TEMPERAMENT AND LIGHTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 137, 11 June 1936, Page 28

TEMPERAMENT AND LIGHTS

Mr. John Arnold, president of the American Society of Cinematographers, who "lights" Hollywood's leading players, .declares that temperament is all a question of lighting. "Women shoul< choose lighting effects in their own homes to suit their subconscious colour sensitivities," he says. "A red-sensi-tive girl likes to have red lamp shades in her home, but she shouldn't. Red stimulates her to irritation. This girl should use green lampshades. A bluesensitive or green-sensitive girl may use red lamp shades. She needs stimulation. Sit under a red light, then unde? a green one, and notice the different'effects they have on you. We| photograph Joan Crawford with a little blue,in the lights because she is brown sensitive. Blue offsets brown. . Jean Harlow is pink sensitive, and we use white lights for her. Norma'Shearer is in the pink class. Garbo is green sensitive, so she has a little red to stimulate her. Jeannette Macdonald is red sensitive." Mr. Arnold has prepared a table for colour preferences. Here it is, for what it is worth: Brown, athletic, healthy, energetic; pink, patient, bashful; green, tranquil; red, quick, intense.