Screenland (Nov 1945-Oct 1946)

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A lesser man would collapse under the strtiui. " Then there's the beagle-eyed routine. Alexis always looks. At everything. Walking, driving, or sitting in a show Alexis rubbernecks like crazy. _ "Are you looking, honey?" Craig asks. "Yup, I'm looking." She was looking too hard the other night when they went to a movie and climbed the stairs to the balcony. Alexis was gluing her eyes to the screen when she fell flat on her face down the loge steps and Craig groped for her in the "What happened?" he hissed. "I was looking, and I missed the step," she said, and they both sat down on the last step and shrieked with laughter. The audience rose as one man and "ssshhhed" them. When it isn't ballet or movies it s ice hockey. The Stevenses scream their team to victory every Friday night, and they haul out the black crepe when something comes up to make them cancel their standing date. And even at the Ice Palace laughs dog them. "It started with a kreep," Alexis says. "He came in late with a bottle of beer in one hand, a bottle of bourbon in the other, and a dixie cup in his teeth. Of course he parked right next to me. He didn't make any trouble to begin with, just sat there drinking quietly. Then the stuff hit him hard and he began shrieking 'Kill 'em! Kill 'em!" at the wrong team. I gave him a couple of meaning looks until he finally turned to me and said, Thass all right, lady, there's one at every hockey game!" I've got a couple of complaints to register," Craig interrupts. Alexis looks noncommittal. "She sleeps the clock around if I don't drag her out of bed. And she leaves things iq, the car. Everything I owned was stolen from my car when I first came out here, and I keep reminding her of it, but it doesn't do any good. Usually it's her coat — fur or otherwise. Sometimes it's new purchases. Someday somebody's going to walk off with everything, including the car radio, and I'm going to have a good, long gloat. And she's extravagant," he goes on. "Not violently so. I can always reason her out of it. But she hasn't any sales resistance at all. Dad Smith and I can usually bring her around, but it takes an hour's good rhetoric." "But we do live on a budget," Alexis insists. "And if we have any money left over we go to auctions. We're furnishing our theoretical house that way. We haven't bought the house, or built it, or picked out a lot, but in the meantime we're filling up this apartment and Mother's home. The silver tea set (our wedding present from the Warner Brothers) and the silver candelabra from my agent are there. And the piano. And a lot of lovely antiques that Craig and I picked up. "Which brings me to the lamp. I spotted it one afternoon, fell in love with it, and priced it. Then I got cold feet. It was going up for auction the next day. I told Craig about it that night and he said if I really wanted it HOLLYWOOD STARS YOU KNOW USE Westmore's Stoning in the Wafasr Bros. Future 'RHAPSODY IN BLUE FROM HOLLYWOOD ... WESTMORE'S SENSATIONAL NEW LIQUID-CREAM FOUNDATION MAKE-UP NOT A CAKE . . . NOT A CREAM DOES NOT CAUSE DRY SKIN FOR the flawless-looking complexion of the stars . . . one drop of Overglo . . . and presto! Quickly; evenly applied with your fingertips, this new liquid-cream foundation of the Westmores camouflages large pores and little lines. Adds youthful smoothness under powder and rouge. Keeps makeup fresh all day. Never gives a masked appearance. Non-drying, definitely! Its emollient lanolin and oil base helps defy dust and weather, too. One bottle lasts for months. Seven flattering shades. $1.50 plus tax Jffi::-'...: i Perc Westmore, Directorof Make-up at W arner Bros. Studios in Hollywood, using Overglo to make up Joan Leslie. NEW OVERGLO FACE POWDER . . • ONE SHADE FOR EVERY COMPLEXION A make-up discovery! Overglo Face Powder . . . completely different ... one practically colorless shade perfect for every foundation-tinted complexion. Permits your foundationtinted skin to glow through with natural youthful beauty. A face powder specially created for use with Overglo or any tinted cake, cream or liquid foundation. $1 filus tax. ROWtJCTS OF THE SCREENLAND USE © W WESTMOKW 81