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During a now notorious production of Lohengrin, Vienna's late, famed Tenor Leo Slezak missed his entrance cue (so the story goes), and the swan appeared onstage alone, drawing an empty skiff. During the ensuing flap, Tenor Slezak's voice was clearly heard from the wings, in the manner of an annoyed traveler addressing the stationmaster: "When does the next swan leave...
...Wieland's staging demands that the male chorus remain frozen-and conscious-for 70 minutes in the first act. In last week's premiere, several members retreated giddily to the wings. One, in a dead faint, crashed to the stage with a thud that even towering Leo Slezak's dying topples never rivaled for sheer dramatic impact...
...Steel Hour. "You see, I got four daughters. Each one takes turns having me for a visit. Every three months, like clockwork, I get sent out-like a quarterly dividend." This was the TV story of Walter Slezak, playing a retired furrier from Manhattan, whose bumbling social presence made his daughters uncomfortable and embarrassed their husbands. Visiting son-in-law No. 4, an ambitious Hollywood agent, Slezak lumberingly wrecked a cocktail party by commenting amiably on a guest's mink ("Say, that's a nice mutation you got there; it's not what you'd call...
Playhouse 90: As The Gentleman from Seventh Avenue, fat, Austrian-born Actor Walter Slezak, 55, had reached "that dangerous age." A warm, voluble Jewish immigrant, he had made a success of his garment business, but his private life was caught in a rusty presser. To get French toast for breakfast, he had to "make out a requisition" the night before; his teenage daughter dispatched him to a movie because "we've got to turn out the lights now and neck." And in the sanctity of his own rooms was a frumpish wife (Sylvia Sidney) who read psychology books, plastered...
...human foibles. NBC's version was a rollicking production full of style and striking images, a bouncy score, and dances depicting the fluttery rhythms of liberated marionettes and the slow-motion gyrations of deep-sea fish. At the top of a first-rate cast, which included Walter Slezak, Martyn Green and Stubby Kaye, was 37-year-old Mickey Rooney, who somehow managed to keep ubiquitous Mickey Rooney out of the act and gave a remarkably apt performance as the wooden boy with the tent-peg nose...