JANUARY 15~

MARIE ROGNDAHL ~... Sf!fter, Smoother Shin with just One Cake of Camay!

(J41'l4.r;l?+~ fl'~It-eaUet, III BOSTON "Your complexion counts-in romance," says this lovely bride, "Try Camay .. ,see if your first cake doesn't make your skin ever so much softer, fresher·loOking too, .. as it did mine.';

Tests by doctors prove-Camay is Really Mild

It's exciting, . . to see the lovely new softness, the new smoothness that comes to your skin .. , with just one cake of Camay! Change today, from improper cleansing to the Camay Mild·Soap Diet. Doctors tested this care on over 100 complexions, , , on skin like yours, And with the first cake of Camay, most complexions j fairly bloomed! Looked softer, fresher and clearer! ... it cleanses without irritation 11fE UBRARY 0' These tests gave proof of Camay's mildness . .. proof it CO~!GRESS can benefit skin. Said the doctors, ".Camay is really SffilAL RECORD mild . • . it cleansed with(mt irritation." So do try this f'[B 6 1 helpful care on Yo1t r skin ... see the softer beauty that comes with just one cake of Camay!

" '?" Go on the Camay Mild-Soap Diet Pltase- make each cake of ( One minute-night and morning- does the trick. Camay last, as long as possible. You simply cream Camay's p ild lather over your Precious war materials go .into face-nose and chin. Rinse waf tn. If you have oily skin, making soap. add a C·O·L·D S.P.L'A,.s ; n . That's all! But watch, day by day, as that one cake of Camay makes your • skin really lovelier. A radiant smile holds a world of charm!

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Stnrt todn!llPith Eyes Light Up at the sight of the girl with a bright, shining M smile. Let Ipana Tooth Paste and massage help you keep YOllr smile sparkling and attractive! IPANA and MASSAGE 1 JANUARY, 1945 VOL. 23, NO. 2

FRED R. SAlIIlIIIS DORIS IIIcFERRA~ BELLE LANDESMAN JACI{ ZASORIN Editorial Director Editor Associate Editor Art Editor

CONTENTS

LOST CHRISTMAS ...... , ...... , ...... • •• ...... , ; .... , , .. . . , . , .. 13 Doris was bitter-for she had found Tom, only to lose him! SIXTEEN ... , . • .. 16 Poor Joyce'! She found that stolen happiness was not so sweet OUT OF REACH ...... 21 "You and I ,,'ere made for work, not play," her mother had told her MY BEST GIRLS ...... 25 Living portraits of radio's new family-The Bartletts TWO IN HARMONY . .29 The true love story of Harriet Hilliard and Ozzie Nelson EMILY'S HUSBAND ...... 32 Heaven help men who fall in iove with girls like Laurie!

LOVE'S SHINING HOUR ...... 34 Love to Penny was one of those silly" impractical. things, untll- BLACK IS THE COLOR . . ...•... _" . 38 Radio Mirror's song hit of the month--'arranged by Burl Ives LET'S COOPERATE ...... ,...... • ...... 40 A sermon for to~ay and tomorrow by t'he- minister of The Guiding Light THERE IS NO yESTERDAy ...... •' ...... , ...... 42 Now Mildred. Abbot knows who and what she is

NICE 'N' SPiCy ...... ' . . 44 Kate Smith's cooking article

ADDED ATTRACTIONS

WHAT'S NEW FROM COAST TO COAST . , .... . , ...... Dale Banks 4

CINDEREllA OF SONG ...... Eleanor Harris 8

FACING THE MUSIC ...... , ...... ~ . . . " ... Ken Alden 9 INSIDE RADIO . . . . it · . ···· ...... 45 .BE YOURSELF! ., ...... Pauline Swanson 76

ON THE COVER-l\Inrif" Rogndahl, l10ur of Charm contest winner-color portrllit by Suh'atore Consentino, Smolin Studios (Dress, couo·tes.\· of Sak., Fifth Avenue, New Yorl<)

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By DALE BANKS

"Duffy ain't here!" That's what Archie says every week on NBC's Duffy's Tavern Friday evenings.

audience was asked not to applaud, or whistle or stomp, because it would creep into the recording made for service men. So there we were, at the end of a number, wildly shouting with our hands-waving them madly in the air. And not making a sound. Eddie Cantor is proud of his 22. If you heard" the* Truth" or Conse- year-old orchestra leader, Leonard quences show some time ago on which Sues, on his Time to Smile show. Ralph Edwards asked a contestant whether she would like a pearl and got the natural answer, "I sure would," you might like to know the aftennath. ADIO'S a real chummy business. The lady got her pearl, all right, but Ever notice how many husband­ not until she had gone through seven R and-wife teams there are on the of nine barrels of oysters which the T. air? Beginning way back in the 1920's or C. emcee had. shipped to her New with Julia Sanderson and the late York hotel room. Frank Crumit, look at the famous couples-Jack Benny and Mary Li~­ Mrs. Elizabeth* McMahon.. " is eighty- ingstone, George Burns and GracIe five years old, but the bobby sox Allen, Jim and Marian Jordan-Fib­ brigades can take a lesson in hero ber McGee and Molly to you-Fred worship from her. Fred Waring is Allen and Portland Hoffa, Ozzie Nel­ Mrs. McMahon's special passion. She's son and Harriet Hilliard and, now, never missed a Waring program in six Kay Kyser and Georgia Carroll. .. .. * Dinah Shore sports a size five years. She owns a copy of every Something for the Boys-NBC's an­ pair of paratrooper boots ac­ phonograph record he's ever made. She nounced a swell idea. 'Members and quired on her tour in France. has a more complete file of pictures and former members of the Anned Forces press notices about Waring than the are going to have a chance to show one owned by Fred's press agent. She attends all broadcasts in person, both what they can do in the radio line. ent can be on hand, comes demobiliza­ NBC has started a series of Welcome the first broadcast at 7: 00 P. M. and the tion. Besides, recordings made during repeat performance, which goes on a Home · Auditions, for men and women the auditions will be available to' sta­ who want to be musicians, vocalists, few hours later for the benefit of Pa­ tion managers on request. cific Coast listeners. announcers, commentators, actors and Applications for the auditions may script writers. Such devotion deserves a reward. be mailed or filed ' in person. Mail Mrs. McMahon got one-a beautiful It's a big thing NBC has planned. should be addressed to Welcome Home These auditions will not necessarily blue orchid from the hands of Fred Auditions, National Broadcasting Com­ himself. lead to jobs for applicants. They will pany, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York .. serve, however, to create a sort of pool . . 20, N. Y. The auditions ar~ held every When the ~irls hand out bouquets of talent for the network in the post­ Saturday from 9: 30 in the morning to a girl-that s one for the record. Not war period. After each audition, until noon. to be outdone by all the boys choosing applicants will receive a certificate Good luck-- pin-up girls and handing out titles, attesting to the individual's audition '" '" the WACs at Camp Swift, Texas, voted R and NBC will also forward a file card You always. have to learn something Evelyn Knight their favorite radio of the judgment of a staff of experts M new. We had to learn how to show thrush. So far as we know, this is the on the result of each audition to net­ our appreciation and pleasure in a­ first time such a thing has happened. work stations near the contestant's for us-fantastic way, the other day. . . .. home. In this way a file of future tal- At a For the Record broadcast, the He's been back a long time, now, but 4 Jack Benny's still running up a terr1fic phone bill and loading the U. S. mails, relaying messages for the boys he met in the Pacific battle area this summer. --t~ .O~ ~r~ ~ Jack's determined not to let down one of the boys who asked him to say hello to his family back home. And there were hundreds of G.I.'s who made ~ ~;}~~! Jack their messenger. • Have you noticed• that• you never see Tireless war worker-busy illm maker-is dazzling Dorothy Cliff Edwards without a hat? Cliff Lamour, like many other Hollywood stars. Lucky for their claims he hasn't had his picture taken without a hat since 1929 and that in­ loveliness, they've discovered that Woodbury cludes 103 movies in which he's worked Complete Beauty Cream does everything in that time. He claims it-but he for skin beauty ..• takes just seconds! doesn't explain. it. . .. Funny how some things get started. Way back in 1931, Chet Lauck and Norris Goff-now famous. as Lum and Abner~rganized a show to raise funds for the victims of a flood. Their cam­ paign was so successful that the two men were invited to appear on radio station KTHS-that's in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Chet and Norris were doing a black­ face act, then. When they got to the studio they discovered that another blackface act was one thing radio could very well get along without. Prac­ tically on the spur of the moment,­ that awful dead moment before going on the air, too-Chet and Norris de­ cided to change themselves into char­ acters from the Ozarks. And Lum and Abner they've been ever since...... Talk about France's spirit and love of freedom-Dinah Shore said that one of the biggest thrills she got was sing­ ing the "Marseillaise" with a bunch of French kids. The thing that made Dinah's throat go all of a lump was the fact that the children had been born during the war, during the Ger­ man occupation-but they all knew the words of their.. national. ..anthem. You get used to' hearing people on the radio and, somehow, you begin to think of them as permanent features on the air and almost nothing else. Stars like James Melton and Alec Dorothy Lamour Templeton, however, lead very active -in fact scrambling-lives off the air. soon to be seen in "ROAD TO UTOPIA," a Paramount Picture They're both continually hopping on ; and off planes and trains to keep their r~ ... I concert dates all over the country on .~~ weekdays and rushing back to New York on weekends for their Sunday broadcasts. Su this satiny cream help your' skin l~ok film-star lovely as it gives complete care: Cleanses. Softens, smooths. Holds powder. Helps erase tiny dry-skin lines. And Stericin, exclusive ingredient, works constantly right in the jar to purify the cream, helping protect against blemish-causing germs.

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Hezzie Trietsch, Ken Trietsch, Gabe Ward and Gil Taylor, The Hoosier Hot Shots of National Barn Dance fame, celebrate eleven years together.

In spite of his heavy schedule, Alec made famous by the swing and sway Templeton finds time to have become band-numbers like "Avalon," "Mel­ one of the most ardent radio fans in ancholy Baby," "Remember Pearl Har­ the country. When he's at 'home, he bor" and "Is You Is." Accepting the keeps three radios turned on different collection, the chief of the music divi­ stations simultaneously-and he man­ sion of the Library said that it would ages by some miraculous extra talent form the basis for the compilation of to hear every_ show. Alec even listens orchestrations to portray a develop­ to soap operas-and can tell you who's ment in popular music, which the av­ doing what in the scripts. erage citizen has enjoyed in theaters, ...... over the air and on records. Beulah Karney, who can tell you .. .. * What's Cook in' in everything culi­ Every time you're tired and don't nary, couldn't possibly have become feel that you can do another thing, anything but a home economics expert: think of Betty Philson, who plays Her minister-father, before his ordina­ Rachel in Woman of America. Betty's tion, spent several years as cook on a sixteen. She's a student at the Friends world cruising ship and served up tales Central School in Overbrook, Pa. She about exotic foods instead of nursery commutes to Radio City in New York rhymes to his young daughter. from her home in Broomall-that's a Beulah also spent a lot. of time. iIi suburb of Philadelphia-to do her stint the family kitchen as a child and, when in the radio show. She has homework, she was in her last year at high school, of course. She has some living to do. she won top honors in a city-wide c.on­ In spite of all this, she finds time to test, surpassing experienced housewives work regularly as a nurse's aide in a with her perfect meal of baked fish. Philadelphia hospital. Like daughter, like mother­ Beulah wanted to be a newspaper­ .. .. * Rosemary (Dr. Christian) de woman. Her father wanted her to be GOSSIP AND STUFF . . . An­ a home economist. They compromised niversaries-Hour of Charm has been Camp copies Nana's pinafore. and Beulah was graduated from Occi­ around on the air lanes for ten years. dental College with a Bachelor of Arts The National Barn Dance show is degree, in journalism and a minor in eleven years old, now. . . . Everett home economics. After graduate work Sloane is playing the part of Borth in at the University of California, she got the Broadway production of "A Bell a job as a reporter on the Los Angeles For Adano" . . . James Melton is the Times. Then she became editor of the owner of eighty antique automobiles. women's page and- a writer, doing a . . . Kate Smith is the gal chosen syndicated column on nutrition, menus unanimously by song pluggers to guar­ and family problems. antee that a new number will be a hit. Beulah went on to conduct cooking They' claim that almost every song she schools for the Kansas City (Missouri) ever Introduced became a money Star and then to work for the govern­ maker. . . . Ted Malone, the voice ment, supervising 10,000 employees at of those new dramatic war features canning centers. She broke into radio from Europe, is an editor of Good in 1935 in a fifteen-minute home eco­ Housekeeping Magazine as well as a nomics broadcast over KMBC in Kan­ foreign correspondent. . . . The first sas City. That led to her being made Television course ever to be given for women's program director for the sta­ credit toward a university degree has tion. Later she went to Chicago in been started at Columbia U. . . . 1941 to work for the Blue Network. Changes are taking place-advertising With all her menus and recipes­ executives are now willing to let com­ Beulah's favorite dish is, of all things, mercials be "kidded" on the air. In spaghetti. the past this practice was forbidden. .. >I< .. We think it's a big relief. . . . At a R A unique honor has fallen on Sammy dinner in New York, sponsored by the M Comedian lack Haley (right) Kaye. The Library of Congress has cast of Can You Top This? Hilde­ accepted a collection of musical Amer­ garde got a golden egg for telling the and Dave Street of NBC's Vil­ icana from him. The collection includes worst story of the year. . . . Good lage Siore relax at rehearsal. original manuscripts and arrangements 6 listening until next month. ~~'t';t«~~ ~()Mk . ~iO~W~i'«i~Mh,Snto~nt TRUSHAY 1t~h~ paht""~ W~1 ~~ st'GA 1' .•) 'ttti.'1 9t-i~ , 6hjh4M't"; "ktOMt.~" ~'T1C1I1 . rallt'" t !.f17t<.\, !l.c~ ~A1' "f'p". 1'ri -H,t, It~W l&~ 1M ~~ CWl~.

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She decided it by going over the next day after school to call on Mrs. Bennett, the singing teacher. She sang for Mrs. Benn'et,t-and then suggested , ' ' that, to pay for her lessons, she do housework and marketing. Mrs. Ben­ nett, who had listened in amaze­ ment to the blonde girl's lovely voice, agreed at once . . . and for the next SH E'S three years Marie went to high school until three o'clock every afternoon, took singing lessons for an hour after that, and spent the rest of the day do­ ing housework for her teacher. At the end of that time, she had graduated from high school, and she had also won a scholarship to the University of Oregon. Here she con­ tinued her Cinderella existence­ studying hard at her college courses, taking singing lessons from the Uni­ versity's music professor Sigurd Nils­ $en, and , earning her food, room, and CINDERELLA clothes by ringing tne cash register at a local department store, and working in the college library. It was Mr. Nilssen who gave her the first gentle push toward the American limelight, one cloudy afternoon in the music de­ of SONG partment rooms at the University. "Marie," he told her, "I think it is time for you to tryout in a country­ wide competition for singing. I will take you to Portland for the audition." By ELEANOR HAIIRIS "What audition?" said Marie, as­ tounded. "For the Hour of Charm program­ with Phil Spitalny's all-girl orChestra," said Mr. Nilssen firmly. "Pack your bags, my girl, and at once!" MARIE ROGNDAHL is the real-life Things developed fast from then on Cinderella from the far-west state for her, as fast as they had for the of Oregon who just won the Singing original Cindie of the glass slippers. Cinderella contest on the NBC Hour Marie didn't know it, but nine thousand, The moment she enters, all of Charm broadcast- and everything eight hundred and thirteen girls all over about her bears out the famous Cin­ the country had tried out for the prized else stops; she wins eyes and hearts derella story. (Except for one impor­ position-and out of all of them, she effortlessly, without seeking them tant item: the Prince! He hasn't come was to be the winner! along yet.) She was rushed East. Then, during .•. for she is varvacious! Varva's For one thing, she's beautiful. She's her next 13 weeks as soloist on the Hour perfumes "Follow Me" and a golden-haired, blue-eyed girl who of Charm program, she turned her at­ "Nonchalant" are the subtle reasons carries her five-foot-six-inch figure tention to the great city of New York, with the dignity of Viking ancestors. which delighted her as much as the she's so very very . .. For another thing, she's young-she glamorous ball had delighted the first was 21 last September 5th, 1944. Cinderella. She took a small apartment Varva e"tracts-$l to 515 • Bath Powder, $1 For still another, she's poor-which with another Oregon girl who had come Face Powder, 6 gueJt puff" $1 • Bubble Foam, $1 .means that her singing lessons were East to study voice; and the two girls iachet, $1 and $1.75 • Talc, 55, things she struggled for. She was 15 wandered up and down Fifth Avenue (plus tax) when she decided to take singing staring as if they had just arrived from lessons to bring out her coloratura Mars. But the height of excitement NONCHALANT voice. She broached it at the dinner came to them with the opening of the (Your Secret Weapon) table the night she made her decision, Metropolitan Opera Season, when The Devil.May­ looking over the Norwegian fish stew Marie felt as if she'd truly come to the Care Perfume at her two blond parents, who had ball! come from Norway to the United When her thirteen weeks with the States only a few years before her Hour of Charm were up, Phil Spitalny birth. Her father was a cabinet maker wanted her to continue singing in­ of modest means and conservative definitely with his orchestra, but Marie tastes, and she already knew his reac­ had another decision to make, and she tion to what she was about to say. made it . .. she r.eturned to the Uni­ FOLLOW ME But she said it anyway. "Daddy and versity of Oregon for another year of (Su;vez Moi) Mother," she said in her high, sweet college. Then she'll put in a final year The Perfwne That voice, "I want very much to take sing­ of voice study. Then, at last, she'll try Leads and Lasts ing lessons. There's a wonderful her professional wings on the singing teacher here. Mrs. Vida Bennett . . . ." world in all earnestness. "No," said her father. "I don't think The Prince? Well, Marie doesn't it's right for a girl to plan on singing know for sure just who he is yet . . . for money. Our family has never been he may be clad in Army khaki or Navy theatrical, and this is no time to start." blue-instead of velvet knee-britches! M "No," her mother chimed in. "Be­ But then Marie Rogndahl, the 1944 sides, what would we use for money Cinderella, is dressed in sweaters and VARV~ to pay the teacher?" skirts instead of rags-and it certainly Empire State Building, New York I, N. Y. "That," said Marie, "I will decide looks to aU bystanders as if she's somehow, myself." truly going to be a Princess of Song. 8 Lovely Evelyn Knight and Jerry Wayne sing and. romance on comedian Ed Wynn's new radio pro· gram, Happy Island, heard on Friday nights over the Blue network. Below, Bing Crosby is back on "K.M.H." He's been overseas, entertain· ing American G. I. Joes.

When you' re home curled up FACING with a book it doesn't matter if your hair slips its moorings .. . But when the party's in full bloom and the MUSlC the music to your taste, you want a hair-do built for speed and en­ durance. By KEN ALDEN So anchor it, for keeps, with De[ong Bob :Pins ... They have the strength of true love and the grip of a habit. .They'll hold your curls INAH SHORE, target of the worst A certain young radio star is not win­ set of ugly rumors in years, plans ning any friends by his exaggerated securely, keep your hair-net snugly D to do a number of her NBC Open tales of his service record when he was House shows from Army camps this in uniform. in place and help make you the year. Dinah is deliriously happy with • \'I: * glamour-puss of the party. her husband, Corporal George Mont­ Composer Johnny Green and statu- gomery, and they make one of Holly­ esque screen star Bunny Waters have a wood's nicest pairs. new baby daughter, Jennifer. I saw Dinah when she came 'back " from her successful U.S.O. overseas By the time· you. read this The An- Stronger Grip jaunt. Dinah was the first girl singer to drews Sisters will have their own spon­ sing for our boys on liberated French sored air show. Won't SliP Out soil. While over there she also sang for '" ,., ,., the Nazis as a V -2 propaganda weapon. Look for Lawrence Tibbett to head The songs she selected had a slightly up a big time radio show for an insur­ ominous ring for them, "I'll Be Seeing ance company. You" and "There'll Be A Hot Time In It! • :#.1 The Town of Berlin:" Benny Goodman's brother Jerry was Dinah told me she got a real kick killed in a plane crash. He was com­ out of getting a hair-do in the original pleting his training course as a bomber pilot. Antoine of Paris. But because the fa­ * ,., * mous beauty shoppe had no electricity Bobby Hackett, one of the country's the embarrassed operator had to sub­ truly great trumpet exponents has stitute bandanas. The nail polish was joined the Casa Lorna orchestra. ' of ersatz material and wouldn't dry. ,., Dinah brought back French toys for Fred Waring's· swell .new Blue Net- her nieces and nephews and a cap­ ~ork show. ge~ting everything but tured German pistol for George. ,., . . h~tener~. HIS lIstener rating is a big That's Matty Malneck's orchestra you dlsappomtment. hear on Duffy's Tavern although he­ • * • isn't billed.· Another sponsor won't let Phil Spitalny is doing such a tre- Matty get billing on the Ed Gardner mendous business in the light concert show. . field that he may keep his "All Girl" *. $: * orchestra out of theater and movie Tommy Dorsey's scuffle with. Jon Hall work indefinitely. may cost him a radio commercial. * * * • • * Boyd Raeburn is dissatisfied with his Raymond Scott's CBS band which is present band and is junking it to start a radical departure from the quintette out all over again. which first brought him fame, is becom­ * • * Qllalily Jltaflufacturers for Over so Years ing quite a favorite with the G.I.'s. The Hal McIntyre will be heard again BOB PINS HAIR PINS SAFETY PINs r. Office of War InformatiQn has heeded over CBS when he brings his band into SNAP FASTENERS STRAIGHT PINS the requests of service men and has Ray New York's Hotel Commodore. HOOKS III EYES HOOK III EYE TAPES doing a daily broadcast for. the troops. Continued on page 10 SANITARY BEL.TS , - 9 Left, Shirley Ross, star of ra­ dio and motion pictures, is now heard on Bob Burns' show.

Young Milena Miller, below, for­ mer Powers model, has joined the CBS Johnny Morgan variety show.

Artie Shaw hasn't changed .a bit. He's reportedly asking $12,500 a week for a theater engagement with his new band. The reason* you*, don't* hear much about Richard Himber these days is that Above, Scat singer Jeanne Mc­ the portly magic-minded maestro is Kenna sings with unusual style busy producing a Broadway musical on NBC's Roy Shield and Co. show called "Abracadabra." His friend" Orson Welles, is helping him stage it. The Gene * Krupa-Carol* * Bruce ro- mance is just a memory. The Jerry Waynes* * are* on again and off again with their friends hoping they'll patch up their differences ami­ cably. and Abe Lyman have worked for him. Bandleaders with deadpan expressions * t.: :I: How would you like to be married to "Show me a successful bandleader don't even get plaudits from the bus Ozzie Nelson? He has a habit of writ­ and I'll show you a good business man,'" boys. ing his comedy material late at night Christenberry told me. "In my opinion 2. Give the customers surprises. Tom­ and then waking up wife Harriet Hil­ Rudy Vallee and Guy Lombardo are my Dorsey is always up to some trick liard for a three A.M. reading. the shrewdest of the maestros. You'll like switching instruments with drum­ never hear about Rudy or Guy invest­ mer Buddy Rich, or trumpeter Ziggy * :If': • Radio wiseacres blame miscast com­ ing in fly_by-night operations or mak­ Talent. edy material for shortening the life ing a foolhardy decision." 3. If the crowd is "hot" stay with span of the once popular Lower Basin Perhaps the most important decision them. Harry James never lets down a Street show. a band leader must make is the selec­ minute and often plays his trumpet tion of proper hotel sites. to the exhaustion point. MAN BEHIND* THE* BANDSTAND:* An as- "The hotel is the showcase even if 4. Be considerate. The crowd loves piring radio bandleader may have the it doesn't directly bring the bandleader request numbers, anniversary and natural musical talents of a Bix Beider­ great profits," Christenberry continued. birthday tributes, menus that are auto­ becke or Bunny Berigan but if he lacks "In the proper setting a band takes ad­ graphed. Don't get a big head. the initiative of a Sammy Kaye, the co­ vantage of the powerful radio broad­ Better than the rules is a little story operative spirit of a Harry James or the cast time. It gives ballroom operators, Christenberry told me about Harry business acumen of a Rudy Vallee, he'll theater, radio and movie scouts a place James, Betty Grable, and four young never reach the charmed circle of big­ to catch the band. But if the hotel is American eagles. time, all-time popular musical greats. not the right location, the result can It was a hot summer night. Christen­ Take that bit of advice from one of often be disastrous." berry noticed four wounded officers of the shrewdest buyers of dance bands Many will recall the time Wayne the Air Corps come into the room. in America. He's soft-spoken, affable King, the erstwhile Waltz King brought Two were on crutches. Robert K. Christenberry, President of his dreamy music to New York and set­ "Can. I help you boys?" he asked. the famous Hotel Astor in New York. tled in the swank Waldorf-Astoria. His "Gosh, yes," replied the leader of the In the decade this Tennessee-born music, so vastly popular with the radio group, "Can you get us a table where Marine veteran of World War One has listeners, failed 10 woo the society trade. we can look at Betty Grable? We been hiring orchestras, he has two Yet such leaders as Eddy Duchin and understand she's here every night with shock-proof barometers: customers and Xavier Cugat break box office records her husband. We promise not to bother· cash registers. at the Waldorf. her. All we want to do is look at her." "I've seen them all, the good mu­ Bandleaders must also keep an eagle Christenberry led them to a choice sician with the bad business approach eye and ear on changing musical tastes table hard by the bandstand and the and the mediocre musician with the of the dancing public. Several years beautiful blonde. Then he told Harry financial wizardry of Bernard Baruch, ago Hawaiian music was the rage. Now and Betty about the boys' request. and it's the latter lad who'll r eap a it's the South American tempos. "Between every set Harry and Betty harvest for himself." Christenberry never has any trouble sat with those flyers and took care of Christenberry admits he's no musical with orchestra leaders. He has a simple their every request. It was one of the critic but his abllity to pick a band rule. Those who don't measure up never nicest gestures I've ever seen." when it's hot gives him a right to get a second booking. judge the values of our various bands­ I asked Christenberry to set down "FULL SPEED AHEAD" men. Such world famous bands as four basic rules for astute bandleaders. Harry James, the Dorseys, Tommy Here they are. HAT J erry Wayne has a way about Tucker, Sammy Kaye, Rudy Vallee, 1. Look as pleased as the people are., T him-and a clear, straight way 10 ahead of him to success, can be doubted by not even the most skeptical these days. For in less than a year the 28- year-old singer, who recently stepped into the .singing role on Ed Wynn's new Blue Network show, Happy Island, ~~o Rarely So£t~~l': has created a reputation that practical­ ly no one, including Sinatra, can afford to ignore. It was less than a year ago that the tbe toucbes of ber bands, d " young man, who had planned nothing more glamorous in his life than a ca­ h . enchanted Ian s reer in dentistry, ,inaugurated his night club career with an appearance at the As drowsy zep yrs l~ .. ames Whifcomb Riley Cocoanut Grove of the Park Central _"Love LyrIC., J Ij hotel in New York City-an engage­ ment which will live long in the mem­ ories of his fans. That appearance broke all previous 'attendance records at the Grove, a sensation which was recapitu­ lated with his ensuing success at La Martinique. As a result of Jerry Wayne's night club "victories," B. P. Shulberg signed him for the leading romantic role in. the musical comedy, "Marianne." Jerry's role as emcee and singer on the U. S. Maritime Service radio program, Full Speed Ahead, a patriotic service which earned him a government cita­ tion; his starring on Mutual's program The Songs of Jerry Wayne, and on NBC's All Time Hit Parade; his ap­ pearances in theaters throughout the country, further solidified the tre­ mendous impression he has made. ERRY'S beginnings were as small as J the next man's. Born in Buffalo, N. Y., where he attended public school, Jerry had no notion of what his natural gift of a more-than-pleasant baritone might bring. He attended the Univer­ sity of Buffalo and Ohio State Uni­ ,:.l~ Are your ba~ds versity where he devoted most of his 'l"" . f " attention to sports and dramatics. On ~~O Rarely So t, or both campuses he was a varsity swim­ mer and boxer, and at Ohio he held the Junior tennis championship. He· spent much of his time in school dramatic productions acting, directing, ReaUyRough and just plain moving the scenery. He studied dentistry, meanwhile, but his heart was in the highlands a-chasin' a January Nor'easter? stage career while he drilled away at asa ~ molars. Consequently when he was graduated he began to work in summer stock companies back home. At the time that mature decisions had to be made as to what he intended Don't let Winter make your hands look OLD to do, Jerry knew it was the stage or nothing. So he came off to the big town "DROWSY zephyrs," did you say, Sir roughen, redden, ruin a woman's hands to haunt the producers' offices. H e met Poet? Wake up! -Mr. Riley-this with nothing but cold shoulders at ... often make them look older than agents' doors, and at the broadcasting is January. And a brutally workaday her actual years. And Pacquins Hand companies he was rewarded with only world. Don't you think there should be Cream says "pooh" to work and weather a few small roles. So he turned his eyes a footnote to your lovely lyric to lovely - hands keep smooth, white\ youthful­ to the west and Hollywood. Here the hands? Something like ..."If you want looking. Snowy-white, non-greasy. As pickings were even smaller, but Jerry was convinced that he had the goods, 'em, use Pacquins-quick!" delightful to use as the results are to and he began taking dramatic lessons. Because work and weather chap, see. Get Pacquins now! The discovery of his singing voice was the most dramatic thing the les­ sons accomplished. Local radio pro­ grams occasioned such favorable notice that he soon began to travel along in those seven-league boots which have • since taken him great distances in rec­ ord time. 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*T. M. Rer . U. 8. P.t. orr. 12 Christmas always brought bitterness to Doris. But this one was worst of all, because it had given promise of being so wonderful. She had f ound. Tom, only to lose him!

NEVER knew how the fire started. One minute I was sitting there in I the darkened movie theater with my date--Jake Bristol, who worked in the same store with, me--watching a war film. And the next, a sheet of red flame swept across the screen blotting out everything. At the same instance, black smoke began belching out over the audience. A woman screamed shrilly. There was a hideous shout of "Fire!" And then panic broke loose like a wave of thu"nder, You go blind with terror in a mo­ ment like that. Struggling with all your might, trying to fight your way out as if you were a trapped animal. I didn't know where Jake had disap­ peared to. I was not conscious of any­ thing but being swallowed up by that frenzied mob . _ . Of being brought to my knees, choking. gasping . . . Then a long arm reached out and caught me. A voice close to my ear said, "Steady there! You're all 'right now." A cool, assured voice that seemed to make a little island of safety for us in that inferno. His G.!. coat was rough, good ag,linst my cheek. He held me as he might have a child. I heard him directing other soldiers in the audience in handling the situation, by some miracle bringing it under con­ trol. You could feel the people re­ sponding to the authority in that voice, quieting . . . Streams of them poured through the exits in something like order. Before long I felt the raw cold of the December night on my own' face and knew that we were safe. That was how I -met Sergeant Tom Driscoll-at a fire in a movie theater two days before Christmas. "You're still trembling," he said. "Let's get some hot coffee over at that drugstore." We sat in a booth, and a smile came into his eyes. Gray eyes, they were. He looked crisp and hardily fit, and brown as it" he had just come out of tropical sunshine instead of sleety cold. He looked nice. "You've got spunk," he grinned and it was a funny little one-sided grin. "The way you took that mauling by the mob!" "I'd probably be all in pieces by now if it hadn't been for you!'" I said feelingly. "How did you ever manage to get things under control like that?" "It's the sergeant in me!" We both laughed. Without warning, "my heart

A. STARS OYER HOLLYWOOD STORY

Inspired by "If The Shoe Fitll" by Mildred Hark and Noel McQueen, 'heard on Stars Over Hollywood, Saturday, CBS began to pound thickly and I couldn't look away. We talked. There old-fashioned in her ideas. I thought of her as hopelessly "settled,'; was suddenly so much to say, to find out about each other. He was almost old-twenty-six: When her husband went overseas she and stationed at the camp below town. Had just been sent back there their two children had moved in with her parentsj and she had taken from Africa for a six-weeks' special gunnery course. He was un­ this job in the store. married, not even engaged . .. "You know," he leaned forward on "What about Jake?" she asked. Jake was supposed to be a matri­ his elbows, "I was blaming my luck tonight. i'm on a three-day monial prize. He was an assistant buyer and a nephew of Mr. Bristol, pass and it's not enough time to go home for Christmas, So here the president of the store. I am in a town where I don't know anyone!" "Oh, I'll handle hi,m," I said airily. He had called me early that "You know me!" I said. morning to find out what had happened to me. It seems he had spent hours searching for me long after the fire was extinguished. HE pretended to consider that seriously. "Let's see-I know you'd Regina was taking a doll out of a bag. A doll dressed like a WAC fit very nicely into some lucky man's Christmas stocking. I know officer. "For Bunny, my youngest," she said. "Isn't it cute?" you have hair the color of the wheat back on our farm, and brown I held it for a moment and black memories rushed in on me. eyes and a look of going places. But I don't know your name!" "She'll love it," I said. " ... Every year I used to start praying for "Oh that," I laughed. "It's Doris Reynolds." Just a name. A name a doll a whole month before Christmas. But I never got it." I had taken from a magazine three years before when I ran away from home. A new name that would help me forget all the hurt. ONCE, my mother had tried to fashion a 'doll for me. But Steve I had been sixteen then . . . burned it. On Christmas Eve before I had a chance to play with it Excitement was mounting .in me like fever. "If you'r~ free, sup­ at all. Steve was my stepfather. Big, rOl,lgh, with a brute quality posing we plan the holiday toget.her. Would you like that?" about him that made our home a nightmare. My 'mother, a sweet, "More than anything else!" Tom saia with eagerness. timid soul, had re-married when I was five, and Steve had hated ' I lay awake most of the night thinking about it. My room in the me from the start. I reminded him too much of my own father, w.ho boarding house was dismally cold. But I" was warmed by an emo­ had died when' I· was two. Steve could not bear the thought that tion I had never experienced before. Certainly not in connection my mother had belonged to another man, had been terribly happy with this season of the year which I had come to hate. The forced with that other man. Shortly after her second marriage she became good-will-among-men which lasted for twenty-four hours only and an invalid. We were entirely dependent on my stepfather. There was had never brought me anything. The static smile of .department not another human being we could. turn to ... And Steve became store Santa Clauses. All the gushing and silly, sentimental ~rappings almost sadistic in his treatment of me ... I had tried so desperately . . . I had loathed everything about Christmas. And now I was ac­ to blot all that out. When I ran away from home after mother's tually looking forward to this. one! death I even changed my name. There was very little of the shy, At the store the next morning, Regina, who was one of my best sensitive girl who had been Jean Adams in the woman who was friends, looked at me speculatively. "My, you look happy! New now Doris Reynolds! man?" she guessed. We were putting out trays of perfume, pre­ Some of the bitterness of those memories must have showed in paring for the day's rush, and I smiled at her over a whole row of my face because Regina put her hand on my arm. "I think a girl "Toujours Amour." "Oh Regina, he's wonderful." has to grow a bit hard outside when she's as soft and sweet inside "They always are!" she chuckled. Regina was a dear really, but as you are, Doris," she said gently. "It's a (Continued on page 49)

The children were watching me eagerly--and then 1 saw in the doorway a familiar figure that made-my breath catch. Poor loyce! She wanted so much to be a part

of the young laughter and gaiety around her.

So she made a bidfor. freedom-and found that

stolen happiness can be bitter as well as sweet

y MOTHER was one of the strict after school. I walked from class alone, a history lesson? And if I did invite kind. She always had been. As or with another "odd" girl-like fat them, and if they should accept-and Mfar back as I can remember, there little Julia Knight, who was going to I was sure they wouldn't-what would were things that I wanted very badly be a science teacher and who always we do? The living room wasn't big to do, and wasn't allowed to do. I had her nose in a book, or with poor enough for dancing, and as for games­ couldn't play outdoors with the other Prudence Kenney, whose mother was perhaps girls like Esther and Marian children under the arc light on summer even stricter than mine, and who wore would think games childish. I didn't evenings. I couldn't stay with a girl her hair in a thick braid with a butter­ know them well enough to be sure. friend over night. I .couldn't have a fly bow at the back of her neck, a And ten-thirty! Esther and Marian permanent until I was through high fashion twenty-five years old. stayed out until twelve on Saturday school, although Esther Findley, who I had scarcely a word to say to the nights. I knew. I often heard Walter lived next door, had one when she was girls I'd grown up with, like Esther Daniel's car when he brought them twelve. I had to come straight home Findley and Marian Nelson. I saw them home, heard them calling gay good­ from school-no playing with the other in the halls-arms linked, faces laugh­ nights when I'd been in bed for hours. children on the school lot after three; ing and animated, and always with a The bitterest loneliness of all came no lingering in the coke shop when boy or two in eager attendance-and on the walk home from school in the I reached high school. they went by me as oblivious to my afternoon. I had lo pass Markham's They sound like little things, don't existence as if I'd been a part of the Confectionery on the way-Markham's they? Petty little restrictions that you wall. They were the prettiest and the where the crowd gathered between the laugh at when you're grown up. But most popular girls in the Junior class. hours of three and four. At Markham's they're important-terribly important, They were the vibrant center of the everything that went on at school was especially when you get to be sixteen group that gathered outside of study talked over; plans were made for foot­ and a junior in high school, and find hall in the morning, talking about ball parties; candidates were decided yourself completely cut off from the things I'd only heard of-movies seen upon, unofficially, for class elections crowd, without a share in the interests with a boy friend the night before, the and parts in the class play. Markham's of other people of your own age, with­ Sunlight dances held in the gymnasium was terribly important to any upper out, actually, any friends. after school, of picnics and parties. classman, and I had to walk straight I don't mean that I was disliked at There wasn't any USe trying to ex­ past it, trying not to see the boys school. Thcrc wcre plenty of girls­ plain this ·set-apartness of mine to scuffling for places beside Marian and and boys, too--who came up to me Mother. "Parties?" she would say. Esther in a booth, trying not to see the when I entered history class-because '-'There'll be time enough for you to go little group at the soda fountain, their they hadn't done their home work, and to parties when you're older, Joyce. heads together in serious discussion of I had done mine. At class meetings I Why don't you invite your friends to some party or outing that I would only was elected to committees-but they the house-perhaps from eight to ten­ hear about. It was enough to make me were the uninteresting jobs, like doing thirty on Saturday night? Your fathe.r: completely despondent, not only about rcsearch on the costumes for t:1e will drive them hom~-" the present, but about the future. I saw French 'Club play. I wouldn't be in It wasn't any use. Mother meant to myself getting to be a senior, and being the play itself. Even if anyone had help me, but she just didn't Understand. still left out, still never a part of thought to ask me, I would have had How did you go about inviting people things. to refuse because rehearsaJs were held you never spoke to except in regard to And then one December afternoon 16

I was no longer alone. I'd just passed Markham's when a car rattled up be­ Tommy came running over to me. side me and a voice called, "Hey, "There you are!" he said. "I've what's the rush?" been looking all over for you." I kept on walking. It couldn't be anyone I knew. None of the boys at school-and certainly none who owned cars- would look twice at me. "Tea-cher!" calied the voice, and then I did look around. It was Tommy' Davis, a new boy at school. He'd started late in October, and I'd helped him sometimes before history class with lessons he'd missed. I stopped, went toward him. I couldn't think of anything to say but, "I don't like to be called teacher." He grinned. "I don't know why. not. You're smart enough. Hop in, and I'll take you home." HESITATE_D, not at all sure what I my mother would say. Then I thanked him and got in. Maybe it doesn't sound like a tri­ umph to you-to ride in an ancient rattling open car on a cold winter day, in a car all painted over with cartoons and nicknames, and so noisy you had to shout to be heard. But it was thrill­ ing to me, so much so that it was all I could do to seem casual and natural. "How corne," Tommy shouted, "that you're not at Markham's? I thought all you girls hung around .there in the afternoons." "We do," I lied boldly-and it didn't. seem so WltI'uthful when I said "we." "I just don't feel like it sometiines." He nodded. ,"I see what you mean. It gets to be a waste of time after a While." "Yes;" I said, "it is, when you stop to think about it. Why, you can sp~nd just hours over a coke-" "'Sure, you can. It's silly. What I can't understand is why those guys on the football and basketball teams hang around there. You'd think an athlete would know better-" I stole a glanc~ at his broad shoul­ ders, his pugnacious jaw. "Aren't you an athlete?" I asked. He shrugged. "I was. Played a lot of sophomore football last year. But much out of his side of school activities even if he should-offer me another ride,. goodbye to him as his old car rattled "I see. How long- Has he driven Tommy, who lives way over on Park I'm not sure I'll· go out for it again. as I was out of mine. But I didn't I might have to refuse. away, and ran into the house-to you home before today?" Place, drives you-it amounts to a date, It's kid stuff, in a way," -realize it at the time. It was hard But luck was with me that week. find Mother in the living room, stand­ "A few times," I admitted. don't you see dear? And you know Right then and there, perhaps, I enough for me to catch the literal Mother was downtown, Christmas ing by the window. She turned as I "A few- " Her brows lowered, knit you're not old enough to have dates. should have known that Tommy was meaning of what he said without shopping, every afternoon, and every entered, and her eyes were alert and in a frown. "He lives in the neighbor­ You're not old enough to have a boy doing just what I was doing-putting stopping to hunt for a deeper one. afternoon Tommy was waiting at the questioning. "Who drove you home, hood, I suppose?" show so much interest in you that he up a front, pretending to be a little The- ride home was all too short. door when school was out. There were Joyce?" she asked. "No, he lives over on Park Place." goes out of his way on your account-" "Park Place! Do you mean that he's "But- " ahead of the other students, when ac­ When the ~ar stopped before my house, no more lonely walks horne; in school, tually we would have. given anything all of my happy excitement stopped Tommy's close-cropped, curly head was MY heart dropped. This was the been coming over here to Irving. 'She shook her head, and she spoke to be with them. It would have been with it. I was home again, and Mother bent attentively toward mine as we end; I knew it surely. The end of Avenue, and then driving all the way slowly, distinctly, as she would to a easy enough to guess the reason. It would ask why I was earlier than walked from history to math.; Tommy the rides, the laughter and the nonsense back to Park Place?" She shook her very small,. disobedient child. "I know was hard for a new boy to break into usual, and when I told her, she prob­ lingered at the lunch room door to shouted <;>ver the noise of the engine, the head. "You mustn't ride with him any what's best for you, Joyce. Believe me, organized athletics late in the ' year. ably wouldn't approve. I ·thanked walk. out with me after I'd had lunch end of all the fun and friendship that more, Joyce." I do. Just tell Tommy that you can't Basketball and track teams were al­ Tommy, and he said casually, "Think with Julia and Prudence. had come to me. Mother obviously didn't Here it was again-something I ride with him again, and if it's too cold ready formed; football was out until nothing of it. I'll see you tomorrow." I didn't tell my mother about approve of the gaudily painted car; the wanted very much, something every­ to walk, I can come after you, or spring. He might not make the foot­ My heart skipped a beat. Did he Tommy's taking me home. After the cold winter wind wouldn't, to her way one else took for granted, was being Walter Daniels will be glad to drive ball team at all, no matter how good mean that he would take me home the' first day I forgot about the possibility of thinking, excuse the fact that I'd refused me. I was close to tears, and I you." he was, because competition was stiff, next day? And then I told myself not of her objecting. And it never entered been sitting close to Tommy. I'd d<;>ne wasn't crying just for this time, but I hated myself for crying, but I and he was from out. of town, and his to think of it. Probably he meant that Mother's head that I was coming home nothing wrong, nothing that the nicest ,for all of the other times I'd been couldn't help it. The mention of Walter record wasn't known. Tommy was as he would see me in history class, and any way but the way I'd always come girls in school didn't do every day; denied. "But, Mother," I cried, "why only piled frustration on frustration. -on foot, and alone. Her mind was yet my voice thickened guiltily· as I can't I ride home with Tommy? Walter "I can't ask Walter," I wailed. "Don't full of her shopping, and we were busy answered, "Tommy Rhoa:d~s." Daniels drives Esther and Marian hom'e you see-Walter always stops at Mark­ Her eyebrows rose. "Tommy-? I every single day." ham's with the rest. You've never let ..4 PROBLEM FROM JOHN J. ,4NTHONY·S COOD WILL H!JUR in the evenings, wrapping packages, making out cards, and the subject of don't believe I've heard you mention "That's ditfer:ent, dear. Walter and me stop anywhere after school, and Tomply never came up. him. Who is he, dear?" .. . " Esther and Marian all live around here. Walter wouldn't -come straight home Suggested by a true problem presented on John J. Anthony's On Monday of the next week Tommy "He's new in town. His family moved It's perfectly natural and friendly that just to drive me-" Good Will Hour, heard Sundays at 10:00 P.M .• EWT, on Mutual. brought me home as usual. I waved here in October." he should dr.ive them. But when Mother sighed. "You're exaggerating, 19 18 dear. Walter is a very nice boy, and terest be, but love? My heart ached Tommy said, "Oh." That was all, but I'm sure that if you asked him, he'd-" when I thought how much I must have the syllable spoke volumes, and there I gave up. I couldn't make her see. hurt him by ignoring him, and I al­ was surprise and concern in the quick, Mother wouldn't ask favors of someone most hated my mother. She had done penetrating look he gave me. The car who was barely an acquaintance, but this to us. She had separated us. I stopped, and I started to' get out. "Will she was suggesting that I do just that. would never again care for anyone as I see you tomorrow?" Tommy asked. All she saw was that Walter had lived I cared for Tommy- My hand froze on the door, and for near us for years, that I'd gone all And then, just then I was thinking a moment it seemed that everything through school with him; what she that I would never again have a word within me stopped. It wasn't a casual would not see were the invisible-but with Tommy, I came ·face to face with question; Tommy's expression showed oh, so strong-barriers that separated him one afternoon after school. It was plainly how very important it was to me from him. The argument ended as a bitter cold day, and he was standing him that he see me again. "1-1 sup­ arguments with Mother always ended­ in front of his car, trying to crank it. pose so," I answered. with my running upstairs to cry my­ My eyes watered in the wind, and I "That's good." His eyes were grave, self out in my own room, while Mother was abreast of him before I saw him. and he, too, seemed to have some calmly went out to the kitchen to start He glanced up at the sound of my foot­ trouble with his speech. "I missed dinner. steps, and I . gave him such a bleak, you last week, Joyce. And I-well, ] The next day, when I saw Tommy lost look that he straightened from his never thought I'd miss a girl so in history class, I tried to act as though cranking. "Gosh all everything!" he much- ~' nothing had happened. But I avoided exclaimed. '''What's the matter with The: blood stirred in my veins again, him at noon,. qnd at the close of school you?" and it pulsed now with a new and I left hastily, by the rear door. The "Nothing," I said. "Just cold and deeper rhythm. "I missed you, too." day after that Tommy didn't wait out­ wind-blown.'; The tremor in my voice I was horrified that the words came side history for me, and he didn't wait could have been caused by the cold. out in a squeaky whisper, but Tommy at noon. It was all done very casually, "We'll fix that. Wait a minute, and seemed satisfied. He smiled, and it simply as if he had something impor­ I'll give you a ride." was subtly different from and sweeter tant on his mind and had no time at than the way I'd. seen him smile before. the moment for me, but I knew what THIS time I didn't hesitate. I knew "Tomorrow, then. I'll meet you at the he was thinking. He was thinking that what Mother would say, but I felt front door, as usual." for some reason I no longer wanted to so wronged that I didn't care. I got I nodded, and as he started the motor, see him, and he wasn't going to give into the car, and in a moment the I remembered to walk down Twelfth me a chance to tell him so to his face. motor started, and Tommy swung in Street, trying to look as if I really I was wretched, and I wanted to set beside me. had an errand. Tommy understood. things right with bim, but I didn't "Where've you been lately?" he asked He didn't · go down the street past our know how, and he gave me no oppor­ casually. house to make the turn, as he might tunity. Each day he came into history "Around," I said vaguely. Not for naturally have done. He made a after I'd sat down at my desk, and at anythir.lg would I have told him that . U-turn right where he was and drove the end of class he was out of the room Mother had forbidden me to ride with off, whistling, in the opposite direction. before I'd gathered my books together. him. It djdn't occur to me that it might Slowly I rounded the block, slowly At the end of the day he seemed to hurt his. feelings-no, what really kept approached the house. I wasn't afraid disappear into thin air. What was me from telling him was his scorn of of facing my mother. I was sure that worse, now that I no longer saw him, "kid stuff." Having to have your I'd deceived her smoothly, and that I began to think much more about him. mother's permission for a little thing I was justified in doing so. But I I realized how handsome he WqS, and like a ride home would seem "kid stuff" wanted to be by myself for a while, how much fup, and how sweet. I be­ indeed! wanted to get used to the wonderful, gan to think-yes, that I was .in love "Sure," he said. "I know what you. incredible change that had taken place with him. It was such a big word, love, mean. I've been busy f myself. I've in my life. I hadn't just imagined and I hadn't expected to know the , been sticking pretty close to the that Tommy cared about me. He really meaning of it for years to come, but it books." . did care. It was a dream come true-­ must be what I was feeling now. Other­ Tacitly, in those casual r emarks, and it was all the more wonderful be­ wise, why should there be this empty Tommy as much as said that he under­ cause it was a dream I'd only half­ feeling inside me, this lump in my stood that I no longer wished to avoid known I'd had, throat whenever I saw his curly head him, and he agreed not to inquire into in the hall? And surely, Tommy was m;y reasons for doing so in the first T HE next afternoon, Tommy was in love with me. Mother herself had place. Tacitly, by getting into the car, I'd waiting for me at the school steps, said he was showing a great deal of said that our relationship was again on but we didn't go directly to his car. In­ interest in me. What could such in- its old friendly basis. There was the stead, he guided me across the street same laughter, the same nonsense ex­ to the Weston Pharmacy. "I thought," changed over the roar of the motor, in he said, "we might stop for a coke. which each of us misunderstood-and We've got time." sometimes only pretended to misunder­ I understood what he meant. Twenty stand-what the other was saying. minutes for a coke, and a ten-minute We were having so much fun that I ride home would add up to the time couldn't bear to give it up again. I it ordinarily took me to walk. He'd realized that when we turned into guessed that my mother, not I, had put Irving Avenue, knew that some way, a stop to my riding with him, and he any way, I must keep my recovered was making sure that it wouldn't hap­ happiness. This time, Mother would be pen again. doubly angry with me, because this I went into the Weston with him, time I was deliberately disobeying her. wishing with all my heart that he'd She wouldn't only forbid me to ride taken me to Markham's instead. The with Tommy; she would take steps to Weston had a bad name around school. prevent it. She might even pick me up The wilder boys frequented it, boasted at school herself. -I don't know how truthfully-that Two blocks from the house I shouted the proprietor would sell them liquor. to Tommy, "You can stop right here." The girls I Saw there were among the "What did you' say?" he yelled back, few at school whose hair was arti­ and then he saw that I was serious. ficially blonde, whose lips were over­ The car slowed to a crawl. painted, who wore high heels and "I want to get out here," I said. "­ smoked cigarettes. For the first time I've got an errand." in my life I (Continued on page 72) rrNever forget yourself, Hilda/' her mother to'ld her. rrThose college boys are for you. You're like me-born for work, not lay"

OU ARE bread, Hilda, not cake," Olga, my mother, Until Joe came along, until I fell in love with him always said to me. "Remember they must be eaten and decided to run away from home with him, no one Yseparately-you can't sandwich life in between ever knew about that "dreamer" side of me. No one them." suspected that romantic streak in me, because I look so But Joe says that Olga, with her fair hair and her much like my practical mother. "Little Olga" the strong, white teeth, is mistaken-and that I am. like college boys always called me when they crowded into the Swedish limpa she bakes-that I can be compared Olga's Place for smorgasbord. They couldn't see to her Swedish molasses bread which is the staff of life - that streak of imagination I got from my father-my but tastes like cake. And, perhaps, Joe is right. Be­ father, who couldn't understand Olga's strength and cause I am not content to be only strong and plain independence anymore than she could understand the and necessary like my mother, anymore than I want to pictures he painted. I often wonder what would have be soft and frivolous and light the way my father was. happened if he hadn't died when I was two, if he I think Joe is right-I think I really did inherit the hadn't gone away and left Olga, his strong young wife, strength of my mother but a desire for gaiety from my his mother's former Swedish maid, to care for his father. too. child and hers.

In Joe's eyes I read what h~ was going to say, before he could even speak the words. It Wl\S like Olga never to appeal to let me tangle myself emotionally in 'It was Christmas Eve when Joe first mas Eve, I helped my mother in the I knew that from his serious, intense on that extra room we had planned for her husband's parents for help. Natu­ that same kind of misunderstanding. came-came out of the twilight with kitchen as she prepared for the next face even before he first asked Olga so long, we couldn't take care of any rally, they had diaapproved of the mar­ "But, Mother, these boys work," I Marsha. I remember how cold and still day's business. And that's where Joe about the interview. more business. Carefully, I dropped a riage-had ignored it and Olga and me. argued. "Don't they have to work in and beautiful it was outside, how warm and Marsha found us. "I work on the college paper/, he ex­ wafer-thin rosette on to the absorbent And so she had left it that way-had school?" and fragrant and clean in our' kitchen Every instant of that first visit is plained, "'and we were thinking-well, paper towel, and I smiled as I thought moved after her husband's death to the "Work," she would say, smiling and when Olga and I were preparing for stamp'ed indelibly in my memory like Olga's Place-that's about like Vespers of the money the rosettes would bring university town where year after year shrugging, too. "Do they look like the Christmas rush. You see, Christ­ the beginning paragraphs of a very ex­ on Sunday afternoon to the boys here -money I intended to spend for that her smorgasbord attracted college stu­ they're working to you?" And I had to ' mas was the busiest day of all. Every citing story. I remember that I was at school. I wonder if you'd let me extra room for Olga. And then I felt dents to her scrubbed little house with admit that they didn't-not those gay year, the boys who couldn't get home dipping a hot rosette iron, a pinwheel write a feature story about you for the boy watching me. His voice was its immaculate table loaded with sim­ laughing students who clamored at our for the holidays started coming in right one, into the Swedish rosette batter, tomorrow's paper." excited as he pled with Olga. ple, delicious food. door for food and wannth. after church fot Plattar (Swedish pan­ when Joe came in. Olga's modesty wouldn't let her ac­ "But all of this-the warmth and the All of the time I was growing up the I wonder sometimes if Olga ever cakes) and sour cream waffles. And cept. Anyway, she was busy and she little cakes and your pretty daughter­ young boyish faces which crowded into knew how much her Swedish food in­ they thronged in again at noon for MARSHA preceded him, but I didn't simply shook her head negatively, even all of it would make such a wonderful our small home were part of my life; fluenced our lives. Oh, of course, she meat croquettes and smoked salmon notice her especially, I suppose when Joe argued that the pUblicity story." and at the same time, something quite realized that it paid for our living-but and rye bread and all of the rest of that it was because, with her soft fur would mean more business for her. I don't know why I wanted Mother outside of it, too. Olga kept it that way. I wonder if she ever thought that it was Mother's famous dishes. And so, from coat and her brushed shoulder-length "But I can't handle any more busi­ to let him write the story. It wasn't "You must be nice to them," she used the food and its novelty which at­ the time I was just a little yellow­ hair, and her cared-for look, she was ness," she said sincerely. "I haven't because I wanted our names in the to tell me, "but always remember that tracted Joe Donalds to our house in the haired girl, instead of hanging up my just like all the other "dates" who came any' room to take care of what I've got." paper. No, I wanted Joe Donalds to theY're out of our class." first place. stocking or decorating a tree on Christ- to Olga's Place. But Joe was different. That was true. Until we could build have his way in this argument because Once when I was about fifteen and she was talking like that, she mJ.lSt have sensed from my expression that I didn't like to think of the college boys as be­ longing to a station out of my reach. Because her eyes were kind as she promised me a happy future. "You'll know a nice boy some day who looks at life the way we do. It's better that way," she said. She thought she was making me happy with her picture of a hard-work­ ing young man so different from the exciting boys who filled our home with fun and laughter. But the kind of per­ son she mentally selected fOJ;" my hus­ band didn't interest me at all, while the college students fascinated me completely.

TO MY mother, those bright-eyed boys stood for coal in the furnace and, a new roof on the house and a warm cape and hood for me, but to me they meant gaiety and brilliance and life, itself. All during each long summer vacation, I looked forward to the time when the boys would be back again-when the bells would peal on Chapel Hill-when our little house would bulge with laughter and noise and boys. I suppose I was about seventeen when Mother first noticed that the boys meant more to me than just money in the bank. Yes, I know I was seventeen, because that was just after I graduated from high school and started to busi­ ness college. It was then that Olga began really to worry about the male customers who came to eat her delight­ ful Swedish dishes. Anyway, that was when she began to remind me all of the time about the difference between them and me. . "Never forget yourself, Hilda," she would say time and time, again, "you're not like them. You're like me-born for work, not play." And her sky-blue eyes would cloud with misty remem­ brance, and I knew she was thinking of her marriage "out of ' her class" so long' ago. She was remembering the problems in her life when she was married to a wealthy artistic boy who never understood her desire to let their marriage stand alone, without the financial help of his parents. She was thinking of that talented, impractical young husband whom she had never understood even though she bore him a child. And she was resolving never to 22 23 I was excited by his lean face- because package under a tinseled fir tree. other, that we-that we matched. I was more attracted to him than I had The boys charged in all morning We didn't speak. Words were un­ ever been to any boy who had come bringing simple gifts for Olga, glamor- . necessary. We just glided along, con­ to our house before. ized by publicity. In the early hours tent in being together on the little "You'd be doing the school a favor, they clamored for pancakes and waffles. familiar Green Lake, strangely purple too," the boy argued. "All of the And at noon they almost burst the walls today under the winter sky. Around boys-even the ones who ~ ve gone away with their exuberance as they crowded and around the glistening circle we -would like to read about you.'" around the smorgasbord table. drifted, filling our 11,mgs with clean, The girl, Marsha, interrupted him "Lutfisk is better than turkey any sharp air, bending our bodies with then. day," one senior insisted as he gobbled natural rhythm. Neither, of us minded "Oh, Joe, don't be silly," she said. the light yellow fish which shimmered the cold because together we were con­ "Can't you see they'll never do it for like lemon jello. quering the numbing quality of it, nothing-they want to get paid for it!" "And this cheese-no one has cheese rising above it throu~h our combined like Olga's," said another bright-eyed exertion. HOT angry blood flooded my cheeks youth. I don't know which of us thought of and I wanted to lash out at this "Why, Mother," I whispered proudly, the time first. Somehow, it seemed to haughty girl. And then I looked into "they love you the way they love Flunk come to both of us at the same time, as my moth~r's eyes. Steady, blue eyes, Day and Indian Creek and Green Lake if our very minds were in perfect which weren't angry, but which said and all of it!' accord. But Joe spoke first-"Your mutely, "You see, Hilda, they don't And then the boys were swarming mother's going to be worried, Hilda. I understand us-can't you see what they around me, buying Yule Cakes and hate to go, but we'd better." He put think?" Swedish rosettes to mail home to their his mittened hands to my waist, and And then I looked at Joe and knew parents. And I took their money hap­ ,guided me smoothly to shore. that he was ashamed-ashamed of the pily in exchange for my pastries, think­ Joe knelt to take off my skates, and girl who stood there with her dark ing of the extra room I could build for it was then that we looked directly into head high. Suddenly, he turned on her; Olga. each other's eyes for the first time since "Marsha, you go outside and wait." "Hilda made the rosettes this year," we left the little house. And in Joe's . I e,q>Ected her to defy him, but she Olga announced proudly as I packaged eyes I read what he was going to say, didn't. She seemed to sense his power, the paper-thin delicacies. "And the before he could speak the words. his purpose, and to know that she must cakes, too." There is no silence quite so still as obey him. With a little shrug, she "Our sons will thank you for teach­ the outdoor silence of a snow-blank­ turned and went out. ing Hilda to cook," one boy said, smil­ eted world. And into that stillness Joe "I hope you'll excuse her," Joe apolo­ ing at me. "She'll be making cakes for spoke the words that every woman gized. "This is her firs~ trip here-and them some day." waits breathlessly all her life to hear she doesn't know what Olga's Place -gently, quietly" for my ears alone, means to the campus-what it will al­ AND, suddenly,' the bright day yet thunderously and magnificently in ways mean." His face softened. "That's clouded,. and I was afraid. I didn't all that silence, as If he would be proud why I thought Christmas morning want to carry on in Olga's shoes, cook­ for the whole world to hear. "Hilda­ would be such a wonderful time for a ing for university students year after Hilda, I love you. It seems strange in story about you." year. I wanted another kind of a life so short a while, but it's as true as "Oh. Mother, I think you should," I -a life that belonged to me, not to anything in the world, and as wonder­ urged. "That's one way to thank the the unborn sons of these students who ful. I love you." school for the' business they've given filled the room. And that's when I He got up slowly, never taking his us all these years." looked up and saw Joe. dark, serious eyes from my face. And The boy smiled, frankly appreciative, "I hope that you're nearly through, then he kissed me, deliberately. His as Mother nodded slowly and said~ "I because I've come to take you skating if lips were clean and firm and cool when suppose that's right. What do you .want you'll go," he said quietly. they first touched mine, like the clean to know'?" "Well, you see-Mother-" my voice coolness of the snow, and then they The interview didn't take very long. trailed off in disappointment. warmed. And the warmth spread and He asked just simple questions like, "I'll ask her," 'he suggested quickly. filled us, until we were one again, not "When did you come over from I could hear every word they said but battling against the wind and cold now, Sweden?" and "Did you learn how to I 'didn't look at them. I just waited but safe and secure in our love for cook these dishe;; over there?" and breathlessly, and I could hardly believe each other. "When did you first come to this my ears when I heard Olga (an Olga "You love me, too, don't you." He town?" and "What does the college flushed from excitement, popularity, wasn't asking a question. mean to you?" and gQod cheer) answer, "Yes, I guess "Hungry boys," Mother said to that she can go-but she has to be back by T HERE was nothing foolish or child- one, and Joe laughed as he scribbled on five o'clock." ish left in me to make me protest his creased yellow paper, before he Scarcely more than an hour that or feel shy. I simply told the truth. went a way with Marsha. somehow stretched into three-a spar­ "Yes, Joe." And we turned and I'll never, never forget Christmas kling interval in my life-as jewel-like walked quietly toward the little house, that year because it's all mixed up with as little Green Lake, gleaming at the and Olga. Joe and his story about Olga and the outskirts of the campus. Usually, the We walked in perfect, happy silence college ana Christmas and good food. glistening patch of frozen water was nearly to the house, until I remem­ I read it aloud to Olga, and I had to dotted with laughing college students, bered. Somehow I knew that his an­ stop for a minute when I got to the ' but on this day-our day, I think of it swer would be perfectly satisfactory, third paragraph. Joe's description of now-the lake was deserted except for but I had to ask. "Joe-what about the strong Swedish woman with her us. As we glided smoothly onto the ice, that other girl, who came with you smooth fair hair and her clear skin our clasped hands (even through our last night?" and his story of what she meant to her heavy mittens) seemed to unify us into His face was honestly puzzled, and "hungry boys" blurred in front of my one being. The wind whipped around \ then he laughed. "Marsha? Oh, Hilda eyes. I didn't look at Olga, but I knew us as we cut swiftly through its inter­ -she's just my roommate's sister. She that she was moved. F.or the first time ference. I shall never forget the feeling doesn't matter." in her long years at the college, she I had. It was as if we two-this boy And I was sure that he was telling was taking time out to consider what , and I-were alone in the world battling me the truth. the food she served meant to boys away the forces of nature. We were joined As we turned into the path before from home. together as one, fighting the bitter wind, the house, he asked, "What time will All of that day sparkled like a dia­ struggling against life, itself. We you be through? Shall we go to a show mond in my memory-that Christmas­ skated well together, and I remember tonight?" And I know that he was card Christmas outside.,-a day inside as thinking that this was somehow right, completely surprised at my refusal- full of surprise as a gay, beribboned that this boy and I were right for each at my explana- (Continued on page 67) 24 24 JILL (played by Lorna Lynn) is the eleven-year-old member of the Bartlett household. She thinks her sister Linda is glamorous, but Penny, too casual. Her father is her hero-th e man w ho really counts in her life. Having spent eleven years getting around him, she is so proficient at it that she usually gets what she wants. Jill can sell more tickets to benefits and collect more scrap than most kids her age. 'My Best Girls-heard Wednesdays at 8:30 P.M., EWT, over the Blue Network LINDA, the oldest of the three Bartlett girls, is eighteen and a sophomore at Brentwood College. Her interest in things artistic gives her a certain sense of superiority that is occasionally quite irksome to the more practical members of her family. Linda is restless-she doesn't quite know what she wants from life. Though she doesn't particularly like to do it, she runs the hO'l.hSehold, but she feels it is some­ thing that must be suffered until she is finally released to Art. With Jill, whom she ,loves deeply, she is the little mother. With Penny she is the superior, older sister; with Father, the confidante and helper. (Linda Bartlett is played by Mary Shipp) 26 -- •

PENNY, at fifteen, ts an alert, positive character-a go-getter. She is practical, sniffs at Linda's ar­ tistic bent and feels that it's a pose and insincere. She loves her father and fam ily and w ould cheer­ fully lie down in the road before an onrushing truck if circumstances demanded it. Penny is the one who gets things done and is the one who preserves the balance of power between art and tem perament in the Bartlett household.' She gets along with boys like another boy, a fact w hich disturbs Linda. Though she can't compete with Linda when it comes to glamour, Penny knows she has her own charm. (Penny Bartlett is played, by Mary Mason) 27 RUSSELL · BARTLETT, 44, moderately successful archi­ tect, owns his house, his car, has a modest Summer place and a little money in the bank. He has worked out a fine and pleasant system for rearing his motherless daugh­ ters. He believes in letting his girls work out their own problems. He would rather laugh with them at their err­ ors of judgment or behavior than scold them jor it. He is the symbol of every young American boy's or girl's Dad. (Played by Roland Winters)

JILL and PAUL RAUCH (one of Jill's boyfriends) are only interested in good things to eat. When Jill's not listening to her sisters' phone conver­ sations, you'll usually find her raiding the pantry shelf.

LINDA and DAVE TAYLOR (above) enjoy a musical eve­ ning. Dave is the Son of the editor of the Brentwood paper. He's crazy· about Linda and takes a lot of punishment when she gets temperamental.

PENNY AND TOMMY ACK­ ERMAN think they are in love, and nothing anyone says will convince them that this is just the puppy stage. The Bart letts and Ackermans have been neiqhbors for years .. 28 . / ~ . I ./ .' tJ ". / I -.J ,. j ~

They started going together because there was no one else around. But there was a moon, and the sound of lapping water- and they found they were in love!

N the eve of the premiere of our By HARRIET HILLIARD bed, we opened a bottle of champagne new radio series, The adventures and drank a toast "to the Nelsons, all O of Ozzie and Harriet, over CBS four of them." (It really was ginger­ last October, Ozzie and I gave a party. writing and production staffs. ale, but champagne sounds gayer.) The papers made no mention of the But on October eighth, the night be­ Then we slipped off to a quiet, out of affair. There were no photographers fore the big night, Ozzie and I had a the way restaurant where we could present. There were no guests present double reason for celebrating-all be just another young couple out for -just the two of us- but it was a gala alone. It was not only that we were a Satur~a y night date, and lingered affair just the same. about to see the realization of the most happily over dinner until almost More elaborate festivities, the sort ambitious dreams and plans of our ten twelve o'clock. which always attend the opening of years of working together profession­ "I'm so glad," I sighed happily over a new radio show, were to come off ally-a radio show of our own, More m y third small black coffee, "that you the next night, after the opening, important still to us was another sig­ changed your mind." when, as is traditional in radio, Ozzie nificance of October eigbth, 1944-it "What are you so glad about?" Ozzie and I were to entertain the other mem­ was our ninth wedding anniversary. asked, bridling a little, for he prides bers of the cast, the band, and the So, after we put David .and Eric to himself on his consistency. 29 "About our arrangements being So, innocently enough, we began finger, it seemed more like a play than strictly business," I reminded him. stopping off together after work for ever. I was remembering our first conver­ supper at the Glen Island hangout, the There we were, legally marr,ied­ sation, in 1934, when Ozzie came to Bean Wagon. ,Our conversations at and three days later I had to be in see me with an offer of the job of girl first were, as he had promised, "strict­ California. What were a bride and vocalist with his band. He had seen me ly business." But Glen Island is a very groom to do in an emergency like that? in a Paramount short, and decided I romantic place on the shores of Long Ozzie and I settled the question by was just the girl .he was looking for. Island sound. It is pretty hard to going to a movie at Loew's state! I'm Even then, Ozzie was experimenting stick to chatter about song arrange­ afraid I don't remember what we saw. with the patter songs which have since ments in a place like that, with a big The second and final night of our become his musical trademark, and he moon hanging low in the sky, and the honeymoon, Ozzie's band opened its wanted to tryout a girl and boy team soft sound of water lapping' at the winter season at the Lexington Silver in front of the band. It was a revolu­ piers making faint music in the back­ Grill. I appeared for my usual num­ tionary idea at the time. ground. bers and the band and the kids who The offer was very appealing to me, Even in that setting, it took Ozzie were there to dance gave me a won­ but I had to confe,ss to Ozzie that I and me a year and a hall to realize derful send off. had .never sung a note in my life. that we were in love. I liked him very The next morning Ozzie popped me much and he liked me, too. (Let me in a plane for California, trying to be IT didn't matter, he said. He could say right here I think that's the best cheerful for he knew I didn't want . teach me to sing; what he wanted foundation for marriage a young to go. was someone who could read comedy couple can have.) "Keep your chin up and yOl,lr break­ lines, and my work in the Paramount But it wasn'i until the fall of 1935 fast down," he urg~d me, trying to short had convinced him I could do that Ozzie got around to proposing. It smile. that. was late at night, we were on a train, "I don't want to go," I bawled, and '''It will be easy,", he said encourag­ rushing through Texas, in the throes I didn't even try to look happy. ingly, and then he added, "and if you of a killing series of one-night stands I guess I gave them a pretty rough are wQrrying, about working those which was to culminate with a long time at RKO the three months I hours-with all those guys-don't. I'll run at the Coconut Grove in Los worked on the picture. I was homesick see to it that everything is strictly Angeles. and lonesome-a combination easily business'!" Suddenly Ozzie, who had been sit­ mistaken for temperament. Joe Nolan, It was, too, at first. ting in frowning silence, turned to me then vice-president of the studio, tele­ Ozzie was pretty busy-the band ana said, "How about getting mar­ phoned Ozzie frantically from time to business, he thought then, was just a ried?" time. necessary evil-a way to get hold of I suppose that doesn't sound like a "Ozzie," he'd say, "we're having enough money to pay his way through very romantic proposal-but I knew trouble with her again." And then law school. When his father died sud­ what Ozzie meant. His father's death Ozzie would get on the phone and tell denly the year before, when Ozzie was had left him with the entire respon­ me to be good and do what I was told: a senior at Rutgers, chances had sibility for pis mother's security, and, I got through it somehow and' flew seemed to fade for the law career that of his baby brother. Another home to Ozzie. There followed for Ozzie thought he wanted. But he brother was working his way through three years one of the happiest periods worked hard at his music, and paid dental school. He didn't feel that he of our lives. ' out the Profits in tuition at the New had a right to ask me to marry him The band alternated for three sea­ Jersey Law school. When I met him until he was sure he had a future to sons at the Lexington and Hotel New he was attending classes in the day­ offer me. I understood, and loved him. Yorker. Ozzie and I lived in a suite in time, leading the band until one more for it. the hotel-no cares or worries, except o'clock every morning-studying, the We planned to be married as soon to be sure that we showed up for our Lord only knows when. He had to take as we could get 1;>ack to New Jersey stint at the hotel every night and our a night off from Glen Island Casino, from our run at the Coconut Grove. radio program on Sundays. We had no where the band was appearing, to Then RKO messed uP' all our plans household problems at all. Ozzie, fi­ graq.uate! by offering me a part in the Rogers nally rid of the bugaboo of insecurity, From that point, his program was and Astaire picture, "Follow the Fleet." stopped talking about hanging out his cut out .for him. He thought, He would I honestly didn't want to accept it. shingle and relaxed and enjoyed him­ stick to the band business until he For one thing I was too young to know self. We worked hard, but we loved it, had saved $10,000. Then he would hang what a wonderful opportunity the pic­ and we playep just as hard, and just out his shingle. ture was. as happily. Many a morning, we came But two factors intervened to Ozzie had more sense. He insisted borne with the milkman. It was a won­ change his plans. In the first place, that I make the picture. I insisted derful life. Ozzie's band was catching on. The that I'd rather be married. So we com­ Then, in October, 1936, our David crowd of young Westchester kids who promised and I did both. was born. Our lives didn't change patronize the Casino liked his soft, ro­ We rushed home to New Jersey from appreciably at first-although we mantic style of music, and they came Los Angeles, and were married­ did give up our hotel suite for an in droyes to hear the band. He also quiet~y, with just our families present apartment in David's honor. landed the band spot on the Joe Pen­ -at Ozzie's. mother's home in Hacken­ (Continued on page 65) ner radio show, then the most popular sack. Ozzie's brother and sister-in-law, series on the air. This happened so Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Nelson, were our soon after I joined the band that Ozzie only attendants. I splurged on a Nettie told me I was his lucky star. In any Rosenstein gown of plum and blue, and event, Ozzie was finding out that music Ozzie splurged on orchids. was more than a means to an end. It Ozzie and I had a dreadful time try­ Harriet Hilliard and Ozzie was fun. ing to convince ourselves that the cere­ The second factor was .me. mony was real. I suppose all people Nelson have just celebrated We started going out together be­ feel that sense of unreality at ' all the th,e ninth anniversary of a cause there was no one else for either dramatic moments of their lives. But very happy business and mar­ of us to go out with. No nice girl is go­ there we were--we felt as though we riagepartnership-and the be­ ing to wait up until one o'clock every were th~ principals playing the second ginning of a grand new radio night for a date with a guy, even if he act curtain of a comedy drama. When show of their own, heard on is as nice as Ozzie, and certainly no man Alfred coUldn't find the wedding ring Sunday nights at 6:00 on CBS. worth his salt was going to wait around -it was one of the chain rings so popu., until I was through work for the pleas­ lar then, and it collapsed in his pocket ure of driving me all the wav from -and when Ozzie, once it was pro­ Glen Island to my home in New York. duced, had to struggle .to get it on my 30

T OOKING back on it, you could say a word, forgetful of · Emily and the put it where it belongs in your L it happened the minute I saw him. curious bystanders alike, while my life. But there's always someone-a Right there at the railroad sta­ heart turned over and something in­ thousand someones, it seems-to re­ tion on the day that Emily and Carter side me cried insistently, "This is it. mind you of it, to bring it alive again came back to Lauderdam to live-that This is what you've been waiting for just by saying, "Why, I remember just seemed to be the beginning of it. That and dreaming of all the twenty years as if it were yesterday . . ." or "I'll seemed to start all the pain of longing of your life." never forget what people said at the and the tortured sweetness. I can r e­ That was the way it happened, sud­ time . . .-" And the worst of it is half member every detail of that meeting denly and all ot" a piece, without any the time they're saying that behind as if I were re-li'ving it now: the way questions. And you could say it was your back, and you can feel the whis­ I ran along beside the train toward at that moment that I fell in love with pering gossip and the furtive words their Pullman car, so happy and ex­ my sister's husband. dragging it back into your life where cited at seeing Emily again for the But I think, in all honesty, you'd it doesn't belong any .more. I guess first time in years, the way she waved be wrong if you said that. Because I there's always one person or one fam­ and held out her arms to me, the hap­ believe it really started long ago­ ily that people choose to talk about piness with which she tugged at Car­ years ago-before I'd ever seen Carter more than any other. In Lauderdam, it ter's sleeve and said, "Darling, here's Mayfield or knew anything about him was the Mayfields. Laurie. .. ' ." except what the town said. They lived in a big old house where And then Carter turning around Of course, the town said plenty. They Mayfields had lived. for years, set back from tipping the porter and looking always had. I imagine the worst from the street and shadowed by trees down at me and saying in that half-­ trouble about living in a tiny place . and heavy shrubs. There were rumors laughing voice of his, '<' So this is little like Lauderdam is that you can never that once, years and years. ago, Mr. sister," He stooped and kissed me on forget anything that happens. You're Mayfield had shot and killed a man the cheek, I remember, and I just never allowed to. If it happens to you, in a quarrel over a loose woman. I stood and stared at him,. unable to say you live through it and pass it qnd don't know about that. Nothing was

""There must be lots of girls like you,

Laurie~" Paul told her. ""Heaven help

the men who f all m love with them!"

Sugge.~ted by the story, "Soldier's Farewell," by Anne Ray, first heard on Slars Over Hollywood, on CBS. 32 ever proved and it all happened long as anybody knew. After a while Mrs. young and lonely and eager for things before I was born anyway. But that's Mayfield died-of a broken heart, peo­ to happen and nothing ever does, you the kind of thing people whispered. ple said-and old Mr. Mayfield con­ just make up things for yourself, I Nobody liked Mrs. Mayfield because tinued to live on alone in the old house used to dream up all kinds of nonsense she was from the city and had always which the trees and shrubs made more about the life I'd have when I could held herself aloof. Carter was the only shuttered every year and where no­ escape Aunt Agnes and a humdrum child, and I remember when I was very body ever went. town. I'd walk by the Mayfield house, small hearing people say that he was You can see what an air of mystery and remember how Carter had defl ed "wild." "Just like his father," they and romance that story would have for the world for love and envision him said, "It's in the Mayfield I?lood-" And a lonely child like me. Emily, who was as the most romantic man in the world. then when Carter was about twenty, seven years older than I, and I were That was the kind of man I wanted, they seemed to be right because he orphans. We lived with a spinster sis­ that was the kind of love. ran away with Amy Talbot, a girl from ter of my mother's- Aunt Agnes, who And then Emily wrote she haa met the wrong side of Lauderdam. was a good woman according to her Carter Mayfield, by accident, in the That really caused a scandal. Mr. lights but who didn't understand chil­ city. "He was divorced several years Mayfield refused to ha ve anything drep. She was too strict with us. When ago," she wrote. "It was all a youth­ more to do with Carter and forbade Emily was in her early twenties, she ful, foolish mistake. He's terribly nice, him ever to come home again as long rebelled against Aunt Agnes' harsh­ Laurie-you'd like him." A few months as he was married to that woman. And ness and the lack of opportunity for later she wrote they were going to be Carter never did. There were rumors a young girl in Lauderdam. and left married. that he and Amy had had a child, then home to go to the city and study to Well, that news really did stand the that they had been divorced, but no­ be a nurse. That made me lonelier than town on its head. The old scandal w as body knew for sure because they lived ever. I used to dream of the day when raked up and hashed over, and every­ a long way off and the Mayfields never I could go live with her; as she'd body wondered how Aunt Agnes and mentioned Carter's name again as far promised. And because when you're Mr. Mayfield (Continued on page 53) T OOKING back on it, you could say a word, forgetful of ' Emily and the put it where it belongs in your ever proved and it all happened long as anybody knew. After a while Mrs. young and lonely and eager for things L it happened the minute I saw him. curious bystanders alike, while my life. But there's always someone-a before I was born anyway. But that's Mayfield died-of a broken heart, peo­ to happen and nothing ever does, you Right there at the railroad sta­ heart turned over and something in­ thousand someones, it seems-to re­ the kind of thing people whispered. ple said-and old Mr. Mayfield con­ just make up things for yourself, I tion on the day that Emily and Carter side me cried insistently, "This is it. mind you of it, to bring it alive again Nobody liked Mrs. Mayfield because tinued to live on alone in the old house used to dream up all kinds of nonsense came back to Lauderdam to live-that This is what you've been waiting for just by saying, "Why, I remember just she was from the city and had always which the trees and shrubs made more about the life I'd have when I could seemed to be the beginning of it. That and dreaming of all the twenty years as if it were yesterday . . ." or "I'll held herself aloof. Carter was the only shuttered every year and where no­ escape Aunt Agnes and a humdrum seemed to start all the pain of longing of your life." never forget what people said at the child, and I remember when I was very body ever went. town. I'd walk by the Mayfield house, and the tortured sweetness. I can r e­ That was the way it happened, sud­ time . . ." And the worst of it is half small hearing people say that he was You can see what an air of mystery and remember how Carter had defl ed member every detail of that meeting denly and all ot" a piece, without any the time they're saying that behind "wild." "Just like his father," they and romance that story would have for the world for love and envision him as if I were re-living it now: the way questions. And you could say it was your back, and you can feel the whis­ said, "It's in the Mayfield I?lood-" And a lonely child like me. Emily, who was as the most romantic man in the world. I ran along beside the train toward at that moment that I fell in love with pering gossip and the furtive words then when Carter was about twenty, seven years older than I, and I were That was the kind of man I wanted. their Pullman car, so happy and ex­ my sister's husband. dragging it back into your life where they seemed to be right because he orphans. We lived with a spinster sis­ that was the kind of love. . cited at seeing Emily again for the But I think, in all honesty, you'd it doesn't belong any .more. I guess ran away with Amy Talbot, a girl from ter of my mother's- Aunt Agnes, who And then Emily wrote she haa met first time in years, the way she waved be wrong if you said that. Because I there's always one person or one fam­ the wrong side of Lauderdam. was a good woman according to her Carter Mayfield, by accident, in the and held out her arms to me, the hap­ believe it really started long ago­ ily that people choose to talk about That really caused a scandal. Mr. lights but who didn't understand chil­ city. "He was divorced several years piness with which she tugged at Car­ years ago-before I'd ever seen Carter more than any other. In Lauderdam, it Mayfield refused to ha ve anything drep. She was too strict with us. When ago," she wrote. "It was all a youth­ ter's .sleeve "and said, "Darling, here's Mayfield or knew anything about him was the Mayfields. more to do with Carter and forbade Emily was in her early twenties, she ful, foolish mistake. He's terribly nice, Laurie. ,. _ . except what the town said. They lived in a big old house where him ever to come home again as long rebelled against Aunt Agnes' harsh­ Laurie-you'd like him." A few months And then Carter turning around Of course, the town said plenty. They Mayfields had lived. for years, set back as he was married to that woman. And ness and the lack of opportunity for later she wrote they were going to be from tipping the porter and looking always had. I imagine the worst from the street and shadowed by :trees Carter never did. There were rumors a young girl in Lauderdam. and left married. down at me and saying in that half-­ tro'uble about living in a tiny place and heavy shrubs. There were rumors that he and Amy had had a child, then home to go to the city and study to Well, that news really did stand the laughing voice of his, "'So this is little like Lauderdam is that you can never that once, years and years. ago, Mr. that they had been divorced, but no­ be a nurse. That made me lonelier than town on its head. The old scandal w as sister," He stooped and kissed me on forget anything that happens. You're Mayfield had shot and killed a man body knew for sure because they lived ever. I used to dream of the day when raked up and hashed over, and every­ the cheek, I remember, and I just never allowed to. If it happens to you, in a quarrel over a loose woman. I a long way off and the Mayfields never I could go live with her; as she'd body wondered how Aunt Agnes and stood and stared at him,. unable to say you live through it and pass it llnd don't know about that. Nothing was mentioned Carter's name again as far promised. And because when you're Mr. Mayfield (Continued on page 53)

rrThere must be lots of girls like you,

Laurie~" Paul told her. ""Heaven help

the men who fall m love with them!"

A STARS OYER HOLLYWOOD STORY

Sugge.~ted by the story "Soldier's Farewell," by Anne Ray: first heard on Slars Over Hollywood, on CBS. 32 r Ae only thing that was fllitJe WGS ehe feeling of my heart so close to his.

H, MOTHER!" I asked in exasper­ heart. As always, something that was had come home one day to fihd Mother We both had faint shadows under high ation. "What is it this time?" proud and self-contained came from had given myoId teddy-bear away to delicate cheekbones. I wished my chin O Mother's vivid blue eyes looked that coolly-disdainful face to soothe another little girl. She was right-in were like hers, so firmly jutting, but I guilty and she ran a tanned, shapely and help me. her way. I was too old for it and she had to be satisfied that we both had the hand through her short gray curls. In Grandmother Stevens was on my felt it was silly to store things away in same slim, erect carriage. the perky dirndl dress her figure was side. The firm, fastidious lips seemed tissue paper and ribbons when someoI:1e It was only underneath, sometimes as slender as a girl's and indeed, as she to say to me: "You are a Stevens. Re­ else might enjoy them. But for me it treacherously close to the surface, that stood there holding the flat package member your forefathers built this was like parting with a dearly-beloved there was hidden the same bubbling, behind her back, our roles did seem town, that we were the first family on friend, almost a part of my tiny self. gay laughter as Mother's and the same reversed and she was the girl meekly the 'Hill.' It is your right and your It was my first glimpse that nothing in crazy, cock-eyed way of looking at life. submitting to a scolding. duty to go back there-where you be­ our lives would ever be permanent­ Once she explained it to me. "Your "Now, Penny, don't get upset." And long." How she would have hated it, if unless I made them so. father and his family were sweet, then, her whole face lighting up-"It's she were alive, to see us living down It is painful for a teen-age girl to Penny y but they smothered me. It was the most heavenly material . . . just here in this little back-street house, learn that other people considered her al ways duty-duty-responsibility­ what I needed for Miss Unite>d Nations cheek-a-jowl with Jensen, the plumber, mother "different.." That she didn't "never put off till tomorrow-" "never at the' War Bond Rally. Rita Scandini on one side and a beauty shop on the care a hoot for the things that mattered give anything away," "improve each is taking the part and she does need a other. so much to them; that she much pre­ shining hour." The trouble was they rich-looking fabric to set off her dark Even that wouldn't have mattered ferred playing tennis with the Garvey were so busy improving there never hair. And it cost practically nothing." sO much-where we lived-we would twins. to joining the Ladies' Bridge were any hshining hours." So when "Practically nothing!" 'I echoed bit­ still be welcome anywhere because of Club. your father died and I found there was terly. "The Scandinis can afford cotton my dead Father's name, if only Mother only a tiny income I decided I'd never bunting-but no, you have to spend our wanted to remind people of it. But she OF COURSE, there were others in worry about money again. money so Rita can have the best, which went her blithe way, as if in moving town who admired Mother, and "I'd do just the things I wanted and. means, I suppose, that we eat stew for here she had escaped the "Hill" and there were some who worshipped the only see people I liked. I'd work where' the rest of the week. At least, don't some intolerable burden connected with _ ground she walked on. I pleased-" this was when she had get so wrapped up in the Rally that you it. I knew she loved me, but hers was a gone to work in the Jones' defense forget we're going to the J oneses for Why-why couldn't she be like other "sink or swim" philosophy-no pamper­ factory-"and buy mad, crazy hats and dinner tonight." mothers? I was dimly aware that in ing, no coddling. I felt that I stood see the latest shows and help other She made a face at me, teasing. her own way she was a rare and won­ alone in a shifting, insecure, changing people-without playing Lady Bounti­ "You're just · jealous. You're afraid derful person, but I wa~ted just a real, world. Is it any wonder I looked to ful. But I'm afraid it's been hard on Rita will look so pretty that Sydney ordinary mother-someone who would the other extreme, to wealth and posi­ you, pet. I forgot that you were a Jones will be looking at her instead flutter over me and worry about me and tion, for the anchor I wanted? Stevens, too." of watching you play the violin at the sympathize with me. Someone who I wanted a well-ordered life in the I was still thinking about it when Rally." would understand why I wanted to old Stevens red-brick Georgian house Mother and I clattered up the "Hill" There was no answer to that and I marry Sydney Jones and pull strings, on the "Hill." I wanted thick, mono­ that night in her old jalopy. walked away, angrily. Not much danger like other mothers did, so that I would grammed towels and polished-mirror It had been hard. But it had been of Sydney condescending to look at a have a chance to meet him on his own floors and deep rugs and heavy, em­ fun, too. Our house had been the gath­ Scandini! In fact, Mother's attachment home grounds. bossed silver and Quiet, well-trained ering-place for all the kids in town and to that harum-scarum family had been All that maneuvering I'd had to do servants. 1 wanted to be invited to they loved to come because no one a cause Of contention between us for myself. My heart hardened as I thought homes where my father, Judge Stevens, cared if the floors got scuffed or if years. of all the planning that had finally re­ had once been a welcome guest. And things got broken. It had been fun­ My clean, shabby room had always sulted in the dinner invitation for to­ since I couldn't have any of these with­ even if few of the parents ever came been my refuge when I Quarreled with night. out him, I wanted to marry Sydney near us and even if they didn't approve Mother. I flung myself across the bed I know ho:w mercenary that was. But Jones. Love, to me, was .just one of of our having the Scandinis there. while my cheeks cooled and the turmoil it was something else, too-the des­ those silly, impractical things that hap­ Well, maybe-after tonight-all this inside me subsided. You really couldn't perate, passionate desire for security in pened to people who didn't know what would be changed. This invitation for call them "Quarrels." She always"man­ a life that was always topsy-turvy. It they wanted. dinner with Sydney and his father must aged to evade issues with her laughter, was the need I'd felt as a child for Grandmother's eyes, so very like my mean that Sydney had hinted to Har­ or her teasing, or her sharp, penetrating some kind of stability in my life; that own through their fringed lashes, vey Jones how he felt about me. I wit. meals would ,be on time; that there was seemed to be glinting approvingly. shivered in anticipation and with sharp, I raised my face to the oval-framed a lap to climb onto and a mother's arms Only where hers had been a steely desperate desire. Old Harvey Jones picture of Grandmother over the bed. to shield 'me from the little hurts and blue, my own were almost a topaz. Our must like me, must approve of Mother. It was like a charm that always worked, the big fears. hair was the same-her coppery waves Because no matter how much he the strength that flowed from those Even now I could remember with a piled high in a pompadour, mine shin­ wanted me, Sydney would never. do chiseled features into my own groping heart-breaking pang how, as a child, I ing and softly-curling to my shoulders. anything without his father's consent.

Love to Penny was just one of those sill)1 impractical things-until Jerry showed he,r a glimpse of heaven and then snatched it away! 35 As we were admitted into the broad, he should have remembered mel oak-panelled hall there was a rigid In the days that followed I tried to tension in my body and a creeping ache tell myself that I was only soothing my at the base of my head. Please, please, conscience by seeing so much of Jerry. Mother-I prayed silently-for once be After all, he was a soldier on leave and proper and dignified. This is our only I had never even written him a friendly chance! For I was thinking about her, note when he was out there, fighting, too, and that she could have everything ,A.nd Sydney was up to his neck in work she wanted. ' at the factory. Mother's words must Dinner was a nightmare. I couldn't have had some effect because Mr. Jones tell whether things were going smooth­ had ordered Sydney to spend his spare ly or not. Once I realized, in horror, time working on the Bond Rally. that Mother was upbraiding Mr. Jones And Mother, herself, was mysterious­ for his lack of interest in the War Bond ly absent evening after evening, coming Rally! But strangely enough" he seemed in late and looking flustered and guilty. pleased at her interest and he listened Perhaps if it had just been my time that attentively, ignoring us, his massive was so taken up, I might have won­ white head bent towards hers-his dered what she was up to and what piercing eyes fastened in eager admira­ made that tremulous catch in her voice tion on her vivid face, when she ' answered the telephone and what put those radiant stars in her A FTERW ARD, i,n the gloomy, book­ eyes. lined library, Sydney told me in' But my heart was invblved, too. It jubilation that everything was swell. was learning strange lessons, a new, "Whew! Honestly, Penelope, I must exciting tempo everytime it heard a confess I was worried-Father likes certain step crunching over our frost­ everything just so, I was afraid your covered porch, and it would beat madly, Mother might kick over the apple-cart crazily when his hands touched mine, -but he's taken a tremendous fancy to the pulses sending tiny little thrill mes­ her," sages through my whole body. . His patronizing words stung my I tried to keep a distance between me pride. "Why shouldn't he? She's lovely and Jerry. But he seemed to take 'a -and she's charming-" delight in brushing it aside, bringing "Don't sputter, darling, So are you out everything that was gay and frivo­ lovely and charming. , The most beau­ lous in me. tiful girl I've ever known," Behind lt was happening too fast. I'd never his thick glasses his eyes glinted with known what love was. I didn't want to an unaccustomed warmth. He would know. Anyway, not this frightening pick his own time and place to propose, sen~"':"'" that was robbing me of'my but I knew then that it was settled-I )OWb .IJ ~dink. This had no part in m y was going to be Mrs. Sydney :Iones! plans for a safe, secure, unemotional The glow of triumph was still in me life as Mrs. Sydney Jones. the next day as I hurried home from I wouldn't let it happen! my violin lesson. Snow falling in driv­ ing whit'e flakes couldn't chill the BUT then we'd be skating swiftly nervous excitement that thrummed in over the Little Pond, steel blades my blood, and I could hardly control clicking rhythmically under the white my steps as I hasteried over the icy stars in the black night, the blood rac­ sidewalks, I had done it! ing madly in my veins, and Jerry would Not even Mother'~ quiet "Are you bend his dark head over mine and whis­ sure that's what you want, Penny?" as per tenderly, "Are you happy, Penny? we had returned home last night could Shall we go on and on and never stop ? spoil the success of the dinner. Of . , . and I would answer, breathlessly­ course it was what I wanted! I had ______..... rt""8 ".. . "Yes .. . oh, yes, Jerry!" worked ' for that success, slowly build­ Or we would be making hot chocolate ing up the picture in Sydney's mind in the kitchen and he would stop and of me as Judge Steven's daughter, so press my hand for a second against his that he would see me as someone fit to I prayed silently. " For once be proper and dignified." Dinner was a 'nightmare. "Please, please, Mother," 'I long, smooth cheek-a tantalizing pres­ take my place as his wife. sure that held a promise of untold Suddenly I felt myself lunging for­ delight. ward into space. The dreams crowding one thing, he certainly was no longer to remember if I'd ever heard where It was all I could do to keep up any my thoughts had kept me from seeing Slowly the face resolved itself into you were a kid. Amber? Golden?" shy. he'd been stationed. semblance of interest when Sydney the high curb and I lunged over it, two smiling black eyes, cheeks that By this time we had started walking, I had never felt this close awareness ' skidding awkwardly, sidewise, over the were flat-planed and tanned, a stub­ his hand firmly under my elbow. "I'm "To the Pacific? No. They're sending called, as he did every morning. and at-oneness with any man before. a bunch of us who've been out there Friday morning I knew it was some­ hard-packed icy ruts of the street. born chin, and a sensitive, chiseled awfully sorry-do I know you? You've Perhaps it had something to do with his Snow blinded me. The violin flew out mouth that was made for- saved my life, but the uniform changes for some time and who've learned thing special from the studied way he hand so masculinely strong holding my something about fighting Japs to camps spoke. of my hand, I dimly heard the screech­ What was I thinking of! I must be people sometimes--" arm, pressing my still-trembling body ing brakes and the frightened, blaring dizzier than I knew or I surely wouldn't "You wouldn't remember. I'm Jerry' here in this country to teach the new "Penelope? This is Sydney. L isten close to his as we walked slowly along. honking of a car, then ,something rudely be thinking of the feel of that mouthe-' Scandini. With eight of us Scandinis, guys. Don't ask me if it was tough out carefully, dear." He gave an embar ­ snatched me backwards-and I was or kisses-when I looked at this com­ it's no wonder you couldn't place me Or maybe it was because I dido't there-it was. I used to think a lot rassed little cough. "Father's giving a flying through space. . plete stranger in hIs cocky 'soldier's the oldest. But I should have have to put on an act with him as I did about walking down Center Street like small party after the Rally tomorrow ~I'm with Sydney. Jerry Scandini couldn't lt seemed ages later that I picked my overseas cap. thought you'd remember I kissed you this and how good it would be to feel night. I think that's as good a time as give me anything. Instead I found my­ trembling self up gingerly, slowly, out "My violin!" I exclaimed, desperately. under the mistletoe once," snow underfoot." He smiled down at any to announce our engagement. I self wanting to do something for him­ of the snow bank piled against the curb, "No-that's all wrong," he replied Remember! I'd I)ever forgotten the me. "And we all thought about girls know it's sudden, but in these times-, I was hardly conscious of the strong with a crooked grin, as he handed me dark, intense boy who had so shyly some little thing to bring the swift we knew, Do you mind very much, What do you say, dear?" arms holding my shoulders and the kissed me that long-ago Christmas. So smile to his face and the twinkle to his Penny, if I thought about you? I even I must have said something. but the the snow-covered violin case, "The eyes. hands brushing snow from my face. I first thing all girls say when they're that was why my memory had linked , had a machine gun that had a funny sick feeling inside weakened my voice was so shaken I could hardly hear the rescued is 'Where am I?' and then they t he thought of his mouth pressing on "You've no idea, Penny, how good it little sputter just like your s when you to a whisper. strong voice shooing away the curious open their big, beautiful-by the way, mine-even though this tall, good-look­ is to be home for ten whole days," he got mad, It was a good gun-right on I don't know what else he said but was saying, onlookers or the face that bent above I've always wondered what color your ing soldier had changed so much from the beam. So I called it 'Penny'. " somehow I made the right answers. mine. eyes really were, Penny" .ever since the thin, girl-shy Scandini boy. For "And then you go back?" trying hard Quick tears rose to my eyes. That With careful (Continued on page i O) 36 37 BLACK IS THE COLDR

Here is a new arrangement oj an old ballad, by radio's popular singer of folk songs-you can hear it on CBS' Country Journal

SLOWLY LYRICAL Burl Ives Arrangement 1\ ,. .

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r f f) il . 4! I ~- I - I 1 dain • ti· cst hands, - I .low . the grass on where she _ ~M . I 4! I - I 1 .h ~~J_ _.. 1 .b ~ j )l · ~.lll~lj) ,.1 .iJ J j) - J~ I . ~ I 1 --r- ~I ~ r r I I 1 Fi7le' f)~ _ · ~+"- · stands. lJ. S. at Fi7le ~ · \~~ R.B...... lJLlll Jj) .. .1j) .. ~,i) j il~j 11 ,j )) .. J ~ ,.I j,.. .J jJ . - - -·a t~ I I I r f -r r f f -r 38 Copyright 1944 by Leeds MuSic Corp., RKO Bldg., Radio City, New York, N. Y. BURL IVES says, "I just like to sing. That's aLl." This big, blue-eyed Mid-westerner left his home town of Newton, Illinois, with fifteen cents in his pocket and his banjo under his arm, and toured the country from coast to coast, learning the native songs of the villages, the pl.ains and the hills. He is proud of the ballads he has collected in his wanderings-songs refreshing in their originality and humor and rich in Americana. He's currently being featured in Broadway's Theater Guild production, "Sing Out Sweet Land," and when he can get away from his radio commitments, he lives on a quaint, little barge on Long Island Sound~ndspends time on his hobby of sketching. (Burl Ives sings the Country Journal, Saturdays at 9:30 A.M., EWT, over CBS.) on 39 REVEREND RICHARD GAYLORD succeeded Dr. John Ruthledge last February 25th in the pastorate of the Community Church of Five Points; a crowded slum section. He is an easterner, and came with his family-his wife and sixteen-year-old twins, Peggy and Dick-from Connecticut. Mr. Gaylord is attempting to put into practice at Five Points his own simple interpretation of the Bible's "love one another" teachings-that loving one's fellow mun can be a thing of small kindnesses, daily thoughtfulness, and genuine neighborliness. The Guiding Light is heard daily at 2:00 P.M., EWT, on NBC. 40 (Reverend Gaylord is played by John A. Barclay) That Brotherhood of Man is 1!lorethan a Biblical precept, is the belief of the kindly minister of The Guiding Light. It is a way of life to make our world safe for free-thinking men and women

HIS is a sermon for today-and By RICHARD GAYLORD birds and six hundred thousand heads for tomorrow. A modern se·rmon. of livestock. For 1944 they enlarged T A sermon born out of this war­ their pledge. It grew into, '''1 will feed this war which we are. waging at such one of these names, behind each one a fighter and more in 1944!" In addi­ great cost and which holds out to us "and an integrated part of each ideal, tion to increasing their farm output, mch great promise for the future. This ' lies the Brotherhood of Man. Without these rural teen-agers canned fifteen is a sermon on the Brotherhood of Man. a deep and vast love for our fellow million jars of food, collected over 300 These are days th-at make great de­ men, none of these is possible, million pounds of scrap, purchased and mands on the soul. They call for cour­ The Brotherhood of Man is a very" sold more than thirty million dollars' age, for unstinting sacrifice, for under­ simple concept. And, because it is so worth of War Bonds and Stamps. standing, for working together for the simple, because it is so sensible, very These are children, yet they have an good of all. These days are hard' days. often it is taken for granted. Everyone important lesson to teach all of us. But, hard as they are, the goal that believes in it as an ideal preached by They are putting into action things lies ahead is worth everything that is Jesus Christ. Not everyone realizes which many of us all too often ,merely being asked of us. Never before in the that loving one's fellow man <:an be a talk about. To them, Democracy is not history of mankind has there been so thing of small kindnesses, daily just a w.ord. It is a living thing which rich an opportunity for fulfilling the thoughtfulness, genuine neighborliness. they understand, which they practice ideals preached by Jesus Christ-the It is very easy to devote oneself to toward each other and toward other ideals of Peace and Brotherly Love and large and abstract ideals. Such devo­ people, so much a part of them that a rich, full, good life on earth for all. tion calls for very little more than oc­ they have no need to speak of it all Here in Five Points, we are far re­ casional lip service. It can be disposed the time. To these boys and girls, the moved from the terrible clashes of of very nicely on Sundays and then Brotherhood of Man is more than an armies, the roar of death-bringing forgotten. This may serve to still the abstract ideal-a gain-so much a part planes, the whine of shells, the fright­ . conscience, but it is not very satisfying of their lives that they probably never ful screaming of innocent children, the to the soul. It does no~ lead to happi­ need to mention it. If you were to ask sorrowful weeping of mothers. Here ness. It does not lead to the secure one of them why he does the w or k he we feel the touch of war differently. feeling that one has don't! his best. does, , he would probably answer , "I Here the war means change-change, Most of all, it does not make life in­ like to do it," or, "It's fun," or, as one separation from loved ones, unrest, teresting, full of new activities" new boy to whom I spoke said, "Well, Mr. some deprivation, some discomfort, people, new ideas. Gaylord, it's like this. You kind of get some pain. These are days for working together. tired of fooling around. It's swell to I know there is unhappiness among The men in our Armed Forces have be doing something that gets some y-ou. There is sadness and loneliness learned to work together. No victory place. It's sort of good to k now that in your hearts. There is irritation with would be possible without the greatest, you're being some use to ' somebody. the small details of living that have most trusting, most selfless cooperation And I get a kick out of knowing that gone awry. There is restlessness-a , on their part. We at home can do no I'm doing my part for the w ar. My not knowing what to do, not knowing less than our fighting men. brother's overseas, now. I feel like how to make this evil time pass more For some of the finest ex~unples of it's right I should do as m uch as I can. quickly, not knowing how to keep the the kind of cooperation I mean, we Besides, we're picking up all kinds of tears from your eyes and the note of have only to look at the youth of this things-you know, how to do things, good cheer in the letters you write l o grea t country of ours. Over a million w hat makes them tick-that'll come in your loved ones at the fronts. There is and a half boys and girls between the handy later on." too much work for some of you, too ages of ten and twenty are members of Of course, not all of you can see your much work and too little rest. For some 75,000 virtually autonomous 4-H way clearly to such selfless devotion others, there is too little work and too Clubs. These clubs are active in every to others. There is so much for all of much rest. State and in Puerto Rico, Hawaii and you to do, just to keep things going. To you who are lonely and restless, Alaska. Last year, these million and a You have homes to run and families to rritated and tired" I have this to say. half boys and girls, by working to­ care for and jobs to hold down. Tne There is a new world in the making. gether in the individual clubs, gr ew fact is that by look ing about you, by )ur men-your men- are fighting and, 'five million bushels of Victory Garden lending a hand to othet:s on occasion, ;ometimes, dying for this. The things prod ucts and twelve million pounds of by combining forces with others like :or which they fight and die have many peanuts, soybeans and greens. In 1943 yourselves, busy, tied down, overbur­ lames-Fr~edom, National Liberation, their pledge was "I will feed a fighter!" dened, you can lighten your own tasks. Democracy, Equality, Opportunity, They kept that pledge by producing For instance, did you know what has Peace-many names. But behind every and marketing nine million poultry been done ( Continued on page 66) 41 Suddenly, with the chiming of that old watch, she went back

into her past-into the horror that was her life before she

met Howard. Now Mildred Abbot knew who and what she was.

THE STORY: no longer keep my' troubles to myself. to see us, I remembered I always asked I told Howard all that had happened to be allowed to hold the watch and I WAS young; I was in love. Surely to me, aDd he told me that I must go hear the chimes. And it brought back . that combination is enough to make to a doctor. But before we could get all the sweet closeness that had ex­ any girl happy. But I wasn·'t. Because to one, the telephone rang-a call from isted between Mother and me, left there was a shadow over my life, a a man, Edwin Anthony, who said he alone by Father's death. Gradually, of question that filled all of my days and was my uncle, and who wanted to course, as I got. older I completely for­ my nights, a fear . that came, tangible know what was wrong between me and got about the watch--or thought I did. as Ii wall, between Howard Coles, my husoand! My husband-the man in But it had remained all this time in my whom I loved so dearly, and me. This the picture! Uncle Edwin came to see unconscious mind as a symbol. was the substance of my fears: I did me, told me of Chuck, my husband. We hadn't had much money, Mother not know who I was. I knew my name The husband whom I had'said I wanted and I. But enough to get along on. And -Mildred Abbot-and that I was a to divorce in a note I'd left for Uncle we'd been great friends, closer than secretary, and that 'I was young, and Edwin before the accident wiped out most mothers and daughters usually wore clothes that were smart but not my memory .. And still I did pot re­ are. Uncle Edwip probably was right expensive. But all of those things I member-I only knew that I was mar­ when he said she'd spoiled and over­ had learned from clues I found in my ried to one man, who was like a strang­ protected me. Always she was there to room. It had happened this way--one er to me now, and in love with another. take the brunt of whatever childish morning I awoke, and I found that I And then Uncle Edwin took out his hurt happened to me, to make every­ could not remember one single thing watch, and. my mind started sharply. thing come right. about my past. I learned that I had That watch-! I was beginning to re­ I'd grown up in the small city of been in an automobile accident the member. ... Ruxton, going to school ana then to day ' before, that I had bee~ brought high school. I began going to parties home by Howard Coles, the man whose T WAS as if, suddenly released from and having fun and dates as other girls car had struck me. From my ration too-much pressure, my whole" life my age did, but it was always a shel­ book, in my purse, I found my mime. I was unreeling before me-begin­ tered kind of fun. Always Mother was My clothes were in the . closet. And ning way, way back, as far as I could there, watchful and protective, to that was all; except for a picture that remember. . I began to talk. Words guard against any harm or hurt-to I discovered in my dresser drawer­ rushed out, incoherently at first, as guard me against life itself. I was very a picture of a man who was a stranger small. incidents tumbled over each innocent-dangerously so--and. very to this new' me who had no memory. other in their rise to the surface of my ignorant. This stranger's face attracted me and mind. After high school I went to business repelled me at once. Howard Coles The watch-I could remember as a school. Mother was against that but was more than kind; he gave me a job, tiny child sitting in. my father's lap it' was the one time I held out against took me out, ma~ me forget my trou­ and hearing its sweet chimes. He used her wishes. I wanted to learn to earn bles for a while. But I couldn't bring to press the spring that sounded them, my living, to free her of the whole myself to tell him that I had lost my to amuse or quiet me. And that small, financial responsibility with her small memory, nor could I make myself go silvery tune they played brought back income; and I wanted the independ­ to a doctor. Somehow, I thought, I all the childish sense of safety and pro­ ence that a job would offer. And it would remember; someday it would tection that my father had meant. In was then, just before my mother's last all come back to me, if I would only the circle of his arms, nothing could illness, that I met Chuck Abbot. wait, and be patient, and not try to harm me, none of the frightening Chuck was, actually, five years older force myself. But suddenly things came things that came in the darkness of the than I but he could have been any age. to a head. I received a letter from a night could reach me. He'd been batting around the country, firm of lawyers, speaking of the "mat­ Then my father had died,. and as he said, since he was fourteen. He'd ter which I had discussed with them." Mother had given the watch to Uncle worked on tramp steamers, he'd driven And I dreamed of the man in the pic- Edwin. But it was still in my life. On cross..,country trucks, he'd ridden the 42 ture-a dream so terrifying that.I could the rare occasions when my uncle came rails when he ha!i. no money and lived "Look, my darling," Howard said. "Nobody can make you do anythin.g you don't wallt to do."

in first-class hotels when he had a lot. he'd decided ~o go into that business And I-well, I'd never seen anybody One of the fascinating things about for himself. He'd come to Ruxton, like Chuck Abbot in the whole of my Chuck to me was the sense of mystery opened a small office, and started en­ protected life. The very first night I and adventure. It was hard to pin him tering bids for buildings. He was good had a date with him, I found myself down to where he came from or who at his job, he knew how to handle the letting him kiss me-possessively and his parents were. He didn't really men working for him, he knew. all passionately. That shocked me-I'd avoid those questions; he just, some­ about costs, and it wasn't long befor e been strictly brought up and I'd 'never how, subtly dodged them and it wasn't he was under-bidding older contrac­ let a boy kiss me on the first date be­ until afterwards that you realized he'd tors and making a success of his busi­ fore. And ne ver had anyone kissed me talked a lot but hadn't answered a ness. There was something truly ir­ like that. The feelings he stirred in me thing. And he was terribly good-look­ resistible about Chuck-when he really I'd only dimly guessed at. ing in an aggressive, vital sort of way. set his mind on getting something from And I found,. to my shocked amaze­ He'd worked for a while for a build­ you, he got it. I guess the secret of m ent, that I could no more resist those ing contractor and when a distant that was his vital charm. kisses than I could stop breathing. Each relative died and left him some money, From the very first, he wanted m e. time I was ( Continued on page 60 ) 43 % cups sour milk 1 tsp. vanilla extract 1 egg white, beaten stiff Cream margarine, add sugar and cream together. Beat eggs, beat in syrup and blend with margarine mix": ture. Sift together dry ingredients and add, alternately with sour milk, to creamed mixture, beating smooth. Add flavoring and egg white which has been beaten stiff, pour into greased layer pans (2 9-inch layers) and bake in 350 to 360 degree oven for 25 to 30 minutes . .\llow to cool before putting together WIth frosting. Frosting 2 cups granulated sugar Small pinch cream of tartar 7 tbls. water 2 egg whites Small pinch salt % cup nut meats Place ingredients in top of double boiler and cook over boiling water, beating constantly, until mixture will form peaks when beater is removed (about 7 minutes). Remove from heat and continue beating until thick enough to frost between layers, top and sides of cake. Sprinkle with nutmeats. Steamed Fig Pudding % cup· dried ground figs Since the very first Christmas, the .holidays have always been % cup margarine 1 cup sugar a time for fragrant, rich desserts, like this Mock Mince Pie. 2 eggs lh cup fruit juice or milk 2 cups flour . 1h tsp, salt 1 tsp. soda ROM the first Christmas when in 400-degree oven 30 to 35 minutes. 1h tsp. allspice frankincense and myrrh ranked 1 tsp. mace Fwith gold .as worthy of presentation Cranberry Ghiffon Pie 1 tsp. vanilla to the Christ Child, spIces have played 1 cup jellied cranberry sauce Remove stems from figs, wash and an integral part in Yuletide festivities. % cup sugar dry them before grinding. Cream mar­ Memories of our first Christmas tree, a 4 eggs garine, add sugar and cream together pungent cedar or pine, gay with lights 1/s tsp. powdered cloves thoroughly. Beat eggs and add to and ornaments, of a stocking crammed 1 envelope unflavored gelatin creamed mixture. Stir in ground figs. with oranges and nuts, bring back so % cup cold water Sift together dry ingredients and add, vividly the fragrance of cinnamon and % tsp. salt alternately with fruit juice (or milk) cloves, mace, nutmeg and allspice, that 1 tbl. lemon juice and blend in vanilla. Pour into greased even now we cannot imagine a Christ­ mold, filling slightly over half full mas without them. Luckily, we do not In top of double boiler, mix cran­ so there will be room for pudding to have to imagine such a thing, for al­ berry sauce, 1h the sugar and the egg expand, and steam over water until though we cannot experience again the yolks and cook over hot water until done (1 liz to 2 hours) or steam over thrill of our first Christmas, we can, mixture reaches custard consistency, water in individual custard cups about by using this month's recipes, enjoy .about 8 minutes. Add gelatin, which 45 minutes. Serve with any desired desserts as temptingly spicy as those has been dissolved in cold water, salt sauce. Leftover pudding may be re­ which made it .so memorable. and lemon juice, then allow to cool. heated for another meal. When mixture starts to congeal, beat Tidbits for the children are essen­ Cranberry Mock Mince Pie egg whites until stiff, then add cloves tial at Christmastime, and fruit balls and remaining sugar and continue and popcorn men will be popular with 2 tart cooking apples the grown-ups, too. 1 cup seedless raisins beating until mixture forms a stiff 1 cup water meringue. Fold egg whites into cran­ (Continued on page 59) % cup sugar berry mixture, turn into baked pie shell 1/4 tsp. allspice and chill until firm. lhI tsp. cloves % tsp. salt Spice Cake BY ·2 cups cranberries ~ cup margarine 1 tbl. lemon juice 1 cup light brown sugar KATE SMITH 4 tbls. margarine 3 egg yolks Cube apples small. Mix sugar, salt 1h cup maple syrup or molasses RADIO MIRROR'S and spices and add, with apples and 2 cups flour FOOD COUNCELOR raisins, to water. · Bring to slow boil, 1 tsp. soda add cranberries and boil without stir­ V4 tsp. allspice Listen to Kate Smith's ring for 5 minutes. Add lemon juice Pinch salt daily talks at noon and margarine. Allow to cool, then 1 tsp. baking powder and her Sunday night pour into ·unbaked pie shell. Arrange % tsp. ground cloves Variety Show, heard pastry strips in lattice over top. .Bake 1f4 tsp. nutm.,g onCBS,at7:00EWT. 44 SUNDAY MONDAY

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Now, with the 2:30 4:30 5:30 NBC: Just Plain Bill 7.00 Blue: Drt''W Pearson 2:30 4:30 5:30 MBS: Superman 4:00 6:00 7.00 NBC: Jack Benny sugar shortage and the Army coating large 4:00 6:00 7:00 CBS: 5:30 5:30 5:30 Blue: Jack Arrnstrong Kate Smith shells with beeswax, his choice has proved 5:30 CBS: ·Terr)' Allen and The Three 4:15 5:15 7:15 Blue: Don Gardiner, News Shters to have been a very wise one. When farm 2:45 4:45 5:45 NBC: 4 :30 6:30 7:30 MBS: Stars and StripH in Britain Front Page Farrell 8:30 6:30 2:45 4:45 5:45 Blue: Captain Midnight 7:30 Blue: .uil: Kids labor grew scarce, he had a complete car­ 4:45 5:45 CBS 4:30 6:30 7:30 NBC: Fitch Bandwagon Wilderne-sl Road pentry shop with electric equipment in­ 5:00 6:00 CBS: Quincy Howe 7:45 MBS: Samuel Grafton stalled in his home and turns out all the 5:10 6:10 CBS: Bill Costello 8:00 7:00 8:00 Blue: Greenfleld Village Chapel 3:15 5:15 6:15 N BC: Serenade to America 5:00 7:00 8:00 NB C : Edgar Bergen necessary woodwork around the place him­ 3:15 5:15 6:15 Blue: Capt. Tim Healy 8:~0 7:00 CBS: Blondit' 3:30 5:15 6:15 CBS: To Your Good Health 8:00 MBS: Medlati on Board self. 5:30 6:30 CBS: Jeri Sullawan. Songs 3:45 5:45 6:45 CBS: The World Today 8:15 Blue. Dorothy Thompsonl, News Karl's hobby is photography, but he finds 3:45 5:45 5:45 Blue: Henry J. Taylor. News 8:30 Blue: Joe E. Brown that it takes much more time than he has 6:45 NBC: Lowell Thomal 8:00 7:30 8:30 CBS: Cri me Doctor 3:55 5:55 6:55 CBS: Joseph C. Harsch 5:30 7:30 8:30 NBC: One Man's Family to give to it. He also likes trotting races, 8:0010:00 7:00 CBS: I LoyI' a Myster)' 8:00 6:00 7:00 NBC: Chesterfield Music Shop 5:45 7:45 8:45 MBS: Gabriel Heatter but has always been too busy to attend the 8:00 6:00 7:00 Blue: Horace H~ldt's Orch. 5:55 7:55 8.55 C BS: Bob Trout famous Hambletonian classic which is held 8:15 6:15 7:15 CBS; Hedda Hopper's HollYwood 7 :30 9:30 7:30 CBS: 6:00 8:00 9:00 CBS: Radio Readers Digest every year right near his home. Thanks to the Yanks 6:00 8:00 9.00 MBS: Old .. Fashion Rewiwaf 4:30 6 :30 7:30 Blue: The Lone Ranger 7:00 8:00 Born in Brookly~ N. Y. in 1908, Karl says 4:45 6:45 7:45 NBC : H. V. Kaltenborn 9:00 Blue. Walter Winchell 9:30 7:00 8:00 CBS: 6.00 8:00 9:00 NBC: Manhattan Merr)' .. Go.Round VOll Pop he came up the hard way, but didn't have 8:00 7:00 8:00 Blue : News 7:45 8:15 9:15 Blue: Hollywood M)'stery Tune to take too many knocks before he clicked. 8:30 7:00 8:00 NBC: Cayalcade of America 6:30 8.30 9:30 CBS: Texaco Star Theater, James 8,15 7:15 8:15 Blue: Lum 'n' Abner Melton The hard way is the way of little theaters, 8:30 7:30 8:30 CBS: Frank Sinatra 5:30 7:30 8:30 Blue: Blind Date 8:15 8:30 9:45 Blue. Jimmie Fidler stock companies, summer theaters, minor 5:30 7:30 8: 30 NBC: Voice of Flr..,tone 6:30 8:30 9:30 NBC: American Album of parts in Broadway flops and one or two 5:30 7:30 8:30 MBS: Bulldog Drummond Familiar Music 5:55 7:55 8: 55 CBS: BUI Henry successes and then, if you're lucky, a real 6:00 8:00 9:00 CBS: Lux Radio Theater 7:00 9:0010:00 CBS: Take It or Leawe It break with a real part, Karl hopes his sons 6:00 8:00 9:00 Blue: Counter Spy 7:00 9:0010:00 Blue: The Lift' of Rile)' 6:00 8:00 9:00 MBS: Gabriel Heatter 7:00 9.0010:00 NBC : Hour of Charm get the acting all out of their systems while 9:00 8:00 9:00 NBC: The Telephone Hour 7:00 9:00 10:00 M BS: Goodwill Hour 6:30 8:30 9:30 Blue : Spotlight Bands 7:30 9:3010:30 NBC: Comedy Theater, Harold they're young. His advice to almost every­ 6:30 8:30 9:30 NBC: Information Please Llo,d one who has acting ambitions is, "Stay out 6:55 8:55 9:55 Blue: Coronet Story Teller 10:30 Blue: ~~e,t~lp,!:p~~th the World 7.00 ':0010:00 CBS: Screen Guild Players 9:3010.30 C BS:, of it, if you can." 7:00 9:00,10:00 Blue: Ra),mond Gram S wing 10:00 11:00 CBS: Bill Codeno 7:00 9:00110:00 NBC: Contented Program II 10:1511:15~BS: Marla Kurenko Of course, if Karl had felt that way a 7:15 9:1510:15 BlUe; 10:1511.15 NBC: Cesar Saerchi nger 9:3010:30 CBS: 10:3010:3011:30 NBC: Pacific Story few years ago, there would be someone else ~~~ Toa,!~~~~~~~~st'::d 8:30 10:30 11:3 BS: Melody In th. Night 1 The Jack Pepper Show playing Lord Henry. • 9:30~g;~gml~E Dr. I. Q . 45 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY

..: Eastern ~ar Time ..: r astern War TI me ~ ~ U U 8 :15 Blu ~ : Your Lite Today 8:15 Blue : Your Life Today '8:00 8:10 Blu~: News 8:30 Blue: New. 9:00 C BS; News 8: 00 9:00 CBS: News 8:00 9:00 rJ lue : Breakfast Club 8:00 9:00 Blue: Breakfast Club 6:00 8:00 9:00 N BC; Mirth and Madness 6:00 8:00 9:00 N BC: Mirth and Madness 2:10 9:15 CBS ; American School of the Air 2:30 9:10 CBS: A merican School of the Air 9: 45 CBS; This Life is Mine 8045 9:45 CBS: This Life •• M'ne 8:15 9:00 10:00 CBS: Vatiant Lady 8:15 9:3010:00 CBS: Valiant Lady 10:10 9:00 10:00 Blue ; My True Story 6 :45 9:45 NBC: Alice Cornel. 6:45 9:45 NBC; Alice Cornell 10:00 NBC: Lora Lawton 10:00 NBC: Lora Lawton 10:30 9:0010:00 Blue: My True Star), 8 : 10 9:1510:15 CBS ; Light 01 the World 8:10 9:1510:15 CBS: lIght 01 tho World 9:1510:15 NBC : News of the World 9:15 10:15 NBC: News of the World 9:1010:30 CBS: This Changing World 10:30 Blue : CliH Edwards 9:3010:30 CBS: This Changing World 10:30 NBC: Finders Keepers 10:30 Blue: CIiHiEdwards, Songs 9:4510:45 Bluc; 10:30 N BC: Fi nders Keepers 10:0011:00 CBS: ~~~e~:,:::~n~i~,ost 12:45 9:4510:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children 8:0010:0011:00 Blue: Breakfast at Sardi's 9:4510:45 Blue: The Listening Post 3:0010:00.11:00 NBC: Road of Life 8:0010:0011:00 Blue: Br.akfast at Sardl's 10:1511:15 CBS: Second Husband 8 :0010:0011:00 NBC: Road to ' Lite 8:1510:1511/ :15 N BC : Rosemary 12:30,10:3011:30 C BS: Bright Horizon 10:0011:00 CBS: Honeymoon Hln 8:30110:3011:30 Blue : Gilbert Martyn MADAME MENACE 10:1511:15 CBS: Second Husband 8:4510:1511:15 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories 8:15 10:1511:15 NBC: Rosemary 8:4510:4511:45 Blue : Jack Berch, Songs She might be cast as a gangster's moll, a 12:3010:3011:30 CBS: Bright Horlzo n 8:4510:4511:45 NBC : David Harum 8:3010:3011:30 Blue: Gilbert Martyn , 12:00 Blue ; Glamour Manor murderess, a look-out on a stick up job, or 9 :0011:0012:00 C BS: Kate Smith Speaks 8:4510:4511:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Storie, 9:1511:1512:15 CBS: Big Sister anyone of a dozen other parts, but she 8:45 10:45 11:45 Blue : Jack Bereh, Songs 9:3011:15 12:15 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent would always be a menace. In four years, 8:4510:4511:45 NBC: David Harum 9:3011:3012:30 Blue : Farm and Home Makers 12:00 Blue: Glamour Manor 11:3012:30 NBC: U. S. Coast Guard on Parade Edith Arnold has appeared as the female 9:0.0 11:00 12:00 CBS: Kate Smith Speak. 9:4511:4512:45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday "heavy" in practically every broadcast of 11:0012:00 NBC: Words and MUsic 10:0012:00 1:00 CBS: Life Can Be Beautiful 10:0012:00 1:00 Blue: Baukhage Talking Crime Doctor, which is heard on CBS, 9:1511:1512:15 CBS: Big Sister 10:00,12:00 1 :00 NBC: Sketches In Melody B: 11:3012:10 NBC: U. S. Air Foree Band 10:15:12:15 1 :15 C BS: Ma Perkins Sunday evenings at 30. Just that job 9: 10 11: 10 12: 10 CBS : Romanee at Helen Trent The Women's Exchange alone adds up to some 200 assorted playlets ':3011:3012:30 Blue: Farm and Home Makers tg;~Ng~ U~ ~~~ : Bernardin. Flynn, News 9:4511:4512:45 CBS: Our Gal Su nday 10:4512,45 1:45 C BS: The Goldbergs of violence. 10:0012:00 1:00 CBS: Life Can Be Beautiful 12:45 1:45 NBC: Morgan Beatty, Ne ws Eaith likes being nasty and mean. Per­ 10:0012:"00 1:00 Blue: Baukhage Talking 11 :00 1 :00 2 :00 CBS: Joyce Jordan 10:1512:15 1:15 CBS: Ma Perkins 11:00 1 :00 2:00 NBC : The Guiding Light haps that's because really she isn't low­ 10:1512:15 1:15 Blue: Blue Correspondents Abroad 11:00 1:00 2:00 Blue: Walter Kiernan, News 10:3012:30 1:30 CBS: aernardi ne Flynn, News 11:15 1 :15 2:15 Blue: Mystery Chef brow, slangy and tough. In fact, in her 10:45 1 :45 '1 :45 CBS: The Goldbergs 11:15 1:15 2:15 CBS: Two on a Clue off-radio moments, she's quiet, given to 12:45 1 :45 NBC: Morgan Beatty, He ws 11:15 1:15 2:15 NBC: Today's Children 10:4512:45 1:45 Blue : Three Planas 11:30 1:30 2:30 NBC: Woman in White reading-serious reading, preferring phi­ 11:00 1:00 2:00 CBS: Joyce Jordan, M.D. 11:30 1:30 2:30 CBS: Young Dr. Malone losophy and theoretical s,tudies to fiction. 2:00 Blue : Walter Kiernan, New. 11:30 1:30 2:30 Blue: Ladles Be Seated 11:00 1:00 2:00 NBC: l~~ ~::':I£?u~i9ht 11:45 1:45 2:45 CBS : Perry Mason Stories She won her Master of Arts degree in 11:15 1:15 2:15 CBS: 11:45 1:45 2:45 NBC: Hymns of All Churches 12:15 1:15 2:15 Blue: The Mystery Chef 12:00 2:00 3, 00 CBS; Mary Marlin Philosophy and her thesis was on Far 11:15 1 :15 2 :15 NBC: Today's Children 12:00 2:00 3:00 Blue: Morton Downe)' Eastern thought. Which is a far cry from 11: 10 1:30 2: 30 CBS: Young Dr. Malone 12:00 2:00 1:00 N BC: A Woman of America 11:30 1:30 2:30 Bluc : Ladies, Be Se.ted 3:15 Blue: Hollywood Star Time the work of being the best gun moll in the 11:30 1 :30 2:30 NBC: Woman In White 12:15 2:15 3:15 C BS: Irene Beasley business. Radio business. 11:45 1:45 2:45 CBS: Perry Mason Stories 12:15 2:15 3:15 NBC: Ma Perkins 11:45 1:45 2:45 NBC: Hymns of All Churche. 3:30 Blue : Appointment with Life Right from the beginning, Edith Arnold 12:00 2:00 1:00 CBS: Mary Marlin 1:30 CBS: High Places 12:00 2:00 1: 00 Blue: Morton Downey 2:45 3:45 CBS; Bob Trout started out as a "bad girl." At sixteen, she 12; 00 2:00 1: 00 NBC: A Woman of America 12:30 2:30 3:30 NRC: Pepper Young's Family appeared in a California performance of the 3:15 Blue: Hollywood Star Time 12:45 2 :45 3:45 N BC: Right to Happiness 12:15 2:15 1:15 NBC: Ma Perkins 12:45 2:45 4:00 Blue : Ethel and Albert Passion Play, in which she had the role of 3:15 CBS: Tena and Tim 3:00 4:00 CBS: 3:30 Blue: Appointment with Life Service Ti me the Woman Taken in Adultery. With such 2:30 1:30 CBS: High Place' 1:00 3:00 4:00 NBC: Backstage Wife 12:30 2:30 1:30 NBC: Pepper You ng's Fa mlly 4:15 Blue: Don Norman Show a start, she j,ust couldn't go right-at least, 12:45 2:45 1:45 NBC: 1:15 1:15 4:15 NBC: Stella Dallas :~th~rt:u~apPlness 1:25 4:25 CBS: not as far as her acting career was con­ 3:45 CBS: Nows 1:00 3 :00 4 : 00 Blue : Ethel and Albert 1:30 3:30 4 :30 NBC: Lorenzo Jones cerned. And she didn't, with one unhappy 1:00 3:00 4:00 NBC: 1:30 3:30 4:30 Blue ; Westbrook Va rI Voorhis 1:30 3:45 4:45 C BS: The Raymond Scott Show exception. Misadvisedly, Edith accepted 1:00 3:00 4:00 CBS: ::rC:v~~:a.y.: mw. .. · 4:45 Blue : Hop Harr;gan the part of the ingenue in "June Moon" 1 :15 3:15 4:15 NBC: Stella Dallas 1:45 3:45 4:45 NBC: 4:15 Blue: Don Norman Show ~i'!,~nll:'ni:der Brown 1:25 4:25 CBS: News 4:00 5:00 CBS; and literally suffered from her own sweet­ 1:30 3:30 2:00 4:00 5:00 Blue : Terry and the Pirates 4:30 Blue: Westbrook Van Voorhis 2:00 4:00 5:00 NBC ; ness jnd, as she calls it, stickiness, until 1:30 3:30 4:10 MBS: True Detective Mysteries When a Girl Marries 1:30 3: 10 4: 30 NBC: Lorenzo Jones '2:15 4:15 ~:15 N BC: Portia Faces Life the end of the run of that play. Since then, 4:45 Blue: Hop Harrigan 2:15 4:15 5:15 Blue : Dick Tracy she has avoided the sweet parts. 1:30 3:45 4:45 C BS: The Raymond Seott Show 5:30 5:30 5:30 Blue: Jack Armstrong 1:45 3:45 4:45 NBC: Young Widder Brown 2:30 4:30 5:30 M BS : Superman She worked on Broadway for some years, 4:00 5:00 CBS: Sing Along 2:30 4:30 5:30 NBC: Just Plain Bill appearing in successes like "The Barker," 2:00 4:00 5:00 Blue , Terry and the Pirates 5:30 CBS : Terry Allen and the Three 2:00 4:00 5:00 N BC: When a Girl Marries Siders "Jarnegan" and "Kind Lady." In this last 2:15 4:15 5:15 NBC: Portia Faces Life 5:45 5:45 5:45 Blue: Captain Midnight 2:15 4:15 5:15 Blue: Dick Tracy 2:45 4:45 5:45 NBC: Front Page Farrell play, she did the part of a half-wit so well 4:30 5:30 C BS: Terry and the Three SI.ter. 5:45 C BS: Wilderness Road that she was called to Hollywood to play 5:30 5:30 5:30 Blue : Jack Armstrong 5:00 6:00 C BS: Quincy Howe 2:30 4:30 5:30 MBS: Superman 9:30 5:15 6:15 C BS : Edwin C. Hili the part of a half wit in Columbia's "Crime 2:30 4:30 5:30 NBC: Just Plai n Bill 3:15 5:15 6:15 Blue: Capt. Healy 5:45 5:45 5:45 Blue: Captain Midnight 3:15 ,:15 6:15 NBC: Serenade to America and Punishment," 2:45 4:45 5:45 NBC: 5:30 6:'0 NBC: Bill Stern While Edith was out in the film capital, 5:00 6:00 CBS: ~r:I':.~:~: :.~rN~~s 5:10 6:30 CBS: On Your Mark-Ted Huslng 5:10 6:10 CBS: Bill"CosteUo 3:45 5:45 6:45 C BS : The World Today she met Max Marcin, who was quick to 3 :30 5:15 6:15 CBS: To Your Good Health 3:45 5:45 6:45 Blue : Henry J. Tay ~ or, News 3 :15 5:15 6:15 NBC: Serenade to A merlea 6:45 NBC: Lowell Tho mas recognize her value to the radio shows he 6, 55 5:30 6:30 C BS: Jeri Sullavan, Songs 3:55 C BS: Meaning of the News- was doing. Mr. Marcin is by way of 6040 NBC: Bill Stern Joseph C. Harsch 6:45 NBC: Lowell Thomas 8:00 6:00 7:00 NBC: Chesterfield Music Shop being a specialist in crime stories for the 7:00 3:45 5:45 6:45 Blue: Henry J. Taylor, New. 4:00 6:00 Blue: Side Show- Dave Elman radio. Even before Edith got on the train 3 :55 6 :55 CBS: Meaning of the News 8:00 10:00 7:00 CBS: I Love a Mystery 7:00 Blue : On Stage Everybody 8:15 6:15 7: 15 CBS: Chesterfield Time, Martin to return to New York, she knew there 8 :00 6:00 7 :00 NBC: Chesterfield Music Shop Block would be work for her on Mr. Marcin's 8:0010:00 7:00 CBS: I Love a Mystery 4:15 6:15 7:15 NBC: News of the World 8:15 6:15 7:15 C BS: Chesterfield Time, Martin 7:30 Blue: The Green Hornet. Perfect Crime series. There was more than Block 4:10 6:10 7 :10 C BS: American Melody Hour work- there was radio stardom, 4:15 6:15 7:1 5 NBC: News of the World 9:00 6:10 7:10 NBC: Dick Ha),mes 4:30 6:30 7:3 o CBS: Easy Aces 8:10 7:00 8:00 CBS: Theater of Romance Most actresses rebel against "type cast­ 6:30 7:3 o Bluc : Th. Lone Ranger 8:)0 7:00 8:00 Blue: News 4:45 6:45 7:4 5NBC: H. V. Kaltenborn 8: 10 7:00 8:00 N BC : Ginn), Simms ing." They all want to try their talents on 9 :00 7 :00 8: 0 o CBS: Jack Carson Show 8:15 7:15 ' :15 Blue: Lum 'n' Abner all sorts of parts. They all claim they're 8:00 7 :00 8:00 Blue: News 8:30 Blu ~ ~ Alan Young Show 9:15 7:00 8:0 OMBS: Cal Tinney 5 :10 7: 10 8:10 NBC: A Date with Judy gOing stale, if directors insist on their do­ 9:00 7:00 8:0 o NBC: Mr. and Mrs. North 9:00 7:10 8:10 CBS: Big Town 8:15 7:15 8:1 5 Blue: Lum 'n' Abner 5:55 7:10 8:55 C BS: ing the same typc of part again and again. 8:30 7:30 8. 3 o C BS: Dr. Christian 6:00 8:00 9:00 MBS: ~i~~:t:ln::leatter Not Edith. She doesn't get bored with 7:30 ':1 o MBS: Tak. a Card 6 :00 ':00 9:00 Blue : Gracie Fields Show 8:10 7:30 8: 1 o Blue: My Best Girl, Drama 6 :00 ':00 9:00 N BC: Myster), Theater being a menace. She likes it, finds some­ 8:10 7:30 8:3 o NBC: Henny Youngman-Ca,ol 6:00 8:00 9:00 CBS: Burns and Allen thing new and different in each part and Bruc. 6:10 8:30 9:30 CBS: This Is My Best 5:55 7:55 8:5 5 CBS: Bill. Henry 6:30 8:30 9:30 Bluc: Spotlight Bands gets a great deal of fun out of being wicked 6:00 8:00 ':0o Blue: Joseph Dunnlnger 6:30 9:30 9:30 NBC: Fibber McGee and Mony 6:00 8:00 9:0 o C BS: Inn.r Sanctum 6:30 8:30 9:30 M BS: Murder Clinic on the radio. 6:00 8:00 9:0 OMBS: Gabriel Heatter 6:55 8:55 9:55 Blue: Coronet Story Teller She does have plans for her future. But 6:00 8:00 9:0 o NBC: Eddie -Cantor 7:00 9:0010:00 MBS: John S. Hug hes 6:30 8:30 9:1 CBS: 7:00 9:0010:00 Rlue: o Which I. Which ::~~~~: Gram Swing that's all for the time when she really gets 6:10 8: 10 9 : 1 ~ Blue: 7:00 9 :0010:00 NBC: bored-if that ever happens-and tired. 6:30 8:30 9:30i N BC: ~~t~rS~:i!a~::orn.y 7 :00 9:0010:00 CBS: Service to the Front 6:55 ':55 9:55 Blue: Coronet Sto, .. Teller 9:3 10:15 Blue: From Europ., George Hicks Her one real ambition is to get back to her 7:00 9:00 10:0 CBS: Gr.at Moments In Mu.lc ~ I 10:3 10:30 CBS: ~1:.'!P:·::d~p·akS 7:00 9:0010:0 NBC: College of Musical Knowl.dg" 7:3010:30 NBC: ranch in the San Fernando Valley and take 7:00 9:0010:0 Blue: Raymond Gram Swing 10:0010:3010:30 Blue : Let ~urself Go-B.rl. a hand in raising oranges, limes and wal­ 7:15 9:1 510:15 Blue: Ted Malon..--from England 8: 3010:3011:30 C BS : Casey, Press Phetographer 7:30 ':3010:10 CBS: The Colonel 11: 30 N 5C: Words at War nuts. Scramby-Amby Quiz: 4."J 10:10 Blue: THURSDAY FRIDAY ..: ..: Eastern War Time ~ Eastern War Ti me ~ ~ ~ ..: ~ ~ 8:15 Blue: Your Lite Today 8:15Blue: Your Life Today 8:15 NBC : Jay Johnson 8:30 Blue: News 8:30 Blue: New5 8:00 9:00 CBS: News 8:00 9:00 Blue: Breakfast Club 8:00 9:00 C BS: News 6:00 8:00 9:00 NBC: Mirth and Madne .. 8:00 9:00 Blue: Breakfast Club 6:00 8:00 9:00 NBC: Mirth and Madne.. 2:30 9:15 CBS: American School of the Air 8:45 9:45 C BS: This Life is Mine 2:15 9:15 CBS: American Schoot of t he Air 6:45 9:45 N,BC: Alice Cornell 8:45 9:45 CBS: This Life is Mine 8:15·9:0010:00 CBS: Valiant Lady 6:45 9:45 NBC: Alice Cornell 10:30 9:0010:00 Blue: My True Story 8:15 9:0010:00 CBS· Valiant Lady 10:00 NBC: Lora Lawton 9:0010:00 Blue: My True Story 10:15 NBC: News of the World 10:00 NBC: Lora Lawton 8:30 9:15 10:15 C ns: Light of the World 10:15 N BC : News of the World 9:3010:30 NBC: Help Mate 8:30 9:1510:15 CBS: Light of the World 10:30 CBS: This Changi ng World 9:3010:30 CBS: This Changing Worl d 10:30 Blue: Cli" Edwards 10:30 Blue: CliH Edwards. Songs 10:30 N BC; Fi "ders Keepers 10:30 N BC: Finders Keepers 12:45 9:4510:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children 12:45 9:45 10:45 CBS: BaChelor's Children 9:4510:45 Blue: The Listening Post 9:45 10:45 Blue : The Listening Post 10:0011:00 CBS: ' Honeymoon Hill 7:45 9:4510:45 N BC : Tommy Taylor. Baritone 8:0010:0011:00 Blue: Breakfast at Sardi's 8:0010:0011:00 Blue: Breakfast at Sardi's 3:0010:0011:00 NBC: Road of Life 3:0010:0011:00 NBC: Road of Life 10:1511:15 CBS: Second Husband GRIMM ' S FAIRY TALE . 10:0011:00 CBS: Honeymoon Hill 8:1510:1511:15 NBC: Rosemary 10:1511:15 CBS: Second Husband 12:3010:3011:30 CBS: Bright Horizon Once upon a time there was a little ten-' 8:1510:1511:15 N BC: Rosemary 8:3010:3011:30 Blue: Gilbert Martyn year-old girl named Kay Lorraine Grimm. 12:3010:1011:30 CBS: Bright Horizon 8:4510:4511:45 CBS; Aunt Jenny's Stories 8:3010:3011:30 Blue: Gilbert Martyn 8:4010:4511:45 Blue: Jack Berch, Songs This. little girl sang very beautifully even 8:45 10:45 11:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories 8:4510:4511:45 NBC: David Hal"um then and grew up to become a real profes­ 8:4510:4511:45 Blue: Jack Berch. Songs 12:00 Blue: Glamour Manor 8:4510:4511:45 N BC: David Harum 9:0011:0012:00 CBS: Kate Smith Speaks sional singer whose voice was familiar to 12:00 Blue: Glamour Manor 11:0012:00 NBC: Words and Music most radio listeners throughout the coun­ 9:00 11:00 12:00 CBS: Kate Smith Speaks 9:1511:1512:15 CBS: Big Sister try. It sounds very much like a fairy tale 11:0012:00 N BC: Words and Music 9:3011:3012:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent and to Kay it almost seemed like one. 9:15 11:15 12:15 CBS: Big Sister 9:30 ~Ug ~Ug ~l~t: ~=~"H~gnhd Home Makers 12:30 NBC: U. S. Marine Band You know her now as Kay Lorraine and 9:30 11:30 12:30 CBS: Roma nce of Hp.len Trent 9:4511:4512:45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday you've heard her on many shows from coast 9:3011:3012:30 Blue: Farm and Home Makers 10:0012:00 1:00 CBS: Life Can Be Beautiful 9:4511:4512:45 CBS: Our Gal Su nday 10:0012:00 1:00 Blue: Baukhage Talking to coast. She was born in St. Louis, Mis­ 10:0012:00 1:00 CBS: Life Can Be Beauti'ul 10:0012:00 1:00 Blue: Baukhage Talking ~g;~~ g;~g ~;~g ~:~: ~:t;~ki~~ Melody souri, just twenty-five years ago. She wasn't 10:1512:15 1:15 Blue: Blue Correspondents Abroad 10:1512:15 1:15 Blue: Blue Correspondents Abroad exactly a Shirley Temple, but she did begin 10:1512:15 1:15 CBS: Ma Perkins 10:3012:30 1:30 CBS- Bernardine Flynn, News 10:3012:30 1:30 CBS: Bernardine Flynn. News 10:4012:45 1:45 Blue: Little Jack Little to sing at a very early age and when she 10:4512:45 1:45 CBS: The Coldbergs was ten made her first public appearance 12:45 1:45 NBC: Morgan Beatty, News 10:451~~:~ ~;:~ ~t~ : ~~~g'!~,.~-:e:t'~, News 11:00 1:00 2:00 CBS: Joyce Jordan 11:00 1:00 2:00 CBS: Joyce Jordan singing in the chorus of the St. Louis Mu­ 11:00 1:00 2:00 NBC: The Guiding Light 11:00 1:00 2:00 NBC : The Guiding Light 11:00 1:00 2:00 Blue: Walter Kernran. News 11:00 1:00 2:00 Blue: Walter Kiernan, News nicipal Opera. Just about then, too, she 11:15 1:15 2:15 CBS: Two on a Clue 11:15 1:15 2:15 CBS: Two on a Clue began to study the piano with vague no­ 1:15 1:15 ' 2:15 NBC: Today's Children 11=15 1:15 2:15 NBC: Today's Children 11:30 1:00 2:30 CBS: Young Or. Malone 11:30 1:30 2:30 CBS: Young Dr. Malone tions of becoming a concert pianist. How­ 11:30 1:30 2:30 Blue: Ladies Be Seated ever, there was school to go to and some 11:30 1:30 2:30 NBC: Woman in White n;~g Ug ~;lg ~lll~: ~:'::!nBrnS::~r:e 11:45 1:45 2:45 CBS: Perry Mason Stories 11:45 1:45 2:45 CBS: Perry Mason Stories growing up to do before careers could even 11:45 1:45 2:45 NBC: Betty Crocker 11:45 1:45 2:45 NBC : Hymns of All Churches 12:00 2:00 3:00 CBS: Mary Marlin 12:00 2:00 3 :00 CBS: Mary Marlin be thought of seriously. 12:00 2:00 3:00 Blue: Morton Downey 12:00 2:00 3:00 Blue: Morton Downey It wasn't until Kay was seventeen that 12:00 2:00 3:00 NBC: A Woman of America 12:00 2:00 3:00 NBC: A Woman of America 3:15 Blue: HOllywood Star Ti me 3:15 Blue: Hollywood Star Time she really made her professional debut­ 12.15 2:15 3:15 NBC: Ma Perkins 12:15 2:15 3:15 NBC: Ma Perkins which means sang for money. That was 3:15 CBS: Tena and Tim 3:15 CBS: Irene Beasley 3:30 Blue: A ppointment with Life 3:30 CBS: High Places when she began to sing with campus bands 2:30 3:30 CBS: High Places 12:30 2:30 3:30 Blue: Appointment with Life 12:30 2:30 3:30 NBC: Pepper Young's Family 12:30 2:30 3:30 NBC: Pepper Young's Family for dances in and round St. Louis. 3:45 CBS: Bob Trout 12:45 2:45 3:45 NBC: Right to Happiness These engagements led to a sustaining 12:45 2:45 3:45 NBC: Right to Happiness 3:45 CBS: Bob Trout 12:45 2:45 4:00 Blue: Ethel and Albert 12:45 2:45 4:00 Blue: Ethel and Albert spot on station KMOX in St. Louis. They 3:00 4:00 CBS: Service Ti me 1:00 3:00 4:00 CBS: Service Time also drove all ideas about becoming a con­ 1:00 3:00 4:00 NBC: Backstage Wife 1:00 3:00 4:00 NBC: Backstage Wife 1:15 3:15 4:15 NBC: Stella Dallas 1:15 3:15 4:15 NBC: Stella Dallas cert pianist from her mind. She still plays 4:15 Blue: Don Norman Show 4:15 Blue: Don Norman Show 1:25 4:25 CBS: News 1:25 4:25 CBS: News a little but, as she tells it, "it's strictly off 3:00 4:30 NBC: Lorenzo Jones 1:30 3 :30 4:30 Blue: Westbrook Van Voorhis the elbow and for my own chagrin." Then, 1:30 2:30 4:30 Blue: Westbrook Van Voorhis 1:30 3 :30 4:30 NBC: Lorenzo Jones 1:30 3~45 4:45 CBS: Raymond Scott Show 1:30 3:45 4:45 CBS: Raymond Scott Show Kay landed a job singing with Al Roth's 4:45 Blue: Hop Harrigan 4:45 Blue: Hop Harrigan band and made a series of appearances on a 1:45 3:45 4:45 NBC: 1:45 3:45 4:45 NBC: Young Widder Brown 4:00 5:00 CBS: ~':,~nll~I":der 'Brown 4:00 5:00 CBS: Sing Along program called St. Louis Blues, which won 2:00 4:00 5:00 Blue: Terry and the Pirates 2:00 4:00 5:00 Blue: Terry and the Pirates 2:00 4:00 5:00 NBC: When a Girl Marries 2:00 4:00 5:00 NBC: When a Girl Marries her an invitation to come to New York and 2:15 4:15 5:15 NBC: Portia Faces Life 2:15 4:15 5:15 NBC: Portia Faces Life sing as a guest artist on the Hit Parade. 2:15 4:15 5:15 Blue: Dick Tracy 2:15 4:15 5:15 Blue: Dick Tracy 4:30 5,30 CBS: Terry Allen and The T hre e 4:30 5:30 CBS: Terry Allen and the Three That was back in 1939. For forty weeks Shters Sisters, after that Kay was kept busy without a let 5:30 5:30 5:30 Blue: Jack Armstrong 5:30 5:30 5:30 Blue: Jack Armstrong 2:30 4:30 5:30 MBS: Superman 2:30 4:30 5:30 MBS: Superman up. She appeared on such major programs 2:30 4:30 5:30 NBC: Just Plain Bill 2:30 4:30 5:30 NBC: Just Plain Bill 2:45 4:45 5:15 NBC: Front Page Farrell 5:45 5:45 5:45 Blue: Captain Midnight as 99 Men and a Girl, the Ford Summer 5:45 5:45 5:15 Blue: Captain Midnight 2:45 4:45 5:45 NBC: Front Page Farrell Hour, Vaudeville Theater, Song of Your 2:45 5:15 CBS: Wildnerness Road 5:45 CBS: Wilderness Road 5:00 6:00 CBS: Quinc), Howe, News 5:00 6:00 CBS: World News Life and the Pursuit of Happiness. Nor did 3 :30 5:15 6:15 CBS: To Your Good Health 5:15 6:15 CBS: Call;ng Pan America she miss out on that all time favorite show 3 :15 5:15 6:15 NBC: Serenade to America 3:15 5:15 6:15 NBC: Serenade to America 5:30 6:30 CBS: Jeri Sullavan. Songs 5:30 6:30 CBS: ~~I ~~~:n Mark-Ted Husing The Chamber Music Society of Lower 6:40 NBC: Bill Stern 5:30 6:40 NBC: 6:45 NBC: Lowell Thomas 3:45 5:45 6:45 CBS: The World Today Basin Street. 3:45 5:45 6:45 CBS: The World Today 3:45 5:45 6:45 Blue: Henry J. Taylor, News This year, like so many other radio stars, 3:45 5:45 6:45 Blue : Henry J. Taylor, News 6:45 NBC: Lowell Thomas 3:55 5:55 6:55 CBS: Joseph C. Harsch. Wash •• D.C. 3:55 6:55 CBS: Meaning of the News Kay had her. chance in Metro-Goldwyn­ 7:00 Blue: Happy Island- Ed. Wynn 8:00 6:00 7:00 NBC: Chesterfield Music Shop Mayer's new radio feature show, Screen 8:00'10:00 7:00 CBS: I Love a Mystery 8:0010:00 7:00 CBS: I Love a Mystery 8:00 6:00 7:00 NBC: Chesterfield Music Shop 4:00 6:00 7:00 Blue: Fred Waring Show Test, and acquitted herself nobly. And why 6:15 7:15 CBS, Raymond Scott Show 8:15 6:15 7:15 CBS: Chesterfield Time, Ma;tin 4:15 6:15 7:15 NBC: News of the World Block shouldn't she? She's lovely, a tallish, slen­ 4:30 6:30 "7:30 CBS: Friday on Broadway 4:15 6:15 7:15 NBC: News of the World der, green-eyed blonde with a voice, talent 6:30 7:30 Blue: The Lone Ranger 7:45 Blue: Chester Bowles 4:45 6:45 7:45 N BC : H. V. Kaltenborn 4:30 6:30 7:30 CBS: Mr. Keen and experience. Now, she's heard regu­ 9:00 7:00 8:00 CBS: The Aldrich Family 6:30 6:30 7:30 NBC: Bob Burns larly on a transcribed series cailed Musi­ 8:00 7:00 8:00 Blue: News 8:00 7:00 8:00 Blue: News 9:15 7:00 8:00 ~IBS: Cal Tinney 9:00 7:00 8:00 CBS: Suspense cal Showcase, besides whiCh, under the 7 :00 8:00 NBC: Highways In Melody- Paul 8:30 7:00 8:00 NBC: Frank Morgan Lavalle 8:15 7:15 8:15 Blue: Lum 'n' Abner name of Kay Stevens, she sings on the 8:30 7:30 8:30 NBC: DuHy's Tavern 8:30 7:30 8:30 CBS: Death Valley SheriH Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer program Gloom 8:30 Blue: Famous Jury Trials 5:30 7:30 8:30 Blue: A merica's Town Meeti ng 8:30 CBS: Service to the Front 9:00 8:30 NBC: Dinah Shore Dodgers, no mean assignment, since it goes 5:55 7:55 8:55 CBS: Bill Henry 5:55 7:55 8:55 CBS: Bill Henry 8:30 . 8:00 9:00 CBS: It Pays To Be Ignorant 6:00 8:00 9:00 CBS: on the air every day, Monday through Fri­ 8:30 8:00 9:00 Blue : Gang Busters 6:00 8:00 9:00 M BS: ~:~~re~H':::ter day, from 9 A.M. to 1 P.M. over the New 6:00 8:00 9:00 MBS: Gabriel Heatter 6:00 .8:00 9:00 NBC: Kraft Music Hall 6:00 8:00 9:00 NBC: Waltz T ime 6:30 8:30 9:30 Blue: Spotlight Bands York station WHN. She's also served her 6:30 8:30 9:30 C BS: That Brewster Boy 6:30 8:30 9:30 CBS: Corlin Archer apprenticeship in night clubs, appearing in 6:30 8:30 9:30 Blue: Spotlight Bands 6:30 8:30 9:30 NBC: Joan Dav.s. Jack Haley 6:30 8:30 9:30 MBS: Double or Nothing 6:55 8:55 9:55 Blue: Coronet Story Teller the swanky Stork Club. Naturally and 6:30 8:30 9:30 NBC: People Are Funny 7 :00 9:00 10:00 CBS: The First Line 6:55 8:55 9:55 Biue: Coronet Story Hour 7:00 9:0010:00 Blue: Raymond Gram Swing inevitably, because she's a nice gal,. she's 10:00 Blue: Earl Godwin, News 7:00 10:00 NBC: Abbott and Costello also doing her bit for the boys, sandwich­ 7:00 9:0010:00 NBC: Amos and Andy 7:15 9:15 0:15 Blue: From London-George Hicks 7:00 9:0010:00 CBS: Durante and Moore 7:30 9:4510:30 CBS: Ray Block's Orchestra ing many benefit performances at hospitals 7:15 9:15110:15 Blue: Ted Malone--From England 7:30 9:30 0:30 Blue: March of Ti me and the Stage Door Canteen between her 7:30 10:30 CBS: Stage Door Canteen 7:30 10:30 NBC: Rudy Vallee 7:30 10:30 NBC: Bill Stern heavy broadcast duties. 10:30 Blue: The Doctor Talks 'It Ow~r 10:00 1:00 CBS: Ned Calmer, News 47 SATURDAY Eas tern War TI me

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8:30 CBS~ Missus Coel A-Shopping 8~30 Blue; United Nations News, Review 8:45 CBS: Margaret Brien ,:45 NBC: New, 8:00 9:00 CBS: Pre .. New5 8:00 9:00 Blue: Breakfast Club 6:00 8:00 9:00 NBC: Rhythm5 for Saturday 8:15 9:15 CBS: The Garden Gate 9:30 CBS; Country Journal, Burl hel 8145 9:45 CBS: David Shoop Orchestra 9:0010 :00 CBS: Youth on Parade 9:0010:00 Blue: Fanny Hurst Presents 7:00 9:00 10:00 N B C~ Smilin' Ed McConnell 11:00 9:3010:30 CBS: Mary lee Taylor 9:]010:30 Blue: What's Cookin~-Varlety 9:00 9: 4010: 45 N BC: Alex Dreier 8:0010:0011:00 Blue: Chatham Shopper ':05 11:05 C BS , Let'5 Pretend 11:1 5 Blue: Transatlantic Qulz-l.ondon- New York 8 : 3010:3011: 30 CBS, Fa5hl ..... 5 In Rations 8:3010:3011:30 Blue: The Land of the Lost 9:0011:0012:00 C BS: Theater of Today 9:00 n~gg g~gg W~~ , ~~~~g Shllt Frolics HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN 9:1511:1512:15 NBC: Consumer Tim. 9 : 3011:3012:30 CBS, Stars O.or Hollywood 9: 3011:3012:30 Blue: Farm Bureau • 9:30 11:30 12:30 NBC: Atlantic Spotlight According to Canteen President Bette Davis, Maybelle 10: 0012:ob 1 :00 CBS: Grand Contral Station 10:0012:00 1:00 Blue: Se. You· Marr brings a world of pleasure to sevice men 10:0012:00 1:00 NBC: Ad.enturo Ahead ! 1 : 30 Blu", Eddie Condon's JaI:l: Concert 10:3012:30 1:30 NBC: The Baiters - 12:30 1:30 CBS: Country Journal 12:45 1:45 CBS: Report 'rem Washi ngton OMETHING new has been added ley Mitchell, Dale Evans from the Jack 1 0 : 4512:45 1:45 NBC: War Telescope to the world-famous Hollywood Carson show, Ransom Sherman, The 2:00 Blue: Metropolitan Opera S Canteen. Smart Set, Paul Weston, John Scott 1:00 2:00 CBS: Victory F.O.B. 11100 1:00 2:00 NBC : Air Forces Band 'l'he new ingredient arrived in the Trotter, Cooky Fairchild, Arthur very ample person of Maybelle Marr, Treacher, the Camp Song Charioteers, 11:00 NBC ~ Opportunit)' Theater the Town Cryers, Hoagy Carmichael, Jo 11:30 1:30 2:30 N BC , MU51cana wife of Eddy (I'll Tell You What I'm 11:30 1:30 2:30 CBS: Football Gonna Do) Marr, radio and film comic. Stafford from Johnny Mercer's Music 3:00 NBC: Kansas Clt~ Philharmonic Mrs. Marr arrived in Hollywood with Shop, Bobby Armbruster, Blondie and 4 :00 2:00 3 :00 CBS: Football . her husband in 1937, ostensibly to rest. Dagwood, Chef Milani, Faye McKenzie, 1 2:00 3:0011:30 NBC : Minstre. Melodl.s With ten or more years of radio ex­ Sara Berner, who is Ruby Johnson on 1 2:00 2:30 3:30 CBS: Football the Jack .Benny show and-well, that 12130 3:30 NBC: Music on Display perience behind her, Maybelle thought that, except for writing gags for her gives you a rough idea. 1:00 3:00 5:30 NBC, Rupert Hughe5 Ai::cording to her friend Bette Davis, 1 :00 4:00 CBS: Football husband's guest appearances, she really had a rest coming. President of the Hollywood Canteen, 1 :15 4 :15 CBS: Football Maybelle Marr is the unsung hero of 1:35 3:35 4: 30 CBS, Football But people like Maybelle Marr can't relax for long. Like other dynamic that worthy institution. 4:45 C BS: Report from London "Maybelle is doing a whale of a job 2 :00 4:00 5:00 N BC, Grand Hotel radio figures, Maybelle had to do some­ 2 :00 4:00 5:00 Blue: Concert Orchestra thing more. That's why she volun­ at the Canteen," Miss Davis says, "and 5:00 CBS; Philadelphia Orches tra teered to do what she could to help out is gettin~ precious little credit for it. 2:30 4:30 5:30 N BC : John W. Vandercook 2: 30 4 :30 5 :30 CBS: Mother and Dad at the Canteen. She's a tIreless worker for the boys in 3 :30 4:45 Maybelle started as a Senior Hostess, the service and, single-handedly has 2 : 45 4:45 Ug lil~;: ~~r.~,Msa'!::~h~:r~ab.nd5 and as such was able to do a lot for brought a world of joy to the lads who 3:00 5:00 6:00 Blue: Edward T.mlinson throng the Canteen each week. She's 3:15 6:00 N BC: I Sustain the Wings the boys. But as her work stretched 5:00 6:00 C BS: Quincy H.we into the months she became aware that a wonder, that girl." 3:15 5:15 6:15 CBS: People's Platform . the boys weren't able to get into enough Maybelle started in radio in her home 3:15 5:15 6:15 Blue: Storyland Theater " radio shows to cheer their favorites. town of Cleveland by helping to set up 3 : 30 5:30 6:30 Blue: Harry Wismer, Sports, Maybelle saw her friends in the vari­ the very early NBC station of WTAM, 3 :45 5:45 6:45 CBS: The World Today 3 : 45 5: 45 6:45 NBC : Religion In the News ous stations and soon she was slipping when mikes were simply old-fashioned 3:55 5:55 6 :55 CBS: Bob Trout the lads blocks of tickets to the Jack stand-up telephones with the mouth­ 4:00 6:00 7:00 NBC: World's Great No .. el5 Benny, Bob Hope and other programs. piece removed. She then spent three 7:15 Blue: Leland Stowe She spread the word among the net­ years as assistant to the president of 1 : 00 7 :30 CBS; Mrs. Mtni .. er work shows and personalities that from WJAY, then joined WLWL, New York, 4 :30 6:30 7 :30 Blue : Meet Your Na .. y then on, Thursday nights at the Canteen as publicity and promotion aide. 4:30 6:30 8:00 Blue; Early American Dance Music were to be Radio Nights, and to rally Next stop for Maybelle was in Phila­ 5:00 1:00 8:00 CBS: Danny Kaye delphia on WPEN of the Atlantic Sea­ 5 :30 1:30 8:30 Blue: Boston Symphon~ Orchestra to her call. 8:30 1 :30 8:30 CBS: Inner Sanctum Mystery Well, they rallied all right. From that board network, then back to New York where she helped set 'up the first 8 :00 Ug r:J:~ ; ~~~:h ~rd Consequence date until now Maybelle has been di­ rectly responsible for the greatest foreign language station in the country, 5, 55 1:55 8 ~ 55 CBS: Bob Trout WFAB. 9 :00 8:00 9 :00 C BS: Your Hit Parade parade of talent ever assembled before 6:00 8:00 9:00 N~C : National Barn Dance mikes. For five years Mrs. Marr edited New 6:30 8:30 9:30 N BC: Can You Top This Here's a partial list of the shows and York Amusements, besides doing a 6 : 30 8:30 9:30 Blue: Spotlight Band~ people who responded to Maybelle's column for Cue under the name of 6 : 45 8:45 9:45 CBS: Saturday Night Se renade appeal: Maybelle Austin. That was about the t 9: 55 Blue: Coronet Quiz time she decided to rest awhile, so she 10:00 Blue: Guy Lombardo Take It or ·Leave It, Judy Canova, 1:00 9:0010: 00 NBC: Palmoli .. Party What's My Name?, Ed Gardner and and her husband went to Hollywood. I 10:15 CBS: Correction Please Dennis Morgan, the Al Pearce show, But the real joy of Maybelle's life, 10:30 Blue: The Man Called X­ Arlene Harris, Martha Mears, Cliff outside of Eddy, to whom she's been Herbert Marshall married thirteen years, is the Holly- I 1:30 9:3010:30 NBC: Gra"d 01. Opry Arquette, Martha Tilton, Maybelle's M husband Eddy Marr who brought in wood Canteen and her Thursday Radio 11:05 9:4510: 45 CBS, Talks Nights. We sort of agree with Bette 10:0011:00 CBS: Ned Calm.r, News his whole Pitchman's act with people 11:1511: 30 Blue: Hoosie r Hop like Mel Blanc, Arthur Q . Bryan Shir- Davis. "She's a wonder, that girl." 48 l Lost Christmas Continued from page 15 SAN FRANCISCO ... , defense against the world. " And because I could not stand any'" one's sympathy, I said sharply, "All I the day your ship came in want is fun. And I'm getting it. " .." At noon 1 met Tom for lunch. That was the first date on our holiday pro­ gram. We had to duck our heads against the icy wind-but it might have been a soft April breeze the way I felt! It was an hour touched with moon-madness right in the middle of the day. Unbelievably lovely. "We can't know each other so well in so short a time!" I said once. "But we do. Didn't you know? We've known each other forever." Tom's voice held a deep assurance. As 1 went back to work I tried to caution myself: 1 was doing exactly what I'd always said 1 never would do -caring too much for one person. It didn't pay. A girl had to be smart and keep her heart free. Just the same there was a singing inside me when 1 thought of Tom. The afternoon was a bedlam with customers demanding to know if "Al­ lure" was all right for a high school girl, and if somebody's grandmother might like "Black Magic." 1 answered thousands of questions like a good little robot, my mind entirely else­ where. Regina stopped long enough once to smile and whisper, "Who lit the candles in your eyes?" URING my fifteen-minute restpe­ D riod, I hurried to another counter at the farther end of the store. 1 knew exactly what 1 wanted to get Tom. A beautiful outfitted kit. Much more expensive than I could afford! . The day came to an end at last. Six o'clock-and the doors closed. Time for the store's Christmas Eve party' to begin. Time for my second date with We shopped in Chinatown. Such gorgeous embroideries! "Not half so exciting Tom! I put a bright clip on my black as your hands," you ~aid. (And me with a war job that takes the natural work dress and pinned a glowing red softeners from my skin! But-then-I use Jergens Lotion.) Poinsettia in my hair. Soldiers wanted gir Is . to be gay and fun-nothing serious. I knew that. I'd been out with * dozens of them from the Camp, danced We tea'd on "Top of the Mark". "Your hands are so sweet," you said. Girls with hundreds more at the U.S.O. They wanted a good time after all that who use Jergens Lotion do have sweet-to-touch hands! rugged training and grind. Well, I was going to try to make this the gay­ est holiday Tom Driscoll ever had! He was waiting for me at the em - ployees' entrance. Very tall, with that powerful panther-smooth look to him, and his face ruddy with cold. "Hello," he said. "Hello, little Christmas star!" My heart gave a silly lurch and for a moment I couldn't seem to speak. Then we were going up to the auditorium where the party was to be held. It was a gay party. Mr. Bristol was an exceptional boss and he did himself proud on such occasions. There was talk of his retiring soon, and of Jake succeeding him. 1 wondered if Jake would carry out this store tradition. Somehow I didn't think so. He was a smart business man with no nonsense about him. Some day-perhaps - 1 Exciting Hollywood Stars use ness with 2 ingredients in Jergens would marry Jake. But 1 didn't want Jergens Lotion, 7 to 1 Lotion, so "special" that many doctors to think about that tonight. Help protect hands against rough­ use them. Lovely! Easy! No The other girls were looking at Tom IJ w ith open admiration. Regina came up ness so surely with Jergens. Encourage stickiness! Just be sure and ~ and 1 introduced them. "I see what even neglected hands to soft smooth- always use Jergens Lotion. / . you mean!" she whispered. "He is I . wonderful." Pride in him swept over me. Pride, and that new feeling that For the softest~ adorable Hands, USE made me all hollow inside, and yet was like heaven too. Thrillingly sweet. We danced the old-fashioned square JERGENS LOTION 49 , II dances that Mr. Bristol liked, and I saw faces. There was that wall between like this. My little flirtations seemed Tom was enjoying it as he swung us which I could not break through. silly and cheap beside what was hap­ Regina in the center of the floor. Jake If only I had a real home to take pening to me now. But even so, some was my partner for the moment. He him to, I thought desperately. The perverse quality made me fight against was scowling darkly. "I suppose I boardinghouse was more dismal than it. Made me hold myself back from should thank the sergeant for what he the street. . . . We were crossing an responding to Tom's kisses the way I did last night-but it would not have icy intersection when the bells began wanted to. Some small voice kept been necessary if I hadn't lost you . ... pealing out. Christmas chimes from whispering; Don't be a fool. The smart Don't carry this gratitude thing too far, the church ahead. I looked up. "Have women are not the women who give. Doris. Remember, you're my girl!" you ever been to a midnight service?" Your mother gave-and she knew "Am I?" My teasing look seemed to Tom asked. I shook my head. He nothing but heartbreak. irritate him more. He caught me to turned and automatically I followed But I was greedy for the thrill Tom's him roughly. "Stop playing fast and him up the steps and into the church. love gave me. The holiday would be loose, Doris. I wish .. ." I never knew It was dark except for the candles lit ours. After that . . . what he wished because I was carried around the Manger. _ There was the away in the dance just then. A few pungent smell of spruce and pine from HRISTMAS morning. White, with minutes later Tom and Regina and the decorations, mingled with incense. C pale sunshine glistening on the I were sitting at a small table, br~ath­ People were filing in silently, filling the snow! Glorious! I woke up . . . and less, laughing. "I've been thinking pews. Tom and I sat on a side aisle, stared ... and rubbed my eyes twice about you two kids," Regina said. quietly and not saying anything. And before I could believe it. A small "Why don't you come out to the house gradually the place took hold of me. Christmas tree stood on my bureau. A tomorrow? We're going to have a typi­ The choir began singing the age-old real one with fancy decorations. And c .. l family Christmas with all the trim- Christmas hymns. Softly at first, then there was a Christmas stocking, the mings . .. ." - swelling to a great, triumphal paean. kind you buy for kids. And a big A family Christmas. I couldn't help Peace on earth to men of good will, package done up with silver stars and it but I froze at the word. "Oh no," the choir chanted. Something hot stung red ribbon. I scarcely' breathed. ! I said quickly. "Thanks a lot, Regina, my eyelids. I slipped to my knees used to dream of something like this but we're going out to Crystal Lake beside Tom. There was peace to be happening to me! for the day where some friends of mine had-but each individual had to find There was a note-from Tom. "To have rented a cabin. There's toboggan­ it for himself. And I didn't know my Christmas star, with my love." He ing and ice-skating. . . . It ought to be where to begin searching. . . . Tom had gotten the landlady to bring ev~ry­ fun," I added 'a little weakly as. I saw turned and studied me for a moment. thing into my room before I woke up. Tom's face. It was set with disappoint­ Then he slipped his hand over mine. With trembling fingers I opened the ment. He wanted to go to Regina's for The wall between us disappeared as if package. It was a musical powder-box, the kind of Christmas she planned. it had never been. with a little doll on top, a ballerina But I'd make him forget all about that. After the service, Tom took me home who danced to the mUSIC. It was the I was prepared to make it a day for his in a taxi. It seemed the most natural, loveliest thing I had ever owned. memory-book, bright as holly. the most wonderful thing in the world In the stocking w ere candy, nuts, a to be sittil)g there with his arm around miniature family of penguins-so cute D ·ANCING with Tom a little later, I me. Talk flowed freely between us in their waddly attitudes-and a bright pressed against him and looked up now. Eager, excited talk. "Sometimes red scarf. I wore the scarf with my smiling. "That was nice of Regina. But I don't quite understand you, Doris," gray tuxedo coat and hat when I went Tom, it would be awfully dull. They'll he said after a while. "But I know to meet Tom. It lay soft against my probably sing carols off-key and do this-you do things to my breathing throat, hiding the pulse that beat there ' all kinds of old-fashioned stuffy apparatus that no girl has ever done so hard and fast. A smile lit up his thingst I saw him draw away as if he before!" He lifted my face and kissed whole face when he saw it. Then he had closed a door in my facc. me ever so gently. Then his lips came stooped to kiss me. Swift panic rose in me. I couldn't let down on mine hard, and the world "Oh Tom, darling, how did you our plans be spoiled. Not now. Not went into a glorious spin. Time hung know?" I whispered against his cheek. when his touch; his nearness, had come • suspended and I wasn't Doris Reynolds, "Know what?" to mean so much to me. "Please," I Or that frightened girl of long ago. "Know how much all this would said, "let's go somewhere else. . . . " I was part of Tom. I belonged to him. mean to me?" For answer/ he kissed We walked for what seemed a long And the knowledge was sweet, heady me again. For a long, ecstatic moment. time, the fine snow driving against our wine. No man had ever stirred me Oh, there never. was such a morn­ jng! After breakfast at a little Italian restaurant where they thought we were newlyweds and kept beaming at ~g.!EJ}E~JNg~EI~tF°1'&t~~Hlr.·I~It.N1.'1GJ~1~~h1~~~B~~rkolDl

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IF YOU CAN'T GET PHILIP MORRIS, REMEMBER, OUR FIGHTING FORCES COME FIRST 57 You think that love is moonlight and for her when you should have been I had been a disobedient child, alone roses, and whispers in the dark, and it making it easier. You have to know in the big, old house, alone with isn't that at all. It's the very fibre of about generosity before you can know thoughts that refused to come clear. I which human beings are made-all the about love. And you don't know about was seething too much with anger and pain and fear as well as all the joy and. either. I guess there're lots like you, humiliation to think. First at Emily, happiness. But you wouldn't under­ Laurie, who don't know what it's all then at Paul. Most at Paul. How stand-you, haven't grown up yet, and about. Heaven help the men who fall could he have stood there and said I maybe you never will. A man is 'a fool in love with them!" was blind and selfish and not grown-up ever to fall in love with a girl like you." "If you loved me, you couldn't talk -I who had suffered silently all this like this!" time with aching love, who had never I STEPPED back as if he had slapped He gave a wry grin. "That's what you made the slightest gesture to reach out me across the face. "How dare you think. .. . Oh, Laurie-Laurie! Look and claim the man I adored? How say I don't know anything about my dear-will you go upstairs to your could he have left me here and gone love-all the pain and the fear of it. sister and behave like a grown-up?" with Emily, when he said he loved me? I've been in love-wretchedly, miser­ "No! I can't. I can't-" I shrank Paul loved me. That was the thing ably for so long!" back from his urging. that kept coining back, stronger than "Yes, with Carter. I didn't need to "I was afraid you'd say that. Well-'" all the rest, finally shearing away all h ear what Emily said tonight to know he stopped, and his face was taut with the rest, until it alone remained and that. I've seen the way you look every pain. "I hoped, but-I guess that's brought the past-my whole past-into time his name is mentioned-as if no­ that." He turned and started upstairs. focus. It was like seeing my life un­ body had the right to mention it or "Paul-where are you going?" reel before me, beginning with yester­ think about him or mourn him but "To take Emily to the dance," he said day and going back. you." The words were a cruel echo of over his shoulder. those Emily had used and I winced I sank down on the couch. He loved REMEMBERED how much I'd been under them. "Understand this, Laurie, me and yet he could talk to me as he I drawn to him at first. And then how Carter Mayfield was an ideal of mine. did. And he could expect now to go off I'd resented him because his presence I loo'ked up to him and wanted to be to the dance as if nothing had happened. made the memory of Carter unclear. I like him. I wanted a marriage like How could he love me? thought how my liking for him had he and Emily had, with everything. In a little while they came down­ grown and the way I wouldn't let my­ But you wouldn't know about that. stairs. Emily had her coat on and she self admit it when he'd seemed to want You're too selfish to know what that looked pale but composed. She stopped to be with Emily as much as me-how kind of love is. You're so wrapped up in the doorway. "Laurie," she said, I'd let that jealousy turn me back more in your own emotions, you can't see "what was said here tonight had to be and more to Carter. And then, clear what anybody else is feeling." . said, sometime. It had to come out. as a flash of summer lightning, came "That's not true!" We couldn't have gone on living to­ the truth: I was in love with Paul. I "It is true. Look at what you've gether if it hadn't. Now that it has, had been all along. That was why I'd done to your sister. She did the br avest now that we've cleared the air between felt as I had, and had only persuaded thing a woman could do, the way she us-will you come to the dance with myself that I was Jealous of Emily be­ went out and got a job and kept from Paul and me? Will you, dear?" cause she had had Carter and could inflicting her sorrow on anybody. She "How can you even think of going?" forget him with another man. loved him more than life itself; she I cried. "Of course I won't go. I can't!" I got up and walked through the loved him enough to be what he'd want They looked at me for a long moment. house-that big, shuttered house that her to be and do what he'd want her Then Paul took Emily's arm. "Lets had figured so largely in my dreams to do. But you-you couldn't see that. go," he said. as a child. I forced myself to see You made it a thousand times harder They walked out and left me as if' Carter in that house, see him as the person he was, not as a romantic figure that moved through it larger than life. And there, with all the echoes of all the past around me, with my inner self illumined by that flash of truth, Carter, too, came clear. WORTH FIGHTING FOR - WORTH SAVING FORI I'd never been' really in love with him. Emily was right. Ever' since I'd been a child, I'd fed myself on romantic It's the money you don't spend that counts these days. Every -dollar nonsense as an escape from Aunt Agnes' strictness, and through it all the idea that you save means a dollar you don't spend, and it's, spending that of Carter Mayfield had moved as an causes inflation, our greatest enemy at home. unreal and shadowy hero. Then when he had come into my life, it was still as the unreal and shadowy hero. I'd Inflation is simply a general rise in prices-when we have too much ignored all the qualities that would money and not enough things to spend it on, the things that are have made me love him as a brother left to buy go up in price. It isn't selfish to keep your money right and had seen only the picture, never now-it's selfish fo spend, generous to save. the real man. And when he had died- Shame flooded through me, leaving no place for the anger of the humilia­ What will you save for? It costs money to have a ~hild, and to raise tion. Only deep and searing shame as one-save for a baby. It costs money to send that child, when older, I remembered Emily when the news came-how brave she'd been and how, to college-save for schooling for your children. You'll want ,and need sitting here in this very room, she had a trip when the rush of these trying days is done-save for a vacation. reached out to share her pain with When the war is ove.r, you'll be able to build that dream-house you've me and I-I had let her down. I'd planned, if you have the money-save for a home. Social security will been so full of self-pity I had been blinded to my real loss-and to hers, take care of bare necessities in your older years, but savings will bring so much greater than mine-in mourn­ little luxuries-save for the advancing years. Times are gooq~ now, but ing for the false one. they haven't always been, and unless we control inflation, they can be Heaven help the men who love girls like you! bad again-save for security. When our boys com'e home, they'll want I'd clung to a memory of a man who the kind of world they've fought for-save for a safe America. never was a man, who existed only as the figment of my imagination. And I'd hurt both Paul and Emily-the How can we save for a safe America-keep America safe from the two people dearest in all the world to insecurity that comes with inflation? By buying only what we really me. Paul had given me the chance to need; by paying no more than ceiling prices, and buying rationed goods atone for it when h~'d asked me to go only in exchange for ration points; by not taking advantage of war upstairs and make up the quarrel with Emily. And I'd refused. She had conditions by asking for higher wages or selling goods at higher given me another chance when she'd prices; by saving-buying and keeping all the war bonds we can aHord! begged me to come with them. And, again, I'd refused. You have to know about generosity , 58 before you can know about love. How could Paul love me now? And suddenly I saw the future bleak and stark before me. For he had to love me. I knew with awful certainty, that I loved him. I think there il). those Its never a wife timeless hours I spent alone m that too late for house, and searched my heart, that I grew up. I became a woman who knows that love is giving more than taking and that the moonlit r?mance is tawdry when. compared wIth the to learn honest, shining lIght of what is real. If I could somehow make hIm know it. If I could make up to Emily for these intimate physical facts! my selfishness. If it weren't too late .. . I threw on my wrap. Heedless of my tear-stained face, my rumpled dress, I ran down the dark street to the bus stop. It was an eternity before the bus that went to the war plant came. I didn't care that everybody on it stared at me as if I'd lost my mind I only sat there feverishly urging it on as it crawled on its way. It stopped, and I got off, stumbling as I ran up to the big gates. The guard stopped me. "But I've got to get in!." I cried. "I've got to see Mrs. Mayfield and Mr. Matthews. They work here-­ they're at the dance." Reluctantly, he sent someone to call them. It was years before I saw them hurrying to the gate. "Laurie!" Emily cried. "What's wrong?" "I've come to the dance!" Hysteria made the words completely senseless. "Don't you see--I've come to the dance. I-oh, Emily, darling-" And I threw myself on her, sobbing out my shame at what I'd done to her. She understood. Her loving, welcom­ ing arms held me close. Then she. turned and looked at Paul. She didn't need to say anything. He came and stood close beside us. "Laurie, look at me," he said softly. I raised my head. Our eyes met in the semi-darkness, and what he saw in mme seemed to fill him with an in­ Is something "lacking" in your mar­ germicide for the douche of all those tense and wordless happiness. We just riage? Is your husband growing "in­ tested is so POWERFUL yet so SAF E to stood there, staring at each other, and different" lately? 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Remove from heat and FREE Booklet edited by several stir in popcorn. When cool enough to FOR NEWER eminent Gynecologists. handle, rub hands with margarine and make little men, using small ball for /eJlUJllJte ~ame ______head, larger one for body, nuts or rai­ itY.1'ieJle Add1ess ______sins for eyes and nose and toothpicks (ifY ______Stat.' ______for legs and arms. 59 GUARD YOUR NAILS There Is No Yesterday WITH SEAL-COlE Continued from page 43 going to see him, I would resolve, "To­ I won't be a very good husband." night he mustn't. . Tonight I won't let "Oh, yes you will!" I cried. "We'll him." And then, on the dark porch as be happy-you'll see!" he brought me home or in the car with Fool that I was, I really believed him on a lonely road, I would find my that. I thought I could change Chuck will was powerless and the resolve and that marriage would make every­ crumbled away into nothing. I found thing right between us and I would lose that I responded wildly and needfully that strange sense of compulsion toward -and then felt ashamed afterwards. something wrong, once we were truly There was something wrong about it­ man and wife. his very physical presence impelled me We were married three days later in into something I didn't really want and the office of a justice of the peace. yet could not resist.. .. Chuck wanted it that way. "Why have a lot of fuss?" he said. And I gave in, .LL this I was pouring out to Howard as always, relinquishing my dreams of A and to Uncle Edwin. But mostly to a real wedding dress and being married Howard. He had to know me as I really by a minister. And it wasn't long was, everything about me. Everything. afterwards that the slow, painful real­ Busy bands deserve pro· It teetmn for beauty's sake. was difficult to tell parts of my story, ization began-the knowledge that it More a nd more smart but I forced it out. "And then," I said, was only the physical me that Chuck '\Vomen are finding SEAL· to my two intent listeners, "then wanted, not the real, inner me at all. COTE an amazing beauty At first I rebelled against that knowl­ aid. SEAL·COTE pro· Mother died." tects the nails and the "And you were left completely edge. I tried to fool myself into believ­ polish - adds lustre! alone," Howard said grimly, "with no ing it was in all ways we loved each Make your manicures last longer-··SEAL·COTE one to turn to but Chuck Abbot." other. But deep down inside myself, your nails today and "But I wanted you to come to me," I knew that was a lie. For Chuck treat­ every day.'" Uncle Edwin protested. "Don't you ed me like something he owned, some­ remember, when I came for the funeral thing bought and paid for. Never like -.SEAL-C OTE how I tried to persuade you-" another human being. Oh, he wasn't 25catCosmeticCounters "I know," I said in a low, shamed cruel in any obvious sense. He gave * voice. "I wanted to come-oh, so me plenty of money-after all, he made much-with part of me. But Chuck plenty and he liked to see me well­ wouldn't let me . . .." dressed and owning nice things. He "Wouldn't let yoq!" Uncle Edwin said never actually mistreated me. But he incredulously. was well aware of the power of his "I mean-he talked me out of it. He own aggressive vitality, and he used said rd nearly finished my business it. Whatever he wanted, he got-re­ course, and I could get a job and sup­ gardless of what I wanted. And when­ A .. #.al Oar&'alnl Latest rage of Hollywood. port myself and be independent of ever I protested he had only to look at Graceful charms on golden everybody. He said it was time I me in a certain way, half-mockingly, ·co 101' cham-B tiny images of de­ hftht-Iove he-Brtt horseshoe, 4- stopped being a child and grew up. I and take me in his arms-and my will­ :,rat~;>Vi~ve~ar~{ e~a's ~rp) ~e~~~TI felt he was right, in a way. But the power dissolved. HOll~:~ ~~ray Pm adds dash and thing that really kept me there in There was no one I could tell about sparkle to every costume. You'll tingle with pnde when yOU wear It. Artistically set vnth Ruxton was because I knew I wouldn't it. After all, that sort of thing is hard i:,:~!in!esr~~eaC~~te:x~Ui:.!~~t~g;:erAV:rI~ see him if I left. And I had to see him. to put into words when, on the surface, able in green, red. blue, amethyst, maize, pink. He-he was like a fever in my blood or Chuck appeared to be an honest, up­ SEND NO MONEY~10 DAY TRIAL something. Oh, if only I could make standing, successful young man-a lit­ you understand!') tle selfish perhaps, but then, who isn't? "I understand," Howard said quietly". How could I tell anybody that he had "I understand a lot. Go on." only to enter the room, only to make I went on. Hard though it was, it me feel his presence-and something was like a cleansing of my soul in me cringed at the same time every­ I moved to a rooming house and thing in me went out to him? I was found a job in an office. I was seeing miserable. But I could do nothing about Chuck more and more. it. He was stronger than I. I knew he was crazy about me-but I also knew, in his language that didn't T wasn't long before I began to know mean marriage. And somewhere deep I Chuck was unfaithful to me. On down in the core of what I was, I found those business trips to Ft. McGuire. He the strength to resist him in that one had won a government contract to build thing. Whatever else he wanted, I some new barracks as America entered would do because I couldn't help it. But the war, and that necessitated frequent I would not give myself completely to trips to the camp. I don't know how I Charles Abbot or to any man without knew he was having affairs with other marriage. women, but I did-with an instinctive, And so, at last, he asked me to heartsick certainty. I tried to keep it marry him. It was not a romanti<; to myself. I tried to think it was only proposal. It was, looking back on it, my imagination. I had no proof-it almost a shameful one. was only a feeling. It was one night when we'd driven Finally I accused him of it. He only Leaves sweaters, out on one of those lonely roads I'd laughed. "What a lot of fool ideas blankets, wool­ come to know so well. His kisses had women can get!" he said. "The trouble "ens soft, fluffy­ grown more ardent, more demanding, with you is that you haven't got enough than ever. And I began to cry. He let to do. You sit around the house all the really clean. me go with a gesture almost of impa­ time I'm gone and cook up these things At notions, art tience and sat staring moodily ahead out of your imagination." needlework, and into the darkness. "That's not true!" I cried. "When you housewares "All right," he said at last, and there started going out of town so much, I was something brutal in the way he wanted to get a job and you wouldn't departments. 25 C said it, "let's get married. I always let me. Besides, that has nothing to do MGJe Jo,4 'Wool swore "I never would but-you win. with-with this. I can't stand it, Chuck. R Don't say I didn't warn you, though. I won't stand it!" M 4 ,. 'W~ ~v.", WOOLFOAM CORP. 17 West 19th Street FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS­ New York 11. N. Y. BUY WAR BONDS and STAMPS 60 For a moment he looked angry. Then he gave his easy smile and came over to me. His arms slipped around me, ignoring my resistance, and he pulled me close to him. "You know I'm crazy "H(JLL 'fW(J(JD EXTRA II about you, Milly," he murmured softly. "What would I want another girl for? 7HEAT'/~AI. ~OI.D ~REAM - Forget it, honey... . " "But-" The stars' cleansing cream that "Hush, honey." And he stopped my fits extra girls' budgets ... Now .-/" protesting struggles with a kiss. As always with his arms holding me millions of smart.women -< close and his lips on mine, I had to everywhere agree ... forget it. I always had to forget any­ thing but him when he was near. I had "it's foolish to to believe what he told me becal,lse I pay mo ~"'-:::~ ' .,." 0 __ wanted so desperately to believe it. He was my husband, he was all I had-he had to love me and me alone. And so, for a little while, I let his words, his touch, persuade me. But afterwards - afterwards the awful certainty came back. He had not denied anything. He had only dodged the question by playing on my emo­ tions. With' that, equally strong, came the certainty of my own weakness whenever Chuck was concerned. And so began the torture in my soul. For, believe me, there is no torture like that when love condemns you to trust some­ one you know, in the honest, innennost depths of yourself, is not trustworthy. s time went on, it was as if he A sensed this in me. He became more openly inconsiderate. And though he never admitted the presence in his life of other women, the knowledge was al­ ways there between us, unspoken and corrupt. Twice more I was driven to confront him with it. The last time he AT AU 5-10-25& STORES didn't bother to fight down his anger. "You're the kind of wife who drives THE RABIN COMPANY,lOS ANGELES a man to other women," he lashed out. "You've got no proof at aU of what you're saying, and yet you can stand there and accuse me." "I don't need proof," I said as quietly as I could. "I just know. And I know, too, you never really loved me. You just-wanted me. I want a divorce, Chuck .. .." "Now look here, Milly-we're mar­ ried and we're going to stay married. I told you I wouldn't make a good husband, that it would be hard for me to settle down. You still wanted to go ahead with it. You've made a bargain and you've got to stick to it. You're the one who's causing your own unhappl­ ness-with all this nagging and ac­ cusing." And then, very sure of himself, very sure of his power over me, his manner changed and he. became per­ suasive as only he could. "Milly, what are we fighting for? I'm crazy about you-honest I am-and you're just Rich! Concenlralell ! Economical! punishing yourself and being unfair to Once cold weather comes-thousands of women change me when you say you 'know' I'd even to Original Campana Balm. For this is the lotion you look at another woman. Come on, honey-give me a kiss.... " , can DEPEND on to help prevent chapping, soften your And again it ended with his anns akin, protect your skin against winter weather. Original around me and my' torturing self-doubt. Campana Balm works quickly - gives instant relief for But there was one thing I could do, chapping. Cracked, smarting skins show to still the terrible humiliation I felt in my soul and to bolster up my self­ wonderful improvement otV!might. respect. I could get a job. I would take no more money from Chuck. And so I went back to work. Some­ where I found the strength to do it over my husband's bitter .protests. I Campana !~ told him I had to do it because he was away so much I got bored with nothing to do. But in my heart I knew I was doiDg it to keep from being kept. I had Bab~___ never really been a wife to Chuck Abbot. He had married me because it • was the only way he could get me. Now For some time, Original Balm has heen unavailable becau.e of war he would not· let me go and I could not restrictions. Now it'. bad;-unchanged-just when you need it mo.t. free myself of this strange bondage. But 61 at least I could support myself. rected to this place. Then you walke( Chuck exerted all his charm-and across a street in front of my car, all( vented all his anger-to get me to give you've been running away ever sinci d~~, up that job. But that one small victory you recovered consciousness." was mine. That one tiny seed of self­ "How do you mean-running away?' v See what they do respecting independence I could keep I still couldn't look at him. T alive. Our marriage became a kind of "You lost your memory of every thin! grotesque imitation of what a marriage in your past life because, sub-con· r.-:f· for your lips ought to be. Outwardly, we were to­ sciously, you wanted to forget it. Ym gether, we were husband and wife; we forgot you were Mildred Abbot be­ lived in the same house, we shared the cause, deep down, you were ashamed ~~ll~ same room. But inwardly, it was as if of her and wanted to forget her. Minds Chuck Abbot owned me and would not are funny things, Mildred. Yours let let me go. Some masculine ego, some you escape for a while from something knowledge of his influence over me, that had become unendurable. Don't kept me his. you see?" Then he got another government con­ I sat silent, thinking it over, knowing tract, at an Army post further away. It he was right. meant that instead of being gone from "But one thing I don't understand," home several days each week, he would Uncle Edwin said, "is why, when be away weeks at a time, coming back Charles returned and found you gone only for an occasional weekend as he without a word, he didn't get in touch colild snatch the time. with me immediately. Why, anything It was during that first long absence could have happened to you-foul play, DON that I began to look at my life and see something terrible-" it objectively and not through a welter "That's easy," I said bitterly. "He of tearing emotions. Out of Chuck's knew I'd run away. And he knew, if Lipstick stays on I physical presence, I could look at it and he didn't come after me, that I'd come see it for what it truly was. I hated back. I'd have to come back because .1. DON JUAN STAYS ON when you what I saw. My marriage was more he was stronger than me." eat, drink, kiss, if used as di· than a failure; it was bondage to my Then I raised my eyes and looked rected. No greasy, smeary effect. own weakness. Somehow I had to break at Howard for the first time. "What am 2. LIPS STAY LOVELY without fre­ away, make a fresh start, and become I to do now?" I cried. quent retouching. Try today. myself again. . Uncle Edwin patted my hand. "You just stay here and take it easy. I'll go 3. NOT DRYING OR SMEARY. Im­ BUT how? During those weeks alone to Charles and talk with him, man to parts appealing "glamour" look. I made my decision. When Chuck man. I'll explain-" Creamy smooth - easily applied. came home on the tenth I would simply "No, sir." Howard's voice cut in, 4. STYLE SHADES. Try Blackberry tell him I had to have a divorce. I had respectfully but firmly. "That way, . or Raspberry ·shade. no real grounds, but a lawyer would Mildred would still be running away. "Smar'" say beauty She has to go back to Chuck herself!" editors. Seven other advise us. I wouldn't be hurting him, shades. because he never really loved me. All This was the end, then. This was the De luxe size $1. Relll!. I had to do was stick to my point and final, ultimate end. He didn't love me Don Juan 60c. Junior size 2Sc. Tax now that he knew me. He didn't want MILLION DOLLAR extra. Matching powder. not be persuaded out of it against my rouge and cake make· will . . . That was all ... It was quite me any more ... Of all the bleak mo­ up. Trial sizes at 10e ments in my life, this was the bleakest stores. In Canada, too. simple . . . Once you make up your Lipstick mind to do something, nobody can stop I had ever known. It went too deep STAYS O,,! ~/ you .. . These were the things I said, for tears or protests. I closed my eyes over and over, every night as I went and let the pain take hold of me. to bed, steeling myself against Chuck's "Wait, Mildred! Don't look like that." return on the tenth. Howard was close- to me now, forcing And then, on the third, I came home me to look at him. "I don't mean go LADIES OR GEN·IS back to him as his wife-great God Tbls Horsesboe from work to find a telegram stuck Ring. band made. under my door. From Chuck, it said, no! I mean go to him yourself and ted hand engraved, 10- him you aren't ever coming back." laId wltb simulated "Arriving tomorrow." pearl Is a KNOCK­ A kind of panic seized me. A whole "But I can!t," I moaned. "You don't OUTI Cbolce of know what he's like. He won't let Ladles' or Gents'. week early-it was too soon-I wasn't Sboe and sbank of ready yet. The two words so clearly me go-he can do anything with me he • evel1asting Monel called up Chuck-so sure of me, sure of wants to. Anything!" Metal Is 'himself, and so implacably sure of GUARANTEED 20 YEARS getting what he wanted. I knew how he HOWARD took my shoulders and SUpply Is limIted ... would look when I said I wanted a gave me 'a gentle shake. "If you rush your order! divorce-the anger first,. then the per­ weren't sick, I swear I'd spank you! SEND NO MON­ suasion, and then the half-taunting Look, my darling-look at me. Nobody EY. Pay postman only $3.85 pIUS excise tax and postage. Return for retund triumph as he knew he had won me in the world can make you do anything In five days If not del1ghted. Can be sen' to Service Me,. over. I knew what he would say. I you don't think is right. Nobody. You're oveneQ.l without thei, request. knew what he would do. not a weakling or a coward. You were American Jewelry Co., Dept. 138-H.Wheeling, W. Va. And I couldn't face it. I couldn't over-protected when you were growing face another defeat. up, and when your mother's death left "And so," I said, leaning back ex­ you alone you had the bad luck to have hausted, "and so I ran away." no one but this-this heel to turR to. liThe Work I couldn't look at Howard Coles. I But you yourself are strong, my darling. could feel him there in the room beside I know!" . I Lovell me, I could sense his tension as I told "How can you know? I mean, after my story, but I didn't dare look at him. what I've just told you-" AND $25 to $35 AWEEK! .He wouldn;t love me now. He'd know "Because I knew you when you didn'1 me for what I was-a weakling, a know your past, when you 'weren'1 " rm a TAAINED PAACTICAL NURSE, and thankful to coward. This was the end. . . . overshadowed by the memory of pas1 CHICAGO SCHOOL OF Uncle Edwin leaned forward tensely. mistakes or weaknesses! I saw yot; =~R~!r:::e~ointr:~n:p:ro~ ~~!I:IIlii2\:'::",,-. Ac!; "You came directly here, without tell­ take a terrible shock-the shock 01 time. 'for this well.paid. ing anyone?" realizing you didn't know who you ~~~fi::nwb::~~o a nuree. toot Thousands of men and women, 18 to 60, have etudied this thorough, "Yes. I didn't even notify my office. were, that you were living in a vacuum bome-studY cour&o. Les80D8 are ea.ay to understand -and not whimper or get panicky and high school education not neC61188.ry. Many I just-ran as if something were after earn as theY learn-Mrs. n. W. of Mich. earned me. I couldn't let Chuck know where a bout it. Steadily and courageously, I $25 a week whlle .,till etudying. Endorsed by phy· sicians. Easy paYments. Trial pian. Uniform and I was or he'd ha'-'e come after me. I saw you build up a new life, a new equipment included. 46th year. Write now! thought if I could get a job and you personality, out of nothing. That took CHICAGO SCHOOL Of NURSING could help me about a divorce, I'd courage, believe me!" M Dopt.ISI. 100 East OhIO Streel. Chleago 11. Ill. never have to see him again. And then "But it was a wrong personality. It Please send tree booklet and 16 s~mple lesson pages. you weren't here and-and-" wasn't me. The girl I pictured Mildred Name' ______-"Age __ "You went to the traveler's aid," Abbot to be wasn't the real girl at CIt. ______State __ •• Howard said quietly, "and were di- all-" 62 "She was. That girl was the real Mildred Abbot. She'd just never had a chance to emerge before. Don't you see?" "That might be true if it weren't for one thing," I said slowly. "One thing maybe you don't know." What I was going to say took the last ounce of bravery that I had left. "I became what I did because-because I was in love with you. Because I wanted you to be in love with me. Without that love I'll just go back to being what I was . ..." "Without that love_noHoward stared at me incredulously for a moment and then his face softened. Simply and naturally, oblivious to Uncle Edwin, he took me into his arms. "My darling, precious idiot, did you think I'd stopped I loving you? Do you honestly think I ever will? I love you more than ever for what you've told me-and the In a minute ... honest way you told it, making no ex­ cuses for yourself. Listen, my sweet MINIT-RUB begins to relieve cold distress -it wasn't our love that made you what you are. You already were that. It just SPEED, MOTHERI Minit-Rub hurries relieving action soothes raspy local took love-and shaking off the past­ relief from cold distress three fast congestion. to bring it out." ways! Rub it on chest and back. They were the most beautiful words 3. IMMEDIATELY Minit-Rub's active anybody ever said. They spread balm 1. IN A MINUTE, Minit-Rub stimu­ menthol vapors ease nasal stuffi­ and joy and healing through me. They lates circulation, brings a sensation ness. Mother, it's amazingly quick were like life itself. I looked at him with shining eyes. ' of heat. That swiftly helps relieve relief for both children and grown­ "I'll go see Chuck," I whisp,ered. "I'll lurface aches! ups! Greaseless! Stainless! Won't go do anything-if only you 11 go with harm linens! Get it now-at your me. I can't do it unless you're there. 2. QUiCKLY Minlt-Rub's pain- druggist's. But with you-" "I'll go anywhere with you, Mildred. Any time," he said quietly. - And dimly, through my haze of hap­ MINIT-RUB piness, I was aware of Uncle Edwin tiptoeing from the room. . . , FORT LEWIS was a huge, sprawling camp with new barracks going up for, almost as far as the eye could see. Howard and I walked along one of the temporary streets, looking for the , contractor's office. We had taken an early morning train and had traveled all day to get here. I hadn't let Chuck know we were coming. DO YOU SELECT "Better have the advantage of sur­ prise," Uncle Edwin had advised. Uncle Edwin had been wonderful, ever since that scene in my room two TO days ago. He understood now and agreed with everything-especially my love for Howard. "I knew, my dear," he told me, "when I heard the way he YOUR CHARMS talked to you there at the end that Howard Coles was a man in a million. I hope you'll be able to marry him­ you two deserve to be together. And OR TO rest assured, I'll do everything I can to help with the divorce. But Howard was right-you must see Charles alone." All the way up on the train, the old trepidation had been growing in me. If it hadn't been for Howard there be­ side me, I felt, I still wouldn't have found the strength to face Chuck. I was still afraid. "You won't leave me PSORIASIS 1/ alone with h im, Howard?" I'd begged. "I know it will be terrible for you, dar­ Many women have little latitude in choosing a mode' of attire. They must dress to ling-but I need your presence. , I need to feel you there, giving me support, I conceal their psoriasis lesions., If this is your problem-try SIROlL immediately. wouldn't ask it-you know that-ex­ SIR OIL tends to remove the crusts and scales of psoriasis which are external in cept that I know how Chuck is. I know character and located on the outer layer of the skin. If or when your p soriasis lesions how strong he is." And I shuddered. recur, light applications of SIR OIL 'will help keep them under control. Applied "I'll be there," Howard promise,d. And externally, SIROIL does not stain clothing or bed linens, nor does it interfere ,in I knew he would, I knew I could count any way with your daily routine. Try it. r------­ on him. Yet I sensed something in. his Certainly it's worth a trial, particularly I Siro:lLaboratories,lnc.,Dept.M-Z4,Detrolt26,Mich. manner, some reservation as if there since it's offered to you on a two-weeks'- I were something he wantea to say to Sito;! of Canada, Ltd., Box 488, Windsor, Ont, satis f action-or-money-re f un d e d b asis. Please send me your (rcc booklet on Psoriasis. ~e but couldn't find the words to say I It. But steeling myself for the coming FOR, SALE AT ALL I NAM ..P ______M , DRUG STORES " - SIROIL ADDR~S ______~ ~ ___ FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS­ ..__ ~ ______, CITY ZON~STAT~ Buy WAR BONDS and STAMPS Writ, tOt/II, for i"t,.,lJtirrg hODk/1t Dn PSDriasis, IIsin, CO I!PDII - I 63 interview with Chuck drove all else tell me, all I can say is I've got work from my mind. - to do and I can't waste the time talking As we walked through the camp to- about it now." . CHEST COLD ~ MISERY:· gether, I said, tremulously, "If it "You're going., to have to talk about weren't for you here now, darling, I it," I said evenly. It was only the ~ " RELIEVED 'BY , ',,~ think I'd-I'd never be able to go thought of Howard that made me go on, .: " through with it." facing that anger, that humiliation, that "But I am here, Mildred," Howard weakness in myself. "I've already said evenly. "You needn't be afraid." talked to Uncle Edwin. That's where I !. MOIST ·HEAT OF :~/~ But again I sensed that curious flat tone was-in Ansonia. He says he'll help in his voice. me get a divorce." A workman directed us to the con- He gave a short laugh. "Isn't that tractor's office. It was a temporary nice of Uncle Edwin? On what grounds, f~ . ANII r~ln& l~lINE~ wooden building, just two rooms. In may I ask? I've supported you, I've the outer one, men were working over been a faithful husband, I've-" SIMPLE blueprints. There was no sign of Chuck. '''No,'' I said. "You haven't. I know The moist heat of an Howard asked where he could be found. all about those other women,. Chuck." CHEST COLD ANTIPHLOGISTINE po u 1- The men looked at us. One of them I was blUffing. I didn't know any SORE THROAT tice relieves cough, said, "He's out on the job somewhere. more than what I had always known­ BRONCHIAL tightness of chest mus- If you'll go in the private office and instinctive, woman's knowledge with no IRRITATIONcle soreness due to chest wait, I'll send somebody to get him." sure proof. But I had to make him I SIMPLE cold, bronchial irritation We walked on into the inner office think I did. It was the only way! I ' SPRAIN, BRUISE and simple sore throat. and sat down. went on, desperately, improvising as I SORE MUSCLES Apply ANTIPHLOCISTINE Somehow there was a constraint be- went. "You got very careless, Chuck. CHARLEY HORSE poultice just hot enough tween us. We were both too tense, too There are ways of getting evidence to be comfortable-then feel the moist silent. I looked at Howard. He was when anybody is as careless as you. heat go right to work on that cough, sitting there, turning his hat over and And I've got it. I won't use it unless tightness of chest muscie soreness. over in his hands. ' you fight the case. I'll get the divorce Does good, feels good for several hours. This tS all wrong. on incompatibilIty. But if you do fight The moist heat of an ANTIPHLOCI STINE poul­ it, I'll bring out every bit of that evi­ tice also relieves pain • • • reduces swelling, THE thought, the words, came sud- dence in court!" limbers up stiff aching muscles due to a simple I could sense he wasn't sure. He sprain, bruise, charley horse, similar injury or denly and from nowhere. But I knew condition. it as surely as I knew anything. And I didn't know whether this was bluff or Get ANTIPHLOCISTIN£ (Aunty Flo) in knew, too, what was wrong. I got up not. For once, there was one minute tube or can at any drug store NOW. and went over to Howard. crack in that armor of his. I pushed "Please leave now, darling," I said my advantage. hurriedly. "Please go and wait for me I got up and began to walk toward at the entrance to the camp." He looked the door. "That's all I've come to say, up, startled, as if in protest. I rushed Chuck. You can get in touch with me .Antiphlogist~!l;; on. "No, please do as I say. I have to through Uncle Edwin." And I started TheWhitePackagewiththeOrangeBand ~ , see Chuck alone. It-it won't be worth to open the door. anything if I can't do this by myself. "Milly! Wait-" ~--~~~-- .~~:~~ ~ If you're here to fight. my battles for me, then it won't be my victory, over I TURNED and did just that. I waited. him and over myself. And it's got to I saw the struggle in his face whether be, my darling!" to believe. or dis-believe, and then I He got up then and his eyes were saw h is decision. How transparent he shining. All the constraint, the tension, was, I thought, when you weren't afraid , the indescribable thing that separated of him! , WEDDING AND us was gone. He .just stood there look~ ' He came toward me and now he was ENGAGEMENT ing down at me. And then he said, smiling. "Look, honey, this is' silly. very simply and with more happiness You made me mad there for a minute. RINGS MSo~lk~ than I have ever heard in a hUman You know I'm crazy about you. Maybe JWlt to get acqualnted we voice: "Good girl!" there has been a girl or two-but noth­ wHI send you smart. pre. clous, Sterli ng Si Iverengage. Then he was gone. ing serious. I swear it! To tell the ment rtng or wedding ring. I didn't have to wait much longer. truth, I just got lonely being away from Romance design engagement ring set with ftashin~. im· Chuck came swinging into the office, you so much and I-oh, why go into it? ltatIon diamond solitaire in sentimental orange blossom mount.. and stopped short at the sight of me. I'm sorry, and it won't happen again." ~~~. ~~e~:~~ r~~I~~; ~~~~q~~~~SSd~ney. For just a second, he looked discon­ He was beside me now, and his arms ~~n t~~Sln:79EI~~~ ~W~(> O~J~e~!i:S~~~ certed. And then the old assurance went · around me. He bent his head SEND NO MONEY with order. Just name and rtnK size. Pay OD arrival. then wear reasserted itself. He slung his hat on to kiss me. ~~~ ~rd:ra':o:r money.back guarantee. the desk and let the door swing shut I made myself stand perfectly still. EMPIRE DIAMOND CO .. Dept, 1>70·BN. Jefferson. low. behihd him. This was his final, strongest weapon. "So you decided to come back." This was the one that had always There was a hint of triumph in his worked before. In fear of it, I wanted voice. I didn't say anything. My heart to pull away. But I didn't. I let him was beating wildly. He came over and kiss me. And I made utterly no re­ stood in front of me. "I ought to take sponse. a strap to you for what you did-run­ In a moment he 'Stepped back. He ning out on me without a word. You looked bewildered. crazy little fool!" He almost chuckled. I laughed. "It doesn't work this time, "What did you think you were doing­ Chuck. Nothing about you will ever throwing a scare into me?" work again. You can't control me any "You knew I'd come back, didn't more-in any way." And then I laughed The prayers of the most worthy people often fail Why? The unworthy often have the great­ you?" I said in a low voice. again, feeling the sheer exuberance of est health, success, riches and happiness. The "Well-I figured if I gave you plenty m y own new-found, hard-won strength. best, smartest, and most-industrious people of time, you'd get over the notion all "Goodbye," I said. "And good luck. often have only pain, poverty and sorrow. Why? by lourself. You know very well you Uncle Edwin will serve you with the Thirty years ago, in Forbidden Tibet, behind the can t get along without me, baby . . . ." . proper papers some time next week." highest mountains in the world, a young English­ "Well, you're wrong, Chuck." I got I went out and closed the door be­ man found the answers to these questions. His up then and faced him. "I've come up hind me, leaving him staring after me. eyes were opened by the strangest mystic he met here only to tell you that I'm not com­ I hurried through the outer office, and during his twenty-one years of travels in tbe Far ing back. I'm never coming back." out into the sunlight. I walked through East. Sick then, he regained health. Poor then, he acquired wealth and world-wide professional He made a gesture of impatience, al­ that busy, bustling camp without seeing honors. He wants to tell the whole world what most as if he were dismissing the whole any of it. There were wings on my he learned, and offers to send a 9,OOO-word trea­ thing. "That again! We've been over feet, wings in my heart. I was free! tise, FREE, to everyone who asks promptly. It it before and the answer is still the At last Mildred Abbot knew who and is a first step to the Power that Knowledge gives. same. We're married and we're going what she was. No obligation. Write for your FREE copy today. to stay married. That was what you With a song in my heart, I began to; INSTITUTE of MENTALPHYSICS, Dept,M-135 wanted and that was what you ,got. If run to where Howard was waiting. 213 South Hobart Blvd., Los Angeles 4, CaDf. that's all you came barging up here to THE END 64

: I Two In Harmony TRUE-iQVlO;1(/ FRIENDSHIP ~ .n-_...... :.- ., ..... Contin ued from page 30 David was born trouping-I was singing at the Paramount theater in S.~RIN New York two months before he was 5~and Mafchi born, and I remember well that he used to punctuate the high falsetto note with bot~r~em~~: ~Jfll{ltmVI;,~- which I ended "Here I Am But Where ear:'i~~s th~ m~~~~r Are You," my featured song, with a and attractive IS the twin, .Sterling good sound kick in the stomach. There ~~ti,e~ly~~~~~~~tI~:~ral t,!'n"J c~':.~~ he was all right. ~g settings. Either the ring or ear- ...... ------. ~~~h::~h~ av;:~rrru1;p:;~i1!~t1~~~ He was conditioned before birth to Everyone who sees this altogether the wandering life of a musician, and new and allurmg ring and matching earrings immedlately wants a set. No other gift is quite so approprlate among friends or lovers consequently thrived on the routine of now that so many good friends, pals, and sweethearts are far one-night stands, theater and dance ::t~i ~f~. e~~ho\~~ 'r~:~J'Jei~~~:n~:e!~nte~~ti~~li~n:~~ hall engagements on which he-and his bossed with the very newest "Forget-Me-Not" deSIgn WIth two pendant hearts sUItable for engraving inItials of loved nurse-accompanied his fawning ones. parents. / By the time Eric came along in 1940, we all were a little tired of trouping. We forsook the road in favor of a WHILE THEY LASf • respectable-and for us uneventful­ The supply of these SterUng Silver "True-Love-and-Friendsbip"• earrings is limited. Mall the coupon today giving your name. life in Hollywood. ring size. Your package sent Immediately and you pay postman"-:='C'- .~-~~ each plus a few cents mailing e,ost and 20% Federal Tax for eIther We built a lovely Williamsburg or earrings, on arrival. SEND NO MONEY with order. Wear 10 Colonial house, with plenty of room for money back guarantee. the boys to grow up, on the. hills over­ looking the town. We concentrated on radio-first with Feg Murray, and then for three years with Red Skelton, and dreamed a bout having a show of our EMPIRE-- DIAMOND--_.- CO.,- Dept.- . ------70·EP, - Jefferson,--~ - -Iowa-, own. o ~ f d 'eo ~I !e::n~:o t~~k~o~ro':l~t;:ge of your special bargaIn offer. Please I OW our dreams have come true. :~n3 ~~~O!a~~~~ll 0 fi~~a S'ne:r ba'~~n~~t 0 ~~~~~~n~t~~,!DJE~: I order PROMPTLY. Me-Not.. Ring. rings. I N Beautiful, genuine Ozzie is chief writer and of course JeaUler pnoto folder. (Comes with pJctures of I I understand I can return my order within 10 days for an:y musical director, as well as playing two popular MOVie stars.) reason and you will refund promptly. I himself, on the air. DePt.E~!.:~E DIAM~!:.~rs~n~·lowa I Name...... I We both feel that we have had many For Your Ring Size u •• b. D d YI Addr 55 wonderful breaks and most of all have below. Put a string around :~~ ~::r: uc~~ e...... I had the pleasure of making so many when both ends meet and mark off 0 C·t the .'ze on thOR Bcale. I 7 4 I Y .... . , ...... • • . . • • •• I sincere and loyal friends. And here i f f i I'm going to let you in on a little secret. I• J• I~ I.~ I~ •• I~State ______...... Ring Size ... _ J Ozzie is what I call an "artistic per­ fectionist." Which is probably' why we'll never be real wealthY, but we'll always be happy. I'll ten you what DR. MILES I mean . . . Ozzie wrote our audition radio show all by himself, but for our weekly program he signed up two of NERVINE radio's most competent writers! J a<;k The hurry, worry, noise, confusion and ex­ Douglas and John P. Medbury, Just In citement of modern living, put an extra case he "ran out of ideas." When we strain ·on the nervous system. When nervous· held our first orchestra rehearsal Ozzie ness· mal.l:es you Jittery, Cranky, Wake£ul, try heard the musical interludes and they · were not exactly what he wanted so he Dr. Miles Nervine hired an entire string section: in addi­ Dr. Miles Nervine is made in liquid or effer· tion to his dance band which includes v~scent t"blet form, both equally effective. seven brass and five reeds already. A FULL OF FIDGETS, Get it at your drug store. Read directions TAKES A GLASS OF certain type voice was needed for a one NERVES ARE TENSE, and use only as directed. Effervescent tab­ MILE~ NERVINE, line gag so Ozzie hired actor Wally CAN'T SIT STILL lets 3Sc and 7Sc, liquid 2Sc and $1.00. . FINDS CALM AND Maher, just to read the one line exactly A MINUTE MIl.ES LABORATORIES, INC., Elkhart, Ind. COMFORT IN IT. as he visualized it. See what I mean? WHEE! fEBRUARY RADIO MIRROR *CLOPAY ON SALE Wednesday, January 10th

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Those houses were built individual working twice as hard alone. in a hurry to take care of all the I? industrial sections, women are get­ workers' families that came here from tmg together to solve the child care all over the country. There wasn't problem. When nurseries aren't set up time to equip those buildings with for their children, they organize child modern appliances. Besides, many of care programs themselves. They share the appliances, especially things like their responsibilities and they share in washing machines', were very scarce. the time and freedom gained through The women who brought washing ma­ their cooperative efforts. In South chines with them from theIr old homes Carolina there's a Servicemen's Wives could easily have hidden them and C~ub, which was started by a few Army clung to them selfishly. But they WIves, who wanted to help other didn't. All the washing machines and women to get adjusted to living with­ irons and mangles were set up in a out the support and presence of their common laundry room, open to the husbands. These Army Wives help use of all the women in the settlement. one another to find jobs and places to And the women who thus gave up their live. They meet socially and relieve exclusive rights to their own eq,uip­ their loneliness. In some war housing ment have never regretted it. projects there are. community silver closets for the use of those who you know," one woman told me, COUldn't bring their household goods "before Mrs. Perry had her idea and with them. called us all together-all of us that Now that the war is going our way Don't JUSt suffer the agonizing pain. tOrture, itCh ing of had the machines, that is-and gave and Victory over all our enemies-the simple piles. Remember, for over th iny years amazing PAZO o intment has given prompt, comforting rel ief to us this idea to set up a community enemies of freedom and democracy and millions. It gives you soothing, welcome palliative re lief. laundry-she called it that-we mostly decency-is in sight, we cannot afford How PAZO Ointment Works did . our work alone. And anybody to forget the lessons we have learned. 1. Soothes inflamed arcas-rclicv(.."S pain and itching. 2. Lu. that's done a big day's washing, espe­ The future for which we are fighting bricates h:udcncd, dried parts-helps prevent cracking cially like my husband's greasy work will require just as much cooperation and soreness. 3. Tends to reduce swelling and check bleed· clothes, knows how bred and grumpy as these past years. Perhaps even more. ing. 4. Provides a quick and easy method of application. you can get-even with a machine to Already, in some communiti-es, Speciol Pile Pipe for Easy Applicotion do most of the hard work. And, when 'groups of people have got together PAZO ointment has a specially designed. perforated Pile Pipe, making application simple and thorough. (Some you don't have ,a machine to make it to make plans for the reabsorption pe~ !ilons, and many doctors, prefer to usc suppOS itories. so easier for you, you're practically not of returning service men into local PAZO is also made in suppository form.) fit to talk to afterwards.' Sometimes­ industries. Up in New England, one Get Relief with PAZO Ointmentl in the first days we were out here­ small town has a complete blueprint Ask your doctor about wonderful PAZO ointment and you'd hear some of the ladies snap­ for the Post War reconversion of its the soothing, blessed relief it gives for simple piles. Get ping at each other and even getting industries and a carefully worked out PAZO ointment from your druggist today! real nasty-and all it was, was that plan for finding the right jobs for Th£> Grove lobora.ories, Inc., St. louis, Mo. some of us were so tired we COUldn't the men and women displaced by thc have lived with the angels and kept change baQ-k to peace time production the peace. Now, it's lots better. There's and the gradual rehabilitation of ser­ real friendliness out here and we have vicemen. This plan was worked out more time for doing other things be­ on a community basis, with most of sides just slaving away at home." the adults in the town contributing Then, the other day, I heard of some­ their ideas and suggestions. This is thing that's being done over in a neigh­ cooperation in the highest sense. This boring town. Down in the most is living Democracy. This is the crowded part of town, where some of Brotherhood of Man! the families were forced to double up in . apartments and houses because of I T is my feeling and conviction that the shortage of living space, a delega­ we are at last reaching a true under­ tion of workmen approached the super­ standing of Christ's meaning of intendent of schools. One of their brotherly love. It has taken many cen­ problems was recreation. It was diffi­ turies to bring this realization to the cult for many of the men to get any majority of the peoples of the world, relaxation in their homes, sometimes but it is taking shape everywhere, because they were too crowded, some­ now. Perhaps all people - perhaps, times because different members of the even all of you-do not see clearly families worked different shifts and yet that the things for which we and there was always someone sleeping our Allies are fighting have as their so that the rest of the family had to mainspring this great ideal. To make be quiet. Their suggestion--one which the world safe for free thinking men has since been carried out-was that and women, to bring a decent life to the school buildings might be made all men orr earth, to create the soil available to adults after school hours. for friendliness and cooperation among Now, men and women use the schools all peoples, to make life interesting and in the evenings for all kinds of neigh­ creative all over the world. borhood activities. To gain these ideals, no sacrifice can Golden Peacock Bleacb Creme contains a special ingredient that bas amazed scientists with the I understand this has been done in be too great. And, if in the course of loveliness it can bring your skin. It fights black­ many other communities, too. In some this war we all learn to work together beads-in a few !lays surface blemishes, muddi­ plq,ces, the schools have even been better, to share with one another our ness, frecklt:s, even pimples of outward origin put to their original use by the adults. burdens as well as our pleasures and should be gone. Brings you a clearer, fairer, younger and smootber-looking skin with one over­ Classes have been organized for to offset the disadvantages and short­ nigh~ treatment. 30 minion jars already sold on a workers and their wives. In Mary­ ages brought about by the war by being money-back guarantee. Ask for Imperial size. land, this idea has been carried even ingenious and putting our minds to CLIP AND MAIL THIS------. further. The University of Maryland work cooperatively for the common GOLDEN PEACOCK CO.. .INC. has established adult education classes good-it is possible to look forward DePt. MWG-15.l'ARIS. TENN. right in a government housing project to the day-not too far distant-when Please ."lend me a (ree eample 9 ( G olden Pea.cock. Bleacb. Creme. I want to try it. called Maldwyn Manor. men will no longer be forced to lay These are only a few of the ways down their lives for their brothers. Name . . ! ••• ~ " " """""" "~ "" " "" "" " in which people have learned to work Toward this day, we all look hope­ Addrees .• . . . . • •• .. '., •••• . .. , .• . •• •....••...•.. together for the common good. There fully. For this day, we all pray fer­ are many others. Every day, more and vently. For this goal, let us all work City • . 'n' •• •• • •••••••• • • ••••• •••• State • ...... • mote people are finding .out that many, -together. Out of Reach Continued from page 24 tJ,utWq tion that Olga wouldn't let me go that girl. Even if she is his roommate's sis­ to relieve stuffiness, invite night, or any night, with one of the ter, and he doesn't care about her, that college boys. still doesn't explain a lot of things. He "She doesn't think I have any busi­ told you he was poor, but it might be ness running around with the boys that he told you that because he knew $/eB/J from the school," I told him. "She­ you were, and knew I wouldn't want says they're rich, and out of my class. you going around with anyone who's and-" rich. I tell you, Hilda, I've been here "Rich!" He whooped with laughter. a long time-it takes money to go to "Tell her she doesn't have to worry!" that school!" And then he told me how he had no And that was the end of it. I deter­ money for school-how he was working mined that I would see Joe, anyway, his way through the journalism school but how could I? Olga kept me busier by taking care of one professor's fur­ than ever, after school, and in the eve­ nace, by writing up the campus news nings she forbade me flatly to go out for the university radio station, by with him. "As long as you're under my grading freshmen English papers at roof, you don't go out with the college night. And he told me, then, too, about boys," she said. "I don't want to be his ambitions. How he wanted to grad­ mean to you Hilda-it's not that. It's uate from college and buy a little just that I know!" country newspaper somewhere and live And so I didn't see Joe, anymore­ It's wonderful how a in a little town like the one he'd grown not for a month. He called me twice, few drops of Va·tro·nol up in. And I forgot about Olga's but he didn't talk to me, because Olga bring relief when transient congestion feeling about the university students talked for me. The last time, I listened fills up your nose and spoils sleep. You then and thought everything was go­ quietly as she dismissed him over the can actually feel this specialized medica· ing to be all right-thought so until phone. "My daughter and I thank you tion go to work right where trouble is to I saw Olga's face. for the story in the paper-but we bring you grand new breathing comfort. don't want you to call here any more. It opens up clogged nasal passages-reo HE wasn't sentimental and soft now I don't want you to-and neither does duces swelling - relieves crusty dryness S -she was stern and perhaps a little Hilda." -and invites restful sleep! Va·tro·nol also afraid, and angry, too, because we Nervously, I drew my forefinger works fine to relieve sniffly, sneezy d.is· were almost two hours late. across the steamed windQwpane, trac­ tress of head colds. Try it! Follow di· VICIS I hurried to get Joe out of the ing a wavering "Joe" there, and rub­ house, after he had apologized and ex­ bing it· hastily away as I gazed at the rections In folder. plained again and again, without in­ dark January day. , fluencing Olga at all. I thought that "It's better this way," Olga said, as I could talk to her, make her under­ she hung up the phone. "Really, Hilda, VA-TaO-NOL stand. But the more I talked, the more this way is best." I could see that all the talking in the The winter which had seemed such world wouldn't do any good. a glorious challenge that Christmas "Hilda, you're young yet. You don't day didn't fill me with vitality and understand these things. He's what courage as I trudged back and forth they call 'kidding' you." Her voice to business college every day, trying was scornful. "I haven't watched those to make myself believe that those mo­ boys and listened to them all these ments by the lake were something I years for nothing. I know what they had dreamed, impossible to recapture. think about, how they like to fool The outdoor world was a cold, gray around without meaning anything.". knife which slashed at me the way "But Joe isn't fooling around, Olga. thoughts of Joe slashed at my heart. He means what he says." She shook her head. "Nay', Hilda­ AND then one day, I saw him, and I think a little. Haven't you heard them knew instantly by the warmth that talking here yourself? The things they enveloped me that my love for him say to the girls they bring here some­ was no dream, but an ever-quickening times? It's 'darling' here and 'honey' reality, something which could not be there, and 'I love you, sweetheart' to put aside. I loved him, would always some girl they just met five minutes love him-even if he loved Marsha. ago. Only they don't mean a thing by Marsha, who was walking with him it, and the girls know it too. That's the now, just as she had been with him It's so easy to have soft , lustrous "Glover­ difference, Hilda. Those girls are their the first time I saw him. ized" hair that gives you the radiance of the own kind, they understand that the I sensed rather than saw him leave Stars! Famous since 1876. nOw you can bave ALL THREE boys are only fooling. Why, if that Joe Marsha and join me as I passed them. Glover' s preparations-use them separately or together I Ask of yours had stayed here a while last "Hilda!" His voice was low and at any Drug Store-or mall cOUPon todayl night with that girl in the fancy fur urgent, and he spoke as if knowing TRIAL SIZE Includes: GLOVER'S MANGE MEDICINE ­ recommended. with massage, (or Dandrurr. AnDoying Scalp coat you'd probably have heard him that none of the conventional greet­ and Excessive Falling Hair ••• GLO·VER Beauty Shampoo­ saying the same things to her." ings, like "how are you" and "it's leaves hair soft. lustrous. manageable! GLOVER'S Imperial "Why, mother," I protested triumph­ been a long tim.e" were not necessary Hair Dress - Non·aleobolic and Antiseptic I A deliglltrul " oil treatment" .(or easy '"finger tip" application 8 t bome. Each in antly, "she's nothing to him. She's just between us, as if only a moment, in­ bermetically·sealed bottle his roommate's sister." stead Of weeks, had passed since we and ' special co rton witb complete instructions and Olga sat down and looked at me last spoke together. "Hilda-oh, Hilda, FREE booklet. "Tbe ScJ­ ,squarely. For tlie second time that day, what are we going to do?" entific Cure Of Scalp and a pair of eyes sent a message straight Instinctively I moved closer to him, 'Hair." to my heart. And it was easy to be­ and with that very small act began to lieve Olga-always, all of my life, she feel a little comforted, a little less had told me the truth about every­ lonely. I looked back at Marsha, who thing; always, her ideas and her de­ was watching us, but even before he cisions had been wise and kind. "Hilda, spoke I knew that Joe's being with her child," she began, and her voice was was an accident-that he cared no more gentle now, "that roommate's more for the slim, dark girl than I did Glover', . 101 W. 31.t St •• Dept. 551. New York I, N. Y. Send "Complete Trial Appllcatkm" In three bermeU· sister business-it's one of the regular for the boys who thronged around our c.olly·sealed bottles. wltb Inform,li.e booklet. 8S ad.,,· jokes they have. None of the boys ever table at home. tised in pl:>!n wrapper by return mall. I enclose 25e. wants to go out with a roommate's "Let's go somewhere where we can, NAME ...... sister-she's supposed to be ugly. Like talk," Joe urged, slipping his hand un- : M" the jokes people make about mothers­ der my elbow. "Marsha won't mind- • ADDRESS •••••••••••••••••••••.•.••.•.••.••••••••••••••••••• in-law and old-maid aunts. But that she comes down weekends to be with I: ·0 Sent FREE to member>! of tbe Armed Forte< on rtteipt isn't the important thing, Hilda-that her brother, and he pushes her off and t_O!l~~~o:!!e!!!I!.!'~~!:":::'!':; ______67 on, but sbe understands. I tutor her away. We'd have to pay our train fa I'e, brother in English, you know-that's and have enough to live on until my ",aving a [ how I come to know people like that first paycheck, and-oh, darling, don't at all." you see that we can't do it?" All of a sudden, as we walked along, I knew that we could-I knew hOWl ~V? '" 1". ~" that wonderful feeling of oneness came we could. I remembered my rosette BA8'1'. ' ff~"" t~ '" to me again, and I sensed that it had money. I knew now that the money Start rlght with Hygela t~· ... ~=# come to Joe, too. Our steps matched, wasn't going to go to build an extra Nursing Bottles. Easy to ______. our bodies moved in the same rhythm, room on the house for Olga. It was clean-wide mouth and our minds worked as one. Without going to buy happiness for Joe and rounded interior corners have no crevices where speaking we turned into the Campus g-erms can hide . .Red measuring- scale aids in cor~ me, instead. And I told him about it 'ect f\Uing. Wide base prevents tipping. Tapered Drug, and walked back to a booth in But Joe, in his way, is as stubborn shape helps baby get last drop of formula. the corner. Joe slid in beside me at the as Olga. "I'm not going to start my Famous breast-shaped nipple with patented air­ table, and helped me off with my coat. marriage on my wife's money," he said vent permits steady flow, prevents "windsucktng." over and over. "That's not right-not Cap keeps nipples and formula g-erm~free for stor4 THE waiter came, and Joe ordered. He for me, anyway." Ing or out~of-home feeding. came again, and put steaming cups "But Joe-I'm not giving you money! NEW COMPLETE PACKAGE of hot chocolate in front of us. And I'm loaning it to you. You can pay me Ask your druggist for still we said nothing, and simply back, when you get your paycheck Hygeia's new package looked at each other and were happy It's perfectly honorable to borrow fOI containing Bottie.Nipple, and Cap. No extra cost" doing it. For there was no question something that's justifiable. Isn't i1 now. It was as simple as this: I knew, justifiable for us to be happy, to mak~ and he knew, too, that we would be a good start on our lives together, . a ~ together now in spite of Olga. soon as ever we can?" "We'll have to talk to your mother," He kissed me then, not carin ~ Joe said at last. "We'll have to tell whether anyone was looking or not her that we love each other, and must and he said yes. In that kiss I could see each other-that we'll be married feel his need for me, as he must have as soon as we can." sensed mine for him. It was a kiss of I shook my head. "It won't work promise-promise of happiness for two. Joe. You don't know Olga as I do. Sh~ people so very much in love! won't listen to us,'" I insisted. "You "When shall we go?" he whispered. see, Olga is. sure that with you I'm "Let's think about it tonight, and headed for the same trap in which she decide tomorrow," I suggested. "Let's found herself when she was my age. meet here again, tomorrow." Olga married a rich boy, who had a That night I lay in the dark a long : ' • Z G'NUINE ~ much better education than she, and-" time, before I could go to sleep. 1 PoC·¢·)c¢t rl (orner$--+" '~ The Real Thmgfor mountln«Snllpshots.Cards, Stllmps. #~ ~ "But I don't see what that has to do stared out my narrow window at the e rc. No pLllle needt'd. Pocker Gumm~ Inside 101' with us," Joe interrupted impatiently. star-filled night, thinking of living holding tl5!htor loose. Neal. QuIck Artis tic prlnls100. Soh].t phoro supply and ~Ibumand. "He died," I went on. "But they with Joe, thinking about loving him counlerll or send 10e today for pkg, or Juo r: '1i8~ ,~ i • and free SAmJlles to See and Tr), them. ~ ~ ~ weren't happy before that. He wanted forever, being forever happy with him' •• Engel Arl Corners Mfg. Co., ' - ' to live on an allowance from his father, I thought of Olga, too, and how shel ~ Dep" 6O'N 4711.N.cl.,k Chicago-40-1II. He didn't like to work, and didn't see would feel about my running away. why he should. And of course Olga Then again, the next afternoon, l ~ COUldn't understand that-and neither the back booth of Campus Drug, I could I understand that in anyone," I had to win Joe over once more. "Your' PI'IURE added honestly. "Mother is proud. She mother, Hilda':""l keep thinking about believes, as I do, that you have to work her," he told me. "It's not fair to her.' for what you get in this world. And RII& $:1. she believes that you can never be I SHOOK my head. "But Joe, she isn't happy if you marry someone who is being fair to us, either. She's only' a different kind of person from you-" trying to do what's right, according to "I believe those things, too," he said. the way she thinks, but she can't know "I work hard-I'm .(lot rich, goodness what's right for us." knows. I've always worked for every­ He kissed me swiftly then, and I ASTHMAT·ICS! thing I've had. But I wish I were. I knew it was all right-that Joe and I wish I were rich," he added, "and then were going away together, and that I could marry you right now, and we we were going to use the money I had lei Dr R s..:hiUmann $ ASTHMAOOR could go away from here." made from my Swedish rosettes. h~Jp r~ducc rhe s~verHy of your n~xr The blood began to pound at my And so we decided to leave the fol­ asthmaliC att,ck. notiCe how its aromatic wrists and in my throat. W~ could go lowing Thursday-one week and one fumes aid di~cr(SStd br~arh i ng, U$C it and away-Joe and I, together! I pressed day later. One week and one day that 5tt how dt"pcndabl~ ir IS - pOl~ncy rig.dly I shall never forget as long as I live sland..,d i t~d Ihroush suiCl labor.uory my fingers tightly over his hand and conuol- qua li ty always unllOrm. A~k foe he leaned forward to kiss me swiftly. -eight days in which I experienced ASTHMAOOR In powd~r Clg. ~t1~ or pipe "Shall we, Hilda? Shall we go away? every emotion in the world. I would muuur~ form at your favor j l~ drug 5tOrC'. I know where I can get a job, maybe, be si tting close beside Joe thinking Ge. ASTHMADOR .odoyl on a little country newspaper." of our life together when suddenly 1 "Whatever you want to do, I want would think of Olga, alone in the little - to do, too," I told him breathlessly. shingled house and I would be afraid! Then he frowned, and pulled himself And, then, I would be sitting witH ASTHMADOR away from me a little. "It would be Olga in our clean kitchen and I would wonderful, Hilda-but it's not right. think of Joe, and my longing for him Darling-we can make your mother would be so intense that I would be"' understand someway. I should stay, gin counting the hours until our we~j and graduate this spring, and then get ding. And on Sunday, when the boy,,! a job and start saving for that paper filled the dining room too full, I WOUld, I want to buy ,some day. That's the think of the extra room I'd been sav, right way." ing to build on to the house, and 1 It was the right way-yes. But it would be ashamed to be using the wouldn't work. Joe didn't know what money for something else. went on in Olga's mind. "She'll never It was an upsetting week for Joe,· give in," I told him. "She's so strong. too. Each day he met me in a differen~ So much stronger than you or I, or mood, until I was afraid to enter th both of us together. She'll never let drug store for our little daily snatc me marry you-it might as well be of time with each other for fear of now that we marry against her wishes , finding him unhappy. instead of later." One day Joe would talk of nothing M "But darling-it takes money to go but our'love for each other, our future

FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS--Buy WAR BONDS and STAMPS 68 life together. And the next day he the way it is when you see two persons would be thinking of our running you love pit their strength against each How to give away from Olga like "thieves in the other. It hurts so much to see them night." Sometimes he would be darkly hurt each other. brooding and nothing 1 could say' "So you were going away?" Olga's QUICK REST would change him then. That was when voice was sad. he was thinking of our using my money' "We didn't want to, Mother, really ~ to tired eyes and not his for our elopement. But, we didn't," I said, choking, "but we on that last day, we were both in gay didn't know what else to do-we want Eyes tired? Do they smart spirits. to be together so much." and burn from overwork, Joe was waiting for me 'in front of "Where were you going?" she asked. sun, dust, wind, lack of the store, proudly waving a type­ "Joe has a job on 'a newspaper in a sleep? Then cleanse written letter at me. little town." and soothe them "Wait till you read this," he said "What made you decide not to go?" the quick, easy proudly, and hurried me into the drug she asked Joe. store and back to the booth we had Joe hesitated, looking straight at her. come to consider ours. "I wouldn't take money that be­ "It's the job," he told 'me, when we longed to you." WHAT were finally settled. "Bill Branton says "The rosette money, Mother;" I ex­ 1 can go to work on his newspaper plained. "I was going to use that and IS MURINE? any time 1 want to. He says to come when Joe found out about that extra Murine is a ahead, even if he does think we're be­ room we were going to build, he scientific blend of ing a little foolish." wouldn't let me." seven ingredients-safe, "Foolish?" 1 was immediately de­ Olga smiled then, and her smile was gentle, and oh, so soothing! fensive. like the sunshine after days of rain. Just use two drops in each eye. "Oh, he thinks 1 ought to finish col­ "I think we all have to wake up," Right away Murine goes to work lege-I've got such a short time left. she said simply. She looked at Joe with to relieve the discomfort of tired, But if he says I'm going to leave any­ new admiration. "I want to beg your burning eyes. Start using Murine today. way, 1 might as well come to him, pardon-you aren't the way I thought and he'll be glad to have me. 1 can you were, at, all." go to work as soon as we arrive." "I was one of nine kids-I didn't ,1J11.lJRIN£ have much chance to get spoiled-" CAUGHT his hand. "Oh, Joe-.Toe, "I've been a stupid old woman," J J .,y!~: EYES I it's wonderful. You'll be earning Olga apologized, and we all laughed money right from the start." The words thinking how far from old was this SOOTHES. REFRESHES bubbled out of me, for they meant strong handsome Swedish woman. * 'nvest in America- Buy War Bonds anJ Stampi * release from that little, nagging feeling "Why, I nearly wrecked your lives­ of guilt that had been at the back of and mine, too," she added softly. my mind whenever 1 remembered the Slowly, the warmth of the little new room for the house that Olga familiar house crept around us -as the wanted so much. "We can start setting two persops I loved best in all the aside a little each week, and very soon world learned to understand and re­ we'll have the whole amount I'll have spect each other. Then I knew that to use to get us there saved up, and everything was going to be all right­ we can send it back to Olga, and every­ that I was going to have Joe without Send name and address! CirlsJ Boys! Ladiesl Attractive losing Olga at all. And that's the way Wrist Watches, nngs, dishes, jewelry: ()ther per:;onal andI thing will be all right!" household preminmsor C~SH CO ",!MISS~ON easilY YOnI'S The eager light in Joe's eyes faded. it's working out. SIMPLY give colorful pictures With White CLOVERIHE Brand SALVE for chaps and mild burns sold to friends at "Send it back to your mother? But 25c a box (with popnlar pictu.re) ~nd remit amonl!:ts stated for premium wanted. as explame~ I n cc.ta!og sen t Wlth order, Hilda-you said it was your money. 1 OE and I don't have to run away­ postagepaidbyns. 49tbyear. WntefortnaJorderofsa1veoD wouldn't for anything in the world J that all seems silly and far-away trusttostart. Wilson Chern.Co.. Dept. 65-46. Tyrone, Pa. take your mother's money for a day, now that Olga's helping. us with our let alone for weeks, or maybe months! new, shining plans for the future. Oh, REDUCE-This Common Sense Way I f you are overweight send for Syl via of Hollywood 's 1 thought-" we're going to be married-right next 128 page illustrated book No More Alibis and learn "It is my money," 1 interrupted week, in the little church right down how to reduce ugly fat quickly and safelY. Only 25c postp •.id. Bartholomew House. Inc.• Dept. R.M.-145. swiftly. "It is mine-l earned it · all the street where I've gone to Sunday 205 E. 42nd Street. New York 17. N. Y. myself. But it's the money Olga anct School since I first sat on a little red 1 were setting aside to build the new chair in the kindergarten department room on the house. There isn't enough a long time ago. And, then, we aren't room, you know-Olga could feed a going away until after Joe finishes lot more boys if she had the space." school this year. Joe's eyes were angry and dark, and "We've always needed a man around 1 hurried on. "But it's all right noW' here," Olga tells him often, laughing. -we can send the money for the room "Someone to fix the furnace and shovel to Olga, and-" the walk." Joe stood up quickly. So Joe and I are going to live with "We aren't going," he said with de­ Olga the rest of this year, and we're termination, and th~ way he said it going to see that she has that extra 1 knew there wasn't any use in argu­ room and a good waitress to help her ing any more. when I'm gone. And then, next sum­ -"We're going to talk to that mother mer when school's out, Joe and I will of yours right now," he said. go to Mr. Branton's town where Joe Olga was setting the table when we will have his job. But we aren't going walked in together and her face went to .stop there. Someday Joe's going to suddenly white when she saw Joe. have his own weekly newspaper in a "What are you doing here?" she little American town. Olga says she asked him. knows it will be an honest paper, and "1 want to talk to you," Joe told her I know that, too. Because Joe is that New. lovely proportions for your with a strength of purpose Which kind of a man. legs: hip", thighs, calves, .nkIes. matched hers. "Right now." Sometimes, when I sit with Joe in etc.-in this healthful. new. :\.S­ Olga put the silverware down on Olga's warm home filled with the odor tonishingly easy way. Oal, • I •• the table and just looked at him. of good, home-cooked food, I am com­ mi nilie s ,er day i. your 0 •• home. "You don't know what you're do­ pletely happy-and then I know that EFFECTIVE, LASTING RESULTS ! U,ed successfully by hundred! ing," Joe told her seriously. "Hilda Olga and I are very much alike. Both of smart women everyw here. and 1 love each other, and we want to of us love the joy of simple living­ WR ITE f OR fREE LITERATU RE TODAY! get married. And. we want to get mar­ plus a life of service. Olga's will al­ Surpri,e everyone: get started now. without obligation. ried the way other people do, but ways be here at the college-while by mailing coupon immediately to you're making us sneak around dis­ mine will be with Joe in a small Ameri­ AD~IENNE honestly. Do you know what we were can town. But, even far apart, Olga 915 SHREVE BL~G •• Salon E. SAN FRANCISCO,B. CAL going . to do? We were going to run and I will be following the same pat­ NAME...... "" _ away-right tonight!" tern of living-we'll be doing w hat we Olga motioned for us to sit down and want to do, serving our little piece of ADDRESS ...... _ .... _...... _.. _.. ... _ we did. 1 began to cry silently. That's America the best way we know how. CITY ...... < ST AT E...... ------t..·, Tired Kidneys Love's Shining Hour Continued from page 37

Often Bring shaking hands I replaced the telephone You'd hate budgets, Jerry. You'd call receiver. my ambitions for you 'nagging'. And Sleepless Nights I sank down on the straight-backed I'd know again the panic of being car­ Doctors say your kidneYSCOlltain 16 miles of tiny chair by the telephone stand. This :was ried along on a merry-go-round where tubes or filters which help to purify the blood and what I had worked so hard for, yet I the brass ring beckoned always just keep you healthy. When they get tired and don't would have given anything if only he beyond my reach. work right in the daytime, many people have to get liP Jrlghts. Frequent or scanty passages with smart­ hadn't said those words, if only I had You're afraid, a voice inside me that ing and burning sometimes shows there is something more time to think. Announce our en­ . seemed an echo of Mother's, jeered. wrong with your kidneys or bladder. Don't neglect gagement-tomorrow! Yes, I was afraid- but not of work. I this condition and lose valuable, res.tful sleep. When disorder of kidney function pennits poison­ How could I go through with it? Bow was afraid of being tied to a Scandini, ous matter to remain in your blood, it may also could I marry Sydney when I felt the a Jerry who would never want the same cause nagging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, way I did about Jerry? Yes, what I felt things I wanted. )OS9 of pep and energy, swelling, puffiness under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. must be the tender beginnings, the first It would take time, but I could for­ Don't wait 1 Ask your druggist for Doan's Pills, delicate growth of love. get him. Someday I would forget the used successfully by millions for Over 40 years. And if I did love Jerry, what a cheat strength of Jerry's arms around my They give happy relief and will help the 16 miles of kidney tubes flush out poisonous waste from and a liar I would be to marry another shoulders and the tenderness in his your blood. Get Doan's Pills. man! My hand moved back to the tele­ black eyes. phone. I would call Sydney and tell There was no tenderness there when him the truth-that it was a mistake I told Jerry that night that I couldn't and I was going to be Mrs. Jerry Scan­ see him again because I was marrying dini. Sydney Jones. There was only bitter Scandini. Mrs. Jerry Scandini! The contempt that was hard to face. very thought of that name suddenly "You know what you want, don't sent the old, old fear pulsing into my you? And you'll get it no matter whose throat, and my hand, clammy with ter­ heart you trample on to get there!" He Don', be embarrassed by ror, dropped from the telephone. What flung the words at me in the quiet room. short, broken, ·thin nails. I t's had happened to me that I could be so The ticking of the clock on the mantel so easy to coverunsi gh tly nails with NU-NAlLS. Applied in wrapped up in thoughts of Jerry that I echoed the frantic beating of my heart. a jiffy, they bring you long, could forget he was also a Scandini? Jerry was shocked and his face was lovely nails that everyone ad­ white. I had fried to explain, but he mires. Can be worn any length AS long as I could remember, the couldn't get any farther than that I Itnd polished any shade. Se~ of Scandinis had represented every­ was marrying for money, and lots of it. lOonly20c atall 5c-l0c stores. thing to me that was shiftless, happy­ "Jerry-that's not true. I'm marry­ go-lucky and sheer, careless poverty. ing because I do like Sydney, and for a NU-NAILS They were a large family, ,devoted to way of life that's important to me. I each other, working when they felt like don't expect you to understand-I don't it but always ready to drop their work want to talk about it!" to play or go to a dance or have a party. "All right." He moved close to me. The least event was the signal for a "We won't talk about it. But see if celebration and Papa Scandini would you'll ever forget this!" I clenched my pour thick, dime-store glasses full of teeth against the feel of his arms around his own home-made ruby-red wine, me, pulling me roughly towards him. singing the songs of his far-away native I fought against him. land, toasting one and all in beaming Then his lips were on mine in hard, pleasure. Mama Scandini, shapeless, rough demandin~, and I knew a mo­ fat, was adored by her children for her ment of shattermg, awakened, unbe­ great good-nature and her famous lieving surprise. Then there was noth­ spaghetti a L'asta. ing else in the world for me but the Spaghetti was cheap. Wine was pressure of his mouth on mine and the cheap. And there was no price for the wild, surging answer in my blood. happiness that flowed through their ramshackle house. THE room swirled in wraithlike mist But there was another side to it. . and the only reality, the only thing There was the way people looked when that was alive was the feeling of my they mentioned the Scandinis, and the heart so close to his, the muscles of his way cautious mothers warned their arms pressing me tight against him, and Now. at bome. YOU can quicklY and easily teUtale streaks of gray to natural-appearing sbades-from Ilghtest children about playing with them. the thrilling yielding weakness of my blonde to darkest bla.Ck. Brownatone and a small brusb There were pride and self-respect. body to the wonder of his kiss. does It--

N n.m ...... - ...... n ...... folks taught me never to worry about you suppose she's gone on to one of CPluse Print) little things." her mysterious dates? She's been act- Addre •••• t'! ...... • ing SO queerly. Poor Mother, she must try to marry Sydney, but it was all WEDD'NGRING have had a ghastly time trying to ex­ right for her to marry his father. Where £Nfi'A;tf,£NT plain the missing fiancee to Sydney and were all those fine preachings about not Mr. Jones. After all, that was supposed wanting money, when she grabs the BARGAIN to be my engagement party!" first rich man that comes along! "Any regrets?" Jerry asked, smiling. Something of what I felt must have Then we both heard the door opening showed in my face, because she was at that same moment. pleading, begging for my trust. Mother stood in the ·arch-way, look­ "He really needs me, Penny. He's so ing at us with a demure, half-smile on lonely, he's never had any fun, he's her lips. I had expected to find her worked so hard! He thinks maybe I can drawn and exhausted after her ordeal make a human being out of Sydney. with Sydney, but there was only one And I do love him-it isn't what you word for her then . .. blooming. think-" her voice trailed away. "Was it awful, Mother? It was mean Suddenly I was laughing. Carefree, of me to ask you to make my excuses." happy laughter. They joined me, after a moment, and we were all rocking HE turned away from hanging up her with -laughter. S coat. "Sydney was a little angry, Mother, who didn't care a ·fig about but it was mostly his pride and he'll get money and SOCIal position was going to The Dennison Handy Helper Says: over it. I n ever did think he was so have wealth. poured into her lap, and much in love with you as he was in I-I who had dreamed my lonely "PLAN TO BUY U. S. WAR BONDS love with your looks. No; as a matter thoughts about the house on the "Hill" of fact, it wasn't a horrible party at all. was going to have a room somewhere AND STAMPS REGULARLY It was one of the nicest parties I've ever near an Army camp. gone to. A lovely engagement party." But I had Jerry. As I watched Jerry "Engagement party!" I exclaimed. and Mother waltzing crazily around the "Why, yes." Now her eyes were room to the tune of the "Wedding twinkling and her own peculiar, little­ March," such happiness as I had never girl, impish smile lit up her face. "You known before overwhelmed me. So asked me to straighten things out for close I had come to losing him, all you, P enny, so I felt I'd better get a his tender warmth, his steel-spring substitute. " strength, the joyousness and gayety Jerry had. been watching' her face that was so much a part of him­ with dawning comprehension in his that I shuddered. I wouldn't trade him eyes. He stopped her short. "You-you; for all the comfort that awaited me on Cissy, and Harvey Jones! So that's the the "Hill." Mother would be happy reason for all the sneaking out in the there because she loved Harvey Jones. evenings and not telling us where you'd There would be no monogrammed been-" towels Or engraved silver Or Waterford It was a bombshell. Incredulous dis­ china where I was going. And I knew belief, and, yes, jealous anger flooded something else that wouldn't be going me. What right had she-that was to with me. have been my party! And after the way 1 wasn't going to take the oval­ she had acted! It wasn't right for ·me to framed picture of Grandmother Stevens. Sixteen Continued from page 20 was glad of my saddle shoes and my I said off-handedly. "Everyone does." straight light hair and the plain, casual His tone was as off-hand as mine. clothes Mother selected for me. I re­ ·"1 thought I'd go out that night, my­ belled against Mother's restrictions, but self, but tha~ school dance sounds kind I wasn't stupid enough to like the of slow to me. I'd like to go to the Tr ams hair 3!'! It c ombsJ kind of freedom the Weston repre­ Oaks. I thought-maybe you'd break 'Easyl QUickl Keeps men' s , women's, children' s hair sented. Its wildness-if it could be your date for that night and go with e J~~~{ng n a3'1' t~:sh\~~f called that-wasn't at all thrilling; it me." Trims, tapers, thins out uneven h ail'. Us ". like ordinary comb. Safe. Simple. No was just cheap and a little grimy, like 5 AMP L E 5 FOR AGE N TS ~~:.";\onHne J~; the Weston itself. MENTIONING my date was pure gal- legs, underarms! SeliA like w i ld! SamPle offer sent 1m- lantry; Tommy knew that I hadn't :j~J~~)~~~alAow~~~~~ f~ey:~r °nni~·e.AK"~~VE rl~ ! Then, on second thought, I saw that 449 Bar St ... AKRON. OHIO. Markham's wouldn't be a good idea. one. But-the Oaks! I sat staring at Esther and Marian might see- me there, him, caught completely off-balance, a L.EARN and there was just a chance that they little frightened. I hadn't thought he'd might mention it to Mother if they invite me to the Oaks-a big roadhouse MILLINERY should happen to meet her on the outside of town, which advertised thick street. Besides, it was worth going steaks and good liquors and hot bands. AT HOME to the Weston to be with Tommy. Then a picture crossed my mind of DesJIm and make exclusi'fe Every afternoon w e stopped there be­ Tommy and me sitting at a table hats under personal direc­ tion or one or America's fore he drove m e home; and those shaded with soft lights, and a band noted designers. Coml)Iete materials, blocks, etc .• playing softly . " It was a glamorous, furnIshed. Every step 1llustrated. You make exclu­ twenty minutes Or so that we spent sive salable hats right from the start. We teach you over a coke were what I looked for­ exciting picture, and I wasn't afraid how to start a I)rofitable business In SI)3re time. Low any more. I was planning, scheming r.ost and easy terms. Expert milUnrrs are in demand ward t o all day long, what I dreamed Free National Placement Dept. Send for free catalog. about at night. how to manage to make the picture a LOUIE MILLER SCHOOL OF MILLINERY 225 N. Wabash A.e., Dept. 191. Chicaao I, III. It was in the Weston, moreover, that reality. "I might," I said cautiously. an unforgettable thing happened-I "I'll have to see." And then sheer had my first real invitation from a boy, inspiration struck me, considering that made my first real date. Tommy and if I'd be allowed out at all, my father I were sitting there one afternoon, sip­ w6uld undoubtedly accompany me. I ping cokes and waiting for the time added, "I might even &et my father to to start home. It was the week before drive me to the dance.' the Christmas holidays, and on the "Swell!" said Tommy. "Then I'll wall was tacked a dignified black-and­ pick you up at the Athena Club, and white placard, announcing the Junior w e'll go on the Oaks for a real time." Dance, which would be held as usual I lived through the next few days in at the Athena Club a few nights be­ a fever of anticipation and anxiety. fore Christmas. Tommy kept glancing I held my breath while I asked Mother at the card; finally he nodded to it., if I could go to the dance, although asked me, "Are you going?" I really didn't expect her to refuse. My heart swooped upward. This was 'The Junior Dance was heavily chaper­ practically an invitation. "I suppose so." oned and a tradition in town; it marked • the official beginning of the holidays we danced, something in the way he for the young people, and upperclass­ looked at me across the table, that men from all of the high schools at­ made my heart quicken. Several times tended it. But she said that I could he started to say something and go, on the condition that my father stopped, and finally, when the orches­ drive me there and bring m e home, tra took an intermission and we had and she even suggested buying me a a longer time than usual at the table, new dress be-fore I thought to ask for he got it out. He leaned across the one. I had qualms then over deceiving table, his young face intent and earnest, her about the dance, but when we his young voice suddenly husky. picked out the dress-a long dress, "Joyce," he said, "will you be my very simple, with a nipped-in bodice girl? I mean, will you promise not that made nothing of my waist-I could to go out with anyone else but me?" think of nothing but how Tommy How do you answer a question like would look when he saw me in it. that? How do you frame one simple I had a date with Tommy, and my word-yes-so that a boy will know first party dress. It seemed too good how deliriously happy he has made to be happening to me, and up until the you by asking it? last moment I was terribly afraid .tha t I didn't have a chance to answer. something would go wrong. Driving A large party came into the room at to the Athena Club with my father on that moment and took the long table the night of the dance, I was so ex,.. next to us. There was no ignoring cited that I could hardly talk. He no­ them; they had evidently been cele­ DAYS~ ticed my silence, and he mistook it for brating soine occasion, an!:! they .were TRIAI. ~.;G.iiI.ii.iiiii_ resentment over his driving me to the very gay and very noisy, and I couldn't 2'~W Yes, this beautiful "True-Love" dance. Father was more easy-going get a word across to Tommy except by ,;; I Bracelet is delightfully new, rich than Mother, and he took my part shouting. They hadn't sat down be­ N and lovely. Everyone who sees this pre­ fore a pretty, dark girl pointed to cious solid Sterlin~ Silver, seven-inch Brace­ against her sometimes, but he always let in the exquiSite True-Love, Heart-link gave up very soon, just as I did. "You'll Tommy. "There's a handsome boy,'" design, immediately wants one. Each link has have a good time, Joycie," he said now, she announced clearly. "I like the way floral and heart design suitable for engrav ­ his hair curls." ing initials of loved ones and friends. Safety encouragingly. "And I-well, I won't clasp. Ten links. The bracelet of love and come to pick you up too early." One of the men asked, "Do you romance. The newest style from New York want me to get him for you?" to Hollywood. .Be first to wear one. OMMY was waiting in the lobby, "I want to dance with him," she T standing alone, and for a second 1 lau~hed. "You dance with the girl. thought he was looking wistfully at the She s pretty, too." SEND NO MONEY group of which Walter Daniels and Tommy's face was brick red. He " Te .... on 10 Days money-baCk goarantee. Jus t ::~~ ~;;,~oedf a~:~e a~ndd ~:~r~~~ ~~;-t~~riC~~~; Marian and Esther formed the laughing looked annoyed, but he grinned un­ $ 2. 95 plus a few cent s maihng cost and 20 '"" nucleus. Then he saw me, and his certainly, and I smiled too, but not Fede r al t a x, on a rrival. When y ou tryon tbls face lightened. "Gosh, you look swell, directly at them. Then the man and Bracelet. ex quIsitely wroug h t in solid Sterling Silver. y ou wouldn't pa rt With it because of its Joyce!" he exclaimed. "I thought you'd the girl were advancing upon our nove lty a nd spa rkling beauty. The supply is never get here." table, so gaily and confidently 'that it limited. Write today. Tommy held my hand on the drive seemed rude to refuse them. Before EMPIRE DIAMOND CO. to the Oaks, and if our first sight of I knew it, Tommy was getting up to the place was a little disappointing, dance with the girl, and I was dancing Dept. 8·34 Jefferson. Iowa we were too intent upon being to­ with the man. gether, dancing together for a whole After that, I didn't stop dancing. One STAMMER?"Thls Dew 128·page book. "Stammering. Its Cause • evening, to notice. It was quieter than after another the men at the table and Correction." describes the Bogue Unit Method I'd expected, and; after the gay crowd danced with me, and then began to for scieotlfic correction of stammerin~ and stUt- ., , tering-suceessful tor 44 Years. BenJ. N. BOQue. we'd left at the Athena Club, it looked tag me on the floor. The place grew Dept. 1167. Circle Tower. Indianapolis 4. Ind . almost empty. There were only a few more and more crowded; and the or­ other persons besides ourselves. chestra played on and on. faster and J(J LOf)ely Pencils Given A,vay The headwaiter guided us to a table, faster. I saw Tommy dancing with very politely asked for our order. one of the girls, and then my partner "Two Tom Collins," Tommy told him. whirled me away. "Noisy in here, isn't The waiter looked at me, at him. it,'·, he said thickly. "How old are you, sir?" Tommy flushed. "Well-two cokes. I ADMITTED that it was, breathlessly. then. They'll do for a starter." I liked him least of any of the crowd The waiter suppressed a smile. "Two we'd fallen' in with. He was younger Coca-colas. Very good, sir." than the others-perhaps in his early I was relieved. It hadn't occurred to twenties-but heavy-ish, and sullen­ ANY PHOTO ENLARGED me that Tommy would expect me to looking, and he held me too tightly. Size 8 x 10 Inches drink. I wasn't sure that I could drink "Then we'll get out of here." He on DOUBLE-WEIGHT PAPER 57 10 liquor, if it tasted the way the bottle danced toward a corner of the room. Same price for foil leogth or y of brandy Mother kept in the medicine I stiffened, stopped dancing. "Please!" ~:rt~~~:!::c:~ meats .of &AT part of groOD chest smelled. But Tommy looked un­ I whispered in a panic, and he laughed. pictu.re• comfortable, and when the music "What's the matter, baby? Scared?" .~n~- .. d ";!h YOopt • • AT : • National Radio InsUtutfl. '''8-~hlngton ~. D. C. : solution, a kindly, intelligent, sympathetic listener. That is the purpose of the Good i ~~.~I~e riar:~) book FREE. (No s:11esman mIl ('all. : Will Hour. Mr. Anthony is an able domestic relations counsellor as well as a humani­ tarian, so that his advice combines authenticity with common sense. For drama that is · . II exciting and heart-warming because it is true, listen to the Good Will Hour, Sundays at 10:00 P.M., EWT, over Mutual. i :::~:~~: :::: : ::::::::::::::::'::::~:::~::::::: ::::::::::~:~.~.~:.. : ...... := i ·: CIT\" .•.•.••.•.•••••.•.•...• _ ...... •••... ~ .••.•.•.••..STAT&. .••.• _ ..•. _ .: ...... , 3 down the aisle to the coat room. "Get smart. I'm taking no chances on any­ your wrap," he whispered, "and get out one's cutting' in-" and he waltzed me to the car, quick. I'll settle the check over to the door, and then led me to and be right out-" the milk bar in the lobby. Somehow I got my coat,. stumbled It was there that Tommy found me across the parking lot to the car. 1. a few m.inutes later. He came out of sat there shaking, setting my teeth the ballroom with Marian on his arm. against the nausea that swept over me, They stopped to talk with a group of drawing deep, desperate breaths of the boys and girls standing around the fresh air. It couldn't have been more ballroom door, and then he left her than a few minutes before Tommy and hurried over to me. "There you ·came out, but it seemed ages. "You all are!" he said. rIght, Joyce?" he asked anxiously. "See here," Tim interrupted. "She's "1-1 guess so," I answered shakily. my girl. I got her out of that crowd-" "Thanks, Tommy, for what you did." "She's my date," said Tommy im­ "Don't thank me. It was my fault. perturbably. -"I guess I can ask her I was a fool to bring you out there." for the next dance if I want to." I didn't say anything. I was still I sa t there smiling from one to the too frightened and too revolted to care other, knowing that I looked very much to talk. I still felt the heavy hands the way Esther looked when she sat pawing at me. But I knew that it on a stool at Markham's, with a couple wasn't Tommy's fault that we'd gone of boys arguing amiably over her. to the Oaks, even though he'd sug­ I haven't words to tell you what that gested it. It was mine-because all the dance at the Athena Club meant to me. while I'd been lying to my parents, I'd Perhaps no words could ever tell you been lying to Tommy, too, in a way. -unless you ever walked alone I'd met him secretly at the Weston through the halls in school, or walked Pharmacy; I'd sneaked rides home with past a place like Markham's, stealing him; for all he knew I was the kind wistful glances at the lucky ones inside. of girl who could manage to go any­ There was the last dance-the best where she chose, the kind of girl who'd dance, because I had it with Tommy, often gone to places like the Oaks. and no one was allowed to cut in, so we could give ourselves over com­ E drove back to the Athena Club. pletely to the spell of the slow, sweet W I didn't want to go; I wanted only , music and the- dimming light. Then to be home, hiding from my shame and the ballroom emptied, and the girls revulsion-but obviously we had to be went to the powder room for their at the Club when my father came wraps-and even there a triumph came to pick me up. We got back just .in to me. Marian Nelson linked arms time for the grand march, and it was with me chummily when we left the simple enough to fall in line with the mirror, as if she'd been taking my arm others, quite as if we'd been there all for years. "Tommy's a darling, Joyce," evening. she said. "I'm having some of the Suddenly it was wonderful and safe crowd at the house tomorrow, and r to swing along with the others in the want you both to come. Esther and I measured tempo of the march. Safe, only started talking about it this eve­ and familiar. All about me were only ning, so I'll have to call you and let people I had known for a long time.,. you know the time-" or strangers who were hardly strangers "That will be wonderful," I said, at all because they were just the same and I meant it. I was in. I was one kind of people as my friends, as 1. of the crowd at last. Here were no hard eyes, or thickened Tommy was waiting for me in the voices, no hands stretched out in any­ lobby, standing near the door where thing but gaiety and friendliness. The he could watch for Father's car in the ballroom of the Athena Club was long procession of cars that slid under brightly lighted, and all who danced the canopy. He didn't look at all wistful under the lights, liked it that way, now. His eyes were shining, and I knew for they ,had nothing to hide. It was that he'd had every bit as good a time clean; it was good. as I'd had. The first thing he said to The march broke up into partners me was, "Are you going to Marian's in a fast ·waltz. I was spun half-way tomorrow?" across the floor before I realized that In my present exalted state of hap­ not Tommy, but Walter Daniels, was piness it didn't occur to me that I my partner. And-not only was I wouldn't be allowed to go. "Of course," dancing with Walter Daniels, but he I said. "Call me-" , was saying, "You're a beautiful dancer, There wasn't time to say anything Joyce! Where've you been all evening?" more, because Father's car nosed under ~.D,B,~~$.> ~J FOr a second something stuck in my the canopy, and I had to hurry into MOSCO. Relieves Ingrown Nalls. Easy to use, Just rub on. At your ~ throat. It was unbelievable, but it so as not hold up the others. Father Druggist. Jars. lOc, SOc. Money refunded if not Walter, who 'went around with girls asked, "Did you have a good time?" satisfied. Tho Mos. Co .• Rochester. N. Y. like Marian and Esther, was actually I drew a long, wondering sigh, and complimenting me-and meaning it! my head drooped to his shoulder. M O'S C 0 ~~':~YE R There was no mistaking the interest "Super-perfect," I murmured, sleepily. in his voice. Then my throat came unstuck, and I heard myself saying I WOKE late the next morning, with a pertly, as Marian herself might have queer, flat feeling. I couldn't under­ replied, "You just haven't seen me, stand it, because the night before had that's all." been marvelous, the wonderful last "That," s

HIS page is woman-talk. A piece the plainest girl in town, if she's amus­ of straight-from-the-shoulder ad­ ing and fun, in preference to the T vice for girls who want to be at­ "All right, I am no Hedy Lamarr. "beautiful and bored," Joan believes. tractive to men, and don't know how But I get around. Every woman can She has no use whatever for the Band to go about it-from orie who has found do the same thing ..." says Joan B's of the world-"you've seen them," out the secret. Davis, radio's leading comedienne. she says, "sitting around in cocktail If men cluster around you like flies, bars in their handsome Adrian clothes, don't bother to read further. But if the their expensive John Frederics hats, man of your dreams still eludes your their Antoine hair-dos, and their nasty, grasp, listen for a momen! to Holly­ selfish faces." wood's most unconventional glamour Men will take it once or twice, for expert, Miss Joan Davis, radio's "Queen the sake of being seen with someone of Comedy," and star of one of the decorative, Joan says, and then they most riotous shows on the air, heard will run away screaming. That's why Thursday nights on NBC. so many of the Band B's are never the You think you'd rather ask Hedy La­ Big B's-Brides! marr how to be beautiful? All right, but "My eleven-year-old daughter, Bev­ as Joan sees it, it isn't beauty' you're erly, is turning' into a beauty-heaven after-it's the right man. She doesn't help her," Joan moans. "Cy and I care if you throwaway your make-up are doing all we can to keep this ter­ box, and cancel your subscriptions to rible fact from her." (Cy is Cy Wills, all the fashion magazines. You can Joan's former vaudeville partner, now practice her glamour methods without one of the writers of her radio show­ them. But let her tell it: and most ' importantly, her husband.) "All right, I am no Hedy Lamarr. But "We figure if we can keep her inter­ I get around. I married the man I ested in people and things-make her wanted-twelve years ago-and I've think that the things she does, her hung onto him, in the teeth of Holly­ hikes with the Girl Scouts, her dancing wood. You can do the same thing­ classes, her swimming, are more im­ and I don't care what your face is like­ portant than her clothes and how she if you are willing to forget about how looks in them, we will have given her you look for awhile, and relax and have a good start. fun!" ",By the time she finds out that she's The girls who spend hours in beauty a 'looker', she will be much too ab­ shops trying to make their hair look sorbed in living to care." like Betty Grable's, or fiddle in public But how do you get absorbed in life? with lipstick brushes trying to emulate Absorbed in whom? In what? These Joan Crawford's mouth are on the 'will be questions to trouble ~irls who wrong track, Joan says. have approached the busmess of Nine chances out of ten they won't glamour from this angle. look like Betty or Joan after they've Joan thinks there are a million gone to all the trouble. What's wor s~, answers. She is absorbed in her job. they won't look like themselves. No She grants that some jobs aren't as man's going to fall in love with a girl amusing as hers, don't make such use­ who is a pale imitation of one movie ful dinner-table talk or warm-up-the­ star one week, and of another movie strangers-anecdotes. Then, she says, star the next ... he wants a girl with concentrate on your hobbies. gumption enough to be herself! Joan didn't have time for hobbies as Not, Joan says, that a girl shouldn't long as she was "on the road." Travel­ make the most of what she has . ... ing took up all of her spare time, but "I keep my hair brushed and set," she she did develop an interest in Cy's admits "and I do as good a job as I can hobbies-golf and fishing, and going to with my make-up before I leave the the prizefights. And she learned how to house. But once I've finished it , I for­ talk intelligently about them. When get it." her career settled down to radio-with Boredom has ruined more romances its advantages of permanence and than smeared lipstick, Joan believes­ leisure-Joan developed hobbies of her and she challenges any beauty con­ own-golf, fishing, and going to the sultant to match her file of case his­ prizefights! tories. Joan has been watching people "If you want to know the secret of fall in-and out-of love since she went the success of our marriage," Joan says, on the stage at the age of three. At "you've got it r~ght there. We have the seven, when she first made the Pantages same interests-the same work, and the circuit, she was sophisticated enough same fun." about the whole business to assure her And if the man in your life hasn't mother that one backstage romance on arrived on the scene as yet, Joan ad­ which she had been eavesdropping vises, dig up some hobbies on your own! R wouldn't last. Many a girl has met her future husband "She talks about herself all the time J> on the golf links, or in photography M little Joan told mama, revealing herseif class, or even-if she was the intellec­ a child prodigy in understanding what tual type-in the public library! makes a man stick around. RADIO MIRROR So put down that mirror, girls, and Any man worth wanting will take DOME and BEAUTY get a move on. 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