Word: tarantula
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...four men who played most of the other parts, Belford Lawson, Michael Lavelle, Joshua Rubins, and Michael Ellmann, seemed almost protean in their ability to shift from one part to another. Ellman's warty bliggens, an egomaniacal frog with a Texas accent, Lawson's fiendish tarantula, Lavelle's tom, and Rubins' irate bill Shakespeare were all ironic masterpieces, classics of the genre. Barbara Lanckton and Margaret Stanback filled the occasional women', parts competently, but only Miss Lanckton's spider...
...dark night he hypnotizes the boy-Barnaby shakes the spell on the brink of a 100-ft. precipice. Barnaby strikes back with some toxic toadstools-Uncle precautiously checks the mushroom sauce. Uncle surrounds Barnaby and Chrissie with a wall of fire-rain puts the fire out. Barnaby plops a tarantula on Uncle's chest-the spider falls happily asleep on Uncle's neck. The spider, as a matter of fact, is the only performer who manages to steal a scene from Actor Green, who comes across as the most stylish blackguard since Cyril Ritchard, as Captain Hook...
With a doctor beside her to treat possible rattlesnake, tarantula or scorpion bites, Secret Service men and rangers nearby to fend away any stray panthers or bobcats (Big Bend counts 28 species of snakes and 60 different species of animal), Mrs. Johnson hiked up the Lost Mine Trail for a look across the Rio Grande. She ate dinner beside a campfire at sunset, listened to Western songs from local troupes and genuine tall tales by a folklorist imported from the University of. Texas...
There is no acting in amateur variety shows, only showing off. But some people deserve to be shown off. Notable in this production for one reason or another were a twitchy witch named Tarantula (Betsy Gesmer) who moved better than she talked, a sweet young thing named Hollyhock played by Polly Gambrill, a Squire (Susan Levin) who thought she was Marryin' Sam, a Bard (Sue Harmon) who could sing, and a rock singer (and composer), Elaine Woo, who moved better than she sang...
...time-honored Hollywood tradition. In The Cheat (1915), villainous Sessue Hayakawa leaves the mark of his desire on Fannie Ward's neck with a hot branding iron. In one of her early forays, Vamp Theda Bara anticipates the living bra by wearing what appears to be a giant tarantula. In Blonde Venus (1932), a gorilla lumbers through a chorus line, yanks off hirsute head and paws and clears its throat for a husky song. The gorilla is Marlene Dietrich, who puts on top hat and tails for another floor show in Morocco (1930), ends by kissing a lady customer...