Word: adler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benny Adler, as the leering president of "Winkler's Frock," was familiar with the part, but not with the lines. His burlesque house technique and his insistence on separating every vaguely amusing sentence and delivering it as a punchline increased the weakness of an already disjointed dialogue...
With some direction, and realignment by Adler, Fair Game could have been a fresh Sam Levenesque comedy. It wasn't. Fair Game was to have been the first production in a season package: the remainder of the season has been cancelled and the Summer Playhouse will announce a replacement next week...
Enjoyed your April 27 article on Larry Adler. My husband and I saw him at the "hungry i" in San Francisco, and were interested to note that the audience, composed mainly of young people, was enthusiastic about his jazz and blues, but it took the classics to bring down the house...
...LARRY ADLER SAN FRANCISCO
...point out a typographical error in your story on Larry Adler, quoting my explanation of how to play the harmonica? Your text read: "All you have to do is move the left framiscle on the portisduble from hardistack with the muscles, using a frammisanic embouchure . . ." This should have read "right framiscle on the portisduble from pardistack with the muscles." I hope that aspiring harmonica players have not been attempting an impossible technique...