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After a seven month run in New York, Bert Lahr's latest vehicle has come to Boston for three weeks. Two on the Aisle, a series of twenty spearate sketches, shows that vaudeville satire is still funny but that Lahr and his rubber face can be stretched only so far. Out of the twenty scenes, four are uproarious, five more are amusing, and the rest is standard mediocre filler...
...Lahr's best scenes, though, are worth the price of a balcony seat. His Space Brigade parodies TV sciencefiction programs to perfection as he wisecracks with the Queen of Venus and her Venusmen. Again in The Clown, Lahr soliloquizes as a cross-eyed Pagliacci, clowns through a superdeadpan imitation of Rudolph Valentino in Sapanish costume, and mimics a stately Spanish dance while peering down the front of a dancing partner twice his height. It is Lahr's grimaces, pantomine, and periodic exclamations ("Gonggg") that put these scenes across. The frequent appearance of six G-strung showgirls adds the final touch...
...Aisle. Topical revue with Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray, which can thank its stars for its brightness (TIME, July...
...2.Bert Lahr...
...Aisle (Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray; Decca, 2 sides LP). The tunes run second to the comedy in this current Broadway hit, but Lahr's wobbly voice in The Clown is worth the price of the album. Moreover, Songstress Gray can put over a song with vigor and charm; the proof is in There Never Was a Baby Like My Baby, If You Hadn't But You Did, How Will He Know...