The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-01
PAINT AND POWDER TALK
Chats by Actresses and Actors on
the Subject of Artistic
Making up.
Pauline Hall Had Not Washed Her
Sweet Face for Five
Years.
How She Arranges Her Features-The
Way in Which a Low Comedian
Fixes His Face.
IT haven't washed my face for five

Vt haven't washed my face for five
years"
AS Miss Pauline Hall made this remark
able statement she glanced in a mirror and
smiled. "Oh, it's a fact, l assure you"
she continued, and yet my face is as clean
as if bathed in water half a dozen times a
day."
Miss Hall sat in her d-ressing-room at the
Park thester, wearing a light blue gown
and a Light blue shade hat, each trimmed
with white. says the Philadelphia Press.
She had just come from the stage. where
she WAS the princess, and in five minutes
she would again 60 on ss Erminie. Her
maid stood near the door, and out in the
cool passag &c half a dozen chorus girls were
lounging by open windows in the refresh
ing evening breeze.
"You see," continued the "Princess,' 81
make up my face very little. and that is the
reason, I suppose, SO manv people recox-
DiZe me on the street. First of all, | care
Gnlly rub cold cream all over my counte-
nance, and use this as the canvas if SO
one may call it, upon which to paint the
picture-ths particular face needed in each
character. You know one makes up one'a
face just as an artist paints a portrait.
Then a little rouge, a very little, for my
color is naturally high, a few delicate
touches with a pencil for eyebrows n a
minimum of powder. There we are. See?
"After the performance l remove the
makeup with cold cream, and this |
always use az a substitute for water in
washing my face. That is what / meant
when l said that l had not buthsd nv
face for years. or course. warm water is
carefully used about the eyes. but not a
drop, thank you, on any other part of nv
face. 10 this alone | attribute my SUCCESS
in keeping clear and soft my complexion,
year in enc year out.
AS Miss Hall said, she makes up her face
very little, but Nr. Solomon, her low come
dian, does so most elaboretely. AS ErmInie
was called to "eo on" l wandered into Mr..
solomon's drersing-room and found the lit
tie thief OF the company standing in from.
of a looking glass. He was Just beginning
TO make up, and about his dressing-table
were scattered sticks of grease paint, DOW.
der boxes, pencils and the invariable hare's
foot, without which An actor would feel
lost. And, by the way, theataical folks eD-
terrain a great deal of superstition about
this same article, which Is used for blend
ing the colors after being painted on the
face.
For instance" said Solomon, speaking
OF this idea, 'if a fellow is awfully unlucky
at poker the man who does him up tells
him that he'd better get another hare's
foot. On it ones fortune is supposed to
hinge. You now actors are often much
influenced by signs aud manifestations,
l recollect once that Lillian Russell arrived
at Pope's theater, in St. Louis. As she
walked in she saw some peacock's feathers
standing by the prompt entrance. Well,
sir, Miss Russell refused to 90 on tho sta &c
until those harmless feathers were thrown
into the street"
EYES," chimed in Arthur E. Miller, who
occupies the dssssiugroom with MIR. Solo