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~: . '— > 7Ae /ore o/ Mrs. Shevlin Smith is full of question marks That's what makes it in teresting, according to Cecil R. Heaton. By Carol Bird “A face has to have punctuation marks to make it really interesting.” This in teresting remark was made by Cecil B. Beaton. Punctuation marks! We liked the me taphor and began quizzing Mr. Beaton about it. Mr. Beaton is a young British artist and photographer who has made camera and brush studies of all smart London and New York society women, the famous beauties and the merely So- So’s—mostly for SSOO a shot. He recently held a one-man exhibition in New York City, and among the photo graphs and sketches were two ot the Duchess of Windsor. There were also v _ .^.,. ./a , ■ tfVltGjt tykjak£S FA C E I 9K&e/vesHAMfi? studies of Mrs. Harrison Williams, some times called “the best-dressed woman in the world”; Princess Paley, Iya Lady Abdy, Miss Mary Taylor, the Duke of Windsor, Noel Coward and Mrs. Rhine lander Stewart. Since Mr. Beaton is an authority on beautiful women—his sister, Lady Nancy Smiley, is a famous English beauty—he was asked what sort of model might be his favorite —why certain women photo graphed better than otfier a He was in a picturesque red lounging robe and slip pers, down on the floor with an art eraser, industriously scrubbing away at some new drawings. He arose, served some sherry, and im mediately turned the apt metaphor about “punctuation-mark faces.” Faces, it would appear, must have a, period, a dot, a dash, a hyphen, a question mark, a comma, colon or a semicolon to give them really definite meaning or a starting point for analysis. “When I say a face ought to have punc tuation marks. I mean a face ought to have a focal point, something as a found ation, a striking something from which to judge the sizes and shapes of all the other features,” explained Mr. Beaton. “Mary Taylor, for example, has an ex clamation mark in her face. It is her mouth It is a large mouth, but it photo graphs well, and since she has a very delicate neck the mouth offers contrast to that slim column. It is the contrast that appeals, that gives to her face its incredible delicacy. “Then take Greta Garbo. Her eyelids are her punctuation marks. They are semicolons, lingering semicolons. A great many noses I know of are commas. Tillie Losch’s nose is a comma. “You asked me to name some of the women I have liked best to photograph or to sketch. Well, Miss Losch is one of them. High cheekbones photograph well. They are always good in a drawing or a painting. Tillie Losch has high cheek bohes, a marvelous skin. Yes, she appeals to me exceedingly as a type. “A great many noses I know of are question marks. Mrs. Harrison Williams makes an excellent model. Her eyes are her outstanding feature. They are regu lar exclamation points. I like amused eyes. Mrs. Williams not only has amused eyes, but also they are very tragic ones and have a very startled expression in their depths. This startled kind of eye is usually a rather popping kind of eye— that is, a bit protruding. “Since we are speaking of eyes, I might mention Gertrude Lawrence’s eyes She has a fascinating and extraordinary way of closing them upward instead of down.” Digressing a bit from the punetuation- The nose is important m interesting faces, as shown by the profile of Mrs. Harrison Williams. ■ * i ' —i | , i / i i >.•* y-~ ■ . *\ s - > ' i f i. <,:• 'V •> VV \ V X. ;\ ■••• \ X S " V I-..,; 'A V • \ l V. >■■■— DAILY ROUTINE “A thriVing community of 20,000 persons becomes a great responsibility,” says Mayor Robert E. Patterson, of the Village of Freeport, Long Island. “Especially when New York’s playground, Jones Beach, is adjacent and the surrounding waters abound with game fish.” “Municipal ministering increases at this time of the Mayor Robert E. Patterson, of the Village of Freeport, Long Island, New York, at work at his desk. year,” says the Mayor, “and demands more of my time at the office. It has be come virtually a necessity for me to live behind my desk.” Mayor Patterson starts his morning routine with “shaving while working." He has found that he can, during the course of his morning shave with a Pack ard Lektro Shaver, answer correspon dence, pick up the telephone, attend in terviews, sign mail, and take care of other pressing office routine. No wonder he is “all smiles.” “If I hope to find the time for a vaca tion this year,” said Mayor Patterson, “it is necessary that I combine the daily routine of my personal attention with the office duties. Business men sometimes find it necessary to hare their meals at their desk, but I can do more than that to save time.” pi Don't be afraid of wrinkles, says Cecil B. Beaton, noted artist. mark metaphor, Mr. Beaton mentioned qualities which make a person easy to “do,” either to photograph or to sketch. “People with squ t faces photograph well,” he pointed out. “Eyes are actually the least important features of a person’s face. Norma Shearer hasn’t got good eyes, but they look well in pictures. You can always fake lashes, touch up the eyes to beautify them. “The nose is very important, perhaps the most important feature of all, this because of nose shadows Und other points. Balance is important, too, and how fea tures contrast with one another and off set each other. “Pendulous features are bad, very bad. People can be quite ugly in a retrousse way and look quite beautiful in a picture. But hanging cheeks and drooping jowls do not add to the charm of a pictui*fe. “Certain heavy features, which in life may be crude and coarse, give solidity to a photograph and oftimes appear quite delicate. Protruding features are never good. “The skin is a quality that holds great magic for me, despite the fact that it does not register with the camera. “I like a face that has well-balanced features. A great many film people, for example, have heads that are too big for their bodies, according to our standards of beauty. But on the screen it does not matter. They judge faces only —the face is the be-all and end-all in Hollywood. “I have seen so many people in the past in a photographic way, and now that I am drawing and painting I see them in a draftsman’s way. There are new points of interest to me. I like very much sug gesting the sheen of people’s skin, the texture, the color, in my portrait sketches. Here t# another face that artiet Beaton describee as in teres tiny. ft is hie painting of Mrs. William Paley, wife of a noted radio chain executive.
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