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...Little Accident. The Private Life of Helen of Troy will at last be made public on the stage. Sam H. Harris, no relative of Jed, will exhibit the Marx Brothers, Harpo (mum), Groucho (chattering), Chico (wop) and Zeppo in Animal Crackers. Arthur Hammerstein plans a "musicalization" of Alice in Wonderland. George C. Tyler will produce Macbeth with Margaret Anglin, Lyn Harding and settings by Gordon Craig. Anne Nichols threatens with Abie's Children and a musical version of Just Married. Florenz Ziegfeld has enticed Ina Claire back into the musical comedy from which she started. Alexander Moissi, late...
...Alice in Wonderland, loved these many years by doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief, was also loved by a newspaperman-very, very much. The offshoot of the affair was a daughter, also Alice, who started her pilgrimage through North Hysterica just as her mother's manuscript body was being cruelly contested by the book-collectors. Once in the Delighted States, by way of the stem of a drinking glass, Alice Jr. revolved with the Rotarians round a luncheon table, but when she refused to make a speech the Rotarian next to her feared the girl was moody: "That comes from being...
...Alice in Wonderland is a joke that some see, and some, deserving pity rather than scorn, do not. The same categories apply to the joke by Alice Jr.'s father, Colyumist Hope of the New York Herald-Tribune. Though his verse falls far short of Lewis Carroll's the narrative (packed as it is with social & political quips, flagrant puns and rare etymology) does credit to the English mathematician, and surpasses in satire more serious-minded modern U. S. Jeremiads. So also Rea Irvin's illustrations, which are excellently done...
...used before, for his more casual writings: Lewis Carroll. His book was illustrated by Sir John Tenniel, famed Punch cartoonist. In the first edition, the illustrations were so blurred that purchasers were advised to return their copies in exchange for nice clean second editions. From the start, Alice in Wonderland was a huge success. Queen Victoria wrote to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and asked him to send her some of his other books, whereupon, anxious to preserve the distinction between C. L. Dodgson and the frivolous Lewis Carroll, he sent her A Syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry, An Elementary Treatise...
...well be envied by all the children who have ever wanted to be told a story, took good care of the writing her friend had given her. When it was known, a short time ago, that she wanted to sell it, people wondered why. What kind of wonderland is this, they said, in which a little girl so fails to keep the "simple and loving heart of her childhood," that she will part with something that other persons find precious when it should be ten times more precious to her than to any one else? But Alice Liddell, like...