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more pleasing effect.
The "H.M." went on: " Eyebrows— pluck and lengthen. Nose — too long. Teeth — unsatisfactory. Skin— passable; cut out sweets. Facial contour — too round; curl hair high. Mouthupper lip to be thickened with rouge—"
He wasn't trying to hurt the girl's feelings. lie wasn't even thinking of them. lie was simply pointing out the plain, unvarnished truth and proposing remedies. He told her, also, as though it were nothing at all, that her teeth would have to be siraightened and her nose shortened. He even told her she must bathe oftener.
Up to that point she had been taking it without a whimper.
But this was different. Crimson color Hooded her [ace. Tears brimmed over.
"I bathe every day!" she choked. "How hateful of you — " Curtly, he interrupted her. "Well, bathe twice a day. You are undoubtedly clean enough, but your skin is too oils."
There was more She stood there before those hot, white lights all afternoon while the expert and his assistants unearthed everything about her appearance there was to know, and made their decisions. When it was over, her pictorial personality had been agreed upon: the color of her hair; the type of her make-up.
I don't know whether she went home and cried, or not. I
know I would have — and maybe quit t he picture business, too. She, I hasten to tell you, did not do that Instead, she followed all instructions. She had her nose shortened by a plastic surgeon famous for his beautifying of screen players. She had her teeth straightened. Teeth a re particularly important to a pleasing screen appearance. The slightest irregularity shows up asa glaring defect. Consequently, half the stars in Hollywood have had the ones nature gave them improved upon.
Alice Faye is one of the most notable examples. When she came West for her first picture, with Rudy Vallee, her teeth, though good, were too far apart. In order that work could begin right away, they filled in the crevices with cement, but when it became apparent she was a hit and therefore in pictures to stay, the studio sent her to a dentist. In six months' time she had a beautiful set of teeth.
Clark Gable's teeth, also, have been practically made over. So have Greta Garbo's. Marion Talley has been going to the dentist for months, having gold fillings, even in back teeth, supplanted by porcelain fillings so that in close-ups, when she opens her mouth to sing, not a single blemish will be visible. ) Other singers have done
likewise. Jeanette MacDonald, in fact, is one of the few singing stars whose teeth are all her own — and perfect.
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