Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Carlo Collodi's children's classic, the picture is a morality tale. Kindly old Wood Carver Geppetto carves a puppet so lifelike that he is given life. But before the live puppet can become a boy he must become truthful, courageous, unselfish. His one constant companion in the adventures that test the little puppet is Jiminy Cricket, his conscience, "that still, small voice that nobody listens to." This worldly but goodhearted little insect, topped by a grey topper and swinging an umbrella ("a genuine Chamberlain" which he sometimes uses for a parachute), comes to work late...
...there any characters in Snow White to compare with J. Worthington Foulfellow, the actor-fox, who sells Pinocchio to the puppet show, or his shabby, screwloose, unscrupulous companion, Giddy, the cat. In satirizing this pair of ham actors, Disney is working on a new plane. This is no longer the playful caricaturing of old Wood Carver Geppetto, the frolicsome kitten or Jiminy Cricket. Foulfellow and Giddy are savage adult satire. They are even out of place in a children's picture. But they suggest the direction Disney may take if he ever makes a greater picture than Pinocchio...
...such dull-acting but extraordinary poems as Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus; insists the plays should be read aloud, staged with a minimum of scenery and business. There have been more brilliant and more monumental studies of Shakespeare. But for the general reader this is an almost ideally useful, informative companion volume to the plays, and guide to further reading...
...Palm Beach, Fla. stare-fleeing Greta Garbo shared stares with her latest traveling companion, Dietitian Bengamin Gayelord Hauser...
...aviation instructor. From the German Consulate he got money for his passage via Siberia. Last week he went to Harlem for one last fling before returning to the land of Aryans. When it was over he found he had lost $117. He got a policeman to arrest his party companion, a Negro lady named Miss Reno Jones. In court, the judge told Otto Prignitz he must wait, perhaps several weeks, to testify against Miss Jones. "I cannot wait that long," blustered Otto Prignitz. "I must obey Führer Hitler and get back to Germany at once. It is obvious...