Screenland (Nov 1935-Apr 1936)

for January 19 3 6 83 So many of the girls who take screen tests at this studio fail because they are round-shouldered. The younger set will have to conquer this fault if they hope to have a Hollywood figure. Exercises for this defect mainly depend upon your own will power. If you are determined to rid yourself of round shoulders, you can do it, but it means eternal watchfulness. You can't afford to slump or relax one minute. When you are standing or walking, keep your eyes on a level ; never let your head drop down and consciously keep your shoulders in proper position. When sitting at a table, pull your chair up to it and sit well back in the chair. The trouble with most of you is that you let yourselves get lazy. You work hard to slim yourselves down to the correct measurements, but the instant you get there, you let go. "I'm only a hundred and five," I hear girls say in the studio commissary. "I'm going to order chocolate cake and whipped cream today." You must learn to discipline yourself. Walk after a heavy meal, if you are overweight. Rest for half an hour before and after a meal, if you would like to gain. Do you know how to rest? Don't lie down in a lighted room, cramped up in a ball with a book, or try to rest on a couch with the whole family chattering to you. Go off by yourself to a darkened room, stretch out flat without a pillow and relax. Don't talk, don't read, don't think if you can help it! According to my observation of the girls who come to Paramount Studios, and from the letters you write me from all parts of the world, I believe that the chief complaint of all woman is that fat will accumulate on the hips and abdomen. In every issue of Screenland I have tried to give some exercise to vary the excellent one of rolling the pounds off and that of bending down to touch the toes with the fingers — both standbys of generations. Here are some exercises for general reduction that may appeal to you : ( 1 ) . Sit on the floor and draw the knees up so that the heels are almost touching the thighs. Spread the knees far apart. Grasp the toes with a firm hold. Then swing the feet up over the head, rocking backwards and forwards and bringing the feet down to the floor if possible. Now rock back to the starting position and kick the heels down, trying to touch the thighs. (2). Place a soft rug on the floor to lie on and lie down on your back. Swing the feet up over the head, trying to touch the floor with the toes. As your feet bring your hips upward, place your hands under the hips to act as a brace, elbows resting against the floor. After you get into position and the feet are steady and well balanced, kick both legs up and down. As the knees return to the starting position, bring them as near the shoulders as possible. Begin by doing these exercises once or twice and work up to ten times. Double chins are apt to be thought of as something dowagers have to worry about, but let me break it to you that young girls are often too fleshy under the jaws. On the stage they just put some rouge on and imagine the roll under the chin isn't seen, but the screen can't be fooled. Quite often the defect is a question of correct posture and disappears when the girl learns to hold her head up. But if it's really an extra fold, you must do something about it. Here is a good resistance exercise to strengthen the neck muscles : With fingers firmly placed behind the neck, use the neck muscles to pull the head upward and back. When the head reaches a position between the shoulders with chin in the air, the forward movement is begun. Press strongly on the back of the head while the tensed neck muscles resist. The movement is continued until the chin rests on the chest. Do this only a few times, twice a day for two weeks'. Then gradually increase it. Vary it by lying down on a couch with the head projecting over the edge. In this position, the weight of the head takes the place of resistance with the hands. Additional exercises for making over your neck are these: (A) . Sit or stand erect. Thrust your chin forward vigorously as though you were pushing something with it. Relax and repeat quickly six to ten times. (B) . Stand erect with hands on hips. Turn your head as far left as you can, then lower it backward with chin up. Now slowly lower chin until it rests on your shoulder. Raise head up and back again and repeat slowly six to ten times. Now turn your head to the right and repeat the exercise with face in that direction. Inside the Stars' Homes Continued from page 6 to beei or lamb, season the meat highly with poultry seasoning and onion, add egg, flour and milk. "I never eat potatoes, bread or pastry," sighed Ann, giving a covetous glance at the cornucopia nearest her, which was spilling its strawberry and cream filling in a mouth-watering blob. * I must have will power or something, but I never touch those things ! They tell me that if I'd worry more I might get very thin and so be able to eat more, but I'd have to find something to worry about first! Kaffebrod is something like coffee cake and you can buy it anywhere. But Kraemmerhuse is something special." Kraemmerhuse These are cornucopias filled with whipped cream topped with strawberry jam. For the pastry Mrs. Lake uses : lb. butter Y4 cup sugar 1J4 CUPS flour Whites of 8 eggs First melt the butter, mix flour and sugar together and stir in while the butter is warm. Lastly, beat in the stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Have your pastry sheet hot, and brush well with butter. Drop the thin batter on with a teaspoon. It must be paper thin and spread in oblongs. Bake in a hot oven, very fast, until light brown. Shut off oven, leaving sheet inside. Remove pastries, one at a time, flute with a knife and roll into shape. Cool, on a cakeboard which is exposed to the air. "Yes, they are good," agreed Ann, enviously, as I lifted a forkful, "but you haven't tasted anything until you've eaten one of Mother's holiday cakes. We have them all through the holiday season and Is there some one for whose benefit you'd like to look especially lovely, evenings, in your lamp* lit living-room? Then this simple experiment may give you a brand-new idea on how to do it: Just arrange your lamplight — make up your face as usual (omitting all eye make-up to start with). Then take your Kurlash and curl the lashes of one eye. Touch them with Lashtint. And shade the same eyelid with a little Shadette. Now — inspect your face closely in a hand mirror, as the light falls across it. One side will seem softer, clearer, more subtly colored. Because the eye you have beautified looks larger, brighter, with longer, darker lashes. That's eye beauty! You'll never neglect it — or Kurlash — the little gadget that curls lashes without heat, cosmetics, or practice. ($i at good stores.) Lashtint, the liquid mascara, may be applied while the lashes are being curled. Touch the little glass rod to them as they are held in the rubber bows of Kurlash. Lashtint will darken the tips delicately and it doesn't crack, stiffen, wash or weep off — in black, brown, or blue, $i. Another clever trick is to rub Kurlene on the lashes before you curl them, so they'll be silken and full of dancing rainbows. Kurlene is a scientific formula for eyelash luxuriance. 50c and $1. • Have you tried Twissors — the new tweezers with scissor handles — marvelous!}/ efficient — 25c. Write^ Jane TTeath Jor advice about eye beauty. Give your coloring Jor personal beauty plan. Address Dept. S-l. The Kurlash Company, Rochester, N. Y. The Kurlash Company oj Canada, at Toronto, J.