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...President Cowen's inventiveness had not deserted him. In addition he was blessed with a pair of shrewd receivers named Worcester Bouck and Mandel Frankel. The receivers negotiated a bank loan. Then the company approached Walt Disney Productions of Hollywood, secured permission to make a Mickey Mouse handcar to scoot around Lionel tracks. During the winter 235,000 were sold at $1 apiece. President Cowen, nearly always one jump ahead of U. S. railroad men, streamlined his trains. At last year's Century of Progress in Chicago he exhibited a toy replica of the Union Pacific...
...citizen were asked to name the greatest U. S. writer of the 19th Century, he would be apt to choose, according to his literary politics, Herman Melville, Mark Twain or Walt Whitman. But a European would probably name Edgar Allan Poe. Like Melville and Whitman, Poe was not recognized by the U. S. as a great writer until Europe had guaranteed his genius. Says Biographer Pope-Hennessy: "He has been claimed as the founder of the 'Surrealiste' school, and in his unusual mind French symbolists have found inspiration for poems, Maeterlinck suggestions for dream-dramas, Jules'Verne a model...
Babes in Toyland (Hal Roach). With the notable exception of Walt Disney cartoons, fantasy is not a form of entertainment in which the cinema excels. Particularly in fantasy for children, there usually prevails a certain horrid condescension on the part of producers who, unwilling to risk inventing fantasies of their own, prefer to adapt classics. This fact makes it hard to believe that any adaptation of Victor Herbert's famed operetta would amount to more than a ridiculous calamity. Fortunately, Producer Hal Roach, well-versed in the art of gag comedies, saw fit to throw most of his original material...
...program is backed up by an excellent Walt Disney. "The Old China Shop," also by a not quite so excellent Geology-Matherism and an unforgettably display of "Percussion" . . . Also, a speech on adult education: presumably this does not apply to college students...
...vocabulary. Sennett distrusted such academic impedimenta as written scripts, insisted on his authors telling him their stories verbally. The post-War years 1924-26 were golden harvests for Mack Sennett. Then came the talkies and Sennett slapstick began to fade from public favor. The finishing touch was given by Walt Disney's ubiquitous Mickey Mouse...