Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1941)

$10.00 PRIZE Personal Note of Thanks THANKS for making thai swell picture "Knute Rockne — All American," Warner Brothers. You see — "Rock" has always been my hero. Yeah — ever since I made my first touchdown scrimmaging with the fellows down on the corner lot. Soon as I could I started reading all about him and Notre Dame's fighting Irish. A boy never forgets his childhood hero — especially when it's a great guy like Rockne. Some of us fellows on the Varsity squad went to see your movie last week when it hit the little col] town where I am lucky enough to be. It was just a few days before our toughest conference game. We've got a swell coach here. He's got lots of pep and he's always back of us— greatest guy I've ever met, in fact. However. I feel that it was Rockne himself who coached this last game for us. I don't know about the rest of the fellows, but the enthusiasm and determination that I got from ng that picture was better than any pep talk given between hal won the game. 7-6. It was a tough battle, too take it from a guy who got a broken nose out of the deal. Thanks again for introducing n Rockne on the screen. It makes him seem so real to me now— just as had really known him. I'd like personally to give Pat O'Brien ck for Ins remarkable performin this role. I'm su ,ther college men who same way about it L. A. Williams. .Macomb. Illinois $5.00 PRIZE Encore For a Favorite RECENTLY I went to a concert given by Jeanette MacDonald at Little Mock. Arkansas. ks before she was scheduled to app, .in hearing rumors about her which were very uncomplimentary. I was on the verge of calling of] my trip but when I did finally decide to go. my expectation' were tar from good. Alter I had waHed lor an hour in my seat, third row from the front 62 *& i4&** lights in the auditorium were dimmed and I saw Jeanette MacDonald walk onto the stage. The audience was breathless, spellbound for a moment, then it burst into wild applause. Miss MacDonald was absolutely exquisite. Her gown was gorgeous — blue-gray net over pink — her complexion was flawless, her teeth perfect, her hair unbelievably beautiful, her voice as always — unsurpassable, her charm and grace and poise — I can find no words to describe them. I defy anyone to say that Jeanette MacDonald is not even more lovely in real life than she is on the screen. She was called back again and again: her personality reached every heart in the entire audience. I was thrilled beyond words to see my favorite motion-picture actress come through with such an outstanding triumph. I shall never again believe the ugly rumors I hear about actors and actresses in the motion-picture business. Jeanette MacDonald has given me faith in her and her kind and I hope to see her remain at the top as as she herself wishes to do so. Clemma Lou Wright. Conway. Arkansas $1.00 PRIZE Two Winners SINCE corn and porks are gone up and 1 < ' i chance on a set of dishes along with the double feeture, I be. ' quite a spell of movies lor myself. That Hedy Lamarr lias got more •oink' than my prize pig that got plastered with blue ribbons at the lair this fall. There's nothing like her in this country. How does a batchelor Worth five dollars is a personal note about a personal appearance of Jeanette MacDonald FOR YOURSELF go about meeting up with these pichure stars? And is that mostly paint that makes her so purty? I want to know before I go and get 1 involved. Cy Saum. Yankton, South Dakota $1.00 PRIZE An Open Letter To Tyrone Power DEAR TYRONE, You recently paused at the I Nashville Municipal Airport long | enough to make a phone call and visit the restaurant. You were immediately recognized and pursued by enthusiastic boys and girls. Your unexpected presence so addled them that they could do nothing more than grin from ear to ear and thrust pieces of paper at you for autographs. Suddenly you wheeled around and burst forth, telling your young admirers to "stop bothering'' you. Those grins faded away to expressions of bewilderment and those pieces of pap< r fluttered to the floor as they backed away. Now. I understand that at this time you had important things on your mind — such as the problem of transporting Annabella's parents from bullet -ridden France to a safer pi but i/on are supposed to be actor. Couldn't you have put on a little act for those few minutes a; airport restaurant'.' We fans are responsible for your popularity — and we hope you art letting US down. Those Nashville kids think their hero is a big disappointment. I know, for I was one of them. Ann \ Ci aire, Nashville. Tennessee mtinued on page '.'1 ) moToriAY combined with movie mirror