IT IS especially appropriate that Mr. Disney has this preference for a cheese dish, because it was partly because of his taste for cheese that he received the inspiration which led to the creation of Mickey Mouse.
It happened like this: Some years ago, working late at night for a Kansas City commercial artist, Mr. Disney used to feed bits of cheese from his midnight sandwich to the mice that scampered about the room in which he worked.
According to his story, one mouse finally became so friendly that he clambered up onto his drawing board, thus giving Walt Disney his first good look at the future Mickey Mouse.
Mr. Disney often serves Macaroni Mickey Mousse to his friends who visit him at his Hollywood bungalow. He sometimes varies this recipe by having his cook substitute 2 tablespoon-fuls of finely chopped celery for the 1 tablespoonful of chopped parsley, and add 2 strips of finely chopped cooked bacon.
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