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The Filmgoers' Annual
the creation of the most popular actor we have seen since talking pictures began.
In those days, millions of dollars were being invested in talking picture production. Walt Disney had no millions, but he had some friends.
His own account of the origin of Mickey reads :
"We just got together, the bunch of us, and we worked things out. Sometimes we had good, old-fashioned scraps, but, in the end, things got ironed out and we had something."
Walt Disney, as you can see, lets Mickey do all the talking.
The nearest he has ever come to boasting of his creation was when he said, in the early days :
Everybody here has his shoulder to the wheel. Maybe, sometime, we'll all be rolling in wealth and move into more pretentious quarters and put on the hit;h hat, but we won't be making any better movies."
In these pages, by the courtesy of Ideal Films, we are able to present you with various portraits
o t Mickey Mouse, particularly in some of his more musical moments, while, by the courtesy of " The Sunday Pictorial," we have pleasure in showing you Mickey in action, in an episode in which he seeks to reprove a gentleman ( ?), who would make eyes at his beloved Minnie.
We regret that he appears
to have been successful only by proxy, but in that he is akin to the greatest of human film comedians whose lot it is to be a hero only by accident, and to be one of the world's largest targets for the slings and arrows of misfortune.
We wish him well.
May he live and flourish until he, too, is one of those old, but ever new, Spanish customs or custards.
That others have sought to be like him merely goes to prove the ancient adage about imitation and flattery, but in the case of Mickey, the most marvellous of mice, we can accept no substitutes. He is the first of all our talking picture jesters and there is no second.