Wigs & Whiskers

How would President Roosevelt look with dundrearies? Could Primo Camera's appearance be improved by a walrus mustache over his vast gummy mouth? Could Greta Garbo get a job as a bearded lady? Such questions may sometimes arise in the minds of presidents, prizefighters or actresses but they occur more frequently to children who answer them by defacing newspaper photographs.

Last week the problem of improving the appearances of U. S. notables was twice attacked. In his New York American column. Poet Richard Le Gallienne complained seriously about the "undistinguished, commonplace, not to say common, appearance of most of our public men." He suggested putting them in wigs. The editors of Life contrived a more childish and practical solution. A page of four photographs called "Whiskerreotypes" in the current issue shows Senator Borah in a Chick Sale goatee. Vice President Garner in a facial fringe that makes him look like President Grant, Postmaster Farley in the handlebar mustachio of an oldtime bar keeper, and New York's onetime Mayor O'Brien in a shovel beard.

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