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CONFESSIONS
OF A HOLLYWOOD HAIRDRESSER
So long as women are women, into
the ears of their beauty operators will go their most intimate secrets. These
are the revelations of one Hollywood
beautician who listened — and told
tion of their husbands, children and friends; but Hollywood women depend upon beauty for their salary checks. It is a necessity, not a luxury, and they conscientiously endure beautifying just as a businessman has his books audited— only a lot more often.
They are utterly impersonal about it. Not one of them I have ever known is vain. Beauty is a business asset, money in the bank, and they make untold sacrifices to develop and retain it. Eternal vigilance and no square meals are the watchwords, especially after thirty. And, excepting Shirley Temple and Deanna Durbin,
practically every actress with a box-office (the ones who know how to act and whom you enjoy going to see) is thirty or more: Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, Grc^a Garbo, Irene Dunne, Norma Shearer, Jeanette MacDonald, Carole Lombard, Sylvia Sidney, Miriam Hopkins, Gale Sondergaard and Joan Crawford, to name some. Hollywood is a woman's town. In a way, it is patterned after that South African colony where the women keep their husbands for pets. A number of impecunious men have wealthy star wives, and it has often occurred to me that a man who lives on his wife's income can be the
One of my customers fell in love . a terrible mistake advising her
. maybe I the way
made I did
WOMEN confide in hairdressers. It is true all over the world and more so in Hollywood. Everything is more so in Hollywood. They tell you things they wouldn't toll their doctor.
By "all over the world" I mean so far as I have been able to observe during twenty -five years as hairdresser and manicurist in shops and hotels in New York, Paris, Berlin, Cairo, Shanghai, Rio, London — and Hollywood; as well as on two ocean liners, and in private service to an opera tenor's wife and to several motion-picture stars.
My eighteen years in Hollywood have been as illuminating, instructive and entertaining as anybody's eighteen years. I wouldn't have missed a minute of it, not even the intermission.
Beauty is a paying business here. All women are repaid for being beautiful — by the admira
ILLUSTRATED BY C. D. MITCHELL
All women are repaid for being b e a u t i f u but in Hollywood the reward is a bit different
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