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...Kent State Professor Charles Brill's statement, "My God, this is for real," ring throughout our nation. You bet your hippie wig it's for real. America is fed up with all of these violent demonstrators. What a great nation we'd have if just a fraction of this hostile energy could be transformed into efforts to assist the more unfortunate members of our country...
...Hair is the story of a hippie tribe that does away with the organizational modes that keep people apart; conventional theatrical limitations become meaningless. A black actor with a giant Afro wig swings across the theatre on a Tarzan swing, and other members of the cast climb almost to the balcony in the sets constructed out along the theatre's walls. The audience is uptight when loin- clothed Berger first climbs out into its lap, panhandling for a dime; but the illusion of spectator distance begins to fade with the progress of the play. The audience comes to realize that...
Black roles, it limits. On the other hand, you see, I have spent most of my life doing a great deal of classical work as well. You throw a wig and a costume on me and no one would necessarily know the difference. I've done Lear here, and Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello. The Othello required more make-up for me than the Lear, simply because I had to be made visually black, and have my hair dyed black and teased, which was more work than the Lear, because then I was under so much wig and beard that there...
Wigmakers have long argued that two heads are better than one, but women took some convincing. Human-hair wigs looked like a million, but cost in the hundreds and got dirty, limp and frazzled like the real thing. No sooner was a girl washed, cut and set for the week than it was time to book another appointment-for her wig. Cheaper, synthetic versions did not require such constant upkeep, but then, neither does straw or barbed wire-which they closely resembled. Finally came a new blend of modacrylic fibers-that looked like hair, felt like hair, but could...
Fashion designers sensed the approaching boom, and got a head start. By the end of 1968, ready-to-wear stretch wigs by Adolfo and Halston were available for $30, and just this month Vidal Sassoon put his own brand on the counters. In only a year, the leading firm in the field, Abbott Tresses, increased its stretch-wig sales from $200,000 to $10 million and stands every chance of more than doubling the amount by the end of 1970. Says Max Moskowitz, head of sales, "It's like a fairy tale." To assure a happy ending, Mr. Moskowitz...