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OME of A. A. Milne’s songs of Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin were broadcast from 3YL recently; it was a one-man show and the compére singer was an American. This produced a curious effect. The singer entered into the spirit of the thing with a sympathy and understanding which should win him Dr. H. S. Canby’s highest approval, but all the time his voice presented to the mind the juxtaposition of Christopher Robin and Huckleberry Finn, Pooh and Donald Duck. One imagined that essentially bucolic and pastoral bear, standing in direct line of descent from Robin Hood and the Midsummer Night’s Dream, treating his new surroundings with a bewilderment as complete as his courtesy. And indeed the transplantation would hardly take effect, nor should it; the difference is too great and too valuable. In English folklore, derived from Celtic and Teutonic sources, giants exist to be slain with the maximum of despatch and the minimum of dignity; but Americans invented Paul Bunyan, the man scaled up to fit the size of the continent.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 315, 6 July 1945, Page 8
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175Milne or Disney New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 315, 6 July 1945, Page 8
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