Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1938)

Boos and Bouquets $5.00 PRIZE 200% AMERICANS (Continued from page 4) $1.00 PRIZE W HOEVER started this insane search for foreign talent? Annabella, Simone Simon, Franciska Gaal, Ilona Massey, Danielle Darrieux! Names like these are crowding out the names of such celebrities as Janet Gaynor, Alice Faye and Norma Shearer. And can someone tell me why? Danielle Darrieux is a beauty! So what? There's nothing wrong with the Lombard profile and La Faye could make a man swoon any day. Luise Rainer is THE actress because she won two Academy awards. Well, maybe she is good. (Who am I to doubt it?) But let's not forget Bette Davis and Janet Gaynor. They also have "Oscars" and it's my prediction that they will still be tops long after Rainer "suffers" herself right out of the movies. These foreign imports have nothing over our own American lassies and yet they monopolize the front pages. Not that I entirely object to these stars-ofother-lands, but why not forget them for a while and concentrate on the less publicized, but just as talented Anne Shirleys and Claire Trevors? LORETTA WALSKI, Hammond, Indiana. MORE POWER TO JESSE JAMES ANY old-timer can spend an afternoon telling you that these Ozark Hills still remember the visits of the outlaw brothers, Jesse and Frank James; but never will these same Ozark Hills forget the return of those brothers in the flesh and blood of Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda. The small town of Pineville, Missouri, has been made into a replica of Liberty, Missouri, stamping ground of the James Gang sixty-five years ago. The day I watched production, Tyrone, in the leading role, smiled his best atop a dated train engine. It was hot as Hades, but still he smiled. I had my doubts about Tyrone. Now I know I like him. He isn't fabulous as I expected. There is even something of the small boy about his solicitude. But Henry is the same Henry of "The Farmer Takes a Wife" and "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine." It seems to me he hasn't quite the same personal, vibrant contact with all the public as has Tyrone. He's shy. The company should leave Henry when they go. He was made for these Hills. R. Roberts, Wheaton, Missouri. What Hollywood Is Thinking (Continued from page 17) believe in it for myself." One feminine objector declared: "Sounds all right in books, but, in real life, the woman always gets the worst of it." One masculine endorser said: "Yes, if both parties have intelligence enough to understand responsibilities involved." Of the male dissenters, the majority seemed to feel that conventions, as a whole, are better respected. One cautious youth ventured to remark that such a procedure involved "too much responsibility." Another felt that "love must remain idealistic to last." The majority of dissenters, both men and women, were married. Photoplay's fourth question was one which has been creating something of a furor since the turn of the century: "Do you believe in birth control?" "Yes," said sixty-nine per cent of the Hollywood women. And: "Yes!" said ninety-nine and one-half per cent of the men! Among the feminine "fors," one young star presented the interesting theory that "prospective parents should have time to prove parent worthiness." Several more were of the mind that "modern civilization has gone beyond the laws of nature. To have a baby every year would be unthinkable, physically and financially." The majority of women, however, gave lack of financial resources as the main reason for birth control. "I'm working hard, now, and saving my money. I'll have my babies later — but not more than I can afford," one married woman star declared. For the most part, the feminine dissenters gave religious reasons as the basis of their objections to birth control. As for the men — they were more laconic on the subject, but the great majority gave lack of adequate finances as the main reason why birth should be controlled. "When a man can't make enough to support children, he shouldn't have 'em," one wrote. "It's a tough world and children don't ask to be born. You owe them good breaks or you shouldn't have them," commented another. UO you believe a woman is entitled to a career after marriage?" was the next question and one which Hollywood, being a career town, answered characteristically. Ninety three per cent of the women said yes; and seventy-eight per cent of the men. "I believe extra-domestic interests help to cement, rather than to break up a marriage," one woman star wrote in support of the idea. She is the wife of a non-professional and their marriage is counted as one of Hollywood's happiest. They have two children. "Extra money coming in is nice, say what you will," said another young contract player. 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