Word: wig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make-up man for First National (later Warner Bros.), where he has stayed ever since. There he has quietly revolutionized makeup. First he invented the panchromatic base, a tan cream which would evenly reflect all lights, thus keep faces or lips from fading out. Then came the "hair lace wig," which added years of professional life to balding oldsters like Bing Crosby, Charles Boyer, Jack Benny and Fred Astaire, and molded rubber faces for Frankenstein's monster & Mr. Hyde. He also devised a foolproof method for other make-up men to use. He catalogued all women's faces...
Saratoga Trunk (Warner) has been packed by expert hands with practically everything a film needs for a triumphant box-office tour. In the top drawer of this expensive portmanteau, Ingrid Bergman is wonderfully bewitching in a black wig and bustle, and Gary Cooper drawls and sprawls in his best skin-tight cow-pants. Edna Ferber's plot slides them expertly through a period-piece romance without missing one of the primary Hollywood emotions...
...Wig & Robe. The citizens of the little town of Lüneburg, where the trial was being held, crowded into the grey courtroom. They were seldom moved by what they heard. But they gaped at the drab, precise, and-to them-ridiculously fair ways of foreign justice...
...enormity of the case, the nauseating precision of its bestial details, were almost too much for the mechanism of British legal procedure. But the mechanism worked. The five British officers on the bench, and the learned judge advocate in grey wig and black robe, were dry-voiced and calm. Chief Prosecutor Colonel T. M. Backhouse worked his way through a maze of atrocities with a minimum of emotion (on the trial's tenth day, he went straight from the courtroom to officiate at a wedding...
...still dreaming about it when he died (1899). In fact, Alger never succeeded in freeing himself from his father's domination, never quite grew up. At the age of 50, he still liked to play with blocks. He sometimes disguised himself in a long cape and a tousled wig and went wandering through Manhattan's streets - in search of material, he said. He preferred the company of bootblacks and match boys to that of adults. He liked to beat the big drum in the band that was organized at the Newsboys' Lodging House, where he spent most...