Radio stars (Oct 1934-Sept 1935)

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Then apply a few simple brush strokes of Maybelline mascara to your lashes, to make them appear naturally long, dark, and luxuriant, and behold howyoureyesexpress a new, more beautiful YOU I Keep your lashes soft and silky by applying the pure Maybelline Eyelash Tonic Creamnightly.and be sure to brush and train your brows with the dainty, specially designed Maybelline Eyebrow Brush. All Maybelline Eye Beauty Aids may be had in introductory sizes at any leading 10c store. To be assured of highest quality and absolute harmlcssness, accept only genuine Maybelline preparations. BLACK OR WHITE BRISTLES BLACK OR BROWN BLUE. BROWN. BLUE-GRAY VIOLET AND GREEN AU Mayhelltne Preparations have this approval 68 J. Walter Thompson An artist in action! The Candid Camera catches Cornelia Otis Skinner in varying moods, as she broadcasts her delightful solo dramas on the Jergens Sunday evening programs. (Story begins on Page 36.) compatible (ZotneLiG {Con I iiiucd from page 37) The Wild Westcotts, and other dramas. I asked her if she would like to appear again in a play, and she confessed that she would, if she could get a good one. For one week this summer she will play Candida, as guest star for a Westchester summer stock company. "A role every actress loves to do," she said. However, she loves doing her monologues, cither on the stage or over the air. It gives her a degree of freedom that is denied by the routine of appearing eight times a week in a dramatic play. It permits of more home life, which, to her as to any normal young woman, is greatly to be desired. As to that home life, one must yield to a decent reserve. Happy home life does not easily sustain ballyhoo. Neither Miss Skinner nor her husband, Alden S. Blodgett, want that. "You can have both home life and a career," Miss Skinner said thoughtfully. "It means giving up certain things — things you don't really want — in order to have things you do want. I've given up a great deal — but nothing that I really wanted." Which suggests a sound sense of values. Their home, in Gracie Square, New York, is filled with rare and historic treasures, for which both Miss Skinner and Mr. Blodgett have an abiding passion. In fact the youngest thing in the house, no doubt, is Otis Alden Blodgett, four and a half years old, and known as "Dicky." Mr. Blodgett takes a proud interest in his wife's career. But beyond that, their mutual tastes send deep roots down into the essentials of life, in living fully, wisely and happily. So, still in her early thirties — she was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May thirtieth, 1901 — Cornelia Otis Skinner already has built for herself a fully rounded life, crowned with increasing fame, and, if not with fortune, at least with a pleasant portion of this world's goods. She had a happy girlhood, at home, at school, at college. She had the thrill of travelling to Europe at twenty -one, alone with a college chum of the same age. She has known success as a writer of verse and of articles on the theatre. She has been successful on the stage. She has seen her monologues grow in popularity, bringing her ever wider and more enthusiastic acclaim. And she has known romance and love, marriage and motherhood. A full life — any one phase of which might seem completeness to a less gifted soul. All of which Cornelia Otis Skinner takes in her stride, with pride and patience and persistence, with the sensitivity of the artist and the strength that life somehow imparts to its rare souls, to sustain them. And with it all, she remains a natural, unspoiled young woman, with a merry humor and a ready laugh. When she was rehearsing her Anne Boleyn script, reading the tragic lines the forlorn queen speaks to Master Kingston, who has come to lead her to the block where the executioner's axe awaits her: "Is my neck bare enough? See! They've only to hold my hair so!" ("It will be a permanent!") Miss Skinner interpolates with soft irony. Then, her voice shrill and shaken with tragedy, she continues in the words of the script: "The hunt is up! Death to the doe! To make sport for the royal whim! Off with my head!" And the listener is wracked with the reality of the scene and the emotion conjured by her art. Beautiful, gracious, charming, gifted — Again pleasant and appropriate adjectives flock to the mind, as I speak my pleasure in her program, and, with a reluctant good night, take my leave. The End