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...preached and proved that quality and nothing else would produce advancing prof its. The demonstration began with hastily sound-dubbed Steamboat Willie - first successful Mickey Mouse-and became convincing with the first Silly Symphony to use color, in 1931. But Disney never rested on his Q.E.D. In the full-length surprise triumphs of recent years he taught Hollywood what it had once almost known and then forgotten-that quality pays...
...abbreviated spring practice session came to a close yesterday for the Varsity basketball team with an informal, full-length scrimmage between Old Timers and Youngsters. The squad of Sophomores and Freshmen finally forged ahead after the veterans tired to down the five sparked by Ed Buckley...
...joining action with thought and the correct pronunciation of German (he remembered the latter); she edited The Dial, the house organ of Transcendentalism; she was outtalked at last by fuliginous Thomas Carlyle; she embodied at its most intense the Transatlantic cultural hunger of the Eastern Seaboard. This is a full-length portrait of her, recording every detail from the carbuncle ring she wore as her symbol of masculinity to almost every severe headache she had. It makes a period and its chief personages-notably Alcott and Emerson-vivid and understandable...
...deep in debt ($4,000,000), he couldn't see his way out. Of his four expensive full-length features, only Snow White was really making money.* He had to trim his sails, give up his costly epics. He began paring his staff of 1,181 employes to a basic 450, and a long and acrimonious strike hit him. As a result he left Dumbo to his staff, for the most part played critic, suggesting sensitive little touches here & there...
...conductor so far has been Bruno Walter, who exclaimed at the end of his concert: "This is paradise." Positions in the orchestra are rotated, so that every horn has a chance to be first horn, every fiddler a shot at being concertmaster. In a typical session, one or two full-length works, preferably-modern, are gone through with all the fits & starts of a real rehearsal. Then they are played without a break. Audiences-friends of the players-are small, select...