Word: wig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title role, Tenor Sénéchal, in green tufted wig and high-heeled green shoes, made his way down the aisle to a spattering of applause. (For reasons best known to the French, the foolish old nymph in Platée was written for a tenor.) As Sénéchal launched into the music, he quickly demonstrated why he is one of France's most courted lyric tenors. The smooth, light-textured voice moved with ease from falsetto to full voice, changing shading and color as it kept pace with Tenor...
...concert's end, the audience crowded forward to congratulate Sénéchal, one fan pausing to extract a pack of Camels from beneath his powdered wig. At 28, Tenor Sénéchal, who will tour the U.S. after his private debut, is so much in demand that opera or concerts keep him busy five nights a week. Platée, he confessed last week over a post-performance glass of warm milk, is his favorite role, and the Varieties one of his favorite theaters. Unlike Fanny Kemble, he was delighted to be rubbing elbows with...
Next day, when the full trial finally got under way, Podola coolly persisted in his disclaimer: "I do not remember the crime for which I stand accused ... I am unable to answer the charges." The jury spent only 38 minutes in arriving at a verdict of guilty. Covering his wig with the dread black cap, Judge Edmund Davies slowly told Podola: "You have been convicted on evidence of the most compelling character and certainty of the capital murder* of a police officer by shooting him down in the prime of his manhood. For that foul and terrible deed...
...diamond-studded coach to snatches of Beethoven's Pathétique. Two gentle poodles (those feuding balletomanes, the Marquis de Cuevas and Choreographer Serge Li far) fought a duel with ostrich feathers to the music of Claire de Lune. Minerva the black panther (Callas) appeared in a red wig to music from Weber's Der Freischutz and devoured a chesty white dove (Tebaldi). Casarosa the old sheepdog (Rubi Rubirosa) pounced on two young things to Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave Overture, fainted dead away while Ringmaster Max explained: "Casarosa isn't as young...
...sticking to his specialty. "I'd like to play Dame May Whitty's part in Night Must Fall," says he, "or Bankhead's in The Little Foxes.Half the time people don't even know I'm not a woman. When I pulled offmy wig at the end of New Faces, one woman said audibly: 'Oh, the poordear, she's bald...