Word: make-up
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...years great divas have smeared their ample bodies with cocoa-colored grease paint or pancake make-up to sing Aïda, Giuseppe Verdi's Ethiopian princess. This week, an Aïda didn't have to bother. In Mexico City's Opera National the role was sung by Ellabelle Davis, a U.S. Negress...
...lovely girl [TIME, April 8]. As author of Paulette Goddard's first screen test and as the fortunate producer of several of her pictures since, I am in a position to assure you that we have never felt it necessary to call in the Blimp Section of the Make-up Department...
...TIME bows to the swelling blast from various quarters (including costumers, make-up artists and union officials), cheerfully admits that it would be supererogatory for anybody to add anything to the lady's charms. TIME'S apologies to Miss Goddard...
Oldtime readers of the New Republic raised their eyebrows. For the first time in its 31 years, the opinionated weekly journal of opinion had daubed make-up on its sallow, paper-towel complexion, political cartoons on its restyled cover. Inside, it had jazzed up its austere format like a C.I.O. house organ, had even started a chummy column of office gossip. Recently it stepped farther out of character to buy radio commercials, brazenly courting a mass audience...
...their own. But last week, by a last-minute compromise, the grave jurisdictional issue was settled. Henceforth, Motion Picture Costumers Local 705 (A.F. of L.) would install only fabric "falsies" for such flat-chested working personnel as Hedy La-Marr, Paulette Goddard, Katherine Hepburn and Betty Button. Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706 (A.F. of L.) would install the rubber ones. Movieland bosoms rose with relief...