Los Angeles Valley College - Crown Yearbook (Valley Glen, CA)

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'W 1 'ff f Valley's Sports Car Club made a carry chair for Queen Elizabeth during the Shakespeare Festival. This was one club's contribution to the week of festive activities, which climaxed with a finale parade, where faculty members and students in costume visited the booths and game areas provided by the student body. The previous week had been filled with cultural activities to acquaint the students with Shakespeare. A one-man show was presented by Stacy Keach, a Shakespearean actor who performs every summer in an Elizabethan theater in Oregon. His performance added to every- one's enjoyment of Shakespeare's plays. The flag pole area was filled on that last day of the festival. Valley did a fine job of creating Elizabeth- an England 1564 for the student body. With the full programs and the characterizations by the facul- ty and administrators, Elizabethan England 1964 was a success. Hamlet lWilliam McNelisl: What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be only to sleep and feed? Act IV, scene 3 from Hamlet. of Othello's lcoach Ralph beard is an important part the makeup characterization. N

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Sir Toby Belch lRobert Riveral: Dost thou think because thou art virtuous - there shall be no more cakes and ale? Act ll, scene 3 from Twelfth Night. An artist has the ability to draw pictures of characters which show every line and contour of the face. The makeup artist has the same ability, but his material is not can- vasg rather it is the human face. The lines drawn on the face of another individual with makeup pencils us- ually change his appearance so that he takes on the characteristics of some other individual. This is the case of Valley College's makeup class that changed the appearance of numerous faculty members dur- ing the Shakespeare Festival. That class, headed by instructor Patrick Riley, spent many hours putting putty and false hair in the riht places to change William McNelis to Hamlet, coach Ralph Caldwell to Othello and Robert Rivera to Sir Toby Belch. The Elizabethan atmos- phere was complete with the addi- tion of the play characters. The excellent makeup should be com- plimented, for without these authen- tic characters the festival would not have been pure Shakespeare. Makeup instructor Patrick Riley applies nose putty and grease paint to James Chambers before the Shakespearean Festival.

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,f ' Instant overhaul Carefully applying eye makeup, theater arts maior Gary Schwartz is completing the practical side of his makeup class. Wfhat miracle transforms ordinary John Doe into Hamlet, Shylock or Othello? The answer is makeup. Through the use of false hair, nose putty and grease paint, a young girl can become an aged woman, a handsome lad can become a wicked maniac, and any actor can become the character he is portraying. The ability of the thespian to mouth the words of his famous personage is not enough, for he must also resemble that individual. It is easier for the audience to concentrate on the performance if he can visualize the actual person speaking. Valley College's theater arts department is training its students in the art of makeup, under the direction of Patrick Riley, acting instructor. Students from the makeup classes paint the faces of each character in all college productions. They are taught the basics of makeup. There is only one class per semester- beginning stage makeup. Every stage actor must know how to apply his own makeup, said Riley. This is a basic must for the acting profession, just as there are basics in all other professionsf,