Modern Screen (Dec 1940 - Nov 1941)

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To get the benefits of this improved Vicks treatment use only genuine, time-tested Vicks VapoRub. PENETRATES . . . deep into the air passages with soothing medicinal vapors, inhaled with every breath. STIMULATES . . . surface of chest and back like a warming, comforting^ poultice or plaster. GOOD NEWS (Continued from page 51) 'TIL STUDIO US DO PART Hollywood "know-it-alls" were appalled when Albert Basserman asked to be released from his Warner Bros, contract merely because the studio did not give his actress-wife a job. They branded him "ungrateful" because the Warners had offered him his first opportunity in this country and "impractical" because his working permit states he may be employed by no one but the Brothers while he's in the United States. But, curiously, no one tried to understand what lay behind his action. Not a soul stopped to consider that Basserman is 72 years old, that before coming to America he and his wife had worked together for more than a quarter of a century, and that, furthermore, he was not the first actor to take his stand on the side of loyalty. Charles Laughton, for example, refused to appear on a recent Bing Crosby broadcast unless Elsa Lanchester was invited to star on a subsequent program, and also asked that Miss Lanchester be signed for a picture at RKO before he'd put his signature on a contract of his own. Both Miss Lanchester and Mrs. Basserman are competent actresses and their husbands know it. And, knowing it, they have no desire to overshadow the women they love. To them, there are things more important than their own careers. THE RETURN OF FRANK APPEAL Sex appeal is booked for a return engagement in Hollywood. After several years of hiding behind such misnomers as "oomph" and "glamour," good old S. A. is staging a comeback in the person of gorgeous Veronica Lake. Blonde, blue-eyed, exactly twentyone, Veronica is an Arthur Hornblow discovery and so pregnant with allure that Paramount, who refers to her role in "I Wanted Wings" as the "hottest spot" in films, admit they mean it in more ways than one! They've just one complaint to make about their new star. They charge she's interfering with the work of the men on the lot. Not that she means to, of course, but studio chieftains are up in arms because technicians, "props" and others spend too many business hours in the studio projection room, running off the celluloid-sizzling screen tests that landed Veronica a contract. OAKIE'S JACK A year ago, Hollywoodites used to get a few beers under their belts and sit around and wail for "poor Jack Oakie, a swell guy who can't get a break." But they're not wailing any more. Ever since word seeped out that he was great in "The Great Dictator," Oakie's been "hot." New jobs have been rolling at him and, at the moment, he's the highest paid person in the cast of "Tin Pan Alley!" True, Alice Faye's the star, but Alice earns only $4,000 a week, or thereabouts, while Jack, who's contracted for six weeks, is doing his stuff for $6,000 per. What's more, if his talents are required for two weeks over the contracted term, he'll be upped to $7,500 and, if he's needed beyond the eight week period, he'll be paid $9,000 weekly till the picture's completed! Poor Jack Oakie! Why doesn't someone give that guy a break! THIRD TIME THE CHARM? The status of the Cary Grant-Barbara Hutton romance still has round-towners confused. They don't doubt that the pair are "gone" on each other but, remembering Barbara's two previous unhappy marital adventures, (the first is said to have ended with a settlement of $2,000,000 on Prince Alexis Mdivani, and the second, in a settlement of $1,500,000 on Baron Kurt Haugwitz von Reventlow who is still dissatisfied) they wonder if she'd contemplate another jump. Noncommittal Babs has only this to say: "Knowing Cary has been the biggest thrill of my life. He's the first man who ever showered me with candy, flowers and trinkets — without sending me a bill at the end of the month!" COPS AND RIBBERS The ribbing Gene Autry's taking these days is enough to drive a lesser man to drink. Gene's got it coming, though, for after playing the rootin', tootin', shootin' hero of countless cowboy dramas he proved a miserable bust in a little drama of his own. Returning home late the other night, Gene stepped into his drawing room in time to see a lone robber slipping out a window with the most valuable gun in the Autry collection clutched in his hand. And did the intrepid star, who has single-handedly routed scores of desperadoes, tear after the villain and, unassisted, bring him to justice? Nothing like it! Gene flew to the phone and called the cops! Probably figured they've got to earn a living, too. MEET THE CHAMP And speaking of Gene, did you know that "Champion," the horse on whom he cinematically rides to glory, is the current glamour boy of the equine world? Horse-fanciers, country-wide, have begged Gene to sell him and have actually submitted offers for the animal totalling over $100,000. That's more than most racing steeds are worth, but Gene's not biting. He paid only $150 for the big fellow eight years ago and, according to Gene, "Champ," who was the first horse to take a transcontinental air trip, "isn't even a thoroughbred. He's just small part Arabian and most part plain horse, but we've seen plenty together and that's the way it'll always be." HOLLYWOOD TRADING POST Newest wrinkle in Hollywood's charitable crazy quilt is Ann Lehr's "Memento Mart," a shop at which gadgets and clothing owned DECEMBER, 1940 75