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...Briton caused Malik's face to redden as he derided "the queer, upside-down language . . . employed by U.S.S.R. propaganda . . . We really do seem to be living in a rather nightmarish Alice-in-Wonderland world...
...note of the rich, small doings of 17th Century American life. These early histories, diaries, memoirs and letters, vivid scribbles on the cuff of history, have mostly been suppressed into the dreary, quoteless grey of the professional historian's page. America Begins gives a glimpse of the real wonderland behind that dingy looking glass...
...mingled with spots of dancing and pleasant Leonard Bernstein music, provides nice unorthodox eye & ear entertainment. Jean Arthur makes a brightly boyish Peter Pan, Boris Karloff an appealingly unctuous Captain Hook. At times the syrup gets pretty thick and the fantasy pretty thin; Peter. Pan is not Alice in Wonderland. It is much less dazzling as well as much less daring. But however little a masterpiece, the play is now safely a classic...
...Alice in Wonderland...
...when he sold a $20 gold piece for $100. In his galleries the hammer has swung on such fabled items as the fifth and final manuscript of the Gettysburg Address ($54,000), the Bay Psalm Book, first book published In the U.S. ($151,000), the manuscript of Alice in Wonderland ($50,000), and a lock of George Washington's hair. His biggest sale was in 1928, when Lord Duveen, British dealer and collector, paid $360,000 for Gainsborough's The Harvest Waggon. That auction, from the estate of U.S. Steel's Judge Elbert Gary, brought a whopping...