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FILMLAND NEWS

"Hairdressing Horrors From Hollywood"

FASHION FAULTS

of

Hollywood is in trouble again- but this time the broath criticism is directed from an un- usual quarter. It is not morala on this ocension, but hairdressing fashions.

In en outspoken articlo on "Hairdressing Horrors from Holly- wood," The lairdresser and Bean- ty Trade refers to "the low stand- ard of hirdressing of the huge

of film stars. majority

"British actresses are admitted- ly better," It is added, "but that is not saying much when we re- member that Hollywood is daily screening fabulously paid women whose hairdressing styles remind us of the middle period of a seri ous scalp disense, or the later stages of mental illness in an aboriginal. Soon it will be an affront among women to be likened 10 a film stor.

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AUGUST 18, 1934.

OLD SCHOOL TIE

"Cannot Disguise Young

Fool's Cap"

PARENTAL SNOBBERY IN SCHOOLING

Frank comment on the motives of some parents in sending their children to secondary, pubile, and private schools was made by Mr. H. Ramsbotham, M.P., Parlament- nry Secretary to the Beard of Education, when he laid the found- ation stone of the Ilfracombe Grammar School.

Speaking of secondary educa tion. Mr. Ramsbotham eald some people appeared to desire to send their children to secondary schools for reasons more closely allled to

status than to education. They are, in fact, trying to copy, in an unthinking way, the practice which a number of well- to-do people adopt of sending their boys to the so-calfed public schools and the girls to private schools and keeping them there till 17 or 18,

ก

regaloss of their capacity to benefit a full-time education of such a kind or of such a

length. "In their endeavour to achieve

"It is highly probable that many beauty and personality for their screen products, the studle beauty

which he can ill afford, brotherhood have called for the aid A good carpet or rug will last fara parent is spending a great deal

longer if it in given careful of

on educating his children at expon of the plastic surgeon, the dentist, the stun hairdresser, and the treatment.

Regular brushing and cleaning sive schools from which they will comparatively small pound-a-minute makeup wizard.

return, And the result has been-what? as soon as it gets stained, and a derive

frequent run-over with a vacuum-educational

That

not the fault of the A total flanco.

"A carpet sche

schools, except in so far as they "It le in hairdressing styles cleaner, If you have one, will keep

it in good condition. where ugliness has achieved its

It is the fault of highest pitch. Select at random that has been soiled with soot,make the conditions of admission

parent who, factory,

their hairdressing can be cleaned in the following the

and gocini prejudice con will be found to be infinitely manner: Dissolve a little fuller's connected with convention, snob-

earth in a mixture of equal parts bery,

form of superior to that of any star.

The styles put out from these cold water and ammonia, and demna his children to a places are not only years out of apply to the affected parts with a education for which they are un- date: they are inartistic, I eon-pad of soft rag. Allow this to dry fitted, and which la too often a celved, I arranged, and sadly on the material, then remove all, waste of time and money. executed. The hairdressing is a particles with a fairly stiff brush.unaware that the old school tis When brushing a carpet, dip the "cannot disguise the young fool's broom in cold, salted water. An cap." excellent mixture for cleaning and

any ten working giris from any black, lead or black boot polish, much too eat for reasons not un-

-

He is

reviving the colours on carpets can WOMAN'S JAW BROKEN be made as follows: Shred twe

disgrace.

"It is amazing to think that these film beautifiers' should im- agine that a star enn be made to look beautiful when her coiffure looks like that of a hoarding-house ounces of yellow soap bito twe landlady on it windy day.

pints of boiling water, stir unti

"Cannet something be done to the soap is thoroughly dissolved.

ntrest this uglification of feminine then add three tablespoonfuls of beauty that appears to have swept ammonia and a little washing soda. the screen? We utterly fail to Apply to the carpet with a soft see what sympathy. can be forth-brush, and sponge with cold water, coming from an audience for the marital or other troubles of a young woman who is made up to look like one of the more inferior kinds of pre-war German dolis." MOTHER-DAUGHTER COMPANY,

from Los Angeles. He has drawn up a scheme whereby his film work in Hollywood will not prevent him from acting in stage plays.

£525 Damages Awarded

Against Dentists

Dramages of £525, with costs, were assessed by a special jury at the West Riding Assizes at Leeds inspector under the Ministry of to Miss Mary Green, no assistant Health, of Grey House, Cam- bridge

Road, Linthorpe, Middles brough, against Messrs. Binns & Collins, dentists, of Grange Road, Middlesbrough.

"Financially this plan is a thing but profitable," Herbert Miss Dorothy Dickson and her Marshall said when announcing daughter, Miss Dorothy Ilyson, his scheme. "Roughly I would Collins, the junior partner of the both of them well-known actresses estimate that it will cost me about

was

called

Miss Green alleged that Mr.

on the stage and screen, have one-fifth of my income, but I bem, used an unsterilised instru- formed a company, to produce lieve that, in the long run, it willment when extracting a tooth plays and films. It is

add many years to my usefulness from her lower jaw and, as a result, her jaw became locked, so that she Ltd., and its Dickson-Hyson,

could not In motion pictures,

open it. She had to nominal capital is £100.

"In my opinion, it enhances the The registration of the company ability of any actor to divide his spend six weeks in a nursing home

announced recently

time between the two mediums and, while a patient there, she had three more teeth extracted by Mr. Messrs. Jordan & Sons, who add which are so closely related yet so Collins. In doing so, she alleged that Miss Dickson is to be per distinctly different, providing, of

course, he has a suitable vehicle." he broke her jaw. She had suffer- ed from osteomyelitis and--paid manent governing director and

£375 in expenses. chairman.

wandering in the streets in a dazed condition.

KIDNAPPING CHARGE.

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GRETA NISSEN'S DIVORCE. Waldon Heyburn, the film actor, has just learned that his wife, Greta Nissen, expects to obtain a Mexican divorce from him within a month, according to the New

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There is, undoubtedly, a lack of activity in the animal race,_'_______ 6 Fix in 21.

His annals are famous.

11 Bp of the type she seems, So careless of the single life' (In Memoriam").

12 A cut that may affect the

housewife's budget.

13 To find the garden tool you must

look in the thicket,

14 Bathing-place.

considered sweet, isn't it?

The kidnapping charge brought

BRITAIN'S BEST. by Mias Marjorie Crawford, the Alm actress,. against Mr. K. T.

Medals for the best achievement Dawiing, the dancer, to whom she

by a British producer, director, is now married, was dismissed at York Mirror.

Heyburn is stated to be greatly and player in 1938 have been given 17 It's change for Electra to bo Los Angeles.

arrested Mr. surprised by the news as, according to Mr. Michael Balcon, Mr. Victor When he Wis Dowling protested that he had to his lawyer, this is the first he Saville, and Miss Madeleine Car-19 Geographical features,

roll.

20 You'll and a browsing cattle in

this field. motored to Arizona with Miss has heard of Greta's action.

Miss Carroll gained first place Crawford to get married at her After starting his career on the request. She however, protest- stage, Weldon Heyburn has appear for her performance as the nurse 21 A bend,

24 Heips, ed that she had been, forcibly ed in various Alms, among them in "I Was a Spy." Mr. Saville 23 It's all wrong, of course.

being "The Gay Caballero," "The was the director of that picture, abducted.

and "Widow's and Mr. Balcon the production: 20 Yields ott for its anagram.

20 You'll always find this When the case we first brought Silent Witness,"

of the company-the

back page of the paper. before the Court in May, the Dls Might"

Gaumont-British Corporation -

30 Time puts a period to this sordid trict Attorney dismissed the

which produced it,

habitation. charge on hearing that Miss

31 As I am not there, mins is Crawford had married Mr. Dow-

occapled with the written word. ng. The Judge, however, re

32 Sun and cool air ntingle in this

well-known drama, fused to enter a formal dismissal, and eventually decided that Mr. Dowling should stand trial on the charge.

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case,

HOLLYWOOD SCANDAL. Miss June de Long, who recently gave sensational evidence in the

dis Hollywood scandal appeared on the following day from her flat, where she has been under guard, leaving a note which ran "Marie, by the time you read this I'll be dead June."

managor

At the presentation of the awards the Duke of Sutherland said that British films had enor- mously improved; and needed to. "I have never seen anything so terrible as the British films of he seven or eight years ago, added. "The first picture made in The woman guard left the flat this country that seemed good to for few minutes, and when sho me was 'Rome Express. Since Herbert Marshall, the English returned found that June had then we have been turning out actor, has arranged to sacrifice one-fifth of his income so that he gone. The note was on the table. pictures which can compete in the The police broadcast an alarm. world market, and I congratulate can appear on the stage for three Later it was reported that Miss the British film industry on the months every year, says Router June do Long had been found i strides it has made."

HERBERT MARSHALL'S

SACRIFICE.

SALESMAN SAM

He Belleves in Signs!

Down

on

the

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.The

6. Sic transit plaria

Emperor is now in one room.

6 These birds might be served for tea if the heads were changed.

7 Landseer lions lle around this

London landmark,

8 "Maria, I insult it" though Jolin Stuart Mill wrote about..it (anag),

10 A gentleman-joint shareholder

with twelve.

15 Biting? Well, yes, but

angler doesn't care.

the.

to

16 This busy little worker scema

have some pretensions to be conaldered.

18 Mainstay of the flower show, 20 Angels.

22 It's flat and high, but luckily

hot musical

25 A fox in a bush.

27 Metal.

28 Here's money for the girl.

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