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...Good Soup, by Felicien Marceau, adapted by Garson Kanin, uses one of the theater's favorite recipes, the life story of a prostitute. In her older years she is Ruth Gordon (her first Broadway appearance since The Matchmaker); in her younger years she is Diane Cilento. Both are onstage much of the time, the old whore passing comment on the young. Among her lovers and clients: Sam Levene, Ernest Truex. The play was favorably received in Philadelphia by two out of four reviewers. The News, whose regular critic was barred from the theater by Producer David ("The Abominable Showman...
...C.D.F. as an "extinct" organization, and claim it "quit several years ago." This is an irresponsible falsehood. The C.D.F. only started in 1956, when it gave three productions: Henry V, a new version of The Beggar's Opera, and Saint Joan. It brought us Emlyn Williams and Marcel Marceau in 1957, two productions by the Theatre National Populaire in 1958, the Vieux-Colombier company and Gielgud's Ages of Man early this year, and is offering three shows this summer. Extinct? No; you, Mr. Capp, are the dodo...
...Group 20, nor any other local drama group is concerned with social prominence; they are all interested in serving the noblest of the arts to the best of their ability. And how dare you imply that the bringing to local stages of such luminous performers as Siobhan McKenna, Marcel Marceau, and Sir John Gielgud constitutes "fooling around in the theatre...
Pantomime, according to the brilliant French mime, Marcel Marceau, is "the art of expressing feelings by attitudes and not a means of expressing words through gestures." When Skelton this week shut his mouth for half an hour, he demonstrated Marceau's point better than any of the other U.S. performers-Caesar. Gleason Kovacs-who have tinkered fitfully with the unspoken attitude. Skelton shuffled through the pathetic attempts of Freddie the Freeloader to cadge a Thanksgiving dinner from the Elite Restaurant. His kindness in returning a rich matron's purse was rewarded with no reward: a policeman rapped...
...charm of this book lies in Author Marceau's devotion to his extraordinary characters-a devotion that enables him to make them not merely funny but amazingly human as well. Haughty aristocrat, aping student, money-loving businessman, dim-witted girl-by the time Marceau has done with them, all have shed their comical trappings, and walk the world in the shape of broken hearts...