Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...granted) the King of England himself cannot enter his own City of London. The Awful Man is Sir William Phené Neal, Lord Mayor of London. Sir Phené Neal is also Chief Magistrate of the City of London. In his great stiff robes, in his flowing full-bottomed wig, and adorned with his cumbrous, jingling golden chains of office, Sir Phené Neal personified last week British Justice - the world's quickest, most impressive, best...
Speaker Fitzroy ignored the interruption, scratched his chin under his wig...
...University of Pennsylvania's Mask & Wig Club is a unique organization. Election to the organization is one of the University's prime social plums. In addition, Mask & Wig presents an annual show, semiprofessional in nature, written and staged by graduates, acted by undergraduates, an approximation of Wisconsin's Haresfoot Club. Mask & Wig is a wealthy organization, having given a unit of dormitories to its University, and not every performer in the show gets elected to the club. Last week in Manhattan the organization concluded a five-week tour, presenting its 43rd production, East Lynne Gone West...
...created in the U. S. by John Barrymore in 1917, is Dennis (Vagabond) King. Not a few of King's henchmen will be pleased and surprised at his performance in this, his first nonsinging dramatic role in six years. No longer a roaring Villon. Mr. King, in an auburn wig, makes a convincingly demure and sensitive Ibbetson. Jessie Royce Landis is adequate as the kind-hearted Duchess of Towers. Valerie Taylor's Mrs. Deane is astonishingly ill-motivated for such a capable actress...
...facts about Mask & Wig . . . owns its own clubhouse in heart of Philadelphia . . . decorations and murals by Maxfield Parrish . . . only college production to play two solid weeks in metropolitan (Philadelphia) theatre . . . renowned for its dancing, chorus & solo . . . 1930 production John Faust, Ph.D. acclaimed by New York critics as most remarkable piece of satire in years . . . donators to alma mater of unit of dormitories bearing its name...