Hollywood (1942)

/ nick called and said he understood how nervous I had been and would give me another chance. I was to take a test for Claudia that afternoon. But I did no better. I stammered and made a mess of it." Mr. Selznick thought so too when he saw the test. He looked at it gloomily. "She's not Claudia," he muttered. Then, in the unexpected ways of Hollywood producers, he shouted, "But she is Nora! Sign her up." A studio attache phoned the breathless news to Jennifer. "Now I'll tell one," bawled Jennifer, hanging up. It took a personal visit to convince the lady that April Fool's day was two months off. Up until then, Jennifer's only experience had been in "tent shows." Her father, Phil Jones, was a tent show operator and she'd been acting in them since she was ten. "A tent show is a sort of showboat on land," explains Jennifer vaguely. Jennifer started performing before parlor audiences when she was six, lisping kiddie poems in deadpan. "You can't," she says, "recite without getting an urge to act, so I started to pester Dad." Finally he admitted defeat and mumbled okay, okay. "But," he added quickly, "as long as you want to act, try for pictures, not the stage. There's more money in movies." "Dad," says Jennifer, "was a very practical man." After trouping up and down the West in the colorful travelling tent shows, Jennifer's mother, appalled at her daughter's one-sided training, sent her to New York's dignified American Academy of Dramatic Arts, over the protests of Mr. Jones who howled that it was sissy. There, incidentally, Jennifer was a classmate of Diana Barrymore. Agents and managers looked into the sweetly hopeful face of Miss Jennifer Jones and made funny noises in their throats. Discouraged by the lack of enthusiasm, Jenny scrammed West again and joined up with a tent show to keep her hand in the emoting business. "I played a murderess who goes mad in one thing," she recalls. "I screamed all over the stage and went berserk magnificently. I knew then that I was stuck. That was for me. that acting stuff. That was life. I trailed back to New York again and tried to get on speaking acquaintance with the stage." She never dented the sensibilities of play producers, and when she was handed a movie contract and the second feminine lead to Ingrid Bergman in T?ie Keys of the Kingdom, she hadn't appeared even once in a Broadway show. Which is known as neatly overshooting the mark! No regulation glamour girl is Jennifer Jones. Her heart belongs to a young radio actor to whom she is happily married. She is, moreover, the proud mother of two adorable young toddlers — the oldest is two. This knowledge — which hasn't been aired by her press agent as yet — will probably do much to dampen the ardor of young Hollywood swains who have already cast interested eyes in her direction. But it will take much more than that to dampen the ardor of movie-goers after they catch their first glimpse of Miss Jones in her first film! gi ii Who said domestic bliss? HOW A YOUNG WIFE OVERCAME THE "ONE NEGtECT" THAT WRECKS SO MANY MARRIAGES I. "Ideally mated," people said ... I thought so, too. But Jack's ardor gradually changed to. . . well, a stand-offish coolness. It wasn't long before we were heading for a smash-up. 2. One day, I walked home from First Aid class with our teacher, a nurse I barely knew. And • — out came the whole thing! (You'll tell a stranger, more than a friend.) "My dear," she consoled, "when romance goes out of marriage, it's often because a woman is careless . . . or doesn't know . . . about feminine hygiene. 3. "It's one neglect," she explained, "most men can't forgive. And there's no excuse for it. Modern women use a safe yet amazingly powerful germicide for feminine hygiene . . . Lysol. Just follow directions — if won't harm tissues, but it cleanses, deodorizes, kills all vaginal germ-life on instant contact. I know what I'm saying." 4. She was right. For now we're happy as love birds again. I've learned how gentle Lysol is — how easy and economical to use — and how effective. That nurse saved my marriage when she told me a bout Lysol ! Why you eon depend on Lysol GENTLE YET POWERFUL— Used as directed, Lysol is gentle to delicate tissues (not an acid— no free alkali), yet there, is no geiin-life in the vaginal tract that Lysol trill not kill on instant contact. SPREADING — No other widely advertised douche preparation has the wide spreading power Lysol lias — Lysol solution virtually searches out germ-life in tiny folds other liquids may never reach. ECONOMICAL — Small bottle makes almost 4-gaIlons solution. CLEANLY ODOR — Soon disappears. HOLDS STRENGTH to last drop— plai, safe with Lysol •lot FOR FEMININE HYGIENE v Lehn & Fink ! ^*M For new FREE booklet (in plain wrapper) about Feminine Hygiene, send postcard or letter for Booklet IT. -742. Address: Lehn & Fink. Bloomfield, V J.