the life of Philo T Farnsworth - Early Television Foundation

232 THE STORY OF TELEVISION
It was in Los Angeles that we first televised a hula dancer,
Princess Louana, a native Hawaiian who performed at
many of
our showings. To me it was the most successful of all our acts.
We continued the television demonstrations for a period of
five weeks. Many of the famous figures in motion pictures took
advantage of the showing. One evening was given
over to a
demonstration for Harold Lloyd and his family. When he was
televised one of his children said he looked pretty tough. He had
appeared without make-up and his beard showed through very
badly, as is often the case with men unless the beard is covered
with make-up.
It was here that we had our first real test regarding television
make-up. The Max Factor Company of Hollywood
to learn something about the requirements
was anxious
of television to
in television
prepare themselves to do the same splendid job
that had characterized their work in motion pictures. Max
deal of
Firestein, head of the Factor Company, spent a great
time at the studio. In addition, his nephew, Sidney Cramer, was
at all
assigned to make up the television artists as they appeared
of our showings. We gave two demonstrations a day, one in the
afternoon and one in the evening. Cramer usually arrived at the
studio each day with some new mixture of coloring to try out.
He finally
found that the best effect to be had on the lips
was
not to paint them blue as we did in the first showings, but to
mix a little blue pigment with the ordinary type of lipstick. This
gave a more natural shading to the lips than the blue make-up.
We could do wonders with most television subjects by painting
out lines and wrinkles with liberal use of red make-up. One
evening when a leading moving-picture producer and his wife, a
former Follies beauty, came to one of our demonstrations, I
asked the producer's wife if she would like to be televised. She