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...gullible - clerks, widows, fortune hunters such as Sir Epicure Mammon (George Voskovec), and hypocritical Puritans. As written by Jonson, the play has the shapely precision of a ballet, wittily danced to the themes of vanity, greed, cunning, lust and fraud. As directed by Jules Irving, it becomes a shapeless clown show...
...Fernando Valley at 6:30, swims four quick lengths of his pool, hurries to early appointments at city hall by fire department helicopter. Staff meetings, paperwork and ceremonial functions keep him so busy that he frequently gulps clown a hot pastrami sandwich at his desk for lunch, often does not arrive home until...
...celebrated passage now hangs, framed, in the replica of his five-room birthplace, which has just been built on the original's decayed foundation. Another bit of memorabilia in the new presidential shrine, which is just a mile from the present L.B.J. ranch: a china-doll clown that was a Christmas present to an aunt from little Lyndon, then four. "He proudly handed it over," burbled a White House press release, "telling her delightedly that it cost a dime and was worth every cent...
...directed by Frank Hauser, the production's most consistence and all-of-a-piece performance is Josef Sommer's as Malvolio, who with the Clown constitute the fulcrum upon which the play seesawa. This portrayal is well-spoken and properly starchy, comical without intending to be, always controlled and never overdone. Sommer's handling of the scene where he reads the forged letter, which he reads the forged letter, which he amusingly first employs as a fan, works admirably except that, when he quotes, "If this fall into thy hand, revolve," he ought to spin around in ridiculous compliance...
Richard Mathews makes a valiant attempt at the clown Feste, but it is folly to cast this role with anyone who is not also a singer, since he has several solo songs. Conrad Susa's music is a mishmash of styles. "O mistress mine," accompanied by bells, suffered from Mathews' inability to sing on pitch. At the opening performance he did better with "Come away, death," a quite lovely piece accompanied by two oboes and a harp. He is allowed to end the show as Shakespeare wrote it, singing "When that I was" all alone on stage. The lights...