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...dusk, first one trouper and then another straggles onstage. As the stage fills with proprietors and performers and roustabouts, as tents go up and booths slide into place and flags flap and sway, the bright lights come on, the lilting music soars, and the multicolored mongrel troupe parades. Then Marco the Magnificent appears, and the gal he forever two-times; then Paul, the lamed, embittered puppeteer, and the pal he forever snaps at. Soon, a wispy, skinny-limbed, wide-eyed Lili (Anna Maria Alberghetti) turns up in search of a job, falls madly in love with Marco, is unwillingly loved...
Gower Champion has staged and danced the show expertly, as has Will Stevens Armstrong designed and lighted it. There are some nice Bob Merrill songs; Miss Alberghetti has an engaging voice; Jerry Orbach is a deft puppetmaster; as Marco and his gal, James Mitchell and Kaye Ballard have amusing scenes, particularly one where she is locked in a box through which he plunges swords. But the evening's peak comes with a whirling and jubilant "Grand Impérial Cirque de Paris" dance number, paced by the memorable little man of La Plume de Ma Tante, Pierre Olaf. Fetchingly...
...Newhall's most telling moves was to overload the Chronicle-which has only 41 cityside reporters-with 40 columnists, writing about everything from jazz (Ralph Gleason) to how to shuck out of a brassiére (Count Marco). News often gave way to such oddball features as a lavishly illustrated Page One Halloween story on five nightgowned girls terrified by a "haunted" apartment. In a further effort to woo subscribers, the Chronicle offered a two-month subscription for the price of one, and gave away a scale-model San Francisco cable car to any new four-month subscriber with...
Waiting for Marco is like waiting for Lefty or Godot. In this first novel it represents a messianic yearning for an honest man who will redeem the corruption of Mussolini's Italy. Long before Marco makes his anticlimactic appearance, Italian Author Pasinetti explores half a dozen themes-love, death, courage, Venice, and, above all, the interplay of two families...
...long story, Uncle Marco finally shows up, and proves to be a kind of lifelong peripatetic anarchist. His final moral counsel is: "See that you always perform actions, never gestures." But hardly anyone seems to live by that advice-except Author Pasinetti. His book, far from an empty gesture, is the kind of literary action few writers trouble to take any more; it is an old-fashioned book and uncommonly satisfying...