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...conception but snazzy in production. The songs were of the "here we are telling you what we are" variety in which the lyrics only say what the costuming and choreography are saying better. Thus the show opens with each of the machine parts describing her function in song and mime. Then everybody, of course, sings their various themes ensemble. And we're left with exactly the same impression we had when the curtain opened (except perhaps for a momentary lingering of the movements assigned to the ball-bearings...
...drilling with broomsticks. They are imaginging that they hate Germans and imagining that they have guns. The dressing down the recruits get when they don't imagine hard enough is, however, real--they manage to convince you of that by sheer force of good acting. You won't see mime as good as their rendition of a bayonet charge for a long while...
Since its conception by Marius Petipa in 1869, Don Quixote has been revised by three Russian choreographers. Even Impresario Sol Hurok got into the act: at his request, several mime sequences were telescoped to enliven the pace. The result is a bravura hodgepodge of Spanish and gypsy dances, pas de deux, a smattering of light-footed cupids and dryads and, for some obscure reason, a jig resembling a French apache dance...
...created a man who can do nothing but accept death. S, at a fair guess, stands for "singular," and in his singularity lies man's doom. Donleavy is a natural comedian who achieves his black effects by means as economical as those of a gifted mime doing a skit on a deathbed scene. Should he decide on a full-length drama, his next novel should be worth waiting...
...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Fred Astaire is host, and his visitors include Ethel Merman, Jack Jones and French Mime Marcel Marceau...