MYSTERY MAKE UP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 150, 27 June 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)

MYSTERY MAKE UP

ELSTREE STUDIO DISCOVERY While idly experimenting with various colours of grease-paints in thd palm of his hand, Harry Davo, the make-up expert at Elstree Studios, discovered a new tint which is now in great demand by film artists and sought after by cameramen. The new tint has a preponderance of pink, a colour hitherto avoided, and has valuable camera properties owing to its softening and rounding effect on the features. Prominent cheek bones and angular jaws arc now no source of trouble from a photographic point of view and hollow cheeks no longer require shading with light tints. Davo, on finding what a valuable discovery he had made was at first jubilant, but when he realised that ho had made no note of what proportions of tho various colours were mixed in his hands he found himself faced with tho difficult task of re-discovering the formula of this mystery make-up. After three weeks’ concentrated experiment, he has now determined the new colour, which he has graded into three shades. With it ts used a new lip rouge of a more brown than red hue, and the eye shading is now more red than brown. When this complete make-up is assumed, the photographic beauty of the wearer is said to be enhanced a hundred per cent. Moira Lynd, herself an Elstree discovery, is to be the first to appear iu the mystery inake-up in the title role cf “The Lovelorn Lady.”

The role of the magician-detective in the stage success, “The Spider,” has been assigned to Edmund Lowe, who is now adventuring with the marine corps in Raoul Walsh’s “Momcn of all Nations.” Alan Dwan, who has directed nearly every prominent player on the screen, will direct Low’e in the forthcoming production. The picturo will be unusual in that all the action takes place during the performance of various acts in a vaudeville theatre. A man in the audience is killed while Lowe, as a magician, holds the stage. The doors of the theatre are guarded and the entire audience is held while Lowe, from the stage, solves the mystery.

1 Kay Francis’ has two new pets—another dog and a parrot. This makes her collection consist of two dogs, on® 'cat, one rabbit, one frog, two canaries, | seven fish and one parrot. j Others in the cast of Riggers’ mys* , tery story inchid • Marguerite Ch ch* .ill, John Garrick, Warren Hymcr, Marjorie White, C. He. ry Gordon, A’illiam Holden, George Brent, Arthur Clayton, John T. Murray, Bert Swor, , Goode? Montgomery, Jason Robards, I Peter Gawthorn?. Zeftie Tillsbuiy, Esther Muir, Harry 3eresford, John ] Rogers and J. G. Davis.