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...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...
Originally published in Paris in 1910, The Vagabond is the most recent of the English translations of Colette's novels. It is principally her analysis of the years after she divorced her first husband, the consequent disillusionment with physical love, and her immersion in stage life as a mime. As far as I can judge, the translation is a good one. The studied incompleteness of her style, which ends not in a statement but a suggestion, has been preserved, as in: "The broadest of broad jokes doesn't scare me, but I don't like talking of love...
...Enfants is a story of Paris before the revolution, of actors and street entertainers. Arletty is an actress named Garrance, mediocre in her theatrical skill, but inordinately wise in the ways of people and of love. One feels at times that her strange love affair with Barrault, the great mime Baptiste, would be mawkish and unbelievable if both artists were not so expert, and if the direction were not perfect. It is quite difficult to successfully film a scene where a man passionately in love with a woman he has never known walks out of her room as she stands...