Show MA MAKING ING UP FOR THE PL PLAY y I II II 1 I f ft fi c i t i i I J r rV V r S 4 A C I I I I i I H 4 Little Helen Pullman In her dressing room making up for the part of Claudia in The Prince Chap Here Is isa a dressing room view of little Helen Pullman who Is the second act Claudia in Edward delightful play Th The Prince Chap Little Littie Helen In a pink kimono is sit sitting tins ting before a great mirror framed with electric lights doing her own making up for tor the performance and sue she does It t all allover allover over again before every performance and has now reached the highest perfection in those touches of artificiality as you will see when The Prince Chap plays plas in inthis inthis this city Important is the toothpick and the fair haired Helen takes a penknife and grave gravely ly IJ splits a match Then sh warms a lit little littie tie tle tube of blue stuff In a candle flame as one would melt sealing wax Then she sticks the split match In the blue stuff and smears Ii a ghastly blue line across one snowy snow just back of the drooping lash This is blue grease paint she enlightens ens the visitor It makes your our eyes look nice and lark clark on he stage I go to school when I am In New NewYork NewYork York she said but my governess s teaches me when we are on tour all thE time ime Every morning I stud study reading writing geography French arithmetic and Is very strict about that says sas Helen with a reminiscent shudder You like Shakespearean drama Oh yes I like It much better than the plain drama said Helen pinning back her curls so the they would not dip In Inthe inthe the rouge pot This for the checks Is just powder she explained ut this for the lips Is a salve or grease Fifteen minutes roars a stentorian voice below Fifteen minutes to thE overture breaks in little Beryl Berl Pullman the first Claudia who has been plastering herself artistically with grease paint and listen listenIng listenIng Ing to the words or of wisdom from her sis sister sister ter Helen three years her elder cIder Both their small faces are a stud study in red white and blue blut Meanwhile little Beryl Benl will wiil have hae her feet Ceet washed She has to be undressed for bed bedon bedon on the stage and the last or of her make makeup up every night Is to give her little pink and white toes a wash Reposing In the lap o of lieI mother tOotsies are be being ing dried with a soft towel Her gover governess governess ness who travels with the company watches over the little child Helen Is a little girl but Beryl is a baby She looks the part of the Claudia in inthe Inthe the dressing room as well as on the stage Little Claudia In the first act being rather wan and underfed Beryl is less lavish with the rouge pot but lays on more of the shocking blue grease paint about her eyes During the long run of The Prince Chap at the Madison Square and Webers ebers theatres in New York Helen was the pet of Broadway |