El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-06-26

NEW YORK, June ga New York
N producer or musical comedies
has created a sensation by an
nouncing that he viii no longer allow
makeup on his chorus girls.
Makeup is ordinarily no more
necessary on the stage than in pri-
vate life" he is reported as saying
"An actress would not wear dangling
earrings and sheath gown to play
Juliet OF any other girlish character.
To appear with vivid red lips ana
hectic flush is quite as inappropriate,
and is out OF keeping with the best
stage Ideals"
How this daring innovator expects
to recruit a chorus Of show girls with
enough color Of their own TO be
presentable 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 accus-
toned parrage Of paint.
Craze for Facial Artistry.
Meanwhile. the craze for facial ar
tistry is at its height. It Is a dis
puted question whether paint and
powder judiciously applied add TO the
attractiveness OF woman. But the
makeup OF a fashionable damsel Of
today does not stop at q few dabs of
the powder puff Instead, beauty
doctors prescribe rites for making
each feature conform to a desired
standard. Some Of the effects OBJ
tanned are more startling than beau
tiful-- Indeed. a description Of any OF
the AIDS Of feminine loneliness .prac-
tised on and by the American woman
might easily be mistaken for a dis
course on the customs Of a savage
tribe. To illustrate:
The Slender Brow.
The piucked eyebrow is an &C
cepted ideal Of beauty. and apparently
the thinner the line Of hairs. so long
as Il is still visible the more stylish
the eyebrow couture. This fashion is
seen at its highest development in
Cuba, where the more exclusive the
family the narrower the eyebrows Of
the ladies' Of the house. Pulling eve
brows is remunerative profession
IN Cuba
Ears must be concealed In fact,
for q maiden TO reveal even the tip
OF her hearing apparatus is a breach
Of etiQuet just as Il once was bad
form for her mother to show her
ankles Large V7ads OF hair. similar
20 those worn on each side Of the
head by HOpi Indian girls, adequately
protect the ears from danger Of eZ-
posure. Sometimes bows OF ribbon
are tied in these knobs for further
adornmeut- How the Wearers manage
10 hear through the ear muffs is a
mystery to the masculine observer.
The face. 90 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 IL
necessary for the women TO add new
layers Of powder at regular intervals /
a. ~. ~
up is permissible as lesser evil than
the danger Of the nose losing its de-
sired Wilderness
lips Are Decorated.
The lips Of the young women are I
usually decorated with crimson paint Z
the more fashionable have small pic I
lures Of birds, flowers, and even /
mice or snakes painted on the (
shoulders
This catalog OF American fashions 4
by curious observer" might be /
prolonged Indefinitely. The sad part 4
Of it. 70 those whose ideas OF femf- I
nine beauty do not include the single /
file eyebrow and Hopi ear pads. is 1
that more eccentricities are approach /
ing.
At a beauty show in New York, 4
hairdressers displayed. as the latest 4
shock, models wearing false hair in I
shades that contrasted with their own. /
A golden haired ulannequin wore q I
cluster Of chestnut brown curls CO. !
quettishIy draped On one side OF her 4
head. and a red haired beauty was 1
made more ravishfug by a black /
braid pinned 10 the back OF her own /
Parti-CoIored Hair.
It was time, the hairdressers de- I
clded. for a boom in false hair, and |
Just for change from the old pas I
tims OF MATCHING hair, they thought 4
it would be interesting to try con /
trasts. They were justified in their 1
prediction that the women would be ]
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