Hollywood (1942)

The Lady Who Kb Km* — Willi Words What A Wife Must Know To Safeguard Happiness Safe New Way in Feminine Hygiene Gives Continuous Action for Hours • It is all too true that ignorance of physical facts can wreck any wife's married happiness. Yet thousands of women, instead of informing themselves regarding feminine hygiene, cither place their dependence on weak, ineffective ••home-made' ' mixtures, or resort to over-strong solutions of acids which can burn, scar and desensitize delicate tissue. Today such risks are needless. Informed women have turned to Zonitors — the safe, new way in feminine hygiene. These dainty, snowwhite suppositories kill germs instantly at contact. Spread greaseless. protective coating. Deodorize — not by temporarily masking — but by destroying odors. Cleanse antiseptically and give continuous medication for hours. Yet! Zonitors are saf» for delicate tissues. Powerful — yet non-poisonous, non-caustic. Even help promote gentle healing. No apparatus; nothing to mix. At all druggists. . N. '•■ , NAi'K ' aPPRESS. ■■ ic-itv •■ .STATE w S^IM^ USE ONLY AS DIRECTED ON PACKAGE By MAY DRISCOLL ■ In its time, Hollywood has weathered many things: Among them earthquakes, floods and double features. But the one thing it can not take is ridicule. So when Ilka Chase included a few acid chapters about Hollywood in her best seller. Past Imperfect, it was thought that she had penned her obituary in films. To begin with, her stock had never been too high in pictures, and when she left Hollywood three years ago after a none too sensational career, neither producers nor fans clamored for her return. Now with her cyanide impressions of Hollywood raising blisters on the hides of several important persons in movietown, she was supposed to be really through. Some of her gentle observations which riled Hollywood were: "They say you go to hell in the tropics. Hollywood is semi-tropical, so it takes you twice as long but you get to hell in the end." And again: "The brooding look in the eyes of Charles Boyer has less to do with sex than with doping his chances for a royal flush." Well, stuff like that was supposed to cook Miss Chase's movie goose. But lo and behold, Ilka barged into town with maid, secretary and movie contract to appear with Bette Davis in Now, Voyager and later with Claudette Colbert in No Time for Love. Actually, her return wasn't brought on by her increased fame as author of a best-seller. It had nothing to do with the success of her book. Irving Rapper, director of Now, Voyager, knew Ilka, thought she was a good actress and asked her to come out to play in the picture, thereby stirring the hornet's nest. There was quite a furore when she arrived. One Hollywood paper had an editorial which was all for booting her out of town and bitterly declared that people who wrote derogatory things about Hollywood shouldn't be employed in pictures. But Ilka cocked a nonchalant eyebrow, shrugged a slim shoulder, and met all combatants with a fitting squelch. The Fredric Marches, old friends of hers, invited her to her first party in town. Present was a film personality whom she had ribbed I * J • i Ilka Chase's cyanide impressions of the film colony raised blisters on several important Hollywood hides. In spite of that, she won a nice role in /Vow, Voyager in her book. "Glad to see you — anyway," said the victim. "Be nice," purred Ilka. "I'm revising for a second edition any minute now." She had a standard crusher which she used very sweetly. "I think," she would say slowly, "I think I shall have to put you in my next book." But Hollywood soon forgot its peeve at Ilka when she had the opportunity to show them that she was really a nice girl under all that acid. Bette Davis had planned to say to her when they were introduced on the set, "Well, Ilka, are you slumming?" But Uka charmed her so quickly that instead of baring claws, the two girls sat down and had a cup of tea together. Uka couldn't understand why Hollywood thought she had written a nasty book about it. "I thought I made fun of myself in the book, but everybody seems to have ignored that angle. My cracks about Hollywood are edged — but all my cracks are edged inclu iing those made about myself. I don't see why Hollywood should think it's nurturing a viper." Ilka's adventures in Hollywood this time were far happier than they were three years ago. 52