Modern Screen (Jan-Jun 1945)

200 Witnesses Watch Her Mrs. Mary Knicley, Hagerstown, Md. wins new figure and new job. There was no secret about what she was doing. Her husband had suggested it. Her doctor had approved it. Everyone in the office knew about it. What amazed them all was the change in Mary Knicley as she went from 222 pounds down to 136, from a size 44 down to size 14, and they cheered as the former heavyweight of the department, now slender, gracious, and gay, was moved up to the front office, promoted to cashier ! "I feel like a 36-year-old Cinderella," says Mrs. Knicley. "You see, I was resigned to being fat but my husband urged and encouraged me to take the DuBarry Success Course. Once started, I told the girls in the office, and all 200 of them followed my progress day by day. "I found the Course intensely practical starvation diet, but plenty of the right food. Exercises that become a welcome part of each day. And a beauty routine that has done wonders in skin care, makeup and hair styling. "Today, I'm really aglow with health and happiness. My doctor told me taking the Course was the best thing I could have done. I had no idea there was anything so wonderful in the world." MRS. KNICLEY'S MEASUREMENTS Before WEIGHT 222 lbs. HEIGHT 5W BUST 46" WAIST 39" ABDOMEN 43" HIP 48" THIGH 29" After 136 lbs. 5'6" 343/4" 28%" 32" 37l/2" 2iy2" Changs -86 lbs. +W -\Wa" -10V2" -11" -W2" -W2" These two snapshots of Mrs. Knicley show her, at the left, when she weighed 222 ; at the right, when she weighed 152. Above, the slim and stately Mary Knicley as she is today—weight 136 pounds ! him, as she'd asked him so many times before. She should have known better. "Yeah," he told her. "I always loved that job." It wasn't very tactful, considering he'd never laid eyes on it before, but it was so typically Tyronese that she wanted to hug him. After dinner, Annabella dashed to the theater, excited as if it were opening night. And when she came out on the stage, it was as if she were saying her lines for the first time because she was saying them for him. The whole play was fresh and new because she was seeing it through his eyes. After the first act, he was waiting for her in her dressing room. "You couldn't possibly be that good every single night," he said. "Not possibly, unless you were there every single night." And they looked at each other and wished it could be. you talk, you talk, you talk . . . Then an impossible thing happened. The phone rang, and Ty's forty-eight was cancelled. He was due to speak before the Associated Women's Clubs of Georgia the next morning. In the Marine Corps, you don't ask why. You just do it. "Those southern gals — what the heck have they got?" Annabella tossed it off lightly, the way you toss off anything that matters very much these days. "Not a thing," Ty told her, and he kissed her quickly and left. He rode all night, asleep on the floor of the plane, and landed in Atlanta at five-thirty. He got a bath, a hurried snooze, and at 11 o'clock the officers called to escort him to where the good ladies were gathered. "How do you feel?" they asked him. "Tired," he said wearily. "Have you any idea what you're going to say to the Women's Club?" "Yes, sir," he said. "I'll do the best I can." He didn't say what he had every right to say: "Why the hell did they order me out cross-country when they knew they had committed me to other duty? Who balled things up this time?" He said, "Sir, I'll do the best I can." They were still pouring it on when he graduated some five days ahead of time. The day for his final flight check came, with rugged Lt. "Pappy" Wade as his wing commander, Lt. Wade had fifteen instructors under his command, fourteen of whom had made formal application with him to make "Power's final check." Wade, as a good Navy man would, gave the job to the one independent Irishman who didn't give a hoot whether he checked Power out or not. Furthermore, at the last minute a high-ranking officer piled into the plane just to be sure nobody was giving Power anything. When the ship came down, the word was passed, amidst congratulations, "That guy's hot on instruments. That guy can fly." While he proceeded from instrument school to operational training, Annabella continued in "Jacobowsky," discovering that acting in the summertime is really earning your living the hard way. You've never been even warm until you've been in a backstage dressing room in July. As for the stage itself, complete with lights, the tropics are chill by comparison. But if you think she wished herself back in a pink pinafore in Bel-Air, you don't know Annabella. Next to her family, she loves the stage better than anything in the world. Her letters to Ty were full of small, gay incidents. She told about the celebrities who stayed at her hotel, Arleen Whelan and Carmen Miranda and all the others; her week ends in town, seeking out a breeze; the occasional long week ends in Connecticut when she'd play hookey from the show for one day. She wrote funny HOW ABOUT YOU? Haven't you wished that you could be slender again, hear the compliments of friends, wear youthful styles, feel like a new person? The DuBarry Success Course can help you. Just five years ago, the DuBarry Success Course was founded, bringing to women all over America the methods taught by Ann Delafield at the famous Richard Hudnut Salon, New York. Since then more than 175,000 women and girls of all ages from 12 to 60 have followed this practical plan for achieving beauty and vitality. More than 50,000 are housewives, 40,000 are in business or war work, 6,000 are students, 4,000 are registered nurses. Hundreds now enroll every day. The plan is intensely practical. It fits into your daily life. You get an analysis of your needs, a goal to work for and a plan for attaining it. You learn how to bring your weight and body proportions to normal, care for your skin, style your hair becomingly, use make-up for glamour, look better, feel better —be at your best for strenuous wartime living. When this Course has meant so much to so many, why not use the coupon to find out what it can do for you. Ann Delafield, Directing RICHARD HUDNUT SALON NEW YORK Accepted for advertising in publications of the American Medical Association With your Course you receive this Chest containing a generous supply of DuBarry Beauty and Make-up Preparations for your type. Richard Hudnut Salon Dept. SQ-59, 693 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Please send the booklet telling all about the DuBarry Home Success Course. Miss Mrs . — AddressCity ^ Guaranteed by ^ i Good Housekeeping , Zon* No., — if any — _State_