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Lorenzo Weisman cleverly varies his eight short skits, first presenting a grotesquely humorous one, then a witty one. Pantomine is usually associated in the United States with Marcel Marceau, and though Weisman wears the painted white face, the oversize bell-bottom trousers, and the ballet slippers of the French mime, he frequently dons the manner of The Little Tramp...
...fact, the best of Mime I is anything but funny. Weisman's adaptation of Marceau's skit "The Cage" is a lovingly prepared allegory on the prisoner of modern society, trapped by the invisible shield of Gardol. Weisman's flappy figure strolls out in a relaxed gait and walks right into a contracting glass cage. He escapes, by breaking the wall, but ignorantly stumbles back into the trap, and to destruction...
...SKELTON HOUR (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Francomime Marcel Marceau appears in four of his favorite sketches, and plays Pinocchio to Red Skelton's Geppetto as well...
...Marcel Marceau has proved, a brilliant mime can reveal wistful, grief-stricken and joyous states of human feeling. But after an evening of planned misery with the Polish Mime Theater, one merely wonders if Communism can really be all that...
...pantomime, it opens with a gaudy circus parade moving through a wooded countryside. "Into this great Circus of Life," intones a narrator, "came a man who dared to be different." Bringing up the rear is a figure, all white-on-white from flowing robes to chalky Marcel Marceau makeup. He is riding on a donkey...