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...unlamented oblivion, has taken along in its wake a handsome company of notables. The old time elect, the salt of the earth the repositories of 100 per cent Americanism, have departed from the limelight and left only unsavory memories and economic chaos beyond anything Alice might have encountered in Wonderland...
...front cover) It took Paramount 56 days to wrap up Lewis Carroll's masterpiece of nonsense and deliver it to U. S. cinema audiences for Christmas. As a prize package for the holidays the picture presented great problems to match great possibilities. To begin with, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass had to be telescoped into one script. A cast of Big Names had to be assembled for publicity purposes and yet a Nobody had to play Alice. Artist John Tenniel's familiar characters had to be imitated if not exactly copied. And finally the screen...
Colonial--"Alice in Wonderland." Eva LeGallienne as actress-director, and Josephine Hutchinson as Alice head a good cast in a perfectly delightful production of Lewis Carrol's classic...
...prone to evil from his youth, but it is the opposite of fatalism. It may be guardedly optimistic, in finding that the intellectually discovered key to the good life is easily used by the will, but it is equally the opposite of that Rousseauian naturalistic optimism, that Alice-in-Wonderland adventure of the self which finds the whole of goodness concealed in its own closets, and which reads Rabelais's Theleme injunction wrenched from its context. The philosophy of humanism is essentially and necessarily dualistic, and is continuous with the best expressions of that philosophy in history; with Aristotle...
...Cabin"--it doesn't sound right. However, this play is scheduled to open Monday, October ninth, at the Colonial. Eva Le Gallienne's company comes on the sixteenth of October to the same theatre to present "Romeo and Juliet"; it will give a single benefit performance of "Alice in Wonderland," which is worth seeing. So popular was it in New York last season that it was moved to Broadway from the 14th Street Theatre...