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This is the piece of human garbage that Peter Lempert is given to play, and, with the exception of a number of scenes where he is just a bit too hysterical, he plays them well. Despite the fact that Dustin Hoffman popularized the role, Lempert's Zoditch is so real, with his thin face, his pointed nose, his beady little eyes, and a body and limbs that curl and twist like those of a man old before his time, that it is virtually impossible to imagine anyone else in the part. What Lempert does best is comedy, and, though Zoditch...
ALSO IN A Stetson was Peter Lempert as the Spartan Herald. No doubt his comic ability was aided by a ludicruous eighteen-inch (one presumes, fake) erection, but he would have cut a convincingly ridiculous figure anyway. Cinesias, as a deprived husband, must be a pathetic combination of exasperation, desperation, fury, and, of course, horny as hell. John Pieters does a very convincing job; he brought back those golden high-school days of drive-in movies and cramps in the groin. And after the reconciliation, with Myrrhina chasing him, he gives a similarly convincing impression of exhaustion. Judith Wells' Myrrhina...
...great deal longer than she was willing to admit. "It didn't seem to affect her at home," says her husband, Kenneth Wagg. "Most people take years before they finally tell themselves or a doctor that they're getting deaf," says famed Ear Surgeon Julius Lempert, to whom Maggie went for help early in 1948, By that time she had lost 40% of the hearing in her left ear, 35% of the hearing in her right. "Deafness," says Dr. Lempert, "was the explanation of her often strange behavior." It made her apprehensive about missing cues, says he. "Consciously...
...Lempert's delicate fenestration operation, which opens a new window through which sound can be communicated to the inner ear (TIME, April 1, 1940), restored the left ear to 80% hearing. But though the right ear grew slowly worse, Maggie kept her secret from all but a few close friends. Then, two years ago, she went to Dr. Greydon Boyd, had a different type of operation. This was an effort to jar loose the locked bones of her right ear. While she worked on her last show, Sweet Love Remember'd, Maggie Sullavan was still sitting...
Since 1937, Dr. Lempert has opened the ears of 150 deafened patients. Of these, 93 can now hear perfectly, eleven "show marked improvement," 32 are "unimproved," and 14 are worse. Throughout the U. S., endaural fenestration has been tried by a score of surgeons. On the whole, their results have been discouraging. Conservative otolaryngologists regard the operation with a skeptical eye, attribute Dr. Lempert's high percentage of cures to his extraordinary skill...