Word: walt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just how terrible a time the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe had with her children can be vividly illustrated by the statement that she had as many struggling brats as Walt Whitman had unruly ideas. The analogy becomes quite compelling after one has read this discussion of the politico-social ideas of Walt Whitman, in which Mr. Arvin makes it quite clear that the poet's mind was filled by the most numerous and most contradictory feelings on almost every conceivable subject. Mr. Arvin, who graduated from Harvard in 1921, although he does display an admirable understanding...
...equal interest is Walt Disney's cartoon "Ferdinand the Bull." The freshness of the book is not spoiled even though Ferdinand wiggles his nose too violently as he sits "just quietly" and smells the flowers. The bull fight is very splendid. In addition there is another "feature" about football and college and things...
...Garden, this was apparently meant to show Sculpture for the Home. Sculptor William Zorach's Youth won a great deal of admiration for its clean-cut and subtle modeling; Robert Cronbach's well-constructed little group Industry, and Warren Wheelock's exuberant figure of Walt Whitman, Salut an Monde (see cut), showed a new ease with planes and masses. Both made art critics wish for their enlargement to a less inti mate scale, and Wheelock's conception of Old Brooklynite Whitman stirred up local talk of monumentalizing the poet. In Manhattan, meanwhile. Justin Sturm, famed...
Three amusing Walt Disney cartoons and an excellent newstreet complete an exceptionally well-balanced program...
...Hollywood Producer Walt Disney announced that he had bought the screen rights to Peter Pan; learned that Singers Adriana Caselotti and Harry Stockwell, who sang the roles respectively of Snow White and Prince Charming, in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, were suing him for $300,000, as their share of the profits from the sale of phonograph records...