Screenland (Nov 1942-Apr 1943)

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WITHOUT EXTRAVAGANCE You're an asset when you are cheerful, poised, confident, full of vitality with smiling red lips, a clear bright skin. — Who wants to be a liability, today! By Josephine Felts A cheer -for Olivia de Havilland! One for Hedy Lamarr! Two lovely ladies who have the wit and the wisdom to look their freshest, prettiest selves at all times. Beauty and fashion today are as you like them. Olivia wears her hair close. Hedy lets hers fly. Take your choice! Olivia wears a Spanish mantilla which adds witchery and distinction to her soft dark eyes. Hedy wraps a string of evenly matched pearls four times around her throat. B |EAUTY without extravagance" was first advised some thousands of years ago in Athens, a town again in the news, by someone whose name was Pericles. He went on to add, "Wisdom without weakness." He was talking about daily living in difficult times. I think he meant not only beauty as expressed in things, but beauty as expressed in people. Had he been as fortunate as you and I, he might have illustrated his point by someone as lovely as Olivia de Havilland. Or someone as glamorous, and cheering to look upon as Hedy Lamarr. Someone with the wisdom to know how important it is right now to be not only yourself, but your loveliest self always, no matter how busy from early in the morning to late at night your job may keep you. Today is the time for all things that lift the heart. Beauty is one of them ! Today is the time for things that cheer, encourage and strengthen us. Beauty is one of them ! Beauty is always gay, and never forget that gaiety, too, is a form of courage, sometimes one of its finest forms. One of the things that real beauty cannot exist without is the sparkle of vitality. It sounds pretty silly to say, "Are you sure you're keeping up your pep by getting plenty of exercise?" if you have been complaining about that tired feeling. But it may be a very good question, an especially good question, if you are working at something which involves any nervous