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...times gone by when candy canes weren't sticky and decorations never fell from the Christmas tree. But that was a long time ago. For now the Salvation Army seems a depressing crew and the snow flakes seem to make the world a muddy mess rather than a winter wonderland. And it seems all too apparent, nowadays, that reindeer have foul breath and that nine out of ten Santas are phony while the other guy isn't a member of the union...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Riverside, 4 LPs) appeals both to ear and eye by accompanying its long-playing records with a facsimile volume of the first edition of Lewis Carroll's book. The reading, by Cyril Ritchard, is at times too arch and patronizing; Alec Wilder's original musical score is pleasant...
...women and a man had little rapport with the Bach, and all by itself was pretty poor. The three dancers did not seem agreed as to the meaning of the simple pastoral dance they were trancing their way through. The Bach was followed by Two Choruses from Alice in Wonderland. The Lobster Quadrille, featuring six girls in red flannel pajamas playing crustacean, was not art but was lots of fun. Father William was charmingly danced by Jane Classen and Adele Logan. The choreography by Miss Classen was repititious at times, but still pleasant...
...story at first seems to be a French Alice in Wonderland, but soon ties some reality to the originally puzzling circumstances. A young milliner finds herself on a Brittany estate where an ice cream man sell no ice cream, a cab driver keeps rabbits in his ivy-grown cab, and Helen Hayes, looking like a magnificent ninety-year-old Mad- woman of Chaillot, sweeps in and out of the reception room, ecstatically explaining nothing. It shortly becomes clear that the Duchess (Helen Hayes) has in various ways frozen time, for the sake of her melancholy nephew the prince (Richard Burton...
...giant birthday cake, plugging a movie called Rainbow Road to Oz. Peter Pan Peanut Butter interrupted a fetching cartoon depiction of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, which Disney dragged out of his attic of past hits for a commercial on its crunchy product. Even Alice in Wonderland got helplessly involved in the selling melee: "Was it the smile on my Cheshire cat," asks Alice, "or the smile on my Jello...