Silver Screen (Apr-Sep 1936)

64 Silver Screen for July 1936 "Keep an eye on the sun" ® Watch Old Sol especially during the summer days, because he does things to your eyes — makes them look pale and squinty when you're in glaring light, playing on the beach or winning a golf match. That's why, if you're smart, you'll outwit him with Kurlash eye make-up and bring out the natural loveliness of your eyes. First, slip your eyelashes into Kurlash. It's a clever little instrument that curls your eyelashes in 30 seconds and requires no heat, cosmetics or practice. Kurlash is really a beauty necessity, for by curling your lashes your eyes look larger and reveal their full beauty. In the sunlight your curled lashes throw flattering, subtle shadows that make your eyes glamourous! Don't be without Kurlash. Buy one today, at your nearest department or drug store, for only $1. • Lasfitint, the perfumed liquid mascara, is ideal for swimming days because it doesn't crack, stiffen, weep or rub off. 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We make a break for the car and the first thing we do is to lock all the doors and windows from the inside. The police ride on the running board. Even then when we get to the hotel there is usually a couple of youngsters hanging on to the spare tire. It was then time for his broadcast and I rose to go. In the hall was a young girl trying to find out which room Nelson Eddy was going to broadcast from. She had made a special stopover in New York on her way south to see his broadcast with her own eyes and maybe shake his hand, but she was not at all prepared to meet him face to face so suddenly and almost fainted with excitement. Nelson hadn't much time because the air won't wait, but he said a few pleasant words and sent her happily on her way. The thing I noticed particularly about him was a complete lack of tenseness. He moves rather deliberately and with an easy grace, yet there is no vagueness in his manner. He is always clowning in the broadcasting room, much to the amusement of his audience which, I was interested to find on several different occasions, was composed of as many men as women, and of all ages. His first consideration is to place his music on his special rack which he shares with his co-soloist Margaret Speaks, and seeing that it is the right height for her as she is the first one to sing. That matter attended to he goes about doing the social, chucking the girls, in the Firestone trio under the chin and cutting up monkey shines generally. You'd never think it, would you, from the solemnity of his delivery and the dignity of his presence in Rose Marie? In these off-stage moments he shows that he likes fun as much as anybody, but as soon as the program starts he's full of business. When you realize how difficult it used to be to memorize that new piece for your next music lesson you will appreciate the following story. "One day," Nelson said to me, "my manager told me that I was to sing Salome with Jeritza at the Metropolitan in eight days' time. I told him he was crazy, that I didn't know a note or a word of Salome and the whole thing was impossible. " 'Nonsense. Of course you can sing it,' he replied in dead seriousness. "I can't, I tell you." " 'The billing's out and you've got to,' he said cheerily and hung up. He was in a hole and I knew it so there was nothing left but to pitch in and learn the thing. I didn't even have eight days, because within the time there were three concerts and two radio programs to take care of, so that really I had only four full days to work on Salome. Two days before the performance I had a stage' rehearsal and expected to work from the book. Jeritza worked from memory and I felt like a fool. That night I went home and plugged in grim earnest, and I learned the opera. So it can be done if one is willing to grind." Nelson may not think he's anything remarkable but if, as they say, genius is composed of one-tenth talent and nine-tenths perspiration I guess he's a genius all right. If he didn't perspire plenty over that job he isn't human, and no one I'm sure will deny the talent. He now knows thirty-two operas, and I believe there have been only thirty-six written. Four or five of these thirty-two he is so well up on that he could jump in and sing them tomorrow. If he had a week or ten days he could be ready with ten more and, given three weeks, he could be pat with the rest. He doesn't intend to concentrate on opera later on, or upon any branch of music in particular. Even pictures he said were "only temporary." He likes to express himself in all of them and still have a loophole to study something new. What worries me is, now that he's at the top of everything he has attempted to do, and he's only thirty-four, will he be content to keep "brushing up" on things he already knows? Will the expression of music, without the stimulating fight for recognition be sufficient to hold his interest to work alone? Will he then fight to keep the high position he has won, a task which is often more difficult to accomplish than the first climb to the summit; or will he turn curious eyes to the thing he has awakened in the hearts of millions of girls— Romance? Maybe, then, you girls will get your innings, but here's a word of warning. Nelson Eddy is from Puritan stock, and you can never tell about a Puritan. There's a touch of martyrdom in their make-up. What they have set themselves to do they will do, they must do, in spite of everything. They are conquerors and can never be vanquished except by their own thoughts. Your Beach Beauty [Continued from page 8] addition take inches off thighs. The shirt is a good-looking affair that takes care of the "spare-tire" and other overweight spots above the waistline. 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