Word: wig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the streets of Boston last fortnight clip-clopped a horse ridden by a Negro wearing a ballet costume and a red wig. The plug, advertising the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (see p. 38), was the bright idea of one of the brightest of young U. S. Museum directors: lanky, fair-haired James Sachs Plaut, of Boston's Institute of Modern Art. Smart Jim Plaut, 28, had arranged for the Institute to sponsor the opening of the Ballet, and to pocket any thing the box office took over $3,000. The Institute pocketed...
...Most ominous news came from southeastern Europe, long the source of Hollywood's false hair. Mobilization in the Balkans hampered progress on nine current wig pictures...
...Hollywood, Artist Richard Decker unveiled, with flourishes, his latest portrait: a smug, somewhat sinister Queen Victoria, with white wig, ample bosom, the unmistakable face of Funnyman W. C. Fields...
Afraid, like most British women, that a heavy tax was about to be laid on cosmetics by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, a young London extrovert last week put on a pre-Coty gown of crinoline and a wig, went swishing to No. 11 Downing Street. The idea was that a paint-&-powder tax would send her back to the horse-&-buggy days. The idea did not permeate, for she was deftly grasped by London bobbies and whisked away as the tall, dry, Nonconformist Chancellor emerged from No. 11 with the worn and faded dispatch box in which...
...Metropolitan's Mélisande, pretty Helen Jepson, in a wig as long as the locks of the famed Seven Sutherland Sisters, was a stolid princess of whom Debussy would never have said, as he did of Mary Garden, that hers was "the gentle voice I had been hearing within me, faltering in its tenderness. . . ." The Metropolitan orchestra, noodling along under Wagnerite Erich Leinsdorf, only occasionally set forth Debussy's score in its full glow. But Tenor Cathelat, a good actor and a good manager of a middling voice, captivated New York's Debussyites - who were...