YELLOW FACE; BLUE LIPS
TELEVISION MAKE-UP
SINGER’S EXPERIENCE SYDNEY, Aug. 8. "I nearly passed out when I saw my yellow-green face and blue lips in the looking-glass before I was televised for the first time in New York,” said Mr. Nick Lucas, guitar player, on his arrival in Sydney yesterday in the Monterey.
Mr. Lucas, who is known in the United States as the “Singing Troubadour,” sang “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” in the first “Gold Diggers of Broadway” film, and “Lady Luck” in the "Show of Shows.’
“They even covered my guitar with putty to take the shine off it for television,” he said, “I wore the lightest of light suits. In other words, I was covered in panchromatic colour. But the experience was interesting. Television is improving all the time in New York.”
Mr, Lucas said the people of the United States were becoming "fed-up” with swing music.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20024, 24 August 1939, Page 8
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