Screenland (May-Oct 1937)

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Get your FREE MAVIS nowl Finer Than Most Face Powders MAVIS FOR BODY PROTECTION Modern Madonna Continued from page 55 me an old milk of magnesia bottle. "Jane clear," said Loretta patiently, "that belongs to Judy. That lovely blue shoe box is yours." Jane's lips puckered and quivered. Big tears began to form on her long lashes. She looked at Loretta. And Loretta looked as though catastrophe was just around the corner, and tragedy would stalk the land unless something was done, and immediately, about the milk of magnesia bottle situation. "Oh, darling !" cried Loretta. "You can have a milk of magnesia bottle too, just like Judy's. Liza, please empty that blue bottle on the shelf — the second one from the end. Of course Jane can have a milk of magnesia bottle too. Oh, dear, and she did seem so pleased with her shoe box yesterday !" Just in case you, dear reader, don't know tiny tots and have the idea that Loretta was trying to economize in playthings, I hasten to inform you that it looked as if the entire toy department of BullocksWilshire had been dumped into the Young homestead. I never saw so many expensive dolls, and animals, and gadgets and things in all my life. But Judy and Jane, it seems, had their own ideas about playthings. Judy could not be parted from a blue bottle, and Jane up until the present had given her devoted attention to a shoe box. It made such a nice train. Mr. Bullocks-Wilshire's de luxe model didn't come up to scratch in Jane's opinion. "Look at their darling little clothes," said Loretta. "In the drawers over there. This used to be Sally and Polly Ann's room, remember, but it makes a grand nursery now." Loretta loves clothes, and so it was only to be expected that she had bought the sweetest and daintiest of everything for her babies. "That coat," she sighed, "cost twenty-two fifty, imagine, and when I showed it to Judy she wouldn't even look at it." No, I don't believe that Loretta's youngest is clothes-conscious as yet, but she will be after she has lived with her mother for a while. Jane, being three and getting along in years, is far more appreciative of her new wardrobe. When Loretta shows her her new dresses and coats she says, "Ooooooh!" And I had to laugh at Loretta when she told me about her shopping tour for the infants. It seems she tried to get Jane a frilly cap and dress but was told by the saleslady that little girls of three no longer wore frills and laces. "They wear tailored things," said the saleslady. Loretta was irate. "How silly," she said, "you don't let them be babies at all. I suppose by the time Jane is four you'll want to sell her a wedding dress !" It's as plain as the nose on your face what kind of a mother Loretta is going to be. And none of this new-fangled calling your mother by her first name for Loretta. She is teaching her babies to call her "Mama" and the first one to call her Loretta gets a good spanking. Loretta spent a whole day teaching Judy to say "Mama" and Judy had no objections to saying it, but she simply couldn't be coaxed to look at Loretta when she said it. "She'd look at the dresser, or at Jane, or at Christobel (Loretta's maid)," Loretta complained, "but never at me. It was most disheartening." But Loretta's coaching evidently took effect on Judy over-night, for the next morning Loretta was awakened by a terrific jabbering in her ear. Judy had climbed in bed with her for a little morning's fun and was shrieking "Mama" at the top of her lungs. Loretta is a very casual, genial person usually but she does have her mo ments of temperament, and there is nothing that will make her fly off the handle so effectively as to awaken her in the morning before she is ready to awake. Those mornings when she hasn't a studio call, of course. Everybody in the Young household knows not to disturb Loretta for anything less than an earthquake. But Judy is going to make new rules. She's a snappy six o'clock riser. But so long as she looks at Loretta when she says "Mama," and not at the faucet, I'm sure it's okay with Loretta. And that's not the only upset Judy and Jane have caused. Dinner used to be served promptly at seven every night, but what with the babies getting their purees and things the Youngs are lucky to sit down by eight. The cook who used to prepare three meals a day now cooks six, but she loves the babies so much herself she doesn't complain. And of course Loretta's young men are having a time of it. They arrive all Ittook 75 yards of material to make this gown for Marjorie Lord. It is pale blue, with sleeves of silver. sleek and smart in their dinner jackets ready to go places, only to find Loretta dishing out cod liver oil, bending over bathtubs, or indulging in a spirited game of hide and seek with no thought whatsoever of getting herself dressed. And the poor family doctor is summoned out to Bel Air any time of day or night. The last time Loretta was positive it was scarlet fever — it proved to be a simple diaper irritation. Little Judy and Jane, both very blonde with big blue eyes and long lashes, are little sisters whose mother and father are dead. Loretta saw them in an orphan asylum where she had gone one day on an errand of mercy, and when Judy gave her a big sticky kiss and Jane slipped her little hand in hers Loretta knew that now was the time to do the thing she had long planned to do. If there are two babies they are not so likely to be spoiled, she thought, and besides they are real sisters and should not be separated. She adopted little girls because she was brought up in a family of four little girls and she knows little girls. "And besides," said Loretta, "little girls are more affectionate." Little Jane and Judy may have been born with the odds against them, but thanks to a kind-hearted girl they have a gold spoon in their mouths now. They will be brought up in a rich and religious home with the greatest love in the world. "Lucky Jane and Judy," I said as I left Loretta's that day. "Lucky Loretta," said Loretta. 82 SCREENLAND