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...Bucks County Playhouse (TIME, July 7). It is Perelman's first, cautious flirtation with the stage since he swore off theatrical writing after a minor disaster called Sweet Bye and Bye closed on the road in 1947. On opening night Perelman was horrified to hear Star Bert Lahr forgetting roughly half his lines, filling in the gaps with Chinese proverbs of his own invention. But Lahr eventually learned his part, and Producer Ellis began arrangements to take The Beauty Part to Manhattan this winter, bringing Perelman back to Broadway for the first time since One Touch of Venus closed...
Into this sham-fest the playwright throws a rich young Yaleman, full of boola, moola and ideals, trying to pursue an honest artistic career. Along the way, he is buffeted by a whipcracking female magazine publisher (Lahr), a Hollywood producer named Harry Hubris (Lahr), and his own father, Milo Leotard Allardyce DuPlessis Weatherwax (also Lahr), a wild Park Avenue lecher. When his son admits a literary interest in the exotic sins suggested by Lolita and the works of Oscar Wilde, Weatherwax bellows encouragingly: "That's the stuff to cut your eyeteeth on. You have to learn to crawl before...
...Wizard of Oz (CBS, 6-8 p.m.). A rerun of the 1939 movie classic sends Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Billie Burke on another trek up the yellow brick road...
Though I have never seen Bert Lahr play the part of Gogo, I am sure Micky Deems has, more than once. His movements and even his voice are uncannily like Lahr's, except that, unlike Lahr, Deems has never been quoted to have said, "I don't understand a damn word in the whole play." His performance is splendid. Dan Morgan plays Didi in the manner of a surly, gravel voiced straight man. Though he has only two movements on stage--a mincing goose-step and a tugging at his bagy trousers--he is perfect for the role...
...MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, at the Colonial, through Saturday, Oct. 8, produced by the American Shakespeare are Festival Acting Company, staring Bert Lahr as Bottom, the Weaver...