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...Broadway control practically every weather-proof theatre east of the Mississippi, and would set the rent at a sky-high figure if they were not partial to the idea, which they haven't been in the past. There are some groups already participating in the permanent Repertory idea: Jasper Decter's Hedgerow Theatre outside of Philadelphia; the Michael Chekhov Players, established in Ridgefield, Conn,. but almost constantly on tour; the Seattle Repertory Playhouse; the Cleveland Play House; and here in Boston, on a lesser scale, the New England Repertory Company, a brave little organization, constantly gaining in support...
...Jasper and the Watermelons (George Pal's Puppetoon of a Negro boy and the forbidden fruit; TIME, March...
...Jasper and the Watermelons (Pal; Paramount) is a new departure in the field of U.S.* animated cartooning: it substitutes carved puppets and miniature sets for the drawn figures and backgrounds of the customary animated cartoon. Jasper, sixth of a series of ten-minute shorts which Paramount calls Puppetoons, is the first to enter successfully the animated cartoon's best realm-fantasy...
...Jasper is a little Negro boy who can't stay away from the forbidden land of his mammy's melon patch. Hearing of a country where melons are free, he goes there with his scarecrow informer. But the melons aren't free, after all, and after he eats one of them, the other melons run him straight back to his mammy. Moral: don't talk to scarecrows...
...character gallery contains ever more pitiless portraits of Victorian archetypes: the mealymouthed, blood-squeezing merchant, the vapid doll, the turncoat self-made man, and the soul-destroying shrew; that Dickens progressed from social to psychological, almost metaphysical analysis, and at his death was writing into the schizoid murderer Mr. Jasper (in Edwin Drood} not only the last and most symbolically charged of his Victorian hypocrites, but a sinister self-portrait as well...