Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1954)

There was a time when you wanted things to prove your maturity . . . like highheeled slippers or the key to the front door. But all these hard-won privileges seem unimportant when you re really grown up. Then you make your decisions because they’re best for you not just to prove a point. Take sanitary protection, for example. Almost every girl every woman who uses the internal method has made the grown-up decision to adopt it because she honestly believes it's best for her. She may have learned about it from a friend from her doctor or from a Tampax ad But basically, she has weighed the advantages of Tampax herself. Here they are: (1) Tampax prevents odor from forming. (2) Tampax is both invisible and unfelt when in placedoes away with the whole belt-pin-pad harness. (3) lampax is easy to dispose of. (4) Tampax is so small, month’s supply slips into purse. (5) Tampax can be worn in tub or shower (6) Wearer’s hands need not even touch the Tampax. Tampax is available at drug or notion counters in 3 absorbencies: Regular, Super, Junior. Tampax Incorporated, Palmer, Mass. Accepted for Advertising by the Journal of the American Medical Association Unpredictable Shelley and Farley keep tongues busy. Can they pick up where they left off? For Dragnet’s Jack W ebb and Dorothy Towne, recent denials haven’t dimmed those torches Grace Kelly, Oleg Cassini only have eyes for each other , but are things as romantic as they look? HOLLYWOOD WHISPERS I the increasing signs of a real altarbound romance for Betty Hutton and Alan Livingston, since Alan publicly admitted a divorce in lus family may be in the offing. Betty’s been on the bounce and go so much that her attachment was one of Hollywood’s better-kept secrets, but an announcement before Christmas wouldn’t amaze anybody who knows the score . . . About Grace Kelly and Oleg Cassini and how Oleg’s having to buck the most dangerous of all rivals— career. Whisper is that he’s already figured in one joust — Gene Tierney’s career — and been unhorsed, so if he and the glamoious Gracie do finally make it to the hitching post, ole debbil Career wi still be the Guest in the house. Meanwhile, both he and Miss Kelly, according to the best Hollywood precedent, scoff merrily at the gossips and aver with one voice: “Marriage? Why, we’re not even thinking about it. • About the likelihood that Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher will reach the Mr. and Mrs. stage before 1955 is j very old. After Eddie went to Europe j in midsummer, Debbie definitely gave i the heave to the local wolfpack, refus i ing all dates that might have been construed as romantic pairings. Al l though these two have known each 1 other casually for more or less five #. years, things didn’t become really serious for them until last summer • • • About Victor Mature’s recent suspension from 20th and his still-more recent separation from wife Dorothy, which everybody thought was just another family spat. But it was a lot more g. serious, for Dorothy, after six years of marriage, is talking divorce . . About ■ Gloria De Haven’s uncontested divorce j. from wealthy New York realtor Martin i, Kimmell . . . About Olivia de Havilland s plans to become Mrs. Pierre Galante, , with the tieing of the knot appearing more and more remote— but you never can tell with Livvy. Sy Bartlett, for whom she made “That Lady in Spain, writes from London that she s never been more radiant . . . About 24