NO MAKE-UP.

Auckland Star, 2 September 1933, Page 5 (Supplement)

NO MAKE-UP.

IN STARS' DAILY LIVES. No woman in the world is satisfied with her facial or physical appearance, no matter if she is admittedly the beauty queen of her own circle, or the most ravishing creature of the screen. And because of this aesthetic discontent many a promising screen career has been nipped in the bud. "The motion picture xnakc-up man lias a greater responsibility keeping rouge, eye shades and grease tones oft" the faces of the stars than he has in applying them," says Wally YVeslmore, a successful Hollywood make-up expert. "Not one of the most beautiful women of the screen to-day — Marlene Dietrich, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, or any of them, is satisfied with her appearance. Marlene Dietrich's eyes and lashes are close to perfect, I believe. But she would change them if w<; would let her. Miriam Hopkins insists that her chin is too square, and would try to correct it for the cameras with rouge, if we did not constantly fight against it. In my years of experience at this work, I have nev*» known a screen star —or a woman in front of the dressing table in her own boudoir at home —who could -be trusted to use cosmetics correctly. Overemphasis is the fault and the sin of all of them." "We have aii ironclad rule here which forbids any candidate for a screen part of a contract to make up herself for the all-important original test. Many a beautiful girl has ruined her chances because she insisted on readying herself for the camera and light test."