Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1941)

mmM / Uie Parkay Margarine as a flavor shortening next time you bake a shortcake! Then you'll understand why all-purpose Parkay is so popular everywhere. It's a delectable spread for bread ... a real flavor shortening . . . and wonderful for pan-frying. And remember, this new margarine created by Kraft is an excellent energy food and a reliable year 'round source of Vitamin A (8,000 U.S. P. XI units per pound). MADE BY THE MAKERS OF MIRACLE WHIP SALAD DRESSING! <| If you possibly can manage it have a radio in your room. It's no more reasonable that you always should want to hear the program someone else in the house has tuned in on than it would be to suppose you'd always want to read the same book or the same newspaper article he or she was reading. <J If your room is small a big mirror on one wall or covering a wall or a good part of it will suggest greater space and help tremendously. If your room is square it doesn't make any difference which wall gets the mirror. If your room is long and narrow the mirror belongs on one of the long walls, of course. You don't have to use regular mirror glass, which is expensive. You can use ' mirror, which is much cheaper. Or you can use fl;ish mirror -window paning painted black on the reverse side — which is cheaper still. Flash mirror doesn't refli ' t clearly but it's very effective. <J If your room is dark use a mirror opposite the window or windows which give the most light. Have your wall .1 light color whether they're painted or papered Keep the woodwork the same color as the walls. And use warm colors in your upholstery materials. •J "That's all very well," you're saying. We you! "Bui the furniture in my room i.s terrible! It just isn't possible to plan any kind of a room around it!" Our decorators the very men who have made you groan with envy over the is they have arranged in the studios disagree violently. They chorus, optimistically You Have To Use It Well, Then— Make the Most of It! <J Furniture i.s dreary usually be< 1 dreary color. With paint sandpaper and good old-fashioned Amei ican industry you can bring your furniture down to the natural wood. If you like its natural color — and remember the vogue for blonde woods today — give it two or three coats of clear shellac, then wax it. If you want the grain of the wood to show and you also want color, buy stain— the color you desire — and mix it with your shellac. Orange shellac comes already made up and will give your furniture a maple finish. Or, having removed the dreary finish of your furniture, paint it some color that serves your color scheme. Incidentally, furniture that is the color of the wall against which it stands is most effective. <] Wooden bedsteads can be transformed into lovely modern pieces — and with practically no effort! Remove the higli headboard and turn the bed around so the footboard becomes a smart low headboard! Make a spread that fits snugly about your bed surface and falls to the floor in soft pleats or folds. Or dispense with the bedstead entirely, have your spring and mattress set on four wooden legs, stand it lengthwise against the wall and treat it as a wide divan <J It may be a monstrous chiffonier that's the despair of your life and a blot on your room. Simply enough you can turn it into I he joy of your life and an atcher. Take off the mirror and the gallery SO the top surface is completely flat The mirror out of its frame can be used over the chiffonier or elsewhere. Put hinges on a drawer that is the proper height for a writing surface And cover that section of the interior of the drawer thai is to become your desk with blotting papei or bai €] if it's a bureau that's worrying you take off the mirror and the gallery and, again, leave the top surface completely il. 1! Replace the drawer handles with new handles thai are more to your liking . or, if they're the old-fashioned handles that are carved like fruit or flowers, remove their dreary finish and paint them the soft colors their design suggests. <J If there are straight-backed chairs in your room they'll be infinitely improved by gay cushions tied to their seats. You can make these cushions or buy them very inexpensively, sometimes in the dime stores. <J If you have one upholstered chair — irrespective of what it looks like — you're lucky. A slip cover chosen with consideration for your color scheme will make that chair a thing of beauty. Q You know how important eyes are in a face. Well, windows are equally important in a room. So give thought and care to: Your Windows <J Keep your windows simple. It's enough to have side curtains, especially when you use Venetian blinds. Or to have ruffled organdy, muslin or dotted Swiss or any other window curtain. You can use all three, if you're determined to be Mrs. Rich Ritz, but don't go looping and draping them too ornately. C[ Side curtains never should be skimpy! Even though your curtains don't pull across the windows when the lamps are lit — and curtains that do this make a room intimate and warm and cozy — they should hang in full, soft folds. <] When you shop for curtain material don't limit yourself to the upholstery departments. Plaids, gay seersucker stripes, ginghams and all kinds of dress cottons make effective curtains and cost next to nothing. Mother's Day attraction: Charming Mrs. Johnnie Payne (Anne Shirley) celebrates second anniversary as a proud mama and manages a career between lullabies, her latest being Paramount's "West Point Widow" 92 combined with movii nanoi