Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1946)

Naturally, the girls couldn't let the boys get away with all that glamor (?), so they invaded my hat closet and lined up on the stairs. Gail Russell couldn't make up her mind as to which hat she liked, so everyone started chanting, "Hustle your bustle, Russell." Frank got the watch— and the works — right after that. Liz Scott blindfolded him, while a couple of the boys twisted his arms, for a gag, to make it look like one of those rough-and-tumble fraternity initiations. He kept laughing all through it, so they must have been pretty gentle. fruit ap-peel . . . The evening ended with all the Gruen winners competing in an apple peeling contest, the idea being to get the longest continuous peel. Everyone was laughing so hard, it's a wonder they didn't all lose. Johnny and Mark ate more apple than they peeled, but the Guy with the shortest peel was Madison. Harry Revel is a numerology fan and before he left, I made him figure out Frank's fortune, as guest of honor. It came out very optimistically. With that boy's charm, he's a cinch to have any and all wishes realized. If I were asked to sum up Frank in one word, I'd say, right off, "Charm." And you don't have to be seeing him face-to-face to be charmed. Just listening to him talk is enough. Take the way he got the house he's living in now — in the midst of the housing shortage. When he first came to Hollywood in the fall of 1943, he and his mother lived at the Knickerbocker Hotel for a couple of months and then they bought a house in Westwood. The following February, after doing one picture, "In The Meantime, Darling," Frank went into service and his mother went back to Darien, Connecticut, to be with his stepdad, Donald Tarpley, an architect. Frank decided it was extravagant to keep a big house up while he was at Fort Bliss, Texas, so he sold it. By the following November, he'd been given an honorable discharge because of sinus and asthma. Like everybody else, he started on the discouraging rounds of apartment hunting. No luck. Then he heard that Victor Stoloff, a pal of his who's a director at Columbia Studios, had signed a deal to do a couple of pictures in England. He called Stoloff at nine one morning to ask about sub-leasing his house. "Sure," Stoloff said, "but I'm supposed to be in England to start the picture next week and I can't get any transportation over there. So I may not go after all." "I'll see what I can do," Frank said. He remembered reading in the papers a few days before that some of the members of the famed "Flying Tigers" squadron that had fought in China were setting up a private airline in California. "Tell you what," they said in answer to his phone query. "Some veterans have started another airline out in the valley. Tell 'em we told you to call, and maybe you can charter a plane to New York." He got the other airline on the phone. They had one plane and it was full up. It had been chartered by 25 Navy guys, and was due to take off in a couple of hours. "Look," Frank explained, "I'm a homeless Hector. Won't you please make room for just one more person? If I can get him on your plane today, it means I've got a place to live." How could they resist? By noon, Victor Stoloff was on the plane with the Navy fellows, and Frank was moving into his house. Within three hours, the Latimore charm had hurdled two big shortages — housing and transportation. A story Johnny Garfield told me about Frank makes me know that he doesn't take advantage of his winning ways. Both Thank World-famous Surgeon and a Renowned Chemist for TM NEW£R,SC/Wr/F/C PmC/PLE OF KM/ME mME No other type Liquid AntisepticGermicide for the douche of all those tested is So Powerful yet So Safe to Delicate Tissues! Modern, well-informed women realize how important douching three or four times a week often is to intimate feminine cleanliness, charm, marriage happiness —how important douching is to combat one of woman's most serious and offending deodorant problems. But there are still a shocking number of women who do not know what to put in the douche, and this is so very IMPORTANT ! Wise Women No Longer Use Old-Fashioned Methods Thanks to a world-famous Surgeon and a renowned Chemist who have given the world the remarkable zonite principle — wise women no longer use old-fashioned ineffective or dangerous products. The zonite principle developed by these two great men of science was truly a miracle — the first antiseptic-germicide in the world that was powerful enough Zonite FOR NEWER eminine yet non-poisonous and wouldn't injure the most delicate tissues. All Drugstores— No Prescription Doctors have found that zonite's powerful strength and safety to delicate tissues make it of great worth for intimate feminine hygiene. zonite actually destroys and removes odor-causing waste substances. Helps guard against infection. It's so powerfully effective no germs of any kind tested have ever been found that it will not kill on contact. You know it's not always possible to contact all the germs in the tract, but you can be sure zonite immediately kills every reachable germ and keeps them from multiplying. Yet despite its great strength — zonite is positively non-poisonous, non-irritating, non-burning. You can use zonite as directed as often as needed without risk of injury. FREE! For frank discussion of intimate physical facts — mail this coupon to Zonite Products, Dept. S-76, 370 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y., and receive enlightening free booklet edited by several eminent Gynecologists. NameAddress. City. State.