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...produced by Robert L. Joseph & Alexander H. Cohen) is possibly the greatest single achievement in all literature-and the greatest stumbling block known to the stage. The play's scope, declared the late great Critic A. C. Bradley, is too vast for any stage to encompass; while Charles Lamb contended that the title role cannot be acted, that Lear's greatness is inward and "intellectual," and that when put behind the footlights he becomes merely "an old man tottering about . . . with a walking stick." There are other problems. The sharpest drama in the play-Lear's division...
Burgers watch television (his favorite: Sid Caesar), or toss shreds of ground meat to fat trout in the pond. "When you catch one of those meat-fed trout," he says, winking, "it tastes like lamb chops...
...thigh of lamb to be my meat...
Though the narrators' hints alert the audience to distrust Eve, the early sequences make her wholly sympathetic. She seems "a lamb loose in our big stone jungle," humble, gracious, utterly devoted to the tempestuous big star (Bette Davis) who adopts her as a secretary-handmaiden. Subtly at first, then with fine crescendo effect, Mankiewicz reveals her as an ambitious fanatic who stops at nothing-deceit, betrayal, assignation, blackmail-to knife...
...audience divided about equality between students and Cambridge residents filled Memorial Church last night to hear an organ recital by Carl Weinrich, Horatio Appleton Lamb Visiting Lecturer...