Hollywood BEAUTY ECRET

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 129, 17 June 1937, Page 11

Hollywood BEAUTY ECRET

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Every bloude has her day, but the burnetto usually wins on the second day out. That is the facetious way of. saying that from a close observation of • the two types of screen actresses, over a period of years. I have come to the conclusion that while a natural blonde is rarer than her darker sisters, and therefore more spectacular, she is what miglit be called a sprinter, while the brunette is a long distance xunner. Blondes are business women, career women, good playmates. They are fired with ncrvouB energy, and betwcen the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five, they have usually rcached the climax of both their success and beauty. Blondes have excelled as comeediennes in Hollywood. Their careers have been metoric and sparkling, but the long list of brunettes who have come to the screen and stayed on as shining examples to beauty, is to say the least, impressive. Dolores del Eio's Latin charms are as lovely now as they were when. she first came to Hollywood. Irene Rich boasts of her age and ie a model for any woman to follow. Porhaps no star of the silver screen has ever had a moro vigorous career than Claudette Colbert, .and yet she is lovelicr to-day than when she appeared "A Woman Lies" seven or eight years ago. Tho oilier skin of the brunette may be shinnier in her youth, and keep the dark-haired beauty i'orever dabbing ather nose, but like all the disagreeabl« lliings m nature, it has its compensaLions. The oil that makes our dusky lady wieJd the powder puff, will in turn liold back the hand of time that comes intent on etching wrinkles. Life begins ' at forty for the complacent, motherly brunette. ' , VVliilo she is taking off the shine, the blonde who is wise and has an eye to the l'uture will be spending some timo with her skin and tissue cream. lt will heip to make up the oil deiicit and stavo off the wrinkles which nkture has iaid in hcr path. There is a scier.tifie formula for the aso of tissue cream. It is not just somehing that's dabbed on at bedtime. The lace must be thoroughly cleaned before 't is used. This means cleansing crcaui 'o remove tenacious make-up, warm ■vater and soap, and a cool rin^e. Theu jat your tissue cream lightly into your ;kin. This should be done everyi othcr light and omthe aiteruato nights, clcau

ihe face in the same thorough manner and then. leave it just as it is until morning. Skin must be allowed to ftmetion in a natural, normal way some of the time. This cleansing system is even moro uecessary to the oily skin than it is to the dry one. The former requires more frequent scrubbing, because oily skina are inclined toward blemishes. Astring ent is good for the porous, oily type, You can't take the wrinkles out of a baked apple, nor can you remove tln valleys and mountains from the fae of the earth. And all the king's horsc can 't take deep wrinkles from a lady ' t'aee, once they have become establis ed. The plastic surgeon is tho only oi who can cope with this situa^ion. Ho\. ever, consistent care can help dela. them. The ainbitious blonde shoul make ii a point to veJax for a fevv j»in

utes every day. Her high tension nerves will have to-be trained to do so, whereas the bruette as a rule does not flnd it so difficult to relax. But in the "case of either type, when the inevitable has happened. I would say this, "If you can't have what you like, then like what you have." A liysterical pursuit of youth is not likely to lead to a graceful approach - to. age, • and age can be lovely in its ownmiellow .va.y. ' ' ' Another bit of aavice from my Holly- • ood observations, is to chart your jlours by the stars. They have started aing natural, blondes are real, brunet"s are genuine, and redheads were tint1 by bature. When the camera frowns a the natural colour of a film starjs air to-dav, she usually prefers to wear : wig than have the natar«l «olowr of ter hair destmyed,. —