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...Chocks Vitamins with the help of Kukla and Ollie, Miles Laboratories was gratified by researchers' findings that 64% of the young regular viewers asked Mom to buy Chocks and 38% of the mothers complied. Children respond enthusiastically to products that are connected to animated symbols, such as the Bosco Bear or the Campbell kids. But children dislike being talked down to. In advertising its Keds shoes, U.S. Rubber employs "Kedso the Clown" for the two-to-six-year audience and space-minded "Captain Keds" for the seven-to-twelve group...
...class comics, Nym and Bardolph are in the capable hands of Harold Cherry and John Milligan. But the strongest impression accrues from Philip Bosco's superlative Pistol, whose ruddy complexion and handlebar moustache suit well his resounding bravado and gusto. When he threatens Fluellen, "Base Trojan, thou shalt die," he whips out his sword with a flourish and fumblingly drops it on the ground; that is Pistol in a nutshell...
...rest of the company on the whole displays an admirable high quality. Philip Bosco conveys the fervor and noble loyalty of Kent, who is to Lear what Horatio is to Hamlet. In the earlier parts of the play, the Gloucester of Patrick Hines is somewhat perfunctory; but after being blinded, his thereby improved "sight" spurs him to the most eloquent work of his career. His prayer and his final dialogue with Lear are extremely moving. (But why did the director place his "suicide" leap on the flat part of the stage when a six-inch "cliff of Dover" was available...
This year's production starts Richard Basehart, Hal Holbrook, and Philip Bosco in the lead roles. Richard II is one of Shakespeare's earliest historical plays...
...scene. This portion so unnerved Queen Elizabeth I, who took it as a personal threat, that she had it censored; and the scene was not printed till James ascended the throne. The deposition is also the high point of this production. The attendants are well blocked, and Basehart and Bosco mesh wonderfully. Their pacing and their subtle give-and-take are just right. And Basehart times his "Ay, no; no, ay" to perfection. This is a moving spectacle indeed. There remains only for the prop department to come up with a better hand-mirror than an allwooden imitation; the best...