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...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 out by the two old fogies, the superscamp gains their pardon, and hoodwinks the pair again, by pretending to breathe his last. At the end of the mazelike plot, everyone is wreathed in smiles, especially the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Superscamp | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

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