Silver Screen (Nov 1938-Apr 1939)

Silver Screen for January 1939 69 very well, the colors are lovely and, as you might guess, it has a high gloss. If, when you read this, you decide upon a manicure at once, but find you have nothing at hand of a protecting nature, if your nails are cutting up, try this good old home remedy. Warm a little olive oil and soak your finger tips in this for five or ten minutes. It's very helpful. Remove polish first, of course, and wash well before applying new lacquer. Most of the people I've mentioned make nail or cuticle oil or cream for general softening of cuticle and conditioning of nails. A little applied at bedtime keeps nails and cuticle in good order and is a "must" for real beauty. Two tips from Hollywood: Keep in your desk drawer a whitening pencil and an extra bottle of the polish you use. The polish can mend a little chip or peel, if you're off from the office to a Big Date. The whitening pencil run under nails removes stains left by ink, carbon paper, etc. Take pains and pride in maintaining good physical condition; use some of these truly protective aids for your nails, and I think you'll find your nail problem solved. Flashshots [Continued from page 15] those myriad drops of diamonds and rubies about her neck were as made of tears. But Lupe was a really good sport and for ten uncomplaining nights sallied out in other simple furs such as blue fox, silver fox or ermine. She's made a great personal success in the Cole Porter show, "You Never Know," and with her amazing vitality goes on almost nightly to parties in her honor. One Sunday night at El Morocco Billy Seymour of Hollywood introduced her to to the Blair Brothers from Palm Beach. The Blair Brothers are identical twins, six feet three inches tall; the girls find them extremely good looking, and they are good talkers to boot. As they are on the Palm Beach Motorcycle Squad and know everyone, they are known as the social cops. They come to New York once a year for a vacation and see everyone and are entertained by everyone— Woolly Donohue, Mrs. Wanamaker Munn, Charlie Amory, Ethel Merman and no end of others. You can tell by the expression on Lupe's face that she is fascinated by a "tall one" by Jack Blair. Miriam Hopkins and her husband, Anatole Litvak, who seem like an extremely happily married couple, were out on the town one or two nights while vacationing in New York. Miriam used to hate snapshots but now she's a pretty good sport about it, and just asks you not to print it "if I look too awful." One of their great friends is the scenic designer, Norman Bel Geddes, and they were celebrating his birthday with a glass of wine when I took the snapshot of them. For those who found the "Big A'pple" a pound of over-exertion, the "Lambeth Walk" has been a great relief, for it is really lilting simplicity itself. Mary Brian and Ernest Rice were doing the old swing around step, while Henry Armetta was so overwhelmed with the exultancy of his "Oi" that he completely forgot his bewildered partner. Nothing in the world is so much fun as to watch the novice trying to do a new dance. The two this year are "The Lambeth Walk" from England and "The Samba" from Brazil. Rosalind Russell came in one evening looking extremely lovely and, well— different. She had on the darndest get-up and, at the same time, it was most becoming. First there was a long coat fairly full in skirt, and very full in sleeves which were caught at the wrist. No collar, just a roll neckline and the material a light off-yellow wool. The head dress might have been copied from a Tuscan peasant woman's holiday garb . . . boxed along the top in front and at the sides it was embroidered in rust, ginger and gold, and the back fell in folds, to be caught up at the neckline. Some describing, huh! Rosalind herself is one of the most charming, natural and unspoiled people, and is ever anxious and eager to hear what others are accomplishing rather than to talk about herself. That rich quality of her voice gives it tremendous warmth and easily commands attention. The Stuart Erwins (June Collyer) were busy doing the town and chaperoning socialite Harold Meenan, whose fiancee was away. Unless I'm very much mistaken Stii Erwin has put on an extra six or eight pounds lately and maybe that accounted for his constant dancing. And since it seemed to be the season for married couples, "Queen Victoria" Helen Hayes came in, after a performance, with her author-husband, Charles MacArthur, for some scrambled eggs and coffee. Sticking to the Victorian tradition, Helen? When I started to take a picture, Charley put his feet up on the chair in front of him. "Got to be informal for Jerry," he said solemnly. Two weeks ago I saw Gloria Swanson with not only a muff of sable but her hat as well. Her coat was heavy sable-colored wool. Gloria always seems to have a beat on the rest of the girls in these little foibles. And what a swell egg she is. As I write this, sitting up in bed at three o'clock in the morning at a New York hospital, with a temperature that has several times in the week reached one hundred and four, from some damn flu germ the doctors can't yet isolate, I think of Gloria as one of the few who has been daily calling with interest and sympathy. In the madhouse in which we New Yorkers live, this indeed means a good deal. Misses of the Month One evening they told me at El Morocco that Bing Crosby and his wife were dancing so I left my Dumb and Lovely, got my camera and went a-gunning. Crosby saw me as I started towards the crowded floor and with the most adroit manoeuvering I've even seen, managed to keep the back of his neck to the camera the entire time. No matter what new angle I approached he'd give me the back. Once when he was next to me I asked for at least a profile. No response. As the back of his neck wasn't particularly hot news and it didn't really matter much, I soon gave up and rejoined my D. and L. I assured her Mr. Crosby's picture wasn't worth all that trouble and then she ventured: "Ah, perhaps he wouldn't turn his head cause he didn't have his transformation on." "Keep quiet, dumb one, he doesn't wear a transformation." The other miss was a bad miss, for it was missing Chester Morris. We'd made an appointment at the theatre he was playing in for a quarter before noon, an unheard of early hour for me who never gets to bed before four-thirty. This meant I had to be up by ten-thirty for breakfast and get way across town in time. 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