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Generations of children have delighted in the stories of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm. These stories, based on traditional folk-tales of the Rhine Province, remain unrivalled as a source of amusement to the young.
From amongst these old familiar friends of fairyland, Walt Disney has chosen a universally acknowledged favourite, Snow-white and the Seven Dwarfs, for his first full-length feature film.
In the Disney adaptation, which has cost over ^200,000 and taken nearly two years to make, the seven dwarfs, unnamed in the original story, emerge with names and characters. Amongst the seven are: Doc, "a nervous little guy," says Disney, "self-styled leader but floundering when decision is needed"; Happy, "a fat cheery fellow, but dumb"; Sleepy, "dozing plenty but saying little, though strangely to the point when he does speak" ; and Grumpy, "the real leader, always grousing, but with a heart of gold."
We present the original story assured that it will be an amusing and acceptable introduction to the film.
/C^NCE' m tne middle of winter, when the ^yflakes of snow were falling down like feathers, a queen sat working by a window, which had an ebony frame. While sewing, and looking every moment at the falling snow, she pricked her finger, and three drops of blood fell on it. She thought the red colour looked so pretty on the white snow, that she exclaimed, "Ah! if I had only a dear little child, as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony." Very soon after this she really had a little daughter, who was as white as snow, for she was fair, as red as blood, for her cheeks were so rosy, and as black as ebony, for her hair and eyes were black, and she was called little Snow-white ; but when the child was born the queen died.
After a year the king took another consort. She was a handsome woman, but very proud and ambitious, and could not endure that any one should exceed her in beauty. She had a magical glass in which she regarded herself, and when she stood before it and said —
"Mirror, tell me, can you see Any that may compare with me?"
The glass replied —
"Beautiful queen, you are the loveliest in the land!"
Snow-white, however, grew up more beautiful every day, and when she was seven years old was more lovely than the queen herself. One day, when the latter stood before her glass and asked—
"Mirror, tell me, can you see Any that may compare with me?"