Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1938)

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Boos and Bouquets (Continued from page 4) p^Xkhockout! AT THE GANVE ^ £«K TO SMOOTH ROUGHNESSES AWAY. . . . FOR POWDER _V IT ALWAYS WAS EASY TO SMOOTH ~1 AWAY LITTLE ROUGHNESSES WITH ONE APPLICATION OF POND'S VANISHING CREAM N ...NOW SMOOTH IN EXTRA "SKIN-VITAMIN" TOO!* Now Pond's Vanishing Cream supplies extra beauty care. It contains Vitamin A, the "skin-vitamin." When skin lacks this necessary vitamin, it becomes rough and dry. When rfskin-vitamin" is restored, it helps skin become smooth again. Now every time you use Pond's, you are smoothing some of this necessary vitamin into your skin! Same jars Same labels. Same prices. BETTINA BELMONT, Society Deb, SAYS: "GRAND FOR OVERNIGHT, TOO' 'M OUTDOORS A LOT— THAT'S WHy lV£ ALWAYS USED PONDS VANISHING CREAM — IT SMOOTHS AWAY LITTLE ROUGHNESSES— HOLDS POWDER. AND ITS A GRAND OVERNIGHT CREAM. NOW I USE IT TO HELP PROVIDE A6AINST POSSIBLE loss of "skin-vitamin from MY SKIN, TOO *r* Statements concerning the effects of the "skin-vitamin" applied to the skin are based upon medical literature and tests on the skin of animals following an accepted laboratory method. Tuno in on "THOSE WE LOVE/' Pond's Program, Mondays, 8:30 P. M., N. Y. Time, N. B. C. Copyright, 1938, Pond's Kx tract Company $1.00 PRIZE A LETTER OF CREDIT FOR CRAWFORD Take hearts, all ye maids who feel that life hasn't given you a break. For life is a kaleidoscope, constantly changing the patterns of human destiny. Today I stood in the handsome dining room of Stephens College where one may read the inscription, "Joan Crawford waited tables in this room." Snubbed, denied membership in a coveted sorority, Miss Crawford's college memories can hardly be pleasant ones. An aged caretaker of the college grounds befriended her and loaned her small sums of money. Miss Crawford has never forgotten the old man's kindness to her and has sent him, from time to time, handsome sums of money in grateful remembrance. Mrs. O. Gelders, Columbia, Mo. $1.00 PRIZE MAYBE I'M WRONG The atmosphere When I appear Is very, very frigid. The girls just stare; Some even glare, Belligerently rigid. Their looks askance Say in a glance, "We don't know what can ail her!" Because, you see I definitely Don't care for Robert Taylor. Muriel Germanson, Milwaukee, Wis. $1.00 PRIZE JUST FOLKS I'm just a fan — you know, one of those people who think that the people in the movies are swell, and would secretly like to have what Gable has. It's interesting to me to watch everybody in my family react to a moving picture. My young sister will come home from a Kay Francis or Joan CrawfJ picture slightly moody, and the n,t day my mother will be listening tj description of a certain dress — thei a few days later, Sis will have that dr , The ten-year-old twins think If "Snow White," Clark Gable and Shii ,y Temple are the most wonderful pece in the world. They sing "Hi-Ho" so L J and long we sometimes wonder if ti should have seen "Snow White." Ta saw "Test Pilot" and ever since the 1 has been building aeroplanes and pi. ticing parachute-jumping off the fri porch with an umbrella. The girl wj put on a dress unless it's like one Shi: j Temple wears, which puts my mothe i a quandary, since there are no mce stars in the family. My dad wishtl were like Robert Taylor in "A Y. < at Oxford" and wonders why I'm :] Robert Finlay, .t Glen Allen, Mis . $1.00 PRIZE JADEDLY YOURS I still go to the movies every Fri night at 7 ... to suave movies in c fragrant theaters with richly upr stered seats. The musical accompa ment is sweet, the photography mast ful, the acting skilled and rare. I oh, I'm bored with pictures . . . boi Time was when it was wonderfi exciting to see a movie. There were 1 1 plots, with beginnings and ends, beau ful misty close-ups, the tinkle of tiif pianos and handkies soaked with tea > But now everything is chic and Paij; the tales are picaresque and episoo; the characters are cunning little micaps; heroes who once were tall ij stalwart are dull, dimpled rosebuiv boys as exciting as high-school freemen; heroines (mostly our contem]raries in the late twenties) wt bell-like haircuts and faint frowns A are the very mirrors of our very selv. And CRY at the movies? In 19:' What's there to stir one? Why W! movies fun once? Mary Barger, Marlboro, Mass; (Continued from page 29) women whose features look better in a picture than anywhere else. To use a long and fancy word, they are photogenic, and you will have to be that, too, if you're going to be a movie star. UETTING down to details, the oldest young man in the group of winners was thirty-two, the youngest twenty-two. The tallest was six feet four, the shortest five feet ten. The heaviest weighed two hundred and seven pounds, the lightest, one hundred and fifty-eight pounds. And exactly half were blonds and half brunets. As for the girls, the oldest was twentyeight, the youngest seventeen. The tallest was five feet eight, the shortest five feet two. The heaviest weighed one hundred and twenty-four pounds, the lightest one hundred and two — and that little detail is worth pondering the next time you think of an ice-cream soda. Twenty-two of the thirty-five girls were blondes, leaving only thirteen brunettes, which seems to indicate that Hollywood gentlemen, at least, retain the well-known preference. Averaging these facts, we get back' where we started — to the perfect mai rial for pictures, the young man twent seven years old, six feet tall, light ' dark, weighing one hundred and se' enty-eight pounds, living in Calif orn, and having a college education; and t young woman twenty years old, bloni five feet, four inches tall, weighing o; hundred and thirteen pounds, living California and with a background co, nected with the show business and unremarkable education. If you match either picture, as i have already said, you'd better head i Hollywood. From a purely empiri< viewpoint, it seems as if you couldi fail, provided that you go quickly, b fore tastes and standards change. And if you don't match either pictu — completely or in any detail — but wa to be a star so much that nothing el seems worth trying, perhaps you mig as well go anyway. For, with or witho all these qualifications, there is sti; after all, that Certain Something. 84 PHOTOPLA