Modern Screen (Feb - Oct 1933 (assorted issues))

Modern Screen What of Viola? (Continued from page 57) She was, remember, a great star. Once, on a personal appearance tour, her triumphs were sung all the way across the country. All the fanfare and ballyhoo that would accompany a Constance Bennett or a Joan Crawford oh a like occasion today were hers. The theater entrances were mobbed. Crowds stood around her hotel doors. The money from her pictures filled the coffers of the producers for whom she worked and then a circumstance occurred that was to be the downfall of so many well known stars. Three great studios merged — Metro, Goldwyn arid Mayer. Today it is one of the biggest studios— M-G-M— but at the time of the merger when the con: tract stars and players were taken over by the new formed company, only a few of the old Metro stars survived. Ramon Novarro was one of these, but Viola had had her big day as a star, new faces were appearing on the screen and somewhere in the shuffle of that merger, she was forgotten. She did the usual things— things that all waning stars do. Played vaudeville, took lesser parts with smaller companies, .told her friends she was "just between pictures" but was expecting a marvelous new contract. Like all the players of that day she had been improvident. Those were lean years after she was dropped from the regular payroll of a big studio. The years were unhappy ones, too, for Viola wanted to work. IT was not entirely pride that kept her trying to get jobs, nor was it entirely the need of money. It was more than that — it was her eagerness to give to the screen the vitality and charm that she had to give. But as she saw herself becoming more and more a "hanger-on" and when she walked up Hollywood Boulevard to find herself unrecognized — while newer people were being asked for autographs — she knew that she could not stand it any longer, so she left the town that had witnessed her glories, her happiest and also her saddest years. And now she was entirely forgotten, except by a few old friends. And then an obscure item in the papers announced that Viola Dana, "former famous motion picture star," had married Jimmy Thompson, a Colorado Springs golf professional. Word came to Hollywood that little Viola was happy at last and those who remembered and loved her read bits of her letters to each other. She wrote that she was perfectly happy — that she was as domestic as a fireside cat, loved cooking and housekeeping and that her husband was a darling. Remembering Viola's gay days of dancing until the band went home at the old Sunset Inn, her friends wondered at her change but were glad she had found peace. She liked Colorado Springs, she MRS.COOK finds a 'NEW STOMACH' I'VE L05T HOPE ... MY FOOD DOESNT DIGEST... FOR YEARS GAS PAINS HAVE KEPT ME AWAKE HALF THE NIGHT AND YOU THE BEST COOK IN TOWN J DO TRY KON JO LA MARY... JOHN SAYS IT GAVE HIM A NEW TOMACH A WEEK LATER | MARYYOU HAVEN'T COMPLAINED FOR A WEEK AND YOUR APPETITE'S MUCH .BETTER— WHAT'S V ^— r-ggy HAPPENED, I'VE STARTED^ TAKING KON JO LA SEEM* IMPOSSIBLE BUT I'M GETTING WELL » For Gas and Stomach Trouble Try KONJOLA America's Wonder Medicine If you are discouraged about gas, indigestion or other stomach troubles, you certainly ought to give America's wonder medicine — famous Konjola — at least a trial. Never before has a medicinal preparation met with such amazing countrywide success ! When the stomach turns sour, food "repeats", and what you eat seems not to digest, thousandsof users say thatKonjola gives quick, almost miraculous results. It may be just what you are looking for. Konjola is a special mixture of 32 different medicinal ingredients. 22 of these are Nature's own roots and herbs. Not one is a habit -forming drug. Their function is simply to mix with the foods of your stomach and help your system to banish health-destroying poisons. To aid Nature itself... Konjola is so widely used that it is frequently shipped into single communities in carload lots. . . If stomach trouble, liver or intestinal disorders are sapping your vitality, you owe it to yourself to try Konjola now. You can get Konjola at any drug store or mail coupon for threeday trial bottle. MARY COOK. .YOU LOOK TEN YEARS YOUNGER ! / THANKS TO YOU-I DONY KNOW I HAVE A "STOMACH" NOW. THE KONJOLA YOU TOLD ME ABOUT HAS MADE ME A NEW WOMAN! ^OOD FOR FREE BOTTLE1 Konjola, Inc., Port Chester, N. Y. Mail me bottle of Konjola FREE Mr. ) Mrs.y. Miss) Street & No MM-6 City State ABOUT OUR INTIMATE PICTURES OF THE STARS MODERN SCREEN was the first magazine to introduce really intimate pictures of Hollywood folk at home, at play, at sport events and at the theater. And, in spite of the fact that the idea has been copied by every other fan magazine, our intimate pictures are still the best. But-and here is the important thing— they're going to be still better! WATCH MODERN SCREEN FOR SOMETHING NEW IN INTIMATE PICTURES!! 91