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Hear the Animals Sing (Columbia). There was this little boy and he had a magic stick and when he rubbed cows, cats, dogs and lambs with his stick, these animals (real sound effects) began to sing (real tape technician) songs like The Farmer in the Dell and all like that. Three to-sixes go positively daft over it, but Papa and Mama need magical first aid while the cowcophony...
...been spontaneously requested by the audience. What's more, they could have done it in any style from Euripides to the Reader's Digest. For Nichols and May, getting ready for their first Broadway show after years in nightclubs, are essentially modern practitioners of commedia dell'arte, the spontaneous comedy of Renaissance Italy in which strolling players improvised their skits and lampooned their...
Between their act and the performers themselves there is an intriguing interplay, putting in question what is real and what is theatrical, in a way that suggests one of their favorite models, Italian Playwright Luigi Pirandello, himself something of a modern commedia dell' artist. Is Mike's nervous blinking, audiences usually want to know, part of the act or is it real? (It is real but less pronounced offstage.) Are Elaine's black dresses only a stage device? (It is not; Elaine never wears anything but black.) Some signs of tension underlying the humor suggest that Mike...
...plot devised by Scriptwriters Jeffrey Dell and Roy Boulting is as complicated as Trevelyan's History of England, but no matter. The fun is watching Actor Terry-Thomas come into his own, as Co-Star Sellers did in The Mouse That Roared. No comedian can rise to a challenge with greater stupor, or be more benumbingly British. Near the film's end, a Britisher bound for Gaillardia inquires whether the island offers anything to shoot. Answers Terry-Thomas, pukka as Lord Clive: ''Only the natives...
...Francisco Giants, needing another starting pitcher, traded for Baltimore's Billy O'Dell, 27, who had a fine E.R.A. of 2.94 last year and a 10-12 record. Needing a second baseman, they got one of the best and a crack lead-off man to boot: St. Louis' Don Blasingame (.289) who should score freely, batting ahead of Willie Mays (.313), Willie McCovey (.354) and Orlando Cepeda (.317)¶ The Milwaukee Braves have New Manager Chuck Dressen, a nonstop talker and one of baseball's finest tacticians, to shake new life into aging but still skilled...