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...Nightingale (Rembrandt Films) is the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, enacted by puppets in the soft hues of Nu-Agfa Color. Produced in Czechoslovakia by Jiri Trnka, the U.S. version keeps the original film's excellent score, adds a well-written narration by Phyllis McGinley, spoken by Boris Karloff in a Dutch-uncle mood...
...more note: If you want to give the kids a thrill there are now two opportunities. Peter Pan with Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff is a guaranteed charmer, and Let's Make an Opera, while not in the same class in entertainment value, is still available...
Visiting at a Manhattan Book Fair for children, stage & screen Bogeyman Boris Karloff called for more realism and violence in moppets' books. A diet of namby-pamby stories, he said, gives "the younger generation a completely distorted picture of the world we live in and leaves them totally unequipped to cope with the world's very real problems...
...blitz years of '40 and '41. On Broadway, Maude Adams played Peter over 300 times between 1905 and 1916. Marilyn Miller and Eva Le Gallienne had flings at revivals in the '20s and '30s. Last week, the current Broadway production, with Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, played its 238th performance, setting a new Peter Pan record; and there was no sign that the show would be closing any time soon...
...like a vampire on a vegetable diet; her oily-swarthy spouse who is intended by Addams, a loyal Democrat, to bear a distant resemblance to Governor Dewey; their bloated little boy, who resembles something preserved in alcohol, and a handful of useful extras, including a butler edition of Boris Karloff...