Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1926-Jan 1927)

She doesn't know how you do it! You feel a little embarrassed and sorry for her. She looks so admiring and helpless, so envious, and so — so — ineffective! Her clothes are always so bad, poor little thing. And she pays too much for them. Her home is furnished with all the wrong things. She seems to have a genius for wasting money. When she goes out to buy anything, soap or silverware, or lingerie or lamps, she's sure to turn up with something nobody ever heard of before and doesn't want to hear of again. She is that eager, but not very bright, little woman who, "my dear, doesn't ever read advertisements." Who doesn't know what to buy, or where to find it, or what to pay for it. Who doesn't know values and cant compare them. Who doesn't know that when a new style, or a new convenience, or a new anything arrives, one sees it first in the advertisements. One really gets a little vexed with her — Hut let's not waste too much time on her. It's about time for you, dear lady, to have your look thru the advertisements. % Tell your friends not to overlook the advertisements Advertising Section taupe, wel sand, tan or soft green, make the most satisfactory Hour coverings, for by keeping them neutral you can put all sorts of colors with them to achieve harmonious results. If your floors and walls are neutral, you may introduce more brilliancy in the furnishings than would be possible otherwise. You might keep your davenport — or your largest piece of furniture — fairly neutral, too, but these need not be so colorless nor so dull as your floor covering. Tan, soft green, a dulled orange and a pleasant shade of blue are all good for davenports, as are blocked-printed linen in tans, oranges and greens in any harmonious colorings. One of your chairs might be covered in the brilliant color that you are using as your complementary color. This could be a solid color or could be a stripe containing also the other colors that you are using in your scheme. Be sure that your sofa cushions are brilliant. Pillows of plain colors in satin or taffeta are far smarter than cushions made of figured or changeable or flowered material. They should be quite plain and the less ornaments they have on them the better. Plain boxings and perhaps a contrasting piping are all the ornaments that your pillows will need. The old-fashioned puffed and ruffled cushion, which was neither comfortable nor good-looking, is not being used in the smarter modern homes. Have enough pillows so that your guests may be quite comfortable and even extra ones can be in readiness for an overflow of guests where some may have to sit on the floor. It is quite smart these days to have pillows in pairs and by choosing three colors from your color schemes you may achieve six cushions that will blend together and will give the keynote to the color scheme in your home. Painted furniture is one of the best ways to introduce color. Some painted furniture should be used in every home. It is inexpensive and attractive and often gives the home just the needed touch of brilliancy. A breakfast set done in green and blue, a gate-leg table in blue, mustard or lacquer red, a nest of tables, a secretary, as well as small occasional table, all these when lacquered in brilliant colors — ■ when the right colors are used — help the home remarkably. For the main bedroom in your home you might prefer mahogany to enamel and if this is so, you may bring color in the room by draperies, bed-covering and rug. For the other bedrooms, I can think of nothing nicer than enamel. Blue-green enamel with an orange stripe is charming. So is soft blue enamel striped in black. A puttycolored bedroom with green curtains with a simple design in green on the furniture is delightful both in summer and in winter. By using your color scheme you can plan a dozen painted bedrooms. Some decorators get their color scheme from a bit of chintz combining the colors in the room as they find them in the material that they admire. This is a very good way to get a color scheme, for there is little chance to make an error. However, you must remember to keep your large areas dull and neutral and your small areas brilliant. Other color schemes may be obtained from flowers, butterflies or autumn leaves — and I know one decorator who achieved a charming living-room by following the colorings on a caterpillar. It was pale cream, green and black and had spots of brilliant red — a lovely combination for either a caterpillar or a room. So, now you know about color and I am sure you will no longer be afraid of it. Cretonnes are most inexpensive and you can find most charming ones these days with lovely fresh warm colors in them. Printed linens, glazed chintz, soft silks, all these come in the most charming colors imaginable. Even the heavier stuffs — brocades, taffetas, velours, come in good colorings after you know what to choose. These, together with any painted furniture, will enable you to introduce color most effectively. One thing more — an important one thing — and that is flowers. The home with a low bowl of blossoms or a graceful vase full of flowers is always homelike and attractive. You needn't spend a great amount of money for flowers. Carefully nurtured buds that you buy at a florist shop are not a bit more charming than the flowers you can find by taking a halfhour's stroll thru the woods. If you have your own garden to choose from, you are indeed enviable. In winter when it is difficult to get fresh flowers, you may get sprays of leaves and berries and even fantastically shaped branches. These simple decorations are far more effective and far more beautiful than more expensive ornaments. We are living in* a colorful age. The year 1926 is alive, vital, amusing and interesting. We can reflect this activity in a very fine way by introducing color into our homes. By bringing in color we bring in life and cheerfulness and the joy of living and we express a hospitality that we can express by no other method. The home that is colorful and charming is the home where you will find happiness. ttyand mi Crazy Quilt (Continued from payc 111) as the kindred notoriety had squandered them. "Attention everybody," McAllister called and Judith had to go back to the set. "I'll tell you what. Have luncheon with me. I'll be back here when the company quits. All rij>ht?" Judith said that it was. She walked on the set with a feeling of interest and adventure. This was luck. She thoughl how valuable any contact inside a studio would be. She knew how everyone on the A favor with the members of the publicity and advertising departments, Bui she found herself less interested in what Harvey Dunn could do for her than in Harvey Dunn himself. lie was a person she could talk to. She felt that she had known him for a long time. He made her think of interesting things to say. It was not often that anyone interested Judith so much. And he liked her too. That was quite evident. In the next scene she had nothing to do. She sat at a card table and acted gay. It was not difficult. She felt gay . . . and young . . . and optimistic. The company stopped for luncheon at twelve-thirty. Harvey Dunn was waiting when Judith came off the set and they went down to the cafeteria together. Today, however, Judith did not cat at the bar. Dunn led her to a table over in a corner and a waitress took their order. This in itself was a boon. Judith ordered a vegetable luncheon and decided that it had enough nutriment to save her the cost of a dinner that night. She liked Mr. Dunn more than ever. fMl8 A<3£ Every adrertiiement in MOTION PIOTUBB MAGAZINK is guaranteed.