Word: eppes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain squeamish distaste for the subject. The evening's coup de théâtre is the drag ball that opens Act II. Lavishly costumed for a kind of inverts' Mardi Gras, the imperial army's top officers cavort in the home of the Baron von Epp. Dennis King plays the role in tiara and gown, and flutters an imperious fan with the regal disdain of a queen of players. At no other point does the play rise to this level of theatricality. Salome Jens adorns the evening physically as a Russian Mata Hari, but she delivers...
...find neither rationale tenable. It was not necessary for Professor Forbes to allow principle and safety to conflict. After learning that Epp's appearance on TV would put the club in danger, Forbes should have cancelled the octet's performance...
...that beats under her trim little jacket"-and proudly published the note that came fluttering down from the Hindenburg's gondola in Lakehurst, N.J.: "Goodbye, America. I'll be right back." In Frankfort 58 hours later, Dorothy was given a royal welcome by Nazi General Franz von Epp, Governor General of Bavaria, who called himself her "godfather in Germany" and suggested another date. But Dorothy pressed...
Something About a Soldier, by Ernest Kinoy, proved fitfully amusing, fitfully poignant, and fitfully provocative. It scouts out the sad-sack destiny of Jacob Epp, a private who looks ''like a bloodshot owl and talks like an IBM computer that has majored in sociology. Sal Mineo makes an appealing Epp, and Epp's captain, Kevin McCarthy, wins a Silver Star for acting sensitivity...
...Archie Epp,s a tenor, was principal soloist of the evening, and he is as versatile as the Glee Club itself. Mr. Epps was required to sing both Mozart recitative and American spiritual; this he did very creditably. Frederick Ford, another tenor, whose voice is pleasant and relaxed if slightly husky, sang one of the evening's few folk songs...