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Book and Lyrics by ALFRED UHRY Music by ROBERT WALDMAN Choreography by DONALD SADDLER...
...degrees below their announced ranks. A large number were simply counterfeit, like the Italian named Tassi, who said he had been Napoleon's engineer in chief but who confessed, when it became explosively clear he did not know how to handle artillery, that he was really a bankrupt saddler from Smyrna. Such magnificoes were very proud, Howarth relates, and they fought a great number of duels among themselves over matters of military precedence. Otherwise, there being no army for them to lead, they did little damage-even to the Turks...
...Blazing Saddler. The modern American Jew has supported a minor industry built on the ABs. He warms to his past either as romantic folklore or the wellsprings of neurosis. Fiddler on the Roof and Portnoy's Complaint can be immensely entertaining, but they hardly represent the range and depth of Jewish traditions...
...Hester Street to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as the underworld character Meyer Wolfsheim. Outside New York, Jewish peddlers roam the South, and Jewish farmers plow as far away as Oregon. There are even Jewish cowboys of a sort. Writing home from Kansas, one incipient blazing saddler complains that his gun is too heavy...
FRIDAY: Much Ado About Nothing. Producer Joseph Papp brings a jazzed-up version of the Bard to television with a pre WWI setting and brassy music. Choreography by Donald Saddler ("No, No Nanette"). CH. 7, Color...