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Albert Borowitz, as the scheming slave Pseudolus, is the perfect clown. He is stealthy one moment, moronic the next; when he comes out in the last scene balancing a bottle of Schlitz on his head and drinking from a hot-water bag, even the most non-Roman audience cannot help laughing. John Rexine, the pimp, brandishes his curses and his whip as if he had done nothing else all his life, and Paul Broneer and Joe Dallett, as the dupe and his swaggering impersonator, are well-cast. The love scene between Arthur Millward and Brooks Emmons is a spicy reminder...
...student-body secretary, and caused an uproar among her colleagues by delivering the minutes of each meeting in the precise accents and gestures of the earlier speakers. Her size and her perpetual playacting led most of Carol's schoolmates to think of her as a big, good-natured clown, and Carol played up to the part. But at home, hoping to please Mrs. Channing, Carol did her best to act a dainty, cuddly blonde. Years later, when she was first approached for the part of cuddly little Lorelei, she said confidently: "I've been playing her ever since...
...teammates put him down as lazy and self-centered. Instead of pounding his glove in disgust after booting one, Wakefield would laugh and admit that he sure looked like a clown on that one. When Manager Steve O'Neill once tried to shock him out of his complacency by benching him, Dick replied agreeably, "That's all right, Steve . . . Don't put yourself on a spot for me." Manager "Red" Rolfe tried another approach-bullying him-with no more success. At their wit's end a fortnight ago, the Tigers traded their perennial problem child...
...three couples sing, dance and clown uninhibitedly against the freshest backgrounds yet exploited by a cinemusical: actual New York landmarks shot on location in Technicolor. In the opening sequence, while the sound track pulses with the three sailors' exultant verses of New York, New York ("A wonderful town"),* the camera carries them from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Rockefeller Center, dovetailing the sights into an exciting flow that piles up both momentum and atmosphere...
...charming heroine; in Malvolio, "sick of self-love," a monumental pompous ass. To him, as a huffing spoilsport, is addressed one of Shakespeare's crispest queries: "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" To him, by a frisking clown, is tossed some of Shakespeare's tersest wisdom: "There is no darkness but ignorance." And nowhere more than in Twelfth Night can a lovely moment suddenly leap out of the crudest horseplay...