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The smiling young man at the desk is the celebrated Mr. Disney, creator of "Mickey Mouse" and "The Silly Symphonies" — a public benefactor and Hollywood's particular pride! Read about Disney in this exclusive story which reveals hitherto untold facts about how he makes his inimitable cinema cartoons.
A Mouse in a Million !
Read all about Mickey and the man who made him famous, Walt Disney, in this special story
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UNDREDS of letters weekly bring a single startling message to the Walt Disney Studios in Hollywood. It is :
Thousands of children throughout the world have become so fond of mice, thanks to Mickey Mouse, that they nightly steal into their mothers' pantries, or their fathers cellars, and spring the traps that have been set to catch the most infamous of household pests!
"We love Mickey Mouse," is the universal declaration of youngsters, "and we know Mickey won't like us if we let his little playmates be caught and killed!"
But while the mouse situation in private homes grows acutely worse, the mouse situation on the screen grows constantly better. Mickey has captured the niche in the hearts of children that was once occupied by Bill Hart and Mary Pickford.
Do not get the mistaken idea that the tremendous fan mail that reaches Walt Disney, creator and producer of the Mickey Mouse cartoon comedies, is entirely from children. At least fifty per cent of the letters come from adults.
By
James M. F idler
One man wrote that Disney should pay the costs of an appendix operation, because, so the man stated, his case was seriously aggravated by over-laughter caused by a Mickey Mouse comedy ! A woman wrote to say she had discovered her longlost brother when, during a visit to Pittsburgh, she had attended a movie theatre and there had heard her brother's unmistakable guffaw during the showing of one of Mickey's absurd adventures. Until then, sister and brother had not seen each other in fifteen years.
A woman who had suffered with hiccoughs for more than two days was almost miraculously cured, after physicians had failed, when she attended a theatre and laughed uproariously at Mickev's cavortings. Her doctor told her that the physical exhaustion caused by her laughter had so completely relaxed her nerves that the hiccoughing stopped of its own accord.
I could go on for pages, citing paragraphs from amazing letters that have arrived in Disney's hands. Thirty per cent of the writers treat Mickey as if he were a human being. To this ( Continued on page 76)