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...read your July 11 review of Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp with increasing anger. I think that the ones to determine the worth of it are the millions of children and grownups who happen to love a good example of clean, refreshing entertainment...
...Coach Borah says that more eminent institutions of learning shop for tramp athletes, but put up a pious front, whereas he comes right out in the open. There is something to that ... If his methods catch on, we should not be surprised if other institutions of higher learning follow suit. One can imagine Yale appealing in the following terms...
...owner, but what you'd call an anti-dog lover . . . and I believe in leash laws [June 27] wholeheartedly . . . Our dog stays at home-he does not tramp through vegetables and flowers, relieve himself on strangers' lawns, vomit on back porches, tip garbage pails or roll in manure -nor, might I add, does he bark incessantly for no good reason . . . As delinquent children are the offspring of lazy parents, so are delinquent dogs the product of so-called "dog lovers," who find it easier to let the neighbors supervise their canine friends' activities...
...Scotty speaks with a burr; Trusty the bloodhound has a Southern accent; a dachshund talks like a comedy Dutchman; a borzoi spouts about Gorky with Russian flourishes. Whimsy is seldom more than a step ahead of whamsy: Jock and Trusty archly explain about sex to Lady just before Tramp does battle with three slavering mastiffs; a comic scene in the dog pound is closely followed by a parody of the "last mile" walk from the death house as a crazed dog is led off to be destroyed. The film's big terror scene takes place in a baby...
Lady and the Tramp (Walt Disney; Buena Vista) draws a bead on the susceptible hearts of some 20 million U.S. dog lovers with a 75-minute Cinema-Scope cartoon of the romance between a high-bred cocker spaniel (Lady) and a mongrel (Tramp) from the wrong side of the tracks. But, in humoring dog lovers, Disney may well lose friends among cat fanciers for his venomous portrait of a brace of Siamese cats (named Si and Am) that are noticeably lacking in the virtuous qualities that abound in the canine kingdom...