Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1955)

YOUNG IDEAS: PHOTOPLAY’S PATTERN OF THE MONTH be a christmas belle 0 Looking for a quick-to-sew party dress? Here’s one you can make in a jiffy for the holidays ahead. Its first two parts combine a full, floating skirt and a bared camisole bodice that’s ruffled with half-inch lace. Make it in rich velveteen or rustling taffeta for real party flavor. A third part (included in the pattern) is the round-collared, cuffed shirt you can make in white satin to contrast with the skirt, or, for everyday, in lightweight wool or rayon with matching skirt. An American Designer pattern by Anne Klein of Junior Sophisticates. Junior sizes 9-17. The camisole and skirt take 5% yards of 35-inch fabric. The shirtwaist alone, 2x/i yards of 35-inch fabric. The three separates all in one fabric take 6% yards of 42-inch fabric. All yardages here are figured for size 15. Remember to allow additional fabric for a self belt. all teenagers aren’t appearance of a child much too young for a first kiss. She was fourteen at the time and she didn’t get kissed. It was during this period that her mother and her aunt, Marissa, started the insidious campaign to whack off their protege’s long tresses. The answer was firm but gentle, “Nope.” Margaret liked her hair long. “Short hair will make you look older — more mature,” argued her agent. “If the script calls for long hair, you can wear a wig,” wailed Gladys. “Short hair will make you look sophisticated— smart,” urged Marissa. As producers in all entertainment media continued to look at her as a sweet, young twelve-year-old, she suddenly acquiesced. “At first,” she said patting her swirling short hair, T felt naked. But then I got to like it — temporarily that is. When I’m twenty or twenty-one, then I’ll let it grow long again. But for now, it’s effective.” She was sitting on the stage of RKO’s studio 10 waiting to be called for a scene. She is back in pictures as an ingenue. She is ready now for the next lap in her career. David Butler, the producer-director of “Glory,” is so pleased with Margaret you would think he’d conjured her up himself. Margaret excused herself as she was called for a scene. After a brief conference with Mr. Butler, she went to her coach, Glady’s O’Brien. They had a low, studied conversation. Margaret took her place in front of the camera. “Roll ’em,” said David Butler softly. Margaret’s eyes filled with tears, inner defeat fought its way to her sensitive features, her body slumped slightly in dejection. The tears flowed fully. “Cut,” murmured David. He walked up to Margaret, took her hand in his and said, “Thank you.” Wiping her eyes, she smiled timorously. “Was it all right?” “It was slightly wonderful,” he responded, and Margaret dropped back on the folding chair with a bright smile and asked her mother, “What were we talking about?” Her ability to create a mood and snap out of it over and over again has been the subject of much comment since she was a child. One memorable time as a tot, she climbed up on Edward Arnold’s lap and gave a long speech with only an occasional answer from Arnold. Time after time she would go through the scene, even veteran actor Arnold would fluff one of his few lines. It was a heart-rending scene. But after each take little Margaret would go smiling back to her mother and talk the things that little girls talk until time to go back and do it again. Here, on the set of “Glory,” she was proving unconsciously that she hadn’t lost her ability to become completely absorbed in her character and then flash back to normality at the sound of Cut. “Glory,” incidentally, is the kind of a picture that has everyone in the cast and crew crowing. It is the answer to the ‘awful teens.’ It’s a beautiful picture of a girl’s love and faith in a horse. With Charlotte Greenwood and Walter Brennan backing her, the horse finally wins for her. To prove how grown up she is, Margaret also wins John Lupton, the hero! Gus Schilling, who plays an important role in the picture, was really enthusiastic. “Psychologically, I think we’re all tired of the downbeat pictures about kids — motorcycle maniacs, hot rodders, drugaddict dandies. ‘Glory’ is the turning of the tide. It’s a clean picture, beautiful and exciting, and the kids are real. Everybody’s excited about it. I’ve been in movies since Thirty Eight; I’ve never seen a cast so concerned with each other. No To order your Pattern of the Month, send 50tf in coin, with pattern number and size, to Advance Pattern Company, Dept. P, P.O. Box 21, Murray Hill Station, New York 16, New York 82