the way a performer can change his or her appearance as much via thought as make-up.
When Tallulah at thirty-six played Elizabeth in Maugham’s The Circle, a woman in her early twenties, she was able, friend and stage manager Stephan Cole recalled, to give the part its full value as a young romantic lead. “It was an ingenue part and she played it as an ingenue. It was unlike anything I’d ever seen from her, she looked so young and innocent.”