It Is Not Always Surface Beauty That Counts

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19337, 29 May 1937, Page 10

It Is Not Always Surface Beauty That Counts

THE dazzle-eyed girl on the magazine cover jdid not. get there because of her eyes. It is the nose—pert, aristocratic, classic or "teasy" —that, counts most of any single feature in the struggle to reach the top among the highest paid photographers’ models. Arthur o '.Neill, New York photographer of magazine cover girls, voiced that dictum recently, in announcing the names of four "repeaters" on the 1937 "All America Beauty Model" team —selected from literally thousands of hopefuls streaming into Now York annually from every section of the continent. About HO girls a week come into O’Neill’s studio, wanting to be models. "And some of them are knockout — to the naked eye, but not to the camera. I'm lucky if I. can use one in a hundred," he said. Camera Defects. "It is not surface beauty that counts. When I’d see a pretty girl in a cafe, I used to get all excited and say, ‘there’s a girl I’d like to take a picture of! ’ But I tried it once, and she came out in the photographs looking like Donald Duck. Her clever make-up, and natural colouring—blue eyes that didn’t show blue in the picture —hid a multitude of camera defects." Figure, poise, grace of movement, knowledge of posing and the indefinable "sex appeal " all count heavily in selecting a model, Mr. O’Neill said, but there has to be a face to go with it. Here is how he rates the value of facial attributes: — ]. Bono structure—the "chassis" of the whole design—3o per cent. 2. Nose—2s per cent. 3. Eyes—ls per cent, 4. Lips—ls per cent. 5. Teeth —10 per cent. G. Hair—s per cent. Shape of a Woman’s Mouth. "The shape of a woman’s mouth gives the whole story of her nature," recently explained Lillian Rosine, who applies make-up to the faces of the movie stars at a major Hollywood studio: "If a man wants to know what kind of treatment to expect from his beloved, let him look at her lips. All the keys are there." The keys, she said, are these: Thin, straight lips pressed close together—"you'll never win an argument from her." The rosebud mouth, praised by poets—" You’ll never have your own way. She will pout until you give iu. ’ ’ Full, rounded lips—" Lovely, but don’t forget that other men think so, foo. If you are the jealous type, avoid this girl." Lips that curve down at the corners—"she can’t take a joke." These, said Miss Rosine, are infallible signals.