The Archive · 1938

Play Your Cards Right

1f you often feel like that at the end of an evening, I have one word of advice for you: Don't! If there that if you do listen you will achieve the enviable reputation of being "different" from the rest, Do remember that the right place for running repairs to your face is the cloakroom and not the dance floor.

In any case, the main idea of makeup is to look, if not natural, at least reasonably probable, Cold-blooded application of make-up in public doesn't please anybody, and destroys an illusion.

You Will be Surprised are twenty girls at a party there's plenty of room for twenty "successes" if they play their cards right.

Men, if you will forgive me. can see these things better than women, because they can see exactly what it is that puts them off about a girl who attracted them at first sight, And here are a few Do's and Don'ts to help you to be a success.

First, unless you have a very strong personality, don't try to keep all the men round you all the time, You won't be able to do it, and it will be discouraging to see someone else These are just a few small maxims, it is easy to think of many others. But if you do think how to make yourself as pleasant and attractive as possible, instead of just carrying on in your own sweet way and wondering why you don't ring the bell every time, I think you will be surprised at the result, And never forget this one great truth: If you want to be the success of the party, do your best to make the party a success.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account