Modern Screen 1949-06 Vol. 39, No. 1

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bo Advertisement jenn on the Cover %* Though still in her teens, Elizabeth Taylor possesses in striking degree those three attributes necessary for stardom— talent, beauty and personality. %* Born in London, England, the daughter of Francis Taylor, art dealer, and the former Sara Sothern, American actress, Elizabeth attended school at Byron House in London. At a very early age, she began taking ballet and riding lessons. % When war clouds gathered over Europe, Elizabeth’s father sent his family to stay with Mrs. Taylor’s father in Pasadena. Later, he joined them and since then they have made their home in Beverly Hills. % When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was hay- ing difficulty finding a little English girl to team with Roddy McDowall in “Lassie Come Home,” a family friend who had seen Elizabeth when visiting the Taylor home, suggested she try for the role. Her screen test won her a long-term contract. Her second role was in “The White Cliffs of Dover” in which she also appeared with Roddy. An- other studio then borrowed her for a role in “Jane Eyre.” Then came “National Velvet” at M-G-M which rocketed her into the Hollywood and public spotlight. % Elizabeth followed this triumph with “Courage of Lassie,” “Life With Father,” “Cynthia,” and then in “A Date With Judy,” and “Julia Misbehaves.” Her re- markable portrayal of Amy, the blonde sister, in “Little Women” won her a coveted co-starring part with Robert Taylor in “The Conspirator.” In this picture she reveals a new, startling and lovely maturity. You'll see her in a romantic and dramatic role that takes real trouping. And you'll admire her more than ever as she meets the greatest challenge of her career with colors flying! Watch for-Lor net M-GM filme hit “LITTLE WOMEN” in Technicolor and wx “THE CONSPIRATOR” x JUNE, 1949 modern screen He idly wynyuce stories ROCK-A-BYE BOGEY (Humphrey Bogatt)........0.:.0c-cc:ceseeeeeenes by John Harkins 22 WINNER TAKE ALL? (Jane Wyman).....0...0.0.000ccccce ete: by Janet Franklin 24 MEET THE ‘49ers (Doris Day, Montgomery Clift, Gigi Perreau, etc.) by Louis Pollock 30 SHE NEVER LEFT HOME (Jean Peters )........0...00...::ceceeee by Mrs. Mary E. Peters as told to Robert Peer 34 THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOLLYWOOD (Janet Leigh)... 36 BABYS FA CEm@Robertir Arthurs) ites. .oec esterase yr neestetee se ee eer by Carl Schroeder 39 NOT BY BREAKS ALONE (Guy Madison)................0.0.c..0- by Helen Ainsworth 40 MY, LONE YiGY EARS tre re ee esos case etna Bet nee ep ee ee by Vera-Ellen 42 HAPPY HUNTING (Mona Freeman, Terry Moore, Jerome Courtland, etc.)......... 44 PETER AND THE WOLF (Peter Lawford )...........0....000c by Sheilah Graham 48 TIME OF THEIR LIVES (Shirley Temple, John Agar)... ices 50 THISUL OVE OR Uy OURS oer aces ee Rea ee Rn by Wanda Hendrix 52 MAKE WAY FOR YOUTH (Jeanne Crain, Kirk Douglas, Pat Neal, etc.) by Hedda Hopper 54 STAIRWAY TO THE STARS (Lois Butler )........000.00...0cccececseceee: by Jack Wade 56 PAST PERFECT (Elizabeth Taylor))........c0....cccsccccqcctscesceeeseeseenseeecess by Beverly Ott 58 features THES INSIDE: (ST OR Yeo sie secs foes tia aca eo ee aaa ee Os ne ee nC SP 4 LOUELLA PARSONS’ GOOD NEWG................ BUS aa cat Sen ree 6 EDITORIAL Solute mal Opry Outharce see ert ceee ore eee aoe ee 29 WHO'S" NEW oo oo Re a ce ree ee Nee Cr 62 departments IMO VIRSREVIBWIS exes cnn cceiectiecrccanr Gerer ee een een Tear eh cmd YOURGLE ETERS oes Suk crear ea) iy aeemee es aa DRGs Ree rR RR eos Aas ences ky MUSIC ssSweetsond MOL heh se es Rens nore eee ee et ASHI@ Nite terre efor BEAUTY: Clean as a Kitten PAIN: SEA RE 2 eres ec ssl locos el5 2 sees So savas Su SSGGRo Ea Soka oe RI a 2 aor ON THE COVER: Color Portrait of Elizabeth Taylor by Nickolas Muray Other picture credits, page 21 WADE H. NICHOLS, editor WILLIAM HARTLEY, managing editor TOM CARLILE, western manager WILLIAM JEFFERS, story editor ROMA BURTON, western editor FLORENCE EPSTEIN, associate editor VIOLA MOORE, associate editor FERNANDO TEXIDOR, art director : BOB BEERMAN, staff photographer BILL WEINBERGER, art editor BERT PARRY, staff photographer CONSTANCE BARTEL, fashion editor GLORIA LAMPERT, assistant editor MAXINE FIRESTONE, assistant fashion editor BEVERLY OTT, assistant editor CHRISTOPHER KANE, movie reviewer IRENE TURNER, research editor CAROL CARTER, beauty editor NANCY WOOD, food editor j POSTMASTER: Please send notice on Form 3578 and copies returned under Label Form 3579 to 261 Fifth Avenue, New York 16, New York | Vol. 39, No. 1, June, 1949. Copyright, 1949, the Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 261 Fifth Ave., New York. Published nerdy, Printed in U. S. A. Published simultaneously in the Dominion of Canada. 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If you are not completely convinced that Arrid is in every way the finest cream deodorant you’ve ever used, return the jar with unused portion to Carter Products, Inc., 53 Park Pl., N.Y.C., for refund of full purchase price. Don’t be half-safe. Be Arrid-safe! Use Arrid to be sure. Get Arrid now at your favorite drug counter—only 39¢ plus tax. Maal 7 -¢ inside story A MEDIUM-SIZED AND strongly opinionated young lady broke into our premises during working hours a few weeks ago and snarled demurely, “Lissen, | knucklehead, why don’t you ever give us kids a break in the magazine?” We smiled, reaching over to pat the cherub on her head, as she continued: ‘“‘You think | from George Arliss it gives a swoon or somethin’?” Thoroughly charmed, we | said, “But—” Our little darling interrupted with a forefinger prodding our left clavicle. “No buts!” she said, and then flung over her shoulder a parting gibe: “Editors, you claim to be! Ha!” Well, we called off our usual mid-morning snack of aspirins and bicarb right away. We hadn’t published anything on George Arliss in years, late great actor though he was, but our finger-jabbing friend had set us thinking. We went into a kind of introspective seance with ourself. Seventy-two hours later—feverish, hungry and haggard—we staggered out of the editorial sanctum overflowing with nothing less than an Inspiration. ‘“‘Lissen,’ we said brightly, unable to confine our own delight, “why don’t we ever give the kids a break in the magazine?” And that’s the way it all began. It all got finished some time later and became MODERN SCREEN’S great, big, wonderful Salute to | Youth, which begins on page 29. Deucedly clever of us, if we do say so, too! PEOPLE USED TO feel that if you were young the only other thing you needed in Hollywood was blonde hair or free access to a jug of peroxide. Now it takes _ ~~more: talent, personality, perseverance. Lou Pollock describes some youngsters with plenty of same in “Meet the ’49ers” (page 30). Have you seen your | agent lately? \ | | BUT YOUTH, IT SEEMS, really is taking over. Hedda Hopper’s on their side. | “You'd better make way,” Hedda warns the older stars (on page 54), “because if © you don’t these kids’ll just walk right over you.” } | A GUY WHO never waited for anyone to make way is Peter Lawford. Spot an’ ermine cape in Ciro’s, and who’s standing next to it? Try to shake the hand of a movie queen, and who’s holding it? Peter Lawford (both times). Call him a wolf if you want, but for every 393 times his name appears in a gossip column, } his boss seems to add another year to his contract. You want to know why? Turn to “Peter and the Wolf,” page 48. HUMPHREY BOGART USED to be afraid of children. Then he started talking to a few—and he was terrified. Everything’s okay now, though. The fuller explanation appears on page 22. NEXT MONTH WE expect to shatter a few dream worlds with Hedda Hopper’s | article, ‘“Myths the Stars Believe About Themselves.” We also expect to have stories about Ingrid Bérgman, Barbara Stanwyck, Ty Power, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner and a few more of your favorites. We're telling you all this so you won’t think you hae to come in and corner us to get the stories you want. FI ‘

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History's Most Notorious Bride... Not since the ever famous ‘Kitty’ has Paramount brought you Paulette Goddard in a picture as spectacular as this adventure-filled story of the strangest bridal night in history. Bride of Vengeance A Paramount Picture eae: Paulette Macdonald Goddard: Lund. ‘Carey A Mitchell Leisen produc’ with Albert Dekker - Jorn Cutt an -- Det oe a’ Produced by Richard Ma: Screenplay by Cyril Hume and Michael Hog

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LOUELLA PARSONS @ Only his wife and those with official busi- ness were allowed to visit Robert Mitchum at Castiac, the Los Angeles County prison farm —from which, as you know, he was released after serving 50 days of his 60-day sentence, getting 10 days off for good behavior. But a friend of mine, who was on the “ap- proved” list, drove down to see Bob on a Sunday afternoon, and—but let me repeat what he said in his own words: “Visitors are permitted on Sundays and holidays for two hours—and there are no private huddles. I mean, I met Bob in the Army-camp-like mess hall with about 700 other prisoners milling around among lawyers and relatives. “Gee, he looked wonderful—sun-tanned the color of a.hickory nut and 10 pounds thinner. He v'-s wearing the regulation blue jeans * and he was so glad to see me ing me on the back and What's new?’ > down to see him tight back. of our life 1d {ows down here,’ he laughed. But he wasn’t knock- ing it. He told me he’d never been in better physical or mental shape in his life. And I believed him. I know that guy well—and I can swear that he was taking this as the best disciplinary thing that has ever happened to him. All the kinks he used to suffer from are ironed. out—and you can take that straight. “Don't let anybody kid you that he hasn't been scared! He’s so grateful to get another chance with his wife and his career that he'll never get off the straight and narrow again. “"I'm working in the toy shop now,’ he said almost sheepishly after. we’d found our- selves a more or less quiet spot. “T guess I must have looked my surprise at that reference to a toy shop, because Bob explained: ‘Toys are sent down here from orphanages and various children’s charity homes for repair. Some of them are so shot we almost have to make them over. Wait until I get out and my kids find out I can repair their toys and make them as good as new. That'll set me up with them; won't it?’ He was almost pitiful in his eagerness. “I found out that he was very proud and happy that the director of his picture, The Big) Steal, had been down to visit him and had posted him on what was going on with the picture that Bob had had to abandon when his | jail sentence came up. ‘That was mighty nice of him,’ he kept saying. “Before I left, I handed him a laugh by telling him that the press agent of the Cement, Bloc Industry had asked if they could use| a picture of him in their advertisements as, "Mr. Cement Bloc.’ “Oh, no!’ Bob laughed. “Oh, no!” And as I drove away, I could still hear that big lug laughing as though he couldn't stand it... . Don’t worry about Mitchum. That guy'll be all right!” * * * When Ladies Meet: It was the week before) the Academy Awards and Loretta Young, Rosalind Russell, Jane Wyman and Joan Fon- taine, in their loveliest evening gowns, were in my bedroom discussing the Oscar situa- tion. It was that time, during a party evening, | sth Taylor, escorted by Lieut. Glenn Davis, was an early arrival. ‘ore an off-the-shoulder gown of white crinoline and between ds chatted with another well-known admirer, Ronald Colman.;

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ACADEMY AWARD NIGHT IS STILL THE | MOST ANTICIPATED PROFESSIONAL EVENT OF THE GLITTERING HOLLYWOOD SCENE. Jeanne Crain, who came—naturally—with husband Paul Brink- man needed that fur jacket—there were chilly gusts of wind and | a few snow flurries. Underneath, she wore a black lace gown. _Doug Fairbanks emceed Academy Award ceremonies, held before 900 industry members, and accepted an Oscar for Laurence Olivier. Claire Trevor, Jerry Wald, Jane Wyman and Walter Huston were among winners. Howard Duff and Ava Gardner arrived at the theater together and seemed very affectionate. The 3,000 fans outside the theater greeted Ava's new hair-do (short-cropped and blonde) with surprised, pleased shrieks.

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8 OKAY, JUNIOR, LETS HAVE IT. IF. YOU KNOW WHATS MADE ME A LOST CAUSE WITH JULIE, DONT KEEP IT A SECRET! WELL, MAN TO S MAN, ITS THE OLD BAD BREATH ANGLE, JOE. SO, HOWS FOR SEEING YOUR DENTIST ? V TO COMBAT BAD BREATH, I RECOMMEND ¥ , COLGATE DENTAL CREAM! FOR SCIENTIFIC £3 TESTS PROVE THAT IN 7 OUT OF IO CASES, )* COLGATES INSTANTLY STOPS BAD BREATH “ THAT ORIGINATES IN THE MOUTH! “Colgate Dental Cream’s active penetrating foam gets into hidden crevices between teeth —helps clean out decaying food particles— stop stagnant saliva odors—remove the cause of much bad breath. And Colgate’s soft pol- © ishing agent cleans enamel thoroughly, f gently and safely!” SINCE I GOT THE COLGATE PITCH JULIES TEMPERS DONE A SWITCH! COLGATE DENTAL CREAM Cleans Your Breath While It Cleans Your Teeth! ECONOMY 7 SIZE 59° > LOUELLA PARSONS’ GOOD NEWS Gregory Peck, who gives his all to any role, goes overboard on the ‘'Suspense" air show. He's in Italy now for the filming of Quo Vadis. when the gals retire to powder their noses, repair the lipstick and let down their hair. I really picked up my ears when Joan, Roz and Loretta all started giving Jane advice on what to do if she won—or did not win— the coveted statuette. “Don’t get your heart set on it—look at me,” sniffed Roz, “I practically had it in my hand when they handed it to my pal here.” Loretta laughed. “And if you win,” put in Joan Fontaine, Oscar alumna, ‘don’t cry with happiness. It makes your mascara run and you'll look like you've got a black eye in the pictures.” Poor Janie—so nervous and still trying to be so calm and collected. I wonder how much of that fine advice she remembered on the big night. * * * Close Up of Montgomery Clift: He eats radishes like peanuts and he’s an ice-box raider. . . . The Gene Kellys swear he likes kitchens so much he enters their home through the back door so he can get there sooner... . The only girl in Hollywood he has really wanted to date is Jane Wyman and he called her number once. Then he lost his nerve and hung up. . . . The Stork Club is his favorite night club in the world, providing no one recognizes him. He wakes up cross. Doesn't want to talk before he’s had a couple - of cups of coffee. .. . The quickest way to bore him is to analyze his character or give him advice. . He’s a moderately good dresser and has a secret liking for loud Hawaiian shirts but he’s scared to wear them. . . . He hates people who arrive after the curtain has gone up in a theater. In fact, the theater is kind of a church with him. He respects all its traditions. . . . He likes to travel with married couples, which is dis- couraging to belles who have their caps set for him. . . . He is truly modest. Not long ago, I forgot an interview appointment with him which had been made long in advance, and I was an hour late. Monty said, “I can understand anyone forgetting an interview with me. I don’t say anything.” . . . His work is the only thing in his life (so far) that Lana and Bob Topping proudly show the 52- pound sailfish (Bob's catch) that didn't get away, during their recent cruise to the Bahamas. really holds him and he would accept a “bit” he loved, for nothing, rather than play a star role he hated. . . . When he turned down the male lead in Sunset Boulevard for Brackett and Wilder, he told those two gentlemen, apologetically, “It’s too good for me”—which is the height of tact if you ask me... . He's a guy nobody knows—but everybody likes. * * * It's going to be a great blow if that Great Lady star gets herself involved in a messy international romance. Rumors are already beginning to leak out that she and her hus- band are practically at the breaking point. I believe this divorce would be Hollywood's worst black eye since the Mitchum affair. So many people have this actress on a high, high pedestal. * * * Betty Hutton says there’s not a word of truth in the gossip that she’s feudin’ with Joan Caulfield. : “We have never been up for the same role, we have never been interested in the same man, we have never bought the same dress—so what the heck is there to feud about?” asks the dynamic Betty. * * * The way Errol Flynn raves about Greer Garson must keep her ears burning all the time! It’s no secret that Clark Gable and Greer didn't particularly jibe when they were co- starred. But I’ve never heard Errol carry on about any actress he, has worked with, the way he does over Miss G. The Redhead and the Hothead, both Irish, moody, but with a wonderful sense of humor, understand each other perfectly. Greer was at his home for dinner one eve- ning recently and the only other guests were Flynn's little girls, Rory and Diedre. And Greer and Errol dined together the night | before he left for England. But don't get the idea it's a romance. In spite of rumors to the contrary, I believe | Buddy Fogelson is still head man in Greer’s life and that Errol is torching for Nora Ed- dington. ALSO 4F3¢ AND Always use Z, 25¢F peas COLGATE DENTAL CREAM EV\AA/NP after you eat and before every date JOIN US IN OUR SPECIAL SALUTE TO YOUTH-—BEGINNING ON PAGE 29.

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LOUELLA PARSONS’ GOOD NEWS Speaking of Nora, she told me, “I’m going to marry Dick Haymes as soon as it is possible.” But this may not be as soon as they'd hoped. Joanne Dru had been reported as being willing to give Dick the quick divorce he had requested and had announced plans to go to Las Vegas, where a divorce can be granted in six weeks. But now, it is said, Joanne has gone back to her original plan of filing for divorce in California—and that takes a year. (When I asked Joanne if she were going to marry John Ireland, who has been very attentive to her, Joanne replied, “I’m not go- ing to marry anybody—at least, not yet.) Nora told me teorfully that Errol had re- fused to let her take Rory, who is legally in his custody, to Las Vegas with her when she and Diedre go there while Errol is off on his European trip. I suggested that Errol’s refusal was based on the fact that Dick Haymes had accompa- nied Nora to Las Vegas when she went there the first time. “But I won't see Dick this time until my six-weeks residence there is over,” Nora said. She was still hoping Errol would change his mind—but he didn't. Rory is being taken care of at the Flynn home by Mrs. Eddington, Nora’s stepmother, and Errol’s sister, Mrs. Rosemary Warner. And, later on, Errol’s parents will arrive from Jamaica. So certainly little Rory is being well looked after. Nora and Dick Haymes have been very “touchy” about their romance, apparently be- lieving everyone has been watching them and talking about them everywhere. The other night at Jay’s café, a very small place at the beach, Nora and Dick were seated next to a group of four people. One of the men was named Earl and his name came up frequently in the conversation. Nora must have thought they were saying her ex-husband’s name, because she turned to the surprised group and snapped, “Errol! Errol! Errol! All right, we hear you!” The poor innocent foursome almost swooned with surprise. * * * The telephone rang in the middle of the night. Alan Ladd sleepily answered it. “This is the Sheriff's office in Reno,” boomed a voice from the other end. “Did you write a letter to a girl telling her to come to Holly- wood for a job in the movies?” “What?” yelled Alan, now wide awake. FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS! Come one! Come all! But come fast, because we have only 500 free. subscriptions to give away and they're going to the first 500 people to send back this question- naire. We liked all the stories in this issue, but we're really interested in the ones you liked (as well as the ones you didn't). Don't forget! The July, August and September issues are yours for free if you're among the first 500. QUESTIONNAIRE Which stories and features did you enjoy most in our JUNE issue? WRITE THE NUMBERS 1, 2, and 3 AT THE RIGHT of your Ist, 2nd, and 3rd choices. Rock-a-bye Bogey (Humphrey Meet the ’49ers (Clift, Day, Greer, Perreau, etc.) Sle She Never Lett H Peters) =. There’s No Place Like Hollywood (Janet Leigh) 5 Baby Face (Bob Arthur) Not By Breaks Alone (Guy Madison) , My Lonely Years by Vera-Ellen [(] Happy Hunting (Freeman, Lindsay, Courtland, Williams) O Which of the above did you like LEAST?. . Peter and the Wolf (Peter Lawford) Time of Their Lives (Shirley Temple-John Agar) - This Love of Ours (Wanda Hendrix-Audie Murphy) Make Way for Youth (Jeanne Crain, Kirk Douglas, Pat Neal, etc.) by Hedda Hopper Stairway to the Stars (Lois Butler) RA Past Perfect (Elizabeth Taylor). [ Who’s New (48 new stars) Louella Parsons’ Good News What 3 MALE stars.would you like to read about in future issues? List them, |, 2, 3, in order of preference What 3 FEMALE stars would you like to read about in future issues? List them, |, 2, 3, in order of preference My name is My address is | Made by the makers of { DR. WEST’S MIRACLE-TUFT 50¢ ADDRESS THIS TO: POLL DEPT., MODERN SCREEN, BOX 125, MURRAY HILL STATION, NEW YORK 16, N. Y.

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Sa lo in Champion, a brilliantly realistic drama of the fight racket, Kirk Douglas makes love to Ruth Roman, daughter of the owner of the lunchroom where he works, and is forced to marry her. He deserts her, hits the road and becomes a prizefighter. MOVIE REVIEWS hy Chl Laue CHAMPION Cast: Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman, Lola Albright. United Artists. In Ring Lardner’s original story, Midge Kelly was an unmitigated rat. He beat his crippled brother, he beat his old mother, he spent his money on women, and he lived a happy, prosperous life. Our movie Midge (Kirk Douglas) is a trifle less ruthless—he supports his old mother, and has a certain affection for his crippled brother (Arthur Kennedy ). He comes to a much more hideous end, and it’s easier to feel some sympathy for him, since you're shown that social forces, inborn alone, have played their part in shaping him. We see and not cussedness Midge as a poor boy, knocked around, looked His savage natural skill and the handling of a clever, cynical manager—plus ruthless double-crossing—make him champion. He's hailed by the public as a splendid, clean-cut athlete. Yet all the time, we know him for a conscienceless rat. After messing up a number of lives, he climaxes things by slugging his crippled brother {Arthur Kennedy). down on, cheated, until in rebellion at the world, he resolves to be rich and do a little looking down, himself. Trouble is, he takes too kindly to it. First he deserts the girl (Ruth Roman) he’s been pressured into marry- ing, and goes off to become a prizefighter. Right away, he goes back on an agreement he makes to take a dive in one fight, and in- stead beats the blazes out of a fighter (John Day) who's befriended him. This nets him the fighter’s girl friend (Marilyn Maxwell). She's an expensive lady to keep, and she has no time for has-beens. Neither has Midge. He fires his loyal manager (Paul Stewart) in order to cinch a deal with a big promoter, finds he likes the promoter’s wife (Lola Al- bright), and is all ready to make off with her when the promoter gives him a mess of Then he gets his. money to forget the affair. Midge’s memory is obligingly short. He becomes world champion, idol of the crowds and touted by the press as a clean-living American boy. His mother dies. He gets home too late to see her, but not too late to mess up crippled brother Con- nie’s life. Connie’s always loved Midge’s de- serted wife. He's found her, has her on the point of marrying him, when Midge appears and makes a couple of passes. Midge gets his, of course, in a scene so horrible you'll never forget it, but by then he’s already cru- cified everybody who's ever come near him. There are fight scenes in this picture to sicken strong men. There are pieces of acting with- out flaw. (Notably Douglas’, Stewart's, and the girl, Ruth Roman's.) While it’s not light- hearted, it’s quite a perfect production.

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‘ TULSA ~ Cast: Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendariz, Lloyd Gough. Eagle-Lion. Back in the early days when Tulsa was a boom town, Susan Hayward’s pappy, a cattle man, gets annoyed because the oil from a well on the next ranch is polluting his stream and killing his herd. He goes over to tell the oil people about it, and is promptly blown up. CNitroglycerin explosion. Accidental.) Susan complains to oil bigshot Bruce Tanner (Lloyd Gough), and then she meets up with an old soak who insists on giving her some oil leases. (That means you can drill on the property.) The old soak is killed, and there she is, an heiress. Tanner now comes forward. He'll buy the leases. Drilling for oil’s a gamble. Play safe, little girl. Sneering widely, Susan turns Tanner down. Then, with the aid of Jim Redbird (Pedro Armendariz), an Indian who's in love with her, and Brad Brady (Robert Preston), the old soak’s son, she starts operations. Suffice it to say her oil well comes in. Soon she’s the richest girl in Okla- homa, with lots and lots of wells. Gets greedy, too. Joins forces with Tanner. Up till here, she’s gone along with Jim Redbird’s plea that she leave some green space for cattle—at least on his property. The land will be there long after the oil is gone, but it will be ruined forever if oil-crazy operators don’t stop sinking derricks every two feet or so. Still, Susan’s so set on being Tanner's partner that if Jim Redbird didn’t go almost mad, do you hear, mad, and start a raging fire, why she’d most likely never have come to her senses. But that’s all she needs, To quote a studio release: “Now .. . she is exactly the girl he (Brad) has dreamed she could be. Together they face the future, ready to build another oil empire. .. .” Anyhow, the picture has exciting Technicolored mo- ments. (The fire, especially, is a tensely spec- tacular sight to see.) And the background of oilfield operations is not only interesting but moderately educational—at least, it shows you that life in the oilfields can be awful messy. . . . Another interesting feature is Chill Wills carrying on like a carbon copy of Hoagy Carmichael. Tulsa: Susan Hayward gets richer and richer in the oil business, involving Pedro Armendariz and Bob Preston in considerable excitement, She’s got the biggest SIX- shooters in CENTURY-FOX - ROMERO - VALLEE SAN JUAN ond STERLING HOLLOWAY - HUGH HERBERT EL BRENDEL - PORTER HALL + PATI BEHRS Written, Directed and Produced by PRESTON STURGES A Screen Play Based on a Story by Earl Felton | CESAR RUDY OLGA

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rae "We'll take dogs,” he said. “But we'll also take horses and machines.” A Norwegian, who'd been adviser to the noted explorer, Amundsen, told Scott he was wrong. ‘Take dogs,” he said. “And dogs, and dogs.’ Scott, however, stuck to his own ideas. If you've ever read the history of his last expedition, you know it was tragic. Brave men fighting a thousand miles of barren ice and hostile wind, being beaten to the Pole (Amundsen got there first, after all), having their animals die, their food supply diminish, and, in the end, them- selves perishing. Scott's diary contained these last words: “Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood and courage of my companions .. .” That the picture is en- ‘grossing is due largely to the excellent cast, headed by John Mills, as Scott. That the picture is not quite as moving as you'd expect may have something to do with the fact that we live in an age when many men have died gallantly, though the ways of their death were not ways of their own choosing. This soon after a world war, the idea that once men who could have stayed peacefully at home, preferred to risk death by chasing adventure, is still a trifle surprising. You're desperately sorry for the Scott expedition, but you know that the Antarctic is just a great icy waste. And you wonder why these men threw their lives away when there wasn’t any need to. FLAMINGO ROAD Cast: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney _ Greenstreet, David Brian, Gladys George. Warners. A complicated, absorbing drama about am- bition and politics. Joan Crawford's a carnival dancer adrift in the small town of Boldon. She meets Deputy Sheriff Zachary Scott. He’s nice to her, but Sheriff Sydney Greenstreet, who has big plans for Zach, breaks up the attach- ment. Sydney succeeds in marrying weakling Zach to a rich, influential lady, but he doesn’t succeed in driving Joan out of Boldon, even though he has her arrested and sent to jail, on a trumped-up charge. When she gets out of the clink she hot-foots it for a roadhouse run by Gladys George, who's in solid with the state political machine bigshots. Sydney won't dare touch her there. At the roadhouse, Joan meets David Brian, head of the machine. He marries her, buys her minks and a new house. Sydney dislikes David Brian, and he dislikes this turn of events. (Brian’s not as es Flamingo Road: Sydney Greenstreet, sheriff with political ambitions, brews a storm in tea- cups for Joan Crawford and David Brian. TONI TWINS prove magic of SOFT-WATER Shampooing BUT KATHLEENE GOT HEAPS OF IT! ‘Look at all this lather”, smiled her twin, Kathleene. *‘T discovered that Toni Creme Shampoo gives Soft- Water Shampooing even in hard water! I never saw such suds! Never saw my hair so shining clean before, either!” That’s what Toni’s Soft- Water Shampooing means. Even in hard water it means billows- of rich, whipped- cream suds that leave your hair shimmering clean! LATHER ...WAS KATHERINE’S PROBLEM. “My shampoo simply would not lather right’, complained Katherine Ring. “I’d rub and rub but still my hair never had much glint to it!” And no wonder! Katherine was using a soap shampoo, and soaps not only fail to lather as well in hard water—they actually leave a film on hair that dulls natural lustre! So your hair lacks highlights, looks drab and lifeless! NOW IT’S TONI CREME SHAMPOO FOR TWO! Yes, it’s Toni and only Toni for both the Ring twins from now on. Because Toni Creme Shampoo gives Soft-Water Sham- ooing in hard water! That creamy-thick es rinses away dirt and dandruff in- stantly. Leaves your hair fragrantly clean, gloriously soft! And Toni Creme Shampoo helps your permanent to “‘take”’ better—look lovelier longer. Get a jar or tube of Toni Creme Shampoo today. See it work the magic of Soft-Water Shampooing on your hair! Fe wen, 00 \ ‘© Guaranteed by @ Good Housekeeping ry “ 10} ‘\) TAS aovennisto WS Enriched with Lanolin 19

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Sa WORLD-RECORD $1,000 PER SEAT PREMIERE at LAWTON * RECORD CROWDS IN ATLANTA * DOORS BROKEN DOWN AT CINCINNATI * SENSATIONAL RECEPTION IN , OKLAHOMA CITY * yy ALL-TIME RECORD ATTENDANCE AT EASTER SHOWING CENTRAL PARK KROGER BABB and J. S. JOSSEY present INTRODUCING AND STARRING \| GINGER PRINCE CAST OF 3,000 THE YEAR’S GRANDEST A WALLMARKY = usicat score PRODUCTION. wih = HALLELUJAH CHOIR \T WZ YF AG el TO YOUR SOUL 2 ar inc. WATCH FOR IT SOON! crooked as Sydney, and he won't let Sydney have his own way about putting hand-picked men into choice state jobs. For a while, Sydney wants to make Zach governor, only he finally decides he’d rather be governor himself, and when this doesn't appeal to Brian, Sydney frames Brian neatly. Before he’s done, Zach’s killed himself, Sydney’s con- nected the suicide with Joan to get her run out of town, Brian’s on his way to jail, and Sidney's set to be governor. Sydney doesn't make it, though, and he doesn’t make it in a spectacular way. This picture moves so fast it leaves you breathless, and newcomer David Brian is sensational. He’s a big blond guy (in looks, kind of a cross between Sonny Tufts and Dan Duryea). No kid (late 30's, probably ), he’s got charm, a warm presence, great ability. He’s got, in fact, more than one man deserves. Joan’s hard to take as a carnival dancer (she sounds too cultured) but the minute she slings a mink across her shoulder, you're right back with the Crawford you know and understand. ADVENTURE IN BALTIMORE Cast: Robert Young, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Albert Spore, oe Hutchinson. Cute’s the word for Adventure in Baltimore. It's young, gay and good-natured. Shirley Temple, minister Robert Young's older daugh- ter, is expelled from school in the year 1905. She thinks three petticoats are enough, and she wants to paint pictures from life, so the school authorities consider her a fallen wom- an. At home, Shirley turns her eyes on John Agar, the boy next door. Alas, he loves another. Shirley is heartbroken, but she man- ages to keep busy. Gets into scrapes like the one after which John has to come to jail and bail her out with his last $50. As a peace offering, she writes John a speech. He’s supposed to address a group of towns- people (at school) and he hasn't had time to prepare for the event. Big night arrives. Speech is handed to John by Shirley two seconds before he’s due to read it. It turns out to be an impassioned plea for woman suffrage, to the hysterical amusement of his Adventure in Baltimore: Suffragette Shirley Temple's advanced ideas .(for 1905) give the boy next door (John Agar) some hard times. audience. Before he’s lived that down, Shir- ley’s involved him in still a worse scandal. She enters a painting (of a more or less unclothed blacksmith) in a “Spirit of Labor” contest, and the painted figure is topped off by John’s head. Elsewhere along the line, Shirley's father is elected Bishop of Mary- land, Shirley’s little brother clutches a guppy till it gasps its last, and then hastily returns it to the fishbowl, and Shirley's mother (Jose- phine Hutchinson), a very dignified lady, has her eye blacked in a suffragette parade. Most amazing highlight of the film, however, is John Agar’s performance. He may be inexperienced, but he’s good. To see him making that women’s rights speech, with the sweat standing forth on his brow, and his nervous voice-breaking, is worth the whole picture. (Shirley gets him in the end. Didn't want you to worry.) : TOO LATE FOR TEARS Cast: Lizabeth Scott, Don De Fore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller. United Artists. Lizabeth Scott is a female who's already driven one husband to suicide, and who murders second husband Arthur Kennedy when he and she get their mitts on a satchel of money intended for blackmailer Dan Duryea. You see, Arthur wants to turn it over to the police. He’s checked it at the Union Station, and hidden the claim check. So good- bye, Arthur. Duryea, who wants his money back, becomes Liz‘s partner in crime and they try to find the claim check. But their efforts are thwarted by Kristine Miller, the dead man’s sister, and Don De Fore, who claims to have been overseas with the dead man, but who’s really a brother of Liz's first husband. Kristine and Don find the claim check before Liz and Duryea do, but Liz has a gun, so she ends up with the claim check. She gets the money, kills Duryea, and she comes to no good end. Arthur Kennedy’s talent is wasted here, while the beautiful Miss Scott's acting is—well— inadequate. Duryea’s very good. As for Kris- tine Miller and Don De Fore, they're both so big and healthy-looking, everybody else in the picture seems dwarfed. Too Late For Tears: As a beautiful murderess, Lizabeth Scott craftily outdoes her partner-in- crime, Dan Duryea, in the villainy department.

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The Younger Brothers: Geraldine Brooks, Wayne Morris and Bob Hutton take time out for smiles in this exciting epic of the big, bad West. THE YOUNGER BROTHERS Cast: Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Robert Hutton, Alan Hale. Warners. The Younger brothers, Wayne Morris, James Brown and Bruce Bennett, are outlaws wait- ing for a Minnesota parole. They want to go home to Missouri and farm life. (Circum- stances forced them to be outlaws in the first place. Their hearts are pure.) A man named © Ryckman (Fred Clark) doesn’t want the boys paroled. He's a crippled ex-detective, and he hates the Youngers because he got his bad leg by falling off a horse one time when he was chasing them. Janis Paige doesn't hate the Youngers (she goes for Wayne, in fact) but she doesn’t want Wayne and his brothers to turn straight, either. She, herself, is an outlaw chief, and honest folk bore her silly. Fortunately for Ryckman and Janis, a fourth Younger brother shows up in town. He’s Bob Hutton and he’s come from Missouri to see his brothers paroled. Ryckman frames it so Hut- ton kills a man, and as if that weren't enough, Janis has Hutton kidnapped, and then Wayne goes to rescue him, and Janis has the men tie him up, too. She’s planning to rob a bank, and leave the Youngers there as security, so to speak. With no horses, and no guns, they'll simply have to sit and wait for the cops to (Continued on page 106) PHOTO CREDITS Below you will find credited page by page the photographs which appear in this issue. 6 Modern Screen staff—8 Lt., Wide World, Rt., Floyd J. Hopkins—12 Lt., Acme Photo, Rt., Wide World—14 Wide World—30 T., Bert Parry, Bot. Lt., RKO, Bot. Rt., Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer—31 Harry Warnecke—32 RKO—33 T. Lt., RKO., T. Rt., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cen. Lt., Gus Gale, Cen. Rt., Floyd McCarty, Bot. Lt., Goldwyn, Bot. Rt., Eagle-Lion—34 Bob Beerman—35 20th Century-Fox Exc. Rt., Bert Parry—36-39 Bert Parry—40 T., Bert Parry, Bot., Walt Davis—41 Bob Beerman—42-47 Bob Beerman—50-53 Bert Parry—54 T., Para- mount, Cen., Bob Beerman; Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, Bot., Columbia; Warners—55 T., Fox; Frank Powolny, Cen., United Artists; Warners, Bot., Jack Woods; Bob Beerman—56 Bert Parry —57 T., Bert Parry, Bot., Eagle-Lion—58-59 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — 60 Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Exc. T. Rt., Bert Parry, Bot., Wide World —61 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—65-70 Jacques Simpson of Pagano Studios. Abbreviations: Bot., Bottom; Cen., Center; Exc., Except; Lt., Left; Rt., Right; T., Top One neolly Lovely te Love? try the test below ; ; 59e—43¢ Have you ever wondered if you are as lovely as SS 25¢ and 10¢ you could be—are you completely sure of your — FRESH charm? Your deodorant can be the difference . . . and nm Re ae ‘ 2 : EAM OEOQDORANT you will never know how lovely you can be until Grors PERSeIRATION you use FRESH. FREsH is so completely effective, yet so easy and pleasant to use... Different from any deodorant you have ever tried. Prove this to yourself with the free jar of creamy, smooth FREsH we will send you. Test it. Write to FresH, Chrysler Building, New York. for your free jar. 21

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M@ One day a few months ago, a friend dropped by for a quiet drink with the Humphrey Bogarts. It was that i peaceful, easy last hour of the afternoon. Lauren—or, I ROCK-A : YE as she’s known to intimates, Betty—had gone to her i| room to change before going out to dinner. Fred, the | I! Negro houseman with the Oxford accent, had lighted the i logs in the fireplace, inquired, “Will there be anything more, M’lord?” (a form of address that is an endless By JOHN HARKINS jest between him and Bogey) and vanished noiselessly. | For a while, Bogey and his guest talked aimlessly while they watched the shadows from the kindling fire dance | over the deep chairs, the grand piano in the corner and | the copper pieces around the room. Then, “What do you think of approaching fatherhood?” the caller asked. “What do I think of it?” Bogey replied. He paused for y a few seconds—and then (Continued on page 104) | SCOOP: Born on January 6, Stephen poses here with ma Lauren Bacall and pa Humphrey Bogart for his very first picture.

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WINNER TAKE Sr = SS SE ALL? -— Sei es Jane Wyman was at odds with Ronald Jane's Academy Award came to her after a year of great emotional strains in her Reagan when she and Lew Ayres (above) private life. During this period, Lew Ayres reportedly gave her much understanding were attracted making Johnny Belinda. counsel. She and Reagan, now divorced, are still friendly and keep in close touch. @ As Jane Wyman stood on the Academy Theater stage amid the tumult of applause and flashing camera bulbs, her tear-starred face was one of the most dramatic ever photographed. .A slender figure in a round-necked, white crepe gown, her dark hair brushed back simply, her enormous brown eyes glowing, she was silent for a moment, clutching her gold Oscar tightly in both hands. Then she bent forward and said shakily, “I accept this award very gratefully— Jane Wyman has gained an actress’ highest triumph. for keeping my mouth shut once. I think Ill do it again.” And with this, probably the shortest Academy Award speech on record, But what of the she walked off the platform and into the arms of the friends who’d crowded backstage. Walter Huston, Jerry Wald, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Jean Hersholt personal happiness hugged her joyfully. And a little to one side, smiling quietly, Lew Ayres | waited for her patiently. ... | she so deserves? Still holding her Oscar as though she could never put it down, Jane gave f breathless answers to the barrage of questions. ‘I’ve never been so frightened By JANET FRANKLIN in my life,” she said. “When Ronald Colman called my name and I walked up to that stage, I was scared to death.” She posed (Continued on page 76)

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}@ What’re all the fireworks for? Well, we're shooting them off to celebrate Independence Day—and we don’t mean July ~ Fourth. We mean Youth’s Day of Coming-Forth. For, praise be, the day has finally dawned in Hollywood when young players are getting the breaks they should. In the new atmosphere of filmdom, youth has heen freed from the bonds of an ancient and revered and preposterous tradition. This held that the public would stay away in droves if new personalities were promi- nently featured in the playhouses. Suddenly way behind the parade. And today an eager horde of fine young performers is swiftly getting important notice. Of course, for every one who makes his place in the Hollywood sun, hundreds must fail even to get a screen test. But many more than ever before are gaining the rugged heights. n observance of this wholesome development in the movie world, we dedicate this issue of -Mopern ScrEEN as a Salute to Youth. On the following pages you'll find a coverage of the personalities, problems and promise of typical “youngsters who either have arrived in the : Hollywood heavens or who will in the near and rosy future. Elizabeth Taylor . . . Montgomery Clift ... Vera-Ellen ... Jeanne Crain ... Bob Arthur ... Jean Peters ... Peter Lawford... and dozens of others. ; All the luck in the world kids! We—and our readers—feel mighty lucky in having you up there to entertain us. LED EID EL { : EDITOR Hollywood awoke to the fact that its policy was | The next 34 pages tell the dramatic story of Hollywood youth today. 5S

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ee DORIS DAY was a os a JANE GREER; whose facial mobility resulted from exercises to cure ARLENE DAHL, like Jane Greer, gets starlet treatment by being paralysis, got her contract after appearing on a magazine cover. - photographed against a background emphasizing her lush beauty.

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eee eee Ta These bright young stars are finding there’s gold in them thar skills. M@ One afternoon a few weeks ago, a slim, blonde girl and a portly, grey-haired man chanced to meet at the entrance of the commissary at the MGM studios. The girl smiled but the man did not. Instead, he seemed to be studying her. Then he said something that stopped her dead in her tracks. Her faced flushed and her eyes filled with tears. The man was Louis B. Mayer. What he said was, “Arlene, you've made it.” Arlene Dahl doesn’t remember how she got to her table, or that she sat there, alore, her eyes unashamedly wet. She only remembers that that was how she found out she was entering stardom. ‘ She’d been notified—and, obviously, very officially notified. MONTGOMERY CLIFT, after making two hit movies, became a star important enough to write his own ticket at any major studio Hollywood is pretty sure that, besides the 24-year-old Arlene, 16 young men and women and one child will be notified in 1949 that they’ve achieved solid cinematic importance. Elsewhere in this issue of MODERN SCREEN, you'll find feature stories on five of these ’49ers—Lois Butler, Wanda Hendrix, Janet Leigh, Jean Peters and Robert Arthur. The others, whose backgrounds and possibilities we propose to examine briefly here, are Betsy Drake, Doris Day, Joanne Dru, Joan Evans, Jane Greer, Pat Neal, Scott Brady, Mont- gomery Clift, Gordon MacRae, Kirk Douglas, Ricardo Montalban and eight-year-old Gigi Perreau. While each member of this glittering group is plainly an

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“MEET THE 49 ERS MD ae a SEN EL aS si PREMISES SBR: 2a F i Ne GIGI PERREAU js the youngest of the group of talented ‘49ers. She first appeared in Madame Curie and now, at the age of eight is a veteran of 18 movies, including Huchantment and Family Honeymoon. She writes and distributes her own litle ‘newspaper.’

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Se This Year’s Crop of Stars {ls Young and Versatile individual personality, all have four things in common: Youth, ambition, good looks and magnetism. And then there’s a fifth thing they share—some- thing that, in past years, seems to have been considered scarcely essential in Hollywood .if the performer were blessed with those other four at- tributes. The fifth element is hard, reliable, professional competence. In brief, these kids can act. The brightest new name in pictures today is that of a 28-year-old, dark- haired gentleman who, at this writing, is living in Manhattan in a tiny, sixth floor, walk-up apartment, busily read- ing—and rejecting—proffered scripts. Since he is reported to own only one business suit, he most likely will be wearing slacks and a sports jacket. No studio head has ever said to this young man with the brilliant technique, “You’ve made it.’ The: reason is that he’s not interested in studios— only in good roles. Here’s what he said to the last production topper who practically offered him a half-interest in Los Angeles if he would sign a contract: “Sorry—I can think only in terms of story and part. I couldn’t do jus- tice to a part if I didn’t feel it, and if I were on steady salary I’d be obli- gated to take it anyway.” The name he refused to put down on the dotted line was Montgomery Clift, of course. It happened after he’d made Red River and The Search, and had accepted a co-starring role with Olivia De Havilland in The Heiress. After making that statement, he drove his second-hand 1940 Chrys- ler to his one-room apartment with a pull-down bed. (There he started in again to try to finish Norman Mailer’s novel, “The Naked and the Dead,” be- fore he was due back on the Para- mount set for rehearsals.) Next to acting, says Monty, his greatest love is living a normal life. That, to him, does not include bloom- ing out in an Adolphe Menjou ward- robe, nor buying a Bel Air manor-house with water reservoir attached to swim in, although he could easily afford to do so. (Continued on page 81) 2 Bee ie s - bet elt Main, E Z BETSY DRAKE, the Cary Grant discovery, had RICARDO MONTALBAN came to Holly- training in the theater to equip her for the top wood, as a dancer but is eager to roles in which she's begun her film career. turn his talents to dramatic. roles. JOANNE DRU came out of housewifely retire- ment to appear in Red River. Public responded so well, she's starring in All the King’s Men. singing star seems certain of even greater success as a movie luminary. 5 a a on a SCOTT BRADY, Lawrence Tierney's brother, was a champion amateur boxer before Hollywood welcomedhim. JOAN EVANS had had no dramatic experience when discovered by producer Sam Goldwyn and signed to a role in’ Roseanna McCoy. GORDON MACRAE, already a radio

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| | i i q i Do girls go wrong in Hollywood? Listen to Jean Peters’ mother... Back in 1945, Jean Peters was 19 and a junior at Ohio State University when a friend entered Jean’s picture in the Miss Ohio State contest. Jean won, and received as a prize a trip to Hollywood and a 20th Century-Fox screen test. In this frank story, her mother tells how her home-town friends and neighbors were convinced no good would come to Jean in “wild” Hollywood—and how false this notion turned out to be--THE EDITORS. m@ I didn’t cry that cold morning in January 1946 when my daughter Jean got into the car and we started to pull out of the wide farm yard, heading for the railroad station. I had promised myself I wouldn’t shed any tears when I watched her go away from East Canton, away from home to start a career of her own in far-off Hollywood. I remember how slowly I walked back into the house afterward, put on my apron, and busied myself with the breakfast dishes. “Everything’s going to work out all right,” I tried to reassure myself. “You don’t have to worry. You know your daughter Jean. .. .” But the shocked expressions of so many of my friends and neighbors, when they’d first heard about Jean’s Hollywood-contract, kept creeping into my mind. Whenever I’d pick up the telephone receiver—we still have a 12-party line on our farm—I could hear people expressing their opinion that it would be just a matter of time, a very short time, until I’d be sorry I had let my Jean go out to: that legendary place. East Canton, Ohio, is a small town. And its distance from Hollywood can be measured in more than just miles. Really, they’re two different worlds. But all East Canton now suddenly became Hollywood-conscious. Gossip about neighbors and neighborly affairs was suddenly supplanted by the latest Hollywood gossip. According to popular conception, my Jean would have little choice but to get involved shortly after her arrival in the film capital in some sort of love triangle, or wild party, ot some other unfortunate happening that would make sensational headlines. Yet my belief in my daughter and her (Continued on page 100) r; Pe At 14, Jean Peters was an imaginative, Jean's low-cut blouse in Captain From self-reliant youngster who'd already de- Castile shocked some of her hometown cided on a career—she'd becomea doctor. neighbors. They felt she must have changed. never left home wy How € des As told to Robert Peer MECNEES On a visit to Hollywood, Jean's mother found her daughter had remained the whole- some, unaffected girl she had always been.

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@ While Janet Leigh was attending the College of the Pacific in Stockton, California, a close friend and sorority sister was Marge Hiers. Janet, as everybody knows, left the school in her second year for the more broadly educational field of MGM stardom. Marge stayed on and will be grad- uated this June. Thus it was that, while Janet was studying hard in the new. strange wonderland of Hollywood to master two accents at once (she’s been work- ing in two films at the same time, in one as a Russian ballet dancer, in the other as an English socialite), Marge was wrinkling ker pretty brows over mid-term exams. While Janet had fun with her screen sisters on the set of Little Women, Marge and her sorority sisters at the Alpha Theta ae Tau house merrily stuck a classmate ‘ Meee under a shower to stop her giggling . during a pledge party. Janet wrote Vor ieee Marge that she’d had a wonderful Ser : time in a Santa Claus outfit at the Press Photographers’ ball—‘which fi: : you might call Hollywood’s answer } ee to the COP Mardi Gras ball.” Marge bh wrote back to report she was stumped : about what she’d wear to that school ats ; shindig. Janet, at 22 working in her seventh movie in two years, was still i amazed about it all. “It’s been said 30 ca A before—but there’s simply no place nnd : i like Hollywood. At least, there’s no +» place I can think of where such mira- cles can happen overnight!” Marge was still undecided about what she’d do after graduation. Maybe she’d teach ... maybe she’d marry. “I’m too busy to think about it much.” On these pages, MODERN SCREEN presents a photographic comparison of the activities of the two friends. The huge sound stages at MGM still fill Janet Leigh with awe when she comes on the lot each morning. Yet everyone she meets is friendly and likes to chat. .

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anet Leigh’s activities contrast sharply with those of a college chum. Lately, Janet (left) has been posing, in clothes based on the costumes of Little Women, for fashion photographs taken by MGM’s famous Clarence Bull. Had she remained at the College of the Pacific, she might have worked with her sorority sister, Marge Hiers, and Bob McMahon (above) when they organized the winter formal and the spring Mardi Gras, two of the biggest annual events on the campus. Acting in her seventh picture in two years, Janet has a heavy load. For the past few weeks, she’s been studying ballet every morning for her role as a Russian dancer in The Red Danube. The exercises, she says, get steadily harder. Meanwhile, at college, Marge is happy over the fact that she went to summer school and thus has less cramming to do for mid-term exams than her friends. 37

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Janet and Marge both enjoy themselves in widely different situations. Janet pays a noontime visit to Greg Peck in his dressing room on the set of»Great Sinner. “He’s even nicer than you've heard,’ ske wrote to Marge. Later in the afternoon, Janet reported for costume fittings and attended a special rehearsal class with other young studio players. During her free time at college, Marge (left, above) is often found chatting and sipping cokes with one of her friends in a cozy booth at the Student Union Building. Friday night means dating for Janet and Marge, who can sleep late the next day. Janet and her escort, Arthur Lowe, Jr. (left), dine in the Beverly Wilshire’s Mayfair Room to the strains of a rhumba orchestra. Bob De- laney, the head waiter, stops by their ringside table to make sure they’re enjoying the filet mignon. For Marge, Friday night often brings a seat at the College’s basketball game. She’s usually squired by Mike Monnick, a student. 38

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3c fe Baby Kace Bob Arthur once sported a mustache to add years to his face. The beard he raised for Yellow Sky helped him into older roles. YOUTH, BOB ARTHUR FOUND, CAN BE ITS OWN HANDICAP. © By CARL SCHROEDER @ Robert Arthur was disgusted. His best girl had just stood him up for the second time in fayor of that tall basketball player, a muscle-man with a leathery face like. Gary Cooper’s. He slammed the receiver down on its hook, slid out of the phone booth in the Aberdeen, Washington, drugstore and lounged over to the tobacco counter. “Gimme a package of cigarettes.” Bob tossed down a quarter. “Give you a package of cigarettes?” The clerk.with the lean, sardonic face and voice to match grinned in derision. ‘I'll tell you what I'll do, sonny. You come back in about five years and I'll sell you a whole carton. How’d you like that?” This was murder. It happened all the time. Though Bob Arthur—or, as he was named then, Bob Arthaud—was old (Continued on page 93) le.

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Wi Can young actors rise in Hollywood by | ~ dumb luck? Ask Madison’s agent—who | knows her Guy. ly tou Vnawodk _ Not by breaks alone... @ I dunno, maybe my client, Guy Madison, zs a hard one to figure. People are always coming up to me and demand- | ing the real low-down on him. I look at them in some if i) amazement. | | “Why,” I begin, he’s a great big wonderful American boy who—’’ But they never let me finish. “We’ve heard all that stuff,” they interrupt impatiently. “That’s the outside story. But you're his agent. You found him. Yourre really close to him. So give with the straight goods. Of course we know the poor boy is absolutely naive and hasn’t the slightest idea what’s happening to him.” : This is typical of the sort of problem Guy Madison faces. | He looks naive. Sometimes his actions seem naive. But I’m more than just a wee bit tired of that line. Guy isn't an up-country galoot lost in the fast company of Hollywood. Take it from his agent and oldest Hollywood friend, hes : actually a darned bright lad! Tl admit to Guy’s critics that he’s absent-minded. Not long ago, for example, he had to go to Dallas for the opening of Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven. After racing for the train, he discovered he’d left his wallet, with all his identification papers arfd money, at home. Was he fazed? Was he troubled? Did this keep him from grabbing that train to Dallas? Not Guy. He simply called my office—I’d preceded him to Texas [ for the opening—and my secretary told him to go ahead i and get on the train. She’d call Edward Golden, the pro- if ducer of the picture, who’d wire the money to Guy. (It’s an agent’s job to make arrangements of this sort.) So Guy boarded the train without money or papers. At the first stop, Guy strolled to the telegraph booth to pick up the money which was supposed to be wired. But it hadn't come. The lad was not so much miffed as hungry. He hadn’t eaten since he’d boarded the train. So, money or no money, he decided to go into the diner and get himself some victuals. He had a pleasant meal. And when the check—something like two-bucks-fifty—was delivered— “Thanks so much,” Guy said, returning it to the waiter. Guy Madison and agent Helen Ainsworth have frequent talks about his career problems. For most young actors, experienced advice is essential. es ye Aven ; the cover of Helen Ainsworth first saw Guy on a naval training station magazine and brought him to the attention of Selznick's Henry Willson. “T’ll take care of this later.” (Continued on page 73)

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Glamor is the final reward, but for some newcomers loneliness begins it all... Qy ot, alm The other girls in the stage revival of A Connecticut Yankee gathered round to bid me farewell. The Technicolored lightning had struck—I’d just signed a movie contract with Sam Goldwyn. “Hollywood—where every convertible comes equipped with boy!” That, with variations, was what Imogene kept saying. “Coming up! Another pair of bare shoulders for Ciro’s—with stars in her eyes and a great, big, live star to hold her hand!” That was.Mimi talking. “Don’t forget to write how it feels to stall off Van Johnson so you can go out with Ty Power, and stall Ty the next night so you can go out with Cary Grant!” That from Lydia. “Can you forget you know how to swim, Vera? Or aren’t you going to let those hunks of men at the big beach and swimming pool parties teach vou all over again?” This from Roberta—wistfully .. . So, that night four years ago, we all kissed and cried and I ran for my train. The girls who’d painted such a gay prospect knew I was married to Bob High- tower—but they knew, too, that the marriage had hit the rocks and that he and I were separated. As they blithely interpreted the prevailing Hollywood code, it would be quite all right for a divorce-bound gal to take full advantage of movie- land’s attractions and go stepping—and they figured I would. Well, I hadn't given it much thought, myself, but now it was time to decide. And when I got off the Chief at Pasadena, I’d made up my mind—not too will- ingly. Whatever the practice in Hollywood, in my family (Lutherans, and strict Cincinnati Lutherans at that) a married woman was a married woman no matter what the technicalities might be. So, I'd decided, I'd behave like one. This was my high resolve when I reported into the studio the first morning— and I was determined that nothing should break it. (Continued on page 78) Dancing at Ciro's with Rocky Hudson, a Selznick Vera and her dad, Martin Rowe. Both discovery, Vera-Ellen catches up on some of the parents came West with her—they still stardust she missed as a newcomer to Hollywood. live happily together in a modest house.

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All work and no play makes jack—but young players need fun, too! HAPPY HUNTING ay Vieka Moor Scavenger hunters choose teams at Mona Freeman's. At Earl Carroll's, Bill Williams diverts chorines while teammates A. C. Lyles, Marilyn Maxwell and Barbara Hale swipe plumes.

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@ Mona Freeman says she doesn’t remember just who thought up the great idea. It was either her husband, ‘Pat Nerney, or her best friend, Diana Lynn. Anyway, they were having dinner at Lucey’s one night and brood- ing over ideas for their next party, when somebody got brilliant and suggested a scavenger hunt. The other three agreed it was a fine notion, and before they’d finished their coffee, they had drawn up a guest list and decided on an evening the following week. Just a simple scavenger hunt. Just a few people. Sounded like fun. But that particular party turned out to be a major upheaval in Hollywood, with surprised citizens from Beverly Hills to San Fernando doing double-takes as they observed some of Hollywood’s most promising talent fiercely intent on fey doings. Here’s what went on: When Terry Moore and Jerome Courtland climbed the stone steps to Mona’s apartment on the appointed night, they found the rest of the gang already in a huddle on the living-room floor, studying the list of “props” to be brought in before the stroke of midnight. It was, to say the least, a brightly varied list: “One of Hedda Hopper’s hats. A trout from the Sportsman’s Lodge trout stream. A feather from an Earl Carroll Girl’s costume. A doghouse. Raindrops from the rain-on-the-roof at the Seven Seas night club. A movie star’s portrait from the Brown Derby. A beach con- cession prize (must be won). A turkey egg autographed by three orchestra leaders. A live lobster.. A potted palm. A hobby horse. A live kid—a baby goat, that is! A plaster animal from someone’s lawn.” Now, by drawing matches, they chose three teams of four scavengers. Terry and Jerome found themselves teamed with Mary Hatcher and Tony Curtis; Marilyn Maxwell and A. C. Lyles with Barbara and Bill Wil- liams; Mona and Pat Nerney with Diana Lynn and her husband John Lindsay. Then Pat dramatically gave the signal to be off—and everyone dashed downstairs to the cars. They all had one idea in mind. To get out to Oleson’s egg ranch in Universal City where turkey eggs are sold. Equipped with their eggs, the three teams headed in different directions, intent on scavenging up orchestra leaders to sign them—all, that is, except the bright little redhead on Team 3. “Listen,” said Mary Hatcher solemnly. “Let me take the egg home and boil it first. That way we'll be sure not to get it broken when it’s signed. It won't take more than a few minutes—and there’s nothing worse than a drippy egg.” So while Mary and Tony Curtis sped off to boil the egg, Terry and Jerome headed for Hedda Hopper’s house to get one of her bonnets—having agreed they’d all meet afterward at the Seven Seas night club on Hollywood Boulevard and catch some raindrops from the artificial hurricane which brews up nightly on that palm-thatched roof. Meanwhile, Team 2, headed by Marilyn Maxwell, was already buzzing back to town, egg in hand. They de- cided that next on the agenda would be borrowing a portrait off the wall of the Brown Derby. So while Bill- and Barbara Williams engaged headwaiter Bill Scavenger hunt list included a Hedda Hopper hat. Hedda (above) having obligingly dragged all her miracles out, John Lindsay, Diana Lynn, Pat Nerney and-Mona Freeman look over the assortment. NIN SS PRI late ioe lee es ae ieee Mary Hatcher dangles a trout; teammate Tony Curtis carries a stone duck, Terry Moore and Jerry Courtland wrestle with a doghouse. Below: The Lindsays and Nerneys clutch their varied loot.

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= i The Williams’ are catching one only because he sticks close to his white mother. Chelios in talk over a menu, Marilyn and A. C. sneaked the caricature off the wall. Then Barbara spotted Phil Harris and his writers at a table, digging into their roast beef. She hurried over with her turkey egg and asked him to autograph it. “Do what?” asked Phil. “Please—I’m in an awful hurry.” Barbara begged. “I’ve just got to have your signature. And please don’t press down too hard. It hasn’t been boiled, and it might break.” “Look,” said Phil. “What do you want my name on an egg for? Do you feel all right?” “He’s stalling,” said one of Mr. Harris’ literary men. “Mr. Harris never learned to write.” Barbara sighed patiently. “Mr. Harris, it’s for a scavenger hunt.” Marilyn and A. C. and Bill were waving impatiently. They had the picture and they wanted to be off. Phil Harris’s pen poised. He signed the egg. He marred it only a little bit—made just one small hole on its side. Barbara wrapped it gently in her handkerchief, gave effusive thanks, and fled from the restaurant. As they left, a be-diamonded dowager, peering over the flames of her crépes suzette, said in ringing tones. “Well, I never! What happened?” No- body answered her. After all, this was Hollywood—anything could happen here. Next stop for team 2 was the Palladium, where Dick Jurgens was leading his orchestra. Marilyn took the by-now dripping egg from Barbara and she and A. C. Lyles danced over to the bandstand to get Dick’s signature.That was easy. Dick and Marilyn were old friends, and he signed’ the egg without batting an eye. Then disaster struck. When they got out to the sidewalk again, Marilyn sneezed. The egg flew out of her handker- chief and splattered on the sidewalk. There it lay in all its juicy splendor.. The only egg they had. Should they go back to Oleson’s and try to get an- other? There wasn’t time. Then A. C. rose to the occasion. “Don’t worry, kids. We'll get something better than the egg. Let’s see—what’s on the list that’s hard to get.” His eyes lighted up. ‘Here—a feather from an Earl Carroll girl’s costume! Let’s do that. . They won’t be able to spare many feathers, and if we get there first, no one else’ll have a chance. Now, listen closely —here’s how we'll map out our (Continued on page 96) Mary: Hatcher and Tony Curtis have a moist time get- ting raindrops at the Seven Seas restaurant, where °* there are artificial rainstorms on the roof every night. }

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Bill and Barbara Williams engage Brown Derby-headwaiter Bill Chelios in earnest conversation, while behind his back scavenger hunters Marilyn Maxwell and A. C. Lyles borrow an-autographed picture of Clark Gable. sidewalk. (Another team wisely boiled its egg before starting.) HAPPY HUNTING The turkey egg that bandleader Dick Jurgens is autographing for | Marilyn and A. C. at the Palladium came to a sad end on the

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@ When a strikingly handsome young actor is seen repeatedly in the company of Hollywood’s most glamorous women, he can expect to attract attention. He can predict that he’ll be photographed as often as the Washington monument. He can know with certainty that his name will appear in Hollywood news columns on almost a daily basis. When the same young actor changes companions about as often as he changes his tie, he can also be certain he’ll be called a wolf. Perhaps the expression won’t be quite so blunt; perhaps he'll merely be called a playboy. But the thought will be there, how- ever it’s phrased. Young bachelor Peter Lawford is the sort of guy who, by superficial standards, has earned the “wolf” title. A large auditorium could be filled with beautiful women Peter has dated. Magazine editors, looking through Hollywood news pictures, are sometimes astonished by the frequency with which young Law- ford’s face appears. (And he’s always in the best of glamorous company!) Is Peter really a wolf? There are two Peter Lawfords. There’s Peter. And there’s the wolf. The wolf is Peter’s own creation, PETER AND product of young Mr. Lawford’s keen sense of pub- licity values. Peter the person is an intelligent, skilled self-publicist. Peter the “wolf” is the result | of that publicity. Personally, I think we’ve all been underestimating Mr. Lawford. In the columns, in magazine interviews we have made him appear immature and irrespon- sible, a playboy with a heart of gold, and nothing more in his noggin than the desire to have a good time. Brother, the joke is on us! This suave, handsome young Britisher is completely adult and TS completely practical. Everything seems to happen to him according to plan, and nearly everything he does is calculated to corral publicity and advance his career. | Turning social activity into a tool for publicity is Young actors need publicity and smart a routine operation practiced by almost all young actors and actresses in Hollywood. Of all such op- ones put on a vood show. Take Peter erators who've ever struck moviedom, Peter Lawford, for tireless industry, uncanny judgment and spectac- | Lawford—the fox in wolf’s clothing ular results, belongs at the head of the class. 2 Just think a little. Who was the first to date Jane Wil nh Wyman after her divorce from Ronald Reagan? gj It (WM, Mr. Lawford. Who escorted Nora Flynn to her HT HI ' i} BATTAGLIA | | | | .

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first party after she separated from Errol? Mr Lawford. (To make a double killing in the columns, Pete and Nora were in the same party with Clark \ Gable and Iris Bynum.) I don’t believe that Pete \ had more than one date with either girl. He didn’t need it. The important thing for a smart boy with a yen for publicity is to be the Fustest with the Mostest public interest. Remember when the rumors about the June Ally- son-Dick Powell marriage were flying from coast to coast? Right away the gossipers linked Mrs. Powell with Lawford the Wolf in a supposedly torrid ro- mance. It wasn’t true, of course. Pete merely (accidentally-on-purpose) happened to get himself invited to the party given for June by Mervyn | LeRoy. The shindig took place at the photographer- | flooded Mocambo and Pete danced with June. When the denials had all subsided, it added up to another hefty chunk of limelight for the imperturbable Pete. When Gloria de Haven separated from John Payne the time before last, Pete—nor any other man—had nothing to do with the case. But whenever Gloria appeared in New York and. Philadelphia’s better- known bistros at that time, Pete was sure to be THE WOLF among those present. So, natch, there were rumors —and another publicity haul for Pete. Pete who is now 25 years old, gets better-looking —and hence better cast as a “wolf” —as he gets older “He just can’t miss getting to the top,” a pert starlet said to me recently. ‘Has he ever taken you out?” _I asked her. “I’m not important enough,” she replied briefly—and somewhat bitterly. But I think she was doing Pete an injustice. Pete’s dating isn’t, naturally, all done for career- building publicity. I believe. for instance, that he had a couple of dates with a messenger girl at Metro. And, recently there have been some rendezvous with one of the faculty at UCLA and I doubt if their course of discussion concerned publicity! Yes, Pete has been known on some few occasions to spend an evening quietly with a girl who couldn’t possibly get her picture in the papers—unless he married her, and there’s no fear of that. Pete, as of now, doesn’t want to marry anyone. | Don’t get me or Pete wrong. There’s nothing 1 wrong or shameful about a young actor wanting all * i? the publicity he can get. It’s a big part of his job. auiore tthe Pee ure yemonaas us In these davs of Hollywood (Continued on page 89) the time when they are most newsworthy. | |

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Some young couples, like Shirley TIME e (Ul LIVES Bs M Hollywood is a town of night clubs—glamor- Rs ous, romantic establishments where stars gather to amuse themselves. Obviously, business enters into Hollywood night-clubbing: it’s “smart to be seen.” But many famous young players vastly prefer sitting across from one another at their own dining room table, or dropping by a friend’s home for a casual dinner—as in Anytown, U.S.A. Among them are Shirley and John Agar, who prefer a quiet evening like the one pictured here. This particular party resulted from a battle of | the sexes in the Agar household several nights before. Shirley, John, Joyce and Tom Gallary had settled down for an after-supper corn-popping session. When the conversation turned to food, | John made a statement destined for posterity. “T guess anyone can cook if he puts his mind to it,’ the brave man said. Somehow the girls couldn’t stop laughing. With their masculine dignity in danger, Tom and John offered to prove their culinary abilities. The girls immedi- ately took them up on it.. Playing safe, John called pal Bob Dalton, who i owns “The Elbow Room,” a local eatery where i gourmets gather. Bob not only agreed to help, ' but invited the couples to his home for the test. Dinner proved a major victory for the boys. After it was finished, John sat beaming. “Now i hat do you have to say about our cooking?” Restaurant owner Bob Dalton shows Shirley, Joyce and John how to y 1a . e au ; : y 4 6 season steaks, John and Tom hadn't realized the art involved. Bob Darling,” Shirley said meekly, “what are you | served as adviser to the amateur chefs and held the party at his home. serving for dinner tomorrow night?” PAS ROE ale SATA ASIEN When John Agar and Tom Gallary boasted they: could cook, their wives laughed and said, ''Prove it!"' In defense, the boys offered to pre- pare a dinner—and did. John tosses salad as Joyce Reynolds looks on. eo 50)

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and John Agar, find their excitement in the simple delights Above, steaks are broiled after being marinated in a special mixture. For recipe see page 86. Bob cooks the meat over a fire of glowing coals while Shirley watches the searing process. With Bob Dalton's aid, Tom and John proved their skill. Below, Bob serves up the evidence. e ed i | es =| a of home life.

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~ "Before | met Audie, | was smug in the conviction that the most magnetic male.in the universe couldn't distract me from my work.” THIS LOVE OF OURS Ky awa +d

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second in a series Of all the choices the young heart makes, the first is happiness. ™ Volumes have been written about happy brides, but practically nothing about sad brides: Someday, as an au- thority, I’m going to write a book on sad brides. For I was certainly one. My honeymoon with Audie turned out to be a personal appearance tour through Texas and Oklahoma in connection with openings of Audie’s film, Bad Boy. It had to be that way—the schedule had been worked out months ahead. This was quite all right with me, for by now Bad Boy had a special place in my affections and I wanted it to go well. But literally, the honeymoon was over in two weeks. With more than half the tour still ahead, I had to leave for Hollywood to start work on After Midnight. Kissing Audie goodbye at the airport, I wondered what some of the Hollywood gossips would have imagined if they could have seen the new Mrs. Murphy, slightly weepy, heading home from her honeymoon alone. For the next three weeks, back in our lovely new apart- ment by myself, I was probably the world’s unhappiest new wife. When I wasn’t at the studio, ’d wander mournfully through the place, alternately admiring every beautiful thing that Audie had chosen and cous utterly desolate because he wasn’t home. Sometimes, the fact that Audie and I had actually been - married would seem like a dream... . It had been characteristic of Audie that he’d gone about Operation Love with the same directness that helped win him the distinction of being America’s most-decorated hero of World War II. He simply explained to his studio (he had come to Hollywood to make screen tests) that he’d seen a girl’s picture on a magazine cover and that he had to meet her. Would they please find her for him? Taking Audie’s cue for directness, the studio representa- tive, undoubtedly on her strangest assignment, phoned me, told me all about Audie, his magnificent war record and his current mission—to meet me. Would Miss Hendrix accept an invitation to a small dinner party the following Thurs- day evening? My reactions to the prospect of meeting this hero were as detached as only a 17-year-old’s can be—a 17-year-old who had had but one dream since she was 14, the dream of a career. I was smug in the conviction that the most en- gaging, magnetic male in the universe couldn’t distract my attention from my work. Patriotic, that’s what I was be- ing, just patriotic and friendly, when I accepted that dinner invitation. How Fate must have giggled when she saw that thought cross my mind. Driving to the dinner with the young woman who had invited me, I asked a few polite questions. ‘What’s he like?”’ “What does he look like?” Her answers were vague, so I found myself drawing my own mental picture, which turned out to be a cross between Victor McLaglen and General Eisenhower. Certainly I was unprepared for the quiet, slender young soldier with a shy grin, nice auburn hair and eyes greener than mine, who opened the door for us as we stood there on the porch of his friend’s house. I still couldn’t believe that this boy, just about my own age, was the fabulous Audie Murphy. I kept looking over his shoulder for ‘the hero.” There were six of us at dinner, a nice cosy number for intimate talk and easy congeniality. Audie was very quiet, said little and almost died of embarrassment when his friends insisted on bringing out his medals. He was like a small boy who wishes that the family wouldn’t keep brag- ging about the gold stars on his report card. Audie took me home that night. Then and there he be- came a man of distinction in my book, because he escorted me to my door, asked if he might phone some time, and didn’t even suggest kissing me goodnight! After that, I didn’t see him again for weeks. He called several times and asked for dates, but I was always busy. Finally he became angry and stopped phoning. “TI decided you were just being high-hat,” he told me later, “and no actress was going to push me around.” But one day, in- explicably, Audie found himself driving out toward my house. I remember looking out the living room window and there he was, coming up the walk... . True to the first wonderful impression of Audie, it was two months before he even tried to kiss me. Incidentally, that was the night I decided that loving a very nice guy and being loved in return was a much sounder basis for happiness than the most glamorous career in the world. That night that Audie put his arms around me, kissed me, and said, “Good night, Skipper.” “Skipper” has been Audie’s nickname for me ever since. Any place but in Hollywood, the way to the altar from this point would have been smooth and blissfully marked with happy, small events like bridal showers and perhaps a raise in the prospective bridegroom’s pay envelope. But in this city dedicated to make-believe romances, a real-life love story often takes a terrific beating. First of all, Audie is proud, with the double-barrelled pride of an Irish Texan. As much as we loved each other, we both knew that of the two, (Continued on page 72)

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| M \ K As new stars rise, old ones tremble, for ~ WAY FOR YOUTH! iy Hoda hopper | | In Hollywood you can be young in heart, | But looks are the important part. | For every wrinkle around your neck You get a cut im your salary check. John Lund, rising fast in films such as Night Has A Thousand Eyes (above), is young, eager, cooperative. Ray Mil- land has been balking at recent assign- ments. When Ray turned down Bride of Vengeance, he was replaced by Lund, | MI had a-letter the other day from a young girl, tlh "mnlly SO OWE SONS. ee | an ardent movie-goer, who put her finger on some- thing important that’s been wrong with Hollywood. “Dear Hedda,” she wrote, “How can I be expected | to get hot and bothered over movie heroes who are old enough to be my father? Why do most of the big pictures star graying actors whom I like all right and respect—but who don’t thrill me for a minute? Golly, V've grown up knowing Gary Cooper and Clark Gable, Ronald Colman and Walter Pidgeon— and I’ve also grown up knowing my dad.” She has something there. Hollywood was born, raised and nourished on one thing: Romance—boy meets girl. But when the “boy” is pushing 50 and | the “girl” is only a few steps behind, where’s the | kick and the illusion for the new, the young, the 1949 world? A lot of people I know are crying, ‘Done | with the old—up with the new.” The studios know it—and youth is on the march in Hollywood. In the face of the growing accent on youth, it’s baffling to Baby why certain mature stars, who should be smarter by now, blind their eyes to the talented youngsters on their tails and, in fogs of self-importance, turn temperamental and practically ask the youngsters to take over. For, example, take Ray Milland. Since The Lost Weekend, he’s fussed and fretted with Paramount over every picture job. He even went on suspension when he balked at doing (Continued on page 98) Jeanne Crain (right) has replaced Gene Tierney as ace actress at 20th-Fox. Gene, Darryl Zanuck’s favorite young star for years, temporarily left the screen. Now Jeanne, solidly estab- lished by a series of hits, will star in Zanuck’s 1949 prestige picture, Pinky. oi enaeyecatiign

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Deborah Kerr (above with author Hedda Hopper) was brought from England by MGM when studio queen Greer Garson began telling execs what she would and wouldn’t do. Deborah’s presence is a potent factor in Greer’s current acceptance of the studio’s zdeas. Kirk Douglas has made sensational strides in the past year. He recently signed a long-term contract with War- ners, where filmland’s top tough guys gather. James Cagney, back at that studio for rugged roles, will find Kirk pushing him mighty hard for honors. ‘this is the rule of Hollywood — where careers can go out like neon signs. John Derek owes his success to Hum- phrey Bogart. Bogie starred his tal- ented protege in Knock On Any Door and John received the critics’ raves. After a few more hard-guy roles, young Derek should provide consid- erable competition for his discoverer. Patricia Neal at 23 is sharing prize roles with Jane Wyman on the War- ners lot. She recently completed The Fountainhead, opposite Gary Cooper. Barbara Stanwyck, who'd recom- mended the novel to the studio, was set on playing the 22-year-old heroine. 55

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q | lancer and singer Lois Butler found the magic key in hard work, luck. @ Lois Butler, star of her first picture at 15, showed utterly no talent until she was a year-and-a-half. Then she swallowed a large Indiana grasshopper and immediately took to dancing and singing. At three-and-a-half, she gave an exhibition of acro- batic dancing at the Agricultural State Fair in Indian- apolis that convinced the judges—a famous pair of fellers named Lum and Abner—that she rated the first prize of $50 over some 350 other contestants. It should be added that Lois did her dance handi- capped by a badly swollen cartilage in one instep. Playmates, it seemed, had dropped either a heavy box or an electric iron on her foot (they were all too young, including Lois, to report accurately). Lois insisted that her mother slit open her dancing shoe to permit wearing it over the swelling—and went on.... She still has those shoes. They are exactly three-and- seven-eighths inches in length and a fat man would have a great deal of trouble getting his thumb into one of them. She also still has the scar of the injury. ... There are, obviously, many paths that youngsters have followed to break into the movies. However, the one most frequently trodden is the one that led Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Geraldine Brooks, Scotty Beckett, Jimmy Lydon and innumerable others into Hollywood’s golden confines. That, of course, is the earnest pursuit of a career in one or more of the many branches of show business starting almost in infancy. For a recent shining example of how successfully this tried-and-true route may be traveled, let’s con- tinue to consider young Miss Lois Butler. Lois was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on February 13, 1931. Her family had moved out to Los Angeles when, at seven, she madé her professional dramatic debut at the Pasadena Playhouse—not as a dancer, not as a singer, but this time as an actress. She was given an important part in The Great American Family and subsequently toured in this and other Playhouse plays, including Shakespeare’s The Tempest. When the com- pany played the Curran theatre in San Francisco, a critic took note of her “complete lack of nervousness.” It was the first time that Lois had ever heard you were supposed to be nervous on the stage. She im- mediately started cultivating a splendid shakiness of limb and tremor of voice—until the harassed play director discovered what was going wrong with her scenes and threatened to beat her over the head with her favorite dolly if she didn’t cut it out. At 10, Lois. was a “one-man show,” doing Hansel and Gretel at school musicals and similar gatherings and playing all the characters herself. She was 11, going on 12, when her voice (Continued on page 87) Lois Butler’in a recent work-out in the Hollywood Bowl—where, at 12, she sang. Her first triumph was when, three-and-a- half, she won a dance contest in shoes shown on opposite page. Cadet Allen Packer (above) had Lois for his date at West Point one week-end last year. Her current flame is Levere Montgomery of New Orleans, whom she met on a personal appearance tour. 57

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Many grow up in movies—but few as perfectly as Elizabeth. @ Elizabeth Taylor was puzzled. The script called for one i of its characters to “return, looking like a cinema star.” a “How does a cinema star look?” the little girl asked ; her mother. : Mrs. Taylor explained. Cinema stars were movie stars, vi the kind she saw at the studio every day. “But how can a person Jook like one? Actresses are i just people like everybody else.” ij Elizabeth grew up believing just that, while Mother i gave thanks for her child’s good sense. an Among the young stars of Hollywood, there are some who, with little or no previous show-world training, came straight from Hometown in their teens to win their spurs overnight. There are other youngsters who also achieved movie marquee billing while teen-agers after becoming youthful veterans of the stage. Then there are those who have grown up on the screen. The latter are a species apart. They cut their teeth | on movie sets, learned the alphabet from a scenario, aged i gracefully while millions of fans watched adoringly. Shirley Temple, Margaret O’Brien, Peggy Ann Garner -(to name a few) have spent the greater part of their es! lives on sound stages. With only slight variation, Eliza- beth Taylor followed this pattern. Moviegoers first noticed her as a nine-year-old in Lassie Come Home. They acclaimed her a star in | Ft ( National Velvet, saw her receive her first screen kiss in ah Cynthia. People: could fondly detect in these films and ao Bik others in between that Elizabeth was growing up. But i 4 it wasn’t until A Date With Judy that the full impact of her mature beauty struck the fans like sudden lightning. Wh They didn’t give her the usual sentimental smile. They - Wl hy duo oly Ott were too stunned. The reaction, when it finally came, eal was “Hubba-Hubba!”’ MGM execs rubbed their eyes. Their little girl had become a grown-up star. Elizabeth | was swiftly graduated from teen-age parts and sent to England to play an adult (Continued on page 61)

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VaR i So aug : “al as Nigel Bruce in Lassie Come Home, her first tract at MGM—and attended school at the studio with skill, 10-year-old Liz was eager to do | At nine, Elizabeth held her own with such veterans On the strength of Lassie, Elizabeth won a long-term con- Because it made use of her riding | important movie—and audiences were charmed. other young hopefuls such as Darryl Hickman (right). National Velvet. \t made her a star. i | Growing gracefully, Elizabeth never suffered from "the awkward age." Starring in Cynthia at 15, she received her first screen kiss from Jimmy Lydon. ig RES ES : SR ERINE 5 Te aE Sener a se oe aa Ba AA Apa

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rates OEP Animals have always been important in Liz It was suddenly realized that the adolescent Elizabeth's always had a full social life. Here Taylor's life. Besides the long-suffering Twinkle Elizabeth was on the verge of extraordinary she is at the ‘47 Press Photographers’ Ball with (above), there've been horses, turtles and ducks. beauty. Mild ‘cheesecake’ shots were taken now. Janet Leigh, Stanley Reams and Tommy Breen. || Today, Elizabeth and Lt. Glenn Davis are a romantic duo. It's reported he'll return from Korea this fall as assistant football coach at West Point. |

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eli Having eft England as -a- child, Liz, now a celebrity, returned recently for Conspirator. Here she's with a Tower of London guard. | Bsr PERFECT role—that of Robert Taylor’s wife in The Conspirator. j Her private life is more wonderful than ever, too. She’s in love. She wants to marry Army football hero Glenn Davis. It’s like something in the movies—only better. Aside from being a star, Elizabeth has grown up in a distinctly normal. way. . She went to dancing class and took singing les- sons—to overcome her shyness. At’ 13, she spent her weekly 50-cent allowance on comic books. Elizabeth had her first real date when she was 14. A boy named Freddy took her to the Starlight Roof at the Wal- dorf. They sat at a table for two trying hard for the sophistication they thought the event required.. And she had the little battles any 15-year-old has with parental authority. She fought valiantly and some- times vainly for lipstick, black formals and | Off-the-shoulder blouses. As actress and adolescent, she often gave her all to that | universal line, “But Mother, you don’t understand!” These are some of this movie star’s memories—completely lacking Hollywood’s magic touch. Of course, there are other recollections—that only a girl brought up in movies would have: Studio hours of make-believe that would enchant any child .. . wardrobe fittings . . . lessons on the set . . . Sessions with the still photographer . . . radio shows . .. interviews . .°. the ever- present fans. . . . Lots of it may have been trying at times but, like any other screen | child, she never really wanted to give up | any of it. THE END EMPTING, isn’t it? This gem of a cherry tart owes its luscious gloss, its ruby richness, its just-sweet-enough taste to KARO* Syrup. KARO blends delightfully with all fruits... never masking the full-ripe CMeuus Wt iN SUMMER CMe UU. HWYDMAL IN WINTER flavor of cherries, strawberries, peaches and other fruits... whether you use them in delicious fresh-fruit tarts or pies at their peak in summer . . or use them canned or frozen in mid-winter. 3 cups fresh, canned or frozen, sour cherries, pitted Y4 teaspoon almond ‘ee ' Va cup sugar 4 tablespoons corn $ V4 teaspoon salt Va cup KARO SytUP, Red Label 6 baked tart shells (32 inches) i of double boiler. Add KARO Syrup Be water and cook, stirring con- ). Cover and continue cooking from heat. Add almond top with tarch extract It corn starch and sa of herries. Place over boiling hickens (about 10 minutes Remove Chill. Just before serving, Combine sugar, and mix well. Add ¢ stantly until mixture ¢ about 20 minutes, stirr extract. Cool. Pour into i weeten ipped cream $s = 5 xKARO is a registered trade-ma ing occasionally. baked tart shells. ed to taste if desired. rk of Corn Products Refining Co., N, Yu Treat your family to cherries all year round. It’s easy to preserve or freeze summer-ripe cherries with Karo Syrup and sugar. Cherries canned and frozen with Karo Syrup have better flavor, firmer texture, brighter color. Get the simple directions for canning and freezing all of summer’s lush fruits. Just send for the Karo booklet, ‘““Finer Canned and Frozen Fruits”. It will be sent to you absolutely FREE. Send a post card with your name " and address to Karo, Dept. K, Box 647, St. Louis, Mo. f There are three kinds of KARO—1. Red Label (crystal white), <2 2 A 2. Blue Label (golden dark), 3. Green Label (maple-y flavor). 61

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| Scotty Beckett John Bromfield Geraldine Brooks Vanessa Brown Rory Calhoun D) You'd need a crystal ball to name by) ™@ Here are 48 players not otherwise mentioned in MODERN ScreEn’s “Salute To Youth.” But they, together with those already featured in this issue, seem most likely to be the stars of tomorrow. When they came to Hollywood, not long ago, they decided to stay, and nothing could change their minds. Corinne Calvet | | all of tomorrow’s stars. But here are NAME AND STUDIO BORN APPEARANCE ‘SPOUSE USED TO BE LATEST PICTURE BATES, BARBARA—WB pene Gol. Boe inte aoe a Cecil Coan Model Happy Times | BECKETT, SGOTTY—20ih-Fox GaPmMag™ Rew te fosibe ics Date WR BROMFIELD, JOHN—Para. See earns: Oe Sa Corinne Calvet Tuna fisherman Bitter Victory BROOKS, GERALDINE—MGM = S2y720"lss” —BiGS'SyeS Sons aos aes ae BROWN, VANESSA_20m-Fox Viens GhewheT Sn, eo ee BUKA, DONALDU.A. TMS Bown, Satine ae CALHOUN, RORY—Selz. ae ope Calif. Bescon oes a Lita Baron Fireman Fighting Mike McCall | ' CALLAHAN, BILL—20th-Fox New York... Sere oe Cres See | CALVET, CORINNE—Para. Pest ree Bees ae ss John Bromfield Sculptress Rope of Sand CAREY, JR., HARRY ek tonne) Reda they ie eG Marilyn Fix Summer stock Three Godfathers CHANDLER, JOANWB RULES eee ee DOWNS, CATHY He Ss Berea a as Model Massacre River ij EDWARDS, PENNY—WB Aug, 24, 1928 Blusevese. <= a0 Ibe poner pahemect St SS | FLEMING, RHONDA—Para. og Bag eles Colt a nea ayy eae Dancer Great Lover FOCH, NINA—Col. ee ee Stade Founded FORD, ROSS—Col. Snag as pereneel < ionibs ones Sign ofthe Rast GRANGER, FARLEY—Gold. = Fa Sg clit Ete ae seers Student Roseanna McCoy GRAY, COLEEN—20th-Fox oO eee Brown aoe Sas ie d. Rodney Amateau Student Sand | JAECKEL, RICHARD aoe Po ae Messenger City Across The River | JANIS, CONRAD—20th-Fox NS" 1"¥oag Brown hair S10" Student Beyond Glony LAWRENCE, BARBARA—20th = Fop"02'Toso" Blom eyae oat Aad Ibel ee Chaljanin Fontaine ee Me So ae LONG, DIGK—UL. Guisage, Di Brown bait Student Tap Root Conrad Janis Barbara Lawrence Betty Ann Lynn es Patricia Marshall <i 7 Donald O’Connor

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Rhonda Fleming - ate Sit Joan Chandler Cathy Downs Nina Foch Ross Ford Farley Granger 48 more newcomers whose futures look as bright as their shining dreams... So far they haven’t been sorry. In the future, some of these youngsters may pack up and leave; others may start building mansions in Bel Air. It’s hard to tell. You can’t count the young hopefuls who come to Hollywood every year, and it’s useless to try counting the ones who go home. But you can be certain that too many people want to act, and too many casting offices say no. Today, however, the outlook is bright for the young, the talented and the beautiful. If they’re willing to pull hard, if they’re willing to wait their turn, many of them may someday reach the topmost levels of Hollywood. for|! Johnny Sands se SS x EY 7 Marshall Thompson Ann Todd Sat Os Marta Toren Colleen Townsend NAME AND STUDIO BORN APPEARANCE SPOUSE USED TO BE LATEST PICTURE LYDON, JIMMY He es N. J. Boweres re d. Patsy Clifford Child actor Bad Boy LYNN, BETTY ANN—20th-Fox aaa naga aren See B’ way chorus Mother Is a Freshman MALONE, DOROTHY—WB eee Bee trees Se College student South of St. Louis MARSHALL, PAT OC MEE Brown heir ee Danny Markowitz Singer Good News Pico ee kane con ee MEADOWS, JAYNE Ge i ewe Pe ke: Milton Krims Stage actress Enchantment MITCHELL, CAMERON Rowen ioe Brown Bae ES tees Johanne Mendel Baseball player Command Decision O'CONNOR, DONALD UI. RUSH Ie on i ae ane Ree O'DONNELL, CATHY—Selz. Maye iaeoane Okla. Brown Bat ores Robert Wyler Stenographer They Live By Night PERRY, SUSAN ese ee EEagees Bee Mel Torme Model Knock On Any Door ROBERTS, ALLENE ee ue eG La SANDS, JOHNNY—Selz. rani Tenge Bovevenn: oe ine d. Sue Allen Sheepherder Massacre River SARGENT, ANN—U.I. West eee Pa. Heotcree: a Stage actress Naked City STERLING, JAN BeNioaisaas Y. peeerea ae d. Jack Merivale Drama student Johnny Belinda THOMPSON, MARSHALL = R20", TU, oe eo te Roseanna McCoy TODD, ANN tee ae ee Student Tice Daring TOREN, M ARTA—U.I. Meee Beco: oe age Drama student Illegal Entry TORME, MEL_MGM Se rue Blonde hey Soe Susan Perry Child performer Words and Music | TOWNSEND, COLLEEN—20th-Foxp 10797 Yong ELvarese © nledbe oe Gierennyea! TURNELL, DEE—MGM ee ae Il. Ceo i Sree. B’way chorus Words and Music WALLACE, JEAN Ganaoatacs Blonde haw Saya d. Franchot Tone Night club dancer Maan He Eiffel | WELLES, VIRGINIA—Para. Ung A Fee ene ecine: Student Dynamite Jean Wallace

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64 abhiow Cccenls Crus 9 AGREES DESIGNER Frances Sider interprets the important new “crisp look”’ with this striking sarong skirt (starched with LINIT!*) worn over an elasticized swim suit of the same Ever- fast cotton print. The Crisp Look is the smart look for 1949...’’Starch with LINIT!”” say the leading dress designers ... this superior laundry starch makes a thin mixture that penetrates the fabric, restores its original finish... keeps it crisp, fresh, cool-feeling be- tween washings...LINIT is easy to use, safe, perfect. ..adds re -fithing Touch J to dresses, blouses, children’s clothes, housecoats, men’s shirts, curtains, bed and table linens. Direc- tions on every LINIT package. All grocers sell LINIT. *LINIT is o registered trade-mark of Corn Products Refining Co., N. Y. young fashions af young prices by connie bartel, fashion edifor m@ This is MopERN SCREEN’s Salute to Youth issue, so naturally this month’s va- cation fashions are aimed especially at you young fans of young stars. It seems to us that the younger you are, the harder you fall—for cute, gay clothes. Look-at-me clothes. Here-I-come clothes. Clothes that say you’re alive and alert and that you love fun. But (and what we’ve got to do is get rid of that “but”)—the younger you are, the harder it is for you to afford all the clothes you want. Naturally, anyone can look a million—on a million. But keep fashionable on a budget? An velope? Ouch! That takes doing. So, we’re doing it for you. As we hope you know, Modern Screen Fashions have always worked (love that work) to bring you the dreamiest fashions at bite-sized prices. We know you want to knock your audience dead—now, while you’re young and still have bubbles in your heart. And we think you can make a definite dent in your public with the clothes in this issue— all of which have very young prices. Start on the opposite page, to see what we mean. — Ava Gardner wears a young playdress m Ava, the luscious, whom you're currently drooling over in MGM’s “The Great Sinner,’ wears a sun- dress that rates prolonged whistles . and will do the same for you any weekend at all. The shirred waist makes yours ‘look tiny, the halter bodice does things for your bosom—and when you turn your back, it isn’t there. It’s striped corded cotton cham- bray, gay as a beach umbrella. - White with grey, green or tan stripes. Sizes 10-18. By Loomtogs. $10.95. At Oppenheim Collins, New York and Brooklyn. Other stores, page 71. Bag by Simon Bros. te ay -| allowance? A young career girl’s pay en- —

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@ modern screen fashion _ Young cottons go places @ Take a toast shawl-collared blouse; add a terra: @ The winged collar—fashion passion straight from | cotta hip-pocket skirt—and you're ready to go any- Paris. Bright red flocked lawn scored with white where! Sanforized broadcloth with a silky taffeta finish pique—attention getter for any girl’s weekend. Red, in dreamy mix or match colors. Blouse $2.98. Skirt $3.98. navy, copen blue. Sizes 10-18. By Claire Tiffany. By Art-Mor. Saks-34th, N. Y. Other stores page 71. About $9. Lord & Taylor, N. Y. Other stores, page 71. | 66

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@ modern screen fashion PLS a zee ~ S “ae LN ay Luaqgage by Samsonite. Straw bag by Simon Brothers Cool @ Pique dress-plus-jacket—a prize at the price. but covered portrait dress is right for travel, street, ™@ Crisp waffle. pique with blocks and squares, spiked with ‘ The high fashion jet buttons and patent belt. shawl collar slants to a semi-plunge; dates—jacket gives coverage when wanted. Green, bur- the skirt has ’ Sizes 10-20. About $8.98. Gimbels, N. Y. Other stores, page 71. gundy, brown, black. 10-18. By Tommie Austin. $10.95. By Sacson. unpressed center pleats. 71. Pittsburgh. Other stores page Joseph Horne,

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Red carnation on navy faille ribbon, complete with “gold” scarf loop. By Flower Modes, $1.98. ay Ee eet eee | White carnations on a chartreuse Violets on a white mesh hatlet-— Garland of roses on a velvet | ascot—to make any sweater sophisti- begging to be worn for a stummer ribbon, to tie around a portrait neckline. cated. By Flower Modes, $2.50. romance. By Heineman Flowers, $3.98. By Glamour Fashions, $10.95.

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Cabbage rose on the pocket of a black tile stole—midnight around your shoulders. By Glamour Fashions, $10.95. Green carnation to point a plunge. By Heineman, $1. Plunge blouse in jersey, many colors, by Coral, $1.98. ™@ Mother, pin a rose on me—or a carnation, a gardenia, a violet! Just as long as it’s a beautiful phony flower—fake but fascinating. This summer fashion has a serious crush on pseudo flowers—they’re the biggest accessory news since scatter pins. You'll want y | to wear one at your x’ throat, tuck one in your helt, ll pin one on your pocket. You a can buy single flowers, like the rose stickpin next to our title—glamour for 50c!—or _ you can pick your flowers already mounted on scarves, hats, - stoles. Whatever you do, whatever you wear, wherever you go—wear a fake flower—and be the most fashionable girl in sight! For where to buy flowers shawn please turn to page 71.

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a modern screen fashion Young sophisticate WA lye all il : @ Satin stripe shantung —with that certain something you young half sizes insist on. Smart rounded shoulders; flip-up collar to pin a rose on; pouch pockets; pearl buttons to hem. Adds up merely to wow. Yellow with grey stripes; powder blue with royal; pink with black; aqua with grey. Sizes 161%4-22%. By Rite Fit $7.95. At Stern’s, N. Y. The Fair, Chicago. Other stores, page 71. 12-strand necklace by Karu

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WHERE YOU CAN BUY MODERN SCREEN FASHIONS (Prices may vary throughout country) Striped halter neck playdress worn by Ava Gardner | in color photo (page 65) Boston, Mass.—Filene’s, Washington St., Surf | Shop, 5th fl. Brooklyn, N. Y.—Oppenheim Collins, 485 Ful- ton St., Gallivant Shop, 2nd fl. Evanston, Ill—Lord’s, Fountain Square New York, N. Y.—Oppenheim Collins, 33 W. 34th St., Gallivant Shop, 3rd fi. Taffeta. broadcloth skirt and blouse (page 66) Chicago, Ill.—Madigan’s, 4030 Madison St. New York, N. Y.—Saks-34th, 34th St. & Broadway, Sportswear, 3rd fi. Philadelphia, Pa—Wanamaker’s, Market & 13th Sts., Little Sportswear Shop, Main fl. Springfield, Ohio—Carmen’s, 25 S. Limestone St., Sportswear Dept., Ist fl. Washington, D. C.—Philipsborn Co., 610 11th St., NW, Sportswear, ist fl. Dotted flocked lawn dress with pique (page 66) Baton Rouge, La—The Dalton Co., 3rd & Florida Sts., Fashion Salon, Main fl. Columbus, Ohio—F. & R. Lazarus & Co., High & Town Sts., Daytime Dresses, 2nd fl. Des Moines, Ia.—Younkers, 701 Walnut St., Daytime Dresses, 3rd fl. West New York, N. Y.—Lord & Taylor, 5th Ave. & 38th St., Budget Dresses, 2nd fi. St. Louis, Mo.—Scruggs, Vandervoort & Bar- meu, alot & Olive Sts., Pin Money Shop, 2n : tique dress with blocks and squares (page 67) Akron, Ohio—Yeager’s, Daytime Shop, 2nd fi. Chicago, Ill—Mandel Bros., State & Madison Sts., Daytime Dresses, 3rd fl. New York, N. Y—Gimbels, 33rd St. & Ave. of Americas, Daytime Dresses, 2nd fi. Eacelhia: Pa.—Gimbels, Market & 9th Sacramento, Calif—Hale Bros., 9th & K Sts., Cotton Shop, 2nd fi. Pique dress-plus-jacket with straw belt (page 67) Dallas, Texas—Sanger Bros., Main & Elm Sts., Thrift Dept., 4th fl. New York, N. Y.—Gimbels, 33rd St. & Ave. of Americas, Tommie Austin Shop, 3rd fi. Pittsburgh, Pa—Joseph Horne Co., Penn Ave., Tommie Austin Shop, 2nd fl. Washington, D.-C.—S. Kann & Sons Co., 8th St. & Penn Ave., Sportswear, 2nd fi. Rose stickpin (page 68) and cabbage rose on tulle stole (page 69) Write: Glamour Fashions 12 West 37th St. New York 18, N. Y. Red carnation on navy faille ribbon (page 68) New York, N. Y.—Bloomingdale’s, 59th St. & Lexington Ave., Flowers, Main fi. Philadelphia, Pa—Wanamaker’s, Market & 13th Sts., Neckwear, Main fi. White carnations on chartreuse ascot (page 68) New York, N. Y.—Bloomingdale’s, 59th St. & Lexington Ave., Flowers, Main fl. Philadelphia, Pa—Wanamaker’s, Market & 13th Sts., Neckwear, Main fi. Violets on white mesh hatlet (page 68) New York, N. Y.—Wanamaker’s, Broadway & 9th St., Main fl. Garland of roses on velvet ribbon (page 68) Bridgeport, Conn.—D. . Read Co., Broad St., Main fi. 1050 Green carnation to point a plunge (page 69) _ Detroit, Mich —Crowley, Milner Co., Gratiot Ave., 1st fl. New York, N. Y.—Wanamaker’s, Broadway & 9th St., Main fi. Satin striped half-size dress (page 70) Chicago, Ill—The Fair, State & Adams Sts., Dresses, Downstairs Los Angeles, Calif—Broadway Dept. Store, Broadway & 4th Sts., Dress Dept., Down- stairs Milwaukee, Wis.—Gimbels, 101 W. Wisconsin Ave., 2nd fl. New York, N. Y.—Stern’s, 41 West 42nd St., Downstairs San Antonio, Texas—Joske’s, Alamo Plaza How to Order Modern Screen Fashions (1) Buy in person from stores listed. (2) Order by mail from stores listed. (3) Write Connie Bartel, Modern Screen, Box 125, Murray Hill Sta- tion, New York 16, N. Y.—for store m your vicinity. “Your face ig your fortune... but your figure S fortung, ye make light of your figure with an airy (Ce ORTUM, * pantie girdle by ~ a Lovely lace . . . all but tear- proof in nylon-reinforced- cotton and elastic. Fortuna exclusive . . . contour-fitted crotch of so-soft Elasta-@ cloth, won't ride up, cut, or bind, Detachable garters. Matching girdle. Small, medium, large. Nude, white, ice blue, biack. $5.00 count _ oO eurentsed by > Gpod Housekeeping ‘J 245 aprrariste TAOS % Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. i : Creators of Fortuna girdles, pantie girdles, gorter belts, bras WOLFE & LANG. Inc.. 35 West 32 Street. New. York C3 Hi-heel fashion S| with lo-heel freedom. White or Black suede finish. 4 to 9, Mediums only in whole and half sizes. MERLE ORDER BY MAIL VICKI OF BOSTON 89 BEACH ST., BOSTON, MASS. Prs. Wedgies @ 2.98 JULENE Please send me. | | | I 2nd | STYLE SIZE | COLOR CHOICE | MERLE ! JULENE | Name—__— | Address. | City. State | Check Money Order (J ¢c.0.D. 0 Send check or money order and we will pay postage. | Customer agrees to pay postal charges on C. O. D.’s.

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i Naa ETERS si PS ELA ET a , 4 ii eee ee 72 See Myapte swim suits by jordan toby te wate you'll take to this eye-catching, sigh-catching shirred front suit with its gay new cuffed-top bra and the perky half-belt-and- bow-topped trunks. Se Nye has fashioned it for you in a smart new Lastex Faille, in new jewel tones of Jet, Scarab Green, Coral and Topaz. Sizes 32-38. About $8.95 at smart stores. Write and we'll tel! you where! JORDAN MANUFACTURING CORP. 1410 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 18, N. Y. THIS LOVE OF OURS oo. (Continued from page 53) his career was the important one if our marriage was to last. Then he was offered the lead in Bad Boy, and we knew that on it, more than on any one factor, hinged our future together. In those months of great happiness and great fear, I would have given up Hollywood gladly at one word from Audie that he would rather settle down at some other job in Timbuctoo or any place. But that wouldn’t have been like Murphy. He’d never run away from a fight before. And he was going to lick Hollywood or die trying. When I finished work on The Sin of Abby Hunt last summer and went to Italy to make Prince of Foxes, Audie gave me my engagement ring. It was all settled. When I returned, we’d have a pretty fair idea of his future. Bad Boy would be finished, and it would be a good yardstick. As hard as I worked in Italy on my own role, I prayed even harder for the success of Audie’s back in Hollywood. And when the first rushes were reviewed with en- thusiasm by his studio bosses, we were in. seventh heaven—although, with an ocean and a continent between us, it was a little difficult to celebrate. Ill never forget the last endless mo- ments of those five lonely months I was away. Fog was so dense as we neared Los Angeles airport that we couldn’t land and had to go on to Burbank. When they made the announcement at the Los An- geles field, everyone waiting there for friends or relatives on our plane, started on a mad dash for Burbank, to be there in time. The only one who made it be- fore our plane hit the runway was Murphy! With the date set, the church decorated and my wedding dress pressed and wait- ing, I came down with an attack of the “flu” I had picked up in Italy. But I was determined not to postpone the ceremony. On the long-awaited day, I walk the aisle—a little wobbly, but all- brides are shaky and no bride was ever happier. that brief, appearance combination tour— Then came honeymoon-personal poeta “Thanks, Maribelle! ed down - which I had to leave to return to Holly- | wood after two weeks. . 4, Alone in our beautiful sapartment, the only time I wasn’t blue was when I was fixing up his dresser, arranging socks and ties and shirts in the new chest in our bedroom, and hanging his suits and jackets in their new closet. I folded and re-folded everything so many times, I nearly wore . holes through the material. (And this is one of the things Audie seems to get the , biggest kick out of—this wifely fussing. | He likes to have his things laid out for © him. He’s never said so, but if I forget or , leave it for him to do, he hints broadly, “Where are my pajamas, honey?” or “What | shirt should I wear?”) | Then, at last, after a-separation of three | weeks that seemed an eternity, Audie , returned from his tour. Heaven! But we’d , barely had time to decide which towel . rack was whose when once again we were , parted—this time for five weeks while | Audie made another tour in the East. # Now, with no more separations in the | offing, this is our real honeymoon and | our homecoming. We've had so many | goodbyes, but now, finally, this is the is dream we've dreamed so long. . . It’s certainly not specs as Holly- i wood dreams go. Evenings, we sit by the fire in robes and slippers. Its a make- 4 believe fire with make-believe logs, but it looks real enough to poke and oc- 2 casionally we do. Audie likes to watch the fights on televison and we both think the wrestling matches are fun, with their , fascinatingly horrible character. Sometimes * we play records or friends drop in—but ; i ' more often we just sit and talk and plan. H “Who but the Murphys would start on 7 a honeymoon and housekeeping simul- dl taneously?” I laughed, as I fixed dinner : that first night he was home from Texas. | _ “Well, after all,’ he pointed out, thought- fully, as he made a lid- lifting tour of our. gleaming new stove, “This one is a very | special kind of honeymoon, Mrs. Murphy. . It’s going to last forever.” THe Enp ») MODERN SCREEN & { a a a <p Ad If you were a horse I'd kiss you.”

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NOT BY BREAKS ALONE (Continued from page 40) He went back to his compartment. In | a few minutes he had some visitors who | seemed anxious to collect for the dinner. They said they could not understand how someone occupying a compartment couldn’t pay for dinner. “Who are you, anyway?” they asked. the same expression on their faces as if he’d just told them he was Napoleon. || “Guy Madison, the movie actor? And |, you haven’t got three dollars to pay for dinner?” So Guy tried to explain. If ever there was a less plausible story, the train of- ‘ficials hadn’t heard it. So they said, “May we see your driver’s license or something to back up your story?” And when he pulled that old chestnut about having left his license at home, the conductor, the trainman and the others started muttering about deadbeats. “En- joy yourself, pal,’ they said. “Our next stop is Albuquerque where you will be || met by the Police Division of your fan club. ... You have a fan club, of course?” “Oh, yes,” Guy said modestly. At Albuquerque, Guy nonchalantly went to the telegraph station. No money. Then he was greeted by several minions of the law. “Here,” the train people said to the station police, almost as one man, “this is || the fellow who says he’s Guy Madison.” take if easy... ‘|! “Well, by gosh, he is,’ said one of the |; local policemen. “Guess I ought to know. My wife runs his fan club down here.” Yes, Guy is absent-minded;’ it’s one of his problems. Sometimes I have to serve as his memory. He’s so relaxed, he takes things so easy, that people get the im- pression he’s just a bewildered country _boy. Nonsense! He tells me, “The way I figure it, things always turn out okay in process?” There’s another Guy Madison story around town that I, as his agent, would like to blast. This one contends that Guy has no mind of his own, that anyone can talk him into doing anything. - Now look, I know this boy. I'll bet the story causes some astonishment to his girl, Gail Russell. We know, Gail and I, that | Guy very definitely has a mind of his own. Once he makes up that mind about some- thing, he sticks to it. He won’t argue or ‘fight. He just sits there, convinced he’s right. Guy has a determined streak a yard -wide—but when he realizes he’s been wrong, he’ll admit it at once. That’s be- cause Guy has no highfalutin’ illusions about himself. Certainly, one of the prime |) problems of young actors is retaining their || original hat size in the face of inevitable | adulation. And I don’t know anybody else || who’d have as much justification as Guy || a getting a swelled head. But he steers clear of this occupational disease by de- || liberately and intelligently keeping to a || common-sense viewpoint of himself. '. When I first saw him, he was on the “cover of a naval training station magazine i that a friend of mine was editing down _|| in San Diego. The cover showed a blond | young giant of a sailor. expertly going’ up -a mast: I liked his face and I noticed i he had the kind of physique that men push |" bar-bells to achieve. % ~ __ “Who,” I asked in a letter I sent to San _ Diego, special delivery, “is that magnificent || thing? If he ever gets up this way on || leave, tell him to look me up.” | That started a sequence of events which He told them. They nodded their heads, the end—so why get steamed-up in the | | ’ * -Craft Dept. Dé PORAD'S ie Valens cena 1 Waake with your allowance in or: ig boiht Frosing while Gay” Send___prs. [) SUGAR; ___prs. [1 SPICE at $3.30 pr. a “sweeten” sport outfits, : Size ________Width time wardrobes and formal fr Is. Name. White elk ’n’ washable. Sizes 4 to. 9 Address medium width—6 to 9, AA width. City Zone cere : SATISFACT 10 N cua NTEED O) Check OD Money Order Oc op. R. E DED Send check or money order and we pay. postage. When sent Bie, : C. O. D. customer to pay $3.30 pair plus charges. Reg. U.S. Pol Of FLARE SLIGHTLY HIGHER a (ae Elastic Leg Brief spun OF 4 Sir uaa SP Guorontced by © Good Housekeeping 24s aorransre OIF :. fOr a Touch of Wenus > a 3 popular styles in 2 quick drying Tricot Band Leg Brief rayon fabrics—and just look at the unbelievably low prices. Pink, white, blue, black, maize, nile and orchid. Small, Medium and Large. T-V “Gold Ribbon” (Run Proof) Briefs. .49c a T-V “Silver Ribbon” (Run Resist) Briefs. .39¢ Flare Trunk Panty ° Flare in each fabric 10c higher Individually cellophane packaged McKAY PRODUCTS CORP.* 350 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK, N.Y. 73

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bf the Navy ¢ i ‘find 65 was a movie star fe d, yet, as he was.the very first to say, there was an awful lot about acting he Hand yet to learn. And he had to do all ips learning right out there in front of the ithful fans who were enthusiastically jee his stock. ‘| It would have scared a lesser man stiff. ‘Suy was scared, sure, but he faced the fituation sensibly. | He went down to La Jolla to play in ‘Dear Ruth on the stage with Diana Lynn. | visited him some days later. He was jitting in his dressing room, morose, and 4) little blue. He saw me come in. He picked up a lheaf of newspaper clippings and held nem out to me. “Here, look at these,” fhe said. 4 They can hardly be said to have been flattering to him. th I started to try to explain them away. af LE broke in. They’ re right,’ he said, \jjabsolutely right.” | Much more experienced stars than Guy i ipnight say of them on the stage. I could {tame 10 stars who came to movies via The stage who admit they are scared to hope to return to the footlights and an fF -person audience. iijigher education .. . m- 1; So I wasn’t going to blame Guy for being }imid about being a stage actor. But early is summer Guy came up to me and said fhe wanted to go back to summer stock. We 'The experience would be good for me. bT’d learn a lot,” he said. ii “What about those man-eating critics?” iT, suggested. lee “Well, what about them?” he countered. So, as his agent, I arranged the tour. aki knew what he wanted. Good, bad or Indifferent, he just didn’t want to be con- dered a quitter. And when he returned fter six weeks of playing John Loves ary, he showed me his clippings again. You know what? They said now that he’d Hearned a lot as an actor and could now erpe considered a good performer with a Ss Of course, the current big buzz-buzz "i bout Guy has to do vail Gail Russell. € won't marry him, the other that he ont marry her. I’ve heard it was all ublicity and that they were both “secret- 'y” in love with two other people. Oh, the onderful Madison-Russell stories Ive eard! But ll tell you something. When we were down in Dallas for that Tezas, Brooklyn and Heaven opening, there was Jan absolutely stunning gal who attached erself to us. She was a typical example pf she-wolves who are always on the make for good-looking young stars like Guy. The way she kept looking at him was more ‘eloquent than words. i She tagged Guy through a round of tocktail parties and dinner parties. Final- y, about 11 o'clock, we were at a party in the hotel where we were staying. Guy turned from the girl to me the minute e beautiful creature took time out and eft him unguarded. . {i “You ‘know, Miss Ainsworth,” he said, ‘Tm not having much fun. lm going up- fjstairs and call up Gail.” And he quietly Aleparted. | I may not know all the answers to the i adison-Russell romance. But I’ve seen nough to tell which way the wind is lowing. | il And in the five years I’ve known him, WP ve seen enough of the nice, quiet, gentle- D anly Mr. Madison and the intelligent Way he meets his problems to know that y girl could well be proud to have him pe Guy. ‘THe END Pea: Madison are terrified of what the critics - “‘Soaping dulls hair Halo dlorilies it! Y Not a soap, not a cream— cannot leave dulling film! V Quickly, effectively removes dandruff from both hair and scalp! VA Gives fragrant, soft-water lather Yes, ‘soaping” your hair with even finest liquid or cream even in hardest shampoos hides its natural water! V Leaves hair lusirously soft, easy lustre with dulling soap film WV Halo “Ast a soap, not a cream — contains no sticky oils, nothing to hide your hair’s natural lustre with dulling film. Made with a new patented ingredient, Halo brings out glossy, shimmering highlights the very first time you use it! Its delightfully fragrant lather rinses away quickly, completely in any kind of water—needs no lemon or vinegar rinse. For hair that’s naturally colorful, lustrously soft, easy to x manage—use Halo Shampoo! At any drug or cosmetic counter. fo manage—with colorful natural highlights! Halo reveals the hidden beauty of your hair! 75

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BRILLIANT SPORTSWEAR, INC. 1410 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 18,N. Y. 818 S. BROADWAY, LOS ANGELES, CAL. z | she’d have liked to have found a nice WINNER TAKE ALL? (Continued from page 24) for photographers, standing out as the only girl present in a high-necked dress in all that array of strapless gowns. She chat- ted with Claire Trevor, congratulating her on her Award. Then Lew Ayres took her gently by one arm, Jack Warner by the other, and she went off to a party at the Champagne Room of the Mocambo. Here were gathered 130 people—Jane’s old friends and all the fellow-workers from Warners who had helped her make Johnny Belinda her greatest role. This night, Jane’s cup of happiness was filled and running over. She was on top of the world. Her friends were gathered about her. And yet, there remained one dark question mark: What of the men in her life? .. A few weeks before, I'd seen Jane Wy- man and Lew Ayres together at the Errol Flynn party. Jane looked happier than I'd seen her for a long time. Lew, his thin, tanned face responsive to her every remark, looked happy, too. They spent most of the evening chatting with the Ron- ald Colmans. Every once in a while, Jane would wander off to greet her friends, and Lew would remain where he was, waiting for her... . . already at odds... Watching them together, I thought back to Johnny Belinda and the tender love scenes these two played in it at the time Jane was getting ready to call quits to her marriage to Ronald Reagan. I don’t believe for a minute that Lew, or any other man, was responsible for the break in what Hollywood had long con- sidered the “perfect marriage.’ I’m sure that Jane had decided quite a while be- fore she and Lew made Johnny Belinda, that she and Ronnie Reagan were heading in different directions. However, when a girl is already emotionally at odds with her husband, close association with another man, attractive and considerate, might cause her to view her mate with-an even . more critical eye. And, undoubtedly, while Jane and Lew were working together in Johnny Belinda, she found Lew a very pleasant fellow to be with—he’s an interesting conversation- alist, with a rare and alert sense of humor. As I watched them at Errol’s party, they were having lots of laughs and both seemed very intent on what the other was saying. This scene contrasted so sharply with one I'd witnessed when I watched Jane and Ronnie Reagan dining at Le Papillon, on The Strip, just before she took off for New York where she finally admitted she was separating from her husband. They weren't laughing at all, and their few smiles were pretty wooden. Once or twice Ronnie went into long dissertations, and I gathered from Jane’s expression that she was pretty uninterested in what he was saying. I’m sure that Jane went through a ter- rific emotional upheaval when she finally took her first step away from Ronnie. She was exhausted physically and mentally when she finished her long, Award-win- ning job in Johnny Belinda. Things had been piling up for Jane even before she began the picture. She'd lost the baby she had been expecting, and Ronnie went through a siege of illness brought on by virus X. Then the two children had heavy colds, which caused her a good deal of worry. When she went to New York, after the picture was finished, she behaved as if cozy hole to crawl into. She wouldn’t leave her hotel room for fear of woulda ; someone who'd ask her questions about , her marriage. Then she announced that | she and Ronnie were going their separate , ways. By the time she returned to Hollywood, she was in a very emotional state. Then she took off for Las Vegas, where she said | she was going to file for divorce, but while | moping around the Flamingo Hotel, she met so many friends who wanted to know | what was up, she fled from there, too. To all appearances, it looked as if the | little girl didn’t know what she wanted to | do. She was almost as distraught as “Be- , linda” was, when she was standing trial’ for murder. I’ve often wondered if Lew Ayres didn’t give her some friendly coun- | sel in real life then, just as he had in the, picture. Lew had gone through a lot of emotional upheaval himself, when he an- nounced during the war that he intended | to serve but not carry arms for his coun-| try. He was completely misunderstood at | that time, because the public couldn’t un- derstand a young man who said simply | that he couldn’t kill another human being. | (Later, of course, after he had served with | distinction in an Army medical unit in Pacific battle areas, those who'd attacked | his stand completely changed their minds.) It is very likely he ‘was able to give Jane understanding advice that helped her to get a grip on herself. At any rate, she suddenly snapped out of her indecision, came back home, and calmly went about getting a divorce in Los Angeles. She) testified that Ronnie caused her mental) torture because he was so interested in | politics. | However, what really happened between this supposedly ideally mated pair is guesswork, for neither of them has ever) told anyone what actually happened. The’ California divorce law allows a wife to'| charge mental cruelty without going into too much detail, so what Jane told the! judge can only be about half the reason she} made up her mind to stop being Mrs. Reagan. When I lunched with her recently and, asked her if she cared to discuss her mar-; riage break-up, she said she’d talk to mel about anything on earth but that. This attitude of Jane’s would indicate that she’s been very much on the defen- coming attractions!! our july cover co-starring jeanne crain and baby michael beginning june 10

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iJ CPR ee ; fi sive about her marital collapse. She’s doubtless had many an argument with herself. Ronnie’s preoccupation with mat- ters outside the home may not seem in itself to..be-a strong reason for throwing in the sponge on an eight-year-old mar- triage which had survived many ups and downs. And yet, wives who have gone through somewhat the same experience can sympathize with her to a great degree. Undoing a marriage is a difficult busi- ness. There are so many mutual ties. It takes a long time to begin thinking about oneself as a separate entity. Jane hasn’t gotten over this hurdle yet. I asked her recently about a jeweled locket she was wearing, made in the form of a horse’s head. ‘Oh, Ronnie and I have a racing stable,” she smilingly replied, without thinking. “This is one of the racers we have high hopes for. If it doesn’t win, I'll probably throw this locket in the ashean!” She was still thinking of herself as part of a team with Ronnie! They are friendly, and saw a lot of each other before Ronnie went to England to make The Hasty Heart. While he was there, they talked frequently by trans- Atlantic telephone, when Jane would give him all the news of the children. And every week she sent him a supply of steaks. At this writing, Ronnie is expected to return in a few days, and after she completes The Octopus and Miss Smith with Dennis Morgan, Jane herself will leave for England—to make a film for Alfred Hitchcock. Away from the studio, Jane has taken up painting. She told me that many nights when she can’t sleep, she gets up to work with her oils and brushes to settle her nerves. In her living-room there is little else right now. but a huge oil portrait of herself in the role of Belinda. It was painted by her teacher, Paul Clemens. She’s also taken up golf and has been geing regularly to the Riviera Country Club at six o'clock in the evening, an hour when the course is usually deserted. She prefers not to have people watching her. future uncertain .. . Jane works as hard at being a mother as she does at being an actress. Remem- bering the old days when she was a danc- ing kiddie; she stopped little Maureen’s piano lessons, because the child was get- ting too expert. “I want them both to grow up just per- fectly normal, healthy children with lots of fun and the way of life kids are en- titled to,” she explained. While painting, she lets seven-year- old Maureen and three-year-old Michael (whe’s adopted) sit ‘with her and, with great earnestness, try to make the same pictures as she does with their colored crayons. - It was a great blow to her when she lost her baby in 1947. She hopes sometime to marry again and have more children. But having failed to find enduring happiness in two marriages, she tells friends she’s going to be very certain it will work out before she tries it again. Lew Ayres was first married to Lola Lane, and then to Ginger Rogers. He, too, is shy about trying it again. You can be certain that should he and Jane decide it’s really love between them, they’ll still be in no rush to wed.... And so, amid the great and well-de- served triumph of an Acadamy Award that underlines the shining promise of even greater fulfillment ahead for the ex- traordinary talents of Jane Wyman, the major question in her personal life still remains: Will all the heartbreak of her shattered marriage to Ronald Reagan be healed and forgotten in the deep and last- || mag happiness that may someday await her with Lew Ayres? THE END FOR YOUR DOLLAR EVERY TRIP . FRAVEL TRAILWAYS — When your travel urge whispers, “Action! Romance! It’s time to take a trip!” Let TRAILWAYS big, safety-colored, Comfort-Planned Buses pro- vide the thrift-sure answer for Spring and Summer travel. You'll save money with TRAILWAYS Bargain low fares and enjoy the extra satisfaction of TRAILWAYS deep-cushioned “‘scenery-level”’ seats as you glide along our nationwide network of famous routes. For infor- mation on all fares, Thru-Buses, schedules, Pleasure Planned Tours, or charters, consult your phone book for your friendly local TRAILWAYS agent or mail the coupon below to Department 18-D, NATIONAL TRAILWAYS BUS SYSTEM, 185 N. Wabash Ave., Chicago 1, Illinois. NATIONAL RAILWAYS BUS SYSTEM UNG CIERRA sara Sem ee SS oe SOE ee Hurry, while they last! Get your beautiful copy of TRAILWAYS famous VACATION- AND-PLAY U.S. A. map. 3 ft. x 2 ft., brilliant, colorful, perfect for framing. Sent in matling tube. Only 25c with coupon below. press seeee eee e222 2S eeee National Trailways Bus System 185 N. Wabash Ave., Dept. 18-D Chicago ], Ill. Please send me large (for framing) map and/or FREE information, as checked. O | enclose 25c. Send Vacation-and-Play U.S. A. (map) Additional Information on TRAILWAYS 0 TRAILWAYS Pleasure Planned TOURS Name (Please print)_---_----------_-- Gitye8aZ ones ee a ee State. --_-

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Youre always “set” with De Long Wair Pins « Curl Setting Pins*Satety Pins* Hooks and Eyes« Snaps*Pins+ Hook and Eye Tapes Sanitary Belts MY LONELY YEARS (Continued from page 42) So one of the first men I met was Farley Granger. So one of the first things he did was to invite me out. So—I’'ll never forget how I stood there looking at him and wanting to say yes. I was heartsick. Not until that moment had I realized what I'd let myself in for with my stern resolu- tion—which I could now feel rapidly melt- ing away to nothing. Yet, at the same time, it hit me that if I broke down this quickly I'd never be able to respect myself. Farley Granger will never know, until he reads this, what it cost me to say no— as I did. He just straightened up, I re- member, and said, in a funny kind of way, “Okay ... however you feel.” blues day and night... Well, my feeling was far from happy, but that’s the way it had to be. In self- defense I threw myself into rehearsals for my first picture—Wonder Man, with Danny Kaye. It didn’t matter to me whether the studio scheduled rehearsals or not, I came down daily and danced anyway. But even this didn’t keep me busy enough—or tired enough so that I wouldn’t even want to go out nights—so I enrolled privately at Belcher’s for additional ballet lessons. I was living with Mother and Dad, and each evening I went straight home from the studio, sometimes sighing ruefully to my- self about the predictions of Imogene, Mimi and the others. Convertible with boy? Hah! The near- est I got to this was the second-hand 1937 coupe I bought to get around in. It didn’t come equipped with boy; it came equipped with. 200 different squeaks and rattles, an engine that pinged and bucked, and a horn that sounded like a baby seal. Ciro’s? One night on my way home from some late shooting at the studio I stopped outside and sat in my car watching. I saw laughing couples enter, the girls with their shoulders bare and I heard the thin wisps of music that would come trailing out to me every time the door opened. I imagined being inside with all the fun, and went limp with longing. When I jammed my heel down on the starter to get away from there my eyes were so filled with tears that I could hardly see to drive. Big beach. parties? Oh, yes! I think there were a quarter of a million people at some of them—everyone who cared to drive down to the public beach at Santa Monica on a hot Sunday and join Mother and Dad and me. But I stuck to my no-date pledge and hoped that after a while I'd fall into the rut of this sort of life and it wouldn’t bother me any more. (Later, as you shall see, I became horrified at the thought that I was in a rut, and moved fast to get out of it!) All this time I faced one more decision I couldn’t make. I hadn’t yet applied for my divorce. I was certain the marriage was over. There was no point to waiting. And yet, the actual step was too much for me. I know it doesn’t make sense, but I just can’t explain it any more clearly. It sort of had to do with a dream that I didn’t want to give up—even though it had given me up.... One thing had finally come about—a good thing, I suppose, though I didn’t feel too happy about it. Long before I got used to saying no to an invitation, people got used to not asking me out. Even so, I might have given in had I been living with a girl friend; sooner or later there would have been a chance to come on a double date that would’ve hit me when my will power was minus nil or something. Being home with my parents helped a bit. | I got so I could lick the temptation to); go out while I was busy on a picture,) but in between pictures, time hung aw-); fully heavy. That’s when I had my jalopy\: overhauled and took Mother and Dad on; a series of trips to see California and the nearby West. My idea was to get away) from Hollywood when I wasn’t working.) I got away from Hollywood but not from; my situation—quite. The second morning at! Yosemite Valley a big, footballish kid said’ hello and didn’t I want to hike to Glacier ; Point with him? At Sequoia National) Park a tall, dark vacationer introduced} himself to Dad, got to meet Mother, and| finally worked his way down to me... Can it be that a girl traveling with her/ parents appeals more to men than when she’s alone? At least, ’'ve been on trips by myself and received less attention than on those sightseeing jaunts with Mother and Dad to San Francisco, Carmel, Reno,’ Virginia City and a half dozen other scenic, and historic spots. Or maybe it’s just that! the spirit of the West makes everyone) more hospitable and friendly—especially | the kind of men you would love to date} but can’t. | It was bad enough to be just lonesome, as I was in my first year in Hollywood. ; But in my second year something else developed—something a little frightening. ; It came over me one night when I took Mother and Dad to the preview of The Kid From Brooklyn. I wore a simple blue satin dress; simple—but form-fitting—and, , to tell the truth, simple but daring. After: I got it on, after we got to the theater—| well, it was nice to be with Mother and, Dad but the dress just shrieked for a tall, handsome escort to be beside me! I came home depressed. I told Mother to take the dress and cut it up or give it away—any-| thing to get it out of my sight. i) She picked up the dress but looked at; me oddly as she did so. Then it hit me.» She didn’t have to say it: maybe I was losing confidence in myself. \ Nt fight against fear .. . It was a pretty shocking thought, but; there was more than my willingness to} give up the blue dress to prove this might | be so. Things I had been worrying about! for months crowded into my mind. In ad-. dition to my stage work I had always been a good ballroom dancer—I had even won, an Arthur Murray Award as the year’s most versatile dancer. But I hadn’t danced once with a man since coming to Holly- wood. Was there a fear in me that I would do badly trying it now? I had al- ways worked hard to cultivate an ability! to converse easily. Was I afraid I'd sound dull if I went out again? And that old zip, to my personality that I started developing | so assiduously when I was a kid and had’ always fancied was mine—was I convinced now that it had died from non-use? It was all in the look my mother gave me and it was all in my heart. It was also all I needed to take quick action. Within two days I had filed suit for| divorce, had my hearing soon afterward and knew it would be only a year before the decree would be final. A year to go... but I didn’t have to wait a year. Eefore it was up we got star- tling news. My husband had remarried in England. I was free. It’s funny, but after that first surge of, emotion, after talking my new state over with Mother and Dad, after driving all alone to one of the hills overlooking Holly-

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| ee _|| wood and ie )/i want to trust myself in public yet. a ee ee a le Si: TAN | what I wanted for myself now, I found a | great inner desire to go along quietly for _ a while as if nothing special had happened. ||’ But—I did accept a date. | It was my first real date in Hollywood. | It was for a small cocktail party, and I | went with a man I like very much, Bob Snody, a 20th Century-Fox executive. Bob said something about going to one of the night clubs instead, but I preferred the private party. It was almost as if I didn’t For almost three years I had opened my own doors, paid my own checks, thought and acted for myself alone. Now I wanted | time to feel natural again about having things done for me by a man. : There were other quiet dates. And then, one morning, Farley Granger : phoned. “Say, remember when you first got to Hollywood,” he said, “and I asked you—?” “Oh, yes!” I interrupted. “Yes! Yes! Yes!” “What do you mean ‘yes’?” he asked. “Yes, you remember, or yes, you—?” “Yes I'd like to go out,” I cut in. “Oh!” He came back. “That’s what I was leading up to!” “Well, you’re there now!” I declared. “As a matter of fact, you were there three years ago—if only I could have accepted!” Then one night I met Rory Calhoun (before he married Isabelita, of course). ‘Ym awfully glad this has happened,” Rory said. “I feel I have the right to call you up some night, now.” Just to show you how soon a girl can get back into stride, my flip reply to this | was, “Oh, I’ve felt that way for a long time!” Rory was a little taken back—and _I had to ask myself, “Did I say that?” | But just the same, he phoned me in a day or so and made a date to take me out to Ciro’s. This was the date, I decided, that would see the definite end of the | old Vera-Ellen and the beginning of the new. | It was a wonderful night. Not only did ;I dance with Rory, but I danced with | Guy Madison, with Peter Lawford, with dozen other Madisons and Lawfords. } And, to top it off, just before we left for Ciro’s I got word that I was to dance with Gene Kelly in MGM’s Words and Music. Yes, it was a wonderful night. So won- derful I hardly even noticed a little voice inside of me that was still speaking up guiltily every once in a while. “Why, Vera- Ellen!” it seemed to be saying. “You? You out with a MAN?” It was a voice out of the lonesome past —and as far as I was concerned that’s where it belonged. And so, with all the spirit of my new- found confidence, “Get lost!” I said. THE END | SAW IT HAPPEN While visiting the Warner Brothers studio I asked Dennis Morgan for his autograph. The pen I handed him suddenly started dribbling ink all over Mr. Morgan, ruining his hands hee d as well as his cos- tume. I was so embarrassed I could only stand there waiting for his re- action. It came with a roar of laugh- ter ending in a weak murmur from Dennis. “It leaks a little, doesn’t it?” he said. Betty Beacham Los Angeles, California thinking and thinking about Oy yours the Foitinate Mand 7 % bs Is your ring finger long? You take chances, gamble with ‘ life and love. ' THE FORTUNATE HAND... One of a series Watch for your hand : Is the tip of your : little finger pointed? You're quick-witted, with a wonderful gift of expression, Does a lucky star twinkle under the third finger of your right hand? You ve talents which, developed, spell success. Believe your talents show in your hand? Whether you do or not, your well-groomed fingertips show you're fashionwise. When you use Dura-Gloss, your fingertips say you're practical, too. For Dura-Gloss means excit- ing shades, quick application, long-lasting GrarcBood oy Good Housekeeping Storas Abveanseo WS DURA-GLOSS «2 au 10° Prices plus tax beauty...all yours for only 10¢. non-smear remover 10¢ and 25¢...lipstick an¢ ©1949 Lorr Laboratories, Paterson, N. J. Founded by E. T. Reynolds “NI

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"WET THE 49 ERS (Continued from page 33) a Which is something that makes Monty ae. Gordon, who is 28, married, and the rather of three, is out to enjoy California ife to the fullest—and now. As soon as ne’d signed his Warners contract early last year, he sank every dime he had into own payments on a valley house equipped with swimming pool; a Buick for himself, nd a Cadillac for his wife, Sheila. This as perhaps not quite so fearless an ex- dression of self-confidence as it- might ell seemed, for Gordon was already ell established as a front-rank NBC inger—and it was fairly safe to assume at his lucrative radio and recording areers would continue onward and up- Ward. They have: he has his own radio show, “The Railroad Hour,” and currently his recording of “So In Love” is a sizable nit. | And as far as his movie career is con- mmed, there have been no options dropped. er doing excellently in a non-singing ole in The Big Punch, he followed up Panel in the soon-to-be-released Some- here in the City. His next film was the urrent Look for the Silver Lining. Studio alk now is that he'll be starred in a usical version of Brother Rat, to be talled Rise Above It. | Gordon is nothing if not self-assured. n the morning he was first due to begin work at the studio, he arrived bright and tarly and a publicity man offered to take him around so he could meet the key deople of the organization. “Thanks,” said Gordon, “but I think know them all.” “T don’t get it,” said the puzzled press Miigent. “Isn’t this your first day out here?” ; Yves, officially,” replied Gordon. “But i | dropped in yesterday afternoon and walked around. While I was at it I thought MY might as well tell people who I am. iBo I did.” Doris Day began rocketing last year ith her first movie, Romance on the y igh Seas. My Dream Is Yours has just -jfstablished this blonde, delightful dynamo ,|{8 one of the largest attractions in musical ‘jilmdom. Born Doris Kappelhoff in Cin- ‘}tinnati on April 3, 1924, she had made a {|place for herself in the show world as a venile hoofer when an atitomobile acci- fent broke both her legs and put a stop | that. This blessing in disguise led her LI take voice lessons and, still in her teens, il) | | that’s hol “Yd like you to know that for me { | Bette Davis can do no wrong. If she’s in a good picture, I like her. If she’s in il]| a bad picture, I like her. There is some- | thing spirited and lyric about her acting ; that you get occasionally in French and | Italian films, but rarely in American ; films. It’s vigorous and exciting and there ought to be more Bette Davises.” | (ANNE SHIRLEY) Irving Hoffman | Hollywood Reporter omewhat different from Gordon Mac-— her silverplate and she came to a store that showed her three spoons. One spoon was an ordinary spoon with no form of wear protection at all. i HE next spoon she saw “was one of the extra- plated kinds. But the third spoon was something extra special. It had these Xi Wt7p;\"' I 7, T was a Holmes & oe ES, Edwards Spoon... OU NS EAA NN and like all the ‘ most used spoons and forks in this really finer: silverplate—it was In-: laid with two blocks of Sterling Silver at the backs of bowls and han- dles to stay lovelier longer. When she heard this, Goldilocks ran all the way home... with her beautiful new chest of Holmes & Edwards, of course! HOLMES & EDWARDS STERLING INLAID: SILVERPLATE aed 2 * Baa © HERE AND HERE 05 It’s Sterling Inlaid aoe 8Y THE INTERNATIONAL SILVER THE LOVELIEST SILVERPLATE 1S STERLING INLAID! Whether your choice is Youth, Danish Princess, Lovely Lady or the New Spring Garden, there is no lovelier, no finer silyerplate at any price. 52 piece service for 8 is $68.50. All patterns made inthe U.S.A. New Spring Garden Lovely Lady fate Sas O Danish Princess ies ECE INTRODUCTORY OFFER! 4 FIVE O'CLOCK TEA- SPOONS FOR ONLY $1.89. These lovely spoons in the new Spring Garden Design are ideal for desserts, ice cream and sherbet. At all jewelry and department stores for a limited time only. \ \ iY EN Copyright 1949, The International Silver Co., Holmes & Edwards Div., Meriden, Conn. Sold in Canada by: The T. Eaton Co., Ltd. Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. 81

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' were making Out Of The Past. Bob, as everyone knows, is a relaxed player, bare- ly drawling his lines—and that technique just seems to steal scene after scene. This day Kirk decided to relax, too, and as the dialogue went on, each one slouched more and more, until they both were practically doing the sequence lying down on the floor. Jane in her mimicry even managed to look like them. Formerly married to Rudy Vallee, Jane is now Mrs. Edward Lasker and the mother of a two-year-old son. She was born in Washington, D. C., and got her profes- sional start singing with Enric Madriguera’s orchestra. Picture offers came after Life magazine had her on the cover in a WAC uniform, and she signed with Howard Hughes. Later she got a release from him and signed with RKO. Since he now con- | trols that studio, she says, “I’m back where I didn’t want to be—and that’s where I wanted to be all the time.” Coming back to Arlene Dahl at MGM— shell probably be on a fast boat to Italy about the time you're reading this, to go into an important picture as yet not named. Her work with Robert Cummings in Reign of Terror and with Van Johnson | in Scene of the Crime won her this assign- ment, Arlene used to think that being a model was the most wonderful thing in the world, which is why she left Minne- apolis for New York. There she became one of the highest paid models in the city. | One day, Joe Pasternak at MGM saw her picture in a magazine and wired her agent for information about her. But Arlene didn’t know about it—for the agent, not wanting to lose her, carefully mislaid the telegram. She was singing on Broadway ‘in Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston when she was offered a contract with Warners. That led to her role opposite Dennis | Morgan in My Wild Irish Rose and this in turn led to an MGM contract and roles with Van Johnson in The Bride Goes Wild ; and Red Skelton in A Southern Yankee. Van Johnson was a Warner Brothers player, but just leaving, about the time that Arlene started there. When they first met on the MGM lot, Van remembered her. “Didn't I see you at Warners?” he asked. | SAW IT HAPPEN Betty Grable came to Fort Bragg, N. C., dur- ing the war. As a public relations Sergeant, I went to one of the train- - ing units with a photographer to take a series of pictures of her in Z the kitchen with the cooks and the K. P.’s. When we finished our pictures, the officers—a ‘Captain and four Lieutenants— grabbed off Miss Grable to sit at their table for dinner. After dinner the Captain suggested that it would be nice to have photographs of the of- ficers and Miss Grable. I replied that we were there to photograph her with enlisted men. He insisted—so what could a Sergeant do when a Captain insisted? I whispered to the photog- rapher, “Snap a few, but don’t use any film. Then we'll tell him they turned out bad.” The Captain and the Lieutenants posed smilingly for many pictures. They were completely un- aware of the hoax. But I could tell by the twinkle in Miss Grable’s eyes that she knew! Don Bishop New York City gleams and glistens. beautiful Lustre-Creme 0" ow sh from a Lustre-Creme ~~ girl. Tonight!..Show him how much lovelier your hair can look... after a (ushe-Greme Shampoo NOT A SOAP! NOT A LIQUID! BUT KAY DAUMIT’S RICH LATHERING CREAM SHAMPOO WITH LANOLIN for Soft, Shimmering Glamorous Hair - 4-0z. jar $1; 10-0z. economy size $2. Smaller jars and tubes 49¢ and 25¢. No other shampoo gives you the same magical secret-blend lather plus kindly LANOLIN ... for true hair beauty. Tonight he can SEE new sheen in your hair, FEEL its caressable softness, THRILL to its glorious natural beauty. Yes, tonight, if you use Lustre-Creme Shampoo today! Only Lustre-Creme has Kay Daumit’s magic blend of secret ingredients plus gentle lanolin. This glamoriz- ing shampoo lathers in hardest water. Leaves hair fragrantly clean, shining, free of loose dandruff and so soft, so manageable! Famous hairdressers use and recommend it for shimmering beauty in all ‘thair-dos’”’ and permanents. Beauty-wise women made it America’s favorite cream shampoo. Try Lustre-Creme! The man in your life— and you—will love the loveliness results in your hair.

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He did everything from carnival wrestling to punch-press operating before he got started on Broad- way. And what a start! His first stint was as a singing-messenger boy—and he can’t sing. His next role was with the Katharine Cornell-Judith Anderson-Ruth Gordon staging of the Russian classic, The Three Sisters—in which he played an offstage echo. But after a hitch in the Navy, and more stage and radio work, he hit strongly in movies in The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers and A Letter to Three Wives. The word is out that the best work he’s done is in Champion, just being issued now. One thing Kirk can’t forget is his poverty-stricken days. He dropped into a restaurant with a friend the other day and when their food was served, they both agreed it was so bad as to be unappetizing. But to his friend’s surprise, Kirk cleaned his plate anyway. “I can’t, I just can’t waste food,” he explained. “Too many times at home I opened our icebox—and I don’t mean refrigerator—to see nothing but an old can of Mazola. Too many times I met the early morning train from New York at five o’clock to get an armful of news- papers to sell so I could run back home with breakfast cereal and milk for my four sisters and myself.” Ricardo Montalban, whose parents came from Spain but now live in Mexico, where Ricardo was born 28 years ago, is a dancer who never danced professionally before getting into pictures. He has deep dramatic ambitions and, even though the MGM execs think he’s a great hoofer, doesn’t feel he’s properly a dancer at all. the play's the thing... Some weeks ago he was at Loretta Young’s, attending a family party. (His wife, Georgianna—the mother of his three children—is Loretta’s sister.) Ricardo,. in the course of the festivities, was clowning | around and fell, twisting his back. A doc- ; tor diagnosed his injury as a sacroiliac slip, and everyone’s face promptly got grave. “Oh, Ricardo!” they mourned. “What about your dancing?” He laughed. “Who cares?” he replied. “Now at last I will have to do some straight acting to make a living.” But the sacroiliac worked back into place and he can dance again. However, the latest dope is that he may get a chance to go dramatic in the picture MGM is making about the Battle of the Bulge, Battleground. Pat Neal, who says she got her husky, Tallulah Bankhead-like voice playing (and yelling) “Run, sheep, run!” as a tomboy in Packard, Kentucky, where she was raised, is the tallest of the new stars— five-feet-eight. There are a lot of other Tallulah characteristics to her and her eareer. One of Tallulah’s greatest suc- cesses was as Regina in The Little Foxes, on Broadway, and Pat played the same role in the play that concerned the same character, Another Part of the Forest. Tal- lulah came to see Pat after the first night and told her, “Darling, you were as good playing Regina as I was—and that’s darned good!” And out at the studio, Pat has a habit of shocking Warner Brothers ex- ecutives a la Tallulah. One of them ran across her on a Mon- day morning and happened to ask, “Well, what have you been doing over the week- end?” “Shoplifting,” replied Pat. She shocks them, but she also pleased them so much in John Loves Mary that they put her in The Fountainhead, with Gary Cooper. Right after that they sent her to attend a Command Performance in London and to stay on there with Ronald Reagan to do The Hasty Heart. (She wrote 5 a letter from England to a studio friend, saying that when she went for a walk with Ronald one day, fans besieged them and they had to seek refuge in the Tower of | London. “We were locked up for an hour,” she said, “but we didn’t lose our heads.”) {j The youngest two players among the new stars-to-be are Gigi Perreau and Joan Evans. Joan is not yet 15 but fully looks her part as Farley Granger’s mountain | sweetheart in Roseanna McCoy. It’s a bit odd to see Joan go from a love scene with } Farley to the little “schoolhouse” on the | studio set to pick up her high-school |; Soon after the picture || started, she showed up one day with a |! lessons again. worried look and told the director, Irving Reis, that she was worried about her “test.” i “Why, your screen test was perfect!” he exclaimed. “I don’t mean that,” she cried. |} “T mean my biology test.” Joan’s parents are both writers who have worked close to the picture business, and her godmother is Joan Crawford. Yet she | got her chance through a “cold” discovery when a Goldwyn talent director, William Selwyn, discovered her in a private school in her native New York City. She’s chestnut-haired and has brown eyes. So | far, she seems quite calm about her screen career. Little Gigi Perreau, at eight, is already } practically a screen veteran, having ap- peared in 18 pictures. Her brother, Peter Miles, who is 11, is a child star in his own || right with his latest picture, Red Pony. There’s another girl in the family, Janine, | a year younger than Gigi. Yep, Janine has | been before the camera, too. That was || when she was given a bath by Katharine | When the | Hepburn in Song of Love. director of that picture had trouble show- ing Janine what to do, Gigi took over ang supervised Janine in the scene. igi’s real first name is Ghislaine. She | knows it’s a classical French name, she knows that her grandfather was dean of | the Paris stock exchange, and she also knows how to draw a circle with a compass and cut it up into angles. MODERN SCREEN |e Around the) studio, she issues a newspaper written in | pencil, with such items in it as, “Rita Hay-— worth may get married,” “Wallace Beery || isn’t feeling too good,’ and “Flash! Gigi,

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wea | Perreau went to court yesterday to have | her Goldwyn contract renewed.” She is proud of her work in Enchantment, but the biggest kick she ever got was at a preview of Family Honeymoon in which she ap- pears with Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. Her role called for her to be quite a trial to her elders and as she was leaving the theater with her mother, she heard a woman remark, “Wasn’t that little girl a brat!” “Did you hear that, Mother?” Gigi asked. “T must have acted real well to be that bad!” Scott Brady is an ex-amateur pugilist champion, now punching out a film career for himself. Hailing from Westchester, New York, the son of a police chief, he went into the Navy right after high school and won the light-heavyweight boxing crown at the Pensacola naval station. After the war he visited Hollywood to see his broth- er, Lawrence Tierney. A few months later he was under contract to Eagle-Lion. Then he made Canon City and He Walked by Night. His latest picture is The Western Story, with Jane Russell and George Brent, Scott is 25, stands six-feet-two and weighs 180. That’s near perfect for movie he-men, combining required ruggedness with necessary photographic slimness. He’s still a bit bashful about being an actor. Late last spring, he was punching the heavy bag at the Hollywood YMCA when a man stopped to talk to him. “I like the way you handle yourself, kid,” he said. “How’d you like to fight for a living? I handle boxers.” “No, thanks,” said Scott, blushing. “I’ve got regular work.” “Better than boxing?” said the manager. “T like it better,” said Scott. The man went away and Scott’s brother, - Dick, who was standing nearby, wanted to know why Scott hadn’t simply de- clared that he was in-the movies. “G@ wan!” said Scott. “Who'd believe it?” Well, the modest Mr. Brady may be correct in the assumption that he’d never, off-screen, be mistaken for a thespian. But it’s a cinch that no one seeing him perform in a film could think that he was anything but an actor, and a whale of a good one. And that, as we've said, is something that goes for every one of these clearly tal- ented young players. Their qualifications for screen ‘eminence go much deeper than their abundant personal attractions. In Hollywood 1949, technical ability is being demanded first and foremost of new- comers who make the grade. The ’49 ers have everything needed. It’s a great thing for the movies. THE END MEET THE AUTHOR Louis Pollock was born tongue-tied in Liverpool, England, and was headed for Montreal in the same condition, at 11 months of age. An operation, performed at sea, worked wonders, and Louis has been talking steadily ever since. Wan- derings brought him to Chicago where, as a newspaperman, he was fired three times. To this distinction he adds that of being the first reporter in the journal- istic history of the city who was scooped repeatedly by his own paper. Lured mto press-agentry, Pollock be- came advance man for everything from faith healers to Sally Rand. He lefi the management of a tent show in Florida to go into motion pic- ture advertising. While at work he wrote a book called Stork Bites Man, and left that job to write for magazines and await royalties from his book. At pres- ent, he is still waiting with a wife, two _ children and open arms. 4 Por the skin a “al that doesrit like a heavy foundation Transparent loveliness for the complexion that doesn’t like it a “coated” look. This greaseless powder base smooths «= your skin . .. powder takes on an exquisite finish. Sheer, satiny powder base— greaseless! Looks fresher, more natural! Protects skin! Here’s the secret of a make-up that always looks charmingly right—always in perfect taste. Never heavy and artificial. Before powder, just smooth on a feather-light base of Pond’s Vanishing Cream. / — No streaking—no shade problem. The cream leaves only a protective, transparent film that takes powder superbly—and holds it! Beauty pick-up before make-up— 1-Minute Mask shows instant results! For bright, clear beauty for a bright evening ahead, always =~ give your face a refreshing pick-up with a 1-Minute Lg ess Mask. Cover your face, except eyes, with lavish fingerfuls of Pond’s Vanishing Cream. The Cream’s “*keratolytic’”’ action loosens stubborn dirt and dead skin roughnesses. Dissolves them off! After one minute, tissue off clean. Your skin looks vibrant, alive—smoother s : and clearer—ready for a flawlessly lovely make-up! MRS. HW. LATROBE ROOSEVELT, J&., says —“Before an important evening, a 1-Minute Mask of Pond’s Vanishing Cream brightens and freshens my skin so quickly—gives it a new smoothness that’s wonderful for make-up!”

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STAIRWAY TO THE STARS (Continued from page 57) already a good one, became a lot better. By the time her 12th birthday came along, she decided that everyone who told her she was too young to enter the Hollywood Bowl Auditions was silly. So she entered. She was so small that lowering the micro- phone was not enough—she had to stand on a trumpet case to reach it. But out of her elfin body came song and volume that electrified the audience and judges. Lois lost first place by a shade but got runner- up honors—and also a string of profes- sional bids which included an offer from Alfred Wallenstein to sing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and an- other from Nelson Eddy to sing on his radio program. When John Charles Thomas heard her remarkable range and then took note of where it was coming from, he promptly dubbed her a “colo- ratura in a nutshell”—and the best he had ever heard anywhere. “Surely. your mother was a singer,” one of the Bowl musicians to her. Lois shook her head in denial. “Then your father?” “Oh, no, he’s in the building line,” she told him. g “But such technique, such color and control!” the musician exclaimed. “You must have studied music—and how you must have studied!” “How?” asked Lois blankly. “Yes,” he said. “Even if you are a child, you must have a profound knowledge of music.” Lois thought. Finally she replied, “All I know is that if the notes go up you sing high, and if they go down, you sing ow The poor man stared at her. high?” he asked. eVes.” “Down ... low?” Lois nodded again. He nodded in be- said eWip see. critic's corner WHICH PAPER DO YOU READ? Bad Boy—with this debut, young Mr. Murphy has formally leaped into the ranks of important Hollywood stars... he is bursting with vitality and vitriol. You go way back to the early days of Jimmy Cagney before you recall a boy radiating such vigor: By design or coincidence, this scenario was tailored exactly to his style and he has taken full advantage. Alton Cook N. Y. World-Telegram The whole thing is such an apparent compilation of cliches and romance played in a strictly make-believe man- ner, that it is hard to stomach, much less believe Precisely why Mr. Murphy should play a juvenile crook is neither apparent nor reasonable in other than exploitation terms, for he is obviously not a criminal and he is not over-able to act. His gaudy displays of insolence are like'a kid’s in a cops- and-robbers game. Bosley Crowther N. Y. Times boy! but meat is a baby builder! Swift’s Strained Meats have what it takes to help baby grow his best! Baby gets all this body-building goodness in every spoonful of Swift’s Strained Meats. Complete, high-quality proteins—needed for sound, sturdy growth. Natural B vitamins—vital to baby’s health and. good appetite. Food iron—to help baby build good, red blood—avoid anemia. Swift’s Strained Meats are extra-smooth and soft. Easy to feed earlier in life. Baby’s choice of delicious beef, lamb, pork, veal, liver, heart. Each one 100% meat. Swift’s Strained Meats are ready to serve, cost less than if you prepared them at home! You R DOocTOR =" 1s best qualified to say how early your baby should start Swift's Strained Meats. COUNCIL ON WY Fa\ Fons ano EA\ NUTRITION JE or cS MEDICAL >? Swifts x jMeats- Babies ay Sroned BEEF se All nutritional statements made in this advertise- ment are accepted by the Council on Foods and Nutrition of the American Medical Association. ( PLENTY FE. © SPECIAL) DiceED—s( SS for-— TeetHERS “Picky’eaTeRS BUSY MOTHERS (to encourage (to tempt chewing) lagging appetites) Tempting - Thrifty -Time-saving A 2 cae = iN Vv (nourishing -easy to fix) Swifts Meats FOR JUNIORS ta ‘ Swit ae .tst with 100% Meats tor Babies SWIFT & COMPANY, CHICAGO 9, ILLINOIS WATR WATER AL SHEERS

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But why did I spend 50 years learning it?” Up to this time, Lois had been doing most of the pushing herself. Now events began to lead her. She had to get an agent to comb through the theatrical offers com- ing in and one of these, when the right papers were signed, found her at Eagle- Lion Studios set to play the name role in Mickey—the story of a pig tailed tomboy in a Mid-Western American town. When the cameras turned on Lois for the first time she was 15. When young artists develop so soon and rise so meteorically they almost always turn out to be intense young people who have shoved everything else in life aside in favor of their careers; romance, play, keeping up with friendships are forgotten. If that’s the way genius usually behaves, then Lois, to use a biological term, is a mutation of the species. Not only has she lived a well-rounded life up to now, but she’s already decided that what she’s going to push into the background is her career —and soon, and completely! marriage comes first .. . Blue-eyed Lois, who is under five feet and whose hair looks reddish blonde, al- though her studio originally declared it was chestnut-colored (of course, her studio saw her first), wants most of all in the world to be happily married. And she’s not going to wait till she is thirty-ish (“Heavens, no!”) and she is not going to combine career with marriage. In one of the most extraordinary statements ever made by a one-picture starlet, she has declared: “Maybe two or three more years of singing and pictures. Then I want to fade out quick and get married in a church, with all the trimmings, and to one man—I mean only one, ever!—and have a big family.” “But you'll only be about 20,” it was pointed out. “A wonderful time to be starting out on a career.” “Tt?s a more wonderful time to start out to be a mother,” she came back. After Lois attended the world premiere of Mickey in Des Moines, she made per- sonal appearances in connection with other openings of the picture throughout the country. Among the dates on her itinerary was a three-day stay in New Orleans at the Joy theater, one of a circuit owned by Levere C. Montgomery. It seems there is also a Levere C. Montgomery, Jr., and on the first evening of her appearance there, he made himself known to Lois and her mother. After a few minutes of small talk he went into some big talk—and when that was over Lois found that they had a date for dinner together. They also had dinner the second night, and it was no different the third night—nor, they both realized, was it getting monotonous. After Lois returned to Hollywood, young Mr. Montgomery, or “Monty,” as a mem- ber of the United States Marine Corps Reserve putting in a couple of weeks of training, found himself at a Marine base in Southern California not a whoop and a holler away from Lois’ home in the San Fernando Valley. “Well!” she cried out in surprise one day when the doorbell rang and there stood Monty—as if ‘she hadn’t had six letters from him stating he was coming. At this writing, Monty seems to be the favored boy friend. Lois is due to spend a week at his home in New Orleans next Christmas on invitation from his mother. Monty apparently has replaced another lad who dated Lois for a full year during the preparation of and shooting of Mickey. He is Skippy Homeier, who was in the picture with her. Because she has wifehood in mind, Lois } is not just sitting idly by while the studio || prepares another picture for her. She is || tutored at the studio now, but has been granted permission to graduate at John, Marshall High, where she started and where all her friends go. In addition to }/ this education, she is getting her hand in | at things a lady of the house should know. | She seems to have no talent for sewing, ; but shows promise at baking—at least, her | mother reports that what was left of her first loaf of bread, after she got dough \ smeared all over the kitchen, tasted fine. || She doesn’t do too good a job at taking || care of her clothes. But this, her family | believes, is due to a mental hazard trac- | ing back to punishment administered for || the way she removed a grease spot from || a new dress when she was a child. She | removed it with a pair of scissors. | But whether or not she can bake, cook ] or sew, her mother is certain that Lois will |) make a good mother, for Lois has always \| had a wonderful way with pets and she | intends to make pets of her children. i} Lois even has a way with fish—and this | is on the word of her oldest brother, | Russell, now chief game warden of aj} couple of thousand square miles of wilder- | ness north of Fairbanks, Alaska. A few | years ago he, Lois, and Mr. and Mrs. | Butler went trout fishing up around Grand || Mesa, Colorado. Russell made Lois go sit || by herself because she insisted on singing | to the fish to take her hook, and singing, he assured her, would only scare them lf away. So Lois sang and got three fine trout on her line. Russell, a big game man | from away back, got nothing. Ditto their father and mother. Today the whole fam- ily is convinced that Lois has special | powers in her voice. Russell even thinks || he has it all analyzed. i “You remember when Lois swallowed | that grasshopper when she was a baby?” || he once asked his mother. “She gagged | on it and you tried to remove it. If I re- |! i} | member right, you got everything but the | legs—that’s what grasshoppers make their || music with. And boy, do trout love grass- hoppers!” Whatever the secret of Lois’ attraction may be, it undoubtedly exists—and not || just for trout. She’s going to lure untold || millions of cash customers into the thea- | ters in the next few years—customers who'll be going home delighted by a girl || whose twinkling talents, before she ever || came to the screen, were developed by the | soundest kind of show-world training. THE END HOW TIME FLIES! @ Garlands to Judy for her swell sing- ing in Broadway Melody of 1938. This thirteen year old is certainly going places—Modern Screen November 1937 Love is On The Air. This little num- ber deserves mention for just one reason and that’s Ronald Reagan, one of the newest finds for Warner Brothers. He has an engagingly wide grin and a nice manner.—Modern Screen January 1938

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2 SV Soe eri Pane eR 9 baat ee CS) A ee ) i nN OT SY NN el Bee ar PETER AND THE WOLF (Continued from page 49) confusion and competition, it isn’t quite enough to give a good performance on the screen (Pete’s a swell actor)—you have to get the public talking about you. And if they talk about you as a wolf— well, that just means the conversation will be more widely engaged in. They certainly talked about Lawford the Wolf during his Rita Hayworth epi- sode! Rita had just left Orson Welles for the second or third time. She was big news then, as always. “I think she’s wonderful,” Pete sighed to me in the Metro café, glanc- ing carelessly at the Hayworth headlines. ‘Yd give anything to meet her.” “Why don’t I say so in my column?” I replied. “Then Rita will read it, and—” “Oh, no!” Peter interrupted. “It might scare her off ... She’s so beautiful, so fascinating. .. .” Came Sunday and a movie commenta- tor’s radio show. Almost in the same language given me by Pete, I heard of his mad crush on Hayworth and how he panted to meet her. When I saw him in the studio café the next day I chided him. “I thought you didn’t want anyone to know?” “I didn’t, ’m furious!” Pete ex- ploded. “Now Rita will probably never speak to me!” happy hovering... But Pete wouldn’t be where he is today if he gave up easily. A week later I was at the Sam Spiegel New Year’s Eve party. Pete came in alone. Rita came in ditto. Mr. Lawford hovered happily around his objective. When I looked up the next time, they were dancing together, sur- rounded by a phalanx of photographers. They left together. For one beautiful week of popping flash-bulbs and an evening-by- evening accounting in the columns, Rita and Pete were said to be in love, and giving a very reasonable facsimile there- of. But when the news value was ex- hausted, so was the romance. During Rita’s early Aly Khan shenani- gans, I asked Pete what he and Rita had found to talk about—for Rita isn’t famous for her conversation. “She’s interested in everything,” he said enthusiastically, with- out telling me what. 3 Maybe I should have asked Rita what Pete talks about on a date—because that’s one of the unravelled Hollywood mys- teries. The same disgruntled starlet quoted earlier told me, “Peter, like all actors, talks only about himself.” More girls who've been out with him tell me, “One or two dates and no more! He makes them feel they’re lucky to be with him.” She was probably exaggerating—but it wouldn’t surprise me if there were some truth in what she said. A rather superior attitude toward women is an old British custom, because of the odd-million more women than men in England. (It used to be two million. That’s one reason I left England to live in America!) There’s also a big shortage of attractive men in Hollywood. Maybe that’s why movie-star wives who shed a husband, or beautiful girls who lose a beau and find themselves suddenly in a lonely manless world, are grateful to be taken to Roman- off’s, Ciro’s, The Players, La Rue’s, and Mocambo by the very presentable Pete... . Except Elizabeth Taylor! Shortly after her success in A Date With Judy, I heard that Liz had succumbed to Pete’s dating charms. So when I saw Pete deep in conversation with her on the Metro lot, I waited until he walked away to ask, “Is it true what they say about Peter being a wolf?” “Definitely not,” retorted Miss Fels-Naptha Soap THE ONE WASHDAY ‘MIRACLE’ Women who use Fels-Naptha Soap see a ‘miracle’ of cleaning performed every washday. And they know how it’s done: This astounding laundry soap is produced by blending the two greatest cleaning agents known to science—gentle, active naptha and mild, golden soap. The formula for this blend is preserved where it was created—in the Fels laboratories. Thus the gentle, thorough Fels-Naptha cleaning action is unique. It cannot be duplicated by any other soap—certainly not by any chemical soap substitute. Dainty garments come out of your Fels-Naptha wash as sweet and fresh as a daisy—safe from strong chemical action. Badly soiled work clothes, grimy towels, infant diapers are washed stainlessly clean, without a trace of odor—even in your automatic washer. Incredible? Not to the women who have tried Fels-Naptha Soap—because they want more than promises. Get Fels-Naptha for your first washday ‘miracle’ now... because you know what it will do... and why. For your machine or automatic washer, get gentle, quick-cleaning, sneezeless Fels-Naptha Soap Chips. MADE IN PHILA, SNES ENe. MILD GOLDEN SOAP AND ACTIVE NAPTHA THAT CAN BE EXPLAINED! 89

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“Live your life so that you'll be proud to have Don Ameche play it someday.” t —Judy Canova. | “A fool and his money—is a good \ fellow to have around.” f —Frank Morgan. “America’s best buy for a nickel is a : telephone call to the right man.” —Ilka Chase. Irving Hoffman Hollywood Reporter a a ne Pete’s retreating figure. “Don’t you think He walks like a duck?” (Forgive Liz, Peter—she was only 15 at the time!) Janet Leigh, who is not much older than Elizabeth, doesn’t agree with her. , Janet was all a-flutter when Pete called | her immediately after her divorce from , Stanley Reames—to give her the rhumba ft treatment at Mocambo. Someone once tried to explain Peter j5 to me by saying, “He’s never grown up.” That could be partly true—especially his intense hero-worship for men in the spot- light. Pete’s long friendship for Van John- son dates from the period of The Human Comedy, when Van catapulted to fame overnight in his bit role of soldier. After , that, everywhere that Van would go, Peter {/ was sure to be along. It was a very cosy | quartet in those days, Van, Pete, Keenan, and Keenan’s wife—as she was then—Evie. |] (It was fun for the photographers, too.) SS et Taylor. Then she giggled, looking after 1 if quick pupil... i scntiBis ee Fad Oe EN ee ree eee denn a Fe gee ee ee ee ee ee Se ES Pete’s attachment to Keenan predates his friendship with Van. It is based on {J gratitude. Keenan, one of nature’s noble- 4 men, runs an unofficial school of acting , a = at Metro. When Pete signed a contract || A at the studio, Keenan coached him for ~* his roles. Pete learned so fast that Keenan invited him to do a personal appearance with him and gave him such good routines @ t ) : that Pete snagged most of the applause. a lon rou eS It wasn’t true, by the way, that Keenan e was miffed by his pupil’s success, as re- f eae TI a a a ee ee ee 7 oR Ee Saat Ca ported elsewhere. He was pleased and || Pete, bless him, was sore as all get-out over the nonsensical story. (After the Keenan Wynn marriage, I heard a newspaperman crack, “Now who f gets custody of Pete?” They were making the same little joke when Van Johnson Jf married Keenan’s first wife, Evie.) | The perennial Lawford little boy-big man crush is Frank Sinatra. It is very cute to see the way Pete tags along after Frankie—and the popular crooner is good || THE SAFE-AND-SURE for Pete, who copies him. Pete is inclined || DEODORANT to be thoughtless and to brush past people eo he knows without bothering to say hello. I watched him make the omission the other day. He was talking to a girl and either didn’t see his friends or couldn’t be bothered. Then Frankie came in, gave out with large greetings for everyone. For the first time Pete looked up, saw Sinatra, saw his friends, and switched into general friendliness. : I had heard of the Hope diamond of course—but not much about Gloria Mac- Lean until she came to: Hollywood after her divorce from Ned MacLean, . whose. 1 ETIQUET actually ends under-arm perspiration odor—safely—surely ! ETIQUET— made by specially 2. patented formula—really checks under-arm perspiration! FLUFFY-LIGHT AND SOOTHING — 4 Etiquet goes on easily—disappears in a jiffy! No gritty particles! Hi NO DAMAGE TO CLOTHING t | A. when you use Etiquet — famous HI cloth-test proves! : ~ MORE ECONOMICAL TO BUY— ; A q ode Etiquet won’t dry out in the jar! ory a os * Guaranteed by @ Four sizes, 10¢ to 59¢, plus tax. \ Good Housekeeping ; hl A cy ; 90 OPAS anyeanist? | ~- PRODUCT OF -LEHN-& FINK ww) es a Sr SE ss

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| mother owned the famous jewel. But |Pete knew about both. Someone told me ‘that Gloria is the one girl that Lawford has ever really loved. I wonder. It’s true that since Gloria came here to divide her dates between Pete, and Jimmy Stewart, Lawford has not attached him- 'self to any other girl for longer than it takes to take a photograph. But the whole business of going out with girls seems to be such a methodical card-indexed busi- ness with Pete, that should his heart ever lreally get involved, no one will believe it—and that should include the girl. For instance, he seemed to be very much smitten with Lana Turner for a | while. This was just preceding her short- lived romance with Tyrone Power. After that, Pete seemed even more deeply af- fected by the lady. He even had a public battle over her in a night club. But there were no regrets on either side when Lana dashed off to New York and Bob Topping. Yet Pete does not put all of his publicity eggs into one basket. He can also get his name into the papers via non-romantic projects. As when Lucille Ball started her sponsored radio show and Pete, with his then unmarried pal Keenan, threw a huge party for what I was told would comprise all Lucille’s most intimate friends. They should have added “friends of the press.” Every man, woman and child who writes for the mewspapers was invited to the party in Ciro’s Ciro-ette room. A very professional time was enjoyed by all. Until Greer Garson went around with Texas oil man Buddy Fogelson, his name was not news in Hollywood.. Now if he goes to a party, or buys a new car, or walks down the street, you read the fas- cinating fact. So I wasn’t too surprised to learn that Pete is now a buddy of Buddy’s. And Pete not only admires successful business men, he now wants to be one— and is forming a company with Fogelson to make cartridges. Are you beginning to realize how cock- eyed is the still-current belief that Pete is a babe in the Hollywoods? It’s high time to stop under-estimating this highly intelligent, very adult young man. Far from being merely a light-minded wolf, he’s a genius—at reaping publicity from whatever social situation in which he care- fully places himself. THE END MODERN SCREEN ssey7 "No! No! You're dying, my good man, dying! Now try it again, and put some life into it!" = LUCILLE BALL starring in “SORROWFUL JONES” a Paramount Production Luci bya showed me how to hold a Man! Tt was all over between us. Gene hadn't phoned for ages! I was heartbroken until the night I read: “Rough hands embarrass a man,” warns Lucille Ball. “Men like a woman's hands to look feminine... feel soft. Keep your hands smooth and romantic with Jergens Lotion—I do!” I started Jergens-smoothing my hands that night! ... cause now I’m wearing Gene’s ring! See how much softer, smoother, lovelier today’s finer Jergens Lotion keeps your hands. Being a liquid, Jergens quickly furnishes the softening G moisture thirsty skin needs. ( ~ Leaves no stickiness! Still BB: a | j only 10¢ to $1.00 plus tax. Hollywood Stars Use Jergens Lotion 7 to 1 Over Any Other Hand Care The next time I met Gene... my hands looked so soft and smooth. “So nice to hold,” teased Gene (on our second dinner date in one week )! I know he meant it, too Used by more Women than any other Hand Care in the World! 91

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a 22 Gut ade See SE ete SS aa ines Rr a 92 wears [Tampax ... that socially alert woman whose poise you haveadmired and perhaps envied The secret of feminine poise is the knowledge that “every- V4 thing is right’’—seen or un- seen. And on those critical days each month, Tampax can be a helpful contributor to that feeling of surety and confidence. For Tampax is ‘‘another kind”’ of monthly Sanitary protection—neat, dainty and compact beyond the dreams of users of the older belt-and-pin type. Invented by a doctor, Tampax is worn internally and is only one-ninth the bulk of the other. Made of pure surgical ab- sorbent cotton, it comes in slender in- sertion-applicators, and the wearer does not feel it when in place. You needn’t even remove it during a tub, a shower or a swim! Be like millions ot other modern girls and women—?fry Tampax. No pins or belts. No odor or chafing. No embarrass- ment at disposal time. Tampax can cause no ridge-lines under dresses, slacks or swim suits. Sold at drug and notion coun- ters in 3 absorbencies: Regular, Super, Junior. Average full month's supply will slip right into purse. Tampax Incorpo- rated, Palmer, Mass. Accepted for Advertising by the Journal of the American Medical Association the fans MODERN SCREEN FAN CLUB ASSOCIATION Active members in the Glenn Vernon (Komenda) club are rewarded by a personal interview in their journal. Points are awarded to members on a basis of club activity and the clubber having the most points at the end of the year gets the write-up . . . Vera-Ellen club members have already received their membership cards, designed and donated by their star . . . The Mel Torme club and the Monty Clift club of Mt. Vernon have each found new ways to enlist new members. When Mel was making a personal appear- ance at the Paramount in New York, his club members gave out balloons with his name. Stunt was very eye-catching. Monty's club received permission from a local theater manager to place a poster advertising the club when Red River was shown. They re- ceived four new members each day .. . Would you like to win a real Esther Wil- liams swim-suit? Her club is running a raffle, proceeds to go to their adopted war orphan, and the prize is a swim-suit very much like the kind she wears in her movies . . . Lanny Rees, whom you'll soon see as Junior in The Life Of Riley, has an up-and-coming club headed by Bernard Jenkins of Washington, D. C. ... The Ray Eberle Fan Club is start- ing a membership drive and the first 50 people who write to Rose Marie Stroeher will win a year’s membership at 50c Congratulations to the Ronald Reagan club members, soon celebrating their tenth anniver- sary ... Ronald Farrington, who is president of the Washington Jack Smith fan club, re- ceived a cash award from Jack because his journal was named best in its league by the MFSCA .. . Louise Warnes is president of both the Richard Jaekel and Jim Brown fan clubs and is offering a reduced membership fee to the first 25 to write to her. The Alan Ladd fan club of Brooklyn is offering free memberships to the first 75 shut-ins who write to prexy Janet Miller. Members in the Harlem area of New York would do well to join Chaplain Nat Harring- ton’s group. They have literary and social get-togethers, outings to various radio pro- rams. They have lots of fun and do good work, besides . . . Ideas, Inc. The Art Roberts- Ken Keese Club (soon to become an all-disc- jockey club) has a novel idea for its mem- bership campaign—and credit for the plan goes to Betty Ricker. Betty has divided the members into groups of five, and each group works as a team. Naturally, team members live near each other, and work together. There’s lots of competition among the groups, which makes the business of winning new fans for Art and Ken lots of fun. Nelda Clough, president of the Charles Korvin club, writes, “Another idea which many of our new members have remarked very favorably on, is my practice of sending each new member a copy of our two-page club dictionary. This is a mimeographed enclosure explaining all about the’club and it’s various activities; telling how our journal got its title, etc. This helps immeasurably in making the new mem- ber familiar with the club, and he feels that he can step right in and be active from the very beginning of his membership—instead of floundering around and wondering—what GLORIA LAMPERT director BEV OTT | associate | happens next, if anything. This dictionary i stresses that our main purpose always, is to ~ boost our star.” We know it’s very difficult to run a club with over 500 members, get out journals on time, and correspond with the - various members. But we do think our League 1 clubs could be a bit more active. = Month after month, we have no entries from < League 1 clubs in various of our prize and point categories. Of course, we don't expect prexies to handle all the club work (and this applies to other clubs as well) so why not delegate jobs to active members of your , clubs. Teamwork makes better clubs . . . | Our Candid Camera Contest is beginning to | feel neglected, so how about you camera 5 fiends going to work and sending in some ? new entries? They can be snaps you took on your vacation this year, or a good picture of your neighbor's dog—just as long as it’s in- | teresting. Remember, in addition to winning || valuable points for your club, you also win a / personal prize for yourself. 5 Prizes: Ah, you lucky editors! Each of 4 you is the winner of a lovely REVLON KING'S © RANSOM SET. Each set, attractively boxed in ~ black velvet, contains a gold lipstick holder and seven re-fills in luscious shades. THIS IS MY BEST winners receive a handsome, gaily colored ENGER-KRESS BILLFOLD. They have many compartments to take care of money, |} papers and snaps and are very durable. You |! club correspondents had better start writing | us some newsy letters if you want to win a genuine ELGIN AMERICAN compact. We can jj tell you they're finished in jeweler’s bronze | and are perfectly lovely, but remember, | seeing is believing. TANGEE TRIP KITS are the very special prize we're offering to club artists. They’re filled with Tangee’s special | cosmetics and in order for art work to be eligible for a prize, it must appear in a club journal. : 9th Semi-annual TROPHY CUP CONTEST I~ ap This ls My Best: (100 points ) “Is It Supercolossal?”, . Anne Klucher, Bobby Breen Journal. ‘‘To An Actor,” Margaret Woodworth, Anthony Quinn Journal. “ “Not Fans, but Friends,’’ Gerrie Gruener, Joan Crawford Journal. ‘‘Hazy Holiday,” Sally Hall, Al Jolson Journal. ‘‘Questioning Kerry,"’ Elaine Homan, | Gene Kelly Journal. ‘’Friendship,”’ Grace Fox, Nel- son Eddy International Club. Best Journals: (500 points) League 1. Jane Wyman Journal. League 2. » tied. June Allyson Journal. New Stars Journal. | League 3. Esther Williams Journal. Best Editors: (250 points) League 1. Rita and Jo Mottola, Nelson f Eddy Music Club. League 2. Elaine Homan, Gene Kelly Journal. League 3. Terry Di Francesco, Bing Crosby (Bingites) Journal. Best Covers: (250 points ) League 1. Jane Wyman Journal. League 2. Burt Lancaster Journal. League 3. Gene Reynolds | Journal. Membership Increases: (100 points ) League 1. None qualified. League 2. Mel Torme Club. League 3. Michael Kirby Club. Worthwhile Activi- “ ties: (250 points) League 1. John Garfield Club (Donation to orphanage, books and cards to hos- pitals ). League 2. Ronald Reagan Club ($100.00 | to March of Dimes ). League 3. Richard Walsh Club | (3 packages to Germany ). Best Artist: (150 points ) Jeannette North, Vaughn Monroe Club (Yaggie). Candid Camera Contest: (100 points to first prize winner, 50 to others) Robert Breslin, Ella Raines Club. Helen Pollex, Rise Stevens Music Club. Ginger Bagnall, Jack Berch Club. Irene Ashcroft, . Betty Grable Club. Frank Bellinger, Penny Ed- wards Club, Martha Kay, Alan Ladd Club (Kee). - Best Correspondent: (50 points) League 1. Rita and Jo Mottola, Nelson Eddy Music Club. League 2. Ruth Schweitzer, Allan Jones Club. League 3. Nell . Ambrose, Club Friendship. Leading Clubs So Far: League 1. Jane Wyman Club, 1550, Gene Autry Club 850. League 2. June Allyson Club, 1050. Joan Crawford Club, 1050. League 3. Charles Kor- | enc 750. James Melton Club 700. Peggy Lee lu i :

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eS en ree | SE aed ft ER Se a al = fp! BABY FACE (Continued from page-39) ES old enough to smoke, his face still looked as if he’d yet to pass his first Boy Scout merit test. There was nothing to do about a situation like that. It doesn’t pay to punch drugstore clerks in the nose. And even growing a moustache hadn’t helped. He’d tried that, to the delight of all his friends, who kept telling him to go home and wash that smear off his lip. So Bob walked out of the store without a smoke, as he’d done dozens of times before—and as he still would when, five years later, he’d wind up in Hollywood for his first movie job, playing Rosalind Russell’s son in Roughly Speaking. Now he can laugh about it. “That baby | face gave me my start, and now I’m glad that I grew up a half dozen years before it did. Of course, in my first few pictures I was cast strictly from wholesome, but after Mother Wore Tights and Green Grass of Wyoming, along came my first real relief. They called me in and told me I was to be one of Gregory Peck’s hard- boiled gang in Yellow Sky. Could I raise a beard? “Could I raise a beard! I promised the healthiest beard the casting department ever saw. By gad, ’d show ‘em—and I did! I startled them and myself when the darned beard came out red. But anyway, it was a genuine beard, even if it did have to be touched up a little.” | as the girls go... ' in his teens. | big fight of his life. As for the romance department, Bob, at 23, no longer feels the slightest twinge of pain over the girls he lost when he was Some of them are now married to buddies of his up around Aber- deen, Washington, and raising families. What happens to Robert Arthur now when he gets on the telephone for a date? He gets the girl, of course. If anyone can name a couple of prettier, more exciting young ladies than Colleen Townsend or Betty Lynn, whom Bob has been dating regularly, he’d like to know about it. That’s not bragging. He just enjoys having put his inferiority complex aside for good. It isn’t funny to grow up in a country where the population is 40 per cent lumberjack, where the men are thick- er through the chest than the trees they chop down, and weigh an average of slightly over 200 pounds—whereas you, at 15, tip the scales for 118 pounds and are too frail to go out for football. Anyone with a complex can look into Bob’s life and take heart. One evening in his home in Aberdeen, he stared in the bathroom mirror and said to himself, “Boy —that’s your face. You're stuck with it, so what are you going to do?” He had to be tough, that’s all. If he couldn’t be rugged on the outside, he’d find that steel quality inside and let it shine through, in his voice and in the way he handled himself. A couple of afternoons later, he had: the A buddy of his was walking home from school with him. The guy said, casually, “Looks like a good night for a toboggan party. How about it, Baby Face?” For an answer, Bob grabbed his friend by the shoulder, swung him around and growled, “Square off!” They shed their jackets. Bob pasted a set of knuckles on his friend’s chin. The boy got up and exclaimed, “What’s that for?” “For calling me something you’re never | going to call me again.” “Shucks, I didn’t know you’d get sore. But if you want a fight, you'll get one.” To ADD fresh COLOR and LUSTRE to your hair after a shampoo or home permanent, use Lovalon For you who do your hair at home, Lovalon is a must. It rinses gorgeous fresh color into your hair. Gives hair sparkling highlights, leaving it attractive, soft and manageable. Blends in yellow, grey streaks. Lovalon comes in 12 flattering shades. . . has none of the disadvantages of a dye... washes out with each shampoo. 10¢ and 25¢ at toilet goods counters everywhere. Try Lovalon—today. LOVALON —the Hair Beauty Rinse ———"" Daring new “Bare-Look’’ : Sandals in Natural or” White leather. 4 to 9, Mediums only. a AF THONG With crepe soles Seat eee ~ BAREFOOT ORDER BY MAIL Ce). VICKI OF BOSTON ° 89 BEACH ST., BOSTON, MASS. Prs. Sandals @ 2.98 2n COLOR CHO MS-6 Please send me. d STYLE ICE SIZE hatin emeaetenaed | | | | | | BAREFOOT | THONG | | | | | Name. Address Son. City. State seamen Check [] Money Order [] c.0.D. O Send check or money order and we will pay postage. 93 ——— ee a ee Ca HRS % Sh

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ee joe hoand Modorn Romances? Everyone’s talking about that new kind of daytime radio show — “Modern Romances”. It’s now being heard over American Broadcasting Company stations from coast-to-coast. The radio program “Modern Romances”, like the magazine, is packed with exciting stories of real people in situations you yourself may face. “Modern Romances” is great listening — you’re going to like it! Tune in every morning Monday thru Friday on your local ABC station. Check your newspaper for scheduled time of “MODERN ROMANCES” 94 They fought, then, slugging it out on the icy road, slipping, falling down, getting up, knocking each other down. A half hour later they were still swinging. Neither could have killed a horsefly with a head- on punch by that time. At last, they both fell, exhausted. They had just enough strength left to reach over and shake hands. After that, word got around among Bob’s friends. No one ever again re- marked about his amazingly youthful face. Among his friends, that is. And people Bob didn’t know, he didn’t care about. After school, Bob worked in a supply store for lumberjacks. He had a few un- comfortable moments when these grizzled monuments would storm in, crash big fists down on the counter and yell for service. “They’d hit town from camp with sev- eral weeks’ pay and $100 to spend on new duds. It was my job to sell them as much stuff as I could. Then they’d go out and break up a few bars before going back to work. heroic effort... “While I was pulling out heavy shirts and boots I used to stand as tall as I could and say to myself, ‘I’m tougher than you are, you big lug. And in a heroic effort to give that impression—and in order to be heard over the customers—I’d roar when I talked out loud. Guess that’s where I developed a deep voice.” He was deep-voiced for good now, a far cry from the boy soprano in the school choir. He had confidence in himself and he proved it by coming out on top in competition with 200 other young men in a series of auditions for a job as all-around announcer for Akerdeen’s station KXRO. Then he went to Seattle and took an exam for the Navy V-12 program. They enlisted him, and when he stood for the first time in a chow line being served by kindly lady helpers, one of them looked at him in dismay, then turned to her neighbor and exclaimed, “They have no business putting a mere child like that in a sailor suit!” Bob laughed his deepest laugh. He’s five feet nine inches tall and hard as nails. Until he was hospitalized and later discharged, he did fine with the Navy gang. Except for one little incident. He was living in a dorm on the Washington campus with a huge Navy veteran who was several inches over six feet tall. They had an argument about nothing. As a climax, Bob walked over to his buddy’s locker, pulled everything out and scat- tered equipment all over the room. The buddy watched this procedure in amazement. When Bob was through, Bob walked up to him, stuck up his chin and said, “What are you going to do about it?” The guy reached out, grabbed Sailor Arthur at the collar in one huge fist. He lifted him up a foot so they could look eye to eye. “What am I going to do about it? Why, you nervey little character—what can I do about it without killing you? Come on, kid, let’s go to a show.” When the Navy days were over, Bob Senior had a long talk with Bob Junior. It was time now for son to follow in father’s footsteps and go into the savings and loan business. “TY'm going to stick with radio,” Bob de« clared. “And I’m heading for Hollywood.” “You're crazy, son,” the father said. “But go ahead—and I'll stand back of you. If you don’t make it, there’s always room back here.” “T’ll make it,’ Bob promised. Oh, no, he wouldn’t. Not in radio. The “baby face” was going to give him trouble again after all these years. Bob Arthaud, now Robert Arthur, arrived in Hollywood : with his entire savings—$100 in travelers’ | checks. He registered at the Hollywood — Plaza Hotel and went to dinner that night at the Brown Derby, just across the street. He saw Jack Benny, Alice Faye and Phil Harris. He also saw two dozen agents and radio announcers. He felt he could have talked with any one of them, but he | kept a respectful distance. He was sure | he’d know them all in a few months. He © tipped the waiter a dollar, then went home to bed. “Including the cost of my hotel room, T’'d spent exactly $14 of my total stake. So I checked out the next morning and | went looking for a rooming house. I found ~ one a few blocks from CBS, across Holly- wood Boulevard, right next door to Jim- mie Fidler’s office. My landlady, an ex- vaudevillian named Pearl Early, was very | encouraging about my future in radio, so I set off with a letter of recommendation in my pocket, ready for work.” His first interview was a complete flop. An executive laughed when he applied for an announcer’s job. “Why, youre much too young.” “Too young? Who’s going to see me?” | “Youre still too young for this town,” was the reply. “But you do have excellent | recommendations. . . . Say, how’d you like | to start in sound effects?” Bob knew the time had come to stand up for his reputation. “Nothing doing,” he declared. | He went home to the boarding house and told Mrs. Early he was heading for | Arizona. There was a station there that would give him a job. “Why don’t you try pictures?” she asked. “Pictures? That’s ridiculous. What do I have to offer?” | “Try it, anyway. Another day won't hurt. . We'll check with my agent.” “This is against my better judgment,” | Bob insisted. And exactly 12 days after he arrived in Hollywood to work in radio, he was on the payroll at Warners—playing one of Rosalind Russell’s sons in Roughly Speak- ing. When the deal was signed, Bob called his father by long distance. “Guess what, Dad!” he crowed. “I’m in | pictures.” Bob Senior’s reply was unbelieving in | the extreme. “Look, son—if you're really | ill you can come home.” What happened next was the complete | reversal of all Bob’s earlier experiences. | He expected that on a movie sound stage " HOW TIME FLIES! What is this thing called love? Tyrone Power kisses Janet Gaynor a fond goodbye as she sets forth for New York firmly believing she is the only girl in his life. Next day Sonja Henie arrives in Hollywood and Mr. P. is on hand to kiss her a fond hello. And Loretta Young, who gave up Director Eddie Sutherland for Tyrone, now goes with producer Joe Mankiewicz.—Mod- ern Screen, January 1937

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he’d be. treated as a mere peasant in the presence of the glamorous Russell and the big-shot male star, Jack Carson. Instead, he hadn’t been on the set half a day before Roz began talking to him. She found out that this was his first day in pictures and that he was nervous. In 10 minutes he was so at ease that he found himself tell- ing her the story about failing to get a job as a radio announcer because he “looked too young.” Roz roared at that. “Why,” says Bob, “she actually slapped me on the back and asked me to come and see the rushes.” Then, to top off the incredible day, she drove him home that night after work. “Shucks, I discovered that these people were just like the people back home, friendly and helpful.” He discovered something else, too. That Hollywood can be as romantic as it looks. He began to go out with Wanda Hendrix. Nothing really serious, but they were both on the same lot and they had something in common. They wanted to play in Life With Father. They rehearsed together over sodas at a Toluca Lake drugstore. They made the test together. Everybody on the lot said it was fine. It was, but neither one of them won a part in the picture. there to stay... Then Bob’s big bubble was broken. Studio production hit a slump and Bob’s option wasn’t picked up. “After Nora Prentiss, with Ann Sheridan, I was back on the town. I went into little theater work, then landed a part in Sweetheart of Sigma Chi at Monogram. After that came little theater work. By now I was a part of Hollywood and knew that nothin could ever make me leave.” : After he signed his 20th Century con- tract and went to work in the Betty Grable picture, Mother Wore Tights, he went house-hunting. From experience with his dad in the savings and loan business, he knew how to negotiate a good buy. After he finished a musical in which Col- leen Townsend also worked, he had a new girl to date. “But I didn’t want to jinx her,” he smiles. “If Colleen and I had started to ‘go steady,’ she’d have been a cinch off my past record to be a bride in no time at all. I’m sort of kidding, of course. Anyway, Colleen introduced me to Betty Lynn. Id been trying to meet her because she looked like a beautiful rag doll with red hair. She’ll murder me for saying that, but I hope she'll keep on giving me dates—even though she has more admirers than any girl I ever knew.” There’s the lurking suspicion that Bob rather likes his bachelor status. That’s usually the case when an actor will freely admit how much he likes a girl. And this is true even though he’s now sold his house in the canyon and is building his own dream house atop a high hill over- looking Brentwood. “That’s going to be some house,” he de- clares. “It'll practically hang in space. At first there'll only be three rooms, sup- ported by a single steel girder. Later on, when I’m ready and can afford it, I’m going to add rooms on the top and on the bottom. And, movies willing, that’s where I’m going to Stay until I’m an old man.” That’s some time off. Bob Arthur is 15 years younger than the average big-time leading man of today—and he’ll be step- ping into that rank shortly. He really made a hit in Yellow Sky. Of course, Gregory Peck is in the pic- ture too, but is it Bob Arthur’s fault that, in a new way, he has some of what Greg- ory has too much of? No one has called Bob Arthur “Baby Face” for six years and three months now. And if someone should, he wouldn’t mind. After all, it’s the face he didn’t like that put him where he is today. THe END DO INHIBITIONS (Doubts) THREATEN MARRIED LOVE? physical neglect can rob a wife of her husband’s love One small intimate ES, your married love is strong Ve. 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HAPPY HUNTING (Continued from page 46) campaign.” His Napoleonic brain was working swiftly. “You kids do the talk- ing; I'll do the grabbing. All we've got to do is get in backstage and catch one of the girls as she comes by.” “First we've got to get in,” said Mari- lyn, practically. “That’s going to be easy,” put in Bill Williams. “Once I had a job as a dancer there, and I still know the doorman. May- be I’d better do the talking.” So they linked arms and crossed Sun- set Boulevard from the Palladium to the back door of Earl Carroll’s restaurant. In a matter of minutes, Bill was patting the doorman on the back and edging his team- mates in backstage. Some of the chorines were carrying their skimpy, beaded costumes, some were already dressed. A. C.’s eyes darted hither and yon. He spotted two lighty-clad dancers hurrying past with pink and white feathers swaying temptingly from their hips. The gang moved forward simul- taneously. They introduced themselves and then maneuvered the girls up against a rack of costumes at the back of the stage. Bill Williams evoked old memories of the time he was one of Stuart Morgan’s dancers, and the girls were soon eagerly re-hashing the old days. Diana Mooney in the white feathers, and Winona Smith, in pink, were deep in chatter of “Remem- ber the time when” as A. C., half hidden by the hanging costumes on the rack, reached out a hesitant hand and plucked a plume from Diana’s waist. At the same time, Barbara fleeced a feather from Win- ona. Of course, the chorines felt their feathers jerking from them, and turned indignantly on the thieves. “Hey!” they chorused. “What’s going on?” fine feathered friends .. . Their ruffled plumes and feelings were smoothed down as Marilyn and Barbara explained. Marilyn had broken their egg. If they didn’t stand a chance to win the scavenger hunt, they could at least come back with something pretty important— like the feathers, for instance. Winona and Diana were won over. But, they warned, the next team that came around collecting feathers would find them all out of spares. There just wasn’t one single feather that could possibly be spared from their scanty costumes. This last remark delighted everyone on Team 2. It meant Teams 1 and 3 wouldn’t get any ostrich plumes. Bidding farewell to their feathered friends, they dashed off to get a potted palm from the front porch of columnist Ivy Wilson, a pal of A. C.’s. While all this was going on, Team 1, composed of Mona and Diana and their husbands, was busy piling its collected loot in the back of Pat’s Ford station wagon. They’d been down to the beach, where Diana had won a huge pale blue china pig by throwing darts—three dol- lars’ worth. They’d dropped in at the King’s restaurant, where proprietor George Distel had escorted them back to the gleaming kitchen to receive a live lobster from the willing hands of his chef. 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ee ae a patrician eyebrow. Instead, she stretched out a hand in welcome and ushered them into her living-room. There the gang told her what they’d come for. One of her fanciest hats, if she didn’t mind. Miss Hopper swept off to her hat closet and obligingly brought forth an armful of her famous bonnets. : Hedda placed her hats on the living- room floor. They made splashes of bright color and odd shapes against her elegant gray carpet. One was a twist of purple velvet with a bird-of-paradise feather. Another was a cartwheel of black and white ospreys, another a circle of delicate gray fox fur. The kids couldn’t make up their minds which to take, though the girls tried them all on, and Pat even made the blue pig model a hat. Finally, all but Mona settled on a gi- gantic green felt pagoda tastefully dec- orated with miniature lamb chops. This gay number, Hedda explained, had been presented to her by Nancy and Frank Harmon of the famed Shangri-la restau- rant in Chicago. But Mona held out for a speckled feathered pyramid. Hedda let- them take both. Hedda waved them on their way with a scented handkerchief and a_ tolerant smile. For Team 1, the evening’s loot was as complete as they could make it. Mona was anxious to get back to check on the refreshment situation, for, as hostess, she had that little problem in addition to loot- collecting. So they called it a night. But Team 3—composed of Mary and Terry, Jerome and Tony—was still hard at work. They were going to get rain- drops, next... . At the Seven Seas restaurant, the rain- on-the-roof had just started its downpour. This is a nightly feature much appreciated by the folks at the bar who, sipping trop- ical concoctions of rum and fruit juice, can stare at the artificial backdrop of thatched roof and waving palms, and imagine they’re on some remote Somerset Maugham isle, waiting for Sadie Thomp- son. Tonight, as the raindrops thundered down in a satisfying deluge, an elderly gent at the bar sputtered into his drink at the sight of a lovely redhead dashing to the backdrop to start catching raindrops in what appeared to be a cream bottle. He summoned the bartender, who was deep in conversation with three other young people. They were obviously discussing what the redhead was doing. “Well,” said the elderly gent. she doing?” The bartender shrugged. “She’s catchin’ raindrops. For a party. That answer your question?” “Whoever heard of taking artificial “What is MODERN SCREEN raindrops to a party?” the gent inquired indignantly. “Somebody ought to report the whole thing. This would never hap- pen in New York. Never!” “Maybe not, but this is Hollywood,” grinned the bartender. He flapped a fat hand in salute as Mary carried her rain- drops reverently from the restaurant. “One trout from the Sportsman’s Lodge trout stream,’ Mary muttered as she crossed raindrops off her list. That was their next project—at this Valley restau- rant, guests are invited to fish for their own dinners in the establishment’s re- nowned trout stream. Here, Terry and Mary, Jerome and Tony baited their hooks with liverwurst and cast their lines. It didn’t take long to catch a satisfactory trout. he got my goat... Meanwhile, Barbara and Bill Williams were off in the country, galloping gaily in hot pursuit of a black goat. The fact that the night was inky-dark and so was the goat, didn’t help matters. But the goat’s mother was pure white, and acted like a beacon as they chased her progeny round a haystack in the San Fernando Valley. Egged on by the cheers of A. C. and Marilyn, Bill made a flying tackle, and came down with the bleating black kid in his arms. All this happened on the ranch of car- toonist Dick Shaw, with the team prom- ising to return the tiny kicking creature in the morning. As they struggled to get it into the car, Barbara glanced at her watch. “We'll have to step on it, Bill. We’ve just got time to get back before midnight.” z They whizzed down the highway—and just as they turned onto Sunset Boule- vard and Laurel Canyon, they found them- selves racing neck and neck with Team 3. Bill rolled down his window and yelled to Jerome Courtland, “Did you get every- thing?” Jerome yelled back, “No, but we got the fish and the raindrops—and other stuff.” A. C.’s car came up next. “We got the goat!” yelled A. C. “And the Carroll Girls’ feathers.” He waved the plumage happily out the window. Later that night, in Mona’s living room, the props were counted and checked off. Team 2 was hailed as Winner—getting the goat being. considered the most difficult feat of all. Now the happy hunters settled down to heaps of fried chicken and hot biscuits, accompanied by gallons of coffee. Drum- sticks in hand, they talked over the night’s experiences. Jerry told how she and Mary had helped the boys drag a doghouse off a neighbor’s lawn. And how incredibly heavy a stone duck can be when you're racing against time to get the cement creature off your best friend’s front grass. And how they’d had Carmen Cavallero sign their egg while he was dining at the Sportsman’s Lodge. Mary Hatcher, seated astride the hobby horse, had a brilliant idea. “Hey, let’s do it all over again, next week, hummm? We could start at my house. And some of the things we could look for would be—let’s see—hair from a hairless Chihuahua dog —key from the Roosevelt Hotel linen closet—and Alan Ladd!” There was dead silence from the munch- ing hunters. They just looked at her. Then Mona leaned over, and clapped Hed- da’s pagoda hat on Mary’s head. “That'll be enough out of you,” she said. Yep, scavenger hunts are lots of fun, but one a year is enough. 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Silyer, Bronze, MAKE WAY FOR YOUTH (Continued from page 54) the Lucretia Borgia story with Paulette Goddard, Bride of Vengeance. When he walked out on the part, in stepped a pretty important threat to Milland’s place at Paramount: John Lund. There isn’t a bright and forceful young actor anywhere around with as divine a disposition as John’s. He gets along with everyone. Dietrich and even the unpre- dictable Jean Arthur loved making A Foreign Affair with him. He gives every part he plays everything he’s got. He owns a sense of humor that twinkles like the star he’s bound to be. He’s modest, hap- pily married, perfectly adjusted and sunny. And Ray—well, he gets out of Holly- wood every chance he has, and his fumings have brewed trouble with his attractive wife, Mal, several times, although they’re working out their marriage right now. On the screen these days, Ray, for all his matchless charm, not only has the handi- cap of maturity, but a wooden indifference you simply can’t miss. Ray may wind up handing over his position on the Para- mount pedestal to John Lund. It wasn’t all a cozy coincidence that MGM imported young Deborah Kerr to Hollywood at the very time that the studio’s “First Lady,” Greer Garson, was getting hard to handle. Greer minted money with straight aces for Leo’s lair, and then she started telling her bosses what she would and wouldn’t do. So they brought a new hand into the poker game— red-headed, like Greer, English, like Greer—and the first job given her was with Clark Gable, the very star who fig- ured in Greer’s bumps-a-daisy, Adventure —which Greer herself insisted on doing, despite the pleadings of almost everyone at MGM, who knew the part wasn’t for er. Well, Deborah didn’t do much better, Tm afraid, with Clark in The Hucksters than Greer had done with him in Adven- ture. If Winter Comes clinched MGM's dis- appointment in Deborah, who had rated on her arrival the biggest press fanfare with which I’ve ever seen any Redcoat march into our town. I’m happy to report that her latest, Edward, My Son, pleases everybody—so the Big Plans are back again for Deborah Kerr. I doubt very much if she’d ever have had that grand entrance to Hollywood fame and fortune if Greer Garson hadn’t bulled through her desire to co-star with Clark Gable in his first post-war picture. Gable needed a lusty, slam-bang American girl for Adventure—and he got an English lady acting too darned cute. Well, Greer got her urge for slapstick cured in that and in Julia Misbehaves. Now she’s back playing what suits her, what made her famous—a “lydie,” proper, mature and growing gracefully old—in The Forsyte Saga, with about two dozen changes of costume and four or five leading men. But, in my opinion, it was Deborah Kerr’s entrance at MGM that said “wh-o-o-a” to Greer’s high horse. ; Last year, Bette Davis was way up in the top bracket of Hollywood wage- earners. Last year she came back after a year off the screen to have her baby. Yet last year, too, in stepped 23-year-old Patricia Neal, to divide honors as the fair-haired dramatic actress at Warners with Jane Wyman, whom everybody had been taking for granted for years and years—everybody except Jane, that is. After her fine work in John Loves Mary, ‘Pat Neal was given the part in The Foun- tainhead that Barbara Stanwyck had had her heart set on. And the reason for the switch was purely a matter of years: The character Barbara wanted to play was 22. I’m a firm fan of Bette Davis and Bar- bara Stanwyck and I’m very, very fond of them. They’re both stacked with cour- age and greatness and they've written Hollywood history. Barbara, an Academy Award nominee this year, is still solid at the box-office. 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f know it. Time, as they say, marches on. Of course, as there is in Stanwyck and Davis, there’s plenty of life left in some of the other senior boys and girls. For instance, when Judy Garland’s jangled nerves, which cost MGM a pretty penny throughout The Pirate, acted up again and she couldn’t pull herself together to meet rehearsals for The Barkleys of Broadway, who took over? Ginger Rogers, a standard Hollywood star when Judy was playing paper dolls. And before that, who stepped in to save the day in Easter . Parade, when. young Gene Kelly broke his ankle? Fred Astaire, who’d previously announced his retirement. Thus, a box- office team that was Hollywood’s pride a dozen years ago is again aces in pictures, and will be for quite a spell now. Competition is the crucible that makes ‘a Hollywood star glow hot and bright— and if young Jane Russell can crowd out Dottie Lamour to pep up Bob Hope’s antics with new and diverting feminine charm, then I’m getting Russell-conscious right now—as who isn’t? (In this case, Dottie doesn’t much care—she’s had a yen to be more dramatic than decorative for a long time.) the old master... There’s only one way for a veteran to meet the recurring rookie challenge— that’s to work harder and better. I think the way Bing Crosby rolled with Frank Sinatra’s young punch is the most graceful maneuver Hollywood maturity ever made when confronted by youth’s cocky come-up. When the bobby-soxers screamed Frankie to hysterical fame, people shook their heads and sighed, “Poor Bing.” But Crosby didn’t waste one second feeling sorry for himself. Instead of buck- ing Frankie, he embraced him. I saw the first air show on which Bing and Frankie shared the spotlight. Bing tossed all the gags Frank’s way, smothered him with praise, boosted his stock, put out the biggest “Welcome” mat he had. Then he proceeded to prove he could still sing rings around Sinatra. In fact, Frank- ie’s challenge to the Old Master started a good guy, who was getting soft, to ful- filling his true great promise. When Bob Hope first heard Frank sing in New York—before Frank ever hit Hol- lywood—Bob leaped for a long-distance phone and got Bing out of bed, ‘way past midnight. “Say, Bright Eyes,” needled Bob, “I’ve just heard a kid here who’s going to come to Hollywood and make you go back to work.” And you know what Bing, woolly- headed with sleep as he was, replied? “Bring him along,” he said. “I’m getting too fat and lazy, anyway.” You'll have a hard time convincing me that Bing Crosby’s amazing bow as a distinguished actor in Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary’s didn’t have its start right there. 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Bogey was on location near there, making Casa- blanca. He liked this young soldier who told him about his acting dreams. “Tf I can ever give you a hand, let me know,” Humphrey offered, and he wasn’t just talking. After John Derek fought through the war as a paratrooper, he came right back to Hollywood. He was signed and dropped by 20th Century-Fox without a look at a camera. The minute he was dropped, Bogey caught him for Knock. John’s made All the King’s Men since, and he'll be starred in his third picture, The Hero. Soon he’ll be knocking loud on Humphrey Bogart’s door. Now look at Kirk Douglas. After Cham- pion, Kirk could have signed a long- term starring contract at important money with any studio in town. The offer he liked came from Warners—and he’s just signed on there for seven years. The Warners, who now have under their canny wings some of the best young talent in Hollywood, have something really terrific in Kirk. He’s loaded with masculinity, sex appeal, menace and strength. Kirk was an intercollegiate wrestling champ at St. Lawrence University and he’s all man. He can also act, as he’s proved in six or seven pictures before Champion—includ- ing Out of the Past and I Walk Alone. He’s dynamic, a young man who knows where he’s going. His first Warner film will be Young Man with a.Horn, in which he'll share billing with Doris Day and Lauren Bacall. Stack young Kirk or John Derek up against Jimmy Cagney, back home again and comfortable in rugged roles at War- ners. Jimmy’s making White Heat, play- ing the same kind of toughie part that made him a star in Public Enemy years ago. But that was just that—years ago. Cagney’s a grand gentleman and nobody wants to snatch any of his laurels away from him. Yet, if he’s planning on head- ing the hard-guy list again, I’m afraid he’s going to be surprised by the rough competition he’ll get from young knuckle- dusters like Derek and Douglas. You can’t call Jeanne Crain a brand- new newcomer, but still she’s young enough to have that divine discontent and the confident, “Put me in, coach” urge of youth. Jeanne has packed a few brief seasons with hay-making hits. Margie and Apartment For Peggy alone will keep the ‘bosses of 20th Century-Fox in new Cadil- lacs for some time to come. And so Jeanne, i SHE NEVER LEFT HOME = (Continued from page 35) NN ————————————— upbringing remained unshaken. She’d al- ways managed her boy friends with com- plete aplomb. For that matter, she’d never been too interested in fellows any- way, because Jean was always ambitious for a career for herself. Until she was 18, she’d never “gone steady” with anyone. And when, for a short while, she finally decided to do so, she picked three friends simultaneously. Furthermore, her dates were planned in advance to the last de- tail, in a very businesslike manner. Like the time that Johnnie; a neighbor’s boy, phoned her for a Saturday night date. “Tq love to,” Jean said, “if we'll go to a movie... .” “Sounds swell,” Johnnie had agreed. “And see Tyrone Power in Crash Dive,” Jean went on. “O.K.,” said Johnnie. “And,” my daughter insisted, “if I can doing the sweet-little-girl jobs in ‘Zanuck- i land, has just gently plopped Gene Tierney | down from her satin seat on top of the Fox lady-star heap. Gene, who’s a veteran at 28, was Darryl’s |) pet young dramatic actress for seven years. Now they’re hailing a new stand-out star at 20th—and she is, of course, 23-year- old Jeanne. Miss C. is set for Pinky, the ‘| red-hot controversial treatment of the || color problem that Darryl Zanuck is tack- ling as his prestige-picture follow-up to Gentleman’s Agreement and The Snake Pit. Gordon MacRae, young and eager, with a heavenly baritone and dying to deliver, i works for Warner Brothers. So does Den- + nis Morgan. Dennis is a big star; Gordon | MacRae isn’t—yet. And the contrast be=- tween their attitudes has been striking. For a time, Dennis Morgan was sitting back on a contract he signed a couple of || years ago. It gave him all the money and || security he needed, time off for hunting | and fishing and just lazing around his | mountainside mansion. Denny, who’d for- @ merly liked to work, began to duck and ff dodge it. about the necessary annoyances of a star’s existence—publicity pictures, interviews, He was getting uncooperative |) extra-curricular appearances. No young- || ster, he was coasting on the reputation which began brilliantly with Kitty Foyle. And im spite of his fat weekly check and his still voluminous fan mail, Dennis, I regret to say, seemed dangerously close ff to a slide downhill. But recently, Dennis seems to have seen || a great light. And he’s been given im- | portant co-starring assignments with Jane | Wyman (The Octopus and Mrs. Smith) and Ginger Rogers (Perfect Strangers). That young, ambitious, talented, friend- || making guy I mentioned a minute ago, Gor- || don MacRae—who’s being voice-coached || by John Charles Thomas, no less—is sure || of being a big hit with June Haver in Look for the Silver Lining. If Dennis }} Morgan hadn’t snapped out of his unfor- tunate lethargy, who do you think would | have been getting the romantic singing | plums at Warners—indifferent Dennis, or || this boy with the zing in his sing who’s been saying, “Move over, mister,” and meaning it? The pressure in Hollywood is always from below, and when the stars totter on their pinnacles there’s always somebody || around poised to climb aboard im their |} stead. Somebody young, eager, ambitious |} and talented. Youth must be served. And || nowadays in Hollywood, it certainly is. THE END have an ice-cream soda afterwards.” Johnnie graciously consented on all counts. “A chocolate ice cream soda with whipped cream and a cherry on top of it,” Jean added, sounding very final. “Sure, sure,” Johnnie had conceded. He knew that Peters girl. When you made aj} date with her, you had to agree in advance to detailed plans for the whole evening. And no deviations would ever be allowed by her. + So, as far as men were concerned I felt || positive Hollywood wouldn’t change Jean. |} But there were other fears about Holly- wood. “When you’re an actress,” people! told me, “you keep on saying lines from, scripts until after a while, you act both | on and off the screen, and completely lose}! your own personality.” it Smilingly, I recalled the first time Jean | |

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But that Friday morning, when I walked into her room, Jean was slumped on the bed, quietly weeping. Drying her tears, I tried to imagine what was bothering her. To get her mind off whatever it was, I suggested, “Jean, why don’t you go out in the garden and pick some berries for lunch?” Her only response was a violent burst of tears. I hoped that leaving her alone for a while might help. Half an hour later, Jean came into the kitchen, still looking very woebegone. “How about setting the table, darling?” The weeping started all over again. I had to get to the bottom of this. “Just what is the matter, Jean?” “She’s dying, Mother,” Jean sobbed. “She’s dying and there’s nothing I can do about it.” hes dying? I didn’t know anyone was sick.” “Beth, Mother. Beth’s dying .. .” The tears came in a flood. “Beth?” Suddenly it dawned on me I’d seen Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” on Jean’s bed. So that was it! My Jean had identified herself completely with Beth. 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By this time I knew I had a young actress on my hands who already was mastering the difficult art of “living the part” she was to act.... So, as for Jean’s losing her own person- ality in Hollywood—why couldn’t it have happened just as easily right here in East Canton after a high-school play, or at the University of Michigan or Ohio State where she went to college? She threw her- self into her roles, of course, but of course she never really “lost her own person- ality” any more than she really had when absorbed in “Little Women” and Zane Grey. So why on earth should such a thing happen to her in Hollywood? new worlds... But I was concerned about one situa- tion in particular that might arise. Jean was perhaps too open and trusting. Like many friendly girls from the country, she’d be apt to accept people at face value. So I was concerned about the people Jean was going to meet, work with, play with. Actors, producers, directors—people from all over the world, from all walks of life, with all kinds of different standards. My daughter was used to the kindly neighbors, whose simple evening pleasures consisted of playing Monopoly, or just visiting and discussing the weather, farm prices, and livestock, or attending an oc- casional square dance. “Well,” I told myself, furiously wiping the last of my breakfast dishes, “she'll be all right. She’s a Peters!” But I couldn’t deny that I felt relieved to know that Jean would have somebody to look after her when she first arrived in Hollywood. Two years before, Mr. and Mrs. Fink, our former neighbors and good friends, whose son had gone to school with Jean for several years, had moved to Los Angeles. They’d offered to have Jean live with them till my sister Melba could go to California to keep house for Jean. 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@RAo?P rao S ton got used to the idea that the Peters girl was in Hollywood.” Then came that fateful day when the movie, Captain from Castile was shown. The town was a little shocked that Jean was photographed to look so sexy, that her gowns were cut so low. “We told you so!” I heard over and over again. “She couldn’t play a part like that unless she had changed.” For six more months I heard “unless’— for six more months I kept sending Jean clippings and motherly advice. Finally, I decided to go to California to find out for myself if I’d been right in letting my girl go to Hollywood—or if I should have listened to that well-meant neighborly ad- vice. When I arrived in Westwood, where Jean had moved when my sister Melba had joined her, I found that their home is no different from the usual home any- where in Ohio. No swimming pool. No servants. No tennis courts. No stables or elaborate gardens. Just an ordinary, two- bedroom home in a nice, residential dis- trict of Los Angeles, out near the campus of the big University of California. Jean still had her 1940 sedan. There was no flashy convertible, such as most people seem to expect a movie actress to have. Jean still dressed simply, and, as before, made most of her own clothes. Also, Jean’s social life is as unpreten- tious as it ever was. Still no wild parties ‘or going to night clubs six times a week. Jean’s idea of a binge is to have a few, inti- mate friends over for dinner, play cha- rades or Monoply, just as she used to in East Canton, or go to the movies, a habit she hasn’t outgrown, even in Hollywood. And Jean still attends church regularly. There are no romantic implications in Jean’s life. Even the much-publicized “ro- mance” with Howard Hughes, about which I had read so much back in East Canton, and followed with more than a little anx- iety, must have sprung from the fertile imagination of columnists and publicity men. Certainly, Jean has gone out with Mr. Hughes. But she has gone out with other famous men as well. Probably the cause for all the comment has been the fact that, while she appears so very seldom at nightclubs and almost never at Big Hollywood parties, she has been seen dining with Mr. Hughes a few times. But there’s absolutely no foundation to these marriage rumors. For that matter, Jean feels she’s too young to get married. Like the little girl of eight, she still wants to concentrate on her career for the next few years. And when Jean makes up her mind MODERN SCREEN "Hello, Mammoth pictures? Boy, have | got a story for you!” about something, she sticks to it. She’s a Peters. But just as I suspected, Jean is still a very open and trusting girl. Yet, sur- prisingly, it has proved an asset rather than a liability—it has helped her popu- larity at her studio immensely. Since Jean loves to meet people, she quickly makes the acquaintance of everyone on the set of her current picture. She knows their names, their problems, their likes and dislikes. “After all, Mother,” Jean has told me, “a studio is really just like a small town. Sure there’s gossip. There’s bound to be. But what about East Canton? Didn’t you used to talk about Mrs. Some- body’s new dress, and why young So-and- So used to lose job after job? How Mr. and Mrs. Such-and-Such were having a struggle with five children to support? But you knew them, and you helped them when they needed you. And it’s just the same way out here.” it takes teamwork... As a matter of fact, Jean has a much better chance to make friends on the set than under any other circumstances she’s encountered so far. When you work with people all day, when your whole acting career depends on their helpfulness and cooperation—the way your co-actors feed you lines, the way the make-up man does his job, the way the lighting and props and so forth are handled—then you really know what friendship means. A _ star doesn’t build himself. That’s done by the cooperation of the director and the grip, the make-up man and the electrician, the designer and the cameraman. And if you want cooperation, you have to be a friend. Jean’s relationship with studio workers isn’t confined to work alone. She sponsors a baseball team on the lot made up of carpenters and grips, actors and clerks and other employees of 20th Century-Fox— who are very much like the crowd back home. They get together about twice a week for practice or games with other teams on the lot. And Jean’s right in there, pitching madly, catching worse! She’s very proud of her team. And al- though I’m Jean’s mother, I think they’re kind of proud cf her, too. I remember one game not long ago when the “Peters Team” was playing the “Rex Harrison Team.” Jean was cheering furi- ously, but in vain. I hate defeat, so I left. But my Jean stayed till the bitter end. She came home as heartbroken as the day when East Canton High lost against Canton Township. No—my Jean hasn’t changed in Holly- wood. Sure, there are occasional scandals in Hollywood. There are temptations there, just as there are temptations anywhere in the world. But for girls like my Jean, girls with the proper upbringing, the right ideals and home training and a sufficient amount of common sense, Hollywood is no better and no worse than any other town in this whole country. And, just like my Jean, who’d been thrust into a position of prominence and attention, other girls can remain themselves no matter how much fame comes their way. 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Especially if he were riding the family horse.” But the rough-and-grumble exterior wouldn’t have fooled anyone. It failed completely to cover up the simple fact that Bogey was frightened by the prospect of parenthood. His fear was elemental. He knew nothing about children, so he was afraid of them. When he realized the source of his fear, and made an effort to get acquainted with the children of friends, he no longer was frightened. He was terrified. But that came later. pleasant dream-world .. . At the outset, he was told that life was to go on just as usual. The doctor had a large part in the creation of this pleasant dream-world in which Bogey lived for a few months. When they are in Hollywood, which ordinarily is only when they are working, the Bogarts are home folks. Sunset Strip night clubs may be having a tough time now, but they would have been in trouble long ago if they’d had to rely on Betty and Bogey for business. The house they bought a couple of years ago was designed for family life. The former home of Hedy Lamarr, it included a nursery, a feature that must have caught Betty’s eye when they were house hunting. As the doctor said it would, life went on as usual. A couple of nights a week, they showed a movie at home. They rarely get out to a movie theater, for the first show at seven is too early for them, and the second at 10 is too late. There were eve- nings, not necessarily quiet, with friends like Ida Lupino and Collier Young, or Peter Lorre, or Paul Douglas, or Dutch Leonard, the veteran baseball pitcher. Or Bogey played chess with Mike Romanoff, another game in a long tournament in which Mike, at last count, was a game up. By day, Betty continued to play tennis and to plunge from the diving board into the swimming pool that’s just outside the front door. She was then under a studio suspension, not because she was going to have a baby, but because she didn’t like a part the studio wanted her to play. When they’re not in Hollywood, which ordinarily is the instant they wind up work in a picture, the Bogarts head for Newport Harbor, a boating community some 50 miles down the California coast from the film city. There they have a second home in a 55-foot yawl named, like Bogey’s recently-formed producing company, the Santana. The yacht is just the place for a Shoe- less Joe life. It’s as complete and comfort- able, in its slip, as what passes today for a three-room apartment in New York or Los Angeles. It even has an extension phone in the main cabin that can be plugged into an outlet on the slip so a Beverly Hills beachcomber can keep in touch with the world without putting on sneakers and going ashore. It was in this salt-water Eden that Bogey felt the first pangs of approaching father- hood, detected the first fault in his dream world. A few days earlier, the doctor had re- peated in his beguiling purr his counsel that. Betty was to continue her normal, routine existence. Except, he added this time, she should not go on the boat. There was something about the motion, the rhythm of a boat, he said profoundly, that made her presence there inadvisable in the circumstances. Then Bogey finished work in Knock on Any Door, lowered himself into his un- derslung convertible, and headed down the coast highway. More tired than usual at the end of a picture, he was looking for a lot of quiet in which to relax. But he wasn’t looking for all the quiet, and lone- liness, too, that he discovered the boat offered without Betty. A solitary figure in a fireman-red shirt and old blue trous- ers, he prowled and growled from bow to stern. He beat down every impulse to telephone home. He had a feeling he’d look silly, grabbing for a phone when he’d been gone only a few hours and was a mere 55 miles away. Finally he had an idea: If he put the call through by way of London, a round trip of 12,000 miles, it would not seem silly at all, but rather in- spired. But the operator at the Claridge Hotel in London wouldn’t cooperate. She wouldn’t send back to California a call originating in California. She told Bogey he was being silly. That was the first thing Bogey learned about being a dad, even a prospective one: He could expect some lonely moments. After that, he began to learn other things fast. Things began to happen fast. Then, late one night, Betty woke him to say that she thought they should re- decorate the butler’s pantry. Friends had warned him to expect odd requests at two o’clock in the morning, had warned him that expectant mothers had midnight whimsies and yearned for things like ice cream and pickles or peanut butter-and- marshmallow sandwiches. But he wasn’t prepared for a call to redecorate the but- ler’s pantry. The pantry looked O.K. to him, and he said so, and asked why she wanted a new paint job. He was advised, with quiet finality, that the pantry was the wrong color for a home that was going to have a baby in it. architect at night... That was the first of a series of middle- of-the-night sessions that resulted in a large part of the house being done over. “At first, maybe because I was sleepy, I didn’t pay much attention,” Bogey recalled afterward. “I didn’t protest too much, even though it was the first I knew kids ought to wake up according to a color scheme. I still don’t know which are the right colors, but I sure feel sorry for Hedy Lamarr’s kid waking up to the wrong color all that time. Well, it wasn’t as though she was asking me to crawl out of a warm bed to go to the ice box. I didn’t feel any pain —until I saw the bills.” Once the house was redecorated, Betty moved on to gadgets. She proposed a photo-electrically operated gate in the can- yon driveway. 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Now he investigated, and what he learned drove him to a hurry call to Mor- gan Maree, his business manager. “She’s reading all the wrong kind of books,” he reported. “Books about how to build bigger houses and gardens, and how to equip them like the house of the day after tomorrow. You better take over.” So Maree took over. After that, when Betty suggested some new gadget, Bogey agreed heartily, and suggested she consult the business manager about it. “Maree was really tough,” Bogey says. “A couple of times he held out for as long as a month before giving in.” Along about now, if everything has gone on schedule, Bogey and Maree should be delivering their final token of surrender: It’s a model of the refinished house, in- cluding all the changes made by Betty. mysterious moppets .. . With Maree relieving him of the business phase of approaching fatherhood, Bogey found time for the soul-searching whereby he concluded that the reason he was afraid of children was that he knew nothing about them. His life had been wrapped up in show business. He could give a learned opinion on anything even remotely con- nected with movie-making. He could see Jimmy Stewart and Gabby Hayes lunching together and tell the plot of their next pic- ture. But he could not answer a child’s simplest, “Why, Daddy?” There’d been nothing in his three previous marriages, all childless, to equip him for that. So he set out to learn something about youngsters. He began by consulting friends who had children and by spending more time in their homes. “At first, talking with the kids of friends, I tried to bluff,” he says. “And that’s when they really terrified me. You can’t fool a kid. There’s something about his eyes. 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SS —————— intends to rectify this tragedy by completing a four-year course in 12 months, and collect- ing his cash.) Belvedere runs into some trouble because war-widow-with-a-baby Shir- ley Temple, who works on the college paper, insists on following him around, quoting his off-the-record remarks in her articles, and snapping his picture at various ridiculous moments. Also, sophomore-who-sniffles Alan Young hazes our hero roundly. Well, they can haze him, but they can’t faze him. Belvedere knows how to speak 11 languages, cooks in all of them, gives lessons in manners and dancing to young ladies, holds the world’s pole-vaulting record, is an accomplished mu- sician, can stand on his head for hours, and pals around with J. Edgar Hoover. How could Shirley Temple hurt him? Before he’s finished, Belvedere even straightens out Shirl’s per- sonal life. The man she loves (Tom Drake) thinks he doesn’t like children, doesn’t know she’s a widow with a child, etc. Mr. Belve- dere’s willingness to turn the other cheek provides a happy ending. (Fox seems to be currently fascinated by the idea of adults in college. They sent Loretta ‘Mother Is a Freshman” Young to school first, and here’s Clifton hot on her heels. Now how about Lionel Barrymore in Grandad at Yale?) Look For The Silver Lining: June Haver portrays Marilyn Miller and Ray Bolger is Jack Donahue in this musical biography of the famous dancer. LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING Cast: June Haver, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Charlie Ruggles, Rosemary De Camp. Warners. After eight years of searching for the “right girl” to play the late Marilyn Miller, Warner also showing... capsule criticisms of films previously reviewed THE ACCUSED (Para.)—The accused is Loretta Young, and she’s accused of killing Douglas Dick —as indeed she had when his affectionate nature got out of hand. Wendell Corey is the detective who brings her to trial. Robert Cummings is her lawyer. Well done and entertaining. ALIAS NICK BEAL (Para.) —A heavy-handed drama about an ambitious but good-hearted politician who gets places by selling his soul to the devil. With Ray Milland, Thomas Mitchell, George Macready and Audrey Totter. BAD BOY (Allied Artists)—The reformation of a young criminal at the Boys’ Ranch in Texas. Audie Murphy, as the delinquent, is very good in his first big role. A good, interesting movie. With Lloyd Nolan, Jane Wyatt and Jimmy Gleason. THE BRIBE (MGM)—G-Man Robert Taylor goes to Central America to look into crooked export business and finds Ava Gardner innocently involved with the villains he’s after—Vincent Price, John Hodiak and Charles Laughton. Pretty implausible, but exciting and well acted. BRIDE OF VENGEANCE (Para.)—A costume thing about the Borgias, full of sinister intrigue. It’s all a bit on the silly side. With John Lund, Paulette Goddard and Macdonald Carey. A CONNECTICUT YANKEE (Para.)—The world’s greatest entertainer—Bing Crosby, of course—sings some pretty good songs, says and does some funny things, and is assisted by a fine cast including William Bendix, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Rhonda Fleming. Yet you keep expecting more to happen than ever does. Still, this is a pleasant and lavish Technicolor item. DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS (20th-Fox) —Dean Stockwell is inducted into his family’s maritime tradition on a whaling ship skippered by his stern grandpa, Lionel Barrymore, with Richard Wid- mark as the helpful first mate. An authentic sea story, with lots of excitement and drama. EL PASO (Para.)—John Payne finishes fighting the 108 Civil War and takes on a nest of coyotes who’ve been running things their own evil way in El Paso. A swell. gunsmoke-wreathed Western, in Cinecolor. With Gail Russell, Sterling Hayden, Dick Foran, Gabby Hayes and Henry Hull. THE FAN (20th-Fox)—A fine production and excel- lent performances by Jeanne Crain, George San- ders, Madeleine Carroll and Richard Greene make this version of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan something sure to please the ladies. FORCE OF EVIL (MGM)—A brisk study of the numbers racket, with John Garfield, Beatrice Pearson and Thomas Gomez. It’s fair. JOAN OF ARC (RKO)—You know—Ingrid Berg- man, Technicolor and eight million bucks. Of course you'll see it. Who wants to be a social outcast? KISS IN THE DARK (Warners) —Concert pianist David Niven has his eyes opened to the facts of life and hot jazz by Jane Wyman. A moderately good comedy. With Victor Moore, Wayne Morris and Broderick Crawford. KNOCK ON ANY DOOR (Col.)—Newcomer John Derek as a youthful criminal and Humphrey Bogart as his lawyer with a social conscience, are excellent in this outstanding film which once more points the dismal truth that poverty breeds crime. LITTLE WOMEN (MGM)—A charming version of the tear-drenched old novel, beautifully produced in Technicolor and superbly acted. June Allyson as Jo and Margaret O’Brien as Beth are remarkably good in a gilt-edged cast that includes Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Mary Astor, Lucile Watson, Sir C. Aubrey Smith and Rossano Brazzi. MOTHER IS A FRESHMAN (20th-Fox)—Loretta Young, to get funds for herself and spoiled daugh- ter Betty Lynn, goes to college with her on a $3,000 scholarship. Professor Van Johnson, whom Betty adores, falls for Loretta. All in all, a bright comedy. With Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence, Bob Arthur and Technicolor. MY DREAM IS YOURS (Warners) —Jack Carson makes a radio star of Doris Day despite typical Brothers finally ended up with Fox’s June Haver, and, incidentally, a very Fox-like Technicolor musical, complete with huge new production numbers from huge old produc- tions. Story starts with young Marilyn joining her parents and two sisters in a mediocre vaudeville act and takes her to the heights. There are several pleasant things in this picture. Ray Bolger, to mention most of them. In the role of Jack Donahue, the famous dancer, he’s not only superb in the dance department, but strong on acting, too. In the scene where he explains to the 15-year-old Marilyn (who's bursting with puppy love for him) that he’s happily married, but terribly flattered by her affection, he achieves a sweet- ness and a tenderness few actors could match. As Frank Carter, the lad Marilyn marries, Gordon MacRae sings well, has an agreeable personality and a nice face. (His forehead’s a little low for an ideal Hollywood hero, but if he sticks around out there, they'll probably fix it. They fixed Rita Hayworth’s.) Whether June Haver satisfies you as Marilyn depends on how highly you value authenticity. Miss Miller was considered the greatest dancer- actress of her day, which Miss Haver is not, by any means. But she works awfully hard, and she’s very pretty, so why complain? musical comedy complications. A highly enjoyable Technicolor musical, with good songs and relaxing merriment..Doris Day is wonderful and Jack Car- son, Lee Bowman, Adolphe Menjou, Eve Arden and Cuddles Sakall also entertain expertly. THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES (RKO) —Made in 1942, this moving film biography of Lou Gehrig, the great first baseman, is now being reissued. By all means see it if you missed it the first time. Gary Cooper plays Lou and Babe Ruth appears as himself. With Teresa Wright and Walter Brennan. RED CANYON (Univ)—Ann Blyth’s romance with cowpoke Howard Duff hits a snag when her old man, George Brent, learns that Howard’s a member of a family he hates like poison. A very superior Technicolor Western. SHOCKPROOF (Col.)—Patricia Knight, a mur- deress paroled in the tender custody of parole officer Cornel Wilde, goes and gets mixed up with a shady gambler, John Baragrey. Nicely performed, but it’s shoddy stuff. STREETS OF LAREDO (Para.)—Outlaw chief Mac- donald Carey stirs up lots of trouble for ex-lieu- tenants William Holden and William Bendix when they join the Texas Rangers. A good Western. It’s in Technicolor, natch. With Mona Freeman. THE UNDERCOVER MAN (Col.) —Treasury agent — Glenn Ford tracks down an underworld ezar who’s been holding a big city in the palm of his vicious hand. An exciting, well acted, realistic thriller. WAKE OF THE RED WITCH (Rep.)—An action- packed tale of the South Seas, with John Wayne as a rugged’ skipper in the thick of the battle for a fortune in pearls. Gail Russell, Adele Mara and Henry Daniell are also present. WE WERE STRANGERS (Col.)—A story of Cuban revolutionists in the early 1930’s, this great film - blends nightmarish horror and poetic beauty into a tremendous cinematic experience. Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendariz, Gilbert Roland and every other performer in it are magnificent. Directed by John Huston, this is a giant among — motion pictures. ; LT SSS Le i

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