Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-04-03

as a scene painter sizes his canvas
before painting the picture on it. Then
| ii he is going to make up for some his
torical character he has picture of the
/ original before him and he must line
his face according to ii. Otherwise he
! goes to work and makes the face he
/ fancies. After the first coat Of flesh
eolored paint he covers his cheeks and
| lips with vermillion. He next draws
! two short lines wide apart at the top and
almost converging between them. These
| lines are put on with Indian ink applied
with pencil brush. Crows feet with
| three little lines ut the outer corner
of the eyes give them the old wrinkled
expression. Two parallel lines on
each side of the face, one beginning
near the inner corner of the eve and
| the other beginning at the base of the
nose. each about half an inch long,
with an ordinary face and slanling
downward, give the heightened express
| sion 10 the face. A line across the
| chin, blended downward at the ends,
completes the lining required with an
ordinary old mans face Different old
man characters must, of course, be given
and these are made with lines To suit
the expressions. To make himself look
as If he was couple of weeks without
shave, is the simplest thing imagin-
able. All he has to do is TO burn
newspaper and rub the ashes where
the barber puts the lather, and he will
have strong, two weeks old black
beard. He can tone that down by rub
bing in ground chalk.
ITO make the arms thin. line Of
brown or green grease paint run along
the veins will make fat. round arm
look like that of 4 Shriveled old woman.
For young man or hero character tho
same ground work is laid on; yermil-
lion or rouge is applied to the lips and
checks with hare's foot. The eye
brows are blackencd with India ink,
and thin line is drawn on the under
eyelid extending from the inner cor
ner of the eve to little beyond the
outer corner and right under the hair
line of the lash. In backing the eye
brows the ladies frequently use the
SCOT of gas smoke, collected by holding
a piece of glass over the burner 1t
is one of the best colors and the least
harmful.
For snub nose small line drawn
over the nose and another drawn under
the point of the same organ will give it
d beautiful snub, but ii he Is the unfor-
tunate possessor Of a natural snub he
can't take it off with all the lines he
can draw. He has to build it out with
putty or dough. An actor can not en-
large his mouth nor diminish the size
of his ears with paint.
TO take off the grease paints cocoa
butter is generally used. 1t is applied
over the paints, and the whole mass
rubbed OFF with, dry towel, after
which the face is washed with water.
False noses of paper are seldom worn
any more. Dough, putty and cotton,
shaped and made as the wcarer wills,
is the rule nowadays. Hollowness Of
the face is made by rubbing paper
ashes on the checks, and the eyes are
sunken by putting red paint on the
upper eyelids.
''Burnt-cork artists have the easiest
used on the stage. All they
have to do is to get a few corks, burn
them completely, grind them fine to re-
move the grit and apply damp. They
paint their lips with rouge and they en-
large their mouths by rubbing off tho
cork about half inch on each side.
They seldom moisten the cork with
any thing except water, as grease and
things like that would make the cork
stick into the skin. Grease paints and
cork never hurt the skin if properly APP
piled. Hiladeiphia Ne,cs,