Screenland (Dec 1933-Apr 1934)

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Sell regularly for $12.00 an ounce. Made from the essence of flowers: — jenu vniy 30^ Three odors: Send only (1) Homanza (2) Lilyof the Valley (3) Esprit de France A sinale drop lasts a week I To pay for postage and handling send only 30c (silver or stamps) for 3 trial bottles. Only one set to each new customer. PAUL RIEGERt 173 First St., San Francisco, Calif. nervous system is the body's energy producer and possesses most remarkable endurance as well as re-charging qualities, there is a limit which sooner or later is reached and which inevitably results in mental and physical impairment of some sort. Psychologists as well as physiologists have long been familiar with the direct effect that emotion has upon the so-called "endocrine glands" or the "glands of internal secretion." Whether the emotion be love, anger, fear, or joy, the glands that particularly bear the brunt of attack are the "adrenals." The adrenals are two in number, each about the size of the tip of the little finger, each embedded in fat on the top of the kidney structure. Whenever emotion is registered in the mind the adrenals at once become more active than usual, and the blood becomes surcharged with the powerful chemical they secrete, namely "adrenalin." Adrenalin in the blood contracts the blood vessels, raises the blood pressure and makes the course of the blood flow faster. This means an increased supply of oxygen to all the tissues. Adrenalin in addition releases "glycogen," a kind of stored-up sugar, from the liver, which likewise is highly stimulating to all the organs. What bearing has all this upon motion picture actors, you ask? Where an actor must needs do combat with the villain, or flee from a burning building, or a woman finds herself forced to protect her honor or, contrariwise, she sets out to vamp and conquer her man — no matter what the story portrayed may be — the adrenals of the actor involved are invariably stimulated, and stimulated to excess. For every picture stresses action, the high-lights of life, and dramatic moments. What is more, a film condenses life, surcharges it with emotion, packs it full of heart throbs and breath-taking incidents. Therefore, subjected as they are to emotional stress and strain in the parts assigned them, movie actors, especially the stars, find themselves in a chronic state of hyper-excitement which even continues in their private lives after the day's work is finished. Like the spring in a clock, it must keep on unwinding if it is to continue, at all. Frankly, I have yet to examine a picture actor or actress who did not reveal at least a few signs, indicating frayed nerves, such as I have mentioned. Every one of them had a low blood pressure and all were too high-strung. Evidence of depleted adrenal glands was common. A few even were suffering, in addition, from impairment of some vital organ. All because they were laboring for the screen ; all because they were just being burned out! Not long ago I heard that Bette Davis was to be insured so that her studio might be protected against her growing stout ; that should the actress reach 120 pounds — Miss Davis now weighs 106 — the insurance company would pay her employers $50,000. Yet Bette Davis is only 5 feet 2>l/2 inches tall and the average for girls of that height, irrespective of age, is 118 pounds. This is only two small pounds less than the penalty weight in her case ! Most certainly her present weight of 106 is too low! It is a great pity that picture actresses must keep so thin especially when doctors realize the lowering of vital resistance that goes with being underweight ; and the organic diseases, especially tuberculosis, that such a condition invites. But here again is another drawback that seemingly cannot be avoided. The women simply must keep slim in order to hold their jobs. That stars exist who are perfectly healthy goes without saying. In pictures, however, the definite tendency, and for the reasons I have given, is decidedly to grow old young. Disaster can be prevented if the star is willing to be on the alert and take care of himself. Many of the breakdowns that already have occurred could surely have been avoided. Let us be optimistic. Let us hope that our warning to Hollywood may be heeded. In fact, having captured our hearts, our beloved screen stars owe us that much, anyway. Not only should they look after their health for their own individual good, they should also remember how genuinely solicitous for them we are. Having, in effect, become members of our own immediate family, it is their duty to take care of themselves ! As Thousands Hear Continued jrom page 51 say : "Absolutely not ! It was the only way I could make Hollywood realize that I am a modern girl. I'm so tired of playing 'Senoritas' and peasants. I want to play sophisticated roles. That girl I played in 'Flying Down to Rio'— she was so sappy ! But I did like the girl I played in 'Wonder Bar.' That one had character, was exotic, and wore beautiful clothes !" Speaking of clothes — as you can see by the fascinating pictures of Dolores, she was wearing one of her "Glamor School" dresses at the rehearsal. (Remember January Screenland carried two pages of Miss Del Rio's favorite frocks? The dress she wears in these photographs is one of them.) It is of green wool and suits her stunning brunette beauty perfectly. "This is my working dress," she began to tell me about it — but I'll never know why, for at that moment someone cut in with, "Pardon me, Miss Del Rio, we've arranged for you to leave by the back exit this evening so you won't be mobbed." And before we could get back to the green dress, the program director asked her to run through her script again. To me, the most remarkable thing about Hollywood's most picturesque brunette is the fact that her nails had not a speck of polish on them ! Dolores proved herself a grand sport, too, when it came to posing for the pictures. She didn't take time out for fussing or prettying up — not even to the extent of running a comb through her hair. For almost any girl that's almost unheard of, and in an actress, it's positively super-colossal ! Dolores was as thrilled as a novice when one of the studio boys told her how well her voice recorded. And she thanked him so prettily that he practically floated on air back to the control-room. For one of the lovely star's most effective traits is a way of making whoever she is speaking to at the moment feel that he's the only human in existence for her. Her enormous eyes and the intentness of her look speak volumes, and tell you that you're positively the most brilliant and fascinating person she's ever known ! In other words, Dolores scores an unqualified knockout with everyone she meets. And no wonder.