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THE MYSTERY WOMAN
Six months in Hollywood and nobody knows her! Goldwyn has kept Sigrid Gurie in seclusion until her debut in "The Adventures of Marco Polo"
Lionel Stander gave it scorchingly savage ironic laughter. Janet Gaynor and Freddie March contributed two of the most amazingly brilliant performances the screen has ever seen.
From beginning to end it was directed with swift kaleidoscopic effectiveness in an intelligent adult manner. "A Star is Born" gave the public a human, understanding portrait of Hollywood, but above all, it offered entertainment of the best and highest type.
Floyd Miller, Harmarsville, Pa.
THIRD PRIZE $5.00 GLAMOUR DRIPPERS
The starlets of Hollywood today are much better looking than those of, say, ten years ago. They are de-lovely, beautiful and charming; they drip glamour. Only — are my eyes deceiving me? These actresses are beginning to look as though they were all cut out with the same cooky cutter.
It's the fashion, now, for Miss Goldy Star to have a "big, generous mouth" painted over her own originally good-looking mouth. It's the fad for the actresses to look languid and ethereal and just a bit bored and to wear a flower topknot. For example:
Ginger Rogers: She's beautiful. Granted. But I often wonder if she didn't have just a bit more individuality a few years back when she had her own cute figure and baby-doll face.
Simone Simon: Personally, I don't consider her beautiful, but she possesses a piquant quality you'd go a long ways to duplicate. That is, she did possess it. The movies, not satisfied with her own unique charm, gave her a Joan Crawford mouth and a hairdress a la Cinematown!
And now — I can't bear it any longer — look what they're
doing to Sonja Henie! Winsome and cuddlesome, they're streamlining her to a fare-u-well and up pops that "big, generous" mouth, again. Heaven forbid!
It's pleasant to see so much feminine pulchritude on the silver screen, but aside from a few character actresses and Luise Rainer (and who knows when she will succumb) they all look like a flock of pretty little carbon copies. S.O.S.!
Rita Phillips Robb, Rapid City, S. Dakota
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PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
"Learn by experience" croaks the homespun philosopher, and what a pleasure it is to me to observe that many intelligent wide-awake movie stars have done just that.
Alice Faye has had the good taste to soften her hair from a garish platinum shade to a more becoming and softer golden brown.
Carole Lombard has forgotten to pose continually for the audience's benefit. She has laid aside those mannerisms such as shrugging her shoulders and lifting her lovely eyebrows in Garboesque fashion. The result is a better actress and a more natural unstudied beauty.
Joan Crawford has dis
carded her extreme mouth make-up and her supersuper, but oh so impractical hair-dos.
Janet Gaynor has the good sense to realize that [please turn to page 106|
A fairy godmother was looking after Lana Turner when Mervyn LeRoy found her jerking sodas in a store and cast her in "They Won't Forget"
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