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...Wonderville Susan met droll, cantankerous Mr. Pegasus, whose elaborate Cartoon-a-Machine grunted out a canned Terrytoon. In the Foolish Forest she met an all-animal orchestra which included Wolfgang, the violin-playing bear, flop-eared Gregory, the rabbit flutist, and Bruce, the world's only drum-beating gopher-all ingeniously manipulated by wires backstage. Pegasus baited the conductor, Caesar P. Penguin: "He's the world's worst orchestra leader." Said Caesar: "This is not kind. In fact I am going to take umbrage; sometimes I have a headache and I take umbrage." While Caesar took umbrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Susan in Wonderville | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...unusual programs featuring an excellent digest of the current news. In addition, the bill includes a diverting selection of short subjects: a color cartoon called "Little Moths, Big Flames"; "Screen Snapshots"; "Stranger Than Fiction"; "Athletic Oddities," narrated by the tongue-conscious Lew Lehr; "House-wife Herman," a Technicolor Terrytoon; and "Washington Parade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: *The Moviegoer* | 12/9/1938 | See Source »

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