The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)

^™ had scared the wits out of me. I was ready to quit pictures and take up the vagabond life that is the lot of most mice. I wanted to get away from everything I knew. "Walking across a field out near Culver City — I had taken this route home in order to be alone and see no one — I met her." Mickey closed his eyes for a moment and I am sure he lived again that occasion. "In a little patch of woods," he resumed, finally. Sadie Titmouse, she said her name was. Small, delicately built, and the smoothest whiskers in the world. Those eyes — soft, brown. 'Hello, mister,' she said to me as I passed the spot where she was sitting. "I looked at her and something turned over inside me. 'Tarry a bit,' she said, 'and let us chatter. You look bothered. Tell mama.' "She was so sincere and frank that I did. We talked until long after the moon had risen to its highest point — neither it nor the stars have ever seemed so bright to me as they were that night. I finally said that I was not going to leave her, that I would stay and marry her and live a life of freedom, there close to nature. "But she said no. She loved me, yes; I must believe that. But she recalled to me my public, my art, my urge for the better things in life. Told me that she was but an interlude, and that I would forget her. She was wrong. I never have. I think of her at least once every six months or so, especially when I am in Culver City. "I left her and returned to the studio — to work and gain surcease. Soon after that they gave me the opportunity to play leads, and the future looked brighter. But for her I would still be just another unknown mouse. "Then came Minnie. "I met her at the studio. She was an extra. We went around together at odd times for almost a year. Nothing serious, you know. Just a bit of relaxation. But more and more she became a part of my life. I talked over my pictures with her and was surprised and pleased at her sagacity. Finally, came the day which was to be the most important in my life. The studio wanted me to sign a renewal of my contract at the same salary I had been getting. But Minnie objected. Said I was foolish and did not know anything about money matters. Maybe I don't. Money has never interested me except for the things it will buy. "The studio said I would sign at their price or not at all. Minnie said not at all it was — and there I was left without a job. "Things looked black for a while. I could not get a job with another studio, could not finance my own productions on the scale I wanted. "And then came the talkies, may Allah praise them. All my musical talents could be utilized with this new medium and I was saved. Yes, even in great demand. "But had not my mother trained me, Sadie consoled me and Minnie advised me I would have gotten nowhere. Tell my public that." Noticing a bag of golf clubs in one corner of the room I asked Mickey where he played. "Well," he said. "I tried the Lakeside Golf Club, where so many of my fellow stars play, but soon stopped that. That fellow Tony Moreno plays there too often for me. I saw him and Frank Lloyd coming one day and The New Movie Magazine stepped off the fairway to allow them to pass through. Moreno missed an easy brassie shot and cut loose a flock of Spanish verbs, nouns and adjectives which, while I did not understand them, were very clear in their meaning. He then hurled his club straight at the tree behind which I had taken refuge. The shaft rapped around the trunk of the tree and gave me my first and only shave. Took all the whiskers off one side of my face. Fortunately, it was in between pictures and they grew out again before my next production. But I never went back to Lakeside. Too dangerous. "Instead I bought half an acre of ground out near Westwood and had my gardener lay out a thirty-six hole course for me. Eighteen holes is all I want to play a day but I had the land so thought I might as well use it. It is the only course in the world with cheese sandwiches on every tee. I made the bottoms of the sand boxes into refrigerators." That is another side to Mickey Mouse • — the inventive. Had he not been a great screen star, he might easily have been another Edison. One invention of Mickey's is to be seen on his golf course. The holes — cups — on the greens have no bottoms in them. This allows the ball to roll into a pipe which carries it to the next tee where it is in readiness when Mickey steps up to drive off. "It saves stooping," said Mickey. "I hate to stoop. I was going to give the invention to Harold Lloyd, my fellow star, who also has a private golf course, although his is only nine holes in length, but someone told me that they never hole out on that course, Lloyd and his friends always conceding themselves putts under eight feet." I looked at Mickey and marveled that one who is so great in one line of endeavor, could be so conversant with other lines. We talked. And the depths of his mind opened up to me. History, psychology, botany, astrology — all were open books to Mickey. Would that I had the space to include some of the rare gems of thought which dropped from his lips. I finally mentioned his club — the Mickey Mouse Club which is growing all over the Western states. "Yes," he said. "I am very interested in the little folks. They will some day be the rulers of our land; one of them might even be president — who knows." "The club has a creed, hasn't it?" I asked. "Could I have a copy of it?" "Certainly," he said. I reproduce it for you here. / will be upright and fair in all my dealings with my playmates. I will he truthful. I will obey my mother and father and will always stand ready to help people older than myself. I will obey my teacher and strive for higher marks in my scliool studies. 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