Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretty women nor clever but they are really nice women. The jaded temptress is flighty, miserably unsuccessful in her constant attempts to be amusing, gives the appearance of having dressed by standing under a tree which shed upon her various garments including the saddest sort of red wig but an fond she is really quite nice. To finish the summation, the youth are sophisticated, inconsiderate and no more comely than their forebears, but, you no doubt are ahead of us this time, an fond they are really nice brats. With such a group of characters it would be difficult...
...stage favorite, becoming a star by pretending to be her mother. The impersonation, carried on to the detriment of her own intrigue with a young press agent and to the feverish anxiety of her stage manager (Sonnie Hale), ends when, on a gala opening night, she removes her white wig and does a modern dance routine which first alarms, then enchants her audience...
...praise, too, was due Miss Cornell's excellent supporting company. Particularly good was Edith Evans as the Nurse. Miss Evans speaks lines which are usually expurgated with a wholesome bawdry which somehow manages to dodge the usual tiresome vulgarity of the part. Brian Aherne, in a curly red wig, is an ebullient Mercutio, gay as May in the Queen Mab speech, bitter as gall when he dies cursing "both your houses." Capable but less distinguished as Romeo is Basil Rathbone, whose virtuosity appears to stop just this side of eloquence. His pausing, prosy delivery is perhaps better suited...
This would fix up Hewart's friend Slesser, and Hewart showed by his expression that he would assent. Sankey, in vast relief, snatched off his full wig, wiped his perspiring brow and exclaimed : "Lord Reading's suggestion saves everybody's face...
...Because Knickerbocker Village is also Manhattan's first experiment in government-financed, low-cost housing, RFC's Chairman Jesse H. Jones, East-Sider Alfred E. Smith, many a minor wig gathered in its banner-decked playground to mark the day. Said Al Smith: "I was tempted to swap the Empire State Building." Chairman Jones thumped the tub of slum clearance. Informed that the first of the two units was already 95% rented, while the second unit (to be opened Dec. 1) was 50% rented, he waved an expansive hand at the holiday bunting, declared: "I know of no ... safer investment...