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Second in a series of "good will" productions directed at betterment of Pan American relations, "Three Caballeros" tries too hard to suggest political and social meaning and in the process loses much of the charm and simplicity which characterized "Snow White," "Bambi," or even "Pinocchio...
Education for Death is Walt Disney's distillation of Ziemer's survey to a nine-minute cartoon-a sort of Pinocchio in reverse. Little Hans is educated into a heiling, marching puppet, at last becomes a wooden cross marker in a vast military cemetery. Funniest bit: a Nazified fairy tale, in which the handsome, armored Prince (Hitler) wakes the rotund, snoozing Princess (Germany) with a kiss, lugs her away on a white horse to a boozy version of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. Most pointed bit: little Hans is punished for sympathizing with a fabled rabbit...
...Like Pinocchio's nose, the Crimson injury grows longer and longer. Yesterday three key men were added to the roster of those "who may or may not play Saturday," when it was revealed that bruises of various natures have sidelined Pete Garland, Tom Cowen, and Len Cummings...
Miss Fenner has no must list for child reading, observes: "When you come right down to it, there are precious few children's books that one couldn't live without." Still favorites, says she, are Tom Sawyer, Black Beauty, Pinocchio, Treasure Island, Grimms' Fairy Tales. But many modern stories are popular...
...Julius Caesar, Lord Byron, Columbus, Socrates, Lincoln, Mussolini, P. T. Barnum, Michelangelo, Clark Gable, et al. *To date, Snow White (cost: $1,300,000) has grossed a healthy $7,157,000; Pinocchio is $300,000 shy of its $2,500,000 investment; The Reluctant Dragon has earned a little more than a third of its $686,000 production cost; Fantasia, scheduled for general release soon, is within $500,000 of paying for itself...