Hollywood (1942)

so he was taken by a guard to Berlin, and there officially turned over to the janitor of the British Embassy. For two years he was with the British Intelligence Service, seeking out units of the Free Corps — the illicit military forerunners of the Storm Troops. Another two and a half years were spent with the Plebiscite Commission in Silesia, nervously umpiring a little war between Polish insurgents and the Free Corps, until the Plebiscite divided Silesia in 1924. Loder then faced the choice of joining his regiment in India or quitting the service with a 1,500 pound bonus. He quit. "After those exciting years. I didn't relish the humdrum routine of the army. I had just helped win a war to end all wars, so the military life seemed futile." (In 1939, after cabling the British War Office for orders, he was told to sit tight. He made a futile attempt to enlist in Canada, came back to spend seven months as a private in the California State Guard, and is now Brigadier Adjutant to the Los Angeles Brigade of the State Militia.) His bonus in 1924 and the discovery that the Germans liked English mixed pickles put him in business. He acquired an old factory in Potsdam and became a pickle magnate. "So they stabilized the mark, my customers all folded. I went broke, and the bank got the pickles." A friend gave him a letter to Alexander Korda, at that time making German films. Loder still had the last thing with which an English gentleman would part — his Bond Street evening clothes, so Korda put him to work as a dress extra in the picture, Madame Doesn't Want Children, in which Marlene Dietrich also appeared. He had risen to leading roles by 1928. when he was brought back to England to play opposite an ex-schoolteacher named Madeleine Carroll. Jesse Lasky brought Loder to Hollywood. "I arrived on August 28, 1928," says Loder, who has the memory of an almanac for dates. "The talkies arrived the same day. Nobody knew what to do with either of us." Finally he was put in a Western — they thought I looked like an English cowboy, for they made it an English character." There followed roles in a number of pictures, including a supporting part in the first talking vehicle of Rin Tin Tin. Then he was called back to London to enjoy a boom in British pictures. When the boom sagged, he edged into French movies in Thunder in the East, with Charles Boyer. Loder played in both French and English versions, opposite, respectively, Annabella and Merle Oberon. In March, 1935, in Paris, he was sitting over a drink with a friend one evening when a girl appeared with a script under her arm. "My," remarked Loder, "but you have good-looking script girls in Paris." "That's no script girl," said his friend. "She's playing in a picture with Gabin." And he introduced Loder to Michele Cheirel, who sat down with the remark, "I'm 19 tomorrow and determined to get married before I'm 20." "Will I do?" laughed Loder. They were married the following June. (He dood.) ■ CONSTANCE LUFT HUHN Heod of the House of Tongee ■ // All you ever longed for in a lipstick— and more \" says Constance Luft Huhn "Exciting color. Perfectly balanced texture. .. not too moist, yet nof too dry. So smooth it seems to stroke softly on your lips all by itself. So clinging it really stays on for hour after hour. Yes . . . each of our Tangee SATIN-FINISH Lipsticks has these qualities — and something more. The softer, glossier sheen of Tangee's exclusive SATIN-FINISH! And when you choose the Tangee shade you like the best, remember that there is a matching rouge and a correct shade of Tangee's unpowdery Face Powder to blend harmoniously with it." TANGEE RED-RED 'Rarest, Loveliest Red of Them All", harmonizes with all fashion colors. TANGEE THEATRICAL RED... "The Brilliant Scarlet Lipstick Shade". ..always flattering. TANGEE NATURAI "Beauty for Duty" — conservative make-up for women in uniform. Orange in the stick, it changes to produce your own most becoming shade of blush rose. TVlNGEE/^ •s£b4s WITH THE NEW SATIN-FINISH 41