WALT DISNEY'S Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23160, 5 October 1938, Page 7

WALT DISNEY'S Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

The Sleeping

The raven croaked and shook until some of its wing-feathers fell out. ."Now turn red to tempt Snow White I" Grimhilde commanded, turning the apple slowly on the string. The skull disappeared. The beautiful red colour stole back into the fruit, until it became • even redder than before. No one would have suspected it to be anything but a fresh-picked, tree-ripened tipple.

WITH a long piece of bone Grimhilde stirred the ugly bubbling mixture in the red-hot cauldron. It was .the blaekest kind of poison ! She selected the largest and" finest of a v basketful of apples, and tied a string to its Btem. Then she huddled over the cauldron, dipping the apple again and again into the y poigon brew. She looked exactly like a witc i in her hideous disguise. As she worked she g?| chanted in mystic tones: "Boil, cauldron, boil! Death within your depths I see, For one who dares to rival me Boil, cauldron, boil! Iff ' Boil, cauldron, boil I v . Rise, steam, like demons' breath, Fill the very air with death! y Boil, cauldron, boil! Boil, cauldron, boil! |§s Deep within the deadly kettle, See the poison seethe and settle— S;v Boil, cauldron, boil!" Zy O LOWLY the apple turned from red to blue, \ theft to a sickly greenish-yellow. Finally it became a ghostly white. As the black •' Poison drained off, a dripping skull formed on . its pallid skin. > fc:"Look!" Grimhilde cried, lifting the apple the raven to see. "On the skin, the symbol what lies within I" (tv ■Mmmmm

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"Come along with me, pretty creatures," she invited. v "You won't be sorry!" The ugly birds turned their bald, red heads, nodded at each other and flapped slowly down the path after her. The sun rose like an accusing eye, but the wicked Queen hurried bn, Walking in the very shadows of the birds of (death. V \ Offfo THAT morning the dwarfs slept later than usual. In all their lives they had never., stayed up as late- as ten o'clock. ..They. were always up with the sun, and on vtheir way to the mine before it ev&r found its wayinto the deep forest. Snow White tip-toed downstairs, and laughed silently as she saw the strange places they had ,Chosen for sleeping jShe had to waken Doc and lift him down from the sink, '

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-The Queen fondled it in her wrinkled claws. "When, she tastes it," she gloated, "the little princess will turn pale. Her eyes will close for ever in the Sleeping Death. Then I'll be Fairest in the Land |" .• •* : SUDDENLY her heart almost stopped. What if there should be an antidote for the poison ? Something to spoil her plans once more! Swiftly she turned the pages of her witches' manual. >. "Ah, here it is!" - v \ She read aloud: " 'The victim of the Sleeping Death can lie revived only by Love's first Kiss —the first sweet kiss of the loved one.' Love's first kiss." She sneered. "No fear of that! Her Prince will never see.her again. He will return to his native land. The dwarfs will think Snow White is dead. They'll bury her—alive!" ; \' / ■■ ' She closed the book with a horrible laugh. Then she placed the poisoned apple carefully on top of her basket, tucked the basket under her ragged cloak and waved good-bye to the raven. "Next time you see me, I won't look like this," ■; she promised her feathered pet. "Tonight I shall again be beautiful. And Snow White will be buried alive! Buried alive!" she cackled, as. she went out through a stone trapdoor in the floor. IT was just before dawn when the Queen, in her Old Pedlar disguise, emerged from the underground passage. Beside the dark stream which flowed like a snake beneath the castle, she unchained a small boat. Slowly she poled her way out, /through shifting mist clouds that hung over the stream like the ghosts of ghosts. . / . Where the stveam left the castle and wound its way through a swamp to the edge of the forest, she banked the boat and sn,eaked ashore. She hobbled off toward the dwarfs' cottage, her basket of apples carefully concealed beneath her cloak. "Over the Seven Jewelled Hills, beyond the Seventh Fall," she muttered. "With good luck, I'll be there before noon. The little men will be away at the mine, and I'll have her all to myself. She'll never know me—she'll think t am a harmless old pedlar !" AS she..crept through the woods, Grimhilde r\ saw a pair of vultures roosting on a * dead tree. ' * "Apples—nice fresh apples," she called out in a mocking voice. • The vultures woke and sfared at her with hunger in their dull, evil eyes.

in order to draw water from the pump for -morning coffee. When the little men saw her cooking breakfast, they sneaked out to the water trough and washed without being told. Even Grumpy gave "his cross old face a spattering. When they came back into the house and saw a stack of steaming hot, golden brown hot cakes on the table, they fell to with a will. "Do we have to go to work to-day?" Bashful asked plaintively. "Can't we stay home, just for once?" "Certainly not," vetoed Doc. "Besides, we aren't —that is, don't you remember—we're going to—" . . - . . • . "Shhhhh 1" said Sneezy. , "Don't tell her I" BUT Bashful had forgotten their talk of the night before about making a bed for Snow White. "Don't tell her what?" he said innocently. "Are you keeping a secret from me?" asked Snow White, with mock severity. "What is it you're going to do to-day V' Doc started to stammer an answer..

"We're going to bake—-er, break—l mean, we're going to make something for—" "ATCHOOOOOOOO!" backed Sneezy. The secret was almost out^l The dwarfs all jumped on him and pounded him into silence, but Snow White acted as though Sneezy hadn't said a thing. She busied herself by preparing seven little packages of lunch for them to carry. Finally they were ready to leave for the day. Snow WTiite stood on the porch to wave good-bye. EACH little man had some word of advice to her as he filed past. ; "Don't let anybody in the mouse—erT mean. the house," Doc warned. "£he old Queen's,a sly.one!" # ' "Dont worry, I'll be all right," said Snow White. She bent over and kissed the top of 'Doc's bald head. "Don't forget our gooseberry tfie, princess," said Happy, taking off his hat ceremoniously. 'Dopey managed to get in line three Hiines. He got two kisses, buC the third time he blinked up at her, Snow White gave him a little spank and sent him on his way. EVEN Grumpy ambled by, smoothing the one lonesome hair on his head. "I'm warnin' ya," he growled, "we ain't seen the last of that old Queen. Be careful, now!" i

.. ~ -;vi " r-' ' "Dear little Grumpy !" Snow White leaned over and placed on his shiny dome the biggest kiss of all. "You do care what happens to me, don't you?" V , "Naw!" rejoined Grumpy. "But" I wouldn't want to git our house all mussed up!" .• "I see," : said Snow White wisely.. But she noticed that as Grumpy walked away he put his hand up to pat the place she had kissed. He wore, a. broad. grin when he joined the others. . ; ' 1 ' "Hi-ho, hi-ho,'it's off to work we go !" the dwarfs sang as they marched along. They looked

back as they, left the clearing to, wave eit the little princess. The birds and animal?.' had popped out of bushes and trees the minute the dwarfs were gone. Snow While stood c|h the porch/with her arm around the baby fawn. "Ain't she sweet?" sighed Bashful.; -i "Mush !': said Grumpy, but he smiled-wheit he said it.: v v y'

juinirrn'i »M-T 1 | ; NjEXT SATURDAY { Snow White is in danger—The ! . .Dwarfs to the Rescue. . . .. " t ... ... •• W- • ••