Silver Screen (May-Oct 1939)

Silver Screen for October 1939 71 in recent Hollywood history. And that one wasn't very recent. There were symptoms, a couple of years ago, when Hollywood broke out in a rash of trailers. Everyone bought a trailer and set forth to rough it in the wilds of Santa Barbara. They would get away from it all, they said, just like that. The men would hunt and fish and the little women, who were just plain old Glamour Girls at home, would prove their true worth ,by broiling trout, washing dishes and being real pals to their husbands. Some of them must have tried it, otherwise the vogue of roughing it on wheels wouldn't have ended so abruptly. Bob Young thinks that he added a postscript to that dandy Hollywood phase when he took his six-year-old daughter, Carol Ann, on a trailer trip. Just the two of them. Sweet! First night out, something went wrong with the electric system in the trailer and Bob's struggles with the oil stove did not produce the type of food of which his daughter approved. "I had," Bob says, "some complaints. But I didn't realize how completely woman-ridden I was until I had her safely bedded down and she remarked: "T Wish you'd go downstairs now, Daddy, so I can go to sleep! I'm very tired.'" Walter Pidgeon interrupted just here. "You think you're woman-ridden! You think only the guys in the top spots in Hollywood are bossed around. Listen! I had a good Chinese cook. Had him for years. One day he told me he had to quit. His wife wanted him to go into, business for himself . . . restaurant business. I'll skip the pleading I did and the offers I made him. It was his wife. She said: 'Hollywood women tell men how to run business.' He left. "A month later he came to see me. 'Please to take me back to cook!' he urged. 'The business in the restaurant is fine. But my wife say too much work for her. If you don't take me back to cook for you right away she . . . she leave me!'" Humphrey Bogart mumbled: "We let them think they run us . . .! ! !" Pat O'Brien protested: "I went to look at a new car and all the salesman would say was: 'This upholstering will be very becoming to Mrs. O'Brien's coloring . . . and we have the cutest crystal accessories.'" Louis Hayward announced: "I've convinced Ida that I won't play those guessing games at parties! She thinks I'm a trifle rude about it." Bruce Cabot complained: "Women consult each other carefully about guest lists for parties so that the women won't be at odds. Then they invite a mixture of men which, well, which would be dynamite if they met anywhere else. They ' all want to poke each other. The women either don't know about all this animosity or they just don't care. So the men sit and seethe. Women are so sure that they are under control that they just let them seethe and think nothing of it. Sometime some courageous guy is going to let fly with his fists and then . . . "No! I guess he won't." Bruce was very wistful. I don't know what conclusion you'll draw from all this. My own is that women rule Hollywood pretty conclusively — and that the men like it. What do you think? SWEET ASSURANCE FROM YOUR MAN. Neglected Hands often Look Older — Feel too Coarse for Love. Take Steps that Help Prevent This! Anne's pretty hands were getting unii attractively harsher and coarser. Sun, weather and water tend to dry nature's softening moisture out of your hand skin, you know. But — wise girl, Anne! She began to care for her hands with Jergens Lotion. HE LOVES ME NOT! HE IOVES ME! Hands are more romantic when Jergens supplies beautifying moisture for your skin. • Netv Beauty Aid! Jergens all-purpose Face Cream. Vitamin blend helps against drab, dry skin. Jergens supplements nature's moisture. Quickly helps give back delicious softness, even to neglected hands. Many doctors help roughened skin to lovely smoothness by using two ingredients Jergens Lotion gives you. Jergens actually helps prevent unromantic roughness when used faithfully. No stickiness. No wonder thousands of grateful women swear by Jergens! Start today to use Jergens Lotion. Only 50^, 25fS, 10f!— $1.00, at beauty counters. V^I^Z'Zf^ p HANDS S TS.i « «■» *Ti« s... a-—* oh'° (In Canada: Y erin,