Silver Screen (Jun-Oct 1940)

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Then here's a new technique to help you. Important, above all things, is appearance, that unspoken introduction! SEPTEMBER sounds the end of Summer. Good-bye to the beach, the pines on that lonely but lovely mountain, the care-free, casual days. But hello to something else, adventurous, exciting, demanding. Your first job! You, the graduates of the classes of '40, want a job. Then consider seriously the very first impression you will make on a prospective employer — your appearance. For appearance is your first introduction before a word is spoken, before anyone has opportunity to talk with you even or to discover those brilliant marks you may have to your credit. In other words, you must look like a winner to be one, though you need be neither a Venus nor an Adonis. On the girls' side, there's Judy Garland — so fresh, so vital, so utterly appealing, and who also looks as if she could do a thing or two. On the boys' side, there's Mickey Rooney, with his alert, human, and sparkling per SO YOU WANT No one is more typical of the job-seeking youth than Mickey Rooney. Left: A comedy scene with Mickey and Judy Garland from "Strike Up The Band." Below: Director Busby Berkeley coaches youthful Joe Butler and June Preisser. sonality that one immediately senses. Neither is strictly beautiful nor handsome, but they more than make up for it in the everyday variety of good looks. According to an authority with whom I have talked, 'The girl with clear skin, modish make-up and glossy, well-dressed hair has the edge on her plain, but intelligent, sister when it -comes to landing a job." This authority places appearance emphasis on skin, because a girl can go to a beauty salon and have her hair groomed for the occasion and she can, to some extent, avail herself of make-up consultations, many of which are free, but she cannot instantly correct a skin that is badly broken out and a source of constant embarrassment. This blemished skin is one of the crosses of youth or, at least, young skin — and your skin may be very young in this respect though you may be well into your twenties. Just why do you get those ghastly bumps, those ugly little splotches and abhorred blackheads? Barring any extreme physical irregularity, the cause is oil — too much oil. The natural apertures of the skin simply are not sufficient to bring this oil directly to the surface where you might remove it. And so it remains under the surface, clogging up your skin disposal 64 Silver Screen