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...cartoonist trouped into the breach. With only two rehearsals, under Director Burgess Meredith ("Now I have him at my mercy; I can tell him that as an actor he has no right to change the author's words"), Thurber played himself with fluffless finesse in a twelve-minute sketch about a writer embroiled in a frustrating correspondence with his bureaucratic publisher. Since the role calls for him to be seated throughout, Thurber's blindness was no handicap, and Meredith felt that the part "lit an old fuse in him; he seems to have come up with some peculiar...
...lines called out at random by an audience last week in Connecticut's Westport Country Playhouse were all that Mike Nichols and Elaine May needed. Beginning with the first, ending with the second, they improvised an eight-minute sketch in more or less Shakespearean language-the style, too, had been spontaneously requested by the audience. What's more, they could have done it in any style from Euripides to the Reader's Digest. For Nichols and May, getting ready for their first Broadway show after years in nightclubs, are essentially modern practitioners of commedia dell'arte...
...artist's oils, only eight of his watercolors; but there were plenty of reminders of the man himself. From his nephew's widow came three dolls, one suspended from a garter, that Homer used as models. There were his old watercolor brushes, a newly discovered sketch book, a rumpled storm cap, a fishing net he used as a prop. These were the artist's simple possessions-and for long periods of time, his only companions. "That Duck Pond." To his friends, there was always something of a mystery about why he suddenly quit New York and withdrew...
Congratulations on the Mort Sahl story. It's the cheeriest sketch since Mort Darthur...
...years later young Hans and his brother Ambrosius were seeking their fortunes as artists in Basel, which, largely because of the presence of the great Dutch scholar Erasmus, was soon to call itself "the city of humanists." Once the young Hans so flattered Erasmus with a portrait sketch that the aging celibate declared if he really looked that good, he would go right out and marry. Ambrosius is believed to have died around the age of 25, leaving Hans Holbein the Younger to become the greatest Holbein...