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...classic clown, hoofer, hit lyricist (Georgy Girl), pop-music headliner and Shakespearean actor, Jim Dale began with a simple ambition. When he was nine, his father took him to a London music hall. "We sat up in the gods [top balcony], and everyone onstage looked an inch high," Dale recalls. "But I was looking at the audience. I never saw 2,000 people laugh before, and I felt so happy for that little bloke onstage. I thought then: What I want to do is make people laugh...
...Dale has accomplished his goal, but he is emphatically not a little bloke onstage. Currently starring in Scapino (TIME, June 3), he is the spring season's biggest sensation - over, under, beside, beneath, across, atop and flat on his back upon the Broadway stage. Tall and lanky, he seems endowed with a flamingo's limbs - concave knees; one-legged, plumb-line balance; flapping, winglike arms. Playing the duplicitous Neapolitan servant Scapino involves at least as much acrobatics as acting. At one point he keels over from the edge of a 10-ft. platform, grabs onto a hanging rope...
...Dale, 38, does not depend on gymnastics. He is one of the rare per formers whose magnetism rills every cubic inch of the house while his eyes count it. Working from a slapdash adaptation of Moliere's classic farce, Les Fourberies de Scapin, he keeps the evening fresh with the pleasure of his company. For one thing, he is a flirt. He vamps fellow actors even as they trade invectives. But the audience gets his most collusive winks and slanted asides...
...flopped with his first audience, the Northamptonshire clan of 53 among whom he grew up. "I wasn't a natural comedian. I was not funny at home. I entered talent contests, but usually the girl in the ballet dress won." Not even this humiliation was lost on Dale. He took ballet lessons, along with a course in "eccentric dancing"-an outre British art that Dale describes as "learning to move the body as if it had no joints, like an India rubber doll...
...last week Arkansas turned on its most famous son and emphatically denied him a chance to gain a sixth term in the Senate. By the humiliating margin of 65.2% to 34.8%, Fulbright, 69, lost the Democratic primary to Governor Dale Bumpers, 48, who was still a country lawyer in Charleston (pop. 1,497) four years ago when the Senator was leading his devastating attack on U.S. policy in Viet...