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...Peers," from Iolanthe," by Sullivan. After singing "Tarantella," written for the Yale Glee Club of 1937 by Randall Thompson and "Casey Jones," arranged for the Harvard Glee Club of 1939 by Edward B. Lawton '34, the Glee Club will conclude by singing "Father William," from Alice in Wonderland," written for last year's Harvard Glee Club by Irving G. Fine '37, who is now assistant conductor of the Glee Club...
Bertrand Russell, who looks like a twinkling Mad Hatter and talks like a twinkling Alice, has found the U.S. a through-the-looking-glass wonderland. Some reasons...
...comic genius may write a comedy and yet not fail. . . . The tangle of the plot is not really disentangled at all; it is merely exorcised; miracles happen whenever Wilde cannot undo one of his knots." London also has a good Peter Pan and an even better Alice in Wonderland, with décor modeled on the famed Tenniel illustrations, and statuesque Dame Sybil Thorndike as the White Queen. Half of London is agog to see Sybil "on wires...
...this Ideal Woman. Little Miss Garson was high-strung, bronchitic, given to fainting spells, and ill at ease with her nasty little peers (who called her Ginger). At an age when the average young Neanderthaler is spelling out "I HATE BOOKS," Greer was already too old for Alice in Wonderland. She sprinkled her porridge with table talk from succés d'estime like Colley Gibber and His Circle. "I was," she recalls, "rather a stuffy child...
...they will not forget the legend of Sid Tussie's education. It is a classic. Taken out of the novel of which it is the finest part, it is one of the best stories of childhood in American literature. Sid Tussie lives in a clear-eyed, clear-headed wonderland of woods and mountain people, innocent as rain, dodging the occasional attempts of his drunken kinspeople to kill him dead, and watching them-how they drink, dance, ride mules, fight and keep out of jail-with such sharpness that their archaic Kentucky highland talk is truer in his recording...