Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1941)

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Blmply rctoueb as new crny appear* Easy to prove by tinting a t<*ni look ol your hair. 600 nl «lru« or toilet c on I iters on a nio:ie\ -hark guarantee. HetalD your youthful charm. (Jet 11KUWX A It >.\ E today. 94 type of Hollywood ungallant fell to Ann (we'll call her Ann). She had come to Hollywood from New York with a fairish amount of professional experience under her belt but not much idea of how to crack our town. Someone said join one of the many little theater groups because even though you don't get paid, the talent scouts watched the work. Ann welcomed the suggestion because with the first dazzle of Hollywood gone she was beginning to feel the pinch of loneliness. The few letters of introduction she had brought had led nowhere and she found herself unable to meet any young men on a basis she could accept. IN the theater group was a man who paid her a flattering amount of attention. He was personable and had the casual charm of Hollywood. His cousin, he told her, was married to a biggie in one of the major studios and had been so impressed with Ann's performance in their opening bill that she had reported her to her husband. In fact, Ann might look for a call from the studio any moment. Hot on the heels of this he recounted his own bad luck. He'd been signed in New York for a picture to be done by one of the largest companies (he even showed her the contract, which seemed valid enough) and after he had arrived in Hollywood the picture had been called off. Naturally he couldn't afford to sue because he'd be blacklisted by the industry. Worst of it was he'd brought his mother with him and she had fallen ill over the financial worry of their position, but he knew things would break soon. They did — but not quite in the way Ann might have expected. In the middle of the night several days later he phoned her that his mother was critically ill and he must get some money immediately for an operation or he wouldn't be responsible for his own life, let alone his mother's. Ann took $200 out of her dwindling nest egg and got it to him. The following week she received another S.O.S This time, however, the plea to pay was tempered with a bit of guile. He said that regardless of how concerned he was over his mother's condition he was going to take Ann personally to a very influential agent he knew. That in Hollywood, of course, is the bait irresistible. Against her mounting judgment, Ann took out another $100, leaving her own larder dangerously low, and handed it to him. Chump, you say? Certainly; but actors and actresses are emotional people or they wouldn't be actors and actresses. With the illness of his mother he had Stopped attending the theater group, which was understandable. Still, as the weeks flew by, Ann watched with growing anxiety for some word from him. Slowly and painfully it was borne in upon her that if she was ever to see him or the $300 she'd have to go after him. Goaded on by her own desperate financial condition, she set out on the search. Finally she tracked him down to a comfortable bungalow in an attractive Hollywood court where he was living not with his mother but with his wife and 3-year-old child. The family was just sitting down to a sizzling, juicy steak as Ann appeared in the doorway. Instantly on his feet, he took advantage of her bewilderment to back her out into the court. When the girl asked him for a return of at least part of the money he owed her, he shouted, "What do you mean, the money I owe you?" To Ann's speechless amazement at this bald-faced denial, he continued, his voice growing louder and louder, "What is this? Some kind of a shake-down racket? Perhaps you've forgotten that the law provides for people who try to blackmail innocent men! Why you can't produce one scrap of evidence that your claim is legal and you know it!" Her mounting rage abruptly turned to ice. Of course, she couldn't — all she had was a couple of telephone calls! Suddenly she became aware of the gaping faces of the neighbors peering curiously out into the court. That, too, was part of his technique! When he finally yelled, "Now, you get out of here!" she stumbled, beaten and chagrined, out of the court. And this was the man to whom she had turned in her Hollywood loneliness! Her distress prompted her to go to one of the girls' clubs which do such splendid work in helping talented girls try to hold their own against the high voltage of Hollywood. An opening was reported to the club for a script girl at one of the studios. Ann jumped at it and made such a point of studying script technique that she is now being given a chance at a writing job. BY all odds the most frequently chokedback criticism of the run of Hollywood men — and by that I distinctly mean "run" and not our swell top-fli and directors — is their calm acceptance of their desirability Where in other communities a man spends a little time and attention on a girl he thinks worth taking out, the Hollywood Lothario is extremely nonchalant. It's the familiar psychology of the man who says. "Well, if they want to vote, lei cm stand up with t of us in the subv. A larger part of it. however, is that gallantry seems to operate in inverse proportion to the market. With a waiting list of ten beautiful girls to every halfway presentable male, the competition is uproarious, dog eat dog — and cat LOUIS BROMFIELD America s outs 'ending nove 1 1st. author of "The Green Bay Tree," "The Rains C ame," comes to Photoplay-Movie Mirror next month with i 'BOGIE'' Wherein a great wrifer tells warmly the story of a great friendship with a great actor: H U M P HREY BOGART photopiat combined with Movn mirror MB