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...rest of the leads are generally well handled, especially that of the Grand Mikado (Victor Altshul). He has an impressive voice, and combines a regal loftiness with the eagerness of a village fool. The tendency toward madness is also reflected in the executioner (Ned Marcus), who leaps and leers his way across the stage. Marcus' continual body motion and fast pace tend to be a bit too intense, but he is quite funny, and could be even funnier if he would slow down enough to let all the lines come across. His best moments are with the old maid, played...
...principals had not been so good, they would have been engulfed by the secondary players. The most outstanding in this group was Victor Altshul as Sergeant Meryll, whose hearty lustiness dominated almost every scene that he was in. His second act duet with Marietta Perl, who made the most of "shrew" part as Dame Carruthers despite a little difficulty with her voice range, was the high point of the show from the comic standpoint...
Another clever piece of casting was the contrast between Altshul's heartiness and the effective combination of foolishness and sinisterness with which Paul Burkhardt played the part of "head jailer and assistant tormentor" Wilfred Shadbold. James Greene as Leonard Meryll and Al Hudson as Sir Richard Cholomondeley were adequate in supporting roles. Headsman James Gale was macabre...
City Editor Jack Altshul told Sheridan that all he needed to claim a dog was a license and a redemption certificate. Thus armed, Sheridan hurried back to the pound. Said Roeper: Sorry, the dog is dead. Altshul, who knows that dogs run second only to babies as human-interest stories, sent a reporter down to the pound. What he turned up shocked Newsday's 116,000 readers. Dogcatcher Roeper, Newsday reported, gets paid $2 for each dog he catches and $2 more for each one he kills. With this piecework incentive, Roeper had killed 4,158 dogs in Hempstead...
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