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...Fine Arts this week is showing a selection of Walt Disney's best. A rising school of criticism in this country ranks Mr. Disney as the foremost American artist. The furore produced for example, by "The Three Little Pigs", in merchandise, music, and mational thought, is unparalleled in the history of artistic phenomena. Besides Mr. Disney's delightful fantasies modestly called Silly Symphonies, replete with brilliant color, there is Mickey Mouse, man's only rodent friend...
Professor Charles Cestre will lecture on Walt Whitman this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Sever...
...operated not by strings like ordinary marionettes but by invisible human hands which change the puppets' positions and expressions between each film exposure. It took 25 separate shots, for example, to show a puppet raising his arm. This process gives their activities the staccato quality of a Walt Disney cartoon but it is by no means their principal claim to distinction. Representing the population of Lilliputia, the puppets in The New Gulliver are about three inches high. Their tiny faces, designed by Sarra Mokil, who spent two and a half years having them made, suggest Daumier drawings translated into...
Franklin Roosevelt countered by organizing the Jeffersonian Party. Republicans nominated Honest Walt Trowbridge who spoke well but promised little. But "Buzz" Windrip raved like a madman, assisted in his ravings by his creepy publicity agent and fixer, Lee Sarason. His followers got publicity by making speeches in strange places, such as copper mines, fishing fleets, sporting houses. His supporters were organized as the Forgotten Men, sang a goofy campaign song ("Buzz and buzz"), beat up Reds, Jeffersonians, innocent bystanders, lumping them together as the Antibuzz. His program, based on sharing the wealth, was as emphatic as it was meaningless...
...Gold Medal of the Italian Confederation of Professional Men & Artists, for the best animated cartoon: The Band Concert (Walt Disney...