Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

With MGM money, and her friend Oarleton Alsop, at her side, Judy slipped [out of Hollywood one night on a train bound for Boston and a good hospital. Six smonths later, she returned to Hollywood, sound in health and soul. Those who saw her at private parties or laughing gaily in the front row of a night-club audience, said she never looked better. Her marriage, which had gone on the rocks, seemed all right again. She devoted a lot of time to her daughter, and she yearned to go back to work. Then a few weeks ago, the trouble started again. Judy hadn't shown up for a recording date. The dance director and his chorus people had waited all day for her and she hadn't turned up at all. The papers got hold of the story, and it was said she was due for another suspension. But L. B. Mayer remembered the spanking he and the other executives had taken the last time it had happened, and he sent for Judy. the way of a friend . . . The day she went to the studio to listen to the score of her next picture, she slipped into a side door and went directly to the stage. Her manager was there, and he told her that Mr. Mayer wanted to see her. Judy trembled in fright. "I can't." she said. "I just can't go to see him." The manager got on the phone and tried a desperate measure. He informed Mayer's office that Judy was on the recordmg stage if the boss wanted to talk to her. The composers were sitting at the pianos, the director was checking the score, the 1 technicians were taking a last level on the mikes and Judy was sitting alone in the ; front row of seats. The door opened and L. B. Mayer came in. The air was tense for a moment, as everyone waited for the fireworks. Mayer smiled and walked over to Judy. I He sat down beside her and told the peoi pie to go ahead — he wanted to listen. For | an hour, the busiest man in Hollywood sat there and heard the score. Once he reached out and patted Judy's hand. Then it was over. Mayer turned to Judy and looked at her with a lot of affection in his eyes. And then he did something that probably no other executive has ever done in Hollywood. Like a father he began to talk to Judy, a father trying to cheer up a sad child. He talked about a humorous incident that had taken place that morning. He got to his feet and told a long story that required a lot of very funny acting, and he played all the characters to the hilt. The workmen were goggle-eyed— but Judy was laughing. She laughed until she cried. Then Mayer put his hand on her shoulder.He told her that there had been a lot of opposition to her when she first came to the studio, fifteen years before, but that he had fought against it and won. He told her that there was a lot of opposition to her now. but that he would stick by her and they'd win together again. He said that the weight she had put on was becoming, and that a rose in her cheeks was more important to him than how she looked to a camera. He said that she must keen her health above all — and that they'd stick together with that uppermost in mind. When Mayer left the stage, Judy got to her feet and wanted to go to work. She's been different ever since. She may kick over the traces again, because she is an artist, but she knows that she has a friend, and that a star making $S,000 a week need never tremble before the mighty. And all Hollywood is behind her. When she appears in public now, she waves at people instead of trying to slip by un Veto — Colgate's Deodorant— Gives You DOUBLE PROTECTION i 1. CHECKS PERSPIRATION... Quickly, effectively! Veto safeguards your loveliness night and day. Rubs in easily and checks perspiration at once. Yet Veto is mild, gentle for normal skin . . . safe for clothes. 2. STOPS ODOR INSTANTLY! Veto's scientific formula was perfected hy the famous Colgate laboratories. Veto works like a charm, is always delightfully smooth and creamy. Let Veto give your loveliness double protection! Veto Lasts and Lasts From Bath to Bath Something happens ...AND IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU ...IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE WORLD'S f AVO R ITE MASCARA AND EYEBROW PENCIL 81