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Last Saturday night, on the stage of the Boston Opera House, I carried a spear in Aida--a spear with a big red tassel at the end. My roommate wore a wig and looked like a cocker spaniel...

Author: By Janssen J. Siegfried, | Title: Reporter Puts On Egyptian Guise, Wags Spear at Aida | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

This time the four hoopskirted March girls are played by blonde June Allyson (Jo) in a red wig, brunette Elizabeth Taylor (Amy) in a blonde wig, Janet Leigh (Meg), and Margaret O'Brien (Beth). Though the faces have changed, the girlish flutter and flummery are still the same. Curled up in her cluttered Concord attic, tousle-headed Jo still writes, and weeps over her blood & thunder fiction. The romantic Meg still falls romantically in love, marries and has twins. Featherbrained Amy, as self-centered as ever and still suffering from the "degradations" of well-bred poverty, succeeds in catching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Outside the drab yellow walls of the Covent Garden Opera House last week, Londoners stamped their feet in the foot-numbing chill. Some had been waiting six hours for the gallery door to open. Backstage, Choreographer Frederick Ashton, in a skirt and a high wig, rushed around with last-minute instructions. The occasion was the first new full-length, classic-style ballet Western Europe had seen in 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cinderella in London | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...claim for payment to himself. Last week* a butcher in Dudley, Worcestershire, asked for three pairs of eyeglasses: one for reading, one for looking at far-off things, one for chopping meat. He got them. In Cambridge, an elderly woman, bald since the age of six, asked for a wig. Ruled S. W. Davis, the pensions officer: "She will be provided with two wigs, as one occasionally has to be cleaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Two Wigs & Lots of Teeth | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...first Christie, an elegant man-about-town in wig and ruff, auctioned anything that came his way: coffins, barrel organs, pigs. He scoffed at paintings, which he called "stained rags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: What Am I Offered? | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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