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GURL: Maybe I'm not a cover girl, Cupid. But it’s moonlight. It’s a party. And where’s my date? Inside talking politics, that’s where! CUPID: Oh? GIRL: Yes! And what’re you doing about it? Nothing! Ei cee €U PID: How about you, Honey? What'd you do to keep him i es here? Did you turn on your sparkling-est smile? No! Did— ran Se eS = j ——_S > E Zh GIRL: Pardon, Cupid. But zy sparkling-est smile is 70 = tin aN sparkler. | brush my teeth, but— : _ Dp GIRL: But what's that got to do with my smile? €WU PID: Lots! Because Ipana not only cleans teeth. It is specially designed, w ith massage, to help } your gums. And massaging a little extra Ipana on your gums when you brush your teeth will help them to healthier firmness. And healthier gums mean sounder, brighter teeth. And a smile that keeps } your date from talking politics at parties! Get going, Child! CUPID: No sparkle, huh, Sis? And, lately, “pink” on your tooth brush? Right...? Right! And what d’you do about it? Nothing! You just go gleeping along day after day with dull teeth! Don’t you know that ‘ ‘pink” is a warning to see your dentist! GIRL: Dentist? My teeth don’t hurt! €U PID: Dentists aren't just for toothaches, Sugar. See yours SEI now. He may find your gums are being robbed ‘of “ft 5 ‘exercise by today’s soft foods. And he may suggest, “the helpful Ri stimulation of Ipana and massage.’ ” Product of Bristo Pe IPANA AND MASSAGE Oo

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Singer Julie Adams (J. Leslie) loves Geo. Gershwin (Bob Alda), yet relinquishes him to his music, later, to death. nnn: St Awan wart ee @ If “Rhapsody In Blue” were not a title that has a beauty and identity all its own, this picture might significantly be called: “Rhapsody in Red, White and Blue.” Here is a story that has its source in the heart of every American. It is about one of our own—a boy born out of our soil, reared in our native idiom, matured in the streets of our greatest metropolis. It is the story of George Gershwin, translated graphi- cally and with fidelity to the screen. And George Gershwin is someone we love because we understand iim, and by those tokens “Rhapsody In Blue” is sure to find a place in the nostalgic heart of the American public. ; Directed by Irving Rapper, it takes its title, of course, from this American composer’s best-known work. By way of a combination of happy circumstances, the screen rhap- sody comes to vivid life by way of sensitive direction, sensitive acting and respect for the subject. All of this, naturally, is heightened to the nth degree by a brilliant and flooding accompaniment of Gershwin music. His more serious works and the most popular of his song hits stud the picture with the (Continued on page 10)

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HERE’S THE MIRACLE MUSICAL AS BIG, AS NEW, AS DIFFERENT AS ANYTHING YOUVE... _EVER DREAMED! ALL ON THE SCREEN! AND OU’RE NOT DREAMING! *A cross-century girl-hunt with Fred, G. Washington, C. Columbus and the U.S. Marines hot on the trail of joyous Joan and luscious June! . ..Laugh at its Gags! Marvel at its Magnificence! Thrill to its Romance! Sing its Songs! ...There’s Never Been Anything Like It Before! The Funniest ~ , Picture Ever Set to Music! Jun LESLIE jue HAVER SONGS! “Morale” ““1f Love Remains” “All At Once” “Song of The Rhineland’’ “Columbus” as GENE SHELDON - ANTHONY QUINN: “CARLOS. RAMIREZ: ALAN MOWBRAY ~ 20m FORTUNIO BONONOVA: HERMAN BING- HOWARD FREEMAN CENTURY-FOX Oirected by GREGORY RATOFF Produced by WILLIAM PERLBERG | screen Play by MORRIE RYSKIND PICTURE Story oy MORRIE RYSKIND ang SIG HERZIG + tyrics ana music by Ira Gershwin and Kurt Weill» Dances Staged by Fanchon <p

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MEN IS THE SILKEN FRAGRANCE OF MAVIS However hot the day, she walks in cool, heavenly fragrance. For she showers with sweet Mavis Talcum, after her bath. Mavis leaves skin smooth, pretty, dry; armpits truly dainty. Clothes and shoes slip on easily. She starts fresh .. keeps fresh. . appealing, adorable. MEN: You'll like the cool comfort and freshness of Mavis, too! The same delightful MAVIS fragrance in Talc Mit, 69¢ and $1.00 | Dusting Powder with Puff $1.00 FOR BODY BEAUTY At all cosmetic counters, 59#, 39%, 23¢, 10¢ All prices plus tax “ V.VINAUDOU, INC., Distributors Sure, “‘boy-meets- girl” is an oldie. But to repeat the obvious, we present these guarantees for making you the gal in any summer love story CO-ED LETTERBOX W How do you get the boy across the street to look at you—with a glint in his eye—when for years he's been thinking of you as "Bob's little sister?" I'm sixteen; he's seventeen. J. L., Cicero, Ill. First thing to do is to stop acting like “Bob's little sister.” You know you do. You boss him, tease him, tussle with him —just the way you do with your brother. Why, you even let him see you in curl- ers, we'll bet. Be just as friendly with him as you've ever been, but instead of diving into all their rough housing, stay a little bit aloof. Go in for a touch of glamour when he’s around. A flower in your hair; a shot of perfume. Have another girl over some afternoon when he and brother’s there and lure them in for some records and a snack. They night even break down and dance with you. Don’t swing into the new routine too suddenly, but by degrees you can get him to think of you as kind of a queen. H Can you do anything at all for so- called adolescent skin or do we just have to grow out of it? Betty Jane and Mary Anne, Toronto, Can. (Continued on page 26) EI Comes summer—comes sunburn and poison ivy—and love! If you know your first aid, you can cope with the first pair, and we're right here to help with the last, so your summer should be daisy. First of all, you may as well know that summer ‘love is tricky stuff. It's beautiful as moonlight, but usually it's just about as lasting. 1f you don't expect too much of it, your summer can be gay and beau-studded. And even if it doesn't net you a deathless romance, it can help you grow in poise and experience, in humor and under- standing, in the things that will even- tuallyesnag you a permanent man. Have Fun! Now's your big, fat chance to get to know the boys you see all winter long but don't dare speak to. Where? At the tennis court, the beach, the community garden, At band concerts and at ball games. They're all over the place, and if you are, too, (looking cute as a bunny, being friend- ly as can be), things are bound to happen. They'll ask you to have a Pepsi after your swim, a hot dog dur- ing the ball game. They'll show you how to tie up your tomato plants, they'll sing off key in your ear at the concerts. Those things just happen in the summertime to the gals who make the most of their opportunities. Are you making the most of yours? Be Careful! Summertime is sort o} perpetual fiesta time. Everyone's less inhibited, more relaxed. A .guy who wouldn't hold your hand in December will kiss you goodnight in July ana think nothing of it. If you try to make something of it, you'll scare him away forever. Handle the whole business ir a kidding, light-hearted way and you'll hang on to his friendship a long while If you vacation away from home beware of wolves. Summer resorts are favorite hangouts for married. guys or the loose, older men who talk a swell wedding but rarely follow through, ad ventures of (Continued on page 10) JEAN KINKEAD -

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‘Because its story comes from the pen of the great John Steinbeck, in collaboration with Jack Wagner—Because its script was written by the man who helped put all the delightful, deep-down heart-appea! in “Going My Way”...Frank Butler— Because, like Barry Fitzgerald in “Going =\ My Way,” J. Carrol Naish makes screen history in a brilliant new supporting GOLCAs. Because two great stars grow greater in bril- liant dramatic performances —And because it has a theme as unusual, a story as tenderly moving as “Going My Way,” how could it be anything else but GREAT! “Paramount presents Dorothy DAMOUR Arturo de CORDOVA From the story by J OHN STRINBECK and Jack Wagner with J : CARROL NAISH ° Mikhail Rasumny e Fernando Alvarado Frank McHugh « Directed by IRVING PICHEL Screen Play by Frank Butler

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10 Legs are bared by ~ fashion...the underarm by every gesture... and so you need double protection— NEET Cream Depilatory © that removes hair, and | | NEET Cream Deodorant that halts perspiration, for the assurance © that comes of being well-groomed. © BETTER GET NEET TODAY neel at cosmetic counters in stores everywhere i CO-ED (Continued from page 8) all kinds. Be sure you know something about the place. Inquire about it through a travel bureau or the Chamber of Commerce in the town where it’s located. Go with at least one other girl and stay together as’ much as you can. You can have just as much fun, and you'll be twice as safe. If you’ve got a summer job or are going to summer school, you'll find yourself in closer contact with the great wide world than ever before. Be reserved and make friends slowly. Steer clear of pick-ups. Double-date if you don’t know a boy well. Avoid blind dates unless you know and trust the girl who’s arranging them. Postage stamp sunsuits and bathing suits are peachy for your own backyard, but a lot of lads are going to get the wrong idea if you wear them around. Be a little con- servative and you'll spare yourself a lot of passes from all the wrong people. And if you do get Burned: You ignore all the warnings, and you go and fall for a boy who doesn’t fall back! Or maybe he does for a while and then tosses you over for a pint-sized blond. . . . Anyway, your heart is black and blue, and you’re through with woo. Ah, no you're not, baby. You can drop that torch in short order if you really want to. First, take the halo off the guy’s head and see him with all his faults. His lack of consideration, his awful posture, his inability to laugh at your jokes. He wasn’t so red hot, taken all in all, was he? Dwell on his defects. That’s step one. Next, put away all the records, poetry, dead corsages that remind you of him. There’s no future in living in the past, now is there? Especially when living in same makes you all red-eyed and haggy. Stop talking about him to everyone. Lay off writing him letters that you know per- fectly well you'll never mail. Stop seeking him out and shadowing him. Censor him from your life and substitute a new inter- est. A hobby will do for a while—learning Spanish maybe. Or learning how to make your own clothes. Gradually, as the hurt goes away, the new interest will be a new man. You think we’re kidding? Try it and see! * Bo * If we didn’t hit on your special problem this time, won't you write and tell us about it? Whether you’re in a stew over a guy, a parent, a career —anything at all, there’s a solution, and we’ve got it. Write to Jean Kinkead, Moprern Screen, 149 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. FANNIE HURST SELECTS (Continued from page 6) brilliancy of jewels. Make up your minds that you are in for entertainment, heart-beat, heart-ache and ebullient music of Grade-A variety. Warner Brothers, careful to preserve the motivating forces behind George Gersh- win’s life and works, are equally meticu- lous in casting this memorial film. Robert Alda, a comparative newcomer, gives a finished and believable perform- ance in the difficult title role. Joan Leslie and Alexis Smith, as the two women be- loved of the young genius, are rightly cast. Charles Coburn, as usual, leaves no stone unturned in the completeness of his char- acterization of the producer. Morris Car- novsky and Rosemary DeCamp play the parents and thus round out an excellent casting achievement. AUTOGRAPHS! Is your boy in blue and off to the sea? Then here’s a nifty secret just among the three of us. We have autographs of all the stars listed be- low and they’re for you—that is, if you send a quarter for each one you want. And where does that sailor lad come in? Well, those quarters heap up in great big piles for the NAVAL AID AUXILIARY FUND that is doing so much to help our seamen and their families. And now, I guess we'd better let everyone in on this: You can get FIVE for the price of FOUR! So ship-ahoy and unanchor those coins, for even the canniest Scot would go for this investment. June Allyson Don Ameche Dana Andrews Lois Andrews Lauren Bacall Jane Ball Lucille Ball Jess Barker Anne Baxter William Bendix Joan Bennett Ingrid Bergman Turhan Bey Julie Bishop Joan Blondell Humphrey Bogart Charles Boyer Eddie Bracken Jim Brown Eddie Cantor Marguerite Chapman Dane Clark Claudette Colbert Nancy Coleman Ronald Colman Richard Conte Gary Cooper Joseph Cotten James Craig Jeanne Crain Dick Crane Stephen Crane Bing Crosby Xavier Cugat Helmut Dantine Linda Darnell Bette Davis Gloria De Haven Olivia de Havilland Tommy Dix Ted Donaldson Brian Donlevy Tom Drake Jimmy Dunn Irene Dunne Jimmy Durante Nelson Eddy William Eythe Jinx Falkenburg Alice Faye Geraldine Fitzgerald Errol Flynn Clark Gable Ava Gardner John Garfield Judy Garland Peggy Ann Garner Greer Garson Paulette Goddard Betty Grable Farley Granger Cary Grant Bonita Granville Kathryn Grayson Jon Hall June Haver Dick Haymes Susan Hayward Rita Hayworth Sonja _Henie Paul Henreid Katharine Hepburn John Hodiak Skippy Homeier Bob Hope Lena Horne Betty Hutton Bob Hutton Harry James Gloria Jean Van Johnson Jennifer Jones Arline Judge Danny Kaye Kay Kyser Alan Ladd Hedy Lamarr Dorothy Lamour Carole Landis Peter Lawford Joan Leslie John Loder Myrna Loy Ida Lupino Diana Lynn Fred MacMurray Lon McCallister Joel McCrea Roddy McDowall Fibber McGee & Molly Dorothy McGuire Alan Marshal Trudy Marshall Marilyn Maxwell Carmen Miranda Maria Montez George Montgomery Constance Moore Dennis Morgan George Murphy Tom Neal Lloyd Nolan Merle Oberon Edmund O’Brien Margaret O’Brien Virginia O’Brien Donald O'Connor Maureen O'Hara Dennis O'Keefe Kevin O'Shea John Payne Gregory Peck Susan Peters Walter Pidgeon William Powell Tyrone Power Frances Rafferty Ella Raines Martha Raye Ronald Reagan Walter Reed George Reeves Ginger Rogers Roy Rogers Rosalind Russell Gail Russell Ann Rutherford Eddie Ryan Peggy Ryan Ann Sheridan Dinah Shore Ginny S' Frank Sinatra Red Skelton Ann Sothern Barbara Stanwyck Shirley Temple Gene Tierney Phyllis Thaxter Spencer Tracy Sonny Lana Turner Robert Walker Cornel Wilde Esther Williams Jane Withers Monty _ Woolley Jane Wyman Loretta Young Robert Young Pe EE TT | Enclosed please find 25c in | O paper-wrapped coin, for an AA card autographed by I understand I am to enclose 25c¢ for each additional autograph I request but that only $1.00 will now pay for 5 autographs. 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WARNERS Shes got plenty Pe BRING YOU SUSPENSE, SUSPICION AND MAN-WOMAN MADNESS to be afraid of - £ : —s a —MORE EXCITINGLY THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE! Co-starring SYDNEY (*e fat-man') IS SMITH- GREENS a a a >- Directed by CURTIS BERNHARDT Screen Ploy by ARTHUR T. HORMAN and DWIGHT TAYLOR - Based on Original Story by Robert Siodmak and Alfred Neumann Produced by WILLIAM JACOBS Pape : 11

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14 ee Not the least of these young charms is a well-developed ability to cook! Courtesy Knox Gelatine Courtesy National Peanut Council 0 = Judy Garland shows you what we mean! ™ “What’s cookin’?” Cooking is a very highly es- teemed art. You may take your harp to a party and nobody asks you to play, but just try going into the kitchen and giving the egg beater a whirl and every- body in the house troops in, sniffing hungrily, to see what you’re preparing! Not only does an ability to make good things to eat boost you socially—think of how practical it is! A hungry chick goes to the family refrigerator look- ing for snacks. She sees only raw eggs, raw lemons, a slice of raw liver, a can of evaporated milk and a package of shortening. If she can’t cook, she says, “Oh, dear me” in a blue little voice and goes away disappointed. If she can cook, she gets an inspiration —‘T think I'll make a batch of jam cookies! Right this minute!” And that’s just what she does. She measures and mixes carefully and they turn out swell! JAM COOKIES 3 cups sifted flour 1 egg, well beaten 4 tsps. baking powder I tsp. salt 25 cup shortening % cup brown sugar, firmly packed Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift again. Cream butter thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; then add flour alter- nately with milk, a small amount at a time. Beat after each addition until smooth. Chill until firm enough to roll. Roll ¥% inch thick on slightly floured board. Cut with 2%-inch cookie cutter. Place 1 tea- spoon jam on a circle, and place another circle on top, pressing edges together. Bake on ungreased baking sheet in hot oven (425°F.) 6 to 8 minutes. Makes 2 dozen filled cookies. 4 1 tsp. vanilla 13 cup milk 1 cup raspberry jam or marmalade You and the gang are sitting on the porch playing your favorite crooner’s records. “spoon!” Spoons! That reminds you that now is your proud moment for serving the dainty pink and delicious strawberry ice cream you've made. “June— moon—

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By NANCY WOOD STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM 24 eup condensed 1 cup strawberries milk i cup sugar (4x) 14 cup water 1 cup light cream Set refrigerator control at coldest point. Blend sweetened condensed milk and water thoroughly. Add strawberries which have been crushed and sweetened with sugar. Chill. Add chilled cream and blend. Pour into freezing tray. Freeze until half frozen. Remove from freezing unit. Beat until smooth, but not melted. Smooth and re- place in freezing unit. Beat again just before completely frozen. Freeze firm. Serves 4 to 6. Does Pop need a little high-pressuring? There’s no better way to get him in a bargaining mood than to make him a fluffy, delicately tart lemon chiffon pie. LEMON CHIFFON PIE 1 tbsp. gelatine 1 tsp. grated lemon %4 cup cold water rind E 3 eggs, separated % cup sugar 34 cup corn syrup 1 baked pie shell 45 cup lemon juice (9 in.) 4 tsp. salt Soften gelatine in cold water. Beat egg yolks. Add corn syrup, lemon juice, and salt. Cook in top of double boiler, stirring constantly, until of soft custard consis- tency. Add softened gelatine and stir until dissolved. Add grated lemon rind. Chill and when mixture begins to thicken, fold in stiffly beaten egg whites to which sugar has been added. Turn into baked pie shell or crumb crust and chill. ; Here’s a quick bread you ought to know about, full of crunchy ground peanuts. Serve it with cream cheese and jam. PEANUT SANDWICH BREAD 3 cups flour 1 cup peanuts 5 tsps. baking 1 egg powder 1% cups milk 1 tsp. salt Y; cup melted Ye cup sugar shortening Sift dry ingredients, add coarsely ground If you're making definite plans to en- chant the boy friend with your culinary skill, let your old triend Nancy in on the secret. Let me know what kind of reci- pes you'd like to see in this column and, so help me, I'll see that you get them! Meanwhile, I'd like to send you recipes I like—Chocolate Frosted Orange Cake, Baked Peach Custard, Korn Kobblers, Shrimp and Peas Supper Dish and. Apple Cheese Pie. Just send us a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Ad- dress The Modern Hostess, Dept. J.G., MODERN SCREEN, 149 Madison Ave., N. Y. 16, N. Y. © 2 peanuts. Beat egg, add milk and shorten- ing. Add to dry ingredients and mix care- y. Bake in greased loaf pan in slow n. (325°F.) 1% hours or until done. a. LITTLE LULU x * (CT pee Ree | KLEENEX | NO OTHER LIKE IT ee Oh a Copyright 1945, International Cellucotton Products Co A special process keeps Kleenex LUXURIOUSLY SOFT— DEPENDABLY STRONG

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16 descendant of John Adams and the arl of Caithness, Scotland, Miss ‘Daphne Adams ts the daughter of the noted portrait painter, Lawson Adams, f Philadelphia. She was born and ucated sy Franc “I’m a painter,’ says Miss Adams, “and I know that just as a certain color complements another, a certain fragrance en- hances a woman — makes her infinitely lovely. That's why I use Djer-Kiss perfume. It is the Pronounced “DEAR KISS” s j we “Meeks THE WORLD'S MOST ROMANTIC SCENT “Kedots MOVIE REVIEWS (Continued from page 12) a VALLEY OF DECISION It’s been a long while since you’ve seen as heart warming a love story as Greer Garson and Gregory Peck bring you in “Valley Of Decision.” It’s so real that you seem to become part of it as you watch, and you will cry as if it were happening to you when things go wrong. Greer plays an Irish girl named Mary Rafferty. In Pittsburgh in the late 1800’s, the Irish lived down on “the flats” near the steel mills. Mary gets a job as maid in the household of William Scott (Donald Crisp), the owner of the mills. She goes there with her father’s curse on the house of Scott ringing in her ears, for Pat Raf- ferty (Lionel Barrymore) lost his legs in the mills years before, and he is bitter to the point of madness. Mary loves the Scott home. Mrs. Scott (Gladys Cooper) couldn’t be nicer, and makes Mary feel that any blunders she commits will be forgiven with a smile. Mr. Scott is kind, too, in a remote sort of way. Even Connie (Marsha Hunt) and young Ted, who are difficult, to say the least, are conquered by Mary’s Irish charm and wit. Paul (Gregory Peck), the eldest son, falls in love with her. Servant or not, he wants to marry her. It isn’t a sudden thing. It’s deep and serious, and as much a part of him as his love for the mills. It comes gradually, as Mary becomes more and more a part of the household. They all seem to turn to her, ‘ to us—but pronto! Wise Guy! (Joe Cotten).........- oO Memo on June (June Haver)...... oO Those. Reagans!. 0. ..0.0. ccs ee O Good Luck, Shirley! (Shirley Temple) That Old Feeling ... (Tom Drake) 1) My Son by Dennis Morgan’s father 0 Se Ot oon OrOnOrG 01D Gay DOI years old. ee REE OFFER! Going, going—500 FREE copies of DELL mags to 500 prompt readers of MODERN SCREEN who rush to fill out the Questionnaire below and mail it These mags are fun—filled with stories, star pics, star doings! Send in your answers no later than the 20th of June, and you may be one of the smart ones to get a Dell Mag—FREE! QUESTIONNAIRE What stories and features did you enjoy most in our July issue? 2, 3 at the right of your Ist, 2nd and 3rd choices. What 3 stars would you like to read about in future issues? List them 1, 2, 3 in order of preference.....-.----++-:: Pe ee ADDRESS THIS TO: POLL DEPT., MODERN SCREEN 149 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK 16, N. Y. and to Paul she is essential to happiness. The situation can’t go on, and Mary real- izes it. She won’t marry him. It wouldn’t be fair to the Scotts, who have done so much for a lonely Irish girl. She feels a deep and abiding loyalty to the whole fam- ily, and she won’t let even the tremendous love she has for Paul cause them trouble. So when Connie marries an English lord, Mary goes along with her, more as a com- panion than as a maid. She doesn’t answer Paul’s letters, and she stays there until at last a cable from Mr. Scott tells her to come home. He meets her at the station and tells her he wishes she would marry Paul and make him happy. At last it looks as if a good life lies ahead. But now the black curse of Pat Rafferty seems to take effect. Tragedy prevents the marriage, and Paul eventually marries another girl. Mary’s love for him and his for her remain stead- fast even then—and as the picture ends you feel that eventually they will be to- gether.—M-G-M. THRILL OF A ROMANCE What chance does a mere husband have against Van Johnson? Obviously, none whatever, especially when the husband is an eighteen-carat dope, who leaves his bride on their wedding night and whisks off to a business conference in Washington. The lovely “kissless bride” is Esther Wil- liams, so the opening scene of the picture naturally takes place in a swimming pool. Write 1, The Town Goes Wilde (Cornel Wilde) >. c5500t een c O Hot Copy by Hedda Hopper....... O *‘I’s Lon McCallister!”......-...-. oO Pennies From Heaven (Bing Crosby Life Story)....... ei] Cockeyed Wonder (Dane Clark)....0 Good News by Louella Parsons..... Oo err CRCHC MC ne OU On OS SD ote oe opie e.eyeve, = © a cepel es © Joke) so) « wieen) Piel mee ernie ae TRO TOIT EO Or OU hoe OO SS See be eee © ee wu wee \e 0. e).8) ©) e)e) eke Snip ime

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A copy of Fortune arrives shortly after with the page turned down at an article on that rising young tycoon, Robert G. Delbar. Then Robert G. (Carleton Young), who is the young man of the limousine, arrives in per- son. Being an executive type, he has not only succeeded in obtaining her address, but has mapped out an immediate cam- paign to win her. Or rather his secretary has—Robert G. is a busy guy. Cynthia receives his suit with more en- thusiasm than her aunt and uncle do. They are vague, charming people, who dislike efficiency, system and all the other virtues of Robert G. But they mind their own business, and if Cynthia wants him, it’s all right with them. So comes the wedding night. Comes the arrival at Arrowhead Inn for the honeymoon. But before Cyn- thia and Robert are even unpacked, he is summoned to Washington. Cynthia is left alone to listen to Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra -and the songs of a Metropolitan tenor named Knudsen (Lauritz Melchior). It isn’t Knudsen who is the romantic threat, however. He, in fact, plays Cupid for the real menace—the war hero, Major Thomas Milvaine (Van Johnson). Not that Milvaine means to be a menace, but he falls in love with Cynthia before he knows what’s hit him. They keep it all very platonic, and it’s just unfortunate that they get lost in the woods on the night Robert G. returns to his bride. After all, as Robert says, “Major Milvaine found his way out of a jungle in Africa!” And you can’t help thinking he’s got something there. Your Van is devastating, as usual. And the cast includes, besides the above men- tioned, Henry Travers and Spring Bying- ton.—_M-G-M. COLONEL BLIMP Colonel Blimp is to English cartoons what Dick Tracy is to American comic strips. He’s a blustering old gentleman who believes wars are won on the playing fields of Eton. In this picture, however, he is metamorphosed into a romantic figure, and his name is changed to Clive Candy. Candy (Roger Livesey) is a Boer War hero, complete with Victoria Cross. Home on leave, he reads a letter from a mysteri- ous Miss Hunter, telling about a man named Kaunitz who is circulating anti- British propaganda in Berlin. Candy makes an unofficial—very unofficial—trip to Ber- lin. He meets Miss Hunter, who is so beautiful that he promptly falls in love with her. They encounter Kaunitz in a cafe, Candy knocks him down, and insults the entire German Army. Result: An elaborate duel, with sabers and scarlet coats and all the trimmings. His opponent, who was drawn by lot, is a German officer, Theo Kretschman-Shuldorff (Anton Wal- brook). The duel ends when they are both wounded. They meet again in the con- valescent hospital over a friendly card game. Edith Hunter acts as interpreter, and during the weeks they are there, Theo, too, falls in love with her. Candy, with true British sportsmanship, steps aside and lets Theo marry her, while he returns to England alone. He and Theo remain friends, and correspond for several years. When World War I comes along, Candy is a brigadier-general. He has made a successful career of the Army, but he fights by Marquess of Queensbury rules. Romance enters the picture again when he meets a Red Cross nurse who reminds him of Edith Hunter, and marries her. Candy finds that Theo is a prisoner of war | SAW IT HAPPEN During one of the football games of the Petersburg High School there seemed to be a great deal of excitement at one end of the field. AsI followed the stream of curious specta- tors, I saw a tall man standing with a crowd of boys and girls clustered around him. At once, I recognized him as Petersburgs own Joseph Cotten. Laughing and talk- ing, he answered the many questions that were asked him. But he really wanted to see the football game. With a huge gang of kids around him, wt was impossible to see the players. Sud- denly, he made a run for the steps and went up to the top of the hill that overlooks the ball field. The crowd didn’t follow him, but they surely wanted to. Imagine how happy we all were, then, when Joseph Cotten came down after the game and talked to us like a regular fellow. He’s a swell person! Betty Jane Steger Petersburg, Virginia in a British camp. But when Candy and his wife go to see him, Theo, with Prussian arrogance, refuses to speak to his old friend. He reconsiders later, however, and apologizes before he goes home to Ger- many. In World War II, Theo comes to England as an anti-Nazi refugee, but it takes Candy’s influence to persuade the Alien Board that Theo is sincere. Their friend- ship is soon re-established. Candy shows Theo a picture of his wife, now dead, and Theo is struck by the resemblance between her and Edith. He later notes a similar resemblance in the pretty ATS chauffeur who drives Candy around. Candy is still a sportsman of the old school, fighting a kid glove war. But Theo and the pretty chauffeur’s boy friend teach him that this war is not a “pukka sahib” affair. “Colonel Blimp” manages to be both leisurely and exciting. It is definitely worth seeing.—U.A. INCENDIARY BLONDE “Hello, suckers!” That’s the way Texas Guinan used to greet the customers at her night club and they loved it. Tex was one of the most flamboyant and colorful figures of the Prohibition era. She had everything in the world she wanted, except the one thing she wanted most of all. That (at least in this Paramount version of her life) was a guy named Kilgannon. Betty Hut- ton, an incendiary blonde if ever there was one, plays Tex, and Kilgannon is played by Arturo De Cordova, who is an even more romantic figure here than he was in ‘renchman’s Creek.” Barry Fitzgerald as Mike Guinan, Tex’s father, contributes one of his classic performances. Texas Guinan is quite a girl. She proves that way back in 1910. Mike Guinan has just lost his shirt trying to corner the potato market, and Tex decides it’s up to her to take over. She rides a bucking broncho, wins fifty dollars, and gets a job with Cherokee Joe’s Wild West Show. Only the show doesn’t really belong to Cherokee (Charlie Ruggles) any more. He lost it in a poker game to a_ handsome gambler named Kilgannon. The new owner sees immediate possibilities in Texas, and be- tween them they develop quite an act for her. Her personality wows the custom - { — ee ee ee

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7: ae Kill Yo : / —_ it’s hit or miss — what happens to Fred MacMurray when he meets kiss-or-kill Bonnie of the Fleagle gang —g hillbilly round-up of characters that puts Tobacco Road in the shade— —in a mystery comedy that’s FRED MacMURRAY Maw has bats in the belfry —and coffins in the cellar! murderously funny! Elany's nuttier than a Christmas fruit cake! Granmaw gets lit when the lights go out! Bert'll smash you, bash you and then he'll crash you! Bonnie's the pin-up- girl of the police de- partment and the only thing thatmakes sense fo Fearless Fred! Helen Walker Marjorie M | g Pe ee. ;

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But when she has become a star, she and Callahan get a divorce— he knows she really loves Kilgannon. She proves it by dropping her career when she finds out that Kilgannon’s wife is insane, and going to California to find him. Their reunion doesn’t last long. Mike . Guinan gets to speculating again, and this time he lands in real trouble. Kilgannon takes the rap and Tex, who doesn’t know it’s her father who is actually guilty, leaves for New York. There she starts her fa- mous night club. It’s quite a place. The customers are insulted, overcharged, and laughed at, but they have a wonderful time and come back for more. Kilgannon turns up again, and if it hadn’t been for a couple of gangsters, everything might have worked out all right. Texas Guinan, unfortunately, just wasn’t destined for happiness. The picture is in Technicolor, it’s excit- ing, Hutton is wonderful, and don’t miss it.—Par. BACK TO BATAAN John Wayne switches from cowboy heroes to an Army colonel in his new picture, and wears his eagles with distinction. “Back To Bataan” has more excitement per reel than anything you’ve come across in some time and explodes the theory that war pictures are necessarily dated. It begins with the liberation of American prisoners in Luzon by Rangers and Filipino guerril- las. Then it flashes back to the dark days of Bataan and Corregidor. In those days there were no such things as organized Filipino guerrilla groups. Some Scouts, yes. A detachment of these under Captain Bonifacio (Anthony Quinn) is fighting by the side of American troops commanded by Colonel Madden (John Wayne). Bonifacio’s sweetheart, Dalisay Delgado, former movie star, is broadeast- ing Jap propaganda over the radio. Her apparent betrayal of her countrymen has made Bonifacio so bitter that his judgment is warped. He takes unnecessary risks, with a fatalism resulting from his belief that the war is lost. When Bataan falls, Colonel Madden is put in charge of organizing guerrilla resis- tance in the Islands. It is a slow task, but as word spreads, more and more Filipinos rally to his side. Bonifacio at first does little to help. “What’s the use?” he de- mands. “Where are the supplies and troops that America has promised for so long?” The question is unanswerable, but when he finds out that his sweetheart has been sending secret information to MacArthur through her radio broadcasts, he regains hope. “Teidents” occur throughout the Island with growing frequency. The theft of a few Jap trucks here, the bombing of a supply depot there. The Japs become alarmed. They decide to propitiate the Filipinos by granting them “independence.” The announcement is to be made at an impressive public ceremony. It turns out to be quite a ceremony, for Madden’s men attack in the middle of it. The picture ends with the return of the American Army to the Philippines, in a climax that really shoots the works! _ A ee SE ee ue Agnes Moorehead, as a school teacher who tries to keep her pupils’ minds on their books in the midst of battle, is very effec- tive. So is a small boy named Ducky Louis, who plays one of the pupils—RKO LADY ON A TRAIN There’s nothing like a good mystery to take your mind off your troubles, and this is a good mystery. Deanna Durbin is the heroine who tries to solve a murder and almost gets bopped on the head for her pains. All the characters are fascinating people, including the murderer, Ralph Bel- lamy, Allen Jenkins, David Bruce and Edward Everett Horton do their best to confuse. you thoroughly. Suppose you were riding along in a train and saw a murder being committed in a room overlooking the railroad tracks. Would you forget the whole thing as hastily as possible, or go to the police? Nicki Collins (Deanna Durbin) goes to the police. They take one look at the lurid murder novel tucked under her arm, and tell her to run along and not bother them. So she goes to the mystery writer, Wayne Morgan (David Bruce), but he has a jealous fiancee. He doesn’t dare get’mixed up with anyone as attractive as Deanna. The next day the papers carry a story about Saul Waring, financier, who has died from a fall in the bathtub at his Long Island home. Nicki recognizes his picture—he is the man she saw being mur- dered, and it wasn’t on Long Island. She goes out to his estate to do a spot of inves- tigating, and finds his family assembled for the reading of the will. They mistake her for Margo Martin, a night club singer who was engaged to Saul. Since they have just learned that he left his whole fortune to Margo, she isn’t received with enthusiasm, but two brothers, Arnold (Dan Duryea) and Jonathan (Ralph Bellamy), are very nice to her. She locates a beautiful, shiny clue during her visit—a pair of blood stained slippers. She takes them back to New York with her, and from that moment she is in grave danger. She sees Wayne Morgan again, and this time he decides to dish his fiancee in favor of helping Nicki hunt the murderer. A sinister character named Saunders (George Coulouris) keeps popping in and out of the proceedings, until he pops once too often (Continued on page 24) | SAW IT HAPPEN Last year, I was visiting a friend at Sugar Hill, New Hampshire. It hap- pened that her home was near that of a famous movie star. One day I decided to walk to the vil- lage, a jaunt of at least two miles. As I started down the road, a station wagon drove by. Much to my surprise, the car slowed up and stopped a short distance up the road. The driver, a charming woman, of- fered me a ride to the village. Of course, I accepted. No wonder, be- cause it was Bette Davis! When I returned, it was easy for everyone to see that something very exciting had occurred. My breathless recital was greeted with, “Oh, that’s nothing. 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Introducing BILL WILLIAMS Sensational in his first big RKO comedy role! Uh-huh! But she plans to make it stick, brother!...and if this flying wolf thinks she’s just another furlough date ... he’s making the mistake of his love life!

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and is found murdered. By now, Nicki realizes that she may be the next victim, and she’s scared silly. So silly that she goes for a walk alone with the mur- derer. . . —Univ. : NOB HILL This is George Raft’s first picture since he came back from his USO tour. He is teamed with (a) one beautiful brunette— Joan Bennett, and (b) one strawberry blonde—Vivian Blaine, which should be reward enough even for a trip to the front line trenches: The story is set in San Francisco, and the title comes from a part of town called officially Nob Hill, but known to people who don’t live there as “Snob Hill.” One of those who don’t live there is Johnny Angel (George Raft). Everyone in San Francisco knows Johnny. He owns the Gold Coast, an elaborate, expensive night club. The star of the Gold Coast show is Sally (Vivian Blaine) who sings and makes eyes at the male audience with vast success, but keeps her heart for Johnny. The question is, does Johnny want it? Sally has thought he does for the last couple of years. Now, however, the situation has changed. Johnny has met Harriet Carruthers (Joan Bennett), who lives on Nob Hill and is the sister of Lash Carruthers (Edgar Barrier), Reform can- didate for District Attorney. Johnny meets Harriet through little Katie (Peggy Ann Garner), an: Irish orphan whom he has taken under his wing. Class distinctions don’t mean a thing to Katie. As far as she is concerned, Harriet is just a nice, pretty lady, whom Johnny ought to like. Johnny does like her, and that’s what’s bothering Sally. Is he really in love with this girl from Snob Hill, and if he is, what will come of it? Sally cares enough about him to want him to be hap- SAVE A LIFE! Listen! Yes, we mean you, all curled wp in an easy chair with your MOD- ERN SCREEN. You, who are com- fortable and whole and clean. This is about those who are not any of these things. This is about the wounded who are fed life from a Red Cross bottle marked “Blood Plasma.” Since 1941, American adults have filled more than 12,000,000 of these precious containers destined to reach every battlefield where men fight. They have lent life to boys who other- wise would have had to give theirs. Admiral Ross T. McIntire, Surgeon General of the Navy, insists that plas- ma has been the greatest single life saver of the war. And on craggy Iwo Jima, the U. S. Marines who scaled Mount Suribachi and raised the American flag over it renamed the heights “Mount Plasma.” . Last year, the Army and Navy started flying whole blood as well as plasma to Europe—a new, second-to- second race against death. And in the far Pacific, ten minutes after whole blood arrives at field stations, civilian blood is flowing into the veins of wound- ed Gls. Today, in any of the thirty-one donor centers throughout the United States, you may dedicate your blood to a serviceman dear to you and sign your name upon the label to be at- tached to the container. Already, men wounded thousands of miles away have returned and made a bee-line to thank donors whose blood saved them. So, give your blood! The need is deep and ever growing. What better gift can you offer than life itself? ADVERTISEMENT “They say he drinks only Pepsi-Cola.” py, yet she can’t see how this new attach- ment will bring him happiness. She tries to tell him so, but Johnny gets angry and they quarrel. So—the first thing the Barbary Coast knows, its leading saloon keeper has come out for Reform candidate Lash Carruthers, and Sally is singing at El Dorado, a rival night club. Katie, aghast at the effect of her friendly efforts, dis- appears the night that Carruthers is elec- ted. Johnny’s search for her has unex- pected results. Little Peggy Ann Garner is as appealing as she was in “A Tree Grows In Brook- lyn.” She isn’t a bit pretty, but she makes you want to hug her.—20th-Foz. THAT’S THE SPIRIT “That’s the spirit,” and the “spirit,” be- lieve it or not, is Jack Oakie. Jack isn’t the ethereal type you usually associate with ghosts, but this is a very unusual ghost. For one thing, its shoes squeak. There isn’t a clanking chain in the whole picture, which disappointed me a little. But clank- ing chains, it seems, are corny. Jack doesn’t start right out being a ghost. In the beginning, he’s a vaudeville come- dian named Steve Gogarty. He is minding his own business and not looking for any trouble when he meets pretty Libby Caw- thorne (June Vincent). Libby has been brought up with painful strictness by her disciplinarian father, Jasper (Gene Lock- hart). On this particular day she has sneaked off to come to the local theater, which Jasper considers a den of iniquity. When Steve asks for a volunteer from the audience, Libby steps up on the stage—and into love. She brings Steve home to meet the family, and Jasper almost has apoplexy. He pulls enough wires to get the theater raided, only to discover Libby in Steve’s dressing room, apparently clad in a thin

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their daughter, Sheila, is born, and Libby is at death’s door. But Steve (here we go § fi Ca on the ghost part) bribes the messenger of - death to take him instead. He is a very restless spirit when he gets to heaven, and after seventeen years or so of “probation,” persuades them to give him a seven-day pass back to earth. He is sure that his daughter needs him, and he’s so right. Sheila (Peggy Ryan) has too much Gogarty blood in her veins to knuckle down to old Jasper. When Steve arrives she is the only one who can hear him or see him. She thinks he’s swell, and isn’t in the least perturbed by the fact that he’s a ghost. Steve determines to get her on the stage, but of course Jasper is equally de- termined that she shall “stay home where she belongs.” The rest of the picture is a tug of war between Jasper’s earthly influ- ence and Steve’s celestial power which isn’t as strong as it might be. There’s ro- mance thrown in, and it’s all fun.—Univ. negligee. He calls off the raid hastily, and demands that Steve marry the girl, which oss / ee is what Libby had in mind all along. She : e if” and Steve are very happy for a year. Then @ e 'F) k 1S (A é r] Every day the same mistake! Yet just half a minute would prevent it! PRIVATE THE MAN FROM OKLAHOMA You’ve heard of the feuding Hatfields and McCoys. They’re just a bunch of sissies beside the feuding Whittakers and Lanes in Roy Rogers’ latest picture. Roy plays a Whittaker and so does Gabby Hayes. The Sons of the Pioneers are Whit- takers to a man. The Lane family, how- ever, has dwindled to Grandma Lane, a fierce, shotgun-toting old beldame, and her attractive granddaughter, Peggy (Dale Evans). ni _When the story opens, Peggy is the Something’s wrong ail right — and it’s you, singing sensation of a New York night club. Sugar! But don’t expect your Joss to point’ Roy and the boys turn up there to try and out a fault like underarm odor. It’s up to you to avoid offending: So step on it, before he buzzes again, and buy a jar of Mum. | SAW IT HAPPEN Back in 1939, I at- tended a junior prom at Chicago’s Edgewater Beach Hotel. Ted Weems’ orchestra was play- ing there. Singing with the band was a pretty little straw- berry blonde named Marvel Maxwell, j and when intermis- sion came, all of us fellows scrambled up to this lush thrush and pleaded for her autograph. I decided to go the rest of the guys one better. I asked Miss Maxwell for an autographed photo, promising “to keep and cherish it forever.” Marvel replied that she had no more photographs, but re- Mum does the trick—in 30 seconds. You’re safe all day from risk of underarm odor. When you ask for Mum, you say bye-bye to the blues a girl gets when she’s frowned on —and doesn’t know why. You’re going over big with the boss. And doing fine, thanks, with the rest of the office ; F F . force, too. Yes—thanks to Mum—one of the PAE MIG ne comiccd that os most dependable little partners in charm a would have him paint a picture of her working girl ever had. the next day, and that she would send it to me, autographed and everything. Not wanting to be a bore, but pos- sessing a feeling of disbelief, I gave her my address, implying that I would wait in suspense for the picture. The next afternoon, believe it or not, the painting did arrive. I sent Miss Maxwell a telegram expressing my deepest appreciation. To this day a by Bee Dein eae ro yoo be TT Mum’s Quick— Only 30 seconds to use Mum. a Even after you're dressed, even when you re busy, you still have time for Mum. Eye : BG 3 ; that painting is one of my most prized ee of Bristol-Myers Mum's Safe—Won’t irritate skin. Won't harm possessions. But imagine my surprise fabrics, says American Institute of Laundering. to find, upon seeing the movie “Lost in i iF a Harem,” that the lovely blonde star |. Mum’s Certain— Mum works instantly. Keeps in it was none other than my “portrait - U We you bath-fresh for a whole day or evening. girl,’ Marilyn Maxwell! Wallan Bane; TAKES THE ODOR OUT OF For Sanitary Napkins — Mum is so gentle, safe, depend- Jackson, Michigan cette i PERSPIRATION able that thousands of women use it this way, too. 25

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The moment she enters, all borrow carfare back to Oklahoma. Bor- rowing from a Lane is definitely the last resort department, but they must get back to the ranch. They’ve been ‘getting frantic wires that Gabby, who was left in charge, is very ill. Maybe dying. Peggy is defi- nitely not pleased to see them but softens when she hears about Gabby. After she’s lent them the dough and they’ve left the club, she gets a wire from Grandma: “Come home. Those Whittakers are causing trouble again.” Peggy is furious, thinking Roy has lied to her. She is sure of it when they all land in Oklahoma on the same train and find Gabby not only alive but brandishing a gun and threatening to shoot all Lanes on sight. He has sent the wires so Roy and NE te a aS a . , ; 70) aes o-. ee the boys would get back in a hurry. He claims that the Lanes have stolen their horses and broken their fences. Grandma tells Peggy the same thing about the Whittakers. Roy soon decides that all the trouble has been stirred up by Jim Gard- ner, a smart crook who wents to get pos- session of Pine Valley. That’s a little strip of land owned jointly by the Whittakers and Lanes. Roy can’t figure why Gardner wants it, till he goes over there secretly and finds that Gardner has been drilling for oil there—and hit it! Now the cat is really out of the bag. There’s a wagon race, with the property as a prize, that has all the thrills and chills you expect from the climax of a Roy Rogers epic. PS. Trigger is a Whittaker, too.—Rep. CO-ED LETTERBOX (Continued from page 8) You can do lots of things, and believe it or not, just about the most important of all is to stop stewing about it. Because the more jittery you are, the worse it gets. Much has been said about eating green vegetables and fresh fruits, but not half enough—for our dough—about lots of rest. Be sure about getting nine or ten hours every single night. Drink eight glasses of water a day. Eliminate sweet drinks, rich candies and gooey desserts. Keep your face immaculately clean. Apply a soothing camouflaging lotion and then let it alone. Dowt touch it at all. Having done your best by it, forget it. To you it’s absolutely awful, but to the rest of the world it’s hardly noticeable, and we mean that. Fol- low our advice and you'll really get results, we promise. @ How can you tell if a girl likes you? What symptoms does she give? And how can you tell whether she likes you a little or a lot or not at all? Bill J., Philadel- phia, Pa. The best test of whether or not she likes you is whether or not she likes to be with you. We think asking her for a just the same old stuff, routine, uninspired chatter enlivened by a lot of “darlings” and protestations of love, we'd say it wasnt love after all. M My newly returned soldier husband can’t stand the least bit of noise. My small talk irritates him, the children drive him wild and if a door slams he jumps a mile. He has to walk out of a newsreel or movie that has any shooting in it. Do you think he will ever be his placid, jolly self again? H. M., Fresno, Calif: Sure he will, but it will take some time and a bit of doing on your part. Don't comment on his jumpiness, for one thing. He knows he’s terribly jittery, and the less attention you pay to it the sooner he'll be able to control it. Don’t force him to rest more than he wants to. Some form of relaxation like working in the garden, go- ing to a baseball game or just lazying in the sun will do him much more good than tossing sleeplessly in bed. If your children can be made to realize that their dad has been through an awful lot and is very, very tired they will go all out in their efforts to be quiet, and their sweetness and consid- else stops; she wins eyes and hearts date is the quickest way of seeing where you stand. If she says ‘no’ once, give her a second chance. If it’s still ‘no, forget about her for a while. Date some other gals, let her see what a smoothie you are, then—if you still care—try her again. She'll say ‘yes!’ | SAW IT HAPPEN I had never before met a celebrity, so it wasn't unnatural for me to be very ner- vous as I waited at the home of my girl friend. I absolutely shook. Then the bell rang and a second later she stood in the doorway. I was introduced and we were shaking hands. I forgot my ner- vousness and was surprised to dis- - cover that she was able to put me entirely at ease. I spent four-and-a- half hours with this lady of the cin- ema city. We talked about everything and everyone—everyone, that is, except her. Words fail me to tell everyone how really sweet and lovely. she is. But I hadn’t met a movie star in a way. I had met the girl down the street, anyone’s big sister. I had just met June Allyson! Doris Cohen Los Angeles, Calif. eration for him will be ever so important a factor in his readjustment. 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TO OUR READERS... B Don’t look now, but I sneaked the idea for this month’s editorial right out of TimME magazine! There’s a high- powered gent on their staff who signs himself modestly: P. I. Prentiss, Publisher. Any week you'll see by his column that TIME has a throttle-hold on the world pulse. TIME somehow fires the opening gun of any invasion ahead of the Marines. This minute a Trmeman is hiding in your closet. Watch the door, or he'll fall out on his typewriter! Doesn’t it give you goose pimples? Ever since MODERN SCREEN’s circulation reached a million- and-a-half, Henry and I have brooded about frightening ) | our readers too. Don’t you think we owe it to you? | So for MODERN SCREEN’s own version of the “spy-in-every- closet” school of journalism, read “Pennies From Heaven,” which starts on page 46. It’s Bing Crosby’s life story. To bring it to you, we dislocated Bing’s hometown, Spokane, Washington. We invaded Gonzaga College. We put a man on Paul Mibiternan: With the Rhythm Boys (there were three of em: Al Rinker, Harry Barris, and Crosby), we drank toasts to the the dear departed days of corn. Al, incidentally, is a big shot in radio, and his sister, Mildred Bailey, was chosen top vocalist for 1944 in the Annual Esquire poll. And Harry became a big-time composer, Writing Bing’s great torch number, “I Surrender, Dear.” We pumped the Ladds. Sue knew Bing when. As for Laddie, he’s such a fan, our operatives suspect him of leading an underground Crosby organization! So now we know more about Bing than an person or in- stitution in the world including P. I. Prentiss, Publisher. Of course, Spokane isn’t Changking, and Gonzaga isn’t Heidelberg, and Bing, thank God, is a nice guy. So maybe we lack that global touch, and maybe we haven’t frigh tne e eeee oe oe eeoe Se O26 Sf > “SOROS Bes S2eecess of. you out of a year’s growth. ,_ gereaeee But you’ll have to admit that “Pennies From Heaven” is = fisteyes the best story ever written for the love of Bing! s 1) ee Executive Editor ereet pa eee PTT 4 woe c gett qtr

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py ee Serres | § f f Re - } En < in the late hours. He hates routine of any sort and abhors forma! clothes. Tom never falls asleep till one A.M.; goes tor current no els Tom Drake just couldn't forget—the summer i stock gang, New York breaks—and his Chris. mouthpiece. as excited as kids and eager as beavers. m The telephone rang like a five-alarm fire at Tom “Josie.” they cried. “it’s Tom and Chris. We're Drake’s house after he and his new bride. Chris. got back from their Las Vegas elopement. Like blissful married!” dopes. that love-happy pair had wired all their Eastern “Ha-ha-ha-ha.” they heard over the wire. “This is friends to call them collect and get the good news in very amusing.” person and already a dozen long distance congratula- “But we just got home from Las Vegas—~ tions had mortgaged Tom’s salary for the next fiscal “Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.” trilled Mrs. Josephine Dunne. “you year. when Christopher’s mother in Stroudsburg. Pa.. two can think up the silliest jokes!” came on the line. That was the call that counted and “B-but—.” cried Tom and Chris desperately. “Josie. both Tom and Chris shouted the big news.into the Mother. listen—_we’re really married. The license. the 30

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a om adores kids; likes to see a mob of em running around the yard with wee Chris. He keeps plates of candy around for them. Misses sis Claire's two since they went back to New York. 10) ring, the Justice of the Peace. the witnesses—every- thing. Honest!” “Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho! Ha-ha-ha-ha!” Tom’s new mother-in-law nearly died laughing at this very ab- surd thought. —It went on for minutes—and more minutes, while Tom and Chris stared at each other dismally and counted the long distance toll dollars ticking off. Whenever they’d sputter the true Word into the receiver, a roar of incredulous chuckles blasted their ears. “Stop (Continued on page 33) When waiting for Chris, Tom bangs on in sight. Dick Tracy's his idol but They're just not funny! Catch Tom's piano, chews on candy if there's any all other comic strips are scorned: latest pic, “Hold High the Torch.’ n gals’ fashions, Tom preters black suits, detests satin evening gowns. Enjoys buying gifts, especially small oieces of jewelry—tr om St. Christopher medals to Zircons.

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“GOOD LUCK, SHIRLEY?” Now that Westlake gals have an engagement to thrill over, et the objections and fuss over Shirl's first screen kiss in “Kiss and Tell,” her latest pic. (With Mom.) Shirley's brother George, a Marine flier since the year before Pearl Harbor, has received an honorable discharge and. plans to they'll forg become a H'wood personal representative—press agent, to us! Se erersewsererrers Remember when Shirley announced her “retirement” Ir | 1940? It didn't last a year. She recently got Look Mag award for “growing up so gracefully on the screen. | Fiance Jack confesses he had never been particularl) | interested in Shirley as an actress. Shirl confides hi sincerity is what rated. (With Danny Kaye at Ciros.

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T was late, the twenty-six news photographers had left, Mom and Dad Temple were sleeping the sleep of the weary and the house was chill and quiet and dark. Very dark. The next a.m., a rested Mrs. Temple called down cheerfully, “Shir- ley, I heard you and Jack in the library until about one this morning. What were you doing?” The answer came, brightly. “Reading the Na- tional Geographic, Mother.” There’s no doubt, no doubt about it at all, “Lit- tle Miss Marker’s” grown up. She’s seventeen, five-feet-two and reddish haired with a _three- carat square-cut diamond ring and a fella she’s going to marry in two-three years. It was all very story-book and fairy-tale, how they got to- gether, Shirley and her Sergeant. It was at a tea party Ann Gallery, Zasu Pitts’ daughter, held back in 1943. There were little pink cakes and punch and the radio playing and an introduction that went something like this: “Shirley, I’d like you to meet a very dear friend of mine, Sergeant Jack Agar. Jack, you’ve probably seen Shirl before but now I want you to know her. We're schoolmates and next-door neighbors and pals— so don’t believe anything she says about me! Now play nicely, chillun. I’ve got to flit off and play hostess.” Well, it’s highly doubtful as to whether the “chillun” even noticed the flitting-off process. Because one-two-three they were agreeing, yes, — wasn’t it odd that his first names were George John, a combination of her two big brothers’ names! And no, she didn’t mind being called “Red” and f’heaven’s sake, you think a dancing date at the Cocoanut Grove is simply copasetic, too? They found lots to talk about and later, as the months flew, lots to plan for. Then Jack was a GI and Shirley made a terrific comeback in “Since You Went Away” and “I'll Be Seeing You” and letters didn’t seem as satisfying as they once were and suddenly it was 9:30 one evening, the evening - of April sixth. They were coming home from a date in Jack’s black Buick sedan, limp from all the dancing, and strangely silent. Jack pulled up to the curb on Sunset Boulevard, cleared his throat, cracked his knuckles a few times to ease the stiffness and started, “Shirley, uh... Shirl... Shirl! There’s something I... . Aw, darling here. . . .”” Out shot the big, shaky hand clutching a tiny black box. -And sitting there in the moonlight with the stars quivering and the bang-bang-honk noises of street traffic, there was very little but just the two of them on an island of quiet, all filled with wonder and throat-choked with love. Until a car nudged them gently from behind trying to park and they woke from the trance and when . Jack tried to put the ring on her finger it was about fourteen sizes too large and she wore it all the way home on her thumb, feeling guilty because she knew this was supposed to be such an awe- inspiring moment and she couldn’t stop giggling. Mother, of course, wasn’t too surprised, al- though she cried a little and made glad sounds over the ring. Seems she and Jack had had a long, pre-engagement conference and when her “But Shirley’s only a baby” and “Think of the em- barrassing publicity youll be subjected to, son” arguments didn’t convince him (all he kept repeating was “I don’t care, Mrs. Temple. I can’t live without Shirley!”), she extracted two prom- ises from him: That they wouldn’t marry while he’s in the Army and that the engagement would be kept a secret until Shirley’s seventeenth birth- day—the 23rd of April. Next day, there was a luncheon for the mem- bers of Westlake School’s senior class. “Don’t wear your ring, dear, it’s so obvious.” “Oh, Mums, I simply can’t take it off. I’ keep my gloves on, even when I eat. Nobody in the world’Il notice it.” And nobody did. Until the Lobster Thermidor. Then the heavenly aroma went to her head and caution flew to the winds. Off came the gloves and out came an ear destroying chorus of shrieks, gurgles and “But Shirley, we never dreamed. . . .” From all but a very smug Joyce Agar, Jack’s eighteen-year-old sister. “I knew something was up all the time,” she placidly commented. “Jack’s been mooning for months.” Back home, Mums sighed and HENS but not quite, murmured, “I told you so.” Noe we ll have to issue a formal announce- ment.’ “But Mums, only forty. All know!” “And tell your boss, Mr. Selznick.” Mr. Selznick was told. “Best of luck, Shirley dear—but you're so young!” That didn’t faze her. “Tl get older in time.’ “Oh well, if you ‘don’t mind being bored. As an engaged woman, no more dating with boys. You'll have to be satisfied with just your ring for company.” That did it. She flew to Jack. “’Course I love you, but Ja-a-ack, so lonesome. . ..” “Uh-uh, Red darling. Relax. You’ve got 100% freedom. Just as long as I’ve got 100% of your heart.” And that’s what you’ve got, son; that’s what you've got! by Mickey Ghidalia 37

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Joe Cotten’s as frank as a poke in the nose— just ask Boss Selznick! N.: long after Joe Cotten made “Since You Went Away” he traveled. through the South on a Red Cross Blood Bank tour. One night in Baltimore, at a swing-shift theater for defense workers, the manager led Joe down the wall aisle in the dark to make his plasma plug up on the stage. It all seemed queer and un- real to Joe, anyway, a theater all lit up like a birthday cake at 3:00 A.M. and the screwy pros- pect of saying “Good morning” to an audience for the first time in his life. “S-h-h-h-h,” whispered the manager, “down this way.” He guided Joe toward the stage. “Watch this step,” he hissed. But Joe was watching himself instead. Because there he was up on the screen in “Since You Went Away,” twice as big as life, coming through a kitchen door gnawing on a huge chicken leg. So Joe stumbled at the step, finally made the stage, gave his blood donor pitch and sneaked out again. They hustled him on a plane and pretty soon he was in Atlanta, Georgia, at another defense worker show. It was still just as dark and just as fantastic barging into a theater in the inky pre-dawn, and to make matters even - screwier, this theater was called the Grant— and in Atlanta, Georgia! There was the manager again, saying “Sh-h-h-h!” and sneaking Joe in along the pitch dark wall. (Continued on page 110) The Cottens’ first thought of a room: is it big enough to dance in? They're one of H'wood's best-couples in the ballroom! Joe's with Ingrid Bergman in "The Scarlet Lily." (With Mrs. C. at Ciro's.) Zs Jem Carkon Oy ‘©

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Maureen cannot refrain from greasepaint orgies —ii's in the blood! Just over pneumonia, Jane's making H’wood “halo hair-do" conscious. § Priia Dodty No frills to their love, no fancy words. Just enough spilling over for Maureen and Mike. THOSE REA ANg @ You certainly wouldn’t think it to look at her, but Miss Maureen Reagan is one young soul whose type of amuse- ment has to be carefully censored. In short, she i is not allowed to see any of her mother’s pictures. There is, of course, a very good reason. One afternoon Maureen’s nurse took Maureen and a buddy of Miss Reagan’s to the movies to see Jane Wyman’s latest picture, “The Doughgirls.” You will probably remember that, in one alleged comedy scene in the picture, J ack Carson gives Jane a shove that sends her spinning to land in an outraged heap on the floor. Maureen knows Jack, of course, and likes him well enough. Maureen also knows Jack-a-boy, (Continued on page 122) With “Anithal Kingdom” completed Janie's con- stantly with baby Michael Edward, whose "birth" announcements were in the form of military orders. Mom's the gal taking voice lessons in the hope of title-roling Helen Morgan. M.'s the babe insist- ing that her piano's not off-key—like some folks’! 4]

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ee — —— Sp ap 5 EE RY ESN RS DN NSN SESS IS EO a assay cc. A Ae Haver, that diesel-powered dream boat currently dancing her way through “The Dolly Sisters,” has three things on her mind at present, to wit: 1. Contrary to the report of a writer in a national magazine, she is carrying on NO feud with Jeanne Crain. She and Jeanne got their start in the same picture, “Home in Indiana,” and their careers have progressed apace. They are friends, each interested in the progress of the other even though they don’t spend their entire time trying to dress alike in private life, muttering secrets in one another’s ear, or other- wise acting like School Days at dear old Poly High. Jeanne is quiet, thoughtful, ethereal. June is gay, enthusiastic, active. The rumor that when the girls went on a bond tour they disagreed so desperately that one girl was sent ‘to Cincinnati and the other to Indianapolis, is one thousand percent false. The plans for dividing the troupe were made long before the 20th Caravan left Hollywood; they were based upon the need to cover as much territory as possible within time limitations. (Continued on page 79) Bere) are) ihe studio ‘picks June's "big occasion" escorts but, on. her own, it's often | Eddie Ryan for Coconut Groving and home by one! She buys things by the | half dozen and will get something new for every date, even if it's only a hanky! | Did you know: June and Farley aren't engaged, the Haver- Grable password is "sis," and Junie's house is a dream-plus? BY ABIGAIL PUTNAM a

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June's painted since she was 13 and makes the family Perfume's a “'must'' with June and she loves to-swish in satins, furs. Xmas cards—plus penning the verses. Her needle- Waiting af restaurants is unbearable except when she's dating. Then point’s expert and she's composing a jazz symphony. time flies! Don't miss her latest, ‘Where Do We Go From Here?’ “Junie-Bee'' swipes the family shoe coupons, but the three Haver sisters A home gal, Junie has a horror ot divorce, Is never swap clothes. She's scared of mobs, and mopes if ma doesn't sweet to old folk and fond of kids. She's teach- visit the set daily when she's working. (With her sister Evelyn, 17.) ing Betty Grable'’s Vicky to call her ‘Auntie

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ey remember .. - Enjoy these heartw MY SON °° begins Dennis Morgan’s father. arming anecdotes of an American boy. by FRANK MORNER as told to Ida Zeitlin SET eee dt The huge library and 2 guest houses lured Dennis (he's in "Xmas In Conn."') into buying Adrian's Valley home. But for the Lids—let ‘em at those mirrored bathrooms! (Stan, Dad Morner). Last month, D. and pal Jack Carson threw a shindig for the town's cops. Came time to leave, Dennis discovered a ticket for parking in a red zone! (Kristen, Dad, Jimmy and Stan.) m When they first asked me to do this, I shied away. It’s a little hard to write about your own son. You'd like to say what you think, yet there’s always the danger of sounding prejudiced. Of course, I’ve yet to meet the father who’s not just a shade biased in his son’s favor, and that’s fine between friends. It makes for a certain give-and-take. You brag about your son and I'll brag about mine. But on paper, the whole thing takes a different slant. You feel you've got to be objective up to a point, and youre not sure you can be. So I'll start with a confession. When the idea was broached, my impulse was to say no. But I couldn’t think an excuse up fast (Continued on page 101)

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@ I’m writing this a week after the death of FDR and I’m not in the mood for clowning—not even over Bing. For this once I’d like to play it straight. There was something different about the Groaner when he got back from over- seas—there had to be. You. can read every paper printed and hear every newscast, your heart can bleed and your imagination work over- time, and you still don’t know what it’s like over there till you've seen a piece. of it with your own eyes- The change in Bing was nothing you could put your finger on. He’s always been the kind of guy that people took to He and Father O’Malley have lots in common—same without half trying. humor, same warmth, same tolerance, same easy approach to folks. And the same unwillingness to dress up emotions in words. Only Bing was more so. Feel- ings were okay. But talking about *em That bird could outrun his own horses to give a simple thank- was murder. you the slip. Well, he got back and, if you didn’t look too hard, he was still Old Throw- it-away, doing business as usual. Push- ing his four young scalawags around— and I mean push. There’s not a coddled bone in the whole quartet. Pop gives em plenty of rope, but they know the voice of authority when they hear it. At a Command Performance not long ago, they were horsing around before the show started. Things got a little rough, and Bing sauntered up. “Okay, scram, over there—” and whoosh! they were off in a corner like dust before a broom. No, he’s not going mushy. But sometimes, when the talk’s about war and the kids happen to be playing around, his eyes go to them with a certain look. You don’t have to be a mind reader or a “THANKS FOR THE sentimental sob sister to interpret that look. All you have to be is a father. We were down at the San Diego Hos- pital together. Before singing, he’d visit with the boys, go up to each bed. “My name’s Crosby. How long you been here, bud? Where’d you get it?” He knew what to say and—more important—what not to say. Coming out of one ward, filled with men off Saipan, there was that look in Bing’s eyes again. And this time he talked. “What a price to pay! How little the country realizes—! In Europe they know the pain and the tragedy. Here the only ones who know are the ones who’ve suffered personal loss. All it takes is knowing. If they knew, theyd rise to a man and make this war the last—” Then came April 12th, and the thun- derbolt that sent a whole world crashing to its knees. When I saw Bing, the same memory re- turned to us both. “Maybe they know now,” I said. He said, “Maybe they do.” There was nothing else to say. Qa ot eee MEMORY...

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48 peal Se four years later, but now gets her Dixie Lee had given up the screen for Bing and in July '33, three weeks old Gary Evans was being lullaby-ed. She did do “Redheads on Parade"’ "drama" by imitating Bing to perfection. Bing never did need an umbrella “cause when it rained it always rained pennies from heaven!” Life Story, part 1 m When Gary Cooper handed Bing Crosby his “Going My Way” Oscar last February at the Academy Award dinner, Bing felt called on to say something to the glit- tering crowd of famous Hollywood stars gathered to do him honor for the best screen acting performance of 1944. Collecting awards is nothing new in Bing’s life, but being called an actor is. The Crooner gazed bashfully around the vast banquet hall, grinned and bent his big, blue eyes sheepishly on the gilded, plastic victory model Oscar. When he spoke, his voice was more husky than usual. “All I can say,” drawled Bing, “is that it sure is a wonderful world: when a tired old crooner like me can walk away with this hunk of crockery!” It’s typical of Bing Crosby to sound off at a time like that with a self-deprecating (Continued on page 50) Pe Boss Whiteman was in England, so "Rhythm Boys" Al Rinker, Harry | Barris and Bing made a wild-oats vaudeville tour, ending up minus: curtains and costumes. Then trekked west with Paul for "King of Jaz.”

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BY KIRTLEY BASKET: Cocky Bing landed in jail after an auto smash-up when he first hit Universal's lot in '30. . Brother Everett found the jail- bird, became his chief manager. (Bob, Bing, and Everett.) Kate Crosby refuses to hire a maid; sews, gardens, and guards the Bing scrapbooks she’s saved for years. (Bing, Mom, J. Cagney at Gary's christening, '34.) In "24, the Gonzaga Musicaladers had a four number repertoire. They played ’em—first as a fox-trot, then a waltz and a one-step for variety! (Bing, as law student.)

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i 50 Li tes ee Da Pop Bing doesn't believe in fancy private schools, paddles his "'Irishers'’ if necessary. (Gary, tw PENNIES Hi AN , 2 nid t oa . h di ¥Y as. 4 o r @ ao 2. ins Philip and Michael as babes.) remark like that, lazily delivered and slangily off-the-cuff. By now people expect it, chuckle good-naturedly as did the bunch at the Academy banquet. They laugh, “That guy Crosby—never serious about anything!” and wonder who writes his gag lines. It never occurs to them that underneath Bing’s flippant—and always spon- taneous—comebacks when he tenders himself a poke in the ribs lies the solid core of his own philosophy. He really thinks it is a wonderful world. And just why it has been so wonderful to Bing Crosby has ever been and always will be something for him to scratch his thinly thatched head over and ponder. Bing’s afraid to take himself seriously—or maybe he just knows better by instinct. No living American is more widely popular or better known than Bing Crosby. At 42 he’s a legend of two U. S. generations and a basic element of twentieth century American culture whether you like it or not, but chances are you do. To soldiers overseas he’s known as “Uncle Sam without the whiskers.” To the krauts, “Der Bingle” and a secret (Continued on page 84)

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In “Road to Singapore," '40, Bing was stealing Dorothy Lamour from In. ‘38, Bing was working on "Paris Honeymoon” while his pal, Bob his favorite foil, Bob Hope. Larry Crosby had become Bing’s “Direc- did “Give Me a Sailor." That was the year Lindsay Harry was born, too, tor of Public Relations and-Dad his courier and mail supervisor. on January fifth, and. “'East-Side of Heaven" was filmed. {With Bob.) U.S. Marines now train at Bing's Del Mar track, but his ambition's still | Bing had become a sizzling success by the time he starred in ‘Sing You Sin- to breed and train a Kentucky Derby winner on the "Binglin Stock ners’ with Fred MacMurray and Donald O'Connor. Donald became his Farm” partnered by Lindsay Howard; Latest pic: “Road to Utopia.” first singing pupil and was heard chirping in on tunes like “Small Fry."

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52 By HEDDA HOPPER ns here in © If a giant book rolls up to your door 'n Scarlett O’Hara pops out, it’s no dream—it's Hollywood!! Poor Dennis Morgan was victim of his own good heart and phony Gl's racket. (With Laraine Day.) "Zaza'' made headlines when C. Colbert played hostess—to two trained fleas! (With J. Waldo.) that compan) T C This gives tv : try, thev. aS in Param’ San Francisco, April 25.—We're a united United | « sll speak the same lang--~-—yet. Se block of 20t bought the ( 18CO V m= “Why do movie players need press agents?” asked the man I was lunching with. I choked on my vitamins. “Are you kidding, or just simple?” Well, he wasn’t kidding. And since I love to pour useless information into people’s ears, I’m assuming, dear readers, that maybe you don’t know, either. If you do, turn the page. Movie players need press agents to get their names into print. The more often they get into print, the more. you talk about them. The more you talk about them, the more tickets they sell. When they stop selling tickets, they’re dead, and who wants to be dead? That’s all there is to it. Of course I could mention a few—and will—who get along fine without benefit of the praise boys. Our more impetuous (Continued on page 105)

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ome oe Ages ee ee | Faye Emerson Roosevelt (with Brig. Gen. Elliott R.) just thought aloud about a long-lost sister. She had 200 by the next mail! With Sex toned down and dressed up for her debut, Rita Hayworth got 5 pages in Loox and Orson, too! ore his Silver Star, Lieut.-Cmdr. days, just-arrived Doug, Jr. had a sorority 'g up on him and kiss like mad! (At Stork Club with Mrs. Fairbanks.) Maria Montez had to get attention before she got a career. (She's dressed true to form at ‘gingham, ice cream’ party.)

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c The town goes Wilde Cornel's the guy who played a piano-pounding genius without touching a note—and ran some swordplay into a paycheck! Just past two, Wendy's been endowed with her daddy's looks and her mom's personality—make way for Miss Movie Queen of 1960. 54

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Cornel loves yodeling, “That's no blonde, that's my wife!” She was B'way's Pat Blake, but tests for two major studios list her as P. Knight. C's okayed the plans, thinks she's ‘swell actress. by Nancy Winslow Squire An Olympic fencing champ, his ne ® Cornel Wilde came rampaging into the world, in New York City, several weeks before his surprised mother expected him; he dashed through high school in three years and finished his college course (pre- medic) in three years. He fell in love at first sight, and acted promptly—that he wasn’t married three days later can’t be charged against him, on account of marriage is a two-party system. He’s a perfectionist—a trait first revealed at the age of eight. At that tender period, having taken piano lessons for eight months, he was called upon by his teacher to participate in a recital. His older sister also was to perform. She protested bitterly. “He'll disgrace us, that’s what!” she moaned, little dream- ing that he was to be our generation’s Frederic Chopin. Cornel, a shy and bashful boy, thought this over and decided that he would render his part of the program with a perfection never before seen in one so young. When, as the youngest musician playing, he marched out on the platform, he was given a round of applause. He figured that this was recognition of his mother’s supreme (Continued on page 82) w pic, ‘Captain From Castile," will be another rogue role 4 la Doug Fairbanks, Sr. That "rest" at Palm Springs got his second play completed; the first, "Legend," hits B'way this spring.

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By Cynthia Miller There was boxing and baseball and law and while Dane Clark's not very pretty, he's smart—and very, very talented. trust their necks to Dane's hiccoughing ‘3! coupe. @ “Why the hell don’t they get an actor?” Bogey muttered. The new guy curled up inside of himself and died. This is Hollywood, he thought, where they don’t let you live. Are you good? do you stink?—they don’t wait to find out. Kick-’em-in-the-teeth, that’s their policy, what can they lose? His first break. “Action in the North At- lantic,” starring Humphrey Bogart. Every time he looked at Bogart, he’d get a level stare. Every time he came within earshot, he'd get a crack. “Where do they dig these hams up?” Every time the action took him anywhere near Bogart. he’d steel himself. waiting for the axe to fall. . One morning a fellow actor stopped him. “Bogey was raving about you at the Mocambo last night—~ “About me? Are you crazy?” “Say, you haven’t been falling for that line of his—?” The other let out a whoop. “That's how Bogey operates. It’d kill him to come out with a compliment. If he likes you he in- Dane's a perfectionist, says actors must know all phases of theater—and joined c : : 7 UCLA class in direction to prove it! (With Garfield in ‘Pride Of The Marines.’ sults you. Otherwise. he keeps his trap shut— tn

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a» =S, ~_¢ A weight watcher, he’s on buttermilk and toast. (Chat- ting with Garfield and composer Franz Waxman.) eo ie = Ba MSE With producing his aim, he's learning movie mechanics by writing a script, but his 1.Q. wor- Thig scene with DeCamp, Garfield is a ries him. "! belong to book clubs and read till dawn—but | still can't understand poetry!” personal preview—'cause Dane's 1A now. ie F GREE s Pas The new guy walked out on the set, toward Bogey. “Is that drip still | 4 around?” The new guy grinned and Bogey grinned back. The new guy felt like a colt, kicking its heels up on a fine spring day. 6 He’s no longer the new guy. He’s Dane Clark, zooming high on MODERN SCREEN’s poll, playing second lead to Bette Davis in “A Stolen Life.” When the powers turned thumbs down on his real name, Bernard Zaneville, it was Bogey in a puckish moment who dreamed up Dane Clark. My Dane’s howls of mirth turned to howls of anguish when he found himself a stuck with it. As times goes on, he grows hardened—submits to Great Dane a and Melancholy Dane without wincing too much, but thinks Say-u-Dane- So or Great Day ’n the Morning is hitting below the belt. F He’s spent most of his life using his head as a battering ram to get | through brick walls: The walls were breached. and his head survived, not 3 without scars. His hates are as cordial and staunch as his affections. He hates P the man who promised him a junior law partnership and reneged—thanks 4 heaven it happened but goes right on hating him for breaking his word. Hates the fellow who fired him from his first (Continued on page 125)

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“| shake,’ he kids, “remembering my first role in ‘Night Remembers.’ Say, d'ya think the -critics'll ever forget? DCKEYED WONDER on c

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B All high school cafeterias are noisy, and this one was no exception. Dishes rattled, kids laughed and shouted to each other across the room, some-, one was doing a jitterbug routine in the corner. So at first no one noticed the new arrival. He was a small, brown-haired lad in a private’s uni- form. He stood in the doorway a little uncertainly, and then all of a sudden there was a shriek. Two shrieks. A dozen. “It’s Lon McCallister!” A tray dropped with a crash of china. There was a wild surge toward the doorway, and Lon was escorted like visiting nobility to a table at the center of the room. Questions poured over him in a crazy wave, and he was asked to autograph everything from a bobby sock to a baked apple. Lon an- swered all the questions with the friendly, happy grin that’s the first thing you notice about him. The mob got a bit out of hand eventually, and when it was time for Lon to leave they wouldn't let him go. ? “Hey, gang,” he protested good naturedly, “I’ve got to get back to the theater. “Winged Victory’ has a matinee this afternoon.” They didn’t care about that. They wanted him to stay right there and let “Winged Victory” struggle along as best it could. It isn’t every day that a high school cafeteria gets a movie star to visit them. Finally as matinee time approached, Lon got desperate. (Continued on page 116) Lon's been a whizz at ‘shooting pool ever since grandpa gave him a miniature set when a kid. Carries autographed pic of Betty Grable. "Winged Victory" folded Apr. 20 at Richmond, Va., so Lon had a 3-day Malibu furlough. Ma's recently posted birthday cake arrived in pieces.

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on and Sgt. George Reeves (above) are both in A.A-F.'s “Report to the Nation,’ but "Winged Victory"’ was Lon's last pic till after the war. 9 07 On Cc r Those fans roar, they shriek it when Lon appears— he’s their speeial guy with his G.I. grin and pal’s hello. By Virginia Wilson

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Modem Scuws Ful Guide Black magic in this butcher linen strap top : dress 'n' jacket by McKettrick. Crease-resistant, expensive looking, it goes happily on from desk to date. By Jean Kinkead and Toussia Pines The bare look is the look fo: summer. Bare fashions from desk = to dusk, worn by Jeanne Crain date be kareena alanine sepeeegeett! 3 This double-duty honey from McKettrick takes Jeanne from city to beach. She just removes the tiny jacket—presto! a midriff play dress!

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@ There are two ways of looking in the summer: There’s the limp, disheveled look of a tired lettuce leaf, and there’s the clean. dewy look of a fresh gardenia. The first way is the line of least resistance. Ii’s the way we all could look if we let ourselves. The second way takes some doing. It’s a combination of things—a neat summer hairdo, ungooey summer make-up, the right clothes. Especially the right clothes. Choose dresses that are stark and uncluttered. Be sure that they’re washable, and that they are always whistle clean. For town clothes, for traveling clothes, try to get crease- resistant material. Always stick to cool, cool colors like lemon, lime and raspberry. Swear by chalk white; and remember that of all colors, black is the coolest to wear, the coolest to look at. We've selected these four ice-makers—all of them tubbable, all of them lovable— to do right hy you when the mercury is wa-ay up there. Black Magic: For brewing up a romance from a casual friendship, for rekindling the old stuff with the guy you married. there’s nothing like a touch of the siren. Nothing like this inspired little dress of butcher linen—black as a moonless night. There’s romance in the heart-shaped neckline, in the princess lines, in the full, graceful cut of the skirt. The tiny bolero jacket stays on for street wear, comes off for rooftop dancing, for candlelight evenings at home. Either way, it’s an exciting, important little dress that will go places and do things well into September. Of Tebilized butcher linen, it’s crease-resistant and expensive-looking, and it’s guaranteed to unbalance the beau but not the budget. Price? Just about $9. Pink scarf by Glentex—but beautiful pearls by Coro. Double Duty: Countrybound of a Friday afternoon, and you in a Jeykll-Hyde gingham that fools all of the people all of the time. At the office and on the train, you're a well-turned out career gal in a wide black and white skirt; a wee, black jacket. You're cool, trim, chaste as the Mona Lisa. At the seashore, on the farm, you doff the jacket, and there you are, bare 6f arms. bare of midriff. A sun- (Continued on page 75) ‘or fun in the sun—have this colorful, vosnable play dress by Korday. Jeanne loves the huge votch pockets, the sauared-off neckline. ay tae os Nothing's smarter under the sun than Jeanne's all-black Korday playsuit, made blacker by rows of white stitching. Plastic roses by Coro in her hair.

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64 Housekeeping woes sent the Dana Andrews (with Lona Barry, cen- ter) off to relax at Mocambo. Their just-won phone is a plug-in. Each time it rinas, the family races to With wife Jennifer Jones suing for divorce, Bob Walker's been playing | the field, with accent on Diana Lynn, who's grown § inches in a year. {At Mocombo.) MS's Louella Parsons fixed their first date. aie discover what room it's in! Junie Allyson hasn't a hat in her wardrobe! Wore first one in "Music | Millions." You'll see Barbara with Humphrey Bogart in "The Two ) Carrolls."' Linda’s busy going on tours of the town with blinded seam |

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Ingrid completely won over the kid cast of ''Bells of St. Mary" by throwing parties—and developing a terrific pitching arm! (With Coop" at a CBS show.) Nora will sue papa Flynn for divorce—Baxter- Hodiak dreams are called off—La Hepburn and Laddie miss by a mile PARSONS’ GOOD NEWS @ If you think for a minute that curly headed Shirley Temple is ac-cent-u-a-ting the dignity now she’s officially engaged, you can think again. Shirley is still just as much of a cut-up as she was before the handsome Sergeant Agar slipped the three-carat square- cut sparkler on her engagement finger. _ She came over to see me just a few days after her en- gagement was announced. She thinks John is ‘everything and more” and she’s taking on all bets that state she won't marry him at the end of two years. ‘Don’t you worry that I won't collect every cent of that cynical money,” she laughs gleefully. “I’m Dutch and thrifty!” Shirley says the news of the engagement leaked out when she attended a luncheon for 40 girls and refused to remove her glove from her left hand. ‘’The girls could see there was a ting under the glove—and they chased me all over the place until they caught me, took off the glove—and there it was! Isn't it smooth,” she said, holding out the finger with the fine sparkler glittering in the sunlight. ‘ But engaged or not—Shirley is still very much the mischievous kid and loves to talk about the gags she pulls. “I had more fun the other day,” she told me, “a girl friend and I were entertaining two boys who had just arrived from overseas. They wanted to see some stars. I breezily said, ‘Oh, I know them all,’ and showing off like mad, drove them up to Gary Cooper’s house. “T rang the bell and said, ‘I want to see my father.’ (He once played her father on the screen when she was very small.) The maid looked at me as though I were crazy and slammed the door in my face! I rang the bell again and told the girl my name and that I must use the telephone. I, don’t think she ever believed me because all the time I was talking she was guarding the house like she expected us to walk away with the furniture. “Just as we were leaving Gary's house, we were stopped by a dashing soldier who asked where Keenan Wynn lived. The officer, in case you want to know, was Jean Pierre Aumont—and so, having nothing better to do, we followed him to the Wynn home. ._"We could tell they were (Continued on page 66) 65

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Aare R a oar ————— ————————— ———— oF i | ! having a party from all the cars outside—so what did we do but walk in? Keenan was just home from the hospital and everyone was in the back yard. “The funny part of it is that no one seemed surprised that we were there. Keenan thought Mrs. Wynn had invited us—and she thought he might have extended the invitation. It was all very silly—but fun!” At the time I saw her, everyone in Holly- wood was still saddened by the death of President Roosevelt. Shirley told me about her meeting with the President when she was about eight years old. ; "Just that day my front tooth had come out and so I wasn’t doing much smiling. The President said, ‘Shirley, where are those fa- mous dimples?’ I smiled and he saw what was the matter. ‘Well,’ he said, ‘that doesn't matter. You'll get another one. I've lost a lot of teeth, too, but they aren't the variety that grow back!’ ” ™ m * You would be surprised to know the name of the actress who puts up her husband's hair in pin curls every night! Yes, he’s in the movies, too—and has such wavy hair, girls! x x * Don’t let anybody tell you that Humphrey Bogart has changed the name of his boat from "The Sluggy” (in honor of his former wite, Mayo Methot) to “Baby” (in honor of Lauren ). Yep, Bogey*and Lauren go sailing often— but it’s still “The Sluggy.” * * * Several months ago we told you that the alarmist rumors being circulated about Van Johnson were assuming serious proportions. I still can’t reveal all I know about this story—but it isn’t just an accident that almost every month or so there are “flashes” to i Too bad about Anne Baxter and John H diak. This romance is colder than an i cube. Now I hear that the man in Anne's li is her old flame, Richard Derr, now in t service. We'll see. She seems to be a la who changes her mind. * = * One of the funniest imitations I've ev heard is Betty Hutton’s take off on all thr of the Andrews Sisters singing “Rum and Cc Cola.” Betty actually sounds like the recorc and all by herself. Speaking of the little Hutton, she’s certals a subdued girl most of the time, these da There was a time when she was very mi like her screen personality. But lately. for reason anyone can uncover, she seems sive and quiet. A little “heart” trouble, Betty?

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bs THAT OLD FEELING | (Continued from page 33) hey first met under a summer moon as een-age kids and fell head over heels:in ove. In fact, ever since Tom Drake’s bright Drown eyes, silky voice and attractive male screen talents in general popped him out of ihe bottom of nowhere to the Hollywood ‘rush circle of feminine fans, he’s been »oretty much written off by the gossips as 1 mystery man and a four-F in the real ife romance department. »lue bachelor .. . Whenever anyone would corner him ind demand, “Now, give, Tom—who’s your vest girl?” he’d return a blank stare and ay innocently, “Why, nobody.” And the unny part was—he himself thought he was juoting gospel—until a certaih lonesome New Year’s Eve in Hollywood when a ieartache out of the past caught up with iim, Tom Drake was seventeen when he first aw Chris and she was just fifteen, a pert ind pretty young Irish-Dutch butterball rom the Poconos, with peaches-and-cream kin and yellow-gold hair, just like she is oday. Only then she had braces on her eeth. Tom had those same darting hazel yes, those same long lashes and~brown urls that flopped down over his eyes if he lidn’t watch out. Tom was Alfred Alder- ice, a New Rochelle boy just out of Mer- ersburg Academy, and Christopher was une e, who wanted to be an actress nd had talked her mother into letting her tart young. To show you how close they ll became from then on—June took the ame Christopher for her professional ame after Tom’s sister, Claire, named her rst baby Christopher. And later, Chris Tom’s new wife) named her little girl ‘hristopher, too. Which makes three thrises in the family now. But away ack then (around 1936) it was June and Bud,” because that’s always what Tom’s lose friends have called him. Bud and is sister Claire both were at the Reginald roode summer drama school near Pough- eepsie, N. Y., because they had the same lea Chris had then. They wanted to act. (0 it wasn’t exactly fate that put Bud and ‘ttle June Dunne in the cast of their very rst play. Practically the whole school icted in the plays. Only maybe it was fate iat played the little trick that Tom and is remember as their very first. ro- antic moment. That was when Tom slashed his hand . (ght before opening night curtain trying to tack a can of milk and the doctor umped an anti-tetanus shot into him. Well, that was okay, and he didn’t even el woozy until the second act, when all — a sudden he broke out in a mess of itchy ives that made him feel like an army of ats had invaded every item of his costume. robably what Tom Drake would do now ould be yell, “Cut!” scram off to his essing room and just scratch luxuriously, ut in those days he was Sir Galahad in seasepaint and he’d heard the show must 2 on. So he wriggled himself through 1e show miserably, but when it was over 2 rushed up to his sister’s room, peeled ) his shorts and yelled “Do something!” Chris was there and together the ama- ‘ur nurses took over poor Tom, who at iat point resembled a walking boiled to- ato. And it was at that very unromantic junc- ire, both Chris and Tom swear, that love *opped in for tea. Chris will admit she ad a desperate crush on Bud anyway’ the ‘Inute she saw the 17-year-old dream boy, ‘ae thought he was about the cutest thing \7er invented. But seeing him looking so darned, helpless—well, the first thing she “knew she was leaning over and giving him an very sweet (but lingering) good night S. All this happened right before sister Claire’s eyes and that’s the way it was from then on. One for all and all for one; Claire and Chris and Tom and the little group of Reginald Gooders who cut their acting eye teeth up in darkest Pough- keepsie. They all lived—about fifty of them ‘—in a vast boarding house, took a bus to the theater together and had their off-hour fun around the hot spots of Poughkeepsie, like coke and hamburger stands, movie houses and juke joints. They had picnics in the woods and they took moonlight rides in somebody’s jaloppy and trudged around Poughkeepsie selling tickets to the reluc- tant merchants for their colossal praduc- tions. They sat together in the audience when they were not acting and formed an applause claque and they talked at night in somebody’s room until all hours about art and the theater and what great stars they’d all be some day. They were all thicker than thieves, but Chris and Bud were something special. manhattan reunion... But it was in New York City that Tom and Chris really got serious. When their mother died suddenly to leave Tom and Claire orphans (his father had passed on earlier), they moved into Manhattan, tak- ing an old remodeled. apartment house on Riverside Drive. Their first visitor, of course, was Chris Dunne and the Pough- keepsie gang of summer stockers, all of © whom had moved on to the big. city to Mary was only a little girl. Maybe seven or eight years old at most. So when the teacher brought all those visitors to her school in Springfield to see how this “experiment in democ- racy” was working out, no one ex- pected a very good answer to their question, “Do you know what democ- racy is?” Until she piped up, flushed and sure, “Democracy is, my daddy is a Democrat, and my grand-daddy is a Republican, and I love ’em both!” “It Happened In Springfield” is a short. movie, maybe twenty minutes long. And yet in those twenty minutes is covered the whole fight America is putting up against the men with the fascist by-lines, the clever men with the hunger to split up America. They tried some of that talk on John Knudson. He was a simple man who loved the wooden Indian outside his general store, and the little children with their precious two pennies for jelly beans, a good man who couldn’t wait until his son, Bill, came home on furlough. But John never did get to meet him. Because a bunch of kids ganged up on “the dirty foreigner” and tore his store down. And- beat him unconscious. And when Bill heard about it he cried, “My father was a friend to everybody, why pick on him?” Somebody sputtered, “They’re only a gang of hoodlums, only kids, they don't know any better.” And Bill retorted, “But where did they get the idea? They didn’t cook it up themselves. This race hatred was passed on to them, deliberately and viciously, by men who knew what “IT HAPPENED IN SPRINGFIELD" pursue their art. Chris was Claire’s best friend by then, they corresponded con- stantly and she’d always say in her letters, “give my love to Bud.” So when Tom and his sister moved into town the gang, Chris included, rallied around to fix up the place. “They painted the poor old Gay Nineties house a modern white and blue and moved in their heavy Victorian furniture from New Rochelle and, while the artistic effect was pretty awful, it was their very own nest and they loved it. And somehow Chris Dunne was over there more than the others. And Tom found himself telling her about everything that happened to him and calling her on the phone every night to report every rosy prospect he could glean out of his long; dull day haunting agents’ offices and tramping up and down Broad- way looking for a job. He’ll probably never forget the first. job he landed; either—be- cause it was Chris he called first to brag expansively about it. It was Chris who’d be most thrilled at the news—Tom knew that. He rushed to a phone booth and dialed Chris. Tom was so impressed with himself at that point he could barely button his coat. But he pulled a world weary, non- chalant tone out of his diaphragm. “Hello, Chris,” greeted Tom, thought I’d call to say hello.” “Oh, hello, darling,” came back Chris, anything new?” “No,” yawned Tom, “not much. Oh, by the way, I’m starting a new show.” “What! Oh, darling, how wonderful!” “Yes,” sighed Tom in his best bored tones. “I’m working, just joined Actor’s Equity. Director said they’d been looking all over. Start rehearsals tomorrow.” Chris said she’d never been so thrilled. She said she was sooo happy for Tom. Sure he’d be a terrific hit. She was impressed to pieces and the guy glowed like neon. And so the next day he strutted down “just “cs they were doing!” Ann Carter used to buy all her school supplies from John Knudson. She liked him, just as she liked all the Johns and Isaacs and Pasquales and Patricks in the world. And liking them, she became a teacher in one of the many elementary schools op- erating on “The Springfield System.” To explain in Ann’s words, “Young children know nothing about racial hatreds. They get that sort of thing from older people. Under this method, we teach them not only the true meaning of democracy, but they learn to live it from the very beginning of their days at school.” And to prove America’s wisdom to Bill, she took him on a tour of her school. She let him meet little Mary, she showed him the classes where aliens were studying for their citizenship exams and where Mrs. Perelli was using the new word < ” in this sentence, “I pray God He make me a good Americano!” Yes, Ann Carter showed Bill the Springfield System. She was also showing him a glimpse of America as she could be. And as she will be, with your help. And yours. And yours. * x * 0 You MODERN SCREEN readers have never needed your bitter medi- cine sugar-coated, you’ve never worn rose-colored glasses to those news- reels of Tarawa and Iwo Jima and the bloody butcher camps of Ger- many. That’s why we’d like you to see “It Happened In Springfield” when it reaches your neighborhood theater. You cannot afford to miss it.

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eet ee ee - “Oh, no you're not,” replied Josie in a no-if-ands-or-buts voice. “You’re much too young.” “T'm nineteen,” began Tom. “And June’s seventeen,” pointed out Mrs. Dunne. But trouble always seems to muscle in on little private paradises like Tom and Chris had in their brave young Manhattan world. Like that song, “Together,” they’d both pretended it would never end. But it did— it always does, if you keep on doing noth- ing about it. Pretty soon the gang started to break up. Sister Claire got married and _ moved away. K. T. came back home to Hollywood and after Tom was all pepped up over a chance in the new show, “Life With Father,” and then missed it by a mile, the greener fields of Hollywood looked mighty attractive. He made plans to take a crack at Movieland with a couple of other guys who were sick of getting batted in the nose by Broadway. He wanted Chris to come along but she had a show in re- hearsal that looked good—and was for her (“Schoolhouse on the Lot” ran thirteen weeks instead of the usual fast one)—and that’s the way it went. Tom came to Holly- wood, Chris stayed in New York and absence didn’t make the hearts grow fonder. When you’re young like that with a million things to see and do and get worked up about, it’s usually a case of out of sight, out of mind—not down deep, may- be, but—anyway, things just weren’t the same with Chris and Tom after that. He landed a contract with Frank Lloyd, the Hollywood director, and even though he was twenty-one, Tom found himself playing a son of Cary Grant and Martha Scott in “The Howards of Virginia.” One day Martha asked Tom into the projection booth to see the rushes. It was the first time Bud Drake had ever seen himself on the screen and he sat bolt upright in his seat and stumbled out of the place feeling as empty as a punctured balloon. “Was—was that me?” he asked Martha. Her eyes twinkled. She’d been through the same thing long ago. “It sure is.” “Why,” marvelled Tom, “why didn’t somebody tell me? I’m skinny and ugly and white as a ghost! And worst of all, I look like I’m thirteen years old!’ “You're supposed to.” “But I'm twenty-one!” cried Tom in his agony. He hated Hollywood. By the time the Eastern snows melted he was on a plane | heading home. But it was a different New | York when he got there. Tom wouldn’t be | bothering about Broadway for one thing. | A war was cooking and Tom thought it was the Army for him. There was another difference. A big one—Chris was married. | She’d met another young actor, Michael Ames, and well—she was sure Tom must have found a girl in Hollywood, she was sure this romance was the real thing for her. The old times were gone for good. singin’ the blues... Tom stayed with Claire and her husband down in the Village and got ready for the Army. He had three physicals and before each one his friends told him goodbye and loaded him with presents. He flunked all three examinations—something wrong with his wiring or his plumbing. So he traipsed back on up Broadway one day, low as a snake in a swamp, looking for maybe some of the old gang, because he was lonesome. He had those Poughkeepsie-Tudor-City- . Blues and he could sure stand the sight of a friendly face. He tried not to think of the friendly face he’d like to see most, with its milky, rosebud cheeks and laughing blue eyes. Just any friendly face from the od bunch. Tom never found one, but hunting them around the agents’ offices, he ound something else—a job in “Janie,” it was going to be a hit and send lamorous =e Blondel! Famous Hollywood Screen Stat says: “You bet I us¢ Arrid \ J wouldn't be ee out its wonderfu protection for a mo- ent. Some people a nk it isn t tatingly shou Arrid deodoram NEW...a CREAM DEODORANT which Safely hel ps STOP wider-arm PERSPIRATIO N_ 1. Does not irritate skin. Does not rot dresses and men’s shirts. 2. Prevents under-arm odor. -Helps stop of ae perspiration safely. i A 3. A pure, white, antiseptic, stainless i vanishing cream. és iy 4. No waiting to dry. Can be used right ag, after shaving. \ 5. Arrid has been awarded the Approval | : i | Seal of the American Institute of ‘4 @ tj Laundering — harmless to fabric. Use i ee eee Arrid regularly. 3 9 g Tax (Also 59¢ size) At any store which sells toilet goods MORE MEN AND WOMEN USE ARRID THAN ANY OTHER DEODORANT

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| a little wistfully. “Why don’t you? Call her up. Here’s | her number. I just saw her,” said the guy, “a few days ago and she’s the same old Chris—looks swell.” Tom said, “You kidding? Chris is mar- ried.” “Not any more.” : In two seconds flat Tom was on the phone. He told about the party and all the kids they both knew there. He asked Chris if she had a date. She hadn’t. “Neither have I,” said Tom, “but we’ll fix both ends of that situation pronto.” So that’s when it all started up again with Tom and Chris, just as if nothing had happened in between, except that both of them were a little bit older—but not much —and Chris had a darling two-year-old baby girl named Christopher, of course, after Claire’s little girl, which suited Tom fine, because he’s crazy about kids. The funny thing was that in the more than a year that Tom and Chris were ro- mancing again around Hollywood, nobody ever knew about it. And it wasn’t as though they sneaked around like a pair of Garbos, either. steppin’ out... When Tom and Chris stepped out, it’s true, it was usually to some quiet little res- taurant like Vesuvio’s in Hollywood or the Casa di Amor, but sometimes they went dancing, too, to the Grove and other bright light spots. Maybe the reason no one ever got hep to what was going on is because Tom wasn’t exactly front page Hollywood news all that time and Christopher Dunne _ certainly wasn’t. She’d given up acting long before, so the flash bulb boys hadn’t the slightest hint that she and Tom Drake were worth a picture, even if they’d sat ringside at Mocambo and held hands right out in public. They'd have eloped sooner, if Tom had his way. He proposed so many times he couldn’t keep count, but there was al- ways something, it seemed, to keep them Happy Ironings Yuma or somewhere where the California Sf three-day gin-marriage law wasn’t work- ing. Usually it was a studio job for Tom - ; e something that wouldn’t let him get out of | of an interview, or a gallery sitting or ae And Chris, on. ine Bee fe peen Shirts of white, and shirts of blue, A sclo then by Master Linit— Bese Sande csrcer Penk ine heats Shirts of ev’ry handsome hue, “You can mix me in a minute. she’s a sensible gal and for another because Join the chorus, sing with Sunny, Best of all, it matters not : both of them remember only too well what “TLinit Starch will save you money.”’ If the water’s cold or hot. a tough time they had getting a break back in the old Broadway days. | I think the funniest fear that Chris latelied on to, though, was one she popped | not very long before they eloped—and it’s | one where Moprrn Screen (of all peo- | ple) plays the role of an anti-cupid villain, | blitzing true love right and left. Chris ; got the idea somewhere that her marriage | to Tom would be bad medicine for his new , career (yep, she does love him) and when | she found out that her true love had landed F a seventh pice on the Moprern ScrEeEN R . Popularity Poll, she was impressed, but D JRONS ia goo ny of what wedding bells would do. EvEN SA goin THE CHORUS © when Tom pleaded, as usual, “Chris, Wh wm | dear, let’s get married,” she’d argue, “But Sint IRONINGS NEVE R BORE us | / |, darling, you’re seventh on the Poll now— ane te f , and if we get married you might be twenty- y seventh!” “See how Linit keeps our collars “Then any starching that you Neat and clean as new-made please dollars. Youll do with pleasure, speed How ev’ry neckband, ev’ry cuff and ease Feels sleek and smooth and And when you iron, you'll agree ttdy) never rough.” ‘Linit is the starch for me. © Corn Products Sales Co. (| off to the wedding... * It wasn’t exactly the kind of wedding LINIT LIGHTENS | you picture Hollywood stars staging, but yew oie boob it 0 Chris and Tom Drake. LAUNDRY LABOR _ Typically Tom, he simply yawned to : ! M-G-M that he was running down to Palm a - PERFECT LAUNDR Springs for a few days. But instead, he and ; = = Chris rushed around Hollywood like ants day after they decided on the | ay . Bought a ring, plane tickets, | At all Gr ocers

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74 says Mrs. Charles Boyer— glamorous wife of the screen’s leading romantie actor MRS. CHARLES BOYER: SMART MODERN MAKE-UP is a “must” for a wife who wants to hold the screen’s leading romantic actor. Your exciting new shades in Tangee Satin- Finish Lipsticks are just what my lips were waiting for. And for super-excitement I choose that rich dark Tangee Red-Red. CONSTANCE LUFT HUN: Yes, Mrs. Boyer, my new shades in Tangee Satin- Finish Lipsticks really are going places.. . theyre going on the smartest lips in America. You'll find, also, that these heavenly colors have a perfectly delightful habit of staying on for many extra hours. There’s no run...no smear. Tangee’s exclusive Satin-Finish insures lips that are not too dry—not too moist... lips with a soft, satin-smooth radiance that works wonders for your charm...In Red-Red, Theatrical Red, Medium-Red and Tangee Natural. Use [ANGEE and see how heautiful you can be CONSTANCE LUFT HUHN Headof the House of Tangee and one of America’s fore- most authorities on beauty and make-up. and thought they’d made reservations at Las Vegas’ fanciest tavern—but nobody ever-heard of the course of true love sail- ing smoothly along, even in such an ideal a match as Chris and Tom. First off, the weather switched and their plane was grounded. “You can fly tomorrow probably,” said the airport. “Not me,” gritted Tom, “I’m leaving to- day if I have to walk,” and Chris felt that way too, once they’d made up their minds. But the train people shook their heads too, and it looked like a pair of hitchhikers over the Mojave desert for sure if love was ever to bloom. But then Peter Cookson and Maurine came to the rescue, like the old friends they were, and hauled them over the border to Nevada. They’ve only been married nine or ten years, the Cooksons, but you’d have thought they were the bride and groom, the way they carried off that sentimental mood. But at that, Tom and Chris admit, all that cooing and senti- mental sighing set the stage a bit for themselves—and it could certainly have stood a little setting. Because right off, the minute they rolled into Las Vegas they knew it wasn’t going to be all orange blossoms and flower girls for that wedding. Las Vegas is a war boom town and as wide open as a barn | door. It’s smack on the desert and the main business, outside of defense work, is gambling. There wasn’t a flower in the place, although Tom was dying to buy © Chris some gardenias, her favorite posy. When he got back to Hollywood, by the | way, a reporter asked him about the wed- — ding flowers and Tom tried to think fast. — “I gave her petunias,” he said, “Chris wore | petunias,” and he wondered about that funny look he got. But the flower shortage wasn’t half. The little chapel in the Last Frontier, Las Vegas’ | snazz hostelry, was supposed to be all | gussied up for the event, but something | went wrong. So Tom and Chris and their | wedding party ended up at a house called | “Wee Kirk of the Heather” although if | there was any kirk or any heather around it was keeping out of sight. A big sign | stretched across this place, announcing, “Complete Wedding Ceremony including everything—$12.” You couldn’t go wrong at those prices and besides it was the Wee Kirk or nothing. So in Tom and Chris pranced—in a Mendelssohn mood and for | twelve bucks it was cheap at half the price —although they had to stand in line while a 6-foot woman and a spouse half her | height got hitched (marrying is another major industry in Las Vegas) and in be-| tween ceremonies the local marryin’ Sam had to heed his wife who hollered from ‘the kitchen, “Hey, come in here and get your eggs and coffee before you marry | them folks!” And to top it off, of course, Tom couldn’t jam the ring on Chris’ finger—so she had to put it on herself! lucky omen... Tom and the new Mrs. did Las Vegas up brown after Peter and Maurine startec back home. M-G-M thought Drake was in Palm Springs and no local Las Vegas news hawk guessed that Alfred Alderdice (Tom used his real name) and June Dunne were anybody worth looking at twice. Sc they had their honeymoon alone together They visited all the cafes and the house: of chance in Las Vegas, and it was before the curfew so that meant all night, all ove: town, dollars clinking, wheels spinning dice clicking. At the spots—Last Frontier El Rancho Vegas and all of them—Tom anc Chris: made merry, and Tom ran smacl into a good omen that their marriage wa going to be loaded with luck. . He walked up to the first roulette table ee |

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; “How do you play this game?” he asked. er | The croupier did a take—here was a nice | be , mail = F | fat pigeon who didn’t even know the rules. | f | He explained them patiently. The easiest pe A | way was to play the red or black. “Oh, I ao aed see,” said Tom, plunking down 150 bucks on the red. The wheel spun. Red! j tf eee ane Gl fai Bee while me house aa muttered. g a mou [- hathe your d if That happened five times the wedding like gorqeous win. He couldn’t lose. He put his arm around Chris and they walked out the OW [Ss 0 eC S last lurid play palace door and strolled : under the stars up the lane to Ye Way- : side Inne. Then at last Tom Drake knew why he felt like he did—walking on air, right on top of the world, loaded with luck. They opened the door and he squeezed her hand, the familiar hand of familiar Chris that ‘now wore his wedding ring. Tom knew it would always be like this -In everything from now on—as long as he had Chris by his side, holding his hand. M. S. FASHION GUIDE (Continued from page 63) worshiping sprite who never fought tooth and nail for a subway seat, never soiled _ hands on a typewriter ribbon. You'll en- chant the commuters in your fitted butcher linen jacket, captivate the farmer’s boy with your brief cap sleeves, pert gingham bow. Can you possibly miss in this darling McKettrick? It’s a gift at about $7. Bareback: Here’s that heavenly, once- in-a-lifetime item—a dress that you whip on at 8 am and that still looks like a cool million at 8 pm. It’s a dress for gardening, . : | for marketing, for playing. Practical as red ary flannel, alluring as black lace. Another \ ee Korday honey, it features an irresistible \4 \ | strap neckline, a pair of out-sized patch . : S I et errencoment that | A Be Steel nd nad dae | whittles your waistline. It comes in a ata Penman Aare te Oe eT eee , Crown Soap ’n’ Water Fabric_in a good- AOE IEE SAM? looking black and white print on raspberry What Powers Models say about Krem! 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m Did you ever see a dream walking? That, my lassies, is the point of this quiz that wants to know so much about é 2 your pedestals . . . your slim Grable-like legs and trim, Want twinkling high-arched feet that twinkle like Hayworth’s. There are ten queries . . . ten points for each. You'll be stepping handsomely if you rate 90 or higher. An average mark is 80. If you fall below that, you're a disgrace to the Exalted Order of MopERN SCREEN Beauties. Pun or no pun, to the foot of the class with you! toes and smooth, tanned legs? Then work 1. ARE YOU ROUGH WITH YOUR PEDESTALS? out this Beauty Dept. quiz! You should be. When soaping them (a special granulated foot soap is extra nice) give legs and feet a circulation _ treatment with a stiff-bristled brush. When the exhilarat- - - - by Carol Carter A / ing scrub is over, dry thoroughly with a flourish of your {Turkish towel. Thoroughly, you'll remember? This fe rough treatment banishes all scaliness. —— A fy 2 ARE YOU GENTLE WITH YOUR PEDESTALS? | j re You should be! Legs must be smooth as Turhan Bey’s Fee ] line. They will be if, after every scrubbing, you pamper | them with a creamy lotion. Your pet hand lotion will do the trick neatly. A dusting of foot powder to follow, and feet will slide, cool and comfortable, into your new wedgies. Besides eliminating odor, foot powder helps to absorb perspiration and prevent shoe friction. Your usual bath powder will not do the same work, so don't expect it to. 3. ARE LEGS FUZZ-FREE? There’s no excuse for the slightest patch of unwanted hair with today’s scrumptious, easy-to-use depilatories. There are also some pretty wonderful abrasive gadgets for a leg-smoothing job. Whatever your pet, use it regularly so that the keenest (Continued on page 79) Super-smooth are her toes and legs, so Joan ("Rhapsody in Blue") Leslie is 76 practically floating on the clouds!

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MEMO ON JUNE (Continued from page 43) Got that straight? There is no feud, there has never been, and there will never be. Moreover, don’t expect to see any rumors of feuding between June and Betty because, when preliminary tests were be- ing made for “The Dolly Sisters,’ June broached the subject bravely. “Because this is my first picture with you, because we're both blondes and both dancers, and because I’m new and your're established,” she said to Betty, “some bright brain might get the idea that there might be some jealousy between us. Let’s not let it happen, huh?” BIS SIS: a0. “You’re my sis in the picture, and my sis in the commissary or wherever I see you from now on,” agreed Betty. The first day of shooting, Betty shouted at June when she came on the set, “Hi, Sis—glad to see you.” And that is the attitude that has prevailed. Item 2: It has been published here and there that June is engaged to Farley Granger. ‘Tisn’t true. They are good friends; they exchange letters regularly; if Farley were here they would undoubtedly be dating frequently. But Farley is a long way away (in Honolulu) and this will probably be a long war. June wants it understood that, much as she likes and admires Farley, there is no formal under- standing between them. x Item 3: June has a new house, a dream department, that is taking up every pos- sible spare moment of her time. No, this isn’t the house she thought she had bought in a Wilshire district lane amid a settlement of elegant, but rather austere mansions. There is a story about that original purchase that failed, investing the Haver honey with some theories about one’s not getting the thing one thinks she wants most of all. Take the instance of her car. One night she, her mother and her sisters, were tour- ing the town’s used car lots. On an ap- parently deserted lot they found exactly what June had been seeking: A low-slung blue convertible with radio built in, plenty of pre-war chromium trim, and fairly new white side-wall tires. “That’s for me,” she jubilated, sliding under the wheel. The next morning, as soon as she im- agined the proprietor of the car lot would be in attendance, June and her family rushed down. They arrived in time to see another lucky customer driving away in the blue blaze. But, a few weeks later, June found her present car, newer, neater, a hotter job on every count. “Everything happens for the best,’ she confided sagely. _ To get back to the Haver housing situation, after having made all the ar- rangements to buy this Wilshire place, June learned that a series of legal documents forbade the purchase. The woman seeking to sell the house could not do so as her title wasn’t clear. But June had planned a cireus playroom and had bought a dozen clever accessories; she had told everyone about her plans and had driven past the address whenever she had time and gas. So instead of being floored by the disap- pointing news that she couldn’t buy this property, June and her family began to devote Sundays to finding another home. . And, as reward for their patience, they finally located a Colonial house in Cheviot Hills—not far from the studio—that could ‘be had reasonably. ; The lower floor consists of a living room, dining room, kitchen, breakfast room and tmaid’s quarters, a formal entrance hall distinguished by a romantic stairway (“I’ll walk down that when I get married,” June bubbled to her mother), and a library. Upstairs there are three bedrooms and three baths. June is buying the vacant lot next door ~and on that will have constructed a swim- ming pool and an outdoors playroom, the decorating motif of which will be music. In a shadow box she is going to have a miniature orchestra that—when agitated by an electrical current—will appear to play a recording. The coffee table is to be a discarded bass viol, fitted with legs and planted in the middle. June’s room has pale blue walls, a huge blue tufted headboard bed, and a dark blue rug; her dressing room has cupboards for hats, shoes, coats and dresses, and there is a mirror arrangement that will reflect June in triplicate. Her bath, even the tile, is pink. So far her favorite room is the breakfast nook because it is papered with red straw- berry decorations, and the kitchen is done in red and white. Everywhere in the house the inquisitive guest will find music boxes that June has collected: There will be that green leather box playing “When Irish Eyes Are Smil- ing” that was sent by a fan after the pic- ture of the same name was released. She also owns a yellow china friar who plays the Illinois loyalty song, as well as several powder boxes that sing when the lids are removed, and a little gold grand piano. At no time will there ever be a shortage of guests among the happy Havers. For example: A few weeks ago, a stationer friend of June’s (who had printed her name on a huge box of pink stationery, then displayed it in his window) tele- phoned to say that three returned service men, taking a day off from the hospital, had noticed the stationery, entered the shop, and asked if the man knew June. When he said that he did, they asked if he would telephone June and ask her to allow them to visit her. June said that afternoon would be great. When the bell rang around two o'clock, she opened the door—not to the original three—but to thirty-five men! music @ la carte... They trooped into the living room, sat on lounges, on tables and on the floor. “Play for us,” they said, so June gave them an energetic hour of music. Then everyone adjourned to the yard and spent nearly two hours taking pictures. June changed clothes twice to give them three different poses, one in slacks, one in the dress she had been wearing when the delegation arrived, and one in a bathing suit. The boys had a glorious time, June had ditto, and so did her mother and two sisters, who swore afterward that when the gang left the living room it looked like a Disney short in which a platoon of Mickeys trailed out of a toy-town cab. You can see why June needs a big house; she intends to have walking wounded from all the nearby hospitals as frequent guests. News of this sort naturally gets around, which fact explains the couplet recently received in a fan letter from the ‘South Pacific: Others may hanker for spring, winter or fall, But I call 12 months of June the best year of all. 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Say, how do you like our new style? Now, all you do is flip your glance to the beginning of each paragraph, and there you have, in big, black letters, the object of your current musical affections, with much straight-from-the-horse’s mouth chit chat about sundry performances and people sandwiched in between. And by the by, we’ve whipped up a list at the end of the article that should make you the gladsome object Kitty Kallen and Leonard F. swap Armenian vittles at H'wood's Haromar Restaurant. of any music clerk’s heart. ’Cause all you do now is tear it out, tote it to the nearest disc shoppe and say, “T'll take one o' dem and one o' dem and one o dose.” The gang will yell, “Super!” Okay? Okay.—THE Epitors. ee ks: BY LEONARD FEATHER @ Well, here’s another month, and we’re off again with some really great rec- ords—guaranteed to make your blood pressure leave your tired old body six miles back in the road. But who cares about a body, long as you've got a soul? In which prayerful mood, we give you, first off: YAH-TA-TA YAH-TA-TA (Talk, Talk, Talk)—This is a novelty that won't stay novel for too long. Bing’s done it with Judy Garland for Decca, the King Sisters have waxed it with Freddy Martin for Vic- tor, and Harry James has given it a going-over on Columbia. Harry’s the boy who’s mar- ried to Betty Grable, as you may have heard, and instead of retiring, as youd expect, he goes on making money. He just bought a piece of a Sac- ramento ball team, and that'll probably complicate his in- come tax some more. Incidentally, there’s a re- issue of “Shoe Shiner’s Drag” with Harry playing side man out now in the Victor Album called simply: LIONEL HAMPTON—And this is really a terrific thing. The Shoe Shine number was made when Lionel and Harry were both with Benny Goodman and if you listen real close, you can pick out Benny Carter on it. Dave Matthews, too. Dave used to be James’ arranger (Continued on page 97)

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and was hot on records, too, he was inter- viewed over the air. His quizzer asked Bing what he wanted out of life. Said Bing wist- fully, “Why, I guess I want what everybody wants—steady work and security for my- self and my family. But I’m not kidding myself. That’s a crazy pipe dream for a song hustler like me.” And that amazed, slightly guilty, when- will-they-get-wise to me? theme still lards Bing’s thinking. One reason Bing feels that way is be- eause for him things are so absurdly easy. He creates without birth pangs, an artist without agony. He has no more nerves than a possum; he has never even been seriously sick a day in his life. Nothing bothers -him—not even Sinatra. When Bob Hope first heard Frankie sing in a New York night club and called Bing long distance in the middle of the night to rib him with—‘“I’m bringing a kid to Holly- wood who'll make you go to work!” Bing laughed sleepily back into the receiver, . “Hurry up—I’m getting fat and lazy.” One Sunday morning a few weeks ago, Bing called up Bob disgustingly early and suggested a game of golf. Bob was mo- mentarily speechless with surprise. He knew what Bing had done that week— recorded all his songs for “The Bells of St. Mary,” waxed two new Decca records, acted every-day at Paramount until night- fall, knocked off a Command Performance with Bob for GIs overseas besides his regular Thursday night Kraft broadcast. In addition, he had checked up on his Del Mar War plant and staged an army camp show 500 miles from Hollywood. “Go back to bed, Merry Sunshine,” growled Hope at last, “and restore your tissues. I wouldn’t pick on a dying man.” But Bing pestered Bob out on the Lake- side course and proceeded to wipe up the links with him. He was fresh as a daisy. Bing has the reputation for being the laziest man in Hollywood. Bing is lazy like a bee in blossom time. But the false impression is understandable. He makes work look like play—and for Bing Crosby that’s actually what it is. And always has been. A boyhood friend of Bing’s who knew Bing away back when, told me, “Bing Crosby doesn’t deserve one bit of credit for his success, silly as that sounds.. He couldn’t help it. He couldn’t miss. He was a natural, right from the start and that’s what he is today!” Another word is genius, or, as the Irish say—‘sure the bhoy has a gift.” For that Bing Crosby has indeed, the golden gift of the Irish— and that’s not too strange, considering that Harry Lillis Crosby is as Irish as Paddy’s pig. blarneyin’ son o' erin... When occasionally today Bing lets him- self go with the rollicking lyrics, “H-A-uh- dooble-uh-R-I—G-A-N spells Harrigan— “Proud of all the Irish blood that’s in me— “Divil the man can say a word agin me— —he’s not just loosening up his tonsils. Bing’s mother was Kate Harrigan, whose folks came from County Mayo in the Ould Sod. They settled in Minnesota and a lot of them cut their livings from the dark forests as lumbermen. But Bing’s grandfather Harrigan was a plumber by trade and he migrated West to the Coast to make his fortune. The Crosbys came from Erin and Eng- land, too, but farther back, because the legend around the State of Maine is that the first American Crosbys came over on the Mayflower; way back yonder, Bing’s Yankee ancestors were mostiy salty old skippers from the rocky shores who sailed _ their clipper ships around the stormy Horn ONE MOTHER TO ANOTHER Someone asked me why we call the Gerber baby "America's Best—Knowm Baby". 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Other Crosbys were Forty-Niners who invaded California for the gold rush, as Bing him- self did later on—but in a very different way. Not long ago, Bing was called up to his home state of Washington to christen a Liberty ship, the S. S. Nathaniel Crosby named after a hardy forebear of those rugged rigging days. Bing’s dad, Harry Crosby, was born in Washington and there he met his wife, Kate. They were living in Tacoma by the time Harry, Jr., came along, and being good Catholics, had already started a big family, a cireum- stance which made Bing Crosby’s first ap- pearance in this world a definite flop. That historic event occurred the rainy morning of May 2, 1902, in a small, white, wooden cottage on North Jay Street in Tacoma. Bing was a flop because he was a disappointment. The Crosbys wanted a girl. That was understandable, because all three other children were boys, Larry, Everett and Ted, although later, the next two children were Bing’s sisters, Catherine and Mary Rose. The most disappointed member of the family, perhaps, was Papa Harry Crosby. He had had his heart set on a little Crosby colleen. It was hard ‘to disguise his disappointment as he walked out of the bedroom into the parlor, his wife’s voice calling after him, “We'll call him ‘Harry,’ dear,” she said. That would take out some of the disap- pointment, to have a son carry on his own name. So the Cresby babe became Harry Crosby middle name Lillis, after a family name in Kate Harrigan’s line. pretty boy toughie... Bing was a good looking—almost pretty kid—from the start. Maybe his father’s wish for a girl had something to do with the peaches and cream complexion, the gold-brown hair with a little wave in it, the even, pearly teeth and the enormous china-blue eyes that grew up to roll soul- fully around the Cocoanut Grove and make the flappers of the early Thirties swoon. From the start, too, Bing was a -chunky, almost roly poly youngster, soft looking, far from tough. All this added up very soon to the most deceptive kid in Spokane. Beeause while Bing looked like a mama’s pretty boy (except maybe for his always generous ears) that was just one of nature’s come-ons. Later on, num- berless pugnacious moppets, sensing a soft touch, found themselves wiping their bloody noses and running home in tears with a very different impression. Bing Crosby always calls Spokane, Wash- ington, his home town, rather than Ta- coma. He was five when Harry Crosby, who worked as an auditor in the county treasurer’s office at Tacoma, landed a better job over in Spokane as bookkeeper for a big brewery. Harry, Sr., could use a good job by then. He had a family of six kids on his hands to feed. Because by then Catherine was three and Mary Rose a baby in Kate Crosby’s arms. evolution of a name... So one hot, dusty July day the Crosbys left the little white cottage on North Jay Street to ride a day coach clear across the state to Spokane. Harry Crosby had gone ahead and found a two-storied yellow house on Sinto Avenue on the north side of the Spokane River which bisected the town. Only three blocks away was Web- ster grade school and not much farther the Jesuit college of St. Aloysius of Gon- zaga. The convent of the Holy Name wasn’t very far, either. Kate Crosby noted this “> SS “ae >. = 5 and approved. The Jesuits were famous. teachers. Her boys and girls could get a good, thorough Catholic education right at their own doorstep. What impressed Bing were the school baseball diamonds, football fields, the long pond at McGold- erick’s sawmill nearby and the dangerously thrilling invitation of the swift Spokane River. Also, the flocks of kids his age in the neighborhood—regular kids with good Irish names like his own—Ralph Foley, Bill Kelly, Johnny and Mike Dunne, Phil Sweeney and Frank Corkery. He teamed up with the gang at once. Bing got along swell with other kids. He hadn’t been in the neighborhood a month before he got the nickname that he was to carry the rest of his life. The Spokane paper had a Sunday feature called “The Bingville Bugle” which laid young Harry right in the aisles. It became his favorite reading matter and he lugged it along in the hip pocket of his corduroy knickers wherever he went. The kids began to call him “Bingo from Bingville” and one day a freckle-faced moppet showed up at Kate Crosby’s back door. “Kin Bingo come out and play?” “Who?” “Bingo—I mean Harry.” “No—” snapped Mrs. Crosby. busy with his chores. ‘Bingo’ —it’s Harry. you call him that.” “Yes, ma’am,” agreed the kid, edging away. “Well, you tell Bingo that Mike was here.” “Bingo” was soon trimmed down to Bing and it stuck. All his family adopted it— except Kate Crosby. To her, Bing is still Harry and ever will be, and Bing doesn’t mind. But if anyone else calls him that, they’d better smile. There’s another story about how Bing got his name. That in playing cowboy and Indians, he’d go around pointing his wooden six-shooter and shouting “Bing! Bing.” Either way, Bing lived up to his nick- name. He was full of bounce, absolutely fearless and full of confidence. One hot summer vacation day the gang was lousing idly around the barn saloon when somebody got the idea of cooling off with a swim in the river. That was strictly forbidden by all the kids’ parents. The Spokane was treacherous and deep, es- pecially around McGolderick’s mill, where Bing and his mob knew the older boys, including Brother Everett, were already diving and splashing luxuriously. The more they talked, the more deliciously tempting the swim loomed. “Nuts, let’s go!” said Bing. He led the race down to where the older kids were swimming. Ev told Bing to go home. Bing ignored him, calmly peeled off his shirt and pants and, to his brother’s horror, jumped in the icy waters. Ev knew what Bing knew and the rest of the kids didn’t. His brother Bing couldn’t swim a lick! “Harry’s His name’s not It's a nice name and water and ducks’ backs... He dove in after him, swearing at what he knew his mother would do to him when he brought little brother Bing, half drowned, home. To his surprise, he couldn't catch his little brother. Bing took to the water like a duckling. Thresh- ing and splashing noisily, he was still actu- ally swimming, out into the deep water, too. Pretty soon he was back on the sand- bar lying nonchalantly in the sun. The gang never did know that Bing had never stayed afloat before in his life. Ev was too amazed to say anything. As usual, he could do anything he wanted to and right away he was good. It was the same way with his first scrap, which was the mere matter of knocking the stuffings out of the town bully for jeering “Fatty!” (Continued on page 89) : 4

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See ee Lf at baby sister Mary Rose. That fistic affair handed Bing quite a school rep as a battler which started a long series of challenges and after-school bouts, and while he was never invincible or anything like that, he was a terrific scrapper forever aiter—which came in handy in his early crooner days when some indiscreet males tagged him for a cream puff—although he never gave box- ing a serious thought. It was just hi meat—as was everything else—except lady killing—and at that Handsome Harry got a pretty low mark at first. Her name was Helen Lemon, a glamor- pus new girl at Webster, who dazzled Bing with her fluffy golden ringlets and baby doll beauty. He bent his big eyes worship- fully on her all day long in class. And tagged along home with her after school even though the outraged and forsaken gang of Kellys, Foleys, Corkerys and Dunnes peppered him with jeers and cat- ealls. When Helen invited Bing to his first big social soiree, her birthday party, he was in Seventh Heaven. He kept the news to himself as long as he could, but it was impossible to keep secrets around the Crosby clan. Goldfish had more privacy than a Crosby kid. Brothers Everett, Larry and Ted found eut about Helen Lemon in nothing flat. “Makes you a Lemon-squeezer, Bing,” drawled Larry. “Ha-ha.” “Stop that,” colored Bing miserably, “or Tl punch your teeth in!” But his rage was futile. Both Ev and Larry were too big for that threat to work and he knew it. They passed on their gag to the gang and “Lemon-Squeezer!” jeers brought Bing agony for days and a flock of fistfights. However, it wasn’t ridicule that broke up the romance. It was just plain discomfort. Bing had always hated uncomfortable dress-up clothes, (and he’s no better to- day as his failing for sloppy sports clothes shows only too plainly.) For Helen’s party his proud mother togged him out in a new suit, tight shoes and a high stiff collar. At the party, even Helen’s party dress glamor, ice cream and fancy favors left Bing cold under the torture of his unaccustomed finery. Next day after school he circled clear around the block to avoid Helen, and hustled on down to MacGowan’s barn and the gang. Chivalry had taken a beating. Bing failed to improve as a cavalier as he grew into his teens. More and more he became a man’s man. He played center on the “Sinto Athletic Club” sandlot team and third base on the Webster baseball nine. And from the time he plunged calmly into the Spokane river, he lived all summer in the water like a fish, and when the city opened the new Sinto public pool and play- ground a few blocks from Crosby’s, Bing practically lived there. But he was bashful about his talents. He hated to show off. medal copper... One day a swimming tournament at Sinto was announced in the paper and Bing, backed by the whole Crosby clan, waltzed away with eleven medals, nine first places and two seconds. It was a breeze. He still hadn’t taken a lesson. But it wasn’t all play and fun for the boy Bing—not by a long sight. Pop Crosby fed and clothed them and kept them in school, but from kidhood on they had to make their own pocket money and later, their own tuition at Gonzaga. A family of eight hungry, healthy mouths is no easy supply problem for an auditor and rosby had his business ups and downs. The manufacturing plant failed and he got a job bookkeeping in a brewery. That later turned into a pickle factory and today whenever Bing Crosby strikes a sour note or feels a bit blue, he'll say, “Well, I _ guess it’s back to the pickle works for me!” All the Crosby boys had to hustle. Larry clerked in a drug store in his off school hours. Ted ran telegrams. On top of his household chores—mowing the lawn, fill- ing the wood box and helping his mother clean house—Bing raised chickens in the back yard and sold eggs to the neighbors. Spokane was the center of Washington’s “Inland Empire,” the best apple country in America, and all the Crosby kids raced out to the orchards to pick apples in the harvest season. Mining and lumbering made up the rest of the “Empire’s” wealth and the Crosbys tried their hand at lum- berjacking, too. axe at a tree and hit his own leg. fun pays off... But somehow, Bing managed to blend | his sporting with his business interests. He liked the Mission pool, so when his swim- | ming craze was at its peak he wangled the | job of locker boy there. Then he got golf happy and caddied at the country club, making money and qualifying to play free on Monday, caddy’s day, with some golf clubs he’d talked the members out of. When he was only a kid, Bing could drive, pitch and putt with the best of them. To- day, of course, Bing’s the best amateur | golfer in the film colony, the three times | champ of Lakeside Club and his links exhibitions with Bob Hope, Weissmuller and various top-hole pros have coined thousands for various war charities. The job Bing hated worst of all in his kiddie hustling days was his paper route. He hated getting up at four am. in all weather to toss the rolls around at his neighbors’ doors, so to cheer himself he sang and whistled as he pedalled his bike around. Sometimes that brought com- plaints. More than one irate neighbor stalked over to Harry Crosby’s and banged | on the door, red-eyed and angry. “For heaven’s sake, Crosby,” they’d shout | at Papa Harry, “tell that damn kid of | yours to stop that infernal bellowing at all hours!” i But Bing couldn’t stop. Because a short time before something had happened that made his head spin with new melodies. One day Harry Crosby came home heav- ing a mysterious square package. “Fellow at the office I’ve done some favors for gave this to me,” he said. He cranked up the | victrola and put on a record. “The Merry Widow Waltz” filled the room. Then “The | Stars and Stripes Forever March.” From then on the vietrola played from morn ‘til night—especially if Bing was home. All the Crosbys were naturally musical, and Sunday night was the family sing | night. Harry, Sr., still had a mandolin pre- served from his reckless youth and he plinked away on that. who always bothered Bing with her monot- onous piano practice, accompanied on the ivories. Everybody sang. Old timers, usu- | ally—even “Sweet Adeline” although the | Crosby clambakes were strictly dry. Kate | Crosby had no use for the demon “crea- ture” whatever. No Crosby—male, female, child or adult—smoked or drank in her house. Pop had to keep a bit of a nip stashed in a shoe somewhere if he wanted any—and he still does. No Crosby son, al- though all are well grown up now, takes a drink or even smokes in Kate Crosby’s house today. Bing rallied around for these family chorals, but it was down at the Sinto Athletic Club in the barn that he sopped up a different kind of music. Buck Wil- liams’ pop had the new Columbia phono- graph agency in Spokane and he'd brought a machine out to Buck, along with some records. A lot of Hawaiian tunes and some of those snappy new jazz bands, like the Bing spent one whole | vacation from Gonzaga later on lumber- | jacking in the woods, until he swung an | Sister Catherine, | \ aN WS PERMANENT WAVE Complete Home Kit PLUS TAX NOTHING ELSE TO BUY oof FOR EVERY TYPE OF HAIR JUNE LANG Glamorous Hollywood Movie Stor Praises Chorm-Kurl. Now, thrill to the joy of a cool, machineless permanent wave. Do it yourself at home the Charm-Kurl way. Requires no heat, no electricity, no previous hair waving experience. 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Funnies too, like “Cohen on the Telephone” and “No News, or What Killed the Dog.” They sent Bing and his pals rolling on the floor with their antiquated comic gags. But there was a more serious educational side coming up for Bing after he gradu- ated from Webster High. Already Larry and Everett were in Gonzaga University and Ted was in the high school division. By now the Crosbys had moved from the yellow Sinto house to an ambitious nine- room tub-bathroom place they’d built, and automatically, Bing enrolled in Gonzaga. Kate Crosby had always had a sharp lookout for her boys’ spiritual upbringing. Living as near as they did to Gonzaga’s great church with its many altars, a Crosby was usually serving one as altar boy. But it wasn’t only devotion to their faith that landed every Crosby boy in Gonzaga. The Jesuits were exacting teachers. And the Jesuit fathers saw to it that the cocky Crosby kids got some education pounded into their skulls, whether they liked it or not. Bing arrived at Gonzaga interested mainly in making the Junior baseball and football teams. Husky big brother Ev was already on the Gonzaga varsity. The first day Bing met Father Kennelly, “Big Jim” the boys all called him, a mam- moth 300-pounder who always swung a great bunch of keys from a chain at his belt. Big Jim welcomed Bing and Buck Williams and Phil Sweeney to Gonzaga and then asked them genially what they hoped to get out of the school. brain vs. brawn... “Oh,” cracked Bing. “Some baseball and maybe a little football, I guess.” Father Kennelly fingered his key chain, he let Bing expand on his one-track scho- lastic ambitions and then smote him a mighty lick with the keys. ‘Ts that so?” roared Big Jim as Bing tottered back, drop-jawed. “It’s not for play you’re coming to Gonzaga, me lad! It’s learnin’—and don’t ye forget that!” Bing didn’t. Nor did he ever forget Father Kennelly and his swinging keys. Not in the light of a menace but with af- fection and gratitude for a million efforts to make him a scholar and gentleman. With his usual ease, Bing made the Junior basketball, football (although he was light) and the baseball (although he was short) teams—and later the Varsity squad at that, but still he got a respectable kick when Father Kennelly patted him on the back and told him his grades were excellent. As usual, even lessons came easy. He could skim through a text book and absord it like blotting paper; his mem- ory was photographic and he was glib as a side-show spieler. The elegance of Bing’s vocabulary— well known over the radio by now—is not, as most people believe, entirely due to his various radio script writers, notably Car- roll Carroll, who for years ground out Bing’s nifties on the Kraft Music Hall. No scribbling ghost has ever put many words into Bing’s mouth. When they do they find them soon twisted a la Crosby. Once Father Kennelly bawled him out about a temporary lag in chemistry and told him he’d have to improve. “Well, Father,” replied Bing airily, “there’s no use of both of us worrying about it!” The keys swished dangerously past as Bing ducked. The first World War took Bing’s mind temporarily off his pleasantly distant pro- fessional career. He was too young, of course, to go but Ev joined the cavalry and Larry went off to officers’ training. at sixteen, the senior members of the Crosby clan. There was no one around to slap him down. Freed of big brother re- straint, Bing began to feel his oats. Bing’s war effort in 1917-18 wasn’t im- pressive, but he did what a kid could. He joined an R.O.T.C. unit at Gonzaga, can- vassed for the Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives around Spokane. But mainly, he took up the job of helping out the family finances, with Ev and Larry gone. With all his activities at Gonzaga, Bing still had to work. He tossed packages and mail bags around the postoffice during the Christmas holidays. And he sweated out a janitor’s job at the Loggers Club, down in tough “skid row” on the seamy side of Spokane. Bing had to get there by five o’clock in the morning—and it was clear across town— have the place cleaned up by seven, then high-tail it out home, breakfast and on to school. But he never beefed. It paid a buck a day and that was fair money for a school kid then. When that gave out he drove a grocery truck. But Bing managed to blossom out in spite of this rugged life. Adolescence was creep- up on Kid Crosby and—funny—the fillies didn’t look nearly so bad as they used to. Bing started smoking Piedmonts and Melachrinos on the sly.. He saved up for his first long pants suit. Bing’s idea of red hot night life was the dance pavilion at Newman Lake, where a four-piece band ragged out solid numbers like “Smiles,” “Dardanella” and “How Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm?” He learned to two-step, one-step and fox-trot and some- times he even danced, but usually he and his pals just hung around the stand and watched the sax, piano, fiddle and drums. At that time, as now, Bing couldn’t read music. He couldn’t play any instrument —as he still can’t. Once, after the Buck Williams phonograph arrival at the “club,” there’d been plans to get up a jazz band and then all Bing could think of to play was the drums. But he didn’t have a set and nobody else had anything so the or- chestra deal flopped. By now, though, Bing had managed to team with some of his Gonzaga classmates into a harmony quartet. He sang baritone—he had an ear for harmony even if he didn’t know one note from the other—and the usual gallery was the convent girls at Holy Name who hung out the window until the Mother Superior passed. Bing and his pals started tossing victrola dances Saturday nights at various kids’ houses, too, and inviting the girls. As usual, Bing was glib and snappy with his dance partners. They called him “cute,” but he never settled on any steady date. He had too many other interests. The war was over, it seemed, almost as (Continued on page 92) | SAW IT HAPPEN When Gloria Jean recently appeared at the Capitol Theater, she dedicated her last song, ‘‘The Lord’s Prayer,’ to~ the “Angels of Mer- cy,’ the Red Cross nurses. I was sitting very close to the stage Peas and as Gloria Jean sang the lovely strains of the song, there were tears glistening in her eyes. The audience was so quiet that you could have heard a pin drop. I am sure that Gloria Jean made the nicest dedication that a nurse could receive. Lexie Fields New York, N. Y.

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a De | ® | soon as it started and Everett and Larry ies T d BR | were back home—and broke. They had heodora Roosevelt a tough time finding jobs, but finally Larry landed one teaching high school and re- porting nights on the newspaper, and Ev Like her famous grandfather, Theodore Roosevelt, charming left home for Portland where he said he young Theodora Roosevelt loves action .. . travel .. . and hard work. then; too, Bing oes ike eee ae An accomplished ballet dancer, she has a slight, exquisite figure . . . Se se SESS cae hair and eyes of wonderful rich amber. “T’m always in a rush,” because he ae liked to scrap — i : 5 Steed But Bing didn’t want to spend that sum- | Theodora says. “So the 1-Minute Mask of Pond’s Vanishing Cream mer, as ae fade see in Spokane. 4 B= . . ° He would start college at Gonzaga that i is an ideal complexion pick-up for me. It does such a marvelously fall and before he dug into law books (be- ! quick job of smoothing and freshening up my skin!” cause that was still his plan), Bing wanted ; to see the world and have some adventure. ~ With his pal, Buck, Bing answered a farm help wanted ad and worked a few weeks near the town of Cheney. But they were both just kids and the ranch work was tough. They soon quit and hopped _ a freight, on Bing’s inspiration, to Port- land where Ev had his “good job.” Only when Bing arrived he discovered that big brother was indulging in a little amateur bootlegging, a popular pursuit in the Pro- hibition days of ex-GIs who didn’t like the idea of having been voted out of their fun while they were away. Bing promptly spoiled Ev’s set-up, though, by skipping a Chinese restaurant check one night and ~ getting the cops after him. They came to Everett’s hotel room on the trail of Bing— and uncovered Ev’s illegal racket, too. That night the Black Maria hauled Buck, Bing, and his very disgusted big brother down to the Portland cooler. Relatives had to bail them out. Later on in Holly- wood, Bing was to sample under pressure that city’s hospitality, too. But he never | did like it. Bing wound up his summer’s | Odyssey lumberjacking in the forests of | Washington’s Olympic Peninsula—until | he almost wrecked his knee with an axe. By fall, he was back in Spokane and ready | to settle down in school with his law books. | He’d seen and done plenty and he felt grown up as all Hell. In many ways, too, | Bing was. He'd slimmed out, his face was | longer, his jaw leaner. His voice was | deeper too, the nasal business was gone. common bonds... Things were different at Gonzaga. Bing’s - gang had busted up. Some of the old “club” kids Bing had grown up with had quit to take jobs. Others had left town. A couple dedicated themselves to the Catholic priesthood. Bing made new friends. Their common denominator of Theodora Roosevelt has a 1-Minute Mask 3 or 4 times weekly friendship seemed to be music. There was Art Dugan, who collected a crowd around him over at the Gym when he sat ay = Re-style” your face to smocther, fresher beauty down at the piano there and started i thumping it. Bing found himself drift- i Spread a cool, refreshing coat of Pond’s Vanishing Cream all over your ing over that way and letting go with i : : ; the vocal when Art broke into something | face. Use generous white fingerfuls, covering your chin, cheeks, he knew. One day Art eyeduhinrqnizn= forehead, nose—everything except your eyes. cally. “Say, kid,” he said, “you’re pretty good, you know it?” “So’s your old man,” grinned Bing. But he got to hustling over there every time he heard the tinkle of Art’s keys and pretty soon the kids clustered around would ask him to sing this and that. Bing wasn’t bashful—he isn’t today. As much of a beating as his voice takes now, he'll still let go at anybody’s house if they want him to and sometimes sing half the night. Why not? He likes it. In college, there was not so much com- petition from saves, a Bing tried ~: a out for the football squad but he was too ere light. He landed on the varsity horsehide — squad at third base, but basketball was out and Gonzaga didn’t have a swimming team. He switched a lot of his enthusiasm to melody and hot licks—and it was funny how his new pals lined up that way. There were Fat and Bob Pritchard, who _ eee ee ee : | Leave this Mask on for one full minute. ‘‘Keratolytic”’ action of the cream works quickly! Loosens tiny particles of dead skin and stubbornly imbedded i specks of dirt. Dissolves them. Now tissue i them off with the cream! Your re-styled complexion looks shades lighter ‘ and brighter! And it’s so much smoother —ready for softer, longer-lasting make-up. i PONDS VANISHING CREAM For quick make-up base—smooth on a light film of Pond’s Vanishing Cream—and leave it on. An ideal foundation—non-greasy .. . lasting! | 92 Get a@ BIG jar of glamour-making Masks! a ah Sees.

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tortured the neighbors with their brace of saxes. Jimmy Heaton who played a cornet. And a tall kid with black wavy hair named Al Rinker, who, like Bing, couldn’t read “Chopsticks” from notes, but who could pick out piano melodies all day long by ear, and fake with a combination. Al was to be the spark plug for Bing’s eareer. He was their first band leader, a jazz-struck kid who could play and sing a little himself, but his main talent was organizing. Al held the Rhythm Boys to- gether later on when Bing got his first important break. Today he’s a radio pro- ducer in Hollywood. Just as musically ig- norent as Bing in Spokane, Al could listen to a record of the Cottonpickers, Paul Whiteman’s, Benny Kreuger’s or Isham Jones’ and peck out the arrangement. The gang took to collecting around Al and his vie after school and on holidays and a new social circuit opened up for Bing. When vacations rolled around again, Bing got a steady man’s job at his dad’s brewery and rolled out the barrels to earn himself some solid change. He had jack in his jeans for the first time and he began to chase around j with the sporty musical gang. They had a bunch of hangouts. One was Benny Stubeck’s cigar stand in downtown Spokane, a dinky little place where you could get a sandwich, cigarettes, a free look at the latest hot bathing beauty magazines and arrange for a kid to drop by with a pint of bootleg booze. Because by now, Bing, like all sports of his day, had learned what Prohibition white mule tasted like. He thought it was pretty smart and reckless and grown up to snort the fiery, gagging stuff and pretend he was tight. He also knew that if Kate Crosby ever found out she’d explode. Sat- urday nights it was always the Garden, a public hall, where if you slipped on the dance floor you almost got trampled to death and where every now and then a barnstorming “name” band, like Vic Meyers, Abe Lyman, Dwight Johnson or George Olson, hit town for a one-night stand. Bing, Al, Fat, Bob and the bunch were the original “alligators” at the Garden, on those red letter occasions. It was natural that they should get together with a pick-up band of their own. law be darned... It was Al Rinker’s idea. School at Gon- zaga had started again and law was still on the docket for Bing. To get the prac- tical side, he landed a job working in a Spokane law office afternoons. But the day he was supposed to start, Al and Bing | and the bunch strolled past Bailey’s Music Store. Bailey’s had all the latest records —the “Mound City Blue Blowers” and all. Al twirled a platter, “The Beale Street Blues’—a clarinet wailed and a piano tinkled, a sleepy voice crooned a low moan. Bing forgot all about the new job in the law office. He played another disc. They went right on through the record stack like a farmhand through hotcakes. Al was carried away. “Hell,” he said, “we can do that—us guys! Let’s get up a band of our own!” Bob and Fat and Miles Rinker, Al’s brother and Jimmy Heaton chimed in, “We'd be terrific!” “Jeez, think of the dough we'll make!” “T can double on banjo.” “T can fake ‘Royal Garden Blues.’ ” They all yelled at once. Everybody had an idea. Inspiration was running wild. But Bing as usual was calm and relaxed. “That's just swell, you guys,” he said. “But you all play something. What do I do—take tickets?” Aj thought a minute. “Drums,” he said. “we'll need drums.” Bing pulled a current nifty. “If I had some bread I could have a ham sandwich NEW WORD FOR GLAMOUR Suntan safely ! Enjoy the sure allure of a gorgeous, golden Gabytan. Just apply GABY... America’s most popular Suntan Lotion. Then take your place in the sun. No fiery after-effect. No smeary grease. No drying alcohol. And GABY is so smooth, so soothing to even the tenderest skin. Three sizes...25c - 50c - $1.00 plus tax CREASELESS Stra Loree AMERICAS pARGESE SELLER, No} Ga

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(4 es co : : 3 es aif had some En Who's got drums?” Almost a miracle-the way this 8"Ssricrrar. | % set o as i ecora e ee a glorious Sea treatme th | : Ik b| Bailey?” Haley gen clad eects ae i @a men é ps give you remar a = prospect of finally cashing in on the crowd of record players. He sold Bing the drums a J for a dollar down and fifty cents a week. Bing lugged them out the door. “Now 3) : you'll have to learn to play those, Bing,” : said Al soberly. “Oh, sure,” Bing said. “That’s simple.” Al looked unconvinced. “Anyway, Bing,” he said, “maybe you can sing a song every now and then.” That’s how Bing joined his first jazz band, the Musicaladers. Al Rinker named / it and he was the head.man. Al played the piano, brother Miles the clarinet, Bob Pritchard, C Melody sax, Fat Pritchard, banjo, Jimmy Heaton, trumpet, or cornet as they called it then. Bing Crosby on the skins, with occasional vocals. They rehearsed as Al Rinker had learned his tunes—getting together around the vic- trola, spinning a record over and over, stealing breaks and bars from the hot bands of the day. Sheet music was out of the question; nobody read notes. Finally they got together a selection of current favorites, their hodge-podge arrangements of vic- trola steals, improvisations and plain corn. When they landed their first paying job at the Manito Park Social Club—eighteen- | bucks for the six piece band—Bing, Al and | the bunch were sure they had arrived. The | next day in law class Crosby yawned over | his lessons. The prof sent him out of the | room. From then on, although Bing didn’t | know it, law could go lump it. His subcon- scious self had room for only one double | idea—melody, rhythm. The Musicaladers snagged other jobs. | School dances, private parties, business | clubs around Spokane who had tiny en- tertainment budgets. The Musicaladers C ° * weren't good—but they were loud and Notice How It Helps Skin Appear F Be cheap. They, saddled ae teeters lege Smoother, Fresher With Each Application! free records and actually bought a few new ones to copycat out at Al’s. “For When your skin is marred by a dry, coarse textured, fading appearance — this MMe and, My Gal ae Louis Bes Wane saien ie : ang Blues,” “Do It Again.” gie Hogle, is often due to loss or lack of oils in the skin. . a non-playime gang ie Seen To quickly improve .the appearance of such skin, here’s a very easy home ing on the booker’s job. Bing sang his treatment —an homogenized facial which possesses super-lubricating qualities. first vocal at a high school club dance. ; 2 Tall H H He stepped away from the drums and sang, All you need is this one cream —famous Edna Wallace Hopper’s Homog- “For Me and My Gal.” It was effortless enized Facial Cream! but loud—because the band kept tooting 3 away behind him. Part way through, Bing What To Do: forgot some of the words. He filled in ? i isklv ov with bu-buh-buh-boos. It was a natural Just pat Hopper’s Facial Cream briskly over the face and neck. Then gently way for him to falco. Hee eaneeeee eal press an extra amount of cream over any lines or wrinkles. Leave on at least 8 a fad. To this day Bing has the worst minutes. For best results — leave on overnight. memory in the world for words. On camp shows he hauls along a little song pony—a Notice how Hopper’s Facial Cream leaves your skin looking so divinely book with words efaltuetecear ar re smooth, firmer, with an adorable baby-freshness. The reason Hopper’s is so reads them off over the radio, too. For acTIVE and lubricates so ExPERTLY is because it’s homogenized! idee ae tune ever escapes him, words are Faithful nightly use helps maintain natural radiant beauty thruout the years. The Musicaladers blossomed into the Buy Hopper’s Facial Cream at any cosmetic counter. Spokane big time when Edgie Hogle landed. them a spot in Finney’s variety show at ! the Auditorium Theater. That lasted three months. Then came a spot playing at the Pekin Cafe, a big Chinese restaurant. But they really went to town in the summer when they copped themselves the contract to open Larieda’s new big open air dance pavillion out from town. For this auspicious event they invested in red-and-white striped coats, white flan- nels and gaudy beach umbrellas over each musician. It was pretty classy, all right, and opening night they really strutted. 5. re HOPPER’S White Clay Pack is marvelous for enlarged pore openings and to loosen blackheads. It has a mild “blushing” action which leaves skin so much brighter and alive-looking. @ a 0 : : wild oats and jazz... H Attention: For free advice on your beauty problems — write Beauty Consultant, I i c/o Afhliated Products, Inc., 22 East 4oth Street, New York 16, N. Y. With the easy money coming in, Bing turned into quite a young sport-about- iH * town. He went in for loud plaid sweaters , Lea Malice HOPPERS Poco RMZER | Sal ieh ieee | 94 FACIAL CREAM were the stuff then, “and dazzling golf. 38 as Ss,

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- Beaks He liked bow ties, fancy shoes, straw sailor hats with striped bands. He chipped in fifty bucks with Al Rinker on @ coughing, gasping, hand-cranked Ford- which they painted up with collegiate © wisecracks on the chassis. And he started dropping in on a Spokane speakeasy and taking along a pint sometimes to the dance jobs. The girls still thought Bing Crosby was cute and tried to trap him—but he was too big an operator. They got many a wink, grin and wisecrack from Bing—but mighty few dates. He was still sport- happy, but he’d cut his range down to golf. Some of the band bonanza had gone for a new set of clubs. But soon the band began to break up. A college band at Washington State lured the Pritchard boys so they switched schools. One day the manager of Spokane’s Glemmer Theater, where Bing had seen many a Hollywood thriller as a boy, offered him a job singing baritone with a quartet © in the stage show. He joined the new bunch for two weeks. That broke it up more. Finally, only Bing and Al Rinker were left. They still spent every spare minute working out harmony combinations with tricky rhythms—all by ear. But there was no market for their act around Spo- kane and by now Bing had decided to give his law career the old heave-ho. That de- cision brewed a cloud of disapproval around home for Bing. It all added up, he thought, to getting out of town. One day when he and AI were rippling through their tunes, they felt particularly solid. “Let’s go on the road,” said Bing. “What road?” “Any road. Let’s try Seattle. we'll hit.” “What if we don’t—what’ll we use for money?” Al was always practical. “The Lord will provide,’ replied Bing airily. “Pennies from Heaven.” Maybe No curative power AUGUST ISSUE Jack be nimble, Jack be quick! He'll have to be to get our Au- gust issue when it reaches the newsstands on July 10—’cause MODERN SCREEN is no wallflower! The Crosbys, Harry and Kate, were puzzled and disappointed _when Bing packed his set of drums in the fifty dollar flivver with Al Rinker and set out. But they kissed the boy goodbye and wished him luck. He was going to need it. The big noises from Spokane rolled into Washington’s top metropolis after a couple of days on the road. They’d ironed out a neat singing duo act, with Bing handling the fancy vocals and Al taking care of trick piano and harmony. But Seattle wasn’t having any. All Bing and Al got there was some good advice from one of their band leader idols; Vic Meyers, who used to bring his band to the Garden every now and then. Vic remembered the kids who alligatored around his outfit in Spokane. He listened to their act and nodded. “It’s okay,” he said, “but you'll have to polish off the edges and develop your own style. When you've got something nobody else has got —then you've got something. And,” he added, “get to a big show business town where there’s lots of work.” “How about Los Angeles and Holly- wood?” “Now you’ve got something.” “California, here we come,” said Bing. It wasn’t a sudden bright brainstorm. There were two practical reasons, besides the magic name of Hollywood: Bing’s brother, Everett, had moved to Los Angeles and was selling automobiles. And Al’s sister, who called herself Mildred Bailey, (and whom the whole swing world was to know and love) was singing in a night club. Those were two interesting bets for a bunk and meals if things flopped. Bing Crosby dates his show business career from that rugged trip down the coast. He was a barnstormer, a ham-and- egger, a bum playing for getaway money all the time, singing for his supper. It’s two thousand miles from Seattle to Los Angeles and all the way it was strictly hunger and an empty gas tank. i'm @ singer... Up above Santa Barbara the Ford had gasped to a shuddering stop. Bing and Al pushed it down the road to the nearest station. But they were dead broke and they knew it. Bing turned on what Irish blarney he could summon in his depleted state and he made a deal with the station man. Ten gallons of gas and five dollars cash for the pride of Bailey’s Music Store show window, sunburst and all. “Now what you gonna do without your skins?” asked Al hopelessly. “Hell,” said Bing. “I’m no drummer. I’m a singer. If I get anywhere it’s on me pipes. Good riddance.” He never played another drum. Ev was not exactly overjoyed to see Bing and Al moving in on him. Maybe he remembered the disastrous wind-up to Bing’s last visit in Portland when they all landed in jail. But when he heard Bing and Al run through their act he was sold. He lent Bing his tuxedo and, through a pal, got them an audition with Fanchon and Marco, a show business firm who booked Coastwise talent into movie palaces. Rube Wolfe, a Los Angeles emcee of that era, claimed for PHILIP MORRIS . 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tried them out. They had a sixteen weeks i contract before they knew it. “Two Boys ‘5 ° and eae they called themselves. They ii toured California and got over heavy with i Ove O , the strictly rah-rah set, but other places hi they didn’t click. Frankly, Al and Bing were on the noisy side and they were very hey-hey and Fanchon and Marco used them Hl : for the one tour only. j : But back in Los Angeles, they landed a | i job in Will Morrisey’s Music Hall Revue, = . for another tour. The show stumbled up i ; and down the Coast, dropping acts as it went and as the bankroll melted. For some reason, Bing and Al survived—mainly be- i cause they didn’t give a damn. Because Bing was an entirely different young bucko those days from the sober solid citizen he is today. In a way, thi trip was his first wild oats fling. He was full of trick licks and snappy stuff, but the rich, deep melody that’s forever Crosby today wasn’t there yet. Bing and Al were flashy, that about sums it up— and clever. Their giddy young heads were turned by the glamorous, exciting, hell- for-breakfast show business life. They acted like what they were—hot-spot rah- rah jelly beans turned loose with no limits. There were plenty of chorus cuties in the Music Hall Revue and nobody took their work too seriously. Bing and Al had a brief but torrid act. They sat on a piano | in the orchestra pit under a baby spot. They could handle it with a hangover. So | they had hangovers. The show finally | blew up in a mighty whing-ding on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, where somebody in the cast had the fatal idea of putting on a mid- night show. A fraternity at Cal took them ~ over after the show—or rather, took over the show. There were buckets of bathtub gin. Mix that with visiting chorus girls, a couple of fraternity houses full of boys and kids with Bing Crosby’s wild haired enthusiasm for fun—result—Scandal, cap- ital S. The orgy spread to the college buildings, with chorines tossing a scanty here and a scanty there in the hallowed halls. The cops came and The Music Hall Revue went. That included Bing and Al. P So they were back in Los Angeles and broke—as usual—and out of a job, but no more downhearted than puppy dogs in a park. If they didn’t work, they played, and in the lazy days around their hotel room, Bing and Al kept the victrola buzzing. Bix \ Biederbecke, Frankie Trumbauer, the Memphis Five—all the hot combos of those | days. They learned a lot, ate it up and their razz-ma-tazz act improved. In no } time they were booked again for a tour of i} West Coast theatres. All the movie temples i then had stage shows. Bing and Al : left again for San Francisco at $100 a week. They lugged their bags to the the- ' atrical hotel and strolled down Market Street to look the movie house over. A | block away a big marquee blazed with a ii : magic name, “PauL WHITEMAN.” Bing was i a little kd again listening to records at the Try Dura-Gloss on your fingernails, today Sinto Athletic Club in the Spokane barn. His eyes popped in awe. ) i i hole earance. There’s an “Al!” he whispered. “Look—and we're | . for charm and gaiety in your w app = aléving taht Ce eee i| exclusive ingredient in Dura-Gloss called Chrystallyne The first thing they did was take in Paul i : , eel é Whiteman’s band, then in the peak of its Hy that helps protect the polish against chipping and peeling fame and glory. They sat in the front : ; row and dizzily drank in the offerings of ... makes it adhere tightly and smoothly to your nails... That’s why | the king of jazz with all his artists—Ping- atore, Teagarden, Roy Bargy, Henry Busse. i} you hear sO many women say, “Dura-Gloss stays on.” Here was the real stuff, solid, symphonic, 1} terrific. They crept out of the holy place i oO RUE A . 1O¢ a bottle, plus tax, at cosmetic counters. and down the street to their shabby little il act. Later, back in:the hotel room, all Bing : could say to Al Rinker was, “Golly—im- Cuticle Remover Polish Remover Dura-Coat agine playing with a band like that!” He f : didn’t say who. He didn’t have to. Both | 96 LORR LABORATORIES, PATERSON, N. J. FOUNDED By E. T. REYNOLDS minds were thinking of the same thing.

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Days later, the great Paul himself wad- dled into their little show house to relax between performances and catch a movie. He saw something in the two youngsters knocking themselves out on the stage taht made him sit up and grin. Something young, different, positive, Western. He laughed.. “Those kids would sure slay the Eastern jazz-hounds,” he mused. “H-m-m-m.” And then when the great Paul White- man rolled on down to Los Angeles, who should be beating the piano and shouting the blues but these intriguing kids—again right down the block. Again, he dropped in to catch them. Again he smiled. “By gosh, I’ve got to see those kids!” Then he told the manager, “Ask them to drop by my dressing room tomorrow.” great day... - The next day an awestruck head with two big, saucer eyes and a tall, crinkly headed guy with weak knees stood be- fore the maestro. It was like meeting the President of the United States or King of England. This couldn’t be happening. Paul Whiteman was saying, “Boys, how'd you like to go along with me?” It was like saying, “How’d you like Heaven?” Paul Whiteman went on. “We'll use you as a specialty. Three hundred a week. When you wind up your act meet me in Chicago. Then we'll go East.” Bing found he could talk. “East?” he rasped in an uncertain whisper. “East? You mean— New, New—” “Sure,’ grinned Paul. “New York. Broadway. How’s about it?” Bing gasped. “Tll have to write my Mother.” Al gave him a terrified look. What a thing to say. “T mean,” said Bing, “Ill have to write home and tell the folks the news. Sure, ‘Mister Whiteman, we'll join your band. Why, I'd, we'd rather sing with you than anybody in the world!” Bing stayed up all that night. Most of it he spent writing a long letter back to Spokane. He told the big news te Harry and Kate Crosby and all the family. He said a lot of things in the intoxication of the big event. But among others Bing penned, “This means the Big Time. And now that I know what I want to do at last, Tm going to settle down and make good.” When he wrote that rash promise, Bing was just past twenty-one. He was to make good, all right, almost in spite of himself, but he wasn’t to settle down—not yet. It would be some time before Bing Crosby grew up and gave his golden gift to the world—and greatness to his own odd name. (Bing Crosby’s Life story will be con- cluded in next month’s MopERN SCREEN.) SWEET AND HOT (Continued from page 80) and sax man, and he’s just formed his own band on the Coast. There’s a Hampton Decca right now too, and it lets off more steam than a Turkish bath. It’s: LOOSE WIG—The title’s not so funny if you know your swing. Record has no lyrics, but the words “loose wig” have at- mosphere. If you lose your wig, flip your lid, blow your top, snap your cap—well brother, that, in the language of jazzmen, means youse have gone crazy. All the talk about democracy gets me to thinking of Frankie and the job he’s do- ing with the juvenile crowd, so how about taking a Sinatra platter next. It’s: {Os ; “None of the stagey look that made me feel lukewarm about other blonde make-ups I've tried.” ‘Mrs. Rospert Bacon WHITNEY . Js ss “Pond’s new Make-up Pat goes on so smoothly! And such flattering shades!” Mrs. Prerpont Morcan Hamitton Wiis Apply with damp-to-wet sponge. Let dry. Smooth out with fingertips. Sole Fails foe t/ Ponds new Make-up Pa New double-formula discovery means flattery in Every Shade! Why do some blonde cake make-up shades show up thick and chalky on the skin? Why do some brunette make-ups look so flat and yellowy? Pond’s tested shade after shade of cake make-up. They compared . . . improved. . . tested again, over and over until— Pond’s discovered that no one formula worked equally well on all shades! —the lighter shades of Pond’s Make-up Pat are made in a featherweight formula to go on sheer, fresh, never chalky. —the darker shades are in a richer formula, for rosy glow. Never that sallow ‘‘faded-tan” look! We know of no other cake make-up with this essential shade-and-formula fit. . . that goes on more smoothly . . . gives a more delicate, almost ‘poreless look. 6 lovely shades—69¢, 39¢, plus tax. It protects your skin! Wear Pond’s Make-up Pat every day. 97

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mindedly, Benny reached into his pocket and gave the driver a pack of Luckies. You think the driver was surprised? Not nearly so surprised as Benny. He swears he only smokes Old Golds! Another Goodman tale concerns the time Benny and his wife got into a taxi, deeply engrossed in conversation, and the cabbie sat around, patiently awaiting their pleasure. Finally, he turned around and eaught Benny’s eye. “Oh, yes, yes,” said Benny briskly. “How much is that?” Johnny Mercer, whose newest is: CANDY (Capitol; Dinah Shore’s on Vic- tor), writes his own songs—if not the tunes always, at least the lyrics—sings *em himself, owns a piece of Capitol Rec- ord company which waxes his numbers, and is generally a one-man music world. Johnny started singing on records as a joke. He and Jack Teagarden would tear into a piece way back when they were with Paul Whiteman. Eventually, people even began to like the guy! It’s getting fashionable for song writers to lend a tonsil to a tune. Take Hoagy Carmichael. For years, he plodded along as a peaceful song-smith, and suddenly he makes with the vocal in “To Have and Have Not” and everybody forgets Lauren Bacall. Ladies cry for him, honest. Coming back to Mercer, remember those swell discs he turned out with Bing Cros- by? And coming back to Bing, there’s: JUST A PRAYER AWAY (Decca; Kate Smith did the Columbia version.) Bing sings awful sweet on this. Brother Bob Crosby, Lieutenant with the U. S. Marines, dropped in at my radio program to say hello the other evening. He was back from nine months in the Pacific and in New York to organize a unit for the Fleet Marine Force. “We traveled 16,000 miles on one tour with a 15-piece band. After I was sent back here, the boys went on to Iwo Jima. We were at Peleliu on D plus 30, and we were close to Leyte. I had a lot of young, spirited kids with me and the music was good, but the audiences were even better —they warmed your heart.” For blues there’s nobody better than Satchmo and his Victor Album: LOUIS ARMSTRONG—These are reissues of 1932-33, including “Basin Street Blues,” “St. Louis Blues,” and Louis’ theme, “Sleepy Time Down South.” You can hear some smooth piano being played—by a kid who'd just hit Chicago from Texas, and got a break with Louis. He was barely out of his teens and he was known as Theodore Wilson. Yep, Teddy himself, most noticeable on “T Got the World on a String.” When you think about pianists, though —even pianists excellent as Teddy—your thoughts just naturally gravitate to Art Tatum, the mightiest of them all, so how about lending an ear to Barney Bigard’s: BLUES FOR ART’S SAKE (Black and White)—The title refers to Tatum, and this was a session I got together. Man- aged—a thing I’d always wanted to see done—the two Joe Thomases on one disc. 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RUSSIAN LULLABY—This is a Keynote recording by Red Norvo and about the last we have time to cover this issue. Red’s had an even worse experience than Hal McIntyre in trying to get overseas with some boys. He ‘formed a group called “Overseas Spotlight Band” which Coca Cola was to send across. The band rehearsed like crazy for ten weeks, but red tape prevented their departure. In the end, they broke up. The only souvenirs of their existence are a couple of Soundie shorts, some V-discs, and a load of bills from the rehearsal hall! 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F enough, and found myself saying yes in- fancy on the part of the magazine. “Maybe -to myself, I can’t sit still. MY SON (Continued from page 45) stead. Then I kept hoping it was just a passing they ll forget it,” I said to my wite. She laughed. “What’s the problem, any- way? I wouldn’t have any trouble talking about Stan—” That’s where they made their mistake, of course. She’s the one they should have tackled. Talk comes easier to women. Be- sides, nothing fusses my wife. I take things a little harder. Not where it shows, but inside. For instance, when Stan sings on the radio— But before going on with that, I'd better get his name straightened out, or you'll be asking who is this Stan anyway? He’s my | son, Stanley Morner. In the movies they | eall him Dennis Morgan. But he’s Stan to us. Always will be. fatherly fidgets ... Now to get back. As often as I’ve heard him sing on the radio, I still get nervous. Stan doesn’t. Neither does Grace—or Dot, our daughter. They’re pleased and proud, but they keep calm. For reasons not clear I walk round the room. “How’s he doing?” I ask them. They all poke fun at this tendency of mine to get a little worked up over my son’s doings. “Dad has to see Stan’s pic- tures twice,” says Dot. “The first time, all | he sees is Stan. Then he goes again to find | out what the story’s about—.” Im afraid she’s got something there. Coming home from “Kitty Foyle,’ Grace heaved a long sigh. “I like that Jim Craig,” she said. “But I do wish Stan could have kept the girl—.” I said, “Who’s Jim Craig?” and I haven’t | heard the end of it yet. It didn’t take much coaxing to get us out here. Like so many Middle Westerners, we'd long felt the lure of sunny California. And with Stan and Lillian and the young- sters settled here, that was all we needed. All-the children call Grace, Bonny. That’s Little Stan’s baby version of grandma. As for me, I'm Frank, and that’s my own doing. I don’t like the sound of “grandpa” and never will. That provides the family with plenty of amusement too, which doesn’t bother me. I like to hear them laugh. Anyway, I started Little Stan off right when we first came out. Lillian’s father was still living then—. “You've only got one grandpa,’ I said, “and he’s in Marshfield.” “Then what are you?” “Tm Frank.” Kris picked it up from him and now even Jimmy, the little fellow—two and a half— starts yelling Frank when my station wagon roils in. ’m never quite sure if it’s me or the wagon he’s yelling at. Having Little Stan with us is almost like living Big Stan’s life over again. We’re pals, just as his dad and I were. If he can’t find a youngster to play with, he commandeers me to fly kites or get down on the floor for a game of marbles. His bedtime’s a quarter of eight and, if I’m reading, he always jacks me up. “Come on Frank, time for bed.” I also have to get up when he does—and he’s up at 6:30. David and he rout me out of bed. David’s my daughter’s young one, all of eighteen months. They’re staying with us while her husband’s in the service. Grace gets breakfast, I see Little Stan off on the bus and call for him in the after- noon. The minute we get home, he goes for the bat or the football. “Come on, ‘G enki time Ae a workout WMavacle worker! women say of proved DEODORANT in New MODE S S ye hailed as a real modern wonder— this proved-effective deodorant now sealed in each luxury-soft Modess napkin! Proof established by 26 exhaustive tests in a famous impartial laboratory! Seconded by women, themselyes— thousands upon thousands of women— who acclaim its fast action, the unbeliey- able new peace of mind it brings! Try the wonder-working new Modess and you'll join the chorus of praise for: Modess’ extra daintiness! No need for separate powder or endless fuss. Modess’ extra softness! Three out of four women voted Modess softer to ‘The deo on porte! Miss - t the touch, in a recent nationwide poll. Modess’ extra safety! 209 nurses, in hospital tests, found Modess less likely to strike through than nationally known layer-type napkins. You pay nothing extra for wonderful new Modess, the napkin with the proved- effective deodorant. Get it, today! Your store has two kinds of Modess. If you’d rather have softer, safer Modess without deodorant, just ask for “Stand- ard Modess.” makes peden U nt P it [4° Ne oe pourden, whl rays opt hal, oK the No F Ae. be 102

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He’s a strenuous youngster, like his dad before him. When big Stan was a baby, you practically had to knock him out to get im to sleep. He was always on the go, then and later. It was lucky for all of us that his mother didn’t scare easy. He couldn’t have been more than seven or eight when a neighbor called one day. “Better go fetch Stanley. He’s walking along the Town Hall parapet—” The Town Hall parapet was two-and-a- half stories high. I gave him an impressive talking to and that was one stunt he never pulled again. I can’t say he ever gave us any real trouble. Stan was no goody-good, but you could reason with him. As a rule, I didn’t hold with whaling. But like every rule, that one had‘its exceptions. I remember going to his room once to give him a wal- loping he richly deserved—I forget what for. When I opened the door, there he was on his knees, saying his prayers. I sneaked out like a thief in the night. no sloppy joe... Home belonged to the children just as it did to us, so they took their chores as much for granted as their fun. One thing you never had to tell Stan about was his clothes. He was born tidy. Whatever he dock off—it might be a pair of old overalls —you’d find them neatly folded over the back of the chair and his shoes under- meath, heels together, toes out, for all the world like a soldier on parade. He mowed lawns in the summer, shoveled paths in the winter and hauled wood from the woodshed every afternoon. ‘You didn’t have to remind him, any more than. you have to remind Little Stan to go to bed. He wasn’t paid for his share in the household jobs and he got no allowance, but he knew where to come for money when it was needed. Boy and girl: hearts and flowers It’s a love-match, too, when good chewing gum flavors wed. Popular flavors are happily united in WARREN'S Chewing Gum. In Prentice we lived close to a little river than ran right through town. One noon Stan came home all excited. “Dad, I just saw a big muskellunge down in the river and they’re selling a new kind of bait at the store. If you'll give me seventy-five cents, I'll bring that fish home—” “Expect him to sit there waiting for you?” But I thought the joke was worth more than six bits and gave him the money. As it turned out, the joke was on me. When I went to the window half an hour later, what did I see but Stan and another lad, with this huge fish slung on a stick between them. Struck me speechless. He was all for outdoors—skiing, skating, fishing, hunting, trapping. First one out on the ice was Stan, to see if it would hold. And he set his own traps when he was no more than a shaver—would get up at six and make the rounds, trying to trap enough muskrat for a coat for his sister. Once he and another boy snared a skunk and hung it up back of the house to dry. Grace and I were out. We got home at about eleven that evening and didn’t know whether to stay or leave— “Didn’t the smell bother you?” Grace asked him next morning. “Smelled to me like a good, healthy ani- mal smell,” said Stan. Hunting was the sport he loved best. I can’t remember when I started taking him along, but he wasn’t very big, and after the first time he wouldn’t let me go with- out him. He had his .22 rifle and was covered with red like the rest of us. Grace bought red flannel by the yard, and she’d sew it down the back and front of his mackinaw, up the side of his pants and on his cap. In the woods, we’d station him at a certain spot, tell him to stay there and watch, and there he’d be when we got back, with three or four rabbits. Evenings, we'd build a fire and cook the venison, a 7“: . along with the bacon and stuff we’d brought from home. There was a log shack to sleep in, and we’d stay out in the woods for a week or so. @ voice is found... Grace played and sang, and the children took music lessons—which is how we dis- covered that Stan had a voice. We couldnt get him to practice, so he gave the piano up—called it a waste of time. And while I didn’t exactly agree with him, I could see what he meant. But he did enjoy singing. One day the music teacher was there, and Grace asked if she’d listen to him sing . . . That night she told me about it. “He sang ‘The End of a Perfect Day’ and her eyes filled up—” “Oh, well, it’s a sad song—” “Yes, but she also said he had a very sweet voice—” From then on he sang whenever he got the chance—at school, in the choir, at Town Hall affairs. You didn’t have to coax him, either. He wasn’t bashful. In a small town, where boys have grown up together, they’re inclined to avoid what sets them apart from others. And when it’s singing, there’s always the danger of being called sissy. If Stan had any trouble that way, we didn’t hear about it. 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“He’s only a boy, but I think he'll make a fine singer some day.” Being parents, that did our hearts good, but it stopped there. I know it never entered my head that he might sing for a living, and if Grace had any ideas, she kept them from me. Engi- neering was what I thought he might go in for, because he was pretty handy with our cars. He kept pestering me to let him drive, and I gave in long before I should. contest coppin’... By the time we moved to Marshfield, his voice had changed, and he seemed to have lost interest in singing. Then one night his mother was playing an Irish song and Stan moved over to the piano. We were sitting around, not paying much attention, when suddenly out rolled this rich tenor. I’m frank to say that I was dumbfounded. The paper dropped out of my hands and my jaw dropped open. In the midst of his singing, Stan started to laugh. Dad,” he said. Well, Grace got the head of the choir to hear him, and the upshot was that she offered to give him lessons if he’d join the choir. Which he did. But it wasn’t till after he started at Carroll College that the thing really hit. Wisconsin announced a statewide singing contest, and his teacher suggested that he try out. The state was divided into twen- ty-six districts. Stan won in his district, and the winners went to Milwaukee to compete. We didn’t really believe he had a chance. We felt that most of the voices would be better trained than his. At any rate, that’s what we kept telling each other —to keep from being disappointed, I sup- pose, while in our hearts we hoped against hope. The night Stan sang we asked some friends in to listen with us. I paced the floor and, when his turn came, I didn’t know how he sang, so help me. They all said it was goed, but what would you expect them to say—? It was a week before the verdict came in. I was in my office when the paper was delivered, and there was Stan’s picture smack on the front page. I called my wife, then tore out and bought all the papers I could find. Meantime Stan had gone back to Carroll and sent a wire from there. So I called him up. He was pretty nonchalant about it, which didn’t surprise me. I can’t recall Stan’s ever getting ex- cited except on a hunting or fishing trip. Well, that day I did it up brown. Seeing his picture in the papers, knowing he’d won so handily over the others, gave me the biggest thrill of my life. Plenty of fine things have happened since, but to me they’ve been almost anticlimax. Even if he pulled down an Oscar, it wouldn’t bowl me over. Then came the Atwater-Kent contest, when he pulled one of his typical tricks. He was playing football at Carroll. I told him he’d better quit and take care of his voice. But no, he had to play football. With the result that, three days before the contest, he played in a blizzard, caught a fine cold and still had a cold when he sang. At that he placed second. And knowing he had such a spirit meant more to us than the prize. He’d come home Christmas and sum- mers, and we’d go up to see him in the college plays where he had the lead for three years. Now you're not going to catch me calling him a fine actor. I heard some people say he was good, and I was per- fectly willing to take their word for it. All I know is, whenever they called rehearsal, he was out playing ball and they couldn’t drag him away till the game was finished. Once he came to town as star soloist with the Glee Club. That was almost as big an a event in our tive as his winning of the “Took at: Entirely New (Mee- “hineile in. Face Powder! FOR THE FIRST TIME! One powder-shade intensely flattering to 4 types of skin! Sade He IDAL PINK” to make you look young, fresh —Romantic as a Bride! HERE'S something new in face powder! Th shade that dramatizes almost any skin it touches! Created by means of an entirely new color-principle, “Bridal Pink” is intensely flattering to (1) blondes (2) brunettes with fair skin (3) those with brown hair and medium skin (4) those with auburn hair and a pale complexion. “Bridal Pink” does lovely, exciting things for your hair, eyes, skin! Try this youthful, romantic new powder-shade! Now at all Good Cosmetic Counters Try “Bridal Pink”—the new shade that’s so daringly romantic! See how it lights up your face with new life, warmth! The me- dium-size box of Lady Esther Face Powder is sold at the best stores for 55¢. Also handy pocket-book sizes for 10¢ and 25¢. DY FAGE

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You know how it is in a small town—his picture in the store windows, the auditorium packed with friends and neighbors—and there you sit while this boy puts a kind of spell on them with his sing- ing. You know he’s your boy that you raised from a pup, yet it’s hard to believe. After college, Stan got a radio job in Milwaukee and we’d hear him announce. He’d always get home for the deer season, and never failed to bring back his deer. We’d moved to Park Falls by then, but Lillian’s folks were in Marshfield, and that’s where they were married. He’d been going with Lillian ever since their high schoo! days. Stan wasn’t the kind to come home and talk about it much, but we knew. jittery groom... They had the wedding in the garden, which gave me a chance to rove around. I can’t give you the usual details—music and flowers and how the bride looked. The things I recall are the things I shouldn’t. Like Stan coming down with laryngitis the day before. He had to keep steaming his throat till the last minute, so he could say “I do.” He was a jittery boy that day— more jittery than he’d ever been on the stage. It wasn’t till half an hour before the ceremony that he suddenly remem- bered he’d left his white flannels in Mil- waukee. A fellow announcer of his was driving in. We caught him on the phone in the nick of time, and got him to bring along another pair. (My wife’s been looking over my shoul- der. “Doesn’t sound romantic, does it?” “I suppose not. Maybe you’d better add a few fancy touches—” “I don’t know what went on. I was crying from start to finish—”) Well, they moved to Chicago, and for a while we didn’t see much of them. But we'd hear Stan sing from the Empire Room at the Palmer House and we weren’t the only ones. That’s where Mary Garden heard him and that’s when she introduced him to Irving Thalberg and that’s an old story, so I won’t go into it again. But there’s one more thing I would like to say, and it’s this. My wife and I know how lucky we are. Not because Stan’s doing well in the movies. That's fine, but it’s incidental. To older folk, nothing mat- ters so much as their young people. We’ve got ours around us—all but our daughter’s husband and, God willing, we’ll have him- too, before long. Week ends and holidays we get together at Stan’s place. Christmas is just as it always was. We always trimmed the tree on the 20th, Stan’s birthday, so he’d feel that Christmas wasn’t crowding him out. Lillian keeps the custom up. We sing carols on Christmas Eve, and the only difference is that now there are more of us. He and Kris have a special number— “Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley—oh.” He smiles at her for encouragement, and her eyes get big and sparkly, and they sing with a will. And Big Stan watches them with a certain look on his face, which must be the way I looked years ago when he got up to sing. Years ago, my foot!—it’s the way I looked now! Then he'll catch my eye and grin— Well, I've talked long enough and I guess it’s clear between the lines what I think of my son. But if words are needed, let me put it this way. Little Stan came home from school one day when Walter Winchell’s son was in the same school. “Junior says his father’s the greatest man in the United States—” “And what did you say to that?” I asked. “Well, I didn’t hardly believe it. I said, ‘What about the President and General Eisenhower? Anyway, I said, ‘I’ve got a dad myself that’s quite a fella—’” That goes double with his dad’s dad.

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HOT COPY (Continued from page 53) citizens, let’s call ’em—the Flynns and the Chaplins—little Lana every once in a while —here of late, your favorite Bogey man. These are talented space grabbers who can’t be kept off the front page. But I’m talking of the rank-and-file. Behind the rank-and-file stands an army of Press Agents—“p.a.’s” to Holly- wood, and not to be confused with Per- sonal Appearances. Some are employed by studios, others free lance, but they have this in common: Morning and eve- ning, Sunday, Mondays and always, their brains bubble with bright schemes for boosting their babies. Here’s a sample of how they operate. Remember when Rita Hayworth was doing bits? Nobody’d look at her then, includ- ing her own studio. They gave her a whirl in “Only Angels Have Wings,’ then she sat for eight months. Then they, said, “We're putting you into ‘Blondie’ ”—a po- lite way of saying, “Weve putting your neck in a noose.” come out, come out... In desperation, she and Eddie Judson went to Henry Rogers, free lance p.a. Henry took one gander and came up with the answer: Sex. What the biggies had been blind to, he unmasked at a glance. On Rita and Judson he impressed the importance of clothes, talked them into investing a couple of thousand in slinky gowns and tasty lingerie. Next, he in- vented an institution and its president— Jackson Carberry of International Fashion Trends—and dispatched a wire from Jack- son to Rita. Then he took the wire over to LOOK magazine. At the time, Rita’s _ name was nothing to conjure with. Carole Lombard’s was. To make it look like the real thing, the message read: “After sur- vey of department store buyers, designers, etc., Carole Lombard selected screen ac- tress Rita Hayworth best dressed actress off screen. Congratulations.” When the Look man asked, “Who’s Rita Hayworth?” Henry was ready for him. A kid, he said, a mere child, hardly more than a bit player, earning- maybe twc fifty a week. Yet, knowing that clothes made the woman in Hollywood, she and her husband had pinched pennies to the tune of fifteen thousand, which they’d now invested in glad rags for Rita. Fifteen hundred was more like it, but the story listened good. They went out to inspect the wardrobe—with a couple of squints at Rita on the side. “Swell!” said the guy, “let’s shoot it.” They shot her in evening gowns and lingerie. They shot her in bed, pulling up an embroidered stocking. (Nothing ever topped that one till Grable made history in a bathing suit). The whole thing was sent to New York and Rogers held his breath, hoping to get a page out of it. New York went wild, used an exotic shot as a cover and five pages inside. So Rita got to play with Ty Power in “Blood and Sand.” What's the connection? Well, you pop up with a cover and five pages in LOOK and, if you’re presentable, youll get a break on the screen. But a break is all youll get. Don’t expect the smartest p.a. in the world to make a star of you, lady. He can start you rolling, but after that you roll your own. If you get your break and have that indefinable something called screen personality too, you're in. Rita was in, thanks to the X-ray eye of Henry Rogers. He shoved another girl in differently. | es : Saeed 3 S her hair tidy and charmin @ Why is a bobby pin? To hold your hair —smoothly, firmly, invisibly. And that’s the way HOLD-BOB bobby pins are made: for longer-lasting, springy power. Re- member, only HOLD-BOBS have those small, round, invisible heads. Add satiny finish and the rounded-for-safety ends ...and you have the advantages that make HOLD-BOBS America’s favorites! Look for, ask for, the HOLD-BOB card. Copyright 1945 Gaylord Products, Incorporated Chicago 16, illinois so ae a enee ( aR ye \ — ~ lessie played tennis...Her eq Strokes were alarming — SES HOLD-BOB “The bobby pins that HOLD” 105

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a staff sergeant and his bride-to-be. The wedding was set for a Sunday, with Sonny Tufts as best man. They bought a ring for the kids, ordered a spread and a wedding cake, reserved a suite at the Mark Hopkins Hotel for the bridal night. On Wednesday morning the bridegroom phoned. “We can’t go through with it—.” “Why not?” : “My pop won’t let me.” . It seems Pop, the self-respecting father of ten, had hit the ceiling. “No son of mine will be married for stuckups on Nob Hill! For a ring and a piece of cake and his name in the paper!” The p.a. pulled in his horns and silently stole away. He’d meant well. So had they all. But when the story got out, the cheers ‘went to Pop. Personally, I threw my three best hats in the air for him. Of all publicity kickbacks, I think Den- nis Morgan’s was the saddest. And poor Dennis hadn’t even thought of it as a stunt. < There was a Marine at the Canteen just before Christmas—a limping Marine, loaded down with Purple Hearts, very modest about his exploits, so modest he refused to be photographed with Joan Crawford. Dennis asked him where he was spending Christmas. The Marine didn’t know— “Why not come home with me then? Nothing exciting—just kids and a tree and music and stuff and things—.” It was sheer good will, as I say, that motivated Dennis. But you couldn’t ex- pect Warner Brothers to keep it dark. So the story went out and the FBIs came in. Practically woke Dennis up on Christmas morning. The Marine was a phony— phony limp, phony exploits, phony medals. They’d been on his trail for weeks and had tracked him down through kindness of Dennis and the publicity gang. First rule in the p.a. book: Build your stunt ’round a girl. Doug Fairbanks, Jr., was just coming home after a prolonged stay in Europe, and something was needed to focus at- tention on him. The p.a. went into a huddle with a local sorority. The sorority called its pledges together, told them they’d met all the entrance conditions but one. “Be- fore you qualify, you've got to kiss a movie star. Doug Fairbanks’ train gets in at such-and-such a time. ’Nuff sed—.” To erase any hint of the p.a.’s cloven hoof, a boy on the campus had been hired to tip off the papers. As Doug hit the station, girls leaped from behind posts and smeared lipstick all over him. Doug’s still looking for the guy who pulled it, and the guy still prefers to remain anony- mous. : George Glass was responsible for the topper in girl stunts. “So Ends Our Night” —which started Glenn Ford zooming— needed a shot in the arm. One of the bits was played by a pretty Viennese named Greta Rozan, whose only sequence was being heavily cut. He got her to register protest by doing a strip-tease in front of the studio. Each day she’d picket, carrying a placard—“YOU KEEP SNIPPING AND VYLL KEEP STRIPPING—” with the name of the picture in letters a foot high. Each day she’d remove another article of cloth- ing. By the fourth day she was down to her slip, and plastered over every front page in town. By the fifth day, even George got scared. He dashed out, threw a coat over her black bra and panties and dragged her inside. For conspicuous gallantry in action, they gave her a part in “Moon and Sixpence,” but her strip-tease proved the climax of her career. Rule No. 2: If you can’t use a girl, use animals. In “Zaza,” Colbert stepped _ off a French train, scratching herself. Im- plication: Fleas. Fleas aren’t animals, but SSS 2 Shaves

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The editor called it a broken-down gag and ijaughed his head off, but finally the letter got into print. “If you read this, Virginia,” Faye wrote, “you'll remember your special name for me, and something I gave you as a farewell gift.” Answers poured in, two hundred fake sisters showed up at the studio, and the p.a. decided he should’ve stood in bed. Meantime, a girl in Grand Rapids read the letter and tore over to show it to her friend, cashier at the phone company. “Took, Virginia. This sounds like you—.” Together, they composed a wire to Faye. ‘Dear Peggy, I think I might be your sister. If I am, you gave me a little mesh bag the last time we saw each other.” Nobody else had ever called Faye, Peggy. Nobody else knew about the mesh bag. Faye invited her to Hollywood, but the jubilant magazine insisted on footing the bills. It was their party, their baby and their story. What they didn’t print were Virginia’s reactions. She wasn’t impressed. When they asked what movie stars she’d- like to meet, she knocked them for a loop. ‘Tionel Barrymore and Marjorie Main,” said Virginia. She wound up feeling ter- ribly sorry for Faye who lived in a gold- fish bowl with no life of her own. Not long ago, the country rocked to the tremors of another self-starter. Back from a camp and hospital tour, Laraine Day phoned Henry Rogers, her publicity agent. “How was it?” asked Henry. “Oh, I don’t know. Unpleasant in some © ways.” “What was wrong?” “Well, look, I went out meaning to do a job. I can’t sing, I can’t dance, so I thought I’d talk to the boys about their homes and sweethearts and maybe tell them things about Hollywood. So the min- ute I set foot in camp, some colonel or major grabs me and I don’t see ten percent of the boys I could have seen—.” all out for the gi's... Henry’d heard squawks like that before. Other clients had come back, beefing— “You go to see soldiers, and officers are all you see—.” He slept on it, then asked Laraine in, and tossed a bombshell. “Are you game to bring this thing into the open? Would you send a report to the Hollywood Victory Committee and, at the same time,: to the papers?” “What for?” “Because it’s been hush-hushed long enough. Because somebody ought to have the guts to come out with it.” “Will I get into trouble?” “Probably. They'll say you're exploiting the GIs for space. Or theyll say you’ve been victimized by some jerk of a p.a—” “Will it do any good?” “Bound to. Next girl going out'll be turned over to a sergeant and do the job she’s supposed to do—.” “Then I don’t care if it does mean trouble. I'll do it—.” She sent the report on her own station- ‘ery, and hell broke loose. Under the pres- sure, Laraine never gave an inch. 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to the city jail. A few words with the ser- geant and they took a look at the cells. Joe’s next quiz question was to pick out the most innocent man in the pokey. He found one, a meek Mister Milquetoast, about 100 pounds heavy and five feet tall, with an undernourished look and watery blue eyes behind steel rimmed cheaters. “That guy?” said the sergeant. “Say— the newspapers call him ‘Cleaver Killer’. He just chopped up his wife into twenty rib roasts!” that hitchcock approach... The lesson to Joe Cotten was plain. He decided to play deadly Uncle Charley as a straight leading man and let the script and the director do the rest. It worked, too, because Uncle C. turned out to be one of the most sinister gents ever to come out on celluloid and Joe put that right down in a corner of his brain, which is full of places for ideas to hide. On the set, Joe Cotten is strictly sold on kidding away the kinks that create knots in the psyches of stars who get on each others nerves working in the tight, tense little box called a sound stage. He had a horrible example of what frayed nerves can cook up when he made “Journey Into Fear” with his pal, Orson Welles. That was the movie that Joe wrote with Orson, helped produce and acted in, all at the same time. They were knocking themselves out on the set trying to get through so Orson could catch a plane for Brazil when it happened. They’d worked for three days and three nights steady and they were groggy as hopheads when they came to a scene with Joe and Orson and another man whose script name was “Kopakin.” In his depleted state, Orson the Great couldn’t get the man’s name straight to save himself. He kept calling it “Knopkin” and Director Norman Foster kept yelling “Cut!” until finally every time Orsca started to say the name he exploded in a gale of hysterical laughter. After four hours of that, Norman broke it up and the whole company went down the street to a saloon for coffee and a few straight shots to pull themselves together. But the minute they got back on the set and up came the scene, Orson said, “What the hell is that guy’s name again?” They told him for the hundredth time, “Kopakin.” “Oh, sure,’ said Orson. “Knopkin.” With that the whole outfit rolled on the floor raving mad and laughing like hy- enas, so they all went home. “Journey into Fear,” by the way, was a pretty bad pic- ture, as Joe Cotten will freely admit. And a good half of the reason, he thinks, is a case of grinding along without breaking it up with laughs. cotten's oldies... Joe’s funnybone has saved his own skin a couple of times when the going was rough and it’s helped a fair colleague of his, Claudette Colbert, too, more than once. -Claudette gets deeply . depressed when things don’t go right on her sets and so far the only prescription to get her back on the happiness beam are Joe Cotten’s funny stories. When he made “Since You Went Away” with Claudette, Joe spent half his time between takes keeping Claudette from sinking into a brown study by rattling off his rib ticklers. But while Joe has a million of ’em, he ran out eventually and. had to dig way back in his memory for all the spicy nifties of his schoolboy days. They wowed Claudette, of course, because she’d never heard any of them before. But one. day a mutual friend of Joe’s and hers called him up and said, “Look, Cotten, for Heaven’s sake stop telling Colbert all those stale jokes of yours. 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State. 2s ene _ PRINT PLAINLY and I have to sit and listen to all those tired old chestnuts and pretend to laugh. My lip’s about to split, so for Pete’s sake lay off!” In Joe’s case his trouble wasn’t a brown study, because he wouldn’t know a case of the glooms if he met one walking down the street. He’s an extrovert supreme, himself, but there have been times when it took a gag to pull him off a camera brain block, twice, in fact, in one picture, “‘Tll Be Seeing You,” where Joe played that psycho GI. Oddly enough, in both instances it was Bill Dieterle, the Dutch- man, who’s supposed to be so heavy- handed and ponderous when he gives with a megaphone, who swung the gags. One time was the day Joe had to hurdle the big scene he’d been dreading, where he sits in his tiny YMCA room and slowly goes to pieces. It was the big nervous breakdown and after a couple of days of breathing hard and sweating and shaking and quivering and going through all the symptoms of a mental case, Joe was just about able to punch his way out of a wet paper bag, but they still hadn’t gotten the take they wanted. So he was sitting talking the scene over with Dieterle before they tried it again when the make-up man came up with the inevitable big powder puff and dabbed it on Joe’s face. Ordi- narily, Joe Cotten hates make-up people to dab at him like a cat hates water, but this time he was so bushed and Dieterle so intense in his talk that Joe never even noticed. When finally the director asked, “Are you ready?” Joe said, “Sure,” but in a voice that didn’t even convince himself. But just before the camera rolled, Joe looked, as he always does, in his little pocket mirror to see that everything in the face department is in order—and he let out a yell. From his neck to his noggin he was in blackface! The guy had slipped him a make-up Mickey Finn, on Bill Dieterle’s orders, with charcoal. instead of powder. Joe roared so heartily that there wasn’t a nerve left in his body and the next take was it. The other time was even more baffling to Joe because the set Gremlins got him right in the middle of a laughing scene, and if there’s one thing Cotten can’t hold in, normally, it’s a hearty guffaw, and sometimes even when it’s not too tactful he raises the roof. But this day his par- ticular job was to hah-hah all day long and right up to a climax in the late after- noon when he was booked to really let himself go. But when Joe went in for the grand closeup of his molars—he couldn’t laugh’a dribble. He was all laughed out or something, because when he opened his mouth, strange little dry squeaks seeped out, his smile was crooked and his eyes looked like glazed oysters. After a few “Cuts” even the crew got worried about Joe. They all gathered around and told him the most ghastly jokes—and Joe loves jokes—they made faces and did impersonations and even dug up a few old-time clown sure-fire favor- ites, and Joe adores clowns (his favorite collection is photographs of all the famous circus clowns that ever tumbled around a ring). But it was still no go. Every at- tempt at a belly laugh only brought on a belly ache for poor Joseph and things were in a pretty pass indeed. But they kept trying, more and more grimly, and then suddenly in the middle of a take a Western Union messenger gal dashed on the set yelling, “Telegram for Mr. Cotten!” Joe ripped it open, fearing the worst kind of black news, but as he read, while the crew watched with bated breaths, they saw him relax into the first genuine grin he’d come through with all day. Then he read it out loud—this wire from a group of well-known Hollywood shady ladies, — SS ; am complimenting Joe on the love scenes he’d — made a few days before and ing him various kinds of attractive offers. The wire was signed, “Bill Dieterle.” Again it worked, because right away Joe stepped into his closeup and laughed the lens off the camera until they had to tell him to stop. 8 It’s a cold day in July indeed when Joe Cotten finds himself limp as a dishrag on a movie set, and the brace of instances de- scribed just now are about the only times on record. Usually, Joe is as busy as a Mexican jumping bean. He’s known as “the guy who won’t park” by the grips and props and, as I said, make-up men try to catch him on the fly but rarely succeed. He’s tried to relax, but it’s not for Cotten. When he reads he finds himself looking right through the printed page; he can’t even add up the score in gin-rummy, and when he goes in his dressing room and closes the door, as some stars do, he gets claustrophobia. So Joe has given up long ago. Now he never sits down. The nearest he ever comes to it is what he calls “the football squat” and he has an odd crotchet about that. He played a bit of football in school and it struck him that you never saw a football player who’s been in a game park himself on the bench if he was due to go in the game again. They might squat, or kneel or stoop down a bit, but if they sit down they get dull and Joe likes to keep lively. He doesn’t even keep a canvas chair on the set. rehearsin’ fool. . . What Cotten prefers to do to pass the time in the long, irking waits between scenes that curse every Hollywood actor’s life, is keep right on acting. Usually, he finds another actor who’s glad of the chance to run over the next week’s scenes. Joe worked that way with Teresa Wright all through “Shadow of a Doubt” and with Claudette Colbert in “Since You Went Away.” Joe’s a rehearsing fool, having been sold on that idea in his Broadway days when he'd prepare a play eight weeks or more sometimes before he ever saw. an audience. He spent two weeks with Bill Dieterle on his own time running over dialogue and action before he ever saw the set of “I'll Be Seeing You,” and his huddles with Alfred Hitchcock before “Shadow of a Doubt” were as drawn out as a WPA project. But he refuses to memorize a line at home because when he does he poll- parrots it off the next day on the set like “a Fuller Brush salesman.” Besides, he has a private conviction that lines mem- orized are the easiest forgotten. He never even learned them by heart when he did long plays before the footlights and it’s a cinch he'll never start now. Joe’s loaded with all kinds of hoodoos which are hang- overs from his days on Broadway. Frankly, he wishes he’d never heard of half of them but it doesn’t do him any good now. The two most potent bits of black medicine he observes are the old stage spooks of hats on the bed and whistling in the dressing room. Whenever anyone commits those the- atrical sins in his presence Joe runs to the stage door, spins around like Lil’ Abner’s Mammy conjuring up her late, great- grandmammy, and chants a weird ritual that’s too involved to print here and doesn’t make much sense, anyway. However, it does two things, Joe’s convinced, it keeps the guy who tossed the hat from getting fired and also it keeps Joe Cotten from getting fired (as if there was any chance of that). No superstitions make much ~— sense when you analyze them, and Joe -knows it, but he keeps right on being an abject slave to mumbo-jumbo. ‘ The hat on the bed spook sticks with — Pee or | | |

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The idea’s not only more civilized Joe thinks (in Paris before the war all movie studios didn’t open until 12 noon) but he’s dead certain it will save thousands of dollars and— which is the important thing—brew lots better movies, unfettered by brain weary, food-bloated Thespians dragging them- selves through their roles. You may be hearing about the “Cotten Plan” one of these days and wonder why nobody ever thought of it sooner. Because a big direc- tor has promised Joe to run his next production that way as a test case. Joe has made hardly a movie for his boss, David Selznick, without sparring around for weeks. It turned into a cross- country mail order scrimmage for “I'll Be Seeing You,” because Joe was in New York and his boss in Hollywood and the tug: of war over “Duel in the Sun” kept half of Hollywood’s communication systems ex- clusively devoted to the Cotten-Selznick | tirades. Funny part is that socially and off-studio, the Cottens and the Selznicks see each other around at dinner parties and movie colony soirees all the time and are jolly and simpatico as kids at a Sunday School picnic. Joe doesn’t chip his shoulder much around directors because he really feels that the director is “the inspiration,’ the spark plug of every picture and why foul him up? Sometimes he can’t resist a snide erack as he did in “Love Letters” when the direction missed fire in one scene. The usual big resolve had been made, as it often is in Hollywood, to shoot “pictures”; that is, cut the dialogue down and let the picture tell the story as all those artistic European movies do. Well, Joe had a scene with Jennifer Jones where he carried her in his arms to a buggy down the road and it was a long walk. Joe almost yawned, himself, trudging along. He knew there ought to be some dialogue in there to break it up, but for once he kept quiet and: let the camera man catch it. He did right away. “Tt’s too long and too dull panning way down there,” he said. “Yes,” agreed the director. “But we've got to shoot pictures. No dialogue. Joe, can’t you break it up?” “Sure,” said Joe sarcastically, “Next time Tll drop her.” But the idea didn’t get over, especially with Jenny Jones. Dialogue crept in, as it usually does, to save the day. There’s only one real pet peeve that Joe cherishes in his bosom, which you might tag as temperament, and it’s one he freely admits. He doesn’t like visitors on the set. When he made “Love Letters,” his last picture at Paramount, Joe got ganged by rubberneckers, it seemed to him, almost daily. After weeks of it, he gave forth with a typical Cottenism. ~ “What I want to know,” he bellowed, eyeing the throng, “is just who the hell is going to see this picture when we finish it? 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Said he, “The nicest thing I can say about Ingrid is that she doesn’t look or act like anyone else in Hollywood—and it doesn’t worry her a bit!” I think Joe Cotten would be particu- larly pleased if some one said the very same thing about him. “IVS LON McCALLISTER!” (Continued from page 61) “Listen, I’ve really got to scram,” he told one of the older boys. “Can’t you get me out of here?” The boy disappeared into the mob and Lon looked after him uncertainly. Was he going to do anything about it? He was. He was back in a few minutes with the school football team. They made a flying wedge and, with them running in- terference, Lon made his escape to a wait- ing taxi. The driver surveyed him disapprovingly. “You look like you been fighting the Japs all by yourself, soldier. Better comb your hair, before an M.P. sees you.” Lon gave him a wide smile. “Those were no Japs. 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Nobody in the audience noticed him and he got away with it. But for weeks he was ribbed by the rest of the cast. “Trying to build up your part, huh?” they said. “Trying to get in every scene now!” And they’d laugh like maniacs. Lon loves people but he likes to be | Victory” tour, he’d acquired a habit of | lights. wandering off by himself when they hit a ew city. He went exploring, not just in tne fancy parts of town but in the poorer | quarters, too. He stooged along, gazing into shop windows, asking questions of passersby, learning more about the place in a couple of evenings than most people know who have lived there for years. When the show played San Francisco, there was no performance on Sunday night. Lon went on one of his strolls and eventually found himself in the Chinese quarter. Not the tourists’ Chinatown, but the real Chi- nese residential section. And there on the corner was a movie house with “Lon Mc- Callister in ‘HOME IN INDIANA’” up in He stood there, teetering back and | forth in his GI shoes, and thinking soberly that he was the luckiest guy in the world. Then he heard soft footsteps behind him, and found himself suddenly surrounded by girls. Pretty little Chinese girls they were, with black eyes that tipped up, and white teeth, and excitement fairly bursting from their faces. “You are Lon McCallister, aren’t you?” one of them asked shyly. He admitted it, blushing slightly. They must think he was an awful ham, standing there mooning over his name in lights. But they didn’t seem to. They’d all seen the picture and loved it. They asked for auto- graphs, of course, just like any other kids. He stood there talking with them for a long time. Just before he left them, one little girl touched his sleeve. “I never thought anything so wonderful as meeting you could happen to me,” she said. “Ill remember it always.” china-boy ... 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Then the mad melee in that high school cafeteria occurred and someone took some pictures of it, and the next day Lon hit the front pages, which amused him considerably. Neither publicity or the lack of it bothers him. He just goes along, minding his own business, doing his job, and making friends with everyone he meets. He gets a kick out of people recognizing him, sure, but sometimes he gets an equal kick out of their not recognizing him. Like the time he came to New York to do some advance publicity for the show. Not a soul knew he was in town, and Lon rode the Fifth Avenue busses, walked in sunlit Central Park and went to the movies, without anyone giving him an extra glance. He was just another soldier on leave, and he loved it. Then the next time he was in New York, word got around and he couldn’t cross the street without being a traffic hazard. He and Nancy Walker, an old friend who was appearing in a show on Broadway, went to the Museum of Modern Art. They were wandering around, ad- miring the Picassos which are Lon’s special weakness, when a nice looking woman came up to them. She smiled apologeti- cally at Lon. even exchange... “T hate to bother you like this, Mr. Mc- Callister, but I have an eleven-year-old daughter at home who would tear me limb from limb if she knew I’d seen you and done nothing about it. Would it be possible for you to send her an auto- graphed picture?” “Td be glad to,” Lon said warmly. “That’s very kind of you. She does ad- mire you so much, and so do I.” Lon pulled a notebook from his pocket. “Would you give me your name and ad- dress, so I can mail the picture to you?” She smiled at him. “I’m Mrs. Rex Stout.” If you happen to like mysteries (and Lon does), you know that Rex Stout is a name to conjure with in that field. 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Lon went in, of course, and hauled her out. “You’re loopy!” she told him with con- viction when she was on dry land again. “I can swim enough to keep from drown- ing, and that sport coat will never be the same.” “Neither will I!” Lon assured her sol- emnly. “I am now a hero.” Lon seems to have the faculty, some- what rare among male movie stars, of having lots of girl friends who are just exactly that—friends. Nancy is one and so is Jeanne Crain and so is Jane Withers. Lon was Jane’s first date when she grad- uated from the child prodigy class into the Junior Miss department. They had a big reunion this winter in Cleveland, when “Winged Victory” was playing there and Jane was doing a vaudeville appearance at a local theater. They were both staying at the same hotel. As soon as Lon found out she was there, he called her room, but got no answer. So—he went out and the first person he met in the elevator was Jane. 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I’ve never worn one since, until now.” That kid sure needs a watch these days, with all the things he tries to cram into twenty-four hours. Just being in “Winged Victory” was a full time job, considering all the GI activities which went with it. But Lon had to add the duties of a movie star. When he was selling advance tickets for the show, he signed three thousand auto- graphs in one day at the box office, and had three callouses on his hand’as a result. In Philadelphia, where the show had a long run, he and Marty Ritt shared a tiny apartment. They had a huge closet that was always full of dirty clothes, and a stove that they never used for anything but making tea, although Lon is learning to cook. He wants to have a boat after the war, as youve probably heard, and if he’s going to sail off on long trips, he can’t live entirely on chocolate bars and Pepsis. 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Make him stop.” In due time the riot was quelled, but throughout the picture Maureen muttered instructions to her mother on the screen, explained bewildering turns of the plot, and did—in general—all in her power to protect the Reagan family safety and prestige. that's my mom... When the picture was over, the ex- hausted nurse arose, collected her charges and started a thankful retreat through the smiling theater. Anyone who hadn’t known that Miss Wyman’s daughter was in the audience during the performance, was so informed by’ that lady as she exited. “That was my mommy,” she exclaimed, churning from side to side. ; Then she realized that, since all these lovely people weren’t leaving, the picture was to be shown again. Plumping herself down in the first available seat, she in- formed the nurse that she was going to see mommy’s picture again. 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Then there was another, more important reason, for adopting a baby. Jane has said hundreds of times that she and Ronnie are two of the luckiest people in the world; they were lucky to find one another, lucky to have a button-nose like Maureen, and lucky in their careers. In a world where there are many children who never have proper care or love and who never know real home life, Jane thinks it is important for people like herself and Ronnie to add, from the outside, to their family—and then to regard the newcomer as flesh of their flesh, bone of their bone. COCKEYED WONDER (Continued from page 59) acting job to make room for a relative. Hates the director who gave him a bland stare, observed, “You’re no good,’ and threw him off “Wake Island” without ever seeing him work. He loves Bogey, who insulted him. He loves Joe Egli of Paramount and Jim Ryan of TC-Fox, who broke their necks trying to get him a job. 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It was only when the rough stuff started that Pop got sore, because some- how you could always find Bernie in the middle of it. “You and your temper! It’ll land you in jail some day.” : Boxing was another story. Boxing was calculated mayhem, and not for decent boys. Bernie had to keep his activities in the ring to himself. “What happened to your eye?” his mother would gasp. “Oh nothing, mom. Little argument with some bum in the subway.” That went on till his cousin, who’d been acting as his second, squealed, causing Pop to thunder, Mom to weep and Bernie to abandon the gloves. During his last two years at college he worked for a law firm, with the under- standing that on graduation he’d be taken in as a junior member. Just before taking his degree, Bernie was kissed off by his sponsor. Someone else had a prior claim. Sick and sore, he made the usual rounds and got the usual answers. He turned to anything that would bring in a dollar— drove trucks, worked on roads, sneaked back to the ring under an assumed name. This went on for a year and drove him close to desperation. Lying sleepless at night, he saw himself slipping into a bottomless pit—no money, no job, no prospects. The scales dropped from his eyes. He saw the law stripped of the romance it held for his father. He real- ized that, for him, it held none. Someone told him of a sculptor who needed a model. Another odd job. Another -few bucks. Through the sculptor he met a group- of so-called Bohemians—artists, writers, people of the theater. They in- trigued him. He’d never run up against their kind before. To one of their parties came a young English actor, in high fettle. He’d just been cast in a play. He just happened to have the script with him. Without any urging, he read them his part. They all joined in a hallelujah chorus—all except Bernie. 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was being cast. read. What could he lose” The theater was crowded with would- be actors. Each was handed a script as he reached the stage. Bernie, the com- plete greenhorn, read what was set before him, cues and all— “Hey, what are you doing?” This wised him up. He waved an airy hand. “I always do that. It gives me a springboard.” “Hm. Interesting method of attack.” He left the theater with the part in his pocket and his head in a_ whirl. Twenty-five smackers a week, but prob- lems, problems. Where would he get the fifty-four bucks to join Equity? Suppose he got it and the play only ran two weeks? —he’d be four dollars out. Above all, how would he break the news to the folks? The reaction at home was exactly what he’d expected—shock, horror and utter condemnation. Bernie rode it through. He had no more feeling for the romance of the theater than for that of the law. A friend staked Bernie to the Equity fee. A week before the opening he was fired to make room for somebody’s son. Now, on top of his other obligations, he had a 54-dollar debt to pay. Doggedly, he went on the hunt and landed as a super in “Sailors of Cattaro.” Only twelve a week, but it ran three months, and while it was running he began to learn. An organization called the Theater Union was putting on Sunday one-acters at the Provincetown. Bernie worked in a couple and got his first boost from the director, James Light. “ Vitality sticks out all over you,” said Light. “And vi- tality’s more important to an actor than anything else.” “Ah, g’wan,” scoffed Bernie, longing but refusing to believe. He’d armored himself in cynicism at all points. Don’t get ideas and you won't be hurt, was his motto. Secretly, he agreed with Pop. This wasn’t his game. But Light did more than talk. He gave Bernie a part in MacLeish’s “Panic’”— which marked Orson Welles’s first ap- pearance in New York. This was the seed of the Mercury Theater, and for Bernie it led to new offers. 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Night before opening, Ferber and Kaufman sent for him, and he answered the sum- mons, all unsuspecting. When Ferber said, “We'll have to let you go,” he thought she was kidding. When at last it sank in, he struck out wildly. “But why, what’s the matter, what’ve I done? You thought I was good, the papers said I was good.” “Bernie, we’re almost as unhappy about it as you are. But we’ve sent for the boy who played it in New York. With the cast as it is, you’ve got the wrong value.” That’s when he touched bottom, and damn near cut his throat. Thinking back to it now, he still gets sick... . In a dreary downpour he rose at 5:30 next morning to make the 7 o’clock train. The ride was murder. He walked into the house like a whipped pup. “Well, you were right, Pop. I’m canned.” And this is where Pop became for all time a great man to his son... . “So you're canned,” he said. “Is that something to cry over? You wanted to be an actor, didn’t you? What makes you think it’s all peaches and cream? Get out and fight. Show them if you’re an actor.” One unbelieving second, then Bernie grabbed his father in a throttling hug. Fight? He’d lick the world. Out of his worst moment had come one of _ his best... . Life brightened further next day after a call from Sam Harris’s office. George Kaufman had phoned, telling them to put Bernie into “Mice and Men” as under- study, but at his “Stage Door” salary. Came the day when he played Curly and, eventually, George. He played lots of good parts, including the fighter in “Golden Boy” on tour. Yet, paradoxically, his name meant little. So when a dry spell set in, he turned to radio. Not that radio flung its gates wide and bowed him in. But Bernie was no longer the beaten boy. Having skinned his knuckles pounding in vain at doors, he sat himself down and used his head. For shows, he discovered used free lance scripts. Inside of a week he’d knocked out four scripts and, by odd coincidence, each of the four featured a flashy part hand tailored to the measure of one Bernard Zaneville. Radio needs writers worse than it does actors, so producers made a lunge for the scripts—which Bernie dangled temptingly out of reach. “Uh—uh, mustn’t touch. Not unless I get the parts.” Well, he got the parts and never wrote another line, and before long he was one of the ten guys doing practically all the radio shows in town. He made lots of coin, but the wrinkles that started smoothing out his belly transferred themselves to his brow. Radio was all very well, but it offered no challenge. ; “Nuts,” said Bernie, “I’ve got enough —— for a stake. Let’s take a look at Holly- wood.” That was 42, and New York was hos- pitality itself compared with movieland. He couldn’t even get by the studio cops— Anyway, not till an agent took him in tow. The advantage of an agent was that you got kicked out by the casting office instead of the cop. He wasn’t the movie type, they said—neither fish nor fowl, neither hero nor heavy, neither juvenile nor character man. The pay-off came with “Wake Island”—a good part that Joe Egli wangled for him—and then biff! out on his ear. The director didn’t like his face. Bernie studied same in the mirror. Granted he was no Bob Taylor, was there actually something in his face that re- pelled people? Then he’d better stick to radio, where they couldn’t see him. Any- way, his dough was giving out. Back to radio he went. Twenty-six weeks of “Big Town” with Eddie Robinson. On the street one day he ran into a playwright friend who’d just finished an Army short to be produced by Warners. “There’s a good little part for you, Bernie. Let’s go see about it.” They gave him the part, and his agent said that was fine, that would give him an entree at Warners. The agent was an optimist. After “Rear Gunner,” he kept offering Bernie to Warners like a tidbit with every meal. Warner’s weren’t hungry, and Bernie was good and fed up. Stalking along the cor- ridor one aM after his daily turndown, he paused outside an office. Phrases hit his ear—“Pulaski—what about Pulaski? gotta find the right guy for Pulaski—some- one like Garfield.” 3 Bernie strode in. “Howe about me?” “You think you’re as good as Garfield?” “T think I’m as good as anyone, what do you think?” Might as well get fresh, soft answers had availed him nothing. “Look, you're going to shoot fifty tests. Make it fifty-one. A test’ll tell the story. .. .” “Okay,” said the producer suddenly. And that’s how Bernie came to be Pulaski and Dane Clark and a star. The day he signed his contract. he also bought a 31 Model A Ford, which he cherishes but doesn’t trust. Driving down- hill not long ago, the car shed a wheel and all but broke its owner’s neck. Now the problem is: Should he risk killing his luck or killing himself? Then on his dressing table sits a rubber doll that traveled the country with him. Though she’s seen better days, he refuses to part with her. Margot, his wife, gave him the thing when he opened in “Mice and Men.” Margot used to be a concert pianist. They can’t get a piano, because their floors won’t support one. By way of a house they had to take what they could find, and what they could find was a comedy number in the hills. In one wall, a beehive nestles. The stove is the kind that makes eating out a pleasure. Both are voracious readers and do most of their reading in the patio since, short of an earthquake, they can count on its not buckling under them. Evenings they take in a movie or the fights, Margot being as rabid a fight fan as Dane. Most of their close Hollywood friendships were formed in New York—with people like the Garfields, the Kellys, the Wynns, the Whorfs. But they accept few invitations, because their own entertainment facilities are nil and they can’t reciprocate. Pop? Well, Dane got a letter from his cousin the other day—the one who squealed. “Your father called last night. Nothing special. Mentioned that he’d seen ‘God Is My Co-Pilot.” I could hear his buttons popping over the phone.” Dane grins. He can afford to grin now. His armor’s cracked. He’s almost quit looking for the joker. : ‘ = oe |

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