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...Toledo, Ohio, Barbara Beck was photographed in a fur-lined bathtub...
...Million Ghosts, Sir Basil Zaharoff is transformed into ''Zacharey'' (George Coulouris). France's great steel & armaments association, the Comite des Forges, is called "Universe Forges Inc." A young French poet named Andre (Orson Welles) is in love with Madeleine de Kruif (Barbara O'Neil). He becomes a War aviator, goes to the Briey sector in 1917, when the secret machinations of the munitioneers are in full swing. Forbidden to bomb the mines, he understands the reason from the conversations of Zacharey & de Kruif, starts after the mines on his own, is shot down...
Crying "Make the Most of Yourself!" last May, Street & Smith's young women's magazine Mademoiselle began a series of articles on beauty and charm. One of its most interested readers was a 21-year-old Boston nurse named Barbara E. Phillips, who wanted to go on the stage. Miss Phillips, who considered herself a very plain girl, was sufficiently impressed to sit down at her typewriter, compose a long, yearning letter to the magazine. To Mademoiselle's editors Barbara Phillips announced that, though she also read Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the Atlantic Monthly...
This week, in The Story of Barbara, the magazine describes the measures taken to transform homely Barbara Phillips into glamorous Barbara Phillips (see cuts). First a professional make-up man, Paramount's Edward Sigmund Senz, was given general supervision. He sent Miss Phillips to a dentist to have two protruding teeth "capped," to Columbia University for a voice test, to a wigmaker for a flattering, readymade wig to cover her short, scraggly hair. A dress designer conceived a special frock to "soften the neckline." Make-up Man Senz "deepened" Miss Phillips' bulgy eyes with dark brown "shadow," made...
...North Side. When the hat shop was abandoned, Mrs. McLaughlin went into the wholesale millinery trade. As designer and working boss of Irene Castle, Inc., she has toured the West, put her product in 52 stores in 52 cities. Both comely Mrs. McLaughlin and her 11-year-old daughter Barbara Irene are walking advertisements for "Irene Castle Hats." Calling on the trade, Mrs. McLaughlin often carries along a dog from her dog haven, "Orphans of the Storm, Inc." Last year the care of 8,000 canine orphans at this Deerfield, Ill. retreat cost her $16,000, a deficit whose liquidation...