Telescoping Alice
HERE is always a danger that classics are treated with more veneration than they warrant. I tried to tell myself that as I listened to the "novel" presentation .of Alice in Wonderland, with Ginger
Rogers as Alice, which was heard from 2YA the other Saturday evening. We were giveu an Americanised synopsis in half an hour, and this half-hour’s worth was well done, once we had adapted our idea of a mid-Victorian little girl to Ginger Rogers’ attractive but very American voice. But the trouble with nursery classics is that we know them too well. A producer could probably get away with a good deal of cutting even of Shakespeare, Dickens or Scott, but not of Peter Rabbit, or Peter Pan or Alice. Our memories at eight or nine were far. better than they were at 18 or 19, We still know just what has been left out and we miss it. And if indeed it was intended for the younger fry, why was it scheduled for 8.30 p.m.?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 301, 29 March 1945, Page 8
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171Telescoping Alice New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 301, 29 March 1945, Page 8
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