Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1947)

p ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ At the first blush of Womanhood by VALDA SHERMAN Many mysterious changes take place in your body as you approach womanhood. For instance, the apocrine glands under your arms begin to secrete daily a type of perspiration you have never known before. This is closely related to physical development and is especially evident in young women. It causes an unpleasant odor on both your person and your clothes. No need for alarm— There is nothing “wrong” with you. It is just another sign you are now a woman, not a girl. It is also a warning that now you must select a truly effective underarm deodorant. Two dangers to overcome — Underarm odor is a real handicap at this age when a girl wants to be attractive, and the new cream deodorant Arrid is made especially to overcome this very difficulty. It kills odor instantly, safely and surely, then by antiseptic action prevents the formation of all odor for many hours and keeps you safe. Moreover, it protects against a second danger— perspiration stains. The physical exertion, embarrassment and emotion of the teens and twenties can cause the apocrine glands to fairly gush perspiration. A dance, a date, an embarrassing remark may easily make you perspire and offend as well as ruin a dress. All deodorants not alike — Don’t take chances! Rely on Arrid which stops underarm perspiration as well as odor. No other deodorant gives you the same intimate protection as Arrid’s exclusive formula. That’s why Arrid is so popular with girls your age. They buy more Arrid than any other age group. More nurses— more men and women everywhere — use Arrid than any other deodorant. How to protect yourself —You’ll find the new Arrid a snowy, stainless cream that smooths on and disappears in a jiffy. Never gritty or grainy. The American Institute of Laundering has awarded Arrid its Approval Seal — harmless to fabrics. Gentle, antiseptic Arrid will not irritate skin. No other deodorant tested stops perspiration and odor so completely yet so safely! Don't be half-safe — During this “age of courtship,” don’t let perspiration problems spoil your fun. Don’t be half-safe— be Arrid-safe! Use Arrid to be sure. Get Arrid right away, only 39<f plus tax at your favorite drug counter. ( Advertisement) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Deborah ( Continued, from page G8) But I wouldn’t dream of saying such a thing, it would sound so presumptuous. The thing to do when I’m told I’m wonderful, is not to believe it. Of course I have to believe I can act, and while I’m doing it I know I can, but when it’s done, I think, it’s dreadful. I’m always shattered with nerves the first time I see myself on the screen. You see, I have a tremendous inferiority complex.” With youth, beauty, fame, love, everything a girl could want, Miss Kerr has an intense inferiority complex! And like most complexes, it started in her early childhood. “I was five,” Deborah says, “when I danced at the Guildford Town Hall in Sussex (England). I was a very solemn little thing, I never smiled much, and after the dance my teacher said, ‘Go on, take a bow.’ I went back and did a boy’s bow. And there was a roar of laughter. I never forgot it. I cried for days and I still feel awful when I remember it! “It’s desperately hard for me to meet new people, I feel absolutely lost. When I go to parties, I creep in so that no one will see me and then I look desperately around for someone I know. I’m getting a little better lately. But I’ll never like parties. Having a baby has given me a marvelous excuse to refuse party invitations.” IF Deborah is shy, her husband, former Wing Commander Anthony Bartley, is the complete opposite. He’s typically English, but easy-going, a good mixer, very amusing and he’s as popular in Hollywood as Deborah. “We were married two years ago this November,” Deborah says. “Tony gave me an awful scare at the wedding. Weeks before I’d told him, ‘You know we really ought to look up what we’ll have to say.’ And he’d answer, ‘Nonsense, I’ve been to lots of weddings. I know every word.’ But he didn’t! And I was frightfully nervous. I was so afraid I’d fall ovec my train.” Deborah doesn’t need much prodding to tell you that her husband brought down fifteen German planes during the war, and about his medals. Until he came to America, Commander Bartley, son of the famous barrister, Sir Charles Bartley, was a test pilot. But now that Deborah has a straight seven-year contract at Metro, “It’s kind of definite,” she says, “that we will have to live in Hollywood most of the time.” “And how about you?” I asked her husband. “Do .you want to live in Hollywood?” “I wouldn’t mind it at all,” Tony grins. “Having lived in thirty-six countries in the past six years, and roughing it with bad food, army cots to sleep on and every discomfort you can think of, I’m all for the food, comfort and climate of Hollywood.” Tony appeared in a picture, “First of the Few,” with the late Leslie Howard. He played himself, a pilot. “But he doesn’t want to be an actor,” his wife interrupts. “He just couldn’t emote to order.” Instead Tony is hoping to work in movies in an executive capacity. He was what is called “an observer” on Deb’s picture, “If Winter Comes.” When he finds out which phase of the business he likes best, he’ll apply for a job. “The main thing is for us to stay together,” says Deb. 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