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...frivolous young shade whose dour father orders him to haunt Glourie Castle in Scotland as penance for an act of characteristic levity committed during the 18th Century. Packed off to fight the English, young Glourie so far disgraces his station as to be killed while hiding behind a powder keg to avoid being thrashed by members of the rival clan of MacLaggan...
...General Foods puts out Instant Postum, Post Toasties, JellO, Maxwell House Coffee, Sanka Coffee, Grape-Nuts, Log Cabin Syrup, Swans Down Cake Flour. Minute Tapioca, Calumet Baking Powder, Baker's Chocolate. *Mrs. Hutton's daughter Eleanor was thrice married by the time she was 24. First husband was Playwright Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) with whom she eloped. No. 2 was French Poloist Etienne Marie Robert Gautier. No. 3 is George Curtis Rand, Manhattan agent for Bugatti automobiles...
...bathed the south side, chartreuse beams the façade, of a building near Hollywood Boulevard whose fluted white front bore the architectural devices of Greece, the French Empire, the U. S. Cinema. Under a marquee passed film folk and thousands of others who had been summoned with great powder-blue and orange cellophane invitations to attend the opening of "the world's greatest cosmetics factory"-the new $600,000 studio of Max Factor. Pudgy, 61-year-old Max Factor has been a cosmetician since at 13 he left a Russian synagog school to become an apprentice make...
...spectroscopic contraption which, since Factor's speciality is "color harmony guidance," was supposed to show the slightest color deviation in the subject. There was a contrivance intended to calibrate facial contours minutely. Giant rollers ground grease paint to remove the tiniest speck of granular imperfections. From "the largest powder bin in the world" the powder was meticulously sifted through silk gauze by means of an electrical shimmy appliance. Guests beheld, in glass cases, the raw materials of cosmetics, labeled in spurious Latin. They browsed in the Max Factor Research Library in which there are not only bound volumes...
Jean Harlow dedicated the studio's Blonde Room, done in powder-blue; Claudette Colbert the Brunette Room in dusty pink...