Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tennis Player Gertrude ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moron, whose lengthy pigtails have become almost as famous as her lace panties, shocked her admirers by appearing at the London airport with a "sort of an overgrown urchin cut." Explained Gussie: "They were getting on my nerves. I got up this morning and there was my hair down the back of my neck. So I got out my scissors and snipped...
Back in the U.S. after a triumphant, highly publicized international tour, Tennis Star Gertrude ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moran was welcomed editorially by the New York Herald Tribune, which complained that "her interviews are laden with abstruse nonsense of a 'changed woman.' No more lace panties, no more T-shirts, no more plunging necklines. We don't believe a word of it." Meanwhile Gussie's latest in a long series of fiancés, Theater Executive Pat di Cicco (see cut), who met her at the airport in New York, flew back to Hollywood alone to attend...
Cyril Ritchard, an import from England, who plays Sparkish the fop, achieves a success of a different kind. Sparkish could turn out no more than a fop, an elaborately dressed, self-conscious waver of lace handkerchiefs, but Mr. Ritchard manages by his impressive diction and equally impressive frame to give real color to Wycherley's essentially colorless character. His Sparkish is an excellent example of how a really fine actor can make something out of almost nothing...
...Lace Slows Pace...
...always a lace-and-ribbon rather than a cap-and-sweater socialist. He adored reason and persuasion above emotion and force. He also loved the elegance of the society he deplored. He liked to recite by rote for hours at a stretch from Pascal, La Bruyere, Saint-Evremond. He knew Anatole France, Zola and Proust. He wrote Latin verse, brilliant dramatic reviews for avant-garde magazines, a study of Stendhal, an imaginary talk with Goethe, a book on marriage (dedicated to his wife) that shocked the bourgeoisie because it favored as much premarital experimental love for women...