Arsenic & Old Lace a 1955 adaptation for the CBS anthology series "The Best of Broadway". Arsenic & Old Lace Arsenic & Old Lace is a 1962 television film directed by George Schaefer and starring Tony Randall. It first aired during season 11 of the NBC anthology series "Hallmark Hall of Fame". It is an adaptation of Joseph Kesselring's 1939 play "Arsenic and Old Lace". Boris Karloff reprised his role as Jonathan Brewster (who is described by the other characters as resembling the "Frankenstein" star), which he had originated on Broadway. He had been unable to appear in Frank Capra's 1944 film due to
Lace machine a Northamptonshire manual lace maker and reproduced them in the roller-locker machine. The 1809 version of this machine (patent no. 3216) became known as the "Old Loughborough", it was wide and was designed for use with cotton. The Old Loughborough became the standard lacemaking machine, particularly the 1820 form known as the Circular producing two-twist plain net. The smooth, unpatterned tulle produced on these machines was on a par with real, handmade lace net. Heathcoat's bobbinet machine is so ingeniously designed that the ones used today have suffered little alteration. However during the next 30 years inventors were patenting improvements