Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-15
MYSTERIES OF MAKEUP.
Scenes I'm tho Green Room With the
Ladies Of the S.ege-HoM fnoY
Prepare themselves to Meet
smiles aud Appliances Before tse Foot
lights II Mare Rozs and GeneVisVe
Ward Doas with E4re Emma
lib t. Ca. Flurrtsd.
NY. Mail and Express.

Il fGAk t'aSG AAfS AN'>~
an opportunity OF visiting famous &C
tresses in their dressing rooms. These
little apartments are considered luxurious
if the mirror is in its entirety and IL Inc
lavatorJ arrangements are sufflcentiy
ample to permit Of taking of the paint
AID powder more than once during the
performance. The way these bright
lights go through their toilets IS very
characteristic. Some OF them are passive
in the hands of their maids, ou.
most of them are far more lnde-
pepdent than any one would
suppose. If ever they want help at ali In
dressing it ia for the feet; very few OF
them Ike to stoop to pull on SILK STOCK
ings and change their walking SHOES. |
Strange to say, that part OF their toilet
which one would most naturally suppose |
actresses would leave to their msids-the
hsir-dressing-tn always do themselves |
Whether it is the arrangement OF their
own hair or the adjustment OF wig,
they seem never to want any hands but
their own to touch their heads. Ihst
was my greatest surprise IN re-
gard 10 the hair-dresslng OF arr
Ists: the second was the rapidly OF THEFT
movements and the few halrpiGs to whose
strength and tenacitY they contde thelr
eoiffQre during the most trying end liter
slIv energetic scenes. | hsVe seen neaVy
clown trustingly placed Gn pyramid OF
hair which but two or three pms held IN
place, ssds thst, too, when the WesTeT OF
towering headgear expected 10 sing
| and 90 through some most effective Gusl-
ness il the wSy of being pulled scross the
stage on Ter knees snd thrown ttom the
| embraces of her lover in none too gen
tie 2 msnner.
MARIE Rozg IN THE GREEN ROOM.
| Marie r ~ WAS the one who fest IN
yited me 10 her dTessiog room while she
WAS dressing. as every one knows, she
Is a mos, beautiful woman, and when, IN
response to her husbands knock, she had
the door opened for me to enter as she
stood with bright red shawl thrown
over her bare shoulders and arms. L
thought she was more beautiful thsn on
the stage. Size is known ss woman oil
lovely disposition, and, unlike most sing
ers, not at all given to small vanitles snd
l,rge isalousies. When her husband mad
gone she threw on her shawl,
and without apology or comment,
went on with her dressing. Her arms
end neck were perfectly bare, IS lor the
next scene her dress Of Greclsn drspeIy
required that not even band shouia
cover her shapely arm, and TO be aole 10
use her arms unrestricted, sAe "os
obliged to finish her couture without more
dressing, and as her white hands cleaned
in her daik hair, ard the pretty mouth
rolled out in soft Partisan accent her ns'
tive language, l could not out thlnk that
the embracing picture she made was that
much more striking in that she WAS ut
terIy unconscious of her charms.
Singing and speaking have wonder
| full effect on the chest; after long ooser.
walton and though On the subject
[ would certainly recommend al VINO de-
sire finely developed bust to take II
5 singing or elocution lessons. have
; never seen any great actress or singer
, and l have seen scores IN all stages o.
i deshabille-with contracted chest OF
D scraggy neck.
t 1t is q mistaken notion that people gen
e erslIy have that actresses and singer;
s draw the lscings OF their corsets toS
g much. More of them wear nj
y STAYS at all than pull the string
}. even moderately; the effect OF smal
}. waists is produced In nearly every N;
r stance by the artistic dressmaker, WI
cleyerly blends dark aud light shades 81
Y as to make the bust appear larger and tn
IS waist smaller.
v There are quiet dressers and nervou
,. dressers among the great artists OF pot
is the dramatic and operate stage. IN
O most deliberate, quiet dresser Is Gene
Y We've Ward, and one of the most indie
3. pendent. Accustomed all her life to
it maid, she calls upon one in the dressing
b room scarcely at all. One evening L spen
e. ell the time between acts in her dressing
v room and marvelled more and NOR
as watched her dress an
make up. She ie so deliberate, vet 8
quick; she never makes motion tnht
not necessary. The superb Worth cos
L. tunes were all made without whaleoon
~ and all worn over what women will re-
ogu,ze as baby waist. She never veal
her dresses low in the neck, or the sleeTe
O. &C short that she needs to tuck away II
t sleeves of her underwear as many o.
x obliged to do. Ganevieve Ward has
es peculiar method OF making up her fact
g. when she lis all dressed for Il
n next scene she sits down al u
in dressing table-or shell olgl
w. fed with that name-and puts
no lighted candle beneath her face; Wne'
no the shadows come she darkens her lac
on and in q lew SECONDS anu Will a Ie
M strokes she is made up; in putting b
to hair up or in fastening her wig her hnge
d. seem scarcely to touch her head, and
At hair dressing is done. When sll Is reaC
We for the mex act she gees on to the stag
ce suggesting eight change here,or puttil
oh q vase or a picture there, or thrown
ch some bits of drapery over chair or tab
ia thus putting the last touches on the Sc
ms tings Of the scene; then in ample TIL
e. she walks deliberately back to her dres
oh ing room before the curtin goes up.
he INDUSTRIOUS MINNIE NADpERE.
ed Another independent, almost irdine
ers ent dresser is Minnie Madden; she We
on herself even to putting on her stee
ings and shoes after she is all dresse
me her dresses are Whist some women Won
~ call. .frighifully loose" but they mi2
lot well eimitste her in thst respect II 81 I
us,]ssme time they could acquire her era
in az movement. She snstches her pre-
rs. lair in her hands, rams bairpln on Cd
sta aud ,shen pulls sway st 1t almost 81
sgeiy, and lo' her hair Is Dress
in per own odd yet hecoml
rts styls, While dressing she Will I
ses on. any subjsct SIS far remo'
3fsom her role as the North Pole 10 II
the South, and will even stand at
St. wings and engage in an interesting CO