Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arsenic and Old Lace. The merry-macabre carryings-on of two nice old ladies with a weakness for adding a lethal dash to their elderberry wine...
...simply evah so swank," gushed Gurdon Wattles, more seigne than ever in a six-button flowered damask coat with kerchief to match, at a pre-Sheridan punch yesterday in honor of the cast of "Arsenic and Old Lace...
From the same punch-bowl that has refreshed celebrities from Anna Held to Tallulah Bankhead, the editors of Mother Advocate will serve a new arsenic-laden punch to the leading murderesses and their accomplices in "Arsenic and Old Lace" at 4 o'clock this Friday in the Bow Street Sanctum. Guests who prefer elderberry wine must bring their...
This is not because "Arsenic and Old Lace" is a chiller-thriller where women scream faint; the wear and tear on one's constitution all occurs around you, laughing apparatus, and if you faint it's because you can't take the belly-agitation. Wliat Joseph Kesserling has written from a God-sent (or Perhaps Ghoul-sent) inspiration and how a perfect cast put it across are things we can't tell you and you'll just have to see it yourself. All we know is that a couple of half-cracked but very nice old maids serve...
...incomplete transparency and fibrous texture of his negatives gave all his prints a slightly fuzzy look. Retouching and darkroom development tricks were unknown. But despite all these drawbacks, Hill created pictures that rivaled the finest mezzotints, made cravats, lace collars and deep-lined faces shimmer before shadowy backgrounds in a variety of contrasted tones that rouse the envy of photographers whose film today is 100,000 times as sensitive...