Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1948)

INSIDE STUFF (Continued jrom page 16) For instance: The best day of the week to the Millands is Thursday, servants’ night out. Ray takes off for the Spanish Kitchen, bringing home tamales and hot tasty food. Mai whips up a salad and dessert and with their son Danny, the three enjoy dinner in the kitchen. They are honest enough to display real delight in their home. “Come down to the lily pond. I want to show you the moon reflected in the water,” Ray will say. Or he will take a visitor out to the telescope on the lawn to gaze at the stars or to look down at the magnificent view below. An Actor’s Life: “Grow a beard.” Bob Hutton hung up the telephone and turned to his wife Cleatus. Three nights away was the swanky party they’d looked forward to. Mrs. Hutton’s beautiful gown had arrived that morning from Don Loper’s. “Honey,” Bob said, “do you mind if I don’t shave for awhile ? I’m going to do a Western.” Next morning Bob was called out for riding practice. For hours he jogged and trotted, cantered and paced, or rather the horse did, while Bob hung on. By the evening of the party. Bob, sporting a three-day stubble of beard, limped beside his lovely wife. Unable to sit down, he stood miserably in a corner. “Of course,” Bob says, “by the time ‘The Younger Brothers,’ got going, they’d decided against the stubble and most of the riding scenes had been eliminated.” But that, my friends, is “pitchers.” Hedy: She has more beauty than ten stars rolled into one. Yet Hedy Lamarr would rather be known as a great actress than a beautiful woman. In Hollywood she’ll trot around with her hair in two pigtails and no make-up as if she resented the beauty that seemed to stand in her way. But on the set she hasn’t even time to resent beauty. She concentrates on the job at hand. We watched her work on the “Let’s Live a Little” set and know this to be true. She has more jewels than ten stars, but they remain locked in a bank vault. At one point she kept them in an old shoe box on the closet shelf. She had more glamour than ten stars, yet she traded it all for children. She was obsessed with the desire for motherhood, adopting a son before her own two children were born. She is a mother who attends her own children’s needs — is seldom seen at parties. She’s odd, Hollywood claims. But she’s Hedy Lamarr, actress, mother and woman before she’s anything else. And that’s the way she wants it. In Memoriam: Carole Landis is missed in Hollywood. It is still difficult to believe the gay and laughing Carole is dead by her own hand. We recall how before she sailed for England we went with friends to her home for a glass of milk after a party. She was never gayer or livelier than that night, challenging us to acrobatic stunts that left us breathless. Bob Topping rented her home with its spacious grounds and swimming pool while she was in England but never lived in it. There seemed to be a premonition of sadness about the place i that depressed Topping. A premoni, tion that too soon grew into actuality ' when Carole ended her own life with i sleeping pills. You caM say “yes to Homance :cmJO yeto says “mo” to Offendiag! Veto says “no” — to perspiration worry and odor! Soft as a caress . . . exciting . . . new — Veto is Colgate’s wonderful cosmetic deodorant. Always creamy, ' always smooth, Veto is lovely to use, keeps )mu lovely all day! Veto stops underarm odor instantly . . . ehecks perspiration effectively. And Veto lasts and lasts — from bath to bath! You feel confident . . . sure of exquisite daintiness. Veto says “no” — to harming skin and clothes! So effective . . . yet so gentle — Colgate’s lovely, new cosmetic deodorant, Veto, is harmless to any normal skin. Harmless, too, even to your filmiest, most fragile fabrics. For Veto alone contains Duratex, Colgate’s exclusive ingredient to make Veto safer. No other deodorant can be like Veto! So trust always to Veto — if you value your charm! f Trust alwaifs to Veto if you vutue your ehurmS 21