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Word: wigged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Martinelli's voice was at its sweetest, Metropolitan directors always chose a throatier Teuton for the job. Last week at the Chicago Opera, 54-year-old Veteran Martinelli finally got his chance. Playing opposite buxom Kirsten Flagstad's bosom, his white hair covered with a blond wig, Tenor Martinelli sang his part without a misplaced guttural. But between towering Soprano Flagstad and the booming orchestra led by Flagstad's private accompanist, Edwin McArthur, Martinelli's long song of love was pretty well drowned out. To cap all, just before the final curtain Soprano Flagstad took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sad Tristan | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...five daughters, and Joseph Lewis Metzger, 24, Hollywood antique dealer, a son, their first child. Eddie Cantor's first grandson; in Hollywood, Calif. Weight: 8 Ibs. 9 oz. Name: Michael. In Boston, Grandfather Cantor, 46, dashed back on the stage in a short skirt and golden wig he had been wearing in impersonation of Shirley Temple, popped his doorknob eyes, screamed his glad news to 5,000 cheering customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...fire and dash of Dumas' book have been taken out of the print and put into celluloid with remarkable skill. The fire, or at least the heat, emanates principally from Joan Bennett, who is making a noble effort to cash in on the Technique Lamarr with a black wig and a sultry eye. Though she's no Hedy, she'll do. The dash is supplied by Louis Hayward who really carries the show. With two vividly contrasting parts to work with, he has ample opportunity to prove himself a persuasive actor,--and he does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Included are many of the properties used in the technicolor film, produced last year, including a hand-painted rubber shovel used in the graveyard murder scene, a balsa wood cane used in a fight sequence, Injun Joe's wig, and one of Bocky Thatcher's costumes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Exhibit at Robinson Hall Shows Hollywood's Production Technique | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

Garbed in flowing gown, full-fashioned wig, black skullcap and white neckerchief, "Father Moody" will appear this Sunday at the meeting house built the year he died. As of yore, his congregation will be drummed to meeting, the tithing man will tickle the drowsy with a rod tipped by a rabbit's foot, the precentor line out the psalms and lead the singing with a pitch pipe. The sermon will be "The Doleful State of the Damned," which Samuel Moody first preached on August 21, 1710. He will pray that Queen Anne's reign continue happy and glorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Doleful State | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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