Word: pantomimists
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...slopes of Mount Hood, zoom east for a water spectacle at Jones Beach, take in a couple of scenes from Julius Caesar at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ont., listen to a jam session on New Orleans' Bourbon Street and switch to Tijuana to watch the Mexican comic pantomimist, Cantinflas, fight a bull with nothing sharper than...
...spectacular of the week starred Steve Allen, Judy Holliday and France's top pantomimist Jacques Tati, who played the Chaplinesque lead in the movie Mr. Hulot's Holiday (TIME, July 5). Tati was the hit of the show in a brief series of vignettes (a determined tennis player, a fumbling fisherman, a cowardly boxer, a prancing circus horse and rider) that showed off a remarkably agile and expressive 6-ft. 4-in. body. The week's second big color feature, Cole Porter's Panama Hattie (CBS), boasted Ethel Merman, but even Trouper Merman could not keep...
...France become a great film is the acting of every one of its cast, principals or less, Jean-Louis Barrault turns in what is probably the great cinema performance of the decade as Baptiste. He is magnificent both as the frustrated dreamer of real life and as the master pantomimist whose inner thoughts are projected into his stage presentations...
...Enfants affords U.S. moviegoers a good, long look at several of France's outstanding actors: Jean-Louis Barrault (a graceful, desperate-faced pantomimist currently playing on the Paris stage in André Gide's translation of Hamlet), bouncy Pierre Brasseur and Arletty, a sort of healthy, worldly Mona Lisa who exudes a mature type of sex appeal that Hollywood has always ignored...
...black and grey, so readily shifted for change of scene that the play flowed pauselessly as fate itself to its blood-slippery conclusion. The cast, down to the minor roles, played with assurance and conviction. Head & shoulders above this excellent support stood the Hamlet of Louis-Jean Barrault, onetime pantomimist and cinemactor, and a brilliant renegade from the Comedie Française. Barrault's Hamlet was real, immediate, full-bodied, and above all intelligent...