Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1943)

sweetheart could be married here in California, as we have no state law against the marriage of second cousins. Bette Davis. Dear Miss Davis: God gifted me with a beautiful mezzosoprano voice. I have studied for five years during which I sang over the radio, in concert and on the stage with success. Now, I want to try my luck in New York. I have an aunt who is ready to give me one hundred dollars to go there, but unless I have a job as soon as I arrive, I couldn't go far on that money. If I could extend my musical studies I'd make the Metropolitan Opera easily. Please don't think for a moment that I am bragging. What would you do in my place? Yvonne R. Dear Miss R: By stating that your aunt would give you one hundred dollars, did you mean that such a sum would have to cover your transportation, as well as your living expenses until you found employment? If so, I frankly don't believe it will be enough. However, before you make any plans whatsoever, you should write to the Metropolitan and make some arrangements for an audition. Then you should get in touch with some of the larger employment agencies and learn what opportunities for work would be open to you. You can secure the addresses of employment agencies from a N. Y. paper. Bette Davis. Dear Bette: To make a long story short I have been going to business school, much as I've hated it and wanted to quit, but now I have a chance for a job. If I save from now until next August, I will have nearly $700. Do you think, since I have studied dancing for six years, that it is silly of me to want to go to New York so "darn" bad that I don't care if I have to dance in a cheap night club for a start, as long as it is dancing and New York? I want to be successful, but I just don't feel that I could be happy in a small town pecking a typewriter when in my heart I want to dance. Kitty M. Dear Miss M: If you actually have $700 saved by August, you should try your luck in New York by all means. In addition to that nest egg, your business training has given you a profession on which you can always depend in an emergency. I like your spirit very much. I find that a great many people have no inclination to help themselves; but you are planning ahead with intelligence. As for dancing in a night club, some of our greatest performers have secured their start in humble spots. The thing to remember is: No matter how small your start is, don't let it have any effect upon your work. Do your best and keep your eyes on your ultimate goal. Bette Davis. The End If you would like to have your problem answered by Bette Davis, Hollywood's famous advice star, write to her in care of Photoplay-Movie Mirror, 8949 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California, and if your letter seems to her to present a universal issue, she will respond in these pages. '//I I Help your Gov Captured by Her Evening in Paris Make-up Fair target for the delightful devastation wrought by her loveliness! And what man could resist such enchantment? Mist-softness of Evening in Paris face powder . . . delicate blush of velvety rouge ... brilliant silken allure of lips touched with Evening in Paris lipstick. Surely this is a loveliness combination to capture the heart of the bravest hero! Face Powder, $1.00 • lipstick, 50c • Rouge, 50c • Perfume, $125 to $10 ^^^m-^^ (All prices plus taxi Distributed by BOUFLJOIS nent conserve fine metals . . . save your rouge ond lipstick containers and buy refitU. \7%z a^ca 01