Screenland (Nov 1945-Oct 1946)

BRIGHT IDEAS -from DOROTHY L AMOUR star of Paramount's "MASQUERADE IN MEXICO" grows her own earrings! She had clips designed that hold real flowers; now Dottie shops in the garden every morning to pick her freshand-fragrant jewelry for the day. Another bright idea that Dottie shares with many other movie stars is cleaning her teeth with Calox Tooth Powder. Calox has five different cleansing and polishing ingredients to help remove all kinds of surface stains and bring out all the natural lustre of teeth. "I depend on Calox for daily care/'says Dottie. CalOX does more than cleanse and polish. It actually sweetens your breath as it brightens your teeth, leaves your mouth feeling clean and minty-fresh. For a smile of Breath -less Beauty, try Calox Tooth Powder today! "I was so right. You looked wonderful in a lacy blue gown." "Not lacy, darling." "It looked lacy on you," Jean Pierre teased her. "But tonight you look even more beautiful." A giggle escaped the stately Maria. "You ought to be pleased," she retorted. "This is exactly what you prescribed before you left. Black tailored suit, simple white blouse and a cockeyed hat." Then, seeking the answer to the most controversial romantic problem of the war, Jean Pierre asked the question uppermost in the heart of every serviceman who married shortly before going off to war. "All those months we were apart, did you ever regret our marriage?" "We were never apart," replied Maria. "I was with you every moment, through everything." No empty phrases, these. A startling example of their spiritual attunement was Maria's awareness, several thousand miles away, of her husband's most harrowing experience. "It happened just outside Strassburg," Jean Pierre relates. "We were approaching a bridge. My general, as always, was driving our jeep like a bullet. Halfway across he suddenly shouted, T forgot! The bridge is mined!' and slammed on the brakes with such force we were catapulted into the river." The Frenchmen who hurried to their rescue found them pinned under the jeep, over which the icy water rushed murderously. The general had been instantly killed. Jean Pierre emerged with only a broken wrist and bruises. "It is a miracle you were spared," gasped one of the soldiers who rescued him. At a hospital behind the lines Jean Pierre received the letter he will never forget. It was from Maria. "Yesterday I was like a hunted animal," she wrote. "I felt you were close to death. Today I am at peace again. Today I know you are out of danger." This remarkable letter was postmarked November twenty-first. The jeep had overturned November twentieth! Maria's love for Jean Pierre had spanned half a world to reach him and shield him from danger. Love was the miracle that saved his life, they both believe. Jean Pierre Aumont has laid aside his uniform and packed away his medals. (He was twice decorated with the Croix de Guerre and once with the Medalle des Blesses, French equivalent to our Purple Heart, for having been wounded in action in Southern France.) He has not laid aside, however, his feeling of responsibility. "The fight now is to maintain the peace. We must all take an active interest in world affairs, to make sure the world does not get into another mess." One small battle on the home front he cannot control, however, is the struggle he and Maria have with their English. She corrects his French mispronunciations with her Spanish accent. He corrects her Spanish mispronunciations with his French accent. "Love," concludes Jean Pierre, the twinkle very much in evidence, "is the one word we both pronounce perfectly." 76 SCREENLAND