Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-06-13

New York, June 11.-A New York
producer of musical comedies has ere
ated a sensation by announcing that ne
will no longer allow makeup on MS
chorus girls.
Makeup is ordinarily no more nee
essary on the stage than in private
life he is reported as saying. An
actress would not wear dangling ear
rings and sheath gown to play Juliet
or any other girlish character. To ap-
pear with vivid red lips and a hectic
flush is quite as Inappropriate, and IS
out of keeping with the best stage
ideals"
How this daring innovator expects to
recruit chorus of show girls with
enough color of their own to be pre-
sentable on the modern stage is his own
problem. The public may, however, be
indirectly concerned, for it is prophesIed
that absence of facial decoration is to
become the fashion, and that for the
first time in this generation we shall
see shop girls and debutantes without
their accustomed barrage OF pant.
Meanwhile, the craze for facial art
istry is at its height. 1t is disputed
question whether paint and powder
judiciously applied add to the attract.
iveness of woman. But the makeup OF
a fashionable damsel of today does not
stop at a few dabs of the powder puff.
Instead, beauty doctors prescribe rites
for making each feature conform to
desired standard. Some of the effects
obtained are more startling than beau
tiful. Indeed, a description of any or
the aids to feminine loveliness practiced
on and by, the American woman, might
easily be mistaken for a discourse on
the customs of a savage tribe. To Illus
trate:
The Slender Brow.
The plucked eyebrow is an accepted
ideal of beauty, and apparently the
thinner the line of hairs, so long as IL
is still visible, the more stylish the eye
brow coiffure This fashion is seen at
it's highest development in Cuba where the
more exclusive the family the narrower
the eyebrows of the ladies of the house.
Pulling eyebrows is remuneratiye pro-
fession in Cuba.
Ears must be concealed. In fact, Tor
maiden to reveal even the tip or her
hearing appartus is breach of etiquette
just as it once was bad form for her
mother to show her ankles. Large wads
of hair, similar to those worn on each
side of the head by Hopi Indian girls,
adequately protect the ears from dan.
ger of exposure. Sometimes bows OF
ribbon are tied in these knobs for fur
ther adornment. How the wearers
manage to hear through the ear muffs
is a mystery to the masculine observer.
The face to be fashionable, must give
the effect of being whitewashed with
a blob of color on each cheek, The nose,
particularly. must be kept perpetually
white, which makes it necessary for the
women to add new layers of powder at
regular intervals. Even in public places,
this touching up is permissible as less
er evil than the danger of the nose los
ing its desired whiteness.
The lips of the young women are
usually decorated with crimson paint as
a mark of beauty, and some of the more
fashionable have small pictures OF birds,
flowers. and even mice or snakes paint
ed on the shoulders.
This catalogue of American fashions
by a curious observer" might be pro-
longed indefinitely. The sad part of it
is. to those whose ideas of feminine
beauty do not include the single file eye
brow and Hopi ear pads, is that more
ecrentricities are approaching.
At a beauty show in New York, hair
dressers displayed. as the latest shock,
models wearing false hair in shades that
contrasted with their own. a golden