Radio mirror (May-Oct 1938)

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RADIO MIRROR &*£ • T •/ > J IVEW TWIST Here's an innovation to change your whole outlook on that matter of "tweezing." An eyebrow tweezer with scissor-handles! Ingeniously curved to let you see what you're doing! Twissors, made by Kurlash, costs only 25 cents. ... So why use the oldfashioned kind! Learn what shades of eye makeup are becoming to you — how to apply them skilfully! Send your name, address and coloring to Jane Heath, Dept. F-7; receive — free — a personal color-chart and full instructions in eye make-up! THE KURLASH COMPANY, Inc. Rochester, New York Canada: Toronto, 3 COPYRIGHT 1938. THE KURLASH CO.. INC. This Beautiful, Lifelike U!h..'l:IMH NEWEST SENSA SEND TION! Send any NO MONEY snapshot or photo and we'll repro lt in thl: 50c Indestructible! J^V^!,1^ t v^and 'Hand-painted Waterproof! g^fty. 25c extra) Enclose strip of paper for ring size. Pay postman plus a few cents postage. If vou send 50c we will pay postage. PHOTO movette ring CO.. Dept. M-20. 626 Vine St., Cincinnati. Ohio To Shampoo Blonde Hair to Keep It Golden and Lustrous !?J[ V"1 '' ' "' ' ■ To keep j iut hair " ' "llurlng, • \-,„. Blonde* the ioo md Special a , , b olutelj afe i ...i ,. u rtth .eparaU 74 wood children are now protected by contracts and impersonal guardians who determine what should be done with their money. Shirley Temple's father handles her investments — he happens to be a branch bank manager — but her contract contains clauses specifying where, when and how much of her money should be invested. Shirley's earnings pay most of the household expenses in Santa Monica, but her father contributes a sizeable share and her fortune is protected. So are those of Deanna Durbin, Jane Withers, Mickey Rooney, Jackie Cooper, and Freddie Bartholomew, now. Jackie Cooper's checks are deposited to a Jackie Cooper estate account in a bank which is his financial guardian, but the protection of these children rests on the good sense of Hollywood producers and not in the law. THE Freddie Bartholomew case is another example of the story we are discussing. Freddie's father is a retired British soldier and he packed Freddie off at the age of three to be brought up by his grandparents and by his own sister, "Aunt Cissie." Aunt Cissie put Freddie on the London stage and then four years ago brought him to Hollywood where he became famous overnight as David Copperfield. Now Aunt Cissie tried to make herself the legal guardian of Freddie, whose parents objected and charged that Freddie had been moved to the United States by trickery and deceit. A California court heard the petition and decided in favor of the aunt, Miss Bartholomew. Mrs. Bartholomew arrived in America, appealed against the decision, lost it but got ten per cent of Freddie's weekly earnings with five per cent for his little sisters, which probably was fair enough, and at the same time an arrangement was made whereby the rest of the earnings went to Freddie's estate with provisions for Aunt Cissie, who is now his legal guardian. But meanwhile this little boy had to go into court and testify against his own parents, which is not the most favorable experience possible in the life of a child. And it could all have been prevented if there were some sort of law governing this kind of case from the beginning. The case of the Dionne quintuplets is thought by some American legal opinion to represent an illegal situation, although there is not a question that the children's interests are enormously better protected than they would be by their parents. These children are protected by a special act of the legislature of Ontario which makes them wards of the Crown and establishes a trust fund for them. They earn a great deal of money simply by their existence, by the sale of their photographs, by the use of their names and pictures in advertising. And the guardianship of the state has prevented their loving father from exhibiting them at the World's Fair, as freaks, probably between a sword swallower and a bearded lady — as left to his own devices he was prepared to do. The needs of children are simple. They need the right food, shelter, clothing, sunshine, and they need love. Luxury is enormously enjoyed by some adults, but it brings very little happiness to a child. The life of a wonder child, especially in the musical world, is often agonizing. If you don't believe it read the life of Mozart. The child musician has to spend hours a day at the most rigorous practicing, when other children are playing ball. This is all right. It's the business of human beings to have their gifts developed to their greatest capacity, and developed at the time those gifts are ripe for development, whether it's at the age of four or much later. But then it seems to me the earnings from those gifts ought to be protected for the child himself. And I say: "There ought to be a law!" There's lots of fun on the Chesterfield rehearsals these days. Probably Grace Moore is trying to keep from laughing at one of Deems Taylor's puns or maybe one of Andre Kostelanetz's antics.