Word: marceau
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...Manhattan's City Center, Marcel Marceau was for half the evening the superb solo mime he had proved before; in the second half, introducing his famous Compagnie de Mime, he performed movingly in a "mimodrama" of Gogol's The Overcoat. This igth century tale of an out-at-elbows clerk who for years toils obsessively to own a fine overcoat only, after an intoxicated moment of triumph, to be robbed of it, is one of literature's most surcharged parables, often with meanings beyond words. And without words Marceau at times approached those meanings as-against...
Holding forth as a $10-a-performance pantomimist in a Seattle jazz joint called No Place: William O. Douglas Jr., 28, son of the Supreme Court Justice. Patterning his antics after France's celebrated Mime Marcel Marceau, young Bill was better than boring, less than soaring. His best act was titled "The Five Thousand Pound Lift," in which he applied a superhuman clean-and-jerk to a gigantic invisible object...
...suburban Philadelphia, directly in the path of a huge trailer truck. The driver of the car-Albert Coombs Barnes, multimillionaire, eccentric and owner of one of the world's greatest collections of modern art-died instantly. When the news of Barnes's violent end reached him, Henri Marceau, curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, had an awed comment: "How natural." Long before his death, Albert Barnes's fabulous collection of French and American modern art, his quarrels and correspondence (frequently unprintable), his dung-heap humor and mercurial temper had made him a legend...
...Good Soup (adapted from the French of Felicien Marceau by Garson Kanin) constitutes, even to the form it takes, the reminiscences of a coldly successful French cocotte. Ruth Gordon, as the middle-aged Marie-Paule, unfolds them to a Monte Carlo croupier, while Diane Cilento acts out Marie-Paule's earlier self. Later, when Marie-Paule is no longer young, Actress Gordon wistfully dismisses Actress Cilento as her "vanished youth" and herself takes over the part. From prostitution in "half-hour hotels," Marie-Paule had gone on to living grubbily with men, and then to being kept, and then...
...tiresome in constantly pursuing sex for pleasure. The Good Soup begins to flag in constantly pursuing it for pay. For the light touch to win out over the spotted truth, Marie-Paule's career needs more amusing variety, or she herself needs a sense of humor, or Playwright Marceau a livelier wit. Yet, in addition to piquant staging and bright performances, notably by Actress Gordon and Mildred Natwick, The Good Soup has its own kind of interest of succeeding with the ice rather than the champagne, and shows character for preferring a measure of flatness to falsity...