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torn thumb. The familiar tall story and its tiny hero, tastefully refurbished by Hollywood. Grimm would never recognize its goofy love plot or its gay puppets, but the kids may like it better than the grim original...
...script, like the fairy tale, tells a tall story about a short boy (Russ Tamblyn), but in the film the Grimm realities -which were tiresomely unimaginative anyway-have undergone all sorts of pleasant Palliations. There is a marvelously mushy love story, goofed up just enough to give several million adult-dominated wider-twelves a swell chance to hoot and cackle at the well-known foolishness of their self-styled superiors. There is a sackful of the usual peculiar but amusing Pal puppets. There is one of the jolliest holler songs (The Talented Shoes) since Whistle While You Work. There...
Orff: Der Mond (Rudolf Christ, Hans Hotter, Karl Schmitt-Walter, Helmut Graml, Paul Kuèn, Peter Lagger; the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch; Angel, 2 LPs). German Composer Carl Orff's second opera (1938) is a modern retread of the Grimm fairy tale about four villagers who steal the moon from neighbors, carry it to their graves, finally lose it to St. Peter, who hangs it in the sky to light "the men who still wait in the little garden of the earth." The fragmented, intermittently lyrical score contains snatches of gutbucket jazz and such...
Other-Directed Moppets. In a field that is paced by Daniel Defoe and the brothers Grimm. Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, J. M. Barrie and Louisa May Alcott, Kenneth Grahame and Beatrix Cotter, how good is the current output? In a sense, each generation reveals itself by what it finds in its children's books. Said...
...story was old as Grimm and as new as television. It all began when 22-year-old Princess Margaretha, granddaughter of Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf, went to London last fall to brush up her English. The princess did not stay with her distant relatives at Buckingham Palace, but boarded at $14 a week with the family of an old friend in Hampstead. She took an unpaid training job as a therapist in a London hospital, traveled to and from work on the underground. Mayfair, which had seen its share of foreign princesses, liked but was not dazzled...