Screenland (Nov 1941-Apr 1942)

Marjorie Woodworch, lovely Hat Roach star in "All-American Co-ed" THANKS TO NESTLE SUPERSET JO need to envy the girl with \ naturally wavy hair — not when you use Nestle Superset. Workplay— dance— your curls and waves will stay soft and lustrous. No straggling ends or limp, dangling curls to spoil your attractive hair-do. Nestle Superset is fun to use — dries so amazingly fast— and never, never leaves embarrassing white flakes. There are two Nestle Supersets to choose from. The regular (green) and the new Number 2 which is transparent and extra fast drying. You'll find them both at your beauty counter — in addition to Nestle Colorinse— the nation's leading rinse! SUP E R SET 10* at all 10? stores 10 FIRST PRIZE LETTER $10.00 PRIZE Hats off to the movies! They write better history than do the historians. I ought to know because I've been teaching history a long time. The accuracy with which the movies portray scenes and characters of the past is absolutely amazing. I have yet to discover a mistake in costume, or dress, or properties of any sort in the many great historical movies of recent years. Every detail of life is revealed with minute attention to such things as stoves, hair-dress, carriages, footwear, furniture, lamps, guns, saddles— or what have you. This is most remarkable because it means countless hours of research by men trained in this work. Indeed, it is a far better record than that of most historians who make many mistakes in fact. Yes, I certainly recommend and urge my students to attend every historical movie possible. I find that it makes better students of them. They learn much they could never learn in class — and what's more, they usually find a new thrill in the study of the past. ARNOLD BEN WACKER, Professor of American History, San Antonio, Texas SECOND PRIZE LETTER $5.00 PRIZE Here are my favorite male movie stars and how I would like to spend one day with them: To jump out of bed and have a swim with Buster Crabbe. Breakfast with Dennis Morgan— that is, if he feels like smiling when he eats. A horseback ride with Robert Taylor— -especially after seeing "Billy the Kid." Lunch with Spencer Tracy. A walk after lunch with Bing Crosby, with Bing singing. A thirty-minute talk with George Brent in a romantic place. A ride on a roller-coaster with Bob Hope. Dinner with Tyrone Power. To go dancing with Cesar Romero. A ride home with Clark Gable and a goodnight kiss. Then, my dear editor, I would be ready for the heart attack I know I would have. If some one would oblige and call Dr. Ktldare (Lew Ayres) I would try to live until he arrived so I could be the first patient he ever lost. M. L. WELLS, Los Angeles, Calif. FIVE PRIZE LETTERS $1.00 EACH Recently I had the pleasure of visiting my husband, a staff sergeant stationed with the National Guard at Fort Lewis, Screen land Washington. It was the first time I had seen him in nearly six months. I enjoyed every minute of my visit and dreaded, the time when I would have to say "So long." (We don't believe in saying "Goodbye.") But the time finally came, so the night before I was to leave we decided to go to a show. The picture happened to be "Caught in the Draft." The crazy escapades of Bob Hope and his two buddies, Eddie Bracken and Lynne Overman, kept my husband and me laughing until our sides ached! I almost forgot that it was our last evening together. Right here I'd like to hand Mr. Hope a great big bouquet for making our last evening such a particularly happy one. We laughed for hours afterwards about incidents from the film. MRS. IONE M. SALLEE, Bakersfield, Calif. In your last issue of Screenland you asked how we liked Sonja Henie with her streamlined figure. Well, I don't like her. Why did she have to go and spoil her looks? Sonja just isn't the type to be so slender. Her face is broad and when you look down at that slim figure she looks like a freak. Will somebody please tell me why the movie stars like to go around looking like broomsticks? Some of them look like refugees from Europe without enough to eat. We girls out here in Indiana aren't that way. We're pleasingly plump and darn proud of it. And we've really got some good-looking girls out here, too. I have some more complaints — with a few bouquets. Will somebody please answer these questions? Who told Don Ameche he could sing? Will somebody take up a collection to send Herbert Marshall back where he came from ? Is Martha Scott just naturally skinny? Why don't we see lots more of Robert Taylor, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier ? Are there any more girls at home like Lana Turner? I think she's adorable. How on earth did Ginger Rogers ever win an Academy Award? GLORIA STINE, Kokomo, Ind. It seems to me movie producers must be getting pretty darn hard up for material when they start trying to portray our favorite funny paper characters on the screen. I say 'trying to" because you can't tell me there's a man living who can look and act the par t of the one and only Dagtvood of the B'londic series. And now .hat they've done all the damage they :ould there, I hear they're going to begir on Tillie the Toiler.