Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

your letters... LOYAL TO BOB Dear Editor: In yesterday's paper, I read the awful headlines about Robert Mitchum, and my heart went out to him. Such a fine man can and will overcome this misfortune that could only injure his career, his family, and his popularity. Anne C. Means, New Orleans, La. Dear Editor: . . . Mr. Mitchum is an actor with a future. Let's help him get back on the right track. We all need help and loyalty. After all, it's the public's fault that we haven't cleaned up the narcotics racket. Mrs. R. H. Geilenjeldt, San Diego, Calif. DISGUSTED WITH HOLLYWOOD Dear Editor: The Bob Mitchum scandal is the last straw ! We movie patrons no longer get to see actors and actresses, but the boys and girls who have the best "bedroom eyes and voices." Yet the movie magazines paint these characters as "sweet, home-loving bodies." Hogwash ! No wonder young people today become juvenile delinquents, when their idols are nothing but divorcees and drunken sots. A former movie fan (Because of overwhelming public interest in this case, MODERN SCREEN brings you "Bob Mitchurn's Own Story," on page 30 of this issue — Editor) WE'RE A HEARTWARMER Dear Editor: Your October story, "It's Not a Dream, Darling," about Cornel Wilde and Pat Knight, was one of the most heart-warming and wonderful articles I've ever read. Terry Robertson, Richmond Hill, New York TOXTON ANTI-TOXTON Dear Editor: In the November issue, you identified the girl with Peter Lawford as "Susan Perry, formerly Candy Toxin." Maybe you should have your caption writers inoculated against stupid errors like that. The lady's name was Toxton, as appeared later on in your story. Irma Nesselrode, St. Louis, Mo. (We bow our heads in shame, Irma, but in the confusion of Candy's becoming Susan Perry, Rita Corday's becoming Paule Crosset, and Isabelita changing her name to Lita Baron and then to Mrs. Rory Calhoun, we're not sure we can spell our own name anymore — Editor) YES, I'M JEANNIE. Together, Fred and I turned out songs . . . about love and moonbeams. To annoy me he sometimes whistled "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair". . . for my brown hair was nothing to dream about. It was just dingy-looking and unruly. BACKSTAGE ONE NIGHT, my chum Madge told me the secret of her gorgeous hair. "Lustre-Creme Shampoo," she said. "My hairdresser uses it. It's not a soap, nor a liquid, but a new cream shampoo with lanolin. Use it at home, too, and keep your hair lovely!" Jeannie with the dull wild hair... now a lovely "LUSTRE CREME" Gi 1 WHEN I GAILY ARRIVED at our studio next day, Fred whistled in amazement. "Hold it, Gorgeous!" he cried. "Your hair! It's wonderful! If Stephen Foster could write lyrics about lovely brown hair, so can I. What rhymes with glisten, glamour, sheen, and pays off with lovely dream girl?" Thanks to Lustre-Creme Shampoo, I rated a love song after all. YOU, TOO . . . can have soft, gleaming, glamorous hair with magical Lustre-Creme Shampoo. Created by Kay Daumit, to glamorize hair with new 3-way loveliness: 1. Fragrantly clean, free of loose dandruff 2. Glistening with sheen 3. Soft, easy to manage Lustre-Creme is a blend of secret ingredients— plus gentle lanolin, akin to the oils in a healthy scalp. Lathers richly in hard or soft water. No special rinse, needed. Try Lustre-Creme Shampoo! Be a lovely "Lustre-Creme" Girl. 4-oz. jar |1.00; smaller sizes in jars or tubes, 49^ and 25^. At all cosmetic counters. Try it today! Kay Daumit, Inc. (Successor! 919 N. Mich. Ave., Chicago, III. For Soft, Gleaming" Whether you prefer the TUBE or the JAR, you'll prefer LUSTRE-CREME SHAMPOO