MAGNETISM V BEAUTY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 5

MAGNETISM V BEAUTY

SECRETS OF CHARM How difficult it is to talk about personality! It is surely the most subtle complicated thing in the world. It isn’t your looks, or your character, or your voice, or your manner, or your name, and yet somehow it is made up of them all and pervades them all. PERSONALITY MAKES YOUR LOOKS Your looks, of course, are largely responsible for the impression other people get of you, writes Deautiful Tallulah Bankhead in art English paper. A woman who is noticed and remembered, say, for her large and brilliant blue eytis, wouldn’t make just the same effect if she had insignificant grey or brown eyes. And yet another woman might have exactly similar large blue eyes and no one would notice or remember her at all! It’s a sort of circle —your looks make your personality, and yet your personality makes your looks. Names, too. You may hate a certain name until you meet someone very attractive who possesses it. Then you associate it with that person, and finally you can’t imagine their being called anything else. I think voices express personality as much as anything*. A voice is an intensely individual thing, and I feel the attraction or repulsion of another person’s voice more than I am affected bjr their looks or manner.

THE SECRET Whatever makes up a strong personality, there is ore quality that always accompanies it, and that is—vitality. Xot always physical vitality, though that is often present. There are people who are physically weak and delicate, but who attract and dominate others by their mental ard nervous energy alone. Especially on the: stage, one needs tremendous vitality, both mental and

physical. And in connection with this I’ve made a discovery. If you have this sort of energy it’s meant to be used. People have always told ire that 1 do too much; that no one can keep going all the time, that I shall wear myself out, anc: so on and so forth. Thev said it so often thit I began to believe them. I started going st -aight home from the theatre, going to bed early, and resti tg half the day as well. What was the result? I lay awake hour after hour, I felt restless, bored and thoroughly unhappy. Obviously this “saving myself” plan didn't work! So I went back to doing just as much as I felt like dcing, seeing and bilking to friends as much as I wan tec . and going out to supper or to dance whenever I felt inclined. And I feel splendid!

USE YOUR ENERGY That has shown me that if yo ; possess a certain amount of energy you can’t save up tiny for the next day or the next week. Use it and enjoy it! Of course, don’t: exhaust or force yourself —there is no pleasure in that. But if you repress all your impulses to enjoy yourself and think of nothing but “taking care,” you will encl by being so dull and lifeless that you will just have to take care of yourself, because nobody else will fec*l any desire to take care ol! you! DEFINITE CHARACTERISTICS In conclusion I would say. never ge t worried because you don’t at.trcat every single person you meet, or because some people obviously are not interested or impres.sed by you t all. We all like to be liked and admirec. but only the very foolish ones dream of being admired by everyone. If you were Cleopatra and Helen of Troy and Joan of Arc and Mary Pickford all in one. there wou d still be people who wouldn’t see a thing in you to compare with that nice little Jane Jones. Keep your own definite c haraeteristics, no matter if they don’t a >p -al to everyone. They have probably attracted to you your greatest admirers and friends, and. after all, it is ‘tleir opinion that really matters in the end.