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Moss Hart's scenario follows Cobbler Andersen (Danny Kaye) from the village of Odense, where he lures the children from school with his beguiling stories, to Copenhagen, where he falls in love with a beautiful ballerina (Jeanmaire). In time, Andersen comes to realize that the ballerina is really in love with her ballet-master husband (Farley Granger). So he returns to Odense to continue telling his tales to tykes, but not before he has written a story for a ballet, The Little Mermaid, and Jeanmaire has danced it with crashing success...
...heyday the industry turned out figures for every trade, from cobbler to pawnbroker; after 1900, it began to die out. A few Indians are still coming' out of New England wood shops, but they are reproductions without the oldtime dash and color. In 20 years Collector Haffenreffer has bought scores of the ancient figures for his private museum. He refuses to put a price on his collection, but the 22 figures he has lent M.I.T. are valued at $25,000, and the price will go up as more & more of the old chieftains disappear from the U.S. scene...
...Danish Foreign Office announced that it would officially protest the Hollywood story of Hans Christian Andersen starring jittery Comic Danny Kaye. The Copenhagen newspaper Politiken quickly added its support: "Reports from Hollywood indicate that the cobbler's son from Odense, Denmark, shall now be known to history as the singing and dancing hero from a $4,000,000 Technicolor show. Is it really permitted to distort the life of great men in such reckless manner?" Danny's considered opinion: "I think the people of Denmark will like the picture. I don't do any scat singing...
...Armour got a kick out of the writer's literary style, ordered the $25 paid to him, and said, "It's worth it." The writing hobo was a 28-year-old Norwegian immigrant with goldrimmed spectacles and an aristocratic face. In Norway he had been a cobbler's apprentice, woodsman, stevedore and road navvy. He had come steerage to the U.S., worked for tight-fisted Wisconsin farmers, taught Unitarian Sunday school in Minneapolis, driven a horsecar in Chicago (where he was fired for letting his horse plod past waiting passengers while he read Euripides...
Ilona Karmel has written the longest piece, another installment of her reminiscences of Europe, which are soon to be published as a novel called "Cobbler's Paradise." In this one, we find little Stephania in a hospital in some unspecified part of Scandinavia, shooting the breeze with her Scandinavian comrades and reminiscing over the death of her father at the hands of the Nazis. There are two strands running through the chapter--a rather objectivized analysis of the Jewish conception of death, and a highly subjective narration of the guilt feelings which generally accompany the premature death of a close...