Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1943)

You can't help but sympathize with her, can you? I remember very well a week end Alice spent with me down at Malibu. It was by her wishes a very quiet week ■ end. No other guests, just sunshine and talk and rest for her. I remember that as one of the times when she explained to me the great friendship that existed between her and Rudy Vallee and tried to •nake me understand what she had tried to do for him in his troubles and how grateful she had been to him. On Sunday morning there came an invitation to go up the beach to the J. P. McEvoys, who were having a buffet supper for Washington's famous glamour girl, Evie Robert. I asked Alice if she wanted to go and she said, "Oh, I couldn't. I just couldn't. I can't .meet a lot of strange people. I just never know what to do or say." Very shy, the lovely Alice. Very ready to become a housewife and mother — and she'd like it. Moreover, it seems pretty evident that Alice is really in love for the first time in her life. Not with the deep affection she had for Rudy, not with the dazzled youthful fascination that led her to marry Tony Martin, but with a grown-up woman's 1 love for the one man of her life. Perhaps, too, with all her lack of vanity and ego, she isn't very happy in the ; pictures they give her to do, perhaps subconsciously that's what makes her feel it isn't very worth while, as she puts it herself. And then there is the fact that she wants more children, wants to raise a big family. "They ought to grow up together," Alice says. "I want my baby to have brothers and sisters. I want a whole houseful growing up out here in the sunshine." DUT — listen to me, Alice, honey. ■^ I don't know which road you'll take, though I know you're sure now that you're ' through with pictures, as no other girl has ever been in all the history of motion ; pictures— not at least at the very top of her earning and drawing power. I'm sure you believe that's the right thing for you to do, to be there with your baby, when ! she wakes up, to put her to sleep at night, to have a good dinner waiting for 1 Phil, to have your home peaceful and — I oh, a real American home, such as you've dreamed of always. Only you have to be sure you've thought of the rest of us. You have to put aside your humility for a little and consider • what you mean to many people in these dark days, when music and laughter mean so much and are so rare. Lots of homes have been broken up these days, Alice. , Lots of people aren't able to have their good, clean homes and their families altogether. You can't hide your head about us, Alice. You see, I say all this only because I know how little you consider your place in the sun, how apt you are not to count on the affection the world has for you. Not to believe -that it matters whether you ever sing for us again or not. I just want to tell you that it matters a great deal, that's all. It matters to many of us, who need cheering up, who need a song in our hearts that's hard to find, it matters to boys who have gone to war — truly, it matters a great deal to them. I bear witness to that, myself. So as you stand at the crossroads of your ' amazing decision, remember you're not ] just a mother and a wife and a housekeeper. You're a girl named Alice Faye who has sung herself into the love of the || American people, who are now going out [l to fight. You can't, you see, go back on | that. The End HIS KISSES LINGER on a SATIN-SMOOTH FACE LOOK "SMOOTH" FOR YOUR DATE In a jiffy! Cleanse off old powder and make-up with Jergens Face Cream; remove the cream. Splash your face with cold water; blot dry. Ah! How fresh you look; how smooth your face feels! New Cream works like 4 creams against unappealing Dry Skin Thank goodness for this new cream— Jergens Face Cream; it acts like 4 creams to give your skin that young-looking, inviting satin-smoothness. Wisely, you use this one new cream (1) for immaculate cleansing; (2) to help soften your skin; (3) for a "too-lovely" powder base; (4) as a Night Cream that takes up victorious arms against "washed-out" dry skin. "My 'One-Cream' Beauty Treatment!" you'll call Jergens Face Cream. 10?f to $1.25 a jar. Made by the same skin scientists who make your Jergens Lotion. * BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS • P M M 83