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FOXY dogsleds Bert Lahr up to the 1890s Yukon, and from there on the evening is fool's gold, a bonanza of comic Lahrgesse...
...taken from his Lake Tahoe motel room "at gunpoint" but had then stretched out quietly- without being bound or gagged-in the back seat of the kidnapers' car. Later, he continued, when the car approached a roadblock full of lawmen, he suggested to his kidnapers that they might fool the cops by telling them that "we've been to a party and I've had too much to drink...
Foxy transports Broadwayites to an antic, 1890s Yukon, where all the fool's gold is stashed in the pouches under Bert Lahr's eyes. When Lahr crosses those eyes, the showdown is eyeball-to-eyeball. When he rolls them deliriously around the socket rims, he looks like a pixilated squirrel who has forgotten where last summer's nuts are buried...
...withdraw then thump with fist on skull his face sinks in the mud his cries cease end of first lesson." Pim learns not to cry but to sing when he is jabbed in the armpit. Why? Because, his tormentor reasons, he must say to himself, "this man is no fool, what is required of me that I am tormented thus not sadism pure and simple not that I should cry that is evident since when I do I am punished." Eventually, Pim and his tormentor, who admits to the name of Bom, exchange a few basic phrases, among them...
...Remember," Graham said, "you're going out into a world almost on fire. Go with Christ in your heart. I'm fool enough to believe something can be done about our world. Together we can change our world. Christ started with 13 apostles. It only takes a handful; you could be that handful...