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option lapse. Then Warners perked up interest — egged on by a one-man selling campaign engineered by Bette Davis who had seen his test for M-G-M — only to discover that Lynn and the show had departed for Chicago. He was there when the wire came, reported immediately, as per instructions, as soon as he had gotten an okay from George Abbott. When he arrived, the studio blew cold, put him to work in short subjects, a second-rate feature and promotional pieces and seemed content to let the matter rock along. There was less than a month to go on his contract when Errol Flynn got lost in the Caribbean and the brothers Warner began getting panicky about "Four Daughters." Some cool head suggested, "Why not use someone else?" Lynn arranged for a test. Priscilla Lane got up at five to help him put it over. When Curtiz saw the rushes he said, "Not bad. Run it over again." As he walked out he tapped Lynn on the shoulder. "I like your work," he said. "Good luck." "Four Daughters" made Jeffrey Lynn. "There's poetry in the acting of Jeffrey Lynn, a deftness and honesty mingled with a sensitive charm and an appeal that goes beyond the purely animalic," a reviewer on a Dallas paper enthused. TOUR Daughters" was two seasons ago 'and this year of grace finds our hero gamboling atop this unpredictable world, blowing smoke rings heavenward. He has nine pictures behind him, "It All Came True" and "All This And Heaven Too" in the near past. With "Four Mothers" and "Trial and Error" coming up, Jeffrey Lynn is in an enviable spot. When he came to New York recently he encountered a group of "nothingsacred" interviewers. Said one of them point-blank, "Mr. Lynn, isn't it true that you're engaged?" He laughed, that do-re-mi-fa-sol laugh of his. Then he said: "No. I'm not engaged to anyone. For the time being I'm playing the field." That was, of course, quite a few moons back, quite some time before he bumped into a pert little brunette who had come to a party sporting a beanie. He had kidded her and had come out second best. She left him licking his wounds and said, "Ta-ta!" Her name is Dana Dale and currently she's the most important part of his nonprofessional life. Nights when he isn't struggling with a script, he's driving his shining roadster down the winding road of Coldwater Canyon to an apartment house on North Rossmore Avenue where Dana is making her home, so's to be real close to Paramount Studio for whom she is doing a cowgirl picture this very moment, vis-a-vis to Bill Boyd's Hopalong Cassidy. Being the girl friend — or chum — of Warners' ranking Sir Galahad has its drawbacks for Miss Dale. Interviewers ire always wanting to know what sort of ^ romancer is this Mr. Lynn. One curious laddie even called her up md inquired: "Is he nice?" "Not too nice!" the Dale lady is supposed to have volleyed. HERE YOU ARE, KIDS! How to do the SLOW LINDY HOP ^ move-by-move account in the March issue A girl's P«vate Uf C "" . i t;mes when even „r M.ONE'" There are special times Bu, if you ™Fe •?£ 'a' I. Jr i— s° y°" "° "difficult days , JO" "eea 0r Lybo you -T^ftoXW^eca^ .he battle! Meanmg he to* ° so(, . . . help *• >"" Kotex sanitary uaph'us sta mi„a off your trouble*. l But sit one our "« t^^T-tr^t:^ y -EL'S; the flat, press ed_k<* « e^mfortf too, because Kotex J Put skigh-rides on your okay toj^ the singing and ■W ^AV£^ * drive the h IN eiy Shield in ^\^tjt:^eres a right size 5L Junior, Regular, and Super Kote. . for each day's needs. Taint in Text Book,! 1 to learn all about ^T^ here's she to ,,er I e I tde intimate hints get those U"l , Thg new she needs to kno r„ book: "As One Ctrl ^ C^'Chica.o.IlHnois. Feel its new softness . . Prove Us new safety . . Compare Us new fla«e:^ •Trade Mark Reg "• EBBUARY, 1941 83