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...Wonderland's Week...
...Forces major on duty in England), 5) best actress, Greer Garson (as Mrs. M.), 6) best supporting actress, Teresa Wright. Green-eyed, feather-haired Greer Garson clutched her gold-painted plastic Oscar and silently wept. "This is the most wonderful thing. . . . I feel just like Alice in Wonderland." Other Oscars: to Cinema's man of the year, James Cagney (in Yankee Doodle Dandy); to the best supporting actor, Lieut. Van Heflin (in Johnny Eager). Said a message from Franklin D. Roosevelt: "In total war, motion pictures, like all other human endeavor, have an important part to play...
...series of triumphs for Irving C. Fine '37. It was he who with few rehearsals, whipped the Navy group into an organization which with a bit more practice and polish will become a well rounded, smoothly functioning unit. It was his work, the Incidental Music to Alice in Wonderland, with himself at the piano, which concluded the program. Recently revised for voices, it is charming, catchy music, written in a simple, direct, effective manner. If the applause of an enthusiastic audience has any positive correlation with the quality of the music, it can be regarded as a tremendous success...
...that same debut will be Fine's "Incidental Music to Alice in Wonderland" and Mabel Dentels' "Dum Dianao Vitrea" which have never been sung before in any concert. Likewise the two choruses from "King David" by Houeggar have seen little previous performance...
...proposal was attacked and ridiculed as soon as it appeared. "Bargain-basement education . . . smacks of Alice in Wonderland . . . educational charlatanism," growled Dr. Edwin R. Van Kleeck, New York's assistant commissioner of Instructional Supervision. The speed-up "would make more headaches than it would cure," warned Dean Herbert Hawkes of Columbia. Students "would be coming into the colleges with a year less maturity, and the difficulties.of adjustments would be even more serious than they...