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Somehow, Newley and Ritchard hold the show together. Newley is a perfect clown, a graceful pantomimist whose range is limited but effective, especially when he's staggering under self-pity or belting out self-encouragement. And Ritchard, though there is still too much of Captain Hook in his giggle and leer, matches Newley's pantomime with a mocking, sophisticated farce that at times shines through the hazy book, lyrics, and music...
...Stayed home while Lady Bird joined 6,000 Washington-area poor kids at a performance of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus, where she sat between a little Negro girl and a little white girl, matched wits-and laugh lines-with a clown...
...Busy Building. While Belaúnde builds, Communism tries to tear him clown. Each week, Moscow, Peking and Havana beam 110 hours of short-wave hate into Peru and the other west-coast nations. The broadcasts, in Spanish and Quechua, urge the Indians to take up their slingshots to "exterminate the capitalist wolves." From time to time, a few Red-led bands have invaded highland haciendas and stirred trouble in the mines. But the Communists are few and out of date in Peru. The country is too busy working on Fernando Belaúnde's Peruvian architecture...
...CLOWN by Heinrich Böll. 247 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...conscience will rest largely in the hands of Germany's postwar novelists, whose attempts to comprehend the unsavory past have produced such memorable fiction as Günter Grass's The Tin Drum and Heinrich Böll's Billiards at Half-Past Nine. In The Clown, Böll tells the story of Hans Schnier, a young professional pantomimist who specializes (like his author) in satirizing German complacency. Schnier is in desperate straits: his mistress Marie has left him, his bookings have dried up, he is broke. For almost the entire novel he sits...