Word: wigs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some years the Princeton Triangle Club, the Cornell Masque, the Pennsylvania Mask and Wig and similar undergraduate organizations have taken trips through principal cities of the country during vacation. By means of these performances, more is done to gain adherents to the college producing them than any ordinary sort of propaganda could ever do. Youths who are looking about for their future college not only see the performance which is, or should be, in itself attractive, but afterwards meet its men at social functions, and from them draw an impression of the college which sent them...
...performance was lightly considered; the real work of the evening began on the waxed floor after the final curtain had rung down. The play itself was pitifully colorless: an unmitigated burlesque from its slap-stick dialogue to the heavyweight wrestler who, resplendent in pink tights and a blonde wig, tripped coyly around an umbrela, designed as a parasol, and sang about the pattering raindrops, as a member of the pony chorus. The loyal alumni were sorely tried, and equally disgusted, but the house was still packed and applauded faithfully. The War was an undisguised blessing...