The Technique of Photoplay Make-Up 



f f V7OU cannot use much make-up for 

 JL the movies. Particularly is this 

 true if the pictures are made indoors, un- 

 der the searching studio lights. Then 

 rouged lips take on the 

 color of uncured ham 

 and beaded eyelashes be- 

 come a cross between a 

 king's moustaches and a 

 porcupine's bristles. So 

 usually we have to go it 

 alone, with nature only 

 slightly aided." 



It was Miss Fan 

 Bourke talking Fan 

 Bourke of Mutual Film 

 stardom in drama and 

 comedy. If any one 



the speaking stage and therefore knows 

 the technique of both the spoken and the 

 silent drama, to tell us some more about 

 motion picture make-up. 



"A girl who wants to 

 become successful in 

 motion pictures," said 

 Miss Bourke, "has to 

 start out with a few 

 natural adornments. But 

 these are not always the 

 adornments that make 

 men gaze upon her or 

 women envious of her. 

 Because a girl 'screens' 

 well, as we call it, is not 

 saying that she is easy 

 to look at. 



Above, as she is off 

 stage. At the Left, in 

 tragedy. At the Right, 

 in an ingenue role. Be- 

 low, in farce comedy. 



(Photos, by .Bangs, N. Y.) 



should know thoroughly 

 the technique of photo- 

 play make-up it is Miss 

 Bourke. For, if there is 

 any role she has not 

 played from comedy 

 scrubwoman or dog- 

 catcher's bride to heavy 

 villainess or sweet-faced 

 madonna it is solely 

 because somebody in the 

 studios failed to awaken 

 from his torpor and 

 wish the part on her. 



Wherefore we 



asked Miss Bourke, who used to be on 



"On the contrary, 

 there are many favorite 

 photoplay actresses who, 

 out of their films, are 

 not beautiful except in 

 the sense that they are 

 interesting of appear- 

 ance and intelligent of 

 expression. Blue eyes 

 that are of the prettiest 

 in the drawing-room or 

 on the street may be 

 wholly inadequate for 

 the sternly scrutinizing eye of the motion 

 picture camera. A mouth whose lines 



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