Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1944)

p w » HOWTO WHILE YOU'RE YOUNG! “f had thought I was fat for life/’— says Mary Jane Sevan, now a slim, successful war-plant secretary at 20. Ever since she could remember, Mary Jane Sevan of Monessen, Pa., had been “just plain fat.” When she got her first job, she wished she could be slender and pretty, like other girls in the office. Not long ago she stepped on the scales when no one was looking. The heartless arrow pointed to 152, far too much for her 5'4%". Tliat was when Mary Jane Sevan decided she needed the DuSarry Success Course. In the exciting weeks that followed, she lost 25 pounds, reduced her waist 4V2", her hips 414”, put to good use lessons in skin care, hair styling, make-up. “Now I have all the vitality I need,” she writes. “And oh, how glad I am tliat I found this new way of living while I’m young!” Mary Jane Sevan is just one of more than 110,000 women and girls of all ages from 16 to 60 who have found the DuSarry Success Course a way to be fit and fair from top to toe! Above, Mary Jane Sevan when she weighed 152. Right, the streamlined glamorous girl she is today. It can happen to YOU! Today it’s so important to be at your best — fit and ready for strenuous wartime work. The DuSarry Success Course brings you an analysis of your needs, then shows you how to bring your weight to normal, remodel your figure, care for your skin, use make-up for glamour. You follow at home the same methods taught by Ann Delafield at the famous Richard Hudnut Salon, New York. Get the full story. Why not find out what this proved-successful plan can do for you? The coupon will quickly bring you full information. ANN DELAFIELD, Directing Du Barry Beauty Chest Included ff^Uh your Course, you receive a Chest containing a generous supply of DuBarry Beauty and Make-up\Preparations. I 1 Richard Hudnut Salon I Dept. SC-8, 693 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. [ Please send me the book telling all about the j DuSarry Home Success Course. I Afus I Mrs I Street I City Stale propped this up in Ann’s dressing room with a large sign that read; “Steve Hannagan, get out of town before it’s too late.” Ann and Steve had a glorious time telling about this gag, and laughing. The way a man and a girl do when life quite suddenly and unexpectedly — because they have found each other — has a glow. The instant Ann’s picture was finished she went traipsing back to New York, where Steve had gone before her. New York was only a stopover, however, for they were en route to Florida. Whereupon, for the first time in his public-relations life, Steve admitted he had seen something in Florida more wonderful than the sun. “Anniepie,” as he calls her. Of course, reporters besieged them when they came back to New York. “Don’t force us to hide out in bomb shelters,” they pleaded, laughing. A famous columnist gave them the most trouble. It wasn’t a story he was after, however; it was Ann. Morton Downey saved them from him. When he followed them one place after another Morton ran interference, giving them a chance to make a getaway. That was fun, too. ONE night when they were entertaining friends at the Stork Club a Navy captain, not young and not sober, made his way to their table and asked Ann to dance. “Sorry,” she said, “I’m not even dancing with the gentlemen in my party this evening.” The captain made a slurring remark about the lesser rank of one of their guests. Fighting words, but Ann saved the day. “No one invited you here,” she told the captain quickly, quietly. “As for our friend here, we are very proud of him with his campaign ribbons and his stars.” The captain, who wore no campaign ribbons and no stars, stole silently away. Incidentally, the officer who was with Ann and Steve, and about whom there has been much mystery, was LieutenantCommander Robert Montgomery. Steve told everybody how beautifully Ann handled this situation. That is his favorite sport these days — telling how smart she is, repeating the cute things she has said. A second time Ann returned to California. A second time Steve, who has three little residences of his own — a streamlined apartment high above Park Avenue, a farm in the Connecticut hills, and a villa in Florida — followed. “I’m going to have a Christmas tree this year,” he went around saying. “At Annie’s!” When any man gets excited about traveling three thousand miles to climb a ladder and hang a star on the tip top of a Christmas tree, look, we say, for the girl who will hand the star up to him. At this writing Ann, in California, is working hard on “Hollywood Canteen” and Steve, in New York, is working hard for Big Business. Soon she will go overseas to entertain the soldiers. Over what seas she will be sent she doesn’t know. He won’t be able to follow her, of course, for even a mythical man, such as he, can’t get overseas travel priorities. But wherever she goes — Africa, China, England, Greenland or the Philippines — he will find some way of giving her laughs to remember him by. And she will laugh — so much — that over there, too, people will say they’re in love. The End Keep the cost of living down — observe ceiling prices. When incomes go up, prices go up — help keep them down. 88