The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-09
comes 8 Merciless andMost
Thankless Creature asSoon
as Wrinkles. Appear. for

Of youth, the difference Il scarcely noticed By
the public.
The years ada instead o. detracting from the
power OF stage players, BY giving them more
finished artistry. But with The movihs-picture
actress 1t 10 different, TiMe, the ripeher Of
the mind and btaih. that gives her more I'm
ished ability. also Sivss her things she does
not want, ana things tkat she cannot hide with
the makeup box.
II gives her more power to register the hu.
man emotions. but II takes the roundness from
her cheeks. Il gives her peise. and rounds out
her mental precepts@and II gives her more
fissh ana rounds out portions Of her figure that
She does not want foutdsd out.
It gives her d broad outlook on lite-and
crow's.feet 1t the corner Of her eyes that show
up like the canals On the map Of Mars, and
wrinkles in the neck that no amount Of make
UP wifi hide. And having arrived at time
when she could give the most hnishsd per.
formance Of her career. she finds herself In
ishsd, tied up In d package and dumped INTO
the discard, or passed on to playing fnifor
parts.
The moving -piottrs camera Is niercfless
machine. The oid.fashfonsd CAMERA was not
overly kind to the ravases Of age dhd tie lack
Of beauty, but there WIS always the fetoucter;
this magician could rub the years from the
countepance as o child r,Ibs the marks from its
slate. He could plump out the sunken cheek,
fill In the hoIIows under tie eyes, pefk Up the
iistless corner Of sagstnt mouth, faakS the
palm leaf ears snugsle Up close to the head IN
shell-nke coquetry. and has been known 10 give
smile.
Not 50 with the moving picture camera. The
little pictures are too small to Be retouched,
they have to go Just as they are made, and
when they are projected on the screen they are
magnihed many hundreds Of tines The tinitst
wrinkle. the smallest worry scar no biggertitan
d singls hair looks Big In 'cIose.up.''
The Closeup Is really the ca1se Of all the
trouble. II all were satisfied to see the mdsls
herones walk around In the picture In their
rooms or in the gardens Ike other fiaitna,i &c.
ings, age would not be the ogre that It Is, and
45. with little skiliful rabbit footing and vios
let powdering, could 90 hand in hand with 20
and no one be any the wiser.
But the deadly closeup viii not tolerate this,.
and the public will not tolerate the moving
picture without the closeup" THE ''cioses
un' Is the greatest enemy OF age.
There is something strange in the desir6
that the public has to see these Closeup
pictures Of the screen people, When one
goes to the picture show He is not satisfied to,
see the villain do HIS hating at long distance;
he must come right UP IN an intimate View
that will show his features. woriting with
deadly hatred for his rival. The public wants
to- see him hate with cruel twist to- his lips
when he makes the golden haired gin deliver
''the papers" that will rob her Of her birth.
right and the rentals from the rnahor house.
When "Imogene" irnaglnes Eugene false
the public is not satifed to see fet. stand 1T
the garden gate; and sigh as he goes by with
another girl III his new mali order auto. 'Ttno-
gene must bring her face right up close, so
the spectators can cry with her The rearly'
tears must well up from her eyes and roll
down her fair young cheeks, and the fair
young cheeks must be free from paint or
makeup, or the tears will make stteaks and
stripes that look like young irrigation bitches.
III some great inventor, some behefactor to
mankind, win eliminate the closeup" or In.
vent a system Of makeup that will defy the
camera ana stand the test Of the ciose'up and
not maisss the, human face, look like q white.'
washed fence after rain every time the per-
former cries little, he would earn the ever.
lasting gratitude Of every moving picture
player In the land.
Makeup, such as isl Used on the.regular. stage
cannot be, used at all in moving pictures
Rouge that will put the bloom Of youth on the
cheeks Of 50; will show UP, as surikeh' places
in the moving pictures.
When nake-up is used the entire face and
neck ,is covered with aayellow paste or powder
This photographs whites and makesi a softer
picture. but II will not hidea solitary wrinkie'
Many actresses use violet powder sparinsly,
and; some who are very skiilful paint the lips
Just q little.
But the best way, and the way al the Teapy
beautiful women on the rnotiomipicture stage
do, is to. appear before the motion picture
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