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Step Into My World (Continued from page 20) forward to it any more. Though of course you and I, whether we reached our goal or missed it this particular time, can immediately choose something even nicer to look forward to next. And then, too, we, with our advantages, can really have friends. How we pity those handicapped people who have to question themselves over and over, "Is this man really my friend, or is he just pretending to be because of what I can do for him?" Not us! When we're with our friends we can be utterly comfortable, guards down, because we know they like us for ourselves alone, sincere in everything they do and say. That word "sincerity" means a great deal to me. I remember once going to a concert in Chicago to hear a great opera singer. Her voice was flawless, I suppose, and so was her performance, technically. But I could sense that she didn't understand or believe in the messages which the composers had wanted her songs to give to the hearts of her listeners. 1 LEFT that concert very much dis' appointed, because I think God sent music to the world to be loved and enjoyed, not to be performed for selfish admiration. But on the way home our taxi-driver, probably carried away by the smell of Spring in the air, burst spontaneously into a definitely original version of "The Only Girl in the World." I suppose his voice was actually very bad, but that didn't matter at all. He was singing simply because he felt like singing, and I could picture him dropping me and going home to a red-checked tablecloth, and the bubbling of fragrant coffee in the percolator on the stove, and his "only girl" meeting him at the kitchen door. He gave me what I had wanted all evening— he gave me music that I could feel. I can't help but judge musical compositions in much the same way. If the composer had to write what he wrote, his song or concerto or symphony simply churning about inside him until it forced him to release it, then I like it. But if I feel that the composer wrote a limpid little melody, only to look it over with displeasure and say to himself, "Hmmm. I'd better put in some dissonants here and there to shock people" — then that composition is for someone else to play, not for me. You see, it's a favorite belief of mine that people ought to be rewarded or censured on the basis of what they mean in their hearts to do, rather than by the way things actually turn out. When I was in London, there was a singer at the Academy who wanted a certain engagement quite desperately. After much endeavor he arranged an audition for it, and when the great day came he sat there in the maestro's ante-room, waiting and waiting for his accompanist to appear. The accompanist never came; the appointed hour ticked away and vanished, taking the singer's great opportunity with it. I asked him later if he held any rancor. He looked at me in rather a surprised fashion, and said, "Why, no, of course not. Poor Howard was APRIL. 1940 Wear your Nail Polish 7 LONG DAYS X^find your lucky color FREE!" I will send you free my 12 Magic Fingertips so that you may try the 12 shades of my 7-Day Nail Polish H ow would you like to try on all the smartest, newest nail polish colors —to see them on your own nails, to find the one color most flattering for you? Then what a thrill to know you can wear that loveliest, luckiest color 7 long days at a time . . . thanks to Lady Esther ! New Way to Find Your Lucky Color! Send for my 12 free "Magic Fingertips." Each is shaped like your own nail and coated with a different shade of Lady Esther 7-Day Nail Polish. Simply hold each one over your nail and see, with uncanny accuracy, the one shade most enchanting for you— best with your costume colors. But just as important as your lucky shade is the marvelous new base which makes Lady Esther Polish give your nails a rich, satiny look that old-fashioned polishes don't give — an amazing base that helps Lady Esther Polish to resist cracking and peeling for 7 long days! Getyour 12"Magic Fingertips"—find your lucky color — then ask for it in Lady Esther 7-Day Nail Polish at your favorite store ! *I2 shades FREE!* (You can paste this on a penny postcard) Lady Esther, 7134 W. 65th St., Chicago, 111. Please send me by return mail your Magic Fingertips showing all 12 different shades of Lady Esther 7-Day Cream Nail Polish. (54) If you live in Canada, write Lady Esther, Toronto, Ont. 55