Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1941)

Cornell. "I've got you just about where I want you and this is no time to stop. I could arrest you today, for that matter, but you'd get some hot-shot lawyer and yuu might wriggle out with life instead of the death penalty." "You're crazy!" "Sure. They all think I'm nuts. And I never get tired seeing the surprise when we come up with Exhibits A to Z." "Listen — " I sucked for breath. "Listen —I'm not guilty of anything! If— if you persecute me it'll be wrong." "Thank you, mister." "For what?" "That's the first time you've flattered my ego with fear. I've made progress." There was a street car on Seventh Avenue and I raced a block ahead and stopped. "You can catch the trolley," I said. "Very well, mister. Thank you for the ride. I hope you aren't angry. I'm only following my conscience to the — " I jerked the door out of his hand and slammed it shut. "THAT'S very queer,'' the assistant D.A. ' said. "Cornell has said nothing at all to me. This office has concentrated on Harry Williams. Cornell has no right to molest you. Of course, he's doing it on his own time." "What do I care whose time he's doing it on'?" "Ah — you seem upset." He was playing with a Dencil. "And isn't it strange Ed Cornell should bother you'? He has taken a similar interest in cases of this sort in the past. But he's never failed to turn in a brilliant case record." He paused. "He's a queer chap, all right. One-track mind — with a noose at the end of the track." He rattled the pencil. "Of course we will surely prosecute if he brings in a case. I may as well tell you that." "You mean to say — " "We'll check the facts, naturally. This office isn't against you. But — " "You'd just as soon hang me, and close the books." "I didn't say that." "What about Harry Williams?" "I imagine we'd have to assume he was dead if — " "You make me sick," I said. "Well, Ed Cornell caji be wrong. But the fact is — " "He's never been wrong yet!"' "I was just going to say that. How did you know?" On Hollywood Boulevard all of the street signs were changed, and now they read "Santa Claus Lane." At night people came from everywhere; they packed the sidewalks, they jammed the streets. They crowded into the bright shops. Shops all decorated with Christmas, dolled up like pretty girls, doors open wide, every clerk busy, wrapping packages in scarlet and blue and silver paper. "Darling, this is a nice cafe. But I'm not hungry at all. I'm just kind of tired. It's — nice sitting here where you can rest — and sort of watch the boulevard." "Shall I order a bottle of champagne?" "No. This is fine." "Jill—" "Yes?" "Let's get married!" "When?" "Tonight. We'll fly to—" "No — in January. The old year's been sad. I'd rather start new.'' "It's a date. Miss Lynn. New Year's Eve in Las "Vegas!" "Oh, that's thrilling!" "Merry Christmas then — -from me to you, with love." "What is it? . . . Peg! Oh, darling! It's NOVEMBER. 1941 ' EVERY day your skin is different from what it was the day before. Slight changes, indiscernible except perhaps through the microscope, gradually encroach . . . Until a day comes when a too-candid mirror shows blemishes you've always hoped you might somehow escape — enlarged pore openings, oily shine, blackheads, excessive dryness. Ask other women who have had this experience what they have done. Hundreds of them would tell you, "I've found the very help my skin needs in the cleansing, lubricating action of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia Creams". PHILLIPS' MILK OF MAGNESIA SKIl^: CREAM Give this remarkable cream a chance to work at night. Here's what it does : It softens and neutralizes accumulations often of an acid nature in the external pore openings. And because it contains cholesterol it holds moisture in the skin and so helps to keep it supple and pliant, and to relieve excessive dryness. A smooth-as-silk foundation. Phillips' Skin Cream seems to have a special affinity for make-up. It prepares the skin by removing excess oiliness and softening rough dryness so that powder and rouge go on evenly, and last. PHILLIPS' MILK OF MAGNESIA CLEANSING CREAM This special cream offers a method of cleansing that is differentl It not only absorbs the surface dirt but penetrates the outer pore openings and floats away the accumulations which may daily lodge there. Include this simple method in the daily care of your skin. Thousands of women have found in it benefits they've never known before. SKiM CREAM (FORMERLr TEXTURE CREAMJ lOc, 30c and 60c CLEAMSIMG CREAM lOc, 30c, 60c and 91.00 PHllllPS PHimp§ 77