Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1938)

Private Life of a BOX OF DAUGHTER SAYS NEXT TO THE BOSS KLEENEX IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE OFFICE!" (from a letter by C. O. P., Louisiana) Close Ups and Long Shots Everyone WINS A PRIZE! Tell us how Kleenex serves your family and we'll send you a new purse-size Metal Case with Kleenex Lipstick Tissues inside (retail value $1.00). Mail your letter with name and address and the perforated strip from 1 box of Kleenex to KLEENEX, 919 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago. BABY SAYS: MYTOMIS HAD THE WHEN I USED THEM TO REMOVE POLISH FROM MY FINGER NAILS. NOW I USE KLEENEX, AND THE PLAGUE IS OVER V\ (from a Utter by Mrs. G. J. J., Missouri; YUM YM! NOW MY LITTLE GIRL CAN EAT ICE CREAM CONES AND CHOCOLATE CANDY THE CARBECAUSE WITH KLEENEX HANDY. BOTH SHE AND THE CAR ARE KEPT CLEAN!* (from a letter by Mrs. E. S., Wisconsin) DAD SAYS: AUNTY SAYS: /uses 70 CATCH PiEAtrr/ ...FOR WIPINGMY SHOES WITH BATHROOM TOWELS, BUT NOW WITH KLEENEX,NO HITS, NO RUNS, NO ERRORS.1" <A»* *h"ir h\ R D" ' Indiana) GYPPED' anowasimad! I ASKED FOR KLEENEXb BOXESBUT WHEN HOME FOUND IT WASN'T KLEENEX BUT ONE OF THOSE "OFF-BRANW!" WAS I MD-ITOOKIT BACK AND DID I GWE THAT CLERK AN EARFULl" rrom a letter by Mis. B. F D., Chicago) IWASA BUSY BIB-WASHER NOW I TUCK KLEENEX UNDER THE BABYS CHIN AND SAVE WASHING ! " (from a letter by Mrs. E. J., California) • During colds, you'll certainly want to put aside handkerchiefs and adopt the Kleenex Habit instead. See how these disposable tissues soothe your nose and save money as they reduce handkerchief washing. Use each tissue once— then destroy, germs and all. Also use Kleenex to remove face creams and cosmetics; to dust and polish; for the baby; and as a kitchen help. Do as millions are doing— adopt the habit of using Kleenex in the Serv-a-Tissue box that ends tissue waste and mess . . . boxes of 200 sheets now 2 for 25c at drug counters everywhere. It's the handy size for every room at home, for your office and your car. (Continued jrom page 15) just come through two of the things, I beg to announce that even an operation in Hollywood is unlike one anywhere else on earth. They make a production of your operations out here . . . there is, most gratifying and first of all, that great rush of sympathy and affection toward you . . . for a couple of weeks Hollywood had me believing that I was not alone the only person who had ever been ill but most certainly the bravest . . . then there are the flowers that reach the hospital . . . don't think that Hollywood sends flowers in mere boxes . . . they come in every size and color of vase, already arranged and so excitingly beautiful that you can hardly bear it . . . and somehow, so keen are Hollywood personalities, that it even gets into their flower-buying and even before I looked at the attached cards I could usually tell which star had sent them. . . . Flowers from Tyrone Power have a reserved and romantic air about them . . . flowers from Gene Raymond and Jeanette MaeDonald are actually amusing, as, for example, their remembering I was still stuck in the hospital on the Fourth of July and sending me, therefore, a "firecracker" — a gigantic bouquet of white carnations, blue delphinium and red, red gladioli positively exploding from a great white vase, tied round and round with red, white and blue ribbon . . . flowers from those inseparable pals, Madge Evans and Una Merkel, are dainty and cute little things in the most delicate vase of all . . . flowers from the very smart Mr. Robert Montgomery turn out to be a deep crystal bowl of the most beautiful orchids that last luxuriously through a whole week . . . Walter Wanger, the producer who distinguishes everything he touches, sends all at once not only the most beautiful flowers to look at, dozens upon dozens of long-stemmed yellow roses, but flowers to wear, great scarlet begonias, and flowers for perfume, lilies of the valley . . . and Irene Dunne thinks to wait until I am out of the hospital and convalescing and sends all-white flowers which seem so typical of her. . . . I HERE are, too, those stars who do touching, practical things . . . like Joan Crawford, coming to the hospital to call, taking one look at me and next day sending not one, but a boxful of the most exquisite nightgowns . . . and girls in the publicity departments who sent those necessary soaps and perfumes and colognes . . . and the most lovely thing of all . . . Claudette Colbert's quiet insistence that I must come to her home to convalesce and her pretending she didn't know what it was all about when I was reduced to a state of tearful speechlessness through the mere fact of lying still, day after day, watching the sun cross her beautiful lawns and gardens, of eating breakfast, lunch and dinner, such meals as I have only fancied before, of having my every wish gratified by devoted maids even before I had thought it and of having a whole household go around hushed because of my mere presence. . . . Ah, I realize it is still considered very smart to make fun of Hollywood and intimate every star is stupid and every individual is hard and selfish . . . well, it may be smart but it isn't true. . . . The values of generosity and imagination and the most disinterested kindness are on every hand in Hollywood ... I know what I am talking about, for I have just been experiencing their generosities, given without any air of being a "Lady Bountiful" thing, but rather as its all being an amusing joke to be thoughtful of another person's comfort and to let you share luxury you could never earn, to let you witness beauty greater than you've ever dreamed of.». . . Well, if publicly expressing my awkward, inadequate gratitude for all this means anything, here's that expression ... I feel uncomfortably humble knowing that I have done so little to merit such kindliness from Hollywood ... I honestly don't deserve it but, gosh, how I have enjoyed it! . . . KLEENEX* DISPOSABLE TISSUES ('Trade Mark Reg. U. S. Patent Office) Romance? Well, Judy Garland and Freddie Bartholomew are seen together at premieres, but the real lowdown is this: Judy has a "regular" boy friend and this scores as "just publicity" 86 PHOTOPLAY