Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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^MODERN ROMANCES" radio's great daytime program IS ON THE AIR! Broadcast daily over the ABC network For real listening enjoyment "Modern Romances" is ahead of them all. Like MODERN ROMANCES magazine, upon which it is based, each program dramatizes the joys, loves and sorrows of real people. The same experiences you yourself might face. Don't miss the thrills you will get from this great program. Tune in "Modern Romances,,— TODAY! Have you heard? That now "Modern Romances" is sponsored by GOLD MEDAL FLOUR, famous product of General Mills, Inc. The American Broadcasting Company, General Mills, Inc. and Modern Romances Magazine combine to bring you a thrill every day on MODERN ROMANCES See your newspaper for local time 66 HALLELUJAH! WE IS BUMS (Continued from page 40) whenever there's cooking to be done?" Johnny took the ladle from us, bowed gallantly, and announced, "I'll finish cooking this. I'm really a pretty good chef. If I don't like what I concoct, my dog always does." "He's got the fattest dog in town," Lon remarked. The cooking was interrupted by a loud pounding at the back door. We all followed Lon to the kitchen and discovered Robert Stack and Nancy Olson at the back door holding out a tin cup and a pie tin for hand-outs. Lon stroked his chin for a second — then decided they were honest-looking hoboes and let them in. Bob and Nancy, both appearing with Bing Crosby in Paramount's Mr. Music, had come right from the studio. Nancy said. "We made a slight detour to the wardrobe department where Bob picked up his tramp outfit and I borrowed this — the costume Marlene Dietrich wore in Golden Earrings. She wore it in the fight scene.' Sticking her fingers through some of the holes in the skirt, she observed, "It's well ventilated." nice diggings! . . . Lon showed Bob and Nancy around his apartment. He decorated it himself. It has steamship-blue walls, rough-beamed ceilings and low, chartreuse couches. What really caught Bob's eye was a three-foot table that fits snugly into one corner. Lon has covered the top with Charles Addams cartoons from The New Yorker magazine. The table holds a twofoot ship's lantern that Lon picked up at an antique shop and had wired as a lamp. On the way back to the living room, Bob picked up Lon's guitar and started tuning it. "Play for us," coaxed Diana. "Never touch the stuff." said Bob, and promptly turned the instrument over to Lon. Lon strummed a few bars, then started to plink out the appropriate strains of "Brother. Can You Spare A Dime?" John Lindsay and Ruth Roman joined in with a stirring duet. They finished the song minus accompaniment, for Lon stopped plinking to go off to answer the phone. He returned in a few moments. "That was Donald and Gwen O'Connor," he told us. "They were a little detained, but they'll be over in 15 minutes. Don said he couldn't explain, because there was a crowd gathering outside the phone booth. Said he couldn't understand it — hadn't they ever seen a guy in a gunnysack sweatshirt before?" Lon laughed. "He also said they were starting to throw pennies into his pie plate. I advised him to collect while the collecting was good." Then Lon noticed we were all holding our noses. "The singing?" he asked. "The stew," we replied — pointing to the burnt remains in the pot. The potatoes and beef looked as if they were cemented in a field of tar. One taste, and Ruth Roman said the diagnosis was quite accurate. Lon and Reba went scurrying for substitute food. This took them upstairs: Lon has divided his triple-decker building into apartments and his folks live on the second floor. His grandmother had just baked a cake and a pie — and she generously turned them over to Lon and Reba for the party. When they returned below. Lon placed the apricot pie on a window sill to cool, and we all pitched in to make sandwiches. All, that is, except Ivan Volkman. He, still sporting that sinister red beard, was in the process of liquidating the pie when the