Modern Screen (Dec 1940 - Nov 1941)

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Ru-Ex Compound is for sale by druggists everywhere. wmHYoutsrtp/ Play safe and use QUEST (the Kotex deodorant powder). It positively eliminates all body and sanitary napkin odors. haven't let her down even a little bit. Universal hasn't kept her too busy, for Joe Pasternak believes in bringing kids along slowly. She's had lots of time for running around collecting autographs, gasping, goggling and meeting mobs of dream men and women who are still eighth wonders of the world to her. By now the scrap books have reached mountainous proportions, and the autograph collections and screenland souvenirs have forced the Schoonovers into larger living quarters. When she returned to Scranton last year, reporters queried her about the thrills of Hollywood and Gloria replied that among the greatest was meeting people like Nan Grey, C. Aubrey Smith, El Brendel, etc., all of whom support Gloria in her own starring pictures. After almost two years, studio sets still lure her like enchanted palaces. Mrs. Schoonover has given up trying to keep Gloria at home between pictures. Whether she's working or not, she manages to duck over to Universal daily, and one of her favorite between-picture pastimes is taking her sister, Lois, (Gloria's stand-in) and her baby sister, Bonnie, out to the abandoned sets on the back lot and putting on "plays." The other day a Universal picture company, setting up for some outdoor shots among the gaunt ruins of the ancient "Hunchback of Notre Dame" sets, was surprised to hear a voice crying "Heathcliffe! Heathcliff e!" They rushed inside and found Gloria Jean, Lois and Bonnie deep in a dramatic scene obviously filched from "Wuthering Heights!" Going to the movies, by the way, is Gloria's never-ending delight. If, in the evening, the answer is a firm family "no," Gloria can sometimes be content to stay at home and dress up like her favorite screen sirens, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford, before the long mirror in her bedroom. But she'd a lot rather coax her way to the neighborhood theatre. Gloria's taste in movies at this point runs mainly to outdoor slam-bang pictures like "When the Daltons Rode" and "The Sea Hawk." She's also wild about horror films. The other day Gloria Jean trotted over to rehearse for an appearance at the Los Angeles Policemen's Ball. They put her up on an impromptu platform that carpenters were hammering together. To Gloria it suggested a scaffold. "Oh," she cried happily, "just like a hanging!" Outside of this slight Jane Witherish touch, Gloria Jean is as nice and normal a young lady as you'd care to know. She collects dolls, helps her mother with the dishes, makes her own bed, cooks Baby Bonnie's breakfast and can whip up very yummy peanut cookies, according to family testimonials. On the athletic side, she pedals a bike and bumps around occasionally on a horse chased by her fox terrier, "Pat," a gift of Director Dave Butler. In a swimming pool Gloria's a regular fish, and she can take care of herself very well in the neighborhood running, jumping and ball-playing kid games. For that matter, Gloria Jean can take care of herself under most circumstances. She was up for a radio program with Edgar Bergen a while back. Bergen took Gloria to lunch after the deal was set to get to know her, so he could write up a clever script. One of the most amusing gents in Hollywood, Edgar's a great ladder and he was bantering Gloria all around the table. Finally he happened on the favorite subject of his hair. Bergen hasn't any, of course, and though he kids about it, he's really sensitive. "How do you like my long curly locks, Gloria?" he inquired facetiously. "I like it the way it is in the movies," came back Gloria. That's when Bergen wears a toupe! Gloria's weaknesses are ice cream, which she tries to have at every meal, five-and-ten cent stores, trains, frilly frocks and a player piano which she pretends to play herself but really can't. Since she's been made a star, her little thirteen-year-old boy friend next door is having a terrible time getting any attention. Gloria used to join him in marbles and BB gun shooting in her "off" hours. Now she just climbs up into a tree with a pillow and dreams. Mostly the dreams are about Messrs. Boyer, Rathbone, Aherne, Sutton, Flynn and company. But sometimes Gloria has nightmares, too. The other day she rushed into the house looking like a ghost. She'd dreamed that she was leaving Hollywood! "Oh, Mother," sobbed Gloria, "if I had to do that I think I'd rather die." But there's not much chance of Gloria Jean leaving her Hollywood Wonderland for a long time to come. Wouldn't you love to live in Studio City? Smiley Burnette's the new mayor! That's screen-pal Gene Autry (right) admiring his impressive seal of office. 82 MODERN SCREEN