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Hubbard once toured ten weeks in vaudeville on the same bill with Lauder and Pugilist Jim Corbett. Chatting together one evening over a soft drink, Sir Harry wise cracked: "Mr. Hubbard is the only one of us who wears his make-up on the street...
...change allows greater flexibility of make-up and speed in printing," stated Adam Yarmolinsky, editor of the "Yardling." "It has also enabled us to increase the size of the paper from 8 1/2 by 11 inches to 9 by 12 inches...
...makes $10,000 to $12,000 a year on phonograph records that sometimes outsell Bing Crosby's. Another $25,000 a year comes from his magic imprimatur on cap pistols, sweat shirts, cowboy suits, a bandit-hunt game, toothbrushes, bandannas, books, balloons, dolls, a new, syndicated comic strip, make-up kits...
...Hunchback of Notre Dame (RKO) is a more spectacular remake of an old horror film in which the late Lon (Man of a Thousand Faces) Chancy, with the help of an elaborately repulsive makeup, set a standard for cinema frightfulness hard to beat. So hard, that the more repulsive make-up (by Perc Westmore) with which British Cinemactor Charles Laughton proposed to beat it was a devoutly cherished secret of this production. Thirty-four pounds lighter than Lon Chaney's, Laughton's make-up consists of a sponge-rubber right cheek and false eye socket, which covers Laughton...
Even more amazing is the make-up magic by which Westmore somehow transfers burly, bulging Cinemactor Laughton's paunch to his shoulder...