Word: walts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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United Artists planned to distribute a minimum of 22 feature pictures?produced DARRYL ZANUCK . . . pitches his picture high by 20th Century. Samuel Goldwyn, Reliance, London Films, Viking Productions and Walt Disney. Most active company releasing through? United Artists is Darryl Zanuck's lively year-old 20th Century. Toothy, excitable little Producer Zanuck plays much polo, squeaks at his teammates in the same shrill tones he uses in story conferences. He likes bombastic entertainment, pictures with high pitch. The Zanuck touch should improve Cardinal Richelieu with George Arliss; Jack London's Call of the Wild; Ronald Colman in Clive of India...
...minor attractions esnsist of Theima Todd in a comedy "Maid in Hollywood" and a movie of some remarkable acrobatic stunts. Furthermore, Mickey Mouse is here again in another Walt Disney comedy, a good...
This poem is the exception rather than the rule, however. The majority deal with less purely materialistic subjects. Particularly interesting to Americans is the long series of "Poemas De Amor" (Poems of Love"), by Pablo Neruda. The influence of Walt Whitman's frank free-verse avowals of sensuality is here-shown by poems strikingly similiar both in form and content to those in "Leaves of Grass." Even Whitman's phrase "Song of the male and of the female" is here repeated...
...Wolf (Walt Disney). On her way to her grandmother's cottage, carrying a basket of cakes and wine, Little Red Riding Hood passes the Three Little Pigs' establishment. The two inferior pigs, squealing and cavorting as usual while their brother builds an addition to the house, advise Red Riding Hood to use a shortcut through the forest where the Big Bad Wolf spends his time. They accompany her along the shortcut, playing their gay flute and fiddle. When the Wolf , makes his appearance, imperfectly disguised as Goldilocks, the piglets behave as might be expected. They run home...
Sung with doleful nonchalance by its author, James Shelton, this Gutter Song is one of the pleasant moments in New Faces. So is a parody of grim Tobacco Road in which Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs impersonate Erskine CaldwelFs hungry gluttons. Squeaks the largest pig: "I ain't had anything to eat, pappy, sense we et mammy last week...