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Introduced for the first time to Mickey Mouse at a private showing of Walt Disney's The Band Concert in London, Arturo Toscanini exclaimed, "Surely it is impossible! It is magnificent!", had the film run over again. Hearing that Cine-man Disney planned a European tour, Conductor Toscanini announced: "I shall invite him to my Italian home at Lake Maggiore. Si, si, I shall insist...
...volume, such as "The Conflict" and "In me Two Worlds," which state the problems of the group almost as nicely as any prose manifesto, still want something in appeal to the moiling masses. It would be really a pity if Day Lewis and his colleagues turn out to be Walt Whitmans, rejected by the people whom they would serve. For one suspects that they have forgotten (or perhaps they have never known) the hard truth, "Nothing is further from the common people than the corrupt desire--to be common people," if one may amend Mr. Santayana's dictum...
...Kalmus had a new process based on a camera which split light through a three-sided prism onto three negatives (red, blue and yellow), which recorded all the colors of the rainbow with fidelity. By this time the only producer who would listen to him was Walt Disney, whose Silly Symphonies in 1932 were the first movies made with the new three-color process and the ones which inspired Producer Cooper to interest the Whitneys in color. Said Color Director Jones: ". . . Black & white films had never interested me. Nor had the old two-color process, with its limited color range...
Among the short features which adorn the bill are an excellent travelogue about the little Dutch province of Zeeland, and a Walt Disney animated cartoon depicting the animadventures of "The Hare and the Tortoise...
...Great American Novel has not yet been written. Herman Melville did several chapters of it, Walt Whitman some chapter headings, Henry James an appendectiform footnote. Mark Twain roughed out the comic bits, Theodore Dreiser made a prehistoric-skeleton outline, Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway all contributed suggestions. Last week it began to look as if Thomas Wolfe might also be at work on this hypothetical volume. His first installment (Look Homeward, Angel) appeared five years ago, his second (Of Time and the River) last week. In the interval Author Wolfe had written some 2,000,000 words...