The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-03-19
Beauty Book Editor
Finds hey West Is Great
Place For Work And Play
IsOBEl. FISTERE
GO-lalFTHOR OF
ANITA COLBY'S
BEAUTY BOOK"

BEAUTY BOOK"
; Like SO many other writer's VIII
have found Key West an ideal a
mosphcre IN which either to writ
or relax, Mr.. ard Mrs John Fis
tere have returned here 10 spen'
sgeif third winter vacation. Mr. Fis
.aaaere is an executive with Time Inc
publishers of Time, Life and For
i; Tune, and his wife. Isobel. has jus
completed editing book for one
+. time actress and current interna
i tional beauty, Anita Colby, known
r. in HOLLYWOOD as 1.-The Face
81 Questioned about her book, which
= has just been published by Prem
!. tice-Hall, under the title, AMT;
-Colby's Beauty Book, which is or
sale at Commander Bredin's book
shop. Mrs. Fistere said that the
first printing of $4,000 copies is re
=. pc1ted TO be one Of the largest first
: a-editionS in the publishing business
= ~ suppose" she said, ITS be-
cause women seem 10 have an
@---A- unending interest in maintaining
or improving their personal ap-
pearance. Men seem to want TO
taow how TO win friends and in
duence people, but women are
interested in being at their best,
not only for other people, but for
their own seif-fuifilIment as
we'll"
Working with Miss Colby, Mrs,
-F.stere said, was both lot of fun,
and a lot c. hard work She had
sneger collaborated with anyone be-
fore.
1t was thoroughgoing collabo-
.. ration. she recalled, shut of the
two of US. Anita was by far the
most dedicated. She is a remark
able girl and certainly one Of the
most beautiful women in the world.
And her background for doing the
book was exactly right"
She was at one time called fe-
minnie director for David o. Sell
..znick. and She worked with such
-noW established stars as Jennifer
..s.Jorcs, fngrid Bergman, Shirley
.--TempIe and Dortshy Mcguire. In
ga cover story Time Magazine did
- about her d few years ago, they
- called her one woman charm
school
And that's how the book came
= to be written, said Mrs. Fistere.
=. The things she learned and c0un-
eeled other stars about in Holly
wood are the same things that we
in the book. Z
Another reason, she thinks, for
the unusually large first edition, is
the presence in it Of both medi-
cally approved ''l4-day reducing
diet and day-to-day flour week
beauty and charm course that in
the opinion OF one book reviewer
us us unique as il is thorough. .
We have in it z added Mrs. Fis-
tore, everything from how to be
attractive at the kitchen sink to
how TO be attractive in other PEG.
pies living rooms as well as your
own. Anita makes the observa.
tiesl and agree with her that
women are usually better hostess
scs than they are guests
Mrs, Fistere, who gave up car
-a~ Ger as a writer and advertising
executive TO keep house for her
family few years ago, thinks
that career women owe whatever
success they may attain to ether
.won1en and not TO men.
Years ago. she commented
the only way a woman could be
! successful was TO please men in
public : usually as actresses, and
occasionally as writer's and art.
its. Today. the women that are
successful in business are success
/. ful because they Vim the approba.
ton Of other women as well as of
men, Ntl.career women don't re.
sent women who have careers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fisteer are think.
. ing OF settling permanently in KEY
West. agreeing with what establish.
cd Key Mesters have already found
out, that the town has greaterFyar.
iety Of interest and attraction per
square inch than any other town
IN the country.