Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best starter for a prestige builder. The madcap antics, the entrances and exits tended to jumble on the TV screen without jelling. Producer Martin Manulis should have better results with plays to come. Among them: The Man Who Came to Dinner, Panama Hattie, The Philadelphia Story, Arsenic and Old Lace, Ah, Wilderness...
Factor's toupees ("hairpieces" in the trade) were an even bigger success. Instead of the obvious, helmet-like objects that hairless U.S. men expected, Factor made a new, almost invisible toupee by sewing each strand of hair to a piece of fine flesh-colored lace, sold every style from romantic waves to college-boy crew cuts. Now men all over the U.S. wear Factor "toups" (price: up to $150 apiece), and the company sells 20,000 a year. In Hollywood, nine out of every ten male stars over the age of 35 wear "hair additions" on the screen...
...cynical American admirers, "it's Tynan two to one." He has an unerring eye for the sorest point, whether it be an actress' weight or her unpleasing hands. After seeing Britain's venerated Dame Edith Evans play Shakespeare's Cleopatra, he wrote: "Bereft of fan, lace and sedan chair, Dame Edith is nakedly middle-aged and plain...
...interviews will take lace from 2 to 5 p.m. in Phillips Brooks House...
...past two months one distributor has broken relationships with us. This was not because he wanted to but because of the request of Mr. Lydon who felt that the films we were getting from this place were of commercial value. The film in question was "Arsenic and Old Lace." Before we booked this film, I called Mr. Sumner, manager of the University Theater, which is a member of Allied Theaters for whom Mr. Lydon is the executive secretary, and asked him if he felt that the film was within our educational field and if it would in any way conflict...