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Motion Picture Industry 17 mental picture developed through the study of character as my guide, I experiment for days with different tones and colors, trying to mould my own face into one that will resemble the picture in my mind. Photographic tests are taken of each effort and it is then that we discover that what convinces the eye will be lost on the lens of the camera. I usually complete my make-up looking like a design in Batik, because I get my best results with the use of purple, blue, brown and red, for lines and moulding. Careful arrangement of the hair will make the face appear long or round. It is not easy for a woman to push back the hair line without shaving the hair, but it can be easily lowered by small, carefully fitted pieces of false hair. In making up as the mulatto in "The Birth of a Nation" I lowered the hair line an inch and a half by the use of a false piece pasted across my forehead. Small appliances of my own manufacture, placed inside the nostrils, hurt dreadfully, but gave me the flat broad nose not unlike that of the mulatto girl that I had engaged—ostensibly as a maid, but really as a study. A layer of cotton under the upper and lower lips, and careful drawing with lip rouge produced the protruded lips. It was a most uncomfortable make-up, and a most disagreeable character. I just hated it. The mulatto had a clever but very objectionable mouth. Then, too, it required hours each night, and much soap suds, to get rid of the chocolate color. Carefully fitted, well made clothes, and the use of small or large pads change the shape of the figure. Unfortunately in my own case my own physical equipment never quite measures up to that of the character I play. I am always either too short and have to use inner soles and heels, or I am too thin and have to pad out here and there, or I am too plump and have to work in vise-like underthings. I do envy the beautiful, young actresses who wear straight make-up in their pictures. That is, a coating of grease-paint and powder before improving the eyebrows, lashes and mouth, just as many women who are not engaged in moving picture acting do. Of course, these actresses are lovely photographic subjects and are endowed with the producer's idea of perfect physical equipment. Then, too, plays are obtained that fit their personalities and type.