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Same | return privilege with refund guaranteed. The Cirls He Leaves Behind Him! Continued from page 33 except that the motor fell out at fifteen feet, and so did John. He tried to enter the aeronautical school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1931, but he flunked the mathematics entrance examination. That's the reason he has that passionate admiration for Major Alexander Seversky, famous airship designer, because the Major claims that he himself doesn't know a sine from a cosine from a hole in the wall. John's a licensed pilot, but naturally 'he'll have to take basic training all over again because there's a lot of difference between a pleasure plane and an Army plane. Well, anyway, there was John with a smile on his handsome face, and all set to kiss the girls goodbye, when wham — his bosses' at the studio just happened to get a gander at his fan mail. It's terrific ! More than Tyrone Power's. Or Victor Mature's. Two secretaries had to move out of the fan mail department to make room for John's bags. (Bags of mail, of course, stupid.) Um-mmmm, the bosses um-mmrwmed. And the next thing Johnny knew he was deferred until he had finished "Hello, Frisco, Hello," in which he co-stars with Alice Faye. So now he plans to leave in January. He doesn't know where the Army will send him. He doesn't care. He couldn't be happier. But what about the gals? Well, you've still got Roddy McDowall and Monty Woolley to swoon over. John Payne's about the hottest young man in pictures at the moment. Last January when he and Anne Shirley called it off he was getting two thousand fan letters a month. By October, 1942, his fan mail had tripled ! It certainly answers that old question : Does marriage hurt a film star's popularity with his fans? It does indeed. A lot ■ of gals must, have taken hope when Anne went to the divorce courts. But no matter how crazy , you are for John, you won't get him now. Uncle Sam's got him. Signed, sealed, and practically delivered. .Every soldier leaves a girl behind him when he goes off to the wars. Some one to write him letters, knit his socks, and meet him at the crack of dawn at the airport when he comes home on furlough. With tens of thousands of females panting for John, I thought it might befun (so we can hate her with a genuine jealous hate) to find out the real girl he leaves behind. The lucky girl who gets the first letter, the first wings to wear proudly on her lapel. John doesn't seem to have played the field, like Bruce Cabot and John Carroll and Cesar Romero and George Montgomery. From what I can gather from conversations on studio sets with everyone from stand-ins to hairdressers to glamor girls he doesn't seem to be the type who makes passes. And definitely, not a chaser. He's considerably on the serious side. I don't mean to imply that John was ever a drip, just sort of quiet and reserved. _ A minor wolf, perhaps, but not the prowling kind. Instead of playfully pinching pretty extras, between scenes, John stretches out in a studio chair and talks about Julie Anne. Now two and a half years old. When the Paynes first separated John was seen out quite often at night clubs and fancy restaurants with attractive Sheila Ryan. Ah, a romance, the columnists said, and made a much of a much about it when Anne dropped by John's Santa Monica beach house one Sunday afternoon and found John giving a party for Sheila. What the columnists failed to mention was that Sheila and Anne rushed into each other's arms like a couple of giddy girls home from college for the holidays. Sheila and Anne are the best of friends, and have been for years. When Anne moved out on John, and John wanted someone to go out with of an evening, naturally he called up Sheila, the family friend. (Sheila, by the way( is one of the very few people who knows why Anne and John separated, a mystery that's driving Hollywood insane with curiosity-^but wild horses can't drag it out of her.) Family friends, if you've ever been one you know, only tide the poor husband over the first few months. Sure enough, by July, last summer, John wasn't relying on Anne's friends any more. He'd found one of his own. (Certainly not hard to do in this town, with movie stars fairly throwing themselves at him.) He'd found Jane Russell. Jane's a nice girl, but she's definitely not the family friend type. All the other girls felt sorry for John and sort of mothered him, because he was carrying the torch for Anne. Jane was different. The John Payne-Jane Russell romance got off to a good start at the premiere of "The Pied Piper," known as Hollywood's first dim-out premiere. But the lights weren't so dim that Hollywood didn't get an eyeful of the gorgeous Russell and the handsome John. Hollywood got such a kick out of it that Jane and John decided to give them a re-take, and appeared together again at the bond premiere of "Yankee Doodle Dandy." Whew-ew-ew, what a dish, yowled the wolf pack. Jane didn't even give them a flicker of her eyelashes. But John she sort of clung to. Since July, John and Jane have been hitting it off pretty constantly. They're not much on dressing up like movie stars and going on a pub crawl — the way Anne and John used to do on Saturday nights_ — they're more for the athletic stuff. They like to go roller-skating one night a week out at the Rollerdrome in Culver City. Another night they like to go bowling. In between times there's horseback tiding, and tennis, and iceskating. Having been a tomboy since she was a cbaby, and having been brought up with a house, full of brothers, Jane can hold her own, and more, in any sport that John might care to mention. When John had his' beach house at Santa Monica (he's in a small apartment in town now) Jane was a frequent guest there, and any alternoon you could find them playing badminton, volley ball, ping-pong, or dashing out to the ocean for a battle with the waves. Those two have more energy than a Boulder Dam dynamo. When the football season started in September John and Jane had a standing Saturday afternoon date. Funny thing, when Jane was going with Bob Waterfield, the sensational U.C.L.A. quarterback, last year, she promised him that she'd be in the grandstand cheering for him every game he played in the 1942 season. She kept her promise all right. She hasn't missed a game. But John Payne's always with her. Although you have seen more publicity stills of Jane than any other Hollywood personality most likely (some 45,000 of them have appeared in recent magazines and newspapers) you still haven't seen her on the screen. Her one picture, "The Outlaw," produced by . multi-millionaire Howard Hughes, has not been released as yet, though it was made over two years ago. Seems that the Hays Office didn't approve of certain scenes where Jane played a sweater girl of the covered wagon era. However, everything has been taken care of now, and the picture will be released this winter. Jane, in the meantime, hasn't done badly as a Hollywood movie star without a single picture to her credit. She 82 SCREENLAND