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This French-made film version of an André Gide story, aimed at grown-up audiences, has so much more integrity and artistry than the run of movies that some of its admirers may be blind to its defects. It is superbly performed; talented and beautiful Mlle. Morgan has a chance to bloom again after an arid period in Hollywood. And the story is drawn slowly out of its characters with a patient indirection that piles up considerable emotional power without ever losing its sensitive touch...
...Cocteau has placed his favorite actor, Jean Marais. Though probably not a very good actor, he serves Cocteau's requirements well enough: he is beautiful, dashing and ethereal. Nathalie (Iseult), is played by a new actress, Madeleine Sologne. The role calls for her to be a little fey, but Mlle. Sologne behaves as if she hadn't read her Master's foreward. She seems, from the beginning, to be "aware" that she is Iseult. She is also too heavily made up for so pretty a young lady and actually is more attractive when the lipstick is gone, and she nears...
...camera showed Mlle. Mala, a pretty actress named Irene Champlin and a Rubinstein operator named Nicky. "I am ready for the new look in make-up," Irene announced. But before going to work on the skin Mlle. Mala gave Irene a "person-alysis" (standard Rubinstein treatment). "If you want to be a good actress," she said, "concentrate on it. Without hard work we just achieve nothing." Delivered of this thought, Mlle. Mala told Nicky to "oval out [Irene's] jaws . . . utilize the cheekbones . . . bring more personality to the eyes . . . give the lips a little bit more luscious look...
After the program, Mlle. Mala stated a few general rules for television makeup. Men should first shave, then apply a foundation cream tinted to suit the complexion. Eye shadow and eyelash cream are also important. Mlle. Mala thinks it is too bad that most men shy away from makeup. Women need a dark foundation to disguise "blotches and blemishes," plenty of shadow for double chins, two different shades of brown powder on the cheekbones, non-running mascara on the eyelids, a touch of eyebrow pencil. Lipstick depends on lighting: Mlle. Mala wore blue on her first TV appearance, last week...
...slim, pretty, and not yet 20. She stood shyly in the living room of a house in Paris' Rue du Bois. Bear-like Composer Claude Debussy ambled in, sat down at a piano with his back to her. "You are Mlle. Teyte?" "Yes, sir." "You are Mlle. Teyte-of the Opéra-Comique?" "Yes, sir." "Eh bien, we will start here." Before they had run through the first act of his one & only opera Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy hustled out to shout to his wife, "Here is a Mèlisande...