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...Fairy (with wand...
...Transformation Scene in which, at a wave of the Fairy's wand (and a brief, rumbling blackout), rags become riches and poor hovels, palaces...
...talking dog-that peopled Barnaby, a fey and fanciful strip that began in Manhattan's tabloid PM in April 1943. Johnson liked them all, from Gorgon the dog to Mr. O'Malley, Barnaby's pink-winged fairy godfather whose long cigar was a magic wand. But keeping them on schedule was a grind. Hulking Crockett Johnson tired, began plotting his escape...
...from drama, are unfit for drama-can only poke around in the cupboard of memories and might-have-been. That, too, is the pathos of them. But it is a pathos that Chekhov sharply rings with humor and partly punctures with insight. Always compassionate, he is never deceived. The wand he waves to evoke moods suddenly becomes a scalpel that lays motives bare. He sees all that is flabby-and all that is funny-in these people who make mournfulness their métier...
...That you should have been able to preserve the art not only of creating armies almost at the stroke of a wand-but of leading and guiding these armies upon a scale incomparably greater than anything that was prepared for or even dreamed of, constitutes a gift made by the officer corps of the United States to their nation in time of trouble, which I earnestly hope will never be forgotten here...