Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first-rate entertainment is a tribute to the finesse with which Director Henry Koster handled Adele Comandini's script and to the acting of an expert and experienced supporting cast. That the heroine, instead of seeming an obnoxious little prig more terrifying than Boris Karloff in a fright-wig, possesses instead the appeal of a talented and attractive child is due principally to the actress who has now replaced Karloff as Universal's outstanding attraction, 14-year-old Deanna Durbin...
Marriage Revealed. Cinemactor Arthur ("Harpo") Marx, 42, mute member of the four Marx comedians; and Susan Fleming, 31, onetime Follies showgirl; "around Sept. 26"; "somewhere in California or Nevada." Minus his frowzy blond wig, he said he had driven aimlessly with his brunette bride-to-be until he found a justice of the peace, went through the ceremony unrecognized. Upon telegraphing President Roosevelt congratulations, Funnyman Marx explained he had kept his marriage secret until after Nov. 3 "because I didn't want to crowd you off the front page...
...Judge was Sir John Hawke, former Attorney General to the Prince of Wales. Appearing somewhat confused, he first asked, "How did this case come here?" Up rushed a clerk to whisper vigorously through Sir John's wig, and Mr. Justice Hawke was then heard to say, "Yes, yes, I see. I have been told...
...into glamorous Barbara Phillips (see cuts). First a professional make-up man, Paramount's Edward Sigmund Senz, was given general supervision. He sent Miss Phillips to a dentist to have two protruding teeth "capped," to Columbia University for a voice test, to a wigmaker for a flattering, readymade wig to cover her short, scraggly hair. A dress designer conceived a special frock to "soften the neckline." Make-up Man Senz "deepened" Miss Phillips' bulgy eyes with dark brown "shadow," made her nose look smaller, penciled in wide-curved eyebrows, applied long artificial eyelashes. Stepping back from his work...
...quick with his child. Clytemnestra hacks Agamemnon to death in his bath; Electra recovers his body from a dunghill and buries it. In the last act Orestes returns from exile to slake Electra's brooding hatred by killing his mother, a pasty-faced harridan with a red wig over her grey hair. When the play ends the Furies are already making Orestes swish his sword at phantoms...