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...spring season's biggest sensation - over, under, beside, beneath, across, atop and flat on his back upon the Broadway stage. Tall and lanky, he seems endowed with a flamingo's limbs - concave knees; one-legged, plumb-line balance; flapping, winglike arms. Playing the duplicitous Neapolitan servant Scapino involves at least as much acrobatics as acting. At one point he keels over from the edge of a 10-ft. platform, grabs onto a hanging rope just before his feet leave the edge, and continues his dialogue suspended in perfect parallel to the floor, belly up and legs languidly crossed...
...title role, Jim Dale is the traditional wily scamp of a servant. He is sassy, resourceful and clever, the sort of endearing rogue who puts his fat, pompous and moneyed betters in their places. At the behest of two lovelorn sons with two miserly fathers, Scapino engineers an endless repertory of deceptions with a blazing battery of slapstick. Whether mimicking the two dunderheaded old fossils, or mulcting them, or pretend-hiding them in sacks and flailing the daylights out of them with a cloth truncheon shaped like an oversize bologna, there is no stopping Scapino. Eventually caught...
...might wryly be regarded as one of those periodic efforts to save the ailing theater. The god Dionysus (Larry Blyden) resolves to go down to Hades and bring back Euripides. In the Shevelove version, Bernard Shaw substitutes. As his companion, Dionysus takes along his obese, grumbling Sancho Panza-like servant Xanthias (Michael Vale). They have their slapstick encounters, not only with the cranky Charon, who speaks like a movie gold prospector, but with enticing houris, underworld strong-arm men, termagants, drunks and, finally, the haughty, unamused Pluto (Jerome Dempsey), god of the underworld. It seems that Shakespeare sits...
...claimed failure to remember details of his dealings with Political Saboteur Donald Segretti. The legal theory traces back to the Queen's case in 1820, in which a footman was suspected of having had a lengthy affair with Queen Caroline. Questioned about the matter, a fellow servant in a position to know claimed that he did not remember. The Lord Chancellor ruled he could be convicted of perjury if the court reasonably concluded he should have remembered. Thereupon his memory swiftly improved, and the principle was established...
...hospital compare their income with that of a nurse, but not that of a doctor." Most Americans live by equality of category and are content to move with it-the going wage scale, the union member's seniority, the soldier's promotion in rank and the civil servant's slow rise to a rug, a water carafe and a secretary...