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...have heard it hummed on the subway, in class. The radio has tried to murder it, with no success. With out any doubt. "Three Little Pigs," with its delightfully humorous song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" is the best cartoon film that Walt Disney has created...
Golden Harvest (Paramount) like many another Hollywood problem play, tries earnestly to take sides on a controversial question without offending anyone. A well-to-do wheat farmer has two sons. One of them, Walt Martin (Richard Arlen) stays at home, marries a neighbor's daughter, begets twins and tours his fields happily in a tractor. Walt's older brother Chris (Chester Morris) goes to Chicago, makes a fortune speculating in wheat, marries the egotistical daughter (Genevieve Tobin) of the richest speculator in the Pit. When wheat prices go down and foreclosed mortgages-without which even a problem play...
Instead of building up its case against speculation, Golden Harvest at this point launches a fantastic compromise. Walt Martin organizes a farmers' strike. Chris cooperates by using his knowledge of the strike to boom wheat prices on the exchange. The farm strike collapses in time to bankrupt him. In its effort to give an appearance of having proved something, Walt Martin is shown telling a group of financiers that the next farm strike will be more serious, and Mrs. Chris Martin seems to have grown more fond of her husband. A few good bits of wheat-farming local color...
According to the contract Irving Berlin and Walt Disney (whose income already amounts to $400,000 a year) will share the profits. But Disney will give half his share to his staff composer and conductor, Frank Churchill, a tall shy Rumford, Me., native who is responsible for all the tunes that Mickey Mouse and the Disney animals jig to. Disney gives him a story in terms of line drawings and film frames. Churchill works out a score which must have a definite number of beats for each of the frames so that the sound-track will synchronize perfectly with...
Many were the Pre-Raphaelitish extracurricular activities. They published a short-lived magazine, Germ. They were charter readers and enthusiasts over Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Edward Fitz-Gerald's translation of the Rubaiyat. They started an interior decorating company, "destined to banish Plush and Fuss from the Victorian drawing-room. . . ." But their most enthusiastically-pursued activity was the cult of Pre-Raphaelite woman. First came Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, called "Lizzie" for short, a long-necked, beauteous but goitrous milliner's assistant. For a while their common model, she became by tacit consent the property...