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The Art of Theatrical Make-up - Cavendish Morton
Cavendish Morton
The Art of Theatrical Make-up
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4064066199388
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
COLOUR
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
ILLUSTRATIONS
KING LEAR
DON QUIXOTE
FALSTAFF
SHYLOCK
HAMLET
IAGO
OTHELLO
BOTTOM THE WEAVER
PIERROT
ROMEO
THE APOTHECARY IN ROMEO AND JULIET
THE THREE WITCHES IN MACBETH
MACBETH
UNCLE TOM
FLEURY
ABSINTHE
THE PROFESSOR
THE PROFESSOR
THE SOUL STRUGGLE
SIR THOMAS MORE
NAPOLEON
FALSE BEARDS
PREFACE
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Looking back on the method of production of this book, it seems to me not to have been so much a matter of toil as a natural growth. It seems to have produced itself, for my earliest photographs were taken as records of the different characters that I played. These studies, as they were published from time to time in the Sketch, Tatler, Playgoer and other papers, aroused a certain amount of interest.
Frequent requests from brother actors for me to help them with their make-ups convinced me that my instruction was desired.
As the material accumulated, I constantly heard the suggestion reiterated, Make a book of it.
A profound interest in psychology, physiognomy, or characterisation, the art of the stage, and photography, has enabled me to study the subject from different standpoints, and to gain an entirely individual impression of it.
Many years spent on the stage in, among others, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's, Mr. Forbes Robertson's, and Sir Charles Wyndham's companies, the privilege of watching Sir Henry Irving, Sir Herbert, Charles Warner, Franklin McLeay, and M. de Max making up, and, in some instances, hearing their methods of work explained, has supplemented the knowledge gained by my own experience.
CHAPTER I
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THE ART OF THE STAGE
How ephemeral is this art of the stage, how evanescent. Words quickened by the voices of the actors tremble for a moment in the sympathetic atmosphere of the theatre and are then engulfed in silence. This in its turn gives way to newly spoken words. Out of the illustrative gestures and actions of the players are pictures formed which each new phase of the unfolding of the play destroys. Joy gives place to grief, and grief to joy, gentleness to rage, and love to hate.
The passions wax and wane. The scenes fade even as the lantern pictures vanish from the white screen. The curtain rustles down, severing those bonds of sympathy that the play has forged. Actors and audience turn away to pick up the links in their own particular chains of destiny.
How ephemeral, how evanescent.
Yet that universal law of compensation yields its recompense: for no art is more enduring in its influence.
Most men are so profoundly impressed by the drama that the recollection of a performance will abide for years; indeed some are so sensitive to its effect that their whole lives are coloured or are even changed by the sensation created by one fine bit of acting.
That the art of the theatre should be so persuasive is in no way strange, for it makes a joint appeal through the portals of two senses simultaneously. The eye and ear alike are charmed.
In this joint appeal lies the very essence of the theatrical. The actor by the heat of his passions fuses picture and poem.
Dumb poetry and petrified graphic art come to life.
Like an electrode the actor stands collecting the currents of dramatic beauty that pervade the world, and discharges them into the tense atmosphere of the theatre.
It is the player's duty not only to lend life to the part that he plays, he should present the character in such a way that the spirit of each member of his audience moves in accord with it. If his appeal is strong it will weld the minds of his individual spectators into a kind of composite intelligence.
I once saw a concave reflector made