Word: lahr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comic Hercules of the evening is Bert Lahr, who performs six mighty comic labors in six parts. His funniest role: a senile ice-cream tycoon whose favorite political flavor is Birch. Lahr creases his wrinkles, crosses his eyes, and shows all of his time-honored wizardry with the japes and antics of burlesque...
...Wizard of Oz (CBS, 6-8 p.m.). For the fifth straight year, as the holiday season approaches, CBS whips up the old twister and brings back the M-G-M movie with Judy Garland, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger and Billie Burke...
Dawson City, Yukon, Palace Grand Theater: This reconstructed Klondike opera house. 4,500 miles off Broadway, has reopened after 60 years with a new musical. Foxy, based on Volpone, starring Bert Lahr, Larry Blyden and Bill Hayes...
...town tryouts go, it was way, way out. By coastal steamer, narrow-gauge railway and bus, Comedian Bert Lahr, 66, and a Broadway cast trekked up to Dawson City in the Yukon-4,700 miles from the Great White Way-for an eight-week run of Foxy, a Gold Rush version of Ben Jonson's Volpone. The musical comedy, timed to premiere with the beginning of Dawson City's Gold Rush Festival, launched the event with a splash. At the Palace Grand Theater, where Douglas Fairbanks Sr. once played to Klondike sourdoughs, British Comedienne Bea Lillie officially opened...
Splashed over three columns of the staid New York Law Journal was an account of how the feathers flew when gravel-voiced Comic Bert Lahr, 66, went to court over a duck who swiped his style. Back in 1961, Lahr slapped a $500,000 suit on the Adell Chemical Co., Inc. and a producer of TV commercials, for featuring a duck that sounded as if it had Lahryngitis. The actor speaking for the duck, quacked Lahr's lawyer, not only "misappropriated" Lahr's distinctive delivery, but also injured his reputation by giving the impression "that he was reduced...