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Word: apa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHOWOFF. A North Philadelphia family is forced to change gears when a monkey wrench, in the form of a loudmouth son-in-law (Clayton Corzatte), is thrown into the domestic proceedings. Helen Hayes leads the APA repertory company in a skillful revival of George Kelly's 43-year-old comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 12, 1968 | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

PANTAGLEIZE is the creation of Belgian Playwright Michel de Ghelderode and a "lunar individual" to whom a funny thing happens on the way to his destiny. In a visually impressive production by the APA repertory company, Ellis Rabb plays the innocent who just happens to be there when a revolution is looking for a leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 12, 1968 | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...SHOW-OFF is George Kelly's comedy of 1924, but it is datelessly entertaining. Its hero (Clayton Corzatte) is a braying, backslapping braggart with the laugh of a hyena and the grandiloquent transparency of a born liar. The actress who commandeers the stage in this APA revival is Helen Hayes in her best role since Queen Victoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 29, 1967 | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

PANTAGLEIZE. The APA Repertory Company mounts a stylistically rich production of the Belgian playwright Michel de Ghelderode's grotesque historical farce. From the cornucopia of his imagination comes spilling forth Pantagleize (Ellis Rabb), a Chaplinesque figure who, equipped with only an umbrella, a silly expression and an innocent greeting, manages to start a revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 29, 1967 | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...play has more claim to be called an American classic than The Show-Off. This season's second production of the APA Repertory Company (TIME, Dec. 8) opened in 1924, had 674 performances on Broadway, and has suffered countless amateur versions. It was filmed three times (with Gregory Kelly in 1926, Spencer Tracy in 1934, Red Skelton in 1947). And it was written by the grand old man of the U.S. stage, George Kelly, 80, actor, director, and uncle of the Princess of Monaco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Showing Off Miss H. | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

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