| If your career is on the way down, panto is a celebrity safety net, one last greasepaint refuge where you can still revel in audience adulation. |
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| Was there is any likelihood at all of her reconsidering the decision and donning the greasepaint again? |
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| Twelve finalists plastered on the greasepaint and heaved on the star-studded attire that made for a wonderful night's entertainment. |
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| Groucho, who had taken to wearing a fake greasepaint moustache in vaudeville, refused to grow a real one for the cameras. |
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| He also took to donning a white greasepaint visage, designed to mimic the pallor of 13 th-century plague victims. |
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| But if the smell of greasepaint proves irresistible the stage is near at hand. |
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| I heard the roar of the crowd, I could smell the greasepaint, but alas, it was not to be, for me. |
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| Johnie remained in full clown make-up throughout, even as real tears threatened to smear his greasepaint grin. |
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| I was a child who, when taken to the circus, spent all her time trying to see past the greasepaint and illusion. |
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| Won't somebody ask me what I'm doing with greasepaint dirt smudges on my nose and a balsa-wood pickaxe in my hands? |
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| Covered with greasepaint and standing motionless for an hour, two young people act as statuesque models to earn money. |
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| The smell of the crowd and the roar of the greasepaint is anathema to wanting to sit in a room alone and write. |
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| This listener, though, grew up in a land where bands weren't afraid to express themselves in fez beanies, lederhosen and greasepaint. |
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| Take, for example, the symbolic doll face garishly created with white greasepaint around the forehead and temples of the models. |
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| He used to have a terrifying actor's nightmare in which the greasepaint slid off his face. |
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| Mike produced several sticks of green greasepaint and showed John how to apply the camouflage in diagonal stripes on his face. |
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| Is she game to don greasepaint to test her luck on the silver screen? |
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| Canio prepares to apply his greasepaint and clown costume for the evening's presentation. |
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| Various colour films caused existing greasepaint used on players' faces to appear yellowish or red and blue on the screen. |
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| But compared with the thrill of the music-hall, the glitter of sequins and the smell of greasepaint, school was an incredibly boring affair. |
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| The Ruhr may henceforth conjure up thoughts of greasepaint, not grease. |
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| Half a century later, greasepaint in stick form had given way to more easily handled creams, though greasepaint's superior qualities in colour blending were still prized. |
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| It was a light, semiliquid greasepaint available in jars in a precisely graduated range of tan tone, suitable for the lighting and orthochromatic film emulsion used during that period. |
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| I turned into a Mongol, an Argentinian gaucho and a Maori tribesman, all with the aid of a bit of greasepaint and a red dot in the corner of each eye. |
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| In the intervening 108 years, many stars have walked through the stage door, applied their greasepaint in its dressing rooms and performed under its proscenium arch. |
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| The equine heroes are not forgotten either and there are mentions for the likes of Freddie, Black Secret, Spanish Steps, The Pilgarlic, Rough And Tumble and Greasepaint. |
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