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You Satisfied
■ If you aren't, says lovely Claudette Colbert, it's only because you've been neglecting to take proper care of your face, your figure and your clothes. Read this inspiring message if you want to find fascination
THERE is a large dose of somebody else's trouble in every morning's mail if you're an important star. The morning I saw Claudette Colbert (as important a star as ever made a picture for Paramount or broadcast on the air) she had just swallowed her morning coffee — black for slimness — and opened the last of several letters.
One was an appeal from a young mother of three, widowed, jobless, with an important operation to pay for; another was a request for $2,000 by return mail; a third was the threat of suicide from a young man; and the last, a letter from a young woman which got her — absent though she was — the talking-to of her life.
For the sake of her future, it is a pity she wasn't there to hear it. When Claudette had finished, I suddenly realized how lucky I was to have been there to hear what she said. Because, though it was aimed at another person, I decided that there isn't a woman I know who can't benefit by the lesson in loveliness Claudette Colbert taught that morning.
By PAULINE SWANSON
"Just look at this!" Claudette said, tossing the letter into my lap.
The young woman had taken inventory of Miss Colbert's many blessings. "Why shouldn't you be happy," she wrote, "with a good job in the movies, a handsome husband, a beautiful home, and all those expensive clothes you wear?
"My figure would probably look all right, too," she added, "if I had clothes like that.
"And my hair might look pretty, if I could afford to go to those expensive hairdressers in Hollywood."
"That young woman is so wrong," Claudette Colbert said. "She apparently is starved for some sort of success — one little triumph would cure all her dissatisfaction with
life, and those unripe economic ideas along with it. But she can't win that way — she can't complain herself into a good job, or an interesting date, for that matter.
"If she's not happy with herself the way she is, why in the name of heaven doesn't she do something about it?"
"What could she do about that?" I asked.
"Plenty," said Claudette. "No girl has to be an ugly duckling. I am convinced that any girl — if she wants it enough — can have a good figure. Any girl can have an attractive face. She can wear becom
This series of four pictures might be called "Evolution of a Beauty." By any title, they are dramatic proof of Claudette's contention that anyone, by analyzing her assets and her liabilities, can gain the loveliness she desires. Left, 1929; above, 1931; right, 1932, and opposite page, today.
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