Colour Camera Exacting

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 13

Colour Camera Exacting

pictures arc causing motion 1 picture actors t,o think seriously of going to bed with the chickens. The day of the camera's colour-blindness toi dark-circled eyes ie bowing, graduspy but inevitably to a new day, bringing with it new problems to jgtague photographers. ? Make-up men who heretofore erased 4h(j tired lines from actors' faces, are fielpless. Players they say, must get their beauty sleep. > **N.p longer can we hide the chariot under sleepy players' eyes," said Mel Berns, chief make-up man at one Of the Hollywood studios. '' Colour jri«t»r.es require a lighter shade of jiteke-up than that used boforo. Too aifich makes faces appear flushed and gives them an unnatural Mxiness. vt'As for red eyes and rosy noses, Ihey wilt be more perceptible in colour pictures than in person—magnified in sixe «nd accentuated in colour." 2ft>*!tunately, early bedtime is not expected to bo a now hardship. Through inclination and necessity, 0 o'clock long has been tlie curlew hour in Hollywood—except for a few players wh.o used late hours as a rcduefrtg agent. Despite their high salaries, actors havo to be in the studios by 8 a.m. and often earlier.

AK the recommendation of her direcU tor in "Swing Time," Ginger Rogers is adding squash to her already extensive repertoire of sports. It will! join tennis, ping-pong, badminton, golf, swimming, riding, and bowling on the star's athletic list.

IYEDMA Byron, who has just completed a leading role in the Shirley Temple picture, "Dimples," received a wrenched neck the other flay when her 1 car was struck by another on Sunset boulevard, Hollywood. The accident occurred at the same spot whore a director, Allen Crosland, recently 'received, fatal injuries. Miss Byron's car was struck in the rear and thrown against the car in front of her. MiSS Byr,on did not require hospital ati|tatip»» but her car was wrecked, She was riding aTorio at the time.