"Exactly

so," says Anne Baxter: I believe that a woman ought to admit the number of years that have passed of her life, and for one reason: if she looks younger to people than she really is, she has a right to be proud of it — for were it not for her gift for tending her beauty, she could not have kept her youth. And this gift for the care of beauty deserves every praise and appreciation; to my mind it is greater than any advantage a lady gains by trickery in shrinking her age. I advise every self-respecting lady, then, not to resort to juggling the number of her years, but to resort instead to mastering the many means that truly enable her to remain in the full vigor of radiant youth.

"It doesn't matter," says Dorothy Lamour: It is not important whether a woman tells her age or does not tell it. What is important, to my mind, is that she try to forget her age. If she can forget, she gains happiness and

contentment, and is rid of the worries stirred up by the fear of growing old. I remember being asked once about the number of years I had spent on this flourishing earth, and I answered by admitting it... and why not? Some time ago I met a married couple who won my admiration: first for their charm, and second because neither of them knows, or cares to know, the age of the other. When I showed them my astonishment, they answered me: "When a person thinks about his age, he shuts himself within a narrow circle — for life must go by one's thought and feeling, not by one's age..." What a lesson that is! I try always to follow it, and may success attend me.

"I don't advise it," says Cornel Wilde: A woman in Hollywood, or in other places of acting, may be obliged to conceal two or three years of her age. But there are women who conceal ten years or more, and this, in my view, is folly beyond all folly. In any case, I believe that to begin shortening one's age is a flagrant mistake, because when a woman truly

grows old and the wrinkles show plainly on her face, she is forced to double the years she has hidden. And what a scandal that is!... I have known, in my life, a famous stage personality who recently married for the twelfth time and admitted to thirty-nine years of age — but her marriage record showed that she was first wed in 1910, that is, by her own reckoning, at only four years old! Women ought to turn away from fussing over their ages, and spend their lives so as to make of every minute a memory never to be forgotten.