Modern Screen (Dec 1938 - Nov 1939 (assorted issues))

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She takes them into her confidence, respects their advice, and goes on an occasional little spree with her mother. Gawsh, this is supposed to be a beauty article, isn't it? And time is short. So — here's for a few new (I hope) specific beauty suggestions. We hear a great deal about trying to look younger, but we seldom hear anything about trying to look older. Yet, for young girls of too-kiddish an appearance, this is not silly, but serious. It is a handicap to look twelve" when you're seventeen, though later on, docking five years from the calendar may be a desirable goal. How to add maturity and a leetle sophistication to yourself without infuriating mama by crying for slinky gowns, green eyeshadow and exotic perfume? Your hair, dears, will probably solve the problem. IF YOUR face is small and childlike, do not let your hair hang flowing and careless like. It pinches your face and does nothing for you. Have it shorter, or lift it up, or both. Soften your features with high side curls, which will also add width to your face if it is thin. An upward feeling in front and longer back hair, softly curled in the neck, is youthfully sophisticated and not too set and elaborate for your age. See if I'm not right. Change your hairdo to a slightly more formal style and go right on wearing young, simple clothes and young, simple make-up. I am just before shutting up like a clam on this up-and-down hair business and going back to my old preachments about suiting your type and being individual and all that. An operator in a large beauty salon told me recently that up hair was a flop because Hollywood would have no truck with it. Generally speaking, she was right about the Hollywood part. The four girls on pages 44 and 45 have remained constant to their individual coiffures—which suit them, so why try to improve on things? Dorothy Lamour has kept her hair long because it is beautiful. She dresses it in an ultra-simple, almost old-fashioned style, because it suits her. Swell. Gail Patrick's striking brunette beauty — particularly her lustrous, laughing eyes — would be rendered tod theatrical and a little cheap if her coiffure weren't simple and sleek around the face. Margaret Tallichet, the pretty Texas newcomer, has a magnificent head, and allows no tonsorial affectation to detract from it. Margaret Sullavan, the only one of our southern quartette who is not a bona fide beauty, has a charmingly irregular face. Offscreen, she is none too fussy about how her hair looks, but the constant play of expression across her features focuses everyone's attention to her face, not on her hair. In general, I'd lay down three simple rules : if your hair is beautiful in itself, stick to the way that shows it off to the best advantage, like Dorothy Lamour. If your face is lovely in itself, or interestingly modelled, with breadth of forehead and cheekbone and a firm jaw line, wear your hair simply, even carelessly, as most of Hollywood does, just so's you brush it a lot and keep it healthy. If neither your hair nor your face is out — *— HUCKLEBERRY FINN Trundling along the beloved paths of your childhood memories, whistling merrily, fibbing outrageously, comes Huck Finn, the immortal barefoot boy of the Mississippi. He'll go 'round your heart and stay there when you read the story of his hilarious adventures, complete in a delightful adaptation from Mickey Rooney's first solostarring picture. YES, MY DARLING DAUGHTER Meet the Murrays — the most charming family in comedy! They're coming to you straight from the arms of an adoring Broadway public and taking you with them on a gloriously funny week-end. This story of four frenzied adults and a pair of youthful lovers who seek solitude, is uproariously wicked and will have you chuckling with glee for a good while to come. Adapted from the newest picture with Priscilla Lane and Jeffrey Lynn. ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: OKLAHOMA KID— James Cagney and Rosemary Lane HONOLULU— Eleanor Powell and Robert Young PYGMALION— Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller And many other complete stories of the latest movie hits SCREEN ROMANCES March issue on sale now NO MORE CORNS T Dr. ScholPs Zinopads instantly relieve, quickly remove corns. Prevent corns, sore toes, blisters. Ease new or tightl shoes. Soothing. Safe, sure. Cost but a trifle. Sizes for Corns, Callouses, Bunions, Soft Corns between toes. Dl Scholh Lino-pads