ELECTION MAKE-UP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1940, Page 6

ELECTION MAKE-UP

ADVICE FROM HOLLYWOOD PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. APPEARANCE BEFORE CAMERA. LOS ANGELES, February 29. Candidates for the 1940 Presidential nomination, and all high ofiiceseckers in America, were warned today by Hollywood to take stock of their faces. The warning came from Wally Westmore, one of Hollywood's four famous make-up brothers, who are paid largo salaries for concealing the facial delects of film stars. "This is an important election year,” said Westmore. "Newsreel cameramen and newspaper photographers will be busier than ever—and it’s a shame the candidates do not pay more attention to their personal appearance. "It is time celebrities became aware of the fact that close-ups are apt to make freckles stand out like pumpkin pies, and a missing tooth looks like a Grand Canyon gap.” ROOSEVELT FAULTLESS. Westmore took a disapproving look at the untouched photographs of the leading presidential candidates, and offered some helpful hints. Beginning with President Roosevelt, he said: "F.D.R. has not announced his candidacy yet, but I might say, just in case, that Hollywood has nothing but admiration for his appearance before the camera. We cannot teach him a thing, photographically. He has the ease of Bing Crosby, the camera sense of Charles Laughton and the showmanship of Cecil B. de Mille." Westmore dealt next with Vice-Pre-sident John Nance Garner, of Texas, who, he said, should: "See a dentist and have jackets put on his teeth. Wear a larger collar so that his neck would not form a roll of flesh round the top. Lot his hair grow longer, so that it would lie down and appear wellgroomed. Use a little shaving powder on his face when posing for photographs, lo conceal his florid colouring and give a more even tone to his skin. Mr Garner really ought, to do something about himself.”

“NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL.” Of Thomas E. Dewey, New York's District Attorney, Westmere said: “First, his moustache is much too big. 1 imagine lie wears a moustache because his upper lip is full and protrudes. and he feels the moustache will cover it. He should trim it down to a more definite shape. Now il is neither fish nor fowl." Senator Robert ki Follette, of Wisconsin, should never pari his hair in the middle, as he does now, Westmore said. “He has a round face, anyhow, and parting in lhe middle only accentuates the roundness. 'The parting should be fri over in the side." Westmore advise:; Senator Robert ’raft, of Ohio, to grow more hair, if possible, at the temples, to make him look younger, and a moustache on his lip io give him an appearance of greater decision. “NEEDS EXERCISE.” Westmore likes the genial appearance of Senator Arthur 11. Vandenberg, of Michigan, but thinks a little exercise would not do him any harm. He also advises him to wear a slightly larger collar. Westmore thinks Secretary of Slate Cordell Hull looks "pretty good." In fact. all he need:: is a little shaving powder, and possibly jackets for two front, teeth. Mr Paul Varies McNutt. - Federal Security Administrator, was adjudged -The Beau Brummel of Presidential candidates," bill Westmore would advise looser collars for him. too. Westmore concluded: "The oilier] night I dropped into a i.-mema arid

heard a stirring address on an important national problem by a Senator. It was a talk that should have shaken the rafters of lhe Capitol, but on the screen it brought only gull'aws. The Senator was a photogenic mess!"