Word: make-up
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...face lathered in cold cream, his body clad only in a brief pair of shorts, a cheerful-looking young man sat on a stool before the mirror, surrounded by a make-up kit and tufts of false hair. He was busy pulling off long red eyebrows. Beside him lay a tinny helmet from which horns protruded. Standing up against the wall was a long sword, rather battered. The young man eyed Vag with an amused...
...general-trend in the number of examination outs allowed, as evidenced by the make-up petitions granted, has been downward since 1935, it was revealed recently by Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene...
...Most important event of the Metropolitan's week was the revival, after 14 years, of Verdi's Falstaff. To sing its title role, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett donned a five-bushel stuffed stomach and so plastered his face with make-up that only his lips and eyeballs could move. Getting him into his costume took four men an hour and forty-five minutes. Tibbett himself sweated away five pounds during the performance. The audience, delighted by the ingratiating and sophisticated Verdi score, thought the effort worthwhile...
...There is practically no difference in chemical make-up or physical structure between normal cells and cancer cells. Nor are cancer cells more sensitive to heat, cold, X-ray or radium than normal cells. Main difference between cancer cells and normal cells is that cancer cells are not subject to the body's discipline, but grow like wildfire...
...first act of the original delivers the lesson and the succeeding acts are given over to farce, so it is with the current production. It must be said in all frankness, however, that the opening act of the latter is atrocious. Although the make-up department has cleverly turned out a George Jean Nathan, an Alexander Woolcott, and an Orson Welles, these gentlemen's attempts at acting are deplorable, even when allowances are made for first-night stage-fright. Only the skill of John W. Sever '40, as Maxwell Anderson alias Mr. Puff, and the charm of Dorothe Larson...