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Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Father was a soft touch. Every day Helen lined up her schoolmates at his soda fountain. Helen was rationed to two sodas a day, but usually managed to borrow against the future. Father read Andersen's and Grimm's fairy tales to his kids; if there was a vaudeville show he took them, and never mind about classes. Summers he and Helen fished in Wisconsin; winters it was duck hunting in the Illinois River, and Helen had a small shotgun made specially for her. During baseball season, Helen got up from...
...likely to be so popular as Anything Can Happen. It consists simply of 20 folk stories that were told to George when he was a Georgia boy. The principal characters include wolves, princesses, witches and giants-none of whom seems far removed from the worlds of Hans Christian Andersen or La Fontaine, all of whom combine to give this collection a childish and curious poetry...
...lithographs proved 40 times over that Klee, no matter how hard he tried, was no child. Some of the pictures had the bright, immediate privacy of peep shows, some were suffused with an insane glee; but all showed a controlled hand whose simplicity was as artful as a Hans Andersen fairy tale...
...Emperor and the Nightingale: for which Marc Connelly will do the scripting of Hans Christian Andersen...
Unlike the fairy stories of Hans Christian Andersen, Laboulaye, Lang and Perrault, Grimm's Fairy Tales (as they became known in translation) were not primarily literary creations. The by-product of philological research, their collection began with the chance discovery by Jacob Grimm of a selection from the Minnesingers in the library of his law professor. Scholarly Jacob and his gentler, gayer brother Wilhelm, who had shared the same bed as children, the same room as students, from that moment dedicated their lives to tracking down, deciphering and recording their country's folklore...