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Annotated Alice, explains Carroll's rhymes and references and brightens the strange engravings of Henry Holiday. The choice of Holiday, Gardner says, was a classic Carrollian irony. In his day (circa 1870) the illustrator was renowned as a designer of stained-glass windows, among them a Crucifixion and Ascension that still stand at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Manhattan...
...grasshopper) this fifth program in Center Screen's Animation Series covers chronologically such spoofs as Jiri Trnka's Song of the Prairie, 1949 (a spaghetti Western complete with an operatic cowboy) and concludes with the surrealistic Jabberwocky of Jan Svank-majer, a sinister turn of the screw on a Carrollian child-world of Victorian dolls. Included are some landmarks in the medium: Wills O'Brien's Creation, a test film that sold his talents to the producers of King Kong, and Birth of the Robot, a 1936 advertisement for Shell Oil, with perhaps unintentional subtleties. Technical masterpieces, these films...
...theater's seating capacity. Thus, in a house with more than 1,300 seats, a musical scored for only five musicians must still have a full orchestra of 25 plus a conductor. The extra 20 simply walk away with a check. Local 802 Leader Max Arons explains with Carrollian logic: "We have to protect the public from being cheated. A couple of instruments can make a lot of noise today, but the public is paying for an orchestra and they should...
...Lewis Carroll Handbook, by Roger Lancelyn Green, lists no fewer than 561 memorabilia on or by the enigmatic Oxford don. The Alice adventures and The Hunting of the Snark have given the language a host of full-blooded words such as chortle, galumphing and burble. Learned Carrollian treatises include farfetched Freudian analyses, one of which purports to show that Dodgson suffered from a "reversal of unresolved Oedipal attachment." In the untidy, inventive White Knight, who of all Carroll's characters is the only one who shows affection for Alice, scholars see a self-caricature. Some commentators think that...
Clare Scott as the Red Queen, Lee Jeffries as the White Queen, and Timothy Cogan as the Mad Hatter give their parts true Carrollian personalities, although Cogan is too often difficult to understand. All the other characters add ably to the total merriment, and when Alice asks at the end, "Wasn't it a wonderful dream?" even the jaded will be liable to agree...