Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as his "Stories for Children" reached 142,000 sales, Peary was busy cutting a second set, The Brave Little Tailor (based on Grimms' Gallant Tailor who killed "seven at one blow") and Cinderella...
...heard with appropriate thunder on unbreakable plastic records, which catch the crescendos without the mushiness of ordinary records. Best is Toscanini's job on La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie). Also in Victor's second plastic album are the overtures to The Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola (Cinderella) and Il Signor Bruschino. Performance : excellent...
...company a month ago after a union fight, put a figure of $100,000 on the Appliance Division. But the lucky three were not looking their gift horse in the mouth. Said former Division Manager, now company President J. O. Clary: "We were completely overwhelmed. I feel like Cinderella at Christmas time...
...Niederzwehren, from peasants and villagers, from family friends and old nursemaids, from medieval manuscripts and ancient collections, the Grimm brothers gleaned the vast leavings of literature that had been blown into medieval Germany over the centuries by the winds of Hindu mythology, Irish balladry, Gothic minstrelsy. But today Cinderella, Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Tom Thumb, et al. have become so much a part of western folklore that the Brothers Grimm's labors in reviving them have been largely forgotten, watered-down, or vilified...
...bright paint which stains each character in the true color of his wickedness. In the original Grimm, here reproduced, stepmothers are so hardhearted that the reader can have no sympathy with them whatever. The Queen in Snow White actually eats the supposed liver and lungs of her hated stepdaughter. Cinderella's stepmother will not acquiesce in her ugly daughters' loss of a throne merely because their feet are outsize. With the practical observation that "when you are a Queen you will have no more need to go on foot," she casually lops off a toe or a heel...