FilmIndia (1946)

What Does Your Face Say? How To Get Rid Of R Silly One ! "I wish I loved the human race : I wish I loved its silly face. . ." wrote a modern poet, no doubt bored to death with the fatuous expressions that surround him. Do you consider that you have a silly face? Of course you wouldn't; none of us do. But you have certainly thought often enough that the man who sits opposite you in the train, or beside you in the bus, and the woman who faces you at the dinner table has a pretty silly expression. What are the factors that make for expression in the human face, anyway? Why, the eyes and mouth, of course. Odd, isn't it, that in a man the eyes and mouth can make 'character', whereas in a woman they make either for good looks or plainness. If a woman has inherited from her maternal grandmother loose lips and a gaping expression to her mouth, that's too bad. But, she need not feel that all is lost of her womanly beauty. Just look at Joan Crawford . . . she has made capital of her none-toobeautiful mouth. So, why shouldn't you? And then there's Bette Davis, with her ophthalmic goitre eyes. She has made this type of bulging orb quite fashionable, and she uses them with artistic perfection on the screen. It is not nearly so much the shape of the features you have inherited that count, as the use to which you put them. Have you tried training your features to give expression? You are in a roomful of people; nobody is talking to you at the moment, so you are just sittingwaiting for something to happen. You never can tell Romance might be just across the room. In those off-duty moments you may be closely observed and appraised. How would you compose your face? Now, girls, this is The Test. How many times in her life has not a woman been told, "I have never met you, but I've seen you often," or "I have often noticed you about town." Immediately a woman is told this she thinks, "I wonder what I was wearing?" But, how seldom does she ask herself, "I wonder what expression my face was wearing?" Shanta Kumari is a good, honest artiste. She plays an important role in "Hawai Khatola", a magic thriller of A. M. Khan Productions. Mumtaz Shanti, of course the senior one, is going to dance her way back into old fame in "Dekhoji" a social story produced and directed by Walli Saheb. So, here goes. If you look too intense and interested in your neighbours' conversation, it will inako for a strained expression. If you sink lower in your chair, you will doubtless begin to yawn, and look obviously bored. INDIAN ACTRESS IN THE TRAIN What is the happy medium? Compose your face into an expression of intelligent calm ... as if you're thinking your own thoughts, and they're rather glamorous ones, too. That will give you an air of sweet mystery which the whole universe finds most appealing. I watched a well-known Indian film actress in the train the other day. She was too far from me to hear what she was saying, but I could almost read the conversation by the gestures of her features, and the expressions that chased themselves across her 5!