TELEVISION “TERRORS”
BLACK AND WHITE MAKE-UP.
Sydney, June 30.
One of the few people in Australia who can claim to have been “televised,” Miss Gladys Lorimer, well-known coloratura soprano, has returned to Sydney after five years in England. Broadcasting could hold no terrors after one has undergone the supreme ordeal of facing the television camera in a darkened room, Miss Lorimer says. Standing only a few feet from an eerie flickering light is so disconcerting that the artist needs great selfpossession even to remember her lines. Everything in the broadcasting studio is black and white, and the subject’s make-up agrees with this colour scheme as far as possible. The foundation is white, and the eyebrows are underlined with a white line to make them stand out. The eyelids are painted a silver blue, surrounded by a white stripe. The ridge of the nose bears a long white stripe, shadowed on either side by purple-blue which also shades around the eyes. Great clarity is achieved in reception, Miss Lormer says. It is now possible to televise action, but in this case the features are not clearly distinguishable.
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Southland Times, Issue 25341, 20 July 1935, Page 5
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