Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1945)

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Ingrid completely won over the kid cast of "Bells of Sf. Mary" by throwing parties — and developing a terrific pitching arm! (With "Coop" at a CBS show.) Nora will sue papa Flynn for divorce — Baxter Modioli dreams are called off—lAi Hepburn and Laddie miss by a mile PARSONS9 GOOD NEWS ■ If you think for a minute that curly headed Shirley Temple is ac-cent-u-a-ting the dignity now she's officially engaged, you can think again. Shirley is still just as much of a cut-up as she was before the handsome Sergeant Agar slipped the three-carat squarecut sparkler on her engagement finger. She came over to see me just a few days after her engagement was announced. She thinks John is "everything and more" and she's taking on all bets that state she won't marry him at the end of two years. "Don't you worry that I won't collect every cent of that cynical money," she laughs gleefully. "I'm Dutch and thrifty!" Shirley says the news of the engagement leaked out when she attended a luncheon for 40 girls and refused to remove her glove from her left hand. "The girls could see there was a ring under the glove — and they chased me all over the place until they caught me, took off the glove — and there it was! Isn't it smooth," she said, holding out the finger with the fine sparkler glittering in the sunlight. < But engaged or not — Shirley is still very much the mischievous kid and loves to talk about the gags she pulls. "I had more 1un the other day," she told me, "a girl friend and I were entertaining two boys who had just arrived from overseas. They wanted to see some stars. I breezily said, 'Oh, I know them all,' and showing off like mad, drove them up to Gary Cooper's house. "I rang the bell and said, 'I want to see my father.' (He once played her father on the screen when she was very small.) The maid looked at me as though I were crazy and slammed the door in my face! I rang the bell again and told the girl my name and that I must use the telephone. I. don't think she ever believed me because all the time I was talking she was guarding the house like she expected us to walk away with the furniture. "Just as we were leaving Gary's house, we were stopped by a dashing soldier who asked where Keenan Wynn lived. The officer, in case you want to know, was Jean Pierre Aumont — and so, having nothing better to do, we followed him to the Wynn home. . "We could tell they were (Continued on page 66) 65