Word: greasepaint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harlequinade, a hammy theatrical troupe, while rehearsing Romeo and Juliet, encounters all manner of real-life crises, from bigamy to illegitimate children. Faced with such stupendous greasepaint problems as who shall stand where and who shall wear what, the stage folk quickly brush the non-stage problems aside. A relentlessly jolly burlesque, A Harlequinade is occasionally funny...
...them at ease. That technical word aria, it was explained, is "nothing to be afraid of-it simply means 'song' in Italian." Ensemble -"that's when everybody sings together." By the time the audience had been let in on a few secrets of stage lighting, greasepaint, and how to put up the scenery, it was beginning to relax...
...wittier lines, and plumped out the familiar plot, like a tired old pillow, into a new but improbable shape. As the wayward Mrs. Erlynne, Madeleine Carroll is going about in present-day London. So is the once dashing Lord Darling-:on (George Sanders). Weighed down by :heir years and greasepaint, they piece together the old story in flashbacks...
Golden Earrings (Paramount) must have been intended as quite a novelty. Audiences were to thrill to the spectacle of a Dietrich Without Glamor: her famous legs lost in gypsy petticoats, her looks in gypsy greasepaint, her trick accent reduced to gypsy gutturals barely distinguishable from stock-company wigwam banter...
...award for her fight against illiteracy. For Alemán, who knew Hollywood well in pre-presidential days and who is now anxious to give Mexican movies a hand up, it would be a screen debut. Said famed Director "El Indio" Fernandez last week, readying camera, lights and greasepaint: "I'm sure the President won't need any coaching, but if he does, you can bet that I'll give...