Word: andersens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Silent Mirror. Though the book is overlong and exaggeratedly dramatic, it is full of surprising incidents. When Jenny stayed with friends in Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen would come around to tell stories to the children of the house, a pretext for seeing her. He fell in love with her. He wrote The Emperor's Nightingale for her. When she was cold toward him, he wrote The Snow Queen. When he begged her to marry him, she silently handed him a mirror. That night, he wrote The Ugly Duckling. (Author Schultz offers a modified version of this famous anecdote...
...discouraging to watch sensitive direction and powerful photography founder upon a wretched script. The carefully focused composition and precise lighting give enormous force to a few scenes, particularly one in an open boat and another inside the wreck of an old schooner. And Harriet Andersen's acting is consistently stunning...
...period, Rimbaud wrote his best poems, The Illuminations, which combined a child's joy in nature with the hallucinations of a youth dabbling in occult sciences and dope: naivete, depravity and delusions were fused into poems that might be the joint work of Orpheus, Freud and Hans Christian Andersen...
This new screen can be raised, and the HST owners hope to use the stage it hides for live (non-vaudeville) recitals and the like. On the 21st of this month for instance, Sir Michael Redgrave will read from the works of Hans Christian Andersen, and on the 18th of April, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf will sing. Mr. Kramer calls Miss Schwarzkopf's appearance "a first experiment...
...children, draped in tablecloths, piano covers and nightgowns. Next morning came the presents (usually clothing); some, such as heavy coats and shoes, were store-bought, but a lot-scarves, gloves, caps and dresses-were homemade. And for the children there were dolls, jumping jacks, blocks, marbles, checkers, Hans Christian Andersen...