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Show Song of South Stars at Mario The immortal Uncle Remus fables long had incited screen adaptation but had to await 1he development of the proper medium. me-dium. Now, Walt Disney has evolved a story pattern which answers his own demands for the skillful . blending of living characters and art animation. Musical live-action drama, the result is seen in his "Song of the South," in Technicolor at the Mario Theater. The story which the producer has finally put before his cameras, cam-eras, is a stirring, colorful, modern mod-ern story of the deep south. An Atlanta newspaper editor has a charming young wife, whose social so-cial life and sense of the proprieties pro-prieties are jolted by the editor's edi-tor's political activities.' She takes their son to her mother's mid-Georgia plantation while the father is fighting his professional profes-sional battles in Atlanta. Bewildered Be-wildered by the parental rift he doesn't understand, their boy runs away. At this crisis, the power of the Uncle Remus fables begin to influence in-fluence the forlorn lad. The wise, amiable, resourceful taleteller tale-teller invented by Joel Chandler Harris sets out to save the boy from tragic possibilities. Adroitly Adroit-ly he fits his fables of the talk-antic talk-antic kin of the Briar Patch Brer Fox, Brer Bear and their antic kin of the Brior Patch-to Patch-to the need of the boy for understanding, un-derstanding, affection and counsel. coun-sel. A little neighbor girl also I helps with devoted loyalty. |