Modern Screen 1951-03 Vol. 42, No. 4

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A softer, clearer skin is yours | with your First Cake of Camay! i his Iovely Even the color camera can’t do justice to Jean Alexander's vivid coloring— her dark hair —her hazel eyes. Yet, the feature that holds your gaze is Jean’s complexion. Her first cake of Camay gave it a new and captivating smoothness! “Camay’s a heavenly beauty soap,” she exclaims. “Why, my skin grew Lovelier shoulders—lovelier you! Bathe with Camay, too—give your arms and legs and shoulders Camay’s gentle care. With the daily Camay Beauty Bath, you’re lovelier from head to toes—touched with Camay’s flattering fragrance. - camay Bride is MRS. JULES. ALEXANDER, the former Jean Pugsley ; of Rochester, N. Y. smoother, fresher, softer with my /irst cake of Camay!” This bride’s beauty treatment can reward you, too! Your first cake of Camay will bring new beauty. Change to regular care...use gentle, rich-lathering Camay alone. Use no lesser soap than Camay—and you'll soon have a smoother, clearer skin. Camay—all that a beauty soap should be! Camay’s so mild—so quick with its gentle lather! And the “Beauty- Bath” size is Camay at its luxuri- ous best. Big and economical — that’s the size of it! More rich _ lather—that’s the beauty of it!

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Zo the story of a pretty girl who spends _the night in a ‘friendly’ | little town... Suddenly _ out of the dark she is faced with the fear only a girl can know. / Here isa picture more / tense than words can describe. - as freshastheinkon Cie teaignstaeb2tan” ml a STARRING GINGER RONALD PEAGAN OCHRAN eee IERRY WALD acco occ ee STUART EISLER

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> BL iF 1 cor THE arrecrion ; ) ; YOU POUR ON ROVER, BOB, IM SORRY! : ID BE A LUCKY DOG, BUT YOUR DENTIST . ; BETTY! HOW COMEI < \,/S THE ONE TO TELL : GET THE SNARLING, YOU ABOUT A | DARLING 2 SUBJECT LIKE—LIKE E : BAD BREATH! COLGATE DENTAL CREAM CLEANS YOUR BREATH WHILE IT CLEANS YOUR TEETH. AND THE COLGATE WAY OF BRUSHING TEETH RIGHT AFTER EATING STOPS TOOTH DECAY BEST! CaN eam: READER’S DIGEST* Reported The Same Research Which Proves That Brushing Teeth Right After Eating with COLGATE DENTAL CREAM STOPS TOOTH DECAY BEST Reader’s Digest recently reported the same research which proves the Colgate way of brushing teeth right after eating stops tooth decay best! The most thor- oughly proved and accepted home meth- od of oral hygiene known today! Yes, and 2 years’ research showed the Colgate way stopped more decay for more people than ever before reported in denti- . frice history! No other dentifrice, ammo- niated or not, offers such conclusive proof! THAT COLGATE DENTAL CREAM ADVICE GOT ME TREATED PRETTY NICE! Use Colgate Dental Cream To Clean Your Breath Y While You Clean Your Teeth= And Help Stop Tooth Decay! COLGATE/re ON DENTAL CREAM | 2 a "SS ana *YOU SHOULD KNOW! While not mentioned by name, Colgate’s was the only toothpaste used in the research 2 on tooth decay recently reported in Reader's Digest. MARCH, 1951 ce modern screen SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT GIRLS - WANTED! i254. Seca en ho Ds 16 stories HOUR OF DARKNESS (Burt Lancaster). ......0.2.000000cccceceeeeee by Cynthia Miller 18 WHO'S A FREAK? (Montgomery Clift) ...0.000.0000.cccccecteceseetereeee by Leslie Snyder 28 BRINGING HOME BABY (Esther Williams). ...000000..0.0..00c20ceceee by Jane Wilkie 30 MODERN SCREEN'S PARTY OF THE YEAR 2. op cccccccecnge--cines st cee een 4) ENJOY YOURSELF! €Gordon’ MacRae): 2.0 40.2) 80s by Frances Clark 36 —ONE-WOMAN MAN (Tony Curtis) ...by Imogene Collins 38 “WATCH YOURUSTER PAREB Ye 5 os ig cee ie meer ieee by Jim Burton 40 | SOMETHING SORT OF GRANDISH (David Wayne)................ by Marva Peterson 42 HOLLYWOOD'S TEN MOST FASCINATING MEN ...................... by Hedda Hopper 46 PORTRAIT, OF. DOMERG UE ocx ee ee by Louis Pollock 48 “I CRIED FOR YOU” (Liz Taylor-Nicky Hilton). .......00000........ by Sheilah Graham 50 A WORLD APART (Barbara Stanwyck-Robert Taylor).......... by Marsha Saunders; 50 NOW AND FOREVER (Shirley Temple-Charles Black).................... by Susan Trent 52 A MAN OF HER OWN (Ruth Roman-Mortimer Hallie sche by Jim Henaghan 52 THIS IT REMEMBER sisi sce ccc costae: 30:22 cexcaent ae cau ae ee by June Haver 54 HANDS-OFF-MY HEART-=@lohn’ Agar))i:c22 52 ee by Patricia Monroe 56 T-FOUND "MEY W BY 5 enter sores satecer ee pa eee eee by Bill Lundigan 58 LONELIEST MAN IN TOWN (Howard Duff) ..2.000-cceeeeeees by Steve Cronin 60 features THE INSIDE ‘STORY «..2...az.caigessscen cies eae Sher eset tats ee 4 LOUELLA PARSONS’ GOOD NEWS..... Sie DLs ee es 6 EDITORIAL: AN OPEN LETTER TO SHIRLEY TEMPLE... re | TELL IT TO JOAN (Joan Evans’ advice to teen-cgers )............c eee eet eee eee tte eee |e) departments MOVIE: REVIEW'S ws sori Sao ene pee eee by Christopher Kane 12 BETLY. HUTTON, YOUR» HOLLYWOOD! SHOPPER Nic ccrcneesoes eee 21 FASHION 2205 ccisccsSec asco cee tases oss goa woe Ss SEE eg 68 ON THE COVER: Color Portrait of MGM's Esther Williams by Nickolas Muray. Other Picture Credits on page 17 (a ‘CHARLES D. SAXON, editor DURBIN L. HORNER, managing editor CARL SCHROEDER, western manager FLORENCE EPSTEIN, story editor BEVERLY OTT, westerm editor SUZANNE EPPES, associate editor BOB BEERMAN, staff photographer FERNANDO TEXIDOR, art director BERT PARRY, staff photographer BILL WEINBERGER, art editor LIZ SMITH, assistant editor BARBARA FOG, fashion editor IRENE TURNER, research editor CHRISTOPHER KANE, movie reviewer i CAROL CARTER, beauty editor Frere SS aaa NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Changes of address should reach us five weeks in advance of the next issue date. Give both your old and new address, enclosing if possible your old address label. POSTMASTER: Please send notice on Form 3578 and copies returned under Label Form 3579 to 261 Fifth Avenue, New York 16, New York — MODERN SCREEN, Vol. 42, No. 4, March, 1951. Published monthly by Dell Publishing Company, Inc. Office of publication at Washington and South Aves., Dunellen, N. J. Executive and editorial offices, 964 Fifth Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. 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Here’s the truth about the stars—as you asked for it. Want to spike more rumors? Want more facts? Write to THE INSIDE STORY, Modern Screen, 1046 N. Carol Drive, Hollywood, Cal. @. Is it true that Judy Garland is call- ing an end to her marriage? If so, is there another man in the picture? —A. F., M1AMiI, FLORIDA A. Judy Garland’s announcement two days before Xmas that she had ar- ranged a final separation from her hus- band, director Vincente Minnelli, came as no surprise to anyone in Hollywood. The inside story is that ten days before she made the announcement—and issued it through Ben Holzman, a representive of the William Morris Agency—Judy had moved out of her picturesque home in the Hollywood Hills and had begun dating Sid Luft, the handsome, brown- haired actors’ agent and one-time hus- band of actress Lynn Bari. These two were seen in Chasen’s, Romanoff’s and other fashionable restaurants every night. Despite this, when reporters asked Judy if she and her husband were still happy, Judy insisted that they were. When the gossip concerning her and Luft became strong, however, she was compelled to make some clarifying state- ment—and she admitted that she and Minnelli had come to the parting of ways. While no divorce had been discussed, Minnelli said, “Tf a divorce will make Judy happy she certainly can have it. My every thought has been for her hap- piness and I will not stand in her way.” Judy said: “T have nothing very much to say. It’s just one of those things that’s happened before and I have no plans for the future.” Q. Is it true that Sue-and Alan Ladd try to hide the fact that they both have children by their previous marriages? Aren’t some of the Ladd children college students ? _ —R. T., Tusa, OKta. A. At the time of the Ladds’ marriage in 1942 each had a child. No attempt was made to hide their existence al- though little, publicity’ surrounds them. At the moment, Sue’s oldest daughter is attending the University of California. Alan’s oldest son goes to junior high school. The other two Ladd children are Alana, 7, and David, 4. @. What are the duties of a movie star’s private secretary—Joan Crawford’s, for example? —T. C., Dusty, N. H. A. Joan’s secretary is Mrs. Margaret Colby. She answers fan mail, business letters, takes dictation between scenes, accompanies Miss Crawford to the studio, oversees the housekeeping, sees 4 ace ed that Joan’s poodle, Cliquot, takes a bath every Saturday, keeps track of appoint- ments for the four Crawford children, makes certain the cook knows how many guests are expected for dinner— in short, acts as a girl Friday both professionally and personally. Q. Can you tell me the minimum sal- ary extras receive in Hollywood? —R. T., Topexa, Kan. A. $15.56 per day. @. Is the Lana Turner-Bob Topping marriage on the rocks? Why do stars deny shaky marriages, anyway? They say that everything is swell, and the next thing you know they’re getting a divorce. —T. D., Denver, Coto. A. There have been many tall tales of disputes between Lana and her husband, but at this writing they both insist they're very happy. The reason stars deny shaky marriages is that they hope to strengthen them. Frequently, these hopes aren’t fulfilled. @. I hear that there’s a good chance for a reconciliation between Kathryn Gray- son and Johnny Johnston. True or false? —J. F., Brmceport, Conn. A. False. Q. Do Kirk Douglas, Mario Lanza, and Edward G. Robinson wear lifts in their shoes 2 —R. R., Ratetcu, N. C. A. Only in films when they play oppo- site girls who are talier. @. How can Ingrid Bergman bear not to see her daughter, Pia, for two whole years? —E. C., NEw York City A. Ingrid, of course, wants to see her daughter more than anything else in the world. She must first obtain the permis- sion of the California Superior Court — before Pia may leave the state. Dr. Lindstrom is fearful of permitting Pia to leave either the state of California or the United States. He wants Pia to see ond visit with her mother, but he would much prefer Ingrid to come to the U.S. Vhis, Miss Bergman would like to do, but she feels that the people here would not accept her current husband, Roberto Rossellini. In all probability, Dr. Lind- strom will take Pia to Paris some time during the spring and arrange for a . meeting with Ingrid.

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LOUELLA PARSONS’ good news HE Stork is certainly seeing double looking at our Hollywood families. Twins have been predicted for Jimmy Stewart and his _lovely Gloria. Also for Joan Leslie and Dr. William Caldwell. Gloria did not even suspect this exciting news until she returned to Hollywood in advance of Jimmy, who stayed in London to finish No Highway. The minute she heard from her doctor that their little family was almost sure to be in- creased by two—she started calling Jimmy immediately and couldn't get him. When the call finally cleared through Trans-Atlantic Telephone, Jimmy was the most excited papa-to-be on two continents. HIRLEY Temple’s new-found happiness— and I mean happiness—with good-look- ing millionaire Charles Black means bad news to her movie fans. I can tell you that Shirley will give up her screen career because her bridegroom wants her to. She may do an occasional television or radio show—but as for movies, she is no longer interested. : More than anything else in the world now, I think Shirley wants a happy marriage. It's almost amazing, isn’t it, to say of a girl barely 22 years-of-age—she has had fame, wealth, adulation and success for 18 years. Now she wants happiness as a woman. In a quiet and sweet way, because he loves her very much, Black is very much the boss. It is he who decided that it would be best to put Shirley’s home up for sale and start their married life completely on their own. Even when she was married to John Agar, Shirley remained in the remodeled guest house on the estate of her parents. Even if her husband, who was a lieutenant in the last war and was cited for bravery, is called back for service (as he may be any day) Shirley does not want to be tied down by her career. As long as he remains in this country she will follow him wherever he is, Shirley's daughter, Linda Sue, is three years old and, of course, she is in kindergarten, Two deep loves has Shirley today—her husband and her baby—and as much as we hate to lose her, none can help but wish her the brightest and shiniest happiness for- ever and forever. The Letter Box: Jeff Chandler, Peggy Dow and little Debra Paget (on the strength of one picture, Broken Arrow), all took a spurt in last month’s mail. So did Nancy Olson. That's all the tip I need. Next month, I'll make a special effort to have some news about all of them for you. ; Interest over June Allyson’s baby is extra special. Well, he was born on December 24th and his name is Richard Kieth. One girl in Michigan asks: ‘Will June love this baby more than the little girl she adopted because -it is her own?’ Of course not. June and Dick Powell couldn't love little Pam more if she, foo, were their very own. _ To the many who ask if Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner are cooling—the answer is “No.” : There were several kind, understanding letters about Ingrid Bergman asking when she is making another picture. Answer: In May—in Paris—for her favorite director, Rossellini. Guess that’s all this month. Be seeing you. ou, Carat ...a larger, lovelier diamond RHONDA FLEMING co-starring in The Redhead and the Cowboy A Paramount Picture For this, your day of days wos S00) long to be remembered . . . choose a Crescent Diamond Ring. For a Crescent is the larger, more radiant diamond you ve always hoped to own . ata price so easy to afford. When you choose Crescent, you're sure of true and lasting value. For the Crescent Certificate of Guarantee and Registration, signed by your jeweler, gives visible assurance of an exquisite diamond. For you who want the best in value — a larger, lovelier diamond = select a Crescent. Ask your jeweler to show you the beautiful new Crescent collection. The name is in the ring and on the blue Crescent Tag. Cre bZErel- DIAMOND RINGS Produced by the Creators of Famous Keepsake Diamond Rings CRESCENT DIAMOND RINGS A. H. POND CO., INC. 120 East Washington St. Syracuse 2, New York Please send me the name of my nearest Crescent Jeweler and your special gift coupon offering the beautiful new Bride’s Book. about $150 Ly Le rl eps ban aap tam arin ETA Sue, Rea a a Reese eto sin AMIR ap rch Rh Are Sse a a SN Rs BA oes Ors eh ea ee Ma Cn

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=F = a REVIEWS ly lation Kou, m This is the story of a 10-year-old orphan called Wheeler (Andrew Ray), who, scavenging in the mud along the Thames River, finds a locket with a picture of Queen Victoria (Irene Dunne). He’s never had a mother, the queen looks like a mother to him, so he determines to go to Windsor Castle and see her. The forlorn little boy’s travels, his experiences in the castle until he’s captured, the way the press takes up the story and decides Wheeler is involved in a sinister Irish plot against the queen’s life, are all part of a delightful picture. The queen, who hasn't stirred out of Windsor since the death of her hus- band, 15 years before, despite the displeasure of her subjects, is jarred out of her rut. The prime minister, Disraeli (Alec Guinness), uses the case of the boy, Wheeler, as a springboard to plead movy- ingly for all the unloved, unwanted children in Eng- land, and everything has a nice ending. Finlay Currie plays an old Scotch handyman who’s been Prince Albert's favorite; the cast is superior; the whole picture makes a pleasant warmness on a winter's day. (Please turn to page 14 for more Movie Reviews) Try on anew personality! There is a charm about you—a beauty—a grace—a loveliness that deserves the very best. Your “Perma-lift’’* Bra is the artist that inspires the best that’s in you— fashions your silhouette with a stroke of sheer genius—draws young lines, moulds flattering curves. And through countless washings it remains firm, yet soft —never loses its magic uplift. — Discover its secret—with an art all its own, it will design fashion success for you. At your favorite store—$1.50 to $4. Wear a wonderful “Perma: lift’ Girdle too— No Bones About It—Stays Up Without Stays ** Pe .lift’’ a trademark of A. Stein & Company, Chicago, ai) Won Mara ASE eT Wheeler (Andrew Ray) finds a picture of the queen while digging in the mud. Sneaking into the castle, he overhears a plot against her. ier For 15 years the bitter, widowed Queen Vic- toria (Irene Dunne) has remained in seclusion. England needs her active help but she refuses. 12 LOOK FOR THE MAGIC INSET The mudlark is suspected of being part of the Irish rebellion, but is cleared. His case is used politically to attract Queen Victoria's interest. Prime Minister Disraeli (Alec Guinness) and Wheeler convince the queen that she must come to the help of her subjects once more.

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He strayed... and he paid! SHE saw to that / JACK H. SKIRBALL and BRUCE MANNING present ie with JANE COWL-BETTY LYNN- FRANCES DEE Produced by JACK H. SKIRBALL © Directed by CURTIS BERNHARDT © Wriffen by BRUCE MANNING and CURTIS BERNHARDT

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14 b6 Says Paulette ° Goddard How to Lose Weight and Look Lovelier Now! Lose weight the way Nature intended you to! A quick natural way with no risk to health. With the Ayds Plan you should feel healthier, look better while reducing— and have a lovelier figure! When you take Ayds before meals, as directed, you can eat what you want ...all you want. Ayds con- tains no harmful drugs. . . calls for no strenuous diet. Ayds is a specially made candy containing health-giving vitamins and minerals. It acts by reducing your desire for those extra fattening calories . . . works almost like magic. Easily and naturally you should be- gin to look slimmer, more beautiful day by day. Users report losing up to 10 pounds with the very first box. In fact you must lose weight with the first box ($2.98) or your money back. The Loweliest Women in the World take AYDS @ “Every day more and more women are finding the Ayds Way really works,” says lovely movie star, Paulette Goddard. “You see, it’s such an easy, pleasant way to reduce. The comforting thing about taking Ayds is that you reduce the way nature intended you to. I recommend it to all my friends who want to lose weight !” HALLS OF MONTEZUMA RES Halls of Montezuma tells about marines capturing Jap-held islands during the last war. Richard Widmark is cast as a marine lieu- tenant who refuses to go home though he has headachés which render him almost immobile. The Jap island he and his crew are trying to take is loaded with Japs shooting rocket bombs. (As the Americans remark to each other bitterly, “It’s just a mirage. The Japs don't have rockets; headquarters says so.”) The problem becomes that of finding out where the Japs are hiding their rockets. Wid- mark and his boys have to go and capture some prisoners and bring them back for questioning. If information about the rockets isn't forthcoming, whole platoons will be wiped out, because a general attack is sched- uled and can't be called off. Picture’s tense, well-acted, and doesn’t have more than the usual number of clichés when it comes to “types” of soldiers. Cast: Richard Widmark, Walter (Jack) Pal- ance, Reginald Gardiner.—20th Century-Fox. THE FLYING MISSILE In the course of this movie, submarine com- mander Glenn Ford 1: proves he’s: smarter than the whole U. S. Navy Che knows guided missiles are the way to sink destroyers, but the Navy's not so sure); 2: has his men steal a lot of naval equipment to make a launching platform so a missile can be fired from a sub; 3: double-crosses the woman he loves (an admiral’s secretary) by taking advantage of secret information she lets slip; and carries on like an eager beaver skunk. Strangely enough, the Navy rewards him for all his misconduct by allowing him to fire his darn old missile, and there’s a frightful accident, and one of Glenn's crew is killed. Glenn develops a psychic paralysis, because he feels it's all his fault. It is all his fault, too. Cast: Glenn Ford, Viveca Lindfors, Henry O'Neill, Carl Benton Reid.—Columbia. WATCH THE BIRDIE For some completely unaccountable reason, beautiful, rich Arlene Dahl falls in love with Red Skelton, a nit-wit photographer who's about to lose his photographic store. Suddenly business booms, and Red doesn't understand why, but you and I do. On the side, Arlene's building a housing project, only the foreman in charge of things is a crook who's planning to cheat Arlene out of her fortune. Red foils the dastardly plot with his little motion pic- ture camera. He furthermore finds time to play several different parts (his father and his grandfather as well as himself) in the picture. Ann Miller also runs. Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Miller, Arlene Dahl. —MGM. AT WAR WITH THE ARMY Without Jerry Lewis this picture would have been nothing. With Jerry Lewis it manages to be exceedingly funny. As a poor shmoe of a private who’s trying to get a furlough so he can go home and look at his new-born baby, Jerry jumps, mugs, sings (if you can call it that), dances, shadow-boxes, imitates Barry Fitzgerald, wears a lady’s wig and an off- the-shoulder evening gown and makes sure you'll never forget him. If you don't like him one way, wait a minute. He switches fast. > Foes ps -

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Dean Martin sings well, and plays a sergeant, but nothing's really important except Lewis. Cast: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mike Kellin, Jimmy Dundee.—Paramount. RATON PASS Adventuress Patricia Neal arrives in Raton (New Mexico) determined to marry herself a large piece of the territory. Dennis Morgan is heir to most of the land thereabouts, so he'll do. His old paw, Basil Ruysdael, who talks more and says less than almost any- body, approves of Pat the minute she wiggles her hips out of the stage coach. ‘That one’s all woman,” he opines. “Ah married mah woman same night I met her. Go to it, boy.” Dennis goes to it, but Pat's a schemer. Once she’s legally Dennis’ wife, she gets a Chicago banker (a regular dude) to fall in love with her and offer to buy Dennis out of his half of the land. (Paw has given Pat and Dennis deed to the property as a wedding present. ) Well, Dennis is burning for revenge. He’s going to sell Pat the ranch at an exorbitant price, and then cut off the grazing land (he holds a personal lease on that), and Pat and the dude’ll be dead. Then there’s a big range war (Pat hires some murderers, and Dennis has his own) and in the end nearly every- body gets killed, including Pat, the dude, and Paw. Paw’s dying words are advice to Dennis and a beautiful Spanish girl who’s loved him all her life. “Don't give him tortillas for break- fast," Paw says. “That ain't right.” You’d think after the way his last match-making came off, he’d have the grace to shut up. Cast: Dennis Morgan, Patricia Neal, Steve Cochran, Scott Forbes.—Warners. KIM Kipling’s famous story is about the little Brit- ish orphan in India who grows up as a native urchin, does some spying for the Empire (the Empire always needed spies in India), until somebody discovers he’s a white child, not an Injun child, and then he gets sent away to school. A lama (Paul Lukas) whom Kim (Dean Stockwell) has loved and followed manages the money for his education. Part of his instruction includes being sent to a wild- eyed man named Durgan (Arnold Moss) who'd scare the supper out of a normal boy, but who teaches Kim to be observant, crafty, vicious and all other things a hot spy needs to be. Errol Flynn plays Mahbub Ali, The Red Beard, and he’s a native (we should all live so long till you believe it) who also spys for the British government. Errol kills people without blinking an eyelash, and right after- ward, he can eat candy. It’s a display of manliness you'll find hard to match in other pictures. The plot is so interlarded with border skirmishes, Russian spies, etc., that I won't attempt to deal with it, but the Technicolor is blazing, and there’s plenty of excitement. Cast: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, TERESA Teresa explores the problems of a young GI and his Italian war bride. Teresa’s just a baby, tiny and gentle, who still takes a doll to bed with her; Philip's a boy who's been mother-dominated, and isn’t ready to accept responsibility. Once out of the Army, his efforts to find work are ineffectual; his reaction to the news that he and Teresa are going to (Continued on page 17) Amazing shampoo guaranteed not to rob hair of natural oils Shasta lathers out beauty-dulling film— Leaves in glamour-giving natural oils that make hair... New Shasta, enriched with lanolin—that marvelous emollient from nature—does what women have always wanted from a shampoo .lathers out beauty-dulling film, leaves in 2 ene giving natural oils. Shasta is guaranteed not to rob hair of © precious, glamour- giving oils which keep™ your hair naturally shiny, soft, healthy, easier- to - manage. See how Shasta persuades even hair that seems dull'and dry to look softer, silkier; SH ASTA sparkle with gleaming highlights. Try new Boats 4 lanolin-enriched Shasta today. Remember, C., am Shane Shasta doesn’t rob hair of its natural oils. PROCTER & GAMBLE GUARANTEE: Shasta does not rob hair of natural oils. Procter & Gamble guarantees this or money back when unused portion is returned. A Ss ch :Shamp 00 DOESN'T ROB HAIR OF NATURAL tee 15

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16 COUPON: TO: GIRLS WANTED CONTEST 780 NORTH GOWER HOLLYWOOD 38, CALIFORNIA | WOULD LIKE TO PLAY A FEATURED ROLE IN “GIRLS WANTED.” ATTACHED IS MY FULL LENGTH PHOTOGRAPH AND PERSONAL DATA FILLED OUT BELOW. FOR ARE YOU BETWEEN 16 AND 40 WITH THAT CERTAIN URGE TO APPEAR IN HOLLYWOOD FILMS? RKO STUDIOS GIVES YOU THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME! é @ You can be one of the golden ten chosen to play a role in the Wald-Krasna production of Girls Wanted, side = by side with your favorite stars. A minimum of one week’s work at $175.00 per week will be guaranteed each of the winners as well as transportation expenses to and from Hollywood. ® Wald-Krasna Productions, Inc., is conducting the vast talent search, through Modern Screen, fe ten girls to appear in Gite Wanted, an original cercenplan) by Lloyd ‘Shae Previous dramatic experience is not necessary— the ten winners will be-selected only from entries received from Modern Screen readers. @ This is all you have to do: Fill in the coupon at the left and mail it, or a reasonable facsimile, together with a full length photograph of yourself to Girls Wanted Contest, RKO Studio, 780 North Gower, Hollywood 38, California. HERE ARE THE RULES: 1: Entries are limited to Modern Screen readers between the ages of 16 and 40. All entries must be accompanied by a full length photograph of the entrant. 2: All entries must be postmarked not later than midnight, April 15, 1951. All entries will become the property of Wald-Krasna Productions, Inc., and none will be acknowledged or returned. Winners will be announced in Modern Screen af a later date. 3: The judges are Jerry Wald, Norman Krasna, and the editors of Modern Screen. Judges’ decisions are final. Ten winners will be selected and hired by Wald-Krasna Productions, Inc., at $175.00 per week for a guaranteed minimum of one week and at the same rate each succeeding week. Transportation to and from Hollywood will be paid for by Wald-Krasna Productions, Inc. Transportation for guardian will also be provided if winner is a minor. GIRLS WANTED ‘GIRLS WANTED’ Nias

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(Continued from page 15) have a baby is one of horror. Life in the apartment with his mother, sister and broken-spirited father is a nightmare. The picturt starts in Italy (where the beginning was actually filmed), and transfers to New York: The acting is all good, but Pier Angeli, the little Italian girl who plays the title role, is the standout. She’s fragile, sensitive, and very appealing. Casi: Pier Angeli, John Ericson, Patricia Col- linge, Richard Bishop.—MGM. GROUNDS FOR MARRIAGE Van Johnson, happily divorced from Kathryn Grayson, is a doctor, affianced to Paula Ray- mond. But Kathryn comes home from abroad (she’s an opera singer) and decides she wants to play house some more. Van says no. You was childish then, you're childish now, and good riddance. This causes Kathryn to come down with a dreadful mental malady which makes her unable to open her yap. That is, she can open it, but no sound comes out (and her the Metropolitan’s newest star! ). Van feels annoyed but responsible, so he tries to help out, and maybe you can guess the ending. For which I give you no medals. It isn’t hard. It's a funny picture, with a hi- larious dream sequence, and nice perform- ances all around. Cast: Van Johnson, Kathryn Grayson, Barry Sullivan, Paula Raymond—MGM. THE COMPANY SHE KEEPS Out of the state pen and into the fire goes Jane Greer, in this saga of nobility and mis- trust among the cons and feds. Jane is paroled after serving two years of a five-year sentence for passing a bad check. Lizabeth Scott, her parole officer, tries to help Jane, but Jane is ungrateful. She doesn’t want to be a nurse’s aide every night; she wants to go stepping with men, and wear minks. The only man that interests her turns out to be Lizabeth’s fiance, and he reciprocates the interest. Liza- beth is hurt but understanding, and the fiance is also understanding, even after he finds out the woman he loves is a parolee. Jane gets into a scrape in the hospital and nearly - finds herself back in the coop. You watch her throughout this picture resisting the impulse to swipe, drink, and do other things a good parolee mustn't, but she’s very pretty, so you don’t mind too much. Lizabeth is definitely second-fiddle here, in case you're one of her fans, and Dennis O'Keefe is the man. Cast: Lizabeth Scott, Jane~ Greer, O’Keefe.— RKO. Dennis PHOTO CREDITS Below you will find credited page by page the photos which appear in this issue. 6 Acme—7 L.T.&B. Associated Press—R.T. Acme—18 Warner Bros.—28 T. MS sstaff; C.,B. Paramount—30 R.T. Wide World—31 MS staff—32 Bob Beerman-Bert Parry—33 Schuy- ler Crail—34-35 Bob Beerman-Bert Parry—36- 37 Bob Beerman—38 Bob Beerman-Bert Parry —41 Graybill, Warner Bros.—42-45 Bob Beer- man-Bert Parry—46 L.T. R.K.O:, R.T. Fox, L.B. Universal, R.B. MS staff—47 L.T. United Artists, C.T, Bert Parry, R.T. Studio, L.B: Re- public, C.B. Ted Weisbarth, R.B. Studio—48 R.K.O.—49 Dave Cicero—5S0 T. Bert Parry, B. Donald Arden—52 T. Acme, B. Wide World— 54 Bert Six—55 T. INS, B. Wide World—56-57 Bert Parry-Bob Beerman—58 Bert Parry—61 Bob Beerman—69 Pagano—70-74 Derujinsky Studios—77-78 Carmen Schiavoni. Abbreviations: L., Left; R., Right; C., Center; T., Top; B., Bottom. ing: (4) P ADERS ate the fllOMITE, yyfococcu ARY INV thaliss (4) 2 o enzae Among the SECON MicrOCBEENS ss, (7) Bacillus intl > coccus VINES (E\ Frediance hemolyticus, } Listerine Antiseptic—Quick! Attacks Infecti HATEVER ELSE YOU Do, call on Listerine Antiseptic at the first sign of a sniffle or scratchy throat. Its effectiveness and its safety are a matter of record. This prompt precaution, taken early and often, may nip colds or sore throats due to colds in the bud, or lessen their severity, once started. That is because Listerine Antiseptic goes directly to the seat of the trouble . . . threatening bacteria, called Sec- ondary Invaders, growing on mouth and throat surfaces. Listerine Antiseptic kills them by millions... attacks them before they attack you... helps keep them from invading the tissue to cause miserable cold symptoms. Ss Type IV (2) os ater u 6) Sees trepto- : ig) Preumococcls on Directly, Safely Listerine Antiseptic is no Johnny- come-lately in the field of cold therapy . no strong miracle drug that promises overnight results. A twelve- year period of clinical testing showed fewer colds, and generally milder colds, for its twice-a-day users than for those who did not gargle. And Listerine Antiseptic is abso- lutely safe . . . even for children. No dangerous side-effects. No drowsi- ness. No blurred vision. No dizzi- ness. Because Listerine Antiseptic does not enter the blood stream. It works only externally . . . directly attacks germs that cause so much of a cold’s misery. So, at the first sign of trouble, it’s Listerine Antiseptic . . . Quick! LAMBERT PHARMACAL Co., St. Louis, Mo. 17

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Burt Lancaster will soon be seen in Warner Brothers’ Jim Thorpe, All-American. Everyone who has ever dreaded the word “Polio” will draw courage from this story of B the Lancaster family. BY CYNTHIA MILLER kness @ Little has ever been written about the family who lives in the gabled, stone-front American Colonial house set high on a Bel Air hill. The house belongs to Burt Lancaster and his family. Mrs. Lancaster, one of the really handsome women in a city of many beautiful girls, is tall, blonde, brown- eyed. Her flashing smile is framed by two giant dimples, and her days are taken up by her three young children. There’s blond, four-year-old James Lancaster who has his father’s wide- slanted blue eyes. A shy introvert, “Jimbo,” as he is affectionately called, has an amazing passion for music and books with a photographic mind for lyric, tune or verse. Most of the time he’s lost in song, gaily dancing about the living room and side-stepping the playpen which belongs to 16-month-old Susan. Taffy-haired, brown-eyed Susan giggles as she trails behind Jimbo. Too young to have much of a vocabu- lary, she happily throws kisses in place of words, and occasionally lurches with a dimpled grin into the arms of her mother or father. Mother, Father, Jimbo and Susan— what about the fifth member of the wheel? His name is Billy. In November, the newspapers car- ried a story about him which sent fear into the hearts of every parent who read it. Yet little is actually known of what happened on that Thursday night. A week before, Burt, working ex- haustively on a movie of the life of Jim Thorpe, America’s all-time ath- lete, suggested that his family take a vacation at Apple Valley Inn. Norma bundled her three children for the drive to the Inn and _filled them with stories about the fun they’d have in the swimming pool, and in the sun. The children were happy and excited. Three days later, though, they were cross and touchy for no apparent rea- son. Norma brought them home to nurse what she (Continued on page 19)

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- considered just common colds. Susan was put to bed, but Jimbo and Bill stayed up to watch television with considerable noisiness, whooping and rest- lessness. Suddenly, Norma noticed that Billy seemed to be dragging his left foot. Racing after him into the kitchen, she overheard him say plaintively to the maid, “Alice, ’ve just cut my head off!” Ob- viously, he had a splitting headache. ME. Lancaster immediately called pe- diatrician Dr. Russell Sands, of Santa Monica. While the doctor was enroute, Billy continued playing and jumping around with his brother, apparently un- aware of the almost complete drag of his side. When Dr. Sands came, his diagnosis was tentative but immediate. Quietly he turned to Norma with the dread words on his lips—polio. Gently he explained that he was being precautionary in asking for immediate laboratory tests. With astonishing calm, Norma Lancaster lifted her son into her automobile and raced twenty miles to Los Angeles County General Hospital. Burt soon joined his wife there, and Norma’s strength, in this dark hour, reached out to her child as she stood by the small bed, and to her husband. William Henry Lancaster, the gay ex- trovert, who held Jimbo’s preoccupation with music and jig-saw puzzles in great disdain, talked about his Hopalong Cas- ‘sidy pistols, while trained hands gave quick attention to his sturdy body. Burt and Norma looked with courage and hope around the corridors of one of the finest polio centers in the United States. And in the night, holding on to each other, praying silently, they were reassured as they looked out over the many acres covered with nursing cottages and medical buildings. The Lancasters walked alongside their almost three-year-old son as he was wheeled into a general admittance ward. Their thoughts flying back to their other boy who .had worn leg braces for two years. Jimmy had shed these braces only a short time ago and had run with laugh- ter through the house. There were twelve beds in the ward, twelve stricken children. Norma and Burt passed from one bed to the other, gently touching the children in them, feeling so - close to them and to the parents who were . strangers now only in name. For twenty-four hours, the Lancasters remained at the hospital telling each other all they'd ever known about polio, which was not very much, and reassuring each other that not all cases were serious, or dangerous. Meanwhile a spinal test was taken, and all they could do was wait for the results. Wu overwhelming relief, and a great sense of weariness, the Lancasters heard their doctor say that Billy’s case was mild, and non-contagious. Silently, they started the drive home, with hands clasped, and hearts too full to speak... Today, Burt speaks eagerly of the Gen- eral Hospital. He praises the way it serves all people without discrimination, as it has been doing since its creation in 1887. Burt would also like to help banish the fear that springs up with the _word polio, for all polio is not fatal or permanently disabling. _ As in his son’s case, many children have only a slight case which first ex- hibits itself as a flu or a nasty cold. In hundreds of cases, polio is so light that its effects pass away in a few days. Over- active Billy felt it strongly in his left leg and foot, and (Continued on page 76) & Halo ‘Soaping dulls hair é yy \ Not a soap, 7 not a cream_ Halo cannot leave dulling, dirt-catching soap film! Removes SAX embarrassing 2D IRS dandruff from both (SS _ 33% hair and scalp! WG Yes, “soaping”’ your hair with even finest liquid or oily cream shampoos leaves dulling, dirt-catching film. Halo, made with a new patented ingredient, contains no soap, no sticky oils. Thus Halo glorifies your hair the very first time you use it. Ask for Halo—America’s favorite shampoo—at any drug or cosmetic counter! ¢ ~ glorilies it! 40 of Gives fragrant “‘soft-water’’ lather __needs no special rinse! Halo leaves hair soft, manageable shining with colorful » natural highlights! .

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betty hutton your hollywood shopper Betty Hutton returns from one of her buying sprees all loaded down with shopper items. IF THE SHOE FITS, and it’s sure to, yow ll want to live in these boots. An inch-thick foam rubber sole gives you the lift you need _ after a long * day. T loved slipping into them between takes of my next Paramount film, The Greatest Show on Earth. They come in white terry cloth or faded blue denim with crisp red or blue piping. Small, medium, large sizes, $2.98. Betty Coed, 6402 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood — 28, California, THREE SILENT MESSENGERS TO BEGUILE YOU wth their subtle fragrance each with a distinct personality. Tweed, by day, is light and gay, adds dash to your suits. Shanghai, by night, is just right, sultry yet sweet, and warmed with spice. Confetti, still a differ- ent mood, is gala and carefree leaving an aura of laughter about. Group of. all three 2 oz. fiacons of toilet water boxed elegantly, $3.00. Lentheric, 745 Fifth Ave., New York 22. for march @ As the lady on the flying trapeze, I’ve really been getting around lately. But I haven’t confined quite all my time to our Big Top picture, The Greatest Show On Earth (that’s a plug, Mr. DeMille). When Moprern SCREEN asked me to locate some of the greatest bargains on earth I ac- cepted in a hurry. I’ve discovered that it takes a good deal of training to be able to fly through the air circus-style. And I learned it also took practice to keep my feet on the ground in ‘the many shops I visited. As your Hollywood shopper I hunted for the keenest buys (for you and me both) in the finest shops in the land. I managed to travel the Southern “territory while on a trip to Sarasota and virtually “did” New York while I was in that dazzling town. I’ve come up with a pretty prize collection of bargains (said she mod- estly! ) . things for the home, for kids like Candy and Lindsay, some personal items and of course some super special Easter gifts. Just write directly to the stores mentioned for anything and every- thing that tempts you. They'll cheer- fully refund your money within ten days, except on personalized items. A DOUBLE RING CEREMONY ?s the order of the day, whether for keeps or for special Val- entine sweethearts. Captivating twin friendship bands in sterling silver, each handsomely chased to give a link effect. Wider band is for him, the narrower one for her. Price includes three initials en- graved on each ring, and tax. His ring $3.50, hers $2.50. Send ring size and initials. Hyde’s, Inc., Dept. MS-3, 135-37 Northern Blud., Flushing, Ih Ve al

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22 -he takes ink happily. betty hutton your hollywood shopper THEY'LL MOB THIS AUTOGRAPH HOUND fo get to put their “John Hancocks” on him. Set this irresistible dachshund in the living room and watch the gang flock immediately around him. They'll want to sign their own names and look at everyone else’s Made of a specially treated white fabric, All of our friends sign our doggie so we'll always have a permanent aarti $2.95. M. C. Flynn, 43 E. 59 St., New York 22. & REAL CONVERSATION (CENTER) PIECE. Use this clever plastic candlevase to circle your candles with flowers. Uniquely shaped, it sits on top of the candlestick, anchored by the candle which slips through the built- up circle of the vase’s center and into the _ candlestick. The vase holds water for your favorite greens or posies. Buy flowers that will blend with your table-setting or room colors. Pair $1.25. Cauman, 151 Lexington Ave., New York 16. for march It's fun buying gifts for you and my daughters. I really went wild—in stores all over the country. THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT IT, this clever plastic stocking dryer competently solves the difficult problem of what to do with just-washed undies, stockings or baby things so they wont fall, rust or snag. Just slip the flexible hook over a shower or towel rod. Each sturdy clothes pin gripper holds several garments easily. In blwe, rose, green. 6 jor $17.00. Essential Gifts, 3500 Griffith Park Blud., Los An- geles 27, California. YOU’LL HEAD THE EASTER PARADE im this cun- ning chucker-shaped straw topped off with a semi-circle of colorful forget-me-nots, as gay as Spring itself. This charming cha- peau, worn with your favorite ensemble, will be your crowning glory. Comfortable, it hugs the head and has a mere suspicion of front brim. Navy, black, brown, white, pastels. By Madcaps. $5.00 (add I15c postage out of N.Y.C.). Bloomingdale’s, 59th St. REDO g Ave., New York 22. MY CANDY LOOKS GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT ‘7 this crisp, lace-edged pinafore of frothy yellow polka-dot organdy that slips over any dress and ties in a big *bow at the back. The pocket is cuffed in white and has my little one’s name printed on it in green to match two green bows. There is a bell that tinkles as Candy skips along. Send your child's name. Sizes 2-3, $3.95; sizes 4-6, $4.95. Elizabeth McCaffrey, 200 W. 16 Street, New York 8. I'M GIVING A CIRCUS PARTY right at home for Candy and Lindsay with a 67-piece pre- planned party box. There are elephant invitations, envelopes, a bright red table- cloth 54” x 90”,a centerpiece, paper plates and cups with handles, hats and favors in- side fringed snappers, animal and clown nut cups and foil horns. Also “Pin the Tail on the Lion” game and a party suggestion folder. Service for 8. $3.95. Maymac Co., 660 Locust Street, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE awaits you in this lantern alarm clock that steals the charm of its early American ancestor. Has an enameled case in brilliant red, green, yel- low and sky blue with polished brass trim, a Roman numeral dial, distinct hands and tiny feet. 314-inch diameter. Guaranteed 30-hour Ingraham movement with single wind key for both time and clear alarm. $4.35. Harley’s Clock Shop, 1209 Grand Ave., Kansas City 6E, Missouri. To buy any of the items on these pages, write direct to shops mentioned, enclosing check or money order. — =< m

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A GLIMPSE OF GAY PAREE right in your own home .. . these colorful little gems are authentic street scenes of Montmartre, the most atmospheric section of that fabulous city. There are eight different colorful miniatures beautifully executed by Charles Cobelle in a brilliant silk screen technique. Each picture, sized 73,” x 834” comes in a smart green wooden frame 15%” wide. 53.50 each. FAR Gallery, 746 Madison Avenue, N. Y. 21. See TRY SOME SLEIGHT OF HAND. 4 charming scat- ter pin turns into a handsome dinner ring at a whim’s notice: Start with a flower- like rhinestone brooch which pins easily onto a specially designed ring band and presto . . . an unusual scatter pin ring. The pin, of course, does beautifully on its own. Ring band takes to any other small pin. Ring and pin $3.60; ring alone $1.20; pin alone $2.40. Eunice Novelties, Box 41, Rego Park, New York. AN EASTER PET FOR LINDSAY! 7 found this wonderful mechanical wizzard to amuse Lindsay on Easter morn. Guaranteed to give parents an extra hour’s sleep any day, this captivating pet, beautifully litho- graphed, will be a tot’s constant com- panion. A twist of the wrist winds up the sturdy metal duck and he goes off quack- ing and waddling like a real barnyard pet. ST. 75. QT Novelty Co., P.O. Box 54, Mur- ray Hill Station, New York 16. / HIS PIPE DREAMS COME TRUE! J’ sure your best beau never imagined he could receive a whole collection of six of the finest im- ported, hand-made Mediterranean Briar pipes in one gift. Set includes Dublin, pot, pear, regular bent, egg and billiard shapes, expertly finished in French or walnut, all fitted with a sturdy mouthpiece and alum- inum filter. They're sure to please. $2.98 for all six pipes. C. & W. Products, 202 _ Grand Street, Brooklyn, New York. LADY, YOUR CHARMS ARE SHOWING when you’re wearing this group of bangles on a smart charm bracelet. Not alone a handsome piece of jewelry in non-tarnishable brass, but it also holds a quartet of useful cap- sule charms ...a metal money holder, a bright lipstick in its case, a perfume appli- cator, and a telescoping cigarette holder that fits in its own sanitary case, and all for only $3.25. Princess Eve, 48 E. 43 St., New York 17. THE KEYS TO YOUR KINGDOM are constantly on tap with the handbag keycaddy that clips firmly onto the inner pocket of your purse and prevents your keys from slith- ering out of reach. This keeper of your keys even clips onto a belt or pocket. The ring, smartly stirrup-shaped in gold plate, is attached to a two-tone patterned spring clip. It comes boxed in a cardboard replica of a handbag. $1.08. Dept. 49 D, Mandel Bros., Chicago, Ill. THIS TRAY SERVES ME WELL. Straight from Sweden, this beautifully crafted tray in finest Swedish birch wood would be a de- lightful-surprise gift to anyone. Simple and elegant in the fashionable Swedish modern design, it is lacquered in clear varnish to accent the beautiful birch grain. Lightweight, yet sturdy, and treated to withstand water and stains. 11” x 14” tray, $3.25. 13” x 17", $4.00. The Maglar Co., La Porte, Ind. THESE TURTLES ARE FAST WORKERS. Just put a China turtle in an ashtray and see your cigarette snuffed out in a jiffy. No more smouldering butts to cause ugly table and nasty carpet burns. The turtle is a fine cigarette rest and will even act as a pipe tamp. They’re cunning little fellows to have around the house., Three assorted colored turtles (ashtrays not included). $1.00. Get them at Lyons Specialties, Yard- ville, New Jersey. Merchandise is sold on a money back guarantee within 10 days, except where monogrammed. LINDSAY’S CRAZY FOR A CARRIDOLL to accom- pany her in the Easter Parade, so this cute little doll-handbag will be our Easter present to her. The doll’s a yellow-haired miss with checked taffeta dress belted by plaid drawstring arms (and hands) that open and close the skirt to form a bag. A bonnet and shoes in matching plaid with velvet trim complete her outfit. A comb “and mirror are inside. $5.00. Carridoll, P.O. Box 11114, New Orleans, La.

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24 betty hutton ur hollywood shopper for march y, THEY’RE CERTAINLY WORTH THEIR SALT. Beauwti- ful crystal salt dishes and solid sterling silver spoons to charm your dinner guests and serve them elegantly. The open salt dishes are exquisitely cut to add sparkle to your table. The spoons are tiny repro- ductions of a handsome English teaspoon. You can get them in a gift box contain- ing two salt dishes and two spoons, $2.50. Set of four $4.50. Fleetwood Silversmiths, 36 Cliff Avenue, Yonkers 5, New York. BUY, BUY BLACKBIRDS or birds of dove white plastic with gleaming rhinestone eyes to perch glamorously on your ears. Birds of a feather usually flock together, but some- times go astray with fascinating resulis—a blackbird on one ear, a white one-on the other. Try a pair of earrings in each color for three-way variety. They’re comfort- able screw-ons. Pair, $2.50; two pairs, $4.75. Gift Sources, 2 Columbus Circle, New York 19, New York. THE SALT OF THE EARTH! Zhiis attractive reed basket filled with seven assorted seasonings will delight the most fastidious cook. In it are salts and peppers. gathered from all over the world. The seven vials hold a variety of fascinating, flavor-giving spicy salts and hot peppers. A pinch of any of these will add spice to your favorite homemade dish. It’s a perfect gift for a “ bride’s kitchen shower. $2.25. Hoff Condi- ments, RD 5, York, Pennsylvania, IF THEY'RE SPORT FANS FROM WAY BACK, they're sure to go wild over these shorts with authentic sports records printed over them! Handsomely tailored of durable rayon, they have real newspaper sports sections reprinted on them. From fencing to foot- ball, this lively job features everything to interest a sportsminded man . . some oomphy females. Sizes 28-40. $1.95. Same fabric in sportshirt, s, m, ml, | $5.95; pajamas $7.95. Alex Loeb, Meridian, Miss. THIS LUGGAGE NEEDS NO “REDCAP”. These travel-wise purse accessories, of real saddle leather, are covered with numerous color- ful authentic travel stickers of Air France, the French Line and famous continental hotels. At left is a “2-Suiter” compact with handles $4.50. Cigarette trunk at right is metal lined, $5.00. Sewing-kit, lipstick- shaped $3.00. Key chain with pill barrel charm, $1.50. James Stuart, 410 Delaware Avenue, Wilmington, Delaware. - or even. DO YOU KNOW THE SCORE? Canasta friends will bé delighted by this new Canasta score board, a handy device that eliminates the use of pencil and paper and does your arithmetic for you. The wooden board, 34" x 101", is visible at all times to each player. Small colored plastic pegs, which can be stored right inside the board, do the work. An instruction sheet is included. $2.00 Get it at Birkdales, 260 Fifth Ave- nue, New York 1, New York. DOZE, AND OFF IT GOES! Ji’s a remarkable little reading light that clamps on to your book. When you enter the land of nod and drop the book, the light goes out auto- matically. Light-weight plastic, carefully insulated, with an eight-foot cord and bulb. Uses little electricity, as the light is concentrated directly on your reading and not on your spouse. Get it for $1.50 at Eagle Electric Mfg. Co., 23-10 Bridge Plaza $., Long Island City 1, New York. SUGAR TEA TOMALES “VE GOT A LITTLE LIST” to hang on my kitchen wall. It doubles as a knife rack and triples as a bread board. Made of wood, and gayly colored with red trim, it serves as a permanent grocery check list, with pegs to plug in when you're about to run short. A fitted space behind the board is ample room for a. knife rack. Or the panel slides out completely to make a bread. board. $3.95. Unique Arts, Box 4, Kensington Station, Brooklyn 18, N. Y. To buy any of the items on these pages, write direct to shops mentioned, enclosing check or money order- Merchandise ts sold on a maney back guarantee within 10 days, except where monogrammed. WN

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euwre~ peal brilliance the new iridescent nail polish worn by the Hollywood stars It’s more than a new color... .it’s an entirely new kind of nail polish. And it’s called Pearl Brilliance — exclusive, of course, with CUTEX. All Hollywood is wearing this new, lovelier iridescent type of polish that makes fingertips shimmer like jewels. And this is the only iridescent polish so amazingly low-priced, that cuTEx COMTEMTS 5 FL OF has all the gleaming beauty of the most expensive you can buy. Any woman can afford to wear it all the time. Try a bottle of CUTEX PEARL BRILLIANCE today. In six high-fashion shades. Matching lipstick.

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modern screen/march 1951 letter to ohirley Temple Dear Shirley, First, we’d like to wish you happiness. As Mrs. Charles Black we’re sure you'll find it. This year you made a momentous decision—you made a choice between a career and marriage, knowing that in your case, at least, the two couldn’t go together. For unlike many other Hollywood careers, yours has been a legend. Adoration, not the or- dinary but important kind of love is reserved for legendary figures. You chose wisely, we think, and Hollywood’s loss will be your well-earned gain . . . This has been a time of many decisions . . . We know that you were as shocked as we when Elizabeth Taylor announced her separation from Nicky Hilton. Elizabeth had created a world of dreams for other people. When her marriage failed, belief was shattered. . . if Elizabeth, who had everything, could not be happy, why should others go on dreaming . . .? But not only young love has foundered. Even you, in your contentment, must be a little fearful at the news of Barbara Stanwyck’s decision. If there had ever been real devotion in Hollywood it existed in her marriage to Robert Taylor. When other marriages went the way of divorce there was always this one to point to. Now, after eleven years, people must look elsewhere for confirmation. They will look to you and to others who have won their admiration. They will look to Ruth Roman because she is more than a rising Hollywood personality. She has an inner solidity of spirit developed through years of seeking a goal seemingly out of reach. Ruth reached her goal, unchanged, as evidenced by her marriage this month. Bypassing the route of many engagements and many estrangements, she chose a man removed from Hollywood glitter. Now Mrs. Mortimer Hall, her future seems solid and secure . . . In this month, too, Colleen Townsend sealed her decision to leave Hol- lywood by marrying a divinity student. It is to her credit that she was true to herself, for success in Hollywood is a deat ous suitor eager to turn its back on half-hearted lovers . This indeed, has been a time of decisions—happy, a humorous, pathetic. You’ve heard of them; you’ve been part of them. We’ve written about them all in this issue—the stories behind the headlines, your stony too, which we present with special pride and all good wishes. EDITOR 27

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If Monty Clift’s a freak so is everyone who lives in a home he can afford, and pulls down the shades when he wants to be alone. BY LESLIE SNYDER ™@ You know what they say about Monty Clift—the only suit he has is on his back; he lives in a New York apartment so small that when he stands his head hits the ceiling; he’s about as sociable as a bear in the middle of winter. I’m here to tell you it’s © all a lie. That’s right. A lie. I was there; I spoke to the man; he even lit my cigarette. And I was charmed right out of my senses. Hard to interview, huh? I called him up from a phone booth. “I’ve been asked to write a story about you for MopERN ScrEEN,” I said. “Well!” he exclaimed. “Ding, ding, ding, send out the news !” “Exactly what I want to do,” I told him, and he invited me over. He greeted me in the doorway of his East Side apartment. He was wearing a white shirt open at the neck, brown slacks and a grin that weakened my ankles. He shook hands with me in a nice, firm way and ushered me into the living room. So far, so fine. He hadn’t leered, sneered or smirked, and it didn’t look as if he were going to. He was acting normal, maybe even a little better than normal, and I-was stumped with the $64 ESR s a freak? Not Monty Clift. You can bet on that. I settled myself in an easy chair and Monty said, “They’ve written _enough stories about me. Don’t tell me they’ve left out something.” “Guess they have,” I told him. (Continued on page 84) He likes all sorts of people and places. be i acetic eat Le ee Pee ae a ee Poe Pe be is adi eseiee Se aston

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Callers won’t find Mama Williams in lace on satin pillows. She’s receiving in overalls. on a ladder. | BY JANE WILKIE A fellow's first haircut is important. Benjie Gage got expert Eddie Poole to do the job on Mom's movie set. fain. AS ES res The Gages rushed to get the baby’s room ready by December. Kim, their second son, but not the glamorous, formal dresses. Ben surprised them by coming 2 months early. approves both—and her home-again figure. Sch ea igleied ox Sah es th rs

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ge Ben and Esther take time off from the new house, Benjie and the m@ According to novelists, scenario writers and dear old ladies, the weeks following the birth of a baby are the loveliest a new mother can experience. She lies abed and languishes in the luxury of having friends and family attend her every need. She wears fluffy pink things, and sips orange juice daintily. Above all, nothing disturbs her peace of mind, and her world is rosily sheltered until her strength returns. This has not been the case with Esther Williams. Since the birth of Kimball Austin Gage back in October, Esther’s thoughts have been taken up with cement mixers, sewer pipes, crossed telephone lines, and firescreens suitable for people twenty-four inches tall. It isn’t due to any lack of planning. As anybody knows, when a baby is expected it is only common sense to move into a new house before the infant arrives. This bit of logic was duly considered by Esther and plans made accordingly. But things have been ganging a-gley with the Gages. Tt was in May of last year, when Esther was in Hawaii making Pagan Love Song, that she first knew she was pregnant. On her return home, the house in the Pacific Palisades seemed to have shrunk alarmingly. Benjie was walking now, and every time Esther put her foot down, he was under it. So she and Ben started working on floor plans for the house they had always wanted to build on their property near the ocean. In August they held a family conference. If they didn’t begin building immediately it would be too late, for the baby was expected in December. By September they decided to rent a place for a year or so, and then build their house. And on a Sunday late in that month they found the house in Mande- ville Valley and bought it on the spot. It’s a big, rambling frame house, painted a bright yellow, and there are two bedrooms on the ground floor for the boys, a master bedroom upstairs, and an attic that can be converted later into another bedroom. There is a garage with attached servant quarters out back. But the nice thing about this house is that it is made for tall people. It has light and air and the ceilings are high, and most important, it’s a comfortable house. “If we move in by October,” said Esther, “we can have all the painting done, the pool and dressing rooms built in the back, the kitchen fixed up like a real farmhouse kitchen, and the driveway finished—everything by the time the baby comes.” They got busy with a new set of plans, and soon were so engrossed that they decided they’d keep this place for many more years to come. (Continued on page 102) 31

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qt ' 4 5 MODERN SCREEN publisher, George T. Delacorte, Jr., beams as June Allyson and Alan Ladd congratulate each other on winning MS' popularity poll. a P modern screen ‘Sa PARTY OFTHE YEAR g a " ’

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HOLLYWOOD IS USED TO PARTIES, THEY HAVE THEM EVERY DAY. BUT WHEN LOUELLA PARSONS GIVES ONE— EVERYBODY COMES. SO PULL UP A CHAIR AND HELP FETE THE WINNERS OF MODERN SCREEN'S POPULARITY POLL. @ You should have been there. You really should have, because it is the readers of MODERN SCREEN who are really responsible for the big, enchanting Ciro’s party Louella Par- sons tossed for June: Allyson and Alan Ladd and the other twenty top popularity winners in the world-wide poll. It would have been impossible, though, to have had you all there at Ciro’s, even if proprietor Herman Hover had knocked out the walls. He almost had to at that, for this was the party of the year. More than three hundred of Holly- wood’s top stars, many of whom hadn’t even met each other before, flocked through the famous Ciro’s doors. Let’s turn back the clock to that gala evening. Our hostess, Louella, really knows how to give a party. “I don’t want anyone to make a speech to the popularity winners,” she said. “Just tell everybody to come and have a good time.” That’s exactly what they did. There were no speeches, but if all the animated conversation between new and old friends were bottled up it would last Hollywood a lifetime of champagne. June Allyson was one of the first to arrive. “Golly,” she exclaimed, “look at all the movie stars!” “Where’s Dick?” someone asked. “My dear husband, Mr. Powell?” June replied. “Damnit, he’s home in bed suffering from that ‘riculitous’ or whatever you call it. No joking—it’s awfully painful, but he insisted that I shouldn’t miss the party of the year.” Positively beaming, June congratulated Alan Ladd on winning for the third straight year and (Cont’d on next page) - 4% it4 Dana and Mary Andrews, married || years, typify Hollywood's happy families. They held hands most of evening, chatted with agent Charles Feldman. As Ruth Roman laughed with Arthur Kennedy, she gave no hint that she would pull the surprise of the year by marrying Mort Hall on December 17. John Derek wants to know how to win a popularity cup. So he asks the man who owns three, Alan Ladd. Sue Ladd listens in. | Everybody was at Ciro's from starlets to well- loved, established stars like Lloyd Nolan and | Edward G. Robinson, two who are ever-popular. Vic and Dorothy Mature circulated like mad all Newsworthy Shelley Winters came alone, evening getting tips on building their new house. split her attention between reporters Everybody but Mr. Blandings gave them advice. Louella Parsons and Sheilah Graham. | MORE > |

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34 modern screen’s PARTY OF THE YEAR continued: exclaimed, ‘Let me in on the secret, Alan. I’d like to fill my house up with those beautiful silver cups, too!” (She may, at that, with the way this year’s votes are already coming in.) There’s something magical about the parties Louella gives. One moment the room is completely empty. The next it’s full of more stars than you'll see on opening night. It’s hard to say who attracted the most attention, but when silver-haired Bill (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd arrived with his lovely wife, Grace Bradley, on his arm, all eyes were turned his way. “Look at him!” one starlet exclaimed. “Up to now Clark Gable was my favorite, but you can givé me that Hoppy for a leading man. Say, did anyone ever think of putting him in a picture without a cowboy suit? That would be something!” “Men! Men! Men!” Marilyn Monroe exulted, “There are so many handsomes here Id like to put each one on a desert island and commute back and forth by speed boat the rest of my life.” If Marilyn thought she was looking at the men she should have seen how the men were looking at her. This is the child who is now the sweetheart discovery of 20th Century-Fox. She has the same Wow appeal that made Lana Turner the Number One glamor girl. Same sort of look, too. When she cast her baby eyes at Scott Brady, who came to the party with Ann Blyth, he stag- gered a little and promptly asked her for a date. That’s what happens at any real party. Romances are born in a hurry. “TI don’t know if I should really be here at Ciro’s,” Bill Lundigan explained, looking fondly at his pert little wife, Rena. “You know, it’s our anniver- sary, and I always like to propose all over again in the same night club. Do you suppose that Herman Hover would mind too much if I took a run over to Mocambo later?” Rena said she didn’t think they should leave, so Bill proposed right there. Mrs. Lundigan sighed, “I think husbands should always ask their wives to marry them at least once a year.” As for romance, it was everywhere on this night of nights. Consider Arlene Dahl and Lex Barker. No people looked more in love. Someone said, “I don’t think there’s: ever been a more interesting love situation in Hollywood than what goes on between Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. It reminds me of the time when Rita Hayworth and Lana Turner used to be in high gear and keeping columnists awake nights trying to figure would they or would they not matry.” (The Curtis-Leigh story is too long to tell here. See page 38.) That’s just the situation that was bothering lovely Sally Forrest, although she didn’t show her feelings at the party. She came with handsome agent Milo Frank, the ex-Marine. Everyone has expected them to marry, but now it looks as though it’s all off because Frank may soon go back into service and apparently doesn’t want to pick up Sally’s option when he can’t be around for the full term contract. In the midst of the festivity Louella Parsons beamed and was heard to say, “Gee, I’m glad I’m a reporter. (And how she is!) Where else could you meet so many exciting people?” Then she (Continued on page 98) Oa eae yy) - Loretta Young drew murmurs of appreciation for her gay white hat. "You should have seen it before | gave it a haircut,” she told ad- mirers. Seems that the feathers threatened to block her party-view. Saws EOS = EEA, os = | No couple there looked more in love’ than Arlene Dahl and Lex Barker Shortly after this party they announced their engagement. They! honeymoon in France when she finishes MGM's No Questions Asked Piper Laurie arrived at the Ciro's party with Dick Long and a chic new hairdo. Dick will give up his movie cdreer to join the army. Piper is awaiting the Modern Screen contest results out next month. q

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Petite Vera-Ellen's dancing with Rock Hudson had -on-lookers predicting Hostess Louella Parsons and Publisher George T. Delacorte wel- come John Hodiak, Anne Baxter, Broderick and Kay Crawford party for Modern Screen's Popularity Poll winners. that they'd soon be waltzing down the aisle. This was before their romance started on its on-again-off-again track, which has Hollywood second-quessing. at the eas Se ST When the girls saw Macdonald Carey walk in alone they powdered their noses. It was “happy-married-couples'’ night also in many corners of But Macdonald stagged only because his wife was ill. Ida Lupino also came Ciiro’s. The Jeff Chandlers shared a table with Van Heflin and his alone, met Macdonald over the hors d'oeuvres, and left with Charles Feldman. wife, Frances, wno were -the party's champion hand-holders. Scott Brady brought Ann Blyth and managed to surround himself with other lovely girls. He took one look at Marilyn Monroe and asked for a date. Here, he smiles down approvingly at Joan Evans. John Derek gives wife Patti a nickel so she can call home to check with son Russell's baby-sitter. Ciro's hat-check girl moaned: ‘Too bad he's married, but he couldn't have found a more attractive girl . . .’ John agrees.

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OP ESE REE A AN BRET AR, OS ET et: aI A @ It was an occasion on which €ven grown men weep. But the teen-aged lad sat stark- ly dry-eyed, listening to the words which promised that death could not really end the meaning of his father’s life. He had, and still has, deep faith in those words. Nonetheless, the thought kept recurring that his father was too young to go. At 47, his father had been ready to re- tire from active management of his fac- tory so that he could relax and leisurely enjoy the luxuries he’d earned for his family. Not the luxury of jewels and furs, but of good, vital, secure living—a gracious, spacious, happy home, two good cars, good schools for his son and daugh- ter, trips to Europe and elsewhere, ample financial security for the future. It was quite a lot to have achieved at his age. In- stead of enjoying it leisurely, he simply left an impressive heritage for his family. In the months which followed, there must have been some of his father’s busi- ness associates in Syracuse, New York, who watched the boy with dismay. Instead of going to Amherst College as planned, he went off to New York City. “Singing in a chorus at the World's Fair!” they exclaimed first. Then, “Trying to be an actor at some little theater . . . earns only $5.00 a week so his mother has to give him an allowance . . . charges things to her account . . . uses her car all the time . . . not 21 yet or even earning a living and he wants to get married to a 16-year-old actress. . , 5 ssa ee ai

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ae It’s easier than you think. Ask Gordon MacRae who started out with > a smile on his face and a happy-go-lucky air. Now his life is as sweet as the songs he Soe BY FRANCES CLARK If so,-they were gossiping true. But their fears weren’t fulfilled. Today the boy is known as a star of radio, stage, screen and juke-box. His name is Gordon MacRae. “Back then,” Gordon says, “I decided I was going to observe the MacRae’s clan motto, ‘We burn but are not consumed.’ I'd make a profession of what I loved to do and so be relaxed, enjoying life no matter when, where or what.” Gordon’s interpretation of being re- laxed, however, is rather staggering. One recent, typical-day went like this. In the wee hours of that morning he left a wildly applauding audience at El Rancho Vegas in Nevada, to take a six hour train ride (planes were grounded by fog) to Hollywood where he’s star of NBC’s “The Railroad Hour.” Rehearsals started at noon. The official broadcast ended at 5:30 o'clock, Hollywood time. Then Gordon _ was due back in Las Vegas for an eve- ning performance. Fog was still holding up planes and the trains weren’t scheduled right. So it looked as though he might have to drive himself, a mere matter of 290 miles! But such a relaxed character you never saw! And everything went according to his own schedule—the way everything al- ways has gone. “Instead of going on to Amherst,” Gor- don says, “I decided to get going on my Career right away. I’d always made Straight A’s in the drama and music classes at Deerfield Academy, but I had to spend an extra year there to make up for any poor grades in geometry, Latin and French to qualify for Amherst. “Dad had given up the idea of my go- ing into business with him the summer before I graduated from Deerfield. I spent that summer vacation working in the fac- tory with the lathes, power presses, drill presses and the other things which he felt would give me a fair idea of what was ahead for me. But I didn’t do very well and I didn’t like it a bit. After that, he agreed I ought to try what I wanted to do after I finished Amherst. The next ‘summer he sent me on a YMCA tour of Europe. Shortly after I came home, he was gone. So I just struck out sooner than we’d planned.” None of the singers he worked with at the World’s Fair were famous, although one is pretty well-known today as Dick Haymes, After the Fair, Gordon decided to learn more about acting. He landed a $5.00 job with room and board at the Millpond Playhouse in Roslyn, Long Island. His mother gave him $25.00 a week allowance, access to charge ac- counts and the use of her car. : Soon Sheila Stephens, a very pretty girl, shared the rides with him. And it didn’t take him long to decide he wanted to share everything with her from then on. But the lovely English-born girl’s parents objected strenuously to their daughter’s marrying at 16. So the two just studied Ste 0 y oe “ Nahas tf é Gordon and his Sheila married in 1941; now have a MacRae clan of three kids. PAY, We : ee. ware together, played together and dreamed to- gether until his mother decided it was high time her handsome son had a taste of work to shape his character. “T don’t care what you do,” she told him, -“‘Just so it’s decent.” When he landed a job as a page at NBC ‘in New York, she was somewhat taken aback but Gordon knew that it took luck as well as ability to get a big-league job in radio. He waited for his lucky moment. Whenever anyone who might do him any good came into NBC, Gordon sang at his work. Horace Heidt was the first to give him a second ear. He liked what he heard and saw and hired Gordon to sing with his orchestra. Gordon hurried to Sheila with the news. Once again they took up the matter of marriage with her parents. Still they couldn’t get approval. Gordon went out on the road with Horace Heidt’s troupe. In May, Sheila joined the troupe in Cleve- land, Ohio, to visit him. “Td tried to get my parents to let me make it a wedding trip,” Sheila recalls. “But they still wouldn’t consent. I was only 18, of course. They adored Gordon but they thought we should wait until we were older.” “Sheila, Gordon’s no good to me,” Hor- ace Heidt told her on her arrival. ‘“He’s thinking about you all the time. Why don’t you get married here and now? Then he'll hit his stride.” (Continued on page 106)

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M™@ Three years ago. when Tony Curtis first came out to Hollywood, an old-time publicity man offered him some advice. “Son,” he said, “don’t tie yourself down with any one gal. Play the field and you'll be okay. Stick with one dame, and you're dead.” Tony was politely doubtful. “I don’t understand,” he said, “what’s wrong in going with one girl?” _“Now, look, kid,” the veteran tub-thumper explained, “if you concentrate on one dame the newspapers will mention it four or five times. You're out at Universal, right? So, say you start going with Ann Blyth. Curtis and Blyth, that’s the combination. Well, it makes the gossip columns a few times, and then you're finished. Everybody thinks you're tied up, and you can’t get a date. The best thing for a young actor is to get around with a lot of girls. Makes people think you're a great lover.” Curtis who is young, trusting and naive started following this advice to the letter. His first date at Universal, strangely enough, was with Ann Blyth. “She’s a wonderful girl,’ Tony says, “and I had a fine evening with her—only I found out early that we had very little in common. Ann is very sweet, you know, very demure and pious. She’s quiet and sedate, and well, I guess I’m not. I’m the kind of guy who likes to live each day as if it’s his last. Ann and I are opposites in temperament, background, and outlook.” When Tony stopped dating Ann, he began seeing Shelley Winters occasionally. But here again, there was no mutual attraction. “Shelley,’ according to Tony, “is absolutely fan- tastic. She’s a dynamo, a volcano in eruption. I couldn’t keep up with her.” The fact that Tony had dated Ann Blyth and Shelley Win- ters immediately made him column bait—as the publicity man had predicted—and the next thing he knew, Tony began receiving phone calls from young starlets. “How about being my escort next Thursday night?” or, “Wouldn't you like to take me to Arthur’s party?” they’d ask. “Maybe I’m just plain dumb,” Tony says now, “but I thought these girls were calling because they were interested in me. I found oui later they weren't interested in me. They just wanted to use my name. “T took one starlet out and she said, ‘I hear you know Mr. Goldwyn. How about introducing me some time?’ I don’t ~ know Mr. Goldwyn at all. “T went out with another and she said, ‘Look, Tony, you take care of me and I'll take care of you.’ Honest, I didn’t know what she meant. Later, I learned she wanted to meet a producer on the lot. “The experiences I had playing the field—you wouldn’t believe them. Never have I met such career-conscious girls. They all want to get ahead. I couldn’t tell if they liked me or they were using me. It was funny, too, because I had no him. But Tony just dates Janet and now at last he’s really living. e BY IMOGENE COLLINS influence with anyone at the time, and I still don’t. With ten cents I can buy a cup of coffee. “T remember the time I took this young actress to a party. I’m not going to mention her name. I happened to meet a gentleman there who was in the hardware business. I told my date that he was a big producer. Maybe you won’t believe this, but you know, she dropped me flat and she hung around this guy’s neck all evening. Maybe I should’ve laughed, but honest, I was disillusioned. Where, I kept asking myself, can an actor meet one sincere girl?” Speaking of disillusion, all Hollywood remembers the time Tony took Geraldine Brooks to a party thrown by Farley Granger. At this party, Tony didn’t like the way Farley was ° looking at Geraldine, and he didn’t particularly like the way Geraldine was gazing at Farley. Presently, Tony sat down beside Geraldine. She was smiling at Farley, and Tony was rapidly burning. “Gerry,” said Tony, “I want to talk to you—in the other room.” “What do you mean?” Geraldine allegedly replied. “Get in the other room!” Curtis stormed. And then he whirled on Granger. “And you, too, Farley,” he barked. After the three of them went into another room, Tony locked the door. Furious, he turned on Granger. “What kind of an idiot do you think I am, Farley?” he shouted. “Don’t you think I have eyes? Don’t you think I can see what’s going on between you two? If you want to date Gerry, all you have to do is ask me. You want to take her home, go ahead take her home.” : Then Tony opened the door and walked out. Farley took Geraldine home, and the friendship between these two can be dated from that night. This incident happened some time ago—so at least legend has it—and today Curtis and Granger are good friends. The point to be made, however, is this—playing the Hollywood field turned Tony Curtis into a one-woman man. “TJ was played for a sucker so many times,” Tony said, “that I began being suspicious of all girls. They must want something, I told myself, or they wouldn’t go out with me. And the funniest part of it all is that I can’t even help my own career, never mind helping someone else’s. I’m still a beginner out here. I’ve got lots to learn, but back then I didn’t even know how to drive to the studio. “The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was meeting Janet, Leigh. Here was an actress who’s fifty times more important, more experienced, and more valuable than I am. “T’ve been going with Janet almost a year now, and do you know, she’s never once asked me to take her to a night club or suggested that it might be a good idea if we were seen at such and such a place. “Maybe I’m kidding myself, but I think Janet is interested in me as a person. She knows there’s nothing I can do for her career-wise. She has more money, (Continued on page 79)

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im \\ 40 Your career’s at the crossroads, and Hollywood wiseacres know it. Now they’re waiting for you to wate == your en farley m@ Some weeks ago, a motion picture director, toiling over the script of his next epic, halted his work for a moment as a producer entered his office. “Just a minute,” he said, “I want to finish this kitchen scene between Granger and the girl.” “Save yourself the trouble,” said the producer, “Granger’s not going to play it.” The director looked up in surprise. “You're kidding,” he said. “No,” said the producer. “He doesn’t want to do it.” “But it’s him,” said the director. “It’s perfect for him.” The producer shrugged his shoulders. “T’ve got to go look for another boy,” he said. The director sat and scratched his head and meditated upon the unpredictability of actors. “Just imagine,” he muttered to himself. ‘““Now Farley Granger is turning down pictures.” Except for the last line in this little sketch, it is a pretty stock situation in Hollywood. Actors, for any number of reasons, have been turning down scripts since motion pictures began. But when a boy as unusually lucky in his selection of roles, and as unusually grateful as Farley Granger has been, starts turning them down, the situation confuses even (Continued on page 89)

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“ a SES 5 <u een Bayh Deere es er seen each Motte mren mean I RAR Ned os a eT aC Se = Ca al Dasa The sprawling sunroom with its many windows is typical of the David Wayne home. It was built a generation ago when taxes were m “I want a house so big,” David Wayne used to tell his . Ss omethin wife, “that you'll have to send a St. Bernard to call me for _ meals.” And now they have one—a house so large and beautiful that a St. Bernard would need a friend to lead him around. It’s a far cry from their basement apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village. That apartment was the reconverted second kitchen of what had been an elegant town house. It was one room with a converted woodshed for sleeping J This is the house of ishes come true, the house that David Wayne dreamed

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i The luxuriously furnished entrance hall and stairway reflect the feel- ing of the house. Neutral tones in carpeting and upholstery, and / blonde furniture are planned to blend into the overall- décor. ; Next to the master bedroom is an upstairs living room reserved for intimate family affairs and TV showings. Pine-paneled and simple, it's a bonus room that comes only in large, old-fashioned houses. almost non-existent and glamor was at an all-time high. quarters, and a refrigerator under the sink. The Waynes laughingly referred to the place as home. The laugh froze on David’s lips the day an obstetrician invited him into his office. “Mr. Wayne,” said the obste- trician, “I have a big surprise for you.” David arranged his face in a nervous smile. “Yes, doctor?” “Wayne,” the obstetrician boomed. “By next week you should be the father of twins!” (Continued on next page) The dining room, opening on a camellia garden, looks modern but about—something sort of swellish, largeish, lavish . es uansties anvantiqie Chinese Chippendale, « foreriinner of ‘cop. = “i = A temporary design. Mirrored walls seem to increase the room's size. MORE>

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something sort of grandish cond David had known he was going to be a father. He’d even thought he could talk one baby into living in the basement—but two? That second baby might walk out on him. His wife offered a suggestion having to do with magic. David was appearing as a leprechaun in Broadway’s Finian’s Rainbow, and his wife said, “Why don’t you just conjure up a second bedroom?” “Darling,” David said helplessly, “we'll just have to ad lib it.” Melinda and Susan, the twins, arrived on time. And their parents felt so gay that they all managed to - - survive even without another bedroom. In fact, Ogi, a nurse, came around a lot, too. It was always as busy as bargain day down in that basement. David started having dreams of grandeur. “This house we're going to get,” he’d say, “this house will be the largest, roomiest, most spacious house you ever saw.” When MGM brought David out to Hollywood at the request of Katherine Hepburn, who wanted him in Adam’s Rib, David finally got a chance to carry out his aim. That was two Octobers ago, and the Wayne family had been increased by Timmie, a son. David once was a leprechaun on the stage—pertect Pome “When I told the real estate agents that I was in as a playmate for Melinda and Susan. The playroom is decorated the market for a house with five bedrooms,” David in red with white window shutters and red and white scatter rugs. says, “they really rubbed their hands with glee. Now- ; adays, you know, everyone wants small houses, intimate places, keeps the overhead down. { “T could.see what was going through the minds of i those real estate boys. Here I was, an ignorant fish from the East. This was their opportunity to unload a big white elephant. You should’ve seen some of the jobs they showed Jane and me. The Atwater Kent estate, the Doheny mansion, places that looked like the Museum of Natural History. ‘Look Jack,’ I final- ly said to one of these boys, ‘we’re in the market for a big family house, but we’re not looking for stables, swimming pools and a hundred acres of citrus fruit.’ ” After inspecting the various offers, David and Jane decided that it would be more economical to take an old house and fix it up than to mortgage their future and buy a new one. The house they finally selected is in the “Sunset Boulevard” section of Hollywood. It was built a gen- eration ago when Gloria Swanson was a young woman and income taxes were negligible. The house reflects both influences. To begin with, it is tremendous—a three story : ; oe ee structure with thirteen rooms, and five baths. The q ae acre and a half that surrounds the house is beauti- i & -—- Ae} & 4 ’ a fully landscaped with evergreens and magnificent | Melinda and Susan, the twins, and blonde Timmie love to corner eucalyptus trees. There is also a tennis court, a their father in the sunroom for games and read-alouds. Their pond jammed with gold fish, and a patch of lawn mother, Jane, is the daughter of Jean Gordon, a Met opera star. large enough for David (Continued on page 91) 44 ee rn

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A Their elegantly appointed living room is a far cry from the all-in- one basement job in New York. The house has thirteen rooms and five baths with an acre of landscaped grounds, and a tennis court. > David's corner of the library is made for a man with pipe and book. He reads everything from Spinoza to golf tips. Jean's unique collection of china banks was started by her mother years ago. V The formal library is book-crammed and designed for reading. Done in soft green, its monotone effect is easy on the eyes and relaxing. Tall Chinese vases give light and dignity to the room. sae ay i! 45

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hollywo You bet Hollywood men aren’t what they used to be! They’re more exciting than ever. , For instance, take these ten— and who wouldn’t? @ The good looking guy sat on my . sofa telling the story with gestures while I almost rolled all over my best Oriental rug. He was recalling the time when the late John Barrymore came to his house for dinner—and { i Fas : i stayed six riotous days. Every min- en | ute that week was a howl, every hour “FARLEY GRANGER, an exciting taun-like creature, “TYRONE POWER Is a mode! gentleman. i Faniashionadwvent has a ravenous hunger to live and learn. He's like ~ His manly authority is blended with in- i a tantasuc adventure. springtime, ready to bust out all over one fine day. credible handsomeness, clean-cut charm.” ) / “Vou just can’t believe what a | fascinating person Jack was,” sighed my guest, as I doubled up at the un- printable pranks. “I never had a more wonderful time in my life. But Hedda,’ he lamented, “you know, they’ve quit breeding stars like i Barrymore around here. There just aren’t fascinating men in Hollywood i any more.” But before he had those words out i of his mouth, I had the mirror | whipped out of my compact and up before his handsome, startled face. “Take a good look,” I told Errol Flynn, “and maybe you'll see one i right about now!” “Stop kidding,” he protested. But, i believe me, kidding was the last thing ; on my mind. Pe Almost every day, it seems, some- ae : "TONY CURTIS has eyes you could get lost in. He's | '*ERROL FLYNN is a scamp who should One come eek way. with a complaint a flinty fighter who doesn't let anything stand in have lived in the flamboyant 16th cen- : like this: (Continued on page 92) his way, yet Tony is tender as well as tough.’ tury. He's ruthless, conceited, irresistible.”

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Bre : = , : i 4 "MARLON BRANDO, a brilliant brat, is all wrapped "HOWARD DUFF is the pipe type. He's patient and ‘STEWART GRANGER, the essence of up in acting. Possibly the greatest genius since philosophical, slow but sure. One star says, He has sophistication- and British charm, has Barrymore, he's complex, unorthodox, hard to know." the greatest physical magnetism I've ever felt’.” romance and virility in every glance.’ z “ROBERT MITCHUM, that reckless slugger of life, "tMONTGOMERY CLIFT is lazy and likes to loaf, but ‘'WICTOR MATURE is like a brass band. is a poet, too. He does what he wants when he he's a brilliant personality. A free soul, he despises He’s frank, he's original, he's never dull. wants to, and no matter what it is, he's lovable.” glamor, and remains unimpressed and indifferent.’ And what a ‘gorgeous hunk of man’.

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pil DOMERGUE When you think of Faith you think of tangos in the moonlight, the scent of perfume, the lustre of black satin and pearls... BY LOUIS POLLOCK = % "They come first,” _ says Faith of director- = husband Hugo and baby Diana. i” ie Bis M@ More than six years ago Merle Oberon was dancing at the old Trocadero when she suddenly turned away from her partner to put her hand on the arm of a young girl nearby. Merle spoke to her in open admiration. “T beg your pardon,” she said. “But how pretty you are.” The younger girl, slim, dark like Merle, brown-eyed and with a Latin glow, blushed and seemed to hesitate about answering. When she did speak it was with a noticeable lisp. ““Thank you,” she replied. The girl had wanted to say more. She had wanted to say (and this is her first opportunity to do so publicly) that ever since she was in her ’teens and saw Merle in Wuthering Heights she modeled herself after her. In fact, she converted her neighborhood into the Highlands in her imagination and for months it rang with her lisping cries of “Heathcliffe!” The girl, as you may have guessed, was Faith Domergue. Today Faith, who plays opposite Bob Mitchum in RKO’s Where Danger Lies, is headed for stardom. She brings to this career her unusual brunette beauty and a long, intensive preparation for her work. However, she does not leave behind the life she has been living—the most important side of her life, she says. What- ever happens to her professionally, she wants always to continue a role she began more than three years ago—the role of a young wife, and now, young mother. Faith lives with her husband, Hugo Fregonese, and her baby daughter, Diana, in a two-bedroom, duplex apartment resembling hundreds of other small apart- ments in West Los Angeles. Like many of the young wives in the area she has a cleaning woman come in two or three days a week, but otherwise does her own housework and cooking. Though she Is blessed by the fact that her parents occupy the lower half of the duplex and constantly volunteer to baby-sit, she and Hugo do not go out very often. When they do, it is generally to the home of friends for an evening of talk or perhaps cards. They’re seldom seen at large parties or night clubs. Born in New Orleans, Faith was brought to California by her parents when she was five and grew up right in Beverly Hills. Her playmates started to laugh early at her lisp, on the street, and in school ‘when she insisted on trying out for parts in class theatricals. Even worse, her teachers used to try to dissuade her, diplomatically, of course, from trying to be an actress. This was when a discouraged Faith used to run away from school . . . but rarely to anywhere else but her home. She doesn’t think this was odd on her part. “After all, what (Continued on page 104)

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two tragic” divorces © Marriage and divorce are common ‘in Hollywood; the public takes them both with a shrug of the shoulders. But these two marriages were different; these two divorces were shocking blows. Elizabeth Taylor, beautiful and blessed, __ found her prince and spun golden dreams for all the girls inthe world... . - Barbara Stanwyck ~ married Robert Taylor and for eleven years set an example _ of mature devotion... | : When these marriages : ended, belief ended, and now people wonder: can love ever last in — Hollywood? | ‘| cried for you BY SHEILAH GRAHAM Tt was a bleak Wednesday evening in December. Lights were glowing softly all over Bel Air where people live in luxurious contentment. Sud- denly, a black Cadillac convertible whizzed up a winding road. It slid to a stop before a huge and stately mansion. For a moment nothing stirred. Knuckles white as she grasped the- steer- ing wheel, Elizabeth Taylor sat and stared straight ahead, as if gathering courage for a momentous decision. Then she swung open the car door and walked toward the sumptuous home of Conrad Hilton. Inside her husband, Nicky Hilton, waited. Now they were alone together. Complete- ly alone for the first time in weeks. These two for whom there were such high hopes were strangers now. Formally, they faced each other across the long dining room table and Nicky might well have imagined that the traces of hurriedly removed makeup on his wife’s face were stained by tears. They talked in low tones, as though re- porters were lurking behind the paneled walls. But there was no one to eavesdrop on the things they said. There was as much intimacy in their disenchantment as there had been in the first thrills of married love eight months before. “Come back to me!” There is a desolate hopelessness in those words. Nicky Hilton may doubt that he ever uttered them. Elizabeth will never say whether he did or not. The actual truth is that he said more than that. He talked to Elizabeth for hours as a man will when he knows he is losing the woman he really A world apart BY MARSHA SAUNDERS After eleven years of a marriage that supposedly was one of the most idyllic in Hollywood his- tory, Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor agreed to divorce. Oddly enough, they decided to dissolve their union on the very’same day that Shir- ley Temple and Charles Black decided to marry, nine days before Christmas of 1950. (For the story of Shirley's marriage see page 52). The announcement by Barbara and Bob that their marriage had been a failure, that they could not go on living as they had in the past, that their only recourse was the divorce court, came as a shock to the entire screen colony. — As you probably know, the film colony doesn’t shock easily. Last year for example, Frank and Nancy Sinatra, Evelyn Keyes, Kirk Douglas, Betty Hutton, Bette Davis, and half a dozen other noteworthy stars |} _ all decided to call off their marital ventures. No one seemed surprised at any of these. | But the Stanwyck-Taylor admission that their marriage was no-go—that was a gen- uine shocker, because for a decade now | Bob and Barbara have been pointed out as the perfect mates. They were two mature people—not kids | . like Liz Taylor and Nicky Hilton. The Tay- lors knew the score. They went around with each other for two years before they eloped |§ to San Diego in 1939. Each of them had ample time to learn everything they needed | to know about the other. What went wrong with this “perfect” marriage?

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loves. It is as true of young Nicky Hilton as it has been of many men that by careless words and deeds he can reject a woman, and then want her terribly. On the other-hand, it is as true of Eliza- beth Taylor as it is of many women that she can come to the time when, no matter how strong her love for a man is, she will no longer allow that love to be treated with disdain, beaten, run over for all the world to see. There was a time when, swallowing her pride, Elizabeth could come back, warm and forgiving after a bitter quarrel. But now she was strong, even cold in her decision. As for Nicky, it seemed when he talked as though he were a gambler losing his life’s stake. He reasoned feverishly, then humbly with his bride. (Continued on page 101) The statement issued by Barbara and Bob says: “In the last few years, because of our professional requirements, we have been separated just too often and too long. Our sincere and continued efforts to main- tain our marriage have failed. We are deep- ly disappointed that we could not solve our problems. We really tried. We un- happily and reluctantly admit what we have denied to even our closest friends, be- cause we wanted to work things out to- gether in as much privacy as possible. There will be a California divorce. Neither of us have any other romantic interest whatsoever.” That’s the official statement—and for what it’s worth, it was handed out to the press by Barbara’s press agent, Helen Ferguson. (Continued on page 88) : Liz and Nicky's glamorous union ran its course in seven tempestuous months. For I! years, Bob and Barbara had set an example by their “perfect marriage.

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{wo happy marriages The romances were private; the weddings were simple. Shirley Temple became Mrs. Charles ‘Black, and the unreal splendor of her childhood, the unfortunate interlude of her first marriage became memories . . . Ruth Roman became Mrs. Mort Hall, and her long struggle toward | , ~ stardom, her battle against loneliness became memories, too. For each, this is a new beginning. Shirley leaves her legendary past; Ruth continues to build her career— both move forward alike in their security of love and understanding. BY SUSAN TRENT Several years ago when Shirley Temple was making Since You Went Away with Claudette Colbert, both girls were discussing career versus marriage. “A career,” Claudette admitted, “is a very wonderful accomplishment—only you can’t sit down beside it at breakfast.” Shirley has never forgotten those words. A few weeks ago when the time came for her to make her choice, she chose marriage without the slightest hesitation—marriage to Charles Black, the handsome, 30-year-old son of a San Francisco utilities company president. The ceremony, Shirley’s second, was in direct contrast to the Temple-Agar wedding of September, 1945. This time Shirley was no longer a wide- eyed, innocent child taking part in a gigan- A man of BY JIM HENAGHAN' The romance be- tween Ruth Roman and Mortimer Hal! be- gan in New York City early last fall. Ruth, still flushed with the first glow of success, was on a jaunt East, sampling the café society life she hadn’t been able to afford during her embryo days as an actress in Gotham. She was dining with a girl friend at the “21” Club. At her elbow, at the next table, a dark, handsome young man was eating alone. They laugh at it now, but Ruth admits that during her dinner she thought the attractive lad at the next table was having some sort of a fit. And the young man admits that he did just about everything but stand on his head to attract the movie star’s attention. Dinner was almost finished when a man stopped at Ruth Roman’s table to say hello. = Now and forever tic public spectacle; nor was she an Ameri- can institution, the darling of 57 million movie fans, who called all the shots.. In wedding number two, publicity-shy, Charles Black was calling the shots. A few days before Shirley and Charles were married in a signple ceremony, she was invited to attend the MopeRN SCREEN party at Ciro’s. “T’d love to come,” she said, “but Charles doesn’t like publicity, and I want to do what he likes—so this time, please excuse me.” Even before then, everyone in Hollywood knew who would wear the pants in that family. A little while after he had come to Los Angeles to be near Shirley and had taken a job with TV station KTTV, Charles told a newspaper reporter: “Look, I come from San Francisco, and up around there we don’t believe in all this her own Like an ambitious quarterback, who had just found a hole-in a tough line, the man at the next table leaped to his feet, shook hands with the stranger and demanded an introduction. “Ruth Roman, this is Mortimer Hall,” said the visitor. And he excused himself and left, little realizing that he was a vagrant agent of Cupid. | Without an invitation, Morty Hall sat down and joined the girls. They sipped coffee while Morty wracked his brain trying to think of some way of prolonging his presence. He might have saved himself the | trouble. As they were about to leave, Ruth turned to him- : “What are you doing tonight?” she said. “T beg your pardon,” said Morty. “Pve got a couple of tickets to a show.

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rah-rah and publicity. We believe in a little privacy. If it’s okay with you, just say I served in the Navy and let it go at that. The movie magazines have been after me to talk about my future with Shirley ever since I got here. I’m not talking to anyone. I give you my word.” Black kept his word, too. Eleven days after Shirley received her final divorce papers, this former Naval Intelligence offi- cer and millionaire’s son picked up his bride-to-be, sneaked out of Hollywood, and obtained a wedding license at Salinas, California. ~ He asked Superior Judge Henry Jorgen- son to perform the marriage at his parents’ white California ranch-style home on the Monterrey Peninsula. The Judge happily agreed, and at (Continued on page 64) Would you like to come see it with me?” Morty Hall never did get his answer out but Ruth Roman knew he was trying to say yes. And so it happened that when Ruth Roman, former carnival girl, met Mortimer Hall, darling of Westport society, she took him to a show—and he loved it. Less than six months later, they were married. The Associated Press Wire service handled the story in a very unexcited, mat- ter of fact manner.’ Dateline, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 17, 1950: Ruth Roman, Warner Brothers actress, today married Mortimer Hall, wealthy New Yorker, in a surprise elopement.” Of course, the newspapers expanded on this information considerably, but none of them told the real tale—the Cinderella story of a poor ( Continued on page 62) k on Dec. screen

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This | Remembe ey ut Hover June traveled simply, made friends everywhere. Here she chats with an Arab policeman in Jerusalem. A fat cat snoozing on a Montmartre bar... neat Israeli farms... the serenity of the Holy City... and the many, many faces shining with friendliness. . to Rome and the near East. @ This will be the audience in my heart from now on whenever I step in front of the camera: The white-haired, delicately old monk weeping with joy at having finally reached the shores of the Sea of Galilee... The young guide of Killarney whose farewell was, “Come back to Ireland and get yourself an Irish husband .. .” The little French boy with his long loaf of bread whom I met on my way to early morning Mass in Paris’ “wicked” Montmartre . . .- The bronzed girls and youths of Israel; the intense, dramatic people of Italy; my beloved Father Xavier of India; these and hundreds of others... T don’t think I'll ever say or sing another line in a picture, or dance a step, without wondering if they will like what I am doing, and whether it will help them know Hollywood and America better. According to the dictionary a pilgrimage is “A long and weary journey .. .” Mine, which I took this winter to Rome and the Holy Land, was a joy, and even though I traveled by plane, I think I could have walked all the way and still come back as inspired as I am now. My mood was such, in fact, that I refused to be disturbed, on my return, when I learned that some newspaper people had ascribed other reasons for the trip— that I had gone, as one columnist reported, to discuss entering a convent, or as another stated, to get a Church annulment of my former marriage. It was a little saddening that the simple truth did not occur to these writers; that I had gone for the same reason thousands of other Americans had—to know better the source of the peace and inspiration we had found in our faith. (Continued on page 86) At St. Peter's Basilica, June Haver adds | to her movie record of her pilgrimage

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== 5 SS) = fom Be Te) me vamoely A | ie John Agar’s in love all right... with his career, and the only girl @ John Agar is doing just fine. In a slow methodical way, which is characteristic of him, he has steadily ignored gossip, set each one of his goals slightly higher than the one before, and is hoisting himself gently up the glass mountain to Hollywood success. BY PATRICIA MONROE “Next to my daughter, my career is the most important thing in my life,” he says bluntly. Maybe he says it a little bit too forcefully. Maybe there’s an edge to his words. Maybe you get a feeling he’s daring you to doubt. If so he has cause: The night Fort Apache was previewed was a heart-breaker. It was his first picture. The sun had taken 62 hours to go down that day. In the afternoon someone had suggested golf as a sedative. Every ball he shot landed in the rough. in his life just now is Susie Agar, age three. Dinner tasted like mildewed sawdust and his seat in the theater wasn’t built to hide a 6’2” growing boy. In the lobby some clabber-mouthed pseudo-critic poirited at him and said to his girl friend, “That’s Agar. All those horse scenes were done by a double. The kid’s got nothing but pretty blue eyes.” Those pretty blue eyes registered the poisoned crack, and turned to blue-black. His fists were clenched and his jaw looked like Fearless Fosdick’s. But not one sound came from his tightened lips. - When John Ford asked him to play in Fort John and Ruth Roman were a surprise twosome before she wed. Apache, John admitted that he (Continued on page 66)

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Right now John says his career comes first but he's never at a loss for beautiful companions like blonde Gloria De Haven.

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I could ae what life dished out, but taking it gracefully was another matter. First I had to learn to accept myself... I FOUND oy Cll Cantu ap os = ry pee, ~ re! abot at a fom fam a an: sie cb a ak ae : Sim ee ce ot ane ina of Rena and Bill married in 1945 after he left the Marines. Bill’s career got a new start in Pinky; now he's in 20th's [d Climb The Highest Mountain. No. 3 im @ series: HOW THE STARS FOUND MY WAY Mm How do you find your way? When you are young you confidently take what you think is the right step and it is the first of a hundred wrong ones. You look ahead and with youthful arrogance peg yourself a high place in the world, and the time comes when the peg won’t even stick in a low one. I was to be a lawyer once. I was to be a radio somebody once. I was on the way to becoming an established actor once. And sud- denly I found myself a soldier willing to settle for only one thing . . . that I wouldn’t show fear and run in front of my buddies. Nothing else was as. important, not even dying. It couldn’t have been . . . or I would have run. I believe that that was when I earnestly started to think about the “way,” and it seemed to me that it was not a matter of the direction my life was taking but of my attitude toward it, regardless of direction, and some- times even regardless of happening. I remembered a rainy December night in San Diego when a Marine rookie sat in a convertible on a Christmas tree lot and cursed with misery because the top leaked a bit and some water was running down his neck. I was that Marine. The trees belonged to me and two other fellows in my outfit. We had bought them to make a killing (which we didn’t) and every night one of us had to be on hand to watch things. Less than a year after that I was under enemy fire on the beach at Peleliu, with only fifteen feet of land behind me and all hell in front. But I was able to experience a thankful and happy moment. It came when I succeeded in digging (Continued on page 99)

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His broken leg will disable -Howard for a few months. Luckily he's already finished U.-l.’s Shakedown. ‘HIS OYSTER, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TOUGH IT IS FOR DUFF—WHO HAS TO | thousand bucks a week. He owns a Cadil- | lac. He rents two houses, one in the hills | and one down at the beach. He has all the dates he wants—Yvonne De Carlo, Ava | Gardner, Gloria de Haven, Marta Toren, | Piper Laurie and Ida Lupino. He’s single | and has no responsibilities. In short, the guy is leading the perfect life.” Oddly enough, this is the usual consensus | of opinion concerning Duff. This, plus the | impression that he is cold, virile, stoical, a |man of few words, and in general the personification of Sam Spade, the private eye he has played on radio for four years. This opinion is about as right as Stalin. Howard Duff doesn’t show it, but he’s probably the loneliest man in town. He’s a warm, kind-hearted guy who’s put up a false front to protect himself, to cover up the scars on his heart. : This may sound overly-dramatic, but the truth is that Howard Duff has played hard at love and lost. The two women he wanted most to OPEN IT ALONE e BY STEVE CRONIN marry: Ava Gardner, and another who will remain nameless because she is now happily married, both turned him down. Some- how their refusals caused such a deep hurt that Howard constructed a wall of stolid- ness to assuage it, a wall which hides the real Howard Duff from the world. Of course, he doesn’t like to talk about it, but six years ago when he was an Army sergeant in the Pacific, he received a “Dear John” letter from his “nameless” girl friend. In the letter she (Continued on page 107)

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She had just arrived in California. It had been a long trip West in a chair car, catching cat naps on a small pillow propped against a hard upright seat, be- cause she didn’t have any money to squander on a berth. She stepped from the Los Angeles Union Station into the bright California sunshine and with an extravagant gesture, employed a taxi driver to deliver her to a small hotel in the land- of her dreams—Hollywood. An hour later Ruth Roman, washed and refreshed, stepped into Hollywood Boule- vard for the first time. There were so many sights to see, so many things to do. The first thing she wanted to do was find Grauman’s Chinese Theater and stand in the cement footprints of some of her idols. She saw a tall, dark-haired young fellow leaning against a building and she asked for directions. The man grinned. “You're new here, aren’t you?” he asked. “I won’t be for long,” she said. Before telling her where Grauman’s Chinese was, the young man spent fifteen minutes telling her what a waste of time the whole thing was, and elaborating on the flimsy character of fame. He con- fessed that he, too, was an actor, had been around for a little while and, at the present moment, didn’t have the price of a cup ‘of coffee. Ruth bought coffee for both of them, then reached down into the hoard of $100 she had in her purse and loaned her new friend $5. The man said he would pay it back—someday. Just before Ruth Roman married Mor- timer Hall, she completed a picture called Tomorrow Is Another Day. Her co-star was Steve Cochran. He hasn’t changed much from the day he first met Ruth, standing against the building on Holly- wood Boulevard—but he does admit that he never gave her back the $5 “When I saw her again,’ he said, “she didn’t need it.” Both of these stories illustrate quite graphically the splendid character of Ruth Roman that has brought to her success in the movies and in love, for they show that she is without guile and that she nee all people and situations on an equal asis. R, 2canDtess of what you have read, the courting of Ruth Roman by Morty Hall was neither a casual nor a hasty matter. After the night at the theater, there was never a day that a dozen roses didn’t ar- rive at her hotel room with his name on them. And when she went back to Holly- wood, Morty kept the Western Union Flowers by Wire department well occu- pied with his business. Some people say, and it might well be believed, that after two months of separa- tion, it was Morty’s love for Ruth that made him give up his job as Business Man- ager of the New York Post to take a position as an executive of his family’s television station in Los Angeles. At any rate, Morty moved to the coast and set about making something permanent of their relationship. Some of the columnisis

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F pa he was dete fine from the very be- ginning, but it can be told now that this was not so; that not until a couple of hours before they got into an automobile to drive to Las Vegas to be married was Ruth Roman sure she wanted to take him for a husband. +A Mopern ScrEEN reporter talked to them both at that time, checking a rumor that there was a possible marriage coming up. Morty had one thing to say and he said it often. “T want to get married.” Ruth wasn’t sure and it was a con- firmed fact when the reporter hung up, that there would be no wedding in the near future. A couple of hours later a Warner Bros. publicity man in Hollywood telephoned Wilbur ee host at the Desert Inn in Las Veg “Dust ee the bridal suite, Wilbur,’ he said, “cool the champagne, and wake up a judge. We're going to have a wedding.” Clark, who is used to such assignments, made all the arrangements and at 3:45 a.m. Ruth Roman and Mortimer Hall arrived for — the ceremony. Sleepy-eyed and tired from the long drive, they were led to the courthouse, where they picked up the li- cense. They sat around for an hour while someone was dispatched for the Judge and then in the quiet of the Nevada dawn, Ruth and Morty became man and wife. Eight hours later, and without a honey- moon, Ruth was back at Warner Bros. working in Strangers On A Train. An actor, late to arrive on the set, wher in- formed of the speedy marriage, said, quite appropriately. “They ought to change the title of this picture to ‘Lovers On A Rocket.’ ” Its a pretty stock story when you read it back, but this marriage has ‘something very different about it. It’s not the standard union of a movie star and a rich man, but the blending of two lives which appear to be very different but which are alike in one respect. They have both had a double share of loneliness. ee Roman wasn’t an orphan but she was very close to it. A nagging desire to get out into the world and make a name for herself far away from the rather unhappy world of the carnival in which she had been raised, made her leave her family at a very early age. At a time in her life when most girls are enjoying the leisure pleasures of adolescence, and high school courses are the biggest problems of the day, Ruth Roman was trudging the cold wet streets of New York, hungry and often without a bed. When most girls of her age were in- dulging in the casual, exploratory ro- Mances of youth, looking for an eventual mate, Ruth was sitting in agents’ offices looking for a job that would raise her so- cial and financial status. It was a hard, lonely existence, with not too much pos- sibility of a rosy future, but Ruth stuck it out. The stories that you’ve heard about her Tise to stardom in Hollywood the hard Way are in her case not phony—but as true and as difficult as you’ve been led to believe. It was no wonder, then, that you seldom read about Ruth, the star, having the flighty romances most women stars ‘seem addicted to. There were rumors for a | long while that she was married to Bill |'Walsh, her constant companion, and few | People believed her when she said that he |) Was just her good friend. A thorough look | back through the record of her career in ‘pictures will disclose the fact that she Never had or pretended to have a ro- ‘mance before Morty Hall. _ Mortimer Hall, on the other hand, was the on of .a very rich woman, Mrs. Doro- Post. His father, separated from his mother, was a stockbroker, and Morty didn’t have very much family life either. He attended | several of the better prep schools, enrolled | at Carnegie Tech and then. was snatched | up by the Army. As he tells it, the Army | life was lonely, too—until one day on a furlough, he. met a Conover model named Mary Ann *Parker. They were married shortly after that, and rumor has it that | it was against the wishes of his family. In Mary Ann Parker, Morty Hall might | have found the home and companionship he sought in his youth. But tragedy struck. Mary Ann Hall went on a routine visit to a New York dentist. She was given an in- jection of a very common pain killer to which, without her knowledge, she was | acutely allergic—and she died in the den- tist’s chair. For the next four years Morty Hall lived a rather vagabond life. It is to be said to his credit that he didn’t drift into the sad status of the dilettante idle rich, but worked at many kinds of employment and earned his own keep. But he was known as a solitary lad, not too much interested in girls and definitely not the marrying type. In 1948 and part of 1949, Morty lived in Hollywood and was seen con- stantly with Lizabeth Scott. Many re- porters covering movietown were sure they would be married, but Morty’s pals didn’t think so. Tiring of Hollywood and glamor, Morty returned to New York in 1949 to go to work as Business Manager on his mother’s newspaper. He had made up his mind to make newspapering his career and keep away from Hollywood for good. That was before he met Ruth Roman. When U.P.'s Virginia MacPherson asked “Shelley Winters whether she wanted to get married, Shelley replied, “Sometimes | think | do—other times I just think I think 1 do.” In these two lives there is a great simi- larity. In the way Ruth Roman waited for her man—and in the way Morty Hall its tinsel | waited for his girl; in the way Ruth Ro- | man trudged the streets of New York and lived in the backyard of Hollywood, a lonely woman—and the way Morty Hall worked at menial jobs to find his place in life, there is a story that would require little changing to make them both the same tale. It is the story of the young person looking for his home, not knowing the address, but believing it is there to be found some day if the search is not abandoned. Today, Mortimer and Ruth Hall, he a young business executive, she a top movie star, are making adjustments that will give them both their dreams. Ruth has given up the house she decorated herself in the San Fernando Valley and has moved into Beverly Hills where Morty lives, high above the Sunset Strip, above the lights that shine in the streets of Hollywood. “Tm not going to have anything to do with the movie business, or Ruth’s work,” Hall told Moprrn Screen. “It will just be coincident in our lives that Ruth is a movie star.” “And I'm going to be an actress from nine to five,” Ruth told Moprern Screen. “When I come home at night, I’m just going to be Mrs. Hall. The girl who can cook the best pies in the block.” And you can bet it is going to be so. 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After the ceremony, when Shirley and Charles had driven off on their honey- moon—which they spent in Monterrey— Judge Jorgenson said, “In my 23 years of marrying people I’ve never seen a happier couple. That marriage should last for- ever.” Shirley’s secretary, Mrs. Earl Drake, said, “This time I think she’s going to be really happy.” Back in Hollywood when he heard of the marriage, actor John Agar, Shirley’s first husband, said gallantly, “I hope her marriage will be very happy. I don’t know what else I could say.’ Of course, if he’d wanted to, Jack Agar might have said a good deal. He might have talked about Shirley’s hopes and dreams, because he knew them all—the ones that came true and the ones that never did, largely because Shirley and Jack were mis-mated from the beginning, and unprepared for marriage. \\ ie Shirley divorced Jack and went to Honolulu with little Linda Sue last year, she realized that. Basically, Shirley is a sensible young woman with all the right instincts, and while she may have blamed Agar for his inconsideration at times, she knew in her heart that so long as she remained a prominent actress, any man she might marry would have to take a back seat to her. She knew that by doing this his vanity would be hurt and he would compensate for that hurt. After her divorce Shirley knew, and knows now that if her marriage is to be lasting, she must give up her acting ca- reer. This she is fully prepared to do. “T’ve made pictures long enough,” Shirley said at her one recent press conference. “Nineteen of my 22 years were spent that way—that’s enough career for any girl. I want to be free now to go where Charles goes. My little girl needs me. In fact, she needs a lot of both of us.” “This doesn’t mean that marriage and movies don’t mix,” added Charles, in a rare statement to the press. “It’s just that in our case, we’ve decided that this is the best way.” Charles Black isn’t the type of man who'll give up his job in order to follow his wife on location, nor will he permit himself the luxury of becoming a mere consort. From here on in, Shirley Temple will be a wife and mother only. Aside from one special press conference at which they made the above remarks, Charles keeps the press at bay. During their honeymoon, reporters spotted Black’s convertible parked outside a seafood res- taurant on the Monterrey waterfront. They waited for Shirley and her groom to finish their 3:00 p.m. “breakfast” of bacon and eggs, cracked crab and seafood cocktails, and approached them as they came out of the restaurant. “Give us a statement, any kind of a statement,” the reporters said. Black stepped in front of Shirley and said, “Sorry, no’ statement.” Shirley smiled, but following her hus- band’s lead, she, too, refused to say any- thing. Earlier last year when she and Black began going together steadily, and every- one predicted the inevitable marriage, it: was Black who said that he didn’t particularly like night clubs. As a matter of fact, neither does Shirley, although she used to go along to keep John Agar com- pany. Last year, however, she came right out and said, “Charles and I have a pact not to appear in night spots. He just doesn’t like them.” Shirley also had an agreement with Charles not to announce their engagement until after she had received her final di- vorce. During the one-year waiting period she dated no one but Black and said over and over again, “Charles and I want no publicity about our romance.” And no matter how long and hard most reporters tried, Shirley would not talk about Charles Black. Of course, they never did announce their engagement; they just went out and got married. The reason for that is Black’s membership in the Naval Reserve. He may be called at any time, and it was only natural that he and Shirley should want to spend as much time together as possible Black never speaks about it, but he pulled some heroic duty in the Navy both aboard PT boats and landing on enemy islands to radio intelligence reports back to the fleet. A friend who knows him well says, “He’s a shrewd, intelligent guy who’s been around. He’s well-educated, more so than Temple—money means very little to him because he’s been around it most of his life. He gets along very well with people. He’s independent and self-reliant, and I can assure you he’s not going to deterior- ate into the typical Hollywood husband. “T understand that Selznick offered to re-make Shirley into a dramatic actress like Jennifer Jones—you know, send her abroad and have a European coach give her a new dramatic personality and a whole new career. You’ve got to hand it to Shirley. She said no, and I don’t blame her. Black is a much better bet. Besides, she had a successful career, and it’s a wise girl who knows when to call it quits. “Matter of fact, Shirley should have quit after she married Agar. She was at the peak of her popularity then, and she should’ve retired as the undefeated cham- pion. Instead, she pulled a Joe Louis. Under Black’s tutelage she’s become a whole lot smarter.” Under Black’s sponsorship, Shirley is also selling her home and that of her parents. Both houses occupy the same large estate. Black refuses to move into a home which Shirley owns and paid for. No matter what the professional women say, and even if there are a few excep- tions—Shirley Temple thinks that a career and marriage do not mix . . especially in Hollywood. THE END | SAW IT HAPPEN ee When Betty Sill ~~ Hutton was re- cently visiting the Michigan State Fair, I noticed a man taking muv- ies of her. Right near the end of her last song, she ran down while singing and planted a kiss on his astounded face. The crowd loved it. Betty Lewis Birmingham, Michigan

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66 hands off my heart (Continued from page 56) hadn’t been on a horse since he was 10. | “You hold yourself fine, boy,” Mr. Ford had told him. This was after Ford had squads-righted, squads-lefted John up and down his office. “We start shooting in a month. : : - John rushed home, excitement locked in him. As he placed a long distance call to Texas, he tried to rescue some logic from his whirling thoughts. “Hello, hello, Uncle Ted?” he screamed into the phone. “What's the matter, Jack?” John felt like a dope. He tried again— sotto voce. “Uncle Ted, I’ve just been given a rale in a motion picture,’ he explained quietly. “Fine,” Uncle Ted shouted. “Tm supposed to play a cavalryman, and I haven’t ridden in years.” “Learn bareback.” One month later John Agar could jump, gallop, walk, rein-in, or stumble anything on four legs. To test his ability John entered a local rodeo in San Fernando Valley. No medals, but a pro invited him to bust broncos in Cheyenne. “Td learn to be a human fly if John Ford asked me,” John insists. And that un- qualified adoration is his tribute to the man who gave him his first break. No highly skilled, highly paid stunt man rode the length of Monument Valley at full gallop in Fort Apache. The rider was paid, but he was John Agar. | | Raasisua and sincerity are the two qual- ities John brings to everything. His face is impassive when taking direction. Then, in an instant, it breaks into a boyish, shy smile. Directors have wondered how a kid can absorb so many details. But any faith placed in John is rewarded with interest. The minute he starts his job, the “kid” vanishes and the man takes over. It’s his genuine likeableness and liking for the things he does that’s en- dearing. Any of his boyhood pals could have prophesied the kind of man he'd be. “He could charm the math prof out of homework. But he’d make the coach pour on training,” one of them recalls. “Yeah, I got awful grades,” John wryly admits. “But I was pretty good at sports.” At Pawling Preparatory School in New York, his alma mater, “pretty good” was spelled BMOC. He not only played varsity football and basketball, but he was a five- event man in track, broadjump, discus, hammer throw, highjump and shot put. The same kind of modesty won him un- spoken praise from the cast of The Magic Carpet, his most recent picture. It was one of those melodramatic, death-defying wall escapes. A stunt man, ~dressed in John’s flaming red costume, was supposed to scale a 20-foot stone bar- ricade on a rope tied to a white stallion. Almost imperceptibly the cast became aware that John himself was starting up the rope. Tense clusters of harem girls, grimy electricians and burnoosed horse- men watched and wondered. Director Lou Landers tried to relax in his chair, but finally he too was caught up in the spell. Oblivious that his ascent was being ob- served John competently moved, hand- over-hand to the ledge until Landers, in relief, shouted “Cut!” John didn’t know why one of the grips offered him a prized baked potato when he got off the ledge. This is an honor accorded few actors. The perforated metal frames which surround the 1000-watt bulbs lighting a set get so hot that the crews bake potatoes on top of them. These spuds are reserved for them that works, No one John has worked with fails to enjoy his company. He mixes easily. Yet there’s an aloneness about him. He is hard to really get near. A clue to his fierce independence slipped out once. It was an unguarded moment ata party. Hollywood’s young set had gathered for a few laughs. Jack was sitting in the corner, as usual. He wasn’t saying much, as usual. “Agar, you're nothing but a jumbo sponge,” one of the fellows growled. John grinned. “You can’t learn from talk- ing,” he drawled back. “So I just listen.” As the evening mellowed so did the party. Nostalgia replaced the wisecracks. Even John came down with the fever. “When I was a kid I had only one am- bition. To grow up!” The words sounded bulletin on modern screen’s big contest Thousands of letters have poured in telling why MODERN SCREEN readers would like a visit from Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie. Now the results are being tabulated, and more than 180 winners selected by the board of judges: Leonard Goldstein and the editors of MODERN SCREEN. Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie are thrilled with the response. Tony is so impressed that he has been granted permission to visit three more writers of prize-winning letters. The top winners will be announced next month. over $6500 in prizes! Ist prize A visit in your home by Piper Laurie and Tony Curtis plus A special premiere of Universal- International's The Prince Who Was A Thief in your neighborhood theater plus $1000 Government Bond 2nd prize $500 Government Bond 3rd prize $250 Government Bond 178 additional prizes Watch for next month's issue with the announcement of the top winners, plus the time and place of the gala premiere of Universal-International's The Prince Who Was A Thief. unnecessarily defensive. Everyone was a little surprised. They’d thought John’s sole and unswerving aim was to be a meat packer, like his dad. Besides, who would want to outgrow the perfect child- hood John had? PRAWLING Lake Forest, Illinois, was a made-to-order playground for a small boy’s imaginative pranks. The big, bearish house John lived in creaked with the laughter and ‘living of his sister, two brothers and his mother and father. Love oozed out of the clapboard shutters. Four generations of Agars had made _ their living at meat packing. A generous living, which had nurtured such by-products as security, freedom to choose any kind of life and a name which fostered respect. Pg eeehcy Rec arte iae ales i Tae Nobody nae a more loving p all this than John, the oldest boy. e With it, though, John also inherited an out-size sense of responsibility. - On the day his father died—John was 14 his world caved in. With Ping Pong, his red chow, he scuffed into the house after the funeral. As he entered his very own den John released all the tears he’d had to check for his mother’s sake. Once before he had been in tears, but for a different reason. It was on his 12th birthday. In the morn- ing he’d lain in bed visualizing all his gifts. Then he’d squirmed and turned over because that happy feeling was too good - in such a lump. Now his golden day was turning into a nightmare. No “Happy Birthday” shouts. No fake spankings and real hugs and kisses. And no presents! Jack dawdled his way downstairs. The breakfast table was set, but no family. “Hey,” he called out. “Hey yourself,” his gas echoed. Jack traced the voice to the cellar. He opened the door and a chorus of Agars started chirping “Happy Birthday to you.” Jack let out an animal yowl of sheer joy. The entire cellar had been con- verted into a game room. Knotty pine paneling .covered the cement walls. A new gun case held his rifles, from the first BB-gun to his latest Remington. A dart board, archery target and his beloved golf clubs rested in each corner. “Hope you like it son,” his father said. In the center of the room a small four- legged object, wearing a red fur coat yapped for attention. John gathered him up in his arms. “What’s his name, Dad?” “You name him.” “Ping. Here Ping,’ John said almost immediately. And now Ping, his father’s gift of two years before shared his misery. Ping, mute and loving heard the vows Jack made. To ke the “man of the family.” To provide for his mom and the kids. To make them as proud of him as they had been of Dad. B= at 14 you’re more child than man. That’s why John wished to grow up more than anything else. He felt he had to. Unfortunately, growing up on the outside isn’t much good without growing up in- side. Inside growth turns into maturity. And maturity takes experiences and an honest evaluation of your failings. Both of these are riding herd on John Agar. And he likes his riding companions. John has never accepted any job without integrity and a monumental will to suc- ceed. If his marriage broke up there was | atlas a reason. What the cynics can’t accept is |} an unpretentious fact. A simple old- fashioned trait known as “being a gentle- man.” John is a gentleman. And gentle- men don’t ta ‘But John is beginning to achieve that maturity he pleaded with God for. Up until his marriage to Shirley Temple, his family and friends bestowed love and approval on him. He was rich with them. After the marriage a world-full of film- goers gifted him with their friendship. 9 By now he was a millionaire, with a for- tune of good will. Divorce might have turned him into a pauper. After all, being rejected. by an_ unseen jury isn’t easy on the ego. Par- | ticularly in Hollywood. And it was in Hollywood he decided to fight it out. He wanted a movie career. He wanted to make the name “Agar” as respected in his new neighborhood as it has been in | Chicago. He had to learn a new set of @ rules. And he had to learn fast—before the slight dent he’d made in pictures was @ washed out by a torrent of vicious gossip. But John refuses to be washed out.

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a] fond feel anyone Mies qateationally mis- understood me,” he says simply. With courage and common sense John has sifted out his fundamental needs from the superficial. First of all he moved back with his mother in Beverly Hills. Her love and approval came unstinted to help heal the bitter reality of divorce. He increased his dramatic lessons, and his screen performances have mirrored his growth as an actor. Hollywood is the biggest adjustment John will ever face in his life. Not just the business of making pictures. The part of Hollywood that bothers him is the gnawing, gossiping part that feeds off the private lives of its stars. ~ “Hollywood is like any other kind of business,” he says, “you have to learn. You have to work hard. And you can’t run the business until you understand it. “Everyone asks me if I have any opin- ions . . . about acting, about directing, about scripts. I haven’t any opinions. I just don’t know enough yet.’ But he’s learning something new every minute. Recently he was posing for some stills on his latest picture, The Magic Carpet. He had his face against the magnificent white horse he rides in the film when sud- denly the horse reared. John grabbed the reins and sank his heels into the ground. As the horse came down it neighed and tried to shake its head from John’s grasp. “Get that shot,” John shouted at the cameraman as he struggled with the re- bellious white steed. “Whaddaya mean, get that shot?” screamed the photographer who had dived behind a wood platform. Directors find John a refreshing oasis _ of flexibility. This doesn’t mean Jack is a goody-goody boy. He’s a rebel! at heart. But he knows when to rebel. [ee the most painful thing John has to face is talking about himself. “I’m so dull. I can’t even stand to hear myself on the screen.” Information about his tastes, or his plans or his date last night is yielded only under the threat, “It’s good for your career.” He grits his teeth, holds his breath and. _ tries. “T like women,” he manages to say. “What about your date with Ruth Roman before she married?” “Well what about it?” he slings back. “We had dinner and went to a movie.” Then suddenly he remembers the dinner, and his face opens up a little bit. “We had a swell spaghetti dinner. I sure like spaghetti.” Some insight into the depth of his feel- ings can be gleaned when he talks about his baby daughter. “Susie is really special.” And when John says this all the determined steely lines around his eyes soften out. His face takes on a look of wonderment that this sweet child belongs to. him. There’s a hint of fear—fear for her future in his words. “T want Susie to have all the chance in the world to be whatever she likes. I hope she'll wait until she’s grown up before making her choice. And I know Shirley | feels the same way about it. “You know, my collie Lannie lives with Susie.” And in that ordinary fact John’s love is illumined. Dogs, or any kind of animal, are pretty important in his life. A part of him still feels like that puppy Ping, playful and carefree. And Lannie, too, satis- fies the everlasting wish to return to child- hood. Giving Lannie to Susie was like giving her the most important gift he could a tender—part of himself. eo ree oe: And giving of yourself is really being THE END LIPSTICK MAGIC FROM THE Westmores ° Hollywood THE MEN WHO MAKE THE STARS MORE BEAUTIFUL _ LINDA DARNELL Starring in | THE 13TH LETTER A 20th Century-Fox Production PE CERNE FOR YOU—THE SAME COSMETICS MOVIE STARS USE ON SCREEN AND STREET See how the star-tested Westmore lipstick glamorizes the lovely lips of Linda Darnell— shown here with Perc Westmore, Dean of Hollywood Make-Up Artists! Instantly it can make your lips so enticing too! Movie stars depend on Westmore cosmetics -a glamorous appearance on screen and street is essential to their popularity! These identical cosmetics are now available to you... at variety, chain and drug stores everywhere. ONLY COSMETICS CERTIFIED BY THE li WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS MAKE-UP EXPERTS MGtiYwooD WESTMORE CREAM MAKE-UP. WESTMORE ROUGE. Brings Smooths on with fingertips. Romance to your cheeks. Large sizes 59¢ plus tax — also medium sizes. WESTMORE LIPSTICK. Stays on unbelievably long! Certified Cosmetics of the Stars. We certify that the cosmetics sold under our name are exactly the same cosmetics we use to make Hollywood’s famous stars more beautiful on and off the screen. as Wa Dx Bup WEsTMORE Ad, ladmnns Make-Up Director Make-Up Director Mike; fotim Paramount Studios Universal Studios Yolore vourwoon unten FRANK WESTMORE WALLY WESTMORE Famous Make-Up Stylist

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\ one-woman man (Continued from page 39) more influence, more contacts, and yet she dates me. - “It’s always been that way between the two of us ever since the beginning, and that’s why I’m the happiest guy in the world. I don’t have to play the field. If I want to date a pretty girl, I have Janet for beauty. If I want to discuss some act- ing problems, I have Janet to give me ad- vice. If I want to go out dancing, I have Janet who dances like an angel. “Why should I play the field? For pub- licity’s sake? It’s taken me three years to find it out, but the guy who gave me that advice about not going steady is all wet. At least as far as ’m concerned.” When Tony looks back nowadays on his first two years in Hollywood he’s a little chagrined about his conduct and feelings and suspicions. He tells you frankly that he was probably all wrong about Geraldine and Farley, that they were just being friendly towards each other. But it’s easy to understand the thought process of a young fellow who comes to Hollywood, dates the prettiest girls, imagines they’re genuinely fond of him, and then wakes up one morning to discover that he’s been duped. : Tony’s realization that one good girl is better than a dozen ambition-ridden women has been part of his growing up. No one understands that better than Janet Leigh. “We all go through the stages Tony underwent,” she says. “I did myself. You have a lot of dates and they make you feel like the belle of the ball, and then suddenly you wake up and realize that it’s all been pretty shallow and that the only meaning in life lies in a deep human relationship. That’s why I’ve gone with one boy at a time. People are pretty complex and involved and it takes a long time to know them. You just can’t have a variety of dates and ever wind up with a good, solid friend. In short, when it comes to dates, quality is much more im- portant than quantity. “Tony has found that out and so have I. That’s why I’m a one-man woman, and he’s a one-woman man.” THe END (Yowll see Tony soon in U-I’s The _ Prince Who Was A Thief. Janet Leigh’s at work on MGM’s It’s A Big Country.) HOW TIME FLIES! @ Since Olivia de Havilland and Jimmy Stewart are mum on their romantic status, we’ve taken to doing a little quiet sleuthing on our own hook and have one clue-to report. Olivia is patronizing a well-known Boulevard _ tailor, and has ordered two dashing aviatrix outfits. Though Jimmy has _ been “grounded” by studio orders until his current picture is completed, he’s planning on taking off for Mexico City the moment the ban is lifted. We haven’t caught Olivia boning up on Spanish—but quien sabe ?>—August, 1940, Modern Screen. SAVE"3™ A YEAR! ... treat yourself to a home permanent with what you save! EVERY TIME you buy a Thrift-Pak, e Reducing tooth decay you get enough Listerine Tooth Paste e Thorough polishing to last the average family for a whole e Sparkling flavor month. You get two regular 45¢ tubes e Cleaning teeth and breath for 59¢, a saving of over 30¢. Within (“Listerine”’ means breath control!) a year the average family’s bowmd to. Only modern machinery, mass pro- save as much as $3 or more! duction, and mote than sixty years You're sure of Listerine Tooth Paste of PRON RON Hate this low price quality! As makers of Listerine Anti- Thrift-Pak possible. septic, we would never put our name Change to Listerine Tooth Paste on a product that isn’t top quality. in the new Thrift-Pak today, and There is no dentifrice you can buy that $3 saving is yours to do what you that beats Listerine Tooth Paste for: | want with. Lambert Pharmacal Co. o>. UP TO 60% LESS TOOTH DECAY! Research at a famous university definitely showed that modern dentifrices like Listerine Tooth Paste, used regularly immediately after eating, can reduce cavities as much as 60%. a When it comes fo cleaning, no tooth paste...nota single one... beats Listerine Tooth Paste. 79

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urself. Your body can’t possibly turn all that ‘ood into weight. Give your body a chance by eating often and not so much at a time. I know that the eating between meals is hard if you’re taking your lunch to school. But you can space it so that you eat part of your Junch at the morning recess, and the rest at junch time. And then have the malted milk » after school. 4 Now for the third point. Exercise. Skinny _ kids should never exercise to the point of ex- haustion. Instead of doing vigorous exercises they should do balanced exercise. I go to a gym three times a week and I do sit-ups and _ leg-raises vigorously. But there are several a thin girls who come to the gym to put "on weight. All they want to do is to build up muscle. If you don’t have access to a gym you can take exercise at home. To build up your legs, put a big book on the floor and, with the _ ball of your foot on the book, raise yourself “very, very slowly, first on one foot, then on the _ other and then on both. Begin by doing this _ten times and work up to twenty-five. ‘Z To build up the arms and chest, lie on the _ floor or a flat surface. With a heavy book in each hand, slowly bring your arms out and then _ bring the hands together above your head. Be sure the book or whatever you use is very heavy so it will do some good. _ As you know, the best exercise for anyone is swimming. Swimming builds muscles and it also reduces. If you possibly can, swim three times a week. ees And now I'd like to repeat the reducing diet. Ill give you the quick way and the ‘sensible way. But let me warn you again. Before you go on either of these diets, ask our doctor if it’s all right for you: THE QUICK WAY Breakfast Grapefruit juice Coffee or tea (without sugar or cream) ; Lunch Two scrambled eggs Three slices of tomato with lemon juice Dinner : Small steak (no fat) or lamb chops _ _ Green beans or spinach _ Cottage cheese : Celery _ Now the other diet, which doesn’t take it off quite so fast, but is the sensible way: “2 Breakfast Grapefruit juice Thin slice well-done, lightly-buttered toast — i One egg (any way but fried) Lunch 3 (You can have fruit salad with no dressing or cottage cheese and pine- apple or lettuce and tomato with lemon juice) Skimmed milk _ Dinner Steak or lamb chops or lean roast beef or Jeg of lamb Two green vegetables Green salad (with lemon juice) Fruit p [ had a letter from an overweight girl who

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| i ! wT + te Whyrisk his health with ~ temporary disinfectants? 82 200. serm-fightin action continues | between cleanings! TODAY—“FLU’’ in your neighborhood. Tomorrow, this dread virus may enter your home! Influenza virus may sur- vive in dust for days or weeks. So guard your family with the disinfectant that spreads an anti-bacterial blanket with continuing, not just temporary action. HAVE “LYSOL” brand disinfectant in your cleaning water every time you clean—in baby’s room, in your kitchen, bathroom...every room in your house! UNLIKE BLEACHES, which call for thor- ough cleaning before disinfecting, and which even then act only temporarily, “Lysol” kills germs as you clean. And regular use of “Lysol” leaves an anti- germ blanket between cleanings! ECONOMICAL. So highly concentrated, you need only 2% tablespoonfuls to 1 gallon of water. Ask today for “Lysol,”? world’s largest-selling germ killer! signed herself, “T. C.” She was from New York ‘City. She said, “For lunch I must eat a sandwich since I bring my lunch to school. I stick to your six-day diet without the lunch you had. I only eat breakfast and dinner.” Now, look, this is no problem. And this letter I’d like to answer for all the kids who bring their lunch to school. Instead of scrambled eggs bring a couple of hard-boiled eggs and a raw tomato. That’s edsy enough, isn’t it? Aes now for some other problems: “Dear Joan: What time of day should you take exercises?p—E. W., Hillsboro, N. H.” “It doesn’t matter. Just take exercise when you can. First thing in the morning or last thing at night. Just so long as you don’t exercise right after eating it’s all right. “Dear Joan: Do you think yourself superior to other kids? How late do you stay out on dates? Do you smoke? Do you wear glasses? —E. B., New York City.” I certainly don’t think myself superior to other kids. I’m a sixteen-year-old girl trying to do a good job, trying to be a good actress. I hope I'll be a good actress some day. As for how late I stay out, that depends on what I have to do the next day. If I have an occasion- al week-night date I get home by ten-thirty. On Friday and Saturday nights I can, if ’m lucky enough to have a date, stay out until twelve or twelve-thirty. I don’t smoke. I wear glasses for reading and for playing the piano | and at movies because I’m nearsighted. “Dear Joan: I’m fifteen years old, five feet, seven and a half inches tall. Am I too tall to wear high heels ?—B. H., Gloucester Point, Va.” I’d suggest that at school you wear low heels. I think every girl should wear low heels | ] at school. But for formal occasions, such as when you’re going to a dance, I think you should wear high heels, if your parents permit. Dramatize your height instead of trying to play it down. Hold your shoulders up. Stand well. Be proud that you're a tall girl. I wish I were. “Dear Joan: I’m in love with a girl and I am in the service. Before she knew I was in the) service she was in love with me. Now that| I’m in uniform she hardly speaks to me.—S. A., Bermuda Island.” e If you want my real opinion, I think this girl is terrible and not worth bothering about. There are so many nice girls who realize how important servicemen are and who like to go. out with them, that I think you should just skip this girl and find another girl who ap- preciates you. “Dear Joan: In school we recite essays and . fables. I love to memorize these, but I get ter- ribly scared and blush in front of the class. What can I do?—M. A. C., Middlefield, Ohio.” Oh boy, don’t I know just how you feel! How do you think I feel when I get up in front of the camera and have to say lines in aj scene? I’m just scared to death. If it helps you any to know this—it’s the old misery lovesi§‘y company theory—this is my problem, too. But the point is that you have to do it. Whether it’s

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saying lines or reciting essays and fables, it’s frightening. But this is what I do. I swallow hard and J say to myself, “Joan, you’re silly. You can read this line as well as anyone.” And then I do it to the best of my ability. It may not be perfect, but it’s the best I can do. Why don’t you try this the next time you have to read an essay? “Dear Joan: My problem is that I can’t follow boys when we’re dancing. Would you suggest something I could do? I don’t have a big brother.—M. K., Dallas, Tex.’ ; Dancing school helps but it doesn’t help enough, for boys just seem to take off in their own way and we’re supposed to keep up with them. I suggest that you practice alone to records or the radio to get the rhythm of the music. When the boys don’t have the right rhythm, then all you can do is relax. Let them lead you. Don’t try anything fancy, and if you can’t follow don’t worry, Boys should know how to dance better than they do. It wouldn’t hurt a lot of them to take a few basic lessons. “Dear Joan: I like a certain boy who is two inches shorter than I am. He has told me that it makes no difference to him, but I can’t help feeling self-conscious when we are out with a group of kids or when we’re dancing. Do you think I’m being silly about this difference >— S. N., Seattle, Wash.” Yes, I do think you’re being silly. Did you see a wonderful movie called The Hasty Heart? In it, Patricia Neal was taller than Richard Todd, and it was so great to see on the screen what you see so often in real life— that is, the girl being taller than the boy. It isn’t looks or size that counts. It’s whether or not you like this boy. And, for heaven’s sake, if he doesn’t care, why should you? It seems to me you’re very lucky. “Dear Joan: My mother allows me to have gatherings, but on those nights she invites her friends and they start playing cards. I feel _ funny if I invite my friends because they might think my parents gamble. They don’t really, but you know how kids are—M. R., Brooklyn, N. Y.” Yes, I know how kids are—very intolerant. What difference does it make to you whether _ or not your parents play a game of cards? My parents love to play bridge, and I wish I could learn. They’ve tried to teach me, but I’m afraid I’m not bright enough to master the game. So when they’re having a bridge party , and I want friends over, I invite them. I think , so many kids feel that they have to apologize _ for their parents or they feel that other kids are talking about their parents. Honestly, all you have to do is to live and let live. Well, that’s all for now. Thanks for listening * and thanks ever so much for writing. And | please read the notice below. _An incorrect mailing address was published by mistake in re- cent issues. If you have a prob- lem or a pertinent subject that "you want Joan Evans to discuss, write to her. 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Some of them even intimated that I lived in a slum.” He waved his arm. “Is this so bad?” It wasn’t so bad. In fact, a lot of people would have settled for it—a tastefully fur- nished flat in one of the most fashionable neighborhoods in New York. “Well,” I said lamely, “I guess it isn’t up to movie star standards.” “I know it,’ he said, “and for a while, I let that argument get under my skin. Why, I even listened to a lot of foolish advice. I was told that a movie star was supposed to live the way the public thought he should. I cduldn’t be an individual. I was sacrificing my career.” “And then what?” I prompted. “I did what they wanted me to do. A few months ago I moved to a four hundred dollar a month apartment, went to all the smart places, and threw cocktail parties for the right people. And do you know what happened?” I shook my head, “No.” “I lost all my friends. They thought I was going ‘high hat.’ And not only that,” he added vehemently, “I almost went broke paying the bills!” “Well anyway, you didn’t stay on that ‘kick’ very long,” I said, consolingly. “You bet I didn’t,” he said. “I’d rather have my friends and a little money in the bank than change my way of living just to conform to some imaginary rule.” frowned intensely. E H “Who makes up the rules, anyway?” he demanded. “Who’s to say how a movie star should conduct his life? Who’s to say where he should live; whom he should take out; and where he should go?” I shrugged my shoulders for want of a better reply. But is there a better one? Monty Clift lives the way he wants to live. No one is going to tell him when, where, or how to manage his private life. And what’s wrong with that? Those very quali- ties of determination and. independence were the driving force behind his success and they are the factors that will keep him on top. When I asked him who his friends were —the ones who thought he was going high hat—he smiled. “You wouldn’t know them,” he said. “They’re just plain, everyday fellows and gals. You see, I don’t pal around with show people or go to their hangouts.” “Well, what do you do?” I asked him. “Don’t you ever go to ‘21’ for lunch, or go dancing at El Morocco or the Stork Club? Haven’t you ever dropped into Sardi’s for a late snack?” “Sardi’s,’ he repeated. “The place where legitimate actors and their ulcers stay up all night waiting for their reviews in the morning papers?” I nodded. “Never go there,” he assured me. “And the same thing goes for Ciro’s and Mo- eambo in Hollywood. Wait a minute,” he corrected himself. “I went to Ciro’s once. Just once. I took a girl I had known in New York. I thought she’d get a kick out of seeing it. Well, we got a table and ordered a bottle of wine. The room was crowded, noisy, and hot as the devil. My collar was starting to wilt, and so was my energy. After about twenty minutes, my girl friend leaned over and tapped me on the arm. ‘Monty,’ she said, ‘you were sweet to bring me here, but I just can’t a stand to see you suffering. So, let’s go Se be “Don’t get me wrong,” he continued. “I have nothing against Ciro’s. I know it’s one of the finest cafés in the country. But it’s just not my kind of fun.” And don’t get the idea that Monty’s a stay-at-home—although he looks good in an easy chair. He likes to go out as well as anyone. He particularly likes shows, bars, restaurants, or even a walk in the park. But, the bars and the restaurants will be neighborhood places, he'll tell you. He knows who’s going to be at the Colony in New York and Romanoftf’s in Beverly Hills. What’s more, he knows what they’re going to say and it bores him. As he puts it, “I get much more enjoyment in the little out-of-the-way places where the customers want to have a good time and aren’t worried about impressing anybody.” There’s nothing he likes better than “nicking up” with people whether it’s in a bar, on a street corner, or at the beach. “I love to find out what makes them tick,” he told me. “I take long walks in the park, sit down on benches and start conversations with strangers. I find out what they think and how they feel. You never know what itll bring. Sometimes its darned exciting.” | SAW IT HAPPEN When my small daughter and I were returning home by plane, we met a young girl and her mother. The girl admired my daughter and tried to pick her up. When my daughter refused, the girl was gen- uinely disappointed. Today my daugh- . ter is the disappointed one since “that girl’ was our favorite, Jane Powell. Mrs. Rosemary Noli Tucson, Arizona I REMEMBERED a story someone once told me about him. Monty was taking one of his casual walks and happened to pass by the Stork Club. It was a warm night, and he was jacketless and had his sleeves rolled up. He stood in front of the glamor- ous club, and with a cynical grin watched the fashionable customers walk in and out. A sailor, out sightseeing, came along and paused near Monty. “I bet you’d love to go in there,” the sailor said. “I know I sure would.” “Not me,’ Monty answered. couldn’t drag me in there.” The sailor regarded him _ skeptically. “Why’re you saying that? Because you haven't got the money?” “It’s not- the money,” Monty assured him. “Aaah, tell it to the Marines,” said the sailor. “On the level,” insisted Monty. “And if you don’t believe it, come on across the street and I'll buy you a drink.” The sailor didn’t mind. He and Monty went to a little bar where they sat and talked for hours over their beer. Or rather, the sailor did the talking with Monty drawing ‘him out. As Monty paid the check, the sailor stuck out his hand ap- “You preciatively. “Thanks, Mac,” he said grate-_ fully. “Say, I been so busy enjoying my- self I didn’t get your name.” “Tt’s Montgomery Clift,” Monty told him. “The movie star?” gasped the sailor. “Yes,” Monty admitted. “I hope you won’t hold it against me.”

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onTy’s next question interrupted my reverie. “Anything else I can tell you?” he asked. “Sure,” I answered, blithely. “What do you talk about with these people you meet?” “Anything, everything, just as long as its not about the picture business all the time,” he answered. “I can gab with a man six-feet-four about religion, or a girl five-feet-two about her love life. I’ve talked about sports with a Salvation Army drummer and physics with a steam shovel operator.” “You ought to write a book,” I told him. “Tm almost finished with my first one right now,” he informed me. ~ “What's it about?” Monty shook his head. “If I told you that, you wouldn’t buy it.” “I promise to buy it,’ I said, but he wouldn’t talk. “What’s new in the girl department?” I asked him. “Absolutely nothing,” he answered. “You know I take out a lot of girls but there hasn’t been anything serious yet.” “How about some names?” I prodded. “These names wouldn’t mean anything to your story,” he said. “They’re nobodies as far as the public is concerned. Sales- girls,- secretaries, elevator operators, and maybe a stripteaser or two,’ he added, with a glint in his eye. “Stripteasers?” I squeaked. “Why not? They live breathe, think, and dream, don’t they? And some of them have led really interesting lives.” He got up and started to walk around the room and I almost dislocated my neck trying to keep my eyes on that profile. “You know,” Monty went on, “I don’t have to be in love with every girl I take out. Believe me, it’s going to be quite a while before I get married and drop out of circulation. Anyway, that’s the way I feel today. Tomorrow, who knows?” ~ “Oh,” I said slyly, “and how do you feel about’ Pocahontas Crowfoot?” He grinned. “Isn't that a name for you?” he said. “A name that’s been coupled with yours in the gossip columns,” I replied. He explained that very simply. It seems that Monty enjoys the Martinique—prob- ably the only café so honored. Pocahontas Crowfoot is a dancer there—a very attrac- tive Indian girl with a wide reputation for her wit and personality. One evening, Monty dropped in with a friend and when the show was over, Pocahontas joined them for a drink. It made all the papers. “And the funny part of it is,’ Monty said, “I'd been in that club a half dozen times, and with attractive girls, too, and not one of the newspapers mentioned it.” “But, aren’t you even a little bit in love _ with her?” I begged. “Sorry,’ he smiled. “I’m still waiting to meet my light of love, and Pocahontas— well, I guess she’s waiting for John Smith.” “Your light of love,’ I repeated, ro- mantically. “Monty, how do you picture the’ girl you’re waiting for? Does she have to be tal] and stately like Hedy Lamarr, or small and cute, like Betty Grable?” He sighed, a little wistfully, “If I knew, I'd probably be a happier guy.” I pulled myself together and rose to leave. He walked me to the door with that friendly smile. “Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful,” he apologized. “I guess there just isn’t much to write about me.” : Oh, no? I could write reams. I could write symphonies. 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All that a bearded Hebrew guide in old Jerusalem was moved to do was to present me with a lovely gift—an Egyptian scarab. I was not June Haver to any of these, I was a devotee, come a long way, as they were, and I cannot describe the exultation to be just that . . . and no more. 8 morning after the attempted assas- sination of President Truman, I was in Rome and attended a special Mass cele- brated by Cardinal Spellman to offer pray- ers for his protection. Following this, a group of us were taken to the private study of the Pope and suddenly he was there, talking to each in turn. I had a special assignment for this visit. With me I carried a pair of cuff links bearing the likeness of St. Genesius, patron saint of actors, and belonging to William Lundigan. He now has them back—blessed by the Pope. I also brought back a message for Holly- wood that was given to me by everyone I met: how much good our pictures can do for the people of foreign nations if we put our best into them, how much they can let them down if we don’t. It was best explained to me on the Rome to Haifa plane on which 36 of us, assembled in one group by the Franciscan Fathers, made the Holy Land flight. I sat down next to a priest from India and immediate ly recognized him as a man I had heard speak at home, right in St. Paul’s West- wood Church! He was Father Xavier (born S. Thani Nayajam) of Tuticorn, South India. We became not only special friends on the tour, but today he is my “Mission Father,” the one to whom I dedi- cate an hour of prayer every Saturday. Imagine Catholic children singing a hymn set to the tune of “It Was on the Isle of Capri That I Met Her.” Yet this is so in South India. They fell in love with the melody after hearing it in one of our pictures. Father Xavier told me about his work and his people, and the uplifting effect a good screen story has on them. He ex- plained how the difference in their climate can affect the language of prayer so that sometimes the religious phrases they hear in our pictures puzzle them. They do not say, for instance, “In the light of God.” Because they are almost always under the rays of a dazzling sun they find, “In the shade of God,” infinitely more pleas- ing and understandable. I sang aboard that Haifa-bound plane, not alone, but with a priest from Chicago, Father Carroll Riedel. We were all asked to sing our favorite songs from our.home- land and as the only two Americans we got together on “God Bless America.” Another time I sang, this time solo, was for our Army boys stationed in Paris. But the star of that show was a cake the boys had ready for the occasion. It was an “objet d’art” I hated to cut. And the third time there was singing on my trip was on the bus from Cork to Killarney in Ireland, and I didn’t do any of it. A ban- tam-sized old Irishman climbed aboard at one of the stops, announced that he certainly would enjoy a drink of good ‘had made himself perfectly plain. No 2 ae Irish whiskey, and then proceeded to en- -tertain us with a series of Irish ditties all the way to Killarney. NATURALLY, on a personal trip, as my pilgrimage was, I asked the studio not to make any publicity arrangements. And I had a hope that I would not be recog- nized, either. All through the Holy Land, for instance, I wore a navy blue snood over my hair to make sure, and also because I didn’t want to be a contrast in a country where most of the people are dark. But when we left Rome, the airline people wired ahead and Israel newspapermen were waiting when our plane landed. Pho- tographers even followed me into one of the temples and, fearing that the rabbi would be offended, I asked him to speak to them about it. From that time on they respected my request and took pictures only when I was outdoors. The effect of the stories became appar- ent whenever we arrived at the different towns and places on our itinerary. Delega- tions of young people would be waiting. They told me, as luck would have it, too, that one of my pictures, Look For the Sil- ver Lining, was playing in Tel-Aviv at the time. I could not help but be impressed by the confidence of the people of Israel in their future. It is evident in their manner, in their talk and in their works. But I was saddened by some aspects of their | 5 communal existence in the outlying farms, | particularly by the nursery life which their children must live because their mothers and fathers are busy in the fields. It seems to me that neither children nor | , parents can ever make up the love gone | to waste because they are apart so much. Father Xavier went wading with me in §. the Sea of Galilee, and it was there that I saw the old monk who was so moved by the biblical scenes around him that his eyes were filled with tears. He, too, had his shoes off, and sat on a rock dan- gling his feet in the water. I smiled at him' but he saw only the wondrous waters and the distant, ancient hills. Before I left Rome I had seen another monk I will never forget, this one a young fun-filled lad even if he did wear the traditional robe and cord, and his head was shaven. I was leaving the office of the | Franciscan Fathers when I noticed him just ahead of me, carrying an umbrella. As he reached a quiet, cloistered part of the hall, he flipped the umbrella upwards in his hand and balanced it blithely on | his chin. And in this manner he gained | the street and went on his way happily! | Today travel through both Israel and | the Arab areas is mostly by bus and train, | _but there are still some who journey. by donkey. We met one of these natives at | a little village on the road to Jericho. He | was a nine-year-old Arab boy and Iam | not going to forget him in a hurry. He | was standing beside his donkey when our | bus stopped for a few minutes. I got out | and asked him if he would get on the animal and let me take a picture. I should | say that I communicated with him in sign | language. He understood all right. He | nodded, but held out his hand and said, | “Baksheesh.” : | This meant he wanted money first, the | others told me. But I carried no money | on this trip and shook my head. I could | see his dark face actually get darker, and | he looked about on the ground as if he were seeking a weapon—which he found! | Of all things, there lay a broken Coca- | Cola bottle at his feet. He snatched it up| and pulled his hand back to swing it at) me. I went flying back to the bus. He “Baksheesh”—no_ picture. ae Curiously enough, I felt that this little

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boy was not without dignity, and if he enforced it savagely it was the only way he knew. By his code if I deemed a pic- ture of him and his donkey valuable I should pay for it. I had been put in my place and was probably the better for it. Mz first stop on the trip after leaving the United States was Paris, and something [ saw there reminded me of the one- sided impression the world has of Holly- wood. I visited the Montmartre twice. The irst time was on a Saturday night and saw and heard what I had been led to sxpect: jostling, laughing groups in an =xcited coming and going, as if everyone was nervously afraid the music and wine- thickened atmosphere would suddenly lear up and leave them stranded. _My second visit was just a few hours ater when I walked through on my way to arly Sunday Mass. Now the Montmartre was playing a different role. The night zaiety was gone. Instead it was stirring azily in the early, pale sunshine. The doors of a night club lay open and nside there was nothing to be seen but 2 long bar on which snoozed a fat cat. from a gate emerged a black-shawled id woman holding an empty milk pitcher. When she turned a corner and was gone he street was deserted until a small boy same along carrying a long, French loaf of sread for his breakfast. His fresh face nd clear eyes told plainly that he had 9een asleep long before the first roisterer iad arrived in the area the night before. de stopped to peek in at the cat (he seemed to know it would be there) and go, “P’ssst!” He acknowledged my presence with a knowing, little smile as if to say, ‘Well, we are the only ones up and about 30 far, eh?” And then he went along, whistling in a way that revealed he had iot quite learned how, but was trying. more beautitul than ever liz taylor on the april cover of modern screen on sale march 9 I felt like protesting. Why hadn’t anyone given me this picture of the Montmartre? It was a lovely, quaint place as I was seeing it now. And, of course, I knew the answer. The ordinary lives its people live are of no interest. Just as the Hollywood in which stars have babies to put to bed, meals and other household duties to at- tend to, and a lot of plain, everyday liv- ing to do, is not news. 2 have to ask that little French boy to know that he loved the Mont- martre; just as I and dozens of my friends love the Hollywood we know, the Holly- wood that means our homes and our ae ones, and all the things we hold so ear. Well, the French boy loves his Mont- martre. In the eyes of an old Jewish patriarch come at last to his beloved home- land of Jerusalem I have seen love shin- ing plainly. The Irish lad who was sure the best husbands are only to be found in Ireland loved his land. They reinforced my love for mine. They did this, and they did more for me. They gave me new incentive. I wish I were as brave as the people of Israel. I wish I could smile like the Italians do. Or even get as much real living out of an hour of my day as they seem able to squeeze aut of an instant. wish I had the manner and elan of the French, from the most distinguished of its citizens to anyone you chance to speak to on the street. I wish I had the simple faith of the old, paralyzed man I saw in a wheel chair at the Grotto of Lourdes in France. His nurse told me that he has sat every day for years at the shrine with his paral- ysis uncured. “But. he has been cured otherwise, Madame,” she said. “You have only to look at his face to become con- vinced of that.” And she was right. His face shone with the health of his soul. I wish I could read between the lines of life for the poetry that is there as the Trish do. Like the little French boy again, with his whistling, I haven't quite made it. But I, too, am trying. A pilgrim makes his journey to the Holy Land to kneel before the resurrection place of his Lord. I did. 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Barbara was so solicitous, so genuinely interested in Bob’s health that no one ex- pected a divorce announcement two weeks later. Actually and truthfully, it had been forthcoming since the end of World War II. of Pees story that professional requirements were responsible for the split-up may in part be true. But actually, Stanwyck and Taylor are big enough stars to make any picture where and when they want. Barbara is in demand by so many film companies that she never has to go on location if she doesn’t want to. Moreover, if she felt that geography were ruining her marriage, she could have quit anywhere along the line. She’s been in the big-time for more than twenty years. She has plenty of money. Taylor’s salary hits $3,000 a week, cer- tainly enough to support any wife. Not only that, but Barbara and Bob just finished touring Italy together. The Jan- uary issue of MopERN SCREEN ran a large story, profusely illustrated, on these two stars enjoying the sights of Rome. This excuse of being separated “too often and too long” is just not good enough. What happened to Barbara and Bob happens to many couples who have no children. (Barbara had one by her former husband, Frank Fay.) They find after a decade of marriage when the sex attraction ‘has subsided, that there is no common bond to hold the marriage together. One of the few things Bob and Barbara had in common was the motion picture industry, and to this common profession, this mutual avocation is ascribed the cause of their divorce. It just doesn’t ring true. What does ring true is that Bob Taylor is an aviation sportsman. He loves to fly. He flies all the time. Stanwyck detests planes. She died a thousand deaths this past summer when she flew to. Rome to be with Bob. In Rome the Italian newspapers carried the story that Bob and a young Italian actress were quite the thing. It was a ridiculous story. Members of the Quo Vadis cast said later that the girl in ques- tion was a publicity-seeking extra, who meant nothing to Taylor. The Stanwyck-Taylor marriage did not go on the rocks because of any third parties. It went on the rocks because Barbara and Bob could find nothing mutual to do in their spare time. To say that they had no spare time is to hedge the point, because Barbara has enough money and position to obtain as much spare time as she desires. The fact she constantly chose to work was an indi- cation to a handful of shrewd insiders that all was not well at the Taylor menage. One reporter, tired of the constant pub- licity drivel about how beautifully two maior stars could get along, once asked Barbara if she and her husband ever quarreled. “Sure,” Barbara said, “we have disagreements but I like it that way. Sometimes we get so mad at each other we don’t speak for days. That's better than these lovey-dovey things.” A friend of Barbara’s says: “If she would only learn to fly, if she would only learn to like planes, I think she and Bob might still make a go of it.” : “Tr’s not as simple as that,’ says one of Taylor’s intimates. “Sometimes a mar- riage drags on when it should have ended several years previously. Something hap- pens. The glamor is gone. The passion fades. A couple find they don’t care to do the same thing. They keep going to- gether. Maybe the spark will light. the embers. Maybe the fire will flare up again. Such things rarely happen. The marriage begins to diminish in intensity. The ex- citement dies down. A husband and wife no longer enjoy each other. “Taylor goes to London to do Conspira- tor. Stanwyck stays behind to work for Hal Wallis. There are loads of long dis- tance calls, but these are born more out of consideration than love. “My own analysis is that Bob and Bar- bara got tired of each other. It’s as simple as that. If they enjoyed each other’s hob- bies, it might’ve been different. But as grown-up folks, each went his own way. Barbara has a 17-year-old son, Dion, by Frank Fay. Maybe if she and Bob had adopted some kids it would have been different. “All I can say is that they’re wonderful people who have no recriminations. Bob, you know, was a flying instructor for.three years in the Navy. I don’t think the war changed. him appreciably, but it heightened his love of aviation. Barbara suffers from a constitutional fear of planes, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. She never begrudged Bob his hobby, but she never § shared it, either.” No one would be foolish enough to say that Barbara Stanwyck and Bob Taylor are divorcing because he likes to fly, and | she doesn’t. Disagreements, at least mari- tal, are seldom that simple. It’s the annual increment of a million little things that: eventually wrecks a marriage. The most successful Hollywood mar- riages are those in which (1) the wife has abandoned her career in favor.of becom- ing a housewife; (2) those in which the marriage is blessed by the quick arrival of children; (3) those in which the husband and wife do not partake in the same occu- pation; and (4) those in which the husband and wife share a number of major hobbies. The Stanwyck-Taylor marriage failed to meet any of these requirements—and therein lies the answer to its dissolution. i THE END | | don't miss these other dell magazines: screen stories screen album (spring issue) hollywood year book ‘51 hollywood family album(co. 5 on sale now ). q

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“watch your step, farley!” (Continued from page 40) the most cyn- ical of the Hollywood executives. In itself even the unwillingness to do a story which the wise men in the produc- tion department believe is just right for | him is not a matter of serious moment. | This, however, linked with Farley Gran- gers rather erratic behavior during the past few months seems to make it neces- sary for some friend to clap him on the back and say, “Watch your step, Farley— the road ahead is rosy and strewn with | flowers and gold, but it is filled with enor- | mous, hidden pitfalls. Beware, my boy, and | take a long look back before you venture | further. Watch your step, Farley, because | from now on more and more people will be | waiting for you to blunder. That’s how they are in Hollywood.” There is a tale, universally believed in | film circles, that when one of his “people” | says “no” to Mr. Samuel Goldwyn, the | movie-making genius flies into such a | tizzy of rage that within a square mile radius of his office strong men crawl beneath their desks and shiver in fear. It is also an accepted belief that when one of his “discoveries” shows the slightest tendency toward “ingratitude”, Mr. Gold- | wyn becomes Savage Sammy. The necessity for the above information | ‘is to establish the fact that when Farley Granger got involved in a dispute with ‘Mr. Goldwyn last year, it was immedi- ately deduced that he was either attempt- | ing suicide, or he had a beef so legitimate it could not be ignored, or (and most ‘popularly believed) he had reached that Stage of movie-stardom where all is con- fusion. It was unthinkable that such a | quarrel could take place. Prazex Granger will probably never | forget the first time he saw Samuel Goldwyn smile. Farley was seventeen, a tall, | rather gangling, trembling seeker-of-a-job when he entered Mr. Goldwyn’s office. | Goldwyn smiled, and the world became filled with beauty. The youngster, flanked by his mother and father, sat and basked in the splendor of the occasion—assured | now, by some strange miracle that at that | ‘moment he had been made a movie star; | and in his heart he undoubtedly vowed eternal obedience, fidelity and loyalty to ‘Samuel Goldwyn. Such was the wonder of the event—and the magic of Mr. Gold- | wyn’s personality. Seven years later, the same Mr. Gold- ‘wyo almost uprooted every tree in West | Los Angeles with the wind of his wrath against Farley Granger—and Farley calmly drove to a travel bureau and bought a | HELENE CURTIS - : Your hair looks, feels so heavenly ___ soft, so caressable with Suave—yet __ = : stays beautifully arranged, perfect. : : a No slicked-down “hairdressing” look! Just a morning kiss of — SUAVE is all you need to keep even “problem” hair beautifully _ obedient, adorably soft...cadiantly alive with glowing highlights. Your hair will whisper how lovely _ you are! Not a hair oil, contains — = _ no alcohol. SUAVE outsells ALL women’s hairdressings! 50<, so created by HAMM foremost name in kuir beauty # MAKES MY HAIR SO MANAGEABLE SO RADIANT!” pocketful of tickets to far away places. The first seven years of any actor’s life | is a dangerous pericd. It is in this space | of time that the average actor serves out his first contract. It is generally at the con- clusion of his first contract that the actor either makes a quick series of mistakes which plunge him to oblivion, or sets up his | future so that he can go on with a life- time of picture-making. It goes without saying that most actors take the plunge. Very little of Farley Granger’s early career as an actor is worth recording. When he was in his teens he made two films, The North Star and The Purple Heart, then the Navy swallowed him up and he was gone for a year and a half. When he returned, he went another year | and a half without a part. As Goldwyn | explained it once, he was being paid to grow up. Farley’s real life as a movie star | began when he appeared one day with a moustache—and girls all over the world began collapsing at the sight of him. It is an odd fact that millions of fans fall in love with Farley Granger because of the things they read about him in the magazines, the gay, silly things that a cer- tain kind of girl likes. While, on the other hand, other millions fall for him because of the off-beat, degraded characters he plays in most pictures. Farley, in other words, gets them all. AS the age of 25, Farley Granger is physically a rather splendid speci- men. He is six feet, one inch in height, sturdy, athletic—although tending to lean- ness—and brimming with good health. He wears his clothes with a rare style, not like Beau Brummel, but like a college man with expensive good taste. You can get into an argument about his face. There are many women who will tell you that he has the most classic set of features since the young Barrymore. Others say there is much of Lincoln’s ugliness in his face, but that a gentle warmth of expres- sion lends him handsomeness. These things are not quite enough to make a man a movie star. There must be | talent, which Farley unquestionably has, and there must be the animal element. Veteran starmakers will tell you it is this animal something that makes the difference between an actor and an idol. Farley Granger has this masculine mag- netism, he has the face, the figure, the | flair, the talent, the position. But he will not live as a movie star for very long if | people begin to believe that he has too | great a love for Farley Granger, or too reckless a disregard for Hollywood. : It is a fact that people have begun to suspect this. But are they right? A couple of years ago, an acquaintance 89

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And arm in arm, Farley and Shelley skipped off, bounding high into the air, dancing from side to side, and screaming with glee. Traffic halted, pedestrians got out of the way—and Farley and Shelley con- tinued on their happy, uninhibited way. That was a couple of years ago. A couple of months ago, Farley Gran- ger, a coat thrown over his shoulders against the nippy air on a night location, stalked through a group of extras to the locale of the next shot. Without reason, one of the extras nudged another and said, “Get him!” Without explanation, this would be a terribly unfair incident to note, for it can be misleading by implica- tion. It is told only to picture the change in public manner of the man, and the agility with which casual observers can spot the most subtle of transformations and exaggerate on them. [: couLp be that Farley Granger is more aware of his importance than he used to be two years ago; and it may be that it is just that he is two years older, | has been broadened by travel, and has decided that public exuberance should be curbed. At any rate, he is different. But what people may unfairly believe is that he has changed for the worst. In any circumstance, a man of 25 is not as filled with emotional gratitude as a boy of 17. And growing up into a movie star has nothing to do with it. Few junior executives in commerce pay the same homage to opportunity and the front of- fice that they did when they were green, multi-thumbed office boys. To Farley’s credit list the fact that his fans support him avidly in both magazine polls and at the box office, which gives him a sledge hammer of an argument. It gives him the economic whip hand, for he has something to sell for profit, something that is highly resalable at a profit. He controls this commodity which is Farley Granger. He is, in truth, a highly reliable actor, always on time, always up in his lines, and always dependable in the per- formance of his craft: He can become as arrogant as Bugs Bunny, and he'll still be able to peddle Farley Granger tomor- row at a fine fee per peek. : But Farley must remember for future use that no star in the history of the movies has ever fought City Hall and got away with it; that no star has ever worn a hat bigger than his most humble associate for very long and not been toppled by the combined hatred of his ill-wishers; that no star has ever re- mained bright once his fans ceased caring to identify themselves with his personal as well as his screen life. : : re get closer to any possible “change” in Farley Granger, we ought to examine his work more closely. Not the maneuvers of acting, nor the readings, but the spirit of the work. Players who did pictures with him in his more eager days, say that it was easy to do scenes with him, for he was anxious to please and~cooperate and it came across to them. Recently, this writer felt obliged to ask actors currently working with him how they liked it. In most cases, those questioned said, “fine.” But a couple said, “It’s hard playing a scene with him because he doesn’t give.” To those unfamiliar with movie-making and its terminology, this expression will mean little. But to the wise, it means a good deal. It means that an actor has lost zest for the play and has gained a lot for the part. It means that he is so engrossed in his own performance that he plays it like a block of ice, coldly and with the ultimate in jealous precision. Alone, he prances and mouths his words —and by the great Lord Harry, alone he would find himself on the film. It is this awareness of self that will, if not purged in - time, drive any actor who turns conceited into certain mediocrity. To exactly what degree Farley Granger has changed is something that at this point he alone knows. It is apparent that when he is not working in Hollywood, he likes to get out of town, or, better, out of the country. This may be just an earnest desire to bone up on foreign culture. It is apparent that Farley doesn’t have as much fun with Hollywood people as he used to have. It might be that he has suddenly found them dull and tame—or it might be that he has just grown out of the playful age. Who, but Farley can honestly say? LTHOUGH it is not widely known, Farley has turned down pictures which have been selected for him by experts who have been in the business for a good many years longer than he has lived. And it must be admitted that these experts, with a stake in his earning pow- ers, would cut off their right arms before they would make a deliberate error that would detract from Farley’s future po- tential. In Farley’s favor in these in- stances, it must be realized that he, too, has a stake in his future, and that a man above that of all others. If, by exercising this judgment, he exposes himself to crit- icism, he must be mature enough to take it on the chin, holding his ground, without losing his head. : This is why it is time for a friend to ask Farley to take stock of himself and, by his own attitude, to destroy every vestige of doubt as to his worth. For when people begin, even idly, to question his behavior, the unrest which is created is as potent as outright accusations. Farley Granger mellowed Samuel Gold- wyn into his triple-whammy smile and captivated the hearts of millions of movie- goers seven years ago. He grew a mous- tache and all over America heartbeats quickened. He had his picture taken in the front seat of his first convertible, and | countless young girls sighed, “Gosh, I wish he were my guy.” ’ He skipped down the streets of Holly- wood with his favorite date and enchanted a sated town with his youthful enthusiasm -sometimes has to trust his own judgment ~ for living, and his ability to have a mar- | velous time just going to a movie. He acted the play and not the part, and spines tingled at the touch of his fingers on the flesh of the mass girlhood of the world. His hazel-eyed likeness has been hung lovingly on the walls of innumerable adolescent bedrooms, and has been the in- spiration for more gasps than all the | asthma of the universe. At the age of 22, Farley Granger had the | world by the tail, more homage in his daily mail than a king, a brighter future than | the son of the richest of the Du Ponts— and as many true friends as a man could | count if he totaled from now till the newest tree on earth falls from old age. Let us } hope that he keeps them all fair, square | and secure, for many many years to come. j He can do it. And he can destroy the whispered accusations of his inability by } being careful now. THE END |

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something sort of grandish (Continued from page 44) to practice his goif chip shots. The interior is equally lavish. The light- ing fixtures in the drawing room—it’s too romantic to be called a living room—are fitted only for candles. The butler’s pantry is so well-equipped with cabinets and counter space that it would delight the heart of an Army quartermaster. The master suite has a bath and dressing room for the lady of the house and a combined bath and dressing room for the gentleman. “Those first weeks after we moved in,” David says—“well, we were all slightly hysterical with our new sense of freedom. The children didn’t know where to play, in the nursery or in the sunroom. A few minutes in both and they’d rush out of the nearest door like mad, grab their bikes, and pedal furiously around the tennis courts. They were like three flaming . comets, and I knew we’d made a good choice with the house. It was for us.” According to Jane Wayne, “David went slightly nuts himself. This was just about the first privacy he’d known in eight years of marriage, and he wallowed in it. He spent hours singing in the bathroom, and whenever I wanted him, I’d have to search through the whole house. I usually found him reading in some new book nook. “As for me, I went closet-happy. I plunged into unpacking our possessions so fast that I lost track of which closet contained what. It’s taken me months to discover where I put things during that first flush of housekeeping.” The Wayne home life has now sim- mered down into a more orderly pattern. Grock, the French poodle, lives in a dog house in the service pantry. The twins share a bedroom next to their parents. Timmie sleeps in one corner of the nurs- ery near his Scotch nurse, Margo. Dense the day, Grock and the children play in the large playroom on the second floor. This room is done in red and white, two colors particularly gay and child-like. One end of the room consists entirely of windows, but instead of fussy draperies, Jane had it fitted with white shutters that can be tightly closed at night and during nap time. Jane also covered the floor with a number of fluffy red and white scatter rugs which can be easily picked up and laundered. Three straight chairs, two red toy chests for the girls, a small cabinet for Timmie’s treasures, and HE CHANGED HIS MIND Hollywood is an amazing place and | wander around popeyed in wonder at its technical facilities. But I've promised my- self never to make any permanent alli- ance or buy a home there.—David Wayne quoted by Irving Hoffman in The Holly- wood Reporter. one comfortable couch for the parent who reads bedtime stories complete the room. David and Jane love their new way of living. When they sit in the library, they’re filled with peace of mind. Jane looks up from her book at the walls and woodwork and lamps and upholstered pieces—all a soft shade of green, and she knows it’s just perfect—calm and relaxing. The Waynes, cramped for space for so many years, not only have a living room downstairs, but a living room upstairs. “Tt’s an extra bonus,’ Jane says, “I guess to compensate us for all those basement years in New York.” The room is pine- paneled, and is used for intimate family gatherings around the fireplace or for television showings. Actually, their household—once the residence of Frances Marion, the scenario writer—is designed for large-scale en- tertaining, the kind of entertaining typi- cal of Hollywood in the Rudolph Valen- tino-Pola Negri era. So far the Waynes haven’t had much time for parties, largely because David has starred in six pictures within one year. A few weeks ago, how- ever, they tried one small dinner. Wes David was making Up Front, he met Berti, the Italian actress, who of- fered to cook him a real spaghetti dinner. David was willing, and Jane was thrilled. They invited friends for morning tennis and set the spaghetti feast for one o'clock. Came one o’clock and Berti hadn’t ar- rived. Came two o’clock, and no Berti. The Waynes started to get uneasy as more and more people began popping in. By the time Berti arrived at seven that night, the Waynes had twenty-four guests, and the spaghetti dinner developed into a tremendous buffet supper. After the last meat ball had disappeared, David and Jane stood in the kitchen sur- veying their tomato-spattered walls. “Dar- ling,” David asked, “why is it that when we start out doing something, it always ends up double in size?” Jane thought for a moment, and then from the upstairs nursery, there wafted down the sound of Melinda crying. 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Applesauce! The Hollywoods is full of them. I can count a couple of fists full without half trying—and since I’ve got ten fingers, I'll rattle off ten right now, like this— Farley’ Granger, Tony Curtis, Howard Duff, Robert Mitchum, Victor Mature, Marlon Brando, Tyrone Power, Montgom- ery Clift, Stewart Granger—and yes— years don’t bother him—that latter day Barrymore himself, Errol Flynn! Every one of those charmers can make my heart do naughty nip-ups, and I’m not the only romantic gal in the world. But first, just what are we looking for? What is fascination anyway? Webster calls it, “enchantment; unseen, inexplica- ble influence.” I can say it with stronger synonyms: Fascination—masculine noun— is sex. It’s virility, mystery too, action, daring, danger and suspense. It’s charac- It’s charm, gaiety, sophistication, a flair. Its being thrill- ingly noble—and it’s being bad as a lead nickel, too. It’s personality—or, as we used to say in Hollywood, it’s “It.” Everyone of my ten terrifics has some- thing different but it comes up fasci- nation all the same. Take Farley Gran- ger—and I think every girl who reads this would take him, if she had the chance. She’d love to find out what’s going to grow out of this feverish faun-like crea- ture, what lurks behind his dark eyes, what it is he’s seeking so eagerly—so she could help him find-it. And me, Id like to help him myself. Farley Granger is like a Christmas box that arrives early—gorgeous on the out- side, but the thrilling surprise is to come when you open it, and you can hardly wait. Farley couldn’t be more handsome, but that’s not why he’s at the top of my list. It’s his ravenous hunger to live and learn that makes him so super-exciting. Farley was mama’s boy, but he broke away fast to find out things for himself. He got his own house, collected his own romances, his own adventures, travelling alone far out from the cozy world he knew. He bucked not only the silver cord to do it, but the boss who made him—a tough, paternal boss that few fair-haired boys he’s fostered have dared stand up to, Sam Goldwyn. But Farley said “No” to Sam to fly, off to Rome and Paris—cities that can teach a young man plenty—and took suspension to do it. He didn’t come back until money ran out either, and $2000 of it ran out collecting paintings; so that he had to borrow $100 eating money from Shelley Winters until his salary check came in again! I used to tease Shelley when that gay fireball was first teaching Farley to love and laugh, wising him up on women and their ways. “How’s that Boy Beautiful you're bringing up?” I’d ask her. I pulled that the other-day* and she came back, “Don’t you worry about Farley. He’s no boy, he’s all man—and right now he’s bringing me up, or wearing me down, I don’t know which. He wants to stay up all night and how can you catch any beauty sleep after five a.m.?” But Shelley, friend of mine, told me. like some other Hollywood girls too, isn’t fooling herself. She knows that Granger isn’t going moony and soft and getting married right away. Not even girls, at this point, can satisfy the craving he has for the things he still hasn’t savored—this boy who didn’t go to college, and got to be a star before he got east of Palm Springs. Farley Granger’s fascination is wrapped up in one wonderful word—Promise. He’s like springtime, ready to bust out all over one of these days—and if you don’t think that comes across as a potent oo eee me what does. ["s rough on the girls when a man out- shines them, but it happens whenever they buck up against a Hollywood male with a sexy wallop—and they’re likely to be all around you in Hollywood these days. Lois Andrews found that out not long ago—and the result was a new star with as much push and power as an F-80 Jet. I mean Tony Curtis. I ran into Lois, seems only yesterday, and heard her sigh, “Golly, I wish I owned a piece of Tony Curtis’ contract.” “Tony Curtis?” I puzzled. “Who in the world is that?” I’d never heard of the guy. Well, he was, Lois explained, just about the most wallopy hunk of young man she’d ever run up against and what had happened was slightly sensational. The studio had sent him along for the ride on a Seattle junket to open The Kan- sas Raiders. Tony had a bit in the picture —Lois, Scott Brady and Audie Murphy were the stars. But you wouldn’t have known it. “The mob passed us by like a taxi in the rain,’ grinned Lois. “And they almost tore the clothes off that Curtis. What has he got? Everything!” That’s a lot—but Tony has it—as I’ve since discovered, along with a million other sighing -girlsk—and Janet Leigh in particular. Men like him, too. The first time I met Tony was at a benefit. As he entered, I perked up in my seat and said, “Who’s that?” “And Pat Nerney, who’s Mona Freeman’s husband. and an old What’s more he kept telling me—in raves—for a solid half hour. “Heavens—you sound like you're in love with the guy,’ I kidded him. “I would be, you can bet, if I were a woman.” said Pat. And that about says it—for all the girls. What’s the reason? Sex appeal. The rugged kind. Tony has black curls you long to rimole and big eyes you'd love to get lost in. But back of them is a flinty fighter from New York’s East Side who’d just as soon shove | you over as look at you—if you got in his way. That’s his fascination, mixed with a surprising sweetness. Janet Leigh tells me that’s what makes Tony tops with her. “I ean’t say hello to Tony Curtis without getting a flock of flowers, or a present,” she protests—but not too much: That’s | true—Tony has good manners; he’s kind, thoughtful and tender. And when you mix tenderness with toughness—look out, la- | dies! Remember Clark Gable? | Now, that sounds like a pretty irresis- | tible dish of wolf, but in that department even Tony Curtis can’t match a certain quiet, unpretentious star who came on my radio show the other night. He arrived | on crutches with a beautiful blonde to help him on one side and Ida Lupino—in the sexiest gown I’ve ever seen her wear— on the other. I don’t blame her, with the competition, because when Howard Duff sat down at my broadcasting table I had | to ask the announcer, “Move him to an- other mike, please! I can’t settle down to my work.” There’s something about j that dangerous Duff that quietly moves in RS ae

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| | | | | on you—the minute he gets near. And believe me, Howard has moved in on some of the sexiest girls in this town. How come? Duff's no Adonis or per- sonality boy. He doesn’t go to parties—if there’s more than one other person pres- ent, meaning a lovely girl. But back of his piercing blue eyes there’s a come- hither which was described to me the other day by a very. beautiful, smitten and experienced star as, “the greatest physical magnetism I’ve ever felt in a man.’ When Howard played Sam Spade on the air, his voice was so sexy that girls who'd never seen him wrote him, wired him, called him and begged to surrender! Howard’s the pipe type, the quiet, re- flective, lonely soul with his books—it says here—and that makes every girl in town long to mother the poor bachelor, until they realize their feelings aren’t maternal at all. He’s patient and philosophical, slow but sure, and he seldom slips up. Maybe he did when he got those crutches. I asked Duff how it happened. “IT fell down some stairs,’ he said. “Sure you weren’t pushed?” I pressed. “Maybe by a pair of lily white hands when you got too close?” “T fell down some stairs,” repeated Howard. But back in those baby blue eyes I caught a fascinating glint. I wish I knew his secret, that sly one—but I don’t think I ever will, nor will anyone else. He’s keeping it where it does Howard Duff the most good. yn the other hand, Victor Mature is about as mysterious and secret as a brass band—yet to me Vic’s a fantastically attractive guy and always will be. I didn’t think so when I first met him. I thought then, “Migosh, why doesn’t some- body lead him around with a chain?” He looked and acted like a St. Bernard dog, OMe Bill Lundigan helps advertise a worthy cause. a clumsy clown falling all over himself. For two years I feuded with Mature. Then one day he called me and we patched up. I said ’d come up to his house. I never saw anyone so jittery. “Id like to look around your place,’ I suggested. “N-n-n-n-O-uh—it’s all torn up,” pro- tested Vic. Back home, I called him to say I'd enjoyed my visit. “But,” I had to ask him, “what’s happened to you any- way? You ought to relax. You acted like you had a redhead stashed away.” “As a matter of fact,” Vic blurted out, “T had.” You can’t help liking a character like that. Vic’s frank, he’s original, he’s never dull. He’s the hub of any party and wowing everyone around him. He’s got a big heart, loves everyone, especially if they're all mixed up. He set a war-buddy- of his up in business and it’s booming now. He’s a darling to his stepson—he kept two new cars out in the rain all last winter so the kid could have a garage playroom—and if he could remember to come home on time, he’d be the ideal hus- band to his wife, Dorothy. I don’t know any one at any studio who doesn’t love Vic Mature now. He’s become a rattling good actor and I think a very handsome man. Don’t think Cecil DeMille would have picked him for Sam- son if he couldn’t pull the ladies in. Still he’s the same guileless guy, who acts as he pleases, says what he pleases, lives as he pleases. He’s never conformed or changed his style—and that style to me is terrific. HERES another non-conformist named Bob Mitchum who intrigues me too— and about everyone else—but for a com- pletely different reason. Bob has the fatal fascination of a bomb with the fuse sput- tering. You never know when he’s going to explode and blow himself right off the map. Mitchum’s the most dangerous man Tve ever known around Hollywood. He’s suspense walking. He’s a haymaker cocked and ready to fly. He’s a rogue male on the loose, and yet he'll never hurt anyone but himself. That belligerent, mocking dare which comes at you on the screen is real. He could go back to driv- ing a truck tomorrow and be just as happy —maybe happier—than he is as a Holly- wood star. He’s told me, “I’m just here between freight trains.” Once I asked him, “What do you think would have hap- pened if you hadn’t wandered to Holly- wood?” “Oh, Pd have wound up in the poor- house—where Ill wind up anyway.” Bob has flouted every Hollywood taboo. He’s punched producers in the nose. He’s shocked interviewers silly with too frank details of his rambling past—his hobo WHAT IT IS... Lavoris is a safe, efficient, _delightfully refreshing mouthwash and gargle designed to help maintain the mouth and throat tissues in a clean, wholesome and more resistant condition. WHAT IT DOES... Lavoris coagulates, detaches and removes much _ germ-harboring, odor-producing debris—freshens the breath and tones the entire oral cavity. This thorough cleansing.and invigorating action aids the natural resistance of the tissues. Tangy Cinnamon-cloye Flavor GOOD MOUTHCARE

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her dinner. Afterwards, he was more in- terested in escorting the publicity man home than he was Liz—and that was when Elizabeth Taylor was mighty pretty and unattached. I had a dinner date with Monty Clift one night at Lucey’s. He showed up im- peccably dressed. But the minute we got back in a booth, he asked, “Can I take off my coat?” I nodded—he rolled up his sleeves, jerked his tie and grinned. “Now,” he said, “we can get going.” We did—and I found out why it takes $100,000 to lure Clift to Hollywood for a picture. “I’m lazy,” he said. “I like to loaf, I want to travel and bum around. If I don’t do something right now [Ill catch myself breezing away.” That’s not Brando. He’s wrapped up in his work. Where Monty loses himself in the Maine woods between pictures, Mar- lon goes to school. I met him first on the set of The Men. When I talked to him he didn’t answer—just stared off into space. “Run along, Sonny,” I snapped, “youre no good to me.’ He came to. “Oh,” he said, “were you talking to me? I was thinking about my next scene.” And you know, I knew he was and I couldn’t get mad. Neither Marlon Brando nor Monty Clift will ever want for women’s sighs. Both keep walk-up flats in New York, and have to move periodically to hide from girls who break in the doors. They’re both virile, and they’re both brilliant. But how can you ever crack their indifferent shells? That's what millions of females are dying to find out, and that’s exactly why they’re two of the most fascinating, though eccentric, males anywhere around Hollywood. B™ do you have to be a character these days to be charming? Not necessar- ily—look at Tyrone Power. There’s as PLEASE! Thousands and thousands of crippled ‘ children look to you for help at Easter time. The proper care now will help | them stand on their own and grow | | up strong. So lend a hand, won't you? Give now, during the 18th Annual Easter Seal Appeal. GIVE NOW! The National Society for Crippled Children and Adults, Inc. Chicago 3, Illinois WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT IT? WHAT DOES SCIENCE KNOW ABOUT IT? WHAT DOES AWVOWE KNOW ABOUT... from Another World I HOWARD HAWKS’ fhstouneh MOTION PICTURE RKO FOR PERSONALITY HAIR-DOS GOLDEN GLINT Hair Rinse glamorizes hair styles by tinting your hair the romantic shade most flattering to you and your new "‘per- sonality’ hair-do! Makes sure, too, that dull, drab hair doesn’t dull your coiffure! Use i Golden Glint after each shampoo for Ci glorious color, life, lustre, and dancing highlights in your hair. Leaves hair silky, | mangeable; is not a permanent dye. t Choose from {| tints or colorless Lustre Glint. 10¢ and 25¢ packages - everywhere GOLDEN GUI

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: year-old beauty, Jean Simmons, off her feet and marry her is romantic enough for me. Jean is Britain’s loveliest, their Eliz- abeth Taylor. Any beau in the Isles would have given his tea ration and title to marry her. But Stewart captured the prize. Right now, after King Solomon's Mines, he’s the hottest male star at Metro. They're aiming him shamelessly to draw in the ladies in their choicest romantic parts—and they aren’t aiming wrong. Yet Stewart Granger’s no lace cuff laddie. You don’t have to take my word for that. He sweltered and risked his neck half a year in Africa along with the rest to make King Solomon’s Mines. Dick Carlson told me how Stewart slapped down a cobra without batting an eye in one chilling scene that you saw. And when the movie _safari was over, what did Granger do but pack up and join a real big game safari for another two months of tangling with lions, rhinos and bull elephants. He was too busy shooting pictures the first time to get the risky action he craved. I think he'll do as a fascinating Hollywood man of distinction—without the highball. Well—I knew when I started this fasci- nating business I’d never get past the Irish—so sure enough, here I am winding up with that disarming guy who started me off on this ramble in the first place. I never know whether I want to kiss Errol, or kill him. OF couRSsE, Flynn’s a scamp. Of course, he’s ruthless, conceited, spoiled, dis- dainful. Errol should have lived in the Sixteenth Century. He’s a buccaneer at heart—and what a pirate he’d have made! They'd all have walked the plank, you can bet, at the point of his swashbuckling sword—but he’d have sailed off with the beautiful maid. Errol’s selfish. He pleases only one person—Errol. When his baby | SAW IT HAPPEN During the Be March of Dimes campaign, my friend said to a man who made a contribution, “You know, you look like Charles Boy- er.’ The man looked amused. “Come to the Cas- bah® with me,’ he began, and he went through the whole scene from the picture. My friend played along. When he left, she said, “He does a perfect imitation of Charles Boyer.” A passerby overheard. “He ought to,’ he said. “He is Charles Boyer.” Geraldine Shay New York City was born, he didn’t even show up at the hospital—yet, today when ten-year-old Sean is interesting, he adores him. Errol lived across the street from me when Lili Damita was his bride—and I used to have to smother nights with my windows shut to keep out the noise of their battles. Yet he let Lili take him for his bankroll when they split up. He discarded little Nora Eddington like the deuce of hearts—yet her - parents run his Hollywood house today and they love him madly. He’s had girls, girls, girls, girls. They won't leave him alone, because he won't leave them alone either. He could have married Barbara Hutton if he’d wanted to. He knows all the countesses and heir- esses in the world. Doris Duke’s a chum. He’s lived chronically beyond his means, yet he’s never married for money. He’s been broke and in debt—but he’s always lived like a lord, yachts and everything. He stocked his place with wild game once, at a fabulous price. He dresses like the Duke of Windsor. I asked Errol once, “Why for heaven’s sake, with your rich tastes, do you marry all those poor girls? You don’t have to, you know.” Flynn shrugged charmingly. “I love ’em,” he said, “and when I love ’em I want ’em and so I marry ’em.” - Well—there’s something about a man like that—that you go for. Don’t ask me why. But I’m a woman and I say it’s true. He’s got something. Dashing’s the word for Flynn I suppose. Handsome—of course. Sexy—sure. Impulsive—naturally. I hard- ly knew he was out of love with Prin- cess Ghica—and I wonder if he did either —hbefore he was engaged to Pat Wymore. Call him a cad, a cavalier, a cocksure conscienceless character out of a paper- back novel if you like—but never call him dull. And if he lives to be a hundred (which wouldn’t surprise me a bit) he'll ~ still be in there chasing romance, even if he’s pushed in a wheel chair. Not too long ago, there was one of those parties at my house and along toward the end I spied a dainty purse, left on the sofa. At the same time I spied it, Errol did too. I looked at Flynn; I looked at the purse. “Maybe you’re missing some- thing,’ I said. He was engaged to some- body then, I’ve forgotten who. “Excuse me, Hedda,’ bustled Errol, snatching the perfumed handbag, “T’ll be right back.” In a minute my cocked ear caught the. roar of a motor as a car raced away. He didn’t come:back. I didn’t ex- pect him to. Jack Barrymore would have loved that. I know I did. 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And by the end of the party, they’d gotten enough advice to cover a dozen houses. The Bob Cum- mings’, thinking of their own experiences, offered sympathy. Their own home’s | been under construction for too, ,hmany months to count. The David Waynes joined forces with Kay and Brod Crawford and it was old home week in Ciro’s corner booth. All you had to do was look around to dis- cover that Ciro’s seemed to be a haven for Hollywood’s happily marrieds. Watching Vera-Ellen and Rock Hudson whirl around the dance floor, the match- makers were certain that before long they'd be waltzing down the aisle. Now, of course, they’re not so sure. Speaking of matchmakers, well—we all had a field day. Why not? Take the way Piper Laurie and Dick Long were gazing into each other’s eyes. “Scoop!” we thought. But Beerman and Parry, our photo friends, did their best to break it up. “Piper,” they kept declaring to that gorgeous redhead, “we love you.” A few people away were John Agar and Gloria De Haven. 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Producer Hal Wallis, George T. Delacorte, Jr., and Alan Ladd pose for the Paramount news- reel camera on the set of Quantrell’s Raiders. Somebody said she was there to meet Bob Neal, but if so, how come she left later with that handsome agent, Charlie Feldman? Everybody kept asking who Ruth Roman was with. They even asked her, but she just grinned in a pagan sort of way and departed for a late date (who may well have been radio executive Mort Hall, the man she married on December 17 in Las Vegas). Talking about pretty women—they weren’t all movie stars. There was Mrs. Pat O’Brien who arrived on the arm of her great Irishman. She should know that there is a Moprern Screen editor who says he’s never going to marry because he can’t find a woman as lovely as Mrs. Pat. This boy is really in trouble. He is also simultaneously in love with Dinah Shore who is so completely Mrs. George Montgomery. ‘Dinah, chatting underneath Hedda WHopper’s sensational hat which was only slightly smaller than the Holly- wood Bowl, looked as lovely as one of her songs. Okay, okay. So all the ladies were pretty. Take Esther Williams, who, as always, is right up there in the top ten in popularity. She retired to a booth and acted as if she’d just met Ben Gage ten minutes ago. And speaking of such kin- dred subjects as who has a crush on whom, the cigarette girl at Ciro’s has one on John Derek. “Too bad he’s married,” she moaned, “but he couldn’t have found a more attractive girl than Patti.” And so it went, far on into the evening, with the orchestra playing and the huge room looking like a mink coat version of the subway rush hour. It wouldn’t be fair to say that one girl was prettier than the next, or one guy more exciting. Everybody did agree, though, that the nicest thing that happened at the whole party was the arrival of Dixie Lee Crosby. Looking sweet and lovely, she arrived with Mrs. Lyn Howard, wife of the famous sportsman who is Bing Crosby’s racing stable partner. Modest Dixie sat quietly in the corner greeting old friends while Bing was still working overtime on the set of Here Comes the Groom. ‘Twas a gay and gala night, friends. Like we said in the beginning. You should-’a been there! GUEST LIST So many people gathered to honor June Allyson and Alan Ladd at Louella Par- sons’ party that the editors can’t resist presenting their names with thanks for helping make the evening a _ happy occasion. 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Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Taurog, Bob Stack, Estelle Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Thompson, Vera-Ellen, Shelley Winters, Lew Wasserman, Mr. and Mrs. David Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. James Whit- more, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Wald.... If we missed anybody it’s just because the pencil wouldn’t travel fast enough on the note paper. Happy party—and see you again next year! THE END | found my way (Continued from page 58) a foxhole in the sand without getting hit. And after that, I didn’t mind at all that every time the tide came in, water not only slopped over the edge, but welled up from below as well. If I could exult in the bathtub of a fox- hole and moan in a convertible, wouldn’t it be better to adjust myself to accept life so it wouldn’t continually either throw me or thrill me? Why not try to establish a level of well-being inside? And just about the time I made this startling dis- covery, I realized that I had heard it said differently, and better, ever since I was a kid. “Happiness comes from within,” is the way it went. I decided to try to make that my way. I had a great chance to try it out when I got back to Hollywood, Rena Morgan, whom I had first seen as a teen-ager at Schwab’s drug store on Sunset Boulevard (she says I couldn’t “see” her then) and later met and fell in love with when she visited Quantico, before I went overseas, was waiting for me. We went to the Mo- cambo where I proposed to her. We went to Huntington Beach where a priest, who is an old friend of mine, married us. We went to San Diego where we honeymooned while I was waiting to get mustered out of the Marine service. And then we went to ‘Hollywood where my career was impa- tiently waiting for me... or at least I thought it was. Months passed. Nothing. A year. Still nothing worthwhile. We were living in a tiny apartment. 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This was the kind of place Rena and I decided we would have | to live in while I tried to make a fresh start in life . .. as a radio announcer or player, I hoped. As anything if it had to be. I wouldn’t come to this decision immedi- ately. I went to my agent first and sug- gested, a little regally, I’m afraid, that he arrange a personal appearance tour for me. He pulled the props right out from under me. He pointed out that it had been several years since I had been in any important picture and thus I had no identification worth anything at the box office. I had not had enough stage work to be sure of presenting effective entertainment as an act, so I would impress few people and instead of helping the commercial value of my name, would probably wash it out altogether. No, I had but two choices. Start fresh some place else, or just hang on in Hollywood until there was a call for me.... “From a studio, you mean?” I asked. He shrugged. “From a studio, or . . ; from a service station to help pump gas,” he said. “I'll keep after the studios. You keep your eyes open for the other.” That was cruel, maybe, but it was honest. He is still my agent and that’s why he’s my agent. But that was when the New York idea was born. It had to be that or the gas station . . . and if we hadn’t the money for the New York trip, it could have been the gas station and I wouldn’t have blown my top. It turned out to be neither. It was Pinky instead. I had my fresh start... . CTUALLY, John Ford, the director, wasn’t completely satisfied with me in the test I had to make for the picture. But he was able to put his finger on what displeased him. It was my hair. He was certain I would do if it were cut more severely—a semi-butch. But supposing he hadn’t bothered to figure it out, or it just didn’t strike him? Or, supposing Darryl Zanuck, head of 20th Century-Fox, wasn’t the kind of man to take a gamble with a production of the importance and scope of Pinky? 3 | Nine times out of ten, for a top role like this, a studio head would insist on either a brand new face or a big name actor. I was neither. Well, I would have let my ‘career hang on such a detail, but not’ my happiness. Rena and I have both decided that the one must be kept apart from the other; otherwise a person’s real life be- comes a sort of football, kicked here or there by the winds of fate. Right from the start, life can give you a see-saw ride emotionally if you can’t find ‘your own balance. I remember a day in Syracuse as_a kid when I felt great until a chance remark suddenly took all the joy out of me. I was || fifteen and was going to visit a high school girl friend who was recovering from ill- white spats, chesterfield coat. black Hom- burg hat (which I purposely kept on) and white silk scarf tied Ascot style. Boy, I felt sharp! I felt so sharp I didn’t even notice her aunt who was visiting as well and was standing to one side. But I heard her the next second. She sort of gasped and blurted out,-“Oh, my! What’s this?” The next second she caught herself, and smiled sweet welcome, but it’ was too late. Her exclamation has punctured me. I mum- bled my way out of there in less than a minute to drag myself home. It can happen even more quickly than that. Once, as a younger kid, I picked a fight with another boy. I wanted to exalt As I walked into: t Pieri: myself in the eyes of others. I thought it could only be done through physical combat. I was lucky. I landed a punch and the other kid went down. The second when my fist hit a sense of triumph flashed through me, but the next second I heard the side of his head smack against a rock and I was horrified. I knew that instant, instinctively, that I had done nothing for myself, nothing. I knew that outward events were not to be trusted; that what- ever I sought had to come from within not from without. The incident faded away but the impression was there, and there were many times when it had its effect on me. I have never picked a fight since. When I made Pinky a lot of praise came my way for which I was, and still am, grateful. But I was also prepared for the opposite. I think that from now on I al- ways will be. After all, there were almost ten years of ups and downs in Hollywood for me before Pinky. And there had been uncomfortable times prior to that. Because I had gotten into radio early back in Syracuse, speaking lines when I was hardly ten, I was supposed to be a boy wonder. I remember the boy wonder growing up a bit and finally getting a regular announcer’s berth and then pro- ceeding to bog up the whole works of the station. Why had I swallowed whole all the praise that came my way just be- cause I had managed to utter a few well rehearsed lines without a mistake? The minute this happened I was placing my well-being in the hands of others. And when I proved to be a boy mess instead of a boy wonder in the face of real pressure, the crash was awful. I no longer want to be a boy wonder, or a man wonder either, for that matter. I think life is better evened out a little. York aboard a transport at night off a beautiful tropical island (Ulithi, it was, this time I have in mind) and the sky shines with star-glory. Nothing could be more peaceful, more inspiring. The next morning you're pitched into a_ hellish inferno with death smashing out the lives of. fellows you’ve lived and laughed with. Ten of us fellows gave a show aboard the transport that night I speak about. With- in two weeks six were dead; the guitar player, two of the comedians, the singer. .. . Who can pick out when to laugh and when to cry from that which happens without? On Okinawa one afternoon I was flattened out on a hill under fire when I turned around and saw Leif Ericson next to me. He was in the Navy, but had come ashore for observational photographs. “Hello, Willie,” he said casually. “Hello,” I returned. “What are you do- ing here?” “I’m beginning to wonder,” he replied. The next time I saw him was when we both worked in Mother Didn't Tell Me, with Dorothy McGuire and June Havoc. The contrast was a little odd. I think a fellow needs help to accept. what each day can bring. With the help of the faith I was born in and with the help of my wife I think I am beginning to learn how. I knew Rena only a few weeks before I sailed for the south Pacific. I proposed to her the first night I got back. I proposed because I had never really left her—or rather, she had never left me. For two and a half years, she wrote me almost daily about everything imaginable, about a lot that might seem to you like little things; yet heat, rain, sweat, aches and all the deadly monotony between fight- ing would disappear the second I opened one of her envelopes. It was actually like leaving one life and slipping into another, one that made sense and had warmth and in which only we two lived. Do you blame me for saying that it’s the one I want to continue to live in always? THE END) eis, “4 ri

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‘| cried for you’’ ye (Continued from page 51) Without triumph, more, but with quiet determination, she resisted every appeal. “No, Nicky, no!” The words were spoken quietly, firmly. The next morning, without consulting her parents or best friends, Elizabeth Hilton asked her studio to an- nounce that she would sue for divorce. When I was called with the news I was neither shocked nor surprised. As I have said in earlier MopERN SCREEN stories, keeping an unhappy death watch on this marriage, the end seemed to be in sight but everyone hoped for a miracle. Remember, I watched Elizabeth grow up. I could forgive anyone for not telling the real truth when the most important emotion in life is involved. The fact is that only a few days before the abrupt an- nouncement came that Elizabeth had asked her agent and attorney, Jules Goldstone, to file papers, I had talked with her mother. Brief hours before, Elizabeth had told me, “T love Nicky.. We won’t divorce. Some- how we'll work it all out.” Elizabeth’s mother and I talked about her daughter’s old room. It had been re- decorated. The walls had been repainted in soft grey, to match the carpet which had been dyed a deep burgundy. “Then you did expect the breakup?” I’d asked. “Oh no,” Mrs. Taylor had assured me, “We had to dye the carpet a dark color. There were spots where Elizabeth had tried a little unsuccessfully to train her dog. We had no idea that this would happen. We hoped that the problems would be settled.” Then Mrs. Taylor refused to tell me I cannot find it in my heart to blame her. She has been wrongfully ac- cused of trying to break up the marriage. Her one job now is to help rebuild Eliza- beth’s health and spirit. So it is that Elizabeth did go back to her old room at home. New closets were built to hold all the clothes she had bought with such pride and high hope. Everything was changed, except for the big, worn teddy bear of her childhood.. He sat on the edge of the bed as always, his arms open in comic welcome. A™® what of the beautiful wedding gown? That bitter memory, packed in a trunk with the vow that it would never be opened until Elizabeth should give away a daughter of her own, now rests in a dark room at Bekins Storage Company. No one relishes the recording of so dismal a commentary on modern marriage, yet sometimes the doors to these dark rooms do open and sometimes love is reborn. Can this be so with Nicky and Eliza- beth Hilton? Well, for one thing I recall my own words printed on these pages: “Whether they are together or apart, they’ll still be in love!” Now, however, the unconsciously cruel “little things” enter into the picture. Things like that occurrence of an evening not long ago when Elizabeth’s brother, Howard, and some friends dropped by the house. Some- one picked up a leather book and asked, innocently, “What’s this?” Liz looked up, caught her breath and replied, “That is a picture book—the story of our wedding.” Silence fell. Someone laughed in em- barrassment. Then Liz joined in the laughter to show that she could take it. Somehow, the false bravery every woman must summon to her aid in cases like this is a little pitiful. I was a visitor at Metro the day after the marriage failure Was admitted. Everyone joked about the title of the new Elizabeth Taylor picture, Love Is Better Than Ever. At luncheon, Liz came into the commissary, trying to appear unperturbed. I knew that although she had not missed a day on the set, outwardly appearing to be her old gay self, she was actually in deep depression. : But here in the midst of co-workers she was playing a double part as her character in the picture, and as the girl who had put part of her private life out of mind. I sat down at the luncheon table with Liz and we talked casually. Someone spoke about a red dress the studio wanted to give her—one modeled after her dance costume in the picture. Liz said, “I won’t be needing another new evening gown. I don’t expect to be going out very much.” That is true in the extreme. For one thing, Liz is not at all well. She lost twenty pounds on her honeymoon; not, as we know now, from happy excitement but from steeling herself against the many bitter quarrels. Every day now, Liz goes to the doctor for liver and vitamin shots. She has gained back a few pounds, but her nerves are on edge. In fact, some of her friends are worried that she may col- lapse. Liz doesn’t think so. “All I want to do is work,’ she says, “and I never want to travel again.” A§& I once wrote hopefully that this mar- riage would right itself, I now must record a more dismal picture. Elizabeth Taylor is no longer the girl Nicky Hilton married. She is a wiser, if sadder woman. Nicky, despite outward appearances, is the same carefree boy in my private opin- ion. Only the barest chance exists for a permanent reconciliation, for although it is possible for a woman to change abruptly through sudden shock, a man’s emotional set-up is more deeply rooted. For Nicky to change so that Liz will be convinced that change is permanent, for him even to be able to fully realize how different she has become, seems well nigh impossible. Yet there is that chance. In California, there is a year’s period of grace between the first and final decree of divorce. This provides a year during which the man and wife may reconsider. In this modern age there is much wink- ing at California divorce law. Some peo- ple even rush off to Mexico and marry again before the decree is final. Then there is the exception, as in the case of Shirley Temple who during this entire period kept herself above reproach. I am certain that Elizabeth Taylor will follow the same pattern. Meantime, plans have been made for her to take a house at Malibu in early spring. Elizabeth used to live there during every summer season and loved it. Now, however, her friends are scattered. Such old buddies as Marsh Thompson are mar- ried. Dick Long, another casual boy friend of those days, is off for the Army. If one can imagine it, Elizabeth Taylor is due for some lonely hours. True, there will be many men who will want to help her for- get, but they will be older, much older. The young men, Nicky Hilton among them, will be headed for service. As this is written, Elizabeth Taylor wants nothing from her husband. No ali- mony, no favors, only to be left alone. I think the best commentary on the situation comes from a friend of the Taylors’ who said, “I never saw anyone try harder to make a go of marriage than Ekizabeth, and it will be months before she can regain her emotional stability enough to think clearly. For this reason I hope that they don’t try a reconciliation now. 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I want something that’s secure at the bottom as well as the top.” “May I suggest this one?” The sales- man pointed out a dainty job. “Won't do,’ said Esther. “He could tear it to shreds.” | Loftily the man said, “Madam, have you ever thought of training your child?” Esther squinted at him. “How many children do you have?” she said. The man drew himself up. “I,” he said, “am a bachelor.” So Esther found a dealer who had five children, and a Benjie-proof firescreen was ordered forthwith. ; The next morning she woke to find the whole house shuddering. “Go back to sleep,” said Ben. “It’s only a bulldozer.” “That’s what I like about you,” said Esther. “You’re so lucid. What are we doing with a bulldozer?” “There are two bulldozers,” said Ben. “And how else do you expect us to have a driveway through those trees out front?” The door opened then, and a stranger poked his head into the room. “Good morn- ing,” he said cheerily. From the depths of their bed, Esther and Ben looked at him blankly. “Tm the electrician,’ said the man. “You're having a heater put in here. Sorry. Got to get to work.” HE workmen became fast friends of the Gages. Esther and the carpenters had one great thing in common, and that was a love of fine woodwork. The Gages had put their big Dutch cupboard (circa 1700) into the house long before they moved in themselves. It was set along the wall of the immense living room, and day after day Esther watched with delight the workmen’s reaction to it. They never passed the cupboard that they didn’t run their fingers over it lovingly. “Our house,” she had told Ben, “must be built around that cupboard.” That meant gracious living and above all, comfort. Esther wanted a house that spelled “home” the minute the front door was open, and in a few instances she had to fight to make it that way. The uphol- sterer who made her window seat, for in- stance, put up a battle. He brought the seat and the cushions that went with it, and placed them carefully in their niche, the cushions standing primly upright. “How’s that?” he said. Esther marched to the window where she picked up the cushions and uncere- moniously jammed them into corners. “Just fine,” she said. “But you can’t do that,” he said. “They’re supposed to stand straight up.” “Not in my house,” said Esther. This same man was given carte blanche to make a lamp from a large crock and a milking stool. When he brought it back, crowned with a huge lampshade, it was a breathtaking masterpiece. Advertisement Every Rosie, Jane and Mable enjoys a march around the breakfast table when DON Mc- NEILL, the happy housewife’s delight, issues the famous call to ABC’s BREAKFAST CLUB every Monday through Fri- day at 9 to 10 AM (EST). JOAN LANSING Listeners from coast-to-coast have told me about the wonderful feeling they get when this happy-go-lucky lad sets them to starting the day with plenty of bounce. 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Buy Anacin today. “But it isn’t right,” said Esther. The man bristled slightly. “What do you mean, it isn’t right?” “It’s too perfect,’ Esther said. “I want it to look as though I made it.” “Like that?” He pointed to an old lamp- shade on which Esther had tacked a red gingham border about five years ago. The material was falling down in spots. “Like that,’ said Esther. “And further- more, I’m going to keep it just that way. It has sentimental value, and besides, nobody could be uncomfortable with that staring them in the face.” The phone rang then. It was the studio calling, and in the middle of the conversa- tion an ear-splitting noise came from the back of the house. “Excuse me,” said Esther into the phone, and went to the open window. A moment later she picked up the phone again. “T’ll have to call you back,” she said. “A bulldozer just cut through a water pipe.’ Just then a wail went through the house and Esther looked apologetically at the upholsterer. “Now which baby is that? Oh, it’s Benjie,” she said, and left the room. When she returned she steered for the telephone. “I’m sorry,” she told the man, “but I have to call the doctor. Benjie has a fever.” The man sat down and lit a cigarette and while Esther was talking, Annie the maid came into the room and stood waiting for an end to the conversation. “Mrs. Gage,” she said, “there’s a man out back who wants to know where to aa the firewood, and one of the men says he can’t find the window glass for the dressing room, and somebody just knocked a bucket of paint into the pool, and ‘there’s a boy out front who wants to know if we're going to take any papers.” She spread her hands in a helpless gesture. “We don’t want any papers, do we?” The upholsterer ground out his cigarette and stood up. “Tell you what,” he said to Esther. “I can see your point. I'll take that lamp home and beat on it for a while with a hammer.” She saw him to the door, and looked past his shoulder to the driveway still be- ing shaped by bulldozers. “You know,’she said, “I’m worried about that driveway. It’s too big—too elegant.” The man smiled. “You can’t expect the driveway to look as though you made it.’ Besides,” he said, “with all the friends you'll have in this house, you'll need a highway out front.” “Thank you,” said Esther. “Just you go home and give that lamp a shabby touch.” When Ben came home from work late that night, he looked at Esther closely. “I know this sounds silly, knowing you as I do,” he said, “but you look a bit tired. I wish you'd take it easier.” “T’m all right,” she said. “I promise you —when the next baby comes—I’ll lie down, and Annie can bring me orange juice when I ring my little silver bell. Now, about that water pipe... .” THE END portrait of domergue (Continued from page 49) I wanted was comforting, not adventure,” she points out. You might say that Faith first discovered herself because of the lisp. She’d heard that if you were signed by a film studio they placed you in the hands of speech experts. She was fifteen and nearly her present height of five-feet-six inches, when she applied to Warner Brothers for a test without telling her parents about it. The talent head put his fingers in his ears when she talked but he kept his eyes open and that sold him. NLY a few weeks later her father, Leo Domergue, who is a car dealer in Beverly Hills, took a summer place in Bal- boa; and not two days after Faith got there with her mother she was invited aboard a sailing yacht for luncheon by some studio friends. She was child enough to inno- cently approach a man of about thirty-five who seemed lonely standing by himself. They talked about the weather, and about sailing and then she was called away. Later one of her friends asked Faith if she knew that the man shed been talking to was Howard Hughes. -“Oh, you’re kidding!” replied Faith, not too sure just who he was. At any rate, Howard Hughes proceeded to buy her con- tract from Warner Brothers, and held on to it for the better part of ten years. At RKO, where Hughes placed Faith, a voice expert by the name of Bob Paris went to work on her diction, using tooth- picks as mechanical aids. He built a sort of gate of them in her mouth to keep her tongue where it belonged, and set her to reading aloud. At the end of a year’s pushing against the barrier her tongue be- gan to stay put. She completed her regu- lar schooling iny the studio, and had stiff dramatic training as well. ‘ Then she was ready for her movie debut in Vendetta, which has recently been re- leased. She also married Ted Stauffer, a hotel man, after knowing him for 18 days. A separation swiftly followed. Faith says that her youthful marriage to Stauffer was a mistake for which they } were equally to blame, and that they both agree on this now. In 1947, more than a year after their separation, she went to a Beverly Hills party and met Hugo, an Argentinean movie director. She had barely entered the door, she says, when her gaze caught the eyes of a man across the room and she felt herself taking off from an everyday world for something far, far better. The eyes belonged to Hugo, of course, and she remembers that they not only seemed to be saying, “At last .. .” but that when he took her hand she knew he wasn’t going to let it go. Faith reports she finds herself still watching Hugo’s eyes these days when he talks to her. “He can be asking me why I didn’t send his shirts out to the laundry,” she says, “but his eyes will be saying, ‘What do I care about some old shirts as long as I have you?’” As may be imagined, the marriage re- lationship in the Fregonese household is on an old-fashioned basis. “I don’t wear the pants in our family,” says Faith. “I am wife and mother first, an actress after- ward.” When she was expecting Diana, Hugo, now with Universal-International, had contracts to fulfill in Buenos Aires. They decided that Faith should stay in Holly- wood until he got back. A few weeks alone was the most that Faith could take. With Diana’s birth still seven months off, she set out on what proved to be a nightmare flight to South America. In Puerto Rico she discovered giant water bugs in her hotel room, and sat up all night in the lobby. This sent her to a | hospital for three days. In Trinidad she | had to be carried off the plane on a stretcher and was treated by a Chinese | doctor. He was anxious to get her off the island fearing that without hospital treat- ment she would lose the baby. She dragged | herself aboard another plane, this time headed for Bellem, Brazil. In Bellem all passengers are required to | wait for medical okays before being permitted to enter the country—a _ pre- caution against malaria. Faith told the doctor she was simply too sick to bother, and again she had to be carried off, but this time Hugo was waiting for her. “ne 4 = a

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Her apartment is furnished in modern style. She dresses it as she dresses her- self, in soft tones touched off with bright spots. The day she met her husband she wore a black, dull satin dress, with red handbag and pins, and he remarked that she was the most feminine looking woman he had ever seen. She has since ordered three more dresses exactly like that one. fs general reputation rates her a person of quiet affability, with an im- pulsive way of talking. She complained to a writer once because his script had her nibbling at her nails while the man she loved was fighting the villain. “What would you do?” asked the writer. “Td jump in and chew his fingers!” On her recent personal appearance tours by plane she began faithfully to buy insur- ance on every trip from the speeial coin- slot machines provided for this purpose in Didja catch Colbert photographed on the wrong side of her face in that 20th news- reel? Couldn't yell at the cameraman either, who caught her curtsying to the Queen, at the Command Performance of The Mudlark—Herb Stein in The Holly- wood Reporter. s the airline offices. But one day on a flight from New York to Cincinnati, it slipped her mind. Nearing Cincinnati the steward- ess announced that an emergency landing might have to be made because of a snow- storm. Faith cried back, “Oh, no! That isn’t fair. I forgot to buy my insurance!” Faith is a pet of RKO’s publicity de- partment because she accepts all arrange- ments for trips exactly as made: “She simply is an easy person to be with,” says Edith Lynch of the department, who generally accompanies Faith. “A com- fortable bed and an eyeshade when it is time to go to sleep is all she needs. Then I can keep the light on to finish my re- ports, or even read.” Faith spends a lot of time with Pamela Mason (James Mason’s wife), whose daughter, Portland, is about the same age as Diana. Pamela has all the scientific books on child-raising and Faith consults her a lot. One day she called Pamela about Diana, who seemed to stutter a little. Pam reported that this meant only that Diana’s tongue was trying to catch up with her mind. “Tsn’t that funny?” commented Faith. “My tongue was way ahead of me and used to hiss at people before I even knew: what I wanted to say.” When Faith was a child she had a habit of losing articles of her wardrobe—par- “ticularly those she didn’t like. She once wore a brand new coat just an hour before walking off and leaving it in a field. Pam reported that this occurs with little girls who don’t know what they want. Today Faith knows. She wants to spend most of her life in her little duplex apart- ment. When a writer recently told her that she didn’t seem so much an actress, as she did a happy wife, she laughed. “When you talk like that you make me feel I am a happy actress as well,” she said. 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When you meet her, you meet me.” When they finally returned to New York, Gordon landed a place in Ray Bloch’s radio chorus and a role in the Broadway production Junior Miss. The young Mac- Raes dined on steaks in the best restau- rants, were at home at a good address and went around in Cadillacs. This came to an end and they found themselves living part of the time with Gordon’s mother and part of the time with Sheila’s family. The future didn’t look rosy. Gordon finally landed a sustaining (non- sponsored, therefore not very lucrative) radio program. He loved the work. Dick Haymes and Frank Sinatra, who’d had that job before him, were really up there now. But instead of the name “Gordon Mac- Rae” being bandied about in celebrity cir- cles, it was lost in the Army three months later. “What's your first name,’ a sergeant barked at the new recruit that June day in 1943. “Gordon,” MacRae answered quickly. “Then what’s this A. Gordon MacRae here on this form?” Startled, Gordon answered, “Well, sir, my first name’s really Albert, but ’ve nev- er been... .” “You’re in the Army now. From now on youre Albert G. MacRae,” the sergeant informed him coldly. So Sheila followed Albert G. MacRae whenever and wherever she could—even when his intensive war-time training period allowed him only one hour a week with her. Not until Sheila was in a Hous- ton, Texas, hospital for the arrival of their first child did Albert G. MacRae get any special leave from his nearby base. And then it came only an hour before their daughter arrived. After that event it was two weeks before he and Sheila had enough time together to settle on Mere- dith Lynn as the baby’s name. Albert G. MacRae advanced from pri- vate to lieutenant. When he was dis- charged, he had spent some time flying the south Atlantic as navigator for the Military Transport Command’s C-47’s and C-43’s. HE Gordon MacRae who returned to New York was two inches taller than the one who left. He found his name all but forgotten. Not until he landed a sponsored show, NBC’s “Teentimers,” did people begin talking about him again. Then he got a part in the Broadway musi- cal Three To Make Ready. That brought offers from Capitol Records and Warner Brothers studio, both of which he accepted. But he was no overnight sensation and it’s quite possible he might still be trying to achieve success except for a teen-age girl, the daughter of an advertising executive. One night this executive unburdened himself to his family at his own dinner table. g ; The dignified American Association of Railroads, one of his firm’s most im- portant accounts, had never utilized the radio medium in their public relations campaign. Now suddenly they’d decided to try it. They wanted a dignified program presenting a young singer. Someone with unmistakably great promise; someone who “was now virtually unknown, who would develop along with the program. He had to be a clean-cut young American whose private life would stand the severest scru- tiny. Further, he had to be unbelievably versatile, able to sing the latest popular songs and the most demanding classics with equal ease. “Now just where am I going to find someone like that?” the executive de- manded of his family. “Oh, Daddy, get Gordon MacRae! He’s yum-m-m-ee!” his teen-age daughter ex- claimed rapturously. p “Who?” the man asked blankly. “Gordon MacRae,” she repeated, her face filled with blind enthusiasm. “Well,” thought he’d turn out to be another one of those crooners with limited ability. But I couldn’t face my girl again if I didn’t at least listen to her latest rave. Happily, I’m an indulgent father.” “So far Gordon has sung 54 completely different musical comedy, light opera or - operetta roles on “The Railroad Hour’s” winter shows alone. They've ranged from 19th century hits through the latest cur- rent ones were permitted to broadcast. The only criticism we get is that the show isn’t long enough. I’ve been in this business a long time but never be- fore have I seen a personality get so many letters which start out, ‘I’ve never written anyone like this before but ... Well, you can see he’s far more than fulfilled our early expectations of anyone.” — (5 mons first three pictures at Warner Brothers brought only a so-so re- sponse, but when Tea For Two came out in September of 1950, his fan mail zoomed him right up among the top three atten- tion-getters. The effect of The West Point Story hadn’t had time to show up at the time this was written. Now he’s making Moonlight Bay with Doris Day. Outsiders figuring conservatively esti- mate Gordon’s earnings for 1950 can’t be less than $250,000. He has followed in his father’s footsteps pretty well. At 29, he has provided his family with the same kind of luxury. Not the luxury of jewels and furs. Sheila, to whom he is so deeply devoted, doesn’t have a-fur coat and doesn’t care about having one. e wears rhinestones rather than diamonds. But they do enjoy a gra- cious, spacious home with their two daughters and one son. schools for those youngsters. There'll be wonderful trips to Europe and elsewhere. _And there'll be ample financial security for them all if Uncle Sam doesn’t decide he needs Albert G. MacRae more than Gordon MacRae. Gordon’s not working toward the day | SAW IT HAPPEN When Gordon MacRae was ap- - pearing on the stage of the Strand Theater, a little girl in the audi- ence called out loudly, “Mommy, can I go up on the stage?” Mr. Mac- Rae heard her and said, “Of course you can honey.” He knelt down, lifted her onto the stage, spoke with her, and then held her in his arms while he sang his next song. Sylvia Levin 448 West 57th Street New York City the executive says now, “I There'll be good ~ ST i ee

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Quite different from the man I saw at the factory work- ing so hard and at such a pace he couldn’t | relax.” So today Gordon MacRae, in the opin- | ion of a lot of people who should know, is the most relaxed, though busiest, per- sonality to hit Hollywood since Bing In addition to motion pictures, radio, | appearances, Gordon has appeared at more than 100 benefit performances in the past | cutting approximately aan | year besides | equal number of transcriptions for other | benefit and community drives to use in | their radio campaigns. His is a sane success story. the loneliest man in town recordings and personal | THE END | (Centinued from page 61) said simply, yet | tenderly, that in Howard’s absence she’d | found another boy friend. She was very sorry, she said, but she was now in love and had to take happiness when she could find it. The letter broke him up. After he read it, | the momentary shock was so great that he showed no reaction. At first he couldn’t believe it. 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After all, it’s been six years.’ In those six years, Duff has dated dozens of- girls, and practically all of them will tell you that, “He’s a strange date.” One actress says, “When you go out with Howard, the thing that surprises you most about him is his economy of speech. You get the feeling that he knows so much and that he really wants to talk, only there’s some- thing holding him back. He was born in Seattle, I know, and he’s not British, but there’s almost a British kind of reserve about him. “T understand that he was very much in love once, and I guess he was hurt because he somehow always manages to keep his distance, as if he’s not going to get burned a second time.” This restraint was something which Yvonne De Carlo never understood about Duff. After the war when he signed a con- tract with Universal, he and Yvonne began to see a lot of each other. 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