Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1941)

Life of Lynn (Continued from page 33) ablaze with color and the air tingled as though inhabited by spirits. He took to Bates right from the start, admiring its atmosphere of quiet charm. Mostly it was filled with New Englanders anxious to get something out of college, a good portion of whom worked after classes so's to make both ends meet. Jeffrey Lynn was like them, only more so. In fact, he worked so hard that freshman year, riding his bike back and forth to his chores, that he didn't have a single date. For all that, he managed to make his presence felt at Bates. As poor as he was and as skimpy as was his wardrobe he was always ending up at the class polls as the Lucius Beebe of Bates, the college's best-dressed man. Besides that, he was elected a class officer, editor of the college paper and member of the student-faculty committee. He went out for track and became the slickest half-miler in school. At the suggestion of a campus delovely, who assured him it was nothing short of criminal for him not to offer his services to the college dramatic society, the Bates 4-A Players, what with a current shortage of male talent, he decided to enlist as a walk-on. But when the director caught a glimpse of the college's Beau Brummel, slender, earnest and definitely pictorial, he decided, almost on the spot, that here was a leading man, not a spear-holder. JEFFREY LYNN played everything from •* Shakespeare to Shaw before he got his diploma. Not until he sat there in his dressing room, wiping the make-up from his face, still sporting the Roman toga in which he had just cavorted as Marc Antony in the senior play, his last, did it dawn on him that he was in love with the stage. "It's the ham creeping out, Jeff old boy," he told himself. En route home, Jeffrey Lynn, A.B., considered the future, reflected wistfully about his earlier plans to study law at Harvard (the royal road to the Presidency) pondered the sad world which lay gasping for breath thanks to the stock market collapse the previous fall and wondered who on earth would be chump enough to give him a job. That summer he sold magazine subscriptions, a house-to-house proposition that took him all over New England. Come fall and he figured things out. He'd work a year, save up enough money to pay his tuition at Harvard and would proceed to dazzle the law school pundits out of a scholarship. The New England Bell Telephone Co. was kind enough to give him a job. He was stationed in Brockton, right outside of Boston. He didn't much like the work. As an antidote for his job he looked around for a hobby, remembered his mumming at Bates and decided to take up amateur dramatics. Brockton was no metropolis and the best thing open was the Y.M.C.A. Players. "~Ve were a pretty, lot indeed. We may not nave been slick as satin, but we were picturesque. We never set any drama connoisseurs a-swooning, but I doubt if we ever bored' anyone." All this in retrospect from Mr. Lynn. In a modest way actor Lynn began to be noticed. A man named Vaughan Tashjian dropped around and asked how come he didn't tie up with his troupe over in Boston called the Ford Hall FEBRUARY, 1941 THE MM CREAM THAT SURPRISED EVEH ITS MAKERS 'm Scene from smash hit Louisiana Purchase" ONLY a few years ago a new medicated cream was introduced to the public as a soothing, greaseless skin cream. Today it's known from one end of the country to the other; over 150 million jars have been used! It's startled even its makers, because of the many different uses found for it. The name of this cream is NOXZEMA SKIN CREAM. READ HOW IT MAY HELP YOU / AS A BEAUTY AID: If your skin is coarse, I/ rough and dry, use NOXZEMA as a night cream V and as a protective powder base. It helps smooth and soften the skin, keep powder on for hours. y FOR POOR L/ special medication helps heal externally' caused skin blemishes; its mildly astringent action helps reduce enlarged pore openings. y FOR CHAPPED HANDS AND LIPS: Nurses l/ were the first to discover how grand NOX V ZEMA is for chapped hands. Because chapped hands are CUT hands (tiny cracks in skin). NOXZEMA's medication aids healing. Try it at night; see how much softer, whiter your hands are next morning! s FOR SHAVING: For tough beards and tender L/ skin, apply soothing, medicated NOXZEMA before lathering or use as a brushless shave. • BABIES' CHAFED SKIN: Mothers report I/' it's remarkable how quickly NOXZEMA relieves "diaper rash" — aids in healing. , FOR SCALDS'AND BURNS, fever blisters, I /\/ chilblains, Tired Aching feet, insect bites V V —KEEP NOXZEMA HANDY! It brings quick, grateful relief! Get a jar today ! i For a limited time enly, you can get the generous 2 5(5 jar of NOXZEMA for only V)i. Get it today and use it for just 10 days. If you don't say it's helped make your skin look better and/eel better, your money will be gladly refunded! 81