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Last week Alice's admirers had a chance to share her puzzlement. Two different film versions of Alice, both billed as Alice in Wonderland, appeared almost simultaneously on U.S. movie screens...
...Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) presents Lewis Carroll's beloved classic in the characteristic vein of another children's favorite, to wit, Producer Walt Disney, but it adds no glory to either...
...Alice's Wonderland had a railroad, it would probably look like the "Far Twittering and Oysterperch," which for years has been chuffing through the pages of Punch. Under the management of its founder, Cartoonist Rowland Emett, its carriages are apt to be outhouses, its locomotives are overgrown with vines and their mechanism recalls Victorian bathroom fixtures. The Emett Railway is driven by elderly gentlemen with droopy mustaches, cobwebs in their ears, and a quiet contempt for the world about them. When the managers of the Festival of Britain were making plans for a London Pleasure Garden in which...
...passengers, one train was tootling along the single track when from the opposite direction the other approached at about 7 m.p.h. The clever device which controlled the trains-so that only one would be on the track at any time-had gone wrong, as if to demonstrate that Wonderland will not be governed by electrical switches. The trains crashed head on. In the wreck of the Far Tottering and Oyster Creek, one passenger was killed, 13 injured...
...This sort of competition should be encouraged rather than suppressed." With that comment, a Manhattan federal judge last week turned thumbs down on Walt Disney's effort to protect his forthcoming full-length Alice in Wonderland by staving off U.S. exhibition of Producer Lou Bunin's French-made version of Alice (TIME, July 16). Still muttering darkly of "deception," Disney announced plans for an appeal and put out pointed ads to hawk his Alice's Aug. i premiere: "There is only ONE Walt Disney! There is only ONE Walt Disney's Alicel...