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Fashion Row. By a clever manipulation of wigs, Mae Murray contrives to do a successful sister act. As her older sister, she is a Russian immigrant in New York who rises to the brilliant dignity of a star in the local theatrical firmament and marries into a Mayflower family. All this under the pretense that she is a princess. Discarding the black wig and the tragedy manner, she again arrives in New York? this time as her younger sister? wide-eyed and penniless. On the same boat is an oily anarchist who discovers the interlocking relationships, gets them all together...
...These are the two leading tribunals of the civilized world. Mr. Beck, who won a case before the Privy Council last Summer, is said to have been the first American jurist to appear before Great Britain's highest judicial tribunal. He was compelled to wear a gown and wig...
John D. Rockefeller: "It was learned that a Washington man named Lidoff has made my wigs ever since I resorted to artificial hair. It takes six weeks to fashion each head covering, as each must be formed hair by hair. I have one wig for golf, another for church and several other ordinary wigs...
...University of Pennsylvania will provide entertainment for all delegates attending. A relay carnival has been arranged for Friday and Saturday afternoons, and the schedule of meetings has been so arranged that the representatives will be able to attend. The Mask and Wig Club will also give a special production of "Here's Howe!" on Friday evening. Several dinners and luncheons have been arranged at the Fraternity Houses...
What is the net result? Henry and Nichols built a workable plot and play. Somebody--evidently the body politic of the Hasty Pudding--said "let's not be content with the average performance. Let's not aim to compete with the Mask and Wig and the Triangle--not just yet. But let's entertain. Let's not try to imitate a Shubert revue. Let's jimmy up a show, give everybody a whack at it, get a competent coach, do what he says, and have an awful lot of fun doing it." The proof of the Pudding was the eating...