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Sloan Simpson Show (weekdays 9:05 p.m., station WOR) stars the ex-wife of New York's ex-Mayor Bill O'Dwyer. On a typical show, breathless, throaty-voiced ex-Model Sloan gave a brief review of the Walt Disney movie. The Living Desert ("Really most unusual"), interviewed two sponsors of Manhattan's Blue Cotillion Ball ("When most people think of balls they are apt to think they are selfish-but this one is for a most worthy cause"), and ended her 25-minute show with a plug for a midtown restaurant ("It's wonderful...
...Walt Disney, finding that he cannot buck the new trend in cartoons started by Bosustow & Co. (TIME, Jan. 30, 1951), has apparently decided to join it. Two striking evidences of this intention are now on public view...
Done with the usual Disney care for detail and sense of comic pace, and with more than the usual share of good visual surprises, the cartoon reaches a most un-Disney-like climax in a fine burst of political irreverence...
...first cartoon to be made in CinemaScope, purports to tell the history of the four main families of musical instruments (brass, woodwind, string and percussion). In style a clean steal from the Bosustow cartoons (which, in turn, borrowed tricks from such modern artists as Paul Klee), Toot takes Disney in one jump from the nursery to the intellectual cocktail party. There are moments-in the musical score especially-when the film does not seem quite sure how to behave...
...Living Desert. Walt Disney's first full-length film of nature in the raw. Seldom mild, often cruelly beautiful (TIME...