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...clever article entitled "Profound Mouse" on the art page of your May 15 number of TIME, your art critic describes Mickey Mouse as a "big-eyed, wisp-snouted rodent" and then goes on to declare "last week Mickey Mouse became Art"-in Manhattan's Kennedy Galleries...
...trying to do the best he can." In Germany he is Michael Maus, in France Michel Souris, in Japan Miki Kuchi, in Denmark Mikkel Mus and in Spain Miguel Ratonocito. Last week he became Art. In Manhattan's Kennedy Galleries art critics piously eyed a collection of original Mickey Mouse cartoons from the Walt Disney Studios in Hollywood. Wrote one, "Genius . . . profoundest stuff . . . drama of the eternal ego." Another noted "the integrity of the draftsmanship, the flair for effective massing of spaces and the never failing rhythmic pattern of the drawings." From Manhattan the cartoons will go to leading...
...Mickey Mouse's creator, Walter ("Walt") Disney is a slim, sharp-faced young man (31) of Irish-German descent. His father, a contractor, let him study drawing for a few months at the Chicago Art Institute before the family moved to Kansas City. He spent six years of his childhood on a Missouri farm watching the animal ancestors of Mickey's pals. In school he early learned the schoolboy trick of drawing figures on the margins of his textbooks, graduating the poses on succeeding pages so that when he flipped the leaves rapidly, the figures seemed to move...
...Latest pictures: Mickey's Melodrama (based on Uncle Tom's Cabin) and Ye Olden Days (based on When Knighthood was in Flower). Coming: Mail Pilot. †Last week the city fathers of Worcester, Mass, announced an even greater salute to Mickey Mouse. May 12 will be Mickey Mouse Day in Worcester. On that day a little street built in front of the Worcester City Hall will be named Mickcv Mouse Street...
...click out hectically the routine news of the day, for a harp to represent the society editor calling for a copyboy, for a big bass horn to bellow like the managing editor. A sob sister had her maudlin, banal bit. Piccolos and traps described the comic-strip antics of Mickey Mouse. Revolver shots expressed murder headlines. Drums drummed the roar of the presses getting out an extra. Grofé was so determined to give an accurate picture of the death house that he visited Sing Sing, pretending to be a lawyer's clerk. But in spite of his pains...