Radio mirror (Nov 1937-Apr 1938)

RADIO MIRROR a purely physical way. They help you to breathe properly and to take a little more time in choosing the exact word for your meaning. Hands are of no use to you in this connection if you use the arm from the elbow. The first thing a young actress learns is the cardinal rule: Unpin your arms from the elbows! As in playing golf, the full movement must be from the shoulder." I WISH that I could give you Peggy's ■ gestures as she talked, for she's the perfect example of the principle she teaches. Throughout our conversation, she was rehearsing for the starring role in a stage play, catching her cues off stage and making quick entrances through doors and down stairways which were as yet only intriguing chalk lines on the bare boards of the theater. Letter-perfect in her role, she'd make her exit and pick up the same idea she had to leave hanging in midair, and during all this rush and excitement, every thought — on or off stage — was clearly and persuasively expressed in both voice and action. But let her tell you herself some fascinating tricks for using your hands. "You see," she emphasized, "an actress must learn at the very start to do this unobtrusively. Eventually, she should be able to perform a whole play with her hands, so that even the very deaf can understand. And there is nothing about which young people — including actresses — are so self-conscious! This is particularly true of youngsters in their teens, for arms and legs seem to grow much faster than the rest of the body. Her hands then loom on the owner's consciousness like Beauty Tricks in Your Hand (Continued from page 52) huge hams which she's anxious to conceal, so she does the worst thing possible — tries to hide them! "If you find that carrying a handkerchief seems to help, try carrying an imaginary handkerchief — gracefully. Even better is the trick taught me by a stage veteran in my early days in the theater. The really graceful fundamental position for your hands is to have the middle and fourth fingers always together. This actor told me that he was trained for this by carrying a match between the knuckles of these fingers close to the palm, practicing all the gestures — appeal, welcome, terror, and so forth, as taught in the Delsarte method — until he could do them naturally without dropping the match. This could well be adapted to everyday life, for nothing makes the hand look more compact and slender, at one and the same time. EVERY girl wants white hands and "there's a little trick for this, too. With elbows raised to shoulder height and hands extended above the head, twist your hands rapidly from the wrist — like a shimmy. The whole feeling should be one of relaxation, though done vigorously. This gets the congested blood out of the hands and makes them as white as possible. Try it some time when your hands are tired, or swollen with heat! "Bright polish makes the hands look whiter, too, and there are so many shades available today that there is one for every taste and costume. Of course, these should be chosen with discretion. I can still see the hands of a girl I passed in the station this morning. She was wearing a slate blue nail polish. It's possible that this was very effective with a striking gown the night before, but in the cold light of day it looked as though her hands had mortified. THIS is also true of unusually long nails, ■ ' which simply are not practical — and look it. If you want your fingers to look longer, there are so many ways of achieving that effect with your manicure. "Naturally, I'm assuming that every girl is taking good care of the materials with which she works — conscientiously grooming the hands themselves, as well as learning to handle them gracefully. Such little things as using a hand lotion after every washing and frequently massaging your hands with cream, rubbing them vigorously for several minutes with a washing motion, are essential to beauty. The nails should be buffed regularly, too, so that they have a high polish even before the enamel is put on. This is most important to the circulation, for the health of the nails. And — one more tip — if your nails are splitting and getting brittle, try drinking more tomato juice and milk!" Did you get my perfect manicure regimen in a previous issue? It's something you should have as the very beginning of hand beauty. 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