Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-03

7 MPARCIAL, Montevideo.-N ort h
American women for the most
part do not naturally possess what
4 are frequently alluded to as cheeks
like roses" In reality, their COM
plexions are rather pale and dim, but
it must be admitted that they correct
this deficiency with consummate art
and are able to- bestow an artificial
bloom upon their countenances which
deceives all but the scrutinizing, who
search for the faint line of demarcation
where the applied color leaves OF and
the real hue of the skin begins.
On the other hand, the hair Of the
feminine North American Is usually
abundant and lustrous. Brunei shade
predominates, however, and so here,
too, there is a recourse to technique.
stead of brown or black, and so con-
trive to alter them through chemical
processes to golden and silver shades
quite like the Scandinavian.
Indeed, at present there is even a
more conspicuous vogue among the
women, and to be quite up to the min
ute in style, ones hair should be red
(rubio). A number are achieving this
peculiar distinction Of appearance, too,
and not always with the most agree
able results, for ones hair Is always
shaded appropriately to ones flesh and
color, and too often efforts to improve
on natures handiwork are very disap-
pointing, If net actually offensive!
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Sonora RubiO Gives
5000 Dolls to Poor Children.
FL Universal, Mexico.-Senora Josefina
o. de Ortiz Rubio, at q post Christmas
celebration held at the ParQue Obrero
Vcnustiano CarranZa for the benefit Of
the children of the poorer families, dis
tributed no less than 5000 dolls and
other playthings. to the great gratifica-
ton Of the small recipients.
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Mrs. Grace Seton Guest
AT 59-CourSe Dinner in China.
The China Weekly Review, Shanghai.
Mrs. Grace Thompson Sctcn, who
has gained fame as an explorer and
geographer, has departed from Shang-
hal for the Philippines after visiting
Shanghai and othsr parts of China
From the Philippines she will go to
Indo-China, WHARF she will study the
wild tribes and get material for a new
book Mrs. Seton was the guest of
Nelson Johnson, American Minister to
China, at Marking. Mrs Tsai v. Soong
entertained Mrs. Seton and the cabinet
ladies with a b:rds-nest feast of so
courses at her home in Shanghai.
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Charms Fade Before
Rays of FoOtlights.
Daily Mail, London.-As our theater
correspondent remarks, it is a perilous
moment in the life of a film star when
he Tor she) first ventures to appear in
person on the stage. The quality that
he Iad RI nn to11 af in
screen. whether it be physical beauty
or some less definable kind of charm,
has again and again been found to dis
solve beneath the rays of the footlights.
This disconcerting phenomenon, well
known in the days of the silent films,
was commonly explained as due to the
disillusion consequent on the discovery
OF voice out CT harmony with admired
features, but now that the talking films
have made the worst in this kind
known in advance, the disparity is, II
ANYTHING, more pronounced than before.
An explanation is not easy, but per-
haps we may say this: Characters who
appear only in two dimensions on the
screen are necessarily supplied with a
third dimension by an act Of magma
ton on the part of the audience, I'M
Conscious though it may be. BY each
Individual the shadowy form will be
filled out different. and each will give
his homage to a GEderent figure, the
product of his own fancy. When at
last the actor appears in the flesh he
is the same for all, and different from
cverv mans fancy, and the disillusion
Is that which attends shattered
dream.
Mayer is Called Upon
tn Ren0ve MudhOfe