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...packaged delicacies imported by Wo Kee & Co.-the first commercial shipment from the mainland allowed in the U.S. for 21 years. Sample goodies: fried longtailed anchovies, lotus paste, red date soup, bitter melon, spiced grapefruit skin, sauce of cuttlefish, dried dace (a fish), and a candy called white rabbit rolls...
Born into the stifling world of Victoriana, little Beatrix lived in a universe of iron stricture. There were bars on her bedroom windows; a grim governess ordered her life. She was denied dolls-but she was allowed to have a pet rabbit. It was that little rodent that formed the foundation for her career. Little Beatrix observed him well and immortalized him as Peter Rabbit. Her fresh pastel drawings and brief, energetic tales-of birds, foxes, fish and mice-caught the fancy of children throughout the Western world. By her death in 1943, Beatrix Potter was second to only...
...That would have been an error. The pale palette, the twinkling brevity could never have been duplicated, even by Disney. Fortunately a British gentleman of Potterian sympathy has found an ideal method of adaptation-the dance. Using members of the Royal Ballet, Choreographer Frederick Ashton has literally given Peter Rabbit and Tales of Beatrix Potter a new dimension. Jeremy Fisher the Frog, Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mr. Fox and Co. spring and caper like Steiff toys given the spark of life. Around them spreads England's green and pleasant Lake District from which Beatrix drew her inspiration...
Filmed with refined and delicious whimsy by Reginald Mills, given a merrily eclectic score by John Lanchberry, Peter Rabbit never turns cute or saccharine. Instead it echoes the peak of the Victorian spirit: in all the tales, as in Beatrix Potter's life, vicissitudes are there to make the journey interesting. But in the end, in this best of all possible whirls, things come frightfully, delightfully right...
...time. The early bird gets the worm. Time is money. Punctuality is the politeness of kings. Though our society has learned to excuse almost anything else, it still finds one sin-tardiness-unpardonable. It is as if we had collectively accepted Alice's harried, harassed White Rabbit ("Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I shall be too late!") as our model. Perhaps the only social canon of Emily Post's that still has all but universal acceptance is her dictum: "You must not be late...