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...Make Me." Ketcham started cartooning as a Hollywood animator, got a job with Disney at $25 a week. In the Navy during the war, he did cartoons for service publications, later began a regular panel in the Satevepost called Half-Hitch. Dennis was born almost two years ago, when the Ketchams were sighing over their own Dennis, aged 4½, and Mrs. Ketcham remarked, "Dennis is a menace." Father Ketcham, who looks like Dennis' cartoon father, had little trouble taking it from there. There was Dennis standing at a police sergeant's elbow, a slingshot sticking...
...raised cartoon animation to high intellectual plane with stylized, angular drawing, while Disney's characters remain round, warm and fine companions. The drawing is so expert that after the first few minutes of watching the screen I forgot that Peter was being played by a number 3 indelible pencil...
Peter Pan. J.M. Barri's fantasy about "the boy who would not grow up" in a freewheeling, feature-length, Technicolor cartoon adaptation by Walt Disney (TIME...
...Disney; RKO Radio) is a happy blend of Sir James M. Barrie and Walt Disney. Barrie's durable 49-year-old play about "the boy who would not grow up," with its flights of fancy and its flights through the window, is made to order for the animated cartoon. It is full of "pretend" and all such "various tomfool things" as pixies, pirates, Indians and mermaids, who romp among the grottoes, glades, coves and lagoons of the magical isle of Never Land...
...blonde playmate. On the stage, Tinker Bell has usually been depicted as a flicker of light. (In the earlier movie version, she was an automobile headlight bulb decorated with tinsel, and manipulated with a fluttery movement on the end of a fishing pole.) Through the magic of the animated cartoon, she is a bosomy little vamp, not much bigger than a dot of light, who flits about enchantingly with a silvery tinkle of bells in a sprinkle of golden pixie dust...