Screenland (May-Oct 1931)

106 SCREENLAND The Truth About Cosmetics — Continued from page 92 and light; Queen of the Nile, which is just as seductive as you hope it will be, and Royal Gardenia, which is our favorite. They are all the same price, $6.50 per bottle, which contains four ounces. Another house has been doing itself proud with a new perfume. This is called "Orchis" and is made by that fine old English firm, Yardley and Company. It comes in a very simple little bottle with bevelled edges dressed up in a charming yellowed silver box. In fact the press agent of this perfume — ah, yes indeedy, perfumes have press agents these days and why not? — said something about its looking like silver birches under the November sun. Of course, I have no words after a statement like that. But the perfume really is swell. It's delicately fresh and spring-like. And it isn't too fearfully expensive. There's a two ounce size for $7.50, a one ounce size for $3.75, or if you want a trial size you may try a quarter of an ounce of it for a mere dollar and a half. And here's Elizabeth Arden's Treasurette kit. It has a lock and a great big mirror, as well as any selection of Arden products that you desire, and I recommend it heartily for summer travelers. It is light and compact and it will save your having to have cosmetics rattling around in your bags or your trunk to say nothing of saving your sweet-girl-graduate complexions. The price is $16 complete, unless you go wild and select the most expensive things in a shop that has very costly — and delightful — things indeed. One more perfume and I'll have to cease for this month. This is Prelude and is put out by Pinaud. One look at the package Prelude comes in and you want it, and one sniff at the perfume and you hear yourself murmuring "Daddy, buy me that." This Pinaud company do have what it takes when it comes to putting selling packages on the market. Prelude comes in a soft green shade in a bottle so simple and yet so lovely it is almost impossible to describe it. You really must see it for yourself. Even the label has been put on the top of the broad rectangular stopper so that nothing will clutter up the face of the bottle itself. Then the bottle has been slipped into a case lined with padded white crepe de chine, no less, and sits on a little white satin ribbon that pulls it politely out of the box whenever you desire it. The outside of the box is of a heavy black paper that looks like fine leather with one chaste little silver label. Now I ask you, does that sound like something you'd cry for? If you wouldn't you're just too strong minded. The price is reasonable for all this splendor. Yardley introduces a new scent; it's called "Orchis" and is delicately fresh and spring-like. Do you read Mary Lee every month for the latest about the newest and most exciting cosmetics? You should! Revuettes — Continued from page 6 TARNISHED LADY. Paramount. T.illulah Bankhead makes a personal triumph in a shop-worn story. Clive Brook and Phoebe Foster do their best.* THE FLOOD. Columbia. Fair melodrama with some good river flood scenes and Eleanor Boardman and Monte Blue — but a poor story. THE GOOD BAD GIRL. Columbia. Still another gangster yarn. Mae Clark does good work as a gangster's moll who tries to break away from the gang. James Hall is the nice boy and Robert Elliot is the "heavy."* THREE GIRLS LOST. Fox. The adventures of three small town girls who come to the big town to make good. Mildly interesting film with Loretta Young, John Wayne, Joan Marsh and Joyce Compton. TOO YOUNG TO MARRY. Warner Brothers. An uninteresting story with no kick, but sprinkled with a few laughs. Loretta Young. Grant Withers, O. P. Heggie and Emma Dunn are featured. UP POPS THE DEVIL. Paramount. The trials of a young married couple who live in Greenwich village. Carole Lombard and Norman Foster play the Mr. and Mrs. Skeets Gallagher cops all the laughs.* VIRTUOUS HUSBANDS. Universal. An amusing farce for grown-ups with Elliot Nugent as the "virtuous husband" and Jean Arthur as his charming modern wife. YOUNG SINNERS. Fox. Thomas Meighan saves this trite story of modern youth. Dorothy Jordan and Hardie Albright are the romance.* Short Features: AIR TIGHT. M elro-Goldxvyn-M aver. An amateur rides in a glider. It should have been thrilling but instead it fell very flat. ALL GUMMED UP. RKO-Pathe. You'll get quite a few chuckles out of this domestic comedy triangle with Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake and Louise Carver. BETTY CO-ED. Paramount. Rudy Valine singing and his Connecticut Yankees playing. College atmosphere. You'll like it. CHIP SHOTS. Warner Brothers. Another golf lesson by that expert, Bobby Jones. John Halliday, William Davidson and Robert Elliot are some of Bobby's cinema pupils. See it. Warner Baxter and Joan Bennett in a scene from "Doctors' WiVes," a sophisticated yarn. Joan and Warner make this film interesting. COUNTRY SCHOOL. Universal. Oswald, the rabbit, is very naughty in this one; and besides, he offers only a sprinkling of laughs. DON'T DIVORCE HIM. Educational. Clyde Cook plays a sap clerk employed by a divorce lawyer. It's slapstick which the kiddies will enjoy. HERE'S LUCK. Universal. A Slim Summerville comedy with the comedian scrapping with a tougn sergeant. Good for many laughs. LAUGH IT OFF. Paramount. June McCloy plays a nurse who thrills the men patients with her voice. Trite songs and story MIDNIGHT IN A TOY SHOP. Columbia. A spider goes haywire in a children's shop. Entertaining. NOT SO LOUD. RKO-Pathe. Not so good. Edgar Kennedy plays a dumb detective who tries to keep tabs on the goings-on in a roadhouse. OUTBOARD STUNTING. RKO-Pathi. A zippy Sportlight showing some hair-raising stunts in outboard sports. It packs a wallop. SKTDOO. Vilaphont. Lew Fields doesn't register very well in this comedy due to a weak story. Fields plays a hen-pecked husband. THE MAD MELODY. RKO-Pathe. One of the best cartoon comics with Professor Lion writing an opera. Good gags. THE SPIRIT OF 76TH STREET. Yitaphone. Most of the action takes place during a spiritualist seance with Helen Broderick wisecracking. Enjoyable. THE TROUBADOUR. Vilaphone. If you go for opera you'll enjoy this one. Giovanni Martinelli is in splendid voice as usual. THOU SHALT NOT. Paramount. Billy House as a sappy waiter in a night club manages to be funny despite the poor plot. WTLD WEST OF TO-DAY. Fox. Beautiful scenic backgrounds with sequences showing wild horses, steers, sheep and bison. Well worth seeing. BELIEVE IT OR NOT. Yitaphone. An interesting Ripley feature showing various oddities he has encountered. Entertaining. HE WAS HER MAN. Paramount. Dancing, music and Gilda Gray doing her famous dance. "Frankie and Johnnie" is the theme. ROUGH SEAS. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A war comedv of high standard with Charlie Chase and Thelma Todd at their funniest best. Good gags. THE HUDSON AND ITS MOODS. Paramount. Showing the beauty and charm of the Hudson caught from a river boat. Good photography. TIGERS VERSUS ELEPHANTS. Talking Picture Epics. A thriller. Deals with a herd of elephants surrounding tigers. A lecture accompanies the film. You'll enjoy it. WINE, WOMEN, BUT NO SONG. Columbia. Eddie Buzzell manages to instill laughter in this one. Eddie masquerades as a butler and, of course, things go wrong.