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...years at Baylor University. Drama Professor Paul Baker turned the Texas Baptist school into a renowned center of experimental theater. The Waco wizard's 1953 Othello split the tortured Moor into three separate characters; later he got Actor Burgess Meredith to be anchor prince in a three-faceted Hamlet. To train graduate students, in 1959 he opened a stunning repertory theater in Dallas, the only theater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. In baffled admiration, the late Charles Laughton once called Baker "crude, irritating, arrogant, nuts and a genius...
Regular performers there range from two fine bluegrass bands--the Charles River Valley Boys and Jim Rooney's group which periodically includes banjo wizard Bill Keith--to white blues singers Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur, Tom Rush and Mitch Greenhill, to balladeers like Baezish Dayle Stanley and the amusing, talented but occasionally dull Jackie Washington. Unfortunately, Eric VonSchmidt has temporarily withdrawn from the local coffe-house scene. An added attraction is the Club 47's house bass player Fritz Richmond who gets more music out of a washtup than most bass-men do out of a string bass. It is well...
...much of an improvement, but Lorre is grateful, and he informs Wizard Price that his lost love, Lenore, is a prisoner in the castle of Wizard Karloff. Together they rush off to release her, but when they arrive, they discover that Lenore is no longer the "sainted maiden" of literary memory. She is a lusty redhead (Hazel Court) with a cleavage that could comfortably accommodate the collected works of Edgar Allan Poe and a bottle of his favorite booze besides. Price demands her release. Karloff refuses. With Lorre grinning fiendishly in the wings, the two wizards cross wands...
...sappy little parody of a horror picture cutely calculated to make the children scream with terror while their parents scream with glee. The raven, see, isn't really a raven at all. It's Peter Lorre. The poor chap has been enchanted by Boris Karloff, a wicked wizard who lives in a slimy green castle-that one over there on the left side of the screen. The one on the right side of the screen belongs to Hero Price, a good wizard who takes pity on Lorre, and with the help of jellied spiders, dried bats' blood...
...York Philharmonic in 1940 Lorin Maazel was a plump little child, no taller than a cello and braver than a flute. "I have yet to prove my mettle," said the ten-year-old maestro after climbing down from the podium where he had proved himself a wizard. Last week, at 32 Maazel was again before the Philharmonic, a wizard with plenty of mettle, especially by his own reckoning. "I am considered " he proclaimed, "the leading conductor of my generation...