Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first act of a Mozart opera and found it could understand almost every word. It let out a few experimental giggles at an early joke, gathered confidence as it took in the elaborate and precise buffoonery, and finally laughed aloud when one swaggering character entered sporting a long, blond wig. Said one listener to his companion : "You don't often see anything like this in Terre Haute." Said the other: "I've never seen anything like this anywhere...
...sort of Nelson Eddy with muscles, and is currently Hollywood's leading graduate of the Broadway school of musi-comedy, has not only a fine chesty baritone but the chest to go with it. As a blonde actress who plays a petulant Kate in a reddish wig. Kathryn Grayson pouts prettily but looks as though she is never quite sure...
...Napoleonic ancestor Murat), and a fancier of cats (because of their independence and aloofness), he was once described by a friend: "There is an 18th century fragrance about him. He is a portrait on a cameo from the time of Louis XV. One almost expects ruffles and a powdered wig." But another friend says: "He is the hardest general I know-clever and ruthless. He believes in nothing but the army...
...style, but many seemed as vague about their century as they did about their host, Ballet Impresario George de Cuevas, Marquis de Piedrablanca de Guana, who was spending a cool $75,000 to entertain them. Elsa Maxwell, who came only a couple of centuries too early in a red wig as Don Quixote's donkey-riding Sancho Panza, called him "that wonderful Italian who is doing so much for Biarritz . . . and Biarritz is France...
...great head bulging beneath a grey wig, his outsize body draped in silk, Primo Camera took Hollywood Starlet Audrey Dalton by the hand and rolled his eyes for a soulful photograph. Camera, 44, the Italian giant (6 ft. 6½ in., 280 Ibs.) who was promoted all the way up to the world's heavyweight championship in the 1930s, had turned his acting talents to the movies after a moneymaking postwar wrestling career, is currently performing (but not starring) in Casanova's Big Night and Prince Valiant. To make things complete, he and his Italian wife have just...