It is, of course, with the first-named portion of the art that actresses are chiefly concerned, although the beautiful Mrs.Woffington, accepting the character of Veturia in Thomson's "Coriolanus," did not hesitate to assume the aspect of age, and to paint lines and wrinkles upon her fair face.

But she was a great artist, and her loveliness was a thing so beyond all question that she could afford to disguise it or to seem to slight it for a few nights; possibly it shone the brighter afterwards for its brief eclipse.

Otherwise, making-up pertains to an actor's "line of business," and is not separable from it.

Once young or once old he so remains, as a rule, until the close of his professional career.

There is indeed a story told of a veteran actor who still flourished in juvenile characters, while his son, as a matter of choice, or of necessity, invariably impersonated the old gentlemen of the stage.