Modern Screen 1951-05 Vol. 42, No. 6

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Happily...M-G-M announces. .. A JOYOUS NEW ARRIVAL. . . THE BLESSED EVENT OF 1951..°FATHER'S LITTLE DIVIDEND! Ifs a boy...and a bundle of joy! The oh’s... the ah's...the laughter... will echo across the nation! M-G-M presents SPENCER TRACY JOAN BENNETT ELIZABETH TAYLOR | “FATHER'S LITTLE DIVIDEND’ (It's Funnier Than “Father Of The Bride” ) DON TAYLOR ° BILLIE BURKE Screen Play by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich * Based on characters created by Edward Streeter * Directed by VINCENTE MINNELLI ¢ Produced by PANDRO S. BERMAN A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE

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ET to split hairs” says model Ann Klem... _ ber camera curls stay free of broken ends witb the bob pin with the stronger, smoother grip. Soe Stop envying the hair-do’s of beautiful models! Your hair, too, can be always well-groomed. But be sure to use DeLong bob pins. The stronger, smoother grip means longer lasting curls... greater freedom from fuzzy, split ends. No wonder De Long is the “smart set” favorite! Yowre always “set” with De Long Hair Pins« : Curl Setting Pins ¢ Safety Pins * Hooks and Eyes = Pins * Hook and Eye Tapes * Sanitary Belts 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. Q. Is it true that Jane Wyman is re- sponsible for the breakup of the Ginger Rogers-Greg Bautzer love affair?— T. W., Cuicaco, Izt. A. There’s no truth to that at all, Ginger gave up Bautzer for Steve Cochran. Ginger and Steve co-starred in Storm Warning, and started dating steadily when they went to Miami for personal appearances. Bautzer there- upon began seeing Jane Wyman. @. I understand that Nancy Sinatra has agreed\to give Frankie a divorce if she receives a settlement of $5,000,000. True or false?p—C. R., Hartrorp, Conn. A. Nancy steadfastly insists that there will be no divorce. Q. Is it true that Rita Hayworth is running short of money, and that this is why she plans to make another film in Hollywood? —C. F., Wasu., D. C. A. That is one reason. The other is that her pictures are no longer being asked for by the movie-goers. Like Greta Garbo, Miss Hayworth has apparently stayed off-screen too long a time. 9. Why did Farley Granger fight with his producer Sam Goldwyn. and why did he take a suspensionr—sS. Y., Mip- VALE, Mo. A. Granger, whose pictures have been making a small fortune, felt strongly that at $800 a week, he was being- un- derpaid. One of the biggest box office attractions in the country today, he be- lieved that he should be given an in- crease if called upon to do exploitation - work in connection with his films. Sam Goldwyn has recently torn up their old pact and replaced it with a new five- year contract. Farley is getting a sub- stantial raise. “He thoroughly deserves it,’ says Goldwyn. “He is a_ hard worker and has done a fine job.’ This should make for lasting peace between them. @. Has Hedy Lamarr really retired ftom the screenP—U. O., CHARLOTTE, N. C. : A. She’s scheduled to appear in London opposite Rex Harrison in His Excellency. @. What is the real reason Judy Gar- land is getting a divorce from Vincente Minnelli? —T. R., Wasurvcton, D. C. A. She doesn’t love Minnelli any more. (Read the story of Judy’s new love on page 42.) Q. Is it true that Janet Leigh plans to drop Tony Curtis for John Agar? —S. R., Rockport, Me. A. At the moment she still refuses all Agar’s phone calls and invitations for dates. @. I understand that Liz Taylor’s ex- husband, Nicky Hilton, is furious about her going around with Stanley Donen. ’ How come Liz didn’t pick up with Vic Damone after her divorce? - —V. K., Brooxtyn, N. Y. A. Nicky Hilton isn’t at all furious about Liz and Stanley Donen, both of whom seem very. much taken with each other. The reason Liz didn’t-start dating Damone again is that he currently enjoys playing the entire field. | 9. Does Betty Hutton plan to marry shortly ?. If so to whom? —B. U., CHEYENNE, Wyo. A. Betty’s divorce won’t be final for another ten months. Right now she is going with a musician, Pete Rugolo. @. What is the first picture June Ally- son plans to do when she returns to the screen? —V. A., Hartrorp, Conn. A. Too Young to Kiss, with Van John- son and Barry Sullivan. ®. Who is this Duane Powell mentioned in the press in connection with Pat Neal? —C. N., Marion, S. C. A. The Duane Powell appearing in the press in connection with Pat Neal is the creation of a press agent. There is no such man in her life. In fact, right now she is not in love at all. @. Is Gary Cooper a Catholic? Is that why he and -:his wife cannot obtain a divorce? I hear that this marriage is in hot water. Please tell me the truth. —Y. F., Loutsvii1e, Ky. _ A. Cooper is a Protestant. His wife, Rocky, is Catholic. Rumors of their im- pending separation are, according to Gary, “absolutely ridiculous.” i t ba i aes ell De

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ALAN LADD 1 PHYLLIS CALVERT Alan Ladd blasts a million-dollar mail robbery wide open -.-aS an agent of the U.S. Mail’s crime- fighting service! EME jy GF iy faith was in his .45... until a good woman taught another AUTH I: Nil G - Based On Excitement-Jammed Cases From The Files Of The Post Office Department... In The Tradition Of 176 Years Of Crime-Fighting! Og : with 2S aie : PAUL STEWART - JAN STERLING - Jack Webb - produced ty rosear F£110Ws - directed by fae Written by RICHARD BREEN and WARREN DUFF - A Paramount Picture lj

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| | | WW a husband says “I’m sorry, dear’’— what more can he say?—and Jeff Chan- dler is saying that over, and over, and over again to his pretty wife. By the time you read this, I’m sure their surprising “separation” will be over, for it was a very penitent Jeff that Marjorie found following her return from New York where she had gone after walking out with the two children. For the two weeks she was away you've seldom seen a more miserable and depressed gent than Jeff. Even his Academy nomination for one of ‘the best supporting actors of the year in Broken Arrow wasn't enough to make Jeff smile. He wanted his wife and his chil- dren back more than anything else in the world. It isn't too wise to air the “reason” for their rift, particularly where a wife's pride is con- The Mudlark premiere brought out newlyweds Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons, here with press agent Sharman Douglas. Sharman is working on publicity for Jean's new film, Androcles and the Lion. Ann Blyth was one of many celebrities at the spectacular Mudlark premiere. Howard Also present were cerned, so let’s just say that Jeff made a mis- take, he knows it—and he’s sorry. And he is a big enough person to say so. Now it’s all up to his wife, the former Marjorie Hoshelle, at one time an actress at Warner Brothers. When she married Jeff eight years ago, she gave up her career because she thought his was more important, and when the two children came, she preferred to stay at home. They were ideally happy until the usual thing happened—big success for Jeff, who is now one of the most popular screen actors. With success came the flattery and attention that always goes with recognition. Well, young Chandler isn’t the first husband who ever made a mistake—and if his wife is as wise, and charming, and balanced as everyone tells me she is—I’m sure she'll take him back, with all past troubles forgiven. Duff came with his the Van Johnsons who are expecting a baby. mother and Ida Lupino. gi ese howl of the month is the University of Nevada's answer to the Harvard “Lam- poon’s” lampooning of Elizabeth Taylor. “What kind of men are they who notice whether luscious Liz is ACTING or not?” offi- cially asks “U” of Nevada. Speaking of this young lady, Elizabeth is going her own way—dancing and dining every evening with Stanley Donen, her direc- tor. Well, she’s free and you might say there‘s no harm in it, and in all probability there isn't. Only Liz—and it hurts all of us who have known her since she was a little girl—makes herself much too conspicuous. She and Donen neck in public all the time. Liz has been a well brought up girl, and this is not right. Apparently her mother, who used to have great influence on her, is no longer a factor

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in her life. When she became a married woman her money was turned over ito her care. So, now a gay divorcée at the age of 19, she has all the fortune her family saved for her in her own name. Liz, Liz, Liz—what is going to be the an- swer? : She has refused to sign a new contract with MGM, and apparently is going to lead her professional life as well as her private life in her own way. (Turn to page 30 for “Liz Taylor's New Romance’”—Ed.) HE Broderick Crawford marriage rift is serious, I'm sorry to say. When Kay first took her troubles to a lawyer, charging Brod with “dissipating their funds and disposing of joint properties,” I thought, perhaps, she was trying to scare him. Loreiia j for MGM. She is Liz Taylor and Stan Donen are much too her obvious .. . the Brod Crawfords finally split . . . Hollywood hus- bands enjoy an Adrian fashion show .. . Ava Gardner talks back to studio . . . Is Bob Taylor on the rebound? ...

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When you and your squire attend a wedding, should you— [|] Breeze up the aisle together Bewitched —and bewildered —by weddings ? All that formality needn’t panic you. When the usher offers his arm—take it, even if you've an escort. Your beau will follow you up the aisle. And if calendar “trials” menace your poise, you can dismiss them To cure a “videot” should you try— [|] The shock fechnique (_] The absent treatment = [-] Humoring the guy The lady’s not for burning the midnight oil —with a fella who’s in love with the family’s T.V. set! So? Consider the shock technique. Black out the video; then meet Dreamboy at the door with a firm “‘shall we go?” It’s worth a try! But it takes no effort, at certain times, to discover all 3 absorbencies of Kotex are worth trying. You'll find one so-o-o right for you—Regular, Junior or Super. [_] Take the usher's arm (_] Make it a threesome with Kotex. This napkin is made to stay soft while you wear it; gives softness that holds its shape. Nor need you quail at each casual glance, for as surely as those flat pressed ends prevent revealing outlines— Kotex can keep you blush-proof. If you’re collarbone-conscious, what helps? [.] Mermaid maneuvers [-] More upholstery (A library card Got a lean-and-hollow look around the collar? To add “upholstery,” eat hearty. Swim like crazy. And do this: Sit “tall” with a book in each hand, shoulder-height. Elbows back, slowly boost books toward ceil- ing, then lower them—20 times daily. Even on “‘those”’ days, you can boost your confi- dence, if you let Kotex help. Kotex has a spe- cial safety center; gives you extra protection. More women choose Kt OTEX : than all other sanitary napkins 3 ABSORBENCIES: REGULAR, JUNIOR, SUPER P S Have you tried Delsey*? It’s the new bathroom tissue We s that’s safer because it’s softer. A product as superior as Kotex. A tissue as soft and absorbent as Kleenex.* *T.M. REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. (We think that’s the nicest compliment there is.) LOUELLA PARSONS’ good news They have so very much to be happy about. After 11 years of marriage they were expect- ing their first baby. Their other child, a little boy, is. adopted. : When Brod was a Western actor getting little money, they got along fine, but now that he’s in the big money things have changed. Unfortunately, this is so often the case in our town. ; What's the trouble? A combination of things as I see it. Win- ning last year’s Academy Award for All The King’s Men seemed to set Brod off on a per- petual celebration, for one thing. He just couldn't seem to settle down from that big honor. Then, ironically, along came Born Yester- day—one of the really big hits of all time for everybody connected with it—except Brod! I happen to know he is very upset over his personal notices in this comedy. Judy Holli- day was nominated for an Oscar—so was the picture, the director and the scriptwriter. This was all pretty hard for Brod to take after winning last year’s Oscar. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that this marriage will yet work out. Kay has been a wonderful wife, and I can’t believe Brod will let her go, because he is really deeply in love with her. Ge Gardner, whose reputation for cooper- ation with her studio is double A-plus, for the first time in her young life kicked up her heels. That, perhaps, is pretty strong LRAT SSeS ES ) : i w < See Be ae BS = Italian actress Lia di Leo claims that divorce was the only solution after Bob Taylor met her. Barbara Stanwyck (top) got decree on Feb, 21.

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This 1-Minute Test Proves That LOUELLA PARSONS’ good news language as Ava—and everyone, the direc- tors, producers and actors with whom she works all agree—is soft-spoken and quiet, y and never makes a fuss. This time, however, she was justified—and surprise, surprise the studio admits she is 3 right! When it came time to read the script of Scaramouche, Ava found her part was | = little more than a bit. q i ; e , ou i ee “After Pandora and the Flying Dutchman and Show Boat, in which the Gardner gal has Pr eae beauty, sex and really shows dramatic abil- 1 | | ) ity, this was not what Ava had expected. | i : ER B } yi Well, I'll say for MGM that they saw things || ia 2 her way, and the script was re-written to her | complete satisfaction. R= Taylor's closest pal tells me that |) there is absolutely no new romance in | his life, even though his date with Sybil Mer- | ritt at that cute café, The Bantam Cock, had the customers winging with excitement. “Sybil had a date with another man,” Bob’s pal says, “and Bob just came along until her friend showed up.” He also reports that we need not get ex- cited when and if Bob starts taking out tennis champ, Nancy Chaffee. “They know and like each other, and enjoy playing tennis once in awhile,’ says Bob's pal, ‘but it's no romance, believe me. Take my word for it—after the smash-up of his 11 year marriage to Barbara Stanwyck, Bob's just not in the mood for love.” Didn't you ever hear of the rebound, fella? ID you know that Janet Leigh almost gave up Strictly Dishonorable with Ezio Pinza | because she won't dye her hair? The role calls for the heroine to be very blonde. Janet is a ‘‘brownette” and she refuses to dye for her art even to have fascinatin’ Pinza make love to her. The cameraman finally solved the problem. By placing strong lights in a certain way, Make this 1-Minute Test, today! Run he can photograph Janet’s hair to look like what it ain't—tres blonde. your tongue over your teeth. Feel that | filmy coating? Now brush with film- T least, Patricia Medina and Richard | - removing PEPSODENT for 1 minute. Re- Greene aren't choosing “rudeness” as : is of their divorce. (Most movie stars st. Notice how much BAS BREE © Peet the longue. te seem to think of nothing stronger than that cleaner your teeth feel? Your mirror hubby wasn't: njce’ to ance will show you how much brighter they 4 look! Only PEPSODENT with 1R1UM™ has this film-removing formula. Remem- ber: Brighter teeth are cleaner teeth —and less susceptible to decay! 7 ium is Pepsodent’s Registered Trade-Mark ag: for Purified Alkyl Sulfate. For that Pepsodent Smile— Use Pepsodent every day —see your dentist twice a year. Corinne Calvet and John Bromfield are greete: by Charles Farrell at his Racquet Club wherd the Foreign Press Association hosted a banque* 10

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The “Tissue Test” convinced Dorothy Lamour that there is a difference in cleansing creams. She’s co-star of the Cecil B. DeMille Production “The Great- est Show on Earth”, Color by Technicolor. We asked her to cleanse her face with her regular cleansing cream. Then to try Woodbury Cold Cream on her “immacu- lately clean” face and handed her a tissue. The tissue told a startling story! Wood- bury Cold Cream floated out hidden dirt! CLEANSES <SMOOTHS ( ( (, Woodbury — / || | Gold CGeam ‘lf (ntil she took the “tissue test’! Why is Woodbury so different? Because it has Penaten, a new miracle ingredient that actually penetrates deeper into your pores...lets Woodbury’s wonderful cleansing oils loosen every trace of grime and make-up. It’s wonder-working Penaten, too, that helps Woodbury to smooth your skin more effectively. Tiny dry-skin lines, little rough flakes just melt away. Buy a jar today—25¢ to 97¢, plus tax. ~ Woodbury Cold Cream i y x a LOUELLA PARSONS’ good news Pat, herself, told me that Richard thinks 4 she is a terrible housekeeper and doesn’t know how to manage a home. To an English- moan his “home is his castle’—so I suppose that did it. / One of their close friends told me that this is all true. _ “One night they were giving a dinner, party and everybody got there on time—only there wasn’t anything to eat. Pat had forgoi- ten to order dinner, or to tell the cook that guests were expected!”. — Personally, I’m sorry that Patricia and Rich- ard could not solve their life together. I think they are still in love. Perhaps they should have tried the marriage system originated by Fannie Hurst—stay married, but live under separate roofs. LIZABETH Dailey isn’t going to wait ior Dan to leave Menninger’s, as-she had previously planned, before getting her di- vorce. I ran into Liz at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, and she told me she thought the divorce would help rather than hurt him. “It's been hanging over both our heads like an axe,” she explained. “It’s better for Dan and for me if we take the final step in our separation.” T'was certainly an evening of misadven- tures on Linda Damell's first date with Eddie Norris. Eddie picked up luscious Linda at her home, and they started out over the new Freeway (speedway) to dinner at a Valley cafe. Seems Eddie got going too fast and our old friend, The Motorcycle Cop, sirened them io a stop. He asked for Eddie’s driver's license. Mr. Norris. patted his breast pockets, then his hip pockets—then an expression of sheer frustration clouded his face. “Oh no,” he gasped, “I left my wallet in my other clothes!” Luckily, Linda had hers—so she slid over behind the wheel. No wallet—no money. So Linda had io pay for their dinner, too! When she drove Eddie back to his house at the end of the evening, Linda took over full “‘escort’’ honors when she cracked: “And may I have another date soon? You've been so charming'” : Speaking of “dates’”—Arthur Loew, Jr. has a real crush on cute Debbie Reynolds. So he asked MGM's new 19-year-old singing, danc- ing darling to go stepping with him to the Cocoanut Grove. “Qooohhhh, I'd love to,” enthused Miss Debbie, “but I'm going to Girl Scout Meet- ings these nights.” of Roe: Adrian fashion shows and cham- pagne suppers (husbands invited) be- come more fun with each annual shindig. The bill-paying husbands are always lured by the promise of the gay champagne suppers after the show—but from the looks of them, I think they enjoy seeing the pretty clothes (and models) as much as their wives—even though the affairs are very formal, calling for black tie or full dress. ; Out of the corner of my eye I saw Ray Milland writing down his favorite gowns for his attractive wife, Mal, on her program. Jimmy Stewart didn’t mark a program—but when he. particularly liked - something, he

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Mercedes McCambridge chats with two models at.a fashion show in the Ambassador Hotel. leading California designers vied for honors. would lean over and whisper in Gloria’s ear, Sometimes I thought the gentlemen ap- plauded the prettiest model instead of the gown—but that’s doing what comes naturally, as the song says. Van Johnson sat in the front row with Evie, and his red socks with his dinner clothes attracted much attention. Among the swank onlookers I spotted the George Murphys, the Alfred Vanderbilts, Jen- nifer Jones and David Selznick, Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Loreua Young and Tom Lewis, and . the Joseph Cottens. Fashion tips? Well, Adrian’s summer eve- hing gowns are adorned with many artificial flowers, which I like. There are lots of ruffles and many short skirts in the cocktail and evening mood. I also like the tunic jackets; when they are removed the dress is sleeveless and very decolleté. The finale brought out beautiful printed chiffons with flowers. I'd say this is a flower year for fashions. Piper Laurie has never eaten a flower in pretty, attractive girl who is really going places at Universal-International. Piper came to see me and told me the “inside” on how the whole story started that she eats flowers! “It was a press agent's dream-up,” she ex- plained, “a tie-in with that Marigold Salad the whole family ate in Louisa. Honest, Miss Parsons, I wouldn't know the taste of a dandelion from a geranium!” She is so pretty no wonder Vic Damone and John Hudson, and other young-men- around-town vie for her dates. Vic really has a crush on her—or did when this was *| written. - She told me a really funny story about her family and Damone. It was their first date and Vic was coming to dinner. The folks have a tape recording machine—and someone is al- ways turning it on, recording the casual con- versation taking place. i Vic, detained at the studio, was very late ‘to dinner, Piper’s father cracked, “If that ; danged kid doesn’t get here soon, we're |} going to eat without him! When I was a || young man and invited out to dinner, I got \there on time.” It was recorded—and _ for- || gotten for the moment. You guessed it! After dinner, with every- ‘body so nice to each other, Vic saw the ma- ‘chine, re-wound the reel and got to the crack || about him just before poor Papa fled—his face Jt) tedder than a country barn! her life—and this comes straight from this Ne soap film! special rinse! ‘Soaping dulls hair Halo glorilies it! not a cream_ Gives fragrant Halo cannot leave “‘soft-water’’ lather Ky dulling, dirt-catching - _needs no Removes Cuan Halo leaves hair embarrassing’ ~ < soft, manageable dandruff from both S = cS shining with colorful hair and scalp! = 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! Halo reveals the hidden beauty of your hair!

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|| *=Highly Recommended *Recommended No Stars: Average by leonard feather FROM THE MOVIES AT WAR WITH THE ARMY—7 onda Wanda Hoy by Judy Valentine* (MGM). From a very crazy picture comes a slightly crazy song by a cute singer. Judy's ably assisted by the Quartones vocal group and Sid Ramin's orchestra. GROUNDS FOR MARRIAGE— Selections by Kath- ryn Grayson* (MGM). Available on all three speeds, this album of selections from the movie comes, like so many MGM collections, directly from the sound track.- Included are selections from Carmen as well as some Puccini and Rimsky-Korsakov. On the duet sides Gil- bert Russell, Stephen Kemalyan and Rich- ard Atckison offer vocal assistance. _ LULLABY OF BROADWAY— title song by Doris | THE _ MR. IMPERIUM—Lei Me Look At 1 | |, ROYAL WEDDING—7he Happiest Days Of My \| Day with Harry James* (Columbia); Tommy Dorsey (Decca); Andrews. Sisters (Decca). I Love The Way You Say Goodnight by Frankie Carle (Victor). MATING SEASON—/y Lost Melody by Monica Lewis (MGM). You by Clark Dennis (Capitol). Life by Buddy Morrow* (Victor). Buddy Morrow is the talented trombonist who's been getting a big build-up from Victor since Tommy Dorsey deserted to Decca. Nice vocal by Tommy Mercer. | POPULAR H , TREASURY OF IMMORTAL PERFORMANCES— series of six albums* (Victor). RCA Victor has just about covered mod- ern musical history, between its Red Seal “Treasury” releases, and: these six popular albums, the latter annotated by yours truly. There's a collection of theme songs, including the signature melodies of Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Charlie Barnet, Lionel Hampton and Louis Armstrong. ; “Dance Band Hits’ is a collection of such favorites as Glenn Miller's Song of the Volga Boatmen and Tommy Dorsey's Boogie Woogie. “Small Combo Hits" includes the Goodman Quartet's Stompin’ At The Savoy and Artie Shaw's Gram- mercy 5 in Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. "Keyboard Kings of Jazz” has Duke Elling- ton playing Solitude and Fats Waller's Honeysuckle Rose; ‘Folk Singers’ re- vives six famous songs by Vernone Dal- hart, Gene Austin and the late Jimmie Rodgers. You'll probably find the most interesting album to be the one combining three of the all-time greatest crooners: two sides by the late Russ Columbo, two very early Bing Crosbys, and two numbers cut a decade ago by Frank Sinatra right after he left Tommy Dorsey's orchestra. Oddly enough, they all still sound good! All these sets are available on either 45 rpm or on LP. ’ RHONDA FLEMING co-starring in The Redhead and the Cowboy A Paramount Picture le heen DIAMOND RINGS Match the radiance of your love with the shining symbol of your happiness ... a Crescent Diamond Ring. For a Crescent is the larger, more radiant diamond you ve always hoped to own... at a 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. Crescents are Larger, Lovelier Diamonds Cine Sze DIAMOND RINGS o“ Produced by the Creators of Famous Ve: Carat Keepsake Diamond Rings © about $350 CRESCENT DIAMOND RINGS A. H. POND CO., INC. 120 East Washington St. Syracuse 2, New York & Ya Carat about $200 Please send me the name of my nearest Crescent Jeweler and your special gift coupon offering the beautiful new Bride’s Book. © Ya Carat about $150 Names: sectoss Si ee a a These Prices Include Complete Be Ring and Federal Tax Stine: a ee a ee ee ee ee MSC 5-51 15

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modern screen in the news | | on-the-spot | ( | (| (| correspondent. 3 BY DAVID CHANDLER Robertino is a year old. Ingrid hasn't seen daughter Pia, for over two years. You’ve heard lots of stories about Ingrid in Italy. Here’s the true one, by MopERN SCREEN’S M@ Rome: Viale Bruno Buozzi is a wide, cireling street in the residential section of Rome, lined on both sides by tall apartment buildings. Except for the Italian signs over an occasional small shop, it might be an upper-level avenue anywhere in the world. Downstairs in building number 49, a door- man casts a carefyl eye on all callers, but that, after all, is what he would normally do even if the residents on the fourth floor were not Ingrid Bergman and her husband, Italy’s most eminent director, Roberto Rossellini. In Hollywood there have been many stories about the present state of Ingrid Bergman. For one thing, it was common knowledge that no one ever got in to see Mrs. Rossellini. “He keeps her,” said a friend just returned from Rome, “a virtual prisoner in a villa near the Italian seashore. There is a high wall around the place, and she is never permitted to leave.” “He is jealous of all her old friends,” someone else said. “When he learns you are from Hollywood, you'll be lucky if she even gets the message that you called. Rossellini will allow no contact between Ingrid and the outside world.” “Ingrid is bitter at the world after her recent experiences,” said another.. “She is not seeing anyone. She has been so shat- tered you’ can hardly recognize her. She walks around the streets of Rome and no one even knows it’s Ingrid Bergman any more.” ; The present writer, recently in Rome, de- cided to see for himself. He called Rossel- lini’s manager and said he was in town, mentioned a number of mutual friends, and was told that he would be called back “in an hour.” : As in the usual Hollywood fashion, the call, one could be sure, would not come for three or four hours at the least. And then it would consist of (Continued on page 92)

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| picture ES ab SS 3 = Dog-faces Willie (Tom Ewell) and Joe (David Wayne) are bu dies in Italy. They share fox-hole and rations, but they're sepa- rated in a bomb burst that wounds Joe. He is hospitalized. The MP's discover Joe has a stolen pass, and give chase. After many tangles with the spit-and-polish brass, the boys steal a load of black market supplies and head back to the lines. jovie reviews hy Clouitiphen Lue SSS Willie goes to town to sneak Joe back to combat. There he finds Joe involved with the daughter of a black market dealer. When papa is arrested, the Gl's go to court for him. He is released. = < The MP's catch up just as they deliver the supplies to their general who needs them desperately. He exonerates them, demotes the stuffy MP maior, Willie and Joe return to combat. UP FRONT @ Bill Mauldin’s battle-weary dog-faces, Willie and Joe, come to hilarious and touching life in this picture. They fight their way through Italy; they put up with fresh- faced replacement officers who've never been near a fox- hole; they escape from Naples with one pass between them, and a whole army of MP’s in pursuit. But the plot's not important; what's important is the understanding, affectionate way the Italian people are treated, and the almost painfully authentic comedy of muddy combat men who don't smell good being persecuted by spotless rear echelon soldiers. (When Willie and Joe see a Naples street filled with MP’s, one says to the other, “Gee, some- body musta forgot to salute a warrant officer,” and later, when they're trapped by an officious little desk-job major, Joe says to Willie, “He’s happier than if ‘eeda caught Hitler."”) It’s a swell picture.

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ee RCRA SP Vr rs Aer the horrifying but pitiable maniac who lures little girls away, kills them, saves their shoes. Story deals with how he’s finally cap- tured by underworld leaders because they feel there’s too much police activity in town, and the heat won't be off until the child killer is caught. Crooks include Glenn Anders, Nor- man Lloyd, Raymond Burr; cops include How- ard Da Silva and Steve Brodie; and Luther Adler has some virtuoso moments as the crooks’ drunken lawyer. Cast: David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Luther Adler—Columbia. THE 13TH LETTER Shot in Canada, The 13th Letter is a moody mystery concerning a town which is flooded with poison pen letters full of gossip about a young-ish doctor (Michael Rennie) and the wife (Constance Smith) of an old doctor (Charles Boyer). Before the writer of the letters is uncovered, the town can boast one suicide, and the disclosing of a few minor personal tragedies. It’s hard to get used to Boyer as a gray-bearded daddy whose wife can't stand the touch of his senile fingers, but that's life. Time and the make-up man march on. The 13th Letter is overhung with an un- pleasant atmosphere (even the hero has a past which involves a faithless, suicidal wife) but it’s certainly well-acted and engrossing. Cast: Linda Darnell, Charles Boyer, Michael Rennie, Constance Smith, Francoise Rosay.— 20th Century-Fox. 14 HOURS Originally an article in the New Yorker, 14 Hours tells the story of a fellow who keeps a whole city in suspense for 14 hours, while he tries to make up his mind about jumping from a high window ledge. Richard Basehart plays the psychologically disturbed jumper—or non-jumper, and Paul Douglas is a sympathetic policeman, the only person Basehart will let come near him out of the whole crew of doctors, detectives, etc. Basehart’s the child of a broken home, a mama’s boy (though his mama makes him nervous ), in love with a girl (Barbara Bel Geddes ) though he hasn't felt equal to grow- ing up and marrying. The picture performs a complete psychoanalysis in an hour and a half of your time, and keeps you in suspense besides. Cast: Richard Basehart, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes.—20th Century-Fox. VALENTINO This picture is based on the movies, and not the life, of idol Rudolph Valentino. Story here concerns Rudy (Tony Dexter) in love with— and loved by—beauiiful blonde actress Elea- nor Parker. They have a misunderstanding— Rudy doesn’t believe in marriage, he wants to be free as the bird that flies. So Eleanor Inarries director Ricnard Carlson, but when Rudy and Eleanor are co-starred in The Sheik, passion flames again. A newspaper- man is going to expose their love, make a big scandal, and Rudy, in order to save Eleanor’s good name, marries another (Pa- tricia Medina). Then he dies. No work of art, the picture’s pleasantly nostalgic, with views of the clothes people wore then, and the way they danced the tango, all in Technicolor. Also, Anthony Dexter’s an absolute ringer for Valentino. Cast: Eleanor Parker, Anthony Dexter, Richard Carlson, Patricia Medina.—Columbia. “Your Figure is Your Future...”says Gills Outstanding young Hollywood dramatic star praises the famous Invisible Playtex’ Girdles They’re the only girdles in the world that combine such figure-slimming power with complete comfort and freedom of action. ih TONI OWEN, Geraldine’s favorite designer, says, “T’m for the slender figure —and that means I’m for PLAYTEX, the girdle that - makes it a possibility.” You'll wear your PLAYTEX under every- thing, slimming the inches away, leaving you free as a bird. And, PLAYTEX GIRDLES wash faster, dry faster than any other girdles! Here is the PLAYTEX all-way action-stretch captured by a camera in mil- lionths of a second! Made of smooth latex without a seam, stitch or bone, PLAYTEX fits like a second skin—invisible under your sleekest dress. In SLIM, silvery tubes, PLAYTEX LIVING® GIRDLES $3.95 to $4.95 In SLIM, shimmering pink tubes, PLAYTEX PINK-ICE GIRDLES $4.95 to $5.95 In SLIM, golden tubes, PLAYTEX FAB-LINED GIRDLES —Fabric next to your skin— $5.95 to $6.95 (All prices slightly higher in Canada and Foreign Countries.) Sizes: extra-small, small, medium, large; Extra-large size slightly higher At department stores and better specialty shops everywhere. PLAYTEX LTD. starring ILKA CHASE Top afternoon entertainment on CBS-TV Net- work (see local paper for time and, channel). INTERNATIONAL LATEX CORPORATION Playtex Park ©1951 Dover Del. Montreal, Canada 21 ETE SS Sere

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LISTERINE ANTISEPTIC... 5 Up until recently, Saturday night was big-date night . . now it’s just Saturday night. One-by-one the boys working like it used to that happen to any girl . . eat yor's xe have quit phoning. Somehow her charm isn’t .. and the reason* is one she would be the last to suspect. It could . even to you. jyreath today ? Better not take your breath for granted. “Halitosis (unpleasant breath), you know, can be absent one day and present the next ... without your knowing it. And when it is off-color, people are likely to avoid you. Why tisk offending needlessly when Listerine Antiseptic is an easy, delightful, extra-careful precaution against halitosis? It’s almost a passport to popularity. tractive be extra-careful 2 Listerine Antiseptic is the extra-careful precaution because it freshens the breath . . . not for mere seconds or minutes... but usually for hours. *Though sometimes systemic, most cases of halitosis are due to the bac- terial fermentation of tiny food particles. Listerine Antiseptic quickly halts such oral fermentation, and the odors it causes. Lambert Pharmacal Company, St. Lowis, Missouri. IT’S BREATH-TAKING! SOU hou “ned BOLL) fread. hollywood goes shopping for you! @ Hollywood stars are most often described as “glamorous,” “beauti- ful,’ and “smart.” The last is a double duty word that means “the last word” in fashion and style; and also means canny, shrewd and wise. The, top-flight stars who shop for you on these pages are smart both ways ...they buy the latest things at the lowest prices. To get any of these star-selected items, just write to the shops men- tioned below each picture, enclosing a check or money order (and gift card if you like). Your selection will be rushed to any address you name. MOoDERN SCREEN guarantees delivery. Prices all include postage and tax where necessary. Money will be returned on any items that are re- turned within 10 days after delivery. Only monogrammed merchandise cannot be returned.

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4) pee Ow ee eee aaa: |} ‘YOUNG ARTIST'S SMOCK WITH TOOLS. Parn’s | developing into a painter at age two-and- | a-half so June bought her this won- | derful smock. Bright blue cotton, piped , mn red, it protects children’s clothes from \meary paints. A hand-embroidered pal- elte on one of two front pockets that comes \illed with a water color set, paint book imd rag. Sizes 3 to 6x, $4.20; 7 to 10, $5.20. | $1.00 extra with child’s first name.) Pre- ‘erred Gifts, 125 Park Ave., New York 17. dick powell your hollywood shopper who okayed his gift selections. JUNE SAYS IT’S FOR SEWING Dut to me it looks like a beautiful table, as ’'m sure you'll agree. It’s a roomy darning basket, shaped like an old-fashioned buttertub, in maple or walnut finish, brass trimmed. Holds quantities of family mending or makes extra storage space. Perfect for any room and top takes knick-knacks. Removable legs; carrying handle. 13” x 21”. Name your finish. $8.95, Renard, 545 Fifth Ave., New York, 17. for may @ Surprised to have me turn up as a shopping guide? Well, truthfully, I was a little flabbergasted myself, when Mop- ERN SCREEN first said “how about it?” Tt seems it was all because of June, our brand new son Richard Keith, and the fact that Mother’s Day is approaching. When I heard that, I became the proud papa and accepted immediately. After all, I have a double stake in it this year. Don’t think I did all the work, though. Naturally I picked out June’s special Mother’s Day gifts myself, but she shopped right along with me on the other things. We’re used to working together on everything . . . movies, our golf shots and bringing up the kids; but this was something different and gave us both a great kick. We made a game of hunting for bar- gains and shopped from coast to coast trying to outdo each other in uncovering wonderful buys for you. Some items I found even while on location for Cry Danger, my recent picture for RKO. We found things for kids like Pam and Richard, things for the home, gift items, and most important, presents for Mother. Just write directly to the store men- tioned for anything that pleases you, and enclose the price indicated. MoprerNn SCREEN guarantees your satisfaction. Hope that you like our joint shopping efforts and that you'll invite us back for a return engagement. GARLIC PRESS AVOIDS ALL MESS and gives your recipes that “certain See eenee for which French cooking is so famous. I know, be- cause June uses it all the time and I take it for seasoning steaks at our cook-outs. A slight pressure on this aluminum tool converts whole garlic cloves into a paste, so that the-flavor blends thoroughly. Your hands will stay free of cooking odors. $1.98. Mrs. Dorothy Damar, 22 Treat Place, Newark, N. J. SSS SSS eae

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dick powell your hollywood shopper for may With June and Pam as my shopping guides, buying Mother's Day gifts was easy. _In fact, I never paid so little for so much fun! ZIP AND YOUR WATCHBAND’S CLOSED. No buckles or holes! This new bracelet-like strap unzips to go over any size hand. To close, simply pull. the strap until it zips to fit your wrist and locks in place. Mine goes on and off in a jiffy and it’s really comfortable! Attaches to your wrist watch easily and the zipper’s hidden. In calf or pigskin, $2.50; lizard $4.00; alligator $5.00. Buy it at Abbott Gifts, 22 W. 22nd St., New York 10. JUNE WILL HAVE THE TIME of her life with . this dainty, graceful, yet sturdy wrist watch. Sportex Jewel has a_ skilled Swiss-made jewel movement, electronically time-tested in the U.S. Luminous, with an unbreakable crystal and chromed case, ili stand lots of wear and tear. Unlimited free service and repair guarantee, excluding parts. I think its a real buy at $7.98. Thoresen, Dept. 12E-218, 131 W. 33rd St., New York 1. YOU’LL WELCOME THIS BRUSH-OFF. You'd never suspect that this smart gold-colored case, topped by a funny little “fellow, concealed a sturdy, colored nylon clothes- brush. Perfect for your purse, it pops up like a lipstick and yowll find it just as useful. Essential to good grooming and takes up practically no room. It’s one of the things I've picked for Junie for Mother's Day. $1.50. Goubaud de Paris, 743 Fifth Ave., New York 22. JUST PRESS THEM INTO SERVICE. Personalized name tapes to be ironed onto any gar- ment, or linens, to assure permanent iden- tity. Safeguards laundry from the lost and found department. For marking a service- man’s belongings, or a child’s camp ward- robe. Name m “red or black color-fast ink on white tape, individually cut. 100 tapes $1.50; 150 for $2.00; 300 for $3.00 (50¢ extra for second line). Art Colony Indus- tries, 69 Fifth Ave., New York 10. THESE POOCHES COULDN'T BE CUTER! J hate the word “cute”, but this pair of handmade ceramic pups are pert as the mischief. Their wistful, whimsical air make them real pets. Pam calls them “bow wows” and chose them _as her special Mother's Day gift® to Junie, who’s nuts about dogs. Made im Italy, they're black and white shaggy haired pwppies and are 5” high. $3.50 pair. Agnestrong, 39 W. Sth St., New York WU. To buy any of the items on these pages, write direct to shops mentioned, enclosing check or money order. A GEM OF AN IDEA. June tells me there’s no end to the fun she has designing and making her very own jewelry. Use this kit, complete with fascinating imported stones, settings, tools, and “how-to” in- structions. Its easy to make earrings, pins, bracelets and even rings, and yow'll be as proud of your handiwork as June is of her hand-made jewelry. They look almost professional to me. $2.37. A. Seltzer & Co., 1163 Sixth Ave., New York 19. HAVE YOURSELF A JAM SESSION. According to my good wife, who is really a terrific housekeeper, this chrome tray and toast rack with a fat glass jam pot and. plastic Spoon are essential for a successful break- fast. It’s as useful as it is attractive. The rack takes 6 slices of toast, the jam jar holds all the preserves you can eat, and } the tray has room for some extras beside: $3.29. Saybrook Gifts, 305 Broadway, New York 7.

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DON’T BUDGE FROM YOUR ARMCHAIR. This wonderful clamp-on plastic tray allows you the luxury of eating a snack without plate-jugeling or moving from your favor- ite chair. Perfect for serving at television parties, buffets or teas. Its roomy surface is water and alcohol-proof. Makes a good portable end table, traveling com- panion, or bathtub tray. In green or wory. $2.00. Anderson’s, 166 W. Market St., York 1, Pennsylvania. THESE SNOW MITTS DON’T MELT. They look like the real thing, but let the temperature rise and you'll see that they’re on the job. Of snowy white plastic, coasters are Specially insulated to keep drinks cold ‘| twice as long. They feel good and look inviting on a sultry summer day. Water- | proof and washable. Set of 4 Sno-mitt coasters with 4 Libby 81-ounce glasses, ‘|| $2.00.. Fred S. Meyer, Box 1176, Beverly Hills, California. (0) j¢|MUNE HAS A REAL scoop for you gals. She | found this wonderful item which she tells yc me is a golden powder scoop chained to j.) 2 perfume funnel. They seem to be two rhe “musts” in a gal’s gadgetry wardrobe. The | COOP helps transfer powder from box to | tompact or vice versa. The perfume fun- y| "uel does a competent job of getting per- ‘at | fume from its bottle into purse flacon. yee” re quite a pair,’ quotes June. $1.00. Abraham & Straus, Brooklyn 20, N. Y. st deh | "4 PERFECT FOR PEEKING AT RICHARD. Glowykin, a personalized plastic baby’s night light, powered by a harmless pen-size battery, hooks onto any crib or bed. Press button for quick light, turn screw top and tt stays on. Sheds glare-proof light so we can look in on the baby without disturbing Pam. To Richard ii’s a fascinating pink, blue and yellow toy, safe even in his hands. Send first name. $1.95. Gift House, 246 Fifth Ave., New York 1. HERE’S A SCARF TURNED HEADDRESS. My bride unearthed this piece of feminine flattery to protect her blonde head from sun or rain, or to pep wp her costumes. A hidden clasp makes the scarf fit any headsize; a headband keeps it from slipping. You can wear it 12 ways. Many-colored prints, polka dots, paisleys of’ washable French crepe. . Gwe pattern and color choice. $1.95. Spencer Gifts, 1117 Atlantic Ave., Atlantic City, New Jersey. HERE IS GENUINE MONKEY BUSINESS. hese slap-happy little monkeys are the pro- verbial “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” trio all done up as a smart new set of scatter pins. Expertly made in gold tone metal with antiqued finish, June says theyre terrific on suits and summer dresses. In fact, she has me convinced that they’d make a dandy Mothers Day gift. I could hardly refuse her, could I? $2.00. Timax, 358 Fifth Ave., New York 16. Merchandise is sold ona money back guarantee within 10 days, except where monogrammed. eee Ee Ee Tose eee MY GARDEN NEVER GREW FLOWERS LIKE THiS! The brightest idea since clocks were in- vented ...a “Fire Chief” Petunia shaped into a most fetching versatile clock which will go well in the kitchen, child’s room, game room, porch or breakfast nook. In “fire chief” red with green stalk and leaves and brown and yellow “peek-a-bee” pendu- lum, with a guaranteed 30-hour movement, GIL EX Ola. $3. 75, Max Schling Seedsmen, Inc., 620M, Madison Ave., New York 22. WHEN TAKING PEN IN HAND @ry this neat one whose top fits right into its own smart lucite stand. To jot down that hurried memo just pull owt the writing end. It’s filled with dry ink and lasts ages. No more searching around the home for your pen... it’s right on top. We have sets stationed all over the house. Pen of fine gold metal. Easily replaceable cartridges. $2. 70. Jaccard’s- Clayton, Forsythe Blud., ASE: Louis, Missouri. SUR rr goeg PRO its 08 pene FOR ABSENTMINDED SUNWORSHIPPERS. June (who’s in this category) swears by these plastic sunglass holders. All you do is slip the ends of your sunglasses into the rubber tips of the holders. Once attached, they form a circle and hang lightly around your neck so youre ready for the first sunburst. June got them in several colors to match her outfits. White, red, tan, black. Rubber tips s, m, l. $1.00. Kroll’s, 648 Clinton Ave. N., Rochester, N. Y. 25

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7 26 FOR GALS WITH PETTICOAT-FEVER! I picked out this tattersal taffeta petticoat myself, and since June gave me a big hug in re- turn, I know it’s a success. The little mad money pocket near the hem is what got me. It’s fine as can be. Hem and pocket are edged in handsome black lace to go with black and white check. June’s petti- coat certainly rustles when she dances. 24 to 32 waist. $4.12. Gimbel Bros., 33rd St. & 6th Ave., New York 1. SS A CONTRIBUTION TO ANY ROOM. Your. Mom “will be proud to have this pretty and practical hanging shelf for her special knickknacks. Made of selected hardwood, it comes in maple, walnut, mahogany or pickled pine finish to go with any period of furniture. 24” high, 15” wide and 6” deep. The lower shelf has a matching wood back. Will give your room a real air of elegance. $9. 95. May Mac Co., Dept. M, 660 aewss St., Mt. Vernon, N. ‘ya MADE TO BE SEEN THROUGH. June could tell at a glance that this transparent plastic purse and accessories would make a ter- vific Mother's Day gift (or gift for your- self). And a glance will tell you what's in it. The purse is roomy and has a metal frame to match the round compact inside. A comb is included, and there’s still plenty of room for money and keys. $2.20. Kop- lin’s, The Home of Havana Cigars, 1142 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, Florida. THREE TOOLS FOR HAPPY BARTENDING! WWVhether you're entertaining the coke crowd or having folks in for beer, yow'll find that these “handsome bar helpers from Den- mark make your hosting a pleasure. Be- sides doing a swell job, “these gadgets are a handsome addition to any bar. Handles are polished horn and the working ends are brass. $2.50 each. Set including opener and cork screw, $4.50. The Shadow Box, 1378 East 8th St., Brooklyn 30, N. Y. IN ONE STROKE! Just insert whole potato, press handle —and you have 24 perfect French Fries! Mrs. Damar’s Food Cutter is wonderful for dicing other foods and salads, too. Made exclusive- ly for us in rust-proof plated steel. Easy to clean, safe to use. Sold by mail only. $2.98, plus 25c for postage. NO MORE TEARS WHEN CHOPPING ONIONS! Simply place whole peeled onions into Mrs. Damar’s Onion Chopper—and weep no more! Onions, or any other vegetables, chop down to any degree of fineness. Aluminum and Stainless steel mechanism, 14-0z. glass graded into cup measurements, wooden chopping block in bottom of jar. Only $1.00. Send cash, check, money order—or items shipped C.0.D. at prices indicated plus postage. 10-day money back guarantee. MRS. DAMAR Dept.SC-29, 22 Treat Pl., Newark 2, N.Jd. S$ PAR KLIN G GUARD RINGS To Enhance Your Every Ouifit Elegant worn singly or in two’s, three’s or four’s om any finger... flattering highlights for an engagement or wed- ding ring. Choose from finely cut simu- lated rubies, emeralds, sapphires or diamonds —hand-set in sterling silver circlets with a craftsmanship usually found only in precious stones. $ 350 ca. MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED including tax arte e Money Back Within 10 and pomage |, Days if Not Satisfied (Indicate Ring Size) No G.0.D.’s, Please Ye ESTABLISHED 1910 DEPT.MS5, 135-37 NORTHERN BLVD., FLUSHING, N.Y. dick powell your hollywood for may SHE LOVES ET SHE LOVES ME NOT. June says the answer will be yes from any gal re- ceiving this beautiful daisy-detailed bed jacket, nightgown set. Treat yourself and give it to Mother, too. Rayon crepe jacket has yoke of lace and sheer organdie daisies, Peter Pan collar, and elbow- length lace- edged sleeves. Ribbon ties. ~Blue, pink or white; sizes s,m, 1. $3.98. Matching gown, sizes 32-38 $5.98. The Ettingers, 360 First Ave., New York 10. HAIL TO THE CULINARY KINGS! These two. ceramic chefs are a fine addition to any well-laid table. The blond (for salt) ts holding a big black cat in his arms. His dark-haired pal (for pepper) is dangling a fish. pair of spice shakers. 414" high. For eating indoors or out, the way we often do, they’ re always welcome. $1.25 pair. The Winher Co., 248 West 35 St., New York 1. To buy any of the items on these pages, write direct to shops mentioned, enclosing check or money order. Merchandise is sold on a money back guarantee within 10 days, except where monogrammed. Together theyre quite a colorful shopper

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flattery of candlelight... captured in a face make-up! evion’s "Touch-and-Glow’ new liquid make-up made with skin-softening Lanolite i You know the lovely velvet look your skin takes on by candlelight? | The tender glow of color, the all-but-flawless texture? This is the look your skin can have (even in the sunlight!) with Revlon’s “Touch-and-Glow.” Never masky! Never greasy! Never drying! Here at last...a good-for- your-skin make-up...ideal for oily skins... perfect for dry skins...thanks to | | Lanolite, miraculous new ingredient. Choose from 8 scientifically formulated shades, each with harmonizing Revlon Face Powder. The only make-up that gives your skin the “‘mat”’ finish” “Not shiny, not masky...so natural, just right! HAT: JOHN-FREDERICS, DRESS: SAM FRIEDLANDER. COLOR-CASTING BY REVLON. ©1951 REVLON PRODUCTS CORP. “‘TOUCH-AND-GLOW’’ AND LANOLITE ARE REGISTERED TRADE-MARKS.

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modern screen /may 1951 memo Sele byt Bp _ from piper ede and iat curtis ey == fe bring’ a@ star to your home~ contest winners Dear Friends: Congratulations are in order, but we can’t decide who ought to be on the receiving end—you, for winning the contest, or us, for being lucky enough to visit four of you at home. Anyway, we want to tell Mrs. Alice Bankert, first prize winner, that a $1,000 government bond is on its way, and that we will shortly follow. In fact, we'll be in Denver on April 23rd, Mrs. Bankert, and we're really looking forward to meeting you and your family. We'd like you to be our guest that night at the Denver Theater, where a special premiere of our Universal-International technicolor movie, The Prince Who Was A Thief, will be given. See you soon! Our next stop will be Charlotte, North Carolina, where we'll visit Miss Clara Hobbs, second prize winner. Watch for us, Miss Hobbs, and meartwhile editor’s note: - you can be expecting that $600 bond. It’s in the mail right now. Watch for next month's From Charlotte we'll go to Terre Haute, Indiana, to call on Modern Screen third prize winner Mrs. Elizabeth Denehie. A $250 bond is winging its with the entire list of 177 additional prize winners, including two more $100 bond way to you, Mrs. Denehie, along with our best wishes. Before we return to Hollywood we’re going to stop off in Columbus, Ohio, to say hello to Miss Donna Morrison. Miss Morrison, as winners, ten $50 bond fourth prize winner, will receive a $100 bond. winners, and 165 We hope you all enjoy our movie. We're grateful that we were chosen to $25 bond winners. And star in it, and we'd like to thank you and the thousands of other watch for Modern movie-goers whose continued interest gave us our big chance. Our thanks, too, to Screen's exclusive pic- MobeRN SCREEN and Pepsi-Cola for letting us be part of this wonderful ture coverage of Tony and Piper's trip in an early issue. know it will be even more fun meeting you in person. contest. It’s been a lot of fun reading all your letters, and we Be seeing you! eu > j

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Ai he Ne a Nad Most girls are still dreaming of love at 18. Liz was suffering heartbreak. And, like a hurt child _who runs for-comfort, she ran to Stanley Donen. | BY MARSHA SAUNDERS LIZ TAYLOR'S NE @ A few months ago Elizabeth Taylor took the stand in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County to file for divorce against Nicky Hilton, her husband of eight months. : She was extremely overwrought. When she spoke, her usually clear voice was an inaudible whisper, so low and lost, that the court’s shorthand reporter protested, “I can’t hear a single word.” Judge Thurmond Clarke leaned over. “Please keep your voice up,” he asked. “Just make believe my reporter is a little hard of hearing.” The spectators giggled, but Liz lowered her face into her gloved hands, and when she raised it a moment later, it was covered with tears. “May I be permitted to ask some leading questions?” her lawyer inquired of the judge. : “Tt might be a good idea,” the judge suggested, “if you put MP GE YY the testimony into the record in your own words and had Miss IER SAY 4 ) Taylor confirm them.” Liz wept on a studio press agent's shoulder as her So Liz was saved the anguish of giving direct testimony. divorce from Nick Hilton was granted Jan. 29. She She merely confirmed her lawyer’s contentions. denied oy romantic attachment with Stanley Donen. According to. Liz’s lawyer, Nicky “spent most of the time away from her when they were in France on their honeymoon. He spent night after night at the Casino and remained away until five or six in the morning and forced her to take a cab back alone. This also was true after they returned to Los Angeles.” Judge Clarke asked Liz if all this were correct, and she mumbled, “Yes, sir, it is.” : 5 Attorney Berger then went on to tell how Nicky had been violent, abusive, indifferent, and argumentative towards his wife, and Liz confirmed it all. After the divorce was granted, Liz; who had not asked for alimony, rushed into the arms of Jules Goldstone, her attorney. He helped escort her into the judge’s chambers. She stayed with the judge for an hour while a group of reporters waited outside. When she emerged, she had regained her composure. A reporter rushed up to question her. “Any truth,” he asked, “about you being romantically inter- ested in Stanley Donen?” pee Liz fixed the reporter with a look she probably reserves for Divorce secured, Liz started steadily dating 26-year- madmen. “That,” she stated flatly, “is absolutely absurd.” old Stan whose marriage broke up last year. He Twenty-four hours later, Liz and (Continued on page 85) directed her in MGM's Love Is Better Than Ever. \

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There are some people I’ve never forgiven, and others GINGER OEE who’ve become | my good friends after our battles royal. Now I want to set the long record straight. the truth about my feuds iy Lalla on TE Se ee 2S SSS SSS eS SSS SS SSS Ge a ee Se SS EEO JAMES MASON ORSON WELLES GENE TIERNEY

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CORINNE CALVET JOAN CRAWFORD REX HARRISON @ My friend “Chuck” Saxon, Ye Ed of MopEern Screen, has asked me to let my short hair down and give with the truth about my feuds—real and otherwise—with certain Hollywood characters. It’s an assignment I suppose I should coyly sidestep and say, “Feuds, suh? Really, I don’t know what you mean.” But if I am anything, ’m a truthful woman, let the chips fall where they may—so here goes: In my 25 years plus in this town, I have had some hair curling battles that were dillys. I’ve yelled and shouted over telephones telling off stars, producers, directors and press agents alike. But, in most cases, after the smoke has died down a few days later, I have forgotten the row. It just ain’t true that my memory is more relentless than that of an elephant and that I never forget! I not only forget—but forgive, except in a few isolated cases. In other words, there are what I consider my minor “skirmishes” as against four or five really major battles which have flourished for years. Conspicuous headliners in the latter group are—Orson Welles and Rex Harrison! Let’s take on sexy Rexy first: When Lilli Palmer and Harrison first came to Hollywood, I, along with many of the film colony, went all out to welcome the talented British actor. Rex can be so charming with the ladies and I confess I found myself as gullible as the rest. I was in Europe when Carole Landis committed (Continued on page 99)

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JOHN AGAR ON Is he Hollywoed’s biggest problem child or is it just a case of headlines? There may be more to Agar’s story than 5 meets the eye... BY STEVE CRONIN John has been concentrating solely upon his career. His dates with Gloria De Haven and other newsworthy stars were studio-arranged. @ Not very long after Shirley Temple marched into court and told of his excessive drinking, John Agar, tall, thin, and turning 30, was booked at the Sheriff’s sub-station in West Hollywood on a misdemeanor drunk driving charge. Agar was beside himself with fury. “I don’t know why you're doing this,” he cried to the officers. “T haven't done anything. I don’t belong in jail. This is going to ruin my career.” _ “You know you’ve been drinking,” one of the officers said to Agar. “It’s not safe to drive when you’ve had one too many.” “Please,” Agar pleaded, ‘I may have had a drink or two. But I’m all right. Please, let me go home. I have an 80-year-old grandfather. He’s home all alone.” He was released on $150 bail, and the news of his escapade was smeared over the front pages of the nation’s newspapers. Set. E. L. Hoover of the California Highway Patrol, described the incident: “Two motorists drove up to me and said, ‘There’s a car behind us that keeps bumping into us. It’s been bumping us ever since Sunset (Continued on page 108) ee ee SS : Se -

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a ee RS The newlywed Rod Camerons soak up atmosphere at Cal-Neva Lodge; Bob Stack and Claudette Thornton toast marshmallows. Margaret and Rhonda Fleming join the song festivities. Built on the Calli- fornia-Nevada border, the lodge's rooms sprawl across the two states. a

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™ Peering through the lodge window, I watched the moon light the snow and splash it with silver. In the distance, trees formed dark patterns on the endless stretch of white. The skiers, with their husky shouts and vast enthusiasm, had disappeared with the sun. It was quiet now, like another world .. . a world that seemed too proud and aloof to be lonely. I was the lonely one. I sighed and turned back into the roomful of shadows. Angela and Rod Cameron were holding hands by the huge fire. “Right this minute I envy you two,”.I told them. They grinned. “Romantic, isn’t it?” Rod said, teasingly. “What a shame Bill couldn’t come,” said Angela, as if she’d been reading my thoughts. I agreed with all my heart. But that’s what hap- pens when a girl marries a pilot. Of course, when the pilot’s a wonderful husband, what can she do but+ Wait when he’s fiying to the other side of the globe? For four years I’ve done the same thing—lI’ve missed him. I miss him 11 out of every 18 days. And the hours fly on the seven days he’s home. Bill was away when I finished my first picture, The Thing From Another World. Vd been working hard, and invariably everyone I'd run into would come up with the suggestion, “Why don’t you take a real vacation—get some rest?” “Rest? I feel great,” I'd say. But even the mirror told me I was tired. Figuring I couldn’t win, I returned to my usual occupation— waiting for the postman. “Look, Mrs. Pattison,” he finally said one day. “If you don’t get a letter to- morrow, I, myself, will write you a postcard.” “Tomorrow the letter came. It was a lovely, sentimental letter. Bill was remembering the trip we took around the world, when I hired on as stew- ardess for one excursion . . . Tokyo, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Cairo, Athens, Rome .. . I was making the rounds of our memories when I came to the final sentences. ““You must be pretty beat after the picture,” he wrote. “Why don’t you get away for a couple of days?” (Continued on page 114) < Stack got snowballed good and proper. by Ann Melton, Mar- garet, and Claudette. Later he whipped them single-handed. Margaret was thrilled to run into the Bob Mitchums at Tahoe. They were staying with Olive and Stan Jones in their lodge. nee in the mountains i ‘hypo olutidaw i come) prem Nmey TT ae oome re os we | | ; Srereg

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| found romance in the mountains | I z lt was cold outside and those snow sessions left the crowd famished. Margaret had hot chocolate with Dr. Lew Morrill, Rhonda Fleming, Bob Stack and Claudette Thornton. pa Bob Stack and Claudette Thornton distracted each other from the business of skiing. They came over from a houseparty at the Stacks’ Tahoe home near Squaw Valley. They woke up freezing in their long underweai @ee and th & Rod Cameron and his bride, Angela, were so much in love fo they kept forgetting to join in on the Cal-Neva Lodge 5 | I I } evening party festivities after a day out in the open. 38

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f Ps aS but the Mitchums went into a huddle and had a hot time in Tahoe. @ The last time the urge to take to the great outdoors over- powered mv husband, he announced that he thought he’d go fishing. The look I gave him spoke one sentence. Translated, it said, “What about all the work you’ve been promising to do around the house?” It was a very effective sentence. I’ve never seen anyone do a faster job of putting in a garden walk. And then, no less than five minutes afterwards, Fearless Bob Mitchum (as he was dubbed in Mopern ScrEEN) and our close friend, Equally Fearless Joe Haworth, set out for the wild, woody yonder to catch all the fish the law would allow. When they returned, after a few days and many adventures, they happily managed to give the impression that they’d invented this sport involving rod and reel. You may have read about their daring deeds. I'm glad they’re on record because the fish seem to grow bigger each time Bob tells the tale. As for the rest of us Mitchums, we sat at home with the garden walk. “Next time you decide to travel, include me in,” I told Bob. (Continued on page 41)

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a J Sete Although hunting was out of season, Bob and Chris kibitzed as Jim practiced aiming. Beautiful Lake Tahoe is in the background. It’s great in the great outdoors where men are men; and men like Bob are boys again. Bob put chains on the station wagon to make mountain driving Dorothy, who put her family's hopes into words by suggest- easier. They arrived Wednesday and the boys, who'd rarely ing the trip, watched skeptically as Bob almost chained seen snow, waited eagerly until it began falling on Saturday. himself to the car. She forgot to pack long underwear.

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| ... and the mitchums found snow “And me,” Jim added. “Me, too,” said Chris. “Well . . . if you get the chores done,” Fearless Mitchum said loftily. The weeks passed, but before long I got the feeling that there was something in the air and it wasn’t quite time for Spring. For several days I noticed that Bob seemed busier than usual. He’d finished Macao and deserved a rest. How- ever, he wasn’t taking it. He built new shelves for the kitchen cupboard. He mended the torn screen. He gave the lawn a clipping that resembled a close crewcut. I remember thinking how strange it was as I watched him puttering around the yard. It had only been a month since I asked him to cut the grass, and I couldn’t have mentioned it more than once. Suddenly, I realized there wasn’t a job left that would require a handyman’s knowhow. My husband, I concluded, was about to begin to suffer from an acute case of wanting to take a trip. I settled back and tried to figure just where we'd go, because I could tell that Bob was giving the matter careful, though silent, consideration. Quite logically, dialogue followed. “Ever see such weather?” Bob exclaimed one morning at breakfast. “Warm, sunny . . . hard to believe it’s (Continued on page 106) cont'd Lunch was served ‘‘come and get it’ style and Bob, Chris and Jim didn't bother with formalities. Everyone slept in their clothes as the bedrooms were so icy. ae 2 | They left the sled behind for a return visit. ‘| | Ae Dy 7g * A '*. #~ s we is ite ne e | : LA i - |

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Judy’s in love again. And for a girl who thinks with her heart, that’s all - that matters. Maybe she’s right, but cooler heads are afraid she’s walking into trouble. | BY IMOGENE COLLINS m By the time you read this, Judy Garland may be honeymooning with her third husband. If she isn’t, then it’s only a question of time and legal procedure before she becomes Mrs. Sidney Luft. Before Judy left for London, where the Palladium is paying her $70,000 for a few weeks’ work, she and Sidney were virtually inseparable. For a while, Judy denied that they were anything more than the usual “good friends,” but a few weeks ago she admitted that they were serious about each other. “We have plans,” she said. “And I won’t date any other man. Sid is a wonderful guy. He has a great sense of humor and I feel so happy when he’s around me. I just know we're going to hit it off. Right now I’m interested in only three things—my daughter Liza, my career, and Sid.” Judy is convinced that this trio of interests will give her life direction and meaning. “I’ve never been any happier or healthier,” she said before she left Hollywood. “After London, we’re going to tour the Continent, then I’m coming back to Hollywood, and I think Ill probably play opposite Bing Crosby in Famous. Honestly, I’ve hit my stride. Things have been pretty rough A these past few years, but I’ve snapped out of my meh os wei. depression. I’m in fine voice, I’ve Joads of energy—and well, Last fall on unhappy Judy wanted only Liza. the future looks fine.” (Continued on page 101). t CA rra al eee Mabel tsi.

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For Ricardo, romance begins in the villa where bright colors lend a Latin air and camellias grow beneath a balcony. Casa montalban sovprmenecmnemnce ene en Lasting beauty is the Montalban by-word. Antiques like the living lj The narrow den with room length windows opens on the @ Their house is milk chocolate brown with a white trim. | oon ge Goer se ne Ce eS Flowering magnolia trees and camellias nestle up against it, -and a white rail fence surrounds it. On the second floor, under the bedroom windows, there’s a romantic looking balcony. And out in back, beyond the patio, is a high garden wall. On warm evenings when the doors of the living room end den are thrown open you can hear rhumba music, South Ameri- can style, drifting over the wall. And if you could climb the wall, you’d probably see Ricardo dancing with his wife. Four or five other couples might be dancing, too, or watching, or serving themselves at the buffet tables. “This is the kind of parties we like.’ Mrs. Montalban says. “We eat on the patio and then we roll back the living room carpet, pick up the scatter rugs in the foyer and have a

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ballroom larger than Mocambo’s. Ricardo loves to dance, but he prefers to do it at home.” It’s. easy to see why. Their home was planned for good living and fun. It’s large and comfortable, filled with hand-picked furniture. The person greatly responsible for providing the background to this homelife which is one of the happiest in Hollywood is Ricardo’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Gladys Belzer. Mrs. Belzer is also the mother of Loretta Young, Sally Blane, Polly Ann Young and a son, Jack. After rearing a family of five and seeing them safely through careers and marriages, she turned her boundless energy to a career of her own. She became a professional interior decorator. It was only natural that when Georgie married Ric, she would (Continued on next page) | Aree Piety } PPO ETA « [Oy tlt | btebetblanee Lh) bE kets lal SG}

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casa montalban continued be sought out by the newlyweds and asked for a little sound housing advice. “Only we didn’t call on Mama Belzer right away,” Ricardo says. “For the first six months of our mar- riage, Georgiana and I lived in a dream world. We were too much in love to think of anything so prac- tical as buying a home.” i It wasn’t until Ricardo’s contract with MGM was | definitely set and baby number one was enroute, that Ric and Georgie started looking for a house. They went to every place that Mrs. Belzer recommended. | They visited all the model homes in town. They met quite a few real estate agents. In the end, they decided to buy a ten-room Mediterranean-style house in Westwood Village which Georgiana’s mother had owned and rented out for six years. At the time the Montalbans chose this generous- sized house in a well-established neighborhood, some of their young friends accused them of “going Holly- wood.” “What do you need with four bedrooms and two maids’ rooms? Think of the taxes. Who’s going to do all that housework?” they were asked. A working fountain with real water is the focal point of the dining Georgie and Ric smiled and said nothing. They room. The chandelier is an antique pewter urn from Georgiana's had their reasons. They were also following some of collection. Louvered shutters are used throughout the house. Mama Belzer’s advice. i Mrs. Belzer believes that when young people plan to have a family, they should buy the largest and most comfortable house they can afford and then grow into it. In the end they save the expense of changing homes every four or five years, and they never have to live in cramped or make-shift quarters. All their care and money is (Continued on page 78) Georgie's bath is- luxury and efficiency combined. Silly symbols define the closets, ordinary coat hooks keep her jewelry in order, wall to wall cotton carpets add glamor. ————— — DATES wa EY Mrs. Belzer (Georgiana's mother), is a professional decorator, and helped plan the decor. In the pine panelled foyer, she planted a French Lavabo and hung it above a simple, |8th century commode.

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Soeasiedtsichia meta ivan teeta Pen en ee er oe a a ; | t ‘ The pink and white’ nursery looks delicate, but with high gloss paint on everything, it's all washable. The one upholstered chair is of rose velvet. 1} Vite ae : > ees ‘ i ee ~- ™ : Peahe 4 t peti al Pas i 744 || g 3 . @ 1 ay : i een shia ae A Ey re _ Draperies and bed-spreads of white linen are pretty and practical. The recessed dressing table and fireplace ore painted in a marble effect.

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On Demure, you say! She’s about as demure as a harem dancer. Sweet, you say! She’s sweet and tempting. Even with a nursery full of kids—Jeanne Crain’s no Mother Goose. BY KIRTLEY BASKETTE ™ The table near the big picture window was set for two. The lights were out, and only the vast bed of burning jewels that is Hollywood glowed from far below to illumine the faces of Jeanne Crain and Paul Brinkman. i | This was the way they liked to dine, with the boys tucked away back in the nursery wing—not out of heart, but out of mind for this moment—their special momént together. Outside, the curving pool shimmered black-blue. The jacaranda tree quivered imperceptibly. Jeanne wore a colorful, low-cut Mexican cotton dress that Paul particularly liked. She shook her red-gold curls back on her bare shoulders. It was a gesture Paul knew. Something was coming. “They whistled at me today,” said Jeanne. b “Who whistled?” 7. “Men,” said Jeanne, “two hundred extras.” “Lucky girl,’ nodded Paul, lifting a slice of avocado. “Tt wasn’t that kind of a whistle,” complained Jeanne. “I was a fright—imagine a bathing suit with bloomers, long | cotton stockings, and a ruffled cap. That hazing scene, you know, in Take Care of My Little Girl. I looked like a fugitive from a Sennett comedy !” He could see her nose tilt alarmingly. Paul took a sip of wine. He remembered conversational beginnings like this during Margze, when his bride wore pigtails and long woolen hose; during Apartment For Peggy, when Jeanne’s maternity rig made her look like an over-stuffed ; laundry bag; during Cheaper By the Dozen, too, when another 1910 bathing job, complete with parasol, got her started off. He remembered the beginnings—and the endings, too . . . “Paul,” mused Jeanne, “the picture finishes next week.” Mr. Brinkman laid down his fork. “Jeanne, Doll,” he said, “this time it’s impossible. I’ve never been so busy. The plant’s jumping—defense orders, expansion, headaches. I can’t spare a minute. I can’t—” But there was that look in her eyes that always made him helpless. “Paul,” said Jeanne, “I sure (Continued on page 103)

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@ About 15 years ago there was quite a nasty disturbance in one of the nicer residential Ae ee he dadto be districts of Chicago. Not a gang shooting or any- 3 thing like that, but still an incident of Cae ght to eda cht. & violent character. A small girl of four, pigtails flying free behind her, was racing down a But the brat’s street pursued by a rather gentlemanly looking chap wearing an expression of extreme turned charmer. And humiliation. At intervals, the child would bend ; a down, straighten up without losing her stride, now Mitzi Gaynor’s : and fling a rock or a hunk of mud at the “man. Some of the missiles hit him. : showing the world _ A passerby collared the chaser and firmly in- quired what the devil was going on. While how to dance. the child stood at a safe distance and stuck out her tongue, the now very nervous gentleman BY JIM HENAGHAN , attempted to explain. » “J was just trying to teach her some ballet,” s he said. The passerby set him back on the ground and f went about his business muttering, “These (/) Meuu) new-fangled methods of education are certainly crazy.” as As she told the story in Hollywood some 15 years : a __ later, racing up and down the carpeted office of a . a. 20th Century-Fox publicity executive with her s shoes off, the child, now grown up to be Mitzi e Gaynor, acted it out with such ferocity that those present felt real pity for the ballet master. At ‘any rate, he must have caught her, for when she finished, Mitzi stood with her toes pointed out and her heels together—the standard stance of a duck, or, in classic circles, the legiti- mate pose called the First Position in the ballet. This was all part of an interview with Mop- ERN SCREEN—in (Continued on page 109) n-year-old Mitzi combines housework with ballet practice in the modest Hollywood home where she lives with her mother.

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The Dereks learned that even in Hollywood when a Srecinie couple buys a house _ it’s between them and the piggy-bank. KISS TOMORROW HELLO m™ The announcement of the Derek purchase was in the newspapers .. . “It includes the white stucco, tile-roofed Spanish style residence, the swimming pool and other improvements situated on what is considered the highest ‘knoll in Encino, giving them a commanding view of the entire valley and adjacent moun- tains. They plan later to establish private stables on the unimproved acre . . .” Many people reading that announcement must have exclaimed, “What a lucky guy he is!” If so, John Derek would have been the first to agree with them. He and Patti sunk all their savings into the down payment for their home— the home they want to grow old in—and they'll be paying the balance of it for a long time to come. But they think it’s worth the financial burden. “T committed myself to this place before the Korean situation broke out,” John says. ‘Had it happened sooner, I probably would have waited. But then my main concern was using my judgment effectively. It was the first real decision I'd ever made, except the one to marry Patti. Pd always let others decide everything for me. As a kid, I always did what 1 was told because I didn’t want to cause any more trouble.” John didn’t have to explain how often a child of divorced parents must learn to walk a fine line. John still walks that line by mentioning little of his own past. There are few young actors who could so definitely be called the strong silent type. Naturally, he reveals himself in little ways, particularly when he’s talking about rearing his son. “J hope I’m as wise in this...” hell say. Or, “.... not as wrong in this... : “Nine or ten of us kids used to gather in a tree-house club when I was staying with my father,” he says. “Once I introduced smoking lothes-line rope. Everyone but me got sick. My father called me several times but I ignored him so he wouldn’t catch me smelling of smoke. A couple of hours later I went home, sure Id be scolded only for being Jate. I was right. But five or six years later my father, laughingly, told me how strongly I’d smelled of the smoke. He said he’d figured he couldn’t add more to the lesson we boys probably had learned, so he hadn’t brought it up then. I’m hoping I'll be that wise with my son. : “On the other hand, I used to get terribly scared when my stepmother listened to a favorite gang-buster radio program. I don’t know (Continued on page 75)

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Some say she ought to be spanked. Others would give her a medal. Everybody takes sides when tempestuous Shelley starts taking _ Hollywood apart. BY MICKELL NOVAK dul when she’ had. { ‘ @ Shelley Winters isn’t too much like the girl in the “nursery rhyme. When that little miss was horrid, her mother probably threatened to scalp her. And if she had ever gone to Hollywood to mingle with some real artists in temperament she would probably have seemed like a rose in a valley of cactus. No one lays a hand on Shelley Winters. When she acts up people run for cover, or stand behind a fence and make faces, or get a big hate on her that expresses itself in unpleasant language. Her enemies like to discuss her fighting ability and they’ve concluded that when Shelley winds up to pitch a mood she deserves some sort of citation for the sheer sweeping grandeur of it. Not too long ago, a story circulated about her that shocked even Hollywood, and went like this: Shelley Winters cast a disgusted eye on one of the Frenchie sets and announced flatly, “It stinks.” Director Louis King patiently explained that the doorway through which she was to walk was part of a permanent set and could not be torn down or rebuilt, even to agree to the taste of the biggest money- making star on the lot. : Shelley was said to remark that King would be well-advised to rearrange the set-up so that her “good side” could be recorded. Otherwise she might lose her patience and tear the whole set down personally, flat by flat. As the discussion continued in this light vein, producer Michael Kraike arrived on the scene intent on pacifying his star. “This is a lousy picture,” Shelley is quoted as saying to him. “It is also a lousy script, and the least you can do is to make me look good.” Before Kraike’s placating eyes, Shelley is said to have flounced off the set, leaped into her car and headed for the front office of Uni- versal-International obviously intent on (Continued on page 64) -

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out of the columns . . . but one look at him and Nancy Davis gives the story away. H No matter how you look at it, Ronald _ Reagan, the shy, quiet executive-type actor _ just has to be in love with Nancy Davis. Five will get you 10 anywhere in Holly- wood that wedding bells will ring for them | before many more months have passed. Nobody—especially Ronald Reagan—will | forget the two year parade of newspaper i A : D 4 and magazine stories that had him eating his heart out for Jane Wyman; or the bull dog tenacity with which certain reporters stuck to that lme long after Ronnie had passed the crisis and was having himself a time as a reconverted bachelor. The trouble with most artists of the press is that they don’t really know Ronald Reagan—which is probably why they can’t picture a copy of his marriage license to Nancy Davis hanging above his fireplace. A fairly good indication of the pixie and stubborn nature of Ronald Reagan is dis- played in an incident that happened almost 10 years ago, shortly after he’d come to Hollywood to be an actor. Reagan had been a sports announcer in the middle west, a real whiz at fast chatter about football. He was generally an (Continued on page 83)

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almost entirely devoid of tense moments.” From the very outset of his career, Bing has accepted his a enormous public acclaim with considerable surprise. He has never f. been heard to say that he was much of a singer, and although he 4 won an Oscar for Going My Way, he habitually minimizes his acting ability. In January, 1943, when his Toluca Lake place % @ “The amazing thing about Bing Crosby,” one of his long-time ae friends recently said, “is not that he has sold more phonograph e records than anyone else, nor that he has been a top box-office star J : for years, nor even that he has amassed one of Hollywood’s i greatest personal fortunes. The really amazing thing is that Bing if ; has done it all in a light-hearted way. His story of success is This is the last of two articles burned down, and the loss of his enormous record collection was about the man who made widely publicized, many fans, assuming that it contained all of his old records, immediately sent him replacements from their own ; a mountain out of collections. Most of them were discs which Bing had never owned or : _ before. showbusiness. In 20 yours The large staff at the Crosby Building on Sunset Boulevard has bE he earned the title been unable to keep his press clippings pasted up currently. Yet = a it is doubtful that Bing. a voluminous reader, would even bother Mr. Music, but success to read a story about himself. To this day, he fails to understand never threw him. : ; why people are interested in the normal and ordinary details of his personal life, which already have been extensively documented by five biographers, including his brother, Ted. According to brother a casual grin and Larry, Bing has always had a yen to write. “But,” says Larry, “if he ever does get around to his autobiography, he will insist that it stand up on its own merits as a job of writing and not go out as He takes it with - he uses it well. But even today, he calls it luck; just another rehash of his life. Why, we've had dozens of offers for 3 ‘ i Bing to sign a daily column written by a ghost writer, but he'll he’s still surprised have none of it. Someday, he wants to do it himself.” ' by ac great g00 A taciane. Bing has an almost instinctive hatred of pretense and ostentation and is inclined to be abrupt with people who give him a smoochy } BY TOM CARLILE buildup. In contrast to his flamboyant (Continued on page 80) 4 Bing loves to fish at his Hayden Lake, | Nevada ranchers are more apt to want Bing’s opinion The Crosby boys are crazy about sports. : “Idaho lodge where he gives the boys on cattle-raising than his autograph. His 20,000 acre They have a softball team of their own, Be vacation after summer ranch chores. Elko ranch is a serious business to Bing and the boys. take golf lessons, play foctball like pros.

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— SSS 2a eRe carne pt tn Pl ne a en a eT CRE CORA Oe A TR TT God exists for me in the people He has created. So I place my faith in people; and pay homage to Him by playing square with them. ? No. ) im @ series: . memories, I don’t believe in all the rituals HOW THE STARS FOUND FAITH M Sometimes I think that the best part of my life was my childhood. It was a difficult period but a most colorful one. I was wild and full of a certain kind of excitement. My youth had elements of struggle and conflict in it, but. out of those conflicts came a certain philosophy. I was a rebellious child. My father, a cantor, was a very religious man who tried to get me to believe in orthodox religion as much as he did. Though I am sentimental about many of the traditions and songs in my childhood, and though they still evoke many nostalgic which meant so much to my father. Even the event which is supposed to be so outstanding in a small boy’s life—the Bar Mitzvah or confirmation—is remembered by me chiefly as the occasion when I needed a white shirt, and had to borrow one from a neighbor. A boy’s Bar Mitzvah has religious significance, but I was too young to be impressed by that then. In time, however, I did grope my way toward a religion in which I myself could believe. I conceive of God as being a Supreme Force. I think we hear the voice of God in the thunder and the lightning; we see Him in the majesty of the mountains, in the oceans, in the mathematical precision with which the planets move, and in the hearts of men who on the surface seem ordinary. John Hersey wrote of such a man in “The Wall.” This man, Berson, seemed to have no specific talent for living or dying, but : when put in a particular situation, he faced that situation with great adaptability. Hersey said in this book that people are only strong when they have faith in themselves as people—and that is part of my philosophy, too. I place my faith in certain kinds of 3 people whom I admire and respect a great deal. Mostly they’re ordinary people —not necessarily either poor or rich—and it makes no difference whether or not they are talented. But whatever their lot, they _ face the reality of their particular circumstances with courage. They value honesty. Some of them go to a place of worship regularly. Others never go. But there is a divine spark of (Continued on page 94)

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a when she’ S pag (Continued from page 55) pressing her point. Kraike is said to have reached for a phone, contacted the studio nurse and ordered her to meet Shelley with a sedative. There are those who claim to be wit- nesses to the next scene wherein Shelley denounced all sedatives, and hysterically threatened to harm the woman in white! Even by Hollywood standards, this was a temperamental wing-ding for the books! The story grew with the telling, until Shelley Winters sounded more like Dracu- -she stated. Shelley’s patience was wee ir Her self-defense of the tual -barre charge was almost laboriously detai “I’d made three pictures in five mon “I was nervous and tired. the first day of the picture my father had a serious operation and I was worried about him. My acting is mostly spontaneous, and | I was not used to Bruce Humberstone’s | close direction in song and dance numbers. I felt the naturalness was going out of my scenes, and told him so. But we came to a! complete understanding on that score. On the second day of work I spotted a small bey standing on the set snapping pictures of me while I went through my dance la’s daughter than the straightforward gyrations. I felt self-conscious in front of} | person she is. a kid, and asked the assistant director to)! ¢ The whole story, of course, never move him to a spot where I couldn’t see) ‘ reached the right people. If it had, it’s him. Helena Carter and I have never had} ti doubtful that the truth would have the slightest difference. But somebody told s changed the opinions which had already her to step behind a backdrop while I did| - been formed. But it must be stated here a number, lest her presence make me that not only did Shelley offer a plausible nervous. Maybe it was just a gag, but I) » explanation of the episode, but -her had nothing to do with it. I’m anxious) 3 producer and her co-star rushed to her 10t to give the impression of being a trou-| 1 rescue. ble-maker. I’m only concerned with do- fi Shelley herself did not haul out the ing the best job I can.” ja whitewash—that isn’t her way. She ; simply’ stated the facts. “So I had a fight x : Vy with my director,” she said with char- If a man does something silly, people say) 1) acteristic bluntness. “Let’s put it this ‘Isn't he silly?” But if a woman does some:| way. Someone tried to figure out how thing silly, people say “Aren't women) “ they could get the picture on the front silly?"—Doris Day quoted by Sidney) 4 page; so they took a little incident and Skolsky in The New York Post. } blew it up to such proportions that it : L did hit the front page. The picture is in y ; \ sh color, and I wanted to look my best, so we N& long after es savory morsel ha¢| » had an argument. I was only absent from been digested (in most cases withoul} cools. the set a half hour!” benefit of the above qualifications), thé F hes absorbs € every Michael Kraike was direct. “Shelley is newspapers began hinting of trouble or ace of motiture okay with me,” a shame that every little thing she does is magnified.” Her co-star, Joel McCrea, who was not involved, felt impelled to hone the rough corners from the story. His ex- planation was objective and = sound. “Shelley’s been fighting the wrong way for the right things,” he stated. “Actually, she is the most unusual character I’ve seen. She really works hard. I like her. The trouble with Shelley is that she has an inarticulate approach. She smells a mouse and knows something is wrong. She just can’t put her finger on it. But she’s not | ke temperamental! tT has been said that the merest mention of her name in Hollywood is enough to bring forth loud vocal discord, equally divided between cat calls and wolf whis- tles. Shelley just naturally affects people that way: hot or cold. While her detractors are quick to circu- late stories at her expense, they are not so eager to pass along Shelley’s version of these blown-up incidents. It began as far back as A Double Life, when almost from the first, her critics said, Shelley began changing the dialogue to suit her moods. Shortly after the first “re-written” rushes were shown, Shelley received a note from A Double Life’s scrivener, Garson Kanin. “Shelley, dear,” it went, “I know you’ve written many dis- tinguished plays. But do you mind reading my lines as I wrote them for this one?” he said, “and I think it is the set of He Ran All The Way, the John| 7 Garfield starrer for which Shelley had beer borrowed from her home lot. It was only) # a matter of a few days before the column-| ists lifted the soft pedal on the stories an¢ _ began talking openly about the “Garfield:) Winters feud.” “Shelley Winters has don¢ “ it again,” was the tenor of these tales 3 “Winters’ temperament throws monkey wrench into Garfield production,” was the . secondary theme. Garfield himself sloughed off the “tondp!| t with, “All the troubles are ironed out. W: Ou i finally convinced Shelley that she couldn’ % produce this picture, like she tries to aa at Universal-International.” But injustice had been poe | cn KK Everyone assumed that Shelley had beet completely at fault. Nobody took thi @ trouble to check her side of the story which, incidentally, was a eae oe ry ferent version from the one which been common gossip for so many w Shelley admits she’d been eager to ail is al He Ran All The Way from the momen| “8 she'd first read the script. good script,” recently, “with a warm, sympathetic rol in it for Shelley. The ending offered he} the biggest, guttiest scene she’d ever had! “Tt was a ver) a close friend of hers sail : rd Shelley threw herself into the taal & to lose weight for the part. She had dail} te workouts at a Beverly Hills gym, and stuel| doggedly to a rigid diet in order to pare se the unwanted poundage. The girl reported to work was a new person; en thusiastic, full of admiration and friend] aM “That cured me,” was Shelley’s unpubli- cized comment. “Since then, I’ve never tried to improve my lines!” Shelley’s critics had a field day during production of South Sea Sinner. On this ness for cast and crew. As production gq} " under way, everyone connected with thi Wy picture was outspoken in praise of hei“ Then, shortly before shooting was sched} ay uled for her “big scene,” Shelley was to that the end of the script had been fre thy written. She was naturally upset, under} ® standably angry, until one of the executive} "4 took time to explain, “We suddenly real} “8 ized that we had to strengthen the =i i a so we re-wrote it overnight!” B Then, tr: I Two hearts dance to the romantic tempo of Blue Waltz. This lilting, lingering perfume touches you little epic they charged their “favorite” with magic. Use it lavishly—make it your very own! 25¢ actress with (a) having had a small boy i | removed from the set because he unnerved ! BLUE WALIZ. her, (b) refusing to emote in front of i i actress Helena Carter, for temperamental reasons and, (c) provoking violent argu- ments with director Bruce “Lucky” Hum- Shelley thought this over. berstone, who balked at her suggestions. a very direct ese. she made

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‘scene. She ey ott ties she saw the staircase. It had not been a part of the set as described in the original script. She tested the steps a few times, then shook the guide rail. “Who are they trying to kid?” she said. That stairway wasn’t put up at the last minute, its much too sturdy for that! Those so-and-so’s never intended me to have that big scene!” == are those who wonder if Shelley was referring to the trouble on He Ran All The Way, when she made this state- ment: “You know, it’s a funny thing about Hollywood—if you raise the roof and hol- | ler like crazy and you are wrong, then everybody tolerates you. They pat you on: the head and thank you for your sugges- tions about how to play a role. Bui if you scream about something and you are right | —hbrother, that’s death!” Well, that was about the last of the wild / whispers about the Winters temperament. But Shelley’s critics haven’t been idle. They’ ve rooted up something else to poke fun at—her alleged decision to chuck sex and become a great dramatic actress. Shelley is too canny a business woman to drop the sex attraction entirely. Her pictures have made lots of money. If she | wants to combine drama and sex in her career, she won't be the first actress in Hollywood to have tried. And she has an incentive in the frank opinion of Charles Laughton, in whose Shakespeare Group she has been a very active participant. | Laughton said of her, “Shelley could be- | come one of the finest Shakespearian © actresses in pictures.” ‘Shelley puts her aspirations this way: | “Tm at sixes and sevens trying to figure out whether I want to be an actress or a great success. Is it possible for a girl to be Betty Grable in one ieee and Sarah Bernhardt in another?” Even if Shelley were triplets, she couldn’t possibly live up to the fiendish | Teputation her critics have fashioned for — her. Any failings she may have, accord- ing to those who know her best—the friends who understand her—are directly traceable to her great emotional insecurity. It_ began back on Broadway when she . needed what any aspiring young actress heeds: encouragement, approval, a pat on ' the back. All Shelley ever received was . criticism. She was openly referred to as, “that aggressive little blonde without : talent.” Hollywood continued the negative ap- proach. Columbia Studios gave her a _ transient feeling of confidence by letting her high-kick in the chorus of & few musi- | cals. Then they turned right around and | slapped her down again with an off-hand | comment: “You should have your teeth . braced, your nose bobbed, and your hair- line raised.” Twentieth Century-Fox brushed off a _ test she made for them with, “You're hope- less. Your voice is all wrong and you have | © three left feet.” At MGM they made her up to look | like Lucille Ball and gasped, over her pro- tests, “Weill, you don’t want to look like you, do you?” Some say Shelley’s lost her perspective, iat tas conldare possibly: happend to. a gic who takes time out to kid herself publicly. A few months back the Hollywood Press Photographers held their annual shindig, | to which guests were asked to come dressed as their suppressed desires. The girl who is supposed to be “tempera- a a —”

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We » Eee a. ot ae oe ORK & PLAY Janice Rule, currently appearing in the Warner Bros. production Goodbye, My Fancy, wears two Betty Co-ed frocks that are as dashing as their names. Above Janice models Paris Preview—a frock of fine rayon linen with a trim of pure silk organza print. You'll be the pride of the party in this costume which can be selected in aqua, lilac or white with exquisite prints to match. Sizes 10-18 and 9-17. $14.99, postpaid. Betty Co-ed. Mexican Holiday is the name of this glamorous, gayly colored sun fashion with matching stole that is also modeled by Janice Rule. Of silky sanforized cotton broadcloth, it is styled with a boned bodice and a full gathered skirt. A truly exciting sun fashion that can be worn on summer evening dates as well. Colors: Lime or aqua background with contrasting print. Sizes 10-18 and 9-17. $10.99, postpaid. Betty Co-ed. THESE DRESSES CAN BE ORDERED BY MAIL, POSTPAID, FROM BETTY CO-ED OF HOLLYWOOD, 6402 HOLLYWOOD BLVD., HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA 69 POSSSTE GES Se SS ESE SS

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be fashion righteous . . . dollar conscious ? FLATTERING Above Janis Carter, now in RKO’s My Forbidden Past, shows us a glamorous Sea Nymph one piece bathing suit of slipper satin with a zipper front closing self-locking—so easy to put on, so chic to wear. The tucked side pockets are news in bathing suits. Black; white, navy, aquamarine, blush, berry, mint, lemon. Sizes 32-38. About $13. On the right Janis poses in a two piece model of faille. The pointed detail of the belt-top vagabond shorts is repeated in the top of the bra which may be worn with or without the halter strap. Mint, berry, lemon, blush, aquamarine, black, navy. Sizes 32-38; Junior Sizes 9, 11, 13, 15. About $11. By Sea Nymph. Janis is also appearing in RKO’s Flying Leathernecks. THESE BATHING SUITS CAN BE BOUGHT IN PERSON OR ORDERED BY MAIL FROM ARNOLD CONSTABLE, NEW YORK, N. Y. AND THE JOHN SHILLITO CO., CINCINNATI, OHIO. SS SSS SEES SSS PORE Fish and beach ball courtesy Abercrombie and Fitch, N. Y. TS

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Above Debbie Reynolds, who appears — in MGM’s Mr. Imperium, modelsa _ bathing costume that features cotton fish net—a gay new note in bathing apparel Ae by Winkies of L. I. The white fish net bathing suit is made over colored rayon jersey with polka dot trim edgings and halter. You can see Debbie’s hand through the large pocket on the fish net 3 jacket which also has the polka dot trim. On the left Debbie shows the bathing suit without the jacket so you can more clearly see the flattering fit, the semi- draped: bodice top and the exact detail of the polka dot trim. The suit has a back zipper closing. Colors: White fish net with red, navy, green, maize. polka dot trim. Sizes 32-38. Bathing suit $8.99. Jacket $5.99. By Winkies of L. I. > THIS BATHING SUIT AND JACKET CAN BE BOUGHT IN PERSON OR ORDERED BY MAIL FROM THE JOHN SHILLITO CO., CINCINNATI, OHIO.

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fashion tips _from F hollywood i _@ “The Right Look” in clothes that _ is always so very important to the _ Hollywood stars is just as important _ to you—for you are a star in your _ own world—be it home or business. _ “The Right Look” in clothes goes far __ toward keeping, or getting, your man. _ “The Right Look,” of course, is _ more than the new look in clothes— _ for “The Right Look” can never be _ achieved by just buying new clothes. _ You must select those new clothes in __ Styles and colors that are flattering to _ you—that is the Fashion Righteous _ tule in Hollywood fashion. __ The Hollywood stars model fash- ions for you (pages 67-74) that were ' chosen because of their flattering _ styles and colors as well as for their _ fine fabric and workmanship. They E were chosen, too, because they repre- sent basic clothes from which to _ select spring and summer wardrobes. _ The All Occasion Dresses shown in Mopern Screen Fashions were chosen because they play such a magical part in every wardrobe— dresses that go on the street, as well as to business; and yet will .double | for social activities are practically a _ must. Of course, enough cannot be - said about casual separates—especial- ly when made of a fast color fabric _ which requires no ironing. Colored shoes of imported linen that match or contrast your frocks - are big fashion news. And of course, take special time to choose your bathing suit for the Summer of 1951—the styles have _ never been so glamorous. ‘With all these flattering fashions from which to choose you'll want to Start today to dress yourself up, in “The Right Look.” And—you’ll be ih Dollar Conscious of the amazingly low prices of these fine selections. Turn again to pages 67-74. The styles will flatter you—the prices your budget. kiss tomorrow hello (Continued from page 52) why it scared me so. But I cried and my father wouldn’t let my stepmother turn it off. He said I was just being silly and I’d have to listen to get over it. I went through agonies until _I discovered what I could do by taking my bath at that time. By pulling the plug, | I could let the water run so hard and constantly that the sound drowned out the radio. The hot water would run out just about the time the program was over. -So there I'd sit in the tub, escaping my fear. That kind of attitude was common among parents then I guess, but modern -psychology teaches us better now.” HAT’S as close as John will come to speaking of the insecurities of which his upbringing was composed. Recently John’s good friend, Russ Harlan, intimated such insecurity when he told Moprrn SCREEN readers, “Under Dare’s gaiety was a deeper and stronger toughness than I’d ever encountered before—a good, solid kind. And I thought to myself, ‘Why not? He’s contributed new life to the world. He’s part of a real family at last. ” : Some children of divorced parents ma- ture into adulthood and find in their mate’s attitudes the leveling off of those inner conflicts. Patti, a child of White Rus- sians, may also have had an insecure child- hood, although she rarely mentions the past. If so, the answer to why a home is all important to both of them becomes quite understandable “We both want a real home,” Patti says eagerly. “I guess I do in particular. Every- thing was temporary with me when I was growing up. I was born several years after my parents had to flee their Georgian home when the Communists took over. thing then, of course, was gone. My par- ents always lived temporarily, waiting for the day they were sure would come when we'd be able to go back and regain all that had been lost. Wherever we went, mother lugged along a trunk filled with things she valued, things she would take back with her when we regained our right- ful status. The trunk really was just full of junk, good only for memories. My father wasn’t like that exactly, but he’d lived so much he didn’t have the desire to build again. Here in America when a man loses _ everything he has, he just goes to work to build again, to replace his loss. But back there, men just hoped to get back what had been taken from them. The Paris I knew was full of such people.” So John and Patti are two people who knew that the best thing luck and hard work could bring them would be a won- derful home. And luck had come. Amaz- ing luck for John Derek. It’s not so surprising then that they’ve sunk every dime of their past, their pres- ent, and much of their future into a won- derful home. A home they wouldn’t put off buying until times were more certain. That's why John’s building the fences and doing the new brick work at the place himself. He’s making the lamps, too— interesting ones. He and Patti found an old nickel-plated milk can in a junk shop for $6.00. A bit of surreptitious sandpaper- ing on the bottom revealed their suspicions were right—solid copper underneath. They bought it and peeled off the nickel. Then John, with one of those electric hand rotary teols with all kind of attachments, went to -work and made a replica of a milk-stool on which the can will sit to form a charm- ing chair-side lamp. Odd pitchers are put to the same use. Everything of this sort must be something they can restore to its former beauty or enhance with their own hard work. ae ; Patti outdid almost everyone in bargain- Every-— walk into it... button once... wrap and tie It’s gay, it’s new — it’s the plus-magic to summer scenes. Perfect over dress, ff skirt or playtogs, the > SHORTY SWIRL is cast cotton*. 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fair weather friend... gingham girl's OL For playing, for looking... or for just looking pretty. Sunback in Sanforized two-tone broadcloth print. Sunset pink with blue, coral with grey, lilac with chartreuse. Sizes 10 to 20. About $@ hunting. She bought muslin sheets at the January sales, and two 100% wool blankets for $15. ie a “They had some wonderful buys on per- cale sheets,” she said, “but I had to watch the pennies. Ill get those later on. “I bought one copper-bottomed pan,” Patti added. “I had to pay a little over $6.00 for it and it still hurts! The rest are just the cheapest I could find. And I saw a sale on imported glasses for 29¢ apiece. The ad warned there were flaws in some. Well, I spent five hours digging out the ones without a single flaw. The clerks thought I was crazy! : “One store where I went, my purchases totaled more than I had anticipated and I didn’t have enough money with me. Nor did I have a checkbook or any identifica- tion. I was wearing an old trench coat, a blue cap of the sort boys wear for base- ball, a clashing scarf and—well, I was dressed for rain because when I left the house it looked as though it might. The clerk looked even more skeptical when I said I was Mrs. John Derek. Finally, I told him to hold the stuff until the check had cleared, then to send it out. Not until I left did I realize I had carried in with me a new movie magazine with John’s and my pictures in it which should have been fine identification. But anyway, by the time I arrived home I’d earned those bargains.” Just then someone came running up to the front door. It was Bob Scott, the Dereks’ business manager, with papers that Patti had to sign that day. They were for the latest registration required of aliens in the United Statés. “I’m still a lady without a country.” Patti said. “An alien. My husband is an American. My son is an American. But I’m not. Isn’t it ridicu- lous? But soon I'll be an American, too.” When Bob Scott asked the questions which must be answered, such as her serial number, Patti went out of the room and returned with a plain old cardboard box. From it she dragged out valuable personal papers. Birth certificates. Im- migration papers for herself. A paper. from the French Sureté testifying she had never been arrested or lodged in jail in France. Papers which contained the proof of the answers she must give to the ques- tions for this new registration.- She wasn’t joking when she said she was a lady without a country. For original nationality the answer was, “Stateless—of Georgian origin.” The words of another person of similar original nationality came to mind. “Why on earth don’t you keep your valuable papers in a safety deposit box instead of an old shoe-box?” he was asked. He had answered: with a sardonic half- smile, “Some of us have learned the hard “way that when the enemy approaches your home you don’t have time to get to a safety deposit box. You just grab what you can that’s close at hand and run. And if you hope to have any identity in your new surroundings, you’d better have papers to prove you're you.” It- was this same person, not Patti, who had revealed that if Patti’s parents had been able to regain what they’d lost, she’d be a Georgian princess today. But wife of John Derek she is, and she’s as American as they come despite her cur- rent lack of American citizenship, and her charming but understandable accent. A§ Patti and John talked, Russell Andre sat solemnly in his Taylor-Tot play- ing with some plastic toys. Often he’d look up at his mother with a happy little grin or reach out to pat Hero, the dog. i aN a a ia yi Rael be TPA Jf Cee ‘to change that but I h So all of Patti’s flair for ing is lost on her husband. = = en asked when they would move to their new home, Patti said: “Not until we get a telephone out there.” Southern California’s phenomenal growth has outstripped the telephone company’s ability to provide telephones. For some that’s an irritation, and for others it | creates a serious problem. The Dereks | fall into the latter class. As everyone | knows, Russell Andre had a very precari- ous entrance into the world. A very delicate. operation gave him his chance to survive, but he’s not completely out | of danger yet. Three times Christmas Day he had milder, but nonetheless frighten- ~ ing, attacks of the old trouble. Three times the telephone went into immediate action to summon the doctor. What if there hadn’t been a phone? The Dereks axen’t moving out of range of one. Less urgent was the fact the interior of the new home needed painting. John was snatching every moment he could to get it done before working on Colum- bia’s The Secret. Just as long as he got Russell Andre’s room painted—“Fresh paint discourages germs, you know,” Patti ' said—everything will be all right. Furniture? “Well, we had to_buy every- thing, you know, but we have to take it easy anyway. Simple, early American more than ever now the RED ¥ CROSS needs your help - for the living room and dining room. Bare essentials for the rest of the rooms. We have plenty of time to get the rest,” Patti said, her tone daring anyone to stop them. But if fathers are told their country needs their services again? Well, then John Derek will go too, of course. Patti will comfort herself with the thought that he’s a strong fellow capable of taking care of himself if he has a decent chance. He proved that as a paratrooper in the last war, participating in the re-taking of the Philippines and the occupation of Japan, i Both of them hope that if that time comes, Patti’s talents will have been ap- preciated so that she can continue pay— ments on that long-wanted home. Neither, in taking their important step, have borrowed trouble, a practice which frightens so many into temporary living. They’re walking firmly and unafraid into the future they want; not blindly, but fully aware that serious trouble may come and if it does they'll face it then, not its ghost now. : “That’s the real American way,’ says John Derek’s wife. Then restates, “Here people build.. Here if a man loses every- thing, why he just goes to work building | On the coffee table was the menu for to replace what he’s lost. He doesn't dinner with ground steak and pork chops just sit around hoping to get it back.” scheduled for the entree. “John has an- And the Dereks don’t sit around either. | open mind about everything but food,” They’re going right after their happiness. Patti said. “I’ve tried every way I know ; ‘THe Enp mes at: FAMOUS-BARR, St. Louis; GIMBELS, New York; Hecut co., Washington, D. C.; may co., Los Angeles; sancer’s, Dallas: R. H. WHITE, Boston ; WIEBOLDT’S,C hicago: or write GINGHAM GIRL, 1350 B’way, N.Y. 76

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“You can also store bulky objects in them. And to please Ricardo, I had record stor- age cabinets built into the window recess. He has a large collection of Pan American music.” The home furnishing hint from his mother-in-law that Ricardo Montalban ap- preciates most, however, is the trick of taking antiques which are works of art and putting them to practical use. He and Georgiana collect old pewter objects, but they don’t store them in a treasure chest. They use them for ash trays, lamp bases and vases. Even the chandelier in the dining room is an antique pewter urn. Last month the Montalbans found an elab- orately-carved door in a _ second-hand store. They snapped it up at a bargain, and then took it to a cabinet-maker. Right now he’s building a large cabinet to house | the Philco radio-television set and the sound wire-recorder that Georgiana gave | Ric for Christmas. Thus, this beautiful | old door will camouflage the mechanics of their home entertainment. a room most lived in at the Montal- bans’ is the long narrow den. At one end is the alcove where the family eats breakfast on a glass-topped, wrought-iron table. The rest of the intimate little room is perfect for Ric when he wants to prac- tice diction by talking into his wire re- corder. Georgie likes to bring her mend- ing in here, because the four glass doors opening onto the patio let in so much light, and she can also keep an eye on the chil- dren playing outdoors. The three young Montalbans like it because no matter how grimy their hands, or how much they romp | on the yellow koroseal couch, none of the adults ever object. This wonderful leath- ery stuff is tough and washable. Upstairs in the pink and white nursery, the furnishings look deceptively delicate, too. But all the chests and tables are painted with a high-gloss enamel that can and does get washed as regularly as the dishes. The rose-colored velvet chair in | which Ric sits every night to read a bed- | time story to Laura and Mark is not as im- | practical as it might seem at first glance. With the emphasis Mrs. Belzer places on | cuality, its covered in the heaviest up- holstery velvet she could find. The three etive children see to it that the nursery takes quite a beating, and yet it shows relatively little wear and tear. At the other end of the house, away from | the nursery, the Montalbans have a spa- | cious master bedroom. Its color scheme is predominantly white and green with an | occasional touch of cyclamen. Mrs. Belzer had the draperies and bedspreads made of | washable white linen. On the wall she | made effective use of a green-white trellis | wallpaper, and around the fireplace and | over Georgiana’s built-in vanity table, she had one of her talented craftsmen paint | a green and white marbleized surface. The | overall effect is as cool and fresh as a | bed of mint. In Georgiana’s dressing-room bath next to the bedroom, another clever artist | painted humorous and identifying murals | on the wardrobe doors. But the smartest features of the dressing room are cotton shag carpeting to insure barefoot comfort, and the series of ordinary door hooks for | storing Georgiana’s costume jewelry in an | orderly fashion. Whenever Georgiana and Ricardo de- cide to make a few changes or add a new piece of furniture to their home, they first | ask themselves, “Does it have a lasting | quality and is it beautiful?” Then to make | sure, they check with Mama Belzer—be- cause in their opinion, Mama really does know best. THe Enp (You can see Ricardo Montalban in MGM’s Across The Wide Missouri—Ed.) 2h ee are i ameneneps = yes, the whirl’s the why your bustline lifts higher, rounder, firmer -.. why your bra Stays shape-trie through countless washings . . . the whirl ...a continuous spiral of strenpth-piving stitches ...is why you look lovelier in your V-ETTE Whirlpool*.. . STRAPLESS (above) incomparably engineered to stay put with Inxurious control under bare-shoulder fashions. in white, black, satin and net. 5.00 BASIC V-ETTE (left) America’s most-asked- for brassiere for daily dress-up... In cotton of Travis nylon, black, white, pink 2.50 to 3.95 *reg. ot your favorite store or write

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Some years ago, Bob Crosby was trying out his band for a job at the fashionable Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston, when Bing arrived in town after a visit to the nearby racetrack. Sensing a valuable publicity break, the manager of the hotel asked Bob if he could get Bing to pose for pictures with him, and Bob, without thinking, said, “Of course.” That afternoon, Bob asked Bing to come up to the Roof for the band’s tryout, but neglected to tell him about the photographers who would be there. When the elevator arrived at the Roof, and Bing saw the battery of cameramen waiting in the ballroom, he turned to the elevator operator and quietly said, “Down.” “Every floor that elevator went down I could see that job flying farther away,” says Bob. “I was sort of hurt at the time, but now I realize how wrong it was for me to have put Bing in a spot like that without asking him first. In spite of all the nonsense he’s had to put up with, Bing’s been a wonderful brother to me.” INcE he has been able to control the scheduling of his radio shows for Ches- terfield, Bing has systematically planned his life. When he is involved with work in Hollywood, he spends every available moment at his home in Holmby Hills, or on the Bel Air golf course. On week- ends, Bing drives to his home-away-from- home, the beautiful modern house at Peb- ble Beach, where he can live as a private citizen. “Pebble Beach gives Bing a peace- ful haven, I suppose, from the flood of at- tention he gets in Hollywood,” a Monterey newspaperman reported. “Up here, people don’t give movie stars a second glance.” Bing spends his summers in other peace- ful surroundings at his 20,000-acre ranch 60 miles from Elko, Nevada. No one bothers Bing for his autograph in Elko, but ranchers frequently stop him to ask how his cattle are enduring the summer heat, or how the trout are biting. Last year, Bing purchased a vacation lodge at Hayden Lake, Idaho, where each fall he gives his boys a wonderful month of fishing and hunting as a payofi for their hard summer’s work as cowhands. On the surface, Bing’s way of life would seem to have simplified his relations with people. But in effect, it has resulted in widening the vistas of his already com- plex personality. The people who met him during the years that he owned an interest in the Del Mar race track would swear that horse-racing is his principal interest. Musicians claim that singing is the love of his life. Professional golfers like Jimmy Demaret or Cary Middlecoft will tell you that Bing lives for the mo- ments he can spend on the golf course. Bing is continually surprising people with his knowledge, all seemingly acquired without effort. Some years ago, for in- stance, he came back from a brief trip to South America and surprised all of his friends by demonstrating a fluent com- mand of the Spanish language. “T always thought it remarkable that Bing could have picked up a completely new language in such a short time,” says Johnny Burke. “Then just by accident, when I took my own vacation to South America last summer, I discovered how hard Bing had to study to learn Spanish. On our boat was the same: language teach- er who 12 years ago had tutored Bing two hours each day. By the time he arrived in Buenos Aires, Bing spoke Spanish like a native.” Because of his inbred dislike of preten- sion in others, Bing has always hidden his own intellectual accomplishments behind a glib facade of jive talk and sporting news. Actually, however, he is one of the best informed men in Hollywood. “He has so much information and tech- nique stored up inside of him,” an admirer recently remarked, “its a wonder he doesn’t explode.” A ttHoucH he is not surrounded by an entourage of yeah-sayers and glad- handers, Bing is very close to many of his business associates. Wally Westmore, his makeup man, is a close friend, as is John O’Melveny, his attorney. Bill Mor- row, who writes and produces his radio show, was a fishing buddy long before he went to work for Bing. Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen, who write his songs, are always welcome guests at the Crosby manor. Barney Dean, whose gags have sparked many of the Crosby-Hope comedies, often travels with Bing to golf tournaments and army camp shows. There is apparently no standard by which Bing chooses his friends. Either he likes a per- son or he doesn’t; he rarely changes his mind about anyone. Bing has many bachelor friends, but there is not one among them who does not envy his rewarding family life. Only once or twice during his 21 years of marriage to Dixie has any serious trouble arisen. Last summer when Bing took a holiday in Europe without Dixie, a rumor hit the front pages that they were separating. But like other rumors of dissension in the Crosby household, it evaporated faster than the printer’s ink. This spring, Bing and Dixie have never been happier. Someone asked Leonard Goldstein of Uni- versal-International (one of Hollywood's busiest producers) if he dreamed of win- ning an Academy Award. The stocky, affable Goldstein said, “No, it would change my whole life. I'd have to buy a tuxedo—and go around with people who own tuxedos.""—Gladwin Hall in The New York Times. ‘ Not long ago, the Crosbys held a won- derfully informal western party at their Holmby Hills home, a real hoe-down affair where everyone came dressed in levis and plaid shirts. “T haven’t seen Bing enjoy himself so much for years,” one of his guests reported the next morning. “He and the band he’d asked over rambled through every jazz hit since 1900, and although he had an early call at Paramount the next morn- ing, Bing just couldn’t stop singing.” Dixie and Bing enjoy occasions of this sort. But since their children were born, neither have enjoyed party-giving nor party-going on a large scale. For more than 15 years, their life has centered around their four boys. “Dixie and Bing have done a wonderful job of raising their boys,’ says Bing’s brother Everett. “They stood a pretty good chance of being spoiled, but they’ve been brought up to understand the value of money, hard work, and earning their own rights to a place in the sun. Bing has never pampered any of them, and now that they are getting old enough to do their own thinking, they’ll think right.” Br has been Hollywood’s most cele- brated father for many years, even before the National Father’s Day Com- mittee, in 1945, designated him as “The Screen Father of the Year,” an honor he has received several times since. Al- though Bing has never denied his boys

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emer anything, he always has managed to find plenty of work for them to do, even when they were little. “You aren’t going to get anywhere by ducking your chores,” he used to tell them. “Tve got spies.” “Yeah, I know,” Gary used to say. “Mom.” ‘ Friends of Bing often recoil at the whip-like quality of his sons’ humor. It isn’t smarty and wise-cracking; rather, it is pertinent and adult, and full of the orig- inality that flavors Bing’s own speech. Even when they were infants, Bing did not talk down to his Irishers, as he calls his boys. “T remember one night in 1938, when my wife and I were visiting the Crosbys at their ranch in Del Mar,” says Johnny Burke. “It was Bing’s turn to tell the boys their bedtime story. When they were all ready for bed, he started the story of Old King Cole. In his version, Cole was a guy who had been raised in New Orleans around hot music, and he was having a tough time trying to lead the life of a king. He really didn’t go for that chamber music, but nonetheless he still had to call for his fiddlers three. When Gary asked him, ‘Why, pop?’ Bing said, ‘Noblesse oblige, son. He had to go along with the court crowd.’ ” According to Johnny, all of the popular nursery tales were given an original and imaginative twist by Bing. Little Red Riding Hood, in his version, turned up as a vaudeville performer who broke up with her partner, a quick change artist, after a bum date in Kansas City. When she went home to live with her grand- mother, she met a woodsman who gave her a big play, and she liked him, too. Then one day, her partner showed up dressed as a wolf and tried to break up their ro- mance. But the woodsman was brave and chased the wolf away. Of course, Little Red Riding Hood knew all the time the wolf was her old partner—his makeup job was lousy. Bing used to summarize the tale with a moral: “The woodsman was certainly brave, kids, standing up to the wolf like that. But you have to give Little Red Riding Hood credit, too ... she was a smart little cookie not to let on that the wolf wasn’t really a wolf.” Ts Crosbys’ Pebble Beach home is not far from Bellarmine Prep, where Bing’s three oldest boys are now enrolled. Some- times they all spend an entire weekend playing golf at Pebble Beach, where the boys have been getting instructions for three years from venerable Peter Hay, the dean of California pros. Bing’s home is built on the 13th fairway, and golfers often catch sight of the boys, sitting like a tree full of owls in the branches of the spread- ing oak that overlooks the green. Bing has played backyard baseball with the kids since they were big enough to hold a bat. Athletics always interested them. Today, Gary is a_hard-driving fullback on the varsity team, and his younger brothers, Dennis and Philip, are regulars on the B team at Bellarmine. Lindsay, who attends the Good Shepherd School in Beverly Hills, is merely waiting until he puts on enough weight to play. “You ought to see those kids kick and throw a football around,” says Lin Howard. “Every one of them looks like a pro.” Next fall, when Linny moves up to Bellarmine Prep; Bing’s family will prob- ably spend more time than ever at Pebble Beach. Although Gary starts in college next fall, he will either enroll at Santa Clara or Stanford, both within easy driv- ing distance of the Monterey Peninsula. Both Bing and Dixie like their home there, and would like to be able to spend more time in it. When all of their boys are going to northern California schools, they when all youre wearing is a SWIM SUIT N, | , Debra Paget, star of 20th Century-Fox’s “Bird of Paradise,” wears a SEA NYMPH swim suit. be sure it’s a One and Two Piecers in LASTEX FAILLE. Colors are Blush, Lemon, Mint, Berry, Aquamarine, Navy, Black. Sizes 32-38. Each about $9. Slightly higher West of the Rockies eo i spss tapi gue At your favorite Bore, or write PAULA DEAN... JORDAN MANUFACTURING CORP. _ 1410 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 18, N.Y. 81}

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Soon after they arrive at the ranch, each of the boys will be assigned to a crew, and will work, eat, and sleep with the men who run the place the year around. They will get up at daylight, spend the day pitch- ing hay, herding cattle, or mending fences, and be in bed by 8:30 p.m. On Sundays, after Mass, they will go fishing or perhaps take a ride into town to see a movie. “Someday the boys are going to own the ranch,” Bing has said, “and I want them to know what the men working for them have to do.” “That life doesn’t hurt Bing any, either,” a friend commented. “He can keep him- self in top shape just by following the schedule he sets for the boys.” Now that the boys have begun to make a splash in the entertainment world, Bing will undoubtedly work harder than ever to keep them in balance. Just recently, the Superior Court approved a contract with Decca Records which gives the boys a royalty of two-and-a-half cents on each of their records. This money will be added to the already considerable fortunes which are being held in trust for them by John O’Melveny, their father’s lawyer. Although Bing has had no qualms about allowing the boys to display their talents. neither he nor Dixie will let this unduly influence their future. “No son of mine is turning crooner until he finishes his schooling,” Dixie says. “We don’t mind the boys making a record now and then during summer vacation, just as long as it doesn’t interfere with their school work. Gary sings well—ali the boys do—but he is going to finish college before he tries to make a profession of it.” SNE his father’s death last fall, Bing has brought his mother closer into his daily life. She now usually spends weekends at his Holmby Hills home, even though her own home is just minutes away. Ac- cording to brother Larry, Bing has never been at any major crossroads in his life that he did not write or call his mother before making his decision. Her advice and her prayers have obviously been quite beneficial. “Where Mother might have fallen apart after Dad’s death,” says Bob Crosby, “she has too much to worry about with all of her children and their families. Believe me, she’s still the guiding genius of this family. We all depend on her for advice.” Kate Crosby still worries about Bing. She worries about the rough and tough way he works his sons; she would treat them gentler, and probably spoil them. But she is rightfully and inordinately proud of her famous son, and is becoming reconciled, as her grandsons grow older, to the fact that Bing’s way worked out pretty well. Larry, Everett, and Bob, the three Crosby brothers who live in Hollywood, are also a vital part of Bing’s life. Al- though demonstrativeness is not a charac- teristic of the Crosby makeup, there exists a deep-seated loyalty in the family. All of Bing’s brothers are caricatured on his radio show. Larry, in real life a quiet, unhurried man with a penetrating dry humor, is pictured as a chronic worrier. Brother Bob’s fatal fascination for the horses is the cause for numerous funny remarks. But brother Everett and his grasping interest in the dollar comes in for the worst pasting of all. Last fall, when Everett left for a tour of Europe with his wife, Bing mentioned on his show that Everett has started a new business over . there—greasing channel swimmers. “You know my brother Ever- ett,” Bing continued confidentially “He's / the greatest people-greaser in the world.”- Everett’s attitude about remarks like that is typical of all of Bing’s brothers: “Why should I mind? I don’t care if they make me sound like a jerk as long as it helps the show—and I get my ten per cent.” It would be easy to underestimate the significance of Everett’s and Larry’s con- tributions to Bing’s success. In 1931, Ev- erett, a garrulous truck salesman, quit his job in Los Angeles to gamble on Bing’s future as a singer in New York. Today he handles the Crosby enterprises, and makes it possible for Bing to concentrate exclusively on his career as an entertainer. Larry, who came down to Los Angeles from a Seattle newspaper job in 1933, is responsible for establishing Bing’s far- reaching fan club organization which is composed of more than 400 clubs in Amer- ica, 80 in Canada, and another 300 in other nations of the world. For 18 years, Larry has directed Bing’s efficient fan mail ser- vice, which each month sends replies to each of the 10,000 to 25,000 people who write Bing personal letters. Five secre- tries and three IBM electric typewriters are kept busy eight hours daily, classify- ing, sorting, and answering Bing’s mail; and even they will be unable to process all the mail which will come during Bing’s 20th anniversary. Larry also manages the Crosby Research Foundation, and handles Bing’s vast donations to charity. The list of his donations last year filled three typewritten pages and included orphanages, child-care centers, medical research, scholarships, and innumerable religious projects. For many years all of the royalties from his recording of “Silent Night,” which to date has sold more than 5,000,000 copies, were given to 15 chari- table organizations. During his entire career, Bing has never been known to re- fuse help to any priest with a worthy cause. But Bing’s favorite charity for the past ten years is the annual Crosby Pro-Ama- teur Golf Tournament at Pebble Beach, which has already provided the funds for four community youth centers on the Monterey Peninsula. Bing pays all the bills, including the $10,000 prize money. This year, the tournament, attended by 20,000 people, raised more than $40,000, after federal taxes, which will go directly into a program to build and improve recre- ational facilities for boys and girls’ of all denominations. Bing takes a great per- sonal interest in the tournament and in the athletic programs of the centers. Last fall, when Joe Lilly, Bing’s arranger at Paramount, flew up to Pebble Beach to play the tunes for Mr. Music, he was astonished when Bing met him at the air- port with his car loaded down with cases of soda pop “You aren’t going to drink all that stuff?” he asked Bing. “No, I have to drop it off for the boys over in Carmel,” Bing replied. Bing stopped by the Carmel center and unloaded the pop himself. B= participation in worthy causes is not restricted to cash donations. He has been one of the principal supporters of Father Peyton’s Family Hour program on Mutual. Father Patrick Peyton, whose theme is: “The Family Who Prays To- gether, Stays Together,’ first met Bing over the phone when he asked him to appear on his initial broadcast on VE day. Bing, who was then working in Bells of St. Mary’s, agreed at once. “Only two other players in Hollywood, Ann Blyth and Loretta Young, have ap- peared on our programs more often than Bing,” says Father Peyton. “Every time he has been asked, he has done everything he could for the cause of family prayer.”

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4 Fe we SS * * Bing has always been a devoted church- goer. He and the boys frequently sing together at early Mass. As a result of his appearances as a priest in Going My Way and Bells of St. Mary’s, Bing was respon- sible for giving the public an entirely new insight into the activities of a priest in modern society. Today, he is America’s best known lay Catholic, whose public identification with his religion is clearly indicated by the many letters he receives yearly asking him to say a special prayer for people in need. Bing Crosby is, indeed, a many-sided man. But the image which most people hold of him will undoubtedly continue to be that of an easy-going, friendly singer whose own responses to life are incredibly normal and like those of his fellow Ameri- cans. At 48 Bing somehow manages, al- though he is balding and spreading at the waist, to present an exterior of almost indestructible youthfulness. Twenty years ago, when he was just beginning his career as America’s great- est singer, Bing felt sure his days were numbered. Shortly after he had finished his first sensational appearance at the Paramount Theater in New York, he called in his brother Everett and asked how things were going. “Just great, Bing,” Everett told him. “I have all sorts of things booked for you.” “Tine up everything you can,” Bing re- plied. “This can’t possibly last.” There is no one in America more sur- prised than Bing Crosby that it did. THE END (Bing is currently at work in Para- mounts Here Comes the Groom, co-star- ring Jane Wyman.—Ed.) it comes up love (Continued from page 59) enthusiastic fellow and didn’t consider his contribu- tions to the players’ weary efforts at all out of the ordinary. A Warner Brothers movie scout did, though, and Ronnie sud- denly found himself giving everything he had to drawing room chatter before a camera. Ronnie was working in a Bette Davis picture when the production office sent him a note one day advising him to show up the next morning in white tie and tails. Naturally, Ronnie dropped into ward- robe and asked for a fitting. He was in- formed that, being a stellar performer of sorts, he was obliged to provide his own evening clothes. Ronnie admitted very frankly that he didn’t own a suit of tails—and that quite possibly he never would, as they didn’t go over too big in Nebraska. The wardrobe man gave him the card of a good tailor, and washed his hands of the whole affair. Ronnie sat quietly in a pal’s office and mulled over the matter. On his salary, he couldn’t afford tails—and he might never need them again in a picture. So he did the only sensible thing. He went down to a pawn shop, bought a suit of 1890 tails for $12.00, and blandly showed up on the set the next morning dressed almost as ordered. The director, Edmund Goulding, almost had apoplexy. He roared and thundered that a man made up like Harold Lloyd couldn’t make love to Bette Davis. He finally dragged Ronnie up to the front office so that the bosses could see for themselves. The result was that the studio invested a couple of thousand dollars in a Reagan wardrobe. It was not only a splendid victory for Ronnie, but just about as classy a gag as he has been able to get away with since. Tee is no question about it; the years have mellowed Ronald Reagan consid- erably. They have also given him a sense of responsibility toward the community and the nation. His off-screen activities attest to this. But in the man whom many call stuffy, there is still a lot of the boy who loved to call football games. There was a real period of melancholy following his separation from Jane Wyman, because Reagan is normally straight-laced - and doesn’t take such things lightly. But it didn’t last nearly as long as they say it did. One of the reasons for the lonely-boy legend may have been that Ronnie doesn’t smile easily on command. Consequently, when photographed at nightclubs he usually had a long face. If the photog- _rapher had waited until somebody told a funny story, he’d probably have made a swell shot of Ronnie rolling on the floor in enjoyment. Another contributing factor to the legend is undoubtedly the character of his free time occupation. Ronnie is a tireless, sometimes fanatic, worker in the interests of the Screen Actors’ Guild and certain political organizations. These are very serious matters and, as a spokesman for his interests, Reagan’s most quoted state- ments have had to do with weighty prob- lems. This cannot get a man a reputa- tion for being a Katzenjammer or a great wit. Actually, Reagan is something of both. An incident indicating Ronald Reagan’s humor and understanding of the boister- ous life took place during the war when Ronnie, a captain, was temporarily sta- _ tioned in Hollywood. Anyone who has ever worn the ill-fitting brown of a private’s suit knows that every enlisted man in the army at one time or another has vowed to track down and trounce at least one officer. But no man in his right mind ever dared do it. A couple of G.I.’s were spending their furlough money at Ciro’s one night, when they playfully decided to take the place apart. There was what was mildly reported as a scuffle, the M.P.’s were called, and the merrymaking dog-faces were dragged outside to the parking lot where they be- gan reducing the Provost Marshal’s staff by two good men. At this point, an army car pulled into the lot, and Captain Ronald Reagan got out, sped to the scene and shouted a command for everyone to hold fire. One of the soldiers had a good one left in him, and landed it smack on Cap- tain Reagan’s nose. Quiet fell on Sunset Strip. Even the civilians paled. The M.P.’s trembled in ter- ror for their late antagonists. “Take them away,” said Captain Rea- gan. “Yes, sir,” said the M_P. still able to talk. “And what is the name of the officer we will charge them with striking, sir?” “Take them to their hotel,” said Captain Reagan, “and keep your mouth shut about anybody hitting anybody.” The four soldiers got into a jeep and drove away, marvelling at the wonder of having found an officer with a real, beat- ing heart. Captain Reagan .dabbed the crimson from his nose and went into Ciro’s. “How about that!” he is reported to have remarked to a bartender. “He had to get drunk—but one of them finally got up the nerve to do it. 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He doesn’t like to wear his glasses. Ronald Reagan is an enthusiastic aninfal in his every waking moment. He loves to laugh; he loves to play. He loves to whistle at chorus girls, drive fast cars, roll on the grass with kids, swim in the ocean and gallop on a fast horse off into the hori- zon. In other words, he likes to live. You can lay the fact that he is known as a solitary gentleman with an aching heart directly at the door of the crusade that has been conducted for him by other people. And, for an assist, add the rather human quality of fear, for he has been afraid to open his mouth because he thought he might be misunderstood, mis- quoted, or held up to ridicule. He hasn’t talked—and he’s taking the consequences. In the case of Nancy Davis, though, even the diehards have begun to admit that maybe he does have a spark of love for her in his tired old heart. And his inti- mates know that the spark is deep and real and no doubt long-lasting. ik would be hard to find a girl more suited to Ronnie Reagan’s somewhat split nature than Nancy Davis. She, too, has been tagged the serious type—mainly because of the roles she has so ably played in her MGM pictures. She comes from one of Chicago’s first families. Her father is one of the world’s most noted brain sur- geons, and her mother is a society leader. She has been educated in the finest schools and, actually, is not entirely in her native element in the theatrical profession. However, she is just about all the things Reagan is, except that she never whistles at chorus girls. They met in a rather official, although informal, manner. There was a vacancy on the board of directors of the Screen Actors’ Guild and, according to its policy of trying to get prominent players in office, it was decided to ask Nancy to accept the post. Reagan, as president, was to make the formal call to Nancy. So he called and suggested that, since they didn’t know each other, they meet across a plate of spaghetti or something. They’ve been looking at one another across something on a plate almost every night since. Because of a fanatic desire to keep his name out of the papers as a lover, Ronald Reagan has been a bit sneaky in his court- ing of Nancy Davis. And, because she is the type of girl who never goes to carni- vals, Nancy has helped all she can in this endeavor. They lean toward quiet, out- -of-the-way dining places, or if they dine in Hollywood itself, it is generally at Chasens, a restaurant prohibiting pho- tographers. Most of their dates are spent at the homes of friends, like the Bill Holdens or the Glenn Fords. The fun is fast and furi-~ ous, and the hand-holding, if there is any, safe from prying eyes. Because they are both active in the SAG, they spend long evenings after the weekly meetings talk- ing about contracts, demands, concessions —and maybe love. Ronald Reagan’s greatest passion is horses. When he is not working on The Last Outpost or “presidenting”, he can be found out at his horse ranch in the San Fernando Valley sitting on a rail fence generally sitting on the next rail. A lot of the time, Ronnie will have his kids along, Maureen, ten, and Michael, six. The four of them get along just fine. Ronnie expects the horse business. to pay off and anticipates that he will be a full-time breeder when the last camera crank has turned for him. His obvious desire to show Nancy all there is to be seen about the care and breeding of horses is a pretty good indication that he expects her to be around the farm when that day comes. Ronnie is no sudden hot flash in the life of Nancy Davis. She is not the hot flash type of girl. When she first arrived, in Hollywood, she dated only old friends of the family. She met Bob Walker, and it appeared that they had found something resembling romance. Actually, this wasn’t so. Their relationship was almost purely professional. Nancy admired him as an actor, they both worked at the same studio, and he was showing her the ropes. She met and dated Robert Sterling, but when a photographer wanted to take their picture one night when Reagan was away in the East, Nancy only consented when it was understood that no romantic innuendo would be written into the caption. Beyond those two boys, there were none until Ronnie. Friends who recently came from London will make affidavits that Douglas Fair- banks, Jr., put it this way: “I can arrange a party for you with all the top British cinema stars—but, of course, if you want to meet royalty you'll have to give me two days’ notice."—Irving Hoffman in The Hollywood Reporter. In a wonderfully ordinary way, Nancy Davis has a great gift for home-making, a real attribute as far as a man of Rea- gan’s tastes is concerned. Some time after she got her contract at MGM, she moved io an apartment in Westwood. That com- munity has a group of sales developers which visits newcomers to the city and presents gifts from the local merchants, along with an invitation that the new resident drop in and say hello. It is purely a commercial proposition designed to build good will, and attract new cus- tomers. But Nancy Davis was so touched by the gesture that she was almost overcome with appreciation. She was probably the only person to ever do it, but she took the list of about 20 or 30 merchants, drove around to each one, thanked him for the gift and swore undying fidelity to his enterprise. She doesn’t take even the simplest gesture of friendship lightly. SS LcULsENG on the outcome of Holly- wood romance is a risky business in any case. Love has often bloomed, burst into flame, and died rapidly from a kick in the shins. What looks like mad passion today might look like a plate of cold mashed potatoes tomorrow, no matter who the stars are. But in the case of Ronnie and Nancy, there is one difference. Neither of them is casual romantically, nor are they too old for romance, or too unre- sponsive to do without it. It can be safely deduced, then, that if they spend all their free time together and are lonely when they are apart, it has to be love. One of these days there will be a formal announcement—probably of an en- gagement. For no matter how you figure ~ it out, if you take the personalities, past histories, and Current activities of Ronald Reagan and-Nancy Davis into serious ac- count, it comes up love. THE EnpD checking up on his stock—and Nancy is

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+ & e % > liz taylor’s new romance (Continued from page 30) Donen, her 26-year-old director—were dining out at Mocambo. Two tall lemonades were poised in front of them, but they went un- noticed. Stanley was gazing at Liz, and if she wasn’t dazzled by his ardent expres- sion, she was giving a great performance. The following night they were eating to- gether at La Rue’s, with the same rapt ex- pression in their eyes. That week-end Liz drove down to Palm Springs with Barbara Thompson—her trial witness and Marshall Thompson’s wife. When asked if Stanley Donen would drive with them or whether she planned on meeting him at the winter resort, Liz’s answer was a quick, “Of course not.” That weekend he and Liz were holding hands at the Doll House, a Palm Springs restaurant. Since then, they've been seen together everywhere. They were practi- eally imseparable during the month of February. You could find them together at night clubs, restaurants, movies, on the sei, and there seemed to be an excitement about them that only romance can create. Stanley says, “I've known Liz for years —eyer since she was a kid on the lot. I think she’s swell, a lot of fun, but all this talk about our being serious is a lot of bunk. “Reporters say we fell in love while 1 directed her in Love Is Better Than Ever. Thats not true. Why do we spend a lot of time together? , Well, we enjoy each other. Liz is good company and we have a lot in common. Her whole life’s been spent in show busi- ness and so has much of mine. “T can’t talk about the future because I don’t know anything about it. Liz won't be free until January, 1952: An awful lot ean happen in a year. Besides, I'm siill married, at least technically. “Why reporters keep irying to make a big romance out of us I don’t know. Right now, we're seeing a lot oi each other, sure. But that’s probably because we've both just been through a couple of unhappy marriages.” NTEREST in Donen has risen since he’s been dating Liz, and people are natu- tally curious about his background. He is a protegé of Gene Kelly. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina, April 13, 1925, and was raised there, attending Columbia High School and spending a few months at the State University. Deciding that college wasn’t for him, he headed for New York and with great luck, landed a job im the dancing chorus of Pal Joey. Gene Kelly was the star of that show, and he took a liking to this tall, thin Southern boy with the dark brown hair _and dark brown eyes. “You've got a lot of talent, kid,” he told Stanley one day. “Stick with this business and you'll be a fine dancer.” Stanley stuck. He got a job in Best Foot Forward, a Broadway show in which June Allyson had a bit part. When Best Foot moved to Hollywood via an MGM purchase, Stanley came along. “JT danced in the chorus,” he recalls, “and then stayed on, acting as an assistant dance director to Chuck Walters, Jack Donohue, and Don Loper. I used to see Liz Taylor around the lot—she was only 11 at the time. I was only 20 or so, and we used to _say ‘Hello, which is about all you can say to an ll-year-old girl.” Fortunately for Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly was employed by MGM, too, -so- that in Gene he had his number-one booster. Gene kept going around the lot day after y telling producers to give Stanley a chance as a director: “Give him a chance yourself,” an execu- tive told Kelly one day. “I’m too tired.” When Columbia borrowed Kelly to stage the dances for Cover Girl, he brought Stanley Donen with him. Stanley was so good an assistant that Columbia held onto him for two years, and MGM brought him back to collaborate with Gene as dance director on Anchors Aweigh. Stanley then served as a dance director | on ten more Metro pictures, while Liz | Taylor was growing up and dating Glenn Davis, Bill Pawley, and several others. ONEN’S love life seemed limited to work | until he met Jean Coyne, a young | dancer who'd first taken dancing lessons | from Gene Kelly in his cellar studio in | Pittsburgh. Jean had come to Hollywood and was working with Stanley as a dancer. “The next thing you know,” Donen says, “we got married. “It was in April of 48, and the marriage lasted a year. Jean and I’ve been sepa- rated almost a year now.” In fact, Stanley Donen and his wife de- cided to take separate paths just a few | weeks before Liz Taylor married Nicky | Hilton at the Church of the Good Shepherd. | While Sitanley’s domestic affairs were falling apart, his career was blooming. He | and Gene were handed the directorial | reins of On The Town, and when that pic- | ture made a fortune, Donen was given the | full directorship of Royal Wedding. Fred Astaire, who starred in that with | Jane Powell, praised him highly and MGM assigned him to Love Is Better Than Ever. When Liz Taylor reported to Stanley for work on this film, she knew that her mar- | riage to Hilton had been a failure. Stanley | Donen knew the same thing about his marriage to Jean Coyne—so that at the | outset these two had something in common. It may seem sirange, but this particular mutuality—the end served as the basis of more second mar- riages than Fs other one factor in Hollywood. This is not to say that Liz Taylor will | become Mrs. Stanley divorce becomes final. Donen when her situation, her frame of mind at this mo- ment better than anyone else. — during the making of the movie, Liz | —& She'd left Hilton, she’d | = Was upset. moved out of her mother’s house, she was living in her stand-in’s apartment, and yet Donen got her to act as if she were sub- limely ecstatic. Love Is Better Than Ever was finished on January 12th. Liz Taylor obtained her | divorce on January 29th. The very next day Liz and Sian started going out to- gether publicly. A week later, Stan’s wife, Jean Coyne, decided to leave New York where she’s been living, come to Hollywood and dis- | cuss divorce with him. By the time you read this, the chances | are that Staniey Donen may be free to Mairy again. Liz Taylor says that her thoughts these | days are concentrated exclusively on her career, that marriage and men are farthest from her mind. That may be true during the daytime, | but in the evening it’s a different story. | Liz, if anything, has always been the kind of girl who's been in love with love. Everytime she’s dated a boy, he’s become her steady. A manless life for her, for any period of time, no matter how short, would not be of her choosing. She may say, “There’s absolutely noth- ing between Stanley Donen and me. 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E mn | nt A: Yes, he did. ; Q: In other words, most of the times you would talk to him, it would end up in some kind of an argument? A: Yes. THE court: This all upset you and made you nervous and ill? A: Yes. @: And caused you to lose a great deal of weight? Bae: 4 Q: You have a substantial income from your work as a motion picture actress, and I under- stand you wish to waive any alimony? AS ves: 5 Q: And you wish the return of your maiden name? A: Yes. BARBARA THOMPSON, called as a witness on behalf of the plaintiff, being first duly sworn, testified as follows: THE CLERK: Your name is Barbara Thompson? THE WITNESS: Yes, DIRECT EXAMINATION BY IMIR. BERGER: ; Q: You are acquainted with the plaintiff in this action? > Yes. Q: How long have you known her? A: About four or five years. Q: Do you know that she has been a resident of the County of Los Angeles and State of California for more than one year prior to the time she filed this action? + Yes. Q: Do you recall, Mrs. Thompson, the occa- sion when you were present in her hotel room with Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Hilton, when her husband came in? A: Yes. Q: State what happened then. A: The day Elizabeth came home from her honeymoon, I came over to have lunch, and had been there a short time when Mrs. Hilton and her mother arrived. She had lost a tre- mendous amount of weight. He came in and said, ‘““What the hell is going on here?’”’ He was very rude to Mrs. Taylor. I asked Elizabeth to take me home. She had several bags, and she asked Mr. Hilton to take them out to the car, and he said, “Get the bell boy to take them out.” Afterward he took them out. Q: Mrs. Thompson, did you have occasion to see Mr. and Mrs. Hilton at social affairs and other functions? : Yes. Q: Was this attitude typical of his attitude towards her when you talked to them in later months? A: Yes. Q: Have you had occasion to observe the pect of his conduct upon her health? : Yes. Q: Tell what it was. A: When she was on her honeymoon, she Was very gay, but when she returned she was very moody and very tired. MR, RYAN: Mrs. Hilton, I understand you are Waiving further alimony and are satisfied. (To judge) She is the recipient of substantial income from her work. THE COURT: Yes; she understands that. MR. BERGER: Yes, she does. THE COURT: The divorce will be granted. what hollywood stars have the most beautiful hair in the world? read the i june issue of modern screen on sale may 9 with stunning jane wyman on the cover Timely Tips by Little Lulu HOW DO YOU SCORE ON THESE HELPFUL WAYS TO SAVE 7 What mends broken lipstick? [| Glue [A heat treatment Put pucker-paint back in the pink—by softening broken ends over low flame. Press together. When slightly cooled, smooth seam with fingernail. And to smooth off makeup, use Kleenex—ab- sorbent, heavenly soft—so different from ordinary tissues. Saves complexions! Clean piano keys with— [] Water [| Milk [A boogie beat Piano keys shrink from water. So whiten “ivories” with milk—and Kleenex tissues. Kitten-soft Kleenex protects the keys; it’s sturdy...doesn’t crumble. And with that Serv-a-Tissue box there’s always a Kleenex tissue handy to polish furni- ture, ash trays, mirrors. Saves trouble. mee ae ee ee ea ei ea a eee eae ae ea ae Se we we aw a ae a es a Sas Se = ) | | | | \ \ | \ \ ' ) I \ ! \ | ) ! | | ue , No groping in the dark, if you— [] Eat carrots [_] Sparkle your “specs” (.] Use luminous paint Save stumbling, fumbling! Outline door edges, switch plates with luminous paint. Likewise, why not sparkle your “specs” with new Kleenex eyeglass tissues? Big enough, strong enough, lint-free — and they serve one at a time. Kleenex ends waste - saves money... To “‘save’’ salad bowls, avoid— (] Termites (] Soaking Wooden salad bowls “wooden” warp, if you’d avoid soaking them. Scrape, dunk quickly in cool water; dry with Kleenex and stash away in a dark place. You can’t beat Kleenex for K. P. duty. Let this soft, strong tissue soak up mois- ture, grease; save time, trouble. fe ee me wee we we ee we ww ai ia ae a i = = ibs INSTEAD OF MANY... oe YOU GET JUST ONE... es AMERICA'S FAVORITE TISSUE @7.M. REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. © INTERNATIONAL CELLUCOTTON PRODUCTS co,

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bobby pins than all othe brands combined SET CURLS EASIER HOLD HAIR-DOS BETTER <anons : IN¥IS tay a we, 10° youn-898 hy joan evans [2 very happy, because so many girls wrote to tell me that my column about. how to catch the boy you want has been helpful. A follow-up on that column seems in- dicated since half the letters this month were from girls whose boy friends sud- denly lost interest in them. The girls asked, “How can I get him back?” and “What did I do wrong?” Since I was puzzled I put all the letters aside and then re-read them. Then the letters themselves gave me the answers. A girl from Troy, N. Y., wrote, “He told me he was crazy about me. Then I started to take him for granted. I guess I bossed him around. And now he doesn’t like me any more. How can I get him back?” Another girl—she lives in New Orleans —said, “I went around with Bill for seven months. Then I met a boy I thought I liked better. Now I realize my mistake. How can I get Bill back?” After I had read hundreds of letters like that I realized what the trouble was. You lose your boy, 90 per cent of the time, because of something you have done. You get too sure of yourself. And of him. Or you make too many demands on him. Or you start looking around. So nine times out of ten when you lose your fel- low it’s your own fault. I know that this is an “after the fact” de- duction. But if mistakes couldn’t be rec- tified then the world would be in a bigger mess than it is now. So first of all you face the fact that you’ve lost him because of something you have done. And when you know this, the business of saying, “I’m sorry” gets a lot easier. I know all about pride. Ive got it my- self. But pride is dangerous stuff when you’ve lost something important. So the girl from Troy should be as honest with the boy as she was telling me about it. She Has “he” lost interest? Then swallow -your pride, and take a good look at your attitude. should ask him if she could meet him after school, or if he would come to her house for half an hour. .Then she should say, “I’m sorry. I was wrong. I was too bossy. I took you too much for granted. But I’d like to prove to myself and to you that I can change.” [ difficult—sure. It’s hard to swallow your pride and admit you’re wrong. But what is more difficult—suffering be- cause you’ve lost the boy you’re crazy about or just saying honestly that you’re wrong? And the New Orleans girl should say something like this, “I made a big mistake. I thought I was crazy about So-and-So but I found out I wasn’t. If you can forgive me for being fickle I wish we could be good friends again.” I remember once I had to apologize to my parents for something I had done. I hated to do it. I put it off for a long time. Finally I did apologize and my mother said, “Joan, this is the biggest step you have taken toward becoming an adult. When you have the courage to admit you’re wrong, you stop being a child and go into another bracket.” I’ve never forgotten that and, oddly enough, I felt so much’ better myself when I said—and meant it— - “T was wrong, and I’m sorry.” ; If the boy honestly likes you, you'll get him back—if he’s worth having back. | However, if he’s found another girl that | he likes better, then there’s not much you | can do; which is why if you’ve made a) mistake you should apologize fast. Although frequently the girl loses her fellow because of something she has done, there are exceptions. I had a letter from a girl who said that she was suddenly dropped by her steady for no apparent reason. Again the straightforward method is best. She should just go to him and

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ask him what happened. This isn’t easy, | either. But it depends on how important | the fellow is to her. I can’t stand not / knowing the truth. And if a boy suddenly | becomes cold. there must be a reason. Ask- | ing the reason certainly can’t do any harm. | And it may do a lot of good. I always be- lieve that there’s no problem that can’t be | solved if the people involved sit down quiet- ly and sanely, and talk it out. I had a lot of letters from girls who said they lost their boy friends because other friends talked behind their backs. It’s all very well to say, “Ii he believes gossip about me then I don’t want him,” but the false friend | can be very insidious and very convincing. | AY There are mean people who can tell lies and | make them seem like the truth. And you can’t | always. blame the poor fellow ior being fooled. So there again, you don’t play games. You just speak right up and ask, “What’s | wrong? What has So-and-So told you about | me?” This is the only way you can defend yourself. And the whole truth is always the | best defense. B™ there’s one thing you have to remem- | ber. Ti none of these things work, and | if he doesn’t want you back—then let him go. Ti he’s fickle himself, if he’s easily bored, he isn’t the kind oi boy you want to date. You’re not being proud, you’re being independent and sensible. Try to forget him and become interested in someone else, for at our age there | is no such thing as the ‘til-death-do-us-part kind of love. | Now here are some other problems. “Dear | Joan: I went to a party with a boy. I think he likes me, but I’m not sure. How can I find out? Soya Y Sas Os Ses WA —D. -C., Detroit, Micz.” A lot of kids have asked this same kind of | question. I should think you can tell by a | boy’s actions whether he likes you or not. For | example, how do you know whether or not | a girl friend likes you? If she enjoys talk- | ing to you, ii you have fun together—then she likes you. So if a boy likes to talk to you, | and if you have iun together you can assume he likes you. Besides, isn’t there a kind of ' sixth sense that tells a girl whether or not a boy is crazy about her? “Dear Joan: How can I politely let a boy | know that I don’t want to date him? I’m 17, | and a junior in high school. Even though I don’t want to. go out with him, I wouldn’t want -him to dislike me. —J. A. F., San Francisco, CaLir.” | | In the first place why don’t you want to | date this boy? Ii you’re going steady with | | someone else, you just tell him so. If you’re not and he’s a nice boy, what’s wrong with | giving him a date? If you want him for a firiend—as your letter indicates—then why shouldn’t you go to the movies or a dance re To banish “‘tattle-tale gray,”’ and always have your wash look cleaner, “Dear Joan: I’m a 19-year-old boy. I have been married and divorced and I go with sue. cleaner and = cleaner, a girl whose mother does not approve of me. nothing succeeds like Fels-Naptha Soap. E I have tried my best to appease her. I am aed and don’t know what Se EE: FELSO, the All-Purpose White Detergent ,is also made by FELS & CO. 8 —e

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“EDITOR’S NOTE: | rh : is it just a silly infatuation Ill get over? —E. J., St. Louis, Mo.” What difference does it make? Why do you have to know whether it’s real love or infatuation? The wisest person in the world —and that’s certainly not me—can’t answer a question about love and infatuation. And-I don’t think it matters. If you like this boy and he likes you, and your parents like him why bother about the old love-infatuation problem? “Dear Miss Evans: My problem is that whenever anyone tells me anything for my own good, I always give back with some wise crack that makes me extremely sorry I said it later. —P. L., WasHineTon, D. C.” Oh, honey, you’ve sure come to the right girl. That’s my problem, too. And you know what? I think it’s kind of a universal problem. Nobody likes to be criticized. The first thing you want to say is, “Why, I don’t do that” or, “That isn’t like me.” Learning to “take it” is real hard, but you’ve made the first step, just as I have. You know you’re wrong to give back with the wise crack. When you know you have a fault that’s the beginning of learning how to correct it. It’s only the people who go along blindly thinking they’re perfect who have the real problems. But let me tell you what I did about taking criticism. Luckily for me, when I’m making a picture, I have to take criticism and not answer back. If I did I’d get into all kinds of trouble with the director. So I had to learn how to take it. It’s not easy and it’s ‘not fun but if you have to, you have to. Now when I’m told something for my own good I try to analyse it. If I honestly think the criticism is fair I say, “Thank you. Tl try to correct this fault.’ If I feel sure it isn’t fair, I say the same thing. For a wise crack never gets you anywhere, girl. Good luck. I know what you have to fight, but you can win if you try hard enough. “Dear Joan: I’m 18 and I want to know if it is a shame to like cowboy heroes. Some older girls think so. I have three special favorites and belong to fan clubs of two of them. Do you think this is wrong and that I am too old for such things? —B. W., WINCHESTER, ILL.” I certainly don’t see anything wrong in that. What about the important men in the _business world who read detective stories? Is that wrong? What about me? I’m _not big and important, but I love the Oz books. They’re supposed to be for children only but I read them over and over again. And I like western movies, too. Don’t be defensive about liking your cowboy heroes. If they interest you what difference does it make if you’re eight or 80? Western movies are made to be en- tertaining. So enjoy yourself, and be happy you can. DO YOU HAVE A TEEN-AGER PROBLEM? IF SO, TELL IT TO JOAN. SHE CAN’T ANSWER ALL YOUR LETTERS BUT SHE WILL PICK OUT THE MOST INTERESTING ONES. WRITE JOAN EVANS, CARE OF BOX 93, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. Who should cyplidw Tit Gtie WOMANLY OFFENSE T0 A YOUNG WIFE? 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It is quite possible that half the people in the living room at any one moment have not met the other half, or find, on being introduced, that they do not share a common knowledge of Spanish, Italian, French or English. The apartment itself is huge, and informal. Visitors are left to manage for themselves with an agreeable minimum of attention from ser- vants. And sooner or later, everybody of consequence in Rome shows up for an evening of talk at the Rossellinis. It has gotten so that people who fail to make it begin to feel they have somehow also failed socially. This is rather well illustrated by Robert Taylor’s experience when he was here to make Quo Vadis. Taylor had heard the usual stories about Ingrid Bergman in Hollywood, and being a man who has learned the value of his own privacy, he made no overtures toward meeting her in Rome. But wherever Taylor went he heard stories about Ingrid-this and Ingrid-that. It seemed to him that everybody in Rome was running into the girl at one time or another—except himself. He turned to a newspaperwoman friend and remarked with some petulance: “Look, everybody in Rome gets to see Ingrid Bergman but me, and I met her in Sweden before she even came to Holly- wood. Do you think it might be managed for me to get to see her again?” “Why, Bob,” the newspaper woman said, “all you have to do is telephone. Every- body does.” = “But how do-I get the number?” Taylor asked. “But everyone knows it in Rome, Bob,” he was told. And it is the truth. The present writer, who left his little address book in his hotel and had to call the Ros- sellinis, asked the barman of the Excelsior. A moment later he came back with the correct number. So much, then, for the myth of Berg- man’s inaccessibility. The next universal surprise is that far from being a ghastly caricature of her former self, her beauty wasted away and her spirit hopelessly crushed, Ingrid today is actually a more strikingly handsome woman than she ever was, which is saying a good deal. She has lest some weight, which she could afford to do, but her faee is unmarked, as eager as ever, and as natural. [pes seems to surprise everyone. Ingrid herself has commented on it. When Jack Benny came to call last summer, she said, he spoke to her in almost conspira- torial tones over the telephone. He walked into the room, regarded her closely and saw her as she is, which is to say happy and bright. Then he fell into a chair in the relieved manner of a man who had steeled himself for a shock which didn’t come. “I see now how wrong I was,” Jack said. “Yow’re all right. You're absolutely happye= Now this is not to say that the past = year has left Ingrid untouched. It is only lately that she has begun to feel really well again. There are problems still, and the solution of most of these is inevitably in the hands of time. But Bergman is willing to look ahead today, something that was || not equally true a year ago. “It is like an illness you’ve gone through,” Ingrid has said. “As time goes on, it re- cedes more and more into the past and you find you forget lots of things.” Perhaps the main reason Ingrid is able to forget, is that she is willing and anxious to get back to work. There was a time in her life when she said, and apparently meant it, that she was going to quit pic- tures for good. Although she now says she never meant to give up acting, it was so taken at the time. A constant flood of mail from all over the world has persuaded her that this is impossible. And the decision to get back to work has | further strengthened Ingrid. She has al- ways been active, full of a variety of in- | terests. after she became the hottest piece of front page copy in every paper in the world, left her with nothing to do but hide. “T_ don’t know what Ingrid was thinking of at that time of her life,” a friend of hers | has said. “Surely she didn’t think that this was something the newspapers would not be interested in. I’d heard she was always pretty understanding about the work of newspapermen. Then she acted as though they had invaded her privacy, without right.” Ingrid does not want to look back today. Interestingly enough, her best friends con- tinue to be writers and journalists. She talks freely with them about everything, except her motives in attempting to keep herself from the public gaze during a period when she obviously was bound to be big news. Every so often one of these friends will disappoint Ingrid by filing a story that Roberto is a playboy because he has three cars, one a sharp Ferrari racer, and be- cause he used to squire Marilyn Buferd, the former Miss America (who is making a nice career in Rome of having been just that) or Anna Magnani, the great. Italian actress, around town. That a top director | should have a hobby collecting cars seems no more strange than that he should have a couple of race-horses; and that he | should not have been exactly starving for female companionship before he got mar- ried ought to be taken for granted. But it’s all in the way it’s presented, of course. And even though the past year has seen at least two friends of the Rossellinis make a good deal of this, Ingrid still refuses to be angry or bitter about it. “T guess there are some people you just have to learn about the hard way.” AS she ever bitter, however, or was there anything that hurt her during all the days when she regarded American public opinion as dead-set against her? “Yes, one thing,’ Ingrid has said. “Talk that I abandoned Pia.” When she even says the word abandoned you can feel the quotation marks around it. “Tt wasn’t true of course. I talked to Pia on the telephone all the time. I wrote to her. She wrote to me. Even when the court business was settled and I got_halif- custody, I thought at once of more than | just seeing Pia. I thought of what would be best for her, to help her make the adjustment to a new kind of life. Far from being abandoned, Pia was in my thoughts all the time, every minute. Pia knows that.” The one thing that still troubles Ingrid | is her separation from Pia. They were a deeply devoted mother and daughter and what happened did so in a way that no ] 12-year-old can understand. There is, | The enforced solitude of her life §

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a ineyitably, a feeling of. guilt attached to leaving a child to whom one has been so close, despite the frequency of letters or telephone calls. One does not have to talk long to Ingrid to realize she still possesses this normal fear that her daughter may think she “let her down.” Ingrid is looking forward to the com- ing summer when she may spend the first months she’s been able to with Pia since she left California almost two years ago to make Stromboli. At the moment of this writing, it is clear that Ingrid isn’t abso- lutely sure that she will be allowed to see Pia. She will move heaven and earth to spend time with her. But she doesn’t want to make her daughter a pawn in a game between two people who have dif- ferences quite apart from the child. “Don’t say anything to hurt Pia or Peter,” she will urge a writer. “They have suffered enough.” A mutual friend of Ingrid and her ex- husband tells of when Ingrid received no message from Pia. Ingrid, of course, had dispatched the usual number of Christmas gifts to her daughter, mailed well enough in advance to reach her in time. But, says the friend, Ingrid never received an ac- knowledgment that the packages had ar- rived, and she began to fret. She did not want her daughter to think that her mother had forgotten her on this, their first Christmas apart. When Ingrid telephoned Pia, the friend says, there was difficulty getting through. This further distressed Ingrid. Were they simply refusing to talk to her? Wouldn’t they even come to the telephone? Were they deliberately attempting to keep her from Pia, somehow to poison the child’s mind against her? What actually happened was that Pia and Dr. Lindstrom had gone out of town. But at the six or seven-thousand mile re- airline pilots... R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, N.C. avalie CIGARETTES Italian film fan magazines charge for all publicity. A cover on one of the mags costs the star $65 (40,000 lire). The only star who gets free space is Ingrid Bergman. Irving Hoffman in The Hollywood Reporter move that Rome is from California, this is one of the things you never imagine. Finally, in the rush of Christmas mail, messages came from Pia—and Ingrid knew her fears had been groundless. That rush of Christmas mail also proved something else to Ingrid. Before last Christmas she wasn’t very sure how well she stood with her American public. She read nothing but the newspapers and, inevitably, conceived the notion that everybody hated her. Why else should they “hound” her at this time of her life? But last Christmas’ mail forced her to change her mind. The Italian post office had to put on special men to handle the mountain of cards and letters she received from people in America who sent encour- aging and reassuring messages. Ne American producer of any conse- quence who passes through Rome fails to make a proposal that Ingrid do a picture for him. “I guess I’m not quite as washed up as I feared I was,” she has said ruefully. She and Rossellini, by the time this ap- pears, should have begun work on a pic- ture called Europe, 1951, in France. The new picture appears to be of a style quite new for Rossellini, a “problem” picture as Hollywood calls them, with a fairly in- volved plot. In it Ingrid plays the mother of a young son who, troubled by the plight of the modern world, appears to think he 0 / HEM 7 0 SAID... CAVALIERS are MILDER than the brand | had been smoking! w creaRETTES Gavalier has no alternative but suicide. Her rela- tionship to her son, to a man to whom her son has turned, and to her husband make up the core of the story. 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B= the most important reason for In- grid’s present happiness is a blue-eyed, blond-haired, one-year-old lad named Robertino. He is a quick, alert child who gazes, smiling, at strangers until he decides he does not like what he sees, and then starts to bawl. On being picked up by his mother, the tears turn to smiles. Watching Ingrid Bergman hold that child in her arms, you can be absolutely certain that she is happy—so happy that she has no time for regrets about what she has done. Bergman, today, is anxious to go back to work on a full-time basis, pleased in the knowledge that the public still wants her. THe END *Kover 200 airline pilots at New York’s great airports were asked to compare CAVALIER CIGARETTES with the brands they had been smoking... 80% of these pilots—80% of the smokers interviewed— said CAVALIERS are MILDER than the brand they had been smoking! And that included 18 different brands! 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1 | Se SSS es FASHION-BRIGHT BORDERS MAKE YOUR HOME SPARKLE Perky polka dots make it fun to decorate! And easy, too, with bright new Decal Borders. There are green, red, blue or yellow polka dots, solid colors—and doz- ens of other gay designs: [e) FOR WALLS, SHELF EDGES, CABINETS & ACCESSORIES EASY TO USE — JUST CUT, DIP IN WATER AND APPLY Decal Borders are ideal on cabinets and shelf edges. No thumbtacks. Won't curl. They're washable and last- ing, yet removable, too. At Department, 5 & 10, Paint, Hardware & Variety stores. 4 colors—3 widths 39c & up for 12 feet ample e of lovely _ Try it right in THE MEYERCORD CO., Dept. 105 5323 West Lake St., Chicago 44, Ill. to each his own (Continued from page 62) courage in them all. None of them ever tries to escape from reality. Incidentally, I believe that a man can be deeply religious without ever attending a church or synagogue. I admire and respect those who go to church regularly, if in their daily lives they try to practice the things they accept spiritually when they attend church. But I have no respect at all for anyone who attends a place of worship every week, and then on week- days violates every tenet of the religion in which he pretends to believe. If, when they’re old enough to think about it, my son, David, who is seven, or my daughter, Julie, who is five, were ever to ask me, “Daddy, what’s God?” I would say, “Many people have different ideas about Him. But I think God is essentially a way of living—a philosophy of, life. In the final analysis, God is within yourself.” When I attend a synagogue, I do so mostly because of the beauty of the music and because, in a sense, religion does have something to do with traditions. I collect records of the great cantorial songs for sentimental reasons. The corner- stone of my philosophy is a belief in the Golden Rule—“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” Sometimes, because I have tried to follow this rule quite literally, I have been considered peculiar. For instance, a friend of mine, a play- wright, asked me to come backstage to see him the night of the opening of one of his plays. When I came back with a mutual friend, the playwright asked me what I thought of his play. It was not good, and I told him so. Our mutual friend kept kicking me in the legs while I explained why the play didn’t appeal to me. # When we got outside, he said, “Didn’t you realize you hurt his feelings?” “What was I supposed to do—lie to him to make him feel better?” I countered. I had literally followed the Golden Rule. In a similar situation, I would expect honesty from my friends. Sometimes the truth hurts, but in the end it is less brutal than an untruth; for if you have been fed a lot of pleasant lies, the truth, when you learn it, hurts all the more. i] REMEMBER that in 1940 I appeared in a play called Heavenly Express. I was greatly infatuated with it, and thought I gave a pretty exciting performance. Back- stage after the opening, Robbie, my wife, told me the truth. “Julie,” she said, “your acting smelled up the place.” I was hurt momentarily, but out of that experience I learned that my wife would always level with me. Obviously she followed the Golden Rule, for she wants -| similar honesty from me. The philosophy of the Golden Rule is true, regardless of whether there is an after-life or not. It would be presumptu- ous on my part to say whether or not there is such a thing as immortality. Who knows? I find it hard to believe in heaven or hell as definite, specific places to which we will go after death. I do believe, how- ever, that the spirits of all good people do survive, among those who knew and loved them. I think that prayer is helpful to some people, especially in a crisis. Most people are apt to pray when the going gets rough. I remember during the war when I was going overseas with another enter- | tainer. We had to fly low, and there was danger of submarines hitting at us. This fellow was a Catholic, and he took out his rosary to pray. “Throw a prayer in for me, too, kid,’ I said half-jestingly. He did. One of the engines conked out in the middle of the Atlantic. Turning to one of the soldiers in the plane, I asked, “What happens if the plane conks out com- pletely?” “You don’t have to worry,” he said. “If that happens, we’ll drown in a minute and a half.” I began to sweat. The Catholic enter- tainer with me began to pray. When the whole experience was over, I thought, “Maybe this guy’s prayers really brought us through.” In Naples when they were bombing us, he took out his rosary and prayed. Again he prayed for me, too. Death came very close to both of us that day. And I have often thought, “Perhaps I’m here today, because while I was merely fearful, he prayed.” | SHALL not try to force my religion upon my children. When other children are going to Sunday school and they want to go, Pll send them to whatever school they choose that will give them a reason- able interpretation of God. I hope that they will discover some form of religious belief which helps them. I believe that the religion which one finds for oneself is far deeper-rooted than any which is thrust upon one. } I would no more try to force my son to follow my religious beliefs than I would try to force him to become an actor because I’m one. In fact, at Christmas time, I took him to a small church in New York to see the Christmas High Mass. To him it was a beautiful spectacle. When he asked me questions about it, I said, “Well, that’s the way one group of people believe. That’s the way they pray. That’s why this country is interesting and great —hbecause everybody can pray in his own way. There are other people in other groups who go to other kinds of churches and to synagogues to pray in their way. No one stops them. If ever the time comes when someone tries to stop people from praying in the way they want to in this country, then we'll really be in trouble.” I’m not sure if David understood every- thing I was saying, but these are the things Ill keep telling him as he grows up. And I believe he will be one of many Americans who grows up knowing that it is all right for him to believe whatever he does believe, and to pray and worship as he sees fit. I hope, too, that if David ever has to face a great crisis, he will find enough faith in himself as a person to meet it; and enough faith in his heritage as an American to fight for his right to freedom of worship, if anyone ever tries to take it from him. THE Enp (John Garfield can be seen in He Ran All The Way, co-starring Shelley Winters.) answers to bert parks’ quiz on page 78 1. “and the gold of her hair crowns the blue of her eyes with a halo tenderly” 2. The Groaner Mr. Music Der Bingle and Harry Lillis Crosby 3. Gonzaga is the university Bing attended in Spokane, Washington. 4. The Road to Zanzibar The Road to Rio The Road to Singapore The Road to Utopia ° The Road to Morocco 5. Everett, Larry, Bing, and Bob Gary, Philip, Dennis (twins),and Lindsay

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the iron man? (Continued from page 57) leader of men. Jeff has a sort of noble presence, an invulnerable dignity which imparts power to his performances. His unusual height— six-feet-four inches—helps give that im- pression, but is only a minor factor. Strangely enough, he claims that his height has given him an inferiority complex, be- cause people always expect so much from big men. As an only child, and the victim of di- vorced parents, Jeff was coddled by his mother. Rigorous sports were denied him because she was afraid he would injure himself. By the time he was 15, he al- ready felt embarrassed by the demands made on his behavior because of his height. But this was the year when he was given the first and last beating of his life. As president of a school club he was conducting a meeting when it was inter- rupted by half a dozen hoodlums. Jeff knew it was his place to quell the riot. He stepped up to the noisy kids and told them to leave. “Yeah?” sneered their leader. “Give us a reason!” “Because you’re a bunch of jerks,” said Jeff, with a bravado he hardly felt. “Say that again, big boy,” demanded the other kid. Jeff said it again. Perhaps if he’d been a little guy, the others would have given him some help. But he was the tallest boy in the school, and his classmates expected him to take command. All six of the gang hit him at once, and when, at last, he got to his feet he was a sorry sight. He telephoned his father the next day. “T need your help, Dad,” he said. “I want you to teach me how to use my fists.” His father only laughed at him. To this day Jeff doesn’t know why, but he sup- poses his father, too, expected him to be everything a man should be simply be- cause he was big. In the following years Jeff had to work things out for himself. He - found that if he made up his mind about something and then stuck to his guns, people seemed satisfied that he was living up to his size. The only trouble was. that Jeff often went down the wrong alley when making his decisions; and many times his plan has backfired. now with FASTENOL for longer-lasting, smoother color brilliance! jie singleness of purpose made itself evident when he was still a youn- ster, even before he was beaten by the intruders at school. Susan Hayward at- tended that same school in Flatbush, and | because she was as pretty then as she is now, it was only natural that the ten-year- old Jeff decided that Susan was his dish. Any other boy would probably have man- aged a seat near her in the classroom, and been satisfied with that, but Jeff chose a more devious path. Susan was even then determined to be a movie star and was playing leads in school dramatics, so Jeff decided he would be an actor. For two years he hovered in the background of the stage, and then one day got his big oppor- tunity. He was to play opposite Susan in a musical, and no kid ever quivered as are as Jeff did ee day he vent to scnoal for every beauty type: Sunlit, Glamour, or his tryout. Susan was to be a daisy : - in this production and Jeff was going to be Medium, Crosfire, Raspberry, Fashion a tree; and he dreamed hopefully that Pink, Pink Fire, Ruby and. Royal Wine. perhaps there would be something in the script about the tree putting its branches around the daisy. But that was the day his voice decided to change, and when one half of the song came out in tenor and the other half in bass, Miss Rappaport looked v L| PST CK at him sadly. Although Miss Rappaport ® Flame-Glo puts the [ure in lips, for it instantly gives you magnetic beauty afire with the spark of romance! FASTENOL, a secret ingredient, banishes smears, smudges or blurry edges . . . seals the vibrant color to your lips for hours longer. In 9 thrill- ing shades for the newest fashion tones was his second love, she knew of his adoration for Susan, for he had taken her into his confidence. : THERE 1S ONLY ONE GENUINE FLAME-GLO AT ALL POPULAR PRICE COSMETIC COUNTERS

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“Sure, sure, said Jeff, agreeably. When they arrived at Fort Riley Bill couldn’t wait to see the horses. Jeff trudged along with him to the stables. A horse stuck its head over the fence and Bill went into a long conversation with it. “Ts it all right if I touch him?” said Jeff. Bill looked at him in amazement. “Of course you can touch him. What the devil’s wrong with you?” “This is the nearest I’ve ever been to a horse in my life,” said Jeff. When Bill had recovered, he asked Jeff why he had agreed, under the circum- stances, to join the cavalry. Jeff shrugged. “You wanted to—so I wanted to. And as long as I didn’t tell anybody about it, nobody could tell me I was crazy.” It was a slow and painful process, but Jeff learned to ride. He never learned to love horses the way Bill did, but anyone seeing him in a saddle wouldn't have known it. CNCE UPON A TIME! Boris Karloff was a farmhand in Vancouver, B. C.—probably doub- ling as a scarecrow ... Greta Garbo was a "lather girl" in a Swedish barber shop . . . Bing Crosby once ushered at boxing matches and served as janitor at a men's club . . . Lou Costello was a stunt man... Burt Lancaster was a lingerie salesman (no wonder he quit to join a circus) ... Errol Flynn was a boftle tester in a soft- drink plant... Cary Grant was an advertising stilt walker... Barbara Stanwyck was a bundle wrapper and later a bathing-suit model. Hy Gardner's “Early Bird On Broadway” in The New York Herald Tribune Terre ed Jeff was eventually sent to the Pacific. In 1945, he was back in California, at Fort Ord, awaiting his discharge, and it was during this period that he decided he would tackle Hollywood. He figured it would be quite simple; he’d merely tell them about his dramatic experience and they would give him a job. He hoped it would be a good one, because he’d fallen in love with Marjorie Hoshelle, and he thought a movie star’s salary would be a likely sum with which to start married life. He made an appointment with a Hollywood agent, and decided to hitchhike because thumb waving was faster than the devious railroad service. In the early hours of the morning he was given a ride by some benign soul who shortly after- wards steered into a head-on collision. Jeff woke up sitting on a fender, and his head felt as though it had been inside a cement mixer. They took him.back to Santa Bar- bara where they shaved his head and did quite a bit of embroidery on his skull. In Hollywood, weeks later, Jeff saw the agent in a restaurant and the man passed him by as though he had the bubonic plague. By the time Jeff's hair had reappeared his last dollar had grown wings. He thought perhaps he should start an appren- ticeship in the plumbing trade, or paint thumbtacks—anything to earn a living. But he couldn’t give up the idea of acting. When he finally landed a couple of small jobs in radio, he and Marge went to a Justice of the Peace, and from there to a little apartment, sparsely furnished with orange crates. Jeff went on with his strug- gle to get somewhere in Hollywood. Radio YOU GET ENOUGH Listerine Tooth Paste to last the average family for a whole month every time you buy a ‘Thrift-Pak. You get two regular 45¢ tubes for 59¢, a saving of over 30¢. Within a year the average family’s bound to save as much as $3 or more! You're swre of Listerine Tooth Paste quality! As makers of Listerine Anti- septic, we would never put our name on a product that isn’t top quality. There is no dentifrice you can buy that beats Listerine Tooth Paste for: BUY LISTERINE TOOTH PASTE’S NEW THRIFT-PAK... AVE*3™ A YEAR! e Reducing tooth decay e Thorough polishing e Sparkling flavor e Cleaning teeth and breath (“Listerine” means breath control!) Only modern machinery, mass pro- duction, and more than sixty years of “know-how” make this low price Thrift-Pak possible. Change to Listerine Tooth Paste in the new Thrift-Pak today, and that $3 saving is yours to do what you want with. Lambert Pharmacal Co. ee 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%. When it comes to cleaning, no tooth paste...not a single one... beats Listerine Tooth Paste. jobs kept coming in, due in part to one producer’s secretary, a girl who was six feet tall. Envisioning a possible future dancing partner, she went to bat for Jeff on every possible occasion, and soon the

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Helne lull Sa the truth about my feuds (Continued from page 33) suicide. That Rex had been her good friend we all knew. I had talked with Carole shortly | before I left for Europe, and she had told me of her great friendship for Harrison. I had known Carole a long time and was very fond of her. I cabled my syndicate stories about Carole, but was always very careful not to mention Rex in any unpleasant way. He was also helped through this difficult time by Darryl Zanuck’s entire 20th Cen- tury-Fox publicity department. So what does Mr. Harrison do? First, he goes to Canada and makes a speech in which he excoriates me and all other Hollywood columnists. The very people who had protected him, he called “the | most evil influence” in Hollywood. And this did not end Mr. Harrison’s tirade. Oh, no—he wasn’t content to let it die. Several years later, he wrote a series of articles for a London magazine in which he harpooned Hollywood with silly assertions like rive for work in Cadillacs.” He also stated that he could never get five min- utes alone with head man Darryl Zanuck, and was forced to make pictures he didn’t like. These may not be his exact words— but it’s the gist of it—this and unflattering things about Hollywood and its people. B= the most untruthful story he re- counted was his distorted version of an incident long since forgotten between Gene Tierney and myself. As Harrison told it, we were all guests at a dinner party and our host, kindly Gary Cooper, asked Gene to leave his home because she had annoyed me! Rex said it made him sick to his stom- ach, all the bowing and scraping and “fear” of me at the Coopers. No, he didn’t actually mention names, but he didn’t need to. - What actually happened was this: I was in truth annoyed with Gene for good reason. I thought she had done a very unethical thing (unethical in newspaper circles) and Im a girl who speaks her mind about such matters. As we met face to face, I promptly told her off! My quarrel with glamorous Gene was based on a “news” story. I had had the “butlers there ar- | inside tip that although she and Oleg | Cassini had separated, and she had ob- tained her interlocutory divorce decree, they had secretly reconciled and were expecting a baby. That’s a good dramatic story with a lot of reader appeal, and as I knew it was all true, I could have broadcast and printed the news without Don’t miss this special offer and won- derful saving! ... Finest Creme Sham- poo you've ever used—dollar quality, giant size! And Suave, the cosmetic for hair, preferred over all women’s hair- dressings!... BOTH at this spectacular low special combination price. Look for “SS 7 this special = Sale Package Helewe lid foremost name in hair beauty calling Gene. But, as always, I checked my facts to make doubly sure. I ealled Gene and told her what I knew. She very simply said, “It’s all true.” I thanked her, and asked her to keep it exclusive for me. It’s an unwritten law in the newspaper game that “the story” be- longs to the fellow who gets it. That night, at Rocky and Gary Cooper’s dinner dance, I walked over to the table where Gene was sitting and told her how glad I was that she and Oleg had refound their happiness; and I also thanked her for being so honest with me. Gene looked at me with those great big beautiful eyes and said, “Oh, as soon as you telephoned and I knew you had the story, I gave it to another reporter on a | rival syndicate. I can’t afford to antagonize anyone, you know.” Oh, no! Well, she had antagonized me— and how! I swear. for a-moment, I saw red. I was so mad I couldn’ see straight, + and la Tierney knew exactly how blazing mad I was. When I’m mad (particularly when I feel I’m justified) I do not sim- mer or boil. I explode! I might add that Gene has a temper al- most as good as mine. If I had started the fracas, Miss Tierney most certainly fin- ished it when we met in the hallway as we were departing. She told me off, doing as thorough a job as I had done earlier. But, as far as Gary’s asking her to leave | —that’s applesauce! It was a beautiful battle which Gene and I have both forgotten long since. Fortunately for Gene (and me) the re- porter she had tipped to my story was too inexperienced to telephone the news to her paper immediately, and after a short dash to my telephone, the “scoop” was all mine after all. All was well that ended well, and as far as Miss T. and Miss P. were concerned the “incident was closed. But not to Rex Harrison who insinuated that I had de- manded that Gene be ordered to leave the party; a request (he said) the host was “too spineless” to ignore. After that, Har- rison piously concluded, he did not want ever to attend any parties where colum- nists were present. So with that, he took on the entire Hollywood press! And that’s that for Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney. HE amusing thing about my “feud” with James Mason is that we never ex- changed a harsh word when we formerly met at Hollywood parties. We dont meet any more. Mr. Mason fixed that. When one of my closest friends. Joan Bennett, gave a farewell dinner party for Meson and his wife just before they

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In fact, I had! always admired him as an actor in English pic- tures, and would probably have continued to do so until Mason (who had never been to Hollywood) chose to write an article about Hollywood, blasting my home town in a national magazine. I thought it was utterly ridiculous for a man who had never set foot inside the Los Angeles city limits to make such an attack —and I said so. I still think so, even though Mr. Mason and his wife Pamela, and their assorted cats have since settled here and are crazy about the life. My point is, why didn’t he find out about us before he made harmful attacks on the world capital of the movies? But that’s yesterday’s squabble. So let’s forget it. HAVE saved Orson Welles for the last of my “major” dislikes because he is the one with whom I never expect to smoke the pipe of peace. On one horrible occasion since the beginning of my vendetta, I was forced to sit next to Welles at a dinner party given by Evelyn Walsh McLean when she was living in Beverly Hills. Orson was then married to Rita Hay- worth; and Rita’s agonized look when she saw what the hostess had done in the seating arrangements would have moved a heart of stone! I adore Rita and I couldn’t bear that stricken look on her face. So Welles and I sat side by side, munching our food and exchanging the necessary amenities during that entire embarrassing meal. Oh, well— if it wasn’t so peppy socially, I suppose it aided digestion. My anger at Welles stems from a de- liberate lie he told me. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s for a person to be dis- honest with me. Many years back, I had heard thate Welles was making a picture about some- one I love very much. I telephoned to ask him if this were true. He said (and I shall remember his words always), “It couldn’t be farther from the truth. It has nothing to do with that person, and it’s about an entirely different character.” Then he called three other well known film critics and showed them the: picture, which was so shocking to one of them, a friend of mine, that he called and said, “Do you know what this picture is?” I demanded to see the film. Flanked by two lawyers, I went to the studio to find out if my worst suspicions were true. What I had to say to Orson Welles after I saw that picture was plenty—a barrage directed straight from my heart. I could not have been more shocked or unhappy. Welles tried to brazen it out by sending flowers and writing me notes—which were promptly sent back. And from that day to this I have never forgiven him. I can take darts directed at me. I have felt the sting of many of them. But I cannot bear to see anyone I love hurt. ; A™ so—there are the “major” feuds in my life. As for the lesser ones—well, many of them have been exaggerated out of all proportion, and some of them are completely untrue. For instance, one of the most thoroughly ‘publicized feuds never happened! I was supposed to be carrying an undying “mad” on Joan Crawford (who is one of my closest friends) because at the time the story of her divorce from Douglas Fair- banks Jr. broke, Joan had given it to a close friend for a magazine article, instead of to me for my newspaper syndicate. What really happened was: Joan had promised the story of the break up of her marriage to Doug to Katherine Albert, her close friend, for a magazine article. (Kathe- rine is the mother of Joan Evans who was named for Crawford.) I did not know this. But I had heard that the young Fair- banks were having trouble. I didn’t be- lieve it—but still I did not want to ignore the scoop. So I called Joan and told her I was going to do a sympathetic story telling how the rumors about her and Doug were not true and that they were still very happy. “Please don’t do that,” pleaded Joan. “Please don’t print anything about how happy we are.” That was enough for Parsons. I got on my horse and went directly to Joan’s house. She admitted to me the truth—that she and Douglas were parting. Then, in a panic, she called the MGM studio to tell them what she had done. Where was Parsons? In another room, my friends, calling the “beat” in to my newspaper. We beat the world by two editions, and Kathe- rine Albert’s magazine yarn by several weeks. How the story ever got around that I would never “forgive” Joan I shall never know. If ever there was a “feud” which did not exist, it is my “supposed” fracas with Miss Crawford, whom I happen to like very much. Equally silly is the old one about Gin- ger Rogers and me. Oh, brother, were Ginger and I supposed to hate each other! We were said to be bitter enemies. There was so much printed about us, I almost began to believe there was some truth to it. But I could never get anyone to ex- plain what Ginger and I were supposed to be hassling about. This nonsensical state of affairs went on for several very tedious years. Finally, Ginger and I sat down and de- cided we were going to end this business once and for all. The funny part is—we had absolutely nothing to get off our chests! So we had a good laugh about it, ending with my inviting Ginger to appear on my radio show. And later I did an interview with her in the paper, officially burying our non-existent hatchet. 4 as: was more body to the misunder- standing that lasted a year or so be- tween Corinne Calvet, the little French actress; and her “worst enemy”—as she looked on me. When Corinne was brought to this country by Paramount, she was given a big chance for which many girls would have slaved. : But instead of trying to learn English and .improve herself, the pretty made- moiselle neglected her studies and drama- tic lessons and was the belle of the nightclub circuit. When Paramount let her go (highly im- patient with her) I thought she was the most foolish girl in the world, and said so in my column. What a waste for a girl to throw away such a golden opportunity. But being ignored by the studios and falling really in love were two develop- ments which completely changed Corinne. John Bromfield, himself a fine actor, did much to bring about this change, for Co- rinne is madly in love with her handsome husband. After she married him and got another movie chance with Hal Wallis, she became “Miss Diligence” herself. She also sent word that she would like to meet me. I couldn’t help being touched—she

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Be -cmed so childlike when she said, “I am ' glad you scolded me. I deserved it. But - now I am different and I wish we could be friends.” “Then it isn’t true,’ I laughed, “that you once said you'd like to put poison in my soup?” “Ohbhhhhh,” she squealed, embarrassed. “Oh, no, that is not true anymore!” Corinne was a darling when she ap- peared on my radio show and she made many friends—including me! In closing, I want to say one thing about these Hollywood feuds—mine, or any others. In this town, as has often been pointed out, every little action is magni- fied. A simple little misunderstanding or a few words spoken in good old-fashioned temper are made to sound like a battle royal. As I grow older, I realize you only hurt yourself by holding grudges and enmity against others. Hollywood has so many vicious attacks. from the outside, I think all of us in the industry should stick together as much as possible, and try to understand the other fellow’s “side” of any problem. This I shall try to do—until somebody does me “dirt” again! THE END all for love (Continued from page 42) Everyone in Hollywood wishes Judy happiness. She, more than any other person, deserves a break in her personal life. Yet, somehow, the feeling circulates that if and when she becomes Sid Luft’s wife, she will be _ embarking on a marriage that cannot pos- sibly last. A marriage, whose eventual dis- solution may prove too much for Judy to bear. Hollywood is jammed with jaded char- acters who specialize in cynicism and disillusionment, but in matters of love, these characters are usually hopeful. They've seen improbable marriages last, and they don’t particularly like to proph- -esy gloom; but where Judy and Sid are concerned they are almost unanimously fearful of failure. Sid Luft, better known to nightclubbers as “One-Punch Luft” because he’s handy with his fists, is one of those personable young men who’s been around Holly- wood for years. He’s 34, comes originally from New York, and served as a flying officer in the Canadian Air Force during World War II. Recently he was divorced from actress Lynn Bari, who says he is connected with a horse-racing business of sorts. Charming, witty, and a great pilot, he has no special entertainment talent. Judy’s former husbands, Dave Rose and Vincente Minnelli, possessed tremendous creative ability, but Sid Luft is essentially a busi- nessman. He is probably a very shrewd and successful one, but the chances are that his income will not match Judy’s. Judy earns $5,000 a broadcast, $250,000 a picture, $20,000 a week for personal ap- pearances. It is doubtful that Luft will top that. A close friend of Judy says, “One of the reasons she was happy with Vincente Minnelli for a while was that she re- spected him not only as a man but as a director. When he directed her in Meet Me in St. Louis she was so taken by his sensitivity and understanding that she fell in love with him. Last year when Summer Stock and Father of the Bride were released, Judy went around town saying, ‘Two of Metro’s biggest grossers were turned out by the Minnellis.’ She was very proud of that. ‘Tm not saying that Sid Luft won’t do something to make Judy proud of him. But certainly his past accomplishments don’t indicate that his creative contribu- tions will equal either Vincente’s or Dave Rose’s.” fT is rather difficult to track down Luft’s past accomplishments. On August 3, 1941, when he signed up with the Canadian Air Force, a few Los Angeles newspapers ran his photograph and under it these words: “Pilot Officer Sidney Michael | Luft, 24, of 856 Devon Avenue, has owned “his own plane and chalked up 400 hours while working for a garage in Beverly Hills.” Two years later, Luft married Lynn Bari at the home of producer Bill Perl- berg. It was a wartime marriage. Lynn was under contract to 20th Century-Fox at a good salary, and the marriage was reasonably happy. Not long after, Lynn became pregnant, but three weeks before it was due, her child died. Both Lynn and Sid were distraught, but their doctor told them that Mrs. Luft was still capable of bearing other chil- dren and advised them not to be discouraged. The Lufts, however, weren't getting along any too well by then, and on May 27, 1947, Lynn Bari sued for divorce. She agreed to a reconciliation, however, and soon she was pregnant again. After the birth of her son, John, she went back to work. Like most actresses she earned a good deal more money than her husband. Lynn toured the country in several stage attractions, and from time to time, Luft joined her on the road. But when Lynn Bari returned to Holly- wood last year, she decided to divorce Sid. She told the judge that he was not interested in maintaining a home, that he preferred to spend much of his time in night clubs. “If I didn’t want to go out in the evenings,’ ‘she testified, “he’d say he was going out to get the morning papers and he’d remain away all night. He’d get home at 6:00 a.m. and when I asked where he’d been, he’d say ‘I was out with ' the boys.’” Lynn’s petition for divorce from Luft also stated that he had used separate funds belonging to her to develop busi- ness interests “of which he now refuses to account to her.” Lynn also said that she had advanced her husband $16,000 in cash for an invest- ment in a motion picture, and had later given him “her $13,000 equity in Cold- water Canyon property for the same purpose.” She then charged that Luft had threatened to sell or mortgage the prop- erties “in order to deprive her and their child of a share in the proceeds.” Lynn’s complaint further asserted that Luft was currently associated with a horse-race enterprise and that his income was more than $2,500 a month. The judge decided that Luft would have to pay $500 a month for one year for the support of his two-year-old son John; and $300 a month and 10% of his income thereafter. At the time Sid started going out with Judy Garland, Lynn Bari said that he was behind on his support payments. That is briefly Sid Luft’s background in Hollywood. Judy’s is too well-known to bear repetition. Her chronic unhappiness, her childish attempt at suicide, her inferiority complex—all of these have been re- hashed countless times, and there is no Yow’ll thank Stardust for instant allure at a wee small price! NO other bra does more to give your figure that firm rounded look, with flattering separation. You'll prize the dainty shirring that helps shape and mould . . . you'll appreciate the clever elastic inserts that assure comfy fit and action-ease! In luscious rayon satin that’s actu- ally wear-and-wash guaranteed for an entire year! Yours for only $1... other glamorous de $1 and $1.50. “The bra $f. that made te 4 « EMBER ‘staRuusT INC.

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mother knows plenty! (Continued from page 48) do need a trip to New York.” Before another week had passed, Jeanne was curled up happily in a drawing room on the Chief, rattling East, and so—against his better judgment—was the man she loved. And if Paul was hopping off at Pasa- dena, Albuquerque, Kansas City, Chicago and points en route to send frantic business wires, Mrs. Brinkman nursed no such cares in her pretty head. She had visions of glamor gowns, theaters, smart cafés and dancing until dawn. This was a reaction; Jeanne was off on a glamor whirl. Paul knew it was important medicine for her. Every now and then, and especially after some temporarily restraining hiatus in her life—whether it’s an unattractive movie getup, or the antiseptic business of having a baby—Jeanne Crain spins off on the wings of an irresistible urge for excitement. For a week or more she can be Jeanne Crain, which is to say, an Irish redhead, a dramatic, exciting gal, and a lady, by the way, understood by too few people. Last year for instance, Jeanne was barely home from the hospital with Timothy Peter when she ripped open her bid to Hollywood’s annual Press Photographers’ Ball, a star-spangled shilly where almost anything goes. : “Took—it says the theme’s ‘Your Secret Desire’!” she told Paul excitedly. “Well, youre my secret desire—and you know how I’ve always pictured you—secretly? As a sheik!” Paul is dark, handsome, and dashing, of course, but at that point he was also the brand new father of his third son and he felt his responsibility and—well—dignity. He wasn’t particularly in the mood to wear white sheets and a turban. “Tell me—how will a sheik match up with a madonna?” he wanted to know. “Don’t be out of date,’ said Jeanne. “Tm not wearing my halo any more. Ill be your harem slave, Great One.” She’d worked hard enough, Allah knew, getting her figure back with all those exercises and, well, she sort of wanted to show it off. So, with Timothy only six weeks old, Jeanne glided into the ball with beaded bra, bare midriff, and daring diaphanous trousers that invited a view of two of the trimmest supports in Hollywood. When they saw who she was, the flash bulb boys gasped, and Hollywood’s envious females were properly shocked. Jeanne had the time of her life. Nobody expects things like that from Jeanne Crain, and when they happen right out in public no one seems to believe it. Only recently Jeanne took the breath away from as breezy a gal as Hedda Hopper, at a party which Director Jean Negulesco tossed after winding up Take Care of My Little Girl. Nobody needed to take care of Jeanne that night; she took care of herself. She swept in, wearing a deep-dipping black blouse and a shocking pink circus skirt, around which she’d sewn glittering clown faces—only they weren’t really clown faces. They were daring caricatures which she’d cut out herself, cartoons of the guests present, including Hedda. T= legendary girl you sometimes feel like pasting on a lace Valentine—the ingenuous Jeanne Crain, who at 25 and thrice a mother can still play a teen- ager more than convincingly, is only an actress—period. Shes a good one, a mighty lucky and satisfied one, but no re- semblance exists between the screen Jeanne and the real Jeanne. The warm flesh-and-blood Jeannie is smooth, smart, sexy, sophisticated, and sometimes shock- | LIPSTICK MAGIC FROM THE Westmores* Hollywood THE MEN WHO MAKE THE STARS MORE BEAUTIFUL 4 ; LINDA DARNELL Starring in THE 13TH LETTER A 20th Century-Fox Production ee | MOVIE STARS USE ON SCREEN AND STREET See how the star-tested Westmore lipstick | Movie stars depend on Westmore cosmetics glamorizes the lovely lips of Linda Darnell—_—...a_ glamorous appearance on screen and shown here with Perc Westmore, Dean of _ street is essential to their popularity! These Hollywood Make-Up Artists! Instantly itcan identical cosmetics are nowavailable to you... make your lips so enticing too! at variety, chain and drug stores everywhere. ONLY COSMETICS CERTIFIED BY THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS MAKE-UP EXPERTS HOLETWORa CREAM MAKE-UP WESTMORE LIPSTICK. Stays WESTMORE CREAM MAKE-UP. WESTMORE ROUGE. Brings en unbelievably long! Smooths on with fingertips. Romance to your cheeks. Large sizes 59¢ plus tox — also medium sizes. 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. Ce Wala CEOS Calae lune FRANK WESTMORE WALLY WESTMORE Bubp WESTMORE Famous Make-Up Make-Up Director Make-Up Director Hilts BL Santen) Stylist Paramount Studios Universal Studios vy rn YWeiiorore wuiww COM .. | : : | FOR YOU—THE SAME COSMETICS | |

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But, of course, Paul Brinkman knows by now he can ex- pect practically anything from his beauti- fully unpredictable bride. After all, their romance wasn’t exactly out of Emily Post. What other star ever found her true loving husband by letting him chase her through city traffic for her license number so he could call up, make a date, and marry her? What other Hollywood star—and a new one at that—would dare keep her marriage a deep, dark secret from her own publicity department, even though she worked up until an hour before she went for the license? Who in the nice Niagara Falls set would choose bleak Death Valley for a honeymoon? And what other brand new mama would dare feel the compelling urge to bring home a half-grown lioness cub from a circus party—just because he licked her hand—and keep it prowling around the place until the neighbors called the cops? Jeanne Crain lives as she darned pleases. And she lives in the most dramatic setting of any star in Hollywood. Jeanne and Paul, with the assistance of architects, planned it together. “We saw eye to eye,” they both say, “we knew what we wanted —and we got it.” They certainly did. The result is what said architects call “inter- esting,” but “thrilling” is an even better word. No photograph yet developed can catch the dramatic feel of that eyrie, or how it fits the glamor pair who live there. Snug- gling into the beige hillside, it’s white topped, strikingly modern, planted on seven acres of precipitous mountain with a framed view of everything. Maybe you're hep to the stunning color accents of gray- greens, bright reds, golds and chartreuses that Jeanne has splashed here and there to delight the unconventional eye. Per- haps you've heard of the rows upon rows of romantic travel books and exciting biographies (she’s a heavy reader) that line the shelves, the big tropical plant that spears up out of nowhere, the huge field- stone fireplace, and the rough-hewn ceil- ing of pink, lavender and green. But if you haven’t stood by the glass at sunset and seen the big jacaranda tree shower a purple carpet of blossoms right up to the pool, and watched the city lights burn up the valley, then you'll never know what a breathtaking, disturbing place it is—and yet peaceful and perfect for a girl who always wanted to paint, and a guy who likes to build. And when Paul, Jr. races in tagged by Mike Anthony, and 5 eanne brings in Timmy and lets them all scoot wherever they please, that’s some- thing too—but that’s also another thing. Jeanne is a mother, all right, and a good one. Five years, three baby boys. (“Lucky me—with all the men around!” she cracks.) She loves them, takes care of them, wants more of them. But she’s no lace draped picture of Whistler’s Mother. Jeanne is a modern mother—and you can sing no sad lullabies for her. She’s enjoyed every baby, before birth and after. She’s enjoyed herself too, and she has never let being pregnant slow her head,~ Pa a = E y down—either as a woman or as a film star. Jeanne plunged right into Pinky less than six weeks after Michael was born. Ethel Barrymore called her “the most vibrant young actress I’ve met.” While she was carrying Michael the Brinkmans’ an- nual, super-sentimental New Year's Eve anniversary party rolled up. Paul looked dubiously at her outsized figure; Mike was due in exactly one month. “Maybe we'd better skip it, Doll—” he began. ~ “We'd better not,” vetoed Jeanne. She not only made the party, but a purple satin maternity gown to wear there. The evening before Paul Frederick was born Jeanne stepped out to dinner, a show, and a hot fudge orgy afterwards, just making last-minute hospital con- nections with the stork. After Timmy came Paul asked Jeanne, “What do you want for the baby, Doll?” “An ermine coat,” said Jeanne. “But not for the baby doll—for this doll!” She got one—full length—which she broke out at the premiere of All About Eve, and a party afterwards. Ox of the funniest sights Paul remem- bers was arriving home late one night, and spying Jeanne sitting in a bed of scented honeysuckle outside the lanai in the full California moon. She was ten days overdue with Timmy and chanting, “Come on, moon, bring the baby!” That’s as close as she ever came to any old wives’ tale about any blessed event. “But even then she was glamorous,’ remembers Paul. “And you know, with every baby she gets more beautiful.” Paul Brinkman could be prejudiced, of course, but there’s more truth than senti- ment in what he says. Mortenson, the famous feminine photographer, says Jeanne has “the most beautiful face and the most beautiful figure in one body that I’ve ever seen’—and he shot over 5,000 pictures of her to back up that opinion. Otto Preminger, who has directed his share of the world’s beauties, gazed at Jeanne through a camera finder once. “Perfect,” he purred, “but please—take off your rouge and those false eyelashes!” Which, of course, Jeanne couldn’t do, be- cause they were her own. And Jean Negulesco, an artist as well as movie director, painted her portrait secretly while Jeanne acted for him in Take Care of My Little Girl. At the end, he gave it to her, but when Jeanne thanked him, he apologized. “I shouldn’t have done this without asking you,” he said, “but I couldn’t resist. No artist could.” But there’s more to Jeanne Crain’s allure than her rose-tinted complexion, eternally teen-age chassis, and the smouldering glints of her copper-gold hair. That extra something was acquired through living and learning to accent her natural gifts. “After all,” she says, “if you look, think, or act like the same person at 25 that you were at 17, there’s something vacant up- stairs.” Jeanne still wears her tumbling tresses shoulder length because Paul likes them that way. But peasant blouses and dirndl skirts got swept off the hangers long ago to make way for the haut couture of Paris and Manhattan designers. Long ago Jeanne started telling misguided sales- girls who whipped out something demure every time she walked inside a salon, “Never mind the pinks, please—bring out the wicked ones—black beads and lace!” Now Jeanne Crain is a stunning fashion plate in private life indeed, and poses for high fashion magazines whenever she’s in Manhattan. Paul trotted along with Jeanne a few weeks ago to Ceil Chapman’s, because Jeanne said she wanted him to help her pick out a formal for the Academy Awards this year. “This one dress,” promised —

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Jeanne, “is all I really need.” They went in - for a quick hour—and they stayed all day. “‘T made my big mistake,’ confessed Brinkman, “when she put on a sexy num- ber and I said ‘Sensational!’ I said it 17 times—and Jeanne left with 17 dresses!” The Academy Award gown was typical: a sea blue, tight-bodiced eye-catcher with a bell skirt full enough to accommodate six lace petticoats, with ruffled puffs. ‘pam can get by with the most dra- matic and striking clothes because she is a dramatic and striking beauty. When’ she trips out in her holy white slippers with crimson roses on the toes, or the black ones with the ruby red jeweled heels, they seem exactly right. When she breaks out in the bare top, silver-beaded cocktail dress with the super short skirt— it may be ahead of the styles, but on her its perfect. Even when she parks a Floradora hat on her curls, complete with purple ostrich feathers—as she did at New York’s Bowery Follies, she gets cheers. Anything goes with Jeanne that’s daring, colorful, gay. In fact, the only fiasco that spoils her record was a homemade job she whipped up one time when she was caught with “just nothing to wear.” Jeanne dug up a white crepe dinner gown with a white lace top. She had it on when Paul charged into the bedroom, late and fum- bling with his shirt studs. He took a horri- fied look. “Good gosh—hurry up and get dressed!” he barked. “T am,” said Jeanne. “Oh, I thought that was a nightgown,” blurted Paul. She finally got by with a big, red rose at her bosom. What most people don’t know is’ that Jeanne is an incurable romantic, a true artist, and even a bohemian, at heart. Everything she does in her own life must * have a flair, or Jeanne considers it a flop. Four years after their house was built, Jeanne and Paul finally got around to a housewarming party. For Jeanne it couldn’t be just a party, it had to be something that was especially her—her house, her creation. She had a deep tropical tan at the time, she was taking Hawaiian guitar lessons from Sam Koki and Napu, his wife, was teaching her the hula. The weather was warm and the nights caressing. They still talk about the Hawaiian party at the Brinkmans‘—all 265 lucky guests who came. A mammoth green tent- projected their porch almost to the garden rim where the mountain drops off. Special isinglass sides let in the whole dazzling view of the valley’s bright splendor. Flood lights in the pool turned it to turquoise. Camellias and gardenias floated on the water. A Hawaiian orchestra throbbed. There was a floor show of Polynesian dancers. And the guests never knew that an extra electric oven which Jeanne had rushed in to handle the food blew out all the fuses so that the whole party was by candlelight. “Luck was just with me,” sighed Jeanne. “I should have thought of the candles.” She’d thought about everything else. Jeanne and Paul’s summertime bar- becues are almost as spectacular—with red-checked tablecloths dotting the field- stone terrace, both barbecue pits—in the house and out—blazing away, and Jeanne usually the very first to plunge into the moonlit pool at midnight. They have flocks of friends who fit into no narrow pattern— artists, architects, writers, musicians, socialites, actors, business men, politicians. To Jeanne, everyone who does something she doesn’t know about is, at once, the most interesting character on earth. opopy could call Jeanne Crain an in- trovert today—if she ever was. On the contrary, she packs a healthy hunger for action and freedom. But wherever she goes, there goes her screen image to slow her down. Luckily, Jeanne can laugh imp- ishly at the ardent mash notes that still pour in from high school boys; or at some- thing that happened not so long ago, when a Carmelite nun called up Jeanne’s mother from an orphanage. She thanked her for supplying a print of Jeanne Crain’s nice picture Margie, to delight her charges the next day, “And couldn’t you arrange to have your little girl, Jeanne, be with us,” she begged. “The children would love to play with her.” “Tm afraid I can’t arrange that,’ said Mrs, Crain. “My little girl’s pregnant.” Mrs. Crain’s little girl Jeanne is still expecting—maybe more babies one of these days—but a lot of other wonderful things as well. Being Jeanne Crain, she’s expecting a full life of excitement, rich interests, fun and romance. She’s expect- ing to live it always with the man she loves. And these great expectations seem dead certain to come true. On their anniversary last December 3ist, as the final sun of 1950 dipped down to paint their housetop pink with its fading glow, and the lights sparked up in the great city before them, Paul Brinkman slipped a thin gold chain over the like- wise golden hair of his lovely wife. At the end hung a gold medallion of Our Lady of Guadalupe, with five dia- monds on one side—for the five beautiful years—and three rubies on the other—for the three beautiful boys. On the back was engraved: : “Jeanne, Doll—Not for five years but forever. We love you. Paul—plus 3.” And as he hugged her close and kissed her, she had all the proof she’ll ever need that Jeanne Crain is a beautiful, fascinat- ing, glamorous woman. — THE END YOU Can Have A Lovelier Complexion in 14 Days with Palmolive Soap, Doctors Prove ! NOT JUST A PROMISE... but actual proof from 36 leading skin specialists that Palmolive Soap facials can bring new complexion beauty to 2 out of 3 women Never before these tests has there been proof of such sensational beauty results! Yes, scientific tests on 1285 women— supervised by 36 leading skin specialists— proved conclusively that in 14 days regu- lar facials with Palmolive Soap—using nothing but Palmolive—bring lovelier complexions to 2 out of 3 women. 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Py 5 ps As it turned out, our youngsters had hit ‘upon a fine solution to the problem of the below zero room temperature. Bob and I were the first to admit it. We took _ off our shoes and went to bed. “Tm the rugged type,’ I kept telling myself when morning came and I knew the temperature had gone down even lower during the night. I made a dash for the fire downstairs, to find there was no fire downstairs. Right away I was sure Id done the wrong thing. On the other hand, I noted that Fearless Bob Mitchum didn’t stir from bed until! he heard Stan throwing logs into the fireplace. There was still no snow. The weather wizards predicted it, but another day passed with Jim and Chris sitting by the barometer watching and waiting. They had seen snow once—several years ago in Hollywood when the weather had double-crossed the Chamber of Commerce and the white stuff blanketed our back yard. However, I had to agree that it wasn't quite the same. “The following morning, I heard the boys’ shouts and knew what was happen- ing even before I looked out of the window. Chris and Jim were hysterical. Jim got out the sled that had been in our closet for four years. Then we headed for the closest hill. “Here now, let me show you how to handle it,” said Bob as if the sled were a complicated machine. Some 15 minutes later, he had climbed the hill and whizzed down again for the umpteenth time. “Think I’ve got the hang - of it,” he finally announced. “Pile on.” p= went on all morning. And when the kids turned to making snowmen, Bob and the sled were still going strong. We fell into bed early that evening, as we had a big day ahead. That was the day fb oli What makes her teeth ? so Sparkling clean? ate anor is (PANA! For really cleansing teeth and mouth, the answer is 1PANA! otherwise, prov . Remember —fo '& duce tooth decay — no other tooth paste, dor has been ed more effec- tive than IPANA- ammoniate I changed my mind about my husband. For the past few months, I’d been thinking that surely I was married to another Isaac Walton. However, I discovered that my husband had discarded this character- ization in favor of Zebulon Pike, no less, when we set out to scale Lookout Mountain. In my estimation, Pike’s Peak could have nothing on Lookout Mountain. Statistics will have you believe that it’s a mile ‘straight up. By the time we reached the top, my feet would have been willing to swear that the distance was at least five thousand miles. Chris carried his bow and arrows. Jim took along his .22. Bob and Stan, occasion- ally pausing casually to lean against a tree long enough to get used to the altitude, were loaded down with picnic lunch. I brought up the rear with my camera. As I said, we did reach the top slightly more exhausted than victorious. And the general feeling when we got back to the lodge was one of surprise! Never let it be said that we weren't game for all the sports! Novices—but nevertheless enthusiastic ones. Since Squaw Valley is a_ skier’s paradise, eventually we got around to skiing. That is, Bob got around to skiing. The ski tow there is the world’s longest (about 8,400 feet). Chris, Jim, and I watched Bob get off at some incredible altitude, wave good- bye and continue the trip sitting down. When our feet touched the ground again we heard a familiar voice shout, “Hello.” It was Margaret Sheridan, who like Bob, is under contract to RKO. She was debating whether to try her skill on the steeper slopes. As she had had only one lesson, I convinced her that she should come back to the lodge with us. Cups of hot coffee later, she had no regrets. There’s nothing like coffee and conversation around a roaring big fire. The day before we headed back for Hollywood, the menfolk planned a hunt- ing trip. Jim and Chris had talked of nothing else for 24 hours. Bob and Stan made elaborate preparations for the snipe hunt they’d promised the boys. I was in on the secret. “Think they'll ever forgive you?” I asked Bob. “They'll have a fine time,” he said. Some distance from the lodge, oldtimers Mitchum and Jones explained the tech- nique of snipe hunting. “You just stand here and hold the bags open and we'll scare up the snipe. When they come out of hiding, we'll chase them into the sacks.” Jim and Chris agreed. - They stood quietly while Bob and Stan disappeared to beat the snipe ott of the snowy bushes. The boys waited patiently. No snipe. No Bob pete for that matter. At last they caught on to the gag. They had been left holding the bags. A few hours later, they wandered in. Jim was pretty sore. Chris thought it was very funny. However, they both thought the game had possibilities. It seemed no time at all before our excursion was over. 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De- nials are always saved for later. And what does it matter if a young man’s life is ruined, his reputation soiled, his peace of mind shattered? The public wants its news hot, and that’s the way it’s dished out, especially where Hollywood actors are concerned. When Jack Agar returned to court on that drunken driving charge, he pleaded guilty to reckless driving. However, Judge Henry H. Draeger weighed all the evi- dence, everything Agar had to say and everything the California Highway Patrol offered as proof, and he announced, “I am going to dismiss the drunken driving charge against the defendant on the grounds that the evidence at hand is in- sufficient. The defendant is sentenced to 30 days in the county jail. Sentence sus- pended for a year providing there are no further reckless or drunken driving viola- tions.” Agar paid his fine, kept his mouth shut, went out to Warners where he began studying his role for Breakthrough. He made it a point to stay out of the limelight, to frequent no night clubs, and when he dated actresses like Ruth Roman or Gloria De Haven, it was only for publicity or pre- view purposes. The requests had come from the studio’s front office. NG tried to stay out of trouble, but on January 14th of this year, that old bugaboo, drunken driving, caught up with him again. a Two motorcycle officers, M. M. Schwab and R. R. Stein, arrested Jack “after we saw him cross the double line on Wilshire Boulevard near Manning Ave. We wanted to give him a sobriety test, but he refused to complete one.” Agar insisted that he was innocent, and demanded a trial by jury. He knew that if convicted he would be subject to a 30-day county jail sentence. The results of his trial should be old news by the time you read this—unless, of course—the trial keeps being postponed. 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DR ee eee ee ee Apache, was to put him at ease. Jobn Ford, one of the great directors of all time, outdid himself to get a natural performance from Agar. Jack is much more at ease now, but he is still the most difficult man in Hollywood to interview. “I used to think Gary Cooper was pretty tight-lipped,” one veteran re- porter recently pointed out, “but that Agar! You might as well be interviewing a mu- seum collection. This guy’s as noisy as a mummy about his private life.” There is little doubt that John Agar is a bitter and disillusioned young man these days. He has been, more or less, since Shirley divorced him—and certainly with good reason. He feels that in the public’s eyes he stands convicted for the unhap- piness of their marital life. Once in Buf- falo, for example, when he was on a per- sonal appearance tour, he was pointed out by one bobby-soxer to another. “There,” said the little girl, “is the fellow who ruined Shirley’s life.” 2s is, of course, untrue, but it’s the kind of slander that Jack’s been con- fronted with for the past year or so. On several occasions, he’s been advised to stand up and speak his piece and clear the air for once and all, but he simply can’t. At the time of the divorce, he said, “As usual, there are two sides to the contro- versy. There is much I might have said and much I might say now. As I see it, however, no constructive purpose could be served by recriminations. “This is the course I've followed since the divorce, and I still want to follow it despite possible wrongful implications. Right now Im interested in only two things, my daughter and my career. I like Hollywood, and I want to stay an actor so long as the public wants me. I’m pretty young in show business which is why I don’t have many opinions about parts and players and things like that. I just do what they tell me to.” Agar realizes that many people regard him as a poor little rich boy who got all the breaks, first by being born into money, and second by marrying Shirley Temple. He knows he can do absolutely nothing about such opinions except to let time, and pictures like The Magic Carpet prove that he has ability and talent of his own. It is possible that he could be barred from further picture-making on the “moral turpitude” clause in his contract—every motion picture contract has a clause which says that bad behavior in public by an actor serves as an immediate grounds for dismissal—but this is hardly likely. hollywood’s newest golden girl (Continued from page 51) which Mitzi Gaynor told how she got to be, in a very short time, one of 20th Century-Fox’s most promising young stars, a somewhat frightening prospect for the future of the studio, when you know that there hasn’t been as volatile a creature here- abouts since the early Betty Hutton. Mitzi Gaynor’s father, a Hungarian named Henry Gerber, was a vagabond artist, a symphony and operatic conductor who toured this country and Latin America. He, too, was an explosive man with an’ex- tremely domineering attitude toward al- most everything, including love. Tiring of travel, he established a conservatory in Chicago and shortly after fell in love with a Viennese ballroom dancer named Pauline Fisher. When Henry Gerber finally came to the conclusion that it was love, and not just some subtle Hungarian mood, he tele- phoned Pauline, ordered her to halt what- Hollywood and the public are both too | tolerant to deprive a man of his livelihood merely because he’s been in two innocuous driving accidents. If anything, they both hold out a wel- come hand and an open heart when they feel an actor's had a tough break. Bob Mitchum is a case in point. rently more popular than ever. Mitchum, however, has the appeal of a man who came from the wrong side of the tracks, who never had the advantages Agar has had. Everyone thought he was a little silly to endanger his $3,200 a week salary, his family life, and his future by getting He is cur- | in with some pretty shoddy characters, but everyone has forgiven him. Will the public forgive John Agar? A day after his second arrest for reckless driving, a girl who’s dated him occasion- ally, came up with this analysis: “Jack’s in the process of growing up. He’s 30, and he should’ve grown up long before this, but he’s been insulated from life. His father died when he was a kid, and his mother probably worried too much about him. When he married Shirley Temple, he found that from nothing he'd suddenly become a national figure. When Shirley dropped him, her fans regarded him as a national enemy. Nobody’s ever judged John on his own merits.” N actor who starred with Jack in Iwo Jima, says, “The kid may be a little spoiled,. but he’s a nice kid. He wouldn’t do a mean or spiteful thing if it cost him his life. Other fellows out here break into the business, and the first thing you know, they're trying io upstage you. They learn a few tricks, cut you out of the camera, even sit up nights figuring out ways to make you look bad. They want to use your body as a stepping stone. Agar’s not like that at all. He’s a gentle- man, he’s well-bred, and he’s got a good heart. Maybe he can’t hold his liquor so well—but hell learn. These two traffic messes were all he needed. “T don’t know—the kid’s arrested for reckless driving, and every paper in the world carries the story. I don’t blame him for suffering from a persecution complex. But eventually, hell snap out of it. “When he does, you just mark my words. He'll be one of the biggest stars this town has ever known.” Whether the public “eels as friendly about John Agar as do the colleagues who work with him—the next few months will tell. Right now, he stands on trial before the court of public opinion. THe END ever she was doing and present herself before him immediately. By way of a pro- posal he told her he was going to install a dancing class in his school, and needed her in his business. Such was his magnetism that she came—and married him. weal — KNOW sige INTIMATE FEMININE AYIENE? y the time Mitzi was three years old her mother wanted her to become a dancer, so she called her sister into confer- ence. Her sister, a ballet dancer known as Madame Francine, suggested that she go right to work on tiny Mitzi’s positions and prepare her for a career as a ballerina. Almost from the start, it was an unequal proposition. As far as Mitzi was con- cerned (she was precocious beyond her ‘going on four’) the whole business was a plot to destroy the enjoyment of her childhood, and the lessons were deliberate attempts to deform her. The traditional warm-up before a ballet desson gave way to a new preliminary known as “kid catching,” and she entered into this phase of the enterprise with whole-hearted vigor. 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All of the great stars appeared in Detroit—and they were all so beautiful. I wanted to be like them.” To dance, and to perform for people, then became Mitzi’s life. The relatively minor greatness of Madame Francine was dimmed in the blaze of Mitzi’s new ambi- tion. The family, eager to fan this unexpected conflagration, enrolled her in a class being conducted by a pair of ladies named Madame Armand and Madame Katherine Etienne, both prom- inent internationally in ballet circles. She became, almost immediately, their star pupil—and remains so to this day. During Mitzi’s really formative years, the vagrant nature of Henry Gerber took the family to other cities, and in each one Mitzi eagerly studied under the best available ballet master. She learned from Mia Slavenska, Roselle Frey, Paul Petrofi and many others. But eventually the road led back to Detroit and Madame Etienne. Although art was uppermost in Militzi’s heart, an instinctive knowledge of the value of a buck rested there too—and she had a definite desire to make dancing pay off. “The first money I ever earned,” she said, “came from dancing. I played a benefit in Detroit and got $2.50. I was nine years old.” How she managed to make a penny out of a benefit is something she didn’t completely explain, but the feat is a demonstration of rare business acumen. A? the age of 11, Mitzi had grown to sturdy proportions. She was already quite a celebrated mimic, a really accom- plished dancer, and a “hamola” of the first water. Madame Etienne decided it was high time she became celebrated, and announced that they would all go to Hollywood to get Mitzi into the movies. Papa Gerber, parodoxically, elected to remain behind until he knew for sure what was going to come of the migration, so Mitzi, her mother, Madame Etienne and Aunt Francine headed West. The magic of movietown dazzled Mitzi immediately. 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s " ¥ ” » The impresario suggested that she come back when she was a little older— and Mitzi left in a blind rage. But she got a chance to dance, anyway. The war was on and the USO gobbled up any entertainer who could walk on a stage. Mitzi had thousands of G.I.’s rolling in the aisle with her imitations of Carmen Miranda and a “soffering” Russian ballet star. It was good experience. To keep in trim, and to remain able to get up on her toes, she continued to study with Madame Etienne, and she played super- numerary engagements with the Ballet Russe when it appeared in Los Angeles. These, it must be admitted, were rather tragic occasions for the managers of the company. Whenever the Ballet Russe plays “Coppelia,” the entire troupe will shudder in memory of the night that ballerina Mitzi Gaynor, high in the air on a well camouflaged scaffold with the rest of the corps-de-ballet, became so engrossed in her interpretation that she thought she was on a cloud and stepped off into space. She landed on the floor below with a crash that shook the entire theater. Mitzi dam- aged nothing but her dignity and her like- lihood of ever working for the producer again. On another occasion, she appointed her- self sort of captain of the other ballerinas and, during a performance of “Schehera- . zade,” loudly called the beat as the girls kicked and banged tambourines. It was a splendid spirit, except that Mitzi was the only one off the beat, and she made quite a spectacle as she kicked when the others didn’t, and banged her tambourine in a jangling solo when the score called for the twitter of a flute. : These setbacks had little effect on Mitzi Gaynor, however. At periodic in- tervals, she would doll up, get up on the high heels again and stagger down to Ada Broadbent’s office, where she would loudly claim to be 16. Finally it bore fruit. Miss Broadbent, now fully aware that the kid had talent, ‘got her a part in the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Com- pany’s production Roberta. E Edwin Lester, producer for the light opera company, took an immediate liking to the girl who always seemed to be 16 and signed her to a personal contract. She appeared with his company each season and became one of Los Angeles’ and San Francisco’s favorite performers. Everyone admired her talent and loved her ener- getic clowning. Even on-stage she was good for an occasional belly laugh, like the time she was dancing a waltz with Walter Slezak in The Great Waltz and something came unhooked in the back of her costume. It was a dress that re- quired many undergarments—and _ as there was no time to investigate the thing that had come undone, Mitzi just kept on dancing, leaving in her wake a shower of petticoats that threatened to cover the entire stage. = casting offices of the movie studios '+ still showed a definite lack of interest in Mitzi Gaynor, but the executive offices didn’t. One night an assistant to George Jessel caught Mitzi in a show and gave a glowing report to Jessel the next day. George, now a producer at 20th Century- Fox, went to see her and sent a note asking her to come for an interview and test. Mitzi admits she was very frightened. She also admits that for the first time in her career she thought 18 might sound too old, and mulled the advisability of telling the producer she was much younger. At any rate, she went to the studio, made a good impression during the interview, and was scheduled for an elaborate color test. A first test is a terrifying experience small bust? | in-between size? Bree) Se eee Cir YOUR BRA LOOKS LIKE THIS... YOU ) PETER PAN dhiddone Oasure. “for fuller measure” no pads! no puffs! the contour’s built right in! Now in fashionable plunging neckline! The one bra that adds fullness to your bustline without “‘falsies’’ or gadgets! What a lovely difference it makes in your figure! Retains its glamorous =\ DE contoufs—washing after washing! Regular, . Ne _ plunging, and strapless. 3.50 to 5.00 aeons IN THE PATENTED MAGICUP eee = PS. Extremely small bust? Ask for Peter Pan Tripl- Treasure. Permanent inner- pad construction. Concealed, natural- contour pads can’t slip out of place. PETER PAN FOUNDATIONS, INC. 312 FIFTH AVE..N.Y. 14 = ae se MERRY-GO-ROUND OF CANADA, 3643 ST. LAWRENCE BLYO., MONTREAL, QUESEC *patenteo *@u.s. pat. OFF. Sp With just a drop of NEW RUN-R-STOP on NYLON, silk or rayon hose you can stop that run instantly! Save embarrassment of runs and prevent snags from becoming runs. Tube of RUN-R-STOP comes in handy plas- tic purse vanity, ready for easy, instant use. 15¢ complete at hosiery counters in department stores, 10¢ and shoe stores. Get it today! Tangy Cinnamon-clove Gout be dlilted.. How clean and fresh your mouth feels! 111 " q 1 | |

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She began to comb her hair, and an equally quiet young woman asked her the polite equivalent of “Where’s your union card?” Mitzi sat silently while the makeup man worked on her face and the lady on her hair. When they were finished, she was positive she had fallen into the hands of unknown enemies. It seemed as though nothing had been done. By a wearing down process, she finally got her hair brushed back from in front of her face, but the goo on ‘the face was out. Then came a costumer, with what Mitzi vowed was atrocious taste, and Mitzi stumbled before the camera almost livid with rage. The late John Stahl was the director. In a few minutes, Mitzi was sure he didn’t have the faintest idea what he was doing, and he made her go over and over scenes that she knew perfectly well were excel- lent, maybe sensational, the first time. She dragged herself home at the end of the test positive she was the worst per- former ever photographed—and amazed that anyone ever got into pictures with that kind of people fouling things up. When she saw the test some days later she was stunned. Everything was just perfect. And she almost wept with remorse when she remembered: the awful things she had thought about the people who made it for her. To this day she has the utmost respect for the quiet artists who work so competently behind the scenes in moving pictures. It would be nice to say now that as soon as the executives at 20th Century-Fox saw Mitzi Gaynor’s test they dispatched a vice- president to her home in the middle of the night to get her name on a contract. They didn’t. Everybody raved about her. But there was just talk, talk, talk—nothing but talk. By this time, Mitzi had signed with an agent, Mitch Hammelberg, an ex- tremely Hollywood-wise gentleman who has started some of the biggest stars in Hollywood on the road to fame. He advised her to just sit tight; that this was usual in situations of this kind. Mitzi sat tight just as long as she could, then she opened negotiations with Cole Porter to go to Broadway to play in Out of This World. It had been two months since the test, and it looked as though there was no interest anymore. The family bags were packed and the tickets bought when Hammelberg called and said that Henry Koster and Sol Siegel wanted to interview Mitzi for a part in My Blue Heaven. He advised her against getting excited about it, though, because it was just an interview—not an offer for her services. Mitzi went, had the talk, was asked to sit in an outer office for a few minutes—and then was taken back into the office’and told she had the part. 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He was tall, young and had premature grey at the temples. It took me five minutes to bend my head down again.” WAS MY FACE RED @ Betty Garrett and Larry Parks were making personal appearances at an Ohio theater. Betty, taking great pride in Larry, knew that the fans around them thought she was pretty lucky to have Larry as a husband. Then she heard someone sigh loudly, “You’re the lucki- est girl in the world.” Betty heartily nodded. The fan, even more emotional, added, “Just think, you kissed Frank Sinatra in your last picture.”—Kolma Flake. For three weeks, Dick Coyle attended every performance of the show—dquite obviously to see Mitzi—but no opportunity for an introduction presented itself. Hor- ton, perversely, refused to perform that simple ‘chore. One day, Mitzi took the bull by the horns when she saw Dick passing a dressing room in which she was chattering with a bunch of the chorus girls. Snatching a mint from the dressing table, she dashed to the door and, holding ‘the candy in front of her, stuttered: “Have a mint?” Dick reached for it and she saw that it was not only covered with grease paint, but had a bite taken out of it. Horrified, she stammered, “Just a minute, Ill get you a clean one.” She ran back and got one, but the spell was broken. Dick took the candy, muttered a thanks, and de- parted. The show closed that night and Mitzi left the theater positive she would never see the lovely man again. The next day he called her on the phone and said he was Dick Coyle. Mitzi didn’t get it for a moment, then she said, “Are you that handsome, beautiful, tall, wonderful fellow who has been coming to the theater?” That was a pretty hard question to answer, but Dick identified himself. They talked for two hours, made a date for that night, and have been to- gether every night since then. 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We compared career and matrimonial notes, and Rod jokingly told his version of how he and his new bride happened to be at Cal-Neva. According to Mr. Cameron it was because of a telephone. Once the light of his bachelor life, the instrument had become a fullfledged nuisance. Since his marriage the phone had never stopped ringing . . . and he always got the same dialogue. “Hello, Rod, old pal.” “Hello,” he’d reply. “Congratulations, chum.” “Thanks.” “Give the bride my best.” “Sure.” “By the way—guess you won’t be need- ing that little black book anymore. You know, the one with the telephone numbers. Old pal.” “T burned it,” Rod would retort. “And spread the word around, will you? ’m tired of answering the phone.” The word went slowly, and the Camerons decided to get away from it all, Rod told | me solemnly. Far from telephones, we spent the rest of the evening in a kind of warm, dreamy silence, periodically broken when the musicians came by to serenade us. 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