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...life expressed in a defensive, fatalistic attitude is to be much lamented as Dr. Faustus laments the sale and riddance of his soul for likewise by debunking the critic, theatre has lost the means of viewing herself to her mind's eye and must henceforth don the powder and greasepaint, the eyebrow and wig less the aid of the mirror and the important light that reflects therein. And so in the darkness of ignorance under the illusion of being in the light, without a critical past, without a discriminating present, without the dynamic of channeled volition working from someplace...
...talent depends on just how skillfully it is handled. MGM, now paying her $1,600 a month plus living expenses, well knows that her unspoiled naturalness is precisely what makes her Pier Angeli. Hence the studio's orders against gilding the lily: no eyebrow plucking, no greasepaint lathering for stills, no hair-dyeing or publicity whirls. Pier's next assignment: the part of a painter who regenerates a swindler (Stewart Granger) in The Light Touch, to be filmed in Tunis and Sicily...
Francis is played by a real Army veteran who underwent a 16-hour-a-day movie course with studio Trainer Jimmy Phillips. Recruited for the film from a Calabasas, Calif, mule dealer, he was dyed a darker hue from head to hoof, wore greasepaint on his mouth, powder on his nose, a "rat" in his tail, half-inch false eyelashes and-until he balked-extra-sized false ears. Like many a new-found star, patient Francis is currently making personal appearances with the picture...
Touring with her play, Diamond Lil, Mae West, fiftyish, collapsed on stage in Rochester from food poisoning. But next night she was back in greasepaint, to "give...
...Harlequinade, a hammy theatrical troupe, while rehearsing Romeo and Juliet, encounters all manner of real-life crises, from bigamy to illegitimate children. Faced with such stupendous greasepaint problems as who shall stand where and who shall wear what, the stage folk quickly brush the non-stage problems aside. A relentlessly jolly burlesque, A Harlequinade is occasionally funny...