Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1944)

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If you gave her the choice, she'd make it half-and-half, the way it was this year. She and Mary Lou had loads of fun on "Since You Went Away." Mary Lou Isleib's been her stand-in for ages, and one of her very best friends. At first Mary Lou kept pretty busy writing letters to a certain sailor, and Shirley was supposed to help. Only she did more kibetzing (the Temple version of kibitz) than helping. Anyway, it didn't matter, because Mary Lou kind of lost interest in the sailor, poor dear. They did quite a lot of giggling, which was rather hard on the others who'd sometimes look pained. But it must be a disease at sixteen that you can't do very much about. For instance, Jennifer had to kiss Joseph Cotten, and he came off with lipstick all over him. Well, who wouldn't laugh? Of course she'll admit they didn't have to yell, "Yah! Yah! Joseph got kissed!" That was more like ten maybe, but you get a relapse now and then. Monty Woolley was the one who really broke Shirley up. Once she was supposed to be feeding a turtle in the bathtub and looking up at him wide-eyed. Mr. Woolley, not the turtle. He was standing out of the scene, and when she looked up, he was making this horrible face at her, and she burst out laughing. Naturally the director got peeved. Probably rued the day he. NEGLECTED CUTICLE —when it's so easy to keep cuticle trim with Trimal! The safe, gentle way to remove cuticle is the % same method used by professional manicurists. Simply wrap cotton around manicure stick and apply Trimal. Then watch dead, loose cuticle soften. Wipe it away with a towel. You'll be amazed and delighted with results! Ask for the 10c or 25c size now (manicure stick and cotton included)— at drug, department or 10c stores. TRIMAL keeps cuticle trim without cutting WELL-MANICURED CUTICLE TRIMAL LABORATORIES • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA ever got Monty Woolley and Shirley Temple together — And another thing. Mr. Woolley had this accomplishment. He could talk without moving his beard, so nobody knew he was talking but the person right next to him. They'd be in a scene together, and out of this perfectly quiet beard would, come some quaint remark, and no matter how hard she tried not to, she'd simply explode. The director thought she was just being silly, for which she can't blame him — She'd try to get back at Mr. Woolley by singing "Mairzy Doats" just before he went into a scene. That worked at first, because he couldn't fathom it, and he couldn't stand it, but it grew on him the way it does on most people, and by the end of the picture he was singing it himself. He's an awfully nice man — hooky pays off . . . Then the picture was finished, and they went to Palm Springs for a vacation, and all of a sudden "I'll Be Seeing You" popped up. The studio called them Saturday morning and said to come right back, not even to go home first. They thought it must be retakes, but when they got to Mr. O'Shea's office, he said it was a part in "I'll Be Seeing You," and they called wardrobe and make-up, and she did a test with Ginger Rogers, and they gave her a script, and she started working the next Tuesday. That was really a surprise. In "I'll Be Seeing You" she's seventeen — quite a difference from fourteen in "Since You Went Away." She plays Miss Rogers' cousin, and Miss Rogers plays a girl who has to go to jail because a man got fresh, and she pushed him away and he fell out of a window. It wasn't her fault that the window happened to be low — Then, when "I'll Be Seeing You" was finished, Shirley went back to Westlake. From what happened a week or so later, you might think she wasn't glad to go back. But she was, she's always glad to go back. Only it happened to be a very beautiful day, and Shirley and this other girl got to school a little late — after chapel had started. They stood in plain sight at the door for a minute, and then they just couldn't bear it — the day was so beautiful, and besides, they had a sick friend in Westwood and felt sorry for her. So they turned around and headed for Westwood. On the street, Shirley wears dark glasses. It's a kind of disguise. They found their sick friend able to sit up, so they went out again and bought her some nourishment — chocolate cake and cookies and a bottle of milk — which made her feel even better. Then they ambled back to school, conversing about things in general and ditching in particular — "We missed a big English test." "Yes, that was pretty foolish." "Think they'll know we ditched?" "Maybe not — " Shirley stopped short. "My goodness, of course they'll know. We just stood right there in the chapel door, that's all — with just about two hundred and fifty girls staring right at us!" "That means we'll be reported!" "Then we'd better go report ourselves first." So they wrote a letter to the principal,' and got called up in front of the student council — my, that was embarrassing. They had to stay in school three extra hours, and they got points off all over the place, and Shirley drew a conclusion. Ditching's not worthwhile — not when they catch you. 4