Screenland (Nov 1941-Apr 1942)

SHOEMAKER STICK TO YOUR LAST! A handful of bigwigs have gotten around to smearing pictures they openly confess they haven't seen. Well! Well! And Tut! Tut! We resent that a little simply because we have always believed in the proverb "Let not a shoemaker judge above his shoe." So let's leave the producing of pictures to the movie producers. It seems to us the cash customers should have the last say-so on the subject, anyway. Producers make movies with an eye to the box office; you with an eye and an ear to entertainment. In the final analysis you, the cash customers, are the big bosses. Which reminds us that we want to hear from you. We much prefer knowing what you like and dislike about the movies than what any bigwig, with an axe to grind, thinks. This is a standing invitation. Don't forget those monthly cash prizes of $10.00, $5.00 and five of $1.00 each. Please address your letters to Screenland's Fans' Forum, 45 West 45th Street, New York, N. Y. While reading your Fans' Forum page I came across Emily Lee Dove's letter. She says that the Andrews Sisters are frightening. Miss Dove must be a very lovely lady. I would like to see a picture of her printed in your magazine. Miss Dove also states that the Harvard college boys selected the Andrews Sisters as the most frightening. Who do those squirts think they are, great judges of feminine beauty ? I don't claim to be a judge of beauty but I do know that the Andrews Sisters have beauty in their voices. I don't expect a prize for this letter. Please just print it and let's see if anybody else thinks as I do. I never went to college so maybe I'm not qualified; to judge beauty. I'm just A Soldier. SGT. J. K. H., Canal Zone I don't belong to the "Prunes and Prisms" school nor am I one of the old dodos who are continually writing complaining letters to long-suffering editors. In fact, I'm just an ordinary young fellow who works hard every day and two or three times a week goes to the movies for recreation. What I can't get is the hue and cry against the poor, harmless sweater ! I have noticed in nearly every movie that the girls wear evening clothes so low-cut as to be positively dangerous, and nary a complaint about them. Also, how about the period movies — in some of them I know the ladies would be grateful for a sweater, for their health's sake if for no other reason. Let's be consistent — bring back our sweater girls and you can have the "ladies of the evening frocks." JERRY PERSAN, Columbus, Ohio I have read a great deal of editorial comment regarding the Senate Interstate Commerce sub-committee's investigation of movie producers and their so-called film propaganda and I was glad to see the newspapers support freedom for the movies and radio, but none of them gave the fans' viewpoint. Most of us are pretty tolerant of the other fellow's ideas. For instance, we may not care for the screen star who rates high with our neighbor, or someone may like Westerns which we can't abide, but that is all right, because we have learned to censor our own movies by staying away from the ones we don't like or condemn. And now comes some member of the Senate sub-committee who admits he has not seen the movies he wants to suppress and tells us it is not good for us to see the wickedness of THAT MAN and his cohorts. Are we babies to be protected from the bogey man? The producers at least know how quickly we'd reject such a picture. They do not always know what we want, but at least they know better than some of the members of that committee. We may deplore that isolationist's viewpoint and yet support his right to express it, but he had better realize here and now that the movies belong to the people and we will do our own censoring. We will not tolerate interference from those servants of the people who have lost touch with the ones they are supposed to represent. We fans will do our own criticizing of our shows. They had better lay off before we forget to be tolerant of their piddling beliefs. HELEN M. BRADLEY, Kansas City, Mo. HONORABLE MENTION Three cheers, Mary Margaret Thomas of Jefferson City, Mo., for your letter published in September Screenland ! You took the words right out of my mouth. I, too, am fed up on the Dr. Kildarc series. Why don't they get away from this poppycock which is ruining Lew Ayres and give him some real breaks? I agree with you that he is too fine an actor to be wasted in pictures of this kind so you are not alone in your opinion. HELEN VALERIA SHEEHY, Wallingford, Conn. Were I Mrs. Aladdin I'd borrow my husband's lamp, polish it up a bit, and send carloads of diamond-studded Oscars to the following stars for the joy they've brought to millions : Betty Field — refreshingly real and forever feminine. Ginger Rogers — delightfully pert yet simple and sweet. Joan Crawford — unafraid, sincere and lasting. Paulette Goddard — truly glamorous and truly capable. Glenn Ford — the screen's most appealing young actor. MRS. PRESTON CHAPMAN, Birmingham, Ala. If I could choose a new male star for 1942, he would be David Bruce, an extremely capable and competent young actor who has a confidence and charm that draws fans like a magnet. He is as refined as a southern gentleman, as handsome as a young Colman, as refreshing as a Niven, as warm and vital as a Gable, with the added enhancement of the passion and tenderness of a Power. All of which adds up to why I like David Bruce and believe him to be of the stuff of which stars are made. 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