HOLLYWOOD POWDER PUFFS
USED BY AVIATORS Hollywood girls are guirding their powder puffs. The tip comes from Fay Wray, Paramount featured player, who predicts a shortage in the woman’s allj r . The reason' is that aviators, from army fliers to air mail pilots, have discovered that a powder puff makes a most satisfactory ear cushion when sewn inside -their helmets. Miss Wray “discovered” the trick while playing the feminine lead in “The Legion of the Condemned” now being 1 directed by William Wellman, and then . spent . h.qurs fixing helmets for the pilots employed in the pictureSi
The news spread. Pilots are making a scramble for the puffs as the new cushions insulate the noise of the motors.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 282, 18 February 1928, Page 14
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