Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though not noisily sturdy like Mussolini, Hitler is a healthy man, who in ten years has changed physically less than most men between 42 and 52, and who has suffered no greater hurts than a finger broken in an automobile accident and a polyp removed from his larynx. The wig-like wad of hair which hangs across his forehead has no grey in it; nor has his curt mustache...
Puppeteer Wolff now has over 200 13-inch troupers, with wooden heads made from stock male & female models: only a wig and a beard differentiate Mephistopheles from the clown in Pagliacci. The puppets are worked not by strings from above but by rods from below stage. There a crew of five (headed by Mr. Wolff's plump, Czech-born mother), seated on rolling stools, scuttle about like water bugs. In the triumphal scene in Aïda they have 75 puppets to handle. Mrs. Wolff designed the costumes, sometimes copying the Met's. Settings, too, are modeled after...
Just as engaging as his people are Bemelmans' animals and still lifes. He saw an agonized baroque statue of Jesus crowned with a Shirley Temple wig; a native painting of a waterfall which resembled "noodle soup running down over a green couch"; a sloth's "unfinished face"; a fly, the description of whose trajectories is one of the most delectable pieces of animal-writing in literature...
Apparently nervous over the fact that Carroll's balding head, which gives him the look of a village deacon, might detract from the glamor to be associated with a dashing entrepreneur of naked floor shows, Paramount suggested that Carroll wear a wig in the picture. Carroll refused, explained: "A bald-headed boulevardier has more appeal for women than any clumsy youngster, no matter how well covered is his scalp...
Benjamin Franklin returns to his home town of Boston Friday night in the fifty-third annual performance of the Mask and Wig Club of the University of Pennsylvania...