This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...padded. The high forehead is all false and extends several inches higher than the top of the actor's head. The front is then blended with the forehead, the face powdered, and false eyebrows, either painted or made of crepe hair, are adjusted. A little line with an upward curve from each corner of the mouth gives a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...padded. The high forehead is all false and extends several inches higher than the top of the actor's head. The front is then blended with the forehead, the face powdered, and false eyebrows, either painted or made of crepe hair, are adjusted. A little line with an upward curve from each corner of the mouth gives a whimsical expression and completes the make-up. This make-up can be elaborated in numerous ways. Several persons, however, making up exactly this way will obtain different results, due to the natural formation and difference in the faces. The comic stage Irishman is not noted for beauty; the more the features can be "distorted the more the part seems to be successful; and yet the Irish are among the most perfect physical beings in the world. For regularity of feature, for commanding appearance and well developed physique, among the better class, there is possisibly no other nation their peer. This must be remem-jos. Keaton, Delineator Oe bered in making up the Irish Broad Irish Burlesque gentleman. Characters. For the good-looking young Irishman as portrayed so effec tively by Chauncey Olcott and Andrew Mack, a juvenile makeup is used. Usually this make-up is made a trifle more ruddy for the young son of the Emerald Isle, as it is well known that a more florid and healthy complexion is found in the old country. Olcott and stars of his type rely on the accessories of costume, wig, etc., to accentuate the racial type rather than upon any exaggeration of feature, for nowhere in the world is there a finer, handsomer speci CHAUNCEY OLCOTT IN TERENCE. men of the human race than the young and virile Irishman. Under their proper heads will be found the methods for making up separate features of grotesque types of Irishmen. The most successful charact...
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