Modern Screen (Jan - Nov 1940)

MODERN SCREEN FORM ATI ON YOU TOO CAN HAVE Hair That Gleams with lustrous Highlights There's the secret— me NESTLE COLORINSE. It rinses away that dull soap film which robs hair of its natural sheen! And NESTLE COLORINSE does more . . . it gives your hair a richer tone — adds lustrous highlights that will make you the envy of your acquaintances. NESTLE COLORINSE is easy to use —easy to remove — washes out completely with a single shampoo. Try NESTLE COLORINSE tonight— notice the magic change in your appearance, and in your bair—\t is easier combing — easier styling. Choose your own color from any one of 12 flattering shades; see Nestle Color chart at toilet goods counters. 10c for package of 2 rinses at lOf stores. 25c for five rinses at drug and department stores. You ask the questions, we'll answer them-write us VIVIEN LEIGH: Thoroughness appears to be the keynote to the character of Vivien Hartley of Darjeeling, India; London, England; Paris, France and Hollywood, California. And her success, past and present, is the result of years of study and careful planning. It was after her first theatrical performance that she decided to become an actress. The place was The Sacred Heart Convent; the play, "Midsummer Night's Dream"; the time, 1921. Her career determined, she undertook its inception in a manner most characteristic of the present Miss Leigh. When the final curtain came down on her formal education, Vivien entered the Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Studying diligently, undertaking any part that was thrown her way, she waited for a chance to succeed. In the meantime, she married Leigh Holman, a noted English barrister. But that fervent urge to act, though dormant for a few years, became increasingly difficult to ignore. Back to the stage, this time to small character parts and finally to overwhelming success in "The Mask of Virtue." Though movie offers were plentiful, Vivien was reluctant to retire from the stage. She accepted parts in several outstanding plays, "Henry VIII" among others, and not until she had acquired a liberal training would she consider the screen bids. Ultimately, she signed a five-year contract with Alexander Korda and next became a resident of Hollywood. That brings us up to the present and since her excellent performance in "Gone With The Wind" her future here is assured. Miss Leigh is twenty-seven years old, five feet, three inches in height and weighs one hundred and two pounds. She is the mother of one child, Suzanne, aged six. You can write her in care of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City, Cal. For a review of "Gone With The Wind," turn to page 8. RONALD COLMAN'S screen success has remained unbroken these many years because, besides being a joy to the eyes, he is an unfailing joy to the ears. His voice, probably the most compelling in pictures, was first heard on the morning of February 9, 1891 when he entered the world as Charles Colman's fifth child. The elder Colman was a mildly prosperous silk importer who would occasionally allow Ronnie to travel up to his London office in the hope that the boy would find his father's business talents contagious. The only thing Ronald developed was an urge to captain one of the ships which brought the silks in from the Orient. Ronald was sixteen when his father's death necessarily shot him into the business world. He was a $2.50-a-week clerk for the British Steamship Co. at the time the war broke out. He enlisted the first day, not because of a scorching desire to defend his country but because the army offered an escape from the murderous monotony of his job. A fractured ankle brought him back from France and a chance meeting with an old friend brought him into the theatre. In 1919, he met and married Thelma Raye, an actress from whom he was later divorced. In 1920 he came to America and two years later a movie director who had seen him on the stage sent him to Italy to play opposite Lillian Gish in "The White Sister." Sam Goldwyn was responsible for his return to this country and for his earliest movie triumphs. Today, Ronald is happily wed to the lovely British actress, Benita Hume. Address him at Paramount Studios, 5451 Marathon Street, Hollywood, Cal. "The Light That Failed," his newest vehicle, is reviewed on page 8. ANDREA LEEDS' new husband, Bob Howard, says she may continue to work. He really doesn't need her weekly salary but he believes she's too good an actress to retire from the screen. Fans everywhere have written ditto to his sentiments so we may expect Andrea's brown eyes to twinkle in the movies for years ^to come. The new Mrs. Howard was born in Butte, Montana and is the daughter of a mining engineer whose work often had to be done in exciting and out-of-the-way places. Wherever his work brought him, he brought his family and that's how Andrea happened to spend so much of her childhood in Mexico. When an attempt was made to kidnap her, Mr. Lees (Andrea's real surname) sent her up to California to' receive her education. She graduated from a Long Beach high school and then entered U.C.L.A. where she majored in philosophy and English literature. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree, she returned to Mexico, intending to get started as a writer. Daddy Lees welcomed her tenderly but seven months later, scent