Word: wonderlands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glozer: Children's Concert (Wonderland). With the aid of some infectiously gay patter and a sunny, open voice, Singer Glazer plays on a squealing suburban audience as expertly as he strums on the guitar. Thirteen selections, including Hush, Little Baby, Jimmie Crack Corn, Skip...
Treasure Island (Sir Donald Wolfit; Wonderland). Stevenson's adventure classic takes its tone from Long John Silver, who in illustration and dramatization too often emerges as merely quaint. Sir Donald makes him properly crafty, rapacious and murderous ("Wait, is what I say, but when the time comes-kill...
...Tale of Peter Rabbit (Vivien Leigh; Wonderland). Actress Leigh, with prams, St. James's Park and starched generations of nannies in her voice, makes her Peter sound a little like a nephew down on the holidays from school. Cozy without being cute...
...species great and small. From Fielding to C. P. Snow, British novelists have tanned, stuffed and labeled the leathery hide of reality. Ronald Firbank is one of a handful of writers who have refused to contribute to this useful collection, have instead preferred to people their own wonderland with creatures of their own invention. Firbank's wonderland-one story, nine "novels" and a sort of play-is all contained in the 766 pages of the Complete Firbank...
Vive la Différence. In this and other tales in this short-story collection, Marcel Ayme propels the reader down Alice's rabbit hole into a strange and satirical wonderland full of the perverse intractabilities of human nature. They illustrate his conviction that art and life tug in different directions, and celebrate that tension with a gusty "Vive la différence...