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...blooded MRAer could read your story about the eleven released American airmen and then go onstage and mouth the nauseating - and badly written at that - lyrics of The Vanishing Island is beyond my understanding. They belong in Alice in Wonderland, not paddling around in a duckpond of childish politics with a world in crisis...
...Carson; Patrice Munsel in The Great Waltz; and Maurice Chevalier in a variety show. Straight drama also will get the 90-minute treatment from NBC. José Ferrer will put on putty for another re-creation of Cyrano de Bergerac. Eva La Gallienne will star again in Alice in Wonderland. Maurice Evans becomes a son of the American Revolution for George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple. Opera will range from Puccini's Madame Butterfly through a new English version of Mozart's The Magic Flute and Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin to world premieres...
...toying with storytelling, their mighty brains behave like dancing elephants playing dancing mice. The fiction they write is more sophisticated than nursery rhymes but every bit as childish: only once in a blue moon does a logician like Lewis Carroll come along and succeed in transforming the kindergarten into Wonderland...
...brilliant scholar; he had little time for social life. In his 205, he wrote a paper called Konjunktur-spridningen (The Spread of the Business Cycle). It was couched in language so abstruse that few of his colleagues understood it, but Dag prefaced it with a quote from Alice in Wonderland: " 'That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the Duchess replied in a pleased tone...
...Vision Remembered. The 19th century was a great age of illustration, as of literature, although the British writers of the time were inclined to ignore the fact. Lewis Carroll never reconciled himself to Tenniel's drawings for Alice in Wonderland, which seem so right as to be almost inevitable. Tennyson, who did not care for art, was simply indifferent to the best efforts of Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt to illustrate his poems. William Thackeray, Edward Lear and W. S. Gilbert were better pleased, for they illustrated their own work...