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Even when dance fans cheered his music loudest, Bandleader Artie Shaw felt he really wanted to be a longhair. Now that he had made up his mind to do something about it, his big problem was just how long he should let it grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With a Nail File | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...evening last week, The Company of Four, a London longhair repertory group, presented Jean Cocteau's Azrael (English title: The Eagle Has Two Heads),* Next morning Londoners learned that whatever might be said about the play (and little was said in its favor), a young woman named Eileen Herlie, of whom few had ever heard before, was a Great Actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Great New Actress | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

When Jascha Heifetz, fiddle in hand, moved to Decca Records, musicians guessed that Decca, the largest manufacturers of Tin Pan Alley records, pined to go highbrow. But last week it looked as if Decca had given Longhair Heifetz a short haircut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The New Records | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...Douglas Fairbanks No. 2 (Mary Pickford) and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks No. 3 (Lady Sylvia Ashley) flew to New York together, along with Norma Shearer, whom Ronald Balcom has been escorting when he wasn't with Lady Ashley. ∙∙ Greta Garbo, who started the long-lived longhair fad, had her locks cut to within three inches of their life, dyed them greenish-gold (with an aquamarine rinse), and tucked them into a monkish halo. ∙∙ Hedy Lamarr also had her long mane shortened, but only for private showing. ∙∙ Baby-faced Simone Simon joined the rush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hollywood | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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