Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Get tickets for Emil and the Detectives, and opera glasses — some of the child actors are tiny

Plus: When Dickens is a hippie with a goatee, and Tiny Tim's crutch turns into an all-American prop (not a machine gun)

On the train with Emil Tischbein and his precious cargo [Getty Images/Shutterstock/Alamy/iStock] 
issue 04 January 2014
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