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Show STAGESCREENi?AD!0 By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) WALT DISNEY'S "Fantasia" "Fan-tasia" has made its bow at last, and also made history. his-tory. It is "a series of eight musical compositions, interpreted inter-preted by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Sym- ! phony orchestra" with com- ments by Deems Taylor. It is j also the most beautiful presentation pres-entation of color and sound that the screen has ever offered. of-fered. The music was recorded by the orchestra, then Disney and his idea men listened to it, and on the screen , we see what the music suggested to them. We have Mickey Mouse as , the "Sorcerer's Apprentice," amazing amaz-ing prehistoric animals in Stravin- 4' ' : 4' s 1 ; - - r 1 I ! i - 1 1 .a.- ,.,...;:S ai.;;;iv ... J WALT DISNEY sky's "Rite of Spring," delightful centaurs and "centaurettes" in Beethoven's Bee-thoven's "Pastoral Symphony." Disney selected the music carefully, care-fully, to appeal to all tastes. He ' hoped to aid in popularizing classical classic-al music, an undertaking so ably begun by radio. Special RCA re- ' production equipment is necessary to handle' the innovations in record- ; ing. j The experiment is a magnificent one, into which Disney has poured more than two million dollars. Its success should be as great as the courage of its producer. Fred Astaire has the longest motion mo-tion picture feature devoted exclu- ' sively to dancing in the world, and it's getting longer all the time. The picture, right now, is being length- ! ened by two dance numbers which j Astaire created lor nimseu ana ; ! Paulette Goddard in his latest Holly- i ! wood production, "Second Chorus." The addition of these two numbers , makes Astaire's own picture run ! more than four hours, and probably : the world will never see it; a stickler for originality, he has accumulated I it from the thirteen screen produc- j tions in which he has appeared. I Mary Anderson is Hollywood's newest Cinderella. One or the girls 1 who was tested for the role of "Scarlett "Scar-lett O'Hara" and didn't get it, she did play "Maybclle Merriweather" in the famous Southern war picture, and then stayed on in Hollywood and worked for Warner Brothers. Now she has a difficult role in Richard Rich-ard Rowland's "Cheers for Miss ' Bishop." Only eighteen, she has a good start on what promises to be a highly successful career. About a year ago lovely Joan Blaine, featured in the NBC serial, "Valiant Lady." was walking down Broadway when she slipped on the I icy street and fell. A quiet young i man picked her up. brushed her oil, and disappeared in the throng. "Just my luck," she told some of her friends later. "I didn't ask his name, and I'll probably never see him again." Recently Rikcl Rent, director of "Valiant Lady," told her she was acquiring a new man on the show. "His name Is Lawson Zcrbe," Kent told her. "You don't know him." Then Zcrbe appeared for rehearsal, nnd you've guessed It. Out of all the actors In New York, he was the quiet young man who'd come to her rescue nearly a year before. Gary Cooper is dead set against anything that Is unnatural; he insists in-sists on lettinR nature take its course before the cameras, which is why you never see him curl his lips and show his teeth when he's nngry watch him in "North West Mounted Police" and you'll sec him as he is in real life. He's one of the few nctors in Hollywood who depends de-pends on a mirror only when he's shaving, making up for work or combing his hair. (f)S AyO EAPS Jiimrj Mrliim anil Iroiiv (tcmiv li.'l ( ji'nii lor ruXiiNfi tin a smiill station in .Urmpiij, Trim., veurj nto after a de Irrt years thrv cm'onritcreil each other in a Acre Yolk nifilit eltth. and tliscoe-ereil tliscoe-ereil that they uere hooked to .linj on Hammond I'aine's "Minimi (meiieana" on the ime niiihl . . . John II iiwip niul II ant llond ntatle a ptiUt'n of authentic authen-tic moonshine the other iuv for a t scene in "Shepherd of the Itilh," uv inn a real still, and tchen the scene hud been shot the lateral intent u litt represented Imc md outer tummi "coin" on the nionnil, uhile iinch.f t-fir ol the cast lamented. |