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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plume de Ma Tante. An acrobatty French revue that leaves English and the audience happily fractured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...mocking and charming, Swann's way is to play everything straight, then suddenly seem straight out of Edward Lear. He is as repressed and colorless as a don, then as vaultingly mad as Don Quixote. Their combined way has given Broadway its gayest evening since La Plume de Ma Tante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Show on Broadway, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...every properly nourished female in the house. He works with few props-a top hat and a straw hat, a cane and an umbrella-but his simplest movements are vibrant with innuendo. Singing entirely in French, he baited his audiences last week into a wonderful medley of moods. In Ma Môme, Ma P'tite Môme he was every woman's protective lover, as his shoulder and arms curved in a possessive embrace; in the upbeat La Marie-Vison, about the perils of coveting a mink coat ("There must be other ways for a girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Troubadour from France | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...Plume de Ma Tante. This French revue is as funny, and almost as silent, as a Keystone Cops movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER: Time Listings, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...Plume de Ma Tante. This French revue is as funny and almost as silent as a Keystone Cops movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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