Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1945)

What makes FIBS so easy to use ? CHARMING BILLY (Continued from page 35) ver Hollywood Boulevard. After all, -ou're his star discovery of the year." The director was laughing at the exiression on Bill's face. "Go ahead, Bill. [Tie darn bridge is stronger than it ooks." "You hope," Bill said. But then he reaembered he was an actor and that "The Jong Of Bernadette" was a really big picure. He was lucky to be in it. He emembered, too, suddenly and unexectedly, that Jennifer wasn't Jennifer low. She was a peasant girl who saw isions of the Blessed Virgin. The mood f spiritual reverence which had affected hem all during the shooting of the picure crept over him again. jcky voodoo . . . He*vasn't the only one who had noticed t. They had all spoken of it. The shootng had gone along with an almost unanny ease. Everyone was happy and kind nd helpful. Bill is a practical and rather nalytical lad, not given to flights of ancy, but this wasn't anything you could nalyze. It was just — well, a feeling you ot inside you. And after the picture was rushed, he noticed that things happened 0 those who had helped make it. Jennier was made a star. Bill got a good part n "The Eve Of St. Mark." Coincidence? Veli, maybe. Bill doesn't think so. Bill has been lucky, though, in a lot of vays since he came to Hollywood. One if his best breaks has been the girls cast pposite him. Jennifer and Anne Baxter, nd Joan Bennett and the great Tallulah lerself. Of course, he and Anne Baxter re very good pals indeed, so he naturally ikes to play opposite her. He knew her inly slightly before they made a picture ogether, but the first day on the set, she ;aw he was nervous, and at lunchtime :alled, "How about some sauerkraut and jickles in my dressing room?" "Thanks, I'd love it!" he said, and rushed ler over there before she could change her nind. There's another reason he likes to lo pictures with her, as he explained :heerfully. "It's so much easier making ove to someone you know." Not like that time he had to do a scene or "Wing And A Prayer" with a gal he lad never seen before in his life. She was iedy LaMarr's double. The studio got 3ill up at the crack of dawn one day, wrought him over and introduced him to 1 beautiful brunette. "Now go into a :linch," he was told. His eyes were pracically propped open with matchsticks at hat point but' he kissed the gal with all he enthusiasm he could muster. She responded nobly, but when the clinch had Deen duly recorded, she remarked sadly, 'What a way to make a living! I'd rather De back in Iowa slopping the iiogs and nilking the cows." A lot of people in Hollywood have, like hime, helped Bill along a bit. More than ,-ou think possible to judge by the usual :alk of knives-in-the-back, etc. Take Mancy Kelly, for instance. Bill had just arrived on the Coast, and was he lonesome ior New York! He kept thinking about the old gang back in New York, hanging around Sardi's and Ralph's, living on sandwiches and coffee, talking theater svery moment of the day. He missed them 30 much that he was one big ache of homesickness. Then Bill met Nancy Kelly and right away things got better. She started inviting him over to her house for dinner about Eour nights a week, and then they'd go cut somewhere and meet a lot of her friends. The California sunshine began to seem warm instead of synthetic, and there were people in Hollywood as well as New York who could talk about the theater. Furthermore, pictures proved unexpectedly engrossing. Of course there were some difficulties in the beginning. The first time Bill stepped before a camera, he made a good entrance, strode across the room, tripped over an electric cable and fell flat on his handsome face! Bill's first picture was "The Oxbow Incident." In it he was cast as a neurotic, intense boy, completely dominated by his father. It was a good role, and it won him the acclaim of the critics. But it was much the same sort of part he had played in "The Moon Is Down" on Broadway— the part that led Twentieth CenturyFox to sign him to a contract. And every time his agent suggested Eythe for a new role, somebody would say, "Oh, he's too intense. Too emotional. We want a more normal type." come back, wherever you are . . . That went on for eight months. Bill, who is as normal as they come, sat around biting his nails to shreds and thinking bitter thoughts about people who would "type" a guy on the strength of two parts. Then he got mad. He went away and didn't tell anyone where he'd gone. As a matter of fact, he went to New York, and saw every play in town. He looked up all his old friends, and had an elegant time. He didn't get too upset, though, when the studio managed to locate him and said, "Come on back. We've got a part for you in 'The Song of Bernadette.' It isn't big but it's good. You'll like it." So back he went, and he did like it. Bill was hit on the head with a gun in "The Oxbow Incident." He had gone through much the same treatment in "The Moon Is Down." Even now people say to the actor that did it, "Oh you're the guy who beat Eythe on the head and made him deaf!" Which is a gross libel — Bill has had punctured eardrums since a series of absesses at the age of three months. But the ears are okay for general purposes, even if they do keep him out of the Army. (That isn't definite at the moment, either, as he is to be re-classified 1-A, and anything can happen.) And one of the biggest thrills he's gotten from his movie career to date, was banging around in those planes in "Wing And A Prayer." He didn't do the real flying, of course, but he did taxi his plane along the deck of the carrier, in several scenes, with the regular pilot perched on one wing out of sight of the camera, giving him directions. Speaking of thrills, though, the ultimate peak of excitement for our Mr. Eythe was reached when he was cast opposite Tallulah Bankhead in "A Royal Scandal." Bill is a lad who usually has no trouble making with the words, but when they gave him that news, he was really speechless. You see, La Bankhead represents Theater to him with a very capital T. A few years ago he had a job as an usher and he saw her in "The Little Foxes" so many times he could recite every part in it. Now he was to play opposite her, and the thought scared hell out of him. That was before he met Tallulah. Afterward everything was just pure enchantment. You know the part Bill plays in "A Royal Scandal." He's a young officer whom Catherine The Great singles out for her attention. The officer takes himself very seriously. As Bill says, "He's a jerk, but ...its those qenf/y rounded ends, of course/ ". . . of course!" she says. And she's so right! Anybody can tell at a glance why FIBS are so easy to insert. That smooth, gently tapered end is convincing to every woman with good eyesight and judgment ! Your very first experience with Fibs proves the rounded end gives you easy, effortless insertion. Why FIBS are "quilted'1 Here is another feature fastidious women appreciate. Fibs are "quilted" to prevent cotton particles from clinging to delicate internal membranes. The quilting also contributes directly to your comfort . . . keeps Fibs from fluffing up to an uncomfortable size, which might cause pressure, irritation, difficult removal. No other tampon is quilted! Next time you buy tampons be sure to ask for FIBS!* *T. M. Res. U. S. Pat. Off.