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Thursday, July 25, 1968
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By HENRY GRIX
It is really hard not to like
the University Players' produc-
tion of Hotel Paradiso, especial-
ly the riotous first act.
The turn of the century
French bedroom farce by
Georges Feydeau and Maurice
Desvalliers is a wicked blend of
kick in the pants slapstick and
subtle double entendre.
And Peter Glenville's trans-
lation is masterfully faithful to
French sensibilities. The plot is
delightfully complex; the end-
ing is instantly predictable. The
premise is that a man "can't
be responsive to his own wife;"
the conclusion is that man is
too clumsy and stupid to merit
the attention of anyone but his
mate. '
Everyone overacts and the
sets are exquisitely baroque.
However, all the opulence
gets to you after a while. Three
acts of broad farce are too
much for the University Play-
ers to sustain.
And part of Paradiso's prob-
lem is that it is idiomatic.
Classical French' actors have a
knack for exploiting every ges-
tureand slurring every line, to
an extent that seems hopelessly
affected on a stage where Eng-
lish is spoken.
Although the cast seems in-
defatiguable, the audience be-
comes bored by the middle of
the second act and begins to
appreciate only the obvious
sight gags and sound gimmicks.
Redemption glimmers for
moments in the last act, but by
that time the audience has been
entertained and is ready to go
home.
However, some people may
have been ready to leave right
at first. The production opens
with- a rather Annoying and
self-conscious giddiness as the
stage crew giggles and toys
with the lights before dimming
them.
John Slade's whimsical score
is witty enough to set the mood
without the stage crew's ham-
pering hand.
But from the moment James
Hosbein, as M. Boniface, stum-
bles on stage the humor jerks
along.
Director Robert E. McGill
prefers a careful stop and go
approach to a fast-paced one.
He encourages his players, not-
ably Boniface and his would-be
amour Marcelle (Ge o r g e tte
Weremiuk), to indulge in glor
ious, prolonged double takes.
McGill stops the action several
times during the production to
extract every laugh from an
indiscreet situation.
During the first and third
acts, this approach works won-
ders. Boniface turns to address
the audience, but is cut off by
the off-stage yelp of his guard-
ian angel, his wife Angelique.
Angelique, hilariously played
by Gilda Radner, is a tremen-
dous sow of a woman, who
cows her husband, and brays at
everyone she meets.
Of course, Boniface is at-
tracted by the whimpering and
purring of his neighbor's' wife,
Marcelle.
She, in turn,, finds her dry,
husband, M. Cot (Jack Mc-
Laughlin) to be "unresponsive
and insupportable."
And meanwhile, M. Cot's
nephew, Maxime (Michael Fire-
stone), a serious philosophy
student enters and begins to
fancy the Boniface's promis-
cuous maid Victoire (inda
McLaughlin).
The kind of frustrations
building up can only be re-
solved at the Hotel Paradiso, a
dump that offers a "large dis-
count for seasonal bookings."
By the end of the first act,
M. Boniface and Mme. Cot,
Maxime and Victoire, and M.
Cot (by himself) are all headed
for the hotel.
To complicate things, M.
Martin (W. Martin Hunt), a
lawyer who stutters and literal-
ly kicks out every word begin-
ning with c, f, or s, decides to
put up at the hotel with his
four brats, after being ousted
from the Boniface residence.
The second act, then, is the
killer.
Screaming, singing, dancing
and leering were all written
into the rollicking hotel scenes
by Feydeau and Desvalliers.
In the spooky hotel, every-
body runs into everybody else,
gets embarassed, gets scared,
gets bruised, and gets arrested.
In the capsule-sized Lydia
Mendelssohn, all the carrying
ons are overwhelming. Although
the second act set is cleverly
devised, the University is not
equipped with the lighting to
make the "philanderer's park-
dise",very frightening. All the
screaming seems unwarranted.
And McGill's direction pauses
for laughs, when he should be
leaving the audience breathless.
The pace never quickens in the
second act, and thus the sec-
ond act dies.
The third act thrives on a
few witty lines, well delivered
by Boniface and Marcelle, and
it throbs with the reappearance
of Angelique.
But underneath, the act is
more of the same. While it re-
solves the comic conflict in a
delightfully preposterous way,
it should be disposed of as
quickly as possible.
The one device that is never
exhausted during the play is
the energy of the cast. Hosbein
must have as many bruises
from his hilarious falls, as
Charlie Chaplinendured. And
Misses Radner and Weremiuk,
and Mr. Hunt are likewise con-
sistently hilarious.
Furthermore, most of the bit
players did more than carry
their share. Melvyn Puchner,
as the Italian proprieter of the
Paradiso, and Richard Beebe,
as his hotel porter, were espe-
cially noteworthy.
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