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...time they began making movies in 1933, the wags were tailing the top dog. As a triple, the Stooges clowned their way through a seemingly endless series of quickie flickies-most of them on a par with the early Punchdrunk, which told of a waiter, a prizefighter at heart, who wrecked the joint every time he heard Pop Goes the Weasel...
Elizabeth Theiler's superb choreography highlights the show. Indeed, every scene is a dance scene, and the dances are all imaginatively conceived if not always admirably executed. The brightest spot in the performance comes late in the third act when a waiter (Philip Burnham) announces "Pepe and Lolita with the Tango," and tall Wes Thum and the petite Elizabeth Theiler run through an hilarious take-off on the "tragic" dance routine...
...trouble with Communism, as many a disgruntled Polish diner-out can testify, may be studied at close range in any state-run restaurant. When signaled, a Polish waiter turns his back. When plucked by the sleeve as he saunters by, the waiter snaps, "Kolega," meaning it is not his table. Menus sometimes are elaborate and evocative, but when asked to serve some dish other than fried pork and overboiled cabbage, the waiter answers: "Niema" (There...
...been a waiter, too, and more recently an actor. He studied at Rome's experimental movie center and once played Athos in a 13-week, filmed U.S. TV series on The Three Musketeers...
Citation: "You had to earn your way through college as a waiter in the Men's Residence dining hall . . . Your success up to that point and since may be cred ited not only to the beckoning opportunities which the American way of life provides but also to the dynamic quality of personal development which strives for the summit of a chosen career." Stevens Institute of Technology Rear Admiral Hyman George Rickover, developer of the atomic sub marine Sc.D...