WALT DISNEY’S TRIUMPH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 18 (Supplement)

WALT DISNEY’S TRIUMPH

son?” “You try the. bar of this theatre, Missie, ” came a voice from the gods. The final word is not always with the audience. A fit-up manager who had experienced a very bad season made his meagre audience a farewell speech. “I have to thank you one and all,” he said, for the noble way in which you have rallied to this—er —Temple of Thespis. I thank you for the kind manner in which you have patronised our efforts.” Then, aftqf a moment’s bitter reflection, he added: “But God help me, if 1 had opened a season on the Goodwin Sands I should have had more support from the shipwrecked sailors.”

SOUND AND COLOUR SYMPHONY It's come at. last! Yes, the coloured symphony cartoon has arrived. Those who saw “King Neptune” at the Majestic on the “Cynara” programme will now be looking for more of them Walt Disney masterpieces. The colouring in these cartoons if splendidly done, too, and they will prove a decided acquisition to thetaiking screen. Jt is really marvellous io see the mermaids and the sea-horsei and all the varied life on the ocean floor “strutting their stuff to a merrj tunc and displaying all their manj colours. A whole scries of these coloured “Silly gymphony” productions will be seen in the near future, and patrons will be on the look-out for them. “Cavalcade” entered upon the eighth week of its run at the Gaiety Theatre, London, on Thursday, February 23. To accommodate largo holiday crowds, performances of “Cavalcade” were given on Washington’s birthday at 2.45, 5.45, 8.35 p.m. Jean Hersholt, who heads the cast of Paramount’s “The Crime of the Century,” has been in Hollywood films for nineteen vears.