Silver Screen (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

began to grow up, with the perversity that is characteristic of this business, they shaved him up and stuck him in the juvenile class. And there he's been, cashing in on freckles and an accent-on-youth, ever since. Ever since, that is, until the present time, when Tom is ably replacing Gene Raymond in "Love Begins," and playing at being grown up for a change. Under the delectable nom de plume of "Dawn O'Day," Anne Shirley stuck her little pink toes into the movie game at a very early age. Even the gangly period of adolescence found her on the screen more or less consistently. And it was good that she kept in sight because, with the advent of "Anne of Green Gables," there she was, with everything the part called for. "Not growing up is a matter of both mental and physical discipline," Anne decided. "So far, I haven't had to work very hard at being young. It just comes natural. But, if I'm to go on being S\\eet Sixteen for years and years, then now is a good time to prepare for a life of 'standing-withreluctant feet -^\ here the brook and river meet.' "I like parties, and dancing, and candy, and just about everything that makes life thrilling for high school girls. But I realize that I have a job that calls for freshness and youth. Fortunately, the rest of my crowd is up against the same proposition, so it isn't nearly so hard to give up a midweek party and get to bed at ten o'clock when the rest of them are doing the same thing. "I don't like sophistication. It's a grown-up affectation, and the most impoitant trick of not growing up is in being entirely unaffected." Anne likes to read and does a great deal of it. "Don't let on," she whispered, "but I still haven't gotten around to '.\nthony .\dverse' or 'Gone AVith the Wind!' " AVhich makes two of us. Richard Crom^vell is twenty-seven years old and doesn't care, who knows it. Adolescence is his forte, and as long as the industry wants it, Dick will dish it out. Even when he has to tuck his long gray beard inside his weskit to keep it out of sight. The job he did in "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" will be remembered when Dick is pushing himself around the Old Men's Home in a rubber-tired wheel chair. As with Linden, in "Life Begins," parts like that don't fall off the tree \ery often. But, when they do, the kids are right there and ready to play them clear up to here. "Not growing up is a matter of not being bored, ever," Dick announced definitely. "I have so many hobbies that I honestlv haven't time to grow up. I write until I'm tired of writing, and then I turn to sculpting. Or drawing. Or making plastic mastjues of my friends. And, in between, I go for horseback rides, or bat out a couple o£ games of tennis. If I ever run out of something to do I'll probably fold up overnight, like an accordion. And, hev! I'm learning to play one of those things, too! If I ever do grow up, accidentalh, I can always try for a Major Bowes unit!" Jackie Coogan, Wesley Barry, Mitzi Green, Baby Peggy Montgomery, all of these, and more, made the unfortunate mistake of outgrowing the "cutencss " that spelled Box Office. And that, in Hollywood, happens to be one of the major cardinal sins. It's nice to be young. Especially if somebody is willing to pay you for being that way. But it's a tough job, as well, and our hat's off to the kids who are making good at the difficult but interesting business of "not growing up." UNTIL SHE FOUND THIS LOVELIER WAY TO AVOID OFFENDING... FRAGRANT BATHS V/ITH CASHMERE BOUQUET SOAP g^^^ Trln\ stand ^^1 That ^'^^ ^'"^^lere Bouquet me so s^eet fume leaves mY .^K^ « TEXAS, explaius: CMS Of ArAARK-l-O'T, difl^ercnt from .MD 0OR»S ELUS, " ^^^terly (^'H just ..Cashmere Bouq tra„ ,ted ordinary P*''^*^ "'^,,t of tbe eo'^l^e ^^^.^ perfume. vour skin . • • wonderful KEEPS COMPLEXIONS LOVELY, TOO! Cashmere Bouquet's lather is so gentle and caressing, yet it goes right do into each pore and ■ of dirt and co It goes rignl down removes every bit v,^ v.... „..v. ^osmetics. This pure, creamy-white rad amy -w II lie soap keeps your skin liantly clear, alluringly smooth! NOW ONLY lOf ot oil droB, dopartmeni, ond len-cent ttoret THE ARISTOCRAT OF ALL FINE SOAPS Silver S c r n r. n 79