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Filming the life story of French Painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) posed a serious make-up problem for Director John Huston and Actor José Ferrer. Toulouse-Lautrec was a dwarf who stood 4 ft. 8 in., and Ferrer, who plays the part, is 5 ft. 11. The solution: Ferrer plays the part on his knees. Last week as the film, Moulin Rouge, neared completion in London, Ferrer showed photographers the "torture boots" that enable him to walk like a dwarf. Few movie stars since the days of Lon Chancy have submitted to such complicated and elaborately painful...
...book is a dissertation on this theme. It wears much of the smooth make-up that made Malice a bestseller, with the difference that it reveals underneath a very agitated face. It is 100% American in that it is written with a high ideal in the right hand and a wisecrack in the left-each serving as something of an apology for the other. It is inspired by deep emotions which often result in intellectual pratfalls...
...long surrounded higher education in Texas, Heman Sweatt, 39, the first Negro admitted to the University of Texas law school, found the study of law a much tougher proposition. Last year he flunked out. But Dean Page Keeton gave Sweatt permission to try once more. Last week, in make-up exams, Sweatt failed again...
...gray shirts because white "washes out" on the screen. They should avoid large-figured ties and, if they have dandruff, they should never wear dark blue or black suits (it shows up on the shoulders as snow-flakes). For bags under the eyes and heavy beard line, pancake make-up is prescribed, while face powder will take the shine off an oily skin or a bald head. Candidates who ordinarily wear glasses should keep them on during TV because "eyes accustomed to glasses will react unnaturally without them...
...therefore has little substance An undergraduate impression also shared by many alumni and even some faculty members--that is harder to kill is of Conant the Cold-Fish Chemist. The 59-year-old Conant is no rollicking extrovert, but stuffed-shirt dignity is also not a part of his make-up. The summer after he was elected president he spent abroad with his wife: they created a sensation by traveling second-class on the "Europa." A CRIMSON of that same era reported that Conant's outstanding characteristic was his shyness; as substantiation it reported the following conversation between Conant...