Word: mime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three leads, Margaret, Faust, and Mephistopheles, make the most of their lines and play beautifully together. The brilliance of Frederick Warriner as Mephistopheles stood out like a sizzling fire cracker. He played a green and sparkling devil of serpentine grace and satanic power. A superb mime, Warriner walked the tightrope of maintaining himself as both a loathsome creature and a dilettante of debonair charm. He did not falter. The quiet, brooding force of Robert Evans acted as a good foil for Mephistopheles, and Evans handled his long monologue in the first act with superb skill. Margaret, as played by Frances...
...such frankly operatic efforts as Porgy and Bess -only 20 of its 140 minutes are filled with spoken words, a percentage which compares favorably with Mozart's Magic Flute. Putting such works on records required very special abilities, e.g., coaxing people whose first impulse is to mime and pose into playing entirely for the ear, and then creating in sound the invisible stage action and mood...
...curtain closes on the prologue, and acrobats, like an avalanche of oranges, come tumbling at the camera, with jugglers and parti-colored harlequins who set the screen to flailing like a crazy quilt in a squall. Enter the mime again, this time with bells on his ankles, wrists and cap, to do a little foot-about that is charmingly reminiscent of the lady in the nursery rhyme who has music wherever she goes, and then a gay bacchanal as the villagers join...
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...
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...