Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sorcerer himself receives a magnificent interpretation from Benjamin Nielson. His singing, costume and makeup suit the role perfectly and with his acting there can be no cavil. His rapid-fire patter song is a genuine show-stopper. As his page, nine-year-old Nicky Deutsch is charming...
Putty & Wax. Smeared with collodion, hung with plastic eye-bags, festooned with soup strainers, monocles, nippers, wax teeth, putty nebs, and anything else he could find in his makeup kit, Guinness gleefully paraded himself before the public in a glorious album of absurdities. He has been a larcenous bank clerk, a commuting bigamist, a middle-aged suffragette, a bootleg genius, a buck-toothed fiend, a garden editor who liked vegetables better than people, the contents of a cannibal stew, a family of eight, an intellectual...
...verge of a new cinemacting career, Sloan Simpson, erstwhile TV Chit-chatter and ex-wife of New York City's onetime Mayor William O'Dwyer, freshened her makeup while lounging provocatively in a barber's chair at a Bronx (N.Y.) movie studio. Sloan's first movie role will be as a cop's wife in an "it-could-happen-to-you" dope opera titled The Pusher, now in production...
...among the peoples of Asia dancing is still an organic and important part of religion; each step and gesture, even a finger's tilt, may be loaded with metaphysical meaning. Costumes are designed according to ancient and elaborate convention: in a classic Indian dance drama called Kathakali, the makeup alone often takes from early morning until late in the afternoon. The music accompanying dancers in the East ranges from the Kathakali's ceaseless thunder of drums (the drummers work in relays) to the Burmese Zat Pwé orchestra of a dozen varied instruments-teakwood xylophones, ivory horns, cymbals...
...will one day end the affair, and easily, "this is really the last straw for him. [He thinks.] 'Hasn't she ever loved me?' ...He doesn't understand this woman at all." On the Marschallin: "She has not a drop of sentimentality in her whole makeup, not at all. Always she has this humorous superiority which carries her through everything...She knows that now the hour has come that Octavian will leave her. It has come a little bit earlier than is pleasant for her, but she is master of the situation...