Word: acrobatics
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When artists of the Peking Opera take over, the pace speeds up. A pair of dancer-acrobat-mimes, on a fully lit stage, pantomime a sword fight as it might be conducted between opponents who cannot see each other in a pitch-black room. The movement is wondrously intricate, breathtakingly quick-and hugely comic. In another excerpt, called Monkey Makes Havoc in Heaven, the stage is filled with men, tumbling, bounding, flailing at one another in a skirmish between the forces of a Peer Gyntish Monkey King and a Jade Emperor whose court has been invaded by the delightfully wicked...
...Loeb until the end of the week. By applying Shaw's notion of "vital life forces" to stage craft, the Summer School Repertory manages to turn this windy bit of social farce into an amusing bit of entertainment. The plot, about an underwear manufacturer and a Polish acrobat who falls through the roof (sounds like an old Marx Brothers routine: "I watched a Polish lady fall through my roof in my underwear, but I don't know how she got in my underwear"), is very confusing and after a while you may want to give up on all the twists...
...uneventful lives of the Tarletons, a middle class family grown rich in the underwear business, whose restless daughter is engaged to a puny, spoiled aristocrat, are enlivened in Shavian fashion by the unexpected injection of foreign elements. A handsome young man and a Polish lady acrobat drop in quite literally by crashing their aeroplane into the family greenhouse. And a timid would-be gunman secrets himself in the portable Turkish bath in order to avenge his mother's honor by attacking Mr. Tarleton. The volatile Pole, Lina Szczepanowska, puts her finger on how little takes place in this English family...
Harvard encountered another acrobat two weeks ago in the Beanpot's opening round when Ned Yetten of B.C. repeatedly denied close-in bids. Largely because of illness and injury, Harvard could not keep up the same kind of sustained attack against Yale that eventually dented Yetten for 11 goals. The Crimson's attack degenerated into one-man sallies instead of the crisp passing and fast skating that is ordinarily the key to Harvard's attack...
ALFREDO ALFREDO has Dustin Hoffman looking squirrelly and speaking Italian. More exactly, it is spoken for him, in a dubbed voice that is not synchronized to his lip movements but superimposed on them. Robbing an actor of his voice is like chopping off an acrobat's legs. Hoffman remains undaunted, even though watching him is like seeing Jerry Mahoney doing a solo...