Screenland (Nov 1939–Apr 1940)

in pins, so no one would be deprived of seeing the plays for want of a penny. Then the Mullican children would buy a big sack of candy with their profits, and go riding in a neighbor's car with their favorite friends, sharing the candy with them. Priscilla, the baby of the family, admired Leota's acting tremendously. One day, after having witnessed Leota play the part of Juliet at Simpson, Priscilla persuaded Leota to lend her the wooden dagger with which she had stabbed herself. Shortly afterwards, the family found Priscilla out in the back yard, lying on an ironing board covered with curtains, and holding the wooden dagger toward her breast as she sighed, "Dagger, this is thy sheathe." Being spirited, highly curious, imag Sood news! Leatrice Joy, silent film favorite who has been absent from the screen for a long time, is back. In "First Love," which stars Deanna Durbin, she appears as Deanna's aunt. inative young girls, they were in and out of hot water constantly. There was the time some friends from Des Moines were visiting Rosemary. The young man calling on her had left his car outside, unlocked, and his keys in the car. When he decided to return to Des Moines, he found the car gone. The sheriff was a family friend, and Mrs. Mullican called on him. "I'll try to get it back for you," he said grimly. For hours, he chased the missing car, without success. And then, over the hill toward the Mullican house, came Priscilla riding in the car they had all thought was stolen. The car had looked inviting to Priscilla, and knowing it belonged to a friend of Rosemary's, she had been sure no one would object if she took a ride in ■ it. It just hadn't occurred to her to ask permission. "And so," smiled Mrs. Mullican, "I had the sheriff chasing my own daughter !" Rosemary was in hot water at the age of three, partly because she palled round with a little boy whose father was a professor of philosophy who believed in raising children to be individuals. Freedom ought to be the keynote in bringing up children, he said. But when his little boy and three-year-old Rosemary built a fire under one of the beds in his home (luckily no one was hurt but the bed did go up in flames) he decided it was time to call a halt. Mrs. Mullican herself never believed too much in the "freedom" theory, but whenever possible she explained to her children just why they must never do again whatever it was that had gotten them in dutch. As a child, Leota had her share of curiosity. She and a friend used to notice as they walked through a certain alley (Leota walked on stilts and thought it was great fun) that a certain building was always dark. One day as they passed, they couldn't resist peeping through the door. Suddenly the door opened and both girls fell in. They discovered that a checker game was in progress by falling right into the laps of the players ! They were both so embarrassed that they just picked up their stilts and rushed out. Life changed somewhat for the Mullican sisters when Gus Edwards discovered that Leota and Lola could sing and offered them roles in his revue. When Mrs. Mullican found that her two daughters were eager to accept, she didn't stand in their way. She felt that she'd brought them up to know right from wrong, and that always after that, it was up to them to live up to the ideals she'd taught them. But her neighbors felt otherwise. The wife of the president of Simpson College talked to the two girls and tried to make them change their minds, pointing out how much more valuable to the world was a missionary than a singer or dancer. The girls were polite, and she thought she had them convinced. When on her way East to visit relatives, she met Lola and Leota in the rest room of the Chicago railroad station, she was horrified. What were they doing so far away from home? "Oh," said the sisters blithely, "Gus Edwards has offered us roles in his 'Follies.' " "You mean you'll dance!!!" "Well, we hardly do any dancing, mostly singing." .„ . , , "But there are girls m the cast who dance?" "Oh, yes!" She knew she had no authority to tell them to go home. But she had to do something. "Let us pray," she said. And down on her knees she went, to pray for the souls of these two "misguided" girls, and to beg that they would be steered safely through the dangers that would confront them. Back home in Indianola, the mother of the girls knew what it meant to be condemned by her community. Coming into a grocery store, she would hear two women whispering, thinking of course that she would not overhear them, "Did you hear what Mrs. Mullican's two daughters have done? They've left town to play in a revue, in which there is a lot of dancing. Would you let your daughters do a thing like that, go traipsing around all over the country, tsk, tsk?" When Leota and Lola came back after about two years and sang a duet in church, sentiment in Indianola had changed a little, but not much. The Des Moines papers carried stories about the two girls who had gone to Broadway, and then come back to sing in church. They were, to the amazement of some of the people in Indianola, highly laudatory stories. One woman wrote to the President of Simpson College, "I was planning to send my children to Simpson, but I've changed my mind. I wouldn't dream of sending them to a college which made such a fuss over two girls who had been on Broadway." Her ietter made it clear that she thought Broadway a latter-day Babylon. But the feelings of the town changed when some time later Lola and Leota gave a benefit performance, which helped pay off the mortgage for the college. The college folk were so grateful they dedicated part of the college annual to Lola and Leota. "When Leota and Lola were in New CoVofs Fashion says, "Fascinate with this new make-up idea! Have lips aglow with attractive tones that harmonize with evety dress." 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