Modern Screen (Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 (assorted issues))

Marian Nixon's new bob. Lovely for young people. Don't you like the slight modified bangs? The left side. There's a roll of curls and then feather curls in front of the ears. The right side. A waterwave follows the head line. The ends are curled up softly. The back view. A mass of ringlets, nicely groomed but not over-exact. Nice for hats. BEAUTY ADVICE C/VLCLT7J HERE comes the fall and winter ! Well, not right this minute, maybe, but pretty soon. Soon enough to begin thinking about what sort of a person you want to be for this new season. Do you want to have a good time this year, or just the same old dreary routine ? I don't care how old or how young you are, whether you're married, single or engaged or whether you have plenty of money or are as poor as Job's pet turkey gobbler — you can take a new lease on beauty with such a very little expense. All beauty writers get especially poetic and flowery in the fall about "repairing the ravages of summer" and all that. You're probably sick of hearing those familiar words, but I'm going to repeat them just the same. You may be all full of health and everything at the end of the summer, but you're not any visions of beauty. Your skins are (1) leathery or (2) freckled or burned or both or (3) pasty and blemished, in the cases of you city girls who have had to work all summer. Here and there are a few of you who have used sunburn creams or oils before baking yourself chocolate brown and you doubtless look very nice indeed. Maybe next year everybody will have sense enough not to place too much faith in the beauty-giving effects of the sun. The thing to do, for any of the skin ills listed above, is to smooth and scrub away gradually the upper layer of your skin. Announce to your families that you'd like to have the bathroom to yourself for half an hour before bedtime each night for the next ten days or so. Then at the appointed hour, arrange on the bathroom shelf the following things : a jar of light, pure cold cream, a box of cleansing tissues, a small cupful of almond meal, and Write to Mary Biddle about your own beauty problems. She'll be delighted to help you in working them out. You may write more than once if you like. Address Mary Biddle, MODERN SCREEN, 100 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. Enclose a threecent stamped, self-addressed envelope,please. a jar of tissue cream. Cover up your hair with a towel and slather the cold cream generously over your face and neck. Pat it in for a minute or two, then remove it with light, quick wipings with tissue. Now wash your face and neck in warm water and mild soap. Repeat both the cream cleansing and the soap and water washing; taking time on the second treatment to pat the cream more thoroughly into your skin before you remove it. Don't hurry — : you're not going any place, anyway, except to bed. TRY to let the skin absorb a good quantity of the cream. Then remove the excess and wash. Now dash down to the kitchen and hang up two old Turkish towels to get hot. Skip back to the bathroom again and give your arms, chest and shoulders the same treatment you've just given your face. Only don't remove the second application of cream. Instead, sprinkle the almond meal on top of the cream. Then go get the towels and wrap 'em round your arms — devote an extra one to the neck, too, if the skin there is scrubby looking. The towels should be quite hot and you should leave them on until they cool. Then wash the almond meal and cream off yourself with warm water and soap. Don't use cold water for a final rinse, or ice, unless you have been in the habit of regularly treating your skin with alternate hot and cold applications. I've just recently discovered that the use of very hot and then very cold water or ice is inclined to bring out every single impurity in the skin. To be sure, this measure — if kept up regularly every day — will eventually clear up the skin in grand style, but it seems to me that there are more practical ways of accomplishing this end. (Continued on page 104) Let's take a new lease on beauty for the new season 6