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...gags go downhill the rest of the way. The mercenary motorists keep their secret from the police, and thus begins an all-day drag race through Southern California to see who gets to the loot first. Accompanying them, or sucked up in transit, are Ethel Merman, Dorothy Provine, Dick Shawn, Edie Adams, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas -and finally Spencer Tracy, of all people, as a fairly corruptible sheriff
...play's hero, Emile Magis (Dick Shawn), is poor, wistful and young, and he yearns to crack the shell of "the egg," as he calls middle-class society. If he can live up to the rules of "the system," Emile reasons, he will stop being an outsider. The rules to him are the clichés people are always mouthing, such as, "He got up as fresh as a daisy." Emile wakes up worn out and achy. When it comes to girls a man who knows the system is able to say, "I said, 'My place...
...been directed for its racy blue lines rather than its wry black comedy theme. Dick Shawn is miscast as Emile. He is funny, versatile and energetic, but he lacks what the role most needs-lack of confidence. The world...
...Shawn's oyster rather than an uncrackable egg. The shiver of terror that should accompany the transformation of the timidest soul into the tawdriest heel is thus lost. In scenes of inane family cackle, and in the spectacle of a cuckolded husband applauding his wife flagrante delicto ("Congratulations, Heloise. You're getting better every time"), Playwright Marceau approaches the existential nausea toward life that animates the "theater of the absurd" (TIME, Dec. 22). Sartre and Camus have obviously influenced Marceau, but the guiding philosophy behind Broadway's Egg seems to be Minsky...
Trained in Denmark, Bruhn leaped to fame in 1955, when he appeared in Giselle with the American Ballet Theater in a performance that Dancer-Choreographer Ted Shawn recalls as "one of the two greatest performances I've ever seen." Back home Bruhn, 32, is the idol of the Royal Danish Ballet, where he has brought new life to the classic roles reserved for a premier danseur noble. His technical credentials include a fine dramatic sense and an ability to leap with a high-arching grace, to turn with cat quickness and fluidity on the ground or in midair...