No one who has seen "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" will deny the genius of Wait Disney, their creator, for that inimitable artist has taken Grimm's delightful story and made it live in a manner which is denied the printed page. Any man who can bring much enjoyment to the world at large as Disney has done during a comparatively few years must have genius, and in this instance the dictum is more than true, for Disney discovered a medium admirably adapted for the work he-*had in mind, and developed a technique which has not been surpassed though there have been plenty of imitators. It is not on the technical side that Disney is at his greatest, but in the artistic conceptions for the translation of which into pictures he depends upon his large staff of draughtsman. When "Snow White" was first contemplated there were people who averred that it would never be a success, that the short film was the only vehicle for such art as was Disney's. He has proved them to be wrong, and has proved that even in the cinema world there are no limits yet as to what can be done. Perhaps the chief ingredient in Disney's genius is the ability to produce the right thing at the right time, and his ability to take his spectators with him into the realms of fantasy, which is such a relief from the very sordid workaday world which today surrounds humanity. His Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs hit the United States at the time of the nadir of the last depression. Disney may not have sung the Americans out of the slough of despond, but ne most certainly gave many of them a new heart to face the Big Bad Wolf. They were all just as much characters as the very lovable Mickey Mouse and Minnie, just as wonderful as Donald Duck, while his "Snow White" has brought a new collection of charming personalities which have captured the imagination of the whole world. In every line which he uses to portray his personalities there is a wealth of meaning, in the action which he gives them there is character, and these animated sketches have been breathed on until they live. There seems now to be no bounds to Walt Disney's possiblities, and the only wonder in the minds of those who have watched his career is as to what he will be up to next.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.