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Balbo Loses
General Balbo has lost the third round of his duel with Mussolini.
His removal from the post of Air Minister, and appointment to the comparatively unimportant governorship of the African colony
of Lybia, can have no other mean- Į ling.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1933.
SECRETS BEHIND FILM FACES
NURSE IS GUARDIAN OF BEAUTIES
PROBLEMS OF THE STARS
(By Seton Margrave.)
"
Surprise was expressed in some
The most important woman in, Morely, and Heather Angel-whose quarters that General Balbo, who Hollywood has never been seen in only problem is to put on weight, has criticised Mussolini's policy on ilms. She was trained as a nurse While others around them are several questions, did not resign-in her native Sweden. She studied condemned to sweetless and butter The answer is that under the Fas
For less diets, they eat steaks and pies cist regime in Italy, as under the anatomy and massage there.
the past seven years she has been and sweets, everything that comes Bolshevist regime in Russia, mem the creator and the guardian of the along. They swim and play tennis- bers of the party who hold posts Alm beauty of Hollywood.
and take all the strenuous exercise of State are not permitted to ne
When you marvel at the grace forbidden to 'those in search of sign. They are appointed, trans and beauty of your most adored beauty. But they are the excep ferred or dismissed.
cinema star, you are more likely tions and one day they may be the piece of living sculpture by Sylvia Chan not admiring yet another rules.
Heather Angel, for example, to- Ulbeck,
Denis Philips is Grade A. Denis Sylvia Ulbeck moulds and mas Philips is the make-up expert at
Resignation is regarded 26 21 act of insubordination, and is pan Ished with imprisonment or exile.
Looking For Weather Secrets. anges beauty into faces and figures. Movietone City in Hollywood. Sir Hubert Wilkins, veteran of She enforces an iron discipline of He puts all faces into one or many a set-to with the Arctic and conduct.
other of three classes. Grade A. Antarctic, son of an Australian
She is the only person in Holly-which takes 10 minutes for make- sheep rancher-and FR
knight wood who possesses
an infalliblolup: Grade B, which takes 25 min- through his fame as an explorer-and devastating cure for that most utes; Grade C, which takes 45 min- is again on his way to the bottom prevalent of Hollywood diseases utes. of the world. Lady Wilkins, whom sometimes called the artistic tem
At the beginning of each
now
he married shortly before his trip perament but which is probably picture Denis Philips estimates the to the Arctic by submarine two best described as swelled head. time, the assistance, and the expen- years ago, is now, in the United
The stars of Hollywood listen to diture he will need according to the States. Next time, she says, she her meekly and obey her implicitly numbers of A's and B's and C'a in will go along-i-netossary
as for the best of reasons. Sylvia the cast. ship's cook.
[Ulbeck has made and remade hun-
Rules For Beauty Sir Hubert's ruling passion
dreds of famous fim players. Those finding out what causes the wea-few who have been so unwise as to time or another under the exact- Most stars, however, come at one ther. He believes the answer can disregard her Instructions have in- ing discipline of beauty, and must variably taken a sudden dive into observe the rules of massage, exer-
be found in the polar regions.
Your Daily Smile.
THE TEST. "Darling, "Will you be my wife?" "Will you always let me do just
Mr. Roosevelt's Policy. lion dollar" as well as a "goods what I like?"
The apparent contradictions of that there President Roosevelt's monetary fluctuation in the exchanges with policy have disconcerted "sound-foreign currencies based on an un- money" advocates. Whatever Mr.varying gold standard er on any Roonevelt may
"re-other basis than the particular: mean by vatning" the dollar, he has made it price index adopted for purposes of plain that the operation must wait adjustment. Much would depend until prices, particularly agricol-upon what commodities were taken tural prices, have been restored to into the reckoning, since the rela
of different com-1 a remunerative level. That in theive importance
"Certainly."
"CAB mother live with us?" "Of course, dear."
"Will you give up the club always give me money when
for it?"
"Willingly, my pet."
one
Just as an aside I should say that [the practice regarded as most dan-
oblivion.
She tries to limit the number of rules of rest.
jelse, and diet, and also the golden
her patients to twelve at any time, but generally she has more, and every one is glad to pay her at the rate of £50 a week for treatgerous to beauty is the cocktail habit or that of drinking liquor in any quantity, at all before meals. Even in Hollywood such a bust-In the search for beauty cach, iness must show results, and the
jactress is a separate problem to the most important of these results is beauty expert.
ment.
and that Sylvia Ulbeck has converted
I
ask
the neurotic Hollywood of silent of Mrs. Cheyney," Norma Shearer During the making of "The Last film daye into a centre in which left that her career was in danger the ideal of the sound mind in the unless she could counteract a ten-
"I'm sorry: I could never marry sound body has become almost a re-dency to put on weight and at the Auch an idiot."
ligion.
same time subdite an Inclination to The price that Hollywood pays apaemia, for beauty is no longer the pries
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HARD LINES!
Sylvia Ulbeck solved both these
goal to attain which he is bending modities is far from being the same girl to whom I have proposed with-delled or of having wrinkles problems and at the anine time
wak
Sultor: "You are the seventh of having a nose surgically remo-]
double chins erased. These thing Girl: "Well, maybe if you wear still happen, but they are not the one when making your eighth pro-beginning of the system of mas
aage, exercise, and diet imposed by Sylvia Ulbeck.
Famous Patients
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INSULATION.
or removed excess muscle of arms, shoulders and legs which Norma Shearer had developed as the result of her enthusiasm for tennis and swimming.
all his energies, and until it is ab-in every country or even in every out avail," tained he refuses to concern him-part of the same country. More- self overmuch with the exchange over what matters to the individual value of the dollar in gold or in producer or purchaser is not so terms of the gold currencies. The much a general or average price posal you'll have better luck!"
These strenuous exercises are re- people who want a permanent re-level as the price of the particular
garded as definitely hostile to film. valuation of the dollar before prices commodity in which he is interest- have been raised are, he has said, ed. It would not console a stocking from work met his eight-year Norma Shearer, Ann Harding, Con-
A broadcasting engineer retura- Her grateful patients include beauty. putting the cart before the horse breeder, for example, to tell him old son. Noticing that the child's stance Bennett, Carole Lombard, different problem. She had to put Constance Bennett presented a It has sometimes during the past that the general price level finger was bandaged, the father Constance Cummings, Sidney Fox, on weight. She had fallen to seven few weeks been speculatively as
rising if he were being asked the cause.
Joan Bennett, Jean Harlow, Gloria stone and her nature! healthy sumed that his views on monetary ruined by a disastrous fall in the "I touched wasp." said the Swanson, Betty Bronson, Marion weight is eight stone. The treat
ohey were becoming more orthodox price of meut.
That, however, child, "and the end wasn't insulat Davies, Ruth Chatterton.
is all ed."
ment was a regular nourishing dist, Ithan some of his previous utter as the Germany would say,
One of the most interesting of massage, gentle exercise, bed at unces would indicate; but it is now music of the future. Mr. Roose-
her patients at the present ma-ten! evident that he has moved very velt's immediate task is to raise
A DOUBLE SURPRISE. particularly agricultural little, if at all, from the position he prices,
ment is Anna Q. Nilsson, who is Jean Harlow had to undergo re- Marjory: "Mummy, were you at coming back to pictures after a ducing exercises and to adopt a took up last July at the beginning prices, before attempting to stabil-home when I was born?"
long and serious illness.
diet designed to preserve perfec- of the World Conference, when he 124 them. Such has been hie pro- Mother: "No, darling, I
Four years ago this loveliest of tion of complexion. Because of abruptly put a stop to the discus-claimed intention all along in order staying with grandma in
the allent film stara was thrown from her exceptionally fair colouring, sion of plans for stabilizing the to lighten the burden of debt press-country."
horseback and suffered a fractured the care of her complexion is of the exchanges. In the message which ing upon all the producing elements
"Wasn't you awfully surprised hip. Night after night Sylvia utmost importance before the.. disconcerted the whole financial of the nation. As a matter of fact when you heard about it?"
Ulbeck visited the hospital in camera. world at that time, and which pro- he claims that he has already made
which Anna Q. Nilsson lay, and Nearly every film actress has: voked the representatives of the considerable progress in this task.:
preserved not only her beauty but some such individual problem. goid countries into refusing further He declares, for example, not only
most probably also her life.
Greta Garbo has a typically participation, he declared his con- that employment has been found
For this service, Sylvia Plback Nordic face. There are the high viction that a sound internal econ- for at least four million out of the
refused to accept any payment. forehead, the high cheek bones and omic aystem was a greater factor twelve
million people Exports of scrap iron and steel]. in the well-being of a nation than who were without work a few from the United States in the first The feminine sergeant-major of general impression of length of features. These characteristics are Hollywood has a kind heart, that on an five months. this year the price of its currency in terms months ago, but ziso of the currencies of other nations; average the farmer is receiving than three times as great as in the plea of them are Katharine Hep- tragis parta, t
There are a fortunate few—sam- an enormous asset to the playing of The scoffed at the "old.fetishes of more money by a third for his crops similar period last year,
Dorothy Jordan, Karen (Continued on Page 11). so-called international bankers"; and this year than in 1982, Prices, The defined his policy in words al- however, are now flagging, and in
he now uses.
or thirteen
Facts You Did Not Know.
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were moTE:
The recent completion of a land- mont identical with some of those some commoditics a great part of ing stage at Cherbourg, France, han “Let me be frank," what had; boen gained has been lost made it possible for trans-Atlantic the message ran, "In saying that within the past few weeks. In any linera to land passengers without the United States socks the kind of case the rise bus not been great the use of tender service. dollar which a generation hence will enough or widespread enough to
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have the same purchasing and debt-satisfy the Western farmers, who For garage and service station: paying power as the dollar value are now loudly proclaiming their use a machine has been invented we hope to attain in the near discontent. They are clamouring that shakes an automobile and re future. That objective means more for a drastic inflation of the cur- venis rattles and squeaks not found to the good of other nations than rency as the only way of freeing by any other means and their loca- a fixed ratio for a month or two themselves from their debts. They tion.
in terms of the pound and the allege that the working' of the Na-
bura,
BEFORE-
ENSARMAMENT CONFERENC
franc." From the one utterance as tional Recovery Act so far has only To save the expense of sharpen-|· | AFTER- from the other it is almost an in- made their position worse, increas-fing rock drills bita have been invent-|| evitable deduction that he regards ing the prices, of what they have toled that are cheap enough to throw the "commodity dollar"! what buy more than the price of what away after being used at the ond those who do not believe in it they have to sell It is impossible of drill rods. derisively call the "rubber dollar”-- at the “présent stage to estimate the
sa the solution of America's mone importance of this revolt; but there tary problem, though it is one is no doubt that it is significant anchor of public confidence. There which he does not intend to apply and that it faseriously embarrass-is no sign that he is in the least Jail prices have been restored: ing the Administration, which had flurried or dismayed by the difficul Roughly the idea, first put forward already troubles enough in its ties which, beset him," "not" all of by Professor Irving Fisher, of efforts to control and to co-ordinate which can have been unforeseen. And Yale University, is that the dollar the economic activities of hon, there is equally no sign yet of any should always be exchangeable for dred and twenty million people, diminution of the faith reposed is gold, though not at a ixad parity. The encacy of the Roosevelt Plan him personally, by the people, how- The gold contout of the currency is now being put to a critical test ever critical they may have become unit would"; "Begädjusted fixed Among many indications which of "home of the features of his datos in accordanos with price justify/änxiety the “personality of policy, and of some of the agencies Inder of
remains the sheet of his 'Administration,
AND SO ON, AND ON
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