Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1947)

THE FANS (Continued from page 110) short (350-400 words) , amusing (or heartwarming, as the case may be) character sketch about your star. You may tell your story through a series of anecdotes, or it may be a thumb-nail type of article. But it must have a definite theme, or "angle" — dramatic, amusing, poignant, lighthearted, sarcastic, ironic, reminiscent, etc. Also, it must be written objectively, in the third person (unless you've had a very unusual interview with your star). It need not be based on original material. You may select any information about your star that you've read about in magazines or club journals, or that you've heard first-hand from friends, and treat that material in your own original way. Entry in this contest does not give anyone the right to seek a personal interview with a star, as a representative of Modern Screen. Stars are hereby instructed NOT to grant interviews to anyone for the purpose of entering this contest. About the best hint we can give you is to suggest that, before you go ahead with your piece, you read the little biographical sketches in our sister magazine, Screen Album. They'll give you a very clear idea of what we mean by "slant" and "objectivity." Also you'll learn how to illustrate your "theme" by the clever use of anecdotes. Naturally, we've got some rules for you — but they're designed to make it EASIER for you to enter the contest, not more difficult. So read 'em carefully, please: 1. Any bona fide member of an MSFCA club is eligible. 2. You do not have to write about your own honorary, but your subject must be a star who has an official MSFCA club, or is an honorary member of an MSFCA club. 3. Typewrite or write your article legibly on one side of the sheet, doublespaced. Be sure your name, address and club appears plainly on the first page. 4. Your article must be between 300 and 400 words. 5. You may submit as many articles as you wish. 6. This contest closes December 31, 1947. 7. Address your entries to: Writing Contest Editor, MSFCA, Modern Screen, 149 Madison Avenue, New York 16. 8. Entries will be judged on the basis of writing ability, intelligent selection and use of material, and legibility. 9. The staff of Modern Screen will serve as judges in this contest. Their decisions will be final. 10. Entries become the property of Modern Screen. No entries will be returned. 11. Winning articles will be published on THE FANS page of Modern Screen. 12. Because we cannot anticipate at this time how many professional-quality entries we will receive, we are leaving the number of winners to the discretion of our staff. 13. Articles that have been published previously in a club journal, or that are being offered for publication elsewhere will not be accepted for this contest. NOTE: It's been called to our attention that you fans are confused about the official starting dates and final deadlines of our semi-annual Trophy Cup contests. The contest for the Winter Cups starts with material received in our offices on May 16, each year, and ends with material received on November 15. Winners are formally announced in the March issue of Modern Screen, which means that we have to have the final tallies ready by early December. The contest for the Summer Cups runs from November 16 to May 15, each year, and final winners are announced in the September issue. This means we must know the results by the first week in June. That's why we were able to make the official Cup presentations at the Hollywood Convention on June 28. For the sake of convenience, though, we say the contests run from January to June, and from July to December. BIRTH OF A BABY (Continued from page 57) right?" Bill said. "Fine, honey. The doctor said we could have a cigarette together." He drew up a chair and lit two cigarettes. "This is quite a procedure," he said. "Maybe my idea of a double room together wasn't so bad after all." Four months ago, Bill had fallen and twisted his leg, the injury resulting in a knee infection. He had ended up with his entire leg in a cast and was ordered to bed. He fretted constantly. "How'll you get to the hospital if this cast isn't off my leg?" When he was well enough to walk with crutches, Barbara drove him to the hospital for a treatment. They walked in the front door together, Bill leaning heavily on his crutches, and Barbara obviously well on her way toward motherhood. The nurse at the desk coughed discreetly. "Uh — which one is the patient, please?" That had amused them. "What a pair we are!" Bill had said. "Do you think they'd give a man a bed in the maternity ward?" But the cast had been removed a few weeks before Barbara's confinement, and the first time Bill drove the car, he mapped the route to the hospital. Now Dr. Thompson came into the room and pointed to the door. Bill gave Barbara one last concerned look over his shoulder as he left. And they had said they wanted half a dozen kids. Brother! This was pretty strenuous. Back in the waiting-room, he walked up and down, filling the place with smoke from innumerable cigarettes. This had been a year, all right. The wedding in Barbara's home town in Illinois, and the honeymoon trip down to Florida and up the Mississippi back to Rockford, and the days in the Wisconsin woods with Barbara's family, and the trip back toward Hollywood. Then there'd been the brief months at home when he had built the wall in front of the house, and Barbara had pored over the cookbooks and decorating magazines. In between domestic activities they both did retakes for A Likely Story. Also, there was an RKO publicity trip that lasted three months, and one day in New York they read in a newspaper column that Barbara was expecting a baby. "Interesting," Bill noted. 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