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...went to Africa in 1955 to concoct magazine articles and lick his wounds after a Broadway flop (his Shadow of Heroes, a play about the Hungarian Rebellion, opened to mixed reviews last week). He was fascinated by South African Anthropologist Raymond A. Dart, discoverer of Australopithecus, a man-ape who lived about 750,000 years ago. Ardrey was deeply impressed by Dart's contention that the small-brained Australopithecus used antelope bones as clubs and that these weapons changed him from a vegetarian into a successful predator and allowed him to develop into true, big-brained man. On this...
...force behind Abilities is its evangelistic president, Henry Viscardi Jr., 48, who knows firsthand the problems of cripples; he was born with stumps for legs. Until he was 25 years old, he hobbled about in cork-stuffed orthopedic boots, looking so grotesque that, he recalls, classmates dubbed him "the ape man.' Then a friend helped him get aluminum legs. Overnight he "grew" from 3 ft. 8 in. to 5 ft. 8 in., became imbued with a fervor to give the same sort of boost to other handicapped...
...flavored classical ballet movements. Adam, according to Rexroth's directions, "emerges, as if from clay, rises, stretches, yawns, discovers one by one the use of his limbs." He then gets acquainted with the garden's livestock as they cavort in pairs and trios - the walrus and the ape, the lamb and the leopard, the rabbit, the skunk and the fox - all costumed to [he last whisker. Weary at last of the ballet of the beasts, Adam rests on the gnarled, raised roots of a tree. It is then that Eve (Sally Bailey) emerges from underneath him. For Choreographer...
King Kong knock any ape down...
...sensuality, her nymphomaniacal craving after Stanley Kowalski. Mitch Ryan, as Kowalski, was splendidly grubby, violent, and stupid, but he too never quite seemed the sexually potent animal he should have been. His movements around the stage were sometimes those of a normal human being, sometimes those of an ape, and sometimes those of a wind-up toy on the blink. Mrs. Kowalski, Blanche's sister, was fetchingly played by Jo Ann Le Compte, whose love scene with Stanley was the most touching moment of the evening...