GRAND RETURN SEASON

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 15 April 1939, Page 4

GRAND RETURN SEASON

"SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN ! DWARFS” High drama, pathos, excitement and suspense are woven into Walt Disney’s feature-length picture, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” J 1° the seven-reel Technicolour pic- | lure Snow White’s beautiful but vain j and wicked Queen consults her magic j mirror to find who is the fairest in the j land. When the mirror replies “Snow j White.” the Queen retreats to her I secret dungeons at the bottom of the ! castle through which a m3’sterious | river flows. Here, in scenes which I could never be done with the limita--tions of regular motion picture technique. she brews magi. potions and turns herself into an old witch, to an accompaniment of lightning and crashing thunder. She disguises herself thus so that she may go to Snow White living in the cottage of the seven . dwarfs and, posing as an old pedler ! woman, induce her to bite into a poison- ! cd apple. | The ultimate in excitement and susI pense comes when the dwarfs, discov- ! ering the Queen at their cottage, chase j her through a blinding thunder and rain storm, up into mountain fastnesses where, just as she is about to roll a boulder down on them, a bolt of lightning sends her toppling over a cliff into Calculated to bring a tear to the eve of everyone is the sequence wherein the dwarfs, believing Snow White dead. I build a glass coffin for her so that they may still look upon her beauty. They l place it in a flower-laden bower in the woods, where they and the small birds | and animals take turns keeping watch ; Romance comes riding along soon. , however, in the person of a handsome young Prince, long in love with Snow White. He kisses her, breaks the spell of the magic apple, and the two ride away to lasting happiness, with Snow White promising to return to visit her forest friends from time to time.