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...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT is a chatter-and-patter revue by two stage personalities, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, who might have come through the looking glass. They lead their devotees through a wonderland of whimsy, where, among other things, a nearsighted armadillo falls in love with a tank...
...final confirmation was needed that the old curmudgeon is indeed mellowing, he switched TV roles last week. Instead of appearing as the barbed interviewer, he played the part of the jolly, flippant gryphon in a performance of Alice in Wonderland. Since this modern, de-animalized version had Freudian overtones, the BBC declared it unsuitable for children under twelve. But Muggeridge won warm reviews anyway. "Mr. Muggeridge's whole life," wrote Geoffrey Moorhouse in the Guardian, "has been leading up to the evening when he would dance a dab-toed quadrille, before a carefully prepared audience, against...
SWEET CHARITY, a musical suggested by Fellini's Nights of Cabirici, chronicles the sexcapades of a Manhattan taxi dancer who's looking for a one-way ticket to the altar. Gwen Verdon leads a high-kicking troupe through Bob Fosse's choreographic wonderland...
When, at campaign's end, Buckley wandered out of the political wonderland he had wrought, he was bemused by the thought that he had "really and truly become a politician-and how would I formulate that sin at my next session with my confessor?" Given the entertainment with which he enlivened New York's 1965 campaign, Buckley should probably be assigned no greater penance than reading his own book-twice...
...literary critics, most of them would be lost without pop-psych, though not all go the distance with Britain's William Empson in his analysis of Alice in Wonderland. Alice, noted Empson, fell "through a deep hole into the secrets of Mother Earth," where she found herself "in a long, low hall, part of the palace of the Queen of Hearts (a neat touch)," from which the only way out was "through a hole frighteningly too small." In short, Alice re-enacted the birth trauma...