Silver Screen (Jun-Oct 1940)

Silver Screen for October 1940 93 he will unless we're mistaken. Speaking of yachts, Victor McLaglen always advised his friends not to buy boats, telling them what a reckless extravagance they were. The situation has changed now, for Vic has a yacht of his own. He alibis himself by saying that it gives him pleasure and saves him money on his vacations. Even his best friends won't laugh in his face at this excuse. Dorothy Lamour, to cite another example of a real economist, has a yen for antiques of all kinds. Now she knows such a hobby is quite expensive. So she will shop for her old pieces, go in a store and price them, and immediately come out, without buying anything. If a certain antique strikes her fancy, she'll send her mother in to buy it, because she knows she can get it cheaper. Even stars realize that establishments automatically raise prices when they see a glamour girl come in. But Dottie isn't all economy by any means. She has a terrific weakness for hats, usually the exclusive models. For example, when she returned from New York recently, she brought back eighteen chapeaux. And bang went the savings she had made by having her mother buy the antiques. When Fred MacMurray wasn't eating regularly some years past, he thought up a scheme that fairly reeked of wise saving. He began to save every stray dime that he could spare. Then someone invented the calendar bank. You know, you put a dime in the bank every day and the clink of the coin automatically designates the date. Well, Fred has already put enough dimes in the gadget, so many in fact that his calendar is months ahead of schedule. When the thing is filled, he takes his dimes to the bank and deposits them proudly, quite conscious of his great saving. His economy doesn't stop here, however. Tis rumored that he even saves old razor blades and merely sharpens them all the time— at least, until they wear out completely. With such economies, you'd think Fred would be pretty consistent when it came to watching his money. Oh, no! He has one weakness. He loves to see his wife looking nice, and every pretty outfit he sees, he picks up and takes home to her. And Fred wonders why his budget isn't ■ as evenly balanced as it should be. One look at his beautiful wife and he no longer cares. One of the oddest pet economies in Hollywood is that of Margaret Lindsay. Margaret will walk blocks before she'll pay a nickel to make a phone call. It's a very definite phobia of hers. She feels it is an utter waste of money — and even an extravagance. But she has no sense of values when it comes to buying perfume and costume jewelry. Margaret is, on the whole, just about the most consistent economist and budget follower in town, however. Sonja Henie knows how to buy shoes, since she has had to purchase so many of them. And no one can make her pay too much for a pair. But, on the other hand, she lives in the finest home in BelAir and probably pays more rent than any other star in Hollywood. To carry on, John Garfield hates to buy clothes, thus putting him in the Howard-Flynn bracket. Only recently he reluctantly purchased his first tuxedo. He never is called upon to wear fine outfits in pictures, so he doesn't care a tinker's damn for them. But he's a nut about phonograph records. Once, years ago, he said he'd have all the music he wanted if he had money. Well, he kept his promise. He hopes his money will last, because now he's beginning to realize you can't wear a disk of Stokowski and the Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestra playing, "Ride of the Valkyries." Jimmy Cagney is another hater of clothes, but he has a more intense dislike for plunking out cold cash for shoes. If it's necessary, he'll buy a pair of good shoes, but he'll make up for his expense by wearing them until they fall apart. He makes most of them last by constant re-soling and re-heeling. His excuse is that he gets attached to a good pair of shoes and hates to part with them. But Jimmy has an expensive weakness. He likes to get away. And his hideouts cost him plenty. He has a boat in Balboa, a resort not far from Hollywood, and that does his budget plenty of harm. Besides those items, he keeps up his farm in New England, even though he only gets to visit it occasionally. You mustn't forget, though, that what he saves on shoes helps some — or does it? Another class of Hollywood economists is the household budgeters. One of the prime examples is Joan Blondell. One day, Joan decided to whip up a batch of cookies. Butter was needed, so she used some. That evening, at dinner, , Vivacious vassar senior, betty burlingham, says: that \nodm\j loci IT'S EASY WITH THIS FACE POWDER nYOU CHOOSE BY THE COLOR OF YOUR EYES! 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