Screen Stars Give Answers To Questions On Beauty Culture

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 October 1948, Page 8

Screen Stars Give Answers To Questions On Beauty Culture

When you watch a melting screen close-up of your favourite feminine star, do you ever wish you could probe her favourite beauty secrets? If so, here is your opportunity. We ask the questions, and lovely M-G-M stars supply the answers to those •puzzling queries which tease the average woman in her daily beauty routine. Will continued Use of powder harm the skin? Ann So them answers this question with a positive “no.” However, she maintains it is advisable always to use a powder base since this acts as a skin protector. Should evening make-up differ from day-time? According to Lana Turner, makeup for evening should be stronger than in the day-time because artificial light cuts down the brilliancy of colour. If the evening lights are blue, a woman should be certain that her make-up tones lean towards brown. Do soap and water injure sensitive skin? Greer Garson, who possesses a sensitive skin herself, feels that soap I and water are a necessary element to ■ tovely skin as well as to cleanliness. Of course, the soap should be very ■nild and carefully selected, since it is the soap which will irritate the liin and not the water. Miss Garson gives her own face a good scrubbing both morning and night. What kind of mascara should i be used on blue eyes? I Angela Lansbury agrees with the | studio make-up department that I blue-eyed women, regardles of the i colour of their hair, look best in : brown mascara. Film Causes Riot i The vigorous drama “Key Largo” , co-starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor and : Lionel Barrymore has opened in ZurI ich, Switzerland with altogether un-* I usual success. Not only is it breaking ' all records so far established with any film in Switzerland but a crowd I unable to gain admission to the I theatre where it was screening began • to riot. I On one day during the first week’s screening the whole street was blocked and the police were called in order to allow the usual traffic to continue. The crowd, dismayed to learn that at 4 o’clock in the afternoon all performances for the day were sold out, smashed the front windows of the cinema to force their entrance. Posters were seized and all photos mounted in the cinema lobby were taken as souvenirs by the enthusiastic crowd. This is without doubt the event of the year in the cinema world in ( Switzerland. • « • * Beautiful Photography ‘The finest photography in any Gainsborough film” is Sydney Box’s comment on “A Boy, a Girl and a Bike,” now nearing completion of location work in the beautiful English county of Yorkshire. This opinion j was especially gratifying to producer Ralph Keene, whose ambitious plan o film this homely romance against Its natural “openair’’ background has oeen dogged by atrocious weather. It Is certain that if there had been a little more sun and less ran the camera' team work of Phil Grinrod and Jim Bawden would have yielded ; even greater results.