Screenland (Nov 1931-Mar 1932)

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for December 1931 63 Make your Christmas gifts express beauty — novelty — charm! Our Beauty Editor's advice makes your shopping easy and alluring with these exciting, yet practical, suggestions Beauty Advice from a Beauty! Margery Wilson is a "different" Beauty Editor. She is herself a beauty and an authority on charm — in fact, she wrote a book about it! Miss Wilson will guide you in your beauty problems. Read her department every month — and if you wish personal advice, please enclose a stamped, addressed envelope, and address Miss Margery Wilson, Beauty Editor, Screenland, 45 West 45th Street, New York City. a touch of real art on her dressing table. If you have loved the glass creations of Lalique as I have (I am nothing short of a Lalique worshipper) you will be overjoyed to learn that for the modest sum of $5, Coty has a powder jar signed by the great Lalique himself and filled with fragrant face powder done up in satin ! And I made the breath-takingdiscovery that the windows in the Coty building are all designed by Lalique. Imagine ! It was almost more than I could take in considering the expense of even small pieces. Speaking of glass, Yardley has cleverly put thirteen ounces of their Old English Lavender perfume into a stunning cut-glass decanter with a sparkling crystal stopper, to sell for $12. After the perfume is gone the decanter can be refilled with lavender or used for rare brandy or liqueur. (Don't ask me where to get these last items. Probably in England where Yardley makes the original contents ! ) Finding just the right gift for the right person requires tact, patience, and that heavenly thing known as good taste. What blunders we often make with the very best intentions ! I once sent a box of fruit from California to Florida. I am blushing yet. It may be practical to select a gift that "suits" the recipient, but let me suggest that you drop that idea and get a present that will please. When giving books I always send funny ones to my intellectual friends and high-brow books to my "middlebrow" friends. They please ! Give sensible things to frivolous people and frivolous gifts to sensible people. Give a jar of daintily-colored bath salts, with a thoroughly useless satin bow around its neck, to a woman who does her own house-work, and watch her face glow with delight. Here is recognition of her personal fastidiousness ! For this purpose Elizabeth Arden's new pulverized bath salts is ideal. It comes in a tall, square, smart-looking bottle with a huge flat stopper: $5. The pulverized salts dissolve instantly in water and last so much longer because it requires only a small amount to soften and perfume your bath. This is a charming gift for any woman you know well enough to srive "practical' look after Every gift is a part of your heart. Ruth Hall has her hands full, but she doesn't mind. It's Christmas ! bath accessories. It comes in Russian Pine, Amber, Allamanda and Rose. The same odors can be had in the bath crystals at $1.75, $3, and $5. For the traveler Arden has thoughtfully pressed the bath salts into solid cubes, a dozen in a flat box that won't take up much packing space, for $2. The idea of giving sensible things to frivolous people is a good one, for the gay woman is always grateful to the person who makes it unnecessary for her to think about mundane, practical things. Yet, every time she uses the gift she will think, "How sweet of you to my needs."' If you know her very well, you might even give her soap — fine soap, of course. Ten to one she is always running out of soap at the wrong time, because it is one thing she never thinks to buy. Besides, her allowance is spent on necessities like the movies and new hats, and she "can't afford" good soap! So pile up for yourself a lot of Christmas gratitude and give this girl several cakes of ^ that most lasting Spanish soap, made in Barcelona by Myrurgia, the house that served the Spanish royalty with perfumes and toilet requisites. Myrurgia soaps come in several of the odors of their exquisite perfumes ! If you don't know them waste no time getting acquainted. They're yielding, defiant, brilliant, brooding, laughing, subtle, taken Hollywood took Richmond. A great favorite is "Maja" — (the j is pronounced h. you know) — because it is sunny and impudent with an overtone of bravery, just like those gay women of the marketplace (the majas) who gave color and spice to living in times of peace and marched to war when danger threatened their beloved Spain. And the flower odors, so dainty and ladylike ! They bring us the best of a land of flowers, a country where cities and streets are named for blossoms. "Orgia." literally a riot of blooms, may be had in a lovely suede case for $8. For mystery there is "Nardo." distilled from the Indian flower of the same name, ideal for wintry weather and chill hearts, for {Continued on page 112) They've like Grant