The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-03-21
Do All Great Actresses Look Alikeq

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Do all great actresses look alike, OIL
is it but chance that seven of the
greatest women on the stage today
have many points of resemblance?
PhySiognomistS claim that 1t is per-
fectly possible for them to stand on
a street corner and tell from the face
and head the character and profession
of every passerby.
One of them summarizes the char
| acteristics of the different trades and
professions thus.
Artists frequently have classic Wis
age, acquired from constant study of
| ancient culpture. BlackSmits' faces
are contracted into a frown known as
the smiths scowl.'
Grooms and horsemen have a dis
! tinctive look about the mouth, caused
| from chirruping to horses or from the
| set of the jaw when controlling them
! The tailors type of face is caused
| by his working his jaws when using
his shears.
Doctors or lawyers in successful
practice do not compress their lips in
/ an effort to look wise, as smaller prac-
| titioners do.
In musicians face the skin is full.
especially under the eyes and about
the throat. The lips are generally
/ loose and fiabby, the nose differs from
VIII, and the mouth suggests self-in-
diligence.
Clergymen have about them an air
OF austerity and authority acquired
from self-denial, the exercise of au-
thority and intellectual activity.
The actors face is apt to resemble
a mask simply because he uses it al
most continually to reproduce the emo
tons of other people while at the same
hn OF .1,I u,a.
counts, too, for his prolonged youthful
looks. in spite of hard work, late hours
and irregular habits
Ihese are. OF course, sweeping state
ments which the physiognomist would
have some difficulty in proving.
The criminal face, for instance. is
accepted generally as being narrow,
with closely set eyes, sloping forehead.
retreatlng chin, large ears and loose
mouth. Yet some of the most hard
ened criminals have not had these UNI
desirable qualifications. An American
crossed to Australia on the same
steamer with famous criminal named
Butler, whom his fellow passengers de- |
clared to have a dreadful countenance
and criminal marks on every feature. |
The American surveying him with a
mind as unprecedented as he could make |
It, found him an intelligent, kindly |
PPSet ms liloH- ne was. however, |
found guilty of two unusually brutal |
murders and hung within a few weeks |
after his arrival in Australia. =.
Scientists maintain that the mental !
constitution of human being is far |
too complex to exhibit more than its |
leading features in the body. On the |
other hand, there are these seven wo-
men of the same profession who have
IN thelr faces alone at least ten points |
of resemblance
Some actors testify that they tenn
porarily become the person whom they
are representing. Is it then that the
women, by interpreting the same emo
lions, assuming many of the same
struggling after artistic
perfection, thinking the same thoughts. /
come after while to have a certain
cast of countenance?
Or it may be that only one type of
woman can succeed in playing emo
uonal and tragic roles and that suc
cess is partly due to physical endow-
ments
Again. it is possibly only chance
that Mrs. Campbell, Bernhardt. Ellen
Terry, Mrs. Fiske. Duse Mojeska and
Julia Marlowe have so much in COM
mon. For example they have large
regular noses, with long. marrow nos
trils set far back, leaving the tin of
the nose Of good size and slightly fiat
tened.
The points of resemblance do not
stop there. All of them have law
with the dramatic curve promi-
nent chin, every line of which is
beautiful curve, especially the under
line extending into the throat. that
which does most to make a woman
beautiful The depression between the
ower lip and the chin also is well
marked in all the faces.
1t is an interesting fact that while
professional beauties and the decora-
lions of the opera stage have large
md beautifully outlined eyes. those
IF these women, whose art and beauty
s of more intellectual type are
smaller, narrower, more Expressive s
With far-away, mysterious look IN
hem. This pathos, for it is almost {
hat, must come from the constant '
study of tragic emotions or from the
ieep unrest found in every talented y
nature struggling for. expression.
Their brows are arched high. leav- \
ng wide space between them, and | I
he eyes. The latter are set straight | i
md wide apart Ir