Word: lacing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Having authored the show with the second longest run (to date) in Broadway history, Lindsay & Grouse next produced the show with the fourth longest run: Arsenic and Old Lace. From these two projects alone, each has made roughly a million-with plenty of gold still to be mined. The two men don't like to talk finances, claim that most of their earnings just slip away. When a columnist wrote that Lindsay's money had "gone to his head," Lindsay phoned him, said "Thanks, I've been wondering where it went...
...make-up man for First National (later Warner Bros.), where he has stayed ever since. There he has quietly revolutionized makeup. First he invented the panchromatic base, a tan cream which would evenly reflect all lights, thus keep faces or lips from fading out. Then came the "hair lace wig," which added years of professional life to balding oldsters like Bing Crosby, Charles Boyer, Jack Benny and Fred Astaire, and molded rubber faces for Frankenstein's monster & Mr. Hyde. He also devised a foolproof method for other make-up men to use. He catalogued all women's faces...
...bride, in knee-length white lace and satin, was seven minutes late to the wedding, and the bridegroom arrived 21 mintes later (flat tire). Afterwards, every body adjourned to the bride's place of business, Manhattan's Café Society Up town, where 2,000 guests were invited and 3,000 showed up. Then came the blowoff...
...stage's Grand Old Lady, can be more frightening than bombs. A clergyman's daughter who has triumphantly passed almost 50 of her 70-odd years in the theater, she looks like anybody's sweet old grandmother. But she combines plenty of arsenic with her old lace...
Married. Russel McKinley Crouse, 52, waggish teammate of Howard Lindsay in playwriting and producing (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace); and Anna Erskine, 29, theatrical production assistant (Lindsay & Crouse), only daughter of Author John Erskine; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...