190 HOURS WITH THE PLAYERS,

The disguise was complete. The personality of the
actress was not to be detected. An artist inquired of
the actress : " How do you know where to put in those
shadows, and make those lines which so accurately give
the effect of age ? *' "I don't know," she answered ; " I
only feel where they ought to come." The process of her
make-up was likened to " the painting of a face by an
old Dutch master, full of delicate and subtle manipula-
tions." Wild locks of grey hair streamed away from the
parchment-hued, worn, and withered face; upon her
head she wore a turban of twisted rags, "arranged in
vague and shadowy semblance to a crown ; her costume,
seemingly a mass of incoherent rags and tatters, but foil
of method and meaning — a bit picked up here, another
there, from the strangest materials." How she contrived
to assume this strange dress was known only to herself
and Sallie, her faithful servant, dresser, and assistant,
during the whole course of her theatrical career. " At
times," writes her biographer, " with so much wear and
tear, some part of the costume would require renewal.
