Word: andersens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shakespeare's Richard the Second, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The governor of a Chinese province once banned Alice in Wonderland because in it animals talked, thus putting themselves on a par with humans. Tsarist Russia, fearful lest moppets get fantastic ideas, banned Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales. Last week New York Junior Leaguers, delighted by the interest the exhibition had aroused, extended it an extra week, talked of taking it on tour...
...When Old Man O'Hara, driver of a horse hack, is accidentally killed in a Manhattan taxi war, his daughter Princess (Jean Parker) blames Toledo (Chester Morris). The audience is rapidly made aware that Toledo has the golden heart traditional for mobsters in that blend of Hans Christian Andersen and Broadway which is a Damon Runyon story. Leon Errol and Vince Barnett are the gorillas detailed by their boss to see that life flows smoothly for the Princess, a task made difficult because she resents any benefactions sponsored by Toledo. Faced with the problem of getting...
...some Danish ancestors who arrived in the U. S. in 1636. Said she: "I am very happy to have been assigned this post because of my father's connection with foreign affairs. When I was a little girl my favorites of all stories were those of Hans Christian Andersen. I always wanted to see the land of Andersen." Mrs. Owen will take a month's course of diplomatic sprouts at the State Department before sailing for her post with the two youngest of her four children...
...Kryslit'-church. so it is neither new nor beautiful, and the inn doesn't lie right across but a good distance away-but otherwise it is right. The priest who owns the inn [alehouse] is one of our good friends-he married a sister of Builder Andersen's wife. I think it has cost him a great deal of money and he does not seem to be able to make it go, and will be obliged to sell it. He is very socially interested and hoped that he might be fortunate enough to draw people away from...
...began with what he called "suitable restraint": "Neither Hans Christian Andersen nor Carl Grimm in appealing to the fancies of children ever overtaxed his imagination as President Hoover repeatedly has done in his endeavor to regain the lost favor of the American people. Contrasted, with his addresses, Aesop's Fables deserve to rank as accurate history...