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...Neill's drama as the basis for a period pastiche. It is all there, for people who can think back 30 years: the band concert on the common; the tandem bicycles, shirtwaist watches, lemonade and porch swings; the crested brewery horses, prancing to the political club picnic on the Fourth of July; the bombardment of firecrackers which on that date turned the streets of every U. S. city into miniature battlefields. But even those who do not know what a Stanley Steamer was and never said ''Twenty-three Skiddoo" will still take pleasure in Ah Wilderness...
...German horsemeat shops employ no euphemisms, no golden horse, paint over their shops such blunt signs as Wir verkaufen das beste Pferdefleisch ("We Sell the Best Horsemeat"). In Rhenish-Westphalia the little city of Solingen boasts that in the record year 1929 its citizens ate 3,484 horses. At picnic parties of Adolf Hitler's famed "Strength Through Joy League" the garlic-flavored sausages joyously washed down with golden beer are of horsemeat. enriched with...
...Vagabond feels the need of disgression himself. Climbing up his ladder tonight the Old Fellow found the rungs covered with ice! Winter is showing his sharpest teeth. The Tower at this moment is no picnic. Another log, ye merry hag. And fetch the Vagabond's cloak! We'll bear this through as in many winters past. Freedom! Freedom! Isn't that what George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron died for? Another log, merry hag! My fingers are a cold...
...only human importantly concerned in the picture is a 14-year-old boy (V. Konstantinov) who falls asleep at a picnic where a companion has been reading aloud from Gulliver's Travels. Dreaming, he thinks he is Dr. Petya Gulliver, sees himself cast up, after mutiny and shipwreck, on the desolate coast of Lilliputia. The tiny citizens bind his arms and feet with threads. The fierce police chief arrives in a nutshell armored car. The fire department of Lilliputia runs a hose into his mouth. An army of tanks hitched to a gigantic platform haul him to the capital...
...with a stick. Gulliver perceives the sad truth: Lilliputia is a Capitalist nation. He speedily allies himself with the Workers Party, drags the Lilliputian navy out to sea, smiles when the frantic little king hangs himself on the hands of a gigantic clock. Then Gulliver wakes up at the picnic...