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...keeping with the main feature is an exciting Mickey Mouse called "On Ice." On the other hand, two types of travelogues--both of tropical savor--are offered for the moviegoer. Rather mediocre is "Damascus and Jerusalem," which covers ancient ground in very old fashion. By now the public should be filled to the point where it suffers pain with travelogues which persist in presenting new lands from the same outlook. Although this does not commit the mistake of Fitpatrick productions, which Mr. Fitzpatrick always concludes with a mournful "We take a reluctant leave of the fair city...

Author: By E. G., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 1/7/1937 | See Source »

Captured, placed in a glass jar and named Mickey, the singing mouse became the wonder & delight of school and neighborhood. Even newshawks admitted after an audition that it actually sang. When Assistant Director Robert Bean of the Chicago Zoological Park called, it failed to perform. Nonetheless Director Bean, who had heard of singing mice before, offered $150 for it. Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, zoology curator of the Field Museum of Natural History, also said he had heard of singing mice, though he had never seen one. Declared University of Chicago's Dr. Maud Slye, famed cancer experimenter: "I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Singing Mouse | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...hard to say whether "The Devil Is a Sissy" was written for Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, and Mickey Rooney, or whether it was discovered as a suitable vehicle for its child stars. At any rate, it is not a first class production, mostly because the theme has been treated more than once. Essentially it is rich boy versus poor boys, but give the rich boy an English accent and an English father-architect struggling for a living while his well-to-do wife cavorts in Florida, and you have a slightly different situation. Both the devil and the sissy...

Author: By E. G., | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/18/1936 | See Source »

Sirs: I nominate Mickey Mouse as the Man of the Year. He entertains us-his gayety is spontaneous, and his courage and stamina as a secret service agent in the Foreign Legion, as well as his more recent sucess in rounding up those ghost-smugglers single handed entitle him to lead the parade of achievers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...stage a fashion show of ski clothes was successfully spoiled by a certain boisterous group who apparently objected to the effemination of skiing by fashion dictates. In keeping with the main feature was an exciting Mickey Mouse called "On Ice." A short on the sports in which the women of today indulge included a disgusting bit on female pugilists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 12/10/1936 | See Source »

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