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...rough, gaudy amusement quarter of Hamburg known as Sankt Pauli, where anything goes, one of the quieter attractions-but a good one-was white-thatched, bushy-mustached Otto Witte, a lifelong circus performer who made his first public appearance as a lion tamer at the age of eight. All Otto had to offer was stories, but it was a blase man indeed who could walk away from Otto's tales of how his skill at magic won him the honorary chieftainship of an African Pygmy tribe, or of the time that he tried to elope with the Emperor...
...final pantomines of the evening belonged to M. Marceau and his classic creation, Bip. "Bip as the Botany Professor," and "Bip as a Lion Tamer" are M. Marceau at his best. For those who could neither find tickets nor, for that matter, afford the prices, M. Marceau opens tomorrow in New York and remains there until February...
Humane societies objected not only to a lion tamer's use of a chair to prod a bored lion, but to the TV appearance of rabbits who looked vaguely unhappy. A civilian patriot thought that spoofs of barracks life on Phil Silvers' You'll Never Get Rich were tearing down the fabric of the armed forces. When a character in a drama announced that he would forgo his M.D. ambitions and settle for becoming a chiropractor, howls arose from chiropractors. Securities dealers and the New York Stock Exchange itself kick at the sight of a shady stockbroker...
This week's show was another melange, at once funnier and tamer than the first. Freberg's interview with an Abominable Snowman ("I'm 10½ ft. tall, but you should see my brother! He jumped center for Abominable State") had a deadpan quality equal to the best of Bob and Ray; he slipped a little in a talk with a sculptress, recovered nicely in a blackout skit about a maniacal phonecaller. The only item in the show that might have disturbed the most timid network vice president was a one-minute "Behind History" skit about Barbara...
...espionage incident was, much tamer than the Gouzenko case. Gouzenko's revelations involved top British and Canadian atomic scientists and a Member of Parliament. Popov's only known contact was a Grade 2 air-force clerk, James Stanley Staples, 30, whom he met at an Ottawa chess club...