Word: handkerchiefs
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...walk he did, with the threat of contempt ringing in his ears. Next day he was back, honking into his handkerchief, while Lawyer Wolf flourished a doctor's certificate. "I refuse to go further with the questioning . . . until I feel fully well and capable," Costello croaked, and walked out again...
...rehearsal, Conductor Vladimir Bakaleinikoff had a hard time with Mario's squealing admirers. At one point Lanza started a stampede by throwing his handkerchief into the crowd. Cried Bakaleinikoff, when the uproar subsided for a moment: "This is a symphony orchestra. You must be verrry quiet-shut...
...aristocratic wheelchaired hostess, Denholm Elliott smooth and agile as both twin brothers, and Oscar Karlweis suavely despondent as an unwilling millionaire. But Ring Round the Moon seems frequently garrulous and increasingly tenuous and a little too complacently impromptu. The whole effect is rather like finding a filmy handkerchief with a ravishing scent and searching in vain for its owner...
...fizz, Foppington is far more concerned about the location of a coat pocket than the loss of a wife.† British Actor Cyril Ritchard (Love for Love, Make Way for Lucia) blends a born sense of comedy with a brilliant sense of style. His Foppington is no mere lace-handkerchief dangler, but the eager performer of an idiotic role, with a need and a genius for catching the limelight. Ritchard understands that the key to Foppington and his kind is not an ambiguity of sex but an absorption with self...
...latter-day Beau Nash. A symphony in greys, he orders as many as a dozen suits at a time from exclusive Manhattan Tailor James Bell (other customers: James Farley, Harry Truman). He always sports a deep red carnation in his buttonhole, tucks an expensive handspun, monogrammed linen handkerchief in the pocket beneath it. His silk and poplin shirts are custom-made (by Sulka) with a special high, soft collar. His oversized, flowing bow ties, supposedly copied from those worn by Elbert (Message to Garcia) Hubbard, give him a faintly poetic...