The Canadian Independent (Feb 15, 1938)

Page 4 _ THE CANADIAN ISSUED FOR THE BENEFIT OF ~ NER SND EPENDENT THEATRE OWNERS BSE OR Ie Bia i ORNS ESA SRN SS Te amar 2 NL “By Hans Christian Anderson II. When we leave the realm of every-day reality and launch ourselves into the realm of fantasy, we either make port or we arrive in goofy-land. That’s what makes flights of fancy. so perilous, and that’s why so many imaginative people end up in the bug-house. They fail to make a proper landing and remain floating about in that rarified ‘ strathosphere of the mind that marks the no-man’s-land of irresponsibility. rea But this wish to take off and go places, imaginatively speaking, is like a disease, and like other infections, it is catching. A case broke out here a few weeks ago and already I feel the symptoms creeping up on me. Ff started out by following the stricken one into the land of romance, watch ed her theatrical capers with a rusty sword going through ‘the motions of Don Quixote-like defending the mythical _honor of a mythical maid. I thought then that perhaps it would be a mild attack and we would both be well over it in a short time. But that shows how wrong I was. Symptoms are multiplying. . Now, the original carrier of the bug has broken through into the Land of Fables. Well, it’s a merry place, and I _ have the uncontrolable urge to take off after her. i But gnats and honey jugs! That begins to sound like ‘Goofy Land, and that’s one place I’m determined to stay away from. So, to make assurance doubly sure, I’l] choose for the theme of my fairy tale one that is now being acclaimed in the world of reality, one that was just launched ‘on a respectable career in our own dear industry by no less a personage than Walt Disney. You see, I’m keeping myself well-grounded with the earth while sailing my balloon into the perilous ether. But ‘I’m going to take a few liberties with the original text of— “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”’ ; My little Snow White, while wandering in a_ thick forest one day, lost her way; and weary and hungry, she came upon the house of the Seven Dwarfs. Now, these dwarfs, though little fellows, had sizeable hearts, and they _took the maiden in and let her keep house for them while they foraged in the woods for a living. The one condition that they made with Snow White was, that she should not open the door to strangers in their absence. being a good little girl, kept the pledge for many years. ; Now this forest in which they dwelt was an enchanted _ forest, and over it ruled a wicked witch. This witch, envious of the innocense of this unblemished ‘maiden, and troubled by her happy singing as she went about her simple ‘tasks, plotted her seduction. . One night, when the moon was dark, the witch went to the Big Bear of the Cave, and, changing him into a -prince with an enchanted castle, sent him out to win the ‘pure maiden. We all know how he gained entrance into the humble house in the. dwarfs’ absence, kissed the hitherto innocent ‘lips, and how the maiden rose and followed him into the enchanted castle, there to remain eating honey out of a “jug set asid@ for her maintenance. For, you will remem“per, that at heart this prince was still a bear, and that his secret yearning was only for the golden nectar to be gath-ered in the enchanted forest; and his castle was full of ‘-hoarded honey jugs. The dwarfs mourned the loss of Snow White for many -years, but being men, they forgot and got themselves another housekeeper and their affairs in the forest prospered. Well, after a time, enchantments, like other things, ‘have a way of petering out, and the honey jug assigned to Snow White too, petered out. The Prince, like all seducers of young maidens, had his mind on other affairs by this Snow White, INDEPENDENT PATRONIZE THE ADVERTISERS WHO MAINTAIN (7. im, GNATS, NUTS AND FAIRY TALES) | F. E. Peters, recently appointed General Manager of Dominion Sound Equipments Limited. Mr. Peters North Dakota in 1899. At the age of four years he was born in came to Canada with his parents and settled in Saskatoon, Sask., where he attended public school and later the Collegiate Institute. During vacation periods he studied law with the firm of Bence Stevenson and Mr. Long in that city, but changed to the banking profession in 1915, entering the Union Bank as a ‘Junior Clerk and was later transferred to Regina and other branches, and finally to the main Vancouver Office. In 1923 he left the bank to become District Credit Manager of the Northern Elec Feb, 15,.1938 Toronto Schools Use Movies as Study Aid Dr. C. C. Goldring, Supt. of Toronto schools, said that pictures are now being. used in the Toronto schools as aids to study in history, geography, literature and nature study. Lessons are made more vivid and interesting by the help of the screen, and the film is considered, by modern educators to be one of the most effective means of capturing the student’s attention, and impelling him to think. The Toronto picture library. has. 40,000 lantern slides, 140 reels of film slides and 90 movie films which are sent out to the different schools on request. Two of the secondary schools are equipped with projectors and _ wired for sound. Fifteen public schools have movie machines and 12 projectors are kept at the central office to be sent out as needed. tric Company Limited, in Vancouver. Six years later he was transferred to the General Department of the Company as General Credit Manager. In 1985 he was appointed Assistant Treasurer of Dominion Sound Equipments Limited, becoming Secretary of that Company in 1937. At the first of this year Mr. Peters was made General Manager, replacing the late O. R. Harvey. time, and Snow White finally saw through the whole plot. There was a terrible moment of realization in which she knelt and prayed for help. own, and even in that black forest, trembled at the sound of it. Prayer has a magic all its the wicked witch She hurried to the side of the stricken maiden and counseled her thuswise,—‘‘What is done cannot be undone. You have acquired a taste for honey and cannot live without it, but there will be none in the castle from now on. I though. go and gather from the forest flowers for yourself.” will do one thing for you I will change you into a busy bee and you can The maiden, realizing that she had no alternative, dried her eyes and let the mystic words be said over her. And now she flits about busily gathering the precious yellow nectar and her hum can be heard on the air as she makes her way through the dense undergrowth of the forest. As she works snatches of the old melodies she used to sing in the little house of the Dwarfs come back to her and she gives them voice to lighten her toil. Also she cannot help hoping that the prince will hear her sing and perhaps again be captivated by the tune, for the memory of the big castle, the honey pots and the life of ease still naunt her, as