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...small two-way projector known as a moviola, the animator spots "bugs and bobbles," jerkiness or missteps in the animation. Not until a set of drawings is approved by Walt and the director does it go to the inking and "painting department, where over 150 nimble-fingered girls trace the sketches on 12½-by-15-in. celluloid transparencies, called "cels," paint in the designated coloring from a store of 1,500 colors and shadings. All Disney cartoons have been done in color since February...
Typical of his half-realistic, half-symbolic stories is "And in the Distance a Light . . ." that tells how a group of militiamen in Madrid find a spy flashing a light in the dark, kill him after they locate the spy to whom he is signaling. All night long they trace the light across the city, killing an engineer, an aviator, a girl, until by morning they have reached the front lines of the fascists, are still feverishly following the gleam when fascist bullets stop their search...
...that only a Central European can write a good symphony, little Finland's great man Sibelius is regarded by many a musician as the lineal successor of Beethoven and Brahms. His present fame has arrived slowly and late. His music, individual, serious, austere and sometimes forbidding, contains no trace of modernistic tricks or formulas. As he once remarked to his publisher (in Swedish) "Här i utlandet fabricemr ni cocktails i olika külorer, och nu kommer jag med rena källvattnet" ("Other composers may manufacture cocktails of every color; I offer the public pure cold...
...head of the business, who engineers his mother into an asylum; Greg, a notorious playboy; Corinne, sexually inhibited divorcee; Gay, a liberal professor at Columbia University. Considering each of the Colemans as a main stream of his story, Author Rice feeds into them as many tributaries as he can trace down. Thus Christopher's story is fed by his beautiful artists' model, his frigid, hypochondriac wife, his board of directors, particularly by a multimillionaire department-store owner whose business contributes a dozen more stories. The beautiful, shanty Irish gold digger who feeds Greg's story...
...addition a special employee has been stationed behind the desk in the Delivery Room, whose job it is to trace all lost books and those reported missing. Further, the overhead lighting in the Reading Room has been doubled in intensity during the last three weeks. The indirect lights already installed on the tables do not work so well with a vaulted ceiling as with a flat, white ceiling, but the overhead illumination has been doubled to overcome a part of this difficulty...