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...native series. Other factors that raise this above the ordinary are: a better than average story of tropic love, hate, and retribution; a good cast of supporting actors, especially Lynne Overman; and a very realistic sequence of the eruption of a volcano, fully as terrifying as the eruption in Fantasia's "Rites of Spring...
...Dragon (Disney-RKO-Radio) is billed as Walt Disney's fourth full-length cartoon movie. Actually, it is two and a half Disney shorts with Comic Robert Benchley and a conducted tour through the Disney works thrown in for good measure. Unlike its renowned predecessors (Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia} it does not vastly expand the wonderful dreamworld which has flowed for 13 years from the inspired cartoonist's imagination...
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Members of the BBC Symphony, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50). A contemporary Englishman weaves dark traceries on a churchly strain, by a 16th-century court composer. Spaciously recorded by BBC's strings...
...witness, one Samuel I. Goldberg, took the stand. Mr. Goldberg testified that his 13½-year-old son Richard returned from a camp last summer full of Communist ideas. The boy's camp counselor was a City College biology tutor. When the tutor recently invited Richard to see Fantasia with him, Papa said "No." The boy sulked. But last week Richard announced sunnily: "Daddy, you are right. I see Mr. Weisman's name in the paper. He's a Communist." Replied Mr. Goldberg: "Daddy's always right...
Entering the theatre already equipped with personal imagery for the music is a handicap, but the most expert of musicologists can thoroughly enjoy "Fantasia" if he will make a little effort at mental flexibility to meet the draftsmen balfway...