Screenland (May 1943-Oct 1944)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

FREE -BOTH of these Great Movie Hits! WENT AWA/ m to new members of AMERICA'S BIGGEST BARGAIN BOOK CLUB YES, TWO GREAT BOOKS — both among the year's biggest, most sensational movie hits— NOW BOTH YOURS FREE, as a Double-Gift! You get Since You Went Away, a story so rich and true that you will carry it in your heart always . . . and so great that it took millions of dollars, seven famous stars, and a Hollywood cast of 5,000 people to bring it to the screen ! This is the story Mr. Selznick waited five years to find, to match his smash-hit triumphs with Rebecca and Gone With The Wind! And, ALSO FREE, you get Jane Eyre, the most banned book of its time, now the thrilling Orson Welles-Joan Fontaine screen triumph! Accept these two books FREE now! Jennifer Jones, Robert Walker in Selznick ' International's MOTION PICTURE, "Since You Went Away" Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine in 20th Century-Fox MOTION PICTURE "Jane Eyre" and JANE EYRE Her Husband Was a Thousand Miles Away ... But the Handsome Lieutenant Was Not.' WHAT Was Her Husband SINCE YOU WENT AWAY is the throbbing, heart-warming story of a real American family's gallant fight in the Battle of the Home Front. Their enemies are fear, doubt — and the terrible emptiness which filled their house and hearts the day the father left for an Army camp a thousand miles away ! Their ONE friend is — a too handsome Army officer ! When Tony, the father's best friend, was transferred to the home town flying field he moved in with the family. It was hard to say WHO was most delighted — Tony himself ; Jan,4he daughter ; or Anne, the attractive mother. But was not their faithful old colored cook wiser in the ways of the human heart than all of them? "It ain't fittin for Mr. Willet to stay heah," she protested uneasily to Anne, "he's too near yo' age." No Landlady Would Accept Him! Still, Tony had to live somewhere. And no "self-respecting" landlady in town would rent him a room — because he insisted on bringing with him his daring life-size painting of a nude ! How would you feel if you were Ann? Naturally your feelings toward your beloved husband could never change. But perhaps your feeling toward his handsome best friend COULD! Or suppose you were the lovely Jan? When such an eligible bachelor neglected you and gave his attentions to your own mother — would you forgive and trust her? _ _ RnTHPDFF SINCE YOU WENT AWAY and DUinrntL $2.50 in the Publishers Edition JANE EYRE BOOK LEAGUE OF AMERICA Dept. SU10, Garden City, N. Y. Please send me — FREE — SINCE YOU WENT AWAY (Retail price in the publisher's edition, $2.50) and JANE EYRE. Within 5 days I may return them if I care to, without cost or obligation. Otherwise I will keep them as a gift and continue to receive forthcoming monthly double-selections for a year — at only $1.39, plus few cents postage, for BOTH books. MR. MRS MISS (Please print plainly) ADDRESS • ZONE NO. CITY (if any) . . . .STATE OCCUPATION If under 21, age please □ HANDSOME DE LUXE BINJJING. Check box it you wish your world's masterpieces (one each month) in simulated leather with silver stamping— (or only 50c extra monthly. We will then also send your FREE gi(t copy of JANE EYRE in this binding at no extra charge. Slightly Higher In Canada, Address, 105 Bond St.. Toronto 2. Or would you silently accuse her? Squandering His Money On? In either case, it wouldn't help matters if you suspected that Tim was squandering his army pay in Florida — while back at home you were having such a horribly hard time making ends meet! Will Anne ever be able to look her daughters in the face again if she gives in to these seemingly traitorous impulses? Still, isn't there a danger of needlessly offending Tim's best friend by conducting herself too "priggishly" ? Thousands bought and read this great book at $2.50 ! Millions are now flocking to see the lavish smash-hit movie version ! It is YOUR story— and now here is YOUR chance to get and read it FREE ! W* EXEE...MNE EYRE greatest novels of passion, hate, romance and mystery ever written — now the 20th CenturyFox super-production starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine! Jane Eyre was the most banned book of its time. Your gift copy will bring you the complete unabridged text. Why did young Jane Eyre fling herself at Edward Rochester? Why did they both cherish a love stalked by the most terrible secret that ever cursed two haunted hearts? You will understand when you read this great story. And on this Double-Gift Offer you can get Jane Eyre and Since You Went Away — i>or/i free! TWO Great Books a Month — fcr Less Than fh2 Cost of ONE! Knch month The Book League sends its mem bers not one but TWO MODERN best-seller by a John Steinbeck, Somerset Hemingway, Pearl S. Buck books. One is a famous author like Maugham, Ernest Ben Ames Williams 106 ENLAND )r Ilka Chase — selling everywhere at $2.50 and up in the publisher's edition. 5-DAY TRIAL — No Obligation Accept Since You Went Away and Jane Eyre :o read free for five days. If these books do not convince you this really IS the best book buy in America — return them, pay nothing. Otherwise, keep both as free gifts; your money-saving membership will start with next month's doubleselection. Mail coupon for your TWO FREE BOOKS now! BOOK LEAGUE OF AMERICA. Dept. SU10, Garden City, N. Y. PRINTLD IN THE U. S. A. BV THE CUNEO PRESS, I NO,