Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

the fans MODERN SCREEN FAN CLUB ASSOCIATION Advisory Board Findings: Our Advisory Board has been working overtime to help solve one of our most pressing problems, and we'd like to thank the members for their promptness in suggesting solutions. The matter concerns the awarding of trophy cups and how many should be awarded to one club. With the aid of the prexies comprising the Advisory Board, we've come up with the decision to limit the number of cups. After a club has won two cups, it will receive credit for having the most points in a contest if it is the winner, but the trophy will go to the runner-up. When a club has accumulated a certain number of these credits as a winner (this number will be announced next month), it will receive very special recognition from the MSFCA! We'll be interested to know how you like the idea! Prizes: To the best correspondents this month go REVLON'S KING'S RANSOM lipstick sets — seven of Revlon's most popular shades with a gold holder — beautifully packaged in a black velvet case. For that we'd start writing letters to ourselves, except for the fact that the sets are reserved for our correspondents! We know club editors will love the little foto stamps we're offering. THE AMERICAN FOTO STAMP COMPANY will make them for our best editors and the stamps will be awarded in blocks of 500. They're so very nice for stationery and journals — and we have pictures of any star you'd like. ENGER-KRESS billfolds have the hearty approval of all the This Is My Best winners to whom they've been awarded. The wallets are in lovely rainbow colors, hold snaps, folding money and change. And their artist of the month won't have to take a trip to appreciate the TANGEE TRIP KIT. The kit is packed with cosmetics. It's easy to carry and once you've owned one, you'll never see how you ever got along without it! 10th Semi-annual TROPHY CUP CONTEST 2nd Lap This Is My Best: (100 points) "Golden Comet Day," Martha Farrington, Jeanette MacDonald lournal. "Train Song," Catherine Kusczynski, Club Friendship lournal. "We, the Movie Fans," Henryetta Lewis, Philip Reed Journal. "February 4tn," Shirley Maxwell, James Melton Journal. "Are Fan Clubs Foolish?" Mary Kelly, Montgomery Clift Journal (Paul). "Just Reminiscing, Thanks," Margie Keith, Eddy Arnold Journal. Best Journals: (500 points) League 1. Nelson Eddy Journal (Nicholin). League 2. New Stars Journal. League 3. (tied) Humphrey Bogart Journal. Jack Smith Journal. Best Editors: (250 points) League 1. Margaret Sedlar, John Garfield Journal. League 2. Loretta Zitek, Harlean Matthias, Dick Contino Journal. League 3. Judy Baird, Gordon MacRae Journal. Best Artist: (150 points) Marilyn Brock, Perry Como Journal (Travnicek). Best Covers: (250 points) League 1. Jane Wyman Journal. League 2. Bob Crosby Journal. League 3. (tied) Audrey Totter Journal. Radio Stars Journal. Best Correspondents: (100 points) League 1. None qualified. League 2. Betty Petrie, Charles Korvin Club. League 3. Eleanor Paul, Montgomery Clift Club. Most Worthwhile Activities: (250 points) League 1. Farley Granger Club (overseas boxes). League 2. (tied) Jim Brown Club (donation to Father Flanagan Fund; stamps to veterans' hospital). Rise Stevens Club (donation of radio to veterans' hospital). League 3. Stuart Foster Club (Levitt) (contribution to Cancer Fund). Membership Increases: (100 points) League 1. Bing Crosby Club (Ness). League 2. Betty Grable-Harry James Club (Adams). League 3. Bill Lawrence Club (Lawson). Candid Camera Contest: (100 points for first prize, 50 points for others) Janie Bellinger, Penny Edwards Club. Geraldine Schultz, Gene Autry Club. Beverly Bush, Frank Sinatra Club. Betty Cornwell, Perry Como Club. Patricia Danks, Patrice Munsel Club. John McNamara, Terry Moore Club. posts. The angels were a gift from a fan in New York. Maureen O'Sullivan, Deb's godmother, gave her the hand-painted prayer stool which stands by her bed awaiting her first prayers. Her play-pen is out on the verandah. The master bedroom is a happy compromise of masculine and feminine tastes. Joan took her theme for the decoration from her sea shells. She let their pearly tones sink deep into her imagination . . . then she set to work and dreamed up this enchanting suite of rooms — surely the most beautiful in Hollywood. Basically, the scheme is blue-gray with touches of pink. Her seven-foot bed is covered with a rough-weave linen spread in the same blue-gray shade as the modern painted tables and desk. Bedside lamps have glass bases filled with an array of shells and coral. From the bedroom a shell-pink passage leads to individual dressing-room suites. Joan's is on the left. All in pink, the ceiling, walls and built-in furniture are set off with mirrored doors and heavy crystal doorknobs. This exquisite setting fits the "actress" side of Joan's life to perfection. Here she can be quite alone to study her script, set her hair, or answer her mail. Off the main room of her suite are several smaller rooms — in one a hairdryer and telephone, in another a bathtub, in another her clothes, with spacious racks holding her 200 pairs of shoes. Joan wears negligees and housecoats in the same misty pinks and blues as the rooms. A guest suite on the lower floor was always ready for 18-year-old Bob Dozier, Bill's son by a former marriage, whenever he was home from Brown University. Bob has his father's sturdy build and quizzical expression. He and Joan got along beautifully — except in those rare, teasing moments when he called her "Mother." Then she was ready to push him into the pool. her face was familiar . . . Joan will never forget their first meeting, when she went up to his school, and he paraded her round the campus pointing out the sights while five fellow students badgered the life out of him with inquiries about the "blonde babe" he had with him. And then there was that incident in the train club-car, when Joan was coming home from her visit to Bob's school. A neat little brunette seated herself next to Joan and inquired in tinkling tones, "Don't I know you? I mean — your face — I've seen it somewhere!" "I'm Joan Dozier," replied Joan, fondly twisting her new wedding band. The girl sat up as though she'd been stuck with a pin. "No! You're not related to young Bob Dozier?" Joan nodded. "He's my husband's son." "That gorgeous man! I met him at the prom last night. Now I'm on my way back to school. Gosh, just imagine being related to himl" The girl was breathless with the wonder of it all. Talked about Bob for an hour. Never once recognized Joan Fontaine, the Oscar-winner from Hollywood. Joan used to laugh over that incident. But Joan isn't laughing now. Neither is Bill Dozier. Both have told their friends that they are miserable. And there is no doubt that much of the misery they suffer must come from the memories they have of one of the most beautiful houses in Hollywood — theirs — that held so much love. Will they ever return to it — together? It is the hope of everyone in the film capital that they will. But at this point, Joan's home in Brentwood is the symbol of a perfect love in a perfect house — that wasn't perfect enough. The End WIVES TELL EXTRA ADVANTAGES in using this suppository for INTIMATE FEMININE HYGIENE Assures Hours of Continuous Action! 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