The Picture Show Annual (1928)

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Picture Show Annual THE lure of " dressing up " has been experienced by everyone. From the child who ransacks her mother's wardrobe and proudly sails downstairs in an amazing selection of its contents, to the grandmother who at Christmas-time weakly protests that she's " too old for such nonsense," and then plays charades with the best, it is safe to say that at no age is there a feminine heart which does not respond to the thrill of " fancy dress." It is such a relief to forget that you are just a plain, ordinary, everyday sort of person and pretend to be some- one whose path in life lies far away from yours, about whom distance has woven a misty veil of glamour, or the passing years have bathed in rosy hues of Romance. And Norma Talmadge is no exception. In spite of spending most of her life as another person before the camera, she still delights in dressing up, and has brought make-believe " to a fine art. Anyone can dress up as a mermaid and sit on a card- board rock " with a comb and a glass in her hand," as the old song says, but it takes an artist to make others forget that she is the owner of two legs and in- cludes aclothes-brush _ in her dressing-table Norma as a M B- se ( dusky ' skinned native dancing girl, hidden fires smouldering in her slumbrous eyes. A radiant Georgian lady conscious of her charm confident of her poise.