White Banners (Warner Bros.) (1938)

ee ee PUBLICITY (Beauty) Make-up Man Cives Some Tips to Teens “At what age should girls start using make-up?” is a question frequently put to Pere Westmore, the famous make-up expert at Warner Bros. In his answer he uses Bonita Granville as an example. The blonde Bonita is a sophomore in the school house on the studio lot and gets her first screen boy friend in her current picture, “White Banners,”: the Warner Bros.-Cosmopolitan picturization of the Lloyd C. Douglas novel of the same name, which is being shown currently at the Strand Theatre. “Bonita,” says Westmore, “uses no rouge when not made up for the cameras. -However, she does dust her face lightly with powder, and in the evening she splurges a bit with a lipstick. Outside of that, she remains as natural as can be. She doesn’t pluck a single eyebrow, but brushes them to make them look trim. “Naturally, every girl in the world loves perfume, but young ones, like Bonita, should never swerve from the sweet floral fragrances. “Fifteen is not too young to have lovely hands, and little Miss Granville keeps hers manicured to a nicety. Each morning she massages her hands with rose-water and glycerin.” Mr. Westmore agrees that natural beauty is the true beauty, but believes that as one emerges from the teens it becomes necessary to accent nature’s gifts. So his word to young ladies is to become cosmetic-conscious by degrees. Fay Bainter says she isn’t superstitious, but she does have a good luck charm. It’s an ossified tarantula spider which she bought in Mexico several years ago on one of her periodic visits to the southern republic. Miss Bainter, who is featured in the Warner Bros.-Cosmopolitan picturization of the Lloyd C. Douglas novel, “White Banners,”? which is now showing at the Strand Theatre, points out that shortly after she bought “Ossie” she got her first picture job. That was in “Quality Street.” Soon after she finished that picture she misplaced “Ossie” and for a time it appeared that luck had deserted her. Then she found “Ossie” and her luck immediately changed. She came to Hollywood again, this time for “The Soldier and the Lady” and “Make Way for Tomorrow.” “Jezebel,” with Bette Davis, followed and Miss Bainter’s performance in that production was so outstanding that she was signed to a long-term contract with Warner Bros. studios. “White Banners,” in which she plays opposite Claude Rains, is her first picture under her new contract. Miss Bainter, who has been married—to the same man—for over seventeen years, became an Mat 203—30c Bonitas Marshmallow Fudge The script of “White Banners” called for a scene in which Bonita Granville makes a pan of fudge for Jackie Cooper. prop man was ready and willing to supply the confection but Bonita insisted that her fudge was better than any he could buy, and made it herself. Here’s her own favorite recipe: 2 squares chocolate 2 cups sugar 2, cup milk 1 cup diced marshmallows 1 tsp. Vanilla extract 2 tbls. butter Heat sugar, milk and chocolate in double boiler, stirring constantly, until if passes the soff-ball test. Remove from fire, add butter and vanilla, beat until creamy. Add marshmallows and pour into buttered tin to cool. actress immediately after she was graduated from high school in Los Angeles, her birthplace. Most of her subsequent dra Makes about a pound. Meet Fay Bainter—The Lady Who Won't Be Glamorous matic career was spent on the New York stage. Her husband is’ Reginald Gardner Hugh Venable, retired “SRB SRO SRR RARE OP Mat 206—30c (Left) Fay Bainter, as she appears in "White Banners," at the Strand. (Right) Miss Bainter off the screen is much younger—and much lovelier. [9] The (Fashion) Jumper Frocks, Sweaters, for Chic Sub Debs Once upon a time there was a little girl just turned fifteen who was too grown up to dress like a child and too young to dress like a grown-up. So she was very unhappy. But that was long ago. Today, Miss Teen-Age has found her place in the sun and is creating fashions that her older sister can’t wait to copy. Hollywood helped her out by making a star of Bonita Granville, who has a leading role in “White Banners.” Both on and off the screen Bonita wears the kind of clothes that any subdeb can copy with huzzahs of delight. Sweaters and skirts, of course — lots of them — but they’re sweaters and skirts with a difference. Tricky accessories lift them out of the strictly-forschool class. <A _ pigskin belt with a square gold buckle made of Bonita’s monogram, a colorful kerchief and sash set of silk imprinted with Paris street scenes and French expressions of the “Bon Jour” calibre (with which to disarm difficult French teachers), a Tyrolean belt of embroidered felt, are just a few of the novel gadgets that make her sports outfits outstanding. Bonita’s recently been promoted to her first ankle-length evening dress — an event of major importance in any young lady’s life. She chose hers in palest pink chiffon, made dirndl style, with a low, round corded neckline, from which the bloused bodice falls in soft folds. A wide crushed girdle of pale blue taffeta defines the waist and is matched by a brief bolero. Lieutenant-Commander of the U. S. Navy. They have a fourteen-year-old son. Although Miss Bainter is, in reality, one of the most charming-looking women on_ the screen, and decidedly youthful, she prefers character roles, for which she adds ten to twenty years to her face by artful make-up. She prefers to look old on the screen. Off the screen, however, her face and figure are so youthful that it is hard to believe she is the same woman. Her formula for keeping youthful is simply this: Two body massages a week, one facial, supplemented by nightly applications of skin tonic. She uses very little make-up, and her coiffure, as shown in the picture above, is simple but very becoming. Her favorite food is Irish stew and—she’s sincere about this — her favorite outdoor games are marbles and croquet. She collects music boxes and now owns ninety-six of them. She never rises later than seven a.m., whether she’s working or not. She says she gets a headache if she stays in bed later than that. Five feet five in height, Miss Bainter weighs 112 pounds. She has brown eyes and brown hair.