The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-04-02

has very high cheek bones. The eff
 feet, of course, with the paint on is to
 call especial attention to them when one looks at her face, as 1t is custo- mary to put the paint there. Every time I see her I realize how easy 1t
 would be to remedy the defect by only slightly different manner Of applying ithe colors. If she would Whiten the top
 of her cheek bones, for instance, and put the paint lower down on the cheek, then the high bones would not be so no- ticeable and she would look less like an American Indian. But great many
 actors on the stage never learn the best way to prepare themselves for the foot lights. I saw a blonde actress the other
 night in a society play, supposed to
 represent scenes from New YorK Ire
 She was very blonde, and the color Of
 her eyes was also light. She had evl-
 dently heard that it was customary to
 blacken the eyes underneath by the use
 of a pencil in order to throw them into
 relief. That was all right, so far as 1t
 went. but evidently no one had told her
 thta in the case of blonde It usually
 gives a look of dissipation, so this
 young daughter of an aristocratic fam
 fly appeared in the household looking
 very much like the sort of person that
 would never have been received there,
 and this was all due to the black mark
 under her eyes. This is simple enough
 thing, done merely by the use of dark
 pencil, and in ordinary circumstances
 would have been just the thing needed.
 Inf m ba nf n hlnn6p ptfpNt
 is so different that the young lady
 seemed to have made decided mis-
 take She should have used a light
 blue pencil instead of dark one.
 There are other matters than the
 mere facial disguise in which the de-
 vices of actors to change their appear
 ance are sometimes very elaborate. Will
 liam H. Crane, when he used to play
 Falstaff was unable to impress himself
 with sense of the build of the char
 acter without wearing heavy pads that made him seem twice or three times his ordinary Size. To struggle under such
 a load was, of course, exhausting, and he was glad to give up the part as soon
 as possible He will never be likely to
 take it up again, and principally for |lIdt ISuSUi. WIl6ff NiCtOl NouiN siHSS Falstaff he always wears an arrange ment made of light wicker work hang
 ing on his shoulders. It moves awk- wardly, and in this way closely resem- bles the actions of a very fat man.
 Very frequently the appearance of great flesh is produced by the use of an out side rubber covering, which is fitted over the body and then blown up to the size desired. The disadvantage of this method is its liability to leak, although in farce or burlesque. in which such ex- pedients are customariy employed, such an accident really makes very little diff ference But It would not do to have that sort of thing happen very often. It would not serve for instance, when ore wanted to pad the legs. The way in which these additions to the personal charms are acquired is rather different however, from the general idea of them. Pads are not applied as most persons think, to certain parts of the leg di- rectly. They are made of lambs wool to the inside of pair of cot ton tights, which are worn under those visible to the public. The best are ob- tained by having the measurements taken, and every peculiarly of the leg which requires improvement ia exam ined by the maker. Then the defects are corrected in the cotton tights, and when they are slipped on with the pads | inside them hellegs are supposed to be as nearly perfect as artificial devices | can make them.
 "Sometimea the legs are different in certain respects even when there is no | other fault to be found with them. | These Irregularities are also corrected l by the cestumers.. If the actors do not ! care to s9end tho money or take the l time necessary to have the tights made to order, other devices are to be had ! which possess the advantage of being | able to improve the outlines of any | limb The padding theresis generally | placed about the calves. Separate pads | are made especially for the calves, and | the danger with them is their likelihood | to slip out of place at critical moments | These pads are made of small heart | shaped piecee9 of cloth of varying sizes. | The smallest is at the top, These grad | ually increase in size until at the bot | tom the foundation is about the size | of the bunch of muscles that make up | the calf These are all right until they | begin to slip. That pecularity has made | the actor lose confidence in them and | has given the public some very mis- | guided ideas on the general subject of pad, New York Sun
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