Silver Screen (Nov 1938-Apr 1939)

LUXOR FACE POWDER sits lightly as a feather — stays on smoothly all day! • Don't spoil a well-groomed appearance with a heavy face powder! Get Luxor "feather-cling," the face powder with a light touch. It stays on smoothly for hours yet sits lightly as a feather. Shine-proof and moisture-proof too, so it won't cake or streak. Buy it at toilet goods counters in smart, new shades for fifty -five cents. For generous size free trial sample, use coupon below. 12 Possibly, you're lucky and don't need extra vitamins. Most people do, however, need a good vitamin concentrate like Vitamins Plus added to their diet, especially in Winter, when sunshine vitamin D is out of reach of many. Now, external aids! This is the cream season, and certainly many of us need more cream now than in Summer. This, however, does not mean that we forsake soap and water. Never! But balance your face diet according to need. Gail Patrick, for example, needs a very bland soap for her fine skin. But she would never think of applying make-up (in her case only powder and lipstick) without a foundation. She uses her hand lotion for this purpose. Joan Blondell likes a stirring, roughish treatment for her skin, and Margot Grahame uses cream almost entirely. There you are! Different ideas for different types, you see. Generally speaking, in cream cleansers, you have three types. They are the quickmelting or liquefying cream, especially advisable for the skin that seems oily, yet is dry. This type cleanses thoroughly and seems to tone the skin with overactive oil glands to better behavior. From my observation, this type of cream has a tendency to refine skin, to leave it truly clean and to normalize it. Albolene Solid is an excellent cream of this kind. The cream, unscented, is so pure, so mild that it can be used as a cleanser and lubricant for babies' skin. This cream has wide use in hospitals and is found on the dressing table of many a star. It's economical, too, a nice, generous jar at a price you like to pay. For skin that just seems to pick up every particle of dust in the air, that seems to need a cleaner which goes below the surface and will easily remove make-up that has a tendency to "mask" on the face, Albolene Solid is the cream! Contrasting to the skin just mentioned is the paper-thin, delicate type, oh so lovely, but so fragile and prone to show neglect. This skin seems to need a richer, creamier cleanser, and in this class is the rather new Cleansing Cream by Mary Pickford, the very cream she uses. Many young skins get by very well with a cream that may be used as a cleanser and a night cream, too. Among my favorites are Lady Esther's Four Purpose Cream. This one cream can do a lot. I have been told that the secret of its good work is a special ingredient, very advisable for most skins. Then there is Noxzema Combination Cleansing and Night Creams, medicated with Noxzema, very cleansing, softening and a kind of toner-upper for skins that are not so good. There are a number of good ways to use your cleanser. Some spread it on with fingers. I like to apply it with a wooden spatula, the kind doctors use when they want you to open your mouth and say, "Ahh," so they may peep at your throat. This keeps the cream from getting under streamlined nails, where if not care\_C01itinued on page 71] Top — Eleanor Hanson's Left — "Swift, light up Right — A night lubricating cream is applied with light, circular movements. Silver Screen