Word: dwarf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lahr's sometime but overloving wife, Eileon Heckart handles a large and difficult part well. Singing, dancing and generally playing small-time vaudevillian, she does an intelligent and very able portrayal. Robert Weil, a barrel-bodied dwarf who did his all to hold up Ann Corio through three acts of "Sailor Beware," this season, turns up here as a two-bit Burlesque gagster, and is an extremely funny little man. William Mendrek and Ruth Homond, whose names appear on these pages from time to time, do their usually adequate job. And for purely local interest-besides some trim chorines...
...those who looked long enough, every member of Acrobats' painted cast came alive. Among the performers: a smiling, bloody-handed centurion; a drum-beating dwarf; a quizzical, bare-legged blonde selling Eskimo Pies; a mean-eyed young man in the coils of a friendly python; a crowned, repulsively ugly juggler embracing a beautiful purple ball; trapeze artists necking on a safety net; an old maid caressing a toothed fish. They all hinted at a mingled horror and loveliness which might be the nature of Beckmann's still-undiscovered...
Deadline Ahead. Against the world's titanic misery, which would easily dwarf even the biggest achievement, UNRRA has achieved a great deal. It has helped feed, clothe and repatriate some 5,000,000 of 6,500,000 D.P.s in Allied Europe, has channeled some 2,000,000 tons of food, fuel, medicine, machinery, second-hand locomotives and other supplies, has begun its rehabilitation task by distributing hoes, plows and draft horses to destitute peasants of two continents. UNRRA's biggest rehabilitation project was progressing at breakneck speed in China, where U.S. Seabees and 150,000 Chinese laborers last...
Most exciting shot: Bergman at the piano singing French-Creole songs to Cooper in a manner to make less stalwart he-men wilt. Most amusing tableau: the head-pivoting "parade" of beruffled Clio, followed by her grim mulatto maid, followed by an impish dwarf...
Said the Committee: "It is a giant creation to dwarf the Colossus at Rhodes. It will stand, like the pyramids, to challenge the minds and hearts of men for countless ages...