Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1941)

•J If your curtains are chintz or any patterned fabric line them with one of the predominating colors. If your curtains are a plain color line them with chintz. <J Unless there's no limit to your budget select chintz, linen or one of the modern cotton fabrics in preference to silk or satin or damask. Fabrics with a showy finish cheapen a room unless they cost a great deal of money. <5 And they're pretty silly in any room that doesn't live up to them in every detail. <I Doors, like windows, are practical things which can be made decorative, too. So give thought and care to: Your Doors •J If there are many doors in your room — too many doors, really — paint them the color of your walls. So they more or less disappear into the walls. This means the rest of your woodwork must be the color cf-viur walls, too, of course! <J If there are only one or two doors in your room you'll create an effect by using plain curtains and painting the doors to match them. <I Decorate your doors. Stencils of scrolls and similar designs can be bought for a few cents in art shops. And the decoration they afford is worth a million. •J Now we come to three important things to remember: Your Floors •I If you live in a modern house or apartment you have hardwood floors. All they need is a stain to bring them down to a rich, warm color and waxing upon occasion. But if you live in an old house or apartment and your floors have to be painted, remember this — they don't have to be painted dark brown! They can be black with the high polish of marble. In a bedroom that's pale and pastellish or gay and chintzy they can be white. Or they can be lemon-yellow or gray-green or the warm color of red tiles. It will be wise, however, to decide upon the color scheme and the general feeling your room is to have before you do anything about your floors. <I Unless your room is particularly large the wall space between your rug and walls should not be more than a foot and a half. If your rug leaves more space than this — cheat! — sew fringe on it! •J If you use small rugs don't catty-corner them. <I The Hollywood decorators are very firm about the importance of lamps, pictures, pillows and the like. They insist accessories are just as important to the chic of a room as they are to the chic of a costume. Which brings us to: They're Only Little Things — But . . . •I Be hard-boiled about bridge prizes and Christmas and birthday presents that don't complement your decorative scheme. Give them away or throw them away — but don't use them! •I Fancy pillows became passe along with fussy telephone dolls. <5 If your room doesn't have a fireplace — and most bedrooms don't — see if the family won't chip in and buy you an artificial fireplace for your birthday or Christmas, or both. And make any sacrifice that is necessary to reserve wall space for this fireplace. Ask the head man in your house if a gas feed pipe can't be run to your fireplace — -so you can have honest-to-goodness flames licking around your artificial cannel coal and feel exactly like a heroine in an English novel. Otherwise, attach an electric fixture to your grate or your make-believe logs. An artificial fireplace is the next JUNE, 1941 NEVER A DULL PRISCILLA LANE, star of the Warner Bros, picture "MISS WHEELWRIGHT DISCOVERS AMERICA" says a Hollywood smile has to have glint and sparkle always! Impossible? "Easy!" says Priscilla . . . "if you use good sense and a good dentifrice." Like Calox Tooth Powder ! PRISCILLA, AGE ONE got off to a fine start for sound, lovely teeth ! A careful diet. Lots of sun. Plenty of visits to her dentist. Then she grew up and became interested in beauty. "I'VE FOUND you can't beat the advice of Perc Westmore, make-up expert at Warner's." And that is Calox Tooth Powder, choice of so many well-informed stars for daily cleansing and polishing. If you like a brilliant sheen, try Calox! r Helps your teeth shine like the stars' BY BRINGING OUT NATURAL LUSTRE AILOX ~K 1. CALOX CONTAINS 5 CLEANSING AND POLISHING AGENTS. Calox b a real beauty tooth powder. .. it promotes a brilliant gloss! 2. EXTRA SOFT AND SMOOTH because it's double-sifted through 100 mesh silk screens. 3. FRESH-TASTING — no strong medical taste. Your whole family will like its clean, tangy flavor. Children love it. McKtsson I Dobbins, lac, Brldetpon. Clin. 93