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...ALBUM OF MODERN POETRY (3 LPs: Gryphon). Anthologist Oscar Williams has selected 76 short works by 45 British and American poets, a revised and reengineered version of their original readings for the Library of Congress. The album's theme, Williams explains, is suffering and social involvement-"the passion of modern poetry"-rather than personal love. The selection is personal, sometimes questionable, but stellar nonetheless. It includes T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, Robert Graves and Archibald MacLeish, plus many others whose voices will not be heard again, notably William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Theodore Roethke...
This season, animals are all the rage. Alice in Wonderland's sizable audience may have been more fascinated by such strange creatures as the Gryphon, Mock Turtle, March Hare and Cheshire Cat than by such stars as Eva Le Gallienne, Elsa Lanchester, Martyn Green and Gilliam Barber. On one hour of ABC's Mickey Mouse Club last week, moppets saw a succession of wild hares, lemurs, hamsters, pythons, lions, leopards, pumas and sharks. At the same moment, NBC's rival Pinky Lee Show was knee-deep in lions. Lassie and Rin Tin Tin are dedicated to proving...
Mugging, singing, dancing, and dialogue blend most charmingly when Richard Smithies and William Bridges as the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle give Alice a demonstration of the Lobster Quadrille and describe their childhood in the school under the sea. Next in order of charm is the scene between Alice and Humpty-Dumpty, played by Colgate Salisbury...
...They very soon came upon a Gryphon . . . (If you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture)." - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Manhattan collectors last week came upon Lewis Carroll's fantastic Gryphon in all his original scaly glory. Up at auction was the largest group in the U.S. of the great Sir John Tenniel's illustrations for Alice, Through the Looking-Glass and other drawings (collection of the late Bronson Winthrop, onetime law partner of War Secretary Henry L. Stim-son). The Gryphon, as well as the King and Queen of Hearts...
Humor and fantasy are as characteristic of medieval art as piety and sound workmanship. All four merge in the series of aquamaniles which Dr. Swarzenski calls his zoo. Once used for ceremonial washing, these bronze ewers include centaurs, lions, horses, unicorns. One gryphon holds a small human figure in his mouth as faucet. Even George Apley would have collected them out of predilection rather than duty...