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ALUTE
TO A SAILOR!
By
Ben Maddox
WHAT'S happened to Hollywood's first sailor? Here is the sort of inside Hollywood story that is true. Screenland is proud to reveal it as a tribute to the United States Navy. Because the Navy may turn out to be the making of your own boy-friend, or brother or son, too.
When Ken Howell enlisted away back last Spring as a sailor, with no attempt to rate fancy trimmings or a commission, he deliberately left everything behind him. Nothing but the best luck he's ever known has followed him ever since. He not only went away to "come home" vindicated — for Ken was too full of vitality and curiosity to be anything but a rebel — but exactly as the song went, at last his lonely days are over. He looked for love in vain in Hollywood. Thanks to what the Navy has done to and for him, he's even got the One Girl to return with him when he gets back on the screen.
Take it from me, they can beam at the luncheon tables in the Brown Derbies these days over Ken. The incredible Ken (compared to the other Hollywood young men his age, he is that !) has weathered a series of real-life experiences that make him a runner-up to Anthony Adverse — so far as he's gotten to date. Today, fighting for his America, he's still living every moment to the hilt, as vividly as before, but now with a flaming purpose and gratefulness spurring him on.
Don't let his youthful face fool you. He's done more adventuring and romancing than almost any fellow twice his age. You remember Ken as that handsome, blond movie actor who was right on the verge of all that fame Hollywood deals out to the determined. As Jack, the eldest son of "The Jones Family," he'd romped through seventeen of those comedy-dramas concerning the typical family-next-door. He was the pivot for their frantic actions, and in the inevitable chase Ken's enthusiastic daring always downed the villains. His screen parents would sigh with relief at the fade-out. "Isn't he cute!" gasped countless impressionable young females throughout the land. The bulk of the fan mail pouring into 20th Century-Fox for the Joneses was definitely aimed at Ken.
You can guess that he could have been terribly spoiled. In Hollywood itself Lana Turner, Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland in turn looked, liked, and languished. Ann Rutherford's vivacity snagged her a millionaire beau, but not Ken. Martha O'Driscoll had to go with Stirling Hayden, as second choice. The younger girls about town such as Bonita Granville despaired and plunged elsewhere on the rebound. Anne Shirley said you must come (Please turn to page 78 )
What the Navy has done for and to Hollywood's first sailor, Ken Howell
BEFORE
As the juvenile in the "Jones Family" series, Ken Howell romped through seventeen of those comedy-dramas concerning the typical American family-next-door. He was considered one of Hollywood's most promising young players. Below, in his last picture for the duration, "Scattergood Rides High," which he finished before enlisting in the Navy.
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