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...many a newspaper shop the only things kept constantly under lock & key are the make-up man's mats of future comics, usually received from syndicates two weeks ahead of publication. What will happen in the next installment of a comic strip is one of newspaperdom's most carefully guarded trade secrets...
...effort the world has yet seen toward establishing effective international policing was rendered worthless by the two unanswered questions: Who gives the cop his orders? What kind of order: are given-or not given? These questions involve far tough er problems than do questions of the structure, mechanics and make-up of the police force itself. But the mechanical problems have most fascinated planners, and they are not to be ignored...
...usually prefer to stay out of sight in darkened wards. Jack Dawn's "inlays," however, could make many men appear normal between operations. Last week, under Kirkham's eye, a department of prosthesis* was being organized at the hospital. Besides designing new faces, by way of occupational therapy the department will teach injured men to make their own inlays. The Navy has assigned Lieut. Commander Michael Gurdin, peacetime plastic surgeon, and Lieut. Gordon Bau, peacetime head of Warner Bros. make-up department, to study Dawn's methods in Hollywood...
Dawn left Hollywood to fight with the British during World War I, but returned in 1919 as a make-up assistant with Universal. He began making whole false faces to suit parts. One of his first was a stiff, heavy irritating mask he wore in the role of an ape in 1925. In 1935, after nine years of research while doing makeups for M.G.M., he found what he wanted- a synthetic plastic good for making mobile, lifelike masks. It is of secret composition (the process is patented, but he gives it to the Navy free) which he calls vinylite resin...
...Dawn Method. First step in making a Dawn inlay for a disfigured man is to make a life mask of his face with the missing parts added. Then the extra bit is removed and duplicated in Dawn's plastic. To stick the inlay on, the man wets the inside with alcohol. This dissolves the plastic a little, and the inlay clings perfectly when pressed into place. Next the inlay is touched up with make-up to match the skin...