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...group the nine painters went swimming, played tennis, ate, drank, toured Walt Disney's studios. Every 15 minutes or so they took time out to listen to war news. As a wind-up celebration Producer Wanger (proud of his first venture into the arts) gave them a reception attended by 400 of Hollywood's Who's Who. Afterwards cinema stars were heard to declare that they were going to visit some art galleries, now that they knew how painting was done. How they had got their own paintings done was not so clear to the painters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Artists in Hollywood | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...story of Pinocchio, the little puppet who finally becomes a real boy, is a natural for Walt Disney, for the creation of life where there was none before is his own specialty as well as Geppetto's, the wood-carver. Dwelling lovingly over each faltering step Pinocchio makes toward boyhood, Disney has created a character far more moving than any child actor of flesh and blood has ever drawn. When Disney has oiled up his last joint, and taken the last squeak out of his hinges, here is a boy worthy to be the son of warm-hearted old Geppetto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/22/1940 | See Source »

Engaged. Mary Faith McAdoo, 20, daughter of ex-Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, granddaughter of the late Woodrow Wilson; and Gerald Griffith James, 24, a Walt Disney animator; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Adam Yarmolinsky, '43 has been awarded first prize for the best American Civilization Essay, it was announced yesterday. The subject of his work, which won a $50 prize, was "The Influence of Walt Whitman on Later American Poetry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yarmolinsky Receives Essay Contest Prize | 5/15/1940 | See Source »

...Legion sent Curley a silver-plated twig and a miniature American flag. When a cinema short on Curley was released, during a time of blizzards and rainstorms, Variety headlined: BLIZ AND DRIZ FAIL TO FIZZLE BIZ AS BUG WOWS B. 0. [box office] FROM N. Y. TO L. A. Walt Disney gave $100,000 for Curley. For Curley was a caterpillar, discovered by a boy named Stinky, which danced whenever it heard Yes, Sir, That's My Baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Curley the Caterpillar | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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