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Professor Eugene Rochow's Black Magic 1 (Chemistry 1 in the catalogue) comes at 11--unquestionably the most engaging show since Merlin. He is rivalled, however, by another barker, Associate Professor Seymour ("And that's Rembrandt--more of him later: but now, tell you what I'm gonna do") Slive who offers this term a course on the dutch painters of the seventeenth century (Fine Arts...
...fail when telling the Arthurian saga. While no Malory or even a T. H. White (The Once and Future King) Author Fadiman is a cut above Lerner & Loewe (Camelot). His grave young hero seems to sense that he is on the threshold of a mythic destiny. Fadiman's Merlin is a wiser Polonius. His courts and tourna ments are a pageant of medieval glory as if they had been clipped from the film sequences of Olivier's Henry...
...with him his wife, the seductive, creamy-skinned Igerne. Uther at once fell in love with Igerne. and declared his passion; she coldly tattled to Gorlois. and they hurried home. Uther pressed his courtship by besieging the great castle at Tintadel-and by being transformed (a simple job for Merlin) into the likeness of Gorlois, which let him dally with the hoodwinked lady. At length Gorlois was killed and Uther married Igerne. From this union sprang King Arthur, and from the Arthurian legend sprang Camelot, the hottest ticket on Broadway. See THEATER...
...show-after a sprightly start-skitters irresolutely about in a diversity of moods on a variety of subjects, now proffering a dash of pageantry and now a dab of legend, now sending off Merlin early, now calling in Mordred late, here with some medieval jousting, there with a too modern joke. As a result, the comedy comes to sit a little uneasily while everything else is kept standing and shifting its feet. When at length there is no place for comedy and the story moves toward its stormy sunset and final clash of arms, what has been brokenly...
...read the inscription on King Arthur's tombstone, according to Sir Thomas Malory. The King would, at some indeterminate date, return to life and reign again; meanwhile, Here lies King Arthur the once and future King. It is doubtful that Malory or even Merlin himself could possibly have guessed just where Arthur would make his comeback: that he would appear on Dec. 3, 1960 on the stage of Broadway's Majestic Theater...