Hollywood (1942)

For the next ten years, life was a constant struggle for Dorothy's mother; yet as Dorothy grew up, she tried to build up some kind of social life for her. Although Carmen had to work Sundays, she would spend Saturday afternoons bent over a hot stove, preparing apple pie and Tried chicken for Dorothy's friends, for she knew that if she made their home a delightful place, young people would flock there. They did. You've undoubtedly read of how Dorothy won the title of Miss New Orleans in a beauty contest. But if it hadn't been for her mother, Dorothy would have withdrawn from that contest. For when Dottie saw the other girls' expensive frocks, she was ashamed to appear in her two dollar dress. "Look, Dottie," her mother told her, "the judges are going to judge the girls, not the clothes they wear. If you backed out now, you'd be a quitter." Dorothy didn't back out, even though she had to borrow a hat from another girl. Knowing how badly her mother needed the money, Dorothy was all for turning her contest prize over to her mother. But Carmen wouldn't hear of it. "You won it," she said, "and you've got to use it to make something of yourself. This money may bring you the chance for which you've been waiting." It did. It paid for her trip to Chicago, which led to her meeting with Herbert Kay, and to her radio career. In Dorothy's life, the same motif which had occurred in her family for three generations was repeated, for a very wealthy oil man in Chicago proposed to her. Though Herbert Kay was successful as a band leader, by comparison he was almost poor. Yet Dorothy followed her own heart, as her mother had done. "The truth about Dorothy and Herbert Kay has been horribly distorted by the press," Dorothy's mother told me. "If Hollywood hadn't come between them and destroyed their happiness, I am sure they would be happily married today." For months the columnists have rumored that Gregory Bautzer, the attorney, and Dorothy Lamour were on the verge of marriage. But the marriage has not yet taken place, and there was a serious misunderstanding before Dorothy came East recently to help sell defense bonds. No one — not even Dorothy's mother, who knows her so well — can predict how the romance will end, but of one thing Mrs. Castleberry is sure. "If ever again Dorothy faces the same choice she already made once — between love and great wealth — she will make the same choice she made before, the same choice that her great-grandfather, my mother and I made— love in preference to wealth." H Maria Montez chooses a dramatic evening gown of wood violet combined with a delicate orchid shade patterned with white violets^ Maria's in The Mystery of Marie Roget JOAN FONTAINE'S SECRET FOR HOLDING MEN! Yours — In an exclusive story by Joan herself in the May issue of HOLLYWOOD! YOU CANT HELP \wmm~Buf All smokers inhale some. But PHILIP MORRIS smokers don't worry about throat irritation — even when they inhale. Here's the difference — reported by doctors who compared the five leading cigarettes: IN STRIKING CONTRAST TO PHILIP MORRIS, IRRITANT EFFECTS OF THE FOUR OTHER LEADING BRANDS AVERAGED MORE THAN THREE TIMES AS HIGH— AND LASTED MORE THAN FIVE TIMES AS LONG! Finest tobaccos, of ^_ ^_ _ _ ^_ ^^^ course. But that ^A ^k I ijLB^B alone is not enough! I IB I HJifl PHILIP MORRIS 77