The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-03
Dressing for the Stage.

1t Is surprising to notice how careless
ly even the best actresses |'get them
| selves up" Not alone from the stage
boxes, but frequently from the gallery
are their tricks easily discernble. This
is most inartistic and oan be- so easily
avoided by little care. A person who
paints for the stage ought to use The
greatest possible skill In order to avoid
detection or the Objectionable appear
anoe Of being ''over done." There is an
English actress here just now who un.
derstands this art perfectly and who
| makes up with consummate skill, earn
Ing thereby just reputation for beauty
she would else scarcely deserve. Aimee
is an admirable artistic in this matter
and paints her face, neck ana arms to
perfection. .,
Even in a small room it Is difficult to
detect where she has painted herself and
where not. Miss Emily Soldene daubs
her countenance all over. Commend me
to Adelaide Nelson for decent painting.
She's an artistic OF high order in her
way in this branch OF the tiue arts.
Madame histtoM is the greatest in this
as well as In all other theatrioal con.
Germs, including acting and managing.
She literally copies upon her own face
the lines, &C., from the historical por-
traits OF the personages she Is going to
enact. Thus in Elizabeth, her face is so
strikingly like that Of "good Queen Bess"
that she might pass for her majesty's
twin sister, and as Marie AntoineLte, she
painfully resembles that unhappy martyr.
As Marie Stuart, she follows the Holy
rood portrait very correctly and 80 dis
guises her face that one recognizes the
Queen OF Scots the instant she appears
upon the stage.
JanauSchek does not understand either
the art Of painting or that of dressing.
No more does Miss Cushman. In the
case of these two last named great act
resses, it is really very curious that
neither the one nor the other should have
learnt to arrange herself for the stage,
for both are unusually highly educated,
well read women. Miss Cushman is
learned, and Madame Janauschek is a
literary scholar of high merit and one
who has studied deeply. Still, as Queen
Katherine OF Arargon, these ladies wore
garments which would have surprised
that poor princess had she seen them
and been told they were disguised TO
look like her. A glance at one OF Hol-
bein's portraits of the first wife of Henry
VIII, would have shown them that they
were illarranged, and also, that had
they chosen to follow this model in the
matter, both would have greatly improved
their appearances.
Miss Louise Henderson, as Anne Bo-
leyn, was correctly dressed at the re-
cent revival of ''Henry VIII" at Booths,
but her c0itw was in the style of that worn
by Elizabeth Of York, mother of bluff
King Hal, and not by his second consort.
A trIile if you will, but not greater than
would be the appearance OF Miss Clara
Morris in modern drama, dated 1875, in
the coal-scuttle bonnet of 1925. 10 over
dress OF to under-dress on the stage is a
great mistake. The first performance of
The "Shaughraun" was much marred by
Miss Jetfreys Lewis dressing as poor
girl in costume, and hideous one at
that, worth four or five hundred dollars. |
Even now she is too finely decked out, |
but still she shows that her income is |
modest, though her starch bills must be |
u considerable item in her annual ex-
Arcadian.