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...dogged Dale joined a touring music-hall company as a fifth-banana comic. "I was no good, but I learned a lot," says Jim. He adds rather chillingly: "There is something about walking offstage with no one clapping that forces you to think...
...Comic Kaleidoscope. One kind of clowning that Dale had not considered was Shakespearean. He had not even read the plays when, in 1966, Director Frank Dunlop called to ask him to do The Winter's Tale at the Edinburgh Festival. "I said, 'No, I can't do that.' He said, 'How the bloody hell do you know you can't do it?' I turned to my wife and told her, This guy I don't even know is swearing at me because I won't do Shakespeare.' " But Shakespeare...
Attracted by street-corner drummers, Maggie joined the Salvation Army at the age of five. She was abruptly drummed out ten years later when she was caught smoking. In fact, she had already been corrupted by American comic books and rock-'n'-roll records sent her by an uncle who lived in Syracuse, N.Y. She left school for a $5-a-week window-dresser's job and sang at night in local pubs. In one of them she met her boy friend, Guitarist Les Harvey. Together they joined a rock group that became Stone the Crows...
...people in the Young Vic Company are as nimble as acrobats and perform with a swinging verve and a broad comic style. The nimblest of all is Dale, a versatile actor, British TV comic and composer (Georgy Girl). In his facial contortions and his airborne, aisle-hopping feats, he is a direct descendant of the great physical clowns-unforgettables like Bobby Clark, Bert Lahr, Harold Lloyd, W.C. Fields and Buster Keaton. It does not require much prophetic vision to foresee that Jim Dale will share the same renown some day. · T.E-K...
...springboard for the sort of romping farce that they achieved together with a Plautus original in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. The result this time, while thoroughly amiable, is more tentative and less hilarious, chiefly because the Aristophanic model does not offer as robust comic material as the Plautine...