Modern Screen (Aug-Dec 1943)

opposition. The day is approaching when ! Dan's father and mother are to come and visit him. From here on things move to a startling climax, as you'll discover when you see the picture. John Craven who deserted Broadway ( recently for the movies turns in a fine performance as Dan, and there couldn't be a prettier Lucy than Dorothy Morris. But it's Mabel Paige as Mrs. Freeman wholl steal your heart away. — Rep. P. S. An entire elevator was constructed on one of Republic's sound stages, and all the scenes in it were completed without once having anyone get stuck between floors. . . John Craven is the son of the famous actor, Frank Craven . . . One of the biggest scenes in the film takes place around a Christmas tree. The day they shot it, in April, one of the electricians was called to the phone and told his son had just walked in. at home, after being at Guadalcanal for months. The cast insisted he take the tree home and hold a belated Christmas party for the young Marine. I SAW IT HAPPEN I was in the powder room of the Hotel Astor when a very beautiful girl entered and struck up a conversation with me. Later, when we returned to our tables, she introduced me to her escort, and I started to introduce her to mine but realized I didn't know her name. Laughing, she told me, "Turner's the name. Lana Turner." Mary Shelko New York, N. Y. HI DIDDLE DIDDLE Martha Scott is young and lovely, and it's high time she had a fling at being a glamour girl. She gets her chance in "Hi Diddle Diddle" and, believe me, she makes the most of it. She plays Janie Prescott, a cafe society beauty who's engaged to a sailor. You know how sailors are — a smile for every girl, and a girl in every port. Janie thinks Sonny (Dennis O'Keefe) is different. But she begins to have her doubts when he's late to the wedding, and from then on Sonny gets farther behind the eight ball with every reel. He and Janie get married all right, but his father, Colonel Phyffe (Adolphe Menjou) involves him in so many plots and counterplots that he has no time for a honeymoon. Sonny only has fortyeight hours' leave, anyway, and here it is vanishing, with Jane still a wife in name only. Meanwhile she's beginning to suspect him of an affair with a night club entertainer (June Havoc). Colonel Phyffe has married a temperamental opera singer (Pola Negri) while Sonny was at sea. The colonel tries to keep her from knowing he has a grown son, let alone a daughter-inlaw. Result: Janie is suspected of being her father-in-law's girl friend. It's all a little complicated, and made more so by Janie's mother, Mrs. Prescott. Youll understand why _when I tell you that she is played by Billie Burke. Dennis O'Keefe is exuberant, as usual, and Pola Negri stages a comeback as the opera singer. But the piece de resistance is definitely Martha Scott in a bathing suit. — UA. (Continued on page 18) 2. After your garden has started to grow, it's very important to use Pepsodent — the film removing tooth paste. This puts a bright gleam on your teeth ... so if the sun doesn't come out one day, you can walk around with a big broad smile and shine on your vegetables. 4. Well, that's all. Just don't forget the tomatoes. I find the best way to remember them is to keep their phone numbers in a little book. You know, the same book you write in when you want to remember to buy Pepsodent . . . the only tooth paste containing Irium. Film on teeth collects This film -coated mirror stains, makes teeth look illustrates how smiles are dull and dingy. Film is clouded when common what hides the true place methods fail to cleaa brightness of your smile. film away. 3. Watch out for pests. I'm not bothered with birds any more . . . since I tossed a tube of Pepsodent into their nest. Now they haven't time to do any damage — they're too busy brushing each other's teeth and singing, "Oh, it floats away film with the greatest of ease ! " But look what Irium That's how Pepsodent does to that film! It with Irium uncovers the loosens and floats it natural, cheery bright away, leaves the surface ness of your smile . . . clean and bright. safely and gently. How IRIUM in Pepsodent uncovers brighter teeth AUGUST, 1943 15