Screenland (Feb-Oct 1949)

good pianist, I want to take up foreign languages, and I want to drive across the country in a car. That I must do. Nothing shatteringly different, I admit, but all important to me. One thing sure — I'll never let myself become bored." That's Vera-Ellen today. Look for her to rise to the top in a hurry. The false starts, the delays, the frustrations are a thing of the past. Vera is on her way! Pet Economies Continued from page 43 Magnin's or Teitlebaum's and select a garment from the racks. It's not as easy as that. First, she has a chat with her business agent and tells him what she had in mind. If the gentleman feels that it's rank extravagance to purchase a new coat, he tells her so, and in well chosen words backed with money-figures to prove what he's talking about. And, in most cases, the star heeds those words. Business management firms, such as the Business Administration Company and the Beverly Management Company, have a staff of expert auditors and accountants who guard the star's money. They make out the best lease, obtain the fairest rental, check up on contracts to be sure there are no loopholes, deposit salary checks and take care of taxes and insurance. Most stars, by the way, live on a budget. They couldn't get along if they didn't, especially when Uncle Sam takes that huge tax bite out of them. It isn't true that big-salaried film players rarely know the value of money; it's simply that in the long run they save money when their experts handle their finances for them. Some agents go to extremes with arrangements whereby their clients are allowed only a certain amount of spending money each week. Naturally, this sum is theirs to use as they please, since it is over and above any household, clothing, photographic, or entertainment costs. Jack Carson gets $35 a week, for example, while Marilyn Maxwell is permitted to squander the tidy sum of $30! So it's only human nature for the film personalities to have their own little economies, which have gotten to be established habits. Clark Gable never throws away a shirt with a frayed collar, because they make excellent cleaning rags when he works on his two cars. He's an inveterate tinkerer, and it's not unusual for him to take the motors wide-apart twice a month. Bette Davis and Irene Dunne are soap-savers. Bette takes the slivers, moistens them, and presses them together into a huge cake for use in the shower. Irene, on the other hand, cuts up the slivers into soap-flakes, which she uses when she washes stockings or lingerie. Doris Day saves her pin-money by washing her own hair and doing her nails. Furthermore, she saves on the telephone bill, because she abhors making calls. Ray Milland is what you might call a HAIR BEAUTY COLOR BRIGHT. LUSTRE CLEAN . TANGLE FREE . . 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Joan Bennett is an avid light turnerouter and even has been known to call the maid after she has gone out for the evening to be sure that she has turned off the lights in her dressing and bathrooms. Greer Garson saves cuttings from the plants in her garden, and carefully places them in earth-filled flats in a small greenhouse hidden under a huge elm tree. When they're ready for transplanting, she gets out her trowel and goes to work. Montgomery Clift always buys a dozen pairs of the same color socks and throws them into a drawer without regard to pairs. Then, as one develops a hole, he discards it, and matches the remaining good sock with a new one. He even admits that now and then he gets out a needle and darns the hole that usually develops in the toe! Jane Wyman takes her old scripts and cuts them up into pads approximately 4x6 inches. Then she turns them over for use on the blank side. She says they're wonderful for scribbling telephone messages, also for laundry lists. The fact that Susan Hayward recently won the title of "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World" from the American Beauticians' Congress proves that her economy has paid off, since she does all her own cosmetic chores. She even applies one of the home permanents when she isn't working on a picture. Gail Russell always balks at putting out her money for stockings, so she takes elaborate precautions to tan her legs so she won't have to wear any. Guy Madison combines comfort with economy, because his favorite clothes are some left-over Navy tee-shirts and faded jeans. He dresses up only when he absolutely must! The economy of comely Barbara Bel Geddes is a hangover from childhood days. She says she has always been fascinated with rubber bands and saves every one she can put her hands on. She even switched her newspaper subscription from a daily which was tied with a string to one which came neatly folded and held together with a rubber band. Ida Lupino is a bear for bathing suit and playsuit combinations, and she always buys these with an eye to possible combinations with items she already possesses. Often she wears a 1941 halter with a 1949 pair of shorts, or vice versa. And, she says she wouldn't think of getting out of the low-price range when she makes her purchases. Robert Taylor dotes on cigarette lighters, and always shops for the cheapest possible buys. When they go haywire, he repairs them himself. Barbara Stanwyck can't discard nylons which have runs, and sends them down to have them repaired regularly. She thinks this is a throwback to her chorus girl days when her most precious possession was two pairs of hard-to-get stockings. 67