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...Mouse on the Moon. Like so many Son of and So-and-So Meets sequels, this offspring of 1959's The Mouse That Roared just barely squeaks by. Sorely missed is Peter Sellers, who in the triple role of Grand Duchess Gloriana of Grand Fenwick, Prime Minister Mountjoy and Field Marshal Bascombe managed to make Roared an off-beat tour de force. Neither waggish, wrattled Margaret Rutherford as the 1963 model Gloriana nor fatuous, foppish Ron Moody as the new Mountjoy manages to do more than add tricks to what is already too tricky...
...Mouse That Roared (Highroad; Columbia). One day at the height of the silly season, H.R.H. the Grand Duchess Gloriana XII of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick graciously declares that a state of war exists between Grand Fenwick and the United States of America. When the declaration is delivered to the U.S. Department of State, the only reaction it gets is a tired snicker from a bored bureaucrat: "Those guys in the pressroom. All the time making jokes." After all, Grand Fenwick is the smallest independent country in the world, a few square miles left over from the Middle
British Composer Benjamin Britten announced in London that he had finished his new opera Gloriana, which will have its premiere in Covent Garden six days after the coronation. His next task, said Britten, is to locate a dozen trumpets and trumpeteers "who can look Elizabethan," since the opera is about the life of the first Queen Bess...
...Gloriana (by Ferdinand Bruckner) is about Queen Elizabeth, the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon. Robert Cecil, Philip II of Spain, Northumberland. Mountjoy and many another Elizabethan. It makes all of them out dull people...
...scene of the second act is in Hugglesland, near the North Pole. Upon the arrival of Bixby and his impecunious friend Snaffles, the strikers are invited to seize him and are about to throw him to the polar bears. Higdig, however, arrives at the right moment. Gloriana and Chalkstones, now married, appear, and everything turns out all right. Bixby becoming engaged to Anne Higdig who has been doing settlement work among the Eskimos...