hollywood. One for Lon’s parents, one for his grandparents. For Lon, only five years old, it meant an exciting plunge into a new world, one where he would be getting around, meet- ing new kids. The prospect thrilled him, even then. He has always been wide-eyed about life. His mother bought him a new suit to celebrate the move into the big city. It had exciting, glamorous long pants and a real miniature man’s fedora hat, and he carried a tiny cane. Now Lon thinks he must have looked like a midget in a circus, but then he thought it was hot stuff. Lon’s mother was proud of his handsome looks. Perhaps it was pure and simple pride that her boy was the cutest ever born which made her enter him in an annual baby show, sponsored by the Los Angeles Daily Express at Long Beach. Certainly then she could have no designs on movies or the theater. She was far too careful with little Lon to expose him to any kind of a kiddie show business, and certainly money was no bait; they already had plenty. Just the same, Herbert Alonzo McCallis- ter was announced in the kiddie parade, and he walked, stiff and proud, down the promenade on the pike at Long Beach, _ resplendent in a blue drummer boy’s suit _ Crenshaw Boulevard homes. -bergh’s Children’s school. Lon was almost e his mother had patiently sewed, and tap- ping a toy drum. In his first professional appearance, Lon McCallister’s eyes shone with delight, and the judges took notice. He didn’t win—there were too many doll baby taffy curled cuties. But he took a prize. Five dollars. He clutched it proudly in his fist all the way back home, and his mother put it in his bank. He would like to have that bill today as a souvenir, but Lon’s bank and its contents were put to practical uses before very long. Now in the new neighborhood a new event confronted him—school. It would be private school, of course. Nothing was too good for the little H.A. then. A suitable school for children was found, near the Miss Lind- It was his first venture away six then. ; (Continued on page 74) ~ . MARIA MONTEZ, STARRING IN “QUEEN OF THE NILE” A UNIVERSAL PICTURE IN TECHNICOLOR Rhee you: If I could only have such alluring-soft hands! MARIA MONTEZ: And why not—if you'll use Jergens Lotion. you: Really, now—do you use Jergens, Miss Montez? MARIA MONTEZ: Of course! I always use Jergens. Hollywood Stars use Jergens Lotion, 7 to 1. Here’s why: For sure protection against rough hands. Jergens Lotion furnishes softness-guarding moisture for your skin. Persuades even harsh hands to dream-girl smoothness with 2 ingredients many doctors use for skin care. Divine to use! No stickiness. So— FOR hE SORTEST,. ADORABLE HANDS USE JERGENS LOTION _ 71

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Nellie Reagan fixes up Corned Beef Hash “just the way Ronnie likes it... claims her sons have “average” American tastes in food. For the Lucky Seventh in our Regional Series, Ronald Reagan's mother joins Jane in proving that folks eat well in THE MIDDLE WEST What’s Cookin’, America When home on furlough, there's no sweeter sound to Ronnie, avers Jane, than the dinner bell . .. especially when little Maureen rings it! Winner of varsity letters in college, Ronnie has athlete's liking for hearty food... such as eqg-topped hash served with corn and cole slaw. @ What dishes do “typical” Middle Westerners prefer? Knowing that Ronald Reagan comes from Illinois, we asked Jane Wyman what her husband likes to eat. Got a rather general but definitely revealing reply, “Good, hearty food—and plenty of it!” Plus a couple of examples. Asked Ronnie’s mother and received some specific and pleasingly — varied recipes. Sum it up and you'll find that this particular Middle Westerner likes plain, filling fare with little or no frills. And since this goes double with most men—regardless of what part of the country they come from—all of you will be happy to know more about these Reagan recipes so that you can serve them to your own particular man. It was great fun learning about Ronnie’s food tastes from the three charming women in his life—his mother, his wife and his daughter, Maureen, who insisted on having her say, too, about her daddy’s- pref- erences. However, when this young lady came up with “Cookies! Peanut Butter Cookies .. . yummy!” and we noted the accompanying gleam in her eye, we had our suspicions as to the source of this sug- gestion. However, since a simply super recipe for these particular cookies was made available to us, who were we to question anyone as adorable as the Reagans’ cute and cuddlesome four year old!

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By Nancy Wood Actually, most of our information and Middle West-style recipes came from Mrs. Reagan, Senior, who still lives in the little house she shared with Ronnie’s father who died some while back. Ronnie and his brother Neil often drop in on her there. Ronnie invariably comes over and lets Mom cook for him when La Wyman is on a bond tour or in New York for personal appearances—as she was recently, in con- nection with the showing of “Doughgirls.” (Which picture, incidentally, has nothing to do with bread making. You have our word for it, in case you haven’t already seen it!) You'll be seeing Jane soon again, by the way, in Warners’ big new musical “Hollywood Canteen.” And won’t that be a show—with sixty big name players in it! But to return to Mrs. Reagan. A plea- sure, we assure you, for Maureen’s “Nana” is a warm, friendly person; besides being a darned good cook! Obviously her sons get their liking for typical American dishes from enjoying the fine meals she has always loved to prepare for them. “Ronnie,” vroclaims his proud parent, “has always preferred simple stuff, simply cooked. Has fruit, cereal and coffee for breakfast, little more than a sandwich for lunch, but demands a big dinner.” It seems he loves steaks, mock chicken legs (a family favorite of which more later) and corned beef hash. (There’s corned beef hash and corned beef hash, as any man could tell you—and as any man will, for they set themselves up as con- noisseurs on the subject. Bet they can’t find a better version than Mrs. Reagan’s.) Then, too, Ronnie—like many another Middle Westerner—takes great interest in the soil, gives part of every furlough to his Victory Garden and thinks there’s nothing finer than his own home-grown vegetables. Especially favors sour cream slaw and corn on the cob. To this list Jane added corn off the cob, in the form of corn fritters. (Being from Missouri, Jane says you'll “have to show her” that fritters come any finer than these!) Then, of course, there are desserts. Spe- cifically there’s Cocoa Cake, a big favorite with both the Reagan boys—especially when eaten as a late-at-night snack, ac- companied by a big glass of milk. Fact is, Ronnie and Neil always were and still are inveterate refrigerator raiders. Used to rout Mom out of bed when they’d get in late and have her join them in the kitchen where they’d eat their own version of a Dagwood sandwich, followed by generous slices of Mom’s famous cake. And now how about recipes for all these Corn Belt favorites which come to you with the Reagans’ hearty. en- dorsement? They include the follow- ing: Corned Beef Hash, Mock Chicken Legs, Crispy Corn Fritters, Sour Cream Slaw, those “yummy” Peanut Butter Cookies that Maureen men- tioned and Mom’s Cocoa Cake. Six specialties, with directions for making a Dagwood Sandwich thrown in, for a “Lucky Seven” in the line of recipes. Trying them out will prove to be a fine way to start the New Year; and they’re yours for the asking, as always. Be sure to enclose a stamped self- addressed envelope when you send for your FREE Reagan-Wyman leaflet. THE MODERN HOSTESS, Dept. R. R. MODERN SCREEN MAGAZINE 149 Madison Ave., New York 16, N. Y. AND NOW TOMORROW See Loretta Young in A Paramount picture ““Here’s how I found the world’s 999 best ‘quick-up,’”’ says Loretta. “In the famous cola taste-test, I tried leading colas in paper cups and picked the best-tasting one. Yes, it was Royal Crown Cola!’’ Now Loretta always relaxes with a frosty bottle of R C, her favorite for a lift and a grand fresh start every season of the year. %& BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS TODAY! * 73

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_———=—- — 74 4 e. (Continued from page 71) from the guarded supervision of home. He took to it at once, in spite of the spinach which popped up at lunch, the spinach he hated and the gagging rhubarb pie, sup- posed to be so good for growing kids. | ‘Another bore was the daily afternoon nap. But Lon remembers Miss Lindbergh as a patient, kindly lady who took good care of him and taught him his elementary lessons with thoroughness and kindness. Years later, when he saw Martha Scott as the schoolmistress in “Cheers for Miss Bishop,” Lon was right back in the double seat where he learned his ABC’s along with his first lady love, a little French girl with shiny blue-black hair. Her nat- EXCESS FAT can be _A <a REDUCED! a EASILY... QUICKLY .«= Don’t give up attention just because you are too fat to be attractive! 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He inherited a fragile build from her, and it was only through strenuous gymnastics in his grammar and high school days later on that he developed the small, compact and mus- cular body he owns today. He came home one day from school with a fever that soared that night. For days it was a ques- tion whether they’d save him, but he passed the crisis. Then for gray weeks he lay in bed, too weak to move. The doctor feared his lungs might succumb to t.b. There was only one thing to do, Lon’s mother reasoned—take him to Arizona where the ozone charged air would banish that danger. Vita-Slym Co., Dept. M-2, Box 159 Times Square Station, N. Y. C. Send me 1 month’s supply of Vita-Slyms (150 tablets & 60 capsules). If not delighted with results, you will refund my money. 1 will pay postman $2.98 plus postage. DUI enclose $2.98. Send postage prepaid. tiny tramp .. - They went to Phoenix and found a place to stay right out on the desert at the foot of Camelback Mountain. When they car- ried Lon there, he couldn’t walk. In a few weeks he could trudge a mile or two with his dog, “Bunny,” and play like he was hunting Indians. Then one day Lon was missing. Missing with him was “Patsy” of course, a blanket off his bed, his bow- and-arrow, an umbrella, a grocery basket and cookies off the shelf. It wasn’t hard to guess what had happened. Lon had set off on a hunting expedition. Frantically the McCallisters scoured the desert—but no Lon. Just before nightfall a truck roared up to the camp. A burly driver swung Lon down from the seat. “Found him on the highway,” he laughed. “Kit Carson here wanted me to take him to the mountains, but I reckoned home was a better idea!” Lon told his story frankly. He’d set out into the desert for wildeats or some other interesting big game. But after a while he ran into a fenced range crowded with cattle, and a big bull had lumbered up bel- lowing angrily. That was bigger game than Lon bargained for. He scurried back to- ward the highway, and the truckdriver knew a runaway kid when he saw one. Lon’s naturally adventurous spirit had got him in trouble before, but even the dismal consequences of his first runaway had not cured his spunky habit of hunting distant horizons. His first Christmas in the new Los Angeles house had been badly crimped by that escapade, too. Pome /tatatclelereiclofoierev ste levstereveleie:e[e\akelen-) =) iano veyaseurl ne hene ahi EARN GOOD INCOME. LEARN AT HOME! ZY Prepare now for thrilling career. Profitable field. Originate your own clothes. Many open- ings with style salons and manufacturers. Or start your own smart shop. Practical personal- ized home etudy training under guidance of skilled Designers and Stylists. Send for free booklet “A A\ * S\ Career in Dress Designin: °° and requirements. NA AL ACADEMY OF DRESS DESIGN 1315 S. Michigan Avenue - Dept. 2361 - Chicago, U.S. A. 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It was late afternoon when this bulletin was flashed to the in-— credulous Lon. He was so fascinated that his mother’s ultimatum not to leave the ~ front yard went glimmering. “Come on,” @}. said Esau, “let’s go see Santa Claus.” 4 No kid could resist a challenge like that. Lon tore off immediately. But the station attendant in their block grinned. “You — kids are too late,” he said. “Santy Claus ~ just left here. Filled his reindeers up with gas and went off sixty miles an hour. No, he didn’t leave no balloons here. Where is he? Why, I imagine up the street towards Wilshire at Number 20 station.” Off Lon and his two Jap pals chased.” Santa wasn’t at Number 20. Nor at Num- “| ber 22. They kept up the hunt breath-~ lessly. Pretty soon they were lost. That — was a black day for everybody concerned. At home the McCallisters were wild with fear. There had been kidnapping scares; kids were run over every day on the fast — traffic of Los Angeles boulevards. The whole neighborhood joined the search. The | police rolled up with wailing sirens. Lon’s — dad raced his Packard up and down all the” neighborhood streets. Darkness fell and still no trace. Madaline McCallister’s )) nerves snapped, and she cried hysterically. As for Lon, he was way across town by then, still hunting Santa. 5 Around nine o’clock at night a policeman ~ found the three seekers of childhood’s grail. They were dirty, tired and panting, ~ but still gamely in the chase. He raced — them back home to Lon’s hysterical folks. | Lon’s dad took him into the house, into | his tearful, distracted mother. : “This is your mother’s birthday and now see what you have done! You've ruined — her happiness, made her cry.” a Lon himself broke into tears. That touched him. He couldn’t bear to hurt” anyone, especially the person he loved best in the world. He couldn't give any ex— cuses for his crime, except to stammer out the reason: He was hunting Santa’ Claus. | His father took him into the back room, and unknown to his prostrated mother, gave him a good tanning. When that was ‘over, he said, “And now I suppose you | might as well know. You've been chasing 1 SAW IT HAPPEN We’d seen three stage shows the day before, and we were sitting through our second the next day. The show was “Tars And Spars” featuring Victor” Mature. My girl friend and I had got- ten the autograph of nearly everyone | am the cast except Vic’s, and frankly, | we were a little annoyed at his sitting in the boxes during the first part of the stage show and mugging. So when he stuck his head out from behind |} the curtains, we made a face at him, |} repeating the gesture as well during his performance that evening. It wasn’t very nice of us, I admit, | but Vic got back at us. We were sit- | ting in the first row, and Vic looked | down at us and declared, “There are my two cousins—Im-mature and Pre- |} mature!” : Even though we were embarrassed, ~ we were Mature fans from then on. By the way, we got his autograph after that show. Dorothy Stewart, West Allis, Wisconsin

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we ae Pe something that wasn’t there. Just a man dolled up in a red suit. There’s no such thing as Santa Claus.” Lon’s tears dried, and he stopped his sobs. He was paralyzed by the awful thing his father said. No Santa Claus! It was the end of the world. He forgot the smart of the spanking in the greater misery of this shattering news. Lon’s ready palship with the Japanese market kids was typical of his warm nature and democratic outlook on life. Although he was a little rich boy, he was never, thanks to his sensible Midwestern folks and his own character, ever tainted with a touch of snobbery. Even today race distinctions and preiudices make him crawl inside. His own character, too, made him naturally eager to know and like every- thing and everybody. As a kid he was always getting bitten by dogs, because he’d walk right up to all of them, strange or familiar, and put his arms around them. He was riding in the open Packard one summer day with his mother when a bee flew in and settled on the seat. Happily Lon reached out, grabbed it and pressed it to his face, thrilled with the buzzing wings. Of course, the bee blitzed him pronto, right on the end of the nose. It seemed Lon would never learn. That was one of the reasons he begged to go to public school after he came back from the Arizona health trip. Lon wanted to be like the rest of the kids. He sensed that private schooling set him apart from the rest, and instinctively he didn’t like it. He got his way, and it was a lucky thing. Events were to enter Lon’s young life that would demand all his talent for making his way in the mob of underprivileged hu- manity. The rich boy was to lose his riches and become poor, about as poor as they come, and almost overnight. house of cards... The whole nation shared in the first tragedy—the Great Depression. The crash that came out of the blue in 1929 caught H. A. McCallister and his father-in-law, R. B. Hocking, with real estate holdings and business interests scattered all over South- ern California. Some of the bigger prop- erties were held on a shoe-string, and to save them, the assets had to be cashed in. As the Depression yawned and values plummeted, the fortune they had built tumbled like a stack of cards. Meanwhile Lon’s mother and father had come to a parting of the ways. It would be hard to say which disaster had the most effect on Lon’s young life. His father had been away a lot on busi- ness; Lon had never been half so close to him as to his mother. He had always liked his dad, as he does today (they see each other frequently), and he remembers him as kindly and indulgent. The split in Lon’s family came before the crash that swept them from wealth to poverty. Lon’s grandmother had bought an apartment house in Los Angeles. Lon and _his mother moved in there, and for a short time life went on as if nothing had hap- pened. Then one day Lon saw the tight lips and anxious frowns on the grown-ups’ faces. That night when he lay awake in his room, he heard the murmur of the family conference. He caught snatches of conversation, “No place to raise the money .. . bank’s calling the loans .. . panic . everyone’s in the same boat . . . guess this is the end .. . they want us to leave... .” He wondered briefly what it was all about, but pretty soon he was asleep. Next morn- ing his mother told him. “We’re going to move.” _ “But,” said Lon, “I like Granny’s apart- ment house.” _ “I know,” smiled his mother sadly, “but 5 t isn’t Granny’s house any more.” alirelese war worker—busy film maker—is dazzling Dorothy Lamour, like many other Hollywood stars. Lucky for their loveliness, they’ve discovered that Woodbury Complete Beauty Cream does everything for skin beauty ... takes just seconds! a Sco this satiny cream help your skin look film-star lovely as it gives complete care: Cleanses. Softens, smooths. Holds powder. Helps erase tiny dry-skin lines. And Stericin, exclusive ingredient, works constantly right in the jar to purify the cream, helping protect against blemish-causing germs. Wenis Re and every night take the Beauty Night Cap of the Stars: First, cleanse — with Woodbury Complete Beauty | Cream—then, use as a night cream for extra softening. Use for daytime clean-ups, too. Jars 10¢ to $1.25, plus tax. Gee BEAUTY CREAM FORMERLY CALLED COLD CREAM. CLEANSES AS THOROUGHLY—DOES SO MUCH MORE BESIDES 75

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Madaline McCallister’s fragile body grew thinner, and the bright girlish smile that Lon adored was absent. But the fam- ily despair was like a brief sickness that passed. Today, when Lon looks back he says, “I’m pretty proud of my family.” They did what Americans have always done when the going got tough. They got busy. As a girl, Madaline Hocking had been handy with a needle, and her mother had taught her what she knew. They'd set up a dressmaking establishment. Lon’s mother designed the dresses and Grandma Hocking sewed them. Their prices were cheap; they had to be. But nobody knew them, few customers came in. In a few weeks they knew they’d have to try some- thing else, something, too, that Grand- father Hocking could have a hand in. He was getting restless and gloomy. They turned to the only other domestic skill they had, cooking. Back in Illinois, as she is today, Grandma Hocking had been famous for her cakes and pies. They found a café they could rent down in the industrial section of Los Angeles. All of them went to work, even Lon on Satur- days and Sundays, washing dishes and hustling out trays. The customers were mostly truck drivers and laborers, and to cater to them, the lunch room had to open early and close late. Every morning the house was empty, except for Lon, at five o'clock. His breakfast, cooked, but cold, was on the stove. When he got up, Lon warmed and ate it and went off to school. He had lunch at school, and he fixed his own dinner at night. He didn’t see his family again until they got home, ex- hausted, at 9 o'clock that evening. And Lon was just eight years old. But already he was a cheerful, self- sufficient little guy. He had no playmates in the new neighborhood, but he had a new pup, Patsy. He could have fun by him- self. He glued together kites and flew them until they snagged on telephone wires. His electric train, Lon’s most prized possession, had survived the financial wreck. He sat it up in the house. He had some books, too, kids books—“The Wizard of Oz,” “Black Beauty,” Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses.” He could lie on the floor for hours lost in these and other books he could bring home from school. But most of the time he just sat out on the front steps of the flat, watching people go by, playing with Patsy and day-dreaming. He could always find plenty to dream about, as Lon still can today. such little pleasures... The worst part of the day was supper alone. Especially since the cupboard was so often bare. Beef bouillon cubes were cheap and nourishing. Lon supped bouillon until today he can’t look at the stuff without gagging. The high spot was when his folks trudged in tired from the long day, and his | SAW IT HAPPEN When Walter Pidgeon was here in Washington for the President's Birth- day Ball, I called him at his hotel with the intention of getting an interview with him for my school paper. When I was finally put through to his room, a man sounding suspiciously like Mr. Pidgeon answered, and after hearing the purpose of my call told me, “Mr. Pidgeon is taking a shower.” I told him he sounded very much like Mr. Pidgeon, whereupon he said he was complimented and called out to the “bathing” Mr. P., “She says I sound like you.” After a moment of “conversation, he reported that Mr. Pidgeon said he was insulted but that he would talk to me anyhow. Lo and behold, the receiver was picked up, and the same voice con- tinued with, “How are you, my dear— this is Walter Pidgeon—what can I do for you?” Golly, what a grand guy he is—and what a sensayuma! June B. Klein, Washington, D. C. mother and grandmother prepared late — supper for themselves, which Lon usually managed to share. He knew he should have been in bed and so did his folks, but it was the only time they could be together. But the café venture was a flop. The profits weren't enough to pay the rent. One night Lon learned he was to move ~ again. His mother had lost the lunchroom. ~ She had taken a job as a waitress at the Mesa Cafe in Huntington Park. There was part of a house there she had rented on the promise of her first pay check. “Things will be all right,” she smiled bravely. “With a salary we'll know what to count on.” Before he reached Junior High he was to switch around to ten or twelve different schools. In every one he had to | establish himself with the kids and teachers both, a tough job for a youngster. But his natural friendliness and eager personality saw Lon through. He hadn't — been in the Huntington Park grade school a week before he organized a club. — They met to go to the picture show every — Saturday morning. There was a special — rate for kids on Saturdays. Lon’s mother — could usually spare a dime or two for the — movies. So Lon found a new setting for | his world of dreams—the high adventures ~ made in Hollywood. From that moment on | he was a movie fan. He still is. ' from bad to worse .. - But soon even the dimes for Lon’s — Saturday club movies couldn’t be spared. — There wasn’t half enough to make ends — meet, and finally Lon’s mother was laid © off. People laughed at her and at Grand- — maw and Grandpaw Hocking when they — hunted jobs. Jobs? Know any other funny ~ stories? They came down to the end of © their rope. The landlord came around. — “Pm sorry,’ he said, “to have to do this © to nice folks like you. But I’ve got to pay my taxes. Guess Tll have to ask you to leave.” : There was no place to go. Something ~ had to happen, and of course it did. A friend of Grandmaw Hocking’s in the days — when she was an apartment owner heard © of a vacancy at the Alcazar Apartments, in — Los Angeles. The manager had left; they needed a couple, Grandmother and Grandfather Hocking hastily got on their best clothes. But when they started to leave, item. The carfare. pockets and pocketbook.

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Need | ees! as bones. There wasn’t enough money in the house to get them to the job. Finally Madaline remembered, “I’ve got a dollar put away in my Bible,” she said. “I’ve been saving it for Lon’s birthday present.” Out it came, and the journey was financed. Grandpaw and Grandmaw came through. They got the job—also an advance in sal- ary to stock up the manager’s cupboard with groceries and to bring carfare to Lon and his mother. Lon McCallister moved again. On the busy blocks near the Alcazar he started a magazine route and earned his first money. The Alcazar was on Alvarado Street, center of what used to be the swanky district when Hollywood was young. Ramon Novarro’s old house stood nearby, and sometimes in the afternoons Lon would sneak over the fence and wan- der around the grounds. There was a neighborhood movie house, too, on Alva- rado, right across the street, and soon dimes again for Saturday morning shows. He went to Union Avenue Grade School, and it kept him busy. He was a good student. He liked history and English and geography and languages. He hated math. On the playground Lon found he was good on the double bars, the swings and rings. He was too light for rough games like football, but he was fast. In the Sixth Grade he won sprints and made the school relay team. Later on in Junior and Senior High School he was to make the gym team and win his letter at basketball. Lon was a leader, too—into everything that had to do with school activities. He was in all the school shows, and as usual, he tumbled for the first girl he played with. Her name was Patricia, with black Irish hair. Later on in Junior High, Lon’s girl, Dorothea, was to be a brunette, too. The influence of his first girl, little French Jeanne, clung to him. For a long time young Lon was one gentleman who never preferred blondes. The move to Hollywood took place when Lon was about thirteen. Grandfather Hocking found a steady job at last as night watchman at Universal Studios. That was too far a ride from Alvarado Street. Grand- mother found another apartment house to run now, on Yucca Street in Hollywood right off the Boulevard and smack behind Warner Brothers’ Hollywood Theater. The first night Lon. moved into this strange new world, he saw crowds hurrying to _ the theater, shiny cars jamming the street, _ searchlights combing the sky. Entranced, he wandered down to the corner of Wilcox and the Boulevard. “What’s going on?” _ Lon asked the newsboy. “Pre-meer,” said the newsboy, shortly. “What’s that?” ___“What’s a ‘premeer’?” Lon found himself _ shattered with incredulous scorn. “Say, _kid, you don’t know nothin’, do you?” screen stories .. . _ It was true. Lon didn’t know much of _ anything about the ways of Hollywood. ) But he soon found out. Living a block | from the Boulevard a kid would have to _be deaf, dumb and blind not to learn fast. And going to LeConte Junior High, as Lon ' soon did, was almost a pre-induction course in Hollywood studio life. All the kids there, _it seemed, were veteran extras, stand-ins, €ven stars. Bonita Granville went to school _ at LeConte, and Jane Withers’ stand-in was in Lon’s class. _ Everywhere he turned he ran into glamorous show business. Walking down the Boulevard, a treat he still loves, he Saw famous faces. At his favorite Boule- vard movie house, the Iris, where he redoubled his fervor as a fan, he used to ell out his name “B-u-d M-c-C-a-l- -t-e-r” (for now he was “Bud;” since the school kids had razzed him “0 Rarely Soft.7* the touches of her hands, As drowsy zephyrs in enchanted lands i iley “Love Lyrics,” James Whitcomb Rile —“Lov | r hands aN Are you ¢() Rarely Soft,’ or Really Rough 7 ) “easter > as a January Sea ie roughen, redden, ruin a woman’s hands ... often make them look older than her actual years. And Pacquins Hand Cream says “pooh” to work and weather —hands keep smooth, white, youthful- looking. Snowy-white, non-greasy. As delightful to use as the results are to see. Get Pacquins now! s ROWSY zephyrs,’ did you say, Sir Poet? Wake up! — Mr. Riley —this is January. And a brutally workaday world. Don’t you think there should be a footnote to your lovely lyric to lovely hands? Something like...“If you want “em, use Pacquins— quick!” Because work and weather chap, Hann @ cress Originally formulated oe ae tors and nurses, whose £ 30 to 40 the abuse Of - : ra ningsanascrubbings2 a2) Sd AT ANY DRUG, DEPARTMENT, OR TEN-CENT STORE 77

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Even his mother, who now had a recep- tionist job in the office of a Hollywood dentist, would come home with stories of movie-famous patients. The Hollywood fever struck all of Lon’s family. His mother found she was just the same size as petite Janet Gaynor, and she learned that Janet was looking for a stand-in. For a while she talked about getting the job. Grandpaw Hocking was snatched from his watchman’s post a time or two to walk before a camera at Uni- versal. Even Grandmaw Hocking was told by people who ought to know that she was a wonderful “grandmother type” for the movies. Later on, too, she was. There wasn’t much glamour behind all of this. The object was money. The Hock- ings and McCallisters were still living from hand to mouth. Lon, young as he was, felt guilty that he wasn’t helping out on the family budget. It hurt him to see his grandparents and his frail mother working while all he did was go to school. He was old for his years. The tales of easy studio money the kids at school told inflamed his desire to earn his own way. But nothing seemed to happen. After all, kids weren't any too anxious to cut a newcomer in on the studio know-how. It might take money away from them. At last Lon’s eagerness for activity won him his chance. Mere school work wasn’t enough for his energies. He joined a boy’s singing organization’ called the Maxwell Choristers. Lon had a clear young tenor voice. One Friday night the director had a surprise for the group. ‘“Rverybody show up tomorrow after- noon,” he said. “M-G-M is looking for choir boys to sing in their big Shake- spearean movie, ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ We're going to try out.” The whole kid’s choir tumbled out of the bus the next morning at M-G-M’s big gates. Lon was in the front row, excited and eager. For the first time in his life he was entering a studio by the front door to be an actor himself. 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But instead of that rosy picture, Lon found himself directed to a big, barnlike stage, dark and dusty, with carpenters pounding in the wings and rough workmen brushing past. No lovely Norma ‘Shearer a sport shirt stood on a chair and looked over the group. “Can’t use half that many,” he stated and Lon’s heart sunk. “Tine them up,” he ordered. Lon lined up with the rest. An assistant director walked down the line, and as Director George Cukor scanned the faces of the group and nodded, he had them step out of line. The last one stepped out before they came to Lon. “That’s enough,” was anywhere about! A man in slacks and ~ - exulted. 1 SAW IT HAPPEN One of Hollywood’s best known ~ ae juvenile leads made a personal ap- pearance in our city to help boost War Bond sales, just before being shipped overseas. As it happened, one of the last pictures he’d made before enter- ing the service was being shown at the. local theater, which only served to in- crease his tremendous popularity. He was being besieged by eager fans when one girl, especially noted for her gushing manner, cooed to the star, “Oh, have you seen yourself at the State?” ; The actor didn’t even look up. “No. As a matter of fact, I have a very weak stomach”—and went right on signing, “Lieut. Tom Brown!” David Ragan, Jackson, Tennessee said Cukor. “Okay, kids,” barked the as- sistant. “You can go now.” Lon turned slowly toward the door with his heart down to his heels. Halfway to the heavy sound-stage door somebody yelled, “Wait a minute! Wait a minute! We're one shy. Line up again.” Lon lined up with the rest. But now he was disillusioned. They would never pick him. This time Cukor himself walked down the line. He didn’t walk far. The minute he saw Lon he said unmistakably. “Didn’t I choose you before?” “No,” said Lon. “T meant to,” said the director. “You're a perfect choir boy. All right, that’s all. — Everybody show up for wardrobe fitting — Monday morning!” E Lon McCallister rode home with a whir- ling brain. He was actually to work in a studio like all the rest of the kids! He was to begin as a choir boy and. maintain through all his scores of extra jobs that spiritual freshness which set him apart from the other extras and earned him the nickname of “The Angel Extra.” What George Cukor had noticed. in that brief choir-casting other directors, stars and finally the great American public were to discover and like well enough to make Lon McCailister the brightest young star in all Hollywood. : But thoughts like that were completely — absent from Lon’s spinning brain that day — as the bus jolted him back home to the — small apartment back of the Boulevard, — where about this time his mother would ~ be coming home from work, tired but courageous. Where the harassing apart- ment house duties of his cheerful grand- — mother, which never ended, would be — going on. Where Grandfather Hocking would be rousing himself from his day’s ~ rest and packing his snack for the all-night — rounds at the studio. q What thrilled fourteen-year-old Lon was the triumphant thought that now he, too, was a family breadwinner. Now he had a man-sized job with a man-sized check to © contribute to the pot. He felt suddenly | grown up and strong. He recognized then his first goal, which he never abandoned — until he realized it. “I'll be earning enough soon,” he told himself, “so that Granny and — | Mom can stop work.’ Ambition was to 1 come later. What loomed large about the | wonder of Hollywood to Lon McCallister then was the money, and what it could — mean to the people he loved best in the © world. 4 “Five days at ten dollars a day!” he — “Five times ten is fifty. Fifty — dollars! Golly!” is Part II of Lon McCallister’s life story will appear in the February issue of MODERN SCREEN.

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OH, KAYE! (Continued from page 33) he lisped, and suddenly saw himself—a 1\ grown man, standing there like a big dope, Bl on Ce talking baby talk. He blushed his way O a through the number. After the rehearsal, Vinton Freedley came up. “I’m a little worried about that fairy tale thing.” “Don’t worry,” said Danny. “I’ve been through this before. If it’s bad opening night, Pll cut it faster than anyone else.” Opening night. The murmur from be- yond the curtain. The hush that’s like no other hush in the world as the lights dim and the curtain rises. Danny stepped out, and his eyes met that sea of faces, and the nid! spark ignited— — “You bet use Ar “Onth upon a time,” he lisped, and the dn’t be with- audience went woff! He forgot about him- 1 woul derful self and his inhibitions, about being grown- out its wom c up and looking like a dope. He was inside tion for a mo- and outside his skin at the same time, doing protec eople things he’d never dreamed of in rehearsal, ome Pe feeling almost as if they were doing them- selves. All that existed was the live cur- rent running between him and the audi- ence, electrifying both. The number Freed- ley was worried about stopped the show. Lots of movie actors hate being watched. It makes them self-conscious. It makes Danny self-conscious not to be watched. Before a big production number, they start herding people in from all over the lot to spark Danny up. Both his parents were gay people. At five, Danny was singing the Russian folk- songs they loved. What tickled them most, though, was the way he’d spot people’s od- dities—a characteristic gesture, a quirk of expression—and reproduce them to the life. It tickled the kids at school, too. But all that was just a minor sideline with Danny. As he grew into his teens, two passions obsessed him. If he wasn’t play- ing baseball or yelling from the bleachers of Ebbets Field, “C’mon you bums!” he’d be tagging along with an older friend, al- ready in medical school. He’d never con- sider being anything but a doctor. To Danny, a smashed finger spelled romance. “Wait a minute,” he’d beg. “Let me fix it.” That eae wes ae By ae creer =F Rea ence which his father shared with others é around that time. He lost most of his money, N EW. er ° | Cc REAM D E (@] D (@] RA NT which meant no college. For a while Danny s was lost, too. Cut off from the clear road ; which Safely helps Breed eel ite guining goal, he could find no other. His father, a wise man, kept his ie A hands off. Even when Danny ran away. $s TO P under-arm P E R S P | R AT i oO N | \ ae was a pretty couall meu “Hey,” said a : a friend, “wanna hitch-hike to Florida?” 1. Does not irritate skin. Does not rot “Gee, that might be fun!” Fun Ape In addition to their thumbs, Danny was dresses and men’s shirts. equipped with a voice, the other guy with 2. Prevents under-arm odor. Helps stop a uke. They bartered entertainment for eenieontantel mileage. Pop was upset at first and had PETSP y- them traced to Baltimore. But when the 3. A pure, white, antiseptic, stainless cop said, “They’re okay—I’d let ’em go Wanichineleream ahead if I were you,” Pop took his advice. g j Neither did he bother the boy during the AN ahaitine tardroGan bo ised sieht dim days that followed when Danny’s life fe) weet y g was bounded by movies, sleeping and CHS SEN brooding. For want of other occupation, 5. Arrid has been awarded the Approval _ he developed complexes, turned sour on Seal of the American Institute of _ the gang. With his songs and mimicry, he’d : : fabri __ always been the life of the party. There Laundering fon /peing harmless) tolfabric. the guys would sit, laughing their fool Use Arrid regularly. Good Housekeeping | heads off, and next to each guy sat his girl. overran _ Danny had no girl. He concluded that 1 : _ they loved him not for himself alone, but 39¢ a iar _ for free entertainment. So he forsook (Ee ta) | society for the movie palaces—patronized E Also 59¢ jars four of five shows, got home at one and i Is toi Regt die morning ahead ak At any store which sells toilet goods Pop’s friends were disturbed. “He’s a THE LARGEST SELLING DEODORANT big boy. It’s time he went to work. Why 2

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Could he make a living this way? He was still too diffident to look the thought straight in the face. He’d kind of sling his eyes round at it, then quick turn the other way. Nevertheless, it was tak- ing root. “Gee, why don’t you try show business?” the kids would ask, and the lit- tle plant would grow another green leaf. But it always wilted under the eyes of agents. china bound... Because he did finally muster the cour- age to beard a few agents. He’d walk in and they’d say, “What do you do?” so he’d turn around and walk out again. He didn’t know what he did. “Sing?” the agent would ask. “A little.” “Dance?” “A little.” “Jokes?” “J dunno,” he’d mutter and get the hell out before they threw him out. Then at camp one summer, he fell in with Dave Harvey and Kathleen Young, dancers. Among them, they whipped up an act, got themselves bookings nobody else would take and toured all the waterholes of America. To Danny, they were glorified waterholes. He was on the stage, having fun, earning enough to eat and sleep on. For the moment, that was ecstasy enough. In Detroit, A. B. Marcus, theatrical big shot, caught the show and arrived back- stage. “I need a dancing act,” he said. “How would you like to go to China?” Who, them? He must be crazy. Or if it was a joke, haha! But they’d work for him here. “Okay,” said A. B. “Those two people I want. The blonde fellow I don’t need.” Dave was no blonde. He looked at Kath- leen, got his answer and delivered an ulti- matum. “We're not breaking up the act.” But what A. B. didn’t need, he wasn’t paying for. He’d take all three at the salary he’d intended for two. Thanks to Danny’s partners, that’s how the deal was made. At the end of two weeks, the blonde fellow was working in fourteen of the show’s sixteen acts, and the team was on its way. As the passports and travel folders started coming in, they caught the fever. Why China? became—Why not China?—and they sent for their passports. A year and more in the Orient, then Danny drew up a balance sheet. He was getting priceless experience in pantomime and dialect, he was part of a big friendly family, he was earning fifty a week and saving. On the other hand, he was twenty- two, he could stay with the troupe thirty years and have nothing to show for it, now was as good a time as any to break away. Back to New York and the agents. “What’ve you done?” He told them. “Can you do an act alone?” He didn’t know. That was 1935. For four years he knocked around, taking club dates, touring with Sally Rand, stooging for Nick Long, Jr. through a London season, getting nowhere but deeper into the slough of despond. At last he set a deadline. “Ill give myself till ’m thirty, then Pll quit.” It was in the spring of ’39 that Nat Lichtman asked him to do some songs for a semi-professional show they were putting gH on. Danny went with him to the rehearsal — loft, and there sat the dark-haired girl, — running over some music. Like all good — love stories, this one started with a fight— — about tempos or keys or some such non- sense. But as Danny sang, Sylvia looked up, startled. And when he was through, — she went over to the producer. “a “ve just heard a great new star.” “What’re you talking about?” “That blonde guy who just going to be a great star.” a Soon Danny found himself seeing Sylvia — home. “You happen to know a Dr. Fine © who used to live in East New York?” “Fe’s my father.” “T used to drill holes in his woodwork.” While his boss was out, Danny’d turn den- tist, don a white coat, open a drawer, pick — a drill, start the machine and look around for a patient. He couldn’t drill air, so he — drilled the woodwork. q “We used to wonder about those holes,” ~ said Sylvia. With that bond established, others grew. — Sylvia’d been working with Max Liebman — at Camp Tamiment—the Theatre Guild of the summer places. She was going back — that season and talked Danny into going © along. She wrote some numbers for him, and they found the professional partner- ~ ship exciting. Sylvia’d get an idea, they’d — discuss it, she’d put it on paper, they'd fool — around with it, change it, rehearse it— ~ with Danny adding business. Like Gilbert ; and Sullivan, they complemented each — other—fathered and mothered a new form of entertainment. It was hard work, but — profoundly exhilarating. F The best of that summer’s output went into “Straw Hat Revue” which didn’t last long. They still hadn’t found the right — presentation formula. Danny decided he © had to get away from it all. His last — few dollars took him to Florida. ; One day Sylvia’s phone rang. Danny’s voice on long distance. “Why don’t you — come down to Florida?” a “What for?” “T want to get married.” “Who's the girl?” “Vou.” “Mihm. Well, ’l come down, but I don’t think we'll get married.” at So they got married—both shaking with | fright in the car that took them over to || Ft. Lauderdale. Sylvia had a solid capi-— tal of thirty dollars. Danny’s was misty— he can’t remember whether he had or owed — forty. If either had said, “Let’s call the © whole thing off,’ the other would have dissolved in blessed relief. Being stubborn, | they both kept their mouths shut. | Back in New York, they started re-work- | ing their numbers. It meant nothing to ‘| them that a man named Dario was open- ~ ing a swank night club called the Mar-— tinique. Operating on a shoestring, he was — frantic for entertainment, but couldn’t pay more than two hundred fifty a week. Bestry, the agent, suggested The Kayes— — “Who are they?” He murmured something about summe 4 camps. Bf “Yah!” snorted Dario. “All right, get them. No, what do I want to see them for? — If they’re from summer camps, I know — they stink. But for two fifty, you can’t — buy orchids.” a To the Kayes, two fifty was celestial music. The café opened, Danny went on for the dinner show, and flopped. They didn’t know what to make of him. No risque songs, no jokes, some screwy num- ber about Stanislavsky. Anyway, they were hungry. Down but not out, re-routined the show. Next sang. He’s — Sylvia and Danny time he was

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| less nervous, the crowd less concerned _ with food. This time the numbers got through in all their wit and slyness and subtlety, and the crowd fell on its face. Danny Kaye’s name became a Broadway byword, the customers poured in, and the Martinique flourished, not to mention the Kayes. On their first payday, Sylvia was ill. Danny collected their salary in five- dollar bills and strewed them over her bed. Among the repeating customers was Moss Hart, who said to Danny one night: “If I ever do a revue, I’d like you in it.” Three days later he phoned, and _ his voice was apologetic. “Look, Danny, I hate to ask you—there’s a part in “Lady in the Dark,’ but it’s pretty small—would you be interested?” Danny didn’t fall down, because he was sitting, but the floor rose up and hit him in the face. A part in Moss Hart’s show with Sam Harris producing and Gertie Lawrence starring! And Hart asking him to do it as a favor yet! A strangled voice reached Hart’s ears. “Sure,” it said. “Sure. I'd be interested.” As usual, Danny didn’t shine in rehear- sal. He was all right, and that’s all. The Broadway boys told Hart he was crazy, taking a chance on a night club entertainer “So I’m crazy,” said Hart. a night to remember... They opened in Boston. The first act didn’t hold much for Danny. His big mo- _ ment came in the second, with the Tschai- _ kowsky number. Big was the word for it. As he jumped on the horse for the finish, the house broke loose. Ira Gershwin _ walked out to the lobby, smoked a cigar- ette and, when he came back, they were _ still applauding. Danny sat on his horse, happier and more worried than he’d ever been in his life. Because who was the ON YOUR TOES! Ready, set, go! To your news- dealers for the February issue of MODERN SCREEN, on sale around January 12. There'll be dozens of other people trying to beat you to it, and there just aren’t enough to go around. So be sure you're one of the lucky finders, get there early! star of this show anyway? And how was she going to like this demonstration—? Miss Lawrence looked at Danny and bowed. Danny bowed back. She stepped toward the footlights, lifted her chin and sailed into “Jenny.” Never had she sung it as she did that night. It was magnificent and thrilling—a thoroughbred rising to the challenge of the race—a master show wom- an topping her own heights—Gertie Law- rence, incredibly better than her superb best. The audience went wild, none wilder than Danny up there on his horse, mopping the sweat from his brow, thanking God for Gertie. For what seemed exquisite hours on end, the crowd kept them bowing to each other and wouldn’t let them go. The Englishwoman had known many nights of triumph. This was the Brooklyn boy’s first, and its memory is hallowed. His father’s pride in Danny’s success was a thing of gradual growth. So he was in for a shock at the New York opening of “Lady in the Dark.” Danny’s first appear- ance in his chauffeur’s uniform brought a nice hand from his café following. Be- wildered, Pop turned to his companion. ‘You mean they know him?” Backstage, after the show, he didn’t say a word, just kept looking at Danny. Here was a whole new kind of a son. Later, he grew more articulate. At least once a month he’d go to see “Let’s Face It.” Danny could spot him from the stage and noticed that, after the first few times, Pop didn’t watch him. Arms folded, he gave his attention to the audience. When they got hysterical, he’d nod and beam encourage- ment, much as to say, “You haven’t seen anything yet.” Now and then he’d lean over to some particularly appreciative stranger. Clearly as though he could hear the words, Danny knew what they were. “That’s my boy up there.” Sam Goldwyn snagged him because he was smart enough to take an agent’s ad- vice. While Danny was still in “Lady in the Dark,” Abe Lastfogel of the William Morris agency, phoned Goldwyn, “You better come see this guy.” For the first time, Goldwyn planed East to catch a per- formance. “How about pictures?” he asked the performer. Danny wasn’t ready yet, but agreed to get in touch with Goldwyn when the time came. A week at Ciro’s in Hollywood really set the wires buzzing. True to his promise, however, Danny went with Goldwyn when the time came. Now he’s working in “The Wonder Man.” But he doesn’t want to make so-called Danny Kaye starrers all his life. Nor has he any suppressed urge to play Hamlet. What he does want is variety and scope in characterization—to play, not a stereotype, but people as he’s observed them, with their humors and crotchets and vagaries. Guthrie McClintic once said to him—‘“I’d like to do a play with you some time.” “Wouldn’t that take a lot of guts?” “No. Never be afraid to do the unex- pected. People don’t expect romance from

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The new one may not be as pretty, but at least he knows he’s alive—and it may be prettier. Don’t be afraid to break the mould, Danny.” Give him a chance to break it, and he won’t mind being the biggest flop on Broadway. He and Sylvia still have that bird-of- passage feeling, so they live in a rented house. Sylvia’s just finished sweating out her stuff for “The Wonder Man.’ Each number’s like having a baby, and leaves her exhausted. Danny’s working his head off, too, gets home at 6:30, sits around for a couple of hours after dinner, and tumbles into bed. He doesn’t drink, but goes off on food binges—all-Chinese or Italian food for two weeks in a row till he can’t stand the sight of it. But he’d still rather watch an appendectomy than eat. The biggest fizzle of his life came when “Tet’s Face It” opened. For years he’d dreamed of seeing his name up in lights. New York was blacked out for the first time that night, and stayed blacked out. His biggest thrill, apart from acting, was putting on a Dodger uniform, working out with the boys and gazing up at the bleach- ers where he used to sit for fifty-five cents. He met Durocher five years ago, and they’ve been fast friends since. When Dan- ny was between pictures, they toured Army and Navy camps together. The Lip told baseball stories for an hour, wound up do- ing a song and dance with Danny and frac- tured ’em. Danny’s the same sizzling fan he always was. If he’d been back East last summer, personally watching dem bums — slide down dem cellar stairs, he’d hav killed himself. - the kitchen cabinet .. . Since the Martinique days, he hasn’t seen a salary check. His affairs are handled by a four-man kitchen cabinet—himself and Sylvia, Eddie Dukoff—his agent, Lou Mendel—his lawyer. Like a diaper com- pany. “I’m the diaper,” he says. “Sylvia ad- vertises me. Eddie sells me. Lou manages me.” He gets an allowance and doesn’t have time to spend that when he’s working. Never plays cards and has no talent for gambling. If he saw a pair of socks” he wanted for sixty bucks, he’d buy them. But let Him lose a dollar on a golf game, and he'll kick himself all over the joint. He likes to give Sylvia presents because she gets a very cute expression on her face. One day she admired a garnet necklace in a window. “Why don’t you buy it?” “Qh, that’s silly. I don’t need it.” So he hoarded his allowance in an old shoe and bought her the necklace. She got a very cute expression on her face. For himself, he doesn’t care about jewelry. All he wears is his mother’s wed- ding ring, and that’s been on his finger for 16 years. He’s careful to call himself, not an actor, q but an entertainer. That’s the old diffidence cropping out, plus pride. He'll claim noth- ing that’s not freely granted. A shrewd operator in the business, whose words are few and to the point, heard of this foible. “So he ain’t an actor,” he snorted. “So he’s only a genius.” a _________ nn PERFUME WEAVES A MAGIC SPELL (Continued from page 53) Oo —— — evening. But, instead, there are many new and exciting ways to use perfume that will mark you as something pretty special. When a gal is ina Humphrey -Bogart-lead- ing-lady mood, she wants a provocative scent, with a definite lilt to emphasize her femininity. A perfume on the “heavy” side is her choice, something like an un- tamed fragrance. A few drops down her bosom, across her shoulders and around her ankles, will surround her with an air of naughty-but-nice charm. And for that special time when hearts are gay? I nominate an intoxicating scent with a spicy tang, neither light or heavy, yet having a definite note ...a heartbeat! A gay, lilting perfume, brushed across her lips and finger tips will make a girl feel that she’s floating on clouds. Then, too, there are times when a girl is off in a cloud of fantasy. A clinging floral bouquet, “a poetic dream,” is exciting in the flight from the obvious. So, naturally, let’s not be obvious in the use of perfume. A few drops behind the knees, trailed at the hairline framing the face, and on a cotton pellet tucked in the bra surround a char- mer in an aura of romance. When you’re wearing that pastel sheer wool number with its ruffled neckline, you feel dainty as a Dresden shepherdess. Try a floral, gay and light perfume . . . a real April shower. It will become a particular pet of yours, I promise! The secret of using perfume enchantingly is simply this: Not one heavy application in one place but many light ones, scattered. Suppose you’re simply swoony about an irresistible perfume (I am). Then spray it directly on your skin, so that the warmth of your body releases the scent and sends it around you like a delicious cloud. Herewith is an extra list of perfuming ways and means. 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DREAM WALKING (Continued from page 35) “Please, Mr. Meiklejohn, isn’t there some tiny little bit I can do?” “Well, we’re thinking things over. We’ve got some ideas.” She mightn’t have cared so desperately if things hadn’t started off with such a bang. Sometimes she wished they hadn’t started at all. There she’d been, minding her own business, peacefully going to schooi and playing with Peter Merenblum’s Junior Symphony Orchestra. She’d started playing at four. Mother taught music. At three, Dolly’d sit on the table and listen. Then she began picking out notes for her- self. Later on she lost interest. But when she was about ten, she began to under- stand music and really to love it. treading on air... One day Virginia Ellis’s mother phoned. Virginia was a violinist with the orchestra, and Paramount wanted her for an audition. Could Dol'y go along to accompany? Well, you can imagine! Being 13 and going to a movie studio for the first time! “Now, darling, don’t get excited,” Mother said, “Remember you're just accompany- ing Virginia.” She tried to remember, but how can you remember anything when a man opens a door for you, and you look up, and it’s Joel McCrea! And suddenly there’s Su- sanna Foster, looking so beautiful! And after you finished playing for Virginia, somebody says, “Can you play a solo?” and you play a Chopin waltz, and they say, “We'll call you.” “That's what they always say,” Mother warned her that evening, trying to calm her down. “It doesn’t mean a thing.” A couple of weeks later she was awfully glad she hadn’t told the girls. Because Mother’d been right. Nothing happened. Not for a month. Then they called her back. This time Mother went along. Dolly played and talked into a mike, and they asked if she knew Grieg’s Concerto. No? Well, could she learn it? “How long will you give her?” asked Mother. “Two weeks.” Well, the story’s been told and retold— how she went back and played the first movement of the Concerto, and one Satur- day morning they finally signed her, and she raced home to tell Lois and everyone. And she worked in the picture, and Su- sanna Foster became her guardian angel; and when it was over, they were sent on this wonderful tour of the South together. That was months and months ago. Now the bubble had burst, and the rainbow faded. Yes, she was still under contract— for all the good it did her. Nobody knew she existed. But she didn’t want to go back to the piano—not for a career—she wanted to act! Dolly walked to the window—waited and watched the sky—and at last she saw it. Her lips moved: “Starlight, starbright, First star I see tonight—” She wasn’t really superstitious, but she always wished on the first star. This time it worked. Because a few days later, Johnny Del Valle, one of the publicity men, said, “I’m sick of seeing you around,” and took her to Jules Schirmer, who said he’d use her in the next Aldrich picture. But that wasn’t all. Before they could get the Aldrich script read, Mr. Mayo of ihe talent department sent for her. “I’ve been thinking of you for ‘The Major and the Minor.’ Only Brackett and Wilder want a younger girl. You'll have to wear flat uith the cold weather lotion Rich! Concentrated! Economical! Once cold weather comes—thousands of women change to Original Campana Balm. For this is the lotion you can DEPEND on to help prevent chapping, soften your skin,. protect your skin against winter weather. Original Campana Balm works quickly — gives instant relief for chapping. Cracked, smarting skins show wonderful improvement overnight. Campana « Balm mee \ BACK For some time, Original Balm has been unavailable because of war 2 pi AGAIN! _ restrictions. Now it’s back—unchanged—just when you need it most. Tt’s been ... sine LO 77 Way back in 1871 when Godey’s Lady’s Book was the style authority — & Victory pioneered. in the manufacture of Hair and Bobbie* Pins. Today ... Victory introduces : startling NEW Hair Aids. CORPORATION ROY 3. BAIN, President BUFFALO. 14, NEW YORK VICTORY SETS. THE HEADLINES OF THE WORLD Bu ff.

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84 heels and lie about your age.” She’d have worn horns, if necessary. They tested her, they measured her up against Ginger Rogers for height. At last came those unbelievable words, “Guess she’ll be all right.” overtime in heaven... Those first days on the set whenever the business manager appeared, her heart would stop, waiting for him to come over, waiting for the words, “Sorry, we're re- placing you.” He never said them. All they did was change her name. Loehr was hard to pronounce, and Dolly sounded sort of childish. Her real name was Do- lores, but nobody’d ever called her that. The only bad thing about the picture was, it came to an end. “Youre not going to cry,” Diana told herself. But she couldn't help it, so she ducked into an empty dress- ing room that happened to be Ray Mil- land’s, and bawled. Well, there wasn’t much to cry about after that—what with two Aldrich pictures, then “Miracle of Morgan’s Creek,” “And the Angels Sing.” But by now she was fast becoming everybody’s little sister—and Paramount had bought “Our Hearts Were Young and Gay.” So she started brooding again, but con- structively this time. Jim Davies was her friend. He was also the studio masseur. Among others, he massaged Sheridan Gib- ney who was writing the screenplay. A little scheme shaped itself in Diana’s head. She planted herself where she’d just hap- pen casually to run into Jim Davies. “Gosh, Jim, that’s a wonderful book. Who d’you think’s going to do it?” “Would you like to?” grinned Jim. So she stopped being subtle. “Would 1!” Jim was an angel, he drove Mr. Gibney crazy. With every whack and pummel, he’d say, “Why don’t you try Diana Lynn?” Every day she’d sneak up to whisper, SAFELY * NO EXERCISE * NO REDUCING - DRUGS ‘ * ABSOLUTELY HARMLESS WALA. A.A. 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a. ," w >. ai oe "at sah a Te ty. eR! to put it on. Her real passion’s perfume— the wickeder, the better. There are two types of people she can get along without—(1) athletic, (2) sweet- _ and-lovely. On vacations, the athletics get | you up at 6 AM and say, “Let’s go riding.” ' No sooner are you back than they say, “Let’s go swimming.” She’d rather lie in and sun and bake. The sweet-and-lovelies - she doesn’t trust. They mostly turn out to be terrible characters. The first time she steps out with a new dancing partner, she gets stiff and em- barrassed. Till she’s sure she can follow, no matter how madly he whips round the floor, then it’s wonderful. She doesn’t hate night clubs. Because you can’t be normal and 17 and hate night clubs. Diana’s not blasé, and hopes she never will be. Night clubs are beautiful, and they’re fun. She’s not permitted to drink, and doesn’t think she would if she were. She’s a sucker for tear-jerkers and good musicals—never misses Ingrid Bergman or Vivien Leigh or Judy Garland—her folks don’t flatter her about her own pictures. Two years ago they built a house in View Park. It’s Mother and Dad’s house, not Diana’s—much closer to Dad’s work with an oil supply company than it is to the studio. She’s the daughter in her parents’ house, same as she’s always been. That's how they wanted it. She con- tributes something toward upkeep—which is only fair—and buys her own clothes. That’s all. Fifty percent of her earnings go straight into War Bonds. Say, now that dream’s talking! ——e—eeeeeeee——— A XMAS SHE'LL NEVER FORGET (Continued from page 25) Ne ee forgetting all about it for the minute. But there it was, poking out from under the pillow and making a liar of her. - Auntie didn’t say a word, just looked at her as if she were terribly disappointed. June felt so ashamed. Auntie just said: “Tm sorry, June. I’m afraid your mother’1l have to know about this,” and went out with the picture. It wasn’t that June minded Mother’s knowing. But suddenly she felt that she had to tell her herself. She could tell Mother anything. She could explain how it happened. The words wouldn’t choke her. Loneliness for Mother rose and en- gulfed her, dissolved the lump in her throat to blinding tears. “I want my mother,” she sobbed, fumbling with but- tons, wiping her eyes clear with the back of her hand—“I have to find my mother.” June rubbed her aching eyes. It certainly didn’t pay to be bad. All it got you was misery. The way she felt now reminded her of that other awful time when she stole ten cents. Mostly she hated thinking about it, shoved the memory deep down to the bottom of her mind. Now it gave her comfort to remember how darling Mother had been— It happened soon after Christmas. Less than a year ago, but it seemed like ages because everything had changed so. The dime had been sitting on the dresser for three days. Every morning June was given her lunch money—enough for milk and a sandwich. The other kids always had candy money too, but not June. Mother couldn’t afford it. She didn’t make much, working on those printing machines. June had promised never to spend her money for candy— But, golly, how her mouth watered! Standing on line, watching the other kids buy it, she thought sometimes she’d die if she couldn’t have a piece of candy. And suddenly, there sat the dime on the dresser. @ Of course it wasn’t hers, and of course she Hwouldn’t take it. Next day it was still there. Maybe it didn’t belong to anyone, maybe it was an orphan that nobody Wwanted. June’s hand went out and drew back again, shocked. Of course she could ask whose dime it was. But as long as she didn’t ask, there was still a chance— § At school next day she kept praying that the dime would be gone—so she could stop thinking about it, stop seeing visions of ‘chocolate and licorice sticks. But when she got home, the dime was still there, glittering. For a moment she stood irres- “Tl take it and pay it back,” she thought, wing perfectly well that there wasn’t y place in the whole wide world where oo e could get ten cents. But she took it anyway, and bought candy—the kind you got ten for a penny—and it tasted so good and made her so miserable that she wanted to go off somewhere and howl like a wolf. Between candy and wretchedness, she couldn’t eat supper. Granny didn’t mention the dime, so it must have been Mother’s. Mother wasn’t home yet. She never got home till late, and Granny kept her supper hot. June went in and sat down on the bed. After a while, Mother came in. “What's wrong, honey?” “Nothing—” “Want to go for a walk?” But June didn’t want to go walking tonight. “Feel sick, baby?” June shook her head. “Well, never mind. When you’re ready to tell me about it, you can—” “Mummy, mummy,” she wailed, and the arms came round and held her, and the hand stroked her hair back from her damp forehead, and the story came out— “All right, Junie, stop crying now. There’s no sense in my telling you it was wrong, because you know it yourself. And you won't do it again—” “But I can’t pay you back, mummy—” Suddenly, the tearstreaked face lifted, and a brilliant idea washed out half its woe. She slipped off the bed and opened the dresser drawer, where her white silk blouse still lay in its tissue paper. “I haven’t worn it yet, mummy. Maybe they’ll give you the money back.” For one horrified moment, she thought Mother was going to cry. But June must have been mistaken. Because her face smoothed out, and she said, “Keep it—” “I don’t want to keep it. It wouldn’t even make me feel good any more to have he “All right, here’s what we'll do. I’ll keep it till you’ve done something special, then Tl give it you as a present all over again—” She thought nothing could ever make her feel worse than that dime. Till one day when the whole world went black— Coming home from school that day. Thinking how nice to have Mother home, only wishing it were for a different reason. Granny’d gone to the hospital for two weeks with a bad leg, and June had been marking the days off on the calendar, Marking Granny home and Mother away. Why couldn’t she have them both, the way other girls did—? The kid from next door came down the street. “Your grandmother’s dead—” June stood still for a moment. What a horrible thing to say! Of course it wasn’t true, but how could anyone tell such a horrible lie! She kept looking at the kid, who started backing away. 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She hasn’t had a mouthful of food since yesterday—” Mother said, “Evidently she needs to be alone more than she needs food.” You never had to tell Mother anything. She knew without telling. It was as though . June weren’t a girl any more, but just one big hurt. Never to hear Granny laugh again, never to see her—that was the awful thought she couldn’t bear. It lurked like some monster, ready to claw her apart. She lay there, trying with all her might to shut out the monster She’d never said Granny’s name to any- one since—not even to Mother. She’d never stopped being lonely inside. If she could have lived with Mother, it might have been different. Not that she didn’t like Auntie and the girls—she just couldn’t be happy, not living with Mother. She’d even been mean about it at first. Did being un- happy make people mean? she wondered. “Darling,” Mother had said, “I can’t afford to pay someone to stay with you.” “t don’t need to be stayed with. I’m eleven years old. I'll just wait there till you get home from work—” “But ’d worry, Junie. Id sit there all day and worry, and you wouldn’t want that. Ill be lovely at Auntie’s. You'll have fun with the girls, and you'll be help- ing me. I’ve got to know you're safe—” They’d been over and over the argument, and June. had lost. She wasn’t very nice about. On the train to Long Island, she cut Mother pretty short— “Oh, I’ll be all right, don’t worry about me, I'll be fine—” She said good by very coldly. “Well, g’by,” she said, just like that. Mother’d hurt her, so she wanted to hurt back. And the minute the door closed, she’d have given anything just to be in Mother’s arms. It taught her a lesson that lots of people don’t learn till they’re much older. Turn- ing her soaked pillow that night, she thought: “When you hurt somebody you love, youre just hurting yourself.” She looked out the window. Still teem- ing. Getting darker and darker, too. Well, never mind. It didn’t matter now. She knew what she had to do. Go back. Mother certainly wouldn’t like her acting this way. Neither would Granny— Besides, it was mostly her own fault. Auntie’d always been kind. But June had come with a chip on her shoulder that never quite fell off. Guessed she was jealous, too. The girls—all three of them— were pretty and cute and popular with the boys. June was little and skinny and no boy ever looked at her twice. She had to be something, so she studied like mad, and was very smart in school. Which made her stuck up. She was nobody’s angel— But mostly, it was missing Mother. Miss- ing Mother was like a stone inside her heart— As the small drenched figure dragged itself back up the steps, the door opened— ‘Mummy, Mummy, how did you get here?” “Auntie phoned me at the plant. She was worried—” “Oh, Mummy, I didn’t mean to be bad—” “T know, darling. Auntie understands too. We've decided a girl needs her mother more than anything else. So I’m taking you home with me—” They went home that night because Mother had to work next day. Home to the little cold-water flat—one room and a kitchen—but it looked like heaven. The room has a sofa and a pull-out bed. Mother - A beautiful AF a de CORE wanted June to take the bed, but she said nothing doing. “I won't sleep anyhow. I’m too bursting with happiness.” Next thing she knew, the sun was waking her up. The neighbors were lovely. ‘Don’t 5) worry,” they told Mother. “We'll look after} her till you get home.” As if she needed ~ looking after—a great girl of twelve— Four o’clock. Mother’d be home soon— they got off early Christmas Eve. June opened the oven door and took out the” cake. It didn’t look so hot— { The cake was her Christmas gift to Mother. She got the idea out of a mag- | azine. “YOUR MOTHER'S ALWAYS BAKING YOU COOKIES,” said the ad. “WHY DON’T YOU MAKE HER SOME) CHRISTMAS COOKIES FOR A™ CHANGE?” a) “A cake!” thought June. “That's what Tll bake her—” She got the recipe from a cookbook, and the ingredients from a neighbor lady. The™ lady had offered to lend her some money | for a present, but June had been taught | never to borrow money. Ingredients were | different. i She’d done everything the book said— stuck straw in the cake and walked gently, so it wouldn’t fall. But it fell anyhow. Never mind, Mother’d like it anyway. She got the matchbox out, lighted the” matches, burned them down to the end, | and arranged them on the cake to read | “MERRY CHRISTMAS.” Some of them | crumpled, but the effect was okay—espe- cially if you didn’t stand too close. ‘ Mother made a great fuss over the cake —even cried a little. She’d brought home a tiny table-tree. They didn’t have any balls to tie on, but it looked nice with the” cake sitting under it, and June’s present all done up in Christmas ribbons. They had supper, with the cake between them. “May I help you to some of this | delicious dessert?” asked Mother. “Who do you think you’re kidding?” crowed June. After supper, she opened her present. pink hair-bow! “Golly!” breathed June in front of the mirror. “I'd almost look pretty—if I had another face.) | “Your face suits me.” That's what Mother always said. Now Mother was in the big chair, June on a hassock at her feet. The lights were out, and Granny’s little radio was playing Christmas carols. a Last year Granny’d been listening with them. And suddenly it came to June that for the first time since Granny’d died, it was easy to think about her. Not onl easy, but sweet. Against Mother’s knee, June whispered: “That’s Granny’s faver- ite carol. 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I know it took him months last year to track down 7) a set of Mason’s Ironware dinner plates for ~ | Ruth. This year he gave her a gorgeous |) ruby ring, and that’s a funny story. He couldn’t make up his mind as between two of them, so he brought them home and showed them to her. “I want to give Pidge ~ a ring for Christmas. Which do you like best?” : a “This one,” she said. “There’s no com- § parison.” A few days later she asked him which he’d bought. He told her the other one. “Well, what’s the use of asking my ad- vice, if you don’t take it?” E That gave the whole thing an extra bang for Walter—watching her face as she opened the box on her birthday and found © the ring she’d picked. That’s all the bang the wants. Hates to be thanked. 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Anyway, what do you mean, they’ll shrink?” “The boy needs encouragement, doesn’t he? Just tell him they’ll shrink.” He and Ruth spend nine out of ten eve- nings reading or playing backgammon. However, if you do want to get Walter out, promise him music. Especially vocal music. He won’t sing any more himself, except in the bathtub or for a few friends. But to hear good singing, he’ll turn out in the middle of the night. That’s what happened one evening. I’d gone to a concert with them. Walter was driving me home, but we stopped at their house to drop Ruth, who was feeling tired. On the phone pad was a message from Irene Manning. “We’re having some won- derful music. Come on over.” Ruth, being tired, decided she wouldn’t. Me, I’m always ready to go. Irene’s house was in one of those hillside hideouts, that THE SKY’S THE LIMIT We'll grab all you can spare and for as many 25c pieces as you send, that’s how many star auto- graphed NAA emblemed cards youll get. Turn to page 10. you can’t unearth in the daytime without a road map, much less at night. It was after one before we found it. As we started up the steps, we heard this singing. Walter stopped in his tracks. “For the love of Mike! Did we come out: to hear gramophone records?” “What makes you think it’s a record?” “Because I’ve heard every tenor since 1910 but Caruso, and there is no such voice outside a gramophone record.” Well, we went on in, and the voice was coming from a throat. Walter looked dazed for a second. After that, nothing mattered but what he was listening to. Later, we met the young man. Mario Lanza, 23, an Army corporal. He’d debuted with Koussevitzky at the Berkshire festival before entering the service. Walter couldn’t keep his eyes off the kid. “Will he sing again?” “Give him a break He’s just finished four songs.” “Tl hang around all night if there’s any chance of hearing him again—” We hung around till 4:30 and got our money’s worth—three big arias, including “Pagliacci,” and a little song of Tosti’s to wind up with. I’ve never seen Walter so excited. All the way back to my house, he kept on raving. “Most beautiful bel canto I’ve ever heard—that dark velvety luscious- ; ness—that terrific color—did you hear him soar up to B natural, and come down? —Mark my words, Hedda, there’s going to be the great tenor of the century.” That’s been going on ever since. To anyone who'll listen. One thing he’s bad about—names. Can't remember them to save his life, so he’s given up trying. Calls all the boys Joe, and all the girls Darling. They reciprocate. 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Sonny Tufts, for one, phoned his sister, “I’m on the poll.” Being nonprofessional, she didn’t know what he was talking about. “The Gallup Poll?” she asked, bewildered. “No. The Mopern Screen Poll. more important to me.” And when Al Delacorte was out in Holly- wood, he made a solid hit with everyone. Sue and Alan Ladd threw a poll party for him. Very few people who weren’t on the Mopbern ScrEEN Poll were invited. This is the first time in the history of Hollywood that guests were chosen by the readers of a magazine. I have been happy that through this Moperw Screen Poll, Ronald Reagan, who’s been off the screen for two and a half years, has been kept among the top ten. That knowledge is priceless to him, to us who are his friends, and to his studio. I asked Al Delacorte to give me the names of the ten top stars of the year who were selected by the poll because I am so interested in the way it works. Here they are—winners of 44 in order of popularity. That’s Frank Sinatra Alan Ladd Pvt. 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——— aaa 92 had been wanting to go overseas with an entertainment unit. Robbie was all for it. So, with David safely launched, “Be- tween Two Worlds” and a Bond tour out of the way and the Hollywood Canteen going strong, John set out. En route to the greater adventure, he stopped in Wash- ington for the President’s birthday ball. Waiting on line to be introduced, John’s pulses pounded. “Little East Side boy,” he kept thinking, “going to meet the President.” Because, whichever way you slice your political leanings, it remains a thrill. Now it was his turn. “John Garfield—” “Hear you’re going overseas,” said the President. “Yes, Mr. President.” “Well, I hope you have as good a time as I did.” John was so dazed with excitement that he started shaking hands with the butlers. But there was more to come. He had to leave almost directly after lunch to catch his train to New York. He couldn’t bear to go without seeing the Lincoln room— “Ts the President’s study,’ said Mr. Roosevelt’s daughter-in-law, “so I’m not sure we can get in. But let’s try.” She knocked at the door. “Come in,” said a voice, and there he sat, cigarette holder in mouth, opening birthday gifts. “Come in, John.” -big talk... He couldn’t budge. The daughter-in-law gave him a gentle shove, closed the door behind him, and there he stood—alone with the President of the United States. For fifteen minutes they talked about Lin- colm. John doesn’t know how he got to New York unless he floated there— Of his three and a half months with our troops in Italy, he could write a book. But the highlights were these— Flying the North Atlantic at night. Sit- ting in the co-pilot’s seat, learning about the instruments, being allowed to hold the wheel. Alone—because in spite of the others, you feel alone—with the stars over you and nothing between you and the sea below but this man-made machine that had once seemed so huge, that’s dwarfed now by the immensity of space, yet is winging its way confidently toward some unknown dot on the other side of the world. It’s a miracle. Living with the Gls. Dressing like them. Trying to be one of them. Telling them about home—the only thing they want to hear. Playing to front line soldiers. Their hunger for entertainment—their response out of all proportion to what you can do for them, so you want to climb a hill and yell all the way back to Hollywood, “Send more, send more!” The sense of their deep comradeship, wrought out of what they’ve been through together, wordless but un- mistakable and beautiful—so beautiful that you want to cry out, “Why does it take war to make men brothers?” A GI on “Stars. and Stripes’ knew a Jugoslav colonel who said his people were begging for some kind of American show. Would John do one for them? And how! Hundreds of Jugoslavs—the place is a military secret—sitting through his per- formance with an interpreter. Only, for the movie names, they needed no inter- preter. Every time he mentioned a Holly- wood personality, they clapped like crazy. Then they got up on the stage, and danced their folk dances for him. And gave him something he’ll always guard like his right eye. A gun captured from the Germans— Eddie Foy. John and Eddie worked to- gether. John had never known anyone like Eddie. A regular guy who was deeply religious, whose faith was like a rock. Every night the Nazis came over and bombed Naples. They’d sleep through the ack-ack, hear the first siren, get out at the second. Ask Eddie if he was scared, and he’d always say yes. But he didn’t show it. John showed it— One night a colonel, in helmet and bath- robe, asked for a match. “You scared?” Eddie whispered to John. “Damn right I’m scared.” Eddie chuckled. “Look at this guy. He’s a colonel. Asks for a match, and no cigar- ette in his mouth. We’re only hams. We got a right to be scared—” Bombs or no bombs, sleep or no sleep, Eddie would be up early next morning, hunting for some little church where he could hear mass. Robbie and Katherine were at the sta- tion. John was carrying a huge doll. Not till he got to New York, did he realize that he hadn’t brought anything for Katherine. That was unheard of. It was Sunday in New York, and the shops were closed. But there was a big doll in the window at Longchamps where he went to dinner. White and shaking as the train pulled in, Katherine made a dash for him, flung herself into his arms and cried as if her heart would break. Eventually she accepted the doll with pleasure, but refused to let go of father’s hand all day. David was waiting at home. If you could call it waiting. John turned to Robbie, his face a mile long. “He doesn’t even know who I am—” “Don’t hold it against him. Would you have known him if you’d met him walking down the street?” That first week, he spent most of his time on the phone. He’d met hundreds of boys in Europe and brought dozens of messages back to their families. He knew how those guys felt who hadn’t seen their people in many times four months—and didn’t know when they would. He’d returned, expecting to go into the Army. Re-classified 1-A while in Europe, he went down for his physical, bragging that he’d pass 100%. He did, too. They figured out a budget which would keep the family going for the duration. “At least we’ve got a long lease on the house,” said John. A few days later, some men appeared and started moving furniture out of the house. Court order. It seemed the owners had separated. Husband got the house, wife got the furniture. The Garfields were caught in the mid- dle—in the middle of the housing shortage as well. Every morning John went hunt- ing. Each evening he returned downcast. One day a rumor reached him that Bill Haines was anxious to get rid of his place. Ten minutes later John was on Haines’s doorstep. Yes, he’d heard correctly—only Bill wanted to sell, not rent. tongue in cheek guy... It was a beautiful house, but they didn’t want to buy. Deadlock. John gazed at Bill pleadingly. “I've got to get my family settled, before I’m called.” In the end, Bill couldn’t stand John’s mournful eyes. He agreed to a 3-year lease. As it turns out, John’s living there, too. When the Army’s new age rulings took effect, he was auto- matically reclassified. At sight of their new bedroom, Robbie broke into giggles. “The bed’s bigger than our whole apartment when we were first married!” That’s one thing about the Gar- fields. They’ll never be smug. Time was when Johnny’d refuse to ring for the maid. “Why should I? Does she ring for me when she wants me?” Recently he wandered into the kitchen, where Luther was helping Ida May iron— “Good boy, Luther. I used to iron sheets for my wife—” “Te]] him how you ironed them.” “She’d fold ’em and I’d sit on ’em.” It wasn’t altogether a question of what Rei... me amMee acai they could afford. Because when ] ithe ine was born, Johnny was doing all righ But Robbie got a bee in her bonnet— _— “Look, Julie—” She still calls him by his pre-Hollywood name. “Look, most people take care of their own babies. ~ Let’s let the nurse go and take care of ours. Just to prove that we can.” So for three months, John would get up at 6 to feed and change the baby before leaving for the studio. Then Robbie took over. When they’d proved they didn’t need — a nurse, they got one. 4 ‘Took at the life we lead,” grins John. © “It’s a racket. That’s why I want Kath- — erine to be an actress.” } Katherine prefers dancing. She’s unimr pressed by the fact that her Daddy’s an actor—thinks everybody’s daddy does the same thing. Not till.he went abroad did — | she see him in a picture. Robbie doesn’t — | believe in too many movies for six-year-— olds. But after John left, she got what she calls a funny feeling. She wanted to — see him, and she wanted Katherine to see © him with her—_ a “Destination Tokyo” was the only one ~ playing. “Your daddy’s in it,” she told | Katherine, “but that’s a big secret between ~ | you and me. When you see him, you mustn’t make a noise and disturb people—” Still, she was a little nervous. As John’s” face flashed on the screen, she turned to — | see how her daughter was taking it. Kath- © erine had clapped her palm over her mouth — and was waving like mad. After a while, Robbie felt a tug at her arm. @ | “Daddy’s getting so wet. Why don’t they — give him a raincoat? He might catch cold.” = On the whole, she didn’t care for the picture. No dancing. “I’d rather see Gene | Kelly.” Kelly’s a friend of the Garfields, | and Katherine’s not-so-secret passion. _ John’s just signed a new contract with Warners’. He’s just finished “Hollywood” Canteen,” playing his real-life role of exec-— utive vice-president. But the big bang came out of knowing that 40% of the gross > would go into postwar rehabilitation. Right now he’s working in “Nobody Lives Forever.” Most of his non-working -hours are spent at meetings—Victory Com— mittee, Screen Actors Guild, Canteen. He operates on the theory that if a thing’s” worth giving your name to, it’s worth your | time and effort and enthusiasm. : For relaxation, he plays tennis. He likes” to take Katherine along to lunch at the club and watch the playing. One day she got excited and rather noisy, and an irri- tated player told her to shut up. She has — her father’s spirit. “I’ll be glad to keep quiet, but didn’t your mother tell you that it’s not nice to say shut up?” q On rare evenings out, John and Robbie go to the Beachcombers—because it re- minds them of New York—then to a con- cert or movie. But mostly they dine at home. John’ll eat anything, as long as it’s cooked with garlic. His favorite Sunday | breakfast is lox (smoked salmon) and | bagel. A handy man to have around the house—puts the children to bed and dries dishes on maid’s night out— S| When they’re alone, they read or liste: n to records. The radio’s tuned on only for news. As a rule, they’re not alone long: People drop in, and the refrigerator’s al- ways stocked. 7 After the war, they plan to build or buy a house in the valley. A small house | with lots of ground. Ground enough for trees and a pool and maybe a couple of | horses. Indoors, there’ll be records and books and furniture you can put your feet on. Oh yes, and more kids. Having © of each gender now, they don’t really ca what the next three or four are. Esse tially, all that matters to John and Robbie Garfield is that the kids should grow up i a brave new world—free and democratic Not only their kids, but everybody’s. —

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