Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1941)

BY MARIAN H. QUINN Close your eyes and pretend you're a Hollywood star. While you're in this nnillion dollar trance, check yes or no on these questions. They're the eye openers that will give you a cinema-queen outlook on yourself Are you apt to be rather uncommunicative before you've had your breakfast? Do you prefer, in general, men to women? Will you do a thing over as many times as necessary to make it perfect? Does a picture that's hung crookedly upset your equilibrium? ★ Do you like to collect items like small china figurines? Can you talk to strangers easily? Do you, as a general rule, act on impulse? When you are depressed, does it pep you up to go out and buy something new? ★ Do you scoff at superstitions? Do you enjoy getting up very early in the morning? Are you interested in astrology? When you get home from a date do you put your corsage in water to preserve it? ★ Would you stop wearing red nail polish if your best beau didn't like it? Do you sometimes like to sit on the floor? Are you interested in cooking, making menus, running a house? Do you get quite upset when someone criticizes you? F you had a majority of "yes's" in the first set of questions your movie-star prototype is Bette Davis because she tallies "yes" on all of them. In other words, if you were a Hollywood queen, you'd be like her — a crisp, practical, hard-working person with a sensitive talent and a flair for smartly conservative clothes. This autumn, you'd probably invest in the new knicker blouse, a one-piece affair with shirtwaist top and knicker bottom that's perfect under your woolen skirts and pinafores. You'd like jerkins instead of sweaters because they're easier to get into; you'd pay your last penny for a coat like the one on page 58. If you nodded your head vigorously to most of the questions in the second set, you'd be the Lana Turner type movie star, a vivacious httle person with a flair for clothes, a love of experiment with all the new fashion foibles. This fall, you'd probably be sporting the new ankle-length fur boots; or maybe you'd wear bright fireman-red galoshes. You wouldn't wear your conservative black crepe for a special date, but you'd go gay in a white wool jersey dress that would startle your man into some extra-special action. A majority of "yes's" on the third set means — get ready for a shock — your personality is Hke that of Hedy Lamarr's. You'd be a colorful movie star and your clothes would usually be in contrast to your very feminine personality. For instance, right now you'd probably be daring enough to wear men's patent-leather pumps, in a boy's size, for your evening tripping of the light fantastic. Or you might look very feminine in a very masculine fleece-lined pilot's coat of whipcord. You'd never be frilly in the evening — you'd prefer, instead, the new tailored dinner dresses with the ultrasmart long sleeves. If you ended up by seeing the fourth set of questions in an affirmative light, your movie double is Joan Fontaine, a childlike, naive person who looks like a little girl and is really an ultrasophisticate. Your clothes would be naive, too — you'd be smart enough to know that dirndls, that new fall fashion revival, were made for your type. You'd pull an Eton cap over your bob to give you a puckish look and you'd have a black velveteen suit, a white blouse with a turned-down childish collar and a red cummerbund, an outfit that would make you the wisest little star in Hollywood. 56 PHOTOPLAY combined with movie mhwos