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Homemade Ballad. One night in the Bucket of Blood saloon at Virginia City, Nev., Emrich heard a miner bellow, "Who shot Maggie in the freckle?" Back to his room he went to compose a ballad of his own that was eventually brought back to him from Australia as an original...
Miss Bisco, as an extremely winning Alice, speaks her lines more clearly than most of the cast, who occasionally bellow or slur Carroll's wit right out of the range of their three-to-ten-year-old audience. But thanks to Thomas Whedon's direction, even when dialogue and lyrics fail to overcome the steady mutter of the junior critics, the pantomime and by-play are sufficient to keep them entertained...
...especially funny because of its novel gimmick. Hackney, says Wallach, is one of the great unsung literati of our era, great because he managed to do everything years before it was done by the person we credit with doing it. Hackney, for instance, out Saroyaned Saroyan and out-Bellowed Saul Bellow, and did it first. "Gutenberg's Folly" is therefore a labor of love: dying from a surfeit of chopped liver canapes, Hackney willed Wallach his wife and his work...
...Pilgrimage of Bixie Davis," Wallach takes a cut at the picaresque, naturalistic novel as typified by Bellow's "The Adventures of Augie March." "Lilian was pliant and I molded her. Her love and muscle, tore through the Grand Central Station of my mind to the Chicago of my belly. What for myself did I out of all this want?... Then she rose, Cleopatra-thighed but unasped, and went to her room where she Godiva'd, belly-bundled, a Marie Antoinette with a bagel...
...year-old Nikos Kazantzakis, a top candidate for 1952's Nobel Prize. His Zorba the Greek had a picaresque hero who, almost alone in the fiction of 1953, communicated the conviction that it is wonderful to be alive. By comparison, the chest-beating hero of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March was a neurotic wise guy-though Augie did better than Zorba in the bookstores...