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...little pigs have had their song published, the first of the Disney creatures to accomplish so much. They have established a market for future Disney tunes with a contract, signed last week, whereby Irving Berlin's publishing house will have the sheet-music rights over Mickey Mouse and the Silly Symphonies...
...When Mickey Walker retired as middle-weight champion, his title went, after an elimination tournament last winter, to a lean, stubborn, hard-muscled New Yorker named Ben Jeby, who in all his fights showed much more courage than finesse. Last week in New York Jeby had his first chance to defend his championship against a really high-grade opponent. Barrel-chested Lou Brouillard, of Worcester, Mass., much the same type fighter except that he is lefthanded, came running out of his corner in the first round and planted two lefts on a chin that Jeby's previous opponents have...
...comfortable. Now, at 63, she is indisputably the most valuable performer in Hollywood. Last year 12,000 exhibitors in Motion Picture Herald's nation-wide poll agreed that her name was worth more at the box office than that of Greta Garbo, Janet Gaynor, Jean Harlow or Mickey Mouse. Her last four pictures have earned an average of $800,000 each-far more than any other star's. She gets a salary of $4,000 a week because she is too good-natured to demand more. In 1931 she won the Cinema Academy's prize...
...Yawk is not always first. For Mickey Mouse first became Art at the Art Alliance in Philadelphia last autumn; (who dares say nowadays that Philadelphia is slow?) and Mickey as Art in the temple of the muses first appeared in New York State at the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts last November, immediately following the Philadelphia showing. And verily the last shall not be first...
...reference to your interesting article on Mickey Mouse (TIME, May 15), I wish to tell you that Disney's brain-child is known as Mitchell Rodent on Beacon Hill, Boston...