Silver Screen (May-Oct 1939)

'1 was pleasantly surprised at the convenience and comfort of ^ Anne Shirley and Edward Ellis in "A Man To Remember." B-ettes Internal San itary Protection No Ocfor, Belts, Pads or Pins A friend told Miss M — about B-ettes. She tried them. Now she's enthusiastic about this dainty internal method of sanitary protection. She praises the utter freedom from belts, pads and pins — no bulge, no chafing. She is especially grateful that B-ettes eliminate all worry about odor. Try B-ettes this month — they cost no more than older ways. Get a package now and have it handy when you need it — 2.5^ for iz, a month's supply — io£ for purse package of 4 — at drug and department stores. Say "Bee-etts". Mail coupon below today for trial package. *Based on letter in our files, Accepted for Advertising by Journal of American Medical Association THE B-ETTES CORPORATION 155 East 44th Street, New York Enclosed is W£ for which please send roe trial package of 4 B-ettes, with full infotmation. NAME. ADDRESS . Winners in the February "Letters of Criticism Contest If The $50.00 First Prize Letter Dear Silver Screen : "A Man To Remember" is so significant a success that Garson Kanin, its director, is a man Hollywood should remember conscientiously every day. Each minute of this fine film displays faith in the movies, in sincerity and intelligence. His sort of faith moves mountains of public apathy, while Hollywood's general faith in the importance of heiresses, horse races, Broadway accents, and phony glamour moves us only to boredom. Actors should remember that close-ups and new hair-dos get them less in the long run than co-operation in one picture like this, from whose humility, truth, and sincerity' a genuinely heartening beauty emerged. Mr. Kanin, his cast and coworkers, have proved again that Hollywood itself holds people who have the right kind of faith in pictures, who respect them, and intend to make the world share their faith and respect. Sincerely, Melville Abbett, Duluth, Minn. Honorable Mention C$5.00 7s Paid For Every Letter Printed) Dear Silver Screen: The producers need not "play down" to their audiences. They should hitch their wagon to a star and we, the public, shall go sailing happily with them through their land of make-believe. Educate, interest, entertain and amuse us; we are intensely human! Give us more historical plays. "Marie Antoinette," with its splendor, pageantry, and Morley's superb acting, carried me miles and centures from my drab life. More biographies! Muni made "Pasteur," scientist and humanitarian, a living, vibrant character, to whose research my son owes his life. Give us wholesome humor and simple philosophy, such as that in "You Can't Take It With You." In it you made me forget my crutches! Give us drama that we shall remember. Mona H. Coulson, Milwaukee, Wise. Dear Silver Screen: Hollywood always gave me the impression that it possessed a few smart fellows, but I often wonder if they're not a bunch of copy-cats. They are always running something into the ground. The success of one slapstick comedy brought on a bunch of them. At the present time it seems that the western picture is the next type that will be buried, with such pictures as "Jesse James," "The Oklahoma Kid" and "Union Pacific" following one upon the other. As a humble moviegoer, PLEASE Hollywood don't run the Jones family and Hardy family into the ground. Don't let every studio come out with some family picture in the coming year. Sincerely yours, Mrs. O. W. Turley, Lansing, Kan. Dear Silver Screen: My favorite pictures are the "supercolossals" and this is why. I am typical of the middle classes of America and Canada who go to the movies — not to live for two hours in environments similar to those from which they come — but to live for two hours in environments for which their souls yearn but which fate decrees they shall never attain. What a thrill and uplift comes after two hours of transportation into luxuriously furnished drawing-rooms and cafes and night clubs, with ladies and gentlemen dressed in the extremes of fashion. So please, Mr. Producer, keep on giving us pictures with glamour and millions written all over them. As for the simple, homey, ordinary, close-to-life pictures, we will get plenty of those at home. Helen F. Majurg, Vermilion, Alb., Canada. Silver Screen