Stars Tell Their Beauty Secrets
T'S extremely difficult to tell you my rules for beauty for really I do nothing more than the usual things most girls do.
I believe, though, in lots of fresh air and the harder work the more fresh air I need.
:
be
or on
However strenuously I may working, whether for a film the stage, I never stop taking exer- cise. Walking and riding suit me best.
Even If I hated walking, instead of ilking it very much, my small wire-haired terrier, Major, would inke care that I didn't neglect that sort of exercise, at any rate. Perhaps I shouldn't walk nearly much as I do I it won't for him.
But there's just one point to make
-I don't think
It's an
awfully
#tood thing to take
lot of
exercise 30 24 14- tienly; many people make that mistake.
ALTHOUGH
quite unnecessary for me, as I'm naturally very slim, I sometimes eat things which are supposed to help one to put on weight, but it hasn't much ef- feet in my case.
Periups this is rather lucky for me as so many girls of my age are not so slim as they'd like to be and so they are always trying
various diets to take off the un- wanted pounds.
I drink a lot of water and one of my habits-which may seem rather
By 17-year-old Nova Pilbeam
A
Nova Pilbeam is about to start work on another film at Pinewood.
says:
I
She
BELIEVE in lots of fresh air and I never stop
taking exercise,
1
USE pinky-peach pow-
der, light-coloured lip-
stick, pale rose nail varnish, rub
in cuticle cream nightly,
T bedtime always
A eat an apple and
brush my hair thoroughly.
I
Nor do I follow any speciel ritual
of beauty culture at home with
and creams, lotions
massage. Al- though there is not much lipstick or powder left on my face at night naturally I see that what there is comes off at bath time.
be rather My skin happens to sensitive and so, although I wash my face with water, I don't use soap on t.
THERE is one thing I've always wanted, and that is lovely long eyelashes, and I've been trying hord with special creams to make I want mine grow to the length them for years!
But I have very little trouble with my eyebrows and when they ocen sionally need tidying I trim them up myself, using tweezers.
Exaggeratedly manicured nails do not appeal to me, but I use a nail varnish, and I rather like a pale rose shade. To keep the cuticles down the most satisfactory method for mo! three weeks when I have time.
When I am working in the film is to rub a special cream well into
studio
the nails at night. studio there is always, the make-up man and hairdresser to attend to face und hair.
In spite of stage and Alm work use only a my life is just the life the average FF the stage I
little powder and lipstick. Birl of my age leads. In fact, I think As my hair is not "dimcult I look A pinky peach is my powder chade I'm an absolutely normal girl in
every way. after it myself between visits to the and I use a light-coloured lipstick.
lawn cach morning. This quietness makes a difference to the quality of one's sleep.
strange--is to eat a raw apple every night. It sounds rather indigestible but whatever time I go to bed I in the day-time. I simply couldn't hools of owls which, incidentally, hairdresser-I go about once every must have that apple although, pro- sleep. Even when I was a baby I leave several field mice strewn on bably, it is merely a habit.
Was never very good at the day- the And then I have a hot bath every time rest. Again, I may be one of
how into $ night, too, no matter is when. I get home. Some people the lucky ones for I do not need a night lot of rest and, although I sleep very belleve that a hot bath at wakes you up, but for me it has the lightly, I sleep well. opposite effect, and makes me sleep I always sleep with my windows better.
wide open but then it is very quiet It wouldn't help me at all to rest where I live, with just the accusional
THE INFORMAL PARTY
UESTS
Menu Suggestions
Another of my bedtime rules is to least, brush my hair 20 times each side of my head every night.
PIQUANT PINEAPPLE
PINEAPPLE is a favourite tinned
fruit of many people, and there
are delicious ways of using it.
of
A pudding that can be eaten hot or cold according to the weather made by adding pineapple and eggs them some to a good white sauce. For the sauce the dish, and pour over frequently enjoy informal party far more than the cooking sherry or fruit juice. Pre- use three-quarters of a pint of milk formal one; there is less feeling of pare a custard by taking one small and one-and-a-half ounces each
butter and full-cream
flour. Add three of unsweetened restraint and things are more likely tin to go with a swing." Here are a few condensed milk and mixing this with dessertspoonfuls of sugar, a quarter water. of a teaspoonful vanilla essence, suggestions for the buffet which will three-quarters of a pint of help to make such a part a great Beat up two eggs and two oz castor two beaten egg yolks, and half
sugar and add to the dissolved milk, tint of pineapple cut into small Stir gently over a low flame until the pieces. Turn the mixture into A Danish dish which has become custard thickens. Allow to cool and greased ple dish, beat the whites of a great favourite over here is very pour over the sponge cakes. When erg to a stiff froth with a little castor lasty and attractive, consisting of quite cold cover with whipped cream sugar and pile them on top. Put the decorate. with cherries and pudding into a slow oven until the rounds of crisp, French bread, spread and
egg whites are golden brown with butter, on top of which is a angelica.
crisp. ranged almost any conceivable cold
success:-
delicacy, garnished attractively with Genoese Fancies
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IN
OMELETS
SOME TASTY VARIETIES
the tiniest inn or restaurant hot dish, and garnish with a sprig abroad, one can always procure of parsley.
ex- Kidney Omelet rellent and delicious, meal for warm
good omelet-this forms an
being both light and weather, making a successful omelet. nourishing. Here are three rules for core.
Skin one kidney and remove the Cut in dice and cook in butter
slowly about 20 minutes. Prepare an emelet as above (omitting cheese)
In the frying pan put 1 teaspoon and place the kidney in the centre salt. heat well, then rub with clean before rolling up. kitchen paper, to remove roughness Tomato Omelet
Skin, slice, and cook the tomate In a little butter. Prepare omelet and for the place tomato in centre before rolling Make the diners wall omelet, and not the omelet for the up.
Allow 2 CE per person, and see that they are "new faid."
And
red pepper, gherkins, stuffed olives or
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Two and a half oz flour; two
oz
two
in
For a hot day pineapple trifle is delightful luncheon, sweet and very quickly made. Arrange some bunks or slices of tinned pineapple
a glass dish with allees of Cheese Omelet spongecake or Madeira cake and some
vers
11⁄2 oz grated cheese.
anchovies. For example:-Slices of
esxs.
macaroons or ratafias. Pour
tongue with Russian salad, garnished caster sugar: two oz butter; with red pepper; alices of hard-boiled egg with anchovies; cucumber and Beat up the eggs and the sugar for sardine; minced ham mixed will about 20 minutes, until the eggs are chopped spring onions, garnished very thick and creamy. Melt the with a stuffed olive: smoked eel with butter gently in a saucepan and add cakes, cover them with thick custard chopped
uver suficient syrup to saturate the
cornte.
ar
Uiners! If omelets are kept in the A dish for an epicure is
border of oven for even five mir giles-they be-
anute or fried spinach or pens, come a leathery mags-su serve im- omelet served with mediately they are made!
potatoes, and a good gravy. By using your imagination you can vary your omelets-by adding say a pinch of herbs, parsley, finely chopped meat or fish.
tablespoon milk; 3 eggs.
4 oz batter; pepger and salt.
Beat together the eggs, milk, and "Family" Omelet cheese. Season. Hent the butter in
with red pepper; various kinds of
and CE mixture. Mix quickly and light- A pleasant change from lemonade the frying pan, pour in egg mixture
olives,
water,
cup
a cup
Winifred Bear
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
of and stir over the fire till it begins to of set creamily. Itoll up. Turn on to
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1⁄2 oz cornflour.
teacup milk; 2 eggs.
11⁄2 teaspoon each salt, pepper, and made mustard. 1/4 oz butter.
Mix cornflour to a smooth poate
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cheese with tomatoes,
ly will a spoon and pour into a pre- gherkins,
pared sandwich tin or sponge-roll tin ia "pineappleado." Add Small sausages, served hot and which has been previously sprinkled chopped pineapple and caten on cocktail sticks are popular with four and castor suger. Place white sugar to a pint of cold water cook for and boil all together for 15 minutes. Stir in half a cup of orange juice and at Informal parties, Other hot in a moderate oven and
Turn on to $
of water. Boll until the onions are bring remainder to the bolt, and pour $20,000. zavouries are tiny rounds of Welsh about 15 minutes.
on wire tray to cool. When cool cut a quarter of a cup of lemon juice in a saucepan covered with a pint with a small quantity of the milk-} at $25,000, against which the Income to date is
The Society asks for the balance of rarebit and prawns and sardines
toast. Sand- into fancy shapes; cut these in hair then strain the liquid and battle it. soft and then mash them up. Strain in cornflour. Boll Ave minutes and allow to cool. Separate whites from
$5,000 small slice of hot
egg yolks, and beat yolks and, sea- wiches, a fruit cake, fruit salad and and spread with jam or butter leing. Serve diluted with ice water to taste. off the ilquid and bottle.
Wipe the paint with a rag wrung sonings: afterwards stir in cornflour, Hon. Treasurers: ・・ cream, a milk jelly, a trifle, fancy Stick the halves together again and
out in this liquid and polish after- Beat white silly, and fold in which cakes, and biscuits should complete a cover with icing, which is made in
the following way:-
fat in your fryer or wards with a soft cloth. If the point lightly. Pour into pan in most popular buffet.
is very dirty, wash with warm water butter is melted. Heat over slow gus Take four oz icing sugar (sified), WHEN the
dripping basin becomes dirty, and a little soft soup; or, as a lest $11 colouring and
under sido is brown. Then Rich Trifle
clarify it in this way:-Warm the fat resort, uzo rog moistened with flavourings, Mix the icing sugar to until it is just melted, and pour it paraffin and wash afterwards with a
brown top under the grill. Fold paste with boiling A trifle is generally very much a fairly stif
three parts, into a clean basin. Pour over this for varicly you water. Divide Into appreciated, and could make the custard with con- colour one part pink and flavour with a kettleful of boiling water, and let soapy cloth. On no account use a quickly in two and serve.
essence, colour another the lot stand overnight. In the gritty substance, as this will damage densed milk, diluting it with only raspberry
Lemons can bo kept. almost half or two-thirds the quantity of part orange and flavour with orange morning, lift off the crust of fat from water usually used. The custard will essence, and another part Davour the top. Scrape the tat underneath
remove any with lemon
#mond Lo
Elinging dirty indefinitely in a basin of cold water. essence ог have a rich, creamy flavour.
particles; place in a pan and heat Change the water every day. Split some trifle sponges in half, essence.
very slowly to drive off any water Gwendoline Wales. spread with jam, arrangé in a glass
that may have been absorbed, Lettuces will be much crisper if Here is an excellent tip for keep- they are washed in cold water with Ing delicate paint splek and span. two slices of lemon in it.
A.W. Slice two large onions and put them
boiling
KLEENEX
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the paint.
Strawberry Omelet
Make same as family omelet, but omit pepper, salt, and mustard. caster Instead add two teaspoons sugar, and a squeeze of lemon juice. Make omelet-tum on to sugared paper, spread with heated stawberry Jam-fold in two, and dredge with caster sugar.
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