Modern Screen (Jan-Jun 1945)

P. s. A painting of Bill Powell, copied and photographed onto canvas by an Italian artist, was discovered on the walls of a Venetian castle by Sgt. J. C. Lewis (Diana's brother) in Italy. Sgt. Lewis mailed the picture home in a shell case. Bill gave it to his mother as a birthday gift. . . . During production Mrs. Asta (wife of the famous movie star) gave birth to quintuplets. Present for the proud father came to the set. It was a box with five tiny fire-plugs, and the card said, "From one doggoned good family to another. Lassie." . . . Donald and Mrs. Meek left for Mexico after Don's scenes were completed. It's their first vacation for ten years. Both have been studying Spanish for several months. . . . Myrna learned to jitterbug from her maid, Theresa Penn, who is a national champion. Theresa supplied the jive records, and the two spent hours together cutting rugs. AND NOW TOMORROW When Alan Ladd plays a doctor, he leaves out the bedside manner. He uses a hypodermic needle as if it were a machine gun. In "And Now Tomorrow" his Dr. Merek Vance is as hard and cynical as any gangster he ever played, yet underneath the hardness are the qualities which a good doctor needs most — courage and understanding. He needs understanding especially for the case of Emily Blair. Emily, played by Loretta Young, is the aristocratic and beautiful owner of the Blairstown mills. She has never come into contact with poverty or illness — until she has an attack of meningitis which leaves her stone deaf. Emily is engaged to Jeff Stoddard (Barry Sullivan), but she has too much pride to let the marriage go through, now that she has lost her hearing. She tries to give Jeff back his ring, but he makes her keep it and tells her she'll soon be cured. His optimism is not justified. For two years Emily travels from one specialist to another, only to learn that there is no cure for deafness caused by meningitis. At last she comes back to Blairstown, and her. family doctor (Cecil Kellaway) persuades her to let his young assistant, Dr. Vance, try some new serum treatments. Vance and Emily are antagonistic from the beginning, yet they feel a subconscious attraction. Vance is the son of a mill worker and has hated the Blair family since his poverty-stricken childhood. Emily resents this attitude and also his cavalier rudeness to her, as a patient. Yet when she knows him better, she admires him both as a doctor and as a man. Jeff, meanwhile, has involved himself in a secret romance with Emily's sophisticated sister, Janice (Susan Hay ward). You can't blame him too much — Emily has been away a long time, and she never did love him in Janice's wild, reckless fashion. But he doesn't want to hurt Emily, and in spite of Janice's pleas, is prepared to marry her if she still wants him. She thinks she does want him. She even plans the wedding and rehearses it. Then two things happen in quick succession which change her whole life. — Par. P. S. Paramount's picturization of the Rachel Field best seller brings Alan Ladd back before the cameras following ten months' service in the United States Air Corps. . . Cecil Kellaway bicycled between the sets of "And Now Tomorrow" and "Practically Yours." N. Y. was also paging him for "Out of This World," but other commitments prevented him from accepting. in wartime as in peace A special process keeps KLEENEX luxuriously soft dependably strong ! In your own interest, remember— there is only one Kleenex* and no other tissue can give you the exclusive Kleenex advantages ! Because only Kleenex has the patented process which gives Kleenex its special softness . . . preserves the full strength you've come to depend on. And no other tissue gives you the one and only Serv-a-Tissue Box that saves as it serves up just one double tissue at a time. That's why it's to your interest not to confuse Kleenex Tissues with any other brand. No other tissue is "just like Kleenex". In these days of shortages — we can't promise you all the Kleenex you want, at all times. But we do promise you this: consistent with government regulations, we'll keep your Kleenex the finest quality tissue that can be made ! There is only one KLEENEX •Trade Mark Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.