Screenland (Nov 1941-Apr 1942)

"LADIES IN RETIREMENT" Columbia Pictures. A Lester Cowan Production, in association with Gilbert Miller. Screen play by Garrett Fort and Reginald Denham. Directed by Charles Vidor. With the following cast: Ellen Creed Ida Lupino Albert Fcatlier Louis Hay ward Lucy Evelyn Keyes Emily Creed Elsa Lanchester Louisa Creed Edith Barrett Leonora Fiske Isobel Elsom Sister Tlwresa Emma Dunn Sister Agatha Queenie Leonard Bates Clyde Cook TiUVOEE at other times her face would darken and a strange light would come in her eyes, and even Ellen who loved her would f^el that sinister threat. They were gone all day the two of thei. Louisa clutching the telescope which hai» belonged to her sailor sweetheart, dead so long ago. and Emily carrying the basket m which she collected the things she loved, shells and seaweed and rushes, driftwood and deserted birds' nests and sometimes even the cold little bodies of dead birds themselves that she tried to warm in her hands. Lucy, the pretty little blonde maid, shuddered away from them, just as she shuddered away from Emily and Louisa too, and Miss Fiske was always cross these days. Yet somehow Ellen had managed to keep them there for six weeks. Then one day she knew she couldn't keep them there any longer. Unless — she gasped at the thought that had come to her. But she mustn't think that again! She must never think that again! Never, never I It was the day Emily had come striding into the room, her hair straggling and windswept, and threw the driftwood Lucy refused to have in the kitchen on the floor. "Oh, my nice polished floor !" Miss Fiske protested, and then she cried out as Emily defiantly emptied her basket on the table. "This is too much !" she wailed. "My best table. Look how these shells have scratched it! It will take a month's hard polishing to put it right !" "Let me do it," Louisa jumped up eagerly. "I'll polish it every day all through the winter." "That's very kind of you. Louisa," Miss Fiske looked at her icily. "But I'm afraid you won't be here all through the winter." "Oh, but we shall," Louisa smiled like an impish child. "Ellen says so." "Louisa !" Ellen had never spoken to her sister so harshly before but now fear urged her on. "Will you be quiet?" Louisa looked at her as if she had struck her and then slowly, helplesslv began to sob. "Oh, my heavens !" Miss Fiske looked at her exasperated. "This is the last straw. You're driving me as crazy as yourselves !" Ellen's face went rigid as she put her arm around Louisa, her quick rage blazing through her body as if it were a wild fire consuming her. But she managed to look calm and to sound calm too as she asked Emily to take Louisa upstairs. Then she faced Miss Fiske. "That was a cruel thine to say," she said in a voice that she somehow managed to keep steady in spite of herself. "Please don't ever use that word again. They're harmless, perfectly harmless." "Harmless or not, they've got to go," Miss Fiske said grimly. "What did you think I was going to do? Keep them here indefinitelv?" . . AC€EAI>IEI> THE FEWEST MD TRUEST OF BE D S Here is the long-sought true red ... a red so clear and pure it is a perfect foil for all fashion shades — an exquisite complement to this year's lavish furs. And Tangee's pure cream hase helps protect your lips against splitting, peeling, coarsening — keeps them smooth and lovely. Try hoth lipstick and rouge in the Tangee Red-Red shade. Try Tangee's Famous Face Powder, as well. It is clinging, lasting, zm-powdery. Another Tangee Lipstick Favorite -theatrical red ... a bright and vivid shade with the same famous Tangee cream base. Matching rouge, of course. SCREENLAND "1