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Saludos Amigos (RKO-Radio-Disney) is a good-neighborly, Technicolor whimsey that has made Walt Disney one of South America's favorite North Americans. Shown first in South America, the film broke theater records; one audience in Rio de Janeiro screamed so loudly for an encore that another feature had to be halted in mid-reel and Saludos Amigos run off again...
Education for Death is Walt Disney's distillation of Ziemer's survey to a nine-minute cartoon-a sort of Pinocchio in reverse. Little Hans is educated into a heiling, marching puppet, at last becomes a wooden cross marker in a vast military cemetery. Funniest bit: a Nazified fairy tale, in which the handsome, armored Prince (Hitler) wakes the rotund, snoozing Princess (Germany) with a kiss, lugs her away on a white horse to a boozy version of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. Most pointed bit: little Hans is punished for sympathizing with a fabled rabbit...
Crimson-track captain Don MacKinnon strided to win the 45-yard hurdles and Peto Garland took both the shotput and high jump. Winners among Crimson matmen were Walt Parsons, Don Albion, and Lee Sosman, while Howard Schless won by forfoit...
...terrifying stranger (Sheldon Leonard) rushes after his taxi, hammers maniacally on the window. A tough blonde (Claire Trevor) has proudly saved the newsclips about the murder Meredith learns he is being hounded for. In a Long Island mansion, with the help of a paralytic old lady (Adeline De Walt Reynolds), he at last gets the heat turned on the real culprit...
...G.B.S. A Full Length Portrait ($3.50), which recorded many unfamiliar details of George Bernard Shaw's childhood and lovelife. Others were Esther Forbes's conscientious, overlong Paul Revere and the World He Lived In ($3.75); Hugh 1'Anson Fausset's erratic but illuminating Walt Whitman ($3); Poetess Muriel Rukeyser's fervent celebration of the famously forgotten great man of science Willard Gibbs ($3.50) ; Franz Werfel's Verdi: the Man in His Letters...