Screenland (Nov 1950-Oct 1951)

After each shampoo or home permanent add the fresh COlor and lustre of LOVALON the modern hair beauty rinse • Leaves hair soft, easy to manage • Blends in yellow, grey streaks • 12 flattering shades • Removes shampoo film • Gives sparkling highlights &my tampon ua&i aAouIcL know —the tampon unt/v /wtvnded ( nd> —the only tcvmpow fob commit... next tvma tny *T M ICG U t. PAT. Off carefully flecked the water off her gray jersey skirt. "Mommy gave it to me for Christmas," she said. "Mommy helps me select all of my clothes. She's more like, my big sister. In fact," Christina disclosed, "my girl friends always marvel that Mommy spends more time and gives me more personal attention than their mothers who are more often too busy." "I think each child should have a mother's individual as well as collective time," Joan said, turning into the final road which ran like a ribbon up the hillside to the school. Then, "Tina, last Christmas, suddenly thought that prices of everything had risen sky high overnight. Well, they have risen, but I had to explain it all to her. You see, each Christmas the children open the bank in which they have deposited their savings which, by the way, is often supplemented by a dollar or even five when they have done something special to merit a bonus. This year on dividing it, they had $48 apiece for Christmas gifts. We went to Saks to shop. I happened to notice a white evening bag. I told the clerk that I would look at it later. Well, Tina and Christopher began conferring with the clerk and sure enough, there it was on the tree Christmas morning. With the tax, it cost them $62 of their savings. Imagine how touched I was." "But Mommy we were so thrilled to be able to get you something you really liked and could use," Tina commented with a smile filled with adoration that clearly said she loved her mother more than anything possible in this world. "Other Christmases," Joan said, "the clerks would tell Tina that a purse cost five dollars or a scarf three and the difference was charged to my bill. But now she is grownup — and knows the full cost. That is applicable to her life and the process of becoming an adult." Then Tina was deposited at school with a kiss and hug and a promise, "I'll be here for you Sunday, Darling." As we drove back the rain had stopped and a large rainbow illuminated the sky. I glanced at Joan driving serenely but decisively through the storm swollen streets, and I couldn't help but comment, "Joan, you have everything. If I had only had your initiative and ability and incentive and — " "You can stop right there," Joan replied. "One of the greatest lessons everyone should learn in life and one which I hope to instill in my children is the ability to handle disappointment, failure and defeat." Joan was silent for a moment — and I wondered if she were thinking back to the days when she was at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — a big star, and how suddenly her pictures weren't happy ones for her or the box-office. Three years passed by without a single Crawford film. Then one day she found herself at Warner Bros, making "Mildred Pierce." Her performance was so good she received an Academy Award. Today she's one of the foremost dramatic stars on the screen! And there were the days, long before she became famous, when she waited on table in a boarding school, Dane Clark and Bonita Granville at Video Theatre rehearsal of "Not Guilty — Of Much!" worked in a department store in Chicago, was a chorus girl in New York, won Charleston contests in Hollywood and wasn't received kindly at Pickfair, Hollywood's White House, even though she was the wife of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. But today, Joan is received everywhere and the most select people bid to be invited to her smart and perfectly executed parties. Her house is so beautifully done and in such good taste that it is photographically requested for the nation's leading periodicals on good decor. And then there's Joan adopting two beautiful children — Christina and a little baby brother. And a year-and-a-half later the little boy's mother, discovering that her child had been adopted by Joan Crawford, the famous movie star, came and took him away. The heartbreak Joan suffered, only a mother who had personally taken care of her baby's feedings in the night, changed his diapers and given him every loving care could understand. It looked as though Joan's idea of raising a happy family was to end in defeat. But it didn't, for Joan adopted another little boy and now the two youngest and her family is complete. But she said of the one she lost, "He's ten now and being raised in the Middle West. But so much love can't be forgotten and I'm sure he hasn't forgotten. He's well taken care of, but some day I'll see my little guy again." In every department Joan Crawford has turned her fears and defeats into success and happiness. From being the shop girls' idol with rather too dramatic fashions, she is today one of the best dressed women and has been thus named on several best dressed lists. She certainly is the most glamourous. She has the most envied figure in Hollywood with narrow hips, lovely legs, full tilted breasts and a smooth supple skin. "The best way to accept defeat is not to think of self. First, get rid of temper and disappointment and then quietly and calmly analyze what caused it or the 64