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...period flavor, and fell from favor. But with his like-minded peers Jack Levine and Ben Shahn, Evergood has come back strong in recent years, steadily, if spottily, extending the range of his art. An Evergood show today is apt to run the gamut from gloomy realism through cartoon-style satire to exuberant fantasy, and to include some of the freshest and most skillful canvases of the season...
Walt Disney has for so long parlayed gooey sentiment and stark horror into profitable cartoons that most moviegoers are apt to be more surprised than disappointed to discover that the combination somehow does not work this time. The songs, by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke, are naggingly reminiscent of other tunes, but none of the cartoon creatures-except, possibly, a whistling beaver playing a bit part-have a fraction of the lovable charm of those in Disney's earlier fables...
Lady and the Tramp (Walt Disney; Buena Vista) draws a bead on the susceptible hearts of some 20 million U.S. dog lovers with a 75-minute Cinema-Scope cartoon of the romance between a high-bred cocker spaniel (Lady) and a mongrel (Tramp) from the wrong side of the tracks. But, in humoring dog lovers, Disney may well lose friends among cat fanciers for his venomous portrait of a brace of Siamese cats (named Si and Am) that are noticeably lacking in the virtuous qualities that abound in the canine kingdom...
...what a stinker you're going to be next year!" gloats the little boy in the cartoon, as he looks himself up in the child-care book. This is no joke to Author Whitman, who feels that, in living too much by the book and trying to fit himself into patterns, modern man has become a pretty frightening character...
Future: One Pentagon officer who knows him well said: "He'll shake this place plenty. Around here it's liable to be like it was when La Guardia was boss in City Hall in New York. Remember that cartoon-the little guy with the big hat walking into City Hall, the building jumping and shaking, the little guy walking out and the building settling back? Just you wait...