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CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS. A band of incredibly funny young Cambridge graduates, with a revue that thinks small and carries a big slapstick. Laughter is all but incessant, and the most hilarious sketch of the evening is a bewigged theater-of-the-absurd British courtroom trial involving a dwarf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 30, 1964 | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

ALEXANDER CALDER - Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th. Next month Calder's mobiles will take to the air at the Guggenheim. Meanwhile, some 30 circus drawings, all done before he started launching tin and wire into upper living space, make a fitting prelude to the retrospective. Perls also has a few mobiles. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: UPTOWN: Oct. 23, 1964 | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS. A band of incredibly funny young Cambridge graduates, with a revue that thinks small and carries a big slapstick. Laughter is all but incessant, and the most hilarious sketch of the evening is a bewigged theater-of-the-absurd British courtroom trial involving a dwarf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 23, 1964 | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

Cambridge Circus. A good guffaw nowadays is hard to find. Onstage and on film comedy has gone cosmic-as if dramatists were engaged in a campaign to laugh wars, capital punishment and lung cancer out of existence. The big news about Cambridge Circus is that it thinks small and carries a big slapstick. The manic, unassuming young graduates of Cambridge University who wrote and perform in the revue would rather tickle a rib than wash a brain, and more often than not they are indescribably funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Banana with Appeal | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

...Handel," they memorably spoof both the composer and the Beatles, with a blasting hallelujah! yeah! yeah! The evening ends in a British courtroom with a bewigged theater-of-the-absurd farce-trial involving a dwarf that is hilarious enough all by itself to make the show Broadway's Circus Maximus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Banana with Appeal | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

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