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...Hollywood, British Ballerina Moira (The Red Shoes') Shearer told her studio bosses that she was expecting a baby in the summer, would therefore have to step out of her role in the new film Hans Christian Andersen...
...boys on the beach raced cheering to the spot. Soon tiny Sangatte's deputy mayor arrived and, in the confusion of tongues, thought he was welcoming Denmark's Elna Andersen, another Channel swimmer, who had not even started. But that night, back in the Dover hotel, everyone knew that Florence had become the first of her sex to make it the hard way. Gazing out the same window at the sea, Swimmer Chadwick announced: "I'm feeling fine...
...Emperor's Nightingale (Rembrandt Films) is the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, enacted by puppets in the soft hues of Nu-Agfa Color. Produced in Czechoslovakia by Jiri Trnka, the U.S. version keeps the original film's excellent score, adds a well-written narration by Phyllis McGinley, spoken by Boris Karloff in a Dutch-uncle mood...
...unfolded in the dream of a little boy, the movie's tale is still Andersen's universally appealing parable of the ancient Chinese emperor who learned to value carefree nature above sterile pomp and artifice. It is told with a good deal of charm, taste and imagination. But it is also overlong and repetitious. How well its deliberate pace will hold U.S. youngsters, raised on Walt Disney's blur-of-action technique, is a question that only the children themselves can settle...
...Selected Writings will "give readers a chance to assess Critic Cowley's statement that Hearn's "folk tales are the most valuable part of [his work] ... He is the writer in our language who can best be compared with Hans Christian Andersen and the brothers Grimm." Many readers will cast their votes in favor of the blunt, naturalistic American Sketches, where Author Hearn's florid prose frames some breathtaking sights in19th Century Cincinnati's Sausage Row and the New Orleans voodoo belt...