The Great Gildersleeve
HE only Gildersleeve mentioned in the Encyclopaedia Britannica is he whose textbook on Latin Grammar is familiar to many students. But it is to another Gildersleeve, that raconteur par excellence, that the title of "Great" is given, and justifiably, we consider, after hearing his version of Rumpelstiltskin from 2YA last Wednesday. The recipe for success in this particular genre appears simple-Wish Wynne knew the secret of retelling the traditional version in the local idiom and aiming it at an adult audience. But it is perhaps the Great Gildersleeve’s laugh that is his chief asset. It’s spine-chillingly funny, and if we accept Peter Pan’s pronouncement on the origin of fairies it seems likely that the Great Gildersleeve’s first laugh splintered itself into zombies. Both
the laugh and its possessor seem completely at home in the gargoyled edifices of the Brothers Grimm.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 366, 28 June 1946, Page 14
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143The Great Gildersleeve New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 366, 28 June 1946, Page 14
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