Hollywood (1942)

the stage that she once rewrote a class play so that she could play all the leads. She acted all over town, in Sunday schools, Elks Lodges and neighbors' parlors, and after high school she took a disdainful attitude toward further formal education and joined a stock company. This procedure inched her gradually to Broadway, an event to which the Main Stem was completely oblivious. "I couldn't get a job. Wasn't pretty enough," confesses the frank Miss Field. "George Abbott needed a funny brat to run through Page Miss Glory, so I was it. There was a lanky, shy fellow in the cast, name of Jimmy Stewart, but don't rush to conclusions. He didn't know I was alive. That was nothing. No one else did — including the producer and the audience. I was part of a mob scene." On the loose again when the show died, Betty played Henry Aldrich's sub-deb girl friend in What a Life on Broadway. "After that, What a Life was bought by Hollywood and so that's how come I drifted to Hollywood. After I finished What a Life, Hollywood didn't know what to do with me. They thought I was a child of 15 with braces on my teeth and an algebra book under my arm. Lewis Milestone was casting Of Mice and Men and the girl was a little tramp who was pants crazy. Thank heavens, Mr. Milestone never saw me in What a Life or he would have relegated me to Alice in Wonderland instead of this fancy trollop." This switch from simpering high school co-ed to a Steinbeck siren was really being versatile in high. It made such an impres He's Lieutenant Stewart now. Jimmy was recently promoted, and this is his new Army Air Corps uniform. Jim's performance in the recent Bill of Rights coastto-coast broadcast won enthusiastic acclaim from all listeners sion on directors that now they consider her for any role that presents a knotty casting problem. She was a favored contender for the much discussed Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls, for instance, but her Nordic eyes nixed it for her, and the little lady is already being called a "second Bette Davis," a title which makes her writhe in spite of her admiration for the great actress. She had a date with Jimmy Stewart when he was on leave recently. That had all the reporters hopping, but Betty immediately nipped their hopes by reminding them that she and Jimmy had once worked together for George Abbott. "Just talking over old times." A reporter once questioned Betty about marriage, to which she replied: "Certainly I want to marry. But not an actor or a business man. One is too daffy and the other too sane." However, she seems to have hit the perfect compromise, for she recently eloped with Elmer Rice, the famous playwright. H John Barrymore thinks that Laird Cregar is the greatest actor to come out of the movie town in the last decade. Barrymore praised the giant character actor as "the one truly great young actor of the last ten years." "I may jest about love," said Barrymore, "and the other absurdities of life, but acting is a sacred subject to me and I say this in deadly earnestness." Radiant new Dreamflower shades don't simply match your skin — but tinge it with alluring dream-girl color magic! lender new Dreamflower smoothness suffuses your face with an angelic, clinging "soft-focus" finish . . . 4* *\ ^^^.Dalnty new Dreamflower box-^k *$L£r all garlanded with miniature ^r\dream blossoms ! "Pond's new Dreamflower * Powder is ideal! I haven't found a powder with more luxurious texture — or lovelier shades — at any price. And the box is adorable!" WHITNEY BOURNE G)<>^ ^* C Free — All 6 new Dreamflower Powder shades.^ POND'S,Dept. 6-PD. Clinton.Conn. I want to see how the new Dream Name. flower shades and smoothness make my skin look lovelier. Will you Address — please send me FREE samples of all City . State it Dreamflower shades? (This offer good in U. S. only) 41