Silver Screen (Jun-Oct 1940)

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Y. CANADA, TORONTO 3 Write to Jane Heath, Dept.B-6, for generous trial tube of Kurlene (send 10c in coin or stamps). Receive free chart analysis of your eyes and how to make the most of them. I I by," Judy explained. Jimmy has to play with his orchestra practically every night, so much of his courting is being done over sandwiches and cold snacks in the Garland kitchen on the way home, or they play badminton in the mornings. Judy makes three times her movie salary on the radio. Her present M-G-M contract has three years to go, and although she is one of the studio's best box office attractions, her weekly stipend remains around $750 a week. Even so, Judy has practically everything that a girl her age could desire. There's her home in Bel Air with its lovely bedroom and sitting room upstairs designed for her. Then comes her sports roadster and her dog and cat. In her closet is a sports skunk coat and a winter one trimmed with mink, for her mother believes that Judy is still too young for an entire mink one. There're rows of simple girlish dresses and the one elegant but now bedraggled Bernie Newman model. Judy still loves to look at it and its price tag and visualize it as it once was. Some day she hopes to be able to afford another like it. She dreamed of a star ruby, but later reasoned that she hadn't better buy her own jewelry, for after all she wants something left for a fiance to buy her, if and when she decides on the boy. When Judy was born almost seventeen years ago, her parents retired from vaudeville and bought a theatre in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and settled down to make a home for their three daughters. "One Christmas Eve, when I was two," Judy says, "Daddy let me go out on the stage and sing, 'Jingle Bells.' Mother says they couldn't get me off. I insisted on singing it over and over again. Finally, daddy had to walk out and carry me off. "When my parents moved to California and bought a theatre, they enrolled us in a school for training children for the stage. I was four-and-a-half when I played Cupid in a prologue at a downtown Los Angeles theatre. I sang, T Can't Give You Anything But Love Baby,' with a big sty on my eye. It came the morning of the show, but since I was supposed to be a trouper, I went on in spite of it. "Gus Edwards saw us and said we sisters should be a trio. So, we became the Gumm Sisters and sang at benefits and wherever we could. "A friend of mother's booked us into Chicago. By a mistake on the marquee, the sign read the Glum Sisters. That was perfectly tragic to us. George Jessel, who was on the same bill, suggested that to avert such a mistake, we should call ourselves the Garland Sisters. That's how I adopted my name. "After an engagement at the Chicago World's Fair, we returned to California to settle down to school. Suzanne married and Virginia and I continued on singing together. "A talent scout heard me sing at Lake Tahoe during a summer vacation and arranged my audition with Louis B. Mayer. Then I was signed to an M-G-M contract. "My family and friends thought of course I would be a movie star right away. But I wasn't. It appeared as though they weren't going to do much with me. It was during that discouraging time that I walked out on that party when those girls laughed at me. "But they made me so mad, I made up my mind that in spite of what they said, I'd be somebody in pictures." And Judy is. Imposing on the Stars [Continued from page 41] City Color: Eyes_ one's good humor and patience that are tried. More frequently, it takes on a more serious aspect, such as the time Dorothy Lamour was victimized by a visiting New Orleans newspaper man. Dorothy was lunching with this chap from her home town {she had met him once before, he assured her, down in Louisiana) when he broached the subject of finances. He was leaving that night for home, he said, but since his check from the paper hadn't arrived he was in a spot. There was his hotel bill to take care of and a few other little odds and ends. The upshot was that Dorothy, upon his request, advanced him $250. He promised to return the money the moment he reached home. After all, she figured, he was a newspaper man and was interviewing her for his sheet, and he WAS from the old burg she still regarded as home. That the $250 represented an amount far in excess of her weekly studio salary {this was early in Dorothy's Hollywood _ sojourn) mattered not a whit. She didn't consider this angle at all. Well, you can guess what happened. Dorothy still is waiting for the return of that loan. Today, such a loss wouldn't cause any appreciable distress, apart from a moral one, but at the time it created a highly embarrassing situation for Dorothy. Lupe Velez suffered even a more disastrous ordeal. For years, the fiery little tamale from below the Rio Grande has been sending large sums of money to a government official in Mexico, for the maintenance of a hospital for the poor. La Loop became interested in the project through voluminous correspondence, in which so poignant a picture of poverty and suffering was painted that the softhearted Lupe couldn't send funds fast enough, and ever since has contributed regularly and generously. Recently, Lupe asked a friend, on the eve of his departure for Mexico, to stop off and see how her hospital was progressing. Imagine her consternation and frame of mind when his report revealed that the whole thing was a fraud, and that the man to whom she sent her money was no government official at all but a swindler, who had been enriching himself at her expense. The thought apparently prevails, and universally, judging by the experience of the greater majority of stars, that motion picture celebrities ever are ripe and ready