Word: wigs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Especially engaging are Jerry Kilty as Trap Door, the scoundrel, and Robert Fletcher as Laxton, the lecher. Many of the minor characters are also amusing caricatures of London town-types; one of these is Jack Dapper, the fop, played by Nick Benton (who turns up again in a red wig...
...defensive, fatalistic attitude is to be much lamented as Dr. Faustus laments the sale and riddance of his soul for likewise by debunking the critic, theatre has lost the means of viewing herself to her mind's eye and must henceforth don the powder and greasepaint, the eyebrow and wig less the aid of the mirror and the important light that reflects therein. And so in the darkness of ignorance under the illusion of being in the light, without a critical past, without a discriminating present, without the dynamic of channeled volition working from someplace to somewhere. American theatre stumbles...
...English music-hall tang, but only occasionally do they seem a little wheezy. There are two excellent parodies in "It's About Time." "I and the King" aims some expert barbs at the more ludicrous elements in the current Rodgers and Hammerstein musical play. Miss Gingold, wearing a red wig, burlesques Gertrude Lawrence as Anna in two songs. Two lines from these songs might be quoted: "It's a beautiful morning in Bangkok--B-A-N-G-K--O K!" and "People will say we are us!" The other parody is a conglomeration of Menotti's "The Telephone," "The Medium...
Neither by Wig-Wag nor Smoke. John L. Lewis, who loves nothing so much as an uproar, composed his face in a lugubrious cast. "All American workers," he said piously, are entitled to as big a raise as he had got for his miners. "To restrict American labor to a miserable 10% increase ... is an unwise, arbitrary action ... destructive . . . disrupting to the productive economy...
Sullivan appeared at the Hasty Pudding clubhouse last night to assist in the final casting of "Buddha Knows Best." He is planning a revue including Princeton's Triangle Show and Pennsylvania's Mask and, Wig as well as the Pudding Informed of the ruling, Sullivan expressed the hope that something could yet be worked...