ALICE THROUGH the LOOKING GLASS by LEWIS R ’’ ROLL

by LEW IS CARROLL Adapted by Douglas Cleverdon ZRG SI80/I ALICE THROUGH THE

JANE ASHER as “ALICE”

Vivienne Chatterton as Gnat and Bose Mary O’Farrell as White Queen Norman Shelley as White Knight Frank Duncan as Humpty Dumpty. Red King and Frog Janette Richer as Tiger Lily, Charles Stidwell as White King, Daisy 2, and Lion and Goat Deryck Guyler as Tweedledum, Guard, Creature Horse and Pudding Marjorie Westbury as Red Queen, Carleton Hobbs as Tweedledee and Toby Robertson as Unicom and Shrill Singer and Gentleman Red Knight Daisy 1

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Children who enjoy Alice in Wonderland will find, if he finally agreed to do the pictures for Through the by Ian Cooke. The story is told, as on the Wonder¬ they have not already savoured the delights of Looking Glass “ at such spare times as he could find," land records, by Margaretta Scott. The sleeve was Through the Looking Glass, that like their parents and and Dodgson started work, using some material (such designed by Harley J. Usill and the Tenniel drawings grand-parents and great-grandparents before them as the Jabberwocky poem) which he had written years appear by courtesy of Walt Disney Productions. they will enjoy Alice's adventures in the Looking before. For the framework Lewis Carroll used a game Glass world just as much or even more than her of chess. Alice starts as a Pawn ; after various © (Argo Copyright) strange journey which began when she fell down the encounters with Queens and Knights, she reaches the rabbit hole. Eighth Square and becomes a Queen herself; and Indeed, so perfectly is the flavour of Alice retained then as the Red Queen has promised, "it's all feasting Cover photograph of Jane Asher by Pamela Chandler in Looking Glass that many adult devotees of Lewis and fun "—until Alice wakes from her dream and Carroll would find it hard to remember which charac¬ finds that the Red Queen was really the black kitten ters appear in which book. Certainly the Looking after all. Glass characters are as immortal as any that Lewis In this recorded production of Through the Looking Carroll ever created—Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Glass Alice is again played by Jane Asher of whom Humpty Dumpty, the Red Queen and the White The Times in reviewing the Argo records of Alice in Queen, and, above all, the White Knight, who, in his Wonderland, RG 145/146 (stereo version ZRG 5145/ gentle courtesy, in his rather pathetic self-sufficiency, 5146) wrote :— and in his wild flights of fancy seems to represent Lewis Carroll himself. Then there are the unforgetta¬ “ Mr. Douglas Cleverdon has had the good fortune ble poems—Jabberwocky, and the White Knight's to find a Tenniel Alice. She is known from the song of The Aged Aged Man, and that masterpiece illustrations to be a little girl who in any age would The Walrus and the Carpenter. And of course Alice have an old-fashioned look, and the voice of twelve- herself is again the star around which all the other year-old Jane Asher carries this old-fashioned look characters revolve. In his new illustrations for into sound. It is not too sweet and not too prim, Through the Looking Glass, Tenniel added a band over and it has precisely the right hint of pure childhood her hair and gave her a frilly apron instead of a plain behind the slightly puzzled acceptance of things one. But in everything else she is the same as before experienced for the first time. The child actress is —as Lewis Carroll himself described her, “ loving and a ‘ natural' in the part and appears to go through gentle ; courteous to all, high or low : trustful, ready it with the minimum of direction." to accept the wildest impossibilities with all that Two newcomers to the Wonderland cast are Toby utter trust that only dreamers know; and lastly, Robertson who plays the Unicorn and Mary O'Farrell curious—wildly curious, and with the eager enjoy¬ who joins Marjorie Westbury to form the perfectly ment of life that comes only in the happy hours of contrasted White and Red Queens. childhood." Carleton Hobbs and Deryck Guyler who appear as It was not until two years after the publication of Tweedledum and Tweedledee thus also share between Alice in Wonderland (in 1866) that Lewis Carroll (as them The Walrus and the Carpenter. Frank Duncan the Revd C. L. Dodgson called himself) started to plays the self-possessed Humpty Dumpty, Norman write Through the Looking Glass. He was anxious to Shelley, whose Caterpillar in Wonderland was the get Tenniel again as the illustrator ; but in illustrating height of languid superiority, here plays the White Alice Tenniel had found Dodgson pernickety and Knight with touching dignity, and Vivienne Chatter- difficult to please, and he was by no means anxious to ton's Gnat has to be heard to be believed. On this Margaretta Scott reading to her children3 Susan and Hugh, undertake a second book. However, in June, 1868, recording the sound effects were specially managed of Alice's wonderful adventures.

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SIDE ONE : Looking-Glass House SIDE THREE : Humpty Dumpty The Garden of Live Flowers The Lion and the Unicorn Looking Glass Insects It’s my own Invention

SIDE FOUR : It’s my own Invention (cont.) Shaking and Waking Which Dreamed It ?

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