Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1942)

$1.00 PRIZE Personal to Lew Ayres DEAR DR. KILDARE: Don't you think you should have asked Dr. Gillespie's advice before ' making your decision? ' You say your role in "All Quiet" influenced you. Remember, your soldier was German and he was disillusioned with the aggressive, avaricious tendencies of his country. Had he been fighting to preserve something I fine all would have been different, f You say war is wrong. That's why we're fighting, my friend. If a maniac came along your street and took your neighbors' homes and possessions and j made them slaves, you would give him ! everything of yours and kiss his boots. Is it publicity? Please not now. This is too serious and you have many admirers. Don't you owe them something, if only to respect yourself? Are you afraid? Most of our men are, but they don't let that stop them and that's courage. No sane person really wants to fight — you know that. , I couldn't possibly go to see any of ' your movies. I'd get hysterics if I'd see Dr. Kildare get hei'oic. I What's happened to you, Mr. Ayres? ■ The otheis in your industry are so unselfishly patriotic. (Mrs.) a. R. Warren, Galveston, Tex. PHOTOPLAY-MOVIE MIRROR awards the following prizes each month for the best letters submitted for publication: $10 first prize; $5 second prize; $1 each for every other letter published in full. Just write in whot you think about stars or movies, in less than 200 words. Letters are judged on the basis of clarity and originality, and contributors are warned that plagiarism from previously published material will be prosecuted to the full extent of the low. Please do not submit letters of which copies have been mode to send to other publications; this is poor sportsmonship and has resulted, in the post, in embarrassing situations for all concerned, as each letter is published in this department in good faith. Owing to the great volume of contributions received by this department, we regret that it is impossible for us to return unaccepted material. Accordingly we strongly recommend that all contributors retain o copy of any manuscript submitted to us. Address your letter to "Speak for Yourself," PHOTOPLAYMOVIE MIRROR, 205 East 42nd St., New York City, N. Y. $1.00 PRIZE Another Ayres Angle YESTERDAY— a hand reaches for a butterfly ... a sniper's bullet finds its mark . . . the hand reflexes in death . . . all's quiet on the western front. The Boy who played it felt the horrors of war in his heart and hated war to the depths his heart could hate. Years roll by . . . years in which the Boy becomes a man . . . ideas recreate themselves . . . ideals fashion themselves into new shaoes and forms . . . the man in that boy has new perspectives on life and on today's horizons another war has formed itself from the selfish greed of man. But Man finds it hard to conform his ideals and ideas to the present which time and experience of the past have impregnated. And this Man cannot leave his mould ... a mould made of God and time's creating. Lew Ayres . . . the boy reaching for the butterfly . . . perhaps knows that the path of life is but a pattern set for his feet. Judgment of his decision is not for me — memories of Lew are too roseate and vivid. John Thayer, Cambridge, Mass. For the true story of the strange case of Lew Ayres, see page 29. $1.00 PRIZE Pictures I Can't Forget "LI. M. Pulham, Esq.": Bad boy ' I raised from the dead. "The Little Foxes": Bette Davis as Tallulah Bankhead. "Woman Of The Year": Don't kid me. I know they didn't live happily ever after. "Johnny ELager": Van Heflin completely surrounded by beauty and some talent. {Continued on page 85) PEPSODENT POWDER makes teeth TWICE AS BRICHT Pretty Margaret and Marilyn Rick, Palatine, Illinois, Twins, chorus: "Pepsodent's really 'super'!" "Did I learn about tooth povvdcrs! Our dentist was skeptical at first . . . then amazed . . . when Pepsodent made Peg's teeth twice as bright as mine! He said he never saw anything like it I Neither did we ! Pepsodent showed us how really bright teeth can be! " ...But, say! After Margaret won the toss to who'd use Pepsodent Powder, it was ;rent! I chose another well-k see different! I chose another we brand, thinking there couldn't much difference." For the safety of your smile . . . see yo JULY. 1942 nown be very I it • miie . . . use Pepsodent twice a day ur dentist twice a year. 1 . . . and the Rick Twins' Dentist says: "I was skeptical...Pepsodent's claims sounded too good. But, this test convinced me that Pepsodent's statement is accurate":