Jackie (magazine) especially if the story involved a "reader's true life experience". Both the comics and the short stories invariably dealt with either romance or family issues. The centre pages of the magazine usually contained a pull-out poster of a popular band or film star. The magazine featured a section called "Silly Star File", a humorous interview with figures from the world of pop music. "Jackie" became very popular with young teenage girls, not least because of the "Cathy and Claire" problem page, which received 400 reader letters a week and dealt with controversial issues that were nonetheless relevant to the readership.
Helen Claire character in "Kiss the Boys Goodbye"] that her mornings are filled with interviews, her afternoons with screen tests, guest appearances, dinner parties." Claire's Broadway debut came in 1932 in "Girls in Uniform". She also appeared in "Sunny River" and "Jezebel". Claire's voice was familiar to moviegoers who were attentive to Movietone News segments that preceded feature films in theaters. Twice a week she provided narration of fashion news segments for those newsreels. Claire and others from the cast of "The Parker Family" radio program made an "experimental" broadcast of a TV version of the show on NBC May 9, 1941.