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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...
...voice, by courtesy of Booby Driscoll, is that of any boy who duels with pirates and rescues Indian Princesses: it reeks with pleasant bravura. Disney's animators make Peter a consummate actor, posturing and posing with verve unequalled since the elder Fairbanks...
...fine show, and Disney's techniques seem particularly suited to Barrie's nimble story. So those who have sampled the stage production will do well to savor the new product. Those who have never applauded for Tinkerbelle's life should brave the throng of popcorn munching gamins and see it before they grow up and it's too late...
...same bill is another Disney "True-Adventure" featuring the life and times of some photogenic bears. Nature must have some special love for Disney because animals act for his camera men with more compliance than most directors can expect from Equity's brightest stars. It is fitting companion to Peter Pan, and a fascinating short in itself...