Word: lahr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rewards are worth the rigors. If a commercial has a long run, a Homely can make $7,500 for one day's work; many make more than $40,000 a year. The competition is sharp, especially since such established Homelies as Wally Cox, Jane Withers, Bert Lahr and Phyllis Diller have mugged their way into the act. A casting call for a street worker, for example, will attract 100 candidates, some lugging along shovels and jackhammers for that authentic look. But in the end, as the Homely homily has it, it's the face that launches a thousand...
SUMMER FUN (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Bert Lahr plays a well-meaning but blundering spirit who tries to help a family with its daily problems in "Thompson's Ghost...
...first U.S. professional production of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy was adorned by Dame Judith Anderson as a marvelously menacing Clytemnestra who turned the ball field into a nightmare-real landscape of bloody tragedy. The second night turned tears to laughter, with oldtime Comic Bert Lahr, 70, playing the Birds...
...understand," said Lahr, an alumnus of the Columbia Burlesque Circuit '23, "that Aristophanes allowed the comedian to do whatever he wanted." But no one in 23 centuries ever winged the Birds as Lahr did. When Prometheus reveals some of Zeus's confidences to him, Lahr calls him "a fink." When Zeus offers Lahr his wife, Bert busses her and then bellows his trademarked "annng-anng-anng." When Lahr stumbles over the pronunciation of "Agamemnon," he quips, "That's Greek to me." At one point, he even digresses into a rendition of his famous Frito-Lay TV commercial...
...audience somehow swallowed it, pickles and all, and the box-office advance for the remaining weeks of the festival is bigger for Lahr's Aristophanes than for Anderson's Aeschylus. Whether it is good enough to carry Solomos' hoped-for three-month run is another question. A local citizens' committee, which is sponsoring the Ypsilanti Greek Theater, is currently running its second emergency fund-raising drive in three months, its third campaign since the project was dreamed up three years...