THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 23, 1938
The Secret of
Glamour
The Old Hollywood Philosopher says, "Look chic by day, glamorous by night!"
"And if you feel especially tired, try putting pads of cotton dipped in a witch hazel solution on your eyes. That will give them a fresh, lively look in no time.
But just what is the secret of Glamour after-five? It's then you want that Special Look. The girl "It's only after you've `rested that who looks fascinating under bril-you are ready for your make-up and liant dance floor lights as well as can really do justice to it." across a candle-lit table for two the winner every time. But how does she do it?
For instance, when Merle Oberon attends a party she is dressed inter- estingly and in perfect taste.
MERLE OBERON'S RECIPE
In other words, Merle's recipe for glamourous after-five dressing is: Wear the colour and pictorial style that you like and that suits you best
at home.
Wear white when (if it's becoming).
Wear black for restaurant dining and dancing. (But she combines it, as a rule, with a white top).
Yes, Glamour depends. on sparkle --and sparkle depends on relaxation. FIVE POINTS OF GLAMOUR
There are five points to Glamour, says Max Factor. And each one is very important.
A fresh, clear complexion.
A soft, well-blended make-up that harmonizes exactly with the tones of your skin.
walk.
graceful
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SMART SUIT DRESS. You will be able to get better idea of Mrs. Whitham's two-piece suit-cdress from this photograph. Note the smart high buttoned-to-the-neck cape with its contrasting brown lining. On the right is Miss Smalley.
A smart hairdress. ⠀⠀ A good posture and a you go formal
A buoyant spirit. Personally, I don't think any make-up in the world is soft and well-blended when it's applied direct- It needs a founda- For a Glamourous Make-up, shey to the skin.
tion cream! That's one of the big- believes that the colour should be brighter and lighter than you use gest glamour secrets we have during the day, and that smooth learned from the screen stars-they make-up rests on a smooth founda-have always used a foundation
their picture roles. And Max Fac- tion cream!
tor, make-up wizard of Hollywood, adage Spare the rod
I am about to explode an old and understanding, someone to pat "Of course," said Merle, "the first considers it just as important for
́and spoil him on the back and commend him the child. thing is to relax if it's only for five other women for their street make-lieve in it, and I know at least one ly he does something good some- So many parents befor something he does well. Sure- minutes before you start getting up and as one of their-up and as father who regards it as a rite. He times! Remember the boy has an dressed in the evening. Relax com- one of their “dark secrets!”
HORS D'OEUVRE
ever
in
WHIPPING KILLS BOY'S. RESPECT
has a fourteen-year-old boy who is inferiority complex - everybody is a pitiful example of the child on down on him. He feels he is a whom the rod has not been spared. failure.
pletely. Everybody is so busy these days they's almost forgotten how. But the best way to do it is to lie
Whipping does not beat anything It is going to be some.job to down and consciously relax each Slices of salami and liver sausage into a boy. At best it can only build up this boy. It means steady muscle until you feel that every bit garnished with parsley make easily beat something out of him and that work. It means love, praise when of tenseness has left you. Begin prepared hors d'oeuvre. So do olives something is his love, respect and deserved, useful work assigned and by letting the hands go limp, the and sardines, and potato salad. admiration for the person who accounted for, and praise if well arms, and then the head and back. As an alternative to hors d'oeuvre, beats him. You cannot do a thing done. It means a little earned al- Relax mentally too. For those five grape fruit, cut in half and properly with a boy through the word lowance. It means a smile. minutes drop all thoughts even prepared, or grape fruit cocktail,["don't,” but you can do everything It means everything! Who can gay ones!
They can excite you and which can be prepared with either by the word “do.”
keep on living while being kicked make you grow tense again,
the fresh or canned fruit, are good. What the boy needs is sympathy around? None of us!
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(Continued from Page 2) 1 I could go on and on waxing er to right hem, leaving the right enthusiastic if I were to mention shoulder comparatively plain ex-all the winners I picked, but the cept for miniature rosettes of the lack of space compels me to end It is a red-letter day for same flowers interspersed here, here.
I might add, however, parents when baby takes his and there? Over it she wore a that I saw Mrs. Duclus there, and first steps. Soon he will have gray coat and did good justice to among others Mrs. Morse, Mrs. of the worries attend- a black skull cap, it's crown made D. B. Evans, Mrs. T. V. Harmon, ant upon his early of scraps of felt cut “all-same” Mrs. A. M. Braude, Pamela Scott-months will be lifted feathers, with veil.
Harston, the Misses Betty and from parents should-
left babyhood behind and sõme
risks of health upsets".
He will be running
LUXURIOUSLY FURRED Beryl Fair, Girlie Glendinning,ers. I was very struck by the black Violet Bradbury, Mrs. ... – W. T. But, remember, the wool gown worn by Mrs. M. Stanton, Vivian Blackburn, Miss are as great as ever. Sternberg. Her tall, svelte figure Smalley and Mrs. Haggard. carried off the clinging lines of Believe me, girls, it was a close about getting over- the skirt to perfection, I thought. frace and as far as I am concern-
heated with conse- The material was new, too aled, ended in a dead heat!
quent danger of chills, raised. cut-away design, and her
probably he will be eating food which waistline was wrapped in a wide belt accented by a large synthe
Have you ever tried arching your in other ways incurring the may not agree with him, and
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