Word: walt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Golden Harvest (Paramount) like many another Hollywood problem play, tries earnestly to take sides on a controversial question without offending anyone. A well-to-do wheat farmer has two sons. One of them, Walt Martin (Richard Arlen) stays at home, marries a neighbor's daughter, begets twins and tours his fields happily in a tractor. Walt's older brother Chris (Chester Morris) goes to Chicago, makes a fortune speculating in wheat, marries the egotistical daughter (Genevieve Tobin) of the richest speculator in the Pit. When wheat prices go down and foreclosed mortgages-without which even a problem play...
...afraid of the big, bad wolf?" sang the cocky little pigs in Walt Disney's Silly Symphony, the technicolor short which, held over in Manhattan ever since its appearance last spring (TIME, June 5), is still talk-of-the-town. The big, bad wolf came, a frightful shaggy fellow with dripping chops and a chest as big as a barrel. He huffed & he puffed & he blew down the houses of sticks and straws, sent the foolish piglets scuttling to the wise piglet's house where they hid under a bed, yet like professional pluggers kept repeating their song...
According to the contract Irving Berlin and Walt Disney (whose income already amounts to $400,000 a year) will share the profits. But Disney will give half his share to his staff composer and conductor, Frank Churchill, a tall shy Rumford, Me., native who is responsible for all the tunes that Mickey Mouse and the Disney animals jig to. Disney gives him a story in terms of line drawings and film frames. Churchill works out a score which must have a definite number of beats for each of the frames so that the sound-track will synchronize perfectly with...
Many were the Pre-Raphaelitish extracurricular activities. They published a short-lived magazine, Germ. They were charter readers and enthusiasts over Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Edward Fitz-Gerald's translation of the Rubaiyat. They started an interior decorating company, "destined to banish Plush and Fuss from the Victorian drawing-room. . . ." But their most enthusiastically-pursued activity was the cult of Pre-Raphaelite woman. First came Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, called "Lizzie" for short, a long-necked, beauteous but goitrous milliner's assistant. For a while their common model, she became by tacit consent the property...
...Methodist William Leroy ("Bill") Stidger, now of Boston's Church of All Nations, has been criticized as "sensational" and "vaudevillian." He is "frisky as a calf, playful as a puppy, and if need be, billicose as a bull in a beauty shop . . . a combination of Walt Whitman, 'Buffalo Bill' and Theodore Roosevelt." West Virginia-born, he studied at Allegheny College, Brown, and Boston University. He claims he told Author Sinclair Lewis to "write a book about a preacher." Author Lewis settled in Kansas City where "Bill" Stidger was preaching, got him and other local ministers to help...