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...things, this rococo collection displays not only smart photographs of Britain's Brightest, from Poet W. H. Auden to Princess Natalie Paley, but gifted sketches of stage decor and costumes, needlepointed notes on cinema stars, which prove that Jean Cocteau was right when he called Beaton "Malice in Wonderland...
Books from the libraries of the Presidents of the United States, manuscript texts used in Harvard classes in the early eighteenth century, special editions of "Alice in Wonderland," and material relative to eight plays of Shakspere, form a major part of the first exhibit of the season at Widener Library...
Last week the quadrennial campaign for that job began under such extraordinary circumstances that even New Yorkers felt like voters in wonderland. For it appeared that 1) when they go to the polls on Nov. 2, they may find no Tammany candidate for mayor, and 2) if there is a Tammany candidate, he may well be found on the Republican ticket...
Josephine Hutchinson of the Eva LeGallienne repertory company and "Alice in Wonderland" scores again as the daughter of a fanatical mountaineer. Trained as a nurse, she attempts to aid her ignorant and hostile neighbors by her medical skill, but Pa, played by Robert Barrat, is the horse-whipping type, and, resenting the manner in which his daughter "keeps sticking her nose into other people's business", administers several lashings so convincingly that the audience greets his death with applause...
...Brimmerton. As will be evident from the partial inventory above of its dramatic materials, it is not a hastily concocted case history of the General Motors strike in Flint (TIME, Jan. 11 et seq.). It is a proletarian fairy tale in unrelieved black & white. Viewed from within its own wonderland it is vivid enough to enlist sympathy for the good fairies in their struggles against the hobgoblins. The play's nightmarish atmosphere is enhanced by Howard Bay's vast, sombre setting which represents the interior of an abandoned factory, dominated by the gutted carcass of a huge dynamo...