The model from which the pattern has been cut is probably some young thing from the Bronx, plebeian residential section of New York City. Or perhaps she hails from Oshkosh or Sal or any small town in the United States.
She is a little Miss Nobody from anywhere. A sales assistant, stenographer or.shop girl whose photogenic fate has caused her to be whisked te Hollywood. There a girl out of the millions, she is conjured into a one and only personality by the beauty magicians of the film industry, destined to seta vogue for feminine loveliness throughout the world.
The cinema has played a dominant role in the standardization of women's beauty.
On the screen before our eyes have passed a procession of lovely women, from Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford to Luise Rainer and Madeleme Carroll As women, we in the audience ' must acknowledge their beauty. If we are honest, we must
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