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...British Museum persuaded the Duke of Gloucester to part with a rare first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for $3,696. The Duke's volume is one of the few remaining of the 2,000 original copies withdrawn after printing in 1865 because Lewis Carroll objected to the reproduction quality of the Tenniel illustrations...
...feature of the issue, however, is the annual movie worsts and other things "as Lampy sees them." Lampy is quite perceptive here except in the case of Tales of Hoffman. Of course, most of his worsts, like Alice in Wonderland and Robert Taylor in Quo Vadis, are sitting ducks, but the placing of Mario Lanza under the banner, "biggest argument for stricter immigration laws," is a clever ploy. Lampy shows his baser side only when he calls Franchot Tone "most miscast" for Tone's portrayal of a Boston Brahmin in Here Comes the Groom...
Among those on the list, which appears in the March issue, are "Tales of Hoffman," "Alice in Wonderland," and "Here Comes the Groom." Robert Taylor in "Quo Vadis" and Corinne Calvet in "On the Riviera" were labeled the worst individual performances of the year...
Jonathan Swift was such a man with Gulliver's Travels. Lewis Carroll with Alice in Wonderland, and Walt Kelley with Pogo are others. And now to this list is added the name of Frank Tashlin and his things that aren...
...Alice in Wonderland...