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...causes aging shadows. Try out make-up bases and powder shades until you find a combination that results in a fresh, finished look. And as a final fillip, add the new color in lipstick — a brilliant pink — gay, stirring, and utterly feminine. What a difference a little puttering makes!
ex “The Beauty Clinic, Ruth Murrin, Director,” in Good Housekeeping (sometime in 1944?) : 153
initial landing : link
- Ruth Murrin was the byline of Ruth Boyle
graduate of the University of Wisconsin, 1916; “Mrs. Robert Wiseman, wife of a New York architect and artist”
one of three alumna profiled in “Beauties, Bargains and Books,” by Henrietta Wood Kessenich, ’16, in The Wisconsin Alumnus 39:2 (February 1938) : 100-101 : link
aside —
the two others, profiled, are
Eleanora Pfeffer (writer, publicist, retail advertising; later Eleanora Pfeffer Walker, advertising executive at Saks Fifth Avenue), and
Elizabeth Corbett, ’10 (writer of fiction, poetry, plays; 1887-1981, wikipedia) - obituary of Mrs. Robert Wiseman in The New York Times (April 29, 1968) : link (paywall) —
“Mrs. Wiseman was born in Calico, Calif., grew up in Butte, Mont., and graduated in 1916 from the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism...”
otherwise, a low-information obit. - Ruth Murrin was much quoted in newspapers of the time (late 1920s into the 1940s). She was a proponent of cosmetic surgery.
Several results via archive.org : link; and (for newspapers)
LoC’s Chronicling America : link
18 March 2026