Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1945)

OUR MARRIAGE WAS TOPSY-TURVY Nothing but arguments between Bob and me! I didn't dream then that / was the guilty one. You see, I thought I knew something about feminine hygiene — but I didn't know that "once-in-a-while" care isn't enough! My doctor came to the rescue when he told me how many marriages fail because the wife is careless about feminine hygiene. His recommendation was to use Lysol disinfectant for douching— always. IT'S HUNKY-DORY AGAIN! What a difference in our marriage now! Bob and I are so happy! And I'm so grateful to my doctor. Of course, I use Lysol now — always in the douche. Exactly as the doctor said: "Lysol is a proved germ-killer . . . far more dependable than homemade solutions of salt, soda or vinegar." It's easy to use, economical. But best of all — it really works! Check these facts with your Doctor Proper feminine hygiene care is important to the happiness and charm of every woman. So, (louche thoroughly with correct Lysol solution . . . always! Powerful cleanser — LysoPs greater spreading power means it reaches more deeply, and effec tively, into folds and crevices to search out germs. Proved germ-killer — uniform strength, made under continued laboratory control . . . far more dependable than homemade solutions. Non-caustic — Lysol douching solution is nonirritating, not harmful to vaginal tissues. Follow Copyright, 1945. by Lehn & Fink Products Corp. For Feminine Hygiene use easy directions. Cleanly odor — disappears after use; deodorizes. More women use Lysol for feminine hygiene than any. other method. (For FREE feminine hygiene booklet, write Lehn & Fink, 68S Fifth Ave., New York 22.N.Y.) Disinfectant " alwaysl over a period of eight months. One noon he came over to my table at the Derby. "How's it feel," I asked him, "to be unemployed?" "Who's unemployed? I'm training boys for overseas duty instead of making pictures that stink — " Meantime, he and Oscar had started proceedings to break the contract — to see if the little fellow could win. Remember, there was no precedent for this. Movie contracts had been ironclad. By the option system, a studio could drop the actor at the end of six months. No actor had ever been known to drop a studio . . . Suddenly the whole thing was brought to a head. Bob got a radio bid, and the studio enjoined radio from using him. An injunction suit comes up for hearing without delay, and that's when the suit was tried and won. The judge turned in a 52page decision, rescinding the contract, awarding back salary and damages, and mincing no words in expressing an opinion. "The most flagrant piece of corporate arrogance I have ever encountered," he called it. I think what roused his ire as much as anything was the studio's charge that Bob "was hiding behind patriotism to break a contract." He was hiding behind nothing. On his own time, he'd helped his country, and what was wrong about that? I bet Paramount's saying the same thing about Bob Hope. But with Hope's record, nobody's going to get very far slinging mud at his motives. He's made a perfectly frank statement of his case. Ninety -seven percent of his earnings now go to the government, and he says it's a pleasure. But under his present contract, he'd be working for nothing while Paramount rakes it in. Why should he spend his time making Paramount rich? He'd rather go out and entertain the boys. And while we're on the subject of war — it's the fashion in certain quarters to take potshots at actors. Why, I don't know, except that those in the limelight make easy targets. Actors have nothing to apologize for. Man for man, they've sent as many to the service as any other group. If they've waited to be called, so have most of their fellow Americans. And some didn't wait. Young Dick Jaeckel fought like a demon — with his mother as well as the studio against him. He was only 17 and his mother had to sign the papers. When he made his hit in "Guadalcanal," TC-Fox said: "Well, we've got him till he's 18 — " "Like fun you have," said Dick, and refused to do "Wing and A Prayer," unless his mother promised to sign the papers when he'd finished. She had no choice, she knew he wouldn't budge. The day they took him into the merchant marines, he flapped his arms and went crowing all over the house like a drunken rooster. TC-Fox lost two at a blow. Ty Power joined the Marines the same day as Hank Fonda. Neither applied for a commission. Both got theirs the hard way, and that's how they wanted it. I've never seen Ty so mad as over a story in a San Diego paper, that went on about how he did the same work as the other boots — scrubbed floors, picked up cigarette butts and the rest of it. "Why the hell should I do anything different?" he raved. Gable wanted to go right in after Pearl Harbor, but President Roosevelt asked him to stay put. When Carole died, he couldn't stay put any longer. I doubt if the studio even tried to hold him. He'd have steamrollered them right out of his way. No, his big bout with the bosses came earlier — when the lady from England claimed him as the papa of her child. The studio wanted to hush the whole thing up, make a_ settlement. Clark let out the roar of a bull in pain. "Settlement for