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Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Disney; RKO Radio) is an uneven doubleheader by Walt Disney, who has combined into one film two dissimilar literary classics: Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. The contrast in the handling of the two unrelated stories neatly illustrates some of Disney's outstanding vices & virtues...
...Ichabod and Mr. Toad," a film happily uncluttered with "live" Hollywood actors, marks Walt Disney's return to the field of the straight animated cartoon. The result is uneven, but its high spots are as completely charming as any of Disney's earlier successes...
...Brashest of the trio is Henry Morgan, 34, whose acid, uneven comedy has usually been based on his distaste for sponsors. Morgan, who will try anything, tried (and failed) this spring to do a TV show in addition to his sustaining radio program...
Peacocks & Pictures. La Punta was part of the inspiration for Las Astas, the breeding ranch in Tom Lea's bestselling The Brave Bulls (TIME, April 25). It sprawls over 15,000 hectares (about 37,000 acres) of the uneven tablelands of eastern Jalisco. In the aftermath of Mexico's revolution, most big properties were broken up into small farms, but La Punta, like other ranches devoted to breeding fighting bulls, was exempted and cut by only one-half. Few Mexicans objected to this grant of privilege; not even freedom had more profound and compelling connotations than la fiesta...
...Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend {20th Century-Fox} is a wild-eyed jamboree starring Betty Grable and co-starring the explosive, uneven talents of Writer-Director-Producer Preston Sturges (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek). The show is a running battle between sex and slapstick, which to most right-minded Grable fans will seem an impertinent piece of lese majesty...