Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

The Skipper Surprises His Wife: Joan Leslie breaks leg, Bob Walker takes over household. THE SKIPPER SURPRISES HIS WIFE Cast: Robert Walker. Joan Leslie. Edward Arnold, Spring Byington Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sailors seem to be crazy about the sea. Hula girls throwing wreaths of flowers, coffee slopped into your lap with every pitching wave, cold stars from a scrubbed deck at midnight. . . . Robert Walker's a navy commander, and loves it. Longest time he ever spent with his wife (Joan Leslie) and kiddies was seven months. Wife wants him to quit the navy, take a job running fishing boats. Walker's home, unhappily toying with this idea (and going to navy school for a special course) when Joan breaks her leg. This leaves the housework to Robert. He puts the place on a navy schedule, turns the kids into a crew, gets everything working efficiently, but nearly wrecks his marriage. The kids are disciplined so thoroughly, one of them starts sucking his thumb in a retreat to babyhood when life was easy, and Joan finally walks — or rather, limps — out on her systematic spouse. Happy ending to all troubles, though. I WAS A SHOPLIFTER Cast: Scott Brady, Mona Freeman, Andrea King, Anthony Curtis United Artists Beautiful debutante kleptomaniac Mona Freeman falls into the hands of a bunch of crooks. (Professional crooks, not amateurs, like her.) Boss crook is Ina Perdue (Andrea King), so shrewd, so worldly. Assistants include Pepe (Anthony Curtis), a greasy little jerk who pulls a knife if you look at him, and The Champ (Greg Martell), who talks the way Hollywood likes to imagine illiterates talking — i.e., "You shouldn't ought to have done that." Then there's Scott Brady. Unknown quantity. Really a copper, but pretends to be a dip (that's trade lingo with us crooks) so he can save little Mona and put the rest of the bunch behind bars. Once when Mona's on a job, Scott nearly loses her forever, because Pepe tries to make love to her, and this so revolts the poor girl she runs blubbering into the Pacific Ocean, to die. Scott fishes her out, winds up the case, and takes Mona on a honeymoon. The dialogue's entirely predictable, even to the lines of the detective who gets shot by a villain. "You hurt?" Scott asks this detective. "Nah," detective says. "It's only my shoulder." / Was TAPE IT EASY.... fa "My gun jammed on me, but luckily I had my 'Scotch' Brand Cellophane Tape handy." How to cut household expenses WITH EXTRA ROLLS OF THIS THRIFTY TAPE VENETIAN BLIND CRACKED? Make it good as new with a strip or two of transparent "Scotch" Cellophane Tape. AVOID SCRATCHING costly table tops by covering bottoms of lamps and knick-knacks with smooth cellophane tape. FASTEN NEW WINDOW SHADES to old rollers with firm-holding cellophane tape. Saves cost of new rollers. PREVENT SNAGGED CURTAINS by covering rod end with smooth cellophane tape before inserting in curtains. It will slide on without a hitch every time. fl(C. U.S. PiT.OFf. METAL SHOELACE TIP come off? Bind end of lace with long-wearing "Scotch" Cellophane Tape and it won't be necessary to buy a new pair. IMPORTANT: There's more than one brand of cellophane tape — for quality always insist on the "SCOTCH" brand, in the bright piaid dispenser. OTCH Cellophane Tape BRAND 1 ■ GET THE TAPE HABIT ... ITS THRIFTY! Made in U.S.A. by Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co., St. Paul 6, Minn., also makers of other "Scotch" Brand Pressure-sensitive Tapes, "Scotch" Sound Recording Tape, "Undersea!" Rubberized Coating. "Scotchlite" Reflective Sheeting, "SafetyWalk" Non-Slip Surfacing, "3M" Abrasives, "3M" Adhesives. General Export: durex abrasives corp., New Rochelle, N. Y. In Canada: Canadian durex abrasives ltd., Brantford, Ontario © nso 3m co.