Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-04-27

kzeti AZ pl>serS-Dy with an air OF terl innate and
well-bred interest. He had strikingly ''profes-
siohai@ look, and wore his clothes, which were
ultra-fashionable in n. with iauuty careless
ness that ignored the whitened seams and de-
MED the shining back. His tall silk hat was
tipped at an angle over his eyes. He looked
conteate,i and Ioquacous, and very much like
an actor Presently. when an acquaintance
passed. he eouehed. nodded rapidly, looked ex-
treneiy wargish AMI said:
''Ah. there, What are ycu up to, you rascal?
How d. dor
''tFhy. hullo Billy When did you get in?"
"Just row, my boy"
elbow was the waikiHg!"
''Ah. there you rascal" and Billy burst into
blana ana meaning smile and gently shook his
head His friend went on and ne turned to
the reporter and said IN a full, round, oratorcal
tone:
would ven obllee me with light. sir? Thank
you The boys viii have their little Jokes YOU
kDOW-tiis rlse;;Is- The obvious meaning from
his question was that / had walked in. Our
combination went 80 pieces in Ohio, but we all
got here comfortably. though we left many other
wrecks behind The number OF busted comma
MES between here and the one night towns of
Ohio would draw tears from cast-ir0n Si,ploch
However, I'm back. aud tell you, sir, it does
me good tO lock at Broadway again"
.'feS; the spring fashions make it bright"
1T isn't the fashions: it's the faces To my
mind 1T is the most absorbing study i'm the
worid-tIIat of mems faces. You see. the thing
has more interest for NE than for the run of men
even in my profession, because am an enthu-
sast IN q certain sense. | belong to the time
when the study and makeup of faces was
mighty important i'm the theatrical line lie
wasn't such a long time ago either; but the
times have changed since then. until now there
seems to be almost effort at all to make I'D
and look your part. / never saw this more
amazingly apparent than when | got i'm last
night ! went in to 'Odette' at DAYS and saw
Harry Pitt, who is an actor of experience slap
the audience, so to speak, square I'm the face In
the frst act he is the injured husband and
father. and looks about f2 years old. By the
time the next act is reached fifteen years are
supposed to have elapsed, which were full of
bitter9SsS and torture to him; but he comes
bouncing on the stage, looking about forty in
stead Oi hity-seven years old. OF course all the
Hn'tleS are Jared. and the piece Enthusiastically in
lured. and simply because he won't make up.
The vice Is spreading. Actors won't Disguise
Their good looks for Il part. Does John McCul-
lough's FlJsIIi,ts look ike an aged Roman
father? No; he looks like what he is. a .nagni-
1icentiy matured nan in the prime of life Les
ter NaiiacH never makes up OF shaYes off his
darling moGstdche. matter what the part
AMI Tearle is always Fearie"
1T mXf be great deal Of trouble to make
up eyerf night?
"Ah. but. me boy look at the result! Go
down to the ThaIia theater where they stin do
IT, and If Only i've years have elapsed between
the acts, see how it is shown on every face ON
the STAGE
1T Is difficult TO makeup well is it nOt?n
"Weii, NJ" said the actor, lighting fresh
cigar and assuming more confidential pose;
''the rules ate simple enough and with little
Practice almost any amateur could learn to
makeup artistically if he has any eye for effect
Some parts, like Romeo Charles Surface, Sidney
Barrel, and CIGuILs AehOt require very little
makeup for young and gOOd-looking actor
The face and neck should be thoroughly covered
with white powder and the cheek bones and
chin lightly touched with rouge which should
not be too red. Then. as the lover ought to
look handsome he should draw a fine black line
under his lower eyelashes with a camel-hair
brush and burnt amber. This makes the eyes
brilliant I'm sure it isn't much trouble to
make up that Way
Other characters are harder. though"
ION, UNNECESSARILY SO. But to make ma
furer man, like Cassie. Iu9o, At7eutio, John
Eisssdy or Hd,cb;sIey, it requires only little
more work; After the actor has laid on his
powder and rOuged his face pretty heavily-for
men are COMMONLY rather red-faeed-he must
take his brush and lumber and trace some lines
from the outer corners OF the eyes. and others
Hines down toward the corners of the mouth
from the nose In short. he must make the
crows feet that are visible in all men who have
lived over thirty years in this tantalizine world
of ours Then the chin should be touched with
little blue powder. which makes it look as if
recently shaved These precautions will make
the most Juvenile face look mature If he has
to go further. and look like old are as in such
Characters as Lear. TjrgiItits-fOr as / said be-
lore. Itrgihtus was an cid man-Ricietiesa Sir
PetfT 7fGzie. and 80 on, more work is necessary
Heavy false eyebrows must be pasted on and
the eye hollow -darkened and fairly crow ded with
INES wrinkles must be painted across the
forehead. burrows down the checks downward
lines from the corners OF the mouth and VERY
iilportantl three or four heavy wrinkles painted
around the neck 10 give it the shrvelled ap-
pe'rafce common to old age. The hollow over
The upper lip should be darkened and also the
hollow under the lower lip This gives the
mouth the pincl,ed and tOothless look. little
powdered antimOny on the cheeks makes them
TOOK Iaiien IN and shrunken. Then tone the face
down with delicate coating of pearl powder
and you'll have as old a looking man as you'd
How does IL all feel?''
AT first your face feels frightened. and the
muscles don't play easy but after few grimaces
II NJ comes all right It's great relief to get it
OF. however. after three hours work.
1T must cause Father mouruful forecasts
when man looks on his own face made up for
the aye of, say. 50 years.
Not so bad aswhen he makes up for corpse,
however III never forget the first glance |
had at my face after IL had been made ND for
GdStoRs death scene. when PLAYING the Man i'm
the Iron Mask in GO. 1t positively appalled,
NE, sir, and lay awake all that night thinking
Oh IL, anu dreamed OF myself in coffin for a
month afterward"
"How is il done?"
''Well. 1t varies slightly. You see such char
acters as Lear, TTgi',ius, Werner and Beverley
are before the audience some time before they
actually die and, therefore. their faces can't be
made SO very eorpse-like; but Matthias in The
Bells. LOtts III, G0stOa, and Ddnay Nom are
discovered dying when the scene opens, or are
brought In dead, so that their faces can be made
extreme For the last series the face and neck
should be spread with prepared white. and
afterward touched up with Dutch pink to give
hvld hue In places. Then put deep shad-
Ing of powdered antimony under the eyebrows
and well into the hollow of the eye. on the
cheeks, throat and temples. This is very effec-
tive, as IL gives the face that dreadfully
siifisea appearance as in death. The sides OF
the nose and over the upper lip should also be
darsened, and the lips powdered blue. Then
the face viii look about as dead as it would
three hours after a real DEATH
In the makeup Of grOtesque faces do they
use false noses and ehins?n
very rarely. Usually the method is to stick
some wool on the nose with gum and mould it i'm
Whatever shape you will; then powder and
paint IL as you would the natural nose for gro
tesque Or comedy parts. Paste Is mt on with
aLf.