WHY OUR LOVE FAILEB 33 Dan Dailey AUG 11 ©cibBwi There's new skin beauty in your First Cake of Camay! MRS. JOHN LESLIE GRIFFIN, JR. lovely Camay Bride from Orange, N.J. bridal portrait by / Romance is near when your skin is soft and clear! Yes, Music set the theme for the skin Griffins' courtship. They of- and your first cake of Camay can help make your ten to in go concerts Boston softer ... lovelier. So give up careless cleansing— go on where Griff's finishing col- the Mild-Soap Diet. Doctors tested Camay's lege. Hazel won that softer, Camay lovelier skin with her very beauty promise on the skins of scores of women. first cake of Camay! Almost all these women won smoother, softer com- plexions, each using one cake of Camay. Follow direc- tions on the Camay wrapper—and you'll be lovelier, too! Their first dinner guests were two of Griff's classmates. Everything went smoothly. Hazel even baked a cherry pie! She's a good cook. And her recipe for beauty is on the Camay wrapper. Camay the soap of beautiful women ! . T^lfie \?AHA ^-dentists say hworh\ . says junior model Jane Werner — who shows how it can work for your smile Ahoy there! It's 17-year-old Jane Werner, New York cover girl . The Ipana way, as Jane demonstrates here, is pleasant whose date thinks her sunny smile is the brightest thing on deck! . and easy as 1, 2: That Ipana smile helped launch Jane on her mighty promising 1. Between regular visits to your dentist, brush all tooth career, too surfaces with Ipana Tooth Paste at least twice a day. Top-flight junior models like Jane know the importance of firm, 2. Then massage gums the way your dentist advises — to healthy gums to a sparkling smile. "I follow the Ipana way to stimulate gum circulation. (Ipana's unique formula healthier gums and brighter teeth,*' Jane explains, "because dentists actually helps stimulate your gums. You can feel the say it works!" Try this professionally approved Ipana dental care. invigorating tingle!) 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(Judy Garland) by George Scullin 36 PRIDE OF THE IRISH (Maureen O'Hara) by Viola Moore 38 Dental Cream WHY STARS TURN TO PRAYER (Stanwyck. Crosby. Williams). ...by Louis Pollock 40 WESTWARD, WHOA! (Roy Rogers) by Reba and Bonnie Churchill 42 NOW dental science offers proof that always using Colgate Dental I'M STILL WILD ABOUT HARRY by Betty Grable 46 Cream right after eating helps stop tooth HOLLYWOOD'S ROMANTIC HIDEOUTS (Granger, Powell, Jourdan) 48 decay before it starts! DON'T TELL MY GIRL by Glenn Ford 51 Continuous research — hundreds of ONE-MAN MARSHALL PLAN (Bill Holden) by Ida Zeitlin 52 case histories— makes this the most LET'S NOT TALK ABOUT LOVE (Betsy Drake-Cary Grant). ...by Mary McSkimming 54 important news in dental history! ARE ODDS AGAINST TEEN-AGE BRIDES? by Ted Wilson 56 HE'S THE BOSS (John Lund) by Marie Lund 63 WIFE IN FAME ONLY (Guy Madison-Gail Russell) by Gail Russell 64 features THE INSIDE STORY 4 LOUELLA PARSONS' GOOD NEWS 6 EDITORIAL: DON'T LET LIES HURT YOU (Temple, Grable, O'Hara) 29 PICTURE OF THE MONTH: Red, Hot and Blue 58 X-RAYS SHOW HOW PROPER USE OF COLGATE'S HELPS STOP TOOTH DECAY departments Eminent dental authorities supervised 2 groups of college men and women for MOVIE REVIEWS by Christopher Kane 16 over a year. One group always brushed YOUR LETTERS 26 their teeth with Colgate Dental Cream NEW FACES 27 right after eating. The other followed Gloria Lampert 62 usual dental care. X-rays were taken at THE FANS by regular intervals. FASHION 68 The average of the group using BEAUTY: Point with Pride 94 Colgate's as directed was a startling re- MUSIC: Sweet and Hot by Leonard Feather 105 duction in number of cavities—far less ALSO SHOWING (Films Previously Reviewed) 110 tooth decay! The other group developed new cavities at a much higher rate. ON THE COVER: Color Portrait of Betty Grable by Nickolas Muray Ofher picfure credits, page 15 The Colgate Dental Cream now at your dealer's is the same formula used in the tests. No claim is made that using Colgate's can stop all tooth decay, or help cavities already started. But brush- WADE H. NICHOLS, editor ing teeth right after eating is the safe, WILLIAM HARTLEY, managing editor TOM CARLILE, western manager proved way to help prevent new cavities, WILLIAM IEFFERS, story editor ROMA BURTON, western editor help stop tooth decay with Colgate FLORENCE EPSTEIN, associate editor VIOLA MOORE, associate editor Dental Cream. FERNANDO TEXIDOR, art director BOB BEERMAN, staff photographer BILL WEINBERGER, art editor BERT PARRY, staff photographer CONSTANCE BARTEL, fashion editor GLORIA LAMPERT, assistant editor Always Use Colgate's* to MAXINE FIRESTONE, assistant fashion editor BEVERLY OTT, assistant editor Clean Your Breath While You Clean Your Teeth CHRISTOPHER KANE, movie reviewer IRENE TURNER, research editor CAROL CARTER, beauty editor NANCY WOOD, food editor -and HELP STOP TOOTH DECAY! POSTMASTER: Please send notice on Form 3578 and copies returned under Label Form 3579 to 261 Fifth Avenue, New York 16, New York Vol. 39, No. 4, September, 1949. Copyright, -1949, the Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 261 Fifth Ave., New York. Published monthly. Printed in U. S. A. 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. Office of publication at Washington and South Aves., Dunellen, N. 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CHRISTOPHER KENT • GENE LOCKHART • FRANK ALLENBY • GLADYS COOPER Portraying The Madame Bovaty Waltz and JAMES MASONII GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, THE AUTHOR and Themes From "Madame Bovary" Screen Play by ROBERT ARDREY • Based on the Novel by GUSTAVE FLAUBERT available on M-G-M Records Directed by VINCENTE MINNELLI • Produced by PAN DRO S. BERMAN A METRO-GOLDWYN- MAYER PICTURE ! (/IdfPrfjffnifHf') * * * Don't be Half-safe! -tke inside story by VALDA SHERMAN At the first blush of womanhood many mys- WHEN WE HEARD Judy Garland had checked into a Boston Hospital, our terious changes take place in your body. For instance, the apocrine glands under your ulcers began to have ulcers. We were that worried. We sent for that sterling arms begin to secrete daily a type of perspi- reporter. George Scullin. ''George," we said, "we know Judy's seeing no one. ration you have never known before. This is But try and find out how she's getting along." 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