PORTRAIT BIOGRAPHIES
HENRY IRVING
BY MORTIMER MENPES
Containing 8 delicate pencil and tintportraits. Foolscap 8vo, cloth, gilt top.
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"Mr. Mortimer Menpes has produced a littlebook entitled 'Henry Irving,' which is asdainty and graceful as could be imagined....It is a gossipy little appreciation of thegreat actor, enlivened by some excellentstories, and embellished with twelve portraitsin colour from the brush of the artist-author.Artistically 'got up,' admirably printed, andunconventionally arranged, it is an additionto 'Irvingana' which none of the admirers of'the chief' would willingly have absent fromtheir shelves."—Standard.
A. AND C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.
THE ART OF THEATRICAL MAKE-UP
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THE ART OF
THEATRICAL MAKE-UP
BY
CAVENDISH MORTON
ILLUSTRATED WITH THIRTY-TWO REPRODUCTIONS
FROM PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AUTHOR BY HIMSELF
LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1909
REPRODUCED AND PRINTED BY
BALLANTYNE AND CO. LTD., TAVISTOCK STREET, LONDON, W.C.
PREFACE
Looking back on the method of production ofthis book, it seems to me not to have been somuch a matter of toil as a natural growth. Itseems to have produced itself, for my earliest photographswere taken as records of the different charactersthat I played. These studies, as they were published fromtime to time in the Sketch, Tatler, Playgoer and otherpapers, aroused a certain amount of interest.
Frequent requests from brother actors for me to helpthem with their make-ups convinced me that my instructionwas desired.
As the material accumulated, I constantly heard thesuggestion reiterated, "Make a book of it."
A profound interest in psychology, physiognomy, orcharacterisation, the art of the stage, and photography,has enabled me