Modern Screen (Dec 1938 - Nov 1939 (assorted issues))

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Only 15 c each, full 36 x o size, ready to attach to rollers with\ out tacks ortools. Zzme^m Clopays hang straight roll evenly, wear for years. Many smart col.rs and patterns at 5c and 10c and neighborhood stores. [Send *--*.™for color sample^ 66 in Vienna, he left me in a little bar. The Kaiser Bar, it was called. Later, I learned he didn't miss me until the next day, when he woke up a hundred miles away with a head as big as a stratosphere blimp. He travelled all the way back, searching for me, and finally found the Kaiser Bar. I had remained where he had tossed me that night. It was a bull's eye. The nail had gone through my crown. The management apologized, and offered him a job singing. (They remembered he was a damned good tenor. But they said they wanted him to stay because they loved his hat.) . Price said he had to take the job, since they put it that way, and we stayed for three months. I KNEW something was up when he sang Mexican songs in his sleep. But I had no idea he'd gotten as far as Majorca. We sailed for the Island the next day on our Kaiser Bar earnings — which weren't sufficient to buy a cabin, so he bought passage only. Price slept on the deck, using me as a pillow. I could see now how his foresight was justified — it would have been too bad if I hadn't been well broken in. We had a hard time getting off. There was a little revolution going on in Spain and we looked like suspicious characters — especially me and the junk secreted away under my band, and specifically the theatre tickets. It was all pretty harrowing. They slit my brim, poked about for hours, scanned stubs and match folders, even feathers, and stared, but suspiciously, at the hole in my crown. The inspectors were devoid of all feeling when they returned me to Price. They were tempted to run us both in for misrepresentation. There was simply no mysterious message or code to be unearthed in any of the "Hamlet-first-rowbalcony-lefts." We vagabonded gaily — inseparably. Finally, back to England, then to America to complete the boss' senior year in college and then on to a summer camp in the Adirondacks, which stands out for sheer wasted effort. But I served another purpose. Along the exterior of my band, a heterogeneous collection of hooks, spinners and flies now dazzled all comers — except the bass, none of whom were sucker enough to fall for this glamor stuff the boss fed them. When we returned to New York, the boss took a chauffeur's job and I went along incognito. I hardly recognized myself after Price's fine hand-turning. So help me, I did look like a chauffeur's cap. Two extremely momentous events occurred about this time. Price used a whisk broom on me for the first time since my ready-to-wear days — and romance came into our lives. She was very beautiful, very tall, very blonde — a Swedish girl. Price took her boating one day, but promptly discovered he was no navigator. The boat jammed into a sand bar and stuck. He and I parted company for the first time since the Kaiser Bar episode. Retrieving me again from a watery grave, he tossed me to his gal, while he struck out for help. She must have loved him very much — for she put me on. Except for a few trips to Bermuda, where we met a number of the world's most beautiful girls, and another trip to Europe, where we stayed for two years, life was mildly eventful in comparison to our past. Back in America, Price got his first big break in "Victoria Regina," playing opposite Helen Hayes. And, instantaneously, he became Broadway's favorite matinee idol. It would have been too disillusioning had his new public ever noticed me. And fortunately they didn't. That is, they simply didn't recognize Price when he went out with me. We were stopped just once after a matinee by an elderly lady who said, "You poor man! Here's a dollar. Go get yourself a good meal." HE was a loyal pal, wouldn't give me up regardless. When we went to the coast for his first picture, "Service de Luxe," and Constance Bennett called me a museum piece, he still stood by. Joy Hodges was in that one, too, and she was more sympathetic. She used to borrow me to run across to the commissary, for the rainy season was on during that production. But when it comes to real sympathy and understanding, Bette Davis was the young woman who showed it. Price played with her in "Elizabeth and Essex" and he enjoyed it. She seemed to, too. And, of course I did, for Miss Davis remarked that I was younger than the slacks that {Continued on page 68) Gloria Jean, who is only eleven, is destined to be as big a star as Deanna Durbin. Gloria made a great personal hit in her first picture, "The Underpup." Both she and Deanna work at Universal, which means that lightning can strike twice in the same place.