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...Stilts & Filler. Two packs of savage short-haired dogs, Pavlovingly trained by Victoria Olkhovikova, line up every night to play soccer. They head the ball expertly, smash into one another, knock over nets and goal posts in canicidal scoring rushes, spill out of bounds by the yelping dozen, and engulf helpless photographers in their wild, uncontainable scrimmage. A man walking on 8-ft. stilts steps onto a springboard; two men jump onto the other end of the springboard, and the stilt man arcs into the air, 25 ft. up, slowly turning over in a backward somersault, landing perfectly...
...both animal trainer and juggler. He takes no pratfalls, and he is not the sad flopsy-mopsy fopsy that most U.S. clowns make themselves, but it is difficult to see why he is so renowned. Hailed as a star, he is really little more than a mildly engaging filler...
Miss Dumont's bungling--bumpy scales, sloppy arpeggios--in the filler passages might have been dismissed if something like artistry had survived elsewhere. But Miss Dumont has been on four successful European tours, and being out of the country so much, she naturally has not had time to learn about that musical structure called the phrase. Melodies and display passages suffered the same degrading machinations; Miss Dumont banged out the notes with no regard for their form...
Mr.Street tore into the concerto's first movements, but controlled every note. At the ends of solos before orchestral returns, for example, he tapered and rounded each phrase. In the filler passages, he subordinated his line while conductor Layton searched for something interesting in the orchestra...
...were being ejected from a toaster, and his voice box is some sort of faulty dishwasher. He and Ford pair off with the unpredictable felicity of vodka and to mato juice, and in Act III they tie on a mutual bender that makes that overdone theatrical filler, the drunk scene, seem like a creative inspiration in mischief...