Deception (Warner Bros.) (1946)

Star’s Dietician Reveals Secret Of Maintaining Figure For the past twelve years, Mrs. Anna Atkins of Hollywood, a jolly Swedish lady, has been telling Bette Davis, also of Hollywood, what to eat. That’s why the star never has bacon and eggs for breakfast. Eggs, yes; or bacon, yes; but bacon and eggs — never! The result, says Mrs. Atkins, has been gratifying. Bette concurs. Mrs. Atkins reports that the Davis health is “splendid.” “She’s in almost perfect condition,” she says, “and I intend to keep her that way — with a little cooperation, of course.” The theory behind Mrs. Atkins’ diet plan is simple. She insists on the star’s eating, at each meal, a small amount of each of the five basic foods: fats, sweets, proteins, starch, and minerals. “Not too much,” she says, ‘nor, of course, too little.” By so doing, the aciress can maintain perfect health and a perfect figure. Mrs. Atkins’ real trick is to eliminate heavy sweets and pastries by prescribing a teaspoonful of honey after each meal. “That satisfies any craving for sweets,” she says, “without the dangers found in such things as chocolate sundaes or raspberry tarts or cream puffs.” Mrs. Atkins believes that her fundamental diet is necessary to keep a person’s nervous system functioning properly, and that is one thing to which actors and actresses should pay careful attention. About once a week during the filming of Warners’ ‘“Deception,” in which Bette Davis is currently co-starring with Paul Henreid and Claude Rains at the Strand Theatre, the actress climbed into her convertible when the day’s work was completed, and went over to Mrs. Atkins’ small house on a quiet Hollywood side street. There for an hour Mrs. Atkins would give the star a good working-over, pounding home her dietary ideas with each movement. Miss Davis is a great Atkins disciple. “She has wonderful ideas,” the actress says. “If it weren’t for Mrs. Atkins, I’d either not eat enough and wind up being emaciated and anemic, or eat too much and wind up being round and chubby.” Once in a while, the star confesses, between pictures and when Mrs. Atkins isn’t looking, she cheats a little bit. She has bacon and eggs for breakfast. Still No. PH153 PAUL HENREID (above) plays one of the men in Bette Davis’ life in Warner Bros.’ new romantic drama, "Deception," coming to the Strand on Friday. Claude Rains is also starred in the film. MAT No. IG Daily Piano Practice Is Film Star’s Lot Bette Davis reported dutifully to the Warner Bros. lot during the filming of “Deception,” currently at the Strand, for a daily piano lesson, which she had to take regularly in preparation for her role in the film. She portrays a pianist in the drama which also stars Paul Henreid and Claude Rains. Lifetime Ambition To Wear Mink Is Realized \n Film Bette Davis realized every girl’s dream recently when she wrapped herself in ten thousand dollars worth of mink and strode into a fashionable restaurant, aman on each arm. “Mink, beautiful mink,” sighed Bette. “When I was nineteen, there was nothing — outside of success—that I wanted so much as a mink coat. Come to think of it, mink and success are practically synonymous.” The happy event occurred during the filming of a scene in Warner Bros.’ “Deception,” in which she is currently starring at the Strand. Paul Henreid and Claude Rains, also starred in the romantic drama, were her escorts. “Of course,’ she said, “the mink belongs to Warner Bros. The man on my left belongs to Mrs. Henreid, and the man on my right belongs to Mrs. Rains. “But that glow in my eyes— believe me—is my own.” A Bette Davis Story )& For Feature Pages Or Weekend Supplements Luckless Victims Dot Bette Davis’ Road To Film Fame Bette Davis’ ill-fated screen associates have been increased by one. The luckless one this time is Claude Rains, who succumbs to a bullet from a Davisfired revolver in Warner Bros.’ “Deception,” currently at the Strand. It’s murder, too. This destructive Davis influence dates back ten years to “Dangerous” when Bette won the Academy Award for ruining the respectable life of Franchot Tone. From then on, the star has continued with notable frequency to bedevil the lives of those who share the screen with her. Her very presence in the household drove Charles Boyer to slay his wife and commit suicide in “All This and Heaven Too.’ Miss Davis heckled Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart throughout “The Petrified Forest.” In “The Letter” she opened the picture with a pistol shot that killed a man. It was manslaughter when she ran over a child in an auto accident in “In This Our Life.” Paul Muni encountered the Davis evil-eye in “Bordertown”; Eduardo Ciannelli in “Marked Woman”; Henry Fonda (among others) in “Jezebel”; and, of course, Miss Davis as Elizabeth the Queen steered the rise and fall of Errol Flynn as Essex in ‘“‘The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex.” So it goes. And Bette Davis’ only comment on the set as she prepared to do away with Claude Rains was: “And I’m such a nice girl —really.” Besides Bette Davis and Rains the drama also stars Paul Henreid. bt Still No. CR196 CLAUDE RAINS shares equally the mantle of heroism and villainy as a great composer-conductor in Warner Bros.’ current hit drama, Deception." The film, starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Rains, begins a second week tonight MAT No. 2D Rains Is One Star Who Admits His Good Luck at the Strand. Thirteen years ago, Claude Rains arrived in Hollywood “with some broken down baggage, $3000 in the bank, and not even the traditional high hopes of an actor seeking new fields.” Today he’s a film star, a moderately rich man, and, with Bette Davis and Paul Henreid, is at present starring in Warner Bros.’ “Deception” at the Strand. Rains is grateful. “How lucky can a man be?” he asks. Although Rains sprang from the stage, so to speak, and was an illustrious member of the Sir Herbert Beerbohm-Tree Company in England and the Theatre Guild in America, he is definitely and exclusively a film actor now. “I had my fill of the stage years ago,” he says. Rains’ first American stage appearance was in a Shaw play, Stili No. 665-126 “Androcles and the Lion.” Later he did “The Apple Cart,” “The Doctor’s Dilemma,” and other Shaw items. Sometimes, Rains look like nobody so much as Napoleon. He portrayed Napoleon once— in a play called “A Man of Destiny.” It’s that uncontrollable shock of hair that dips over his right eye which adds to the resemblance. “I used to cultivate that lock,’ Rains admits, ‘“until I discovered that looking like Napoleon didn’t get me anything but curious glances. And there aren’t enough Napoleon roles even for one man.” Actually, Rains is still playing Napoleon. His role in “Deception” is that of a man with a Napoleonic complex. No shock of hair falls over his right eye, though. THE FIRST LIE in a tangled web of "Deception" is a simple enough accomplishment for Bette Davis, shown (above) with Paul Henreid in a dramatic scene from Warners’ new film by that name. Claude Rains is also starred in the drama which is currently playing at the Strand Theatre. MAT No. 2E