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...COUPLE attempt to set up bachelor housekeeping, with results as disastrous as their marriages. Robert Vaughn and Sherwood Price are the stars at the Sir John Falstaff Theater, St. Louis, through...
...inextinguishable beauty of nature. Mahler felt everything and felt in with an intensity forever incomprehensible to people like ourselves who stalk through a stupefyingly drab and insensate life. He wrote, after conducting the Scherzo of his Fifth Symphony, a wonderful movement which always makes me think of Falstaff, waldhorn in hand, dancing and rioting, stealing Apollo blind...
...LOUIS, MO. Falstaff Theater. Walter Pidgeon is caught up in the vicarious pleasures and hysterical worries of a daddy whose little girl has gone off to college in Take Her, She's Mine, by Phoebe and Henry Ephron...
Kristoffer Tabori is most appealing as the young smooth-cheeked sidekick that Pistol inherited from the dead Falstaff. (Whereas Shakespeare designates him simply as "Boy," the program calls him "Davy," through Davy in 2 Henry IV was Justice Shallow's servant and not Falstaff's). When the Boy is left alone with a field of corpses, he slowly wanders about, deeply, shaken and unhardened by his hands. Espying the approach of two enemy French soldiers, he scampers up the jungle-gym. But the soldiers pursue and overtake him, coldly spear him, and depart leaving one more corpse on the silent...
...leading bleached lives. A dry-fuck life, Heimert would call it, if he weren't a shade too decorous to make a comment like that from any podium more public than a dinner table. His own style is so much more intense, robust, youthful, maybe in the way Falstaff's was and may be in a more indestructible way that the fifties can only be a metaphor for his condition, not the cause...