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Even college men, their minds calloused from wielding the tools of education, will find it possible to admire with spontaneous enthusiasm the one and only Snow White. Mr. Disney and his staff have created a fantasy as real as the illusion of life from the story by the brothers Grimm, a fantasy that will recall the most concealed of childhood memories. The wicked stepmother is very wicked, Prince Charming is very charming, and Snow White is indeed innocence personified...
...last week, only rare exceptions to this consensus had been filed. The New York News humphed editorially: "Nevertheless, we'd rather see seven reels of Ginger Rogers, Jeanette MacDonald or several others. . . ." And last week the New Masses, following its Marxian line, grumped that Disney had bowdlerized Grimm's "savage and moral" tale, had turned out a version "a little too genial," with "too much of the trees-in-the-breeze quality...
...fairy stories, 81 adventure tales, 85 biographies of human and animal heroes, miscellaneous books on civics, history, hobbies, religion, etiquette. The list contains such old standbys as Alice in Wonderland, such new ones as Munro Leaf's sensational best-selling Ferdinand, expurgated versions of Mother Goose and Grimm's Fairy Tales, omits such scary items as the Russian Fairy Tales, Slovenly Peter. For delinquents "above average intelligence" in the "Grades 9-12" group is included James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Typical title for little delinquents: Winnie-the-Pooh; for slightly older ones: Eleanor Roosevelt...
...fate of characters who were just drawings, was convinced that Walt Disney had done it again. Snow White is as exciting as a Western, as funny as a haywire comedy. It combines the classic idiom of folklore drama with rollicking comic-strip humor. A combination of Hollywood, the Grimm Brothers, and the sad, searching fantasy of universal childhood, it is an authentic masterpiece, to be shown in theatres and beloved by new generations long after the current crop of Hollywood stars, writers and directors are sleeping where no Prince's kiss can wake them...
...changes have been made in the Grimm story. The dwarfs have been developed until each has a character of his own-that of Dopey so unexpectedly heart-winning that Disney may use the mute, youngest dwarf in a series of his own. Wood creatures have been animated with the same type of clever personalities that birds and animals acquire in the Disney shorts. Songs, dialogue in verse, dialogue in prose and silent sequences with incidental sound and music have been worked into a harmonious pattern. Catchiest tune: Hi-Ho, as the dwarfs trudge home from work. Tunesmiths: Frank Churchill...