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Kidnapped (Walt Disney; Buena Vista). Robert Louis Stevenson's casual classic was written, he confessed, with "no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman's attention from his Ovid." Walt Disney's movie version may persuade the young gentlemen that Latin homework is a comparative pleasure...
Like all the Disney adaptations of famous boys' books (Treasure Island, Rob Roy), Kidnapped shuns the grandeurs that encumber most of Hollywood's hysterical historicals. The picture is made to the scale of the book, which is modest. Unfortunately, in trying to keep it small, Director Stevenson has also made it insignificant; and in trying to temper its excitement, he has let it become dull...
...Richard E. Byrd set out on his first Antarctic expedition, and Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly the Atlantic. Thornton Wilder won a Pulitzer Prize for The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Warner Brothers released the first all-talking picture, The Lights of New York, and Walt Disney produced his first Mickey Mouse cartoon, Plane Crazy. In the World Series, the New York Yankees walloped the St. Louis Cardinals in four straight, with Babe Ruth hitting three home runs in the final game. In August at Paris, the U.S. and 14 other nations signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact...
...Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Donald is caught in a mock-duck version of This is Your Life...
...could Europeans stomach U.S. plans to have Walt Disney stage the games' pageantry (fireworks, 20,000 balloons, an orchestra of 1,285, a chorus of 2,645 singing the opening hymn These Things Shall Be). Harrumphed Switzerland's Otto Mayer, chancellor of the International Olympic Committee: "All this hoopla has little to do with the Olympic spirit, and I've wired the U.S. accordingly." Shrilled Zurich's Sport: "Assigning the Games to Squaw Valley was a big mistake. The committee fell for the big bluff of smart American businessmen...