MAKE-UP BOXES

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 230, 24 June 1932, Page 16

MAKE-UP BOXES

Variety of Types 'WHILE actresses of the screen have T elaborate make-up boxes to carry on the set, some of the most effective make-up boxes, owned by the men players, are made out of very primitive receptacles. William Haines’s make-up box, for instance, is a small wooden box that once held fifty cigarettes. A powder puff and a couple of sticks of grease paint are his total equipment. Lewis Stone brings his make-up on the set in a leather ammunition pouch, once part of his equipment as a cavalry officer. The leather pouch can be hung by its strap from any convenient nail—which, according to Stone, prevents its getting mislaid. Wallace Beery never wears makeup if he can avoid it. If he lias to, he brings his make-up material on the set in an envelope. Jackie Cooper’s make-up—if he has to wear any—conies to the set in his mother’s handbag. Wallace Ford usually arrives on the set with a paper bag that looks as if it formerly contained candy.. When he wants to patch up his make-up, he opens up the bag and produces all the essentials. Jean Hersholt frequently carries his make-up materials wrapped in paper in one of his coat pockets. Nils Asthor has a complete make-up box that hooks on to the back of a chair. John Gilbert has one with a tripod arrangement that can stand in a corner of the set.