Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...materials were hard to get. But one managed. There were ribbons, lace, paper, straw, net-over-wire, pastel felt, cloth, solid feathers. And shapes showed gay imagination. There were tricorns, buckets, bowls, halos and even one with an alcove for Madame to fill as she fancied...
...months (sponsored by the American Theater Wing), will soon round out a six-month European tour. After 77 Italian performances in 78 days, and 60 more in France, The Barretts was shivering in Paris last week. Oil burners were hidden around the stage; Actress Cornell was draped in a lace centerpiece to hide her khaki-underwear neckline...
Russel Crouse, half of the witty, successful playwriting-producing team of Lindsay & Crouse (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace), in Baltimore trying out a new show (The Hasty Heart), exploited his versatility by subbing for a stormbound bagpipe player, imitated the bagpipe's wheeze until the fellow showed...
Father & the Facts of Life. Anita is the daughter of the cartoonist Bud Counihan, a legendary figure among New York artists and newsmen. A handsome, impulsive, lace-curtain Irishman, he had an indefatigable affability, a great love of good fellowship and good liquor. He was loved as only a man can be whose weaknesses are at once amiable and unaggressive. Settled in Brooklyn and prospering on the New York Evening World, Bud Counihan made many of the friends who were later to give his daughter her start in life...
Another event in London's theatrical week was the second birthday of Arsenic and Old Lace, which Producer Firth Shephard celebrated by repeating his first-night trick: at the final curtain, a slew of London's topnotch comedians (Jack Buchanan, Will Hay, et al.) file onstage to impersonate the "corpses" who had been elderberried in the cellar...