Word: make-up
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...spring show Idler made the poor choice of Ferenc Molnar's "The Swan." The play was trite and had all the essences of a dull evening. Yet it made a very amusing three hours for a small audience, perhaps unintentionally. The sets, acting, and make-up were all so bad that the play turned into a side-splitting farce. Obviously the actors were unfamiliar with their parts and the stage furniture. They were even more unknown to themselves, especially in the love scenes. At every possible moment something went wrong. Shoulder-straps slipped, chairs threatened to break, and men stood...
...American features a full page of "Camp Shelby Briefs" six days a week but its chief appeal is its hodgepodge front page, a make-up man's nightmare, with rough & ready headlines, in 18 to 120 point bold. Typical war headlines...
Last came Ethel's own moist, resonant voice: "If my years are to be lined up and counted off, I can think of no pleasanter way for it to happen. ... I have been used for so long to shuffling time back and forth in my make-up box, that actual time has lost its meaning. . . . Thank you all, for this treasure you have stored for me, in my particular heaven." She closed with the most famous line of her career, from her early play Sunday: "That's all there is-there isn't any more." Her voice...
...Salome, blazingly conducted by Artur Rodzinski; and the best of modern Italian works, The Love of Three Kings, conducted by its Composer Italo Montemezzi. Best opera in English was Verdi's Falstaff, retranslated from the Italian to sound something like Shakespeare. Baritone John Charles Thomas patterned his make-up from a Falstaff beer advertisement, said "Falstaff is just a plain red-nosed comedian to me," acted that way. He got one of his laughs by singing, right out, "Go to hell...
...predominate. They quickly learn that a new comer like Ingrid Bergman must be shot from the left as her face is expressionless from the other side. They are careful with close-ups of older beauties like Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich, keeping them motionless to conceal the wrinkles that make-up and careful lighting won't hide. Photographing rubber chins and putty noses on a bias to avoid detection is a matter of course...