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World, calls his everymanikin Mr. Littlechap. Newley mimes a good bit of Littlechap's saga in an imitation of Marcel Marceau. Marceau knows the art of saying more with less: Newley says less with more. Though Littlechap periodically shouts "Stop the World!", he is not an Angry Young Everyman. He marries the boss's daughter (she is pregnant by Littlechap at the time), advances from a branch office to head of the firm, enters Parliament, is dubbed a peer, and even gets into the club of his choice. "Snobs...
...licien Marceau) is a French sex farce with more head than bed in it, though on Broadway it tries to keep grinning from leer to leer...
...shiver of terror that should accompany the transformation of the timidest soul into the tawdriest heel is thus lost. In scenes of inane family cackle, and in the spectacle of a cuckolded husband applauding his wife flagrante delicto ("Congratulations, Heloise. You're getting better every time"), Playwright Marceau approaches the existential nausea toward life that animates the "theater of the absurd" (TIME, Dec. 22). Sartre and Camus have obviously influenced Marceau, but the guiding philosophy behind Broadway's Egg seems to be Minsky...
...Angeles, U.C.L.A. Theater: The West Coast premiere of Felicien Marceau's ironic comedy...
Rocco and His Brothers (Titanus-Films Marceau; Astor) is an interminable, sprawling, jerkily cut and overpraised melodrama (winner of 22 awards including the Venice Film Festival top prize for 1960) about the troubles of a peasant mother and her five sons who migrate to Milan from a farming village in southern Italy. Its director is Luchino Visconti, a film-struck Roman aristocrat currently revered as one of the triumvirate-along with Federico Fellini (La Strada, La Dolce Vita) and Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura)-which has brought Italian film making out of its mid-fifties doldrums...