The terrific fight over patents for [me manufacture of artificial sik between. British Celanese Ltd. and Gourtaulé's thas come to an end at last in the House of Lords, with 2 victory for Courtauld's. Mr. Justice Clausen had revoked two of the Celanese Company's patents, of 1920 and 1022, on the ground that they had been anticipated by others and could not therefore be patented; and this decision both the Court of peal and the Lords have upheld, Between the three courts, the fight has lasted 71 days. Speeches by rival counsel lasting three days more were a commonplace. The costs are estimated at £80,000."
Among the side shows, of London, an exhibition of "Mickey Mouse" drawings at the Leicester Galleries attracting enormous attention, among numbers of people who would ordinarily never set foot in a picture gallery. But the charms of "Mickey Mouse" need no advertising. No cinema theatre in London is complete without him, and I suppose it much the same with you, Here you may see how these amazing films are born and grow to completion. Of course Disney. himself could never do all the drawings 7,000 for a Mickey Mouse and 10,- 000 for a Silly Symphony. He works with a Dig team of artists, sketching out the rough idea of the story, the background sets and the characters, and then the team get to work, His first Mickey cartoon came out as far bback as in' 1928 "Steamboat Willie"
It did not bring him in much as be sold all his rights, which taught tim lesion, Now he can dictate his terms.
Many of his originals are now to bbe seen at the Leicester Galleri and by common consent of the eri they "are superb work, _stampi Disney as a consummate craftsman, Not the least entertaining part of the show is to overhear the geniuses of Chelsea and Hampstead discussing his artistic originality with the gravity they would bestow on Plcaseo or Epstein. Whether Ruskin would have classed Disney with the correct for the incorrect grotesque, is an interesting speculation. " There ea however, be no question of his ini-wil be satisfactory to many that Lord Tomlin commented severely on the length to which proceedings hed been allowed to drag. They provide, sad, For a long time scientists have been disputing what chronological (Ephemerides) Columbus used on his "am istration of the cence which cases of this kind is enjoyed. Shpert. witnesses "and by counsel occupied, trid s substantial part of the "tu the present case much tne wa
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Germany by Professor Zinner, Direc+ for of the Bamberg Observatory. Based on the researches, which Zinner made in Sevilla, it is no longer to be doubted that the great explorer used the Chronological Tables of the Frankish scientist' Johann Muellet von Koenigsberg '(called Regio~ moutanns), in the 1481 edition. 'The work even' contained some notes added by Columbus himself.
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