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Putting a comedy on stage is a serious business. It costs a good deal of money, and unless the script or the actors are awfully funny nobody will go because there generally aren't even pretty girls to gape at. So someone along the line must have imagined that Justin Sturm was a funny fellow when he wrote One Eye Closed. I cannot imagine...
...Paris last week, the 41st International Auto Show got off to a fast start with all the fanfare and excitement of a fashion showing. On the first day, 100,00 auto enthusiasts packed the refurbished, fluorescent-lighted Grand Palais on the Champs Elysees to gape at such fancy sights as the Rapier, a white coupe designed by Milwaukee's Brooks Stevens and built in Germany on a Cadillac chassis, and the King of Arabia's custom-built Rolls-Royce (price: $27,000). Altogether, a record 107 manufacturers from nine nations trotted out their glittering showpieces...
Poet, prince, prelate, common clay, To gape at genius. On the stair...
Martin Meyers gets the most laughs, and deserves most of them, with his gape-mouthed version of a farm boy at Harvard. Robert Rosenberger and Lee Jefferies do the romantic bits with fervor and slightly weak voices, managing, above all, to seem sincere and attractive. Barbara Williams' distinctly frail voice was backed with charm and bounce for "Incognito"--her only singing chore. And her acting, when not rushed, was very competent. For a chorus of "All About Love," Ellen McHugh showed perhaps the most talent for comedy in the cast, closely followed by Shiela Flaherty's board rendition of "When...
...serfs disagreed. "You come to the master for orders," complained the village elder, "and the master in a red shirt is hanging upside down from a pole; his hair is all hanging around, his face flushed. You don't know whether to listen to orders or stand and gape...