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A trouble: she finds it hard Husked It Up DON'T '2 cups lifted Softosilk on Ann Sothern. ☆ ONLY 1 BOWL ☆ YOU pW to keep being *\Vi or or 2 tsp. baking was shot on No. 26 — SPOTLIGHT She walks into an Army R^aisie Stage ’way powdor removed from CREAM SHORTENING 1 salt camp, the boys yell “Hi in the back yard, carefully tsp. and six or I V* cup* sugar Maisie!” She gets hundreds of fan letters. the big productions. Four years BEAT THE EGGS Metro dis- ☆ YOU DON’T Vi cup high-grads vogotablo They all start “Dear Maisie:” A lot of them seven Maisie pictures later, shortening like this: “Dear Maisie I’m in love covered it had a gold mine. And Ann Sothem go But what tupar caka I You’ve never made Add .< butter adds flavor) an (part who doesn't love me. What discovered for the first time she was New with a boy your best cake, ’til you’ve tried this Vi cup skimmod milk name. I would you do in a situation important Hollywood Softasilk Method. Tenderer, lighter, more 1 tsp. vanilla like that?” Ann Sot hern Now, that’s a funny thing. more delicious cake is yours velvety, actually Mix with electric mixer on slow to there’s Ann Sothem hasn't the least idea what First, —and we guarantee it! medium speed (or beat with spoon) for never New Maisie would do in a situa- who really got any- All America is agog about this 2 min. by clock. Scrape bowl frequently. tion like that. where. Second, there’s Maisie Softasilk Method—you’ll be, too! AM 4 large egg whites her warns Crocker— You know Maisie, the her- and nobody expected "Only one caution," Betty (at least Vt cup), unbeaten Method in oine of the successful to get anywhere. But Maisie "Don’t use this Softasilk just any highly more min. made It won’t work. And do use the Continue mixing 2 (scraping series about the made good. So Sothem recipe. special working girl bowl ^ cake flour that makes this won- frequently). She’s a good, too. And somebody tender-gluten from Brooklyn. slight- Softasilk. said: “If Solhern derful new method possible—use Mix m tough, wise-cracking char- finally (Vi cup pecans, chopped ly "The secret’s in the combination of the can do such a as acter who struts around job I (toasted, if desired) in method and the flour. Softasilk gives you in dresses the Alaisie, why not try her just right better results in favorite old cake recipes something else?” Pour into prepared pan. If desired, amount too small and who is a of and new ones.” Softasilk product halves on top of hatter Maisie can take full arrange pecan has a heart crea- So of gold. Ann, GENERAL MILLS, Inc. at irregular intervals. Place pan on un- for for Ann’s tor of Maisie, has a heart of credit, example, greased cooky sheet to allow for more about 65 min. in mod- gold. The resemblance stops appearance in "Cry Havoc,” even baking. Bake oven of this new war-nurse hit with erate (350°). (Cakes type there. She is no more like that right often rise slightly in center and "crack.”) Sullavan and Joan FREE! Maisie than Greer Garson is. Margaret Delicious un-iced! at your grocer s wnue Blondell. It’s a wonderful * supply lasts! 1 Vi tsp. for double-action type ("Clabber Surprise part — the girl doesn’t resem- Girl,” "Davis," "Calumet,” "ICC," etc.); With tsp. for phosphate type ("Rumford," ble Maisie at all. l3A That sort of thing can come purchase of "Dr. Price's," etc.); 2 tsp. for tartrate type Ann the darnedest ("Royal,” etc.). as a shock. I was waiting to says a package ef ever to NOTE: You can rest a moment have lunch with her, and in things that happened SOFTASILK when mixing by hand. Just count MAISIE — She her because of Maisie came strolls a lady who looks as if HEBE'S actual mixing time. stole Ann’s show when she swung around five ^^B she came straight off a back- almost states on an Army camp tour. country college campus. She she saw 150,000 of them — has on a loose-fitting sport coat, no make- Every boy A now package doslgn, but the knew Maisie and about her. So Valuable I same reliable Softasilk, famous low shoes. See if you can remember what everything up, 48-page ‘ for for extra-fine cakes! and she had to Maisie. years the movie Maisie looks like frizzled hair, night day play Wartime Food Book by FRIII 6 more New Softasilk Got that linage? Gloves, ribbons, pins, handkerchiefs went BETTY CROCKER spike heels, heavy lipstick. Method recipes, with package. to the as souvenirs. Well, Sothern’s all that in reverse. What's boys 52 /Homos! 22k Recipes! most scene: full Cost of Cairo »• fundod if she's a little and has a Funniest, touching a.troop 369 Hints! more, plumpish this New Softasilk Method rec- over four hair Here's need now! sedate, rather soft voice. While she s deli- of G.F's fighting pink kelp yon Softasilk Flour, does Get your copy without fail. ipe, using salad she ribbons. not the best cake of cately forking the mixed green If dealer has none on hand, give you it: “I've been send pan of folder in Sof- its ever made. and tells the of herself Ann can't understand type you Simply breaks down story tasilk or box-top to package send a letter stating the total around for years. Nobody ever wanted Betty (.rocker, Dept. 10, Min- and Maisie: cost of used in the 1 Minn. Yourcopv ingredients hair ribbons. I guess that Maisie must neapolis 5. As different as Ann is from the Brooklyn my will be sent freeand postpaid. cake to General Mills, Inc. be a — it's Maisie who made her. For quite gal.” JERRY MASON Inc Bombshell, ( opr 1 '(4:1. ((corral Mills, lor Betty Crocker" and Softastlk are rex trade marks of (leoeral Mills,