Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1922)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section winkle, jade green, French blue, mauve and silver. As you are slim and tall you may affect frills and ruffles. But I feel that I would like you best in simple things. Ruth S., Ironton, Ohio. You doubtless have oil glands at the roots of your hair that insist on being too efficient. What you need is a good tonic to correct this fault — for oily hair is neither pretty nor beneficial to the scalp. Nearly all of the best hairdressers make a tonic especially for oily hair. Shampoo thoroughly at least once in two weeks — oftener if necessary. M. E. R., Boston, Mass. An unhappy skin is a great trial, and yet there are many people who do have skin trouble. Often much unnecessary trouble, too ! I think that your sort of a skin — with slight blemishes and lack of color — could be made much prettier by the simple and effective "hot and cold" treatment. Just wash the face with warm water and a good skin soap, rinsing off the lather with very hot water and following the rinse with a dash of cold water and — if convenient — an ice rub. Do this every night, just before retiring. Also be careful of your general health. Irregular habits often play havoc with the skin. L. T. W., Seattle, Wash. It is seldom wise, or fair, to accept the attentions of a married man. Particularly when that man is the father of four children. It may be true that you have had no part in the breaking up of his home — that, as he says, he and his wife were not "getting along" before you came upon the scene. But, until you have heard the wife's side of the story, it is not right to judge. Always remember this — Lasting happiness can never be built upon another woman's sorrow. From what you have told me of the story, nothing but ugliness is likely to come of your love affair. The man has said that divorce is out of the question— that, even if you are only looking at the matter in a selfish way, should be your final answer. And there is a way out ! You have told me, yourself, that you have no family ties to hold you in Seattle, and that an uncle has offered you a home in another city. Why not accept his offer and, among new friends and new opportunities, rebuild the broken places in your structure of life? G. M. D., Fenton, Mich. If all the other girls are planning to wear organdie at the school reception, I think that it would be just a bit nicer of you to do the same. If you want to be very different, however, why not wear georgette crepe? It can be so much frillier — so much more partyfied — than the canton that you suggest. With yellow brown hair and grey eyes you will be attractive in nearly all of the pastel shades. Why not choose periwinkle or nile green (the two smartest colors of the season) or orchid! Mrs. F. L. J. You ask me if it's proper for a married lady to accept an offer to go into the motion pictures. But of course it is. Many married ladies are in the pictures — and with perfect propriety ! Accept the offer by all means if you have talent, if it comes from a reliable source, and if your husband does not object. To leap, now, from one extreme to the other ! Stillman's Freckle Cream is the best freckle remover that I can recommend. And one of the new complexion clays will rid your skin of surface blemishes. Use a good reliable shampoo (you will find several mentioned in our advertising section) whenever your hair seems to need washing, and apply warm oil, every once in so often, to the scalp. This will stimulate the growth of the hair. Louise K., Battle Creek, Mich. You say that you are to be a bride in August, and that you are going to have a church wedding with five bridesmaids and one maid of honor. And then you add that you can only afford twenty-five dollars for a wedding gown — and that the bridesmaids and maid of honor only want to spend twenty dollars a-piece on their outfits. And you ask me what to do ! I will tell you frankly that it is hard to get together a wedding outfit for twentyfive dollars. And that it will be hard, also, for your attendants to look their best with only an output of twenty dollars each. But I will make a suggestion that may help you. You say that . you can all sew. Very well ! Then you can make your own frocks. And the material can be — here is your salvation— organdie ! An organdie wedding ! What would be prettier and more quaint in August? You, in fine white organdie and a long tulle veil (a piece of tulle, two yards square and unhemmed, will do), and your bridesmaids in the various pastel shades. The dresses, if you make them yourselves, should cost well under ten dollars each — including trimmings. Slippers and stockings for all of you will be an item — the largest item of all. But ten dollars each should easily cover that expense. K. D. S., Denver, Ohio. I feel the way James Whitcomb Riley must have felt when he wrote his so famous poem — "Don't Cry, Little Girl, Don't Cry. They Have Broken Your Heart, I Know." For you sound so childish and so in need of comfort ! It is hard, very hard, to discover that the man you have loved so long is untrue to you. That he has been secretly calling upon another young woman, and that he has finally discovered that she is the one he really wants to marry. I know how bitter the hour is for you, how the earth seems to have fallen away and left you standing — friendless and alone, on the brink of an abyss. Then, too, there is the blow to your pride — perhaps the hardest of all the hard things that you have been called upon to bear. You ask me how to bring back his love. How to make him care again, as he used to care'. I am going to be frank in my answer — even though being frank may hurt very bitterly. I am going to tell you that it would be foolish to strive against circumstance. That it would be utterly worthless to bring him back against his will ! There is nothing more dead than a love that is over. It is so cold and grey as the ashes of yesterday's fire, lying on the dismal hearth. Nothing can rouse the flame again, once it is burnt out. If the man is sure that he loves the other woman — that there is no spark of the old affection left — I should do nothing to hold him. Let him go — in a gallant way ! And be glad that the realization came now, not after marriage. For the hurt then would have been deeper and more poignant. Can YOU Write a Scenario? Just a few years ago an author was glad to get $15 for a motion picture scenario. Today the average price paid for a plot synopsis is $1500. Producers are begging for stories. Leaders in the film industry are encouraging new screen writers. The handful of photodramatists writing today cannot fill the demand. Without stories, the photoplay industry cannot exist. The producers cannot get enough good scenarios. Not Skilled Writers— Just Ordinary Men and Women The successful novelist or short story writer has definitely failed in the motion picture field. Newly trained photodramatists have written and conceived the plots that have been developed into the most successful feature photoplays. For the most part the men and women who. are supplying the stories were, just a few years ago, farmers, teachers, clerks, housewives, office employees. You do not need literary ability. The producers do not want fine writing. They want plots — strong, dramatic plots, written in simple synopsis form. But this does not mean that anyone can sit down and dash off a scenario. 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