Word: pans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the U.S. (he won the Elkhart Lake, Wis. race twice), Europe and South America, where he won the "Eva Perón Stakes," the National Argentine Sports Car Race, in 1951. He often drives for famed U.S. Sports-Car builder Briggs Cunningham,* and in last November's Pan-American race he became the first U.S. driver since the days of Barney Oldfield to drive a car (Mercedes) sponsored by Daimler-Benz...
...Peter Pan (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) is a happy blend of Sir James M. Barrie and Walt Disney. Barrie's durable 49-year-old play about "the boy who would not grow up," with its flights of fancy and its flights through the window, is made to order for the animated cartoon. It is full of "pretend" and all such "various tomfool things" as pixies, pirates, Indians and mermaids, who romp among the grottoes, glades, coves and lagoons of the magical isle of Never Land...
...Barrie characters are intact: Peter Pan, who wants "always to be a little boy and to have fun":* Wendy and her younger brothers, John and Michael, who accompany Peter on his personally conducted flying tour of Never Land; that dark and dreadful man, Captain Jas Hook with his syrupy voice and steel-hook hand, and his comic-strip crew of pirates; the Lost Boys, a tatterdemalion band of motherless waifs; Tiger Lily, demure princess of the Piccaninny Tribe of Indians; a popeyed, ticktocking crocodile who continually stalks the hysterically frightened Hook...
...show-stealer is Tinker Bell, Peter Pan's lustrously blonde playmate. On the stage, Tinker Bell has usually been depicted as a flicker of light. (In the earlier movie version, she was an automobile headlight bulb decorated with tinsel, and manipulated with a fluttery movement on the end of a fishing pole.) Through the magic of the animated cartoon, she is a bosomy little vamp, not much bigger than a dot of light, who flits about enchantingly with a silvery tinkle of bells in a sprinkle of golden pixie dust...
...Departing from theatrical tradition Disney has cast Peter Pan as a real boy (with Bobby Driscoll's voice on the sound track). On the stage, Peter has traditionally been played by women: on Broadway, from Maude Adams (1905) to Jean Arthur (1950). In a 1925 movie version of Peter Pan, Betty Bronson (see cut) played the title role...