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WRETCHED EXCESS (1): Costumer Edith Head's eighth Oscar for The Sting, for remembering how people dressed back when she began her career in 1923.
Backstage at the New York City Opera last week, Head Costumer J. Edgar Joseph had a problem. Would the off-white silk nightgown take to the rose dye? If not, Diva Beverly Sills would have to portray the heroine of Donizetti's Anna Bolena 30 hours later in a...
Believable Appetite. Anne of the Thousand Days, for example, is a costumer's spectacle, filled with wind and hung with tinsel. It is Bujold who renders the erotic appetite of Henry VIII believable. Anne is no standard prima donna marking pentameters until her next big speech. She is a...
Lewis Brown, the costumer, has done a very believable job of padding out Mr. Glossop and has also had the inspiration to give the ladies 16th century profiles by flattening out their chests. It doesn't seem to hurt their singing.
A Memorial service for Lewis Smith, costumer at the Loeb who died last month, will be held at 4 p.m. today in Memorial Church.