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...look this week at Mickey Mouse, Pluto, Donald Duck, Goofy and other characters in the enchanted animal kingdom created during the past twelve years by Walt Disney. The Christmas Day offering was put together by sponsor Coca-Cola in a $150,000 package called One Hour in Wonderland. Filmed in ten days at the Disney Studio in Burbank, Calif., the show had a plot line (a Christmas party on a sound stage), supporting actors (Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd, Bobby Driscoll), a jazz band and a parcel of applauding teen-agers (including Disney's two daughters, aged...
...some polished foolery in bits from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Song of the South, The Clock Cleaners and a chase sequence featuring Pluto and a vindictive bulldog. The bonus offering was a "thumbnail" preview of the Mad Tea Party scene from the new Disney movie, Alice in Wonderland, scheduled for release late in 1951. Alice boasts the usual high level of Disney invention: Ed Wynn's voice is dubbed in for the Hatter, Jerry Colonna's strident accents for the March Hare...
Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Iris Mann in Alice in Wonderland...
...Goes There? The English, notes harassed Biographer Vallentin, look upon Alice in Wonderland, with its "strong undercurrent of cruelty," as an ideal book for children. But how could even the English have missed the "curiously sadistic strain" that she found in some of Wells's very first work, his fancy for cataclysmic upheavals and devastating horrors? Biographer Vallentin wonders. And yet, to all appearances, he was a hearty, jovial man, bursting with a robust humor that Miss Vallentin tries in vain to reflect, and inspired with a sense of duty to mankind that she manages to get across very...
...practically everything Wells ever wrote, and it proceeds in a similar, if sparser, fashion to tick off the rest of the Wells story (falling back on pseudonyms where living people are scandalously involved). In short, it makes of "H.G." pretty much what a Baedeker would make of Alice in Wonderland...