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...longer able to harvest enough hair locally to fill their soaring needs, the Italian wigmakers began importing hair wholesale from Red China. If it was coarser and less manageable, it was also a great deal cheaper: $20 to $50 per kilogram, depending on quality, compared with $110 to $300 for Italian hair. Then last November, alarmed at the growing number of Red heads in the U.S., the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control banned all imports containing Asian hair. Last month the U.S. Government sharpened the ban by prohibiting all wig imports from five European countries, including...
...these characters and many more are duly set in motion as Bradwell Tolliver, a native son who is now a successful Hollywood writer, cases Fiddlersburg for material for the film, and simultaneously seeks the springs of his own perjured promise. A snob, a bully and a coarser man than his creator seems to believe, Brad has a Southernness as sensitive as an aching eyetooth...
...whole show James Thurber has pronounced "the finest union of comedy and music" in his experience. And others have said much the same thing. Shaw, always a canny man with a shilling, would have appreciated more vividly the coarser tribute of the money that is pouring into Lady's clinking till. Tickets are almost impossible to get; scalpers demand as much as $50 for choice seats. Overall, Fair Lady's producers expect to gross some $5,000,000 (including $5,000 a week for Harrison) on their $401,000 production, and the Columbia LP record of the songs...
There is an entertaining idea in uniting a 20th-century Faust with 20th Century-Fox. And Will Success, at its best, produces fresher, funnier and coarser lines than anything in The Seven Year Itch. Playwright Axelrod offers sex on the rocks and Hollywood in the raw, coaxes a few new laughs out of agents and Oscars, contrives short vaudevilles on such Hollywood problems as how to treat Boy-Meets-Girl stories. Jayne Mansfield makes an amusing siren and Martin Gabel a particularly skillful agent...
Usually the reaction to large prints is the complaint that they suffer from broader and coarser workmanship. Martin has tried to solve this problem technically as well as artistically. Instead of transferring a preliminary drawing to the block, he does a few sketches on paper and then works primarily on the wood. As a result of greater honesty to the medium, he seems to gain in mastery of space and texture, as well as in freedom. Swinging lines and the very alive look of the "Lute Player" are characteristic qualities of his work...