The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-13

legislation has been lost not oh aS- this?o I asked T always thought you used rouge"
 No, my dear, red takes black in pictures and if you use rouge on your cheeks it would make them look hol- low and old. Don't seimp with this. Make your face look as though you have dipped it in the flour barrel"
 powdered myself plentifully with brunette powder. Ria was busy brushing her face with tiny camers 1 hair brush like the one had seen one 1 of my married friends at home use to brush her baby's downy head. l Picking up the brush I swept ii 1 over my face. Then she handed me i tiny black brush. saying: Take the powder out Of your eyebrows and 1 eyeiashes and then take this brush 1 with this brown mascara and darken them"
 Having watched Ria was able to do this without smearing it. Ria did not trust me to make UT my mouth but dipping her little fin- l ger into the lip rouge she carefully put ii on upper and lower lip until had a perfect cupid's bow.
 There you are all ready. Snatch off that towel from about your neck and get into your evening dress quickly"
 did as she commanded Changed my shoes and stockings and slipped into the first decolette gown that ] had ever worn in my life.
 If I blushed as I looked into the glass I could not see 1t for the grease paint, but I was much interested in the girl who peered out at me for. like the little old woman in Mother Goose tales. I could not help wonder ing: If I be l."
 Giving me no time to mediate, Gloria dragged me out.
 was glad of my thick covering of paint and powder as I met the num- erous people on the set. Everyone of them seemed to me to be looking al my low w-necked gown. It was prac- tically backless but in a few minutes 1 became more at ease for nearly ev- cry other girl saw was wearing a frock even more decolette than mine.
 Here. Gloria. Haven't you kept us waiting long enough?" said a man who, from his voice, I recognized as the assistant director
 As she hurried away I heard one of group of actors near me say: That was some wild party that Hers Richardson pulled off last night"
 Gloria does not look 1t this morn ing.'' defended another.
 Hush. there is the new girl who was with them."
 My face grew hot as the entire group focused their eyes upon me.
 "Oh, you are Gloria Summers friend?" asked very pretty girl com ing toward me from the group. q am Mary Milton. didn't get your name"
 Virginia Winston."~
 T wonder if Gloria knows that Kit ty and Dorothy have been taken to the hospital this morning very ill There must have been some wood l. alcohol passed around at your party last night" She said this last in a questioning tone.
 There was no alcohol of any kind passed around at the party which Ria and I attended last night" Why, weren't you at the Cocoanut Grove with Herb Richardsons party. I thought I saw you" Yes, Miss Summers and were there at dinner, but MT. Johnson Mr. Mel vile, Miss Summers and I left di. rectly after dinner
 Well. Ria will come in for some of the dirt for everyone saw won Witii tne party at the beginning of the evening. I heard this smornine that Herb Richardson was irvine to hush the matter up as he has been in the papers so often that he does no, care for any more notoriety." Virginia called Ria at thfs mo. ment and hastened to her, glad te get away from the spiteful tongues T want to introduce you to Tommy warner. MT. Warner, this ia mv friend, Virgin, Winston.'' Ria. you are the exception. bave never known pretty girl before who had a prettier girl for her friend' I'll get even with you for tbat Tom Warner. Of course, know that virgie is better-looking girl than am, but you needn't have rubbed fl in." Oh go long, Gloria, you don't hay, to worry. Say. have you heard abou, Herb Richardson? The studios ars agog with 1t this morning. That boy will get himself in Jail some day i, you'd ask me" What do you mean. Tommv?. Ria quickly put in.
 1 pulled Ria to one side and whi :. pered: That was what wanted tc tell you.'
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