SIX HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY SECRETS

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)

SIX HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY SECRETS

I: Facial beauty is wasted unless accompanied by a trim, slendtr, healthy body. Anne bhirley, screen starlet, shows the way to hgure htness with a limbering exercise guaranteed to keep muscles young and supple. Alternating on each leg, Miss Shirley squats on one knee, points her , other leg as far in front as possible, and touches her toes, swinging from left to right. 2: The route to slim hips. Lying on the mat, Miss Shirley raises each leg and arm, alternating with a swinging movement. This kicking exercise takes weight off—if you have any—in a hurry. If you haven't, it stops the pounds from accumulating. 3: Miss Shirley here shows how slender waists can be achieved, with the maximum of effort and result. Lying face downward on the mat, she raises her head and legs, endeavouring to make both ends meet. This is as difficult as it looks. 4: If you can do this exercise easily you don't have to bother with the p.oblem of physical fitness, avers Miss Shirley. The contortion is evolved for body building. Cross the legs, lie sideways on the floor and raise upwards from the hands, taking care to keep legs and arms stiff. 5: To attain'a well-balanced figure Miss Shirley each day stands perfectly straight, legs together, arms outstretched, and slowly kicks each leg in turn to the side as high as it can go—and then a little higher.

flared skirt, and sometimes fur gives additional importance to a hemline of this type. The swallow-tail line and the cut-away coat are outstanding features of the youthful evening tailor-made. Head Scarves. Sphinx head scarves brilliantly embroidered with sequins (which are a "reat feature of tlie new mode) arc worn with evening gowns, the skirts of which are frequently shorter than usual and ample for dancing, particularly if this be a matter of head-dresses for the jcune fille.

These bead-dresses can be pulled over the head on to the shoulders to veil the neck and back decollete, and especially lovelr examples are noticeable in dresses of a 'new deep blue, ami brick-like Smlan red with golden sequin embroideries. Women who wear sequin dresses this season will have the satisfaction of knowing that they are indirectly helping a very typically French trade to flourish. after'it has been almost at a standstill for ov?r five years. Dressmakers have launched sequins as the correct trimming for garments for nil hours, and the shimmering metal-varnished wafers, which are cut in a variety of shapes, from the finest and lightest sheets of gelatine and in the richest colour schemes, will help to make fashions ! gayer this season.

THE woman of thirty is a personality ■whose sharp corners have had time to change themselves into curves, whose early naivete lias changed to a delightful suggestion of sophistication. The hands tli.it in earlier years dropped the brimming teacup on the moire lap of a forbidding guci-t, or fluttered like lost butterflies from the pat of dress to the smoothing of hair, now preside with charming dignity over the rites of the tea service or add their note of grace to the harmony of an ensemble. The capricious wavering between sports clotheu, tailored dress or picturesque nilllc.s that characterise one's adolescent days, has rceolved 1 itself into a realisation of one's own particular type, and a knowledge of how to express that type in suitable and becoming apparel. The woman of thirty is mature enough to recognise her assets and her liabilities, and to make efficient iwe of them.

She. docs not limit her attractiveness 10 outside appearance. Charm sho knows to he a many faceted jewel, and she niivkes it her business to see to it that every facet of that jewel is clear and shining, and that the gem itself is given a proper setting.

It is a significant fact that some of the world's most famous women achieved their greatest distinction when ill their early thirties. Catherine, of Russia, was S3 years old when she captivated the dashing young ollicer Orion", Livia was about that age when she won the heart of the Emperor Augustus, and Aspasla married Pericles when she was :ili. Mine. Reciiniier was at the zenith of her beauty at 3S, and the lovely Diano do Poitiers was at 37 still adored by the romantic young king, Henry 11. So, wo liavo come to look upon the woman of 30, or past 30, as. a being who i-s qualified to love deeply and permanently.

A generation or so ago a woman of ;iO was firstly a housewife, a meek-look-ing creature who mended socks by lamp light, ran for her husband's slippers, baked hundreds of pies and cakes and loaves of bread, had the minister in to tea, and for amusement and recreation, listened while her husband read aloud from something that interested him. Her hair was parted in the middle and worn in a knot at the back of her head. Her cheeks were slightly hollowed because there had been no opportunity for her to see a dentist in the proper time. Her cosmetics consisted of a little, scented violet powder, and her bath was a domestic ritual of heating I water, bolting the kitchen door, filling I stud emptying the washtub. She would have stared blankly had you mentioned ■such toilet requisites as bath salts. I muscle oil. face cream or lip rouge. She I certainly would have wondered' when ! women 'had time to use such things, or ; why the husbands of the bra/en creatures who did have time, didn't get divorces from them. Aspects of Charm. The women of the charming thirties must remember tha.t charm, as lias been said at the beginning of this article, is a jewel with many facets. Each one must be kept clear 'and shiny. Hair, as well as skin, must be kept in a healthy, radiant condition to postpone, the coming of those telltale grey hairs. A daily massage of the scalp, regular brushing, careful and not too

frequent shampooing will help to make your crown of glory an untarnished frame for a youthful face. Keep a watchful eve upon your figure. Weigh yourself regularly. Flabby abdominal muscle*, a bulge of flesh about your waistline or below your brassiere has nn plnco in the .thirties. Regular daily power," when it conies to refusing sweets, will give to your figure that FCiltlctiro slimnose that we associate Willi Hnbylonian princesses or Hawaiian Kvcry woman over thirty should have at least one form of outdoor exorcise. Swimming is a good reducing exercise, and gives grace and iirniness to the figure. Tenuis gives lightness and agility to the figure, and the perspiration induced by the strenuousness of the exercises is an excellent way to rid the body of impurities.

Dancing is another way to keep your body graceful and agile." H you have time and money join a class of professional dancing and enjoy tiie feeling that your body is not an unwieldy mass of hones and tissue on tlio road to middle age, but a little and beautiful thing that responds to your every wish and movement. Clothes and Attraction. An important thing to remember is that the kind of clothes you wear at ibis period has much to do with the. attractiveness of your personality. You are now of all a'_'e when -vour earlier promise has had time to msolve itself into R ilelinite type. You can no longer experiment with what you would like to wear. You must analyse yourself, determine what kind of a person you are in actuality, and select your clothes as a frame and setting for that type, ill the same manner in which one arranges an appropriate background for u picture or a rare piece of statuary.

Let your watchword in dress, you woman of thirty, be not simplicity, but subtlety. The woman over thirty should 'keep in mind the knowledge that the span of years in which she is now living is in many ways the most interesting period of her whole existence. To be sure she no longer possesses the charming naivete of early youth, but that safe and sane contentment, that complacent placidity that characterises middle age. Within her slim and well cared for hands lies the ability to weave strange and mysterious enchantments over the minds "and hearts of those about her, especially credulous masculinity. The Mona Lisa quality of her str.ile, the subtle movement of her hands, her shoulders, the indefinable witchery of her voice, her laughter, the faint fragrance that lingers about her in a room, all constitutes a charm of personality that is especially characteristic of the thirties. The really charming woman never depends upon surface loveliness to ensure her popularity. She knows that there is far more potency in cleverness, in good taste, and tile ability to keep people amused. She knows how to blend her physical charms with certain mental qualities, in such a manner that she is transformed from being a merely pretty woman into a radiant and beautiful personality. This rare, combination of beauty and brains is found in no other cycle of years as much as it is in the charming thirties.