Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facet of their characterizations that creates a nagging, if minor, disappointment. Bertie, Freddie, Algy and Bobby were intended by playwright Merriam to represent paradigms of upper class hauteur--to be gleefully chauvinistic, without the vaguest hint of guilt at their authoritative misjudgments of women. In a larger sense, the quartet was to exemplify all such men of affluence. But this is precisely where the show stumble, for Benfer, Mc Millan, Task and Val-Schmidt all work too hard at aping this stereotype. Striving to be warbling Everymen, they fail to make their characterizations personal enough to be individually endearing. Collectively...
PARTICULARLY AMUSING is the use of props. During the stock market scene, as the quartet bewails the fickleness of finances, Cookie Harlin sings the words from the ticker tape. Later on, the group marches out in their ties and tails, then cavorts around the stage in an outrageous array of feathers and jewels--gaudy enough to make Flo Ziegfeld envious...
...revive the ailing career of the three Marx brothers (Zeppo, having gotten fed up with his role as straight man, had left the team to become an agent; when Thalberg asked if the Marxist troika expected the same salary they had received as a quartet, Groucho riposted "Don't be silly. Without Zeppo we're worth twice as much!") and thus a stormy but ultimately fruitful relationship was born. The Marxes, particularly Groucho, had their own ideas about how Marx Brothers movies should be made, and frequently grew exasperated with Thalberg's revisionist notions, which included the resurrection...
...luck of the primary has left The Big Apple with a quartet of Little Names in the running for the mayorality. At least there is some color--Barry Farber, a radio talk-show host with a Carolina drawl and a neat knack for hyperbole, has been busily stumping the ethnic street corners, tarring his Republican opponent, State Sen. Roy M. Goodman '51, in at least eight different languages. For his part, Goodman--whom Farber describes as "a Lindsay clone"--has waged a yeomanlike battle against the Conservative nominee's barbs on one side, and massive desertions from his campaign staff...
While L.A. took batting practice off the Three point Five Million Dollar Man, Hooton gave up only five hits, none coming after the fifth inning. No Yankee had more than one hit and the quartet of Thurman Munson, Reggie Jackson, Chris Chambliss and Graig Nettles only managed two safeties between them. Some Murderers...