Word: slapstickers
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...happy to have somewhere to go during An Tostal, the first Welcome-to-Ireland festival, even if it meant sampling a new opera in a less-than-fully-familiar language. But Dublin enjoyed the spiky modern harmonies played by the twelve-piece orchestra, and roared its delight at the slapstick on the stage. It looked as if the show would sell out for its whole week...
...show, and even slapstick has charm in his hands. Rene Clair's direction keeps the pace fast and light, never dragging behind Chevalier's cavorting. Essentially trite in plot, Le Silence Est D'Or is still great fun, and the reason is Chevalier...
...translation from the French by Irving Yoskowitz and John Bowman is in good style (in spite of an occasional clash like "yearn to earn"). These gentlemen are also chiefly responsible for the attractive staging and fast pace of the production. The emphasis is on slapstick comedy and this generally succeeds in keeping the ridiculous script from falling flat. The orchestra under Edward Troupin is excellent; this is one of the few student productions that I have ever heard where the orchestra did not overbalance the vocalists...
...stay on; and at the end, his wife dead, he realizes that the land is no longer his. These scenes are maudlin bathos without a sympathetic treatment of Jeeter, and Martin's un-modulated buffoonery throughout the play kills audience feeling for him. His Jeeter is an unbelievable slapstick fool, and his transition to a man desperately fighting for his home is unconvincing...
...chief announcer at San Francisco's station KSFO. In 1938 he was announcing 45 shows a week for CBS. But because "I got so I was seeing boxtops in front of my eyes," he decided to do only one show a week-his own. He worked out the slapstick Truth or Consequences, which is still on the air (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC Radio...