Radio and television mirror (Jan-June 1941)

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-Are Vou Satisfied Read this inspiring message if you want to find fascnat.on clothes. 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 idette Colbert (as important a star as ever made a picture for mount or broadcast on the air) Mowed her mornMack for slininess— and opened the last of several letters. One was an appeal from a young mother oi three, widowed, jobless, ,,ii ii portant operation to pay for; another was a request for $2,000 by return mail; a third was of suicide from a young nd the last, a letter from a woman which got her — .1 though she was — the talk ing-to of her life. the sake of her future, it is pity she wasn't there lo hi When Ciaudette had finished, I suddenly realized How lucky / was to been there to hear what she aid Bei ause, though it was aimed lother person, I decided that isn't a woman I know who ht by the lesson in love ( llaudette Colbert taught that ong. By PAULINE SWANSON "Just look at this!" Ciaudette 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 1 had clothes like that. "And my hair might look pretty, if 1 could afford to go to those expensive hairdressers in Hollywood." "That young woman is so wrong," Ciaudette 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 Ciaudette. "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." °Y any title, they are dramatic proof of Claudette's contention that anyone, by analyzing her assets and her liabilities, con gain the loveliness she desires. Left, 1929; above, 1931; right. 1932, and opposite page, today. RADIO AND TELEVISION M"7*0" ing clothes. She can get the job she wants, or the man she wants — if she wants it enough. And neither luck, nor money — Miss Sourpuss to the contrary — need have anything to do with it. "You see," Ciaudette continued, "I've proved it. "Let me give you a thumbnail sketch of me — at sixteen. That was in the middle 'twenties. You remember the middle 'twenties. Short skirts and long waists, shingled hair, baby vamp shoes. Well, just imagine what a shingle bob would do to this fact! — a moon face, with flat, fish hooks of curls all around it. Then imagine this figure — all shoulders and no hips — in the crackerboxes which passed for dresses that season. "Are you shuddering?" she said. "But how you've changed," I remarked. "That's the point. Nearly all of us are something less than our own ideal of perfection. But that's no reason to take it lying down— there's a life-time ahead, and with a little determination we can make it about anything we want to. "Somebody has said that art develops through three things: dissatisfaction, an ideal, and solitude. I think the same thing is true of beauty. Any girl who takes stock of herself, analyzes her assets and her liabilities, then sets out for a specific goal needs only time and patience to become the sort of person she (Continued on pooe SO I 29