Modern Screen (Jan-Jun 1945)

ALWAYS GOODBYE (Continued from page 37) must go on just as before, that was her credo. That was what she thought Ty would want, and it was what he thought he wanted himself. The comforting picture of her in their lovely home, managing his affairs, waiting for him. Tyrone went through boot camp at the Marine Corps base in San Diego. It sounds easy put that way, but if you happen to know a guy who's done it, you know it's not too gay. In addition to the grim business of being a boot, Ty had to fight his way through a few feet of frost. The minute he got there, they began dishing the scuttlebutt. "There's something nonreg about this guy," they'd say. "Why'd he enlist at Headquarters, Washington, D. C?" "Yeah," someone else would pitch in, "and how come they hand him four and a half months inactive duty?" higher and higher . . . In time, the questions got around to Ty, and they were answered politely and logically. Seems he'd been in Washington on business when he'd been rejected by the Navy for a CPO rating. He was pretty letdown about it. Pretty ashamed because Annabella was with him when the word came. And because he hadn't felt like wasting any time, he'd gone directly to headquarters and enlisted. He was put on inactive duty so that he could finish a Navy film for 20th Century. The air cleared gradually. Then one day, three weeks after he'd reported at the Recruit Depot, something kind of big happened, and thenceforward Power was really in. His platoon was mustered, and a famous Marine officer passed the order. "Private Power, front and center." Ty stepped forward, shaking, saluted and stood at attention as the Colonel enumerated the points of his adaptability one by one, designated him the "outstanding man in his platoon" and presented him with the coveted certificate attesting to it. There were four more weeks at San Diego after that, and all the time he saw Annabella just once — at the training base with a couple of hundred other Marines and their gals standing around. There were letters, of course, and the brief unsatisfactory phone calls. But sometimes seven weeks is a very long time. When at last he came home on a pass, he was different. Thinner, quieter. She showed him how she had kept the books, conducted him on a tour of the house so that he could rave over how well she had preserved the feeling that this was home. He was pleased with her, and he did rave. Then he said, "And are you happy, darling?" "Oh — happy." She gave a little shrug. Who is happy when she lives with loneliness night and day. "I'm doing all right." Some more time went by, and Ty was at Officers' Candidate School at Quonset. They threw more information at him during the few months he spent there than most of us could absorb in a lifetime. He found time for letters because he's the kind of guy who would, no matter what, but they were brief, and even the writing looked tired. When, at last, he got his bars and came home on leave, he was so weary that Annabella cancelled all the festivities their friends had cooked up. "You will rest," she informed him, looking at the deep circles under his eyes. After Quonset, Ty, who was a civilian pilot with 115 flying hours, went to Corpus Christi to become a Marine pilot, and Annabella would trek down to see him \ wTwas a hand,White, Delicate.$~ 'Lucile," Owen Meredith ^TwaslxiW it became Red, Coarse from housework ...but even working hands can be YOUNG LOOKING/ TT's A SHAME to let your hands get JL older looking than you are . . . and so needless! You can be a good housekeeper, and still have hands that fill a man with pride and tenderness . . . Soft to the touch, smooth to the eye . . . Use Pacquins Hand Cream regularly . . . day in, day out . . . before and after every household job. Watch how this fragrant snowy-white cream helps protect your skin against dryness, chapping, redness. Start using Pacquins today to help your hands look dreamy-smooth . . . romantic-soft . . . young as you are! Pacquins Hand Cream Originally formulated for doctors and nurses, whose hands take the abuse of 30 to 40 washings and scrubbings a day. H*MO § CHE A AT ANY DRUG, DEPARTMENT, OR TEN-CENT STORE