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...Pinocchio), it is difficult to evaluate Walt Disney's exact share in the picture. Disney himself always says "we" instead of "I" in talking about his productions. But the producer's hand is apparent in Cleo, the coyly diaphanous goldfish; in the fluffy antics of Figaro, the kitten; above all in the creation of Jiminy Cricket...
...Worthington Foulfellow, the actor-fox, who sells Pinocchio to the puppet show, or his shabby, screwloose, unscrupulous companion, Giddy, the cat. In satirizing this pair of ham actors, Disney is working on a new plane. This is no longer the playful caricaturing of old Wood Carver Geppetto, the frolicsome kitten or Jiminy Cricket. Foulfellow and Giddy are savage adult satire. They are even out of place in a children's picture. But they suggest the direction Disney may take if he ever makes a greater picture than Pinocchio...
Marx Bros. At The Circus (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) checks the recent decline in Marx Brothers' pictures with two of their fastest, funniest sequences-a riotous Newport society and circus climax, and Groucho doing a combination rumba, tango and nautch dance with one pant leg kitten-ishly hoisted while he sings of his tattooed lost love, Lydia that Encyclopedia...
...began to bounce baseball out of the gymnasium-the Playground Society of America hauled indoor baseball outdoors as a good game for kids, added a tenth player (a rover). During the Depression, the U. S. army of unemployed, invading the nation's public parks, played playground ball (or kitten-ball, mushball, diamond ball-depending on the locality). As they dribbled back to work, they took their new pastime with them. Commercially sponsored teams popped up everywhere. Playground ball, renamed softball, became the No. 1 after-work diversion (as player or spectator) for U. S. office and factory workers. Last...
...vulgaris is one of the most versatile of all bird mimics. It not only imitates the songs of many birds but also reproduces, with uncanny fidelity, the cackle of a laying hen, the tentative chirps of young robins, the plaint of annoyed guinea fowl, even the mew of a kitten or the whistling...