Fighting Father Time - A Beauty Parlour Peep -
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 6
- Summary
- Pathe Intertitles - "Ceaseless is Madame’s fight against the ravages of Old Man Time, and endless are the wiles of the beauty specialist to help her --" Five shots
""Ah", said the consultant - "What you need is the new special mud treatment." So, of course, mud it had to be --!" One shot
""The first stage Madame, is to towel your hair securely," said the expert -" Two shots
""Then a ground-work of cream" (face-work we though, but we let it pass)." One shot
""Eye protection" -" One shot
"And then the snuff-coloured kemolite - a radio-active mud from the Caroathians - is prepared and applied --" Three shots
"(All this, Adam, to chase a few wrinkles away -! It seemed a black outlook)." One shot
"After the mud-mask has set, like crumbly powder - off it comes -". Two shots
"And Madame has stolen a few more precious years from Old Man Time -" One shot - Researcher Comments
- A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathé boxfile. The number 177/272 is noted by this story on the issue sheet.
- Keywords
- Fashion and costume
- Written sources
- Pathe Eve 41-79 Boxfile Issue sheet
- Credits:
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- Production Co.
- British Pathe Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 200
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How to cite this record
'Fighting Father Time - A Beauty Parlour Peep -', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 60, 27 Jul 1922. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/334573 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)