Silver Screen (Jun-Oct 1940)

94 Silver Screen for October 1940 SHE OFTEN FELT "LEFT OUT OF THINGS" ... HER GLASS SAID Orphan Skin? What's that? Briefly, Orphan Skin is neglected skin . . . dull, sallow, often oily skin with its true, natural beauty masked by a film of deep-down dirt. Yes, dirt! What to do? Try this, as many women have with excellent results. Put a hot towel on your face to open the pores. Then, with the tips of the fingers, apply Pompeian Milk Massage Cream. Work it gently into the pores . . . massage it off, and with it the dull, dingy film. Use another hot towel, then a cold one or an astringent. Repeat the treatment as directed and let your mirror tell you what a blessing Pompeian Massage Cream can be. Send 10c for generous jar! Begin treatments now! Send 10c for big sample * The Pompeian Co., Baltimore, Md. Enclosed is 10 cents. Please send | jar of Pompeian Massage Cream. [ | Name Address.... 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These tiny filters and tubes are working day and night to help Nature rid your system of excess acids and poisonous waste. When disorder of kidney function permits poisonous matter to remain in your blood, it may cause nagging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Frequent or scanty passages with smarting and burning sometimes shows there ia something wrong with your kidneys or bladder. Kidneys may need help the same as bowels, so ask your druggist for Doan's Pills, used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney tubes flush out poison* ous waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills. there was no butter on the table. Joan asked the maid why, and was politely informed that the quota for the week had been used up because of Joan's culinary efforts and there was no more in the house. Yes, Joan even puts butter on a budget, allowing the family just so much. After being careful at home, however, Joan will go out for dinner on the maid's off day and order a meal that will cost her more than the entire week's allowance at home. And so she practices economy in her own rather puzzling way. Don Ameche also watches his household account very seriously. His place isn't streaming with butlers and maids. In fact, some old friends of his from Wisconsin watch over the household needs for him and his family. He seldom entertains when he's in Hollywood, for he's too busy working. But when he gets a vacation, he throws huge parties that run up into real dough. The sky's the limit then. In other words, when he works he works hard, and when he plays, he plays hard. Don also has no conception of economy when it comes to calling his wife long distance during the times he is away on location or on a special tour. Recently, to give an example, he paid $120 phone bill for a call to his wife. And, too, although this isn't extravagance, for it's more of a kindness, he just bought his mother and father a complete home. Time and time again, I've seen Joe E. Brown try valiantly to keep his pocket money within set limits. He watches his daily expenditures with an eagle eye. But since he entered the horse racing game and has his own stables, the oat bills have more than overbalanced his economy on spending money. He has the fever, though, and occasionally one of his nags romps home a winner and helps to change a few of the red figures to black. Then there's the classic Hollywood example of the stars' ideas of thrift. Burns and Allen bought their home already built because it was cheaper than starting from scratch. No sooner had they moved in, though, than all idea of saving was for-] gotten, and they proceeded to make the house over foot by foot until the total bills exceeded the cost of a much more elaborate one. Another classic illustration is Jane Withers. Jane will save out of her allowance for months, depriving herself of shows or ice cream, so she can buy a new pet or a new doll to complete her large collection. But her pet extravagance is her habit of finding some little girl with what Jane thinks an amazing ability as a pianist. Jane will then insist that her mother pay for the child's lessons and, if necessary, buy her a new piano. There are many other cases of Hollywood economies. George Brent with his economy when it comes to entertaining, his preference for small, but nice, parties instead of immense affairs, and then paying all too frequent visits to rare old book shops and coming out loaded; John Payne and his thrift by not smoking cigarettes, preferring to use his7 money on many and very expensive shoes because, as he says, "I like the feel* -of good leather;" Marie Wilson and her buying very little for herself so she will have enough to break the bank on gifts for her friends; Ned Sparks, who buys only inexpensive suits at the extra's favorite store, so he can spend his money on hospital bills for his pet bulldog who is always in need of care; Edward G. Robinson and his disrupting of a strict budget by his many purchases of fine and expensive paintings; Humphrey Bogart and his idea that he saves money by buying fish instead of steak and then going out the next day and buying a new car — of course, Humphrey has no conception of money, for recently he forgot all about owning a lot of stock; and Basil Rathbone and his super-elaborate parties, many costing a pretty penny. And so the list goes. But before you condemn the stars for their odd ideas of economy, take a look at your own budget. You may be a bit surprised yourself! Girl Who Ran Away From Happiness [Continued from page 49] housekeeping. She was a good cook, too, and on days when Charlie sold an article or she got a few days' work there would be thick steaks or broilers cooked out on the barbecue grill Charlie had rigged up in the garden and when the lean days came, which was often, she'd make stews and hash and have just as much fun out of it, too. Sometimes, I wonder if it wouldn't have been much better for Gerda if she hadn't done the cute little trick dance in a ball room scene that brought her to the attention of the front office of one of the biggest studios. It was only a bit part, but Gerda managed to put so much of herself in it that she took the scene away from even the star herself. She began getting better parts. There was a young freshness about her that made her in demand for ingenue parts. Whenever a college girl was wanted or a high school girl or a sub deb, it was Gerda the studios thought of and her fans thought of her as their kid sister and adored her. She looked about sixteen, though at that time she had passed her twentieth birthday by a good eight months. Before the year was over she and Charlie had moved out of the bungalow into a small house of their own. She stopped going to bargain basements for her clothes or making them herself and got expensive imports from the smart specialty shops. And there were two well trained maids to do the work she had loved doing herself before. Charlie was doing better, too. He was an assistant editor on the paper and in his spare time was writing a novel. But there wasn't so much spare time these days. Gerda was entertaining lavishly and the house was always full of guests. Of course, the gay young crowd of Hollywood was very much in evidence, but more and more Gerda was reaching out towards the people who could do her good. There were scenario writers who could build up her role in a picture, pub