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Barbara was at South Paris' cinemansion watching a jungle film, Booloo, when the news of her father's conviction reached her. Mascara streaking her cheeks, she ran out sobbing. Next day, Boston announced that any night club contracting for her services would be closed...
...handsomely as mustached Mexican bandits. While Nellie casually knocks out Laurel & Hardy with a champagne bottle, Rinaldo snakes Cecilia away to his apartment where he starts to seduce her with the aid of an Indian love charm. He is prancing over the divan, shouting to Cecilia to stop crying mascara over the cushions, when Joe and Nellie come dashing to her rescue. After many other antics, Cecilia finally has her debut as a singer. Sample caper: Hardy swallows an inch-long harmonica after which Laurel plays Pop Goes the Weasel by pressing on Hardy's sensitive circumference...
Between daubs of mascara in Boston's notorious showplace, the strip queen affirmed her loathing for the audience of the Manhattan metropolis. Blinded by over-concentrated spots, burlesques suffer from the unhealthy expectancy of the crowd there whose only thought is "how many and how soon" clothes will be discarded...
...first two courts of the year at Buckingham Palace. Irma, spouse of Jesse Isidor Straus, U. S. Ambassador to France, was presented in what her dressmaker called "a gown of ice-blue silver lame of streamline cut." At a hint from the Queen most debutantes and dowagers omitted lipstick, mascara, rouge. Since Buckingham Palace was distinctly chilly, some of them grumbled at the Lord Chamberlain's requirement that they appear in decollete. Not to be intimidated, several elderly English ladies harassed the Lord Chamberlain into permitting them to be presented in high-necked creations, cozy and warm...
When Bette (pronounced "Betty") Davis went to summer camp, she was thrown into the water daily to wash the mascara from her eyebrows. They are naturally black. Her hair is ash blonde, dyed pale yellow; her enormous eyes, blue. This combination caused Carl Laemmle Jr. to decline to hire her; he considered her appearance unattractive. Born in Lowell Mass., in 1908, Bette Davis grew up in Boston, went to Manhattan in 1927 to study acting under John Murray Anderson, got her start in a Provincetown Theatre production. After two seasons in Manhattan plays, she secured a Universal contract, playing bits...