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Maurice Chevalier Show (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). With Jeannie Carson, Mar cel Marceau, Pat Carroll...
Unknown and unheralded in the U.S., French Pantomimist Marcel Marceau, 32, opened last week in Manhattan (off Broadway) for a two-week run. When the curtain rose on a bare stage and a black backdrop, it looked as if Mime Marceau, gesticulating but wordless, had about as much chance of success in hard-to-please New York as a mute at a hog-calling contest. But next morning the critics called him "superb," his work a "masterpiece...
...series of brilliant pantomimes, he managed to convey with grace and wit the look of a man doing such assorted things as walking a tightrope, mounting and descending a staircase, and catching fluttering butterflies. At his funniest, Marceau mimes both David and Goliath in a tour de force of machine-gun character switches, from the sweet, flute-playing shepherd to the hulking brute and back again, as their historic battle rages. At his perceptive best, in Youth, Maturity, Old Age and Death, he accomplishes in less than three memorable minutes what many a novelist has failed to do in volumes...
Each pantomime is a small, precise work of art with a beginning, middle and end. New York had never experienced anything quite like it. But Marceau,whose career began, nine years ago as a mime in Jean-Louis Barrault's Paris company, has already made triumphal tours in Italy, Western Germany and Scandinavia. By week's end, he was the fashionable thing for New Yorkers to see. He was preparing to move up to Broadway for another two-week run, CBS-TV wanted him for the Ed Sullivan show, but NBC-TV got him first for a Spectacular...
...Francis Henry Taylor's resignation from Manhattan's Metropolitan (TIME, Dec. 27) still leaves the U.S. museum world's throne unfilled. Last week the merry-go-round got another powerful whirl. Director Fiske Kimball announced his retirement from the Philadelphia Museum. For the time being Henri Marceau, the Philadelphia's associate director, has moved in as acting director. But all over the country museum directors were up on their toes, listening...