Word: limped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Littlest Revue wound up the off-Broadway Phoenix Theatre's season with festive intentions but pretty limp results. With but eight people in the cast, it is an intimate revue with a vengeance; and with its faces so quickly familiar and its fandangos so modestly scaled, it stands in urgent need of witty sketches and catchy tunes. But the wit is uncomfortably sporadic and Vernon Duke's show tunes sound remarkably alike. Best thing in the revue is Comedienne Charlotte Rae, who is herself at her best in a pair of screwy madrigal numbers. There...
...Republican leaders spent most of their time milling around the lobby, airing local problems (how to interest young people in Pennsylvania's mossback G.O.P. organization), inspecting campaign gimmicks (ladies' hose with "I Like Ike" lettered across the ankles) and considering, with notable lack of enthusiasm, a limp national slogan ("Ring the bells and tell the people"). Then, as the last event on the two-day agenda, they heard the President of the U.S. open his campaign for re-election and set forth the 1956 Republican line. Ike's speech, the very antithesis of give-'em-hell...
...Since the essence of Gobel's comedy is intellectual, The Birds and the Bees cunningly makes its jokes as physical as possible: Gobel takes pratfalls on land and sea, at home and abroad. When he isn't getting pie in the face, he is compelled to read limp double-entendres, make love to a girl taller than himself (Mitzi Gaynor) and play straight man to David Niven...
...Ruth Roman as she gambled away her husband's nest egg, was accused of stealing $5,000, and made a gesture toward suicide before falling into hubby's arms in a roadside motel for the final clinch that solved everything. Lux Video Theater struggled hopelessly with a limp script about some papier-mâché gangsters who were routed by the impassioned prose of a crusading sports reporter...
Instead of being humorous, the Shylock of Arthur Loeb emerges as a sympathetic, almost tragic figure. Loeb possesses a commanding stage presence and a fine speaking voice. When he limps across the stage, the limp is pathetic rather than ridiculous, and when he rages for justice, he seems to deserve it. This may be wrenching Shakespeare, but it is a pull in the right direction...