Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover) When he advances, greasy with makeup, to his daily toil, a motion-picture actor is engulfed-profile, esthetic sensibilities and nervous stomach-in an atmosphere depressingly reminiscent of a submarine dockyard. The sound stage in which he works is as cavernous and gloomy as a wharfside warehouse. The day's set, thrown up in a distant corner as if to dramatize the phoniness and gullibility of man, is bathed in a glare of blue-white light as blinding as that from an arc welder's torch. Half a hundred hairy union men tinker stolidly with furniture, electrical...
...cast really stand out. Pippa Scott, playing Frytania, is the Tallulah Bankhead of Bad Fairies, angular and wicked, with a fearsome bit of makeup to suit her evil soul. Slugging it out with the Bad Fairly is Weady Robertson as Beauty, who is the apogee of sweetness and light. Miss Robertson is marvelous in an extremely difficult part, since it is so much more difficult to portray Good than Evil...
Basso Hines's voice was as big, dark and smooth as the best of them, and his basketball-player's height (6 ft. 6½ in.) gave him a properly commanding appear ance. His craggy makeup, with its shaggy beard and beetling brows, made him resemble the tormented Mussorgsky him self. He did not quite have the authority to dominate the role, but few expected a first try to be a great one, and the crowd yelled itself hoarse after the death scene, called Hines back for seven solo curtain calls...
...drama in this case is provided by suggesting that Miller's efforts to get a good combo together were really rather like Beethoven's early struggles. The problem of the actor is solved with a beautiful piece of sustained mimicry by Jimmy Stewart. A subtle makeup job has slightly altered his mouth without causing it to seem unlike Jimmy Stewart's. With that for a start, Actor Stewart has managed all along the line-in walk, talk and conducting-to effect a graceful compromise of gesture that should please both Miller's public...
Unlike the classic companies of Japan, the Azuma group will feature female as well as male dancers. But the color of the traditional Kabuki remains: stylized postures, garish costumes and makeup...