Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skillful casting and makeup has wrought a group of bit players in the opening scene into a realistic facsimile of Lincoln's Cabinet. Cinemagoers with good memory of their history books may recognize Secretary of State Seward, Secretary ot War Stanton, Attorney General Speed Postmaster General William Dennison...
...except Dietrich. She laughed, picked herself up, popped back in the tub (see cut). During the production of The Garden of Allah she could tell whether the take would be good or bad by the intensity of the light on her face. She tested personally her dress materials and makeup under lights...
...horse is thus a successful animal partly because it is a fine piece of natural engineering. Man is a grappling bridge upended on its rear towers. This experiment in posture has been fairly successful, although strains and maladjustments resulting from the perpendicular positions are still visible in the human makeup. Among the apes, gibbons run on two legs; gorillas and chimpanzees can take a few upright steps without using their arms as crutches. These apes, "living fossils" which have changed little in 12,000,000 years, have failed to adjust their centres of gravity to the upright posture...
Briefly, Dr. Little asked Dr. Slye to give, loan or sell to some neutral institution a herd of male mice which she would certify as having no tendency to cancer in their makeup. Then he would give 1,000 of his cancer-susceptible female mice for breeding at a neutral institution. Children of those matings would be bred, brother to sister...
...Hull works like a ditchdigger for three acts, manages by artful makeup to achieve a good likeness (see cut, p. 89) to the unhappy genius who wrote, among other things, a poem called The Raven. These commendable efforts go unrewarded, for Plumes in the Dust seems to be concerned with an unpleasant man surrounded by unpleasant people, presented with all the dramatic impact of a glass of sour milk...