Modern Screen 1951-09 Vol. 43, No. 4

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Ss EVERY YEAR I WRECK My BUDGET TO GET A VACATION AT A PLACE LIKE THIS! BUT THE MEN THEN SEE WHAT HAPPENS, HONEY! COLGATE DENTAL CREAM CLEANS YOUR BREATH WHILE IT CLEANS YOUR TEETH. AND THE COLGATE WAY OF BRUSHING TEETH RIGHT AFTER EATING > OPS TOOTH DECAY BEST! READER’S DIGEST* Reported The Same Research Which Proves That Brushing Teeth Right After Eating with COLGATE DENTAL CREAM STOPS TOOTH DECAY BEST Reader’s Digest recently reported the same research which proves the Colgate way of brushing teeth right after eating stops tooth decay best! The most thor- oughly proved and accepted home meth- od of oral hygiene known today! Yes, and 2 years’ research showed the Colgate way stopped more decay for more people than ever before reported in denti- frice history! No other dentifrice, ammo- niated or not, offers such conclusive proof! COLGATES FIXED UP MY VACATION SO NOW TM SOLD ON THIS LOCATION! SAN tot ory CO x te SA ( Use Colgate Dental Cream ¥ To Clean Your Breath v And Help Stop Tooth Decay! > “Ee *¥OU SHOULD KNOW! While not mentioned by name, | 7 Colgate’s was the only toothpaste used in the research | 4 on tooth decay recently reported in Reader's Digest. 4 SEPTEMBER, 1951 Vv While You Clean Your Teeth= )\ modern screen stories pDuttis*Gonephishing (@How,crcleD itt) ese eae ee by Jim Burton 10 A Love Like Nancy’s (Nancy Sinatra) by Imogene Collins 31 Sex Is /Notsbnoughl 00 tea ck ee ae eee ee eee by Lana Turner 32 Hot Copy Coming Up! erie ou Ssydoatiece kt eee ears eee by Louella Parsons 34 It's Reigning Cats and Dogs _ ......... by John Maynard 58 Dana Andrews: Problem Father... 2.0.0.0 0. eeeceeeeeee by Jane Wilkie 60 Abba-Dabba-Debbie (Debbie Reynolds) .................. .. ..... by Kirtley Baskette 62 Royse Hanche @BoyahHogers) eames ae by Marva Peterson 64 young lovers section Hollywood's Young’ Lovers. so2022.<.2..ceressdea states Bhadinese sen stoscetniovcasoss eee eee 37 Why Tony and Janet Had To Elope (Curtis-Leigh ) by Caroline Brooks 38 They Made Fun of Love (Farley Granger-Shelley Winters ) by Steve Cronin 40 We Swam Our Way To Ciro’s GAs a ee by Beverly Ott 42 The Truth About Hollywood Wolves ......--ccceccceeteeteee by Cynthia Miller 44 Marriage and Joan (Joan Evans) By Basen by Marsha Saunders 46 Who'd Marry Me? EO eRe ae cys RNa oe by Marilyn Monroe 48 What I'll Tell My Sons About Women..................c0ccccccccceccseeseeseeeeeees by Kirk Douglas 50 features The Inside: Story... me...c8 Stee ee et ere cenelesleesceientlseiseesh tt eco eee eee 4 Louella Parsons’ Good: News'=.2) -.*-. (a. 2.2.8. A) See 6 Hollywood Air-Conditioned D0”. aan 28 Tell It To Joan (Joan Evans’ advice to teen-agers )..............-cceccccceereecceeeeseesceseennee =. 82 departments Movie: Reviewsigis.ch ae ae a a) ae Re neerpal Micee Seer by Christopher Kane 14 Anne Baxter, Your Hollywood Shopper uigcseeawyeO Hollywood Approved Fashions fox Folly onc... secretes sree see 52 Modern’ Screents’ Hollywood Fashion) Party, ies. e- ee 18 ON THE COVER: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Elizabeth Taylor. Other picture credits on page 17. CHARLES D. SAXON. editor CARL SCHROEDER, western manager BEVERLY OTT, western editor BOB CEERMAN, staff photographer BERT PARRY, staff photographer LIZ SMITH, assistant editor IRENE TURNER, research editor DURBIN L. HORNER, managing editor FLORENCE EPSTEIN, story editor SUZANNE EPPES, associate editor FERNANDO TEXIDOR, art director BILL WEINBERGER, art editor CHRISTOPHER KANE, movie reviewer NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Changes of address should reach us five weeks in advence of the next issue date. Give both your old and new address, enclosing if possible your old address label. POSTMASTER: Please send notice on Form 3578 and copies returned under Label Form 3579 to 261 Fifth Avenue, New York 16, New York MODERN SCREEN, Vol. 43, No. 4, September, 1951. Published monthly by Dell Publishing Company, Inc. Office of publication at Washington and South Aves., Dunellen, N. J. Executive and editorial offices, 261 Fifth Avenue, New York 16, N. Y Chicago advertising office, 221 No. LaSalle St., Chicago, Ill. George T. Delacorte, Jr. President; Helen Meyer, Vice-Pres.; Albert P. Delacorte, Vice-Pres. Published simultaneously in the Dominion of Canada. International copyright secured under the provisions of the Revised Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. All rights reserved under the Buenos Aires Convention. Single copy price 15c in U. S. and Canada. Subscriptions in U. S. and Canada $1.80 one year; $3.50 two years; $5.00 three years; elsewhere $2 80 one year. Entered as second class matter September 18, 1930, at the post office-at Dunellen, N. J., under Act of March 3, 1879, Copyright 1951 by Dell Publishing Company, Inc. Printed in U. S. A. The publishers accept no responsibility for the return of unsolicited material. Names of characters used in semi-fictional matter are fictitious—if the name of any living person is used it is purelya coincidence Trademark No 301778

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Says model Dolores Pay “My hair must always look ‘pretty please ~ her camera curls stay free of broken ends with the bob pin with the stronger, smoother grip You too, can always have lovelier, longer-lasting hair-do’s, But be sure to use De Long 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! ES You're always “set” with De Long Hair: Pins » Curl Setting Pins ¢ Safety Pins * Hooks and Eye Pins » Hook and Eye Tapes « 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. 9. How much alimony and what kind of a financial settlement is Sylvia Gable seeking from Clark? —T. W., Pensacora, Fra. A. Mrs. Gable is not asking for alimony or a settlement, only a divorce. She would prefer a reconciliation, but Gable wants a divorce and insists that he’s fin- ished with marriage. @. Is it true that Aly Khan settled $3,000,000 on each of his sons? Is that why Rita asked for $3,000,000 for Yasmine ? —T. C., Dattas, Texas A. Rita was told that Aly had settled that sum on each of his sons, but according to people who know Aly intimately, that figure is a great exag- geration. Rita will be lucky to get even a small part of that sum; she herself wants no alimony. 9. Who are the richest actors in Holly- wood? —R. O., Toronto, CANADA A. Charles Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Gary Cooper and Cary Grant. ®. I read that Elizabeth Taylor admitted she had a child’s mind and a woman’s body. Is this true? —G. T., DurutH, Minn. A. Miss Taylor said that she had a child’s emotions, by which she meant that she was emotionally immature. As a matter of fact, she’s an intelligent girl. ®. Why don’t June Haver and Betty Grable appear together in any more pictures ? —B. D., Cuicaco, ILt. A. There’s a small feud between them. @. Is it true that Gary Cooper con- tributes large sums to the Catholic church and is devoutly religious? —V. C., DENVER, Cot. A. Cooper is a Protestant who contrib- utes 5% of his earnings to charities of every kind. One of his favorites is the Brandeis Camp Institute for wunder- privileged Jewish boys; no one religion receives any greater contribution than another. ®. Was Janet Leigh’s marriage to Tony Curtis her first or second marriage? —N. P., Puma., Pa. A. Her third. . ‘@. Can Lana Turner ever again give birth to a baby? 4 —S. O., Mempuis, Tenn. A. Medical authorities have advised Lana that because of a blood deficiency, she “probably” cannot give bythe to another child. Q. In the Liz Taylor divorce testimony, your magazine gave Liz Taylor’s mar- riage date as March 1, 1950. Wasn’t she married on May 6th, 1950? { —A. V., Hartrorp, Conn. A. May 6th, 1950 is correct. Q. Isn’t it true that Judy Garland and Sid Luit were secretly married in Bore a few months ago? —B. C., Durnam, N. C. A. No. Judy’s divorce from Vincente Minnelli won’t be final for some months. Any such marriage would be considered illegal in California which is the official residence of both Judy and Sid. 9. How old is Ronald Colman, and why hasn’t he made any motion pictures lately ? —S. C., Miami, FLa. A. Colman is hitting 60. He hos found any movie roles he’d like to do. His radio show, “The Halls of Ivy,’ is” one of the best. ‘ @. Which of the movie stars have twin children? A. David Wayne, Susan Hayward, —D. E., ELLENvILLE, N. . | Jimmy Stewart, Bing Crosby, Joan Crawford. ; g @. Is it true that all three of oe Day’s husbands have been musicians or connected in some way with the music business ? a —V.Y,, Conemsus, O10 A. The first two were musicians. “Her present, Marty Melcher, is an Beene manager. @. When Vic Damone was drafted it the Army, under_ what name did register P = ou Dover, D A. Under the n me ¢ 2

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SS 6 It was while Hedy was vacationing there Hedy Lamarr’s three children go along on her honeymoon .. . Sonja Henie’s dinner-dance sparkles with jewels... disregard Aly-Joan Fontaine rumors... your reporter turns actress! WW but Hedy Lamarr would take three small children along on a honeymoon? I mean outside of a movie plot? In typical fashion, Hedy packed her three youngsters and their two pups in the back seat, and with bridegroom Ted Stauffer at the wheel, took off for her Carmel honeymoon. “T promised the children a trip up the Coast before Ted and I made up our minds to get married,” said Hedy as though that explained everything. Of all the surprise happenings of the sea- son, Hedy’s sudden marriage to Stauffer ranks No. 1. So sudden was their decision to take the big leap that they awakened the marriage license clerk in Santa Monica and asked her to open the office at 11:00 o'clock at night! Stauffer is not entirely new to movie fans. At one time, just prior to her meeting Aly Khan, he was Rita Hayworth’s most persistent beau. He was once married to Faith Dom- ergue. He was also a very successful orchestra leader before taking over the management of one of the most successful resorts in Mexico. Ted has made a lot of money in Acapulco with Don Carlos Berard. They bought an old hotel and made it over into one of the most fashionable resorts south of the border. BaONS Ann flew to Dublin from London. Her Aunt Cissie and Uncle Pat Tobin (who live with her in California) arrived soon after by boat to help her explore Eire. rf ilws seven years ago that she met her bridegroom. I had the tip that their romance was more serious than anyone realized and announced on my radio show that they had plans to wed. But no one thought it would happen so soon. I must say that Hedy is starting out her marriage to Ted with a clean slate. She turned over everything she owns— furniture, silver, clothing, books, records and paintings—to an auctioneer telling him to get tid of all of it. Sos Henie and Winthrop Gardiner’s din- ner-dance—the first of filmland’s summer social events—was a dazzler in all depart- ments, including the wonderful jewels worn by the women, and the brilliant moon hung out by Mother Nature as though just to illuminate the gorgeous gardens, and the gay balloons. When little “Skatie,“” as the people who love Sonja call her, gives a party—it is a party, my friends. She has the gift for creating such a wonder- ful setting that all the women guests seem to be more beautiful, and the men more hand- some than ever. I’ve never seen our beauties look more radiant than at Sonja and Winnie’s party. The hostess wore white lace and exquisite eat 0s to chat with a passing Franciscan monk, She prayed at the church in which her mother was — christened; visited all the places she'd heard about. emeralds. She was the picture of elegance. Barbara Stanwyck and Nancy Sinatra ar- tived together without escorts and, laughing, said they were each other's “dates.” But they hadn't been there two minutes before they were surrounded by all the eligible bachelors. Dan Dailey, particularly, seemed to be moon-struck by Barbara who looked wonder- ful in a bouffant gown with her famed gar- denia-diamond necklace adding to her sparkle. Barbara and Dan twirled around the floor dance after dance. i It was the first chance Tyrone Power and Linda Christian had to greet many of their old pals, and it was like a welcome-home con- vention to them. Linda, who is expecting a baby, confided to me that she was Gaeboeae doctor's orders by coming—‘But I so much wanted to see all our friends again,” she confessed. é Ann Sheridan's red hair blazed brightly over a silver-cloth sheath, the shortest evening gown of all. E Evelyn Keyes, who was with Greg Bautzer, looked very smart with her new short hair- cut and an eyelet evening gown. Janie Powell, with her Geary Steffen, looked cute as a button in a gold maternity co

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Vira he g worked for 42 years. tables. “I know I shouldn't do it,” she whis- | pered, “but I’m hungry all the time.” Loretta Young’s gown was an Adrian— bouffant and decorated on skirt and bodice | with pastel organdy flowers. Her best fella, | Tom Lewis, was in New York. Mrs. Louis B. Mayer was a vision in an | Orry Kelly creation, wearing her fabulous | diamond necklace. Marion Davies’ blonde beauty was set off | by a black gown with a white lace top that | would cause any style-conscious woman's | heart to miss a beat. She wore gorgeous tubies worth a king’s ransom. William Powell and “Mousey,” his cute wife, drove up from Palm Springs, and I | thought I had never seen Bill look so well. He has put on a few pounds which are very | 9€coming, and he is very suntanned from all | he outdoor desert living. | I saw Mildred and Harold Lloyd among hose dancing every dance to the strains of he lovely, haunting Hawaiian music that went on and on into the wee hours of the morning. No one wants to leave little | “Skatie’s” parties early. Nicky Hilton was dining with his favorite "| date, Mona Knox, at the Tallyho when a re- yorter tracked him down to ask what he This Duleek cottage, where her mother was born, has | been in Ann's family for 700 years. Uncle Dill plays | bagpipes for Ann, his wife and Ann's cousin, Betty. Ann and her Uncle Peter O'Connor inspect tne bar- | pels of Dublin’s Montjoy Brewery, where her uncle has Ann met over [00 relatives. thought about Montgomery Clift meeting Liz Taylor at the plane in New York on her way to Europe. “IT don’t think anything about it,” said Nick. “Should I?” I’m inclined to share Nick’s nonchalance about this much publicized meeting between Elizabeth and her co-star in A Place in the Sun. My spy in New York (who knows Monty) says Clift was at the airport seeing off another friend when he accidentally ran into Liz’s brother and her mother and father out to meet her plane from the Coast. So Monty just stayed on to say, “Hello,” as any old friend might do. It strikes me funny that their meeting at- tracted so much attention. All the time they were making the picture together at Para- mount, Monty went out of his way not to be- come involved in a “publicity romance” with lovely Elizabeth. He flatly refused to escort her to a pre- miere because, he said, “it would stir up a lot of fuss about nothing,”—and Elizabeth agreed. Rita Hayworth is going to have plenty of trouble getting $3,000,000 or any amount of money out of Prince Aly Khan for a couple of Ann's exciting two-week visit was climaxed by her personal appearance at Dublin's Royale Theater. Ail her mother's relatives, who'd seen Ann only on the screen, came. She was thrilled when one said, “Your mother had the face of an angel—like yours.” good reasons. One, the Prince is quite short on cash. Two, his wealthy father, the Aga Khan, isn’t going to kick in with a cent. The “inside” on why pappa, who likes Rita, won't help, is because Rita and the Begum, the Aga’s current wife, never hit it off and she will see to it that the Aga keeps his purse closed. I might add that Aly and the Begum aren’t any too friendly, either. I don’t put a dime’s worth of stock in the gossip that lovely, blonde Joan Fontaine is Aly’s new heart interest or vice versa. The Prince is trés charming and he has always paid attention to glamorous women. But I can’t see Joan marrying Aly—or he her. Clark Gable, who planked out $350,000 to get his freedom from Rea Gable, can relax. Sylvia wants not a cent from him—nor any part of his property. She sent word to me from Honolulu where she had fled after the bitterness of their parting. “Why should I ask for part of his 20-acre ranch in Encino when I own 4,000 acres in Del Mar?” Sylvia asked. Although Clark remains as mum as an oyster, he told a mutual friend that he has never spent as much money in his life as he did during the year-and-a-half he was

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U.S. tax extra. Prices are subject to change. FREE! “AMAZING AMERICA” TOUR FOLDER Greyhound information Center,105 W. Madison, Chicago 2, fll.—Send me your illustrated Greyhound folder telling all about Amazing America Tours. married to the former Lady Ashley. He says he built a studio and made all sorts of im- provements on the ranch at her insistence, plus redecorating the whole house. As for clothes—well, Sylvia is a gal wot likes to dress. Maybe Clark has been a bachelor too long to get used to paying a lady's bills—espe- cially when the lady has a million dollars of her own. N° visitor to Hollywood in years created so much social furor as Perle Mesta, Minister to Luxemburg, famed as the Wash- ington “hostess with the mostest.” Theda Bara, vamp of the silent screen, was the first to honor Madame Minister with a cocktail and dinner party. At socialite Dolly Walker’s party the next night in Perle’s honor, Mal and Ray Milland disclosed that they have bought part of Dolly’s Beverly Hills estate, and are going to build their new home there. I sat next to Gene Markey and whispered in his ear that the paper had just telephoned me that his ex-wife, Myrna Loy, had re- married in Virginia. “Why doesn’t she tell me these things,” said Gene, who is always witty and composed. O= day last month I grabbed my portable typewriter in one hand and my secretary by the other and took off over the hills to Warner Brothers studio to emote in Starlift. Yes, I am turning actress in this musical based on Travis Air Field where our fighting boys take off and return from Korea. Many Hollywood stars entertain there and several months ago I took up a troupe in- cluding Shirley Temple, Pat O’Brien and Margaret Whiting to the base near San Francisco. When they got around to making the picture, Jack Warner asked me if I would play myself. By golly, I may not win an Oscar playing Louella Parsons, but I ought to be natural! Frankly, however, it isn’t easy for a non- professional to stand in the spotlight and “emote” even when just called upon to play one’s self. It was so pleasant to find such welcoming friends on the set as Doris Day, Ruth Roman, and Janice Rule. The girls presented me with a gold-topped rabbit's foot for good luck, and the attached card read, “So very nice to have you with us.” I'll be happy if they feel that way when I have completed my scenes. I’ve studied my “lines” and tried to be up on the script so the visiting lady columnist won't hold up With Patti and dene) Lewis as aitvonclons. Jieme Leigh became Mrs. Tony Curtis on June 4th. Judge Knox of Greenwich, Conn., officiated. LOVELLA PARSONS’ good news the scenes. “oS ic ee a When you realize from first hand experience what hard work movie acting is—well, I wonder if Critic Louella Parsons will ever again have the heart to “pan” any acting performance? Celeste Holm tells me that the big thrill of her singing engagement at La Vie En Rose in New York is when she peered past the spot- light into the audience and saw General Douglas MacArthur sitting ringside. She was even more delighted when, after her stint, she was invited to the table to meet the General and his charming wife. "I told the General that Jack Benny had invited me to go with his show to Korea,” said Celeste. “His eyes twinkled for a min- ute, and then he said: “"T don't think you will like it there, Miss Holm.’ ” PS faa Russell has a wonderfully placid dis- position and so has her husband, Bob Waterfield. But Jane came close to blowing her top because Bob admitted they have plans to adopt a baby. She had so hoped to keep it a big secret until the baby had been in their home three or four months. So it is true that the Waterfields will soon have a little stranger in their home, but everybody is helping Bob keep mum by not telling when he or she arrives. The Letter Box: Shirley Newman, age 12, of Norwood, Ohio, wants Shirley Temple to keep on writing to her even if her “dearest, darling favorite’’ has retired. Are you listening, Mrs. Charles Black, now busy being a Navy wife in Washington, D. C.? (Many, many letters asking about Shirley in this month's mail. Her fans certainly have not forgotten. Nor have any of us here in Hollywood.) Answering D. V. of Saint Louis, Missouri: Yes, Tyrone Power and Linda Christian are expecting a baby. He is very glad to be back in Hollywood again but he would be “glad- der” if he weren't on suspension at 20th—he told me so. , Lots of letters wishing the best of luck and health to Dan Dailey. He is much admired for his frank and sensible outlook on his recent illness. A clever Japanese boy in Tokyo who can write English tells me: “We see American, English, French, Italian, and Russian movies —and we like best the American. A recent poll here in famous Japanese movie magazine voted Little Women most popular American movie here, with Letter To Three Wives and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs second and third.” Very interesting, my Tokyo friend © —wrtite again. That's all for this month. See you again! S . = : Jimmy Stewart, named Screen Father of the | Year, poses with his family: Ronald, Gloria, } Michael, and the new twins, Judy and Kelly

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10 modern screen in the news Aboard the ‘Mike’ Howard Duff gets some boating know-how from fleet-owner Ernie Gann. Howard signed on as an ordinary seaman. His pay: two bucks a week. His companions: dead fish. His reward: a suntan, and a new slant on women. duff’ gone fishin’ BY JIM BURTON 4 @ A few weeks ago, right after he’d finished The Lady From Texas with Mona Freeman, Howard Duff decided to get away from it all. This meant no more dates with glamor girls—like Ava, when she was angry with Frankie, and no more beach parties with Ida Lupino, and no more pre- mieres with Marta Toren. No more Hollywood for a while, because Duff had things to think over. Marriage, for instance. Howard Duff isn’t the happiest man in the world. He’s an introvert, who’s always studying his own soul, and right now the sight depresses him. He thinks, though, that he’d be very happy if he were married and had a family. “After all,” he says, “that’s what counts most in life.” But he can’t find a wife. During the war he thought he’d found one, but when he was shipped overseas she went off and got married. Today she has two children. Is Howard carrying a torch for her? “Don’t be ridiculous,” he says. ‘“That’s all done and forgotten.” In June of this year, Duff started looking for a place to mull over his prob- lems. What place is more conducive to long thoughts than the ocean? No place, thought Howard, so he signed on as a hired hand aboard a fishing vessel for two dollars a week. The name of the vessel was “Mike.” It was 50 feet long and headed for Mexican waters to find albacore. (Continued on page 12)

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(Continued from page 10) (Albacore is a long-finned tunny, closely — related to the tuna. Like tuna, it’s highly valued for canning and brings a good price over the grocery counter.) When Duff signed up as an ordinary — seaman, he also signed to receive a per- centage of the catch. “Mike” departed from Point Loma, outside of San Diego. and stayed on the high seas for 18 days. Once aboard, Duff was treated like any -member of the crew. He asked no favors, and he got none. He pulled watch, swabbed | down the decks, hauled in the catch, i worked ’round the clock. -— -g eat ain ane 1 “I know,” Duff said. “I can work as well” 1d it Qver-tut b roadclo as the next guy.” Cow - qenfor™ oto and al “Okay,” said Gann. “We're going out | wn: Maver’ nylom oft e of fev looking for albacore. You'll get a cut on sho ‘table ™ or every ty whatever the catch is worth.” = also sjenjorm proillet Duff and Gann shook hands. The next hs is a mas pe: 000i morning, they both flew down to San 5 ee qhere opines Diego and boarded the “Mike.” A shor 12 _u 5 Po i! circuit in one of the motors delayed eRe yeh boat’s scheduled departure but after ¢

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ie E clearance from the insurance company, the “Mike” took off. But on the ocean, pulling watch at night, Howard Duff had time to think, to evaluate his life, to find out whether it had any meaning for him or whether he was aimlessly drifting. “T decided,” he says, “that if I don’t get married within the next two or three years, the chances are I will probably never get married.” “Once a fellow hits 35 (Duff's 33 now), he becomes pretty set in his ways. Then, too, how good are the chances of marrying a girl who’s 28 or 29? By that age most of the girls have been grabbed up, so that usually, a man in my spot marries a girl who is 20 or 22. That’s too great a difference in age I think. O™ there in the Pacific, I had a pretty good chance to work things out. I love Hollywood, and I think it’s been great to me, but in order to get any perspective, a fellow’s got to get far away from it once in a while. “When you're at sea, things become pretty elemental. Problems that were complicated on land seem to reduce them- selves to essentials. “Take me, for example. I’m ready for marriage. People make me out to be a recluse, but I’m nothing of the sort. And T'm not that moody, brooding guy you read about. _ “[’m very much in the market for a wife, only Hollywood is a very tough spot to find one. Naturally, I meet a lot of actresses, but unless they give up their careers, actresses usually don’t make good wives. Two acting careers in one family rarely mix. So where am I? I can’t go beating around the U.S., announcing that I’m looking for a wife, and there’s no sense in proposing to the first girl who comes along. “Some of my friends have suggested that perhaps I’m afraid of marriage. Well, that’s true of some bachelors, but I honestly don’t think it’s true of me. “As soon as I find the right girl, I’m proposing. And say—if you know someone, let me have her number. One thing I can assure you. Howard Duff isn’t hard to get.” THE END IT HAPPENED TO ME Sometime ago I went to LaGuardia Airport with my sister and a friend to meet another friend who was coming in at 11:30 P.M. on Interna- tional Airlines. We weren't sure whether the plane & was to land at Gate > 2 or 4, so we went to Gate 2 to ask. A man and woman were standing at the gate and the woman caught our eyes because she was wearing a beau- tiful fur coat and carrying a lovely bouquet of red roses. She must have felt us staring at her, for in a moment when she turned to go through the gate to the field, she paused, came back toward us and said, “Would you like to have these?” Then she handed me the flowers. I gulped my thanks and watched Laraine Day rejoin Leo Durocher and board her plane. — Miss Annette De Gaetano Brooklyn, New York Timely Tips by Little Lulu HOW DO YOU SCORE ON THESE HELPFUL WAYS TO SAVE 7? What’s best to limber meat grinders ? How fo foil a dripping faucet? [|] Chicken bones [_] Salad oil [_] Bacon fat [] Try a cork L] Attach a string Balky meat grinders get back to work— Can’t sleep for that “bloop-bleep”? Tie when you dose ’em with salad oil. Keeps a string on the faucet . . . water slides the food taste-worthy. Speaking of grind- ers, there’s no ground wood in Kleenex! It’s a pure tissue; perfectly uniform. Free from weak spots, hard particles! down, silently. And see: how Kleenex tissues save your nerves—for Kleenex serves one at a time (not a handful). No fumbling! No waste. Saves money. To peel peaches quickly, try— .] A teakeftle [_] Steel wool [|] A scout knife Peaches will shed their skins pronto; just pour boiling water over them. Like- wise, save beauty-care time, trouble— use gentle Kleenex to peel off clinging makeup. Because this tissue has the perfect balance of softness and strength. Chair marks on carpets call for— ( Cleaning fluid J Steaming Cover furniture-flattened spots with damp cloth, then steam with hot iron. Lifts nap, saves carpet. Let Kleenex tissues give you a lift in your household tasks. Extra soft! So absorbent; sturdy! And no other tissue has that handy Kleenex box! Kleenex ends waste - saves money... © INTERNATIONAL CELLUCOTTON PRODUCTS CO. *7.M.REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. mmc mm mm a i ee ewe ws we ee ees nei i i ee 1. INSTEAD OF MANY... ra YOU GET JUST ONE... @. anv save wri | KLEENEX This Kleenex “window*= shows you when It’s time to order

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THE FROGMEN Up until recently, the whole thing was a secret, but it seems that in World War II, we had what was referred to as “paddlefoot commandos,” or UDT’s (Underwater Dem- olition Teams) “spearheading every inva- sion from Sicily to Okinawa.” These incredibly brave men, wearing swim- ming trunks and flippers on their feet, and Buck-Rogers-looking masks, went slithering around under enemy waters, blowing up mines, making notes of defense installations, etc. Richard Widmark, as a commander who has to win over his crew (they've been crazy about his predecessor); Dana Andrews as the chief man he has to win over; and the rest of the cast outdo each other in feats of bravery and heroism. The whole company spent so niuch time in ice cold water—they were on location in the Virgin Islands, and off Cape Hat- teras—that they all caught cold. it's a fascinating picture, entirely unusual in theme, and execution. Cast: Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill—20th Century-Fox. NIGHT INTO MORNING This picture is exceedingly well done, and SO grim you wonder why they did it. Roy Milland’s wife and child are blown up in a freak accident. And Ray, an English pro- fessor, in an effort to find escape, once his life has been thus desolated, toys with drink, with suicide, with reckless driving. He’s mean to his students, and he worries his friends, Nancy Davis and John Hodiak, both of whom are fellow members of the English department. Hodiak and Davis are engaged, and Davis, herself having sustained a widowhood, does all she can to alleviate Ray’s pain. Accord- ing to Hodiak, she begins to do a little too much, even, but that's really neither here nor there. As the story of a man plunged into a very terrible reality, and his adjustment to that reality, Night into Morning has good mo- ments. But since they’re mostly suicidal or otherwise depressing I think you'd hardly call them entertaining. If you're a student of the drama, though, go see. | Cast: Ray Milland, John Hodiak, Nancy Davis, = Stone, Jean Hagen—MGM. | 7 ee “| was shipwrecked 5 times in one day says EVELYN KEYES, co-starring with Jeff Chandler in ‘“SMUGGLER’S ISLAND”’ a U-I release, Color by Technicolor “If sweeping floors is rough on your foie imagine mine after retakes of this ship- wreck scene for ‘SMUGGLER’S ISLAND.’ The heavy oars made my hands sting, Learning theropes ona sloop left my hands raw again.. Being a liquid, Jergens is absorbed by thirsty skin. But between scenes, I used soothing Jergens Lotion... CAN YOUR LOTION OR HAND CREAM PASS THIS FILM TEST? To soften, a lotion or cream should be absorbed by upper layers of skin. Water won't “bead on hand smoothed with Jergens Lotion. it contains quickly-absorbed ingredients that doctors recommend, no heavy gilts that merely coat the skin with oily film. ~ Prove it with this simple test described above... It kept my hands lovely for romantic closeups!” ae You'll see why Jergens Lotion is my beauty secret. More women use Jergens Lotion than any other hand care in the world STILL 1Oc TO $1.00 (PLUS TAX)

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PEKING EXPRESS A Chinese train, traveling from Shanghai to Peking, has various personalities aboard: Joseph Cotten, a United Nations doctor, is off to perform an operation on General Chiang, and spends his spare time wondering who's diverting U.N. medical supplies into the Chinese black market. And Corinne Cal- vet, a spy for so many different folks she can hardly remember who she’s spying on. (She and Joe were once in love, but he didn’t trust her.) Then there’s a Chinese man—Marvin Miller—who tries to stab his wife in Corinne’s compartment. This man is eventually revealed as the leader of an insurgent military group, and king of the black market in medical supplies. He wants Corinne. Corinne wants Joe. Edmund Gwenn, a priest about to be shot by Marvin's men, wants peace on earth. Also Marvin is trying to get his son back from the underground Nationalists. Do you follow all this? It’s not easy, but it’s very picturesque. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Corinne Calvet, Edmund Gwenn, Marvin Miller—Paramount. SIROCCO In 1925, in Damascus, the French were so unpopular that the Syrians kept shooting them. As this picture opens, the Syrians are getting their guns courtesy of Humphrey Bogart, a profiteer who runs stuff through the French oc- cupation troops to the headquarters of Emir Hassan, head of the natives. Lee J. Cobb, a French officer, doesn't approve of this, but his good-for-nothing girl friend, Marta Toren, ad- mires Humphrey in a big way, once she dis- covers the size of his wallet. Cobb goes to reason with Emir Hassan (Humphrey's shown him the secret way, in return for a free pass to Cairo, instead of a bullet in his head). But then a French general starts working on Humphrey, and first thing you know, he (Humphrey) is doing an unselfish thing. He's making an attempt to save Cobb's life. He gets a grenade in the face for his pains. And as far as I’m concerned, I still don’t know whether the French belonged in Damascus. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Marta Toren, Lee J. Cobb, Everett Sloane.—Columbia. PHOTO CREDITS Below you will find credited page by page the photographs which appear -in this issue. 6-7—20th Century-Fox, 8—International News Photos, 10—Edward Sievers, 20-23—Parry- Beerman, 31—Modern Screen staff, 32—Parry- Beerman, 33—-MGM, 34—Rt. American Airlines Press Photo, Lt.Cen. & Lt.Bot. Universal-Inter- national, 35—TopRt. Parry-Beerman, Cen.Rt. MGM, Bot.Rt. Milt Transchel, Lt. Clarence Bull, 36—Rt. Warner Bros., Lt.Top Bert Parry, Lt. Above Cen. Bert Six, Lt.Cen., MGM, Lt. Below Cen. 20th Century, Bot.Lt. MGM, 38— Bert Parry, 39—Acme Photo, 40—-RKO, 42— Bill Bailey, 43—Bob Beerman, 44—Bob Beer- man, 45—Bert Parry, 46—Nelson Morris, 48-49 —Beerman-Parry, 50—Top Bert Parry, Bot. Bob Beerman, 51—Rt. Bob Beerman, 18, 52-57 —Beerman-Parry, Virgil Apger, Eric Carpenter, Bruce Bailey, 53—-Top Gus Gale, Bot. Lt. 20th Century, Bot.Cen. Walt Davis, Bot.Rt. M. S. Staff, 59—Top Wide World, Cen. & Bot. Bob Beerman, 60—Lt. Bob Beerman, 61—Top & Bot.Lt. Gus Gale, 62—Lt. MGM, Rt. Wide World, 63—MGM, 64-66—Parry-Beerman. bine hz DIAMOND RINGS with larger, lovelier diamonds NANCY OLSON, a Paramount Player starring in “Submarine Story” For this, your day of days ST eSO long to be remembered . . . choose 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 pf 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. Oe 2.2 heen eve: Diamond: | DIAMOND RINGS Produced by the Creators of Keepsake Crescent Diamond Rings, A. H. Pond Co., Inc. R Caro} - “about $350 - F R E 3 120 East Washington, Syracuse 2, N. Y. oC Useful booklets “The Etiquette of the Engagement 4 Carat seo. and Wedding” and “Choosing Your Diamond Ring.” Also 48- epee page “Bride’s Book” gift offer and your Crescent Jeweler’s th Carat name and address. : about $150 NOARAB Eos Dod eee ey abe even caer ca gee a oe STREET candlsNO! 222-2 oe ees es a eel erent SS, : CITY and STATE... --------------------- MSC 9-51 17

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Se SSS SS . ‘ - NI hae iri wear the | “PERMANIZED” + RUN RESISTANT | (a Gayla exclusive!) _ Grooms Hair-dos—Saves Waves Invisible—Tru-Color Hair Shades qnore women use | Gayla’ -HOLD-BOB bobby pins than all other brands — combined “Who can concentrate on food?" says Charlie McCarthy as he admires Liz Taylor. Liz is modeling one of the outfits that won the votes of the stellar board. (See text) ¢ Not everyone can wear Paris gowns .. . but everyone can afford star-selected clothes— especially picked by MopERN SCREEN’S Hollywood board of judges. MODERN SCREEN’S Hollywood Fashion Party @ The editors of MOodERN Screen looked into their wives’ wardrobes and had a thought. It was, “Who can afford Paris creations?” Their answer almost choked them. It was, “No one.” Meditating along this vein, they got very excited and still another thought crossed their minds. It was, “Why should Paris be the fashion center of the world when Hollywood is just around the Rockies and loaded with style experts and best-dressed women?” And finally, they asked themselves, “Why not bring the stars’ knowledge of fashion and their valuable advice directly to our readers?” Right away they contacted Loretta Young, who’s received innumerable awards for being Hollywood’s best-dressed actress. “What do you think of the idea?” they asked Loretta. “Tt?s wonderful!” she said. “What could be better than having the stars, who’ve learned about fashions from the finest designers, share their knowledge with your readers?” The editors beamed. “You'll share?” they asked. “Td be delighted,” she said. Now Loretta is a lady who has a way of doubling a person’s enthusiasm for any worthy project. That’s what she did to ours, and before long we’d planned a fashion show—and a luncheon to go with it. Then we got down to the business of setting up an Advisory Board of Experts comprised of representative stars. As the fall fashions paraded past these members of the board, they would select and recommend the clothes which wney considered the best buys for MopERN — SCREEN readers. The time and place for these events to occur were rapidly chosen. The time: noon. The place: the spacious lawn beside Edgar Bergen’s pool. Frances Bergen is a former model and one of the most fashion conscious young matrons in our — town. Mr. Bergen, as you may know, is employed as straight man for Charles — McCarthy, who provides the laughs on the Coca-Cola radio show. Edgar also — approves of Mrs. B.’s gowns and writes the checks for them and is quite aware of what goes on in the style world. Charlie, of course, will tell you that McCarthy’s an expert on everything. a The remaining members of the board were selected. eS Montalban.

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_ cepted the invitation with pleasure. Ri- - eardo’s married to Loretta’s sister, who’s a fashion plate in her own right. And as a young husband, he’s an authority on what young wives should wear. Every girl is interested in a beau’s ' opinion of her clothes. Consequently, we _ called on Peter Lawford and Howard Duff, ____two of Hollywood’s most eligible bachelors _ —hoth noted for taste in clothes and ladies. ie Pa Fh zante Taylor, who has shopped in | i stores all over the world, seemed like an ideal choice for the board. Also per- fect were Diana Lynn and Mona Freeman _ of Hollywood’s young married crowd. | ‘They’ve had considerable experience in || balancing wardrobe budgets and always __ manage to look as though they just stepped out of bandboxes. 1 Last, and far from least, there was Walter Pidgeon, well-traveled, noted for his charm | and sophistication. a The day of the show began as a cloudy | one. However, around noon, the sun came i out to see what was going on. The Brown | Derby had taken over luncheon arrange- | ments and the lawn was a beehive of | preparations. Dainty finger sandwiches and a variety of salads were on the table, and everything, done with great flourish. j Howard Duff was the earliest arrival. _ “Tt’s my first fashion show,” he said, happily looking around at the lovely models. “And it won’t be my last.” About that time Mona Freeman walked # up. “Aren’t you slightly out of character?” __ she wanted to know. The last time she’d _ seen him he was a cowpoke on a Western set. The two co-starred in The Lady From |e DLesxas, 7 Others soon followed. And this was quite a feat. Edgar and Frances live on a Holly- wood hilltop. It may not be the highest, but it’s the most difficult to get to. Edgar usually sends out small maps when folks are coming to call. In case this only proves confusing, there are signs along the way. _ But you still need the intuition of a moun- tain goat. For instance, Walter Pidgeon was driving up the road and took a sharp left turn. Seemed logical enough because a i sharp right turn would have sent him hurtling down a mountainside. He reached - a house and saw that Nancy Davis and _ Phyllis Kirk (she’s in Three Guys Named _ Mike) had arrived. They were going to _ model winning clothes. “This is Bergen’s?” | Walter asked, surveying the sight. There | _Was a patio all right, but it was filled with | boards—as the house was in the process of | being built. : : “This must be where Charlie keeps his relatives,’ grinned Nancy, glancing at the lumber. Phyllis was nose deep in a map, trying | to figure just where they’d gone wrong. __ “Follow me,” said Walter as he backed __ down the steep incline. : He almost backed into Ricardo Mon- talban. “Follow me,’ Ricardo suggested. __ Several hilltops and one phone call later, ; they reached the Bergens’. ) T# event was taking on a festive air. i Beside the pool, Peter Lawford con- _ ferred with Jeanne MacDonald, who'd _ dropped by for a few minutes. And Liz | Taylor was absent-mindedly swinging her | foot in the direction of the water. Sud- | denly her shoe came off and there was a _ small splash. But fortunately she was | sitting near the shallow end where the _ shoe could be retrieved. “Guess I should _ have worn a bathing suit,’ she laughed, as Frances fetched her a pair of slippers. _ Several of the men nearby were heard | to sigh. _ Time came for the judges to adjourn to their tables, upon which there were avors for the ladies and for the men, too (or their ladies)— (Continued on page 93) Ps CHEERS - Girdle! for the World’s most Popular Girdle For Fall Fashions and Back-to-Campus / New Playtex’ FAB-LINED Girdle S880 FABRIC NEXT TO YOUR SKIN 32°55 It’s the first new kind of girdle in 11 years _ —the girdle praised by top fashion designers, the girdle that’s caressed millions of women to new slimness in new comfort! Just see how the Playtex Fab-Lined Girdle gives your figure a slim new future for fall. With a cloud-soft fabric fused to the smooth latex sheath with- out a seam, stitch or bone, it’s invisible under sleekest clothes, allows complete freedom. The 3 most popular girdles in the world PLAYTEX FAB-LINED GIRDLE. With fabric next to your skin. In SLIM, golden tube . $5.95 and $6.95 PLAYTEX PINK-ICE GIRDLE. So light,so cool,dispels body heat. In SLIM, shimmering pink tube . . $4.95 and $5.95 PLAYTEX LIVING® GIRDLE. With more figure control, greater freedom than girdles at three times the price. In SUM, silvery tube . . . $3.95 and $4.95 (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 DAYTIME HIT! PLAYTEX presents ARLENE FRANCIS in “Fashion Magic,” CBS-TV National Network. See local papers for schedule. INTERNATIONAL LATEX CORP’N., Playtex Park, Dover Del., PLAYTEX LTD., Montreal, Can. pect. We oS

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— BEST USE OF “‘WAIST” MATERIAL. Either of these belts has the makings of a whole wardrobe. They're leather front belts with detachable sailcloth backs in mixed or matched shades. Gimmick is that you can substitute another material for the sailcloth anytime. It’s an easy switch too! Leather fronts in red, black, natural, brown, navy; sailcloth backs in same or contrasting shades. Give waist _ size, color, belt choice. $3.50 ea. Thea Bag, 333 E.79 St., New York 21. anne baxter your hollywood shopper I “STOLE” THIS FOR YOU Decause ii’s the neat- est piece of sorcery I've seen in many a moon. Of lacy crocheted rayon, edged in fringe, 72” x 18” it does tricks to make it your pet fashion accessory. Wear it over your shoulders, hair, tied around your waist as a sash, or criss-crossed and tucked under your belt. “Siren stole” wraps you in glamor day and night. In beguiling black, white, navy, pink, yellow, red, blue. $3.98. Ronnie Sales, 487 B’way, New York 13. lor september @ A MopeERN ScrREEN editor recently asked me to plunge into fall shopping for their September issue. I was an easy mark. I’ve a passion for shop- ping and bargains are my meat. Ask John . . . he’s in charge of my budget. Thrilled with my mission, I planned my strategy as though I were bidding for an Oscar, to be sure I’d cover the finest shops all over the country for special buys for all of us. I turned many a town topsy-turvy looking for last minute travel tips, personal and household items. As you can imagine, I was looking particularly for smart fall fashions to wear after our “bambino” arrives. Besides, all of us gals want something new to pep up our wardrobes now that fall is practically here. Whether it’s back to work, back to school or back home from a vacation, you'll want to get these smart new clothes. Take your pick, then order direct- ly from the store mentioned below each picture. Lots of luck with your shopping. Hope you'll have great fun! KNIT YOUR OWN EVENING GLAMOR. Original design for a hand-made, ribbed sweater that I found a cinch to knit. Bare-topped bodice with separate sets of puffed or straight cuffs to give it the effect of a short- sleeved sweater. Moth-proof, fast-dyed yarn in black, white, red, beige, grey pastels. Yarn and instructions for sizes 12-14 (bodice, I set cuffs) $8.75. Sizes 16-18 $9.75. Add $1.75 for second set cuffs. Couture Fashion Yarns, 107 E. 60 St., New York 22. 21

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essere as tere Sa ES JUST CAN’T GET ENOUGH CORDUROY. Lucky me to find this wonderful horseshoe neckline jumper. Snug waist and flared skirt give it a smart shape—and you too. Belted, with tiny self-covered buttons at the waist. Slash pockets over each hip. Mostly you'll wear it with blouses—a change of blouse changes its personality. Try it minus blouse for a really chic dressed-up air. Red, green, rust. Sizes 12-18. $7.99. Jonas Shoppes, Dept. SMJ, 62 West 14 St., New York 11. John put an enthusiastic anne baxter your hollywood shopper for september okay on this fall wardrobe, so gals, after Junior arrives, watch me go! IT’S LOVELY, IT’S NYLON, it’s engaged to go to the hospital with me so I can look really fetching after Junior’s arrival. Nylon-rayon robe’s designed to meet every situation gracefully. Washes, dries in a jiffy, so it’s always fresh. Tailored but feminine, it’s piped in white with a white tasseled sash. Smart chevron embroidery on lapel bal- ances a roomy right hip pocket. Fuchsia, blue. 12-18. $8.99. Jonas Shoppes, Dept. LMR, 62 W. 14 St., New York II. STRICTLY PERSONAL . . . IZED PANTY WARDROBE. Set of 7 brief snugfit panties in resist-run rayon tricot jersey. Wear a different pair each day of the week in one of several dainty shades. Your initials worked into a smart triangular monogram on the pant leg. Double re-inforced crotch, seams; elas- tic waist band. Sizes S, M, L. 7 for $4.99. 7 matching initialed Lovable rayon satin bras $6.99. Jonas Shoppes, Dept. LMP, 62 W. 14 St., New York 11. Z “AN APPLE A DAY" does wonderful things for you, that’s why these cuddly sleeping or TV-ing pajamas are covered with them. Soft flannelette top in all-over apple print on white, has long sleeves, patch pockets. Bright, bright red collar matches peddle pusher pants that taper to below the knee. Or, if you prefer, take the all apple print and ruffle-neck instead. Both in sizes §, M, L. $4.95. Blackton Shops, 398 Fifth Ave., New York 1. To buy any of the items on these pages, write direct to shops mentioned, enclosing check or money order. — Li

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YOURS FROM AN ANGORA KITTEN. This frothy pull- on sweater is part wool, part softest angora, looks and feels divine. Little- boy collar and neck opening edged in white, and smart rhinestone buttons stud the front. Short sleeves. Sweater’s sweet under suits, or do as I will, and take it out for a gay evening, teamed with a dressy skirt. Worn the year round. In lus- cious pink, white, maize, baby blue, aqua. Sizes 34-38. $3.99. Ralph H. Miller, 505 8th Ave.,New York 1. YOU'LL LOOK REALLY “TWEEDY” in this novel all-wool cardigan knit in a heather mixture to re- semble sporty tweed. Smartly tailored with a trim peter pan collar, shoe-button closing, and short cuffed sleeves. I'd call it a smart match for any suit or skirt in your wardrobe,and it will fol- low you faithfully right through Spring. Sizes 34- 40. Comes in heavenly heather grey or beige. $3.99. Ralph H. Miller, 505 8th Ave.,New York 1. HIGH, WIDE, AND HANDSOME! Here’s a_ high-necked, dolman-sleeved and truly handsome striped pull- over. Stripes are cleverly spaced to do the most for you and the sweater. Slimming dark side pan- els and waist band are contrasted with a white center bound by sets of stripes. ve found it as dressy as I make it, de- pending on my skirt and accessories. 34-40. Navy, dark green, or purple striped with white. $3.99. Ralph H. Miller, 505 8th Ave., New York 1. CUTS 25 “FRENCH FRIES” IN ONE STROKE! Just insert whole potato, press handle, and presto! —you have 25 perfect “French Fries’ all ready for cooking! Mrs. Damar’s Food Cutter is wonderful for dicing other foods and _ sal- ads, too. Made exclusively for us in rust-proof, gleaming plated steel. Sold by mail only. Price, $2.98, plus 25c for postage. COLD FRESH DRINKS ON TAP! Just fill Tap-a-Glass with water or lemon- ade, soda, etc. and place it on your re- frigerator shelf. You'll always have a_ cold drink “‘on tap.” Easy to use—especially for youngsters. Holds over a gallon—fills a glass in seconds! 5”x5”x13” with tray lid that supports other items. Made of un- breakable clear plastic. Only $2.95, postpaid. NOW! Wash Delicate Lingerie, Nylons, etc.—in your washing machine Now you can safely laun- der even the most delicate washables in your wash- ing machine—with Mrs. Damar’s Softi-Bag! Just hang as laundry bags— one for handkerchiefs, one for lingerie, etc. When filled, snap shut, toss into washer—+that’s all! This cotton mesh bag 2 prevents small articles from tangling, tearing in machine—eliminates sorting, hand washing. $1.69 each, 2 for $3.25, ppd. HOME CHARCOAL BAR-B-Q FOR INDOOR OR OUTDOOR USE! A new low-priced charcoal-broiler that requires no matches, no kindling. Just place a few pieces of charcoal in the bottom, set it over stove—it ignites in seconds, then burns for hours! Steaks, chops, fish, fowl have all that tantalizing charcoal- broiled flavor sealed in! And because Charcook has been proven over 90% smokeless—you can use it indoors, at your dining room table! Nickel- plated steel, 1014” grill. Ash and drip pan elim- imates dirt, grease. Bag of charcoal included. Only $5.95, ppd. COPPER CLAD 7” SKILLET i: Yes, a hard-to-get copper skillet with satin chrome inside! .035 extra-thick sheet of copper outside assures fastest, most uniform heating. Acid, stain, rust resistant. Cannot dent or-chip in ordinary use. Very easy to clean. Firm-grip handle, metal hanging ring. A rare value at only $1.98, ppd. Send cash, check, money order—or items sent C.O.D. at prices indicated plus postage. Use them for 10 days, and if not completely satisfied—tre- turn any of them for full purchase price refund. ASK FOR FREE CATALOG! We have just prepared a wonderful new catalog, full of handy household and gift items. To re- ceive your FREE copy, just write and ask for it. MRS. DAMAR {21 Damar Bldg., Treat Pi., Newark, 2, N. J.

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anne baxter your hollywood shopper for september YOU'LL LOOK POSITIVELY DAZZLING in this stunning set of rhinestone sparklers. The cluster earrings dangle fetchingly as you greet your man of the evening. A pendant necklace on a non-tarnishable white metal chain completes the pretty picture. With this glamorous glitter you'll have all the guys agog. It does exciting things for you and your costume. (Screw-type earrings.) Whole set only $240. Consumers Mart, 127 W. 33 St., New York 1. TO BAG YOU MANY FRIENDS! Here are two stunning suede handbags with eye-catch- ing insignias of the big fraternities and sororities. On campus or off I think they’re smart accessories. In supple beige suede leather with hand-blocked terra- cotta insignia. Envelope bag is trim and fabric-lined with zipper closing. 10”x6”, $4.73. Pouch bag, 914” deep, leather- lined, draw string, $11.94. Walter Thomas, 716 Wilshire Blud., Santa Monica, Calif. 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 personalized. KEYED TO YOUR FAVORITE SCREWBALL. Here’s a key ring that’s a cute gadget to own or give to someone special. Gold-plated flext- ble snake chain is closed at each end with a tiny ball. Balls unscrew so loads of keys may be added—enough for even a Bluebeard. Around 314” long, it’s light- weight and easy to handle. Screwball key ring, besides doing its job, will get many a chuckle. I've ordered several. Only $1.00. Seth & Jed, New Marlborough, Mass. TAKES A SHINE TO METAL.“ T ect” is a new pro- tective coating for your metal possessions; keeps them free from tarnish, rust or cor- roston. Get out your copper, brass, chrome and silverware and give them a treatment with this liquid coating. They'll positively sparkle and will stay sparkling. Comes with a bottle of “Tect” solvent which removes oil, grease, or “Tect” coating for metal surfaces. Both 3 ounce bottles for $1.00. Tect, Inc., Englewood, N. J. SCHOOL DAYS,- SCHOOL DAYS. A wonderful writing case to take back to school. If those carefree days are over, it’s still wonderful! Of plastic, with no seams, it’s a real port- able desk. Comes with a writing tablet, pencil in holder, bound address book, en- velopes, identification card and more. ‘A place for that special photo and pockets for correspondence. Maroon, navy, brown, royal, green, red, tan. $2.95. Otto Ulbrich, 386 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y. ANYONE CAN PLAY BY COLOR. Anyone who knows red from green can sit at the piano for the first time and play his favorite melodies with both hands—chords too, without reading a note. Book of 14 hymns shows all notes in color; comes with color chart to stand behind keyboard. Kids or grownups can play in minutes. Book of hymns or Book of Christmas carols $2.00 ea. Wolfe’s, Dept. MS, 986 Sanford Ave., Irvington 11, N. J. FLEET OF ANTIQUE AUTO MINIATURES. Back to “horseless carriage” days for these authen- tic scale models of the colorful 1909 Stan- ley Steamer, 1910 Model T Ford and 1903 Packard. These tiny buggies are completely handpainted and will thrill any collector of miniatures. Oldtimers will find them sentimentally appealing; the rest of us consider them quaint and cunning. Only $1.50 ea.; set of 3, $4.00. Sally Graye 80 E. 11 St., New York 3. NO SUDS IN MY EYES! Jf you're “gonna wash that man right out of your hair’, or just shampoo it, these terry-rimmed goggles are a big help. Elastic back makes them fit snugly, comfy terry-cloth cushioning keeps liquid from seeping in. It’s grand to have both hands free for action. Use during home waves or hair-tinting to keep chemicals out of eyes. Made for kiddies too. Reg. or Jr. sizes. $1.65. Finders’ Keep- ers, 160 E. 38 St., New York 17. = , ~

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modern screen september 1951 4 A love like Nancy's — @ Telling about it later, Nancy said that when Frank came to the house to ask for the divorce, he was like a little boy—humble and defenseless. Memories were not enough for Frank, : It was towards the end of May. He’d flown in from New York, to visit his three children and talk to her. but Nancy knew that Their relationship had long since cooled (they’d legally been separated for more than a Be of them year) but there was sincere deference and respect in Frank’s attitude. es “Nancy,” he said simply, “I’d like my freedom. How about a divorce?” Nancy looked at this man who through the years had brought her great happiness and great iif heartache, and in a sweet voice which hardly broke the silence, she said, “If a divorce is what you want, Frank, you most certainly may have it.” | She smiled a little, and the expression in her eyes was gentle. | BY IMOGENE COLLINS “Thanks,” Frank Sinatra said. “Thanks very much, Nancy.” (Continued on page 98) her love was strong enough to let him go.

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™@ When I was a teen-ager I was known as whistle-bait. According to one writer, I possessed “the _ kind of figure men looked at twice, because they didn’t believe it the first time.” I was physically precocious. Men:found me attractive; boys considered me pleasant; and my ego found the combination completely satisfying. More important still, my physical charms were responsible for my getting into motion pictures. Back in 1937, when Billy Wilkerson, publisher of the Hollywood Reporter, saw me sipping a coke in a drug store across from Hollywood Boulevard, he was not impressed by my mind. He felt that I had the kind of photogenic face and figure that belonged in motion pictures, and he insisted that I go see Zeppo Marx, an agent. _Zeppo thought I had possibilities, and turned me over to one of his assistants. For five months, we saw the casting _ director at every studio in town. They all turned me down, which was when the (Continued on page 81)

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€ Mitzi Gaynor has that electric spark which makes her a publicity ‘‘natural.’’ She attracts attention even in movie gatherings. A Hottest copy among the new crop of men is Tony Curtis whose intelligence and charm make him more than a mere bobby-sox idol. A Unpredictable—Shelley Winters is constantly good copy. No matter how many jams she gets into, there's warm human interest about her.

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1 A Not all stars make good reading, but stories about Farley Granger ] are always popular. His romance with Shelley hasn't hurt any either. A Elizabeth Taylor's slightest move is of such interest to the public that she is now in the wellsestablished very hot copy bracket.” Who says today’s stars can’t hold a candle to yesterday’s hot personalities? There’s more news in Hollywood than ever— and here are the people who make it! HOT COPY-COMING UP! BY LOUELLA PARSONS A Ava Gardner has that extra something be- yond the line of talent that makes her personal life exciting. “€There’s more to print about Jeff Chandler than a compliment or two, which is why he's as hot today as the young Gable once was. @ I hear them say, “Oh, sure—these new kids coming up are attractive and some of them can really act. “But where among them are the personalities with the excitement of a Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, John Gilbert, Dietrich or Garbo? None of the newcomers can hold a candle to those stars for mews interest.” Strawberries, say I! Not yet, maybe—but believe me—there are some fascinating candidates coming, up. Nobody loves hot copy like your girl friend. I’ve been making a most pleasant living for more years than I intend to tell writing about screen stars who make news as well as movies, and who are exciting personalities to write about. From long experience, I can sight a newsworthy personality the moment I spot one on the screen, or better still, as I interview him or her in my playroom. In.a paragraph or two I’m going to tell you about these newcomers who, in my opinion, have enormously exciting possibilities for making hot copy. First, I want to say that not all stars are hot copy by a longshot. As popular as they are with the fans, as a reporter I cannot list Jeanne Craine, Doris Day, Peggy Dow, Nancy Davis, Kathryn Grayson and even Betty Grable as hot copy. (Continued on page 36) int me

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ng up ! continued hot copy comi Sere oe: PAs For 20 years Joan Crawford has been the darling of the press (sometimes referred to as its meal ticket). She's hot copy queen. On the other hand, already established as hot copy per- sonalities are Ava Gardner, Farley Granger, Elizabeth Taylor and Lana Turner (the latter not as hot as she used to be). Im not implying that slightly scandalous copy makes the most interesting reading. Neither Ingrid Bergman nor Rita Hayworth are hot copy today. (Ask Ye Ed of MopERN SCREEN, Chuck Saxon, how many stories he’s buying this season on either girl.) Then, take John Agar—who has been hitting the headlines regularly with several drunken- driving arrests and his recent almost shockingly casual elopement to Las Vegas. Barbara- Peyton is another who gets in print regularly, and so does Sonny Tufts. The best that can be said for this type of copy is that it is “too hot” to handle. The question, then, is—what zs hot copy? The answer is: It is that extra something beyond the line of talent—that electric spark which (Continued on page 77) Public interest in . Anthony Dexter (Valen- tino) belies the critics who say he's a “‘one-role”’ star. Tony packs a wallop all his own. Steve Cochran didn’t steam up much notice until he turned into a ladies’ man with Ginger Rogers. That paid off in hot copy. In her hey-day, Lana Turner fairly sizzled. Now she isn't os hot as she used to be for the press, but still outdoes stars like Grable and Crain. Newcomer Dale Robert- son slays reporters with his sexy voice. Take Care of My Little Girl should establish his fever- rating for good. A news photographer first. spotted the ‘‘differ- ent” quality possessed by Phyllis Kirk. Now a series of colorful roles has cre- ated warm interest in her

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why Tony and Janet had to Elope P.38 they made fun of love P.40 the truth about Hollywood wolves P.44 marriage and Joan P.46 ) STORIES IN sy 5 an) THIS MODERN SCREEN who'd marry me? PAB f SPECIAL SECTION what I’ll tell my sons about women P.50 th hollywood's young lovers we swam our way to Ciro’s P.42 ' e i i | E Love never used to stand a chance in Hollywood. There were too many beautiful people having a fling. Parties had to be wild; houses had to be huge; and marriage had to be short and snappy. There wasn’t any time or desire for lasting emotions. The stars had everything else, and life in the limelight was too short and fast for them to stop and consider their values. It was not really very long ago that Hollywood emerged from that era of wild and gaudy extravagance. Some actors still bear the scars. Every day you read bulletins of divorces, of four-time losers at marriage, of husbands deserting wives, of ugly scandal. z Around the world goes the sad news of famous Hollywood lovers whose bright promises have failed, the news of unbalanced emotions and inadequate human beings. But what of the young lovers in Hollywood today, the ones who were babies when Hollywood was out carousing? Will they suffer from the hangover? Will love and happiness, too, shuttle in and out of their lives? Ask them. Ask the kids like Tony Curtis, Ann Blyth, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Powell, Joan Evans. The first thing they'll tell you is, “Hollywood isn’t what it used to be. Lucky for us!” They mean that Hollywood isn’t a circus any more, F and the people in it don’t have to act like sideshows. d | These youngsters have proof that a normal life doesn’t mean poison at the box-office. And they know that marriage is even nicer when you have a family. In short, ; love and the homely virtues are sacred to them. Never before did young people in Hollywood have the chance for lasting happiness that | they have now. Will they muff it? They don’t think so. They’re too sure of what they want, and they’re too tired of ballyhoo. You can read for yourself, on the next 13 pages, | 1 | what these young lovers feel, and why they have faith in their own futures.

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Why did Holly- wood’s most popular lovers have to steal away : / for the wedding the whole world was expecting? Here’s the true, inside story. BY CAROLINE BROOKS Sa ae why Tony i | and Janet _ tad to Elope oe are a oa Re - It was not. The newlyweds had a one-week honeymoon before Tony went on tour, and Janet returned to the Coast. m@ A few months ago Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis confided to friends that they would be married late in August or early in September. “By that time,” Tony said, “I'll be finished making a personal appearance tour with Piper Laurie. You know, for The Prince Who Was A Thief. Janet’ll have some time off, and Jerry Lewis—he’s my best friend—will be back in California. Janet and I will be married in his house. Nothing big. A small wedding. Just friends and family.” As you all know, Janet and Tony didn’t wait until September. They eloped to Greenwich, Connecticut, on June 4th, and were married in the Pickwick Arms Hotel. Judge John Knox, an old-time actor who once played with Francis X. Bushman, performed the honors, and while he referred to Janet once or twice as Florence, the ceremony came off without a hitch. Jerry Lewis, the best man, turned up two hours late, but his wife, Patti, who served as Janet’s bridesmaid was on time. A few minutes after Lewis arrived, Jeanette Helen Morrison Carlyle Reames Leigh legally became Mrs. Bernie Schwartz. Why did Janet and Tony advance their wedding date? Why did they get married when both of their families were far away in California? Was this an impetuous, spontaneous decision? Tony and Janet eloped because certain persons, powerful persons, were opposed to their marriage. Tony’s (Continued on page 70)

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| ie ae GR eo ION me OM * Ree oN Saree ea REL Satan Shep et TS PS EE Ee PS ew | conn" they made | fun | of 1] love @ Shelley Winters and Farley Granger stood side by side on a huge sound stage at RKO, surrounded by the cast and crew of Behave Your- i self, and cut a huge cake. It was their party, given by the studio to announce their engagement. Photographers were called in, and they took i hundreds of pictures of the stars, the cake, the other actors, and of the i ring Farley had given Shelley a short time before. At long last the engagement everyone had been expecting was practically admitted. It ‘| | was a great day for love. | A day or so later the lovers skipped down the steps of an airliner in New York and were met by a crowd of reporters. The flash bulbs popped oy and then the reporters moved in. L “What about this engagement?” one reporter asked. “When are you | getting married?”’ ; “Who, ws?” said Farley or Shelley. “We're just good friends.” i | “But what about the ring?” queried a newspaperman. He pointed to the circle on Shelley’s finger. “A friendship ring,” said Shelley. ‘Like I said—we’re really just good | friends.” To the cynics and, unhappily. to many fans it seemed like an old story. It seemed like a publicity romance, a device which uses young love | to ensnare the trusting fans, to lure them to the side of a pair of stars. The publicity romance has long been defended by movie salesmen on the grounds that throughout literary history, people have desired to escape their own sterile existences by reading of the loves of the heroes and heroines of mythology and actuality. This is true. Love stories have always been popular. But think of the kickback if almost any of the classic love tales had been proven a fake. If Edward, King of England, had made his historic renunciation of the throne for his love of Wallis Simpson— and a few days later when asked about it by a (Continued on page 75) | 4] hi

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Nick Savano, Mala Powers, Marilyn Monroe and Craig Hill looked more like chilly Indians than water babies in Herman Hover's ample towels. i Craig and Nick wanted to see if Marilyn's 24- karet gold suit, by Rose Marie Reid, would rust. | Of course it didn't—consider the healthy goldfish. Host Herman Hover, owner of Ciro's, continued Craig and Nick weren't sure they approved-of gilding the lilies. But after Marilyn and his famous hospitality at home. Cokes and sand- Mala finished the job they agreed there weren't two prettier mermaids in town. Nick wiches were served; orange trees provided dessert. also approved Mala's suit; business manager of many stars he's expert at figures. we swam our way) 42

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The “mirror mirror on the wall at Ciro’s would have a hard time naming the loveliest of all when three ladies like Mala, Marilyn, and Corinne’ Calyet stop to freshen their makeup before it. Come on in, the water’s fine! And so is Ciro’s Herman Hover. He led us from his pool-side to his Far cide in one: blissful afternoon. BY BEVERLY OTT iros Marilyn and Craig didn't miss.a dance all evening. Corinne and her husband, John Bromfield, joined the gang at Ciro’s after the swim fest. They had to skip the pool party; John was on location. @ You've heard of Ciro’s. It’s the nightspot where everybody who is somebody -goes to have fun. And even folks who've never had their names in lights end up having a whale of a time. I did—along with ‘Craig Hill, Marilyn Monroe, Mala Powers, Nick Savano, Corinne Calvet, and John Bromfield. You might say that we swam our way to Ciro’s, but if that sounds fishy let me explain. The last time I went there it was for a MODERN SCREEN party. I grew right fond of the place. “This is the life,’ was my unique comment to its owner, Herman Hover. “You'll have to come back sometime,” he invited. However, months passed before I ran into Mr. H. at lunch one noon. “What are you doing here?” I wanted to know. Because if I owned Ciro’s I wouldn’t leave it even in the daytime. But it seems that Mr. Hover has a fine house and a lovely pool in Beverly Hills, and he lives in both. In fact, that’s zs idea of living. “Come see what I mean,” suggested. “Bring a crowd over tomorrow for swimming and later we'll adjourn to the club.” “Vou mean I can really bring people?” I said. “Yes, of course,” he replied politely. “People.” This was my day for running into people. I saw Craig Hill at the corner drive-in later in the afternoon. Between pictures, he does construction work—to keep in shape physically as well as financially. He’d dropped by the drive-in for a coke. “This is no day to work,” I told him. “Neither is tomorrow—how about going swimming?” I'm not terribly dumb. Craig was the handsome lifeguard he in Cheaper By The Dozen. He’s also been a lifeguard for real. And since I swim like a ton of bricks I figured he'd be nice to have around. Besides, he’s one of the best looking young actors in Hollywood (see Detective Story). (Continued on page 68) Fa

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SS here are plenty of wolves in Hollywood—not enough to be alarming, but annoying nevertheless. There are male wolves and females, too. It’s hard to say which is the deadlier variety. _ The important thing about wolves is to be able to spot one, or else you're courting disaster. There was once a young and naive actress in Hollywood who ran into a wolf so experienced and subtle that.she was helpless to fight back. This girl—you may call her Mary—had a nice contract with one of the major studios. She was married to a very personable boy who worked for an investment corporation. It seemed like an ideal arrangement. She would become a big star, and he would become her financial manager. And also—they were in love. One day Mary had trouble on the set: She couldn’t put the right emotion into the lines she was delivering, and after fruitless coaching by the director, the director took a stand. He told her she’d better improve or else he’d get another girl. Mary left the stage in a great depression. To add to that—it was raining. So, naturally enough, Mary started to cry. Suddenly the associate producer was at her elbow, with a big handkerchief and a friendly (but not flirtatious) smile. He persuaded her to come back to the studio where he’d coach her on the next day’s scenes. She was grateful, and he was really very nice. He seemed honestly interested in helping her. But when Mary got home that night, her husband was wild with worry. “TI called your set,” he said. “Your company broke at six. I thought you had an accident.” Mary explained the situation to him, and although he didn’t like the idea of the lessons too well, he understood. But he grew less understanding when night after night Mary was late because she had been coaching with the associate producer. Since it was all so extremely innocent Mary was furious because her husband was suspicious. So they had bitter quarrels. And all the time the associate producer, so immaculately dressed in sheep’s clothing, was biding his time. The husband became the heavy in the girl’s eyes. She thought he was unreasonable, foolishly jealous and distrustful. So they separated, and she turned to the associate producer for comfort, as he had known all along she would. And after that it was not so innocent. A few months later, when the producer had tired of her and was “helping” another pretty girl Mary was bitter and disillusioned. She tried to return to her husband, to tell him he had been right all along but he didn’t want her. Was that a wolf for you! And the interesting thing is that he was so subtle and patient in his campaign that studio executives couldn’t pin a thing on him. They would have liked to, though, because they do not approve of wolves. That’s one approach. What about the wolf howls of the younger set—boys like Scott Brady, Peter Lawford, Robert Stack, Farley Granger, Rock Hudson, Howard Duff, Vic Damone—to name a few. Are they wolves? They’ve all dated a lot of different girls. The truth is that young men in pictures are good, healthy American males. Certainly they are excited by girls. But they are much busier than the average young man. They work on the set sometimes 12 hours a day and they have to look alert early in the morning. They don’t spend their lives in night clubs. In fact, the big complaint of Hollywood news cameraman when he covers the night clubs is, “Where is everybody!”’ You may think they nightclub often because you see so many candid shots of them, but that’s because a photographer shoots (Continued on page 67) Scott Brady can't wait to try out his new numbers. When Tony Curtis married Janet Leigh in June, he gave his buddy his "little black book.” Is a girl safe in Hollywood, or had she better take her mother along whed she dates an actor? : Read this surprising report on West Coast Romeos. BY CYNTHIA MILLER the truth

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The steam room is to men what the beauty parlor is to the ladies. Here Scott Brady, Hugh O'Brien, Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis hash over women. about hollywood wolves

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“I’m all for marriage,” says Joan Evans. “But marriage isn’t for me until I’m positive that my head agrees with what my heart says.” | | ne i marriage and joan BY MARSHA SAUNDERS iss Joan Evans was mad. Real good and mad. But she didn’t tear up the newspaper and jump up and down on it. When Joan gets mad only her eyes let you know it. Those big black eyes flash fire. That’s a cliché, I know, but there’s no getting around it—when Joan Evans is mad her eyes flash fire. Another symptom of the Evans’ rage is silence. Joan usually talks 90 miles an hour. Ask her what she thinks about the soul of a canary or the policy of the United Nations and 5,000 words later you make a telephone call to say you'll be late for your next appointment. But on this day Joan said, ‘‘Listen to this column. ‘If Joan Evans will say “yes” she and Carleton Carpenter will be married soon.’ ” She folded the paper and commented quietly, “This I wasn’t prepared for.” You see, when Joan signed her contract with Samuel Goldwyn—at the age of 14—she was prepared by her background and her own good common sense for a lot of the occupational hazards of being in the movies. She was prepared for public criticism— and she certainly got it. Her evening dresses were cut too low. Her makeup was two inches thick. (Except for lipstick and a little powder Joan doesn’t wear makeup.) How dare she call her parents by their first names! (This was her parents’ choice, not Joan’s.) She was also prepared for the items in the local columns stating that she was seen at a restaurant to which she had never been with a boy she didn’t know. In fact, the item which announced that Joan and John Barrymore, Jr. were a ; big item gained such widespread circulation that hundreds of girls wrote Joan to ask what young Jack was like, and was it true that they were in love. Joan and John met for the first time a couple of weeks ago. They laughed about the item. They could laugh because both of them, brought up as they had been, knew what to expect. Joan laughed longest when she met a young actor with whom, according to a columnist, she had been “‘a duo.” She saw him for the first time long after the item appeared. At the same time she met his wife and his two children. This was all very funny and she was ready to laugh because she expected it. But she was not prepared for the marriage rumors. She didn’t think it was a bit funny when several papers announced that she would be married to Carleton Carpenter. At almost the same time a story ran saying that she would marry Lee Kirby, the handsome young advertising man. When that item came out, she lost her sense of humor for sure. After Joan’s eyes stopped shooting off fireworks she said, “I honestly think it’s about time that I have a chance to talk about how J feel about marriage and me.” Joan feels violently on every subject. Her feeling about marriage is deep and sincere and very important to her. Her opinions are logical and ordered. “Tn the first place,” she said, ‘when people ask me if I’m going to say ‘yes’ to this or that boy they should stop to remember that it’s not my decision. I’m still a minor. Before I could marry anybody my mother and father would have to say ‘yes.’ But that’s beside the point. That’s just a little tech- nicality. The big thing is that I respect marriage, and when I marry ~I want it to be forever. = “You see, I’ve had a fantastic example of what true marriage is in mfy own home. My mother and father have been married—let’s see—it will be 20 years in September. It is the only marriage for both of them. Since I’ve said how long they have been married, Katherine would (Continued on page 91) Spee, ele restr paints

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He’d have to hold me awfully ‘tight to keep me home. Because I’m a girl who wants to go places... and who'd put up with a footloose, fame- hungry female? By MARILYN MONROE “SPO STR who'd marry me”? B® As a wife I wouldn’t be completely unprepared. I can broil chops or make a salad. I can make a bed. I can sew something simple and darn socks. I can iron a shirt, and I can actually bake bread. I can do all these things and would—if my heart were in it. But it isn’t. The safest place for my heart, I have found, is all wrapped up in a breathless, interesting thing called a career. The boy would have to tear off all this wrapping . . . and probably without any encouragement from me at first. Who would take the trouble to marry me? These are my reasons now, but right from the start of my life I wondered-about it, it seems. I remember my first “romance” .. . He was 22 and I was not yet 14. He lived across the street from me, and I know now that I was just a kid as far as he was concerned. I should have known that from the way he would pat me on top of the head when he came home and I happened to be standing near the fence on his side of the road. But I didn’t. . To me he was the center of my thoughts, my feelings, my whole world. One day he came out of his house and was already in his car when he noticed me (there I was hanging around again !). “Hey! I’m going to a movie,” he called, impulsively. “Ask your Aunt Anna if you can come along. It’s a good picture.” ; Aunt Anna, who was my guardian, and who liked him, said yes, and I flew out to join him. When I sat down beside him my heart was pounding, my head in a whirl, and an inner voice kept whispering to me, (Continued on page 86)

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“The only way to live with women is to love “em. The only way to keep on lovin’ women is to leave “em alone. And who calls that livin’?” Kirk feels qualified to talk about women since he grew up surrounded by six older sisters, all of whom were “infinitely wiser” than he. Here But his much publicized romance with ™ Women. God bless them! Since the beginning of time, the subject of women has confounded the philosophers, confused the poets, and mystified the common man. Myself included. All of my life, women have confounded, confused, and mystified me. And it hasn’t helped that I have known quite a few of them. If anything, the variety has only added to the confusion. The subject of women has always weighed heavily on the mind of every man—in every age bracket. Just the ether day, I was looking out into the front yard at my two sons playing cowboys and Indians with the two little girls next door. Suddenly an argument started (I later heard four versions) and the girls left in tears. Their departing blast to the Douglas boys was, “You can’t ever play in our yard anymore...” I couldn’t help but think to myself, “There it is, the battle of the sexes starting already.” For it won’t be long before the pattern of eternal confusion begins for my sons. Perhaps what I can tell them will save them from some of the problems I had. On the other hand, five years from now they may read this and laugh their heads off at the crazy ideas the old man had back in 1951. In any event, I think my boys are pretty smart. (Continued on page 89) "Love's the web that traps us all,” says Kirk. he is with Kay, Ruth, Marion, Betty {on couch) and twins, Fritzi and Ida. Irene Wrightsman is- reportedly still “on.” sons about women By KIRK DOUGLAS

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Hollywood Approved Fashions At Edgar Bergen’s home Modern Screen’s Hollywood Fashion Board ; makes selections. (Seated clockwise around the table:) Mrs. Bergen (back to camera), Diana Lynn, Mona Freeman, Howard Duff, Peter Lawford, Liz Taylor, Walter Pidgeon, Ricardo Montalban, host Edgar Bergen, and Loretta Young. All of the award-winning fashions can be bought in person or by mail at May Company stores, Los Angeles | (Downtown, Wilshire, Crenshaw) and throughout the country as listed— | as well as at other stores also named on page 80. iacchibbibeatliidis ais orcs ers : ch Cane : Hostess turns model as MGM’s Diana Lynn takes : RKO let Jane Greer hav : Ik Frances Bergen shows prize her turn in her pet of the show, the afternoon off to model this |p coat to Loretta Young. an After-Five black taffeta. prize corduroy sports dress. b, “ For the complete story of Modern Screen’s fashion party see page 18

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for Fall ox Presenting A brand new idea of fashions for you——Modern Screen’s Hollywood Fashion Board! Ata festive lunch- eon a star-studded panel selected glamorous clothes by secret ballot. - On these and the four following pages are their award-winning choices. et J e AOOBSSO ~@ oS This suit was high on Peter When she saw it, Nancy | Lawford’s ballot, and MGM’s Davis put in her bid to cut a | Phyllis Kirk shows why. figure in this black net formal. Liz Taylor fell in love with this sports ensemble. She was justified —it won the grand award

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Hollywood Approved Fashions For Fall eee | WINNERS ALL exciting sportswear in plait} Hosts Edgar and Frances Bergen serve punch and Hollywood chit-chat over the punch bowl to Ricardo Montalban .. . Voting over, Diana Lynn and Mona Freeman chat with a happy award-winner. Willys of Hollywood. Howard Duff ogles models .. . Duff and Mona, who recently co-starred, cast an eye at the models passing in review and ponder their balloting choice ... Beautiful Loretta Young. who has won many fashion awards herself, and who is now in the 20th Century-Fox picture Half Angel, chats with Mrs. Edgar Bergen who poses in the award-winning coat—a Lassie Maid original. It is made of a large block plaid in 100 per cent virgin wool with velveteen collar and cuffs. Colors: Gold and grey, or royal and black. Sizes 8-18. $55. A plaid coat is a wonderful contrast for all your monotone sport dresses and town costumes. THE AWARD WINNING FASHIONS CAN BE BOUGHT IN PERSON OR BY MAIL AT THE MAY COMPANY STORES, LOS ANGELES (DOWNTOWN, WILSHIRE-CRENSHAW) - AND THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AS LISTED—AS WELL AS AT OTHER STORES ALSO NAMED ON PAGE 80.

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Elizabeth Taylor. now appearing in MGM’s Love Is Better Than Ever, models the grand award winner—a two-piece sports costume by Tunior House of Milwaukee. The skirt and stole is all-wool Hounds- tooth check—the stole is lined with Sinbad red to match the belt —the white blouse is all-wool. Also available in brown, ——— checks, and plain fabrics " ? - TSAY tL bone , beige and white check with white wh O°) Les 4 blouse—kelly green stole lining ; 1 LAS Sete and belt. Sizes 9-15. About $40. RKO’s Jane Greer. next to be seen Bili Campbell of MGM poses with Leslie Caron. in the 20th Century-Fox preduction Friendly Island. who stars in MGM’s American In Paris, as she pertly is pretty as a picture in Henry Rosenfeld’s models the “separates” award-winner by award-winner—a one-piece dress of pin-wale Morlane Sportswear. The jersey blouse comes in . corduroy. Colors: Red, green, brown, beige, black with red, royal blue. or kelly green trim grey. Sizes: 10-18. $17.95. Jane carries an and matching plaid scarf. Sizes 10-18. About $15. The exceptionally smart red handbag from the large. velveteen skirt also in black with red, royal blue: award-winning Julius Resnick collection. or kelly green trim. Sizes 10-18. About $19. | | | | \ | |

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Hollywood Approved Fashions For Fall a — Bs 4 4 4 4 4 3 WINNERS —- = = sae Dapper Charlie “Let's have another cuppa McCarthy watches Walter coffee,’ says Ricardo Montalban Pidgeon mark down a to sister-in-law Loretta vote while Edgar Bergen Young. The Brown Derby mulls choices. provided plentiful refreshments. Phyllis Kirk sips her Coca-Cola and chats with Peter Lawford while being photographed in Rosenblums’ award-winning five-button classic suit of | all-wool menswear flannel. Colors: Grey or oxford blue. Sizes: Regular, 10-20; Petite (five-foot-four and under), 10-20. About $45. On the suit lapel—an exciting fake baroque pearl and gold finish pin chosen from Coro’s award-winning jewelry collection. Phyllis wears “Moongold,” a double-woven nylon slip-on from Kayser award-winning glove collection. Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy look approvingly at Nancy Davis wearing the award- winning evening gown original by David Klein. The bodice of the imported net gown is high- lighted by illusion embroidery. Colors: Black. white, dream blue. Sizes 10-16. About $40. Nancy is appearing in MGM’s Rain, Rain, Go Away. Fashion-wise Edgar and Charlie wear new resort dinner suits by Don Loper.

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The models, who were all lovely enough to be stars themselves, do the usual pre-appearance chores before taking their turns outdoors. Jeff Richards, (left), and John Lupton of MGM applaud the Junior Towne of Milwaukee sports dress award-winner so smartly worn by Monica Lewis, next in MGM’s Excuse My Dust. This one-piece dress has an authentic clan plaid skirt and scarf combined with a solid contrasting wool top that buttons down the back. available in the following authentic clan plaids: McLeod plaid— brown plaid with gold top; Prin- cess Mary plaid—red and green with red top: McLean of Duart plaid— green and red with green top. Sizes 9-15. About $18. Liz Taylor compliments Mona Freeman, of Paramount's Darling, How Could You, on the award-winning Junior House of Milwaukee “after five” sensation. The taffeta skirt has appliqued bands of jersey to match the Wyners all worsted jersey top. Crinoline petticoat. Black only. Sizes 9-15. About $35. “Sparkler” stockings by award-winner Willys of Hollywood. This dress is “Ka ° a Diana Lynn, currently appearing in MGM’s The People Against O'Hara, is charming and ready for any date in the Junior Towne of Milwaukee award-winner—a one-plece rustling taffeta dress appliqued with velveteen, and sparkling with rhinestone buttons. Beneath the frock—a crinoline petticoat. Black only. Sizes 9-15. About $18. Black faille box handbag from the award-winning Harry Leuine collection. THE AWARD WINNING FASHIONS CAN BE BOUGHT IN PERSON OR BY MAIL AT THE May Company sTORES, Los ANGELES (DOWNTOWN, WILSHIRE- CRENSHAW), AND THROUGE OUT THE COUNTRY AS LISTED—AS WELL AS AT OTHER STORES ALSO NAMED ON PAGE 80. on NI

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=“ Jeanne Crain's lion, Shah-Shah, was one of Hollywood's more bizarre pets. Now he lives at the zoo, and the Brinkmans have a dog for their three boys. Poodles are high on the Hollywood pet popu- Joan Crawford's white poodle, Cliquot, is every larity list. Specially trained, Betty Grable's bit the fancy French lady. She's equally at home well-mannered Punkin never barks on the set. on the tennis court or in the drawing room. 58

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| no EE BS Gregory Peck sometimes wonders what hamsters have that his white German Shepherds don't. Every time he turns around they present him with a litter of 12 or 13 pups. John Agar can look as tough as he pleases, it won't scare Ragmop. The -only thing that frightens this Christmas gift to John is his own four-legged reflection in the mirror. Doris Day swears they're poodles, but the dogs aren't sure. Beany is a fella who likes oranges; Smudgy's busy all day snubbing his mistress’ husband, Marty Melcher. Anybody would want to live a dog’s life in pet-happy Hollywood where many a poodle has his master jumping through hoops. BY JOHN MAYNARD @ Once upon a time the phone rang in a West Los Angeles police station and the caller wanted to know what the local ordinance was about peace-disturbing lions. “Did you say lions?” asked the desk sergeant politely. “That’s right,” said the caller. “There is a roaring lion in the yard next to me and I can’t sleep. I,” he added thoughtfully, “am a lion-hater.” “You're a lyin’ something,’ murmured the sergeant, who had practically cut his teeth on Joe Miller, “but we'll be around.” Since lions are a little better than par for the course even in pet- daffy Hollywood, the sergeant was inclined to jocularity as he contacted the handiest squad car. The squad car was similarly lighthearted as its team poked their flashlights into the back yard of Paul and Jeanne Crain Brinkman. Naturally there was nothing there except a roaring lion. Slightly taken aback, the policemen sprinted for the front where they fell against the Brinkman door- bell. Presently the masters of the house emerged. “Uck,” said the senior member of the law, loosening his necktie a trifle. “Uck to you,” said Mr. Brinkman courteously. “But surely you didn’t wake us up just to say that? There must be something meatier on your mind, something—” “Lion,” gurgled the law, a word extremely difficult to gurgle. “Lion,” said Mrs. Brinkman encouragingly. “Keep going and we'll ask questions when we’re stuck.” The law recovered its dignity. “You have a roaring lion in your yard,” it said, “and you can’t have. I think.” “Nonsense,” said Mrs. Brinkman firmly. “Shah-Shah doesn’t roar.” “Must be some other lion,” said Mr. B. The law pushed its cap back on its head and ran its hand down its face in a-gesture made classic by the late Edgar Kennedy. “It’s this lion,” it said with ominous quiet. “There is an ordinance about it, too. There has to be. In fact, I ain’t sure there’s not an ordinance against just beimg a lion. But roaring—definitely.” Oddly enough, the law was correct. Shah-Shah was a lion all right and still is—a female acquired by the Brinkmans at a Holly- wood party. They’d raised her from a cub, principally in a three- room West Los Angeles apartment. Now, when they snapped the cuffs on her she was crowding 500 pounds. Regretfully, the Brink- mans handed her over to the curators of Griffith Park Zoo, where Shah-Shah has lived happily ever after, except for an occasional urge to break out and get the rat who sang on her. The Brinkmans later settled for a dog, which is more like it as Hollywood pet preferences go. Right now, dogs are running ahead of cats about seven-to-two. And cats are (Continued on page 94)

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In the real-life drama at Dana's house, he tries to play the “heavy” but his four kids won't let him. ee @ When Dana Andrews was in his young and Gap e [OVY a hopeful twenties he went -to college and studied child psy- chology. Thus armed with knowledge he faced the 5 ey world bravely, certain that if he should ever 2 ro em become a father he’d know exactly what to do. It was not long after the birth of his first child, David, that Dana realized there’s very little you can learn about children from books. In the first place, the at = r books said that a father and his son should be pals. Dana was willing, even anxious, but every time he flexed his muscles for a little roughhouse with David, David eyed him as if he were crazy. As David grew, so did his supply of baseball bats and gloves, fishing rods and basketballs. But none of this interested him. He cared only for music—all kinds. When David got to be about four years old, Dana began to fear he’d have an introvert on his hands. But that was before a certain Sunday School pro- gram when David, who was not scheduled to perform, strode onto the stage and sat down at the piano. “T will now play ‘High and Low,’”’ he announced in his baby tenor. Then he struck three high keys (Continued on page 96) re ee . =a LL LLL —_ iy | oe é © \ ty $ =} \ * fet a Stephen, Susan and Kathy are the youngest, | but very influential. When teen-age brother [ Though Dana is a strict disciplinarian, the house is usually full of kids. Here's Stephen d i (in the Eton collar) at his birthday party surrounded by his pals. Kathy is spellbound David grew a mustache, they laughed it off. on the couch, while David, in back, looks a little bored to be among the small fry.

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Mary and Dana met while working at the Pasadena Playhouse, were married in 1939. She's the relaxed one, tells Dana not to worry. The resemblance between Dana and his luncheon companion isn't accidental. They're brothers. Dana has seven of them. Charles is the uncle the Andrews kids love to confide in. Dana studied opera for seven years and David shares his en- thusiasm for classical music in general. However, David's an ardent be-bop fan, too, and puzzles his father with jazz lingo.

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si - ee Debbie dates infrequently and when she does, prefers neighborhood boys. j Debbie and Carleton sales nit the million mark. They performed so well together now many fans always think of them as a team. “Abba-Dabba" SHE CAN SING; SHE CAN DANCE; SHE CAN DO ANYTHING! THAT'S ™ Gene Kelly stopped whirling the little featherweight doll in his arms, stepped back and frowned. He was patiently rehearsing the new numbers for Singing in the Raim and right in the middle of a romantic waltz, this crazy kid had tossed back her head and gone limp with laughter. Gene’s an exacting dance master; he doesn’t like foolishness mixed with business. “Listen, Freshie,” he barked. ‘““You know this is a sweet dance. The scene is love—not comedy. Why the yaks?” “Oh, dear,” sighed Debbie Reynolds, “I’m sorry. But— well—I used to practically fall off my seat when I saw you on the screen. And here I am—actually dancing for a picture

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Debbie was a dud in high school dramatics: entered the contest that won her a screen test because contestants received free blo with Gene Kelly! I mean, it’s absolutely the end, don’t you see? I can’t believe it. I’m losing my mind! Isn’t it all just too killing?” Gene leaned -back against a ladder they used in another routine to digest this outburst before he grinned. But Deb- bie’s green eyes stared back in horror. “Don’t move!’ she yelped. “My gum!” Kelly felt a few precious hairs leave his scalp as Deb leaped to the rescue. “I won’t park it there again,’ she promised. Gene Kelly didn’t really mind losing the hair, or the re- hearsal time either. Like everyone else at MGM, he knows that just being around Debbie Reynolds is like having a SS ee ee j f { j= | } HT Un A j vo KW Mee WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THIS SCREEN-STRUCK KID WHO STILL CAN'T BELIEVE SHE HAS A CONTRACT. \ W | u / CY double-shot from the Fountain of Youth—and what slight hangovers result are well worth it. As for Debbie Reynolds, she was making true talk; she’s having herself a real ball— and so is everyone even remotely exposed to her around Hollywood. It was barely two years ago that a sputtering 32 Chevvy sedan rattled through the formidable gates of Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer studios and skidded dust on the elegant, fish- tailed Cadillacs parked inside. This ancient heap was a sight to behold. It sported a flashy dragen radiator cap. whirlaway hubs, a raucous truck horn and Venetian blinds. One door flopped open when the brakes (Continued on page 72) 4

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64 Roy’s “wide open spaces” are overrun with children and animals, which is just the way he likes it. y p p J M Roy Rogers is an animal-lover. When he acts with a squirrel in a picture, he brings the squirrel home. When he acts with a possum, he brings the possum home. A few weeks ago, Roy strode into his ranch-house with a beautiful German Shepherd named Bullet who plays opposite him in Pals of the Golden West. “I felt,” Roy says, “that if Bullet lived with me a little, both of us would develop a closer working relationship—like the relationship I have with Trigger.” The first night the dog stayed at the ranch, five-year-old Junior, better known as Dusty, began calling his father. ‘Hey, Dad,” he shouted. ‘““Come here and see what Bullet is doing.” “Tn a minute, Son,” Roy answered from his small home office. “You'd better hurry!” Dusty yelled. “Take it easy,’ Roy said. “Okay,” Dusty agreed. “Only he’s chewing your best hat to pieces.” Roy was on his feet in a flash. Two more seconds, and he was in the billiard room where Bullet was finding a cowboy hat tough to digest. One sharp Roy Rogers command, and Bullet dropped what was left of the (Continued on page 66)

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The Rogers’ blue-green living room is set for cozy family life most of the time. But an extra couch and two day beds are moved into the fireplace group for entertaining. Roy, planning a show himself, is fascinated by TV. A tazy-susan dining table is Dale's solution to feeding a family of five hungry Rogers peacefully and speedily. The beautifully mounted pheasant is @ memento of one of Roy's many happy-hunting trips with Dale. Only the wallpaper is new in the master bedroom. Dale chose a green and beige plaid because the colors and design reminded her of one of They've had all the furniture since their marriage in 1947. = J PA — j In the pine-panelled billiard room Roy has collected his pet outside interests. There are 14 mm movies, recorded music, and trophies for hunting and horses. Many of the furnishings are gifts from tans. Mita, 4 Anetta pecan a peemt The leather upholstered breakfast nook in the kitchen of their low Spanish ranch house is seldom empty. Dale carried over the ranch motif in her chinaware from the Hanover Fine China Company. STs: eaten eee ee om le Satan : The children’s wing, with private bathroom and separate entrance, | is off the kitchen. Three bedrooms open onto this large playroom. Baby Robin, who is frail, lives in another building with her nurse. more pictures on the following page | } 65

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t ‘ f y t ' Here chick, chick! Roy is teaching Dusty the skills of good farming. These 150 pullets were raised by Roy; will go from the freezer to the family table. Roy and Dusty exchange an Eskimo kiss before a riding session. Dusty, Cheryl and Linda Lou all get Jessons from Roy who insists they Jearn bareback first. roy's ranch continued hat at Roy’s feet and waited patiently for a pat of praise. There was no praise. Neither was their punish- ment. Roy knew that the dog was unfamiliar with his surroundings. “Bullet’s gonna have to learn about hats,” he announced, “if he wants to stay here. Come on, Dusty, let’s show him around.” A stroll around the Roy Rogers estate, five acres in the San Fernando Valley, is a tour of four separate houses. The main building, a low-slung, irregularly-shaped Spanish ranch-house, has five bedrooms, an office, a billiard room (shooting pool is not a talent exclusively reserved to city slickers), a living room, a dining room, and a kitchen in perennial use. Out back, five running steps from the kitchen door, is the baby’s quarters. Robin Rogers was born 10 months ago. She came into the world with a con- genitally weak heart and needs rest and extreme quiet so that she can grow without straining it. The doctors suggested that Robin be kept in the hospital or in a special nursing home, but Roy and Dale wouldn’t hear of it. They wanted their baby at home. Even though it meant added expense, another $10,000 to be exact, they constructed a private clinic for Robin and her nurse on their own property. “T just had to have her near me,” Dale says. “I knew Ride ‘em, cowboy! As if there weren't enough real horses around, Dusty tries breaking’ Roy while Dale and Bullet watch.

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lo ae t : i . all, we Yaya three other children, it wouldn’t have been fair to them— shing them all the time. So we built little house for Robin. While she’s sleeping, Roy and I tiptoe in and look at her. We pray that in the years to come _her heart will grow stronger, so that she can play freely with the others and even use the swimming pool.” _ Next to the Rogers’ swimming pool are some dressing rooms, a large outdoor bar- eaeue, and a food locker which Roy in- ‘si “I couldn’t live without.” Z aehenever he and Dale aren’t working in ‘pictures or making personal appearance tours, they like to hunt. They take their dogs, go up into the mountains, and come _ back with a load of rabbit, pheasant, wood _ ducks, deer, and occasionally even a bear or two. The edible game is preserved “in an 18-foot Amana freezer. It’s an up- right job. “That's the best kind of freezer,” Dale says. “You don’t have to break your back bending down to get out a carton of peas z ee cuary, the home the Roy Rogers fam- ‘& ily currently occupies isn’t the house Roy likes best. “This one is a compromise, Dale explains. “It’s as rural as we can make _ it and still act in motion pictures. If Roy had his way, we'd live on a real working _ ranch and fly down to the studio every = A. a matter of fact, we do co-own a -real ranch near Marysville, California. Roy has a partner and they raise wonderful cattle, white-faced Herefords. Whenever Vv ve can arrange it, we try to spend a week- end up there. But between weekends, we stay down here in the Valley where Roy Taises as many animals as the zoning laws permit. He keeps two horses, a pony for the children, 150 chickens, half-a-dozen . logs and cats, a possum, and four squirrels. hats as of ‘right now. Tonight, it might be different. He’s liable to come home with ts 9 or three rabbits. yy was born in Cincinnati, you know, bu as a child he was raised on a farm in Duck Run, Ohio, and he can’t get the Fr or earth out of his blood.” To prove her point, Dale is always tak- friends out to the land behind the nis court to show them Roy’s “Farm.” consists of a back lot planted with vegetables and a border of fruit trees. Roy and Dale have a system. She credits with the outdoor beauty of their home, | he credits her with the interior. “She’s | ; : : : | | (Continued from page 44) a lot of pictures i once and keeps circulating them in a undred different publications. | for chasing girls, these fellows are ‘ood looking and sought after they don’t || have to. Whenever they want a date all they have to do is take out the little black | bo ok, start thumbing through it, and pick | } p the telephone. ~The other day the room-mate of a pretty important star snitched his friend’s tele- phone book and dialed a number. It was e number of a girl. But who was she? » worked for one of the important fan azines. Was the kid embarrassed! And ee fixed our place up real swell,” Roy says, “and without spending a fortune.” . “When we moved into this house six months ago,’ Dale points out, “I used as much of our old furniture as ‘possible. No sense in letting that go to waste.” For her blue-green living room, Dale did buy a new swirl-pattern carpet, new draperies, and two sectional pieces. She placed the chairs by the fireplace, a fine seating arrangement for the family, but when friends drop in, the fireplace group- ing is expanded to include a sofa and two upholstered day beds placed end to end. The remainder of the furnishings in the recom—the spinet piano, the hearth rug, the blond coffee table, the two floor lamps, and the painting of Roy by Evan Soward are all part of their former house. Roy insists that Dale knows some cute decorating tricks. The lamps on the spinet piano are samples of her handiwork. These had ordinary glass shades until Dale saw some hand-painted ones in an antique store. She went home, cut out some cow- boy figures from a wall-paper sample and pasted them on her old lamp shades. The effect is the same as the the hand-painted variety, only much less costly. S in the other rooms, most of the furni- ture in the Rogers’ master bedroom comes from their previous home. The king- size bed, the dressing table, the chaise, and the desk are all pieces they've owned since their marriage in 1947. Only the wall paper is new. “I couldn’t very well take that with me,” Dale says jokingly. “But in selecting the new bedroom paper, I chose a green and beige plaid because the color combina- tion reminded me of one of Roy’s shirts.” A bathroom separates it from the bed- room, but Roy’s office is almost part of the master suite. Roy works here surrounded by a life-size portrait of Trigger, a dozen plaques naming him the Western star of the year, and his own Philco television set. Roy makes an honest effort te answer all his fan mail. He sends out autographed photos and acknowledges gifts as he re- ceives them. When the job gets too much for him, he presses Dale into service. She keeps the typewriter she’s had from her secretarial days ready and open cn her own bedroom desk, and whenever Roy cries for help, she sprints into his office, shorthand book in hand. The Rogers have one standing rule in their house. Everyone must be home for six-thirty dinner. Guilty persons are put in the doghouse. A miniature doghouse s truth about hollywood wolves “You bet!” What is she doing? Trying to make herself seem important and desira- ble, trying to cash in on his fame. Scott’s no wolf. Ask Ann Blyth. Seott and Ann appeared at the press photographer’s ball together. Ann was dressed as Sadie Thompson and Scott was the lamp post she leaned on. “What’s hap- pened to our Ann?” -everybody asked. They should have been asking what had happened to Scoit. Scott’s favorite forms of entertainment are baseball and boxing. So everybody was very amazed to see Scott all done up in a dinner jacket at the Ballet Russe with Ann. When someone asked him how he liked it he said fine, and added, “Ann was crazy about it.” Which is certainly a case of Little Red Riding Hood leading the wolf around by the nose. And, this is for sure, if Scott showed any wolfish traits around Ann she would never go out Eee OT a SL stands on the kitchen wall. It contains five tags with the names of the various family members. The only way to get your name out of the doghouse is to help Emily with the dishes, or some other household chore. Dale and Roy both feel that this is an im- portant rule because it brings the whole family together at least once a day. “It gives the children a feeling of family soli- darity,’ Roy says, “which is pretty neces- sary these days when just about every other solidarity is shaking.” Every Sunday, the entire Rogers house- hold attends the St. Nicholas Episcopal Church in Encino. Sunday night also finds them eating around the circular dining-room table. All other meals, however, are served prac- tically continuously in the kitchen-break- fast nook. This leather-upholstered corner had to be added to the kitchen to satisfy the lusty appetites of Cheryl, eleven, Linda Lou, nine, and Dusty, five. “Those kids eat all the time,’ Emily Warren, the cook, says, “but I like that. I also like them to bring their friends. The nook looks small but it can really seat eight quite comfortably.” - The children’s section of the Rogers house is next to the kitchen. Known as the children’s wing, it consists of three separate bedrooms which open onto one large play- room. The wing has its own bathroom and a separate entrance, and the little guys can raise hallelujah while the rest of the household moves at a quiet pace. The room Roy himself likes best is the billiard room. Pine-panelled, tiled-in-red, it boasts a friendly fireplace, a three-way exposure to the valley, a billiard table, twelve shelves of books, a 16 mm. sound projector, and dozens of hunting trophies. The maps and ash trays are gifts from ad- mirers; a pair of Roy’s boots which stand by the door, are cast in bronze. All the furnishings are typically masculine and designed to please the master of the house. At night, after the children go io bed, Roy and Dale usually come into this room to discuss family problems, the day’s work or just to chat the way married folks us- ually do. Only the other night, Dale was recount- ing an amusing anecdote. Coming out of the studio, she heard a little boy say to his brother, “There’s Dale Evans.” “That isn’t Dale Evans,” the brother said. “Oh, yes, it is,’ repeated the first little shaver. “I recognized her at once. Her hair is the exact same color as Trigger’s.” END Peter Lawford has dated so many girls over a period of years that there’s no space to list them all. One of the girls com- plained about him—but not the way you think. Elizabeth Taylor, who was 16 when Pete took her out, wailed, “He treated me as if I were just a little girl’ She may have been 16 but she was still the most beautiful creature in town—and a wolf wouldn’t have let age come between them. Pete is much too much of a gentleman to ever let himself fall into the wolf category. Incidentally, a little known fact is that one of the big loves of Pete’s life was a tall, charming society girl older than he. And when Gloria McLean married the inveterate bachelor, Jimmy Stewart, Pete was broken hearted. But even his best friends didn’t know, and he went right on dating—a different girl every few weeks. Not because he’s on the prowl; he’s just looking for his ideal. : Bob Stack is another like Pete—the perfect gentleman. His taste is so perfect that when he made a date with Barbara Stanwyck shortly after her separation ee net

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from Bob Taylor, he imvited Barbara’s friend, Helen Ferguson, to join them. He knew it was wrong for a woman to be seen in public so soon after a separation. N2 all of Hollywood’s young stars are perfect gentlemen. One of them owns a little bachelor house tucked away in the hills of Hollywood, and it’s as much asa girl’s reputation is worth to be seen there. The parties go on until all hours, and would shock the most sophisticated and worldly. But this is a fellow who has a weakness for tramps. Tramps are easy to find in any state of the union. And the kind of men who like them don’t always live in Hollywood. Nice girls have been warned about this guy and simply steer clear of Actors like Rock Hudson don’t have the money to spend on a lot of girls. Besides, Rock is so much in love with Vera-Ellen he wouldn’t look at anyone else. So check them off the wolf list. And make another check for a certain very well known star who was dating a girl not so well known. He liked her a lot. She was crazy about him. Undoubtedly they talked of marriage. But because she was a most neurotic girl, the actor postponed marriage. Then he met another girl, fell in love with her and married her. This neurotic friend started telling everybody what a horror he was and what a wolf. She told her story in every bar on Sunset Strip and undoubtedly a great many people believed her. But a guy can jilt one girl for another whether he lives in Hollywood, East St. Louis or Montgomery, Alabama. Unfor- nately this poor neurotic girl killed her- self. The female wolf pack in Hollywood (and elsewhere) are the kind who'll do anything for a job or publicity. There are a certain group of extra girls—and you can spot them when you see them time and again on the screen—who go on the make for men in the casting offices. If the studio executives knew about this, the men would be fired. But the casting men are only human. And very few are im- mune to the charms of a pretty girl when she is willing to give them away. Actu- ally, these girls do not just give their charms away. They -make a trade, and wind up getting a lot of bit parts. Then there is the predatory female who latches on to the big new personali- ties. When Jeff Chandler burst upon the Hollywood scene and became “the hottest thing in Hollywood,” he was married. The lady wolves left him alone because they’re not poachers as a rule. But now Jeff and Marge have separated, and the gals find him fair game. When it is known that Jeff has accepted an invitation to a party the hostess’ telephone rings all day long. The calls are from the girls—trying to chisel an invitation. W a there’s no denying that some potential actresses have been literally chased around the desk by casting directors and producers, the wolves give up easily enough when they know they’re chasing the wrong girl. And, when dealing with a very young girl they are more . protective than the average man. It is simply not true that in order to get a contract a girl has to compromise herself. The Hollywood producer knows that sex is a salable screen commodity, and is therefore highly aware of sex. But he also knows that sentiment is a salable screen commodity and is, therefore, extremely sentimental. Joan Evans was 14 has she played the romantic lead in Roseanna McCoy. People who knew nothing about Hollywood asked her parents, “Aren’t you terrified of the Hollywood wolves?” Joan received more protection from so-called wolfish producers than she would have from any other group of men. One studio executive said, “If any guy so much as makes a pass at Joan, I'll knock his teeth in.” The studios try to take good care of their young stars. After all— they’re more than just girls, they re money- making properties! In what category can a man like Cesar Romero be placed? “Butch” as he is known to his friends, has dated the best known glamor girls—Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Barbara Stanwyck, Ann Sothern. But Butch is no wolf. Despite his villainous looks he is always the old family friend and ia Sie bis : when there’s trouble in qe house it’s Butch’s shoulder that the girls cr: When Ann Sothern’s marriage we the rocks, Butch listened and ‘sympathized. And even if there is no trouble, Butch is the perfect escort. Whenever Jack Benny is out of town Butch takes Mary ue with Jack’s knowledge and consent. Very often, as is the case of “Butch Romero, the guy who looks like a wolf isn’t at all. Often the fellow to watch out for is the quiet, not extremely attractive type with the halo ringing his head. : A popular young female star was once dating a big male attraction, when she had to make an appearance at a premiere and he had to be out of town. She told her beau, “T’ll ask anybody you tell me to ask.” Her fellow suggested little milk-toast juvenile. So the juvenile took her to the premiere, and now he’s her steady beau. He was the real wolf—he handed her the big line and now her first beau can’t under- stand it. Farley Granger is the big swoon boy of 1951. When he’s on a personal appearance tour fans tear him apart. Once when he was leaving a theater, the kids rushed the car that was taking him to the hotel and literally bashed in its hard top. You’d think that this kind of adulation would make him so conceited he’d say to him- self, “Why, I can have any girl I want,” and start howling. It has the opposite effect. Female devotion reached the saturation point with Farley. And now, he either dates Shelley Winters, or spends a quiet evening at his or a friend’s home. In a recent survey a reporter, inter- viewing 25 young Hollywood bachelors, asked the question, “Do you want to get married?” All answered, “Yes.” Various times were set—“when I can afford to,” “when I find the right girl,’ “if my next option is picked up.” If they were wolves, they would have laughed that reporter | out into the street. So the truth about Hollywood wolves | turns out to be the truth about wolves anywhere. There are wolves in Hollywood, | ef course. But there are even more sheep who just look like wolves to the undiscern- ing eye. THe END we swam our way to ciro’s (Continued from page 43) Craig thought I had an excellent idea. “See you around two,” he said and headed his truck for the highway. Then I went back to the office and called Marilyn Monroe. Who looks as good in a bathing suit as Marilyn? Mala Powers. I invited both. Corinne Calvet and John Bromfield were next on my list. “Johnee’s on location, but he should be back by tomorrow night,” Corinne said. “We'll meet you at Ciro’s.” W the day came. Herman met us at the door—the way he does at Ciro’s, and in no time at all we were ready for the water. Marilyn emerged from the dressing room. in a real creation of a suit. It was a glamorous Rose Marie Reid number—24 karat gold, imprinted with a black chantilly lace pattern! Mala was an eyeful in an aquamarine suit that fitted her form—as we say in Hollywood—deevinely. The boys dove right in. Mala and Marilyn were slightly more reluctant. “Cold,” shivered Marilyn, testing the water « with her toe. “You'll get used to it,” said Craig as he and Nick pulled her toward the pool. “Look at our two Tarzans,” shouted Mala, who should never have made the statement. She was dunked next. Marilyn proved to be a beautiful swim- mer. “Lessons,’ she explained. “I used to be scared silly. Fell into a pool when I was little, and almost drowned.” . Mala had taken lessons, too. At four- and-a-half, she was the -world’s youngest diver. She used to scare people silly by performing tricks from the board. “Yaah,” Craig yelled at her—“I’d like to see you dive out of the pool.” Mala took him up on that, and nobody knows quite how she did it. They’ll never find out, either, because our photographer got so! excited he almost dropped his camera in the water. When he asked her to do it again, she said, “Nix! I’m saving this stunt for when I’m old and grey and have no other way to make a living.” The high point of the day was an excit- ing race between Craig and Nick. We never did figure who won, because Herman Hover awarded the trophy—a convenient flower pot—to Mala and Marilyn. In mid-afternoon Mr. Hover had cokes and sandwiches served to us, with Nick adding the final touch by picking oranges off a nearby tree. And so on to Ciro’s. “What a relief!” Nick sighed. He had an idea he was going to see another Western movie. That’s be- cause Mala’s making one called Rose of Cimarron, for 20th Century-Fox. It’s her first horse opera, and she won’t let Nick forget it. “It’s got to the point,” he says, “that every time I call for her on a date, I want to saddle up Old Paint.” Ciro’s was the perfect cure for this fugitive from the they-went-thattaways. Nick refused to leave the dance floor once he got on it. Corinne and John came to meet us as she’d promised. “It’s a funny thing,” Corinne said, “but this morning I bent over to pick up our dog, and I couldn’t straighten up again. I thought I had a broken back. But I came to Ciro; Sa and zut! Everything’s fine!” Nobody knows how Herman Hover seems | to do it, but time goes faster at Ciro’s than | at almost any place in town; that is, for | everybody but the men when their girls take off for the powder room. When we |} went to straighten up our makeup there were many, Many mirrors where we could | check every detail from head to toe. ; Marilyn had to leave us early because she had a script to read the next day, so Craig | ran her home in his car. When they began to stack up the chairs, | Herman Hover came by, and asked impishly, “Having- fun?” It was a superfluous question. “Having fun?” I chortled, “why, nobody will be- lieve me if I tell them I swam all the way.” And with that my head went under for the third time in my ginger ale! _THE END

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why tony and janet had to elope 70 (Continued from page 39) folks and Janet's parents were all for it; they gave their blessings. But a few of the big shots in Hollywood felt strongly that 1951 was no year for a Curtis-Leigh wedding, and they tried to postpone it indefinitely. First they approached Jerry Lewis, the irrespressible comedian who knows Tony and Janet better than any other person does in Hellywood. “You're interested in the welfare of these kids, aren’t you?” Jerry was asked. Jerry nodded. “Then, why don’t you tell them that they shouldn't get married for a while?” Lewis cocked an inquisitive eyebrow. “T don’t get it,” he said. “Janet and Tony,” he was told, “are a couple of kids whe are new in the business. Tony has a big following with the bobby- soxers. Janet has a big following among single men. If these two get married, their box-office value will go down. It'll be no geod for business, and itll be no good for their careers.” Fo a fast second, Jerry Lewis thought it was all a gag. When he realized that the words were spoken in dead serious- ness, he got mad. “You out of your mind?” he demanded. “These two kids are in love. Why shouldn’t they get married? Im married. Dean’s married (Dean Martin). We don’t hurt the box office.” “Tt’s not the same thing,” Jerry was in- formed. “You fellows are comedians. Janet and Tony are players; they act at love. “The girls who watch Tony on the screen like to feel that he’s single and unattached, that he belongs to them. The men feel the same way about Janet.” Jerry was firm. “I think you're nuts,” he insisted. “This is a free country. If Janet and Tony want to get married, they should get married.” “Don’t get excited,” Jerry was told. “We don’t want you to plead our case. All we want is to use you as a messenger. Just go to the kids and tell them we think that maybe the marriage should be postponed. Just for a little while, maybe until Tony’s picture has had a complete release. Be- lieve me, we ask you to do this, because we think it’s best for Janet and Tony.” Jerry Lewis saw Janet and Tony that same night. “Look,” he began, “I com- pletely disagree with this, but I promised to transmit the following message.” Where- upon he repeated what had been told him. Janet and Tony were, of course, en- raged. “We'll get married whenever we want,” Janet announced. Tony corrobo- rated her sentiments in more earthy phrases. When word of their decision to elope leaked out, one cf the studio producers called on Janet personally and tried to dissuade her. If Janet really loved Tony—the argu- ment went—if she really, deeply, and hon- estly loved him, she wouldn’t marry him— not yet, anyway. After all, Tony was scheduled to em- bark on his first personal appearance tour with Piper Laurie. He had just finished his first starring role in The Prince. Who would be interested in Tony and’ Piper if Tony got married to Janet Leigh? “T felt so angry,” Janet later confided to friends, “that I wanted to scream.’ Later that night, before she left for New York and Tony left for Chicago, they decided that they would get married some- where in the East. They would get mar- ried before any more pressure was brought to bear on them. “I realized,’ Tony said, “that I would Saree CH ENE ERTS SE have to find out once and for all whether people would like me as an actor. I knew I esuldn’t live my life to satisfy the whole world. I would have to satisfy myself.” Late in May when Janet Leigh arrived in New York, she was taken in tow by two publicity experts, John Springer of RKO for whom Janet had made Two Tickets to Broadway, and Dorothy Day, who represented Janet's home studio, MGM. They were having lunch in Danny’s Hideaway, a restaurant on East 45th Street, when Janet happened to ask, “T wonder if there’s any place around New York where people can get married in a hurry?” The Tove ght was flashing in her eyes, and Springer had a pretty good idea of what was cooking in her mind. “You been talking to Tony?” he asked. “Why, yes,’ Janet said. “I spoke to him on the phone in Chicago. He’s coming in next week. I just can’t wait to see him. I wonder if some night, maybe after we’ve seen Dean and Jerry (Martin and Lewis) at the Copa, we can’t just drive off some- where and get married.” “Tell you what,” said the RKO publicity man. “T’ll look into the situation and let you know.” Sac spoke to the authorities in Connecticut, and the kind people there agreed to waive the 5-day residence re- quirement, providing Janet and Tony filled out all the necessary papers, took the blood tests, and so forth. A week before Tony arrived in New York, Janet drove up to Greenwich and took her blood test. The woman who supervised it—Janet couldn’t remember whether she was a doctor, nurse, or lab technician, said, “I recognize you. Yes, I do. This blank has your name as Jeanette Reames, but I know who you really are.” Janet grinned. “You're Vivian Leigh,” the nurse an- nounced. Once back in her suite at the Waldorf Towers, Janet put in a long-distance call to her groom-to-be at the Hotel -Ambas- sador in Chicago. “Darling,” she said, “the nurse told me I had some of the richest blood she’s ever seen.” “As soon as I hit that crazy city,” Tony shouted, “we're getting married. Do you hear? I don’t want my girl alone in New lana turner— more beautiful than ever— on the cover of the october issue of. modern screen on sale september 7 ‘party, Jerry jumped to his feet and called © York rts all those me Tony was true to his ing after he arrived in Ne and MGM arranged for a fleet ° Cadillacs to transport the bride and gro to Greenwich. The manager of the movie | house in Greenwich, Al Pourtnoy, hur- riedly arranged for the ceremony to take place at the Pickwick Arms. — At 9:30 a.m., the wedding party arrived. It consisted of Janet, Tony, Patti Lewis, the bridesmaid, Paula Stone, Dorcthy Day, Joe Abeles, a photographer-friend of Tony’s, John Springer, Mac David and Jerry Livingston, the song writers, and one or two other friends. : Once all the papers were in order, the party waited until Jerry Lewis, the best man, appeared. A few moments later, Janet had promised to take Bernie for her husband, and Bernie had agreed to call Janet his wife. There was much kissmg—Jerry Lewis almost broke Janet’s back in one of the great kissing exhibitions of all time—there was much frivolity, and much unrestrained joyousness. Then the wedding party re-entered the three Cadillac limousines and headed for New York. Tony and Janet were in the first lim- ousine. When they hit the Bronx, they stopped kissing long enough for Tony to recognize that they were traveling on Bruckner Boulevard. “Unless I’m mistaken,” Tony said, “I have an aunt who lives around here. Her name is Klein. She lives on Bryant Avenue. This is the time of day she should be sit- ting out in front of the apartment house. Would you like to meet her?” “T’d love to,” said Janet. : In a matter of minutes, three ieee pulled up in front of the building. Sure enough, there was Tony’s aunt sitting on the steps. Tony ran up to her and kissed — her soundly. The poor woman was amazed. She looked at anys then at the three Cadillacs. Bernie,” she cried, “you're coming from a funeral?” Her nephew roared and introduced his beautiful bride. There were many “ahs” and expressions of wonderment, as other tenants of the apartment building looked out from their windows. Tony and Janet stayed with Mrs. Klein for a few minutes, then rode back to their bridal suite at the Waldorf. Las that night, there was a small wedding party at Danny’s Hideaway — 3 just for friends of the newlyweds. Tony made speeches. Janet, the happiness burst- — ing out all over, kissed everyone. Cham- pagne flowed freely. It was a wedding dinner not soon to be forgotten. Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin were there, of course. Towards the end of the - for a toast. “Ladies and gentlemen,” he ~ said, “I should like to propose a toast, if _ I may, to those two very wonderful, very charming”’—and he looked directly ata Tony and Janet—“to those two very happy — eres | people—Shelley Winters and Scott — B After the party, Janet and Tony had 4 a one-week honeymoon in New York. It wasn’t really a honeymoon. They. spent | : most of their days working. Then Tony ~ left for Boston to continue his perso appearance tour, and Janet returned os 3 California to find them a house. When Janet was asked if she didn’t” regret not having a large wedding (iat of a tumultuous elopement, she grinned. — “There's only one thing about our mar- — riage,” she said, “that Tony and I both — regret. It | should’v ve happened a who lot sooner.” ‘THE

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72 abba dabba debbie (Continued from page 63) squeaked on, revealing seats covered with sporty chintz, and floors of flowered carpeting. Out stepped a pint-size 17-year-old girl with homemade curls piled on a head that seemed a little too big for her body. Her wide open eyes wore a startled look. Clutching a brown paper sack of lunch in one hand, and a phonograph record in the other, she stepped right into the front office as if she owned the joint. And to tell the truth, since that memorable day, Deb- bie Reynolds practically does. : Not since Mickey Rooney shook that dignified studio loose back in his adolescent days, has MGM seen anything like Debbie. Like the wads of chewing gum she plasters at all strategic junctures, Debbie's irresist- ible personality spreads, sticks, gathers friends, and influences people. Staid stars copy her, quote her, ask eagerly every morning, “What goes with Debbie today?” Debbie-isms buzz around the lot like flies. Did you hear what Debbie said when she met June Allyson? “My,” she asked, “who’s that little girl?” Did you catch Debbie's size-up of Pinza? “He may send the old ladies,” she stated, “but he doesn’t send me!” Have you heard what Arthur Loew got when he called Deb for a date? “I'm sorry,’ she told him, “but I’m going to Girl Scouts tonight.” Listen to Debbie’s description of her girl friend, Camille: “She’s beautiful, she has big walnut eyes.” Debbie’s nuts about doing Singing in the Rain. “It?s a period picture,” she says, “1928.” When Debbie lugged her lunch to the set, Jane Powell and then Gene Kelly started bringing theirs, too. She introduced stately Louis Calhern to dill pickles and before she ditched her jalop, Clark Gable told her he’d trade her his Jaguar, even. That’s the way the Debbie madness goes. But, it’s not all as crazy as it sounds, nor Debbie Reynolds either. {) Esse hasn’t come, seen and conquered strictly because she’s cute. What's really making Debbie Reynolds’ stock soar in Hollywood is the solid conviction that she’s a natural bundle of relaxed talent, a girl Bing Crosby. Debbie had never warbled a note pro- fessionally until Two Weeks With Love. But that “Abba-Dabba Honeymoon” she did with Carleton Carpenter rocketed right onto the Hit Parade, and the record they cut headed for the million-sale mark. She hadn't danced either, but she was so smooth with Carleton that Gene Kelly asked for her, and Arthur Freed cast her without a test for Gene’s partner in Sing- ing in the Rain. She hasn’t had a dramatic lesson worth mentioning, but she’s set to co-star with Carleton in Twenty-One Days, play a lead with Spencer Tracy in Years Ago, and make Everybody Swim with Es- ther Williams. At Metro, producers are lining up for Debbie Reynolds like stags for a Park Avenue debutante at the Ritz. By now it’s taken for granted arcund MGM that Debbie Reynolds can handle anything you can throw at her. Just the other day producer George Wells, getting Everybody Swim ready to roll, with Deb- bie cast as a channel swimmer, thought he’d better check. He called Jack Cum- mings who made two of Debbie’s pictures. “By the way, Jack,” he said, “can Debbie Reynolds swim?” “Listen,” he got back, “Debbie Reynolds can swim, float, or fly, if necessary. I’d bet on that gal to play the flugelhorn, walk a tight wire or bulldog a steer. Debbie can do anything. She’s sensational!” : Like a lot of sensational people, Deb- bie’s a transplanted Texan, from El Paso, where she arrived one April Fool’s day in °F FL TP Rca eRe ee Ee aR ICT APS 3 4 > 3 > - 1932. “She came along about dinner time,” her mother recalls, “and she’s been hungry ever since.” Debbie still snaps off five to six meals a day, ranging from dill pickles and crackers to a triple jumbo strawberry malt. In Everybody Swim they have Deb eating all through the picture. “We can probably work faster if we just write her snacks into the script,” realistically con- cluded the producer. But where all the caleries go, nobody knows. Because, after 19 years of growing, Deb- bie tips on the light side of 100, rises only five feet above her kicks, shops for her jeans in the kids’ department, and mama has to make all her dresses because she can’t ever find a thing in size seven. . As a moppet, this peewee chassis earned Debbie nicknames like “Runt,” “Peanuts,” “Shrimp,” and “Squirt,” although the gen- teel tag was “Frannie,” her real name being Mary Frances. It also handed her an un- repressed urge to show the world that she was rough, tough, and hard to bluff. “Deb was just as ornery as a baby as she is now,” her mom sighs. The girlhood—or tomboy- hood, to be more accurate—of Mary Frances Reynolds is studded with violent rebellions against the ignominy of skirts. She built a fire under her house when she was just a brat, and only the lucky arrival of the neighbors in the nick of time saved the place from cinders. One boy who called her “sis” got knocked out colder than a cucumber against the school- yard wall. She played basketball, baseball, yep, football, too. She was all-sex tether- ball champ at an early age, and a whiz on Did you hear the one about the ham who was called into the di- rector's office and asked, “Are you now or were you ever an actor?” Sidney Skolsky in The New York Post the parallel bars. She glowed when the kids said, “Gee, she’s fun—just like a guy!” Once the principal hot-footed it out to her house with some shocking news. “Mrs. . Reynolds,” he began solemnly, “are you aware that Mary Frances swears?” Mrs. Reynolds nodded. “What happened,” she asked, “was some boy pushing her around?” That was the case, the master admitted. Mrs. Reynolds wanted to know something else. “Did she do a good job?” The principal said Frannie’s swearing was inspired, even artistic. “Her uncle taught her how,” explained her mom; and the principal retired with only that satisfaction. But Debbie’s declared admiration for boys turned to undeclared war at a certain point in her development. When the tender passion stirred others along about ninth grade, Deb told off her suitors rudely. With some other misanthropic girl chums she founded the “NN Club.” “NN” stood for “Non-Neckers,” and her mother made little pottery pins with the initials which Debbie and her colleagues wore proudly on their militant bosoms. “When the boys asked us to go out,’ she remembers, “we just an- swered, ‘What for?’ That stopped ’em.” But fairly soon the “NN” had to add an initial. One traitorous girl defected and fell in love. “After that,” sighs Deb, “we changed the name to “Nearly Non-Neckers.” Instead of mooning and making eyes, Dauntless Debbie channeled her atomic energies into other female fields. At John Burroughs High in Burbank, she became a Big Operator and Activity Girl. “If there was anything around I wasn’t mixed up in,” she says, “I don’t know what it was.” Debbie was either president or some high brass of the Girls Athletic Association, the Tri-Y, Tennis Club, Job’s Daughters, and an all-out Girl Scout, which she still is. She sang baritone—that’s right—in the Choral Society and tooted the French horn in the Youth Symphony band. “You couldn’t see m horn,” admits Debbie, “but you hear me.” She was also a dem«c twirler, and leader of Dick Layl Batoneers, a precision marching group 60 prancing fillies, who paraded all over Southern California and collected trophies which still clutter up Debbie's closet. W™ that background, it was obvious i that nothing could be staged around Burbank without Frannie Reynolds, and have any bounce at all. So when the big “Burbank on Parade” fiesta loomed, back in 1948, her girl friends talked her into the “Queen of Burbank” contest. It was about the first thing Debbie had ever had to be talked into, but the way she figured, this was a little out of her line. a agi The princesses were picked for Beauty, Talent, and Personality. That last tag was all Debbie figured she could possibly rate. No one had ever called her beautiful, and oddly enough, the one activity where she definitely dudded was school dramatics. She couldn’t’ win even a bit part and hustled scenery cheerfully, convinced that stage glamor wasn’t for her. “But kid,” the girls told her, “every girl who enters this deal gets a free blouse. Don’t be stupid!” - Debbie could always use a new blouse. There wasn’t any money to spare and never had been around the Reynolds house. She signed up with 28 other BHS belles, just for the blouse, but to earn it Debbie dug up a cutie routine that always wowed the drop-in trade at her house on Sunday afternoons. Deb liked to twirl a record of Betty Hutton’s and mimic the Huttontot’s gymnastics without singing a word. She could be Betty all over the place, and it was always good for a laugh. She packed up the platter of “A Square in a Social Circle,” curled her hair for once, and sub- mitted to a glamor gown her mom had whipped up for Easter. For the final touch she borrowed Mrs. Reynolds’ white high heeled shoes, the first wobblers she’d ever worn in her life. They almost threw her. When she stepped out to spin her Betty Hutton disk and make with the act, she just couldn’t move around. Debbie stopped the music and, in her easy fashion yelled, “Can I take off my shoes?” The crowd roared, “Sure.” So she shook loose her || hair-do, eased the glamor gown here and there, and kicked the high heels out into the crowd. Then she knocked herself out— and they liked to died clapping She gathered that she’d earned her shirt—but that was all. = “I was leaning against a piano in back because my feet hurt, figuring how I could sneak out, go home and get something to eat,’ recalls Debbie, “when I heard this man call off the winners. ‘Princess Beauty— Princess Talent—Princess Personality — none of them me, of course. Then what does he say but ‘And Queen of all Bur- bank—Miss Mary Frances Reynolds!’ Well, that was the end, simply the end! They shoved me out on the stage and—for the first time in my life, I couldn’t say a thing. | Imagine!” | She got enough voice back to say, “Yes,” when Solly Biano, a Warner Brothers’ tal- ent scout and 2 contest judge, offered all | the lucky winners screen tests. Debbie had | heard “awful things about the movies” but | decided to take a chance, since Warners | was right around the corner in Bur | and she reasoned she couldn't go wrong that close to home. She did a skit from The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer—in | other words, acted herself—and came up | with a stock contract. She got $65.00 a week, which after court deductions, left her with $29.00 each Saturday. First thing she did was buy a second-hand player piano, and a French horn of her very own. |

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But mostly Debbie just polished off her junior year at the studio school, and poked her inquisitive nose into every corner of the lot. “I knew everyone around the place,’ she says, “even the cats. pt used to take visitors on studio tours.” But they don’t pay contract sal- aries forever for that, and there was really nothing on the lot for Debbie to do. After a year she learned the news—not necessar- ily bad, because she was eager then to get back to Burbank High, go on to college, and be a gym teacher—that she was out. B™. when Warners dropped Debbie she didn’t have time to bounce back to- ward Burbank High. MGM caught her on the fly four days before her option expired. Solly Biano knew about MGM’s search for a tiny cutie to impersonate Helen Kane, the old “Boop-boop-a-doop Girl” of the ‘thir- ties in’ Three Little Words, so he sent Debbie over to Producer Jack Cummings ‘with her Betty Hutton record. Jack had to look only once. He used Helen’s bonafide boops and Debbie’s gestures. It was just a spot—but with Debbie Reynolds, spots spread, like measles. All this popularity and progress hasn’t - turned Debbie Reynolds’ head one notch, or changed her private life very much. Instead of a star, which she soon will be officially, she looks like somebody’s kid ‘| sister, which she is, too. In Washington on her tour, she was mobbed for the first time and one girl blurted, “But she looks so human!” And just the other day, mak- ing a futile stab at shopping for an evening gown, Deb invaded a swank Beverly Hills shop, picked out a glamor rag she kind of liked. “T’ll take—”’ Deb began, but before she could finish the sentence, the lady whisked it out of her hands. “It’s a hun- dred dollars, honey,” she explained. “You couldn’t afford that.” Until Deb sold it to get her “blue bottom Pontiac,’ she was perfectly content with her sensational dolled-up jalopy. Debbie scared up the decomposed 32 Chevvy, as old as she was, for $20.00. Her dad, who can fix anything, made the motor run. Her Mom, who can sew anything, upholstered the tattered seats and made sofa pillows. Debbie added the carpets, the dragon radiator cap, and truck horn. But nobody could do much about the brakes. Herding it into Hollywood one night with a couple of girl friends, Debbie weaved and swerved each time she touched the pedal and finally a cop wailed her down. “What you been drinking, sister?” he asked. “A malt,” answered Deb honestly. He flashed the light in the girl friends’ faces. “How about you?” “Cokes.” The, cop wagged his head. “You kids get home before I call the truant officer.” ‘Debbie had already made two pictures. As yet, Debbie’s never had a drink (she doesn’t smoke either) partly because she needs stimulants like a hole in the head, but mainly because it’s against her religion. There’s not a drop of liquor in her house, and that house, along with the people who live there, is still the center of her world. The little FHA cottage her dad built on Evergreen Street is all paid for by now, which was project Number One after Deb- bie got slightly in the chips. Project Number Two was fixing up her room with a new salmon-pink rug, ruffled curtains, and blond furniture, Next comes fencing the back yard and building a barbecue. Then, “I’d like a small swimming pool,” dreams Debbie, “so I won't have so darn much grass to mow.’ Debbie’s chosen chores are cleaning up the yard, helping her dad hammer things ‘nto shape grein the al care of Chip, a shaggy aoe crotchety cat. Inside the house, Goce | Deb’s a flop. It’s rough to get her to ‘wash any dishes, cook or tidy up. She’s the type who steps out of things and leaves them where they lay. Her mother, Maxene, a cheery youngish woman, long ago de- spaired of endowing Deb with many dainty feminine graces. Perfume, makeup, jewelry, and dressy doo-dads are anathema to her, and Deb frankly admits, “I hate baths.” “Sometimes,” chuckles Mrs. Reynolds, “I think I had two boys.” Lately, a ray of girlish hope came along with Debbie’s collection of monkey dolls which now festoon the house, brought about, of course, by that “Abba-Dabba Honeymoon” craze. Then there’s the baby she’s expecting. It’s really her sister-in-law’s (her name’s Joyce) baby. Joyce lives at the Reynolds’ now while her husband Bill’s at camp. The blessed event is expected. in the fall. But when Joyce explained that to Debbie she answered, “Well you'll just have to hurry up. I can’t wait that long!” The facts of life are slightly confused in Debbie’s mind. Way back last winter when she was on her p.a. tour, shé was inter- viewed on the “Welcome Stranger” pro- gram in Chicago and they asked about the most exciting event in her life. “Oh,” re- plied Deb, “I’m going to be an aunt al- most any minute!” | Hal Goodman, speaking about a no-talent producer said, “That guy is nothing—and he originated it!" Sidney Skolsky in The New York Post But there’s no confusion in Debbie's mind about the fierce loyalty she main- tains for her family and friends. Already “her” baby has enough blankets and woolly | gear stacked up to keep it warm in Alaska. Last Father’s Day she surprised her dad with a new runabout. And when the pre- view of Two Weeks With Love came up last year, the studio ticket machinery al- most broke down. Deb asked if she could — bring someone with her, and got a yes. The “someone” turned out to be 20 kids rounded | up in the neighborhood. Or, as a harassed Metro press agent moaned, “All Burbank.” ; Fa Debbie’s heart still belongs to Bur- bank, not Hollywood. By now she’s a sort of civic fixture. Whatever's cooking in her home town, whether it’s decorating a float for the Tournament of Roses, or plugging the Youth Symphony, Deb's right in on the act. “There’s not a cop in town I don’t know,” Debbie beasts. Debbie’s favorite all-out activity is still the Girl Scouts. She was a “Curved Bar” Scout -herself, which corresponds to an | Eagle Scout, and today she’s Co-Leader of | i | the Burbank troop. Every rare studio recess | she’s off with the outdoor girls to their | camp at Frazer Park in the mountains. | Debbie recently contributed $300 of her movie earnings to rig up an outdoor | theater. At Frazer she cooks, scrubs, | builds fires, and washes dishes with a_ fervor that would make her mama swoon. with surprise at home. But Debbie thinks | it's a salutary hobby. “Getting down. to earth with those teenagers,” she says, “keeps me from going off the track with | all this Hollywood jazz.’ i a Right now there doesn’t seem to be |, much danger of Debbie Reynolds going | off her trolley about any kind of “Holly- | wood jazz,” particularly the variety called | “Hollywood romance.” Hollywood gossips find it rough going indeed with Deb, and so do Hollywood wolves. “Oh, I can go along with a wood ails | kiss,” she'll tell you, “ Bae frankly, it doesn’t do anything for me.” ae is her way of |

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saying she’s not in love. In fact, she has 10 five dollar bets spread around MGM that she won’t get married until she’s 24. Debbie has dates, but she scatters them like buckshot. Most are young fellows around Burbank and Hollywood who don’t pack the kind of money to take her whirling off to the Mocambo or Ciro’s. She’d rather go bowJing anyway, to a movie, or the cireus—‘I lose my mind at the circus,” Deb sighs. Most nights, though, she sits* contentedly at home, writing letters to the 60-cdd GI’s in Korea who are her pen pals, reading Western two-gun thrillers, or entertaining her dates with records. Janet Leigh’s ex-boy friend, Arthur Loew, Jr., is nearest to a Hollywood glamor suitor. But half the time—because of Girl Scouts and things—he can’t get a date with Debbie. When he does and arrives decked out for a big dine and dance evening, he winds up eating en- chiladas with the folks. There was a time, in fact, when Debbie Reynolds was firmly set on being a spin- ster, but she’s changed her plans about that. She loves kids, and by now she knows you can’t have kids by yourself. “I’d like 20,” says Debbie, “but I guess Id settle for six. -Imagine—six kids, most of them boys! Wouldn’t that be the very end?” That’s just Debbie Reynolds’ manner of speaking, of course. Right now, it’s pretty hard to imagine anything actually being the end for Debbie Reynolds, the way she’s steaming along. Anyone who knows anything about Hollywood or Debbie will tell you that this is just the beginning. And for a beginner, Debbie Reynolds, to put it mildly, is doing strictly okay. THe END they made fun of love (Continued from page 41) London Louella Parsons had said, “Who, me—and her?” he might well have been stoned by the true lovers of the world. Someday when the photographers have left and the newspaper boys are home in } ~ Galveston, Texas, Robt. J. Cohen, Inc. 13 \ | | ~ Huntington, W. Va., Bradshaw-Dieh! bed, Shelley may look at Farley and see the dashing qualities in him that she has looked for in a man for so long. And he may look at her and see the woman he has been wanting for his wife. Then they both may realize that life is short and they may look for love in vain, away from each other. It may be then that they will try to make © it a real love. And everything will turn out all right. But shortly before their engage- ment announcement, they were guests on | the show of a prominent radio reporter and the conversation went something like this: REPORTER: “Well, I understand you two kids are in love.” SHELLEY: “It sort of looks like it, doesn’t it?” _Wew Albany, Ind., The White Hou ‘ @woss0, Mich., D. M. Christian Co. | » Pine Biuff, Ark., L. Froug | “Portsmouth, Ohio, Marting’s REPORTER: “Is that an engagement ring you’re wearing, Shelley?” SHELLEY: “It does look like one. 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Instead of planting a story that | the two had had a pleasant date, they be- | gan feeding the columnists lines like: “Shelley Winters and Farley Granger held hands all during the first show at Mo- cambo.” And a romance was born. A year or so ago, when Farley returned | from a tour of Europe, the columnists thought he was staying an awfully long time in New York for a fellow with a sweetheart in California whom he hadn’t seen in a few months. They said so. Soon the word was out that Shelley was packing ! to go to Farley’s arms. A bit later, she’d bought the tickets. Then-she was on her way to the airport. It was dramatic and in sequence, except for one thing, Shelley was making no such moves. She was living a normal routine right where she was. “When are you going to see Farley?” someone asked her. | “When is he coming to see me?” Shelley is reported to have replied. “It’s the same distance both ways, isn’t it?” This gave the cynics plenty of material to work with—because, after all, did that sound like the beginning of true love? | It would be a sad thing, indeed, if the romance between them were phony, for despite all you hear about them, Shelley and Farley are the loneliest kids in Holly- | wood. You will find proof of this buried in the scores of magazine stories written about them in the last couple of years. Farley, for instance, told a magazine writer not many months ago that he was going to live either in New York or abroad, and return to Hollywood only when he was needed for a picture. He gave as his reason that he had never found real happiness or contentment there. And Shelley Winters has wept publicly on the lapels of writers and others because the man of her dreams has not yet come along to claim her. It is the considered opinion of those who know Shelley best that she is not only in love with Farley Granger, but downright predatory in her search for a legitimate romance. She wants true love so badly that she spends a good deal of her time when not being photographed with Farley, seek- ing it out. One of the first things she usu- | ally says upon arriving at a party is: “Where are all the single men?” And a standard Winters crack at lunch in the Universal commissary is: “Who’s the guy over there in the corner? Is he a bachelor?” Shelley Winters’ genuine crushes have not been nearly as highly publicized as | her present one, mainly because they have | been directed at men who have not been | big mames. There have been a number of them since she met Farley, the most important to her probably being Liam O’Brien, Edmund’s brother, and one of the handsomest lads in Hollywood. Farley, on the other hand, with the pos- sible exception of Shelley, has apparently not been severely smitten to date. Being one of the most dashing of the young blades around Hollywood, he has naturally had lots of dates, but he has yet to be pole- axed by passion for a doll. . Shelley and Farley’s fans run into the millions. Many of them are fanatically in support of these youngsters. But in the main, they will be hurt if the bubble that is being blown up now bursts and proves that the whole thing was a sham. People on the inside can tell you now that the situation is wearing on those con- _ cerned. Farley was at a night spot recently with Shelley, and he sat for hours glumly watching the dancers, not speaking. Some- body asked him if he was having a good time. He said he guessed he was. Shelley, across from him, seemed anxious to be someplace else. Presently, a couple of columnists walked in and sat at nearby tables. It might have been coincidence, but Farley and Shelley leaped to the dance floor—and for an hour or so seemed to be the gayest, most carefree couple in the place. Maybe they were—and again maybe they were just playing the game. The majority of movie fans are in the impressionable age group, youngsters who believe what they are told by older people. If they are told that Farley Granger is go- ing to appear in a certain movie, and he doesn’t appear, it is not terribly important, although a breach of truth. If they are told that Shelley Winters has 12 mink coats in her closet, and she only has one, that, too, is not so bad. But when it comes to love, there is a sincerity in the teen-ager that mustn’t be toyed with. If these fans are told that their idols adore one another and in a week or so they find’the idols in love with others, it destroys a bit of faith in a very precious thing. It isn’t fair—and it isn’t neccessary. There are other ways to build popularity. A number of years ago, a magazine editor had this proved to him the hard way. Ro- mances were scarce in Hollywood at the Shelley Winters on the status of her on-and-off merger plans with Farley Granger: “We'd like to get married, but so many of our good friends who got married got di- vorced, that we're afraid fo. May- be we'll just get divorced." Walter Winchell in The New York Mirror time. It just seemed that nobody was falling in love. The editor decided to grow one of his romances, figuring it would have the added feature of being exclusive with his magazine. Working through the right connections, he arranged te have Lana Tur- ner, then a newcomer to pictures, and Victor Mature pose in lovey-dovey atti- tudes for his cameramen. He sent off the pictures and, after it was too late for the opposition magazines to cut in on his ro- mance, he had stories planted in the papers about the big Turner-Mature romance. The boy and girl were doing as they were told, for they were not stars then. They went out together, called each other pet names in public and so on. Things were going great, it seemed, until one day, just 24 hours before the editor’s magazine ap- peared on the newsstands, Lana grew tired of the whole business, and took off. She flew up to San Francisco to see the man she was really interested Im—and the next day papers all over the nation carried the headlines: LANA TURNER TO WED TONY MARTIN. She didn’t marry him, it turned out, but the editor didn’t sell many magazines that month, either. And if you were to ask Lana today, she would tell you it was prob- ably one of the most foolish things she has ever done. She may have gotten her name linked in print with a good many men in later years, but you can bet your shirt they were all genuine pulse-racers. Farley Granger certainly has no need for phony publicity to further his career. His ability as an actor is more evident in each picture he makes. He has the respect of the kids and the grown ups because of his work and his talent. He is, in private life, young America personified, handsome, virile, and chock full of the joy of living. If he were none of these things, but an untried, ambitious fledgling then it might } d make sense to try any device just to popu- |!

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(FA Teli her idgh sata nee eC. ossibilities as a lover. Shelley Winters is also a star, established ad properly renowned. There is no doubt t she is one of the best actresses in Hollywood. Her latest picture, A Place In ' acter in so many respects that all she has _ to do is appear someplace, or open her P mouth and say something and it gets in the | columns. A combination of extreme ability || and color in private and public life is | enough for any star. Shelley Winters || doesn’t need a put-up romance to further _ her career or earn her new fans. _ An accurate check of the past activities _ of the biggest stars today, the ones who have lasted the longest, that is, discloses | that very few of them ever went for the phony romance gag. Those who were forced to, abandoned it for better things _ aiter a very short time. That goes for the _ old steady types and the glamor category. The word glamor may be the key of the _ whole situation, It seems to be accepted that, to have glamor, a man or woman must live like a single rooster in a yard full of hens—or vice-versa. That just isn’t true. SAMs aoe Nahe hey, te The Sun, proves that. She is such a char- Glamor, actually, has little to do with ro- mance, and practically nothing to do with real love. When Farley Granger and Shelley Win- ters were in New York a few months ago, just after their engagement party, they appeared together in public quite a num- ber of times. But they were by no means together all of the time. Away from the gay spots where the press gang hang out, they found old cronies of their very own and renewed old friendships. There was no rush to buy a trousseau, or to set a wedding date. There may have been many legitimate reasons for this that have nothing to do with a phony romance. Certainly, Farley and Shelley are genuine- ly fond of one another and, as has been said, they are in the market for marriage. If they make a monkey out of love, they may hurt themselves by losing the faith of the fans who believe in them. But if they do marry, the unpleasant charges that they’re playing up the romance for what it’s worth in publicity will die an immedi- ate and just death. THE ENpD | ; hot copy—coming up! (Continued from page 36) makes certain players more exciting to read about than _ others. _ They are the actors who, by some pro- _ jection of their personalities, create an _ almost fictional-type character off-screen ' that is oft-times as interesting as the heroes ' and heroines they play on the screen. They | have the ability to create unusual curi- _osity about everything they do and say. STANDOUT among these, I believe, is Shelley Winters. Qh, she isn’t always tractable—or even | polite to the press—this erratic Miss Winters. Frequently, she is not above “lifting” a -witticism or a bon mot from Noel Coward | or Shaw and revamping it in her own words for an interview. (That she is _ usually caught at it doesn’t stop her!) _ She breaks appointments now and then. e She is frequently bad tempered on the set and moody in public. | But there is something very human and || warm and down to earth about Shelley that makes us forgive her, and wait with interest news of the next “jam” she gets herself into. _ Completely unpredictable, she is con- stantly good copy. Not long ago, when she was in trouble ith her studio (trouble?—she had man- | ee to get herself suspended!) she long- _ distanced me from New York. | “Ym in Dutch,” she said with that innate | honesty that is so much a part of her make- up. “I want to come back and make the icture with Frank Sinatra after all. Won’t ‘you fix it for me with my boss, Bill _ By being the first to know that Shelley _ wanted to make up with her studio, I was the first to reach Bill Goetz with the news and to get myself a “first exclusive” for he radio, and the break for my papers that is much publicized studio battle had called off. ~ ooking at it less selfishly—while Shelley juently poses as the dizziest of blondes, As flippantly as she may wisecrack about serious things, her romance with Farley Granger and marriage in general, I happen to know that she doesn’t mean half the stuff she spouts. I think that she is deeply in love with Farley and that she has a real respect for marriage. Behind all of her antics as a zany, con- tinually in hot water, the fans sense that there is a great deal more to this explosive girl. When you see her deep, emotionally stirring and honest performance in A Place In The Sun you will be sure of it. But whether Shelley is popping off like a comedienne, or letting us in on her really finer side, she is a personality who is sure to hold our interest as she zooms higher and higher up the ladder of her career. If Shelley is the hottest copy among the new corps of girls, to my way of thinking Tony Curtis holds that honor among the men. This boy is far more than a romantic, soft-eyed young screen lover who has caught the. attention of the bobby-soxers. He has enormous personal charm. When he talks for publication there is nothing of the over-night-success “ham” about him. Surprising in a boy so young, when he talks he has something to say. Tony is delighted with the way he has zoomed to the top in a short time, but he is wise to the hazards beyond his years. Frankly, I had put off meeting young Curtis and deliberately postponed several interview appointments with him. I had just had a run of interviews with some of the new screen gents, many of whom I could very well do without. So, he had a strike or two on him when he came to my house. We hadn’t talked more than a few minutes before I realized how mistaken I had been, considering him just another good-looking boy for the teen-agers to squeal over. He is a fascinating conversationalist about many things, and what I particularly liked about him is that he isn’t bored—just the opposite—when the subject veers from himself. Tony is intelligent enough to know that an honest and cooperative approach to publicity will greatly aid his career and help put it on a solid basis long after the squealers may switch to someone else. This, combined with his natural charm and dignity, will keep him out in front as good copy for many years. Net for a minute do I think that his recent marriage to Janet Leigh will di- Flower-freshness no weather can wilt © —yours with Mavis. This silky talc perfumes every inch of you with long-lasting fragrance . . . prevents chafing .. . absorbs moisture. 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Scranton 22.5 soi ae Cleland-Simpson Uy cbcancen separ eeerecr a Younker-Davidson's minish his popularity one whit. There’s : more to this lad than his being a mere bobby-sox idol. Wait and see. Are high on my list of hot honeys to watch is irrepressible Mitzi Gaynor— a publicity “natural” if I ever saw one. One of the best indications that she is hot copy coming up is that one has only to see her in a gathering to ask, “Who is that girl? Where’s she been hiding all that pep?” The first off-screen glimpse I had of Mitzi (she had played a brief part in My Blue Heaven with Betty Grable) was at the private party at Romanoff’s follow- ing the Academy Awards. The place was jumpin’ with “greats,” the most vivid personalities of the screen. And, yet, as Mitzi danced by (and how she danced—very dreamy-eyed and yet electric in the arms of an assortment of partners using, I noticed, the same tech- nique on all) everyone was asking, “Who’s that?” It isn’t that she is so beautiful, either. Many people think she looks like a pretty Jane Withers. But the sparks fly when Missy Gaynor is around, whether she is acting for the cameras or just talking to reporters. Not long ago I got a close-up of Mitzi inaction again. It was at a party given by the Darryl Zanucks for their 17-year-old daughter, Susan. Mitzi was asked to sing— an invitation she accepted with such alacrity and electricity that not only were the wolves whistling over her—all the young kids crowded around her. Later, they asked me question after question _ about this new star of musical comedy. I told Darryl, “You've got a new star in that girl.” The boss of 20th Century-Fox laughed. “Yow ’re right,” he agreed, “this girl has got it.” And IT with capital letters say I. Sea Cochran is hot copy for the reason that he deliberately makes himself thatta way. Unlike Shelley, Tony, and Mitzi, he is good to interview and to talk about not because he can’t help it—but because he works at it. I was most conscious of this when I interviewed Steve soon after he started going around with Ginger Rogers. He extracted _ every whit of publicity that “romance” could stand, and some that wasn’t in the cards. He knew that Ginger’s interest in him and vice-versa gave him new importance to the press. Steve had been knocking around Holly- wood quite a while without stirring up much dust in a publicity way. He gave good performances, but so do many other actors. He didn’t seem to have that “something” to make people talk about him and wonder what he was up to after seeing him on the sereen. But Steve kept his eyes and his ears open. He began to realize that the spotlight is most frequently turned on those gentlemen who seem to have particular allure for lovely ladies. I don’t mean to insinuate that his ro- mance with Ginger was calculated on his part. But after the spark ignited—Steve was no bashful violet about his feel- ings. He talked to all and sundry, with the result that he got more publicity than has ever come his way from a good screen performance, There are some loud whispers that Ginger became so annoyed by his ardent and oral admiration that she nipped what- ever romance there might have been between them in the bud. But even this made good copy—as the columnists guessed in print almost daily whether Ginger and Steve were “hot” or “cold.” Yes, I think Mr. Cochran, he of the virile sereen roles and the fatal attraction to the femmes, will continue very much ces eae pays Off at the box in his career. Tee Chandics feels that I do not like pink 4 He told a friend I don’t write about him — in the “complimentary” way I write about other actors. pert He doesn’t know how mistaken he is! I like him exceptionally well because there is much more to say about him in print than a mere colorless “compliment” or two. I think that Jeff has some of the same great potential publicity punch that first helped put Clark Gable over as a big star. Right now, Jeff is going through an unhappy phase of his life. His home is broken up. He will soon be divorced from his wife, and he misses his children. Clark Gable weathered this same kind of unhappy marital publicity just as he was becoming a star. I mean his unfortunate marriages to both Josephine Dillon and Rhea Gable. But if there is anything that intrigues the ladies about a man or a movie idol—it is the hint that one of these rugged- masculine charmers is suffering secret sorrows! I think the psychiatrists call it bringing out the “maternal instinct” in feminine hearts. Esther Williams was going out the studio gate at noon and an auto- graph fan stopped her sighing: "Oh, Esther, my ambition is to swim as well as you do.” - Esther snapped, “Then why aren't you in a pool working at it instead of wasting time getting autographs here?" Jeff should realize that all “good copy” does not have to be of the happy hearts- and-flowers-goody-goody variety to create interest. I think Jeff will live to realize that the Sunday feature I wrote on his broken marriage rather than on his manly charms will do him more good than harm. In my book, Jeff is a he-man who will be worth writing about for many years to come. I am greatly influenced in making my selections of hot copy by my fan mail. And I can tell you that Tony (Valentino) — Dexter has just about been burning up my ~ mail. Of the entire brand new crop of stars, I am convinced that this boy is poten- tially torrid from a publicity angle. I do not for a moment think that he is a “one role” star as so many have hinted. True, his resemblance to the late, be- loved Valentino is startling. It is the main reason that this young man, whose real name is Walter Craig, was selected by ~Edward Small to create the popular idol. But—and it’s a big but—to a whole world-wide group of new fans who do not remember the original Valentino, Tony packs a wallop completely his own. To the new young fans, Tony is excitement plus in himself, and is in no way an imitation - of an actor idolized years ago. Another young actor with strong pos- sibilities to rate reams of copy is good looking Dale Robertson. Out of the blue, as it were, my attention was attracted to this six-foot good-looking character because of his sexy speaking voice. You can close your eyes and believe you are listening to Clark when Dale talks. - I have noticed that a sexy speaking voice (singing voice, too) is a very ¢ indicator of a gentleman who will get good — publicity. We lady reporters can be just as susceptible to a voice as you fans, and are prone to write up what the Voice says ing our best hot copy style. Dale has made a pores of films. for | Pie =o eS Se he ee es ou 6 op Be ey ay

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ter you fans see in in Take Care of my _ Little Girl, ’'m sure he will be on my list to interview over and over. He is just starting his popularity climb with the | squealing set, but once they pick out a man | as their own there is no satisfying their insatiable curiosity about him. One of the candid camera photographers who cover the night clubs was the first to - call my attention to Phyllis Kirk as hot stuff. { “Touella, she’s the only one of the new kids with something really different about her. Believe me, I know. I photograph them all.” Not long after, one of the national mag- azines that specializes in Hollywood’s new hot copy gals came forth with an enchant- ing picture of Phyllis on the cover. That’s quite a break for any newcomer, and from that time on I started watching Phyllis. H® eareer started in 1949. That year she appeared with Ann Harding at the Westport, Connecticut, summer theater in Yes, My Darling Daughter. Then came a series of pictures at MGM, not with star roles, but with parts colorful enough to create an interest in the Kirk cutie. She may not exactly be hot copy now— _ but take my word for it—she’s coming up. Of course, some players do not develop into the hot copy you first expect of them. Corinne Calvet is a girl who started out like a house-afire as far as copy is con- _ cerned, and lately seems to have simmered - down. When she first came to Hollywood, she furnished one human interest angle after - another. She behaved like a playgirl and | for not taking her career seriously, Para- _ mount fired her. It made good copy, indeed, as Corinne wept and wept over her lost : poner runity, and promised to behave her- sel _ The second stage in her publicity cam- _ paign was when she did a_ serious right-about-face and applied herself so dil- igently that she not only got another | chance, but is now a star for Hal Wallis on | the same lot that fired her. Le That's good story material. Makes for {| | interest in a gal. But lately it seems to me that the press does not give her quite so much attention— | not because she is happily married to | John Bromfield, either. Rather, I believe | she can set it down to the fact that she | doesn’t particularly exert herself to be | colorful copy these days. (You can’t keep | it up, Corinne, by merely posing in some || good-looking bathing suits in front of your | beach house.) 1 Something of the same may be said | about John Derek. After starting out as | very good copy from a writer’s stand- | point, he got hooked on the subject of how ifficult it is to be “too handsome” and harped on that one idea through almost _ every interview he granted. Somewhere | along the line, many of the columnists | decided to let him fight out that problem by i} himself. I guess if you were to ask me the all ‘time high for hot copy—the prize would have to go to Joan Crawford who has ‘been the darling of the press (some- | times referred to as its meal ticket) for _ over 20 years. And Joan has never lived to egret it! If I have forgotten or overlooked some shining new player whom you believe serves a place on my “tops” list of ex- ou would drop me a hint. | said before—there’s nothing I love nore dearly than a good hot personality to i about, as well as to admire for pure "Soaping’ dulls hair Halo glorifies it! NZI Coa a4 eS Not a soap, \. % 7 notacream_ * Gives fragrant Halo cannot leave “‘soft-water’’ lather Ss x2 dulling, dirt-catching __needs no RS WS soap film! special rinse! Removes FHialo leaves hair embarrassing soft, manageable dandruff from both shining with colorful hair and scalp! natural bishielis) Pe. 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!

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sex is not enough! (Continued from page 33) realization first started to dawn on me that sex or sex appeal isn’t enough. The casting directors wanted to know if I could sing, if I could dance; what sort of dramatic training I’d had; what pictures Td played in. Had I ever been in summer stock? “Sure, you have loads of sex appeal,” one casting man agreed, “but so have a million other girls.” Fortunately for me, Mervyn LeRoy at that point in his life and mine, needed a young girl for one scene in a picture ealled They Won't Forget. This girl was to be a high-school girl dressed in a tight sweater. She was to walk down the steps of her high school, the camera panning with her, revealing her every curve. Later on, she was to be ravaged and murdered. Mervyn gave me the part. I had the physical endowments to play it. The role was a small bit, but from that point on I became typed. Lana Turner Ines came synonymous with sex. AM neither anti-Freudian nor a de- bunker of sex. But I should like to go on record as saying that sex isn’t every- thing in life, and that a girl who has only sex appeal to offer won’t keep a man very long. As a matter of fact, she won’t keep a screen career very long, either. The best quality for longevity on the screen is tal- ent. There is no other substitute. I found that out during the making of Love Finds Andy Hardy, Dancing Co-ed, Ziegfeld Girl, Johnny Eager, Honky Tonk, and all the rest of the pictures that went to make up my apprenticeship. I have also learned from my three mar- riages that there is infinitely more to love than physical attraction; love is basically a state of mind. Every day I receive dozens of letters from young girls who are sick at heart because they lack beauty or sex appeal. I’m not going to get into trouble by naming names, but here in Hollywood there are many actresses who have neither beauty nor high sex quotients. What they have most of all is personality. Beauty without personality, sex appeal without substance, are tempting come-ons that upon examination, fade into nothing- ness. ” I know, because in my time I have dated some of the most handsome men this world has to offer. Sex appeal oozed from them. They were built like Apollos, but they were about as interesting as laundry lists. I remember one young actor I dated when I was single, largely because his studio thought the publicity might do him some good. Wed go dancing at a night club, and he’d keep asking, “How do I look?” When he wasn’t worried about his looks, he was either running a comb through his hair or grimacing to attract the attention of other patrons. He suf- fered from a Narcissus complex, spoke only about himself, and while occasionally, he stumbled over the truth about himself, he always recovered and rambled on as if nothing had happened. On the other hand, take a man like Spencer Tracy. Spence isn’t the most handsome guy in the world, and maybe _ he doesn’t exude sex—but what a person- ality! What warmth! What interest! What kindness! What gentleness! These are qualities that last longer than sex, because a positive correlation exists between sex and passion, and passion as everyone knows, (Continued on page 85) ie Gps te Choose this filmy-light greaseless base Keep your complexion looking flawless with this sheerer foundation! Smooth on just a glimmer of soft, greaseless Pond’s Vanishing Cream before powdering. The light mist actually disappears, leaving only the suggestion of a smooth finish, never a trace of oiliness. Make-up blends on easily—powder clings longer! The inyisible veiling protects your skin! Flattery for any skin-tone, transparent Pond’s Vanishing Cream gives such a lovely, natural look to your complexion! 1-Minute Mask “‘re-styles”’ end-of-summer complexions! “Re-style’” your complexion for fall—make your skin look clearer, smoother, brighter! Swirl a cool 1-Minute Mask of Pond’s Vanishing Cream over your entire face, except eyes. “Keratolytic” action of the Cream loosens and dissolves off shadowing dirt, dead skin flakes. Leave the Mask on a full minute and relax under its soothing coolness. Now tissue off—marvel at the rosy-freshness of your skin, softer, glowing after this instant “‘re-styling’”’! * Mai Febat Baan Wty “The 1-Minute Mask with Pond’s Vanishing Cream does more for my complexion than anything I know!” says Mrs. Robert Bacon Whitney.

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ONE EE DIES Happy Rel from warm pads, from chafing - and from odor Certainly you'll find great relief with Tampax on those inevitable days of the month which are more un- welcome than ever in summer. Tampax sanitary protection is not at all like the other kind. It can’t be seen when in use. It can’t be felt. It can’t inter- | fere with any activity. For = Tampax is worn internally and so dis- cards the bothersome belt and heavy pad! And Tampax can’t add a jot or tittle to the heat and discomfort of a humid day. It can’t chafe. Can’t cause odor to form. May be worn in tub or shower. Ideal when swim- ming. Further, there are no “edges’’ to show under thin dresses or scanty play-shorts. ... An invention of a doc- tor, Tampax is made of pure surgical cotton — highly absorbent — compressed into handy applicators. Changing quick. Disposal easy. Buy Tampax at drug or notion counter. Three different absorbencies: Regular, Super, Junior. Average month's supply slips into purse. Tampax Incor- porated, Palmer, Mass. : Accepted for Advertising by the Jvurnal of the American Medical Association by joan evans Making friends isn't half as hard as keeping them —here’s how to do both easily. | eee girls from Wierton, West Virginia— their names are Bernadine, Agnes, Carol and Caroline—asked me a good ques- tion: “We were wondering if you could tell us about a real friendship and what makes it stick.” I’ve had a lot of letters, too, from girls who say, “My girl friend is always making cracks at me, particularly in front of boys,” and another kid complained, “Whenever we double date, my girl friend makes a big play for the boy I’m with.” So I got to realize that the whole sub- ject oi what makes a friendship last is very important. Girls are always worried about how to be popular with boys, and how to act towards them, but they take the girl friends for granted. And it’s just as vital to have girl friends as to have boy friends. Believe me, I know. When I first came to California to work for Mr. Goldwyn, I was just 14. I didn’t go to a regular school but had a tutor at the studio. I was the only one in my class. The Goldwyn studio is small and Gigi Perreau, then age seven, and I were the only girls under contract. So I had no chance to meet other boys my age and I was terribly lonely for girl companionship. When I began coaching with Bob Paris I met one of his pupils—a girl named Palma Shard. She is a wonderful singer and has done a lot of work on television. She has also played a couple of parts in pictures. I knew I liked her right away and I hoped we could be good friends. Well, the happy ending is that she’s my best friend now and I wouldn’t take anything for that friendship. But one of the reasons it has stuck is because we both work at being friends. We are considerate of each other. We make a point of seeing each other at least once a week and we talk on the telephone every few days. She is as in- terested in what I am doing as I am in her, and I can honestly say that if Palma gets a good break I’m just as excited as when I do. There just couldn’t be any professional jealousy between us any more than there could be personal jealousy. We have no secrets from each other, and I know that Palma would cut her throat before she would try to take a boy friend of mine away from me. And vice versa. You see, I’m able to appreciate a good friend. Before Palma, I met a girl I liked a lot, but pretty soon I discovered that I was always on the giving end. I was the one who always called her. I was the one who always asked her to my house. In other words, I was working at the friend- ship and she wasn’t—and that’s no good. S the way to make a friendship stick is to work at it—not to sit back and always expect your friend to seek you out. You have to do some seeking out your- self. I’m not for that silly business of counting calls or invitations, and saying, “Now it’s her turn to call me,” or, “It’s her turn to have me over.” But if you have been to several parties at a girl’s house— or even been invited to them—you have to return the favor. And while I’m on the subject of parties I’m going to stick my neck out (and may- be get scolded). I have a lot of letters from kids who say that their parents never let them have friends over; never let them give a party. I would like to shake those parents. Honestly, what are they thinking about! Don’t they know that their chil- dren can’t grow up into well adjusted human beings unless they learn how to en- tertain in their own home? Don’t they know they are driving their kids away from home by denying them a home? [I _ think kids who aren’t allowed to entertain at home should rebel. 5 Another very important thing that makes a friendship stick is honesty Rk oh" ony

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But by honesty I don’t mean rudeness. Just because you have a “best friend” you are not supposed to treat her like an old shoe. And you should not be too frank. If she asks your advice about something she’s done and you think she’s done wrong there are so many different ways of saying it. You can hurt her by saying, “Are you crazy? Don’t you know you acted like a fool?” Or you can be tactful and say, “Well, I don’t know, honey. It seems to me I would have done so and so, but then you and I are different people.” aye certainly can’t make a friendship stick if you go around hurting your friends’ feel- ings. Remember you don’t have a corner on being sensitive. So think before you say some- thing thoughtless and cruel. You can apolo- gize later and even be forgiven, but something is gone. So why not stop the cruel, thoughtless word before it is said? It’s so much better. Just because someone is close to you is no reason why she should have less considera- tion than someone you don’t like nearly so well. In fact, the girl close to you should have more consideration because there is more affection between you. I’d like to tell you something very cute that Palma once did. She’d done some kind of publicity stunt for a tele- vision show and she was given, among other things, a dinner for two at a charming little ~ restaurant. Well, she asked me to go with her. “But look, Joan,” she said, “if something better comes up I intend to break this date, and I trust you to do the same.” Now that’s what I mean by honesty. We both laughed because we both knew what she meant by “something better.” The ‘something better’ was an excit- ing bid from a boy friend. There’s one more thing that I think is ter- ribly important about making a friendship stick. You should never hold a grievance against your friend. I mean you should never keep it bottled up inside. If she does some- thing that hurts you, come right out and say so. On the other hand, I don’t believe in the old saw, “Never apologize—your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it.” There’s no such thing as blind understanding. You might say something that is perfectly innocent and yet be misunderstood by your friend. If you explain what was meant, the whole thing can be cleared up. Everybody should treasure friendship. Good friends are hard to come by. A” now here are some more letters. “Dear Joan: Is it all right for a girl to call a boy first—that is, on the telephone ?— E. S., Bridgeport, Conn.” It’s all right for a girl to call a boy when she has something specific to say—like asking him to a party or, if she has been away from school, asking him something about the home work providing she can’t get the home work from a girl. But it is wrong to pursue a boy on the telephone. Your call should be legiti- mate or he'll think you’re chasing him. “Dear Joan: My problem is jealousy. I know it isn’t right, but I just can’t help it—Tex, c/o ~ Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.” Wouldn’t it help if you would tell yourself _how silly jealousy is? If you’re going with a «girl you can tell whether she likes you or not. oe | | | MY PLANCLOIHES LOOK | | | SO PRETTY AND BRIGHTS | G youl. Gectcau, ! Jeouck the gran BOM deptrd matt Just titer. Sole “> s |

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It’s an in- feriority complex. It’s not being sure of your- self. Just say to yourself, “This girl likes me or she wouldn’t be going out with me,” and if you have self-confidence you can’t be jeal- ous. Some girls are flattered when a boy is jealous. Not me. J think it just shows a lack of faith. “Dear Joan: A boy I used to go with went into service a few months ago. As yet I haven’t heard from him, and I was wondering if I should write first—J. E., Lenexa, Kansas.” You bet you should! Remember that he may have written. Letters have been known to be lost in the mails. Or he may have been too busy to write. But I know he would like to hear from you. I get hundreds of letters from servicemen. Mail is one of the most im- portant things in their lives. And while I’m on the subject, I wish the girls who read this column would make a big effort to write to the boys in service. It’s very important. So do write to this boy, J. E. And don’t count letters, either. Write him whenever you have something interesting and newsy to say. “Dear Joan: I used to be very sweet and even tempered and now I am nasty and talk mean to everyone. Is this a part of growing up?—R. C. G., Traitford, Pa.” ae know something. Acting mean and being nasty is not a part of growing up. But the very fact that you know you're acting mean and want to control your nastiness proves that you can. That’s a big step. That silly old rule of counting 10 before you speak if you’re angry is pretty good. Actually all it means is just, “think before you speak.” You know perfectly well when you feel a mean re- mark coming on. So just bite your tongue, think to yourself what you might have said, think how you might have made the other person feel, and either say something else in- stead or don’t say anything. “Dear Joan: People have been telling me things about my fiancé going with other girls. I - found a picture of another girl in his bill fold. We have quarrels once in awhile about these girls. What should I do?—B. W., Bar- berton, Ohio.” The first thing is to remember that mar- riage never reformed a man yet. Be thankful that you know about this now before you marry him. But be very sure that he isn’t kidding you about the other girls and getting a kick out of making you jealous. You should have a real, honest talk with him and not a quarrel. Quarrels never solve anything. Ask him to tell you why, when he is engaged to you, he sees other girls. If you are convinced that he is not kidding you, that he really does see other girls then, of course, there’s nothing to do but to break the engagement. And, by the ‘way, why were you looking in his bill fold? “Dear Joan: I have very oily hair and in order to keep it soft and shining I wash it every four days. Is this too oftenP—J. W., Tucson, Arizona.” : I think so. Most beauty experts will tell you that too much water dries out the hair, - IT HAPPENED TO ME _ One afternoon on an ocean liner en route for Ha- waii, I decided to do a little swim- ming in the ship’s pool. I was only seven years old at the time and didn’t know much about it. After I got into the pool, the rocking water frightened me and I was trying to hold onto the rope that went around the side of the pool. A few minutes later, an at- tractive girl in a white bathing suit and cap noticed my struggle to keep my head above water and she came over to see about me. “Get on my back and hold on tight,” she said. Then she swam around the pool with me and we got out to dry. I was informed later by my mother that the nice lady was a movie star named Joan Fontaine. Carol Gardt Kingsville, Texas You can keep the oil out in a couple of ways. There are several good “dry shampoos” on the market. They are not really dry, as you probably know. Actually they are liquid cleansers. If you tie a piece of cheese cloth around your brush and brush your hair with that you can get a lot of the oil out. Try it and see. I, personally, think that once a week is often enough to shampoo hair with water. “Dear Miss Evans: I read your diet. I would like to know if you can have vegetable juice or orange juice instead of grapefruit juice. Can you have a green or yellow vegetable instead of salad occasionally? Do you have to drink ~ skimmed milk ?—S. S., Orlando, Florida.” On a reducing diet, orange juice is no good. The grapefruit juice is actually thinning. Occasionally, you can vary the grapefruit juice with tomato juice. You should have enough salad but occasionally you can substitute a green or yellow vegetable, provided that there is little butter used. Yes, you have to drink — skimmed milk. Regular milk has cream in it and cream is fattening. I know just how you feel, but you must have perseverance. ‘Dear Joan: I am 15. I want to be a model. Could you please tell me if I need a high school education?—C. G., Fall River, Mass.” I’m sure there are some successful models who do not have a high school education, but that doesn’t matter. You should have one. Everybody who possibly can should have at least a high school education. Not just for your job, either, but because an education is important to you as a human being. I wish I could shake those kids who want to quit /§ school while they are in high school. se you @ do, you certainly will regret it. And that’s it for this month, kids. Thanks for writing. And thanks for all the | nice jes you say about this column. DO YOU HAVE A TEEN-AGE PROBLEM? WRITE TO JOB EVANS, ba 93, cee eo

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nt 3 ; % X < R ae S** appeal is important, sure. us le PRES AS ie Pcs ite ep eer ihe eee ae = Se a * is not enough : (Continued from page 81) fades with the years. But personality, warmth and gen- tility are enhanced by time. ‘These are the traits most young girls should cultivate. These are the traits I try to cultivate in Cheryl, my own daughter. But as any married couple will testify, it takes It takes children, mutuality of purpose, self-sacrifice, understanding, a sense of - humor, and the ability to put up with ah hey little idiosyncrasies. I, for example, have more than my share. For some strange reason, I feel a frightened at large social gatherings. Put me in a room with more than 10 or 12 people, and ’m uneasy. I know I shouldn’t _ be, but Iam. Invariably, the last thing I say to my husband before we step into a erowded room is, “Darling, don’t leave _ me.” Bob understands my uneasiness and puts up with it. By the same token, I under- stand his love for deep-sea fishing. As a result, I've become a deep-sea fisherwoman myself. A few years ago down in the Bahamas, I pulied in a tuna that weighed more than 300 pounds. When I was a girl, you couldn’t get me to go fishing for love or money. . tive importance of sex is a part of growing up. When a girl is young, sex appeal is probably the most vital thing in life to her. She imagines that her face and figure are her paramount enticements. _ I believe that a realization of the rela- he _ Boys, she will tell you, are not interested in her scholarly attainments, her athletic _ ability, or her knowledge of languages. That, at least, is what I used to think. I know now that I was wrong. I know now that if ’'d had the proper dramatic train- ing to go with my physical endowments, my motion picture career would have progressed at a faster rate than it did. Boys are interested in anything a smart girl wants them to be interested in. Girls with brains and personality marry men of stability and good will. Girls who offer nothing but beauty and sex usually wind up in the divorce courts. I am not running sex down. I agree that it is an underlying motive in all human conduct, but I happen to feel that too much emphasis has been put upon it not only where I, personally, have been con- cerned, but in our day-to-day living. Only recently, I read a book entitled, “The Folklore of Sex,’ in which the author said: “The American public will not take a work of fiction to its heart if the story does not imply that unconven- tional sex behavior is the nastiest and tastiest business imaginable.” Much the same thing has been said about motion pictures. I just don’t believe it. Sex alone will sell nothing. Sex appeal is helpful in gaining entry either into a man’s consciousness or a man’s business, but sex alone will never capture any man’s heart permanently. Some of you will undoubtedly say that ever since Adam, men have been interested in sex, and that around your particular neighborhood that still holds true. Maybe so, but it’s been my experience that men fall hardest and quickest for girls who are pleasant, cheerful, witty, and good-natured. You've all read a good deal about Mar- lene Dietrich, how even though she’s past 50 she still has men pursuing her every Tuesday and Thursday. The reason Mar- lene is so attractive to men is because she’s good-natured. She’s always been good-natured even in the days when her legs were featured more than her wit. Myrna Dell, a young actress who was recently married, is another Hollywood girl who always had plenty of beaux. And for that same reason, too. She knew how to swap gags with the boys and remain feminine in the process. Janet Leigh, before she was married to Tony Curtis, was popular with most of the young Hollywood eligibles, because she, too, is sweet, perennially cheerful, and the possessor of a wonderful sense of humor. Ann Sheridan and Ava Gardner are two more cases in point. Each of these girls offers charm, personality, and good humor before sex appeal. Ive seen Ava walking around Holly- wood in glasses and blue jeans, looking as simple and plain and unrecognized as the girl next door. Despite her sex appeal —and it’s considerable—men go for Ava because she has a mind like lightning, quick and flashing. Even in Hollywood where sex supposedly is all-important, it has always taken a backseat to talent. Give any casting director or producer the choice between an intelligent, not-so- pretty girl who can act, and a pretty, not- so-intelligent girl who can’t—and the talent will always win. Debbie Reynolds, Mitzi Gaynor, Pier Angeli, Leslie Caron—all of today’s new- comers are young girls who have special- ized talent. It’s not that sex has gone out of fashion, because it definitely hasn’t. It’s just that here in Hollywood, we’ve come to realize that the trouble with sex appeal is it’s only skin-deep. 5 For lasting happiness, a girl needs some- thing much more solid and enduring than that. THE END (Lana Turner can be seen in MGM's Mr. Imperium.—Ed.) ection 18.19.20 = Setion 15.16 17 R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Go., Winston-Salem, N.C. In group after group—ser- vicemen, airline hostesses, Cavalier KING-SIZE CIGARETTES — EXTREMELY MILD %of College Women who were interviewed said: “CAVALIERS are MILDER than the brand I had been smoking!” College women learned what real cigarette mildness is when they compared Cavaliers with the cigarettes they had been smoking. Hundreds of smokers were interviewed in four leading women’s colleges. 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NO HIGHWAY by Nevil Shute A movie queen and a scientist play a game with life and death in a speeding Trans-Atlantic airliner. DON'T FORGET TO GET THESE NEW DELL BOOKS only 25 ¢C each af your local is cuptiae ; who’d marry me? (PT Ae cee ye ‘ (Continued from page 48) “You shouldn’t have gone. You won’t know how to conduct yourself. He will never bother with you again.” ; (Eee voice was right. I not only tried to act like an older girl and failed, but I was too far affected by being out with him to even act my own age. I was gawky. I was giggly. I was stupid. When I had been sitting too long in the car without saying anything I got nervous. Not being able to think of an idea of my own, I read an advertising sign we passed, read it aloud and mispronounced practically every word! When he made a driving error and I should have kept mum till the incident was forgotten, I laughed and earned an annoyed look. When we pulled up in the parking lot of the theater and he was coming around to open the door on my side, I not only opened it myself first, but closed it again quickly so he could open it after all! When we got inside my feet went rubbery and he had to save me from stumbling a half dozen times. And all through the picture I was in a daze. He still said hello after that night, but no more smile, no invitations, not even a pat on the head! I cried off and on for weeks and that was the first time I thought—“Who’d ever marry me?” Maybe my worrying about it that much was why I did get married when I was only 16. But that was so unwise and short- lived a marriage that it was as if it had never happened. So the old thought still comes back to me every time I meet someone I like. And now there are other reasons that keep popping up in my head making me wonder. When I was 14 it was silly to worry about it; maybe it still is silly, but I can’t help it. Of course, all girls get vague fears like this at times. I think something of this nature accounts for the fact that I had two ) periods in my life when I stuttered every time I tried to talk. Naturally shy to begin with, this affliction made me withdraw into myself altogether. I would start to say something and my lips would get fixed into an “O” shape, a lost feeling would come over me, and I would stand there frozen. One day when I was attend- ing Van Nuys High School in the San Fernando Valley, I auditioned for a school play. I had memorized my lines perfectly. The other kids were standing around when the teacher gave me the cue. I opened my mouth—and nothing! There was a long silence and then curtain! pz fear was not one that I analyzed then as concern over being “wanted,” but it certainly bore a close relationship to this. I worried about being left out of things, being passed up by the “crowd” as a goof and all that. I never could get over how glib the other kids could be, standing around the school yard and rattling away whole streams of merry talk. Like every- one else with a handicap, I worked hard to get the best of mine and I improved. But not sensationally then. And the other girls were fast to point up my deficiency ~ whenever they could. Tll never forget the little items in the school paper on this subject. Any boy who took me anywhere was reported as having “drug” me ... the implication being that I was a dead weight, of course. Well, so I didn’t talk the ear off a boy when I was with him! There were some, I found, who didn’t mind silences between sentences. One was the boy who always played the lead in school plays. We could just stand or sit together, and have just as good a time as if we were yakking away. = ; x _ ‘ 3 : a ta x ; ek ee ee ee es teen

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. I started dating by drifting into it. After that one bad experience with my “dream man” who lived across the street, I classed myself as a bad prospect for any boy. But there would be fellows who walked me home from school and we would stand outside the house and talk a while. Other kids would come along, and before long there was such a group of us that my Aunt Anna said we resembled a mob. She would invite us in just to get us out of the eyes of the neighbors. And sometimes one of the boys would suggest our going some- where, and that way I sort of slid painlessly into going out. I cured my stuttering, which was really an inability to get the opening word out. And after that I slowly learned to be my- self and not act like a stick when I was out with someone. But there were other problems to lick. I remember that when I left school and got work as a model, it was terribly difficult for me to work-.in front of people. It was bad enough profes- sionally, and it was awful for me socially. Suppose there was someone present who might be interested in me . .. what would his reaction be to a girl who could hardly hide her nervous state? I remember modeling once at Bullock’s big store. My job was to pull down little roller signs. Painted on them were illus- trations of the wardrobe accessories a de- signer was discussing for some buyers. “Now here is a very versatile scarf that can be made to do for almost any occasion,” the designer would say, and I would pull down an illustration of a leather belt! The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from that position.—Betty Grable as quoted by Irving Hoffman in The Hollywood Reporter. I started going to cocktail parties. Next to me would be the fellow who brought me, and around us a sea of strange faces that would move closer and closer, and talk, talk, talk! What to say? What to answer? What were they thinking of me for my nervous laughter? What about the fellow who brought me? If he had had ideas that he liked me . . . weren’t they gone forever? That little voice of mine used to give me the answer. “Better learn to live alone and pretend to like it.” I didn’t want that. I kept going to cock- tail parties and, by determining to conquer my fears, I did attain some ease of mind. A cocktail party is still not my idea of the best evening’s entertainment in the world, but neither is it the worst. Maybe the easiest feature of a cocktail party (or a dance) to handle is the stag line. That’s probably because there is so little originality in the “approach.” One night seven men talked to me and it was as if all seven of them were reading from the same script. Their lines (leaving out mine which probably were no brighter) ran something as follows: “Well! The moment I saw you come in the door I knew I had to meet you.” “You know, you’re like something I’ve never seen before.” “Td like to call you up some time. If I had your number.” These days, now that I’ve been in some pictures, the only variation is: “I saw you in The Asphalt Jungle. I'd call _ you up some time, if I had your number.” r— “I saw you in All About Eve. Id like to call you up some time, if I had your _ number.” The future dialogue will be the same s except that the pictures referred to will probably be my new ones, As Young As icated Noxzema — you can help your skin Dry Skin. “My skin had been dry, before I tried Noxzema’s Home Facial,” says beautiful Mrs. Ellen Sloan of Raleigh, N. C. “This beauty routine helped my skin look so much lovelier, I follow it daily now!” New Beauty Routine Quickly Helps Skin Look Softer, Smoother, Lovelier! No need for a lot of elaborate preparations ...no complicated rituals! With just one dainty, snow-white cream — greaseless, med- look softer, smoother and lovelier! Base, “Te NO%ema for yon 4 light es 2 ne not Powd The way to use it is as easy as washing Psuetall ; bee make-up, : I ski our face. It’s the Noxzema Home Facial, fe skin gi] day! elps protect described at the right. Developed by a doc- tor, in clinical tests it helped 4 out of 5 women, with problem skin, to look lovelier! See how it can help you! With this doctor's Home Facial, you “creamwash” skin to glowing cleanliness —without any dry, drawn feeling after- wards. You give skin the all-day protection of a greaseless powder base . . . the all-night aid of a medicated cream that helps heal, sof- ten and smooth—and leaves no greasy film. Money-Back Offer! Try the Noxzema Home Facial for 10 days. If skin doesn’t show real improvement, return jar to Noxzema, Baltimore, Md.—your money back. *externally-caused or S7easeless__no “0 5 oO S meary’? face! Get your jar today! Get greaseless, medicated Noxzema Skin Cream at any drug or cosmetic counter—40¢, 60¢ and $1.00, plus tax. See how much it can help your skin! NOXZEMA

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ar exclusive. I'm really saving them a lot of time, and maybe trouble. If I were married I would often be up and gone before my husband was awake. I'd be home ready for sleep right after din- ner, while he’d be ready for a big evening. Then, suddenly, the whole thing would go into reverse. I would get up late and want to stay up after he got sleepy. If I did marry, I don’t think the boy I'd choose would be an actor. That’s the way it seems to me now. And that, I notice, often spells trouble to Hollywood ro- mances. It’s hard for a non-professional to become accustomed to the ways of pic- ture people, no matter how many times you read that it isn’t. It’s not only a matter of jealousy, it’s the feeling that you really haven't full rights to the time and in- terest of your wife or husband if she or he happens to be in the public eye. No, right now I have a one track mind— screen work. I want to be a real actress and I don’t want to be causing anyone any pain or heartache while I am at it. Who would want to take a chance and marry me? Someone, someday, I hope. But he seems so far away now. THE END what I'll tell my sons (Continued from page 51) And if they develop into the kind of young men I hope they will, they will be able to sepa- rate the sense from the nonsense in what I say, and apply both to their own lives. I ce y hope so. As the saying goes, those who can, do; those who can’t, teach. Being thus quali- fied, I plunge into a subject which offers unlimited opportunities for making a fool of myself. Women. I started my life surrounded by women—six of them, to be exact. They were my sisters, and each was older and infinitely wiser than I. Whenever I think of my sisters, singly or collectively, I am pleased to remember that they loved me and always tried to help me. One of my sisters taught me how to dance. Another one taught me how to tie a bow tie without looking in the mirror. Still another, my sister Betty, taught me how to fight. Really, she did. All of my sisters were wonderful. Offhand, you’d think that my early life shou:d have given me a head start over the other fellows in the task of under- standing women. Well, it didn’t. Actually, the things I learned from my sisters only mixed me up, and it wasn’t until years later that I realized how badly. Pezzees the most virulent piece of mis- information circulated around our house was the notion that women are the weaker of the two sexes. I don’t know who gave birth to that priceless phrase, but I am ab- solutely convinced that that myth was started by a very clever woman who was kidding everyone but herself. Superior women have been selling it to their in- ferior mates ever since. In fact, it has been the greatest tactical weapon since the Trojan Horse. Personally, I don’t be- lieve I will ever get over the inferiority complex which started when my sisters outran me, won all my marbles, and beat up the neighborhood bullies I didn’t have the nerve to fight. Honestly, when I was about five I watched my sister, Betty wallop the daylights out of a mean kid who'd taunted me all the way home. Then she took me into the house and spent an hour showing me how to keep my guard up. Things like that leave their mark on a man. One of the subconscious reasons, I believe, why I took up wrestling in col- lege was because there were no women Sn, ee eee ea WE GERAENY scagsetegtienenegrnaecentntes = “Minded rR says Joan Blondell How to Lose Weight and Look Lovelier ‘ @ “Try reducing the Ayds way,” says lovely screen star, Joan Blon- dell. “‘I know you will be as delighted as I am because you'll get results so easily and pleasantly. So many of my friends—movie stars here in Hollywood—are taking Ayds.” Now! Lose weight the way Nature in- tended you to! A quick natural way with no risk to health. With the Ayds Plan you should feel healthier, look better while re- ducing—and have a lovelier figure! When you take Ayds before meals, as directed, you can eat what you want... * all you want. Ayds contains no harmful drugs... calls for no strenuous diet. Ayds is a specially made candy contain- ing health-giving vitamins and minerals. It acts by reducing your desire for those extra fattening calories... works almost like magic. Easily and naturally you should begin to look slimmer, day by day. Users report losing up to 10 pounds with the very first box. In fact you must lose weight with the first box ($2.98) or your money back. and Pp You'll decorate any ieepee in this comty “Indian Maid’ 3.99 ie 5 2 growing girls’ s sizes 4 do. 8 at $3.99. Moccasin with soft cape soles, gay, :- washable mock beading and luxurious — bunny. fur trim. Red, royal, pe light blue, light green, black and white. Sizes 4 to 9, medium width. Litile. Miss Honeybugs: children’s sizes 8 t¢ 3 at $3.49: Chorm tastitute _. Gold Medal Awerd Fer Outsicnding Design 14108 Auyts yank - “glamour fer SS ae

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My sisters could not have made me more of a sitting duck if they’d chopped off both my arms. My first college debate, on the subject, “Should Women Take an Active Part in Politics?” proved that to me. My worthy opponent was an attractive girl who (although I had carefully avoided any of the forceful, old-line arguments against women in politics) so passionately accused me of rank masculine prejudice that even I was convinced that I had been guilty of it. Of course, she won the de- bate. I didn’t mind that so much, as I was still inexperienced. What killed me was our talk afterwards, when I asked her why she had concentrated so hard on the prejudiced views she suspected I had, instead of squashing the obviously weak points I had limited myself to. “Oh,” she said innocently, batting her beautiful brown eyes. at me, “I was so sure you would use the old argument about women’s inferiority that I didn’t bother to prepare for anything else. But it didn’t make any difference, did it?” Since then, I have lost dozens of similar arguments—enough to convince me, for- ever, that women are not battling for equality; but rather, for the right to battle for equality. And on their own terms. Today, I think that if more men realized this, there would be no battle at all, for they would have enough sense to stay out of the fight altogether. As long as they don’t, they will be born victims. N= long ago, my oldest boy, Michael, came to me with the complaint that, “Mommie doesn’t understand me.” His feelings were hurt because Diana, for good reason, had not allowed him to wan- der down the street to play cowboys with some other kids. “Of course, she does, Son,” I told him, reassuringly. I meant to say further that he would never know how well she understands him. But Mikie is still too young to be pondering about such things. Perhaps he will come to me later in life with a similar complaint about his girlfriend, and then I can tell him the whole truth. “Son,” I will say, assuming a paternal scowl, “men will always worry about women not understanding them. But it is not true. In only seems so because men are so totally incapable of understanding women. But don’t worry about it, Son. You never will know the way a woman’s mind works. Just give up.” I honestly believe that if you could take a picture of a woman’s mind it would re- veal a pattern of tangled thought trails, with pitfalls lurking at every turn. By this, I do not mean that women are lack- ing logic or judgment. Generally speak- ing, a woman’s judgment is much sounder than a man’s, for usually he is caught up in his dreams. For this reason, the right woman can always bring tremendous in- sight into a man’s life. But try as he may, he will never understand her, even when she is pleading for him to do so. A man can’t shift that fast. It reminds me of the story of the wife who came home with a lamp which had been reduced from $79.50 to $54.00. She also had a new bathing suit that cost, she said, only $29.50 .on sale, too. Her reasoning was that since she had saved $25.50 on the lamp, the suit had only cost her $4.00, and wasn’t she the thrifty one? It took her husband some time to figure it out, but almost at once he knew that her thrift was sure to cost him dough. - To my knowledge, no man ever won an hos RE ek eats He Sy CR ee EAR eM eteen ooia = argument with a woman. : Whenev seems that he has, he should merely co sider it the first round. He has been con- _ ceded that one in order to lose less pain- fully the next, more important, round. Thus, I fear, it will be to the grave. And if my sons or anyone else reading this detects a note of bitterness—well, I con- fess that I don’t know another way to swallow the unpleasant truth. There was a scene in Champion that will illustrate what I mean. I remember it because it was handled so subtly. May- be you will, too. Remember the scene where the blonde girl insists that the Champ get a new manager or else? “No,” he says. “No,” he repeats, in answer to her pleading. “Absolutely not,’ he says, with finality. Then the scene fades, and the next shot we see is the Champ, sitting in the office of his new manager, discussing terms. Why did he give in? Some people would ee love. You know, the web that traps us all. Groucho Marx, who detests auto- graphing, was seized on the arm by a gal who said: "| want to send you a present. Would you tell me your birthday?” "Certainly," said Groucho. “Jan- uary fortieth." Earl Wilson in The New York Post I can hardly bear looking at my boys when I realize that it won’t be long be- fore some beautiful little girl with pig- tails will be the cause for their front teeth being knocked out. My heart falters when I think of them standing in front of a mirror, shaving a non-existent beard, and tying and retying their ties in order to make the best possible impression on their girlfriend of the moment. And I know there will come a time when a particular girl will, for each of them, be the cause of real heartache. : Unfortunately, there is not much con- crete advice I will be able to give my boys on that score. But I can remind them that while the heart is the center of our whole existence, it fortunately has greater recuperative powers than any other part of our body. 7 I remember-how I found that out. When I was in the second grade, I fell horribly in love with a little girl who was in the third grade. She was the most beautiful girl in school, a dream with rosy cheeks, blonde hair, and the bluest eyes I’ve ever seen to this day. I gave her a ring I'd made out of a nail, and she promised me faithfully that she would wait for me until we both grew up. She didn’t. She mar- ried some character before she even fin- ished high school, and it nearly killed me. Until I met another girl, that summer, who had brown eyes, dimples, and the smoothest black hair I’ve ever seen. When your heart is broken, it takes another woman to pick up the pieces and put them back together again. That is why, in spite of all the confusion they cause, women are here to stay. : And, you know, it’s not so bad. Women, in addition to being a part of the educa- tion of every man, are really wonderful when they are wonderful. But when they’re bad, there’s nothing. worse. In closing, I would like to say I know ~ that when my boys grow up and read this they will take it to their mother. She will undoubtedly rip it to bits and give them the real truth. And I know one other thing for sure. I won’t argue with her. Tre Eni (Kirk Douglas is current Paramount's Ace In The H oben Mien ie se Eagle Saitibbaden GAA aif seta ma a Aah Sood 4 A & > fg e)

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marriage and joan (Continued from page 47) would kill me if I told how old she was when she and Dale faced the minister. Ill just tell you she wasn’t 17 and let it go at that. Both of them were old enough to know what they wanted. I’ve seen that marriage work. I think it’s the most wonderful thing in the world. And I just couldn’t settle for less. “As a matter of fact,” Joan continued, “T really think it was because I feel so strongly about this that Chuck Saxon, the editor of MoprRN ScREEN, asked me to do a teen-age column for this magazine. I’m trying my level best to give good advice to those teen-agers. And where would I be with those kids who say they believe in me if I did anything so irresponsible as getting married now?” B uT what will happen to Joan if she falls in love? Joan has been in love. And it is this very fact that makes her afraid of marriage. If this seems ambiguous, listen to the story. The first time Joan thought she fell in love was with a man 15 years older than she. The psychologists will tell you that this is right on the nose of normal. The Freud- ian pattern, in a nutshell, is that the young girl, afraid of the parry and thrust of boys her own age, transfers from the security her father has given her to what she thinks is the security of an older man. The man thought she was a bright child —and so pretty to look at. He flattered her, and teased her, and Joan mistook this for love. When she learned that he loved her only as a person loves a child, she was emotion- ally shocked. Joan, like all good actresses, is intense. She felt life was over for her. Call for breath that's pure and sweet She felt her youth had betrayed her. She was convinced that she would never smile again; never be interested in anybody else for the rest of her life. Then one day on the set she was intro- duced to a boy who had come for an inter- view with the director. He was tall and young and very charming. He liked Joan immediately. He asked her for a date. Joan found herself laughing with this boy and thinking he was—well—quite cute. For a moment she drew back for a little self analysis. “I must be pretty superficial,” she thought. “Why, I’m having fun. I’m laugh- ing. And just a little while ago I was in the throes of an impossible love.” So she had a couple of dates with this boy. He was a young actor and they had a great deal in common. They liked the same movies or they didn’t like the same movies. It didn’t matter. They could argue about them either way. The older man was for- gotten, and Joan found herself with a real crush on the boy. But, because she believes that a girl who ties herself to one boy until she has known several and has some basis for comparison is foolish, they didn’t go steady. So, time, youth, and nature took their course. Noth- ing climactic, nor dramatic happened. Just eventually she was not in love with the boy any more, although she managed to keep him as a friend. It was then that Joan began to think. She was sunbathing in the charming patio of her parents’ home when she told me about it. “T began to think, then, about marriage and me,” she said. “And I thought well, for heaven’s sake, if I can fall in and out of love so fast, I’d better wait until I’m sure. I be- gan to wonder what would have happened if I had been able to marry someone I had a crush on—and then didn’t have the crush any more. Why, I would be married! What if I fell out of love after I was married! Conversations in the moonlight And, if you have used Lavoris it’s a cinch that you'll “repeat’’. Then where would I find all my plans for making my marriage stick? And that’s when I knew that marriage is a grown- up business and that you have to be pretty adult to accept all the responsibilities that go with it.” As she was talking I had forgotten that Joan had her 17th birthday in July. For she was very serious and making very good sense. She sat up straight on the chaise. “There are exceptions, of course,” she said. “But look at a lot of Hollywood teen-age marriages. Well, for that matter, look at a lot of teen-age marriages anywhere. How can a teen-ager promise her adult life to a boy or a man until she is adult? Honestly, marriage is the most serious thing in the world. And, believe me, I’m not going into it, even if my parents would let me, until I’m sure it’s real and not just a crush. And. when you've had a lot of crushes how can you be sure?” HERE was, of course, the inevitable ro- mantic gossip about Joan and Farley Granger. Never has there been any ro- mance between them. She has gone out with Farley no more than five times. When Joan and Farley met she was a frightened, confused kid. Picture the scene. She was 14 years old, wanting desperately to play the leading role in Roseanna McCoy. Farley was already an established star. He wasn’t worried about getting his part. While Joan was making a test for Rose- anna, suddenly Farley kissed her. She was the most surprised girl in the world. It was part of the scene they were playing, but Joan didn’t know until later that the di- rector had told Farley to surprise her. Well, Farley was charming to Joan all during the filming of Roseanna McCoy. Not only did they have a good basis for friend- ship, but they found they could laugh to- gether at so many things. Tangy Cinnamon-clova Flavor ee

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Joan said, “I know it’s an old gag to say a boy is ‘like a brother to me’ but I honestly feel as if Carp were my brother.” For one thing Carp is very close to Joan’s family. When they first met at a square dance Joan said, “You have to meet my mother and father. You'll love them.” He met Joan’s parents and, sure enough, he did. He’s a real show business kid and likes to gossip about Broadway. Besides, he plays a good game of bridge. One of Joan’s complaints is that whenever she brings a new beau home the first question Kathe- rine and Dale ask is, “Do you play bridge?” If the beau says, “Yes,* then Joan says, “There goes my evening.” Not only do Carp and Joan have a lot of fun together, they also share confidences. The year before last Carp took Joan to the Academy Awards presentation. and they made a date right then for the following year. But a week before the big shindig, Carp said to Joan, “Look, honey, it’s been a year since we made this date. If you'd rather go with somebody else, I'll under- stand.” Joan said, later, “Well, of course, I would rather have gone with Carp than anybody. We had such fun! But honestly did you ever hear of roiling so sweet—his eee off the hook if I wanted to get off it? Now that was a real brotherly thing to do.” O NE of Joan’s favorite phrases is, “I just love So-and-So.” But she knows the difference between “loving” and “being in love.” “Or do I?” she mused. “Maybe I’ve never been in love. I don’t know.” Whatever it is, at the moment the Num- ber One boy is Lee Kirby. She met Lee when she worked with her‘dramatic coach, Bob Paris. Lee, although an advertising man, is very much interested in acting and has done little theater work. Joan says, “he’s one of the nicest persons I’ve ever known.” Joan and Lee have many things in common. They like to ride horseback and they both crave the beach, and are excellent swimmers. “But when people ask me if I'm going to marry Lee I have to laugh. Even if we wanted to, how could we? Wouldn’t it be foolish if we did? No sir, I’m not getting married until I’m sure. ~ “And here’s something else that you can count on. My statement about marriage is for real. ’m not going to get married until I positively know how I feel and— more important although maybe not so~ romantic—until I’m sure it’s practical.” And that’s Joan Evans, sticking her neck out as usual. This time, as always, she’s on the level. THE END (Joan Evans will soon be seen in On | The Loose.—Ed.) easy money! be silly... issue? 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| ae ~ combination. ertun ... : look at the blonde that’s coming our way.” _ (Continued from page 19) boxes of Willys - of Hollywood hosiery; Cutex nail polish and matching Fire Engine Red lipstick; the new Duolin Enzyme all-purpose face eam; Playtex girdles; Lentheric Red Lilac cologne, and Luciene of Beverly _ Hills cosmetic preparations and lipsticks. All of these gifts were wrapped up in May Company hat-boxes. _ On the sidelines were some of Holly- od’s most noted columnists and stars who came to see the show and model the “winning selections. Leslie Caron, MGM’s n French star, was excitedly telling Greer of her interest in American fashions. And Nancy Davis, Phyllis Kirk ‘and Monica Lewis were in a conference, wondering which dresses they would be _ wearing. _ The show was put on the road—rather _ around the pool. And as the models _ appeared, the male members of the board looked somewhat perplexed. “It’s hard : to decide which to choose,” Peter smiled. | | aoe “The | clothes.” | “The girls, you fool,” McCarthy piped up. beautiful girls or the beautiful Charlie wasn’t much help. A model strolled by wearing a blue and white plaid skirt, white sweater and plaid stole “Ahhhh . . murmured Howard Duff in obvious appreciation. -’ replied Charlie. “Take a As a matter of fact, Charlie was no help _ at all. Luncheon was continuous and served _ between sets by the Brown Derby wait- _ esses in their stiffly starched dresses. “Who Bean concentrate on food?” Mr. McCarthy _Temarked. “But I will have another slug _ of coke, if you please, Bergen.” ~ 4 “Aren't these dresses just a little expen- sive?” Peter Lawford asked a Moprern _ ScREEN editor. -. Said editor gave him a proud smile. “Frankly, they cost very little. The price ‘ange is in a low bracket that all young q girls can afford.” “Amazing,” said Pete. Then he nodded _ toward a black net evening gown. “That _ dress looks like a million dollars.” _ “So do the rest,” added Howard. “And ‘Peter, my boy, if and when I marry, I shall suggest that my wife take a look =< pages of M.S.” T ‘HE members of the board stayed deep ~* in thought and their page-size ballots g the show. No one told anyone else = he or she was voting a fav- wever, occasionally an unguarded , “That’s lovely,” would KEEPS MY HAIR BEAUTIFULLY OBEDIENT Be sure of your hair-appeal with _ SUAVE. A morning kiss of __ SUAVE £eeps your prettiest hair- __ do lastingly in place...so caress- ably soft...alive with natural _ radiance. Not a hair oil, contains — no alcohol! SUAVE, the cosmetic ] for hair, outsells ALL women’s ___ hairdressings! There’s nothing to _ make your hair so beautifully — : 2 obedient — nothing like SUAVE! DS Get i it it today! 50¢, $1 involuntarily escape Loretta Young’s lips. The ballots were tabulated at the con- clusion of the show and everyone anxiously waited to hear the results, and to see the winners modeled by the stars. As it turned out, after the winners were an- nounced, some of the judges wanted to model. Early in the show, Ricardo Mon- talban had studied one of the outfits and turned to Liz Taylor to tell her how won- derful she’d looked in it. When it was declared a winner, Liz promptly asked if she might try it on. “May I model the black taffeta?” asked Diana. A liked the other black dress,’ Mona said. “Poof,” said Charlie. “You haven't lived till you’ve seen-my new outfit.” “Just a minute, Charlie,’ Bergen told him. “We'll model later. Right now I’ve duties to perform as landlord and host.” (SEE and Edgar had identical dress suits, but no one noticed that until Edgar toured the lawn to make sure the guests were having a fine time. “Some view you have here,” columnist. Bergen smiled, and pointed out into space, where you could glimpse John Barrymore's former estate, “Chinatown Settlement.” “See that tree?” he asked. There was a tree all right, but it had only a few branches. “John was a great hunter,” replied Bergen, “and he shot off the branches with his deer rifle.” All talk of far-away scenery was for- gotten when the girls came out in the win- ning dresses. Nancy Davis wore the black net formal. Diana Lynn was in the black taffeta. Liz Taylor looked like at least a hundred thousand in the outfit she’d chosen. Jane Greer wore a red corduroy dress with matching accessories. Peter Lawford was admiring Phyllis Kirk in a smart grey suit. And on into the afternoon . . Dresses weren’t the only winners, though. The Mopern Screen Hollywood Fashion Board gave special awards to Cutex: “For fashion in color, excellence in quality and popular price;’ ’ Playtec: “For the most revolutionary girdles in a decade —power control with action freedom;” Willys of Hollywood: “For excellence in the design of hosiery. First—Stockings for the Stars—and now for the women of America.” The women of America don’t have to go to Paris any more. THE END said a (Ricardo Montaiban can be seen in Across The Wide Missouri, Walter Pidgeon in Thin Knife, and Peter Lawford in Just This Once.—Ed.)

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Available in a variety of colors: and finishes. At department, home furnishings, and hardware stores. Makers of the world’s first and finest wall type can opener. it’s reigning cats and dogs (Continued from page 59) | two-to-one over such peculiar choices as hamsters and possums, although the cats might not have been doing so well if it weren’t for James Mason’s much-publicized crew jogging the ratio. In fact, Hollywood’s taste in pets is all-embracing, covering chimpanzees, ponies, camels, one alligator and an armadillo. The late John Barrymore was deeply fond of an aged and incredibly ugly vulture but when he found it sitting on the foot of his bed eying him specula- tively during one of his serious illnesses, Barrymore expelled it in a fit of rage. But dogs are king, and nowhere are they more widely and dotingly maintained than here in Hollywood. In other parts of the country it is pos- sible to keep pets. without being suspected of anything more than normal humani- tarianism, but not here. Indeed, a Los Angeles psychologist solemnly explained not long ago that with stars, keeping pets is a compulsion, for their egos must feed on the mute devotion of animals. One famous actress took the trouble to refute this psychologist pretty thoroughly. “If you want to go into it on a clinical basis,” she said, “it may be principally that we’re lonely. I don’t really want to make it clinical. I’ve never tried to analyze it. If ’d been asked offhand, I just would have said that we like pets, the way other people do. But now that you’ve brought it up, it definitely isn’t ego. Our egos are saturated as it is. You can get terribly lone- ly in the midst of friends—if they’re friends—whose motives you're never quite sure of. You know, it’s the same as a wealthy person living behind a protective armor of distrust. But a pet just loves you because you're you. He doesn’t want any- thing except to eat and play and stay alive. He doesn’t know you're a star and he doesn’t care, and he wouldn’t know a house in Beverly Hills from a shanty. If you were washed up tomorrow, your friends wouldn’t know your name, but your pets—they’d still be there.” LTHOUGH, nationally, cocker spaniels seem to have taken over the No. 1 spot in public dog fancy, they do not rate better than fifth in Hollywood. Accord- ing to a loose survey conducted recently, the stars prefer in order, boxers, French poodles, collies, police dogs, cockers, and dachshunds. Among the more ardent boxer de- votees are the Alan Ladds, who keep two in their West Los Angeles home and seven (at last count) at their ranch. They are enamored in particular of an aging, heroic female named Jezebel. Jezebel, Ladd sadly calculates, may not be long for this earth due to her zeal for biting automobile tires while the tire is doing 50 miles an hour. But so long as Jezebel is around, she gets the triple-A treatment with horsemeat on the side. It was Jezebel, who saw a delivery truck backing in the Ladds’ drive while the Ladds’ little daughter Alana stood gravely in its path looking the wrong way. Jezebel did all that she could. She bounded into the child, knocked her clear and took the blow herself. By the time Ladd got her to the vet’s she was as close to dead as a live dog can be, and she will never be in fighting trim again. But that has not stopped her where tires are in- volved. She can bite tires standing still but she prefers them on the wing, and if one of these days she tackles the enemy head- on instead of from the flank, Jezebel’s chances of a clean-cut decision will be very bad. Jezebel’s masters served interne duty at — the arrival of Macdonald Carey’s water- spaniel. Neither mother nor pup needed medical assistance, but Carey did. Word of the pup’s arrival reached Carey ah the Ladd ranch. And inasmuch as he’d been anticipating the event for some time and was duly joyous, he leaped into the air and continued straight on up until he met a rafter, at which point he naturally started down. He came down for a long time as unconscious as anyone ever gets, and had to be given scalp first-aid by his hosts before being rushed to a hospitial for minor surgery. The spaniel shortly was named Stitch. Stitch, according to his bemused master, has put a most fearful dent in the theory that Dogs Always Know. Stitch likes burglars and does not care a hoot for many kindly, upright, and dog-loving visitors who come to the Careys’ bearing him bones. (He doesn’t like bones. He likes Royal Crown Cola and chocolate eclairs.) Stitch adores the furtive type of gentlemen interested in selling Carey salted gold mines, but he has an antipathy toward powerful exec- utives interested in furthering Carey’s career. Stitch doesn’t bite but there is still a vague suspicion chez Carey that the hand that feeds him had better be quick. “The only time Stitch ever got real en- thusiastic about me,” says Carey, “was when I was playing heavy parts and came home bearded and skulking like the dog of a rustler I was. He loved me then. If a prowler ever does get into the house, Stitch is going to give him coffee and sand- wiches, show him the key to the silverware Eve Arden, who wears a short cropped haircut ... goes to the same hairdresser who does Joan Crawford's French poodle, Cliquof. Sidney Skolsky in The New York Post and slip him the name of a good fence. Whose best friend, I ask you?” - Carey’s problems are not unlike those of Doris Day, the proud but puzzled pos- sessor of two black poodles named Beanie and Smudgy. Beanie, who hasn't the faintest idea he’s a dog, eats oranges when- ever he can get into striking position at his owners’ modest grove, whereas Smudgy has developed a violent anti-social bent. Smudgy likes nothing quite so much as snubbing Marty Melcher, Miss Day’s hus- band who adores him; jumping happily on the laps of guests who break out into nervous scrofula at any proximity to a dog, and wrecking the silk-lined antiques the Melchers lately have acquired. He is likewise devoted to soaking his feet in motor oil against the day when someone will turn up in a white flannel suit. y ET some feel that the mantle of dog’s most tireless martyr belongs rightfully to Victor Mature, who is stubbornly in- fatuated with an obese German shepherd named Nicky. Nicky has never yet been booked for forgery, embezzlement or assault with a blunt weapon, but she has been jugged so- often that the local pound officials are thinking of giving her a monthly rate. The charge generally is running around without a muzzle, but not long ago she faced the stiffest rap yet: she was said to have bitten the postman. The postman so said. There were added mutterings that Nicky had | long taken a dim view toward uniforms and their wearers, notably police, postmen and _commissioned officers. Mature was outraged. He invited all and sundry to behold the riot of Nicky being systematically pulled apart by the neigh- borhood children, an ordeal to which she does indeed submit with boundless toler [4 q iy

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Among the more harassed owners. of _ small-fry dogs these days is Ava Gardner, whose Welsh Corgi puppy, Rags, has es- tablished squatter’s, rights to a pair of silver evening slippers Miss Gardner had always figured were hers. An absurb idea. The thing began one night as Miss Gardner was about to set sail for an opening and couldn’t find the sandals anywhere. It wasn't until the next day that they turned up in Rags’ bachelor suite in the backyard. Patiently they were restored to a closet and just as patiently Rags preempted them again. There is nothing furtive about the thefts. Rags simply drags the shoes one at a time through the house, caches them in his own joint and then sits on them. Won’t go near any other article of the boss’s ap- parel. It’s silver slippers or nothing. John Agar’s poodle, Ragmop, has a bit of larceny in him, too, although his heart’s in the right place. He’s forever delivering toys to Agar, whose only problem after that is finding out which of the neighbors’ chil- dren the toys belong to and returning them with apologies. You can say this much for Ragmop, however: his besetting vice is not vanity, which is nice going for a poodle. If there’s any object in the world Ragmop regards with undisguised fear and loathing, it’s the four-legged black party in the mirror. The most casual glimpse of himself is enough to scare Ragmop for hours. [ik Hottywoop as elsewhere, multiplica- tion of pets is not the sole monopoly of rabbits. Anne Baxter’s poodle Shoofly once popu- lated Anne’s tiny apartment beyond all reason. Anne and her husband John Hodiak were waiting to move into a house under construction, but there was plenty of room and no hurry. Then all of a sudden it wasn’t like that at all. Shoofly startled everybody, includ- ae herself, by becoming the proud mother of six. Compared to Gregory Peck’s two white police dogs, however, Shoofly was simply indulging in light exercise. Greg’s dogs have developed the cordial habit of deliv- ering litters of 12 and 13 at a time at fairly regular intervals. It got so people couldn’t ask Mr. Peck for the time of day without being offered as many white police dogs as they could carry. Although in Hollywood, properly cared _ for pets are often expensive to maintain, the cruelest single economic blow of the year thus far probably fell to Mitzi Gaynor, who acquired for $14.14 an intriguing ani- mal believed to be half beagle and half buffalo. For a good many weeks Miss Gay- nor was patrolling the lot chortling over the bargain and decrying the foolishness of laying down large sums of money for pure- breds. Then one dark day the beagalo, to dignify it with a kennel name, came down with distemper. The vet’s bill: $120. Once in a while a Hollywood animal, as in the case of Lassie, Leo, and the cat Rhubarb, will pay a modest return on its investment, but the stars themselves have had very little luck in this respect. Betty Grable, for instance, has a French poodle named Punkin’ whom she trained - assiduously not to bark on the set, inas- much as poodles that do bark on the set are not looked on with any more favor than Bright’s disease. But then came a mildly momentous day when the script called for a French poodle named Punkin’ (or any- thing else) to come through a door and bark. Just like that, Miss Grable turned into an agent and Punkin’ was coerced through the door as the cameras rolled. But _ bark? Fat chance. in’ knew only one score on that subject and it was the wrong one. _ Joan Crawford’s toy poodle Cliquot is "set-trained, too, as is Linda Darnell’s eee HALIF- SAFE CURVES SAFE ONLY WHEN DRY! New...Cream Deodorant Keeps Underarms Dry and Odorless Here’s why more men and women use Arrid than any other deodorant. Used daily as di- rected, Arrid gives best results of any deo- dorant tested. 1. Effective, prevents even the appearance of perspiration—keeps underarms dry. 2. Safe, saves clothes from stains. Does not rot dresses or men’s shirts. 3. Removes odor from perspiration on con- tact. Keeps underarms odorless. 4. Mild and Sect for skin. pee | Rayon Gabardine with Grune Dee ees Send check or money order and this smartly tailored, beauti- fully detailed dress will be delivered by a fine store in your locality. Navy, mink or green skirt and trim with beige top. 10-18. DAN KELLER CO., INC., 498 Seventh Ave., N.Y. 18 5. Today's Arrid with Creamogen stays smooth, creamy. Never dries out in jar! Don’t be half-safe. Use Arrid to be sure. Buy. Arrid today. ARRID America’s Largest-Selling Deodorant @ 2. mW. REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.

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Schnoopsi, however, is not much of a hand with a knitting needle so Miss Darnell, while she was Mrs. Peverell Marley, was ever the one for grinding out tiny garments on the set and answering lots of foolish questions. The era of the Russian wolfhound and the leashed leopard is dead so far as Hollywood is concerned, although Betty Hutton did come up lately with a lamb. And very recently, there’s been a move toward huskies, the wonderful Eskimo dogs that can be bred to great gentleness and appalling size. On the whole, though, Hollywood’s dogs and cats are like everyone else’s—purebred or haphazard. Siamese, Persian and Angora dominate the cat element, but there are more than enough alleys to go around. And for the aristocrats, there’s a Motel for Cats out on Ventura Boulevard. sure their adored animals are healt comfortable. Special doors are cut doors to allow untrammeled comings | 7 goings. Bronze plates are affixed to baronial entranceways for scratching purposes. And there is a thriving turnover in dog and cat gadgets, including pillows, special ham-_ mocks and fur-lined catnip bags. = = Let a cat cry or a dog hiccup and you have a million dollars’ worth of concen- trated glamor throwing the mink coat on over the silk pajamas, and steering the Jaguar straight for the vet’s. The vete- rinarians in Hollywood are prosperous fel- lows indeed. " x For it seems that Hollywood is in love a, with the animal kingdom—large, small or in-between. And happily enough, the ani- mal kingdom returns the compliment. THe Enp. dana andrews: problem parent (Continued from page 61) followed by three low keys, made a bow and walked into the wings. While Dana sat flabbergasted, a small girl with a violin took her place on the stage. No sooner had she drawn her bow over the strings than David was heard to inquire in a loud voice, “How do you play that thing?” In much haste and in mild confusion Dana rushed backstage to retrieve his son. Dana’s next child was Kathy. Dana was delighted to have a daughter, for he him- self had been overwhelmed by seven brothers. He prepared himself studiously for a personality like David’s, but Kathy evolved into a shy and self-conscious girl. “Now what do we do about her?” he wondered. Kathy went through her early years as though the weight of the world were on her shoulders. She studied hard, and was often on the honor roll. And if David weren't David, he would have been shamed by her report cards. “Why are you always at me to do my homework?” he asked Dana. “You're al- ways telling Kathy to stop studying. I don’t get it.” “Tf you were more like Kathy—” began, but he gave up. However, now that she’s eight, Kathy has developed a delightful sense of humor. When Dana went to England to make a picture he took his entire clan along, and Kathy was captivated by the accent of the English children. Dana took her to see an Edgar Kennedy comedy one night. In this epic, Mr. Kennedy was having a hard time laying linoleum on his kitchen floor. After the linoleum had rolled back and whipped him in the breeches, Kathy leaned toward her father. “My,” she said in clipped British tones, “isn’t he a mad fellow?” Dana TEVEN was number three in the Andrews family. He came along 11 years after David, and much to Dana’s chagrin is a born athlete. Watching a football game was fine, but after 12 hours’ work at the studio Dana wasn’t ready to kick a pig- skin around the back yard. “Why not, Daddy?” Steven wanted to know. “David told me you used to play with him.” “That was a dozen years ago, Son,” Dana told him. “It’s something you wouldn’t understand. Now, how about a game of croquet?” Steven was thrée years old when Susan was born and he didn’t take kindly to the idea of a new baby around the house. His limelight was shattered, and to focus at- tention on himself he reverted to baby talk. “Why can’t one boy be like the other?” Dana wanted to know. David had never talked baby talk. There was the time when he was not quite three and a strange woman had approached him on the street, cooing unintelligibly at him. “Youll have to speak more distinctly,” said David. “I can’t understand you.’ Now here was Steven at three, talking like a mere infant. “He'll get over it,” Mary said. “Just pay more attention to him and less to the baby.” Dana took her advice, and concentrated on Steven to such an extent that he didn’t — realize there was a hellion in the house. This was Susan, who hasn’t a shy or in- hibited bone in her small body. David asks for things and accepts the answer one way or another; Kathy coaxes and weedles; Steven uses logic; but Susan— she just stands up and demands things. Dana’s reasoning goes over her head like a flying saucer, and in all probability she considers him the man who never, never says yes. Even Kathy, who has taken over as a ~ lead mare with the two younger children and repeats Dana’s lectures verbatim, is unable to convince Susan of the sanity of — being deprived of something. And if Kathy can’t do it, no one can, for in the circle of her own family her self-con- sciousness disappears and she bosses the children like a construction foreman. Their respective opinions of Dana are different, but they agree in one instance. They think he’s too stern. Dana says maybe he is, but his own father was a Baptist minister who brooked no shenani- gans from his offspring. Dana feels that discipline never hurt a child. Gs I go out with the fellows tonight?” David wants to know. “Where are you going?” asks Dana. “Oh—around.” “No, you can’t go.” “But gee whiz, Dad, why not?” “Because I don’t want you floating around a city where you can get into all sorts of trouble. I want to know ‘where ~ : you are.” “But Dad, just because we go out ae night doesn’t mean we're a wolf pack!” “Tell me where you'll be, and you can go,” says Dana. And that is that. Dana has been strict in the matter of allowances According to the books, this training is supposed to teach a child the value of a dollar. It taught David nothing. Be His interest runs to radios and recording a machines, anything with a motor, anyt ey ome Come ater wee

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Both like symphonic music, but David gets carried away by be-bop, too. “I don’t get it,” Dana says. “You're not hep, Dad. You’ve got to have wheels.” “Wheels?” asks Dana, confounded. And when David tunes in his short wave set and gets a dreamy sentimental tune, he says, “Boy, listen to that make-out music.” “What,” music?” “Ror make-out. You know—pitch woo— I guess you used to call it necking.” There is something about children, Dana feels, that makes you wonder if you’re old before your time. There was the night he was amusing some of David’s school- mates by telling them of his own experi- ences at school. They listened apprecia- tively for a while and then one of them piped up, “Gee, Mr. Andrews, how can you remember all that?” David has been on the receiving end of long talks about the feminine half of the populace, but the advice didn’t sink in at first. Once he brought home a teen-ager about whom Dana still groans. “A real tomato,” he says in an unfatherly way. David didn’t appreciate his father’s criti- cism until this particular tomato relieved him of two. months’ allowance in one short afternoon. Now he agrees that Dana’s advice about women is ‘pretty good.’ Nevertheless, Dana is happy that his son attends a boys’ school. “There are no girls available at Webb,’ he says with great glee. And David throws him a dark look. Steven and Susan are too busy vying with each other to pay any attention to the opposite sex, but Kathy’s interest is blithely fickle and frank. Every two weeks she comes home filled with admiration about a different boy at school. Her raptur- ous descriptions leave her two brothers openly disgusted. The quartet has been made quite aware of proper social behavior—so acutely aware that Dana has decided not to show any of his movies at home any more. In the last movie he screened for the family, he made a rather definite pass at Susan Hayward. There was a sharp intake of breath from the three youngest, and Steven let go with a shocked, “Oh— Daddy!” With the exception of David, they are all too young to realize that their father is a movie star, and Dana worries that it might affect them through the warped attitude of other children. So far, it hasn’t af- fected Steven, who told Dana recently that he considers him almost as good as Tim McCoy. And it certainly hasn’t affected David, who passes his days attired in a disreputable pair of levi trousers, a_cos- | tume which irks the naturally neat Dana. says Dana, “is make-out why were 6 million women wrong? According to a survey, 6,000,000 women said they'd been wrong again and again in their choice of a deodorant. They com- plained of trying one after another with- out ever finding one that was completely satisfactory. Last year, however, these women dis- covered a new deodorant that won their loyalty immediately. 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e Frank a divorce. All of it has been ' completely false. ___ “The first time he came to see me,” _ Naney says, “and asked for his freedom, I gave it willingly. What I would not do, _ what I could not do, was discuss divorce It was too important a subject. It in- volved not only our personal lives but the lives of our children.” EER See G vERAL times during the past year, espe- cially after Ava had flown to New York to see him, Frank had phoned Nancy from the Hampshire House or The Drake. “Want to talk about a divorce,” Frank would say. Ava, sitting across the room, would wait expectantly, only to watch _ Frank put down the phone receiver in disappointment. ‘ Sensible Nancy, gallant Nancy just would _ not discuss divorce on the telephone. He _ would have to call on her in person. a Until this May, Frank Sinatra never I aT rN ae Ure ad did. Thousands of fans wrote Hedda Hop- per and Louella Parsons demanding to know why Nancy wouldn’t give Frank a _ divorce. : “Is it because of her religion?” they _ asked. “Is she just being spiteful? Is it ‘out of sheer meanness?” These were the uninformed, the mis- guided, the Sinatra fans, the Gardner hopefuls. These were the people who thought they knew all there was to know _ about the triangle—and yet, knew nothing. KS Nancy was never spiteful or mean. May- be way back when Frank was guilty of his first indisecretions—maybe then, she had | felt slighted, cast aside, and bitter. But not during the past five years. She and Frank had separated previously. She knew all about Frank’s infatuation for Lana Turner, his pursuit of Judy Gar- land; but she knew, too, that he was basi- cally a kind man, that his talent for en- tertainment was tremendous, that the children loved him deeply. And she ac- cepted him as he was with all his obvious weaknesses and his many strengths. She did this because she loved him. As any honest man in the entertainment world will tell you, Frank’s greatest strength, in his meteoric rise as a crooner, was the simple and honest love of Nancy Sinatra. In all his moments of defeat, and _ despair—she stood by to give him cour- age. } She felt always that he was a wandering little boy, and that like most truants he would eventuaily straggle home. “When he is all through playing around,” she once said, “when no one else wants him, I will take him back.” Nancy felt that time, and the children, -and the marital memories, mostly the memories, were on her side, and would weigh heavily in Frank’s mind. She thought that try as he might, he would never forget them, and they would always bring him back. After all, hadn’t she and Frank grown up together? Wasn’t it she who was earn- ing $20 a week at the American Type Founders in Elizabeth when Frank was singing at the Rustic Cabin outside of Englewood for $15 a week? _ Wasn’t it she who told him to go on the road with Harry James, and not to worry about her even though she was pregnant? Because $65 a week was better than $15. Wasn’t it she who rented the cute little apartment in Jersey City with the furni- ture they paid for on time? And that Christmas when there wasn’t any money in the house and Frank was deathly ill in _ Cleveland, wasn’t it she who sent him a ir of gloves with a dollar bill stuffed in sh finger? When Frank got the gift he cried like ib: ad. years later, he said, “There he = REIGN a Ee ge NRE ERAT AY, Tepe eis t T septety Wii with Frank over the long-distance phone. " away from the girl I loved, alone and sick and dying—and then this thoughtful gift came. Somehow I knew I'd just have to get well and work for my Nancy and make her proud of me. And by heaven, I did! My temperature began to fall, and in the morning I was my old self once more.” A“! may have Frankie now, but Nancy still has those unforgettable memories— of Frank’s triumphs, of his amazing growth from a kid who collected bottles for the deposit money to a singer who collects $10,000 a week and up. Neither Nancy nor Frank can ever for- get that year when he was all of 25 and earning $4,500 a week at the New York Paramount. That was the year Frank bought a little house for Nancy and his daughter in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jer- sey. It was a cute little Cape Cod cottage, located at 220 Lawrence Avenue, and it was the first house they’d ever owned. That, too, was the year Frank bought Nancy an engagement ring. “I was too poor to buy her one at the time of our engagement,” Frank explained, “so I made it up to her. I also bought her a fur coat.” Nancy realized almost two years ago that these memories, in the final analysis, were not strong enough to bring Frank home. At that time, Frank packed a ward- Betty Hutton can't tolerate the tick-tock of a clock anywhere in her bedroom. On the other hand she is vastly soothed by the as- sorted and unpredictable noises emanating from a sound box on her bedside table, which amplifies every pin-drop in her little daugh- ters’ nursery, Dorothy Kilgallen in The Journal-American robe trunk, moved out of his house into his office, and began presenting Ava Gard- ner with a dazzling assortment of gifts ranging from diamonds to:a spinet piano. For a while, Nancy hoped that this would prove to be a short-lived infatuation. It wasn’t. It was the real McCoy. Ava had made sure of that. She wasn’t walking out on a limb. She wanted Frank’s definite assurance that he and Nancy were contemplating a divorce or a legal separation. . Ava Gardner is an honorable girl. She made it unmistakably clear to Frank that she would never come between a man and his wife. This romance had to be for keeps. Frank assured Ava that it was. He had his lawyers draw up a legal separation document. Nancy signed it at once, because that’s what Frank wanted. There are some persons who, knowing Frank well, say that he used the legal separation as a device to test his love for Ava and vice versa; to see if their feelings for each other would continue the same if both were free. That Frank is madly in love with Ava at this writing there can be no doubt. In his diary, 1951 will go down as the year of trans-continental. commuting. Every Saturday night, after his television show in New York was over, Frank would dash to La Guardia Airport and catch the American Airlines Mercury to Los Angeles. “Tt got so,’ one airline stewardess re- ported, “that we looked on him as a homing pigeon.” : Once in California, Frank would rush to Ava’s house or they would meet at Palm Springs, but always they were together. A few weeks before she started to work with Clark Gable on Lone Star, Ava flew to New York to visit Frank. 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