Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bumble Bee comes from an opera, Tsar Saltan, little played outside of Russia. At the opera's climax the son of Tsar Saltan turns into a bumblebee, stings two wicked women, eludes pursuing courtiers. Last week a Manhattan audience screamed and yowled with delight at this tale. The opera, retitled The Bumble Bee Prince, was put on by a non-commercial organization called Junior Programs, Inc. The audience: 1,600 school children, aged 5 to 15 (700 more were turned away). Admission...
...story is set in Aubignane, a mountain town in Provence, and is a simple tale of a woman, who deserting her cruel husband, finds happiness by helping a peasant to cultivate his land and make a living...
...Mussorgsky's halloweenish Night on Bald Mountain, Disney went outside his own studio for talent, got famed Fairy-Tale Illustrator Kay Nielson (East of the Sun and West of the Moon) to design graveyards and ghosts, ended with a Walpurgis nightmare calculated to turn little children's hair white. But Illustrator Nielsen's jagged scenes, plus a new high in animation technique, made it by far Fantasia's best act. As Fantasia took shape, a whole new troupe of Disney comic characters appeared: Hop Low, the self-thwarting little mushroom, who tries to do the Chinese...
Then exiled Oskar Graf went to the U. S. S. R., where he found "incomparable social institutions . . . almost like a fairy tale." But the primitive, polyglot city of Tiflis again reminded him of his mother. "Napoleon wasn't worth anything, and Hitler certainly isn't. They think they change the world, but in the last analysis everything remains as it was. . . . The human instinct for self-preservation is tough and ineradicable. Its patient, long-suffering force seems to keep pace with any historical change, and finally to outlast it." This statement of faith comes easy to Novelist Graf...
Newest minstrel of Arthurian romance is bearded, falconry-loving T. H. White, onetime English schoolmaster. The Sword in the Stone (1938), a tale of young Arthur's education in the hands of the wizard Merlyn, was so brightly fanciful that Walt Disney purchased it to succeed Snow White, Pinocchio, etc. The Witch in the Wood (1939) was a more slapdash account of Arthur's early kingship. This week appears the best of the series: The Ill-Made Knight, a whimsical chronicle of Arthur's further attempts to found civilization by channeling Might, via the Round Table, into...