Popular Comedian.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 365, 5 March 1932, Page 24 (Supplement)

Popular Comedian.

@ IS IS ® HI EE) ID (S ® HIS EE El Jg ID a ® ® IS B An Elaborate Make-up. Lewis Stone will essay one of the most elaborate make-ups of his career as the shell-shocked doctor in " Grand Hotel.” He tells me it requires one hundred and six distinct physical alterations to transform him for the role. 'Stone begins the metamorphosis one hour and a half before he steps on' to the set. A set of photographs of the make-up in progress is used as a daily guide, since it must be exact in every slightest detail. Major changes in one side of Lewis Stone’s countenance include applications of collodion, undertaker’s wax, gelatine, spirit gum, cotton batting, adhesive tape, facial putty, colouring, thread, paint, powder, pencil lining and varnish. Lon Chaney was for years exclusive

master of this art in Hollywood. Then along came Paul Muni with his strange mastery of make-up. and astounded cinemaland. Boris Karloff, in the role of the monster in “ Frankenstein,” established new history of make-up with his original and horrifying transformation. But all this is somewhat new for Lewis Stone, who is generally cast as the suave, handsome, middle-aged man who retains what we do banally term “ sex appeal.” (Copyright by the ■“ Star ” and the N.A.N.A. All rights reserved.)