Screenland (Nov 1929-Apr 1930)

for December 19 2 9 a gift both pleasing and practical. For big brother, if he's the very elegant kind that's apt to prowl around and use woman folk's cosmetics when they're not looking, give him a swanky box of shaving cream, soap, talcum and toilet water in discreet odor. This is the age of perfume. We bathe and powder and cold cream ourselves in a perfumed world which becomes more interesting as we know more about this important accessory to beauty. And no longer is this limited to the containers of perfume which grace our dressing tables. There has long been a demand for matching odors in all toilet preparations and with some of the best brands this goal has been successfully reached. You can now give, if you like, perfume, toilet water, skin tonic, face powder, talcum, sachet, bath powder, soap, cold creams and hand lotion all emanating the same scent — a complete and fascinating gift. And some day, treat yourself to a set of these preparations and follow an unhurried program something like this: (To me, it is 109 the height of luxury, and surely there is no more delightful way of bringing fragrance into a weary day.) Scented cleansing cream spread generously over face and neck and wiped off with tissues or a soft cloth. A generous coating of nourishing cream in the same odor to absorb while relaxing in perfect peace in a tub to which you have added the sweetness of bath crystals and a cake of fragrant soap. After the bath, a dusting of talcum, a dash of toilet water and you are ready for face and hair fixings. Remove cream, pat a skin lotion into the face and neck, a bit of scented brilliantine on the hair to make it smooth and lustrous. Rouge, powder and lipstick all breathing the same fragrance. Then, as a final rite, a touch of perfume to the lobe of the ear, the nape of the neck, a drop on the palm of your hand. If you want to know more about gifts for beauty and about perfumes for moods and types, for costumes and occasions, write me, telling me just a little about yourself. Please enclose stamped, self-addressed envelope for personal reply. Garbo's New Screen Lover Continued from page 64 to be a hobo. I loved freight trains. Even to this day, the whistle of a steam engine stabs me like a bugle call. "Yes, I ran away from home. But I always came back in a few days when it began to rain or I got hungry or homesick. I never had any trouble at home and I had no reason to run away. I just wanted to hobo, that's all. I had been fooling around with a banjo and discovered I had a natural singing voice, and when I was sent to college to study to be a doctor I spent more time playing in the college jaz,z, band than I did studying. I found my band engagements interfered with my studies, so I gave up the studies. That's how I landed in Mexicali playing at the Climax. "Yes, I learned a little about life down there. And it didn't hurt me a bit. I understood things I couldn't figure out before. I found good in people I would have shunned as hopelessly bad otherwise. Because I was a kid they protected me. I couldn't have gone bad if I had wanted to. They wouldn't have let me. "Later when I moved over to San Diego, I went back to the border whenever I was out of work and had to make a car payment. That was where I saw my first motion picture stars in flesh and blood. I played for them, hung on their every word. I dreamed of them. I played in all the hotels in San Diego and at Coronado, met fine people and yearned all the more to be one of them. "Two years ago I joined the Harry Halstead band in the Plantation Cafe in Culver City for the sole purpose of breaking into movies. I played all night and spent every waking hour hanging outside of studio gates waiting to be 'discovered.' No one paid any attention to me except Owens, the gateman, who now waves a salute when I come in the gate to report for work. He kicked me out when I tried to horn in one day during the Shriners' convention. "I never got inside a motion picture studio. I hung around casting offices without ever seeing a casting director. I asked for work as an extra and never got a nibble. I was sick at heart. I had spent all my money on clothes so I would have a wardrobe. All my hopes were shattered by my forbidding reception. I was nothing but a banjo player who could sing the chorus in a popular number once in a while. When the band went to play the Addison Hotel in Detroit I was glad to go with them to get away from Hollywood. "We came back and I went with Ray West and played the Ambassador Hotel, the Lafayette, the Montmartre — all places where picture people congregate. The old movie-bug bit all over again. I finally got up enough courage to walk into a casting director. I told him I was an actor and he promised me a test. I gave up my job on the strength of that promise.. Six months later I got the test. It was so bad I sneaked out while the projection room was dark. I have never set foot in that studio since. "I went back to jazs banding, but still hung around studios. I heard there was a movie tea dance at the Roosevelt, and like a motorman spending his day off on a street car, I went in to dance and look at the stars. I saw a very pretty girl sitting with an older woman. She looked lonesome and I asked her to dance. I had no idea who she was. "As I was leaving, Ivan Kahn, the film manager, asked me if I was under contract to anyone. I told him I was not. He said he had watched me dancing with Lily Damita and naturally assumed I was an actor. Lily Damita! And I had held her in my arms and didn't know it! Kahn got me a six-months contract at Pathe. All I got was a bit in 'The Sophmore.' They didn't take up my option. 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