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W. Why are so many members of the Beat Generation bums and tramps?
As a TV hostess, Kathryn leaves many a male viewer feeling that her fingers are clutching his lapels. But for sheer limb-risking vigor as a lady of 50 with five grandchildren, she is worth goggling at. In her pantomimic specialty, she has enacted cats, urchins and tramps, done somersaults...
So simple as to be almost nonexistent is Beckett's tale of two penniless, hapless, smelly tramps waiting, in a barren countryside, for a neighborhood personage named Godot. They chatter, gnaw carrots, tug at a tight shoe, talk of going separate ways and of hanging themselves, encounter a rich...
The Broadway production is enormously the richer for Comic Bert Lahr's brilliant playing of the more confused of the two tramps. He endows the role with a clown's wistful bewilderment, evocative capers and broad but beautifully precise touches of comedy. Far more than Beckett, Lahr suggests...
Everywhere the tramps go, they encounter the fear of "community" people, and learn to dread and despise that fear. Muses Bolle. once a skilled cigarmaker, now with "the homeless hands of the displaced craftsman: "If all people had lived in accordance with their collective fears, everyone would have become stationary...