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Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07
Decided on Films

ITS all n matter Of figuring
the thing out" he told me. BE
fore l got out Of school in 1886
1 started looking for the best
possible means of making a good
living. and when I considered my
qualifications, I decided I might
he an actor. From all I had
heard, Hollywood stars make
about the best salaries In the
field, so I came to California to
see what II was all about.
"While looking around the
studios" he went on, 81 found
that every one seemed to stress
the Importance OF experience,
so I went back to Houston TO
complete my education and to
work under the best drama
coach 1 could find.
"Then discovered that
liked acting and I was deter
mined TO make a go OF 1t. The
only thing necessary was TO get
a contract In Hollywood, and
was lucky enough 10 land one
at Paramount shortly after I
left Rice"
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07
Studio Discards
No Marriage Rule
HOLLYWOOD. Dec. {

HULL I WOOD, DeC.
BECAUSE SIX of its glamour
girls have become brides in 1941.
Twentieth Century-Fox will drop
the mo marriage" clause from
future contracts. They've always
known it would not stand up
legally and now they've decided
il isn't even a deterrent.
Beauties on the lot who have
got married were Alice Faye,
Gene Tierney, Brenda Joyce,
Nancy Kelly. Arleen Whelan and
Cobina Wright Jr.
Two others, for whom the new
decision may smooth the path to
matrimony. are Maureen O'Hara
and Mary Beth Hughes.
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07
Who Can Take the Place
Of Joan Cravford as
Model Of Fashion?
BY DOROTHY MANNERS

HOLLYWOOD,D Dec. b
0IM TIRED Of seeing the
i same feminine stars year
In and year out in pictures"
said the girl with the black hat
and dotted pink veil at the
bridge table. "Why don't they
find some new Barbara Stan
Wycks, Claudette CoIberts, Joan
Crawfords, Norma ShearerS.
Ginger Rogers, Myrna Logs and
Madeleine CarrOlS?"
It's not the first time I've
heard that remark-and it's not
the first time it's got my dan
der up
Far be il from me 10 say any
thing about the crop Of new
glamour girls Lana Turner
Rita Hayworth. Ann Sheridan.
Olivia de Havilland. Linda Oar.
nell. Betty Cradle. Carole
Lands and all Of the other new.
comers who are going 10 town
right new and doing aii right
for themselves. All these kids
are good and they're going
places.
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07
Went TO Stage

Craig does not brag about the
fact he was so determined TO be
an actor he literally talked him
self into that contract. But
when directors still told him he
needed experience he quit Par
amount and went to New York
TO take a small role in Guthrie
McClintic's "Missouri's Legend"
And this added the twist tot
his success formula. For after
the show had run two weeks
Columbia Studios grabbed him
for another contract. And he
has been steadily rising to film
fame ever since.
Success" concluded Craig,
"is the result Of a definite plan
Of action. And n you like what
you're doing. arv are sincere,
YOU can't miss"
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07
XS#AkkS III n ~ Va
oueM O. arson )
Shirley Temple Now Qnite a Young Lady
With Intelligence and Polish
and Unstoilea Personality
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 6.

CAN you believe Shirley Temple only few ago
~ chubby golden reading oliver Wisewel
Mrs Minver other grownup novels Shirley who the
millions fulfilled the
crept hearts eight She IS
slender chestnut haired and intelligent
remarked mother that Shirley seemed old
12 she said:
Shirley IS be April believe
girl the right to known
studio wanted keep her when
little girl given her real
back to her." y
went to see Shirley at her home in Brenwooda spacious
high hill with high gate secluded
grounds where Shirley have her friends play tennis
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07
Gin-Rummy Costs
Gloria a Off
HOLLYWOOD Dec.

WOOD, Dec. b.
WONDER IF Gloria Vanderbilt
has heard the story of the present
she ALMOST got from wealthy
New Yorker on the day she took
a plane for the East.
Her admirer, well known in
cafe society, bought a beautiful
watch as a going-away gift for
the society beauty and then, on
the night before she left, lost ii
in a gin-rumny game.
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07
Who Like CIsudette7

But when you get right dowr
70 it-who has come along 10
take the place-or places OF
the big ten among the original
glamour girls?
Who wears clothes with the
dash and chic of Claudette Col
bertrand for that matter who
has come along with a more
curvaceous figure?
Who has come along with the
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07
Quite Grownup

/ had to rub my eyes 10 real
ize here was Shirley Temple
talking about art, literature and
the advantages of travel 1t
seemed only yesterday that she
was hugglng a. .Moolly -bear.----;..--
Well, our children do grow
up but it must be source of
satisfaction 10 the Temples that
their nous little girl has
grown into such charming
Young girl.
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07
Loneed for Trip

IL had hoped" Shirley said. "to
go 10 Europe and then the war
came, and never saw any of
the places 1 have studied about
and which are also described I'm
the books"
1t is true. Shirley's genera
ton will perhaps never see the
old world and all the beauties
that those of us who belong 10
the older generation were fortu-
nate enough to have seen.
wanted o-toE Paris,
Shirley said. "and meet the little
girl whose voice was dubbed i'm
my pictures. thought IL L
studied French hard enough, 1
could make some of my pictures
in French. The little girl died."
said Shirley, "and her sister
wanted to come and live with
us because she felt i was all she
had left-we had written letters
for 30 many years"
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07
New Glamour Girl Crop Can't Detflrone
Stars Like Norma Shearer or Myrna 10y
None Has Gift Of M)sfer)
of Grefa Garbo or, Dash
Of Mss Colbert

there another cute retrouSse
nose like Loy's?
Where is the candidate to pro-
totype the average working girl
as Ginger Rogers has done--or
to make the problems of Miss
White Collar Worker so under
Standable?
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07

dlstinctively modelled face of
Joan Crawford who for The past
dozen years has kept Mss and
Mrs America on thcU toes
copNIng her coIfures. hcI gowns
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07
At Fashionable School

Shirley goes to the Westlake
-Seheoi=for =Giris,=Eos Angeles
most fashionable girls seminary
and loves it. For the first
time in her life she has had a
chance to mingle wi h other
children and forget she is a
movie star.
She is very slender now and
her hair, formerly golden. is a
dark, chestnut brown framing a
lovely face. All her baby fat is
gone but she has grown into a
beautiful young girl--so charm
ing. so we'll bred and attractive.
She promises TO be fascinating
yoiino woman
"What about your singing:" I
asked her.
ooh, l never could sing" she
said. "And I am never going to
sing again on the screen. Other
girls have much better voices. 1
used to warbIe when I was tiny
but I am too old now to make
noises and call 1t a song"
Not Forgotten
This proves the golden child
has a sense of humor.
But Shirley still dances-and
loves it.
That young Miss Temple is
remembered by her loyal fans
was evident t when they pre-
viewed her latest picture "Kath-
leen." She was surrounded by
girls and boys who wanted her
autograph and at the end OF the
picture the audience burst into
a spontaneous All! which nat
urally delighted Shirley, who
thought she might have b e n
forgotten in the year she has
been off the screen.
"She doesn't need much dis
ciplining," / said to her father,
who came into the room as i
was leaving.
l asked her what she was
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07

and avidly reading stories OF
her oif-stage romanceS?
Who could possibly replace
Myrna 10y as the screens most
attractive wife and where is
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07

(lldll y.
Shirley. the little girl who
used to sit in my lap and talk
about the Or books was getting
ready to read the Life of Ma
dame Curie.
That's grown up book" l
told her.
"Well, it's part Of our English
course" she explained with the
famous Temple dimple still in
evidence.
"You see," her mother inter-
rupted, "they teach children
differently nowadays. They
don't read the Elsie ~Dinsmore
books, the Little Pepper Series
or tho Louisa Nj. Alcott books.
as we did when we were her
age"
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07

studying in school and she said
French, algebra. ancient history
and English.
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07
One and Only

What import has equaled the
one and only Garbo's strange,
haunting. husky voice or her
gift for mystery and who could
have held the public so long in
spite of her recluSe tendencies? 3?
Where is there a duplicate Of
Norma Shearer's patricia n
charm or the Swanlike beauty of
Loretta Young and Madeleine
Carroll? Or who so fully gives
that down-to-earth quality that
Barbara Stanwyck puts into
every one Of her screen perform
anCeS?
. Who vecrS from comedy to
drama with the assurance of
Irene Dunne-and for that
who makes better pictures year
in and year out ?
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07
No Snowy Home

The house that the little girls
money bought is furnished in
excellent taste-not in the least
ostentatious, but the sort of
home you or 1 would plan-liv-
able and pleasant with big
fireplace and soft cushiony
oh ait.c
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07

swim and enjoy herself without
fear of unwanted intrusion. She
has a garden patterned after
the ones she saw in Honolulu
and there she and her school
friends can barbecue or have a
Hawaiian IIlau
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-07
Knew Them Well

II seems that the original
glamour girls had an excitement
the younger clan hasn't yet reg
istered. Maybe it is because we
know them so well from the
days when Carole Lombard at
the ripe old age of Is used TO
Shther into the Cocoanut Grove
done 10 the teeth in seam-spllt-
ting black satin and pearls.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

8-Do you waste time looking first at
one thing then at another because you can't
decide what you really want?
9-Do you try on clothes you have no
intention of buying?
1O-Do you wait hours for your turn to
be helped then leave in disgust just before
the salesgirl gets to you?
11-Even though you really like dress
do you pass it up in hopes that another store
will have something you like better?
12-Does the thought of one luxurious
purchase distract you that you forget to
buy other things you really need
13-Do you have your purchases put in
dozens of tiny packages which you1l COZ
tinually drop and lose, instead of in one
large bundle?
DO you forget to make out shopping
list and rely on your memory then come
home with mousetraps instead of mayonnaise?
Is DO you inflict long conversations on
salesgirls about:
Your personal life?
Your aches and pains?
How forgetful your husband is
Where you can buy clothes cheaper?
Your figure?
What Johnny aged 2, said?
IS Do you spend hours in store trying
to make decision about a dress, then have
it sent home you can decide about it there
lido you make salesgirls trot out every
thing in the store because you don't really
know what you want?
Is Do you dawdle along department store
aisles setting funeral march pace for every
behind you?
19-Do you stand with friends in chat
tering group, clogging up department store
doorways?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

do you walk with friends three or four
abreast, blocking all pedestrian traffic?
. After you've said good-by. do you spend
hours standing at the front door, chattering
about one thing and another?
3 DO you stop your car in the middle of
the street TO look at a new hat in the window,
holding up a whole line of cursng horn
honking drivers?
4-When someone comes 70 pick you up
for date do you wait until the doorbell rings
before you start getting dressed?
5 When you go out date do you
slide in a few errands you've forgotten to do
In pay station phone booth. DO you
forget your number and hold up whole line
of people?
When you take taxi do you wait until
you get out before delving into your purse
for the fare, then keep the driver waiting
while you fish for change?
8 DO you try to enter the elevator before
others have exited, causing head-on collision
o DO you make dates you later expect
to break?
10 Do you hold up a whole line of
marketers by asking a busy groceryman ten
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
By JUDITH 7. CHASE.
WeII-Known Quiz Expert


Here's q questionable you should
hide from your husbond at oil costs.
Tear this out before he gets his honds
on IL or your life won't be worth living.
For oil males are convinced OF one un-
ossoiidbie fact: That women are the
Worlds Uneontested Champion Time
Wosters. with not even q close second
in the running.
Just look. The average housewife.
soy male stotistieions. wastes just four
years of her life ehofferine and pass
ing condolences over The back fence and
three years and holt of her life Cos
siping on the phone! She wastes good
mile day around The kitchen. and in
yeur wuiks The distance from Fort
Wayne TO Boston for no good reason
at dft.-
HOW much time do YOU waste? Try
This quiz and see. But first send your
husband TO the corner store. Then do
il this waY, answering each question
honestly. o-kever! We'll. hardly
ever. 2-oeeosionoIly.. 5-often. A.
Always.
Then turn TO poee ID and look for
the truth - without male comment!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

l. When you're already late for an APP
pointment do you just HAVE to finish your
cigarette
Is When you're cleaning up do you stuff
ODDS and ends under the sofa then make the
whole family hunt high and low for them?
Il DO You borrow your husbands CAD
gets and return them to any place but the
night one
l. 10 you ignore small insigrihcantgr rips
in your clothes until they become large
enough to pass a teacup through
IS Is your purse filled with unnecessary
debris making you forage through half a
dozen combs. empty cigarette packages. and
old letters go find your front-door key
i When you're housekeeping DO you
find you are making innumerable trips up
and down stairs 10 retrieve lost busters, for
gotten brooms and discarded mops?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

the package with you after all
Are you a,display butterfly, fluttering
from one counter to another looking at every
thing but what you came to buy?
DO you ask directions then ignore the
answers, and end up laundering around in
mems underwear or wardrobe trunks?
do you stand and cape all morning at
a demonstration peelinE potatoes with new
tangled gadget?
10 you insist on trying on:
Dresses SIZE too small for you?
Jewelry you can't possibly afford?
Crazy hats your husband won't let you
wear?
DO you fail to look up the address of a
store and spend hours looking for II?
DO YOU spend days looking for some
thing a couple Of cents cheaper than what
you've already seen?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

do you waste time watching and wait
ing for the water to boil, as If your glance
would speed il up?
2Are you a kitchen grasshopper gather
ing all the utensils to work in place then
shifting your scene Of operations from one
spot to another?
3-Do you leave the dishes until tomorrow
%hen they'll take twice as long TO do
Instead of reading your recipes thor
oughly DO you have to keep running from cook
book to stove, you add a dash Of this and
dash Of that
5 DO you let your cooking utensils all
pile up instead of washing them you 20
along?
8 Do you have only one measuring cup
and have to keep washing it out every few
seconds?
do you keep the most-used articles at
the back of the top shelf way out Of reach
s. DO you feed the dog in the middle Of
preparing to feed the family?
o DO you keep needlessly running to the
stove to if the thermostat is set to the
right degree of heat?
10-When you're preparing a meal do you
haul out all the dishes in sight, when you
could get along with a quarter many?
1.-THE table. sink and stove are the three
major parts of any kitchen around which you
gravtate. Are they unnecessarily far apart,
costing you many extra steps?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

IN the drawer ana
have to waste time
rediscovering t h e
same holes
&c Do you in
wife guests hours
ahead of dinner
time, just to be
sure they get there
on time, then keep
t h EN- sit tin &
roun d cooling
their heels?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

1O-Are you reluctant to admit you're
wrong in an argument, letting it go on for
hours?
lido you get so baled up in telling
story that you finally have to send out an
SOS. for the audience to help you remember
the point?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

18-Do you go back to bed as soon as
your husband is safely on his way to work
and get much sleep you can't CONCEIVE
how he could get so tired at IL P. M?
19-Do you have innumerable unlabeled
jars in the medicine cabinet?
20 Do you forget to tell the maid you'll
be out for dinner?
21-Do you pull bureau drawers out so
far that you end up on your hands and knees
picking the contents up off the floor?
22-Do you stuff bills into the handiest
pigeon-hole then spend frantic hours at the
end of the month looking for them
23-Do you jump from one type of house
cleaning to another and back again instead
of finishing up one job first?
24-Do you arrange your furniture so that
all the heavy pieces are damned up against
electric light outlets?
25 DO YOU put torn stockings back again
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
About the House

The male of the household never knows
what goes on when he leaves. He has his
suspicious, to he sure, hut II he sees this
preview he'll KNOW.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

for your audience.
do you stop story repeatedly with:
Are you SURE l didn't tell you this
before2"
2 When people ask after your health do
you seize that opportunty'to inflct on them:
The details of all your operations?
The health of your entire family?
Symptoms of dread diseases?
The trouble you're having in meeting
the doctors bill?
The high cost of cemetery lots?
3 Do you make people go into long eX-
plantations of the jokes they tell you?
10 you always have to get in the last
word-no matter how irrelevant that word?
5 DO you beat around the bush with of
course like it very much but. 80" instead. of
coming right out and telling what you think?
8 Do you have lengthy and elaborate
arguments on just WHO shall tell the story?
DO you fill up your stories with he
sads" and she saids" instead of coming
quickly to the point?
Do you keep your audiences gnawing
its nails in brittle suspense while you try to
recall some unimportant and irrelevant detail
no one gives a boot about anyway?
9-Just your stories strike an interest
A,roriron unoL1,. Crcot britain fgb4s pas
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
In the Kitchen

Waste time in the kitchen and you'll
raise havoc with your planning and your
husbands digestion a. well. II he has n
long face In the evening this may have
something to do with II.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Shopping

Maybe ( Sc
questions are some
of the reasons why
: h Opping takes
YOU ten times as
long as II should
and drives he
salcSgirlS crazy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
When You're Out

You can waste time at home like hot
water But if you do II when you're out
you'll be i'm IL.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

IA # @ r the
s a ! e s girl has
wracked her brain
making out a long
a n d complicated
COD. do you sud
denly decide you'll
pay cash and take
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Your Conversation

Waste time when YOU say something
and you'll soon have to look in the mirror
for your audience.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

When the doorbell rings do you spend
hours primping before you answer it-only to
discover it's the same creditor who's been
seeing you dsheveled for years?
2-Do you keep your stockings all thrown
together en- masse in the bureau drawer in
stead of rolled together in pairs?
3 Do you close your husbands book with
out putting a marker in it,
do you neglect to make sure the iron
is turned off then have to go back again and
look half dozen times
5-Do you interrupt your housework every
few minutes by reading and listening to the
radio, then wonder why it took you so long
6-After you've carefully repaired your
old clothes do you suddenly decide they're
not worth keeping and give them all away?
Z Do you draft the whole family TO search
for something you've lost then forget to tell
them when you find it yourself?
S-Before you go to bed do you:
Kick off your shoes wherever you hap
pen to be >?
Leave your dress rolled up in a ball and
then have to press it out the next
morning?
Roll your underwear into heap and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

-tuff IL into some
obscure C orn er?
Leave your shoe
strings tie d into
tight knots ?
do you fail
to plan holidays
ahead of tim Q,
then spen d the
whole day moan
ing about W h ere
you'd like TO have
gone
lOZI'O you keep
people IN suspense
until the last min
ufe before You an
sWtr their invita-
tor
DO you ease
off 70 sleep in the
bathtub when the
family Is lined up
outside the door
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

ing note do you stop
them with "Oh. I really
don't know you well
onn1nh To tell Won thisl" |
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

One Certain Way of Killing Important Hours
Is to Let Your Cooking Utensils Pile Up
Instead of Washing Them as You Go Along
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

1871 by weekly Britain Rrhia Reserved
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

It's a Woman's Privilege to Change
Her Mind, But Doing II Half
Dozen Times in a Restaurant Can
Result in Time Wasting Marathon
Of Walters and Mattresses.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

ana the peas tenuer
lido you play suspension bridge day
dreaming when it's your turn to play and
keeping everyone waiting when it's your turn
to bid
IL Do you carry JUST enough money
to get you around. then get stranded with
only few pennies in your purse?
13Do you try 20 get out of taxi in
the middle traffic just the light turns
green?
l4-Do you forget where you've parked
your car?
15-Do you wedge your way into the be-
ginning of a long line of people waiting for
tickets?
16-Are you continually leaving your per
sonal belongings at other peoples houses
II Do you stand street corners. taxi
ing hours trying to decide where to dine
IS When your husband is in hurry do
you lag along behind him looking in every
shop window?
10 DO YOU change your mind about WhaF
you've ordered in restaurant. three or -four
times making the waitress do marathon
between table and kitchen?
20 When you're out on a date do you
spend half the evening making up in the
powder room when amount of makeup CAT
placate your irate date?
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