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Over and above the businessman at the "Bee" School, there is a small smart set who, doffing the green eye shade for a few brief hours, wield the quill for relaxation. The result is four pages of chatter and patter, in the entrepreneurial manner, labelled. The Harbus News, Get it-Har....bus? Well, these journalists didn't like the monicker any better than the next Better Business Bureau...
...might be well to remark at once, just to take the sour taste out of your mouth, that the Nose is as potent as ever. This time he divides his time about 50-50 between his traditional routine (breaking pianos, listening for that high note, singing in patter) and some more than usually straight performing. It is worth more than the price of admission anywhere except on Broadway to watch his newest (or have we just missed it?) trick, one which is impossible to describe but which will send you into fits for two or three five-minute periods during...
...living Iago. He has at least equalled that triumph with Cyrano. This character, plagued by an obscene nose, must be "all things." After the first act, Ferrer makes the spectator forget that nose. Declaiming with high spirit, he leaves the audience gasping at the arched flight of his slick patter. He is meant to be a swashbuckler, and Ferrer gives it everything as he swaggers and gesticulates in the mixed role of philosopher, poet, soldier, and self-sacrificing lover, He is at his best as the hyper-sensitive ugly man. Ferrer's nuances of expression in his reaction...
...children patter questions & answers (asked where Grandpa was, Dickie replied: "At the race track"). Sometimes Dick and Jill sing; the blamed canary never stops...
...which once abhorred sensational crimes and lectured its competitors for trading in them, has lately shocked its readers-and amazed many of its staff-by its ogle-eyed handling of rape cases, sodomy trials, abortions, prostitution. It glossed its coverage slightly with Freudian patter, but it spared no details...