Screenland (Nov 1945-Oct 1946)

Endorsed by John Robert Powers in fine rayons about $1.79 t at better stores Write for free booklet — "A Word About Modeling" by John Robert Powers trade mark ouis Herman & Co. creators of MOVIE STAR SLIPS Dept. H 59 Madison Ave., N.Y. 16, N.Y. #04 WOMEN who DRIVE JAA PRACTICAL 19b SUGGESTIONS that will help you to get IPF" better gas mileage MP* longer tire life better performance PT lower upkeep costs Also valuable hints on how to care for upholstery and exterior finish. Get a FREE COPY from any General Motors dealer, or use coupon below. Customer Research Dept., Room 1857 GENERAL MOTORS, DETROIT 2, MICH. Please send FREE COPY of new edition 64-page ; "Automobile User's Guide" — containing 196 j practical suggestions on wartime operation. Mr. Miss p / e a s e print Address please print was working to wish his director, Curtis Bernhardt, good luck on his new picture. Bogey had to look right at me and I at him. We both began to laugh — and that broke the ice. Now we are very good friends. According to the rumors, I had a terrific feud with Olivia DeHavilland. When we were assigned to play together in "Devotion," the word went around, "Ida and Olivia will never get along. Their feud will make the Bette DavisMiriam Hopkins feud look like a tea party." Everyone was expecting fireworks, and everyone was fooled. We got along like two turtle doves. I respect Olivia as a person and as an actress und thoroughly enjoyed working with her. When the picture was almost over, just for fun, we put on a big act and faked a feud that didn't exist. After the picture had been completed, unfortunately we did have a slight misunderstanding, but that was quickly straightened out and we're good friends now. Once it was rumored that Bette Davis and I had a terrific feud. I was making "They Drive By Night." My role was identical with the part Bette Davis played in "Border Town," and Bette was supposed to be in a tearing rage because I was playing her "type of role." Of course, she wasn't. I have been playing such roles since I was thirteen in England, so why should Bette resent it? Answer — she didn't. I can't say that Bette Davis and I are good friends — we're just acquaintances. I sincerely wish I knew her better. I'm sure I wouldn't feud with her. I hate to feud. And I can't imagine she'd feud with me. Being belligerent is not one of my faults, although I have many. Among my bad faults is the fact that I forget appointments. It is unforgivable of me. I remember lines in a script, the things people say, people's faces and their names, but not appointments. I write them down in books; and forget where 1 put the book. The fact that I have no telephone in my home right now is compelling me to remember appointments. Every time I want to make or change an appointment, I have to make a trip to the Beverly Hills Hotel to telephone. Since I have to go to all that trouble to make an appointment, I find I am beginning to remember them. Under ordinary circumstances, I have to be reminded a dozen times. I have even forgotten on several occasions to go to a dinner at which I was supposed to be the guest of honor. I sometimes forget to deliver gifts I have bought. Before the war you could generally count on the delivery services. Now I often buy a gift for Christmas, wrap it up carefully, and decide that I am going to deliver it in person. Christmas rolls by, and New Year's, and it is never delivered. Comes the middle of July, and I may suddenly remember that one of my friends has a birthday. The Christmas gift I had intended for someone else — by this time I've forgotten whom — may suddenly become a birthday present. I am also very tardy about fittings. Sometimes I will order and pay for a dress, but though I am supposed to go for a fitting a week later, I won't go for two years. The fitter may call up and remind me and I say of course I'll come but I don't. A year ago I ordered two divine prints; two years ago one lovely print. I haven't, had one of those three prints fitted yet, but they can be whipped into terrific dresses for next summer, if I get around to having them fitted! Of course, I've paid for those dresses in advance. I send my bills to my business manager, but he isn't firm enough with me. He is a weak-minded man and lets me go haywire. I am not actually extravagant. I do not go in for fur coats and expensive jewelry. My pet extravagance is gadgets for the house — a stein, a candlestick or a picture — something which I have not considered too carefully and which doesn't really give me the pleasure it should. One of my worst faults is that I am mentally untidy. I am always getting sidetracked. I make up my mind to post an important letter — on the way downstairs I see a picture which isn't hung just right and start hanging it differently. Then on my way to mail the letter, I pass a store and see something in the window that I like and stop to buy City Make of car now owned.. 10 Zone State; year mode/; "Teamwork wins wars," says General Dwight D. Eisenhower (above) in the fine film produced by the Joint Anglo-American Film Planning Committee. "... teamwork among nations, services and men all the wav down the line from the G.I. and the Tommy — to us brass hats." 74 ^GREENLAND