Word: wig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black wig glossed by the footlights, the cleft-chinned, still slender actor moved across the stage with lithe vitality. In turn he flashed from eye-rolling jokester to grimacing pighead, from egotistic Roman hero to slack-jawed outcast. The actor: Sir Laurence Olivier, 52, first knight of the British theater and probably the greatest living English-language actor. The play: Coriolanus, William Shakespeare's least popular major work. The stage: Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford on Avon, where critics are only too eager to fault the stars. But on opening night last week they agreed with the capacity crowd...
...shock. Onetime actress (she once toured the South in a tent show of Ten Nights in a Barroom) and athlete (she was once women's fencing champion of Florida), and onetime owner of three beauty parlors, she met T. C. when he came to her for a new wig. "After each performance," says she, "I still say to myself: 'What a great artist...
...which Shirley ("I was a forward comedienne in a yellow sunsuit") distinguished herself chiefly by becoming the first performer ever to steal a scene from Jerry Lewis. In Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), she tripped into a memorable bit of miscasting-Ouida, the Hindu princess. Despite wig and dark makeup. Shirley looked about as Indian as Miss Rheingold, but she had no regrets. "Golly," she wrote a New York roommate about Producer Mike Todd, "he never came within three feet of pinching...
...crew cut to the long-haired Hollywood model. Balding buyers measure their crowns with a tape sent by Sears, outline their open spaces on paper, pay $109.95 to $224.95 for a toupee-20% down, the rest in six installments. With proper care, which means alternating it with a second wig and sending it back to Sears every month or two for a dry cleaning (price: $5.50 to $7), the toupee should last for two years. Furthermore, boasts Sears: "It is as indistinguishable from the real thing as a falsie...
...Colored Wigs. Wackiest novelty since Hula Hoops is a gamin-style wig of acetate yarn that comes in 17 shades, including blue, green, bright red, and purple. Manufactured by David & David of Brooklyn, now selling 4,000 a day, the wig can be styled further by the owner. Price...