[silence] Alex Ross is looking for Mr Schenzer/Schanzer

[Joseph Zitt]

Alex Ross, splendid music critic for the New Yorker, asks the following 
question in his blog today (with a lot of links within it):

http://www.therestisnoise.com/2007/05/looking_for_mr_.html

"When I posted about John Cage's appearance on I've Got a Secret, Rodney
Lister wrote in to say that he recalls seeing the show live and also
remembers a second appearance by Cage in 1963, in the wake of his epic
nineteen-hour production of Erik Satie's Vexations. On that occasion
Cage brought with him the one audience member who had stayed for the
entire duration of the program—and thereby received a full refund.
(Customers got a five-cent refund for every twenty minutes they spent in
the theater.) I mention this very patient gentleman in my book. In the
New York Times his name was given as Karl Schenzer, his profession as
off-Broadway actor. I wonder if he was in fact Karl Schanzer, an actor
who appeared in Francis Coppola's unpromising debut films, the nudie
Western Tonight For Sure and the low-rent horror flick Dementia 13, and
who later co-edited the book American Screenwriters. If anyone happens
to know a way of getting in touch with Mr. Schenzer/Schanzer, I would be
interested to know if he has any piquant memories of the event itself
and of I've Got a Secret."

Does anyone here have any insight?