Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1930)

My Love Life Aj told by Mickey Mouse TO CEDRIC BELFRAGE YOU ask, can an animated cartoon have intimate moments? Naturally, I answer. Why not an animated cartoon just as well as any of the human cartoons who call themselves stars in Hollywood nowadays? Intimate is hardly the word for some of my moments — and, if you will excuse the vulgarism, how! It is no earthly use for jackasses and prodnoses to yell at me: "But you're only a drawing!" Summoning all the dignity at my command, I would remind them of what happened to Alice, of the Wonderland Alices, when she was placed on trial for her life by the Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Ten and digits of Hearts and Clubs and Spades and Diamonds. "Why," she said, with great rudeness and impertinence, "you're nothing but a deck of cards!" As a matter of fact, she said "pack of cards," because she was English, but the insult was there just the same. All the cards fell on top of Alice and it was very nearly coffins for her. The moral is: Be polite to one and all, keep cool with Coolidge, be nonchalant and respect the eighteenth amendment. Talking of the eighteenth amendment reminds me of the time I ran for cover from a sudden storm and found myself in a deserted house. Whether the place was really Mickey Mousd Moments With haunted or I was just seeing things, of coui I can't say for sure. All I can say is that fror that day to this I haven't touched a drop of that Hollywood bootlegger's stuff. No, sir; I change^ my source of supply pronto, and since then I'l happy to say there have been no repeats on thj incident. I Be Intimate, But Careful WOULDN'T have mentioned the matter in an interview on my intimate moments, had I not felt the necessity of warning my friends in movieland, especially the kiddies, that you can get intimate with the wrong kind of bottle, just as you can with the wrong kind of girl. My theory of life has always been: Be intimate, but mind with whom or what! Virtue may be its own reward, but an intimate moment properly chosen is what gives life its flavor, its bouquet. My pictures try to bring this point out, of course. M character is that of an unfortunate mouse who, througl lack of foresight, stumbles into situations where malignant forces are almost too much for him. We did the haunte house incident as a picture (with talking and sound) be cause of the wonderful moral contained in it. I think Mr. Hays is doing a great work in trying to make the movies an influence for good, and I am behind him with every bone in my body and every curl in my tail. If the haunted house picture didn't influence a few kiddies an grown-ups to stop doing business with bad bootleggers, miss my guess. And so it is with my other pictures. But I must ask your pardon; I am digressing. Afte all, Mr. Hays has no place in an interview on my mtimate moments, or, for that matter, on anybody else's. Much as I admire the man, I would not try to make it appear that I was ever really intimate with him. He is more of a god to me — you know the feeling. We Can't Keep a Secret FIRST and foremost, of course, in an interview such as] this, I have to mention the real love of my life — Minnie! Mouse. Minnie, as my vast public knows, works as my! leading lady; at least, she says I work as her leading man, j but that of course is simply a young girl's idle prattle. I may as well confess — for we stars of the screen can keep] nothing, not even the holiest things, secret — that ever since the first time Minnie kissed me and blew heart-shaped Iill [III «: Bi itju