Show Business: Voila!

On Hedda Hopper's Hollywood (NBC), last week, Actress Marion Davies, "who usually looks a beat 65," appeared as a creamily blonde "25-year-old doll," reported San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Terrence O'Flaherty. How was it done? "A strip of strong, finely woven net is glued along the temple and down almost to the middle of the ear. Tiny hooks are secured to the lace and then the face is made up, hiding everything . . . Rubber bands are looped over the hooks and tied together on top of the head. The tighter the tie, the less the skin dangles at the chin...

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