Hollywood (1936)

his parts but is them, does not fake anything but lives the man he plays." But La Dietrich is not alone in her curiosity. Hundreds of fan letters after Shark Island proved that. John's life would keep a slew of novelists busy for the next three years. Remember the stories of the boy who arrived in the big city with the original nickel and went on to fame and fortune? That's John, only he didn't have the nickel. Yet all his poverty could not relax John's determination or his will to win. The friendship of Doug Fairbanks, Jr., and John Barrymore did more perhaps to keep his spirits bright than the occasional dinners they asked him to. One night at a broadcast, Doug, Jr., was being swamped by autograph seekers. Young Carradine got tired of waiting for him to finish. Borrowing a pencil and book from a studio employee he approached Mr. Fairbanks, Jr., and quickly scribbled his signature. "Mr. Fairbanks, would you please accept my autograph?" Needless to say, Fairbanks, Jr., left . . . and pronto. Greenwich Village and Politics 9 John Was Born in New York's Greenwich Village, February 6, 1906. His father was a well-known press correspondent, his mother a convent girl who later entered medicine. His first public appearance was a professional spellbinder, rousing the rabble in the name of the Republican Party. Years later he was to play the radical agitator in Les Miserables. He then worked as an insurance clerk, a farm hand, and a personality hitch-hiker. In 1927 he landed in Hollywood. Cecil B. DeMille was interested in the young artist's designs for movie sets. He told him to hang around, arranged appointments for him with this studio official and that, but John began to realize that he needed to know a lot more about scenic design than he did. What he really wanted to do was act. It's our good fortune that he made his decision then and stuck to it. He set his goal at stardom and today he is close to realizing it. Years on the Stage 9 Then Followed Years in Shakespeare with R. D. MacLean, Francis X. Bushman and Sarah Padden among others. His determination was enormous. When he could not get stage work he took anything, clerking, bookkeeping, washing dishes to raise enough money to start his own Shakespearian company. In 1930, a friend of his, Director John Blystone, sent for him. He wanted him to play a character part in Tol'able David, starring Richard Cromwell. John played the half-wit brother and to such laudatory reviews that "Hollywood had me typed to play nothing but half-wits from then on." In 1934, John was discovered by Darryl Zanuck and readied for important things. The fall of 1935 found enough money in the bank for John to begin thinking of getting married. As usual he knew what he wanted and traveled a good many miles to Denver, Colorado, to propose. The lady, Ardanelle McCool, an extremely attractive strawberry blonde, accepted. They have one son, aged three, Mrs. Carradine's by a former marriage, whom John recently adopted as his own. When we saw him the other day he told us a secret. "Sometime in November, I'm going to play my greatest role. I'm going to be a father." We wish him luck in this, the most universal part he will ever play. SEPTEMBER, 1936 bu can't get away with it ! "She looks bright and acta bright — why on earth doesn't she get wise to herself? I'm certainly not going to stand for this. It's either Mum for her or a new secretary for me." [ i I ■ 1 EMPLOYERS and men in love are alike in this — they refuse to bother with a girl who is careless about underarm perspiration odor. The up-to-date girl knows the quick, easy answer to this problem. The daily Mum habit! It takes only half a minute to use Mum. Then you're safe all day long. Use Mum any time, even after you're dressed. For it's harmless to clothing. MUM "She isn't the girl I thought she was. She could be so swell, too, if it weren't for this. Wonder why somebody doesn't tell her, or give her some Mum or something. Well, I can't be bothered." And it's so soothing to the skin you can use it right after shaving the underarms. Mum doesn't prevent the natural perspiration, you know. But it does prevent every trace of perspiration odor. Remember — nothing so quickly kills a man's interest in a girl as ugly perspiration odor. Don't risk it — use Mum regularly, every day! BristolMyers, Inc., 630 Fifth Ave., New York. USE MUM ON SANITARY NAPKINS, TOO, and you'll never have another moment's worry about this source of unpleasantness. takes the odor out of perspiration 45