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King Sextimus (Jack Gilford) is a Harpo Marxist mute with whom no 15th century lady in waiting is more than half safe. Queen Agravaine (Jane White) is a jawing virago for whom possession is nine-tenths of motherhood's law. It begins to look as if their son, poor fretful Prince Dauntless (Joe Bova), will always be mama's boy. And then one day Princess Winnifred (Carol Burnett) swims the moat. Winnifred ("My friends call me 'Fred' ") rescues Dauntless from his possessive mother, but only after Fred's friends have built up the queen...
...Rodgers, daughter of famed Tunesmith Richard Rodgers. Reminiscent at times, her pleasantly fashioned score is never merely derivative. Veteran Broadway Director George Abbott sets a pace that is nimble without being frantic. Occasionally, Mattress' comic reach exceeds its grasp and good taste e.g., a scene in which the mute king tries to mime the facts of life for his son. But when the evil queen finally brings the fabled pea to her lips in a dice player's frenzied kiss, it is an unconscious reminder of how much of the evening is a delightful streak of playgoing luck...
...into the jungle. One is a priest, another a former German army captain, who subsists mainly on the bitterness of his country's defeat. There is a French Jew at the end of his rope, a money-adoring Belgian, who is accompanied by his eleven-year-old deaf-mute daughter and the French prostitute he is engaged to marry. With them goes the commander of the soldiers, fleeing a situation beyond his control...
...abstract and is not. He was a figurative painter, working with multihued geometric figures of his own invention and picturing them, precisely arranged, on vacuum-cleaned stage sets. His figures seem about to spring into action, like the Tin Woodman of Oz. They could not look more mute; yet they speak of the human condition. Vintage of Uncertainties cruelly evokes the uncertain aspects of motherhood. The Oracle delicately poses a horrendous question: Which is the Oracle? Who is to be believed...
...reassuring to know that the United States can send a satellite, albeit a diminutive sphere in comparison to the Russian planet, around the sun. It is not so heartening to read about the snafu which resulted in "losing" the mute and more mundane "Discoverer I," the first polar satellite...