Word: harped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because a giant had stolen their inheritance (a bag of gold, a hen which laid golden eggs on command, a magical harp) Jack and his mother had to live in a hovel, had finally to resort to selling their faithful cow. A lesser cow would have ambled placidly off to the butcher but the Erskine cow, like the Erskine Helen, had spirit...
...Jack was human and properly awed by appearances. He waited until the giant was asleep to steal the gold and the hen which spilled forth eggs before the audience's very eyes. He used more wit to get the harp, coaxed the giant into making it play some of Gruenberg's jazz, a love song which made the giant fairly maudlin, a lullaby which did the trick. Down the beanstalk scuttled Jack followed by the giant who, being only rubber and hot air, burst and fell in a deflated mass. The witch by this time was a beautiful...
...eagerness to up-to-datedly emulate mid-Victorian Punch's idea of being funny at Irishmen's expense TIME overlooks the fact that there were no potatoes in Ireland-or anywhere else in Europe-a thousand years ago. Will TIME forgive a slightly nauseated Irishman (Mick, Harp, Turkey, Flannel-mouth, if TIME prefers) if a mild passion for truth makes him a bit insensible to fun-loving TIME'S preference for what it deems to be humor...
Described as a "fairy opera for the childlike," Jack and the Beanstalk is retold in the naively sophisticated manner which Author Erskine found profitable in his novel The Private Life of Helen of Troy. Jack, a soprano, loses gold, a hen and a magic harp to a Gargantuan bass giant. An old woman tricks him out of his faithful cow, burlesqued by two bassos who lyricize fore & aft. The harridan gives him a handful of beans which grow into the familiar beanstalk; he retrieves his treasures from the giant, who at last turns out to be an inflated rubber figure...
...John Hope Doeg 1. Mrs. L. A. Harp...