The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-30
Makeup for tho Ameteur Actress. From Harper's Dszar,1

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 Private theatrical performance has during the decade become more and more popular, until at last our furor for "playing or acting"-as some one cleverly put it-has reached a pitch of enthusiasm that recalls those mas- querading days of France, of which brilliant woman wrote-by no means regretfully!-"It is come to that pass that we are perpetually en role!" Into the mysteries of arranging and costuming our amateur actress Is at length fully initiated. The costumer and stage carpenter are become merely her aides-de-camp. And very often both the staging and costuming of an anna teur performance would do the stage more than credit.
 The same cannot, however, be paid to the makeup of the average amateur Even when she is taken in hand by an adept in making up, the result is not always happy, for the ambitious novice too often evinces a misplaced intrepidity when it comes tb that trlfle of makeup. She has an aggravating trick of toning down or touching up the face that skilled manipulation has prepared for the foot-lights. Left en- tirely to herself, she will, quite as like ly as not, emerge from her makeup ot,i, as a marsh-mellow confection, and cheeks that glow like the jowls of a harlequin.
 The other extreme of error in this matter Is when pretty young girl- far too fearful of her pigments-rustles on to the stage with very lively step f1uttering furbelows, mirthful lines, and wan, white, bloodless-looking little visage that would fitly herald the last of phantom.
 If ones face is to be made up by another, however experienced that per- son may be, it is decidedly unadvisable that the operation should begin before a most careful study of ones face has been made by the manipulator. He or she is in some measure portraitist, and must be accorded the same privilege a portraitist generally insists on-that of several meetings with the sitter be- fore brush Is touched to canvas
 One young girls eyebrows must be in mind. for shortcomings in attire and makeup are not readily forgiven her. She is expected to charm the eye, if she does not succeed in stirring the soul. A first and cursory glance cannot possibly suggest to the cleverest of mortals all the notifications and changes a makeup should effect for a given face.
 One yaung' girls eyebrows must be painted out," one-half while another's 8 must be painted in" heavier. Here is nose that must be shortened, and there one that needs an added fraction of an inch to save it from total extiric- l tion when seen from a distance and | above the crude glare of the foot-lights. The tout ensemble of a face must be l studied, and the face must be con- sidered in detail This examination should be made with close approxim- ation to the very arrangement and amount of light the face will be ex- posed to at performance. !.
 She should invariably make up in a spacious room, before mirrors that are ample and true, and with the brilliant illumination that is offered by gener- ous semicircle of well-trimmed candles. She should make"it' & rule to step back the length of the room from time to time while her makeup is in process, to catch the effect of it as seen through the eyes of an imaginary audience.
 It should never be forgotten that the near inspection of ones face when standing but a foot away from glass will not tally with the reflection that greets one when the .lirniS of the room interposes betweentnttTot. and face