Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maurice Colburne is the detestable prince who opens his interview with Princess Anne by informing her "I don't like you." Our personal opinion that his makeup and accent were a bit obvious was overridden by the audience in general which seemed happily affected by all that went...
...spite of makeup which gives her eyelids a furry look and her old tendency to read her more dramatic lines as though she were giving a schoolroom recital of Elektra, Actress Fontanne manages to be conspicuously charming in a role which is not a paragon of lucidity. Actor Lunt is at all times expertly droll, although his parts in The Guardsman and Reunion In Vienna appear to have permanently endowed him with a Central European accent. Actor Coward, particularly when he is imitating a butler on a telephone and giving an interview to the Press, is, if possible, more suavely...
...Boheme was given first. Scotti paced the floor, adjusted his wig, peered closely into the mirror. The makeup concealed the signs of his 67 years, the pouches under his eyes, the two deeply chiseled lines which, under the paint, linked his beaklike nose with the corners of his tired mouth...
...exits. His elbows stuck out. His small, turned-up nose was not much to look at. He got the chance to sing Ford in Falstaff only because Baritone Vincente Ballester was sick. When the audience started shouting for him Tibbett was upstairs in his dressing-room removing his makeup, unaware of the demonstration sweeping the house...
...Mummy (Universal). Boris Karloff, like the late Lon Chancy whose niche in the cinema he is trying hard to inherit, keeps his pressagent busy estimating the amount of time he expends in putting on makeup. For The Mummy, Karloff's preparations took eight hours. He dampened his face, covered it with strips of cotton, applied collodion and spirit gum, pinned his ears back, covered his head with clay, painted himself with 22 kinds of greasepaint, then wound himself up like a top in bandages which had been rotted in acid and roasted. It is a pity that these energetic...