TELEVISED COMEDY
A Broadcasting Innovation The British Broadcasting Corporation has broadcast its first "televised” musical comedy, and artists in-weird make-up, consisting of navy-blue lips, pink eyelids and hair plastered with a composition the colour of lead-foil were to be seen in the studios. Willie Clarkson, the man who made wigs and grease-paint for nearly every play in London until he retired a year or so ago, came to the studio specially to give advice about make-up. The piece was “Rokoko.” The artists were all dressed in magnificent costumes of eighteenth century Vienna. Scenery was provided for the first time in the history of British tele vision (hitherto a black backcloth has sufficed). Seen on the televisor in a darkened room, the play was fairly visible. It seemed a slight affair, on typical must cal comedy lines.—Reuter —Special to
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 302, 16 September 1933, Page 18
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138TELEVISED COMEDY Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 302, 16 September 1933, Page 18
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