It is expected that "Gene Tierney" will quit the cinema for good, and that she and her sister will go to New York to live there.

"Charlie Chaplin" has finished work on his new film, "Monsieur Verdoux."

The film "Open City" has now been showing for twelve months at the "World" cinema in New York, and this film won the film critics' prize for the best foreign film of 1946.

"John Garfield" is playing the part of a boxer in one of the films. He brought along to the studio where he works a well-known musician and introduced him to a boxer taking part with him in the film, saying:

— "There is a bond that joins you two. Each of you works with his hands for a living."

The boxer looked the musician over and said: "I never heard his name before. But he looks like a skillful boxer — his face is sound, untouched!!"

The censorship in Hollywood did not permit the showing of the film "Duel in the Sun" until 46 scenes had been cut from it.

Louis Mayer, director of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company, has declared that the company will produce 24 films this year instead of 64.

And Annabella was asked whether she bore a grudge against Lana Turner, whose reported marriage to Tyrone was to follow her divorce. She answered:

"I do not know Lana Turner well; I have met her twice at different parties, and of course I harbor no grudge or enmity toward her. If she is not to be the woman in Tyrone's life, it will be some other

The Beauty Page — Care of the Nails

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its shape and curve nearly those of the fingertip. And avoid, madam, running the file over the nail with a sawing motion—that is, back and forth—or drawing it straight across the nail's edge, for that ruins it.

One thing worth noting in the use of polish: if your nails are long, this serves you should part of the polish come off while you are out, for you thereby avoid spoiling its appearance. But if a large part of the polish has come off, you must remove all that remains of it and apply the polish anew.

And if you find, madam, that your nails grow feebly and break easily, take plenty of foods containing lime in your diet, milk above all. As a further help in this direction you may use the following ointment, which you can prepare at home; rub it on the nails every evening before going to bed:

Put about two grams of raw wax and a hard-boiled egg yolk into a vessel and let them melt in a water bath (Bain-Marie); then add to it a little sweet almond oil, mix the whole together well, and keep it in a tightly covered vessel.

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woman — so what concern is she of mine, and why the grudge? I hope that Tyrone will be happy, for he is a kind-hearted and noble man; and I too want to be happy — though I am not thinking of a new marriage now."

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kept shouting to me to let him call "So-and-so."

I washed the child and dressed him in his clothes, which I had set within reach of my hand. Then I changed my own clothes and the sheet of my bed, and said to my husband:

"Go now, and bring me whomever you please."

By then it was nearly one o'clock and my children had had no dinner. So I got up and went to the hearth, where the beans were simmering slowly, put on more wood, made ready the seasoning, and then fluffed the rice. After that my husband came in with "So-and-so," who began crying out: What a cruel woman you are!

My husband said: "Have you ever seen, good people, a woman as stubborn and hard-headed as this one?"

I said: "Don't talk so much. Be quiet and feed the children."

My dear lady readers, this tale is a true one; if it lacks something of splendor in its details, it lacks not one grain of truth! Do you think us incapable—we who are of the stock of this heroic mountain woman—of inspiring in our men what Dr. Constantine Zurayk urged in his two recent lectures to the women of Lebanon, when he spoke to us of our duty to "create heroic men"? Do you think we should fail if we clasped hands and vowed to push aside this "indifference" and set in its place a living, well-guided awareness, so that our little house might become the happiest nest in your Lord's world?