Darling Dane

By T.E.K.

COMEDY WITH MUSIC

Starring Victor Borge

All the lights on Broadway glow a little brighter now that one of the master funnymen of the age is back. When Victor Borge delivers a line, the words seem to selfdestruct. He swallows them between hilariously elongated pauses and then utters small, satisfied, digestive burps. At the grand piano he can make his fingers seem all toes, or wings. The timing is impeccable, the professionalism unflawed. One never knows whether he regards his props -- the microphone, the piano, the piano bench -- as allies or enemies.

It is not like Borge to share a stage, but he can be marvelously droll in bickering with the competition. Over his squirming body, he permits the silky-tongued Marylyn Mulvey to sing "Caro nome"--between his mischievous interruptions. Several times he tartly forbids her to touch the piano. Sopranos bend pianos, he tells the audience, by leaning against them. At one point he confides that the singular of Portuguese is Portugoose. For the singular Borge there is no known plural. -- T.E.K.

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